The Toadcast - the weekly podcast from Song, by Toad

The Toadcast - the weekly podcast from Song, by Toad

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  • Toadcast #5 - Woo hoo JC!

    More errant podcastery from your favourite slippery

    green amphibian.  This week I find myself yelling abuse at JC who
    writes a terrible blog called The Vinyl Villain
    and is currently stranded in Toronto for a few months, far away from
    his Glasgow home.  JC was pretty much the first blogger to take any
    interest in Song, by Toad in it's formative days and as I such I always
    feel rather grateful for the encouragement Jim showed me back when I
    was starting out.

    As such I thought I'd play a few

    songs from his favourite groups, a couple of things he's brought us in
    the last few months and some songs about missing folk, seeing as he'll
    presumably be pining like a teenager for the lovely Mrs. Villain. 
    Well, that or masturbating himself into a zinc-deficient coma, of
    course.

    Either way, hope you're enjoying yourself JC. Here's some bloody songs for ya!

    Toadcast #5 - Distant Villainy

    1. Belly - Trust In Me (01.54)

    2. Maximo Park - Girls Who Play Guitars (08.30)
    3. The Doledrums - Midweek Dreamer (12.50)
    4. Waylon Jennings - Dukes of Hazzard Theme (15.20)
    5. Billy Bragg - Wishing the Days Away (Ballad Version) (18.33)
    6. Alex Cornish - This One's For You (24.28)
    7. Adam Balbo - Rock Ballad (31.02)
    8. Elbow - Fugitive Motel (36.24)
    9. R.E.M. - Half a World Away (41.21)
    10. The Doledrums - He Said (47.14)
    11. The Meteors - Out of Time (51.21)
    12. James - Say Something (55.33)
    13. Thunderegg - Long Way From Home (59.50)
    14. The Pendulums - Brand New Song (66.52)

    Song, by Toad


    1 hr 11 min
  • Toadcast the Fourth - Weddings, Holidays and Summery Niceness
    I’m in America at the moment at my brother’s wedding, but I very kindly recorded this before I went away.  I’ve thrown in some stuff about weddings and some summery happy tunes too.

    Also, he’s getting married on Cape Cod, and I worked there as a waiter for two Summers when I was a student - with my everso English accent the tips were quite splendid - so I’ve thrown on a few songs that remind me of my Summers on Cape Cod, although not all are obviously related.  All in all it’s a cheerful, happy mix with a nice atmosphere to it, so you should like this one.

    By the time you hear it though I could very easily have sworn myself into exile and ruined my relationship with my new in-laws forever.  Wish me luck, Toadlings, wish me luck.

     Toadcast #4 - Summery Songs and Wedding Bells
    1. Billy Bragg - The Marriage (0.46)
    2. Tom Waits - Better Off Without a Wife (5.10)
    3. Clem Snide - Happy Birthday (9.38)
    4. Gomez - Make No Sound (13.36)
    5. Dave Matthews Band - Two Step (19.56)
    6. Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (26.49)
    7. Judy Garland - Get Happy (30.20)
    8. Tom Waits - Never Let Go (34.59)
    9. Bell X1 - Bound For Boston Hill (38.12)
    10. Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Funeral Face (43.37)
    11. Luna - Sweet Child O’ Mine (48.41)
    12. Len - Steal My Sunshine (54.07)
    13. Billy Bragg & Wilco - Hesitating Beauty (59.28)Song, by Toad
    1 hr 3 min
  • Toadcast #3 - With Added Americana

    It's all gone a bit American this week, Toadlings. I have no

    intention of putting out a series of strictly themed podcasts, but it's
    still early days and there are so many massive chunks of my music
    collection I want to poke about in that this may happen a couple of
    times before things settle down. So I started with a couple of vaguely
    American-sounding tracks this week and before you know it I ended up
    with a podcast with a definite Americana theme.

    I'm quite happy with how it's all turned out though, I must confess

    - a nice combination of classics and small, small bands, so the
    playlist is working quite well by itself. And actually handling the
    microphone is getting easier as well. I am quite liking this podcasting
    business, I'd say!

