Wed, 23 July 2008
Fear not, this isn’t quite as horribly overbearing as it could have been. The ranting is actually fairly under control, and the self-important pontificating not quite as reckless as it could so easily have been, partly because I wasn’t quite as liberal with the gin as I have been in the past. The reason it’s called the Popecast is because of this amazing little story about Catholics in the States issuing death threats to a kid who took a communion wafer out of the church with him. The hilarious PZ Myers then got involved, threatening to show them what real desecration would look like, and the pandemonium reached all new levels of shrillness. The thing that really got my goat about all this was not so much that Catholics took offence, but more the level of the hysteria and the language of persecution. It was honestly described as kidnapping and as a hate crime by various loonies, and there was nothing like enough ‘Oh fucking grow up and get the fuck over it’ being said. People seem to be seeking all sorts of odd legal protections for their crazy superstitions these days, and I am flabberghasted that a particular kind of idea is being so fucking mollycoddled as to be deemed immune from criticism and contempt. Come on, people, fuck your religious convictions and learn to deal with the fact that most of the planet thinks they’re crazy - and that applies to atheists as well. Anyhow, I promise this doesn’t take over too much of the podcast, and that the music is given plenty of space to breathe. 01. Vatican Broadside - Half Man Half Biscuit (00.07) |
Tue, 8 July 2008
Hello, more Toadcastery. I've, erm, focussed on Dadrock for this one. Not too much of it on the playlist, fortunately, although there's a couple of well-known names on there. In my defence though, I couldn't bring myself to feature Coldplay, so I was forced into the compromise of playing an almighty butchering of one of their songs by the splendid Richard Cheese. Basically I spend most of this
podcast trying to justify the presence of so much bland music in the
charts and how the hell that came to pass. There's plenty of chatter
about how music is used as a sort of social glue as well, in which case
the quality of the stuff becomes almost secondary. There are some
really good new bands on this as well - The Velcro Quartet are
particularly brilliant, as are the songs by Mumford & Son, Yoshimi!
and Honeytrap. Enjoy responsibly. 02. The Velcro Quartet - Dead Dog's Hill (07.53) 03. Seabear - Teenage Kicks (11.17) 04. Athlete - Shake Those Windows (21.02) 05. Richard Cheese - Yellow (30.31) 06. ESL - Czarne Oczy (31.59) 07. Emiliana Torrini - Me & Armeni (39.50) 08. Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal (43.24) 09. Snow Patrol - Last Ever Lone Gunman (48.11) 10. The Killers - All These Things That I've Done (58.17) 11. The Pictish Trail - All I Own (66.52) 12. Mumford & Sons - White Blank Page (73.01) 13. Honeytrap - Song For Nona (82.18) 14. The Velcro Quartet - How to Kill Your Wife (87.04) 15. Yoshimi! - Song For Suzy (Demo) (94.34) 16. Frank Turner - The Outdoor Type (100.34) Song, by Toad |
