Heading into the final tracks from Orphans, Tim, Martin and Sam discuss the ruinous junkyard dog that is Waits’s music, with another track from Brecht/Weill’s Threepenny Opera, some nursery rhyme cribs, and a bit of spontaneous(?) comedy. Waits delivers some aggressive anti-war sentiment, a song slightly lacking in specificity, and then finishes with a load of absolute bull.
Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Cannon Song, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)
Army Song, The Threepenny Opera - original Broadway recording, Kurt Weill / Bertolt Brecht / trans. by Marc Blitzstein (1954)
Cannon Song, Lost In The Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill, Kurt Weill / Bertolt Brecht / The Fowler Brothers / Stan Ridgway / trans. by Ralph Manheim and John Willett (1985)
Kanonensong, Die Dreigroschenoper, Kurt Weill / Bertolt Brecht (1931)
One-Winged Angel (Final Fantasy VII), Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy, Nobuo Uematsu (2007)
Jayne's Blue Wish, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)
Long Way Home, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)
Big Bad Love trailer, dir. Arliss Howard (2001)
Dog Treat, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006)
Tom Waits in ‘The Old Man and The Gun’, dir. David Lowery (2018)
Innocent When You Dream (featuring ‘That’s A Lie’ introduction), via YouTube (1999?)
Mentalism, mind reading and the art of getting inside your head, Darren Brown at TED Vancouver (2019)
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