Sat, 23 February 2008
Yoo hoo Toadlings, welcome to Toadcast No. 22. This one is a sort of natural follow-on from the series of movie soundtrack posts we ran on the site a week or so ago. I can't believe we managed an entire series without mentioning either Ennio Morricone or Quentin Tarantino. So I've tried to put that part right here, as well as throwing in some corkers by the likes of Nick Cave & Warren Ellis and a few others. It may come across slightly as a novelty podcast, what with the Darth Vader theme music and so on, but I still think it makes an interesting listen. It actually made an interesting listen for me this morning too, because I was so utterly shanghaied on gin by the end of it that I actually don't remember half of the introductions to the songs towards the end. So join me on a voyage of discovery and find out exactly what on earth I found to say about Nick Cave whilst pickled out of my tits on a Friday evening. 01. John Williams - The Imperial March (00.00) My Odeo Channel (odeo/03301a3286442766) |
Wed, 13 February 2008
Greetings and Happy Valentine’s day my little Toadlings. Wait, what’s that? You hate Valentine’s Day? Loathe it in fact? Would dearly love to nuke fucking Hallmark and every last shitty little shop peddling their tawdry baubles and meaningless rubbish that serve no purpose other than to defile the pure concept of true love and disrespect the dignity of the un-mated? Good. Me too. In fact, us too, for the wildly popular (grumble, sulk) Mrs. Toad is back to do the great Valentine’s anti-podcast with me. To bitch and moan, to get side-tracked, to ramble and to poke pointed sticks in the side of the great marketing behemoth that the most shallow and meaningless of public celebrations has become. If you do not like Valentine’s Day very much, then this is the place to be. 01. Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night? (00.23)02. The Velvet Underground - Femme Fatale (08.06) 03. The Raveonettes - Little Animal (10.57) 04. R.E.M. - The One I Love (13.57) 05. Half-Man Half-Biscuit - Paintball’s Coming Home (20.54) 06. The Pierces - Boring (25.43) 07. (The Real) Tuesday Weld - Terminally Ambivalent Over You (31.03) 08. Shane MacGowan & the Popes - Her Father Didn’t Like Me Anyway (34.41) 09. The Wave Pictures - When I Leave You For Somebody Else (38.30) 10. Pulp - Pink Glove (45.33) 11. The Raincoats - Don’t Be Mean (50.15) 12. Rufus Wainright - One Man Guy (59.34) 13. William Shatner - Ideal Woman (66.34) 14. The Sequins - Nobody Dreams About Me (71.45) 15. The Smiths - Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want (77.31) 16. The Walkmen - Don’t Forget Me (82.58) Song, by Toad |
Sun, 3 February 2008
IT disasters in Toad Hall meant that this podacast was delayed so long that I ended up posting pretty much all of it on the blog before I got to record the thing and all the news was so outdated that I had to find some more news. Fortunately we have some pre-release splendidness from Elbow, Goldfrapp and Stephen Malkmus to make up for it. There’s also some excellent unsigned music to be had as well, from Maxwell Panther and Meursault, as well as some splendid new singles from Elle S’Appelle and Operahouse. So it’s late, but some of this stuff is really quite excellent. And then there’s LCD Soundsystem who have taken me so long to get into that I am only starting to even enjoy the album now, some eight months or so after its release. What a fuckwit. There’s a fairly detailed explanation of what is going to be happened with Song, by Toad Records in the new year as well, and how I am going to move these podcasts onwards and upwards. Unfortunately it takes the longest bloody link in recorded history to actual explain it all, but explain it I do. There’s always the track timings listed at the side of the songs if you want to skip it altogether though! Have fun, chaps. Toadcast #20 - The Late, Late News 1. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Gardenia (01.27) |
