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  • Toadcast #25 - The Quickcast


    This is a real quickie this week as I am working my hairy little buttocks off on the Broken Records stuff at the moment. Still, in your insatiable thirst for pointless, self-indulgent rambling I was sure you'd want to listen to something splendid in the meantime.

    There's no underlying theme to anything this week, just me rattling on about some current and very interesting music, as well as a couple of confessions so shocking you may never come back here again. Looking at the playlist, I'm sure you can guess what they are.

    So good luck with this, and I am already looking forward to the next one.
    Toadcast #25 - The Quickcast


    01. The Futureheads - Broke Up the Time (02.02)

    02. Tapes 'n' Tapes - Hang Them All (05.05)
    03. Meursault - Pissing on Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues(13.21)
    04. The Byrons - Azerbaijan (19.13)
    05. The Fire Engines - Candyskin (26.04)
    06. The Close Lobsters - Firestation Towers (28.53)
    07. Mighty Mighty - Law (34.21)
    08. Kim Carnes - When I'm Away From You (41.14)
    09. Meat Loaf - Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (44.32)
    10. Dirty Summer - War is Bad, Bono is Great (50.02)
    11. The Low Lows - Dear Flies Love Spider (53.40)
    12. Sargasso Trio - It's Hot in Hell (58.32)
    13. The Extraordinaires - High Five the Cactus (63.11)
    14. Modernaire - Distraction (69.40)
    15. The Indelicates - Point Me to the West (75.47)
    16. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Night of the Lotus Eaters(83.47)

    Yes, you did read that correctly. Meat Loaf. Fuck off.

    Song, by Toad


    1 hr 29 min
  • Toadcast #23½ - The Freshcast

    A week or so ago, I recorded a demo show for Fresh Air FM,

    the local student radio station, with a view to applying for a slot
    during next term, only the computer ate the bastard thing. Fucking
    technology. Anyhow, Sunday was Mrs. Toad’s birthday, and for some
    reason she was keen to get plastered and do a podcast with me, so we
    re-did it together. It wasn’t played quite as straight as I’d hoped,
    and by the time I’d had time to reflect on submitting it I was pretty
    certain Fresh Air would chase me out of the building with sticks.
    Fortunately for me, however, they didn’t hate it, didn’t seem to think
    I was a smart-arsed twat and didn’t dispatch me from the building with
    a boot print in my arse.

    As this show is just a pre-record and will be going out randomly

    over the night when they stop broadcasting, I thought I’d pop it up
    here for you to have a listen. I won’t be doing this with any more
    Fresh Air things because, well, you need to go over there and listen
    for yourselves really, don’t you. But for this once I thought you might
    like it seeing as you shower of treacherous fuckers all seem to love
    Mrs. Toad so very bloody much. Be warned though, because it was made
    for a different audience, so there may be a bit of duplication from
    previous podcasts, and it’s rather long, as apparently there is a lot
    of time to fill overnight when there are no presenters in the building.

    The Fresh Air plugs themselves were enough to see us kicked out.

    Toadcast #23½ - The Freshcast

    01. Shout Out Louds - Tonight I Have to Leave It (03.09)

    02. The Shaky Hands - Whales Sing (06.41)
    03. The Cave Singers - Thinking of Heaven (13.05)
    04. Preston School of Industry - Straits of Magellan (17.23)
    05. Adam Balbo - Talkin’ Bush (27.11)
    06. Donnan Linkz feat. Baje One of Junk Science - The N Word (29.18)
    07. Riff-Raff - Romford Girls (36.44)
    08. The Pogues - Dirty Old Town (38.58)
    09. Nicole Atkins - Neptune City (46.44)
    10. Edith Piaf - Elle Frequentait la Rue Pigalle (50.11)
    11. Dusty Springfield - You Don’t Own Me (53.34)
    12. AA Bondy - Vice Rag (59.12)
    13. Relatively Clean Rivers - Hello Sunshine (68.09)
    14. The Eighteenth Day of May - Lady Margaret (71.05)
    15. Celebrity Chimp - Pornstar (81.27)
    16. Nightjar - Poor Man’s Son (84.01)
    17. Ravens & Chimes - General Lafayette, You Are Not Alone! (93.03)
    18. Eels - Love of the Loveless (95.59)
    19. Glasvegas - It’s My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry (106.49)
    20. Flashguns - St. George (111.01)
    21. Elle S’Appelle - Little Flame (123.09)
    22. Elk City - Cherries in the Snow (125.58)
    23. The Low Miffs - Also Sprach Shareholder (130.41)

    2 hr 15 min
  • Toadcast #23 - The Filthcast

    In

    preparation for applying for a slot on Edinburgh's student radio
    station Fresh Air, I thought I would challenge myself to get through an
    entire podcast without actually swearing because, on public access
    radio, you can't use naughty words.  A Toad without swearing, you say,
    what the fuck has the world come to?

