Continuing our season of specials on material outside the show’s main remit, Philippa Spanos returns to help Martin and Sam consider the creative and commercial aspects of Waits’s music videos. Starting with a long-overlooked animation experiment from the 70s, we chart how these films function in relation to the music, the commercial purpose of a video, as well as all the tiny tiny guitars.

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Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Tom Waits For No-One / The One That Got Away, short film feat. Tom Waits, dir. John Lamb (1979)
In The Neighbourhood, Tom Waits music video, dir. Haskell Wexler (1983)
Rain Dogs Promos, dir. Chris Blum (1985)
Downtown Train, Tom Waits music video, dir. Jean-Baptiste Mondino (1985)
Blow Wind Blow, Tom Waits music video, and Limousine Interview promo, dir. Chris Blum (1987)
Temptation, Tom Waits music video from Franks Wild Years, dir. Betzy Bromberg (1987)
It's Alright With Me, Tom Waits music video from Red Hot + Blue, dir. Jim Jarmusch (1990)
Going Out West, Tom Waits music video from Bone Machine, dir. Jesse Dylan (1992)
I Don’t Wanna Grow Up, Tom Waits music video from Bone Machine, dir. Jim Jarmusch (1992)

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