The Toadcast
By Mr. Toad
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Podcast Description
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 focus will always be on the new, the emerging, the eclectic and the interesting.
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ExplicitToadcast #227 - The Maplecast | Seeing as we are in Canada for the weekend (dear thieves, the house is not unoccupied, and the lad staying there is a fighty little f****r), I figured some Canadian songs might be in order. I am actually half-Canadian, which is a bit odd, because I've never actually lived there. So it's always weird coming here, to a country I'm technically from, but which I really don't know at all. Given we played Born Gold, Odonis Odonis, Slow Down Molasses and Hot Panda on last week's show, however, I figured that was probably enough new Canadian bands for the time being, although the excellent Hooded Fang did sneak on this one at the beginning. But mostly, apart from the more usual new stuff I tend to play, I've included a handful of nostalgic songs by Canadian bands, most of which I haven't listened to in quite a long time. And I must say it was sort of nice to look this stuff up again, after so long. 01. Hooded Fang - E.S.P. (00.44) 02. The Tragically Hip - Ahead By a Century (09.26) 03. UMA - Drop Your Soul (feat. Silver Apples) (16.20) 04. White Heath - In a Glasshouse (19.36) 05. 54-40 - Casual Viewin' (33.11) 06. Bruce Springsteen - Circus Song (Live on WBCN 9th Jan 1973) (41.07) 07. Giant Giant Sand - Detained (47.35) 08. Alan Watts - Africa Bats (51.37) 09. Barenaked Ladies - Wrap Your Arms Around Me (1.00.59) 10. Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Kiss and Say Goodbye (1.08.12) 11. Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Heart Like a Wheel (1.11.00) | 5/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #226 - The Rainbowcast | Ian and myself were down in Brighton for most of last week with The Great Escape, and that's pretty much what this podcast is about from start to finish. It's hardly a studied analysis of course - and I sincerely doubt you'd expect one - instead it's more of a chatter about the Brighton fun we've had and the people we've met. Scotland is actually rather isolated when it comes to music. Hence, I suppose, the importance of the local Scottish music community to bands and labels based up here. Nevertheless, it is really important to connect with the rest of the UK. A lot of our most appreciated supporters are people I know only from Twitter and the other end of an email, be they fans, label customers, writers and broadcasters who have supported us or labels who have inspired us. So, in the interests of cementing these relationships, meeting new people and drinking an absolute f*****g shitload of beer, off to Brighton we went... 01. Hot Panda - F**k S**t Up (00.24) 02. Slow Down, Molasses - Light (07.44) 03. Born Gold - Lawn Knives (16.19) 04. Odonis Odonis - Tick Tock (23.07) 05. PAWS - Bainz (26.17) 06. The Black Tambourines - Let You Down (Toad Session Sneak Preview) (34.15) 07. Fear of Men - Doldrums (44.06) 08. PINS - Eleventh Hour (47.13) 09. Perfume Genius - Lookout, Lookout (55.02) 10. Fanzine - L.A. (62.51) | 5/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #225 - The Nightcast | The Nightcast. Yes, night. I am recording this at about two in the morning for the simple reason that for all I aim to do these once a week, on the weekend, once again it has been just plain impossible to actually get the damn thing done on the weekend just gone, so here I am squeezing it into the ungodly hours of Tuesday night. Well, Wednesday now. And of course I am off to The Great Escape in the morning. Actually, it already is the morning. Oh all right then, by the time this is uploaded and ready to go and I can actually get some sleep, I think I might be due to get out of bed in two hours time. Cock and balls. I thought the night time was supposed to be a little more glamorous than this. 01. The Pictish Trail - Of Course You Exist (FOUND Remix) (00.26) 02. Plastic Animals - Ghosts (07.56) 03. Playlounge - Boner Hit (Keel Her cover) (15.24) 04. Yoofs - Love at 140 (18.17) 05. Dead Rat Orchestra - The Geshin & the Guga (23.15) 06. The See See - Fix Me Up (30.24) 07. Meursault - Flittin' (36.26) 08. Woody Guthrie - So Long, it's Been Good to Know You (40.37) 09. PAWS - Misled Youth (46.20) 10. Blank Canvas - Golden (53.53) 11. The Eighteenth Day of May - Cold Early Morning (59.04) | 5/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #224 - The Repeatcast | This is called the Repeatcast because I sometimes wonder that the constant flow of new music I fire into these podcasts might just passing you by. I know I struggle to stay on top of things sometimes myself, so maybe you just listen when you can be bothered and sometimes things just go in one ear and out the other. I've been considering doing an artist of the week thing, like Ted from http://www.cloudsounds.co.uk/ where he plays two tracks from an artist one week (well, one month now that the show's monthly) and then one from the same artist the next week as well, so there is a degree of reinforcement Knowing me, I doubt I'll ever get round to it, honestly, but you know, it seems like a good idea. Or something vaguely like it seems like a good idea, because it would be a shame if all this music just vanished into the ether. So this week we have a lot of repetition of bands already played on the podcasts, just to make sure you're paying attention properly. Like you should be. 01. Easter - Damp Patch (00.21) 02. The Spyrals - Long Road Out (06.40) 03. Mac DeMarco - She's Really All I Need (11.40) 04. Apostille - Journal (17.42) 05. Apostle of Hustle - National Anthem of Nowhere (28.26) 06. The Babies - My Name (35.46) 07. Islet - A Warrior Who Longs to Grow Herbs (41.17) 08. Niilo Smeds - Summer Air (45.26) 09. Kalle Mattson - Miles (51.35) 10. Slowcoaches - We're So Heavy (58.19) | 4/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #223 - The Justcast | This is called the Justcast because, whilst it may well be late, it is entirely justifiably late, so p**s off and stop moaning at me. And come on, stop being coy, I know you're secretly tutting. Or at least I f*****g hope you are, because the other option is that you don't really give a f**k, and where would that leave us? So, having worked all through the working week, and then having spent all of Saturday working at Record Store Day stuff, I got to Sunday and was honestly just not up for doing anything at all, sorry. I was pooped. Bushed. Knackered. Tuckered. Done for. So I did f**k all, and I actually felt guilty about this for a while, and then realised that actually, every c**t gets a f*****g weekend, so stop feeling sorry for yourself, embrace a day of doing bugger all, and just do the podcast as soon as you can reasonably manage. So there you go. Next week I might do a bit of a podcast on my Record Store Day purchases (and there were many) but not this week, because I haven't had the chance to sit down and listen to them yet. Maybe Thursday that might happen. And/or Wednesday. And then I will waffle on about them on the internet next week, for which I am sure you will all be truly grateful. 01. The Leg - Witch on the Speaker (00.15) 02. Algiers - Blood (05.33) 03. The Walkmen - Heaven (14.17) 04. Milk Maid - Do Right (18.49) 05. Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - The Powers and the Glory of Love (23.44) 06. Daily Life - Alabaster (29.26) 07. Possimiste - Clockworkbird (33.17) 08. Liars - No.1 Against the Rush (40.16) 09. Richard Hawley - Leave Your Body Behind You (46.13) 10. The Babies - My Name (57.33) | 4/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #222 - The Golfcast | We are in St. Andrews this weekend for the Fence Collective's Eye of the Dug Festival. Needless to say, The Dugcast or something to that effect might have been more suitable, but there are so many golf t**ts around town that I really couldn't ignore them, not after all the effort they make to look like complete prats. I get the impression that with golf, the costumes became so ludicrous that really the only way to look cool, instead of dressing like a normal person, was to try and look like an even bigger f*****t than the rest of them. Which, given the exceptionally high bar that has already been set, takes some doing. Anyhow, there is no danger of me ever taking up golf. None at all. I already find playing pool frustrating enough, and it strikes me as really quite similar in the following crucial way: you play what turns out to be a perfect shot, then the next time you do what feels like the exact same f*****g thing, and yet somehow the shot you produce is dreadful. With no clue what you've done differently. It would drive me round the f*****g bend. Anyhow... erm, oh yes, the podcast: 01. Broncho - Try Me Out Sometime (00.09) 02. Silence at Sea - Gladiators on Repeat (05:13) 03. Fat Bicth - The Seagull (12.49) 04. Slowcoaches - 54 (15.57) 05. Mac DeMarco - Baby's Wearing Blue Jeans (20.54) 06. Islet - This Fortune (27.15) 07. Werk - Giant Isopods Have Stolen My Gameboy (33.54) 08. Ziggy Bolus & the Thomas Fergusson Band - Me, Myself and Isopod (37.10) 09. The Spyrals - Calling Out Your Name (42.39) 10. Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler (46.27) 11. R.M. Hubbert - Sandwalks (with Stevie Jones & Paul Savage) (55.54) | 4/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #221 - The Dutchcast | The Dutchcast was named after football. I was at the pub all day watching United play QPR and City getting done by Arsenal. For some reason this reminded me of living in Holland, primarily because Arsenal have dropped off the pace in the Premier League a lot recently, but when I was in Holland it was the height of the Wenger vs. Ferguson clashes, so watching the team play again and actually caring about the result reminded me really strongly of a time when Arsenal actually mattered as a football club. Harsh, but fair. So yes, in my reminiscences of my time spent living in Holland I have popped in a couple of songs I was introduced to by pals when I lived out there, as well as a cracking track by Bettie Serveert, one of the most well-respected Dutch indie bands out there. Added to that are a couple of new things from the internet, not least the new track from Owen Ashworth's new project Advance Base, as well as a demo from our pal Tom Western, who recorded four gorgeous demos in our living room about a month ago. These songs are awaiting a proper recording, but for now the demos themselves are lovely enough. 01. Supergrass - Cheapskate (00.26) 02. Weeping Willows - Failing in Love (08.51) 03. Bettie Serveert - I'll Keep it With Mine (12.45) 04. Tom Western - Green Broom (Demo) (19.52) 05. Advance Base - New Gospel (27.53) 06. Dennis Driscoll - Bury Me Beneath the Weeping Willow (33.06) 07. Niilo Smeds - Summer Air (37.46) 08. The Verve - Lucky Man (45.26) 09. Grandaddy - Summer Here Kids (52.41) 10. Symphonic Pictures - Feathers (59.35) | 4/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #220 - The Foolcast | April Fool's Day really does bore me to tears. The jokes are so weak and obvious most of the time that they really are pointless, although Avalanche's Withered Hand futon did make me laugh. It's the forced bonhomie which I find the most tedious, I have to confess. 'Oh yes, ha ha, very funny, well done you, gosh how everso f*****g hilarious'. And then just occasionally you hear news, like Viva Brother splitting up which, whilst it is painfully obviously an April Fool, is just too close to real, actual good news we'd actually all want to hear to cause any real merriment. And then there's the Republican candidates for the presidency of the United States. Tragic, frightening, comical, and depressing. And sadly not an April Fool's joke either. 01. Two Tears - Heisse Hexe (00.22) 02. Magic Eye - Flamin' Teenage (06.49) 03. North American War - Me & My G.I. Joes (14.02) 04. Palms - Wolf (18.57) 05. Habibi Band - Sunsets (25.39) 06. Woodsman - Supernal Radionics (30.55) 07. Sex Hands - The Moist Maker (39.25) 08. The Leg - Bake Yourself Silly (43.30) 09. Father Sculptor - Ember (48.39) 10. Kurt Vile - Freak Train (57.09) | 4/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #219 - The Procast | The Procast is so called because this week has been an awfy professional one. The third Meursault album is approaching, and because there are publishers, managers, bookers and all sorts involved in this one we had to have a Serious Meeting about it and make sure the planning was all being done properly. We did all the grown-up stuff like minute the meeting, assign people deliverables and all sorts of stuff. It was the closest to being back at my old job that I have experienced since I left, in all honesty - lists, management, timescales, budget discussions and all sorts. That sounds dismal, I know, but it was quite fun actually. I know I like releasing under the radar, awkward releases, but at the same time, if a band starts doing well and achieving things I don't want them to have to necessarily leave our label in order to do so, and it's quite satisfying (and actually quite interesting too) to be involved in a project on a slightly larger scale to usual. 01. John Knox Sex Club - Above Us the Waves (00.17) 02. Interpol - Obstacle #1 (10.44) 03. Elbow - Any Day Now (15.07) 04. Hiva Oa - Badger (26.47) 05. The Soft Walls - Black Cat (34.00) 06. King of Prussia - Black Cat (38.11) 07. British Sea Power - Oh Larsen B (45.07) 08. iLiKETRAiNS - The Beeching Report (50.40) 09. Unknown Artist - Bird Cage (56.09) 10. eagleowl - Into the Fold (62.11) | 3/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #218 - The Porchcast | After last year's relatively sensible podcast (I think the BBC cameras scared us into some degree of sensibleness), this years is far, far less sensible. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but it's probably a little more honest. This time around, as well as the more usual suspects of Messrs. Galloway, Reid, Thomas and myself, we are joined by The Two Jamies: Webster who manages Three Blind Wolves and Gilmour who manages We Were Promised Jetpacks. This is helpful because instead of drunken f*****ts gabbling at one another, we actually have some proper insight from people who have brought bands out to SXSW and have something useful to add. And for the rest of it me, Vic, Peej and Stuart just take the p**s out of one another. So umm... well, you have to take the rough with the smooth I suppose. 01. Grave Babies - Nightmare (00.21) 02. Pond - Leisure Pony (5.59) 03. The Animals - We Gotta Get Outta This Place (16.28) 04. Bruce Springsteen - Excerpt from SXSW keynote speech (19.37) 05. Roy Orbison - Crying (21.33) 06. BITCHES - Cage Babies (27.26) 07. Yellow Ostrich - The Shakedown (34.32) 08. The Twilight Sad - Sick (45.21) 09. We Were Promised Jetpacks - The Walls Are Wearing Thin (59.56) 10. OFF - Jeffrey Lee Pierce (61.47) 11. Thulebasen - Gate 5 (77.22) 12. Samuel L. Jackson - Go the F**k to Sleep (83.00) | 3/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #217 - The Airconcast | The Airconcast? Yes, because I am recording this in our hotel room in Austin, surrounded by a noisy fridge and an even noisier air-conditioning unit. It was so loud I actually turned it off during the recording, but the room then quickly became uncomfortably stuffy, so this podcast was recorded with me sitting in my pants in a slightly uncomfortable sweat - picture that if you will. We are, as you will have guessed, out here for SXSW again, but seeing as next week's podcast is going to be our now-traditional chat with Peej, Vic Galloway and Stuart Thomas about this year's festival, I figured you probably didn't want two SXSW podcasts in one week so I'd lay off this time and just make it about music. 01. Trogons - Solo Amor (00.10) 02. Pond - Mystery (06.45) 03. FLATS - Foxtrot (13:14) 04. Mariee Sioux & Bonnie Prince Billy - Mad Mad Me (19.49) 05. Monster Rally & RUMTUM - Andes (23.47) 06. Ender Belongs to Me - New Light (28.33) 07. Ira Lee - Drinking Alone in Paris (feat. Scream Dream Baby) (38.13) 08. The Teardrops - Tears Come Tumbling (44.26) 09. Robert George Saull - A Jug of This (47.19) 10. Stagnant Pools - Consistency (53.57) | 3/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #216 - The Riledcast | I honestly thought I was done with politics. Watching us commit genocide in Iraq despite the protests across the entire country, and then watching the Lib Dems spinelessly capitulate to the rapacious, craven Tory lizards once they got their little sniff of power just sickened me. Right, I thought, I am done with this s**t, it is just a gigantic waste of everyone's time. However, the Tories haven't just been s**t, they've been a repellent disgrace, governing with a sort of vindictive, cackling glee generally reserved for people in plastic armour in the Star Wars movies. Between that and the SNP deciding that forcing all minor cultural events to require a financially prohibitive and bureaucratically obstructive license, I find my simmering rage for politics to be reinvigorated. There's no f*****g point voting whatsoever, but that doesn't mean you can't get stuck the f**k into these c**ts. 01. Aidan John Moffat - Dear Donald (00.25) 02. Speck & the Specktones - Fruitcakes (01.37) 03. Galaxie 500 - Tugboat (09.57) 04. Big Deal - Chair (14.02) 05. Youthfall - Goodbye Horses (Q Lazzarus Cover) (25.09) 06. Barna Howard - Horizons Fade (32.00) 07. New Fabian Society - Lost in Berlin (49.21) 08. Fry & Laurie - Police Privatisation (55.32) 09. Hookworms - Medicine Cabinet (58.33) 10. Barton Carroll - Those Days Are Gone, and My Heart is Breaking (71.20) 11. Beat Happening - Indian Summer (79.36) 12. Lana Del Duck (82.37) | 3/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #215 - The Kingcast | Welcome to Toadcast number 215. This is called the Kingcast because I have been on a bit of run promoting gigs recently, with three in the last eight days or so. Given almost none of my friends or music associates came to these gigs and that the list of attending guests on the Facebook event pages made for pretty grisly reading, I was grimly expecting the gigs to be absolutely awful - barely attended wastelands of funlessness - but every single one was brilliant. The people who came were almost all people I didn't know, with a few welcome exceptions, and the gigs themselves were absolutely immense fun. There was probably more dancing this weekend that at anything Toad-related in history. So today I have been looking through the forthcoming gigs and getting my ticket links live and stuff like that, and realising that we have some absolute stonkers coming up. So with a bit of luck, and rather depending on whereabouts in the world you're listening from, I might well see you there.Dancing! At a Toad gig! I know! 01. Withered Hand - Heart Heart (00.26) 02. Willy Mason - Restless Fugitive (07.57) 03. Robert George Saull - One Sugar Day (16.47) 04. Narrow Sparrow - Joe Meeks Dream (22.59) 05. The Dirty Three - Sometimes I Forget You've Gone (28.41) 06. Jad Fair, Hifiklub & KPT Michigan (32.20) 07. Jonnie Common - I'll Be Back (38.17) 08. Shudderpulps - Time (45.10) 09. Honeyblood - No Spare Key (48.33) 10. The Soft Walls - Black Cat (54.06) | 2/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #214 - Kid Canaveral Toad Session | Video: Vimeo - YouTube Photos: Flickr Audio: zip download - right click, save as I am rather embarrassed to confess that we recorded this session absolutely bloody ages ago. First the Festival, then the mixes, then intervening sessions, and finally just the sheer amount of time these take to edit managed to delay things. But now, finally, at long, long last here it is: the Kid Canaveral Toad Session. This was another relatively messy, drunken one I'm afraid. We were nice though - we made them dinner and supplied them with a beverage or several, and it happened to be a nice day too, so