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I Want You, The Early Years vol 2, Tom Waits [248]

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Episode notes

Elizabeth and Jeremy return for this gentle pastoral sketch of Waits's desire for another, and discuss the universality of this wanting sentiment, traditional masculine presentations of desire in music, and the irresistible rise of girl-power.

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Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: I Want You, The Early Years vol 2, Tom Waits (1993) Wannabe, Spice, The Spice Girls (1996)

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