    Well to make sure I don't

    disappoint you in your noble quest for dissolute anti-culture I thought
    I'd compensate by playing a collection of the filthiest and most sweary
    songs I could lay my hands on.  Thinking about it, I've managed to
    forget Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot's truly foul 'Je T'aime,
    Moi Non Plus', but there you go.  I could have improved just about
    every playlist I've ever done in retrospect, I think, so at some point
    I have to draw the line.

    So, I use bad words when I quote other

    people and when I give you the names of the songs but I don't think I
    let a single naughty word slip during my own chat on this one, but let
    me know if you catch me out. 

    Toadcast #23 - The Filthcast

    01. Aidan John Moffat - Cunt (01.09)
    02. The Pogues - Boys From the County Hell (05.24)
    03. Adam Balbo -Let's Make a Porno (10.03)
    04. Celebrity Chimp - Pornstar (13.06)
    05. The Tacticians - Hardcore Porns (15.37)
    06. Billy Bragg - St. Swithin's Day (21.05)
    07. Grinderman - No Pussy Blues (26.05)
    08. The Libertines - I Get Along (33.10)
    09. Carbon/Silicon - What the Fuck (35.47)
    10. Frank Turner - Heartless Bastard Motherfucker (42.03)
    11. Les Enfant Bastard - U R My Fucking Sunshine U Cunt (44.52)
    12. Plans & Apologies - Tony Blair Fucknut (49.50)
    13. The Libertines - What a Waster (57.00)
    14. Lambchop - Your Fucking Sunny Day (60.49)
    15. The Ex-Men - Suck Her (67.35)
    16. Micah P. Hinson - Patience (73.04)
    17. Eels - It's a Motherfucker (76.59)
    18. Doug Anthony Allstars - I Fuck Dogs (80.07)

    Song, by Toad


    1 hr 24 min
  • Toadcast #22 - The Cinecast

    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.

    Toadcast #22 - The Cinecast

    01. John Williams - The Imperial March (00.00)

    02. Barry Adamson - 007, A Phantasy Bond Theme(05.37)
    03. Ennio Morricone - The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (11.44)
    04. Hans Zimmer - True Romance (16.20)
    05. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Rather Lovely Thing (23.37)
    06. The Divine Comedy - Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds (28.10)
    07. The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink (32.21)
    08. Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me (36.12)
    09. Andrew Lloyd Webber - Everything's Alright (45.04)
    10. The Divine Comedy - Les Jours Tristes (51.43)
    11. R.E.M. - Leave (58.31)
    12. The Shins - Saint Simon (62.27)
    13. Eels - Your Lucky Day in Hell (70.52)
    14. Tom Waits & Crystal Gale - Take Me Home (77.49)
    15. Barry Adamson - Mitch & Andy (80.30)
    16. Andrew Lloyd Webber - King Herod's Song (88.53)
    17. John Williams - Cantina Band Theme (93.01)
    18. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand (Scream 3 Version) (97.01)
    19. The Pogues - Night on Bald Mountain (105.22)
    20. Ennio Morricone - Once Upon a Time in the West (Deborah's Theme) (109.01)

    Song, by Toad

    My Odeo Channel (odeo/03301a3286442766)

    1 hr 54 min
  • Toadcast #21 - The Lurvecast

    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.

    Toadcast #21 - The Lurvecast

    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
    1 hr 27 min
  • Toadcast #20 - The Late, Late News

    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)

    2. Elle S’Appelle - Little Flame (06.49)
    3. Operahouse - Born a Boy (09.40)
    4. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends (14.54)
    5. The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe (24.50)
    6. Goldfrapp - Little Bird (28.51)
    7. Maxwell Panther - Too Many Magazines (35.47)
    8. Meursault - The Furnace (39.37)
    9. The 4Qs - Pieces of a Puzzle (48.03)
    10. Kid Harpoon - Riverside (50.42)
    11. Dubious Ranger - Slow Day (56.18)
    12. Roger McGuinn & Calexico - One More Cup of Coffee (68.29)
    13. The Heavy Circles - Henri (72.45)
    14. The Brute Chorus (feat. Tiggs) - The Cuckoo & the Stolen Heart (80.15)
    15. Elbow - Grounds For Divorce (88.13)
    16. The Cave Singers - Seeds of Night (94.51)


    My Odeo Channel (odeo/03301a3286442766)
    1 hr 40 min
  • Toadcast #19 - The Scotchcast

    Back at long last, would you believe.  After the abortive attempt at

    a Christmas podcast and then the IT disaster in Toad Hall - when my
    retarded computer ground to a halt and had to have its entire operating
    system reinstalled - I have finally managed to record another
    podcast.   Sorting out the IT department was not at all as easy as it
    should have been, so it’s taken ages to get to the point where I could
    record a podcast again.

