Song by Song

There's both delights and disappointments this week, as Martin, Sam and Jeu Jeu la Foille find a disappointingly straightforward Brawler with LowDown, a delightful and layered Bawler in You Can Never Hold Back Spring, and a creepy story guaranteed to disturb the little Bastards in your life.

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Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: LowDown, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006) You Can Never Hold Back Spring, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006) Children's Story, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

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Aaaaand… we're off! Guest host Jeu Jeu La Foille rejoins Martin and Sam to tackle the first tracks from our monumental Orphans season, digging into the first tracks of Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards. We examine the Elvis influence in another hot-and-bothered song for Kathleen, a children's song for an elderly bunny, and a very faithful cover from the Threepenny Opera.

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Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: Lie To Me, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006) Bend Down The Branches, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006) What Keeps Mankind Alive, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

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Next week begins season 22, the behemoth that is Orphans. And so we're all on the same page, Sam and Martin explain how they (and we) will approach these three albums without breaking all our brains.

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Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:

If I Have To Go, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

You Can Never Hold Back Spring, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

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While Sam and Martin prepare for Orphans, please enjoy a guest-podcast from our friends Fran and Babs of the Over/Underrated Music Podcast, featuring your regular SbS hosts as guests talking about some NY art rock, David Byrne's lack of love, and the genius of the two Johns.

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Song by Song gets archeological, uncovering and piecing together muffled lyric fragments in this final episode on the Real Gone bonus track.

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Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:

Chick a Boom, Real Gone (remastered), Tom Waits (2004/2017)

Chick a Boom, Real Gone (original), Tom Waits (2004)

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Waits reaches out for a form out of his usual style, as Sam and Martin consider who and where this song is coming from, as well as the technique and attitude of Waits's political work through Real Gone and beyond.

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Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:

Day After Tomorrow, Real Gone (remastered), Tom Waits (2004/2017)

Bella Ciao, Songs of Resistance: 1942-2018, Tom Waits / Marc Ribot (2018)

Day After Tomorrow, Real Gone (original), Tom Waits (2004)

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It's point/counterpoint on Song by Song again, as Martin and Sam divide over Waits's song of loss and yearning. Whether this is a pure form of a classic sentiment or an unnecessary retread of predictable tropes gets turned over, alongside a rare Tom Waits cover for the interval track.

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Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: Make It Rain, Real Gone (remastered), Tom Waits (2004/2017) Make It Rain, Live at Sidney Opera House, Spinefex Gum (2019) Make It Rain, Real Gone (original), Tom Waits (2004)

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Waits flies solo for this horny-noise-fragment, as Sam and Martin pin down both some of the sonic design as well as images of travel and freedom. We look at Waits's reuse of phrases from other songs, his line between affection and objectification, and compare with the technical precision of Bobby McFerrin's vocal performances.

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Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: Clang Boom Steam, Real Gone (remastered), Tom Waits (2004/2017) Drive, Live from Montreal, Bobby McFerrin (2005) Clang Boom Steam, Real Gone (original), Tom Waits (2004)

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High energy blues number - check. Harsh beat-boxing rhythmic tone - check. Mumbled lyrics and anti-poetic phrasing - check. David, Sam and Martin find all the required elements, but discuss whether it all comes together in this week's song.

Note: we mention Mark Rylance this episode; between recording and release, his brother Jonathan was killed - sympathies from all of us for this loss.

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Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: Baby Gonna Leave Me, Real Gone (remastered), Tom Waits (2004/2017) Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, In Concert, Joan Baez (1962) Baby Gonna Leave Me, Real Gone (original), Tom Waits (2004)

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Singing from beyond the grave, Waits bridges the green grass boundary between life and death as David, Sam and Martin question whether this week's song presents a tender or threatening love.

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Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: Green Grass, Real Gone (remastered), Tom Waits (2004/2017) Green Green Grass Of Home, Green Green Grass Of Home, Tom Jones (1967) Green Grass, Real Gone (original), Tom Waits (2004)

We think your Song by Song experience will be enhanced by hearing, in full, the songs featured in the show, which you can get hold of from your favourite record shop or online platform. Please support artists by buying their music, or using services which guarantee artists a revenue - listen responsibly.