we were even able to sit out in the garden for a bit. The team this time around consisted of Neil from Meursault, who recorded the session (and I hope I've not offended him with my mixes!), Fiona and Dylan who took the photos, and Dylan also did a lot of the video work as well. And cooked. Whereas I just sat around, drank beer and swore at people mostly. Kid Canaveral - And Another Thing! (Toad Session) Kid Canaveral - Homerun and a Vow (Toad Session) Kid Canaveral - You Only Went Out to Get Drunk Last Night (Toad Session) Kid Canaveral - Her Hair Hangs Down (Toad Session) 01. Kid Canaveral - And Another Thing! (Toad Session) (06.44) 02. The Shivers - Irrational Love (14.45) 03. Sleeper - What Do I Do Now? (18.33) 04. Kid Canaveral - Homerun and a Vow (Toad Session) (31.46) 05. Washington Irving - SiSi (38.47) 06. Popup - A Year in a Comprehensive (43.16) 07. Kid Canaveral - You Only Went Out to Get Drunk Last Night (Toad Session) (52.57) 08. Built to Spill - Carry the Zero (59.42) 09. Hall & Oates - Maneater (65.13) 10. Kid Canaveral - Her Hair Hangs Down (Toad Session) (78.02) | 2/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #213 - The Footiecast | Don't worry, this podcast really isn't about football. I might have been tempted, but in all honesty, but I can't really think of all that many good songs about football and if I am being truthful with myself I can't imagine you lot really enjoying a podcast about football all that much. More to the point, I am back playing football myself now, after something like two years out with back problems. Two years really is a long time to miss out on something you love doing, and even more so when you're past your mid-thirties and every year you miss is one of the last you'll get the chance to play at all. So, in amongst the new songs and all the usual things you would expect from a Toadcast (i.e. mostly swearing) there are a couple of songs which represent my reaction to getting back to playing football again, and my reaction to some of the more newsworthy moments of the footballing week as well. 01. Morris Major - Seymour Grove (00.17) 02. Chris Devotion and the Expectations - A Modest Refusal (07.27) 03. Billy Bragg - A Lover Sings (20.13) 04. Bob Dylan - Oxford Town (24.07) 05. PAWS - Bainz (30.17) 06. Coast Jumper - Lawless (37.49) 07. That Ghost - Morning Now (42.09) 08. Now Wakes the Sea - Propranolol (50.31) 09. Smackvan - 4am (54.19) 10. Mark Lanegan Band - Bleeding Muddy Water (64.01) | 2/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #212 - The Tartan Shortcast | Ah, Tartan Shortbread, that most wonderful of sardonic Scottish put-downs. For those unfamiliar with the term, this is the offhand dismissal used to describe the sort of mawkish, clichéd tourist tat which masquerades as Scottish heritage and culture for those with woefully little imagination. Alternatively, I suppose you could say that Tartan Shortbread is a blanket term for Scottish heritage as a sort of motorway service station take on national identity. Anyhow, given I work very much at the coalface of the DIY music world in Scotland, I find that I have been oddly unsupportive of a large number of Scottish who have emerged in the last couple of years to considerable enthusiasm from the Scottish music press, both professional and amateur. For some reason, the recent bands who have shown some likelihood of cracking an audience wider than the relatively narrow confines of the five million or so people in Scotland itself just haven't appealed to me, with a few notable exceptions. However, sitting down to assemble the playlist for this week I noticed that there were something like seven of the ten songs which happened to be by Scottish bands. Oh, I thought to myself, I appear to be Scottish again. How nice. 01. Django Django - Default (00.17) 02. Andrew Bird - Eyeoneye (08.41) 03. Lower Dens - Brains (12.47) 04. Randolph's Leap - Bile (26.17) 05. Clean George IV - XP Avenue (32.51) 06. Dumb Instrument - Reverse the Hearse (35.57) 07. The Occasional Flickers - When the Sky Looks so Grey (41.11) 08. R.M. Hubbert - Sunbeam Melt the Hour (with Marion Kenny & Hanna Tuulikki) (50.20) 09. The Twilight Sad - Don't Move (55.49) 10. Brown Brogues - Anyone But You (62.04) | 2/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #211 - Josh T. Pearson Toad Session | Video: Vimeo - YouTube Photos: Flickr Audio: zip download: right-click, save as This session was recorded in Glasgow before Josh's performance at Oran Mor on 22nd November last year. The first attempt to record a session with him was at Stereo, but recording in a venue really didn't work out, so this time we decided to take up the kind offer of Phil from PAWS to record it in his bedroom instead. Again we were a little pressed for time, because Josh had a marathon day, recording a session with the BBC and conducting an interview before doing our session, and then having the gig to play afterwards. So we only recorded three songs, and for simplicity's sake we did the interview in one chunk and I have just chopped bits of it into the podcast where appropriate. Given the incredibly punishing schedule he tends to have I really do appreciate Josh taking the time to re-record this session, as well as the infallibly good humour and cooperative nature showed by both himself and Peter and Tom, his management team. It may have been tight to get done, but this is a really, really nice session if you ask me. As usual, the videos can all be found on our Vimeo and YouTube pages and the photos, which were jointly taken by Stephanie Gibson and Dylan Matthews, are collected on our Flickr page. The session mp3s can be downloaded below, or in a zip file here, the session podcast can be played or downloaded below too, and the tracklisting for the podcast can be found at the bottom of the page. Player Direct download: Toadcast #211 - Josh T. Pearson Toad Session Subscribe to the Toadcasts on iTunes Subscribe to the Toadcasts on Mixcloud Josh T. Pearson - Woman When I've Raised Hell (Toad Session) [audio:http://www.matthewjamesyoung.com/ToadSessions/JoshTPearson-WomanWhenIveRaisedHell-ToadSession.mp3] Josh T. Pearson - Country Dumb (Toad Session) [audio:http://www.matthewjamesyoung.com/ToadSessions/JoshTPearson-CountryDumb-ToadSession.mp3] Josh T. Pearson - Covers Medley (Toad Session) [audio:http://www.matthewjamesyoung.com/ToadSessions/JoshTPearson-Medley-ToadSession.mp3] 01. Josh T. Pearson - Woman When I've Raised Hell (Toad Session) (02.54) 02. Lift to Experience - To Guard and to Guide You (12.30) 03. Perfume Genius - All Waters (19.06) 04. Josh T. Pearson - Country Dumb (Toad Session) (25.26) 05. The Dirty Three - Some Summers They Drop Like Flys (31.43) 06. Papa M - The Lass of Roch Royal (38.17) 07. Judy Collins - Wild Mountain Thyme (53.03) 08. Howe Gelb - Can't Help Falling in Love (55.37) 09. Josh T. Pearson - Covers Medley (Toad Session) (61.54) | 1/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #210 - The Slackercast | After reading Vic Galloway's rather nice article in today's Herald on the rise of bands in Scotland influenced by both grunge and lo-fi slacker indie rock. Recording for our upcoming split 12" with Manchester bands Waiters and Sex Hands has seen pals recommend I have a good listen to The Meat Puppets too, if that's the kind of stuff I'm into - particularly if that's the kind of guitar sound I am enjoying at the moment. So that's what this podcast is loosely about. As I explain, despite growing up at the perfect time to have been into all this stuff the first time around, I ended up being only vaguely aware of it, due to being almost entirely insulated in the bubble of the international expat community in Vienna at the time, and hence only really having MTV to introduce me to new music, beyond what I happened across by accident in the record shops around town. Which generally wasn't Dinosaur Jr. 01. Nirvana - Love Buzz (Shocking Blue cover) (00.26) 02. Feel Right - She's No Good (08.47) 03. Shudderpulps - Time (10.46) 04. Spectral Park - Colours (16.13) 05. Dinosaur Jr. - Repulsion (24.24) 06. Shift-Static - Sky Burial (Waskerley Way remix) (30.20) 07. The Meat Puppets - Lake of Fire (40.54) 08. Sparklehorse - My Yoke is Heavy (42.57) 09. Narrow Sparrow - Spooky Head (47.40) 10. The Magnetic Fields - Andrew in Drag (52.00) 11. Pavement - Spit on a Stranger (59.40) | 1/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #209 - The Fishcast | The Fishcast is so called because Dolfinz are here recording for our split 12", and erm, well dolphins aren't fish are they, but umm... well it sounded better than The Aquaticmammalswhichlookabitlikefishbutaren'tcast. Dolfinz played a pretty big drum kit - three toms, three ride cymbals, a double bass drum pedal, and the result was an absolutely frightening racket which must have been shaking the bloody pictures off the walls next door. We're recording the PAWS songs for the split in about ten days' time, and after that I think we'll have to give the neighbours a good long break from the kind of noise we make in here from time to time or they'll go f*****g mental. In the meantime, we have some songs chosen by the Dolfinz lads, some new stuff from my inbox and a couple of things I should have really got into ages ago but for no good reason at all, just didn't. Shame on me. 01. F**k (00.20) 02. Cum Stain - Broke My Dick (03.27) 03. Smackvan - Black Eyes (07.59) 04. Keel Her - Enid Coleslaw (16.23) 05. The Distillers - Dismantle Me (20.04) 06. LeThug - Swam (25.47) 07. Benjamin Shaw - How to Test the Depth of a Well (36.57) 08. The Leg - A Rat's Health (42.43) 09. Flight - Witch Hunt Town (48.57) 10. Coolrunnings - Spirit of the High (53.20) 11. The Divine Comedy - A Seafood Song (60.27) | 1/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #208 - Song, by Toad Records 2012 | For this podcast I am joined by Ian, who is now a member of the Song, by Toad Records team, to go through a bit of a run-down of what's going to be happening on the label this year. We've got a couple of our more recent releases, like Rob St. John and Lil Daggers, as well as some of our confirmed and ready new albums for next year, by the likes of The Leg, Jesus H. Foxx and Yusuf Azak. I've also got a couple of tracks from bands we'll be releasing on a split 12" in the Spring. We'll be recording that stuff in our house next week, so the songs we chose to represent those bands are for obvious reasons not the final ones we'll be releasing, just tracks by the bands so you can get a bit of a flavour of what we're up to. With Ian on board and based on the good press we managed last year I am hoping we can really kick on with the label this year and make a decent impression. Obviously the third Meursault album will help, what with them being our most established band, but we have a good spread of stuff, from bands like Dolfinz with only a few demos to their name, to the likes of Yusuf Azak and The Leg who people know already and then the Foxx album, which has been 'much anticipated' for a while now. So all in all it should be an exciting year, I reckon. Enjoy! 01. Mongrels - I'm Gonna Murder Justin Bieber (00.21) 02. King Post Kitsch - The Make the Same Faces Whether F**k or Fight (02.46) 03. Meursault - Flittin' (locationmusic.tv Piano Version) (08.49) 04. Rob St. John - The Acid Test (17.59) 05. Lil Daggers - Dead Golden Girls (22.05) 06. Paws - Bloodline (Toad Session) (31.52) 07. Jesus H. Foxx - This is Not a Rental Car (40.31) 08. The Leg - Twitching Stick (43.00) 09. Sex Hands - Jinglebitch (51.56) 10. Dolfinz - Blowhole (55.36) 11. Yusuf Azak - Lay Me Down (63.12) | 1/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #207 - The Sparkcast | Sparkcast? Spark? YES, any kind of f*****g spark whatsoever will do the trick. I remember getting in trouble at my former day job a couple of years ago for writing something rather negative about that awful sensation of being back at your desk after the excesses and indolence of Christmas. I am not feeling negative about it now, which is good given I am self-employed, but I am certainly struggling to spark my brain back into something resembling life at the moment. So yes, I have two new releases to get moving, by Jesus H. Foxx and The Leg, and I have five Toad Sessions to get edited and published, and a split 12" to record (starting in about a week), so whether or not it proves to be a challenge, the old grey matter has to be brought back to life somehow, be it kicking and screaming or otherwise. 01. Jesus H. Foxx - So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away (00.13) 02. The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop (07.47) 03. Post War Glamour Girls - Suburban Barbarian (14.40) 04. Now Wakes the Sea - Another Pair of Hands (18.32) 05. Orienteers - Do You Hear What I Hear? (23.23) 06. Damon Moon & the Whispering Drifters - Seasonal Suite No. 62 (32.40) 07. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Is This Love? (41.27) 08. The Specials - Gangsters (44.30) 09. Simone Felice - New York Times (48.59) 10. Spectral Park - The Thief's Journal (57.04) | 1/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #206 - The Scroogecast | Here we are at the penultimate podcast of the year, and the one immediately preceding Christmas. I really don't like 99% of Christmas music so there's pretty close to none of it at all on here, although I have made a couple of exceptions as a lazy sort of nod to the season. Let's face it, if the druids can be arsed dancing about like idiots around Stonehenge and people can fall out over half-defrosted turkeys then I can probably make the effort to shove a couple of token musical nods onto a single podcast, can't I. I actually take a lot of this podcast from my recently-published albums of the year list, and from my as-yet-unpublished Festive Fifty, so it's a bit of a yearly roundup as well. And in fact, seeing as Christmas is a Sunday, I won't actually be posting until Boxing Day now, so this will be the last post before Christmas so umm, in the off-chance I don't bump into you on Facebook, Twitter or down the pub, I better wish you Happy Christmas now, hadn't I. 01. Tom Lehrer - A Christmas Carol (00.23) 02. The Black Tambourines - Bad Days (05.09) 03. The Low Anthem - Boeing 737 (10.42) 04. Timber Timbre - Woman (13.31) 05. Sons of Joy - Pig (20.25) 06. The Japanese War Effort - Our Land Could be Your Life (24.51) 07. Jonnie Common - Hand-Hand (31.37) 08. Earth Girl Helen Brown - Girls of My Dreams (35.39) 09. Weird Era - Garage Honeymoon (41.37) 10. The War on Drugs - Your Love is Calling My Name (47.46) 11. Sons of Joy - In the Bleak Midwinter (58.07) 12. Sons of Joy - Coventry Carol (60.00) | 12/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #205 - The Baublescast | The baubles in question would be twofold: Firstly, the Song, by Toad readers are awarding their own baubles for the year's musical endeavours, both in terms of anointing their song and their album of the year. And secondly, the very second I post this I am heading up into town to Kid Canaveral's Christmas Baubles, their second of what I assume will become an annual Christmas knees-up, this time hosted at Edinburgh's rather amazing Summerhall. This week on Song, by Toad I will be publishing my own top twenty albums of the year, and then moving on to the Festive Fifty - basically your average predictable blogger's December rituals. If you don't like it I guess you're a bit stuck until the new year I'm afraid. 01. Mongrels - Massive C**t (00.25) 02. Tom Waits - Face to the Highway (06.14) 03. Waiters - Tomorrowland (14.27) 04. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Bats in the Attic (Unravelled) (24.03) 05. Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - The Copper Top (27.33) 06. Hookworms - Medicine Cabinet (34.56) 07. Grant Lee Phillips - Josephine of the Swamps (45.21) 08. The Dears - Lost in the Plot (50.49) 09. Warpaint - Billie Holiday (60.27) | 12/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #204 - The Phewcast | PHEW! Thank f**k that's (more or less) over. This year has been a bit full-on, I have to confess, but the bulk of the hard work now seems more or less over. Our last release (Lil Daggers) came out last week, and our label Christmas Party is now done and dusted which leaves me a relatively comfortable run into the Christmas period from now on, which is some for which I am quite grateful. Nevertheless, The Leg album, the Jesus H. Foxx album and the second album by Yusuf Azak are all on the menu for early next year, so those need to be nudged into motion, so it's not exactly like my feet are going up and my hands reaching for the remote control and a bag of popcorn. Well maybe, but mostly between Christmas and New Year, I can't really bring myself to work then! Next week I'll be going through the Song, by Toad readers' top five songs and albums of the year vote, so if you want to chip in then just fill in your top albums of the year on this week's Friday Five. 01. Coolrunnings - Rusk (00.04) 02. The National - I Need My Girl (09.35) 03. Islet - This Fortune (15.44) 04. Saintseneca - Acid Rain (20.45) 05. Doe Paoro - Can't Leave You (25.46) 06. Mark Lanegan Band - The Gravedigger's Song (32.47) 07. Micah P. Hinson - My God, My God (40.30) 08. Liars - Scissor (43.17) 09. Jackson C. Frank (51.43) 10. Monster Rally - Creeping Ghost (58.22) 11. Monster Rally - Sahara (59.57) 12. Monster Rally - Crystal Ball (62.09) | 12/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #203 - The Lardcast | Bleerch, bleurgh... I feel completely disgusting. I had a really good sleep last night, but that translated into a day spent wasting my time fannying about and just lolling in that way that seems like a good idea at the time, but invariably ends up making you feel completely disgusting by the end. Also, to make matters worse, we ordered pizza, which is something we hardly ever do and something which we absolutely always regret. So here we sit on a Friday evening feeling bloated and slightly soiled and wondering whether at this time of the night there's any point really trying to redeem the day, and perhaps it's best just to forget it and wait for tomorrow. Bleuch. 01. Joanna Gruesome - Madison (00.27) 02. The Mutton Birds - Anchor Me (06.36) 03. Monster Island - Pilot Whales (14.42) 04. Former Bullies - It Might Be Okay (17.36) 05. Video Thrills - Our Plush Selection (21.05) 06. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Some Candy Talking (Peel Session) (25.16) 07. Bottle of Evil - I Can See Your Face (31.20) 08. The Black Tambourines - White Album (39.37) 09. Dolfinz - Teenage Doom (42.47) 10. The Ramones - Psycho Therapy (48.50) 11. Samoan Punks - Everyday (51.42) 12. Waiters - Black Stuff (59.27) | 12/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #202 - The Saxcast | First things first, I must inevitably apologise for the horrendous lateness of this podcast. Between my mum visiting, the gig on Sunday and the Samantha Crain Toad Session we recorded on Monday there just hasn't been enough time to catch up. It's that end of year time, too, when lists are being made, accounts submitted, the last releases of the year tended to and plans for next year being finalised, so just when I thought that I could coast into Christmas, it turns out I actually have just as much work now as at any other time of the year. Ah well, whinge whinge, etc. This podcast is called the Saxcast because I happened to be listening to Timber Timbre the other night, and one of their songs features the saxophone quite heavily. It occurred to me at the time that not only does almost no-one use that instrument at the moment, but despite the eighties ending over twenty years ago, it still seems almost completely taboo, within the kind of musical circles I move in anyway. Needless to say, this was all it took for me to devote an entire podcast to the instrument. 01. Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band - It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City (Live) (00.27) 02. Timber Timbre - Do I Have Power (09.02) 03. Quiet Americans - Summer House (16.54) 04. Samantha Crain - Two Sidedness (20.02) 05. Hazel O'Connor - Will You (25.09) 06. Woodenbox - Twisted Mile (33.42) 07. Monster Rally & RumTum - Raindrops (39.53) 08. My Tiny Robots - Guild of Defiants (42.37) 09. David Tattersall - The Typewriter Ribbon (47.51) 10. Mark Knopfler - Going Home (Theme From Local Hero) (58.30) | 11/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #201 - The Cakecast | Cakecast? Yes, the Cakecast, because I turn thirty-six today, and in the absence of a real cake and in honour of the fact that I have a gig tonight at the Wee Red and will hence be working, I decided that at least a picture of some cake was in order. I don't worry about age particularly, but I have to confess that thirty-six sounds suspiciously more like 'nearly forty' than it does like 'thirty-something'. Curse you time and your unrelentingly linear nature! Anyhow, as I said, tonight we have Gummy Stumps, Weird Era and Battery Face at the Wee Red Bar for a fiver, so those of you wishing to come along and help me get pished and make a fool of myself will have plenty of opportunity to do so. A can of Red Stripe will do the trick, there's none of your fancy micro-brew pish at the Wee Red. 01. Clem Snide - Happy Birthday (00.16) 02. The Quiet Americans - Be Alone (07.10) 03. Bottle of Evil - The Boatman (11.52) 04. Tropic of Cancer - Distorted Horizon (15.55) 05. Islet - This Fortune (21.20) 06. Samantha Crain - Traipsing Through the Aisles (Daytrotter Session) (29.54) 07. Bos Angeles - Beach Slalom (35.16) 08. Ghost Outfit - I Was Good When I Was Young (38.11) 09. The Sleepy Jackson - Tell the Girls That I'm Not Hanging Out (49.29) 10. The Louche FC - Hands (56.42) | 11/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #200 - The Cusscast | So, the 200th podcast. I remember a couple of years ago when the 100th ticked past, it happened to be a Toad Session, and as those are pre-recorded with little idea when they'll fit into the sequence of Toadcasts I never really marked the milestone in any sort of a way. This time around I was very much conscious of it, but still couldn't really think of a way to make it interesting and, on Thursday night, with no real plan, I just sat down to have a go at editing a compilation consisting of at least one swear word from each podcast. It took f*****g hours, and in fact had to be finished over a combination of Saturday and Sunday evening, which is the reason the podcast is so late this week. For some reason though, it seems kind of fitting, because in amongst the swearing there are some bits and pieces which remind me of events now quite a surprisingly long way in the past. We have the first Toad Session, the first time Mrs. Toad joined me on a podcast, various long-forgotten birthdays, the passing of the legendary Floyd and all sorts of other things. The kind of things, in short, which make this whole load of bollocks a lot more personal than just a music blog and a record label. 01. Song, by Toad Swearing Omnibus #1 (00.20) 02. The Shaky Hands - Whales Sing (11.27) 03. Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster (18.11) 04. Song, by Toad Swearing Omnibus #2 (20.54) 05. The 63 Crayons - Spoils for Survivors (25.09) 06. Broken Records - Out On the Water (Toad Session) (35.18) 07. Meursault - The Dirt & the Roots (42.47) 08. Song, by Toad Swearing Omnibus #3 (46.20) 09. Dusty Springfield - What Good is I Love You? (51.53) 10. Thelonius Monster & Tom Waits - Adios Lounge (60.12) 11. Mike MacFarlane - Done For (70.01) 12. Song, by Toad Swearing Omnibus #4 (72.43) | 11/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #199 - The Barfcast | This is called the Barfcast because I feel like utter, unmitigated shite this morning, after another awesome evening with Mrs. Toad getting scooshed and playing records. I think I had Weald on at the maximum volume our amp can actually manage. Which, for the record, is pretty f*****g loud. So now I am off to get ready for not one, but three gigs. Firstly the Ides of Toad at Henry's, then Lach and Viv Albertine after that, and then Flamin' Hott Toadzzz! in Anstruther tomorrow. When the chance to have a good sleep comes, I think I will have earned it! Sometime this week I will figure out what the f**k to do with the 200th podcast. Or at least, I'd better! There have been a good few calls to get Mrs. Toad back on, which is a lovely idea, but will depend very much on whether or not she can possibly be arsed, which I wouldn't take for granted. 01. Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought the Law (00.26) 02. Evan Dando - $1000 Wedding (Gram Parsons) (04.41) 03. Easter - Damp Patch (07.39) 04. Preston School of Industry - So Many Ways (13.52) 05. Sparklehorse - Piano Fire (18.57) 06. The Black Tambourines - A Lot of Friends (26.31) 07. Ghost Outfit - Tuesday (30.47) 08. Loch Awe - I Will Drift into 10,000 Streams (35.33) 09. Lil Daggers - Dada Brown (42.32) 10. Rob St. John - Sargasso Sea (44.45) 11. Dan Mangan - About As Helpful As You Can Be Without Being Any Help at All (55.56) | 11/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #198 - The Revivalcast | This particular podcast was somewhat railroaded by two different things, and hence has very little of the new music/inbox harvesting stuff you may have come to expect from Song, by Toad. Firstly, I went to see Jeffrey Lewis on Wednesday. He was supported by Seth Faergolzia from Dufus and covered 2+2=? by the Bob Seger System, which explains two of the songs. Secondly, I went out to visit a couple of pals on Thursday night. That resulted in an epic Pearl Jam-a-thon, so I was looking for some Pearl Jam to play today, only to happen across an old compilation with Pearl Jam, Luna, The Magnetic Fields, Yo La Tengo, Beck and others on it, which explains a couple more songs. As for the rest, well, there's just no excuse really, is there. 01. Soulsavers - Revival (00.16) 02. Pearl Jam - Bu$hleaguer (08.47) 03. Seth Faergolzia - Weird Old Toad (16.40) 04. Bob Seger System - 2+2=? (19.53) 05. Lords of Bastard - Chant (25.24) 06. The Blue Runes - Stream Fog (31.59) 07. Beck - Golden Age (37.54) 08. Luna - Black Champagne (42.24) 09. The Eagles - Outlaw Man (52.25) 10. Honey Train - Yo Toad/Deepness (Demo) (58.37) | 10/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #197 - The Changecast | This is called the Changecast because, in an absolutely stunning turn of events, it is not packed full of lo-fi garage rock for a bloody change. Considering the racket you've had to put up with for the last year or so, it seems I have kindly granted you the respite of three songs you'd probably vaguely describe as Americana and a couple which are most unmistakably pop! I know! Get me! Tonight is of course the Rob St. John album launch down at Pilrig St. Paul's in Leith. He will be joined on the bill by Viking Moses, Meursault and eagleowl, the latter of whom just happen to be recording their debut album at the moment, which is rather exciting. So, I will post this, attempt to get some nice lunch somewhere and then commence that uncomfortable 'no-one's coming no-one's coming no-one's coming... oh thank f**k' dance I inevitably end up doing whenever I am promoting a gig. Why I put myself through this all the time I just don't know. 01. Cub Scouts - Evie (00.20) 02. Horsecollar - The Thrill of Never Being Satisfied (06.53) 03. Yoofs - John Actor is Monkfish (14.39) 04. Youthfall - Guard it Like a Fortress (18.01) 05. Rollor - Jekyll Island (22.37) 06. The Lovely Sparrows - National Monuments (33.07) 07. Ohbijou - Niagra (39.42) 08. Milk & Biscuits - Rivers (44.10) 09. First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar (50.45) 10. The Twilight Sad - Sick (58.25) | 10/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #196 - PAWS Toad Session | Video: Vimeo - YouTube Photos: Flickr Audio: zip file (right-click, save as) The Toad Session I was probably most nervous about recording was Milk Maid, I think. It was arranged at the last minute, they are a full, four-piece rock band, their profile is riding relatively high at the moment and I'd never really recorded anything so loud in our house before. As it was, it turned out pretty f*****g well, if you ask me, so when PAWS came in I was confident enough that we'd get decent recordings, but I have to confess I was a little nervous about how we'd get away with the racket and the general lawlessness of their performances. There were some changes to the team this time as well, as a lot of the usual suspects couldn't make it. Wee Matthew was helping out on cameras again, and Rory from Broken Records was back for a second batch of filming. But we also managed to coax former ace Edinburgh gig photographer extraordinaire Nic Rue out of retirement to take the pictures, and Rory 'brought at friend' to help out with the filming. And his friend just happened to be Chris Park. Who just happens to be a serious professional. So if you're wondering why this isn't as s**t as usual, that's probably why. As per usual, all the session mp3s are available to download for free, either below or in this zip file, we have videos of the songs and of the interview here, photos here, Nic's slightly larger portfolio of pics here, and of course the interview podcast below, with the playlist at the bottom of the page. Enjoy. And pity our poor neighbours. PAWS - Jellyfish (Toad Session) PAWS - Bloodline (Toad Session) PAWS - Bird Inside Birdcage, Ribcage Inside Bird (Toad Session) PAWS - Winners Don't Bleed (Toad Session) 01. PAWS - Jellyfish (Toad Session) (07.17) 02. Bronto Skylift - Cobblepot (15.50) 03. Mr. Peppermint - Carp Act (20.25) 04. PAWS - Bloodline (Toad Session) (26.47) 05. Ultimate Thrush - Complex Cat (35.31) 06. Crystal Swells - Waco, Wasilia, Waikiki (36.41) 07. PAWS - Bird Inside Birdcage, Ribcage Inside Bird (Toad Session) (42.35) 08. Pavement - Gold Soundz (48.59) 09. Dolfinz - Blowhole (51.44) 10. PAWS - Winners Don't Bleed (Toad Session) (61.49) | 10/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #195 - The Dreichcast | The Dreichcast is so called because yesterday was f*****g dreich. Dreich is another one of those wonderful Scots words which I, with my vague sort of RP/BBC/public school accent can't really pronounce properly, but I wish I could. Nevertheless it worked out pretty nicely actually, and despite the drizzle and general unpleasantness, Mrs. Toad and I went out for a wander, had some lunch, bought some immensely smelly cheese, and then went and got utterly scooshed at the Emily Scott album launch, and then on to Papi Falso at Henry's Cellar Bar. I really like Papi Falso actually. The music is weird, but still upbeat, and far, far better than the doosh-doosh garbage or excruciating cheese you would hear at most other clubs. And also, being Henry's, there is space to sit and shoot the breeze, rather than having to scream in one another's ears from half an inch away. 01. Only the Sea Slugs - She Said (00.09) 02. Wilco - Art of Almost (06.23) 03. Pet - Love Buzz (16.40) 04. Nirvana - In Bloom (21.37) 05. Benjamin Shaw - The Birds Chirp and the Sun Shines (29.15) 06. We Can't Enjoy Ourselves - Your Darkest Thoughts Will Shine (34.40) 07. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Taste the Floor (39.47) 08. Toto & the Bad Eggs - Little Naked (45.17) 09. Whirling Pig Dervish - A Question of Sport (48.17) 10. Tom Waits - Burma Shave (57.49) | 10/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #194 - The Clamcast | The Clamcast is so-called not because of seafood, but because it all of a sudden became rather clammy here this week. An unseasonable warm spell descended and I didn't personally adjust my clothing habits fast enough, meaning absolutely everywhere I went I ended up being uncomfortably warm. So there you go, the Clamcast. Anyhow, I am off to Glasgow to set up the Independent Record Fair, before scooting back through to Edinburgh to get the John Knox Sex Club, Easter and Fuzzystar Ides of Toad night sorted out at Henry's. Actually, I say sorted out, but it's not me who sorts things out at this stage, it's really just down to the bands and the venue. Still, I have to be there and look willing, just in case! 01. Thee Ludds - Parabolic Reflector (00.16) 02. Pregnant- I Wasn't Getting Paid (05.49) 03. Death Songs - Let This Body Go (10.58) 04. Fat History Month - Gorilla (15.00) 05. Aidan John Moffat - I Got You Babe (Sonny & Cher Cover) (21.57) 06. King's Daughters & Sons - Volunteer (25.42) 07. Sons of Joy - It Was a Dirty Lie (34.32) 08. Ba Babes - Avon (Extended) (44.04) 09. Yalls - Our Place 1 (50.52) 10. Sic Alps - Cambridge V****a (52.27) 11. Easter - Somethin' American (57.16) | 10/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #193 - The Remcast | Please note that this is called the Remmcast, rather than the Arriyemcast, for little better reason than that it sounds better. R.E.M. split up this week, which is sort of like the death of an elderly relative: you know it's sad, and you mourn the loss, but they hadn't been themselves for a while, everyone knew it was probably coming, and maybe it's for the best after all. Due to not really wanting to pontificate too much, I haven't really produced what could be in any way described as a 'career retrospective' or anything, nor have I really gone into much about their contemporaries or influences nor indeed the enduring influence they themselves have had. Nope, I have simply recorded a podcast as per usual, but with three R.E.M. songs in it because they were f*****g brilliant. 01. Ezra Furman & the Harpoons - Hard Time in a Terrible Land (00.26) 02. Burning Yellows - False Horizons (04.33) 03. R.E.M. - Perfect Circle (11.44) 04. The Twilight Sad - Kill it in the Morning (17.52) 05. Niwel Tsumbu - It's All Vibrations (23.35) 06. R.E.M. - Star Me Kitten (33.03) 07. The Fair Ohs - I'm a Woman, I'm Your Wife (38:15) 08. Zoey Van Goey - You Told the Drunks I Knew Karate (GRNR Remix) (39.10) 09. The Whines - Electric Current (45.02) 10. Youthfall - Secular Child (49.01) 11. R.E.M. - Parakeet (59.47) | 9/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #192 - The Winecast | Winecast because after soberly recording these on a Saturday afternoon for the last couple of years, I'm recording this after a bottle of wine on a Sunday evening for a change. So don't expect coherence, but it honestly isn't all that bad. Mrs. Toad and I were down looking at the Port O' Leith Motor Boat Club today, wondering if we might buy the place, move in and try and turn it into the kind of recording space and performance space we already try and use our house as. It's a great building, but I am not entirely certain how popular a place in Newhaven might prove to be to Edinburgh people reluctant to go more than a block or two for their musicfunz. Anyhewww, here we have another ten songs of unbelievable brilliance, for which you will no doubt be enormously grateful and umm *cough cough* well, you're more than welcome. 01. Prize Pets - It Takes Time (00.09) 02. Ian Humberstone - House on the Hill (07.34) 03. Waiters - Tomorrowland (15.05) 04. Former Bullies - Golden Chains (20.21.) 05. Talvihorros - Beta (26.39) 06. Palms - Wolf (37.23) 07. Burning Yellows - Chopsticks (42.32) 08. Debutant - Yeah! Currahee! (51.00) 09. The Japanese War Effort - Dreaming of a New Labour (54.49) 10. King Creosote & John Hopkins - Bats in the Attic (Unravelled) (62.52) | 9/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #191 - The Fullcast | This is called the Fullcast for no better reason than that I tried to fit far too many songs onto the playlist. I've have used half the Palmist Records stable if possible, but eventually decided to settle for one single track. There's always next week. I didn't even make room for a song from the new Clap Your Hands Say Yeah record, although to be fair I haven't really listened to that enough to really know what I think about it, so maybe that would have been hasty. If anything this reminded me of the really early podcasts, when I tried to squish two hours of music into a single recording, and the things were just sprawling behemoths of wittering and tuneage. I can't say I regret the decision to trim it down to either ten songs or an hour. 01. Beaters - Dark Haunter (00.22) 02. Body Wash - Cool Bike (06.34) 03. High Pop - For Jord (08.23) 04. Django Django - Waveforms (11.35) 05. Steven Malkmus & the Jicks - No One Is (As I Are Be) (17.31) 06. Milkshakes - Track 1 (24.57) 07. Kurt Vile - The Creature (27.37) 08. Ezra Furman & the Harpoons - Don't Turn Your Back on Love (34.41) 09. Steel Phantoms - Bedouin (41.50) 10. Eagulls - Possessed (47.24) 11. Sands - Fares & Tolls (53.15) 12. U2 - Lemon (60.17) | 9/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #190 - The Snoozecast | Snooze! Yes, a genuine, proper weekend snooze was had this morning and it was f*****g amaaaaazing! I haven't actually had the chance to lazily sleep in for f*****g months and it was an enormous pleasure. And not even a guilty one, because I genuinely don't have to rush about being efficient today. Awesome! This week's podcast contains a fair bit of plugging, I have to confess. Not all for myself though. I plug the Kurt Vile tour, Jonnie Common's Deskjob as well as his new album, the new Oates Field album and the new album by The Leg. Then, just for good measure, I also plug the upcoming Ides of Toad gigs, and two new releases on Song, by Toad Records. I hope it doesn't get too much for you, but I don't think so, because all the songs are very good and hopefully you know me well enough by now to know full well that I don't plug anything I don't genuinely like. So there. Enjoy. That's an order. 01. Jonnie Common - Infinitea (00.21) 02. The Oates Field - Nae Luck (09.50) 03. Adam Balbo - Just Singing a Song (15.37) 04. The Leg - Twitching Stick (17.22) 05. Kurt Vile - IN/OUT Blues (23.40) 06. Easter - Damp Patch (30.03) 07. Trips and Falls - I Learned Sunday Morning, on a Wednesday (38.41) 08. Rob St. John - Your Phantom Limb (41.39) 09. Sea Pinks - Fountain Tesserae (46.47) 10. Tuesday Glass - Franklin (50.16) 11. John Knox Sex Club - Above Us the Waves (59.23) | 9/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #189 - The Comacast | Comacast? Yes, because of the imminent onset of a post-Festival coma. After trying to juggle two gigs of my own, two gigs I wanted to attend, the Antifolk-off and the visit of a good friend I haven't seen in a couple of years and the Retreat Festival this weekend I think I am now ready to officially declare August over and collapse into a somnolent stupour. In short, I need to sleep. A lot. Mrs. Toad came back from a ten-day holiday last night as well, and that always restores a sense of equilibrium. She doesn't do much except swear at me and tell me to leave her the f**k alone, but for some reason I find that inordinately comforting in times of stress. I think it might be because I am a f*****g idiot. 1. PAWS - Booger (00.08) 2. Trwbador - Sun in the Winter (07.09) 3. The Walkmen - On the Water (16.35) 4. Arcade Fire - City With no Children (20.05) 5. Enfant Bastard - Pob is Not Interested (26.33) 6. Michael Kiwanuka - Tell Me a Tale (34.49) 7. Electrelane - I'm on Fire (Bruce Springsteen Cover) (42.22) 8. The Love Gestures - Joanna Newsom 666 (49.55) 9. Ghost Outfit - Those Ghosts (52.54) 10. Lach - Blue Overcoat (60.12) | 8/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #188 - The Paedocast | Stop it. Stop it. Just f*****g stop it. Don't panic, this is emphatically NOT about p********a. Before you get your knickers in a twist have a quick look at the tracklisting, and in particular the band names, and hopefully you will see why the podcast has the name it does. So what am I really on about? Well, I happened across a band recently called Young Girls, and it finally became clear that after Bear Crystal Wolf F**k Ghost bands, the new fashion is quite clearly paedo bands. Band whose names, whilst not exactly dodgy in themselves, lead to a lot of very, very awkward moments on Google. So there you go. No awkward debates about awkward psychological or sociological issues at all, I promise. Just lots of good tunes by bands with dubious names. Mostly. 