    So, excuses over and done with, what am I going to inflict on you

    this time?  The bloody Scots, that’s who.  The Scottish music scene is
    an amazingly fertile one, so I thought I’d review 2007 and have a bit
    of a look forward to 2008.  So I’ve pulled together some of the big
    guys like Malcolm Middleton, Emma Pollock and King Creosote and
    interspersed a few of the lesser known acts from around here to give
    you a nicely rounded look at what’s going on musically in the land of
    Buckfast and deep-fried Mars bars.

    Toadcast #19 - The Scotchcast<

    01. Sons & Daughters - Gilt Complex (1.01)

    02. Glasvegas - Daddy’s Gone (5.55)
    03. The Low Miffs - Also Sprach Shareholder (13.58)
    04. Malcolm Middleton - We’re All Going to Die (17.24)
    05. Aidan John Moffat - The Boy That You Love (23.37)
    06. Gerry Mitchell & Little Sparta - The Empress (28.00)
    07. The Pendulums - Greenhat (34.38)
    08. Broken Records - Kathy (40.49)
    09. Rob St. John - Wooden Rose (45.44)
    10. Found - Some Fracas of a Sissy (53.28)
    11. Kid Canaveral - Smash Hits (58.49)
    12. Popup - Lucy, What are You Trying to Say? (61.38)
    13. Emma Pollock - A Temporary Fix (68.28)
    14. King Creosote - Church as Witness (76.04)
    15. Mother & the Addicts - Roll Me on Over (79.37)
    16. Frightened Rabbit - Be Less Rude (88.09)
    17. The Twilight Sad - Walking For Two Hours (94.37)

    Song, by Toad


    1 hr 40 min
  • Toadcast #18 - The Homecast

    Well you know how I said I wasn't so convinced by Toadcast #17? 

    Well it proved somewhat prophetic, although that prophesy may have been
    somewhat self-fulfilling of course.  It's one of my least downloaded
    podcasts for ages, but this one should sort that out.  There's some
    genuinely excellent music on here, although most of it is pretty
    obscure.  There's no Arcade Fire or anything to pull in the punters,
    bar a bit of The Magnetic Fields, but a really good selection of new
    and emerging music nevertheless.

    And why the Homecast?  Well

    that's obvious of course: we're back in our house at long last and I
    recorded this from my massive old lab bench that doubles as a desk and
    music centre all at once.  It's fucking brilliant - I really should
    take a picture and post it for you so you can see.  The bench is 2.75m
    long, so I have computer and stuff at one end, stereo equipment at the
    other and a couple of good sized speakers either side. A music anorak's
    paradise!

    Toadcast #18 - The Homecast

    01. Aidan John Moffat - Eureka Springs (Edit) (00.00)
    02. 4 or 5 Magicians - Forever on the Edge (02.30)
    03. Flashguns - St. George (07.53)
    04. George Pringle - Carte Postale (13.52)
    05. Dusty Springfield - You Don't Own Me (16.59)
    06. Destroyer - Foam Hands (21.55)
    07. Howlies - Aluminum Baseball Bat (28.44)
    08. The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - Aspidestra (38.36)
    09. Johnny Flynn & the Sussex Wit - Leftovers (40.48)
    10. Ruth Theodore - Overexpanding (49.22)
    11. Akron/Family - Ed is a Portal (55.28)
    12. Victor Borge - Phonetic Puncutation (63.22)
    13. Josiah Wordsworth - Drive-by Media (70.23)
    14. King of Prussia - Spain in the Summertime (74.44)
    15. The Magnetic Fields - Threeway (83.07)
    16. The Forms - Knowledge in Hand (87.44)
    17. Howlies - Smoke (90.14)
    18. The Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom (95.38)
    19. Found - When You Fall (102.09)

    Song, by Toad

    1 hr 46 min
  • Toadcast #17 - The Cellarcast

    The wench is away and I am here by myself, managing the last few

    days of our house project. You can imagine what fun that must be, I’m
    sure.  Still, we move back in this weekend, so it may be a crap couple
    of days but it’ll all be over soon and then you’ll be relieved of me
    constantly whinging about it, which will be nice for you.

