Song by Song Podcast

As promised, here's the video version of our podchat with @sam_clements last month - @sampay and @martinaustwick , finally in visual form! youtu.be/pFnV6AWpYa4?si…

One final indulgence, as @sam_clements hosts a wide-ranging discussion with @martinaustwick and @sampay about their experiences making this very bad idea of a show traffic.libsyn.com/secure/songbys…

That's all the Tom Waits we've got, so @sampay and @martinaustwick join @sam_clements of @90minfilmfest for a final chat about music, friendship, and what it takes to make a weekly podcast songbysongpodcast.com/blog/2024/3/6/…

@andrewmaton We used Pubmeeple - stick a list of songs in there, and you can do quick brute force rankings of anything. pubmeeple.com/ranking-engine

@SongBySongPod hiya. Love the a show, and bit bereft. You took me through everything bar Mule Variations, which was the only record I knew in advance. What was the song ranking engine site you used? Intrigued to see if Shore Leave really is my favourite, when we get down to it.

@TheeBert @sampay @martinaustwick What's the point without key changes though?!?!?

@SongBySongPod @sampay @martinaustwick On The Nickel- hated though it was on the episode! Here’s a version without the offending key changes: youtu.be/xmIen9nrnIA?si…

Forget the previous few-hundred episodes, let's just get to the heart of it: "What's your favourite Tom Waits song?" @sampay and @martinaustwick finally provide their answers songbysongpodcast.com/blog/2024/2/28…

@MattBrownnutt @sampay @martinaustwick ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@SongBySongPod @sampay @martinaustwick Can’t believe you chose that one!

@Dbrownnutt @sampay @martinaustwick It’s time to accept that we just want different things from this life Duncan…

@SongBySongPod @sampay @martinaustwick Great show. Nice to see Downtown Train getting so much love over the last few weeks. Presumably next episode you’ll do the real list with Hold On, Come On Up To The House, Who Are You & Jersey Girl restored to their rightful places

Art is subjective... but a music podcast has to come up with a final list, as @martinaustwick and @sampay discuss their personal highs and lows from the last 8 (or 50) years of Tom Waits's music traffic.libsyn.com/secure/songbys…

Fun discovery while updating embeds on the website - a good (and almost complete) recording of the Alice Demos. These weren't up when we did our Alice season, but they're worth a listen. youtu.be/LdTAcwJC1FA?si…

A 400+ podcast series is perhaps a little intimidating for a new/casual Tom Waits fan, so @sampay and @martinaustwick boil down some of their suggestions into a digestible format for listeners looking for a place to begin their journey songbysongpodcast.com/blog/2024/2/21…

We’ve done our best to compile the True Orphans we talked about on the show - a few are True True Orphans that we couldn’t find, but the rest are here: songbysongpodcast.com/the-true-orpha… and for the tracks on YouTube (most of them) - here’s a handy playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

As the podcast attempts to achieve comprehensive coverage of all the Waits-related material, Philippa Spanos, @martinaustwick and @sampay return for a second week of music video / promo content traffic.libsyn.com/secure/songbys…

More discussion between Philippa, @sampay and @martinaustwick around the various Waits music videos from 1999 onwards songbysongpodcast.com/blog/2024/2/14…

@MattBrownnutt @martinaustwick @sampay I can totally see it as an approach for the industry - more like the assembly-line process of Hollywood in the 30s, craftspeople ready to put together the next unit. But it is strange to think about in a modern "video art" context. Worth considering for a lot of MTV stuff tbh.

@SongBySongPod @martinaustwick @sampay Really interesting background from Philippa. Loved the idea of the off the shelf video concept. Planning meetings with Tom must have been fun. “For this one I’m thinking welder’s goggles and a loudhailer”

Returning to her Song by Song roving-reporter role, Music-TV alumnus Philippa Spanos breaks down the first decade or so of Music Videos from Tom Waits, ably abetted by your regular DJs @martinaustwick and @sampay traffic.libsyn.com/secure/songbys…

@Dbrownnutt @MattBrownnutt @martinaustwick @sampay There's clearly a lot to unpack here... but I'm afraid our hour is over, we can pick this up in next week's session, see Tina at reception to make an appointment.

@MattBrownnutt @SongBySongPod @martinaustwick @sampay You see what I have to put up with @SongBySongPod?

Friends: Yesterday I created a new tab on the website, collecting all the links to all of the unreleased Waits material we hunted down for the True Orphans series. songbysongpodcast.com/the-true-orpha… Also: Tonight we record our final episode of Song by Song. 🎉🎉🎉

Music Videos have often been overlooked here at Song by Song, so Philippa Spanos rejoins @sampay and @martinaustwick to dig through the space between the songs and the films of Tom Waits songbysongpodcast.com/blog/2024/2/7/…

Hitting on the 2023 remasters, Polish translations of Waits and all the advantages of having an extra finger, @sampay and @martinaustwick dig through their bulging sack one last time traffic.libsyn.com/secure/songbys…