01. Teens - Golden Years (00.05) 02. Girls - Broken Dreams Club (05.59) 03. Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag (15.19) 04. XX Teens - The Way We Were (19.23) 05. Tim Minchin- Pope Song (26.17) 06. Sonny Boy Williamson - Good Morning, School Girl (33.27) 07. Young Boys - Bring 'em Down (42.30) 08. Young Girls - We're Not Friends (46.30) 09. Tiny Tim - Tiptoe Thru' the Tulips With Me (51.36) 10. Sexy Kids - Sisters Are Forever (59.17) | 8/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #187 - The Godcast | Godcast? The f*****g Godcast? No, don't worry, there are no theological debates, nor even any snide remarks about the ludicrous nature of religion (except that one). This is called the Godcast because Anthony from God Don't Like It (promotions, press, parties, DJing, drunken tomfoolery and almost everything else) happens to be visiting this weekend to hang out, have a few beers, go and see stuff at the Edinburgh Festival and enjoy the first week of the football season. I am not entirely sure what regular listeners to this podcast will make of Anthony's choices but erm... well f**k off, it can't be all 'moaning indie pish'* all the goddam time, can it. *Copyright Mrs. Toad 2007 01. The Shivers - Irrational Love (00.25) 02. Dels - Capsize (06:47) 03. Sneakpeak - Walk All Over Me (15.02) 04. Baanex - Weird Dance 2 (17.54) 05. Solo Banton - No (27.01) 06. The Japanese War Effort - I Can't Wear Jackets Inside (I'm Afraid) (36.34) 07. The Pineapple Chunks - Dog S**t (39.15) 08. A.A. Bondy - The Heart is Willing (46.57) 09. Funghi Girls - Some Easy Magic (51.03) 10. Seams - Motive Order (58.05) 11. The Offset Spectacles - Elements (67.54) | 8/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #186 - Milk Maid Toad Session | Video: Vimeo - YouTube Photos: Flickr Audio: zip dowload (right click, save as) This session came together in an extremely short space of time, and as such I am extremely pleasantly surprised by how well it turned out - from an audio point of view in particular these are some of my favourite session recordings. We invited Milk Maid to play an Ides of Toad gig in June, they arrived the night before the gig, and we happened to be having beers and listening to some records when I mentioned that we sometimes record in our living room. I showed them the Scottish Enlightenment Toad Session, and they suggested recording a session too, the next day, before the gig. Recording a band with a full drum kit, two guitarists and a bass in one room made me nervous enough, and actually getting anyone to help seemed improbable at such short notice, but thankfully Fee and Rory were able to make it down, so I owe them both a massive debt of gratitude for their help. As per usual we have a full set of photos, freely downloadable session mp3s, a full interview podcast (immediately below, and with the tracklisting at the bottom of the page) and videos of both the whole day (above) and each individual song (below). Enjoy! 01. Milk Maid - Can't You See (Toad Session) (04.11) 02. Women - Black Rice (12.14) 03. Weird Era - Summer Heights (15:26) 04. Milk Maid - Girl (Toad Session) (20.19) 05. Irk the River - Mind That Child (26.22 ) 06. Daily Life - No Eyes (28.43) 07. Milk Maid - Stir So Slow (Toad Session) (36.32) 08. Evan Dando - Hard Drive (45.12) 09. Easter - Holy Island (48.24) 10. Milk Maid - Not Me (Toad Session) (62.50) | 8/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #185 - The Weddingcast | We nearly missed our anniversary again this year, but fortunately caught the f****r just in time. We were heading off to Leith to get some scran and I was sitting at the bus stop thinking about how it was nearly August and then asked one of those stupid questions you ask when something is really obvious, but actually so obvious you become unsure of it: "It's July, right?" "Yes, of course it is." "That means it must be nearly..." (hastily fishes in pocket for phone) "F**k! It's our anniversary. Today!" When your wife forgets the thing entirely as well I guess it makes no difference, so instead of going to see something daft at the pictures, we went to a fishy place, had a seafood platter and bottle of champagne, before going for (a couple too many) cocktails at The Raconteur round the corner from our house. Five years married. Oh how happy we looked. That didn't last*. 01. Mazes - Summer Hits (00.22) 02. Frightened Rabbit - F**k This Place (feat. Tracyanne Campbell) (05.49) 03. CD/EX - Tell the Girl (12.13) 04. Lab Coast - Astronaut Like Me (18.11) 05. Sauna Youth - Backgrounds (20.31) 06. Hookworms - Teen Dreams (26.52) 07. R.E.M. - Swan Swan H (Athens Demo) (41.33) 08. Admiral Radley - All F****d on Beer (44.24) 09. Dolfinz - Coral Reefer (51.17) 10. Tom Waits - All the World is Green (59.01) *Of course it f*****g did, don't be silly. We're the happiest f*****g couple I know, despite spending 90% of our time together swearing at one another! | 7/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #184 - The Barbecast | This is called the Barbecast because we finally went out and replaced our s****y old one this morning, and today we intend to christen the new one. The previous one had actually rusted through, and the only way to hold the burning coals in place was a shonky combination of chicken wire and tin foil. Not ideal. It's funny though, the two nations who go about barbecueing things the most actually know nothing whatsoever about the barbecue. Dear Aussies and Americans, if it is powered by gas rather than charcoal it IS NOT A BARBECUE. It is simply a cooker you keep outside. Cultural differences ... blah blah ... practicality ... witter ... special smoked wood chips ... etc etc etc.... BOOOORING! You're wrong, you don't know what you're talking about, it's not a barbecue unless you have to light your own coals. Full stop. Non-negotiable, this is simply a fact of life: if it is gas-fired then it is a cooker, not a barbecue, irrespective of whether or not you use it out of doors, and you can stop calling it that and kidding yourself you actually barbecue, because you don't. And that is that. 01. Grandaddy - AM 180 (00.22) 02. I Break Horses - Winter Beats (07.36) 03. Acid Glasses - My Pale Garden (16.53) 04. Tunabunny - (Song for My) Solar Sister (19.49) 05. Grandaddy - Chartsengraphs (24.55) 06. The Spectral Mirror - Distant Murmurs (27.46) 07. Loved Ones - Hi Pressure (35.24) 08. Paul Hawkins & the Awkward Silences - Johnny (40.35) 09. Fear of Men - Church Words (48.23) 10. Sealings - Stay Cold (52.11) 11. Grandaddy - Saddest Vacant Lot in All the World (57.33) | 7/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #183 - Lach Toad Session | Video: Vimeo - YouTube Photos: Flickr Audio: zip download (right-click, save as). Lach is the man behind the Antihoot, the New York open stage which gave rise to the term and the movement called Antifolk. People bandy the word about so much these days it's almost become as nebulous as the term 'indie', but it had a very specific origin and a very specific meaning back at the beginning. Last year Lach brought the Antihoot to the Edinburgh Festival, and we recorded a Toad Session with him while he was here. When we figured out that we would actually be releasing his new album as well, and that he would be returning to Edinburgh this year - running both the Antihoot at the Gilded Balloon as well as a free fringe show called Lach, the Waitress, the Walls and the Weirdos in The Speakeasy at Cabaret Voltaire - I figured we might as well wait a little while to publish this session. Well Lach is back now, his album comes out on Song, by Toad Records on Monday and we are starting to get ready for both the one-man show at Cab Vol, and also the Antihoot itself. If you want to play at the Antihoot yourself, then just get in touch. The rules are that you get either two songs or eight minutes, whichever is shorter, and that has to include your setup, so no brass bands please, but otherwise pretty much anything goes. Also, this year we'll be picking a semifinalist each night, by a combination of audience acclaim and executive decision, and inviting them back to the Anti-idol on the last three nights of the show. Those three nights will be recorded, with the best dozen or so performances being released on a Best of the Anti-hoot album on Song, by Toad Records. As per usual with the Toad Sessions, the full interview podcast is immediately below, followed by free mp3 downloads of all the session tracks (zip file here), videos of the individual tracks themselves (all video here), and finally the tracklist for the podcast. There aren't as many pictures as usual, but that's because we were a little short-staffed this time, and Dylan was too busy with the video camera to produce the usual number of pretty pictures. 01. Lach - A Quiet Distance (Toad Session) (12.40) 02. The Love Gestures - Hey Man (16.40) 03. Phil Ochs - Small Circle of Friends (20.31) 04. Lach - Ambition Burns (Toad Session) (32.41) 05. Kirk Kelly - Stephen Foster (37.42) 06. Roger Manning - Pearly Blues (41.14) 07. Lach - Another Night Without You (Toad Session) (55.31) 08. Neil Halstead - Might Engine (62.05) 09. Lach - Coffee Black (Toad Session) (75.06) | 7/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #182 - The Raincast | The Raincast is so called because we have had three days of sporadic, but at times absolutely torrential rain here in Edinburgh this week. The leak in our ceiling has sprung back into action with some vigour, although this time it manifested itself in a manner which didn't ruin all sorts of my vinyl, which was generous of it. We really must get that looked at before the whole bloody ceiling comes crashing down. The rest of my day will be spent sticking things into envelopes to publicise the Lach release, which is really, really soon, as well as the new album by Trips and Falls, which isn't out until the end of September. I will be back on the gocco printer hand printing the artwork for that one though, which isn't something I've done for a while, so rather looking forward to it. Anyhow, in the meantime, have a wee listen to this. It's an interesting mix this week, from the utterly obscure, to the borderline famous, to the might almost have been nearly famous five years ago, but not really likely to crack it now. And then Radiohead. Yes, I've finally listened to King of Limbs. At last. 01. Barry Adamson - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Pelvis (00.29) 02. DanDanDan - Match of the Day Background Music (08.47) 03. Anna-Anna - Mirrors of America (13.17) 04. Clem Snide - Ice Cube (21.56) 05. Lambchop - Up With People (24.29) 06. Public Dims - Lorimer (31.09) 07. Rollor - Energies are Dead in the Mind Constellation (40.17) 08. Camera Phone - Artifacts (43.44) 09. Radiohead - Lotus Flower (50.55) 10. I Like Trains - Sirens (Remix) (57.19) | 7/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #181 - The Fastcast | Fast because I need to squeeze eleven songs into an hour because I just didn't want to trim the playlist, fast because I want to get out into the back garden asap to enjoy the sun, and fast because um... well, just because. I dunno. F**k you, anyway, this is the one-hundred-and-eighty-first stupid name for one of these damn things I've had to come up with. The names were bound to get worse over time really, weren't they. Anyhow, once this is done, I expect to get a couple of hours out in the garden before buggering off to Henry's for the Edinburgh School for the Deaf, Zed Penguin and Spook School gig. These things have to happen on bloody glorious days, don't they. Ah well, at least it wasn't a Toad Session this time, like it usually is the moment we get a sunny day. 01. Yo La Tengo - Outsmartener (00.25) 02. Enfant Bastard - Demo Scene (06.40) 03. Lambchop - Came Home Late (12.34) 04. Smog - Teenage Spaceship (16.35) 05. Castor - Watcher Buckles (21.56) 06. Boring Girls - Tin Foliage (27.57) 07. Mitchell Museum - What They Built (32.15) 08. Plastic Animals - It Fell Apart (35.27) 09. Seafieldroad - Cramond Island Causeway (40.56) 10. Sun Glitters - Things Are... (47.11) 11. Little Deadman - Post Helado Madness (52.31) | 7/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #180 - The Corsicast | This podcast was recorded - not a word of a lie - on a deserted mountaintop in Corsica in the shadow of a ruined castle. Not an especially enormous ruined castle, I'll grant you, but the shadow of a ruined castle nevertheless. I will try and show you this as clearly as possible when I choose the picture for the mp3 tag and all that stuff, but I honestly doubt it will be all that easy. Vast panoramas of rocky mountains don't really come across all that well in photos, particularly when the only device you have with you with which to take them is an iPhone. Anyhow, having recorded this, the challenge is going to be to find somewhere to upload the f****r. Bank machines and shops which let you pay by card are pretty scarce commodities in the interior of the island, never mind a decent internet connection. 01. Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Come a Long Way (00.09) 02. Yusuf Azak - Lay Me Down (05.36) 03. The Black Tambourines - Better Off Dead (09.54) 04. Fog - 10th Avenue Freakout (18.42) 05. Six Organs of Admittance - Saint Cloud (23.19) 06. Adam Stafford - Fire & Theft (33.20) 07. Neil Young - Old Man (Live at Massey Hall 1971) (38.45) 08. Girls Names - I Lose (46.53) 09. Mavis the Dog - End of Our Day (50.55) 10. Jenny Reeve & Jill O'Sullivan - Tooth & Claw (56.59) | 6/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #179 - The Nukecast | The reason this is called the Nukecast is because I am pretty irritated by the exaggeration of just how horrible it is to be alive in 2011. 2011 is a total piece of p**s. It's easy, unthreatening and perfectly comfortable, and the idea that the modern world is in any way topsy-turvy is just plain silly. I am not all that old, but even the eighties, when I was a kid, were far rougher than this. There was actual genuine menace, the world might just have been about to end in a nuclear fireball, and no-one had anything you could honestly call a proper job. So I complain about this for about an hour, while Mrs. Toad calls me an idiot. Welcome to the drunken Toadcasts. Again. 01. Tom Lehrer - Who's Next (00.08) 02. Billy Bragg - Think Again (10.34) 03. Milk Maid - Girl (21.07) 04. Odonis Odonis - Mr. Smith (24.06) 05. Sonny & the Sunsets - I Wanna Do It (31.09) 06. Phil Ochs - Talking Cuban Crisis (41.19) 07. Crystal Swells - Dead Awake (47.43) 08. Male Bonding - Bones (52.07) 09. M.J. Hibbett & the Validators - The Fight for History (63.10) 10. Tom Lehrer - So Long, Mom (72.33) | 6/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #178 - The Northcast | This week's podcast is named the Northcast because I was just up in Inverness at GoNorth, which is I suppose the biggest official Scottish music industry chatfest. I am getting better at these, I have to be honest. The music industry is heavily based around status and I do not do well when I suspect people might be looking down their nose at me, consequently my first few were quite a challenge to escape from before I picked a fight with someone I shouldn't, but as my general stature within music, and Scottish music in particular, has slowly grown I am finding these events easier to handle. It also helped that as well as helping Lloyd from Peenko and Jason from the Popcop curate one of the stages, I did some one-to-one mentoring sessions (yes, I know!) and was on two of the panels myself. That in itself gives you a kind of status which means people seem less awkward if it comes time to approach them asking about something they can do for you - I suppose it just feels like you're on a more equitable footing. And in general this makes me less jumpy. None of this stops you drinking far, far too much at these things though. 01. David Thomas Broughton - Nature (00.06) 02. Edinburgh School for the Deaf - Orpheus Descending (07.09) 03. John Knox Sex Club - Katie Cruel (14.57) 04. Post War Glamour Girls - Ode to Harry Dean (Concrete Hearts) (21.00) 05. Tim Minchin - Storm (24.46) 06. The Pineapple Chunks - Look Back in Horror (40.01) 07. Scott Hutchison & Rod Jones (Fruit Tree Foundation) - I Forgot the Fall (45.23) 08. PAWS - Jellyfish (52.40) 09. Kid Canaveral - And Another Thing!! (55.29) 10. Crystal Swells - Goethe Head Soup (63.15) | 6/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #177 - The Scottish Enlightenment Toad Session | Video: Vimeo – YouTube Photos: Flickr – Blueback Hotrod Free mp3 downloads: zip file (right click – save as) I first got into The Scottish Enlightenment back in 2007 when they releases the Eyes single on Moojuice Records. Then they went silent for a couple of years, to the extent that I thought they might have actually called it a day, but last year they came back stronger than ever before. Two fantastic EPs and an equally excellent album were released on Glasgow's rather awesome Armellodie Records, and in general I think it's fair to say that it was a toss-up between them and Kid Canaveral as to who I thought the Scottish band of 2011 was (*cough cough* Song, by Toad Records bands apart of course) Mrs. Toad operated one of the video cameras this time, and Dylan was on still and video cameras. I recorded and edited this one - the first full band I've recorded since Sparrow and the Workshop back in 2008. As per usual we have the podcast below, the freely downloadable session mp3s underneath that, followed by the videos we made for all the individual songs. The tracklisting for the podcast is at the very bottom of the page. Enjoy! 01. The Scottish Enlightenment - Black Dog (Toad Session) (07.53) 02. Mitchell Museum - Warning Bells (14.53) 03. Lower Dens - I Get Nervous (18.54) 04. The Scottish Enlightenment - Earth Angel (Toad Session) (33.00) 05. At the Drive In - Arcarsenal (43.15) 06. Low - Starfire (46.10) 07. The Scottish Enlightenment - Get My Limousine (Toad Session) (55.55) 08. Eef Barzelay - The Ballad of Bitter Honey (63.25) 09. Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper (67.14) 10. The Scottish Enlightenment - The Universe is Drifting Apart (Toad Session) (79.47) | 6/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #176 - The Braincast | The Braincast is not so called because it unusually filled with penetrative insights, but because if you listen to it this weekend it will be while I am down at the Brainlove Festival either listening to bands, DJing or sneaking off to watch the Champions League final at the nearest pub. This week is another relatively haircut-friendly playlist actually, with words like 'remix' to be found and some fashionably hazy production and everything. In fact I may have to do another 'tedious old shite' podcast soon, just to make up for it. Anyhow, next week looks like being the Scottish Enlightenment Toad Session, which is coming along nicely. I just need the photos and to complete the constantly challenging ten minute main video, which always takes quite a long while. I will listen to the podcast on the train down to London and figure out which bits I think should go in the video. In the meantime, enjoy... 