    Given we’re living in a basement flat on a short term let for a

    month I got quite into the basementy idea with this playlist. I
    digressed into The Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan and the Band, but mostly
    it’s music from ‘95/6 when I was living in a damp, grotty basement flat
    in Glasgow with a mate and the girl I was seeing at the time.

    I bought stacks of CD singles back then and lost them all when

    someone broke into the flat.  Thanks to the joys of the internet I’ve
    been able to track most of them down recently, so you get a few of
    those, as well as some of the stuff I was listening to at the time.

    It’s interesting as a historical document, to me anyway, but I am

    not sure how well the playlist itself works.  There’s something about
    this podcast that I’m not sure I like as much as the others, even
    though I like all the songs on it.  I don’t know, let me know what you
    think.  Perhaps Tears of Rage, Oasis and the Cranberries aren’t good
    enough songs to have all on the same podcast.

    Toadcast #17 - The Cellarcast

    01. Blur w. Francoise Hardy - To the End (03.33)

    02. Oasis - Rocking Chair (10.54)
    03. Bob Dylan & the Band - Tears of Rage (17.59)
    04. Bob Dylan - Baby, Let Me Follow You Down (Live) (25.54)
    05. The Band - Rockin’ Chair (29.17)
    06. Lloyd Cole - Unhappy Song (37.59)
    07. Hootie & the Blowfish - Sad Caper (48.40)
    08. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Shallow Grave (54.03)
    09. Tom Waits - November (55.55)
    10. Barenaked Ladies - The Old Apartment (63.26)
    11. Ray’s Vast Basement - Black Cotton (68.33)
    12. The Bluetones - Colorado Beetle (71.08)
    13. The Boo Radleys - Almost Nearly There (79.35)
    14. The Cranberries - Joe (87.07)
    15. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Ballad of Robert Moore & Betty Coltrane (96.13)

    Song, by Toad


    1 hr 40 min
  • Toadcast #16 - The Birthday Podcast

    Morning you 'orrible lot.  My wench is away being

    important once more.  She said to me the other day when she was trying
    to skive off work due to a hangover: 'I can't go into work in a bad
    state, I handle money.'  Haha, what bollocks.  I love it when
    financial people get all delusional like that, so don't worry I set her
    straight.  I calmly pointed out to her that if I fucked up my last job
    someone might have found a small metal implant buried in their spinal
    column.  This means dead or paralysed.  She stopped, fortunately. 

    'I handle money

    though.'  Yeah well, I handle my penis and every last little sperm is a
    potential human life, so don't gimme that.  The frustration's setting
    in again, can't you tell.  This podcast has some news and some current
    things, and then explores the randomiser on my music library, doffing
    my cap to the recent Contrast Podcast episode which I was too slow to participate in.  Gah.

    It

    is also my birthday on Monday, thirty-two since you ask, and we will be
    down in London to celebrate the occasion with our Southern friends, so
    there's a couple of birthday thingies in there too, most screamingly
    obviously the first track of course.  Enjoy Toadlings, enjoy.

    Toadcast #16 - The Birthday Podcast

    01. Clem Snide - Happy Birthday (02.18)

    02. The Courteeners - Acrylic (08.56)
    03. Joe Lean & the Jing Jang Jong - Sleazy Hughes (12.46)
    04. Cloud Atlas - Cigarettes & Apricots (15.54)
    05. Arab Strap - Thre is No Ending (24.04)
    06. Malcolm Middleton - The Devil & the Angel (29.32)
    07. Down the Tiny Steps - Photosynth (37.29)
    08. Eef Barzelay - Make Another Tree (42.19)
    09. Loch Lomond - Northern, Knees, Trees & Lights (51.35)
    10. The Pogues - Bolero Del Perro Listo (59.23)
    11. Crash Test Dummies - Sonnet #3 (The Cold is Here) (66.52)
    12. Ben Folds - You've Got to Learn to Live With What You Are (68.44)
    13. Cold War Kids - Hair Down (81.39)
    14. The Hold Steady - The Party Pit (90.22)
    15. Tom Waits - Diamonds & Gold (94.11)
    16. Skuobhie Dubh Orchestra - Monsieur Le Charmant (100.18)

    Song, by Toad


    1 hr 44 min

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Every couple of weeks I sit down with a couple of gins and talk you through the new music that's caught my ears in the last fortnight. There'll be a few classics and a few mainstream bands but the…