Ranked #1
Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis, Blue Valentine, Tom Waits [058]
Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis, Blue Valentine, Tom Waits [058]
Firmly rooted in South London and unavailable for sexual engagements, Sam, Martin, Elizabeth and Caspar join Tom Waits i... Read more
30 Nov 2016
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13mins
Ranked #2
Closing Time, Closing Time, Tom Waits [012]
Closing Time, Closing Time, Tom Waits [012]
In this final instrumental track on Closing Time, Sam and Martin sum up their feelings about the album as well as the in... Read more
25 Sep 2015
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18mins
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Ranked #3
Temptation, Franks Wild Years, Tom Waits [129]
Temptation, Franks Wild Years, Tom Waits [129]
Hitting his groove (as well as the sideboard), Waits lifts into his falsetto for this warning against the evils of... al... Read more
25 Apr 2018
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17mins
Ranked #4
Barber Shop, Foreign Affairs, Tom Waits [054]
Barber Shop, Foreign Affairs, Tom Waits [054]
The four-part harmony-group of Martin, Simon and two Sams wanders in for a quick short back and sides as Tom Waits visit... Read more
12 Oct 2016
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16mins
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Ranked #5
Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love), Closing Time, Tom Waits [010]
Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love), Closing Time, Tom Waits [010]
Sam and Martin debate Waits’s influences as a singer and performer and his relationship to Frank Sinatra, and the ways t... Read more
23 Sep 2015
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11mins
Ranked #6
Grapefruit Moon, Closing Time, Tom Waits [011]
Grapefruit Moon, Closing Time, Tom Waits [011]
As we head into the final tracks of Closing Time, Martin and Sam explore the sentimental side of Waits’s writing and the... Read more
24 Sep 2015
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9mins
Ranked #7
Mailbag Episode #2
Mailbag Episode #2
Happy New Year! 2019 brings Song by Song back to take another look through the listener mail we've received over the las... Read more
9 Jan 2019
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31mins
Ranked #8
Innocent When You Dream (78), Franks Wild Years, Tom Waits [143]
Innocent When You Dream (78), Franks Wild Years, Tom Waits [143]
After seventeen tracks, we reach the end of Franks Wild Years with this scratchy demo-style version of Innocent When You... Read more
1 Aug 2018
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19mins
Ranked #9
Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen), Small Change, Tom Waits [036]
Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen), Small Change, Tom Waits [036]
Sam and Martin welcome Night Vale writer Jeffrey Cranor to this first track from season four of Song by Song, ploughing ... Read more
25 May 2016
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15mins
Ranked #10
Strange Weather, Big Time, Tom Waits [152]
Strange Weather, Big Time, Tom Waits [152]
Helen Zaltzman returns for the second new track from Big Time, this time dealing with the dull mundanity of cloudy days.... Read more
3 Oct 2018
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15mins
Ranked #11
Lucky Day, The Black Rider, Tom Waits [221]
Lucky Day, The Black Rider, Tom Waits [221]
Theatre-maker David Shopland joins his collaborator and returning guest Callum Hughes (plus the usual goofs Martin &... Read more
27 Nov 2019
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25mins
Ranked #12
Gun Street Girl, Big Time, Tom Waits [160]
Gun Street Girl, Big Time, Tom Waits [160]
Sam and Martin head into the final tracks of the Big Time album struggling with the energy of this version of Gun Street... Read more
31 Oct 2018
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6mins
Ranked #13
Gospel Train, The Black Rider, Tom Waits [218]
Gospel Train, The Black Rider, Tom Waits [218]
Penny Foxley returns to give Martin & Sam some more context and detail for the Black Rider play from 2004. The cacop... Read more
6 Nov 2019
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23mins
Ranked #14
Night on Earth OST, Tom Waits [172-187]
Night on Earth OST, Tom Waits [172-187]
It’s back to the megamix format for the second Original Soundtrack of the Waits discography, as Martin and Sam spend a m... Read more
23 Jan 2019
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41mins
Ranked #15
Whistlin Past the Graveyard, Blue Valentine, Tom Waits [062]
Whistlin Past the Graveyard, Blue Valentine, Tom Waits [062]
More lyrical density and ambiguity on this week's Song by Song, as this track flirts both with a life on the railroad as... Read more
28 Dec 2016
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17mins
Ranked #16
Hang On St Christopher, Franks Wild Years, Tom Waits [126]
Hang On St Christopher, Franks Wild Years, Tom Waits [126]
Welcome back to Song by Song for this, our eleventh season, taking on the 1987 album Franks Wild Years. Sam and Martin b... Read more
4 Apr 2018
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16mins
Ranked #17
Cemetery Polka, Rain Dogs, Tom Waits [109]
Cemetery Polka, Rain Dogs, Tom Waits [109]
For our third week at the London Podcast Festival, John and Helen help us pick apart some of the exaggerated family narr... Read more
1 Nov 2017
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18mins
Ranked #18
Clap Hands, Rain Dogs, Tom Waits [108]
Clap Hands, Rain Dogs, Tom Waits [108]
Returning for a second week of live shows, Helen, John, Sam, Martin and the rest of our London Podcast Festival audience... Read more
25 Oct 2017
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20mins
Ranked #19
Underground, Swordfishtrombones, Tom Waits [092]
Underground, Swordfishtrombones, Tom Waits [092]
Back again for season 9 (we'll do this one properly, I promise), Martin and Sam are joined by Philippa Spanos to discuss... Read more
14 Jun 2017
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14mins
Ranked #20
Heartattack and Vine, Heartattack and Vine, Tom Waits [068]
Heartattack and Vine, Heartattack and Vine, Tom Waits [068]
We're back! Kicking off season seven we play host to Martin's in-laws, as the power-couple of Lawyer Miranda Zaltzman an... Read more
1 Mar 2017
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17mins