01. FOUND - Anti-climb Paint (00.22) 02. Silverbacks - Atta Boyz (07.32) 03. Phil & the Osophers - Ink on the Page (13.02) 04. Slim Twig - Priscilla (18.57) 05. Yuppies - For the Future's Sake (21.41) 06. Lau vs Adem - Imporsa (Silver Columns Remix) (24.11) 07. Dirty Beaches - Coast to Coast (Remastered) (35.06) 08. Tasseomancy - Soft Feet (44.37) 09. Sonny & the Sunsets - I Wanna Do It (52.11) 10. Youth Lagoon - Cannons (54.54) 11. Psychedelic H*******t - Laced (60.40) | 5/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #175 - The Floydcast | The Floydcast is named after that furry f*****t in the picture: the Song, by Toad house cat and Mrs. Toad's imbecilic companion of the last seven years. Last night we had him killed. I know you're supposed to say 'put to sleep' or whatever, but when the poor wee f****r is looking plaintively at you because you're the only person at the vet's that he actually trusts it really does feel like execution. We think he had lung cancer of some form or other. His lungs had clouded up, the vet had tried more or less every trick they could, and he was still battling for every breath. In the end we had him put down because his poor wee lungs were so f****d that even in the off chance we could have found what was wrong and put it right, he would still have been limping his way through what remained of his life on half a gulp of breath. Anyhow, as much as a nuisance as I found the wee bastard I really will miss his idiotic presence, capering about the house like an arse and getting in the way whenever you try and do anything. He would come and sit in my lap when I was trying to write this and try and lick my fingers as I typed, and that's the least of it. F*****g pain in the arse, he was. And I really, really will miss the wee f****r. 01. Bombadil - So Many Ways to Die (00.09) 02. Yajé - True Love Will Find You in the End (Daniel Johnston cover) (09.24) 03. The Douglas Firs - A Military Farewell (13.31) 04. Sebastian Dangerfield - Morris (22.05) 05. Glass Animals - Drips (28.14) 06. The History of Apple Pie - Tug (33.40) 07. The Twilight Sad - Suck (Wedding Present cover) (39.50) 08. U.S. Girls - If The Walls Could Talk (45.42) 09. BITCHES - Wallet (47.53) 10. Tied to the Branches - Backwards (50.56) 11. Cold Seeds - Leave Me to Lie Alone in the Ground (57.59) | 5/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #174 - The Plancast | I am learning to despise hotel internet. Whether I book myself and end up staying in a f*****g Travelodge or Mrs. Toad books and we end up staying on one of the larger guest suites at Buckingham f*****g Palace, absolutely all of them have such risibly bad internet connections that recording a podcast leaves me tearing my f*****g hair out. I couldn't even get the online image editor to load properly, so the image is that rather pathetic, borderline clipart stinker you see in the top right hand corner. Dreadful. My art teachers would be justifiably disappointed. Anyhow, this is called the Plancast for one simple and far from compelling reason: the fact that Mrs. Toad and I are down in London and have had to be clinically heartless in who we do and don't see. We don't exactly have lots of friends down South, but still far too many to see in one weekend and at times in the past we have tried to do too much and ended up being inadvertently rude to everyone. 01. Love Inks - Blackeye (00.06) 02. Dubstar - The Day I See You Again (04.57) 03. Rev I.B. Ware with Wife and Son - I Wouldn't Mind Dying ( But I Gotta Go By Myself (12.01) 04. Billy Bragg & Wilco - Airline to Heaven (18.30) 05. Ezra Furman & the Harpoons - Hard Time in a Terrible Land (23.12) 06. I Break Horses - Hearts (29.39) 07. Tusk Tusk - Out of Tune and Out of Time (37.22) 08. Sandy Denny - By the Time it Gets Dark (41.01) 09. Girls Names - Nothing More to Say (46.02) 10. Thomas Tantrum - Hot Hot Summer (51.33) 11. Jarad Miles - Darjeeling (56.04) | 5/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #173 - The Brokencast | This is the post-Homegame, 'dear Jesus please just let me sleep for a week, good god someone please fetch me a green vegetable' podcast. I can just about keep my head together enough to get through this, but then I have the Monday listings to write and the bloody Francois/This is the Kit/Babe gig to organise tonight as well. Aargh! I also have all sorts of other things to do this week, but after the sort of mind-boggling battering your mind and your liver get at Homegame I am not sure I can face any of it. I am going back to sleep, wake me up in June. 01. FOUND - I'll Wake With a Seismic Head No More (00.34) 02. Randolph's Leap - Counting Sheep (7:57) 03. Josh T. Pearson - Country Dumb (Piano Version) (13.57) 04. The Singleman Affair - If I Only Fell in Love When I Was Young (21.16) 05. eagleowl - Into the Fold (Toad Session) (29.00) 06. The Last Battle - Ruins (35.07) 07. King Creosote & the Earlies - Bats in the Attic (Live on 6Music with Mark Riley) (40.23) 08. Sweet Baboo - Girl Under a Tree (45.37) 09. David Thomas Broughton - Ain't Got No Sole (54.57) | 5/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #172 - The Oldiecast | This podcast is, as you will already know, very, very late. Personally I blame a combination of the RNLI, gin, and the fact that Mrs. Toad is away all week, which meant that yesterday wasn't really available for blog things. It's also not very new music-orientated either, so hopefully those of you who come here pretty much just for that won't be too disappointed. I think what happened was that I got so into a handful of new releases recently that I neglected all the others, so when I came to sit down and write about tunes last week I suddenly realised I had nothing to write about. For blogging that makes things a little challenging, but from a podcast point of view I am always happy to just f**k it and play some oldies, which is what I'll do here. 01. Mad Melvin (00.17) 02. Chumbawamba - Farewell the Crown (01.43) 03. Billy Bragg - Walk Away Renee (07.37) 04. The Left Banke - Walk Away Renee (09.59) 05. Bruce Springsteen - Growin' Up (17.07) 06. Psychedelic H*******t - Rat Poison (24.17) 07. The Chesterfields - Ask Johnny Dee (32.21) 08. The Close Lobsters - Just Too Bloody Stupid (35.23) 09. The Delgados - Everything Goes Around the Water (43.45) 10. The Sleepy Jackson - Acid in My Heart (50.19) 11. Calexico - Si Tu Disais (56.17) | 5/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #171 - The Chillcast | No, no, don't worry this isn't some sort of chillout special (although we did actually do one of those once upon a time). The only reason this is called the Chillcast is because on what was a beautifully sunny day for the rest of Scotland, Edinburgh performed its age old trick of drawing a freezing sea mist off the North Sea - the haar, as it's called - and turning a lovely Spring day into a damp, chilly sulk. Bastard. I realised a while back that I don't actually cover all that much Scottish music, despite the location of this blog being quite a prominent feature of the thing. This week, though, we have something like five Scottish (or Scottish-based) bands on this, and all of them relatively under the radar ones as well. Anyhow, I am off to play nicely with Mrs. Toad's colleagues for the rest of the day, in some sort of horrific bonding exercise. Ah well, it pays the bills I suppose, and it's not like she doesn't have to spend an awful lot of time hanging out with my 'colleagues'. 01. The Sandwitches - Summer of Love (00.11) 02. The Japanese War Effort - Pool Attendant (7.41) 03. King Post Kitsch - Don't You Touch My F*****g Honeytone (10.42) 04. PAWS - Summer Wipeout (16.22) 05. Marcy Playground - Wave Motion Gun (25.05) 06. The Low Anthem - Boeing 737 (33.40) 07. Horsecollar - Christopher (39.12) 08. Morris Major - In Amongst My Ideas (47.11) 09. Plastic Animals - It Fell Apart (Demo) (50.34) 10. Earth Girl Helen Brown - Girls of My Dreams (59.06) | 4/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #170 - The Sparracast | Sparrow and the Workshop recorded one of our first ever Toad Sessions. In fact, they were the first band I ever recorded all on my lonesome and, after a few rather panicked emails to my little brother who knows about this s**t, it all seemed to go pretty well. So, not content with merely asking Meursault to join them on their next tour of England, they upped the level of niceness by offering to come round the house and record a sort of album preview podcast for their next record. Spitting Daggers comes out in a couple of weeks, and the band came over to get p****d, to talk utter balls and to play a couple of songs from the album and a few others they've been listening to recently. A good, and very drunken, time was had by all. 01. Tegan & Sara - Walking With a Ghost (00.24) 02. Sparrow and the Workshop - Snakes in the Grass (09.53) 03. Brian Jonestown Massacre - Nevertheless (19.07) 04. Fists - Ascending (22.32) 05. John Knox Sex Club - Run William Run (30.27) 06. Meursault - Flittin' (40.29) 07. Sparrow and the Workshop - Faded Glory (49.44) 08. Roddy Woomble - Work Like You Can (61.47) 09. Lou Barlow - Caterpillar Girl (66.20) 10. Melanie Safka - Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) (76.32) | 4/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #169 - Thirty Pounds of Bone Toad Session | Video: Vimeo – YouTube Photos: Flickr – Blueback Hotrod Free mp3 downloads: zip file (right click – save as) The more I read about Johny Lamb from Thirty Pounds of Bone before this session, the more nervous I became. The internet seemed to be full of all sorts of tales of him being reclusive, antisocial and very, very hard on interviewers. Now, the press can be a little unreliable at the best of times, and personality-based reports of this nature can vary from person to person, but it almost comical how completely different this session was to my expectations. Johny was friendly, perhaps a little shy, genuinely chatty and a lovely guy. In fact, in terms of the interview podcast I think this is probably the most interesting one we’ve ever had. Thanks are due to Mrs. Toad for the splendid bacon sarnies, to Dylan and Fiona who took the pictures, and to Matthew who did a lot of the filming. As per usual we have the podcast below, the freely downloadable session mp3s underneath that, followed by the videos we made for all the individual songs. The tracklisting for the podcast is at the very bottom of the page. Enjoy! 01. Thirty Pounds of Bone – The Maritime Line (Toad Session) (11.02) 02. Birdengine – Scarecrow and the Longpig (19.00) 03. Dad Rocks – Aroused By Hair (23.36) 04. Thirty Pounds of Bone – A Lesson in Talking (Toad Session) (37.19) 05. Le Reno Amps – You Must Remember (42.47) 06. Mary Hampton – Ballad of the Talking Dog (44.56) 07. Thirty Pounds of Bone – The Jonah Shanty (Toad Session) (57.37) 08. Diamond Family Archive – I Have Forgotten (66.16) 09. Men Diamler – Waiting for the Snow to Thaw Pt. 2 (68.22) 10. Thirty Pounds of Bone – Uyeasound (Toad Session) (82.44) | 4/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #168 - The Springcast | It is a very, very fine Spring day indeed, this morning in Edinburgh, and so needless to say I am going to spend it in my office talking to imaginary people on the internet. This week we are simply going to have a bit of a trawl through my inbox. As I mention halfway through the podcast, I now have unlistened albums totalling a mighty one day, eighteen hours and thirty-four minutes worth of music. So if you are wondering why I haven't reviewed this that or the other, then that probably has something to do with it. The trickiest part, of course, is that it's not enough to simply have listened to something. To actually have anything resembling an intelligent comment to make you need to listen to something really quite often, and know the ins and outs of an album pretty well. This takes a lot more than just a once-over lasting for one day, eighteen hours and thirty-four minutes. 01. The Lovely Eggs - Don't Look at Me (I Don't Like It) (00.40) 02. Lady Lazarus - Fighting Words & Fists (06.46) 03. Bill Callahan - Drover (12.09) 04. Evil Hand - Returned in Time (20.32) 05. Weird Era - Garage Honeymoon (24.41) 06. Teens - Golden Years (28.36) 07. The Spook School - Hallam (32.57) 08. The Sandwitches - Lightfoot (38.37) 09. Honeydrum - Human Stuff (45.09) 10. Timber Timbre - Woman (46.42) 11. Clem Snide - Pale Blue Eyes (54.29) | 4/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #167 - The Shoppingcast | This podcast is all about our week's record shopping in Austin, although I promise I am done going on about SXSW, so those of you bored to tears by the whole business are entirely safe, I promise. We did buy a fair bit of vinyl while we were over there though, whether it be directly from the bands at their shows (usually whilst still pished and giddy from enjoying the gig) or on one of our particular excursions to either End of an Ear or Waterloo Records. There is such pleasure to be had from poking through rack upon rack of vinyl, and whilst I have no real quibble with digital music, I think the sheer ritual and physical relationship it sacrifices can't really be matched in the digital realm. 01. X-Ray Eyeballs - Crystal (00.22) 02. The Magnetic Fields - All the Umbrellas in London (08.15) 03. Sparklehorse - Homecoming Queen (11.33) 04. The Coathangers - Chicken 30 (17.35) 05. Lost in the Trees - Walk Around the Lake (24.30) 06. Kurt Vile - My Sympathy (32.44) 07. Pavement - Range Life (35.15) 08. Warm Ghost - Open the Wormhole in Your Heart (43.57) 09. The Books - The Future, Wouldn't That be Nice (50.19) 10. Deerhunter - Earthquake (58.27) | 3/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #166 - The Tequilacast | Apologies for the lateness of this week's podcast, but inevitably the chaos of SXSW nudges schedules into the background a little. Last year, several margaritas the worse for wear, we sat down with Ben from Instinctive Racoon, Stuart from Creative Scotland, Vic Galloway from BBC Radio Scotland and Peej from Dear Scotland, and recorded a ramshackle, lurching podcast about the fun of the week. This year, perhaps goaded into something bordering on professionalism by the presence of the BBC camera crew who have been following Vic around all week, things were a little smoother. Although this may also have been related to the fact that the margarita-hoovering didn't actually start until afterwards this time. Ben wasn't here this time, but we did have myself, Peej, Vic and Stuart sharing a beverage on Peej's back porch and talking something approaching the usual gubbins. Oh, and the Detour Scotland Big Walk video we mention in the podcast can be found here. 01. Admiral Fallow - Squealing Pigs (00.37) 02. Withered Hand - Religious Songs (10.40) 03. Menomena - Taos (23.02) 04. Clock Opera - A Piece of String (28.13) 05. Ringo Deathstarr - Imagine Hearts (35.32) 06. The Twilight Sad - Cold Days From the Birdhouse (48.50) 07. Josh T Pearson - Sweetheart I Ain't Your Christ (62.27) 08. Erland & the Carnival - My Name is Carnival (74.19) 09. King Creosote - Grace (Jeff Buckley cover) (82.49) | 3/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #165 - The Torrentcast | F*****g hell, it's been battering it down for the last few days - 'torrent'ial, see, nothing to do with the naughty internets! We've had snow in the morning and pishing rain for the rest of the day - f*****g rotten. Combine this with our worryingly leaky roof and honestly, it's a bit of a surprise I am not in a worse mood. As it is, however, I feel relatively chirpy. There is footie tonight, and I will sit up late with some wine and make mixtapes for... well, for no obvious reason whatsoever I have to confess, apart from the fact that I am getting fed up of being embarrassed by the music taste of my nineteen-year-old self whenever I randomly select a tape to play in the van. Also, making tapes is a nice way to listen to vinyl singles which might otherwise be neglected. 01. David Thomas Broughton - Ain't Got No Sole (00.29) 02. Lab Coast - Really Realise (06.54) 03. M.J. Hibbett & the Validators - The Gay Train (17.49) 04. Bonnie Prince Billy & the Cairo Gang - Island Brothers (24.19) 05. Bob Dylan & the Rolling Thunder Revue - Romance in Durango (29.12) 06. Dolfish - Your Love is Bummin' Me Out (35.56) 07. Daniel Knox - Ghost Song (39.59) 08. The Honorable Worm - Behind the invisible hedges, into the unimaginable fields... (43.29) 09. Elbow - Lippy Kids (52.37) 10. Honeydrum - Those Babes (63.17) | 3/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #164 - The Roadcast | I really am running out of stupid names for these f*****g things. I'm sure I'm going to end up just numbering them in future, but for now you're going to have to put up with the bloody silly names I'm afraid. In my effort to squeeze eleven songs into an hour I actually don't ramble very much on this one, only to find out that the podcast ends up being much less than the usual hour and a bit, for a change. Do I really talk so f*****g much the rest of the time? Anyhow, this is a f*****g ace podcast of new music. I don't generally pay too much attention to how cool (or otherwise) these things might be, but I reckon any haircut merchants out there might rather enjoy this one. For the rest of you, those without Haircuts with a capital haitch, well, just get on as best you can. Let's face it, if I love it all, it can't really be all that cutting edge, can it. 01. FOUND - Machine Age Dancing (00.25) 02. Girls Names - Seánce on a Wet Afternoon (07.00) 03. Sonny & the Sandwitches - A. Grassley - Throw My Ashes From This Pier When I Die (12.19) 04. The Honorable Worm - Wouldn't Mind Dying (14.46) 05. Li'l Daggers - Ya Tu Sabe (22.54) 06. The Louche FC - Back Bedroom Casualty (29.27) 07. Milk Maid - Such Fun (33.24) 08. Brown Brogues - Treet U Beta (35.56) 09. The Honey Pies - Hair of the Dog (41.07) 10. Zed Penguin - This Town (46.49) 11. Manners - Knives (56.44) | 3/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #163 - The Fat Possumcast | Almost a year and a half ago now my friend Craig came round to record a podcast about early blues which we, somewhat unimaginatively, called the Craigcast. A great deal of that conversation centred around Fat Possum Records (Wikipedia), and how Matthew Johnson struggled for years to keep it trundling along, despite being near bankruptcy for most of the time. It wasn't until soul legend Solomon Burke decided to release his comeback record with them that they finally got out of the financial woods with some finality. Craig's interest in the label is based around an obsession with old blues music, but from a modern indie kid's perspective Fat Possum are still one of the best record labels in the world - The Walkmen, AA Bondy, Andrew Bird, Sonny and the Sunsets, Band of Horses, The Black Keys, Dinosaur Jr., The Felice Brothers, Wavves and Yuck all release with them. So this is absolutely all about Fat Possum and their bands. Sort of a tribute, and sort of a public demonstration of me being absolutely green with envy. 01. R.L. Burnside - Snake Drive (00.15) 02. Dinosaur Jr. - Almost Ready (14.11) 03. Junior Kimbrough - Meet Me in the City (21.34) 04. Andrew Bird - Plasticities (Live) (28.46) 05. Johnny Farmer - Ocean Blues (38.37) 06. Townes Van Zandt - Pancho & Lefty (46.26) 07. Sonny & the Sunsets & Death Cream (59.02) 08. The Walkmen - Donde Esta la Playa (61.45) 09. Cedell Davies - Keep on Snatchin' it Back (68.03) 10. T-Model Ford - Take a Ride With Me (76.47) | 2/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #162 - Rob St. John Toad Session | Video: Vimeo – YouTube. Photos: Flickr. Free mp3 downloads: zip file (right click – save as). We actually recorded this Toad Session in the Queen Charlotte Rooms in Leith before the Song, by Toad Christmas Party back in December. Partly this was because it seemed like a fun thing to do, and partly because swapping our traditional and rather overpowering turquoise backdrop for their Christmas lights and tinsel. Also, we had six different bands playing the Queen Charlotte Rooms that night, as sort of a Song, by Toad Records Christmas celebration, and as Rob had only just agreed to release his debut album on Song, by Toad Records (later this year – probably in the Autumn sometime) it seemed fitting that he headline one of the rooms on the night itself. In terms of manpower we were woefully, woefully understaffed for this session. The only person who could help at all was Wee Matthew, and even he couldn’t make it for the start, so I pressed my parents into service. Well come on, they’ve got be more use than just glue, eh? So my mum took some pictures and did some filming, I set up the recording and the main camera, and then she passed the video camera on to Matthew when he arrived and the stills camera on to me. And miraculously, it wasn’t a total disaster. In fact, the actual recordings, whilst more than a little noisy, in part due to the hum of the fridges behind the bar, are some of my favourite-sounding Toad Session recordings. As usual, we have all the individual song videos embedded below, or on our Vimeo or YouTube pages, and the photos can be found on Flickr. The main interview podcast can be streamed or downloaded immediately below, as can the individual session tracks, with the playlist for the podcast at the bottom of the page. As per usual feel absolutely free to share and pass around any of this stuff – that’s what it’s for. 01. Rob St. John - Whites of Our Eyes (Toad Session) (07.33) 02. Smog & the Dirty Three - Cold Discovery (Peel Session) (15.20) 03. James Yorkston & the Athletes - Hermitage (21.33) 04. Rob St. John - Your Phantom Limb (Toad Session) (29.35) 05. Grouper - We've All Time to Sleep (36.07) 06. Ben Frost - Hibakusja (39.17) 07. Rob St. John - An Empty House (Toad Session) (51.19) 08. Earth - Hung From the Moon (57.29) 09. Micah P. Hinson - Patience (65.13) 10. Rob St. John - Muted Flourish (Toad Session) (72.06) | 2/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #161 - The Slappercast | Mrs. Toad and I do NOT approve Valentine's Day, and I have to say the fact that she genuinely seems to hate it (rather than just saying so, but secretly still expecting flowers) is a very liberating thing. It means I can know finally forget about the whole bloody nonsense once and for all, and never ever have to figure out exactly how much I am expected to spend in order to demonstrate my affection for someone. There is, after all, very little that can be less romantic than obediently making protestations of love for no other reason than that everyone else is doing so and you are expected to conform. Seriously? I actually think it's just plain f*****g insulting, frankly. 