It may have been our last edition of our monthly Now Playing test track rundown, or perhaps the edition before, where I got all misty-eyed about Tom Waits’ signature ballad Martha.
Wherever and whenever it was, I made the comparison with that scene in perennial US sitcom It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, in which Danny DeVito’s character Frank has a breakdown in therapy at the slightest provocation from his counsellor. “Ah, you unzipped me!” he cries. “It’s all coming back, I hate you! I don’t like it. I don’t like to think about it!”.
