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Muriel, Foreign Affairs, Tom Waits [048]
Dreaming of a(nother) girl who left him, Tom Waits returns to mournful yearning for the second track of Foreign Affairs. Martin and Sam continue discussing the possible influences on this song through...
31 Aug 201614min
Cinny's Waltz, Foreign Affairs, Tom Waits [047]
Welcome to the fifth season of Song by Song! Martin and Sam return to take a listen to Waits's 1977 album, beginning with the instrumental Cinny's Waltz. With discussion of the tone of this album, the...
24 Aug 201614min
Foreign Affairs Series Teaser [046a]
Welcome back to Song by Song - we're taking a couple of weeks out before starting our fifth season on Foreign Affairs to get some plans made, listen to some music, watch some films and argue about egg...
17 Aug 20162min
I Can't Wait To Get Off Work, Small Change, Tom Waits [046]
Concluding our shuffle through Tom Waits's Small Change, Sam, Callum and Martin struggle to wrap up their duties and get back to their respective avenues. This final track's relationship to the album ...
3 Aug 201617min
Small Change, Small Change, Tom Waits [045]
Hitting the apex (or the wind-down?) of the album with its title track, Martin, Sam and Callum work through the details of the untimely death of Small Change, discussing some of the societal commentar...
27 Jul 201618min
The One That Got Away, Small Change, Tom Waits [044]
It's storytime again, as Martin, Sam and Callum are taken on a series of single-verse vignettes. Watching the way Waits creates a series of spaces, the kind of shamed men who live there, and his abili...
20 Jul 201616min
Bad Liver And A Broken Heart, Small Change, Tom Waits [043]
Martin and Sam welcome their new guest host Callum Hughes, immediately getting side-tracked by old sitcom themes and how old Geoffrey Palmer might be. Casablanca misquotes, internal rhyming structures...
13 Jul 201616min
Pasties And A G-String (At the Two O'Clock Club), Small Change, Tom Waits [042]
For her final track with Song by Song, Lucy Dallas discusses with Sam and Martin some of the social setting and politics of this bump and grind number from Small Change. The relationship of satire and...
6 Jul 201615min