'Hello darling, I thought we might go out for a meal tonight.' 'Yes dear, what a lovely idea, what made you think of that?' In what possible world can 'because the shops told me to' be considered a better answer than, say, 'because we've both been really busy recently and I miss spending time with you'. And assuming that the latter is obviously the more romantic answer, what the f**k does that have to do with the fourteenth of February? 01. Cracker - Mr. Wrong (00.18) 02. The Dead Kennedys - Your Emotions (08.39) 03. Fear of Pop - In Love (13.25) 04. The Veils - Don't Let the Same Bee Sting You Twice (22.02) 05. Bill Callahan - Our Anniversary (24.33) 06. The Wedding Present - Nobody's Twisting Your Arm (36.00) 07. Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years (39.40) 08. The Clash - White Riot (46.15) 09. Taxrat - Burn Down Slow (48.32) 10. Josh T. Pearson - Honeymoon is Great, I Wish You Were Her (55.25) | 2/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #160 - The Crapcast | The Crapcast is so named because I am in one of the dingiest hotel rooms I have ever been in. In isn't even entertainingly bad, which would be something, just like being dressed in clothes from Marks and Spencer and being trapped inside a grey cardboard box listening to Keane's greatest hits. Anyhow, the shower was really good, and I can forgive almost any other atrocity in a hotel room, as long as the shower is hot and the pressure is good. Anyhow, I am abandoning the Hotel of Beige for a friend's house tonight, and then tootling back up to Edinburgh tomorrow evening to see my nice lady again. It makes a bit of change for me to be away on business instead of her, so I can go back and gloat about being a mover and a shaker… until she puts me firmly back in my place my reminding me that when she goes away it is to China and New York and Australia, not just a long weekend in London. And yes, I do refer to a bit of 'verbal writing' in this. Don't judge me too harshly. I was wrecked. 01. Billy Bragg - The Saturday Boy (00.56) 02. Pet Ghost Project - Glitch Shake (10.09) 03. We Are Losers - Cheerleaders (18.27) 04. Yuck - Rubber (21.15) 05. King James - A Big Black Dog (30.41) 06. Eef Barzelay - Ballad of Bitter Honey (37.13) 07. Elbow - Station Approach (41.04) 08. David Dondero - Don't Cry No Tears (47.37) 09. The Veils - Bloom (52.00) 10. Micachu & the Shapes - Everything (58.19) | 2/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #159 - The Vinylcast 2 | After enjoying the Vinylcast I recorded a couple of weeks ago, I'm afraid I wasn't able to resist the temptation to come bacl to my record collection for this week's podcast as well. In fact, I think I can safely say that this is now something which is going to become a regular feature of Song, by Toad podcasts because... er, well just because it's fun I suppose. This week I went to the Shelter charity shop on our street and bought about half a dozen records: some Bessie Smith, Shirley Bassey, Ella Fitzgerald, Kid Thomas and his Algiers Stompers, and a couple of old Dylan records. If I end up ever developing a taste for jazz I am pretty sure I will be able to trace it directly to a sense of misplaced nostalgia, and the charity shops of Scotland. I am a long way from being a jazz fan, but there's something so fitting about the crackle of vinyl on an old jazz record. I never used to listen to this stuff as a kid, but for some reason I get a nostalgic feeling from listening to it now. 01. The Meteors - Wrecking Crew (00.22) 02. Kurt Vile - I Wanted Everything (07.16) 03. The Ad Libs - He Ain't No Angel (15.01) 04. Tom Waits & Crystal Gale - Little Boy Blue (17.39) 05. The Velvet Underground - Stephanie Says (24.07) 06. U2 - Twilight (29.00) 07. Girls Names - Graveyard (33.19) 08. Rene - Destination: Mars (40.00) 09. Ambitious Tugboat - Age Rings (43.07) 10. Manners - My Will (48.27) 11. Otis Redding - Pain in My Heart (56.36) | 1/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #158 - The Refreshcast | I think I have figured out why Fence Records hate the internet. Or at least, I feel like I am starting to get some insight into what is an intensely troubled relationship. The two of them just don't get along at all, and the mutual antipathy has boiled over into outright hostility this afternoon, with the rush to buy Homegame tickets from the Fence website actually breaking the whole internet. So while I wait for normal service to be resumed, and with it the opportunity to buy tickets for Homegame this year, I thought I might record a podcast. Or at least, so I thought. But it turned out the Facebook chat about the interminable (three hour) wait was too entertaining, and the paralysing fear of the site suddenly coming back online and me missing out on tickets was too much. So I faffed about, went out and got p****d, and ended up recording this after our gig tonight, sorry. 01. Edinburgh School for the Deaf - Love is Terminal (00.17) 02. Black Tambourine - Throw Aggi off the Bridge (07.34) 03. The Great Valley - Tall Smoke (11.53) 04. Hezekiah Jones - I Love My Family (Album Version) (20.47) 05. Lift to Experience - These are the Days (29.14) 06. Titus Andronicus - Fear & Loathing in Mahwah, NJ (33.09) 07. Byrds of Paradise - Touch Tunnel (42.54) 08. Eels on Heels - G (48.59) 09. Balkans - Edita V (52.40) 10. The Caulfield Sisters - I See Your Face (59.37) | 1/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #157 - The Vinylcast | I've been itching to do this podcast for a while, but only now got my arse in gear to do it: record a podcast straight from vinyl. It's a bit of a nuisance, because I have to switch back and forth from the mic, for the chatty bits, to the USB input for the records... oh never mind, you don't care about my logistical hassles do you. The nice thing about vinyl is that the playlist is not simply going to be an inbox dump of whatever new indie has arrived this week, simply because I don't have all that much new music on vinyl. Some, but not lots. Also, the electicism factor is massively increased, partly because my vinyl collection is downright eccentric, and partly because the very act of leafing through completely unsorted piles of records seems to make me lots more likely to pick something absolutely random which fits with nothing else at all and really has no excuse being anywhere near a haircut indie try-hard hipster podcast. Which is of course exactly what this is. 01. Windsor Davies & Don Estelle - Whispering Grass (from It Ain't Half Hot, Mum) (00.29) 02. Eat Skull - Heaven's Stranger (06.27) 03. The Shop Assistants - Safety Net (12.50) 04. Beat the Devil - Mr. Ray (15.14) 05. King Creosote - The Right Form (25.47) 06. Seefeel - Faults (34.12) 07. The Japanese War Effort - Ribbit (39.09) 08. Edna McGriff - The Fool (44.29) 09. Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Heart Like a Wheel (51.19) 10. Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra - Well Alright Then (62.43) | 1/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #156 - The Stallcast | The Stallcast you ask? Yes indeed the Stallcast, because my brain is still stuck in neutral after the Christmas break and seems annoyingly resistant to being asked to function properly at the moment. I've had half a week back 'at work', if I can really call it that, and I still feel like the the old grey custard is still spluttering a bit, rather than firing on all cylinders. The playlist reflects this in many way too, because it's a bit all over the place. Good tunes though, although I suspect those amongst you with Haircuts might not be as impressed as others. Anyhow, the mission for this week is to get f*****g moving, clean out the foostiness in the brain and properly embark upon 2011. A jump start may be needed, however. 01. R.E.M. - It Happened Today (00.23) 02. Sin Fang - The Only Living Boy in New York (09.24) 03. Jamie Cameron - When You're Almost Done, Run (15.14) 04. Johnny Hawaii - The Lonely Smurfer (20.10) 05. Speak & the Spells - She's Dead (26.51) 06. Beth Gibbons & Rustin' Man - Tom the Model (35.34) 07. Future Bible Heroes - A Thousand Lovers in a Day (39.09) 08. Kurt Vile - Jesus Fever (43.15) 09. Charles Latham - Hard On (48.25) 10. FOUND - Machine Age Dancing (55.39) | 1/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #155 - Song, by Toad Records 2011 | This is my annual World of Song, by Toad Records podcast, where I prattle on a bit about the stuff we have coming up in the new year. I play a couple of things we released towards the tail end of the year, and some stuff by some of the new bands we're going to be working with for the first time in 2011. I also prattle on at immensely tedious length about the ins and outs of running a record label, which may or may not actually interest you at all, but it's there whether you like it or not. We've got plans for some changes for the new year as well, with a new imprint for the label being launched, and a partnership with the Brothers Grimm for the creation of new lines of merch to go with every release. It's going to be a bit exhausting, I think, but immense fun nevertheless. 01. King Post Kitsch - Eggshells (00.21) 02. Animal Magic Tricks - Heavenly Bodies (06.31) 03. The Savings and Loan - The Virgin's Lullaby (18.45) 04. Inspector Tapehead - Sugar on Your Sheets (22.00) 05. Rob St. John & the Braindead Collective - The Whites of Our Eyes (28.11) 06. Loch Lomond - Elephants and Little Girls (41.36) 07. Trips and Falls - This is All Going to End Badly (52.37) 08. Jesus H. Foxx - Plans (Alt. Version Demo) (54.59) 09. Meursault - Another (61.34) 10. Lach - I Want to Be With You (65.56) 11. Yusuf Azak - Lay Me Down (Demo) (76.49) | 1/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #154 - The Couchcast | It's Christmas Day, we have had our breakfast of smoked salmon and poached eggs, and I decided I might as well settle down with a bottle of fizz and talk shite on the internet. Given we opened all our presents and had a big meal when my parents were visiting last week, I figured I was obliged to do no more than get p****d and slowly waste away the day today, stopping only to gorge myself on roast lamb and some indeterminate point in the evening - whenever Mrs. Toad gets over last night's hangover I suppose. I am lining up my stupid movies for tonight, as well, because that is all I intend doing this evening: watching intellectually vacant films whilst lolling about on the couch like a beached whale. This, as far as I am concerned, is the True Meaning of Christmas (TM). 01. Stephen Malkmus - Baby C'mon (00.16) 02. Sylvain Chomet - L'Illusioniste (05.02) 03. Bloody Cassette Boy - Nigella's XXXmas (12.03) 04. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Cold White Christmas (13.50) 05. Kung Nai vs. Cambodian Space Project - Women (22.16) 06. King Koyote - La La La (27.33) 07. LY and SO - One Day This'll All be Fields (33.55) 08. Tommy Perman - Drive My Car (36.19) 09. Stoney & Meat Loaf - Jessica White (42.30) 10. The Wind-up Birds - In a Yorkshire Call Centre I Knelt Down and Wept (49.19) 11. The Mountain Goats - Tyler Lambert's Grave (54.35) | 12/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #153 - The Mobcast | I am not personally going to bother doing a 'Best of 2010' podcast based around my own choices. Over the next couple of weeks you're going to get more than enough of that in text form anyway, so I think we can all live without a podcast as well. What I thought I might do, though, was just do a quick rundown of the Song, by Toad Readers' song and album of the year voting because… well, why the f**k not, I suppose. As much as anything I felt like doing it because there were a couple of surprises in there, a couple of omissions and a couple of disagreements, so I guess it gives me something to whinge about when introducing the songs, eh. 01.The Japanese War Effort - Summer Sun Skateboard (00.21) 02. The National - England (06.05) 03. Foals - Spanish Sahara (11.17) 04. Broken Records - The Motorcycle Boy (24.31) 05. Kid Canaveral - Her Hair Hangs Down (29.06) 06. Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) (33.51) 07. Micah P. Hinson - My God, My God (41.13) 08. David Tattersall - The Typewriter Ribbon (43.44) 09. Meursault - What You Don't Have (52.46) 10. eagleowl - No Conjunction (60.54) | 12/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #152- The Savings and Loan Toad Session | Video: Vimeo - YouTube Photos: Flickr Audio: download links below This Toad Session is something a little different, in that instead of setting up a studio environment in the house, we actually just recorded the songs at a house gig. The gig was in fact also the band's first live appearance in four or five years. So the whole atmosphere of the session is massively different to the usual ones we record. The interview took place all at once before the gig, rather than in and around the songs like it usually does, and for the podcast I have just spliced bits of it into the podcast as and when it seemed suitable. We also webcast this live, which was kind of fun. I am not sure how brilliant the image and sound were for everyone, but it was an extremely fun thing to do and something we'll be looking to do more of in the new year I hope. It was a little tricky to ask people to take pictures in the middle of a performance, so we have a few photos by Anneli and Fiona but not very many. As per usual we have videos of four songs, over and above the main video above. Martin actually read some of his poetry before the gig started, so there's a little of that in the main video as well. The session tracks are all downloadable for free below, as is the main interview podcast, with the full tracklist for that at the bottom of the page. A large thank you to Fiona Buckle and Anneli Kuukka for their pictures, to Neil Pennycook for recording and mixing the songs and to Ben Clarke for helping with the filming. Direct download: Toadcast #152 - The Savings and Loan Toad Session The Savings and Loan - These Hands/Catholic Boys in the Rain (Toad Session) The Savings and Loan - Met (a Storm) (Toad Session) The Savings and Loan - The Ropes (Toad Session) The Savings and Loan - Her Window (Toad Session) 01. The Savings and Loan - These Hands/Catholic Boys in the Rain (Toad Session) (02.07) 02. Evan Crichton - Holiday Time (12.27) 03. Palace Brothers - Stable Will (17.16) 04. The Savings and Loan - Met (a Storm) (Toad Session) (27.24) 05. Gerry Mitchell & Little Sparta - The Ragged Garden of Your Eye (32.46) 06. Otis Redding - That's How Strong My Love Is (37.34) 07. The Corries - Loch Tay Boat Song (40.04) 08. The Savings and Loan - The Ropes (Toad Session) (50.11) 09. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Darker With the Day (53.23) 10. Codeine - Broken Hearted Wine (60.22) 11. The Savings and Loan - Her Window (Toad Session) (69.52) | 12/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #151 - The Treecast | The Treecast is so named because we purchased and decorated our Christmas tree this afternoon. It is an incoherent mess of all sorts of shite, stupid garish baubles, a weird peacock thingy and some foolish attempts at being tasteful which have been utterly overwhelmed by the utter cack which surrounds them. My parents always did seriously tasteful trees actually, so I would imagine they will be downright ashamed of the half-arsed mess we have managed to create. Actually, my dad is the world's biggest Grinch, so he won't give a shite, but my mum might be silently disappointed. Nevertheless it now feels like Christmas has properly started. We have orded a keg of beer for our Christmas party (our own one, not the label one) and for the New Year's p**s up as well. We'll have Jonnie Common, The Japanese War Effort and Neil fae Meursault playing a house gig that evening, and there will, it now appears, be shitloads of very tasty beer too. Why the f**k would anyone bother with town? 01. Grandaddy - Now It's On (00.21) 02. Jason Lytle - D.U.I. BBQ Checkpoint (07.39) 03. Twilight Hotel - Mahogany Veneer (12.25) 04. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Heart in Your Heartbreak (18.44) 05. Wolf Parade - Semi-precious Stone (22.36) 06. That Ghost - Older (30.17) 07. Grandaddy - Band Synergy (A Peek Inside the Magic) (35.34) 08. Grandaddy - You Know You're F****d Up (38.50) 09. Crystal Stilts - Shake the Shackles (43.54) 10. The Monochrome Set - Jetset Junta (Remix) (48.19) 11. Gobble Gobble - Wrinklecarver (51.20) | 12/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #150 - The Coldcast | On the drive back from Glasgow yesterday, after the second of Yusuf Azak's three album launch gigs, the snow started absolutely horsing it down, to the extent that all the traffic slowed to a sensible single file at about thirty miles an hour, and all you could see was little red tail-lights in the white. It was, if I am being entirely honest, pretty cool. Although of course that's easy to say when you're no more than twenty miles from home and in no actual danger. Anyway, this morning it's all turned icy outside and Mrs. Toad is complaining about the heating not being up to the job, so I think we can safely say that the rituals of Winter have begun! Hence, the Coldcast. 01. The Mountain Goats - You or Your Memory (00.28) 02. The 63 Crayons - Devils (07.02) 03. The Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant (15.50) 04. Brown Brogues - I Just Don't Know (19.07) 05. The Beatles - Dear Prudence (25.16) 06. Girl Problems - Sancho (31.49) 07. Thirty Pounds of Bone - A Lesson in Talking (41.21) 08. Willy Mason - Carry On (44.33) 09. Y Niwl - Dau (52.42) 10. Songdog - A Life Eroding (So Much Sorrow) (61.26) | 11/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #149 - The Rhonecast | Cotes du Rhone is our default red wine of choice in this house, and after yesterday's birthday celebrations being cut rather short due to my feeling s****y, we are having a quiet evening in with a couple of bottles of red wine, a bacony, beany stew and we are going to light the fire for the first time this Winter as well. There is nothing remotely related to that on this podcast of course, but then these titles have become increasingly unrelated to the actual podcasts themselves recently so I doubt that'll surprise anyone. In fact, given I've been talking about how when the weather gets cold I tend to listen to less new music and less raucous music, the lo-fi, rackety nature of this playlist is probably a total self-contradiction, but then, this is the f*****g internet, what do you really expect? 