High energy blues number - check. Harsh beat-boxing rhythmic tone - check. Mumbled lyrics and anti-poetic phrasing - check. David, Sam and Martin find all the required elements, but discuss whether it all comes together in this week’s song.
Note: we mention Mark Rylance this episode; between recording and release, his brother Jonathan was killed - sympathies from all of us for this loss.
Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Baby Gonna Leave Me, Real Gone (remastered), Tom Waits (2004/2017)
Baby Gonna Leave Me, Real Gone (original), Tom Waits (2004)
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, In Concert, Joan Baez (1962)
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin (1969)
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, single, Anne Bredon (1959)
Day After Tomorrow, Day After Tomorrow, Joan Baez (2008)
Whistle Down The Wind, Whistle Down The Wind, Joan Baez (2018)
Last Leaf, Whistle Down The Wind, Joan Baez (2018)
Clip from 'So I Married an Axe Murderer', dir. Thomas Schlamme (1993)
Ghosts series 3 episode 1 - The Bone Plot, dir. Nick Collette & featuring David Ahmad (2021)
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