Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 6 days 3 hours 32 minutes
Straight to one-down-from-the-top (track-listing-wise), Martin and Sam continue with more tortuous car similes, the divide between genuine celebration and the desperation for the same, and special guest-input from Google Translate. Song by Song is...
Welcome back to Song by Song for this, our eleventh season, taking on the 1987 album Franks Wild Years. Sam and Martin begin again with some (brief) discussion of its theatrical context, as well as the strange mechanised wanderlust...
As Martin and Sam continue preparations for season eleven, Franks Wild Years, we take a long-overdue dive into the mailbag to justify the endless trails of email/twitter/facebook in *every single episode*! With comments, corrections, additions and...
For this final track of Rain Dogs, Sam and Martin regroup to look at the shape of this album as a whole, how this song relates to Waits's personal situation circa 1985, and pay tribute to one of his great collaborators. Song by Song is Martin Zaltz...
We're rounding the corner and heading into the final tracks of Rain Dogs, but Waits isn't done with us yet as he deploys another odd instrumental groove (or two) to remind us of the strange spine of this album. Song by Song is Martin Zaltz Austwick...
A visit to the hit-factory this week as Waits produces one of his most commercial and accessible tracks to date, picked over and compared to the documentaries of the 1930s by Heath and Robert Sledge (plus the usual two goons). Song by Song is Martin...
For more Criminal activities, Lauren Spohrer and Phoebe Judge reunite with Martin and Sam for some prison-lingo dissection, attitudes towards vocal stylings and the archetypal biblical perp walk. Song by Song is Martin Zaltz Austwick and Sam Pay; two...
Our third set of rotating hosts, Robert and Heath Sledge, join Martin and Sam for another weird off-shoot of Rain Dogs, in the form of a little country number. Song by Song is Martin Zaltz Austwick and Sam Pay; two musicians listening to and...
Ross Sutherland of Imaginary Advice returns to shuffle his shoulders along to this latest direction-specific Waits track, discussing some more exotic elements of the subcultures of NY, the pace vs the momentum of songs, and Martin's endless yearning...
Phoebe and Lauren return to discuss some more Criminal-related music this week, as Waits seems to further abandon the New York core of Rain Dogs for a more southern blues/chain gang feel, wandering into the world of the murder ballad. Song by Song is...