For this bread-and-circus-iest (breadiest and circusiest?) of tracks, guest host Jenny Owen Youngs comes out strong for Waits and his political diatribe... while Sam and Martin are more equivocal.
Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
In the Colosseum, Bone Machine, Tom Waits (1992)
Pretend We're Dead, Bricks Are Heavy, L7 (1992)
Pretend We're Dead, live on The Word, via YouTube (1992)
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