    1. The Band - The Weight (02.16)

    2. Hem - Half Acre (09.18)
    3. Elvis Perkins - While You Were Sleeping (12.38)
    4. Cherry Ghost - Mathematics (20.27)
    5. The Holy Modal Rounders - Hey Hey Baby (25.30)
    6. Night Jar - Sweet Annie Lee (28.30)
    7. Caramel Jack - Lincoln Jackson Incident (33.45)
    8. The Builders & the Butchers - Spanish Death Song (39.27)
    9. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Ballad of a Thin Man (49.51)
    10. Rick Redbeard - Blood (54.06)
    11. Billie Holiday - Georgia on My Mind (59.26)
    12. Night Jar - Big Black Horse (64.05)
    13. Broken Records - Lies (71.45)
    14. DeVotchka - The Enemy Guns (77.57)

    Song, by Toad


    1 hr 23 min
  • Deuxieme Podcast, by Toad

    Yes, another one. Mwah hah haaa. Lock up the kids, Campfires &

    Battlefields, because the Song, by Toad musical cuss-o-rama is back on
    air for more blethering, swearing, slurring and first class tunery.

    Actually, I don't think this one is anything like as good as the

    first, if I'm honest. It's a bit over-long at fifteen songs so I think
    in future I'm going to limit myself to ten or twelve at the most, not
    least because my shitbox of a computer starts having a panic once I've
    stuffed that many audio files into a single project. So, fifteen songs
    then, with a bit of an emphasis on late 80s jangly indie guitar and
    containing one of the most brilliant ever drunken fuck-ups about
    three-quarters of the way through. Beware the horrors of letting your
    children turn into indie kids, people! So a bit too long, and
    occasionally too much inconsequential chatter, but we live and learn
    and the next one will be better, I promise.

    Toadcast #2, the 80s English Indie One

    1. My Teenage Stride - Terror Bends (01.00)

    2. Honeytrap - Let's Do Naked Dancing (03.37)
    3. The Mutton Birds - The Queen's English (09.38)
    4. The Veils - The Wild Son (17.38)
    5. The 63 Crayons - Devils (21.40)
    6. The Smiths - I Started Something (26.05)
    7. Honeytrap - Death Before the Silver Screen (31.03)
    8. Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Morning is Broken (36.14)
    9. The Indelicates - New Art For the People (41.57)
    10. The Indelicates - Stars (45.51)
    11. MJ Hibbett & the Validators - The Lesson of The Smiths (50.32)
    12. The Specials - Guns of Navarone (55.02)
    13. Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon (57.20)
    14. Honeytrap - Mussolini's Son (66.06)
    15. Frank Turner - Heartless Bastard Motherfucker (73.25)

    Song, by Toad


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    1 hr 17 min
  • Toadcast #1 - The very first ever!

    Bugger me, what fun! How about a podcast! By Me! With mandatory exclamation marks! Lots of them!!

    Sorry about this chaps, but in truly characteristic all-or-nothing

    fashion, instead of getting my miserable arse in gear to record a
    meagre intro for the splendid Contrast Podcast
    I have, on my first outing, gone right out and recorded an entire
    podcast of my own. Bloody typical. I tell you what, if I don't finally
    get off my lazy, disorganised and generally fucking useless arse come
    the next Contrast Podcast time then I deserve to be tarred and
    feathered, so please hold me to that, I bloody deserve it.

    And you've got to tell me what you think too, because believe me this is far

    more personal than blogging - shit, my own actual voice! The shield of
    a computer screen and four thousand miles' distance is some insulation
    believe me, whereas all you lot listening to me talk idiotically to
    myself in the middle of my own living room, well quite frankly it
    scares the shit out of me. So let me know - good? bad? indifferent?
    more? never again? It's in your hands, people, so make your voices
    heard.

    Fancy a listen? Well click like fiends, Toadlets, like fiends!

    Here's the tracklisting:

    1. The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic (01.22)

    2. Bishop Allen - Like Castanets (07.10)
    3. Jet - Lazy Gun (10.21)
    4. The Sequins - Patients (17.40)
    5. Grandaddy - Broken Household Appliance National Forest (25.53)
    6. The Wedding Present - Corduroy (30.25)
    7. The Sequins - Nobody Dreams About Me (35.22)
    8. The Shaky Hands - Whales Sing (38.30)
    9. The Scottish Enlightenment - Eyes (44.02)
    10. Sons & Daughters - Johnny Cash (48.55)

    Song, by Toad

    53 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…