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Massive Attack with Tom Waits – Boots on the Ground
Song of the Day: Now 35 years since the hugely influential Blue Lines, and 16 since their last LP, Robert Del Naja and co return, joined by the unmistakeable voice of the American musician, with a powerful, poignant, topically political number portraying the perspective of a boorish, monstrous warmonger
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LOCKS’ new EP, Tall Tales
Song of the Day: A wonderful Tom Waits-esque oddball new release of gory imagery, rattled chains and stomping staccato by the dark, Tiger Lillies cabaret-style gypsy folk London band from their recent EP, Tall Tales
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New Year’s Eve fireworks with Tom Waits
Song of the Day: An annual theme from a perennial Song Bar favourite - Tom Waits’ and Kathleen Brennan’s gentle song captures some of the chaos, fireworks, fights, arguments and emotional turmoil as the year unstoppably turns
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A scene from the New York section of Night On Earth (1991)
Song of the Day: From Bernard Herrmann’s music from Taxi Driver, let’s catch a ride with another cab film, Jim Jarmusch’s 1991 five-vignettes plot, connected by a soundtrack by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan
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Tom Waits – always in business
Song of the Day: After some sleep and dream songs, a lugubrious song by the inimitable raspy-voiced one is somewhere between surreal dream and nightmare, except it matches the chaos of recent events
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Howling, growling, tenderly looming: Tom Waits is a moon poet
Song of the Day: On this day of this rare astronomical eclipse event, and after a series of other lunar-related songs, we come to an artist who has, across the course of his career, described this celestial body in around 100 different ways
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From the cover of Nicolette's album Let No-One Live Rent Free in Your Head
Song of the Day: Alongside Tricky, another collaborator who appeared on Massive Attack's 1994 album Protection, Scottish/Nigerian Londoner Nicolette Love Suwoton's slightly forgotten gem from her brilliant second LP Let No-One Live Rent Free in Your Head, is a sensual mix of electronica, pop, jazz and and trip-hop, yearning for an apolitical utopia
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Tom Waits and Bette Midler
Song of the Day: Continuing on the theme of call-and-response in a romantic setting, let's delve into a smoky bar with the gravelly voice of Waits chatting up Midler, who gradually softens to his charms
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