01. Cerebral Ballzy - Insufficient Fare (00.12) 02. Crooked Scene - Male Bonding (05.53) 03. White Wishes - Hold Your Hand (13.36) 04. Johnny Reb - Nine on the Line (21.11) 05. The Dead Kennedys - Kill the Poor (25.03) 06. The Louche FC - Back Bedroom Casualty (32.14) 07. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Destroy the Evidence (38.49) 08. Carnivores - Dressed for the Rain (42.26) 09. Waylon Thornton & the Heavy Hands - Sixteen Dreams (48.17) 10. Heavy Hawaii - Teen Angel (56.36) | 11/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #148 - The Slobcast | It's not going to surprise anyone at all that I am being an absolute slob today, is it? Mrs. Toad got back from Australia around lunchtime, and after a few hours of pottering about she crashed out with jetlag, so I snuck off to record the podcast. I am sure that soon enough she will wake and start demanding attention and general servitude soon enough, so I better get this over with quickly. After that I am going straight back to bed to watch stupid films while my sweetheart dozes by my side, awaking occasionally to tell me off for not being comfortable enough, or to send me to fetch her things, or to just swear at me for taking all the covers or some other such sweet nothings of the kind she is wont to come out with from time to time. 01. Elvis Perkins in Dearland - Shampoo (00.21) 02. Elvis Costello - Couldn't Call it Unexpected No.4 (06.24) 03. Billie Holiday - Good Morning Heartache (13.17) 04. Smog - In the Pines (16.22) 05. My Tiny Robots - Ballad of the Mapmaker's Daughter (23.17) 06. Randolph's Leap - Going Home (32.19) 07. The Japanese War Effort - Face Like a Lemon (Ivor Cutler cover, live on Fresh Air Radio) (36.50) 08. Grass House - Lazy Bones (43.01) 09. Bob Dylan - I'll Keep it With Mine (49.23) 10. Bettye Swann - Don't Look Back (54.47) | 11/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #147 - The Rowiecast | This is er… well, "one of those podcasts". You know, the ones where you're half p****d before lunch and basically mumble your way through an hour or so of incoherent rambling? Yes, one of those. I even try and do something of a Cloud Sounds tribute by playing two songs available on 7" single from Cloud Sounds Records and then by playing two songs from bands I got into by listening to Cloud Sounds' podcast but unfortunately the fact that I am joined in this podcast by Andy and Paddy from Gerry Loves Records means that more or less any attempt to keep things on-topic, or indeed to have a topic at all, are pretty much doomed. It's been a while since I did a proper train wreck podcast so all I can really do it apologise in advance and urge you to sit back and enjoy it! 01. The Generalissimos - The Men Behind the Man (00.04) 02. Onions - I Want to be a Dancer (06.07) 03. Sufjan Stevens - Vesuvius (12.36) 04. Tidy Kid - Smell (Bibio Remix) (23.32) 05. Roy Robertson - Icing (27.34) 06. Pregnant - Wiff of Father (35.09) 07. Sweet Baboo - I'm a Dancer Pt. 2 (46.48) 08. The Maladies of Bellafontaine - Black Biro (50.31) 09. James Yorkston - Lovely to be Here (Excerpt) (60.19) 10. Ringo Deathstarr - Imagine Hearts (69.43) | 11/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #146 - Inspector Tapehead Toad Session | Videos: Vimeo - YouTube Photos: Flickr Audio: download for free below... Every time a drum kit comes into our house I am kinda worried that the cafe downstairs is going to have a tantrum about the noise, but we've been lucky so far, and long may it continue. More worrisome in this instance was probably Jonnie Common's incredible box of tricks. In a slight change to the usual lineup, my wee brother happened to be over from the States visiting when we recorded this, so he did the sound for this. He has his own company over there, called Red Cottage Audio, and spends most of his time as the sound designer/recording engineer for the Boston Ballet, so I am not sure quite how he took the change from that to trying make a bunch of pop songs sound good in our living room. Still, it's all about the results, and the results are fantastic. The pictures are also especially good this time around. Fee has contributed photos before - most notably to, I think, the Shenandoah Davis and Pictish Trail sessions - but this time she really has excelled herself. I generally cut the photo sets down to about twenty pics, but in this case I really couldn't manage any fewer than thirty, I liked them that much. Head over to Flickr to see the set. As per usual, all the Toad Session recordings are made available for free sharing/downloading/whatever, just after the full interview podcast, which is below, and as well as the main video at the top of the page, we have individual videos of every song as well (see a bit further down) as well, finally, as the full tracklisting for the podcast itself at the bottom of the page. Oh, and this wouldn't be a proper plug if I didn't point out that Inspector Tapehead's debut album, Duress Code, can now be purchased from Song, by Toad Records. Toadcast #146 - Inspector Tapehead Toad Session [audio:http://traffic.libsyn.com/songbytoad/ToadcastNo146.mp3] Inspector Tapehead - Yarvil (Toad Session) [audio:http://matthewjamesyoung.com/ToadSessions/InspectorTapehead-Yarvil-ToadSession.mp3] Inspector Tapehead - WCMJ (Toad Session) [audio:http://matthewjamesyoung.com/ToadSessions/InspectorTapehead-WCMJ-ToadSession.mp3] Inspector Tapehead - A Fillet of Bozo (Toad Session) [audio:http://matthewjamesyoung.com/ToadSessions/InspectorTapehead-AFilletofBozo-ToadSession.mp3] Inspector Tapehead - Pherenzil Tear (Toad Session) [audio:http://matthewjamesyoung.com/ToadSessions/InspectorTapehead-PherenzikTear-ToadSession.mp3] 01. Inspector Tapehead - Yarvil (Toad Session) (05.37) 02. Adam Beattie & the Consultants - We'll Wave From the Shore (15.23) 03. Jonnie Common - Photosynth (19.24) 04. Inspector Tapehead - WCMJ (Toad Session) (28.27) 05. Charlot Webster - Stay What You Are (40.40) 06. dBASS - Garden (44.35) 07. Inspector Tapehead - A Fillet of Bozo (Toad Session) (56.59) 08. Django Django - WOR (63.51) 09. Inspector Tapehead - Pherenzik Tear (Toad Session) (80.24) | 10/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #145 - The Fallcast | I seemed to forget why this was called the Fallcast until the very end, so it clearly isn't a very central concept to the podcast itself. Basically, I just rattle on about some new music for a bit, which means there's hardly an excuse to call this bloody podcast anything, really. Still, next week we have the Inspector Tapehead Toad Session, which is nearly finished, and then after that I was thinking about doing podcasts from vinyl. I reckon I can probably just run a lead into to the microphone jack of the computer, straight from the Tape Out RCA connection on the back of the amp, although that may well not work I guess. I could just get myself an mp3 turntable, but that's expensive. Still, doing the podcasts straight from vinyl seems like a good idea to me for the future. For now, though, it's just me sitting and talking s**t to my computer, sorry. 01. Broken Records - Modern Worksong (00.17) 02. Kurt Vile - In My Time (09.09) 03. Twin Shadow - When We're Dancing (12.28) 04. Husband - Feelings (20.39) 05. Houses - Endless Spring (27.00) 06. Laku Noc - Sleep (29.53) 07. Brown Brogues - Treet U Beta (37.22) 08. Shapers - Virginia Reel (41.29) 09. FOUND - String Theory (44.33) 10. Ravens & Chimes - Division Street (54.31) | 10/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #144 - The Fishcast | The Fishcast? Yes, because the fishmonger opposite our house is today auctioning off for charity the largest lobster ever to be fished out of the Firth of Forth, and the f*****g thing is ma-hooo-sive! Honestly, if that little bastard ever got its claws on you I don't think you'd stand a f*****g chance. Anyhow, yes, I do know that a lobster isn't a fish, don't worry, but the Fishcast just had a better ring to it than the Fuckinggreatbiglobstercast, and the word Crustacean didn't seem to have an obvious way of crunching down into the Somethingcast. So Fishcast it is, deal with it. 01. The Generationals - Trust (00.17) 02. The Divine Comedy - The Seafood Song (09.51) 03. The Driftwood Singers - Coco Ellis (17.33) 04. The Tragically Hip - Chagrin Falls (25.59) 05. Toby Richardson - King of All the Moves (30.06) 06. Utidur - Grasping for Thoughts (39.35) 07. Slow Talk - Fashion Sense (42.43) 08. King Post Kitsch - I'd Sooner Laugh (Demo) (53.34) 09. Bear Driver - Golden Touch (Demo) (55.31) 10. Saharan Gazelle Boy -Halfhair Girl (61.24) | 10/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #143 - The Name Escapes Me | So, initially I was going to call this post the Gigcast because I have spent the last week furiously booking gigs, arranging gigs and very much hoping people will turn up to gigs. Then, over the course of the podcast, I consistently forgot to actually talk about the Yusuf Azak tour I have been helping to book, the Honeytrap gig I have had to organise, the Savings and Loan House Gig I have been preparing and the Toad Records Christmas Party to try and find a home for. This is all pretty much sorted by now I think - and I'll give you full details tomorrow in the Sunday Supplement - so what ended up dominating the podcast was me saying bone-headed things like 'the name escapes me' every time I had to refer to an album, a label, or pretty much anything over the course of the whole hour. So in a last-minute change of emphasis I decided that by far the dominant feature of this podcast was not me talking about booking gigs or any of that rubbish, it was me being under-prepared and not knowing the things I was supposed to know. Again. Sorry. 01. Hot Panda - Mindlessnesslessness (00.03) 02. Cotton Jones - Somehow to Keep it Going (06.02) 03. Soft Cat - Dark When it Should be Violet Hour (15.37) 04. Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins - The Big Guns (19.44) 05. Family Fodder - Oneliest Thing (25.04) 06. Fire Engines - Meat Whiplash (31.44) 07. The Son(s) - Radar (38.26) 08. The Phantom Band - The None of One (41.29) 09. Jenny & Johnny - Wild is the Wind (52.12 ) 10. Adam Beattie & the Consultants - Bone Dry (59.53) | 10/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #142 - The Hoarsecast | Hoarse. Horse. Hoarse. Horse. Geddit geddit, see what I did there? Yes, another tedious pun, but I know you know to expect no better from me these days. Anyway, it's only called the Hoarsecast because I have a bit of a phlegmy flu which, whilst not fun, is hardly very debilitating so there is no need for me to moan really. Not that this usually stops me, but anyhewww... It's a funny old mix, this playlist. I rearranged the songs time and again, swapped a few in and out here and there and just couldn't find a way to make them click together for some reason, so for all I like everything that's on here it is still a little bitty, as a single coherent mix. Mind you, with me talking pish between all the songs, there's f**k all chance of these things really flowing in the first place. 01. Wilco - I Can't Stand It (00.17) 02. Hooray for the Riff-raff - Slow Walk (08.32) 03. Interpol - Evil (15.49) 04. Jose Delhart - Broken Hearted Chant (22.17) 05. Flower Orgy - Boneyard (25.12) 06. Willie Nelson - Good-hearted Woman (31.59) 07. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Notes From the Waiting Room (38.07) 08. Dumbo Gets Mad - Eclectic Prawn (40.33) 09. Sexual Objects - Here Come the Rubber Cops (47.56) 10. Grinderman - Star Charmer (57.53) | 10/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #141 - The Eiggcast | So, we are off to Eigg this weekend for the Fence Away Game. Being a gallant sort I booked tickets for Mrs. Toad as well, as I thought she would enjoy such a picturesque setting, but the grumbling noises emanating from my better half over the last week or so have suggested that she is planning on weaselling out at the last minute. F*****g typical, is all I can say. Anyhow, this week's podcast is the usual mixed bag of new stuff and old stuff, and also includes an expectation of the dubious concept of Mixtape Infidelity, as well as new tracks from Honeytrap, British Sea Power, Mount Erie, The Scottish Enlightenment and the Savings and Loan. Please do not confuse this with the Eggcast, by the way. I know the names are awfully similar, but I only have a limited imagination and couldn't be arsed thinking of anything more original. 01. Honeytrap - Roslin in a Cylon (00.17) 02. Mount Erie - I Whale (06.50) 03. Timber Timbre - Lay Down in the Tall Grass (15.17) 04. Wilmer Watts & the Lonely Eagles - She's a Hard-boiled R0se (20.12) 05. British Sea Power - Zeus (27.30) 06. The Scottish Enlightenment - Drip Feed (36.22) 07. Grant Lee Buffalo - Crashing at Corona (45.45) 08. The Raincoats - Don't be Mean (49.47) 09. The Savings and Loan - Pale Water (58.01.) 10. Neutral Milk Hotel - Snow Song Pt.1 (63.15) | 9/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #140 - The Romecast | Despite the title (and the first song) there is very little ranting about the f*****g Pope on this podcast, I promise. He may be a vicious, decaying old scorpion in charge of one of the most corrupt and evil institutions on Earth, but after a little bit of gentle joshing at the beginning I promise I do let it drop and carry on with the music. We have a fair bit of new stuff this week, such as Belle & Sebastian, Broken Records, Li'l Daggers and various other bits, and then a brief detour into Mrs. Toad and my drunken late night vinyl escapades last night. Enjoy! 01. Tom Lehrer - The Vatican Rag (00.17) 02. Li'l Daggers - King Corpse (06.26) 03. Bastardgeist - Flee to the Hills (11.26) 04. Belle and Sebastian - Write About Love (20.23) 05. Broken Records - Ailene (23.10) 06. The Walkmen - Blue as Your Blood (31.31) 07. Common Grackle - At the Grindcore Show (36.07) 08. The Meteors - Out of Time (40.42) 09. The Housemartins - Five Get Over Excited (43.46) 10. The Delfields - Claire (50.03) | 9/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #139 - The Comfortcast | Having weaselled out of our Fresh Air show yesterday because I was too busy trying to get Loch Lomond sessions edited and generally ready to go away on holiday, so Ruth missed out on her weekly opportunity to take the p**s out of me, which must have been a shame for the poor lass. Anyhow, we decided to remedy this by recording a podcast for publishing while we're away, so Ruth came round with a CD of twenty songs and we bumbled our way through an evening chattering nonsense (as per usual). We're a teeny-tiny bit short of cutting edge new tunes for this week, but I think we can live with that for a week, eh. As Ruth would insist, her choices are all better than things I would have chosen anyway... 01. Animal Magic Tricks - Pinkening (05.04) 02. Eurythmics - Love is a Stranger (11.21) 03. Iron & Wine - Upward Over the Mountain (19.11) 04. Mountain Man - Mouthwings (25.54) 05. Yo La Tengo - Take Care (28.04) 06. Fred Astaire - Top Hat, White Tie & Tails (35.42) 07. Gomez - 78 Stone Wobble (41.43) 08. The Everley Brothers - Be Bop a-lula (49.21) 09. Edith Piaf - Non, Je ne Regrette Rien (51.37) 10. Pulp - The Boss (Demo) (58.23) | 9/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #138 - Loch Lomond Toad Session | Video: Vimeo - YouTube Photos: Flickr Audio: freely downloadable below... Loch Lomond came over to the UK in May to play some dates in Scotland, so we took the opportunity to record a Toad Session with them. We first met the band when we went out to Pickathon in 2008 and interviewed them there. Since then we have released a split 12" and an EP by them over here on Song, by Toad Records. Elephants & Little Girls is actually from that split 12" release, but the other three songs are new, and from their next album. That album has been finished for about three months now I believe, although I have yet to hear it, so all I know about it is from these three songs. Many thanks to Gavin Tarling for recording and mixing the session, to Matthew Swan and Fiona Buckle for their help with the photography and video cameras, and to Chris Bryant for being in the band for the day. Feel free to help yourselves to the downloads, and enjoy the videos. The whole interview can be heard on the podcast below, the video at the top of the page is sort of a general video of the whole day, and those of the individual songs are embedded below. 01. Loch Lomond - Blood Bank (Toad Session) (04.39) 02. Run On Sentence - Out in the Woods (11.07) 03. Sallie Ford - Danger (14.35) 04. Loch Lomond - Egg Song (Toad Session) (22.10) 05. Vadoinmessico - In Spain (27.02) 06. Brothers Young - Good Deeds (32.35) 07. Blitzen Trapper - Black River Killer (37.10) 08. Loch Lomond - I Love Me (Toad Session) (45.00) 09. The Generationals - When They Fight They Fight (48.24) 10. Loch Lomond - Elephants & Little Girls (Toad Session) (59.35) | 9/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #137 - The Seendcast | I may only have lived in the Wiltshire village of Seend for about four or five months about ten years ago (seriously, ten?) but the fact that I had no job, nor was able to find one, meant that the music I listened to ended up with an extra resonance. Apart from looking for jobs I didn't know how to find, I spent an inordinate amount of time browsing through copies of Uncut magazine, back before it turned to s**t, and buying albums based on how well I liked the songs they chose for their covermount CDs. There are a couple of other songs on this podcast, but I think the memories of Seend (including my goal in a 3-2 victory, having been 2-0 behind at half time) are still surprisingly strong. 01. Meursault - Bulletproof (La Roux/Radiohead Cover) (02.52) 02.The Czars - Lullaby 6000 (09.19) 03. Hamell on Trial - Choochtown (20.30) 04. Lambchop - Bon Soir, Bon Soir (24.10) 05. The Savings and Loan - The Virgin's Lullaby (31.09) 06. Phillistine's Jr. - The Bus Stop Song (36.55) 07. Vado in Messico - Sisma (38.50) 08. Billy Bragg - Take Down the Union Jack (47.12) 09. Kevin Tihista's Red Terror - Sucker (51.46) 10. Cinerama - Health and Efficiency (58.49) | 8/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #136 - The Haarcast | Contrary to what you might suspect from my location this week and the steady stream of silly videos from Anstruther , this podcast is not anything to do with the Fence Collective or Haarfest. Actually, apart from a few brief intrusions from my pile of audio cassettes (a lot of time in the van, you see) this is generally just the usual stream of music news and new bits and pieces from my inbox. Actually, I am way behind my inbox at the moment, due to a week of holiday and now a week in Anstruther, and things aren't likely to get any better either, what with... oh never mind, you hear enough of my whining as it is. Tunes... 