Song by Song

Gabriel Ebulue returns for a second portion of Tom Waits doing his crazy lounge singer schtick. This week's discussion includes atonal organ arrangements, the trajectory of depression in pop songs, an...

4 Juli 201817min

Song by Song welcomes fellow music enthusiast Gabriel Ebulue from The Three Track Podcast to discuss the second version of this track, as it relates to Sinatra, Jaques Brel, and your crazy uncle at a ...

27 Juni 201815min

We present (now in the correct context) our special episode with Kobi Omenaka, discussing the use of Way Down In The Hole in the opening credits of the TV show The Wire. Kobi and his co-host Dave Cork...

20 Juni 201840min

Lily Sloane returns for one more Franks Wild Years track, debating Waits's attitude towards religion, how the track relates to the rest of the album, and the presence of joy in music. Song by Song is ...

13 Juni 201817min

Existential crises galore, or just a really bad hangover, as Lily, Sam and Martin attempt to catch the bouquet of Waits's mournful gallic ditty. Accordion tuning, a keyboard called Leslie and a slight...

6 Juni 201815min

Martin and Sam are joined by Lily Sloane of A Therapist Walks Into A Bar to discuss this side of the album's final track (as well as the first song from the play), and the images of dreams, hope, desp...

30 Maj 201815min

More dream talk with Helen, Sam and Martin, as Waits constructs an unsettled and dislocated musical world to capture the sense of space between waking and sleeping. We also discuss the impact of sound...

23 Maj 201818min

Still picking apart the worlds of the album and the play, Helen, Sam and Martin delve into the tone created by Waits, as well as Paul McCartney, in their songs yearning for the past. Song by Song is M...

16 Maj 201813min