Diamond In Your Mind / Danny Says / On The Road - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards [383/384/385]

We welcome writer and podcaster Tim Clare to Song by Song, for more Orphaned songs about the significance of imaginary diamonds, sound-check deadlines, and a collaboration with Primus. We discuss reinterpretations of The Ramones, another version of Kerouac’s song On The Road, and a very valuable belt.

Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Diamond In Your Mind, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

Diamond In Your Mind, Healing The Divide: A Concert For Reconciliation And Peace, Tom Waits / The Chronos Quartet (2007)

Diamond In Your Mind, Don't Give Up On Me, Solomon Burke (2002)

Danny Says, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

Danny Says, End of the Century, The Ramones (1980)

Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight), Brain Drain, The Ramones (1989)

On The Road, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

Waits and Primus recording On The Road, extract from Videoplasty (1998)

Home I'll Never Be, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

On The Road (excerpt), Jack Kerouac reads On The Road, Jack Kerouac (1999)

If It Wasnae for Your Wellies, A Life In The Day Of: The Collection, Billy Connolly (1998)

Maybe Tomorrow, theme music from the Littlest Hobo, Terry Bush (1963)

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The Return Of Jackie And Judy / It's Over / Home I'll Never Be - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards [365/366/367]

Martin is a punk, Sam Pay is a runt, Vera joined the podcast and they all… focused on getting enough water because hydration is important. We dip back into the Woyzeck material, consider Ramones fandom, and Waits pays tribute to Jack Kerouac.

Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
The Return Of Jackie And Judy, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

The Return Of Jackie And Judy, End of the Century, The Ramones (1980)

Judy Is A Punk, Ramones, The Ramones (1976)

It's Over, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

Scene featuring 'It's Over' from Liberty Heights (dir. Levinson), via YouTube (1999)

Home I'll Never Be, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)

On The Road (excerpt), Jack Kerouac reads On The Road, Jack Kerouac (1999)

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Diamonds On My Windshield - The Heart of Saturday Night [017]

Martin and Sam greet new guest host Alice Sanders to discuss the first of Tom Waits's beat poems, following the meandering imagery of an unsettled man drifting along California's roads. Song structure and creating intimacy and a sense of time all get mentioned... and Sam totally forgets that Diamonds isn't on Nighthawks, it's on Dime Store Novels. Idiot.

Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Diamonds on my Windshield, The Heart of Saturday Night, Tom Waits (1974)

October in the Railroad Earth, Poetry For The Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac and Steve Allen (1959)

And for contrast, Diamonds on my Windshield, Dime Store Novels vol. 1, Tom Waits (1974)

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