01. Eels - Jungle Telegraph (02.32) 02. Les Shelleys - The World is Waiting for the Sunrise (07.22) 03. Broken Records - A Leaving Song (13.41) 04. Women - Heat Distraction (19.56) 05. Let's Talk About Trees - Wood of Rassay (23.50) 06. The Tragically Hip - Fireworks (31.57) 07. Grant Lee Buffalo - Testimony (35.48) 08. Inspector Tapehead - Grooming (44.48) 09. Nice Purse - Heart Medley (50.52) 10. Bombadil - Barcelona (54.55) | 8/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #135 - The Spaincast | Recorded for you from the sunny, blazing hot mountains of Andalucia, this one is a little late being uploaded because we only just got back to Scotland and I decided I might as well wait until we got home before uploading it rather than charge all around Spain trying to find somewhere to upload from and then sitting around for ages waiting for the damn thing to... well, you get the picture. I actually spent much of the week editing Toad Session videos, which seems just a tiny little bit pathetic, even to me. Still, editing video whilst sat on the terrace with a beer, overlooking spectacular valley scenery isn't exactly a hardship, but nevertheless, a holiday should be a bit more holiday-y than that I suppose. I also think I may have happened to accidentally teach Mrs. Toad's oldest friend's kids some truly f*****g appalling language too. Honestly, who lets a retard like me anywhere near kids? 01. The Japanese War Effort - Summer Sun Skateboard (02:20) 02. Benni Hemm Hemm - Shipcracks (06:15) 03. Hobart Smith & Texas Gladden - Down in the Willow Garden (13.39) 04. Blind Willie Johnson - I'm Gonna Run to the City of Refuge (16.24) 05. The Beach Boys - Sloop John B (21.02) 06. Sebastian Dangerfield - The Sycamore Tree (24.49) 07. Animal Magic Tricks - Heavenly Bodies (30.57) 08. Keaton Henson - Oliver Dalston Browning (36.27) 09. Fists - Ace is the Way (40.23) 10. Honeytrap - Little Johnny Winter (45.02) | 8/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #134 - The Festicast | So, the Festival descendeth upon Edinburgh once more, and once more we are beset by London-based Home County Yahs braying their zany way through the city until finally someone snaps and sets fire to their stupid f*****g stilts once and for all. Actually, as I confess pretty sharpish, I am the classic Edinburgh Festival hypocrite, if I'm being honest with myself. I love it as much as I loathe it and I enjoy moaning about it almost as much as I enjoy the Festival itself. As a native you really do have to have the right attitude though. If you come from outside just for the Festival then there's little chance of you failing to take advantage of it, but if you live here the only way is to do it by extremes: either totally ignore it and stay as far away as you can, or just stop moaning, get stuck in, get pished and go to lots of shows. I tend to prefer the latter option, but I'll confess I don't always do a good job of actually taking my own advice. 01. Thee Single Spy - OK Corral (02.53) 02. Lach - A Quiet Distance (11.50) 03. Bob Dylan - Man of Constant Sorrow (Live) (14.59) 04. Run On Sentence - Wide Open Sky (22.20) 05. Skeleton Bob - Findlove is a Housing Scheme (33.11) 06. Wounded Knee - Coffee Ballad (34.43) 07. The Delta Mirror - He Was Worse Than the Needle He Gave You (39.31) 08. Balkans - Georganne (45.50) 09. Modest Mouse - This Devil's Workday (50.33) 10. Eels - I Put a Spell on You (58.36) | 8/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #133 - The Tapecast | This is called the Tapecast because last night, for the first time in about ten years, I made a mixtape. Because of the van having a tape player there is actually a point to making these bloody things now, so we got hammered and listened to records all night (again), only this time I recorded them all onto a C-90! There is something so stupidly fascinating about making tapes in the first place, but there is certainly something surreal in resurrecting what genuinely was dead technology. It is far from easy to actually buy blank tapes these days. I ended up recording over a shite old one I had to hand, and there is only a limited supply of ones hanging around which I would be happy to tape over. It was bloody fun though, so I think it might well happen again! 01. The Humms - Blood Sucking Vampire (02.30) 02. We Can't Enjoy Ourselves - Put Your Blue Dress On (11.19) 03. Ezequiel Ezequiel - Dear Permafrost (15.03) 04. Small Town Boredom - Apologies for Apathy (22.32) 05. Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights (30.59) 06. The Dodos - Walking (35.59) 07. Trips and Falls - I Learned Sunday Morning, on a Wednesday (41.57) 08. Br'er - Whitewash (48.41) 09. Efren - Stay High (53.22) 10. Donny Hue & the Colors - Wild Again (59.22) | 7/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #132 - The Fuzzcast | This wasn't particularly supposed to be all fuzzy and noisy, and in actual fact is probably isn't, except for in bits. I have been listening to the Male Bonding album a lot this week, and then the split single from Thee Ludds and The No-Brainers dropped into my inbox, and then I became fascinated by the splendid mess that is I'llfinishyrfinish and suddenly I realised I had a podcast which was pretty much all over the place. So I decided to embrace it, go for it and just appreciate the noise. There is some acoustic fuzz too, and a song by Grandaddy who can be fuzzy but often aren't, but in general if you like your music to be played on a tape recorder down the back of the sofa in the next room, you should like this. Oh, and we have the new Walkmen track and the new Cotton Jones one and all sorts. Aren't we clever. Actually, who the f**k am I calling 'we', anyway? 01. The Walkmen - Stranded (02.20) 02. Grandaddy - F**k the Valley Fudge (09.02) 03. Male Bonding - Your Contact (16.19) 04. Navigator - Headless Horseman (The Microphones cover) (19.44) 05. Grizzly Prospector - Oh! Grizzly Me (Slow) (Live) (21.06) 06. Cotton Jones - Glorylight and Christie (24.09) 07. The Sound of the Ladies - The 40s Never Died (27.35) 08. Thee Ludds - I'm a Moron (34.42) 09. The Walkmen - Thinking of a Dream I Had (42.06) 10. Ace Bushy Striptease - I'llfinishyrfinish (I'll Finish You) (49.32) | 7/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #131 - The Brocast | My brother heads off today, so I figured we'd take one last chance to do a podcast while we can. This is mostly new stuff and inbox though, so I am not sure how he'll react. Actually, he was in the room last week while I went through my inbox, played stuff, replied to emails, deleted things, and so on and so forth. I think his response was that he simply wouldn't be able to handle the avalanche of s**t I have to get through, and that it would simply turn him off music completely. I don't mind that, I have to confess, because although some people do send me wildly inappropriate things, after two hours of listening to one 'psychedelic rock band who are blazing a trail across the LA scene right now' after another I then open an email from Allister Izenberg, which was possibly the most terse, abrupt and non-sugar-coated promo email I have ever read, even including Trips and Falls. It was such a bad email actually that even before listening I had a sneaky suspicion I was going to really like the music, and boy oh boy was I right. It makes all the 'rock, hip-hop, funk fusion's next big thing' emails easily worthwhile. 01. Hot Lava - Pink Lemonade (02.52) 02. Burnt Island - Hiding Out (07.42) 03. King Post Kitsch - Monomaniac (11.26) 04. Glass Animals - Leaflings (19.17) 05. Allister Izenberg - Little Swan (24.24) 06. Television Keeps us Apart - Voices (33.22) 07. Ola Belle Reid - High on a Mountain (41.01) 08. Clarence Ashley - Cuckoo Bird (51.54) 09. Willard Grant Conspiracy & Telefunk - The Cuckoo (54.23) 10. Soft Cat - Blackbird (62.41) | 7/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #130 - The Poshcast | My little brother is in town visiting, and he is the sound designer for the Boston Ballet, and on Wednesday night (I think) we got obliterated on gin and had something of a musical duel; each taking turns on the stereo, me playing some of the weirder stuff I listen to and him playing bits of classical music. Honestly, it was f*****g ace. As a DJ set it would have absolutely delighted me anyway, even if everyone else ended up f*****g off, but nevertheless, that evening was what music fandom is really about for me. So this podcast isn't really a recreation by any means (we are far, far too sober and nothing like argumentative enough for starters) but I thought it would be nice to do a podcast along those lines. Personally, it's maybe not even as classical as I might personally have liked it to be, but never mind, I really like it. And, as usual, there is a correction to be made. We describe the them tune to Star Trek Deep Space Nine as Theme for the Common Man, and apparently it isn't that at all. What it is is heavily heavily borrowed from Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man. So the bit of classical music Ben describes hearing before we play that song must actually have been Fanfare for the Common Man, which only reminded him of the Deep Space Nine theme without actually being it. Whoops. Next time research before talking! 01. Mozart - Requiem in D Minor (02.40) 02. Yann Tiersen - La Lettre d'Explication (16.18) 03. The Flaming Lips - Watching the Planets (23.33) 04. Theme to Star Trek - Deep Space Nine (28.47) 05. Les Têtes Raides - Manuela (38.49) 06. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Proposition #1 (49.13) 07. The Books - S is for Everysing (52.29) 08. Nico Muhly - The Only Tune (64.00) | 7/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #129 - The Housecast | Housecast? Well, yes. One of the things I have been trying to do since I left my grown up job is get our house vaguely under control. I have mananged to get the boxes of albums out of the hallway and into the office now, but there is still all manner of paperwork and assorted other s**t all over the place. Also, my folks are visiting at the end of next week, and you know what that means: the famous Mother-in-Law Clean. Mrs. Toad isn't exactly a domesticated young lady, but she will be setting about the house with a bucket of bleach and a million fistfuls of wire wool over the course of the next few days I would imagine. I, on the other hand, just have to destroy the ropey old oven in the back garden with a pick axe. Sometimes it rocks to get the man jobs! 01. Perfume Genius - Mr. Petersen (03.44) 02. Bottle of Evil - Same Old Story (10.02) 03. Cate Le Bon - Shoeing the Bones (15.17) 04. Warm Ghost - So Sick of the Sun (18.34) 05. Andrew Cedermark - Masterpieces (23.41) 06. Micah P. Hinson - Seven Horses Seen (29.12) 07. Yusuf Azak - Thin Air (34.23) 08. Kid Canaveral - Cursing Your Apples (38.55) 09. Communist Daughter - The Lady is an Arsonist (41.52) 10. Richard Hawley - The Ellen Vannin Tragedy (feat. the Smoke Fairies) (49.20) | 7/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #128 - The Glastocast | So, erm, yes, this podcast should really have happened on Sunday, but it was so unspeakably bakingly hot (alright, in all honesty it was only about 28 degrees, but it felt much f*****g hotter, okay) that there was basically no f*****g chance it was going to happen. I've also been adjusting to not having a day job, which in its own way made this easier. I'd write posts when I could during the day, but at the moment my only job is Song, by Toad so I have focussed entirely on the important jobs, not on the day to day business of posting on the site. Also, this is late and it may be (early) Thursday, but there will still be a podcast on the weekend, but I thought this was an opportunity which should not be passed up. It's Glastonbury for f**k's sake, and it really did need its own podcast pretty sharpish, even if just to wonder why one Earth Glastonbury needs its own podcast when there are so many better festivals out there! Toadcast #128 - The Glastocast 01. Radiohead - Idioteque (06.55) 02. Flaming Lips - God Walks Among Us Now (19.26) 03. Eels - Looking Up (24.06) 04. The Avett Brothers - Murder in the City (39.57) 05. The National - England (42.57) 06. The Books - A Cold Freezin' Night (57.02) 07. Devendra Banhart - The Charles C Leary (70.57) 08. Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (shoreline) (73.34) 09. Wild Nothing - Your Rabbit Feet (81.06) 10. LCD Soundsystem - All Your Friends (96.59) | 6/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #127 - The Eggcast | I remember when I first started writing Song, by Toad, people when they first latched onto the site would occasionally refer to the not all that infrequents bursts of rage and frustration with the music industry as 'a breath of fresh air' and stuff like that, for the simple reason that if I thought something was f*****g s**t, then I would say so. I had noticed that sort of post becoming less frequent myself over the last couple of years, and even Mrs. Toad remarked the other day that random outbursts of rage were becoming really quite rare. I thought about this, and I think that the reason no-one in the music industry has any balls when it comes to the simple task of telling it like it is - on the face of it, quite a simple thing to do - is the same as the reason that I tend to be quite tame these days myself: you get to know everyone, you become friends with them, and it becomes almost impossible. If I turn around and say 'all the venues in Edinburgh are s**t', what does that say to my friend Nick, who works his arse off to make Sneaky Pete's one of the best. And what if I say 'the NME is f*****g rubbish' and someone thinks, 'oh, I might review this nice album by Inspector Tapehead, but I wonder what this Song, by Toad thing is...' You get my point. Toadcast #127 - The Eggcast 01. Arcade Fire - Month of May (01.37) 02. Takeda - A Million Years (10.58) 03. Adelaide's Cape - Anchored Down (15.55) 04. Yo La Tengo - Outsmartener (26.44) 05. Skuobhie DUbh Orchestra - Eggshell Miles (33.49) 06. The Last Battle - Ruins (36.44) 07. The Mountains and the Trees - More and More and More (47.11) 08. Liars - The Overachievers (50.45) 09. The Recovery Club - Rest and Be Thankful (53.54) 10. Meursault - Hey Joe (Daniel Johnston Cover) (62.49) | 6/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #126 - The Schmoozecast | This is another chatty podcast, recorded in the hostel room of the lovely (and somewhat creepy) Lloyd from Peenko and Ian from Have Fun at Dinner on Friday afternoon at GoNorth. In terms of creepy, we were all kind of creeped out by the industry reacharounds which seemed to be going on left right and centre though. Who do you know, who likes who best blah blah blah blah blah. I think that me and everyone I know have all decided to just f**k all this industry bollocks and do what the f**k we please. Honestly, it's all just far far too much eating of crow for me. F**k. Right. Off. Toadcast #126 - The Schmoozecast 01. Woodenbox With a Fistful of Fivers - Draw a Line (03.49) 02. Fiona Soe Paing - Deep Song (14.45) 03. The Seventeenth Century - Roses in the Park (17.40) 04. Kid Canaveral - And Another Thing!! (24.58) 05. Miaoux Miaoux - Snow (34.23) 06. Admiral Fallow - Subbuteo (38.18) 07. Mitchell Museum - Tiger Heartbeat (48.45) 08. Randolph's Leap - Squeamish (57.53) | 6/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #125 - The Whorecast | This is a not entirely accurately-titled podcast, in that the whoring only takes place over a couple of songs at the tail end and does not at all influence any of the rest of the playlist. What am I talking about, you ask? Well when I played a few trendy songs a few months back the listership of the podcast doubled over the course of a few weeks. I noticed this back when I was a bit more rigorous about the blog in the early days: if I reviewed high-profile new releases in the week of release it generated a large spike in readership. So I've dropped a couple of very hype-friendly songs into the end of this podcast to see if that actually has any influence on anything at all. I found nice ones - ones I actually like, I mean - so don't worry, your normally glittering listening experience will not be tarnished one bit. But bear in mind that this week we are all the guineau pigs in a silly internet hit-whoring experiment. Sorry. Toadcast #125 - The Whorecast 01. Burnt Ones - Sunset Hill (03.46) 02. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat (09.34) 03. Girls Names - You Should Know by Now (18.32) 04. Pagan Wanderer Lu - Banish Negative Thoughts (20.26) 05. The Cure - Pictures of You (28.01) 06. Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon (35.37) 07. Taken by Trees - Watch the Waves (42.12) 08. Wild Nothing - Summer Holiday (49.21) 09. The Beets - What Did I Do (53.20) 10. Silver Columns - Warm Welcome (56.17) 11. Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs (62.41) | 6/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #124 - The Dolecast | This is called the Dolecast for... well, for obvious reasons. I am on the downward slope to imminent joblessness, with my last day at Proper Job now pencilled in for the 23rd of June - the day before Glastonbury, rather handily. Actually festivals are something of a feature this Summer, as there's that one, Kelburn, Rockness, Fusion out in Germany, and then Knockengorroch, which I will be driving out to the very second I hit 'post' on this. We're also looking at going out to Musicfest Northwest this year as well, and of course the rather splendid Fence Away Game. So erm, yes, maybe I should have called this the Festcast or something like that. Toadcast #124 - The Dolecast 01. The Wave Pictures - I Shall be a Ditchdigger (03.09) 02. Fur Hood - Tweetle Beetle Battle Beetles (12.27) 03. Fear the Fives - Devil's Tongue (15.39) 04. Southern Tenant Folk Union - South Ythsie (20.19) 05. Benni Hemm Hemm - Retaliate (29.11) 06. The Douglas Firs - Grow Old and Go Home (33.09) 07. Magic Bullets - Lying Around (37.12) 08. Perfume Genius - Lookout, Lookout (41.25) 09. The Effort - Adjust (46.54) 10. Tusk Tusk - Crazy Little Birthmarks (55.56) | 5/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #123 - The Drivecast | Having spent the week driving Loch Lomond around the country I figured that some sort of driving-themed nonsense would be in order for this week's podcast. Driving music (NOT in the Top Gear sense) tends to stick in your head, probably because when listening to it there is nothing else to do but sit and absorb the whole album. I know most musicians would probably blanche somewhat at the idea of having their work enjoyed over the thrum of wind noise, tyre noise and a grumbling engine, but a long drive is still probably one of the best places to listen to music. Oh, and the 'character'is supplied by all the f*****s outside having fun while I DO F*****G WORK FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT OF YOU UNGRATEFUL INTERNET BASTARDS. Erm, sorry. I'm tired. Toadcast #123 - The Drivecast 01. The Twilight Sad - The Wrong Car (01.53) 02. Bear Driver - A Thousand Samurais (09.12) 03. The National - Terrible Love (14.37) 04. Band of Horses - Infinite Arms (19.11) 05. The Wedding Present - Drive (25.07) 06. The French Wives - Me vs Me (28.54) 07. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Davy's on the Road Again (Live) (35.01) 08. Foon Yap - Gabriel Moody (41.49) 09. The Goodnight Loving Supper Club - The Pan (50.14) 10. The Men They Couldn't Hang - A Map of Morocco (54.27) | 5/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #122 - The Greencast | This podcast is called the Greencast because we have the most hobbled government in recent memory - Cameron has kinda, sorta, maybe won, in the sense that he is actually the PM. On the other hand Clegg, having been butchered at the polls, after a promising campaign, is now in a position of more influence than he was ever likely to gain from the election alone. And yet Labour, despite being deposed, seem to have come out of it all better than anyone. They may be out of power, but they are free from the millstone of the next few years of cuts, they can sit back and watch the Tories and the Lib Dems squabble for a couple of years and achieve nothing at all, and once the coalition has made fools of themselves for a couple of years Labour can pop up again with a new, smooth, television-friendly leader and trade on the inevitable failure of the preceding government. So, as read in the Guardian, Labour may actually have won by losing. And here are some tunes. Utterly unrelated tunes! Toadcast #122 - The Greencast 01. Loch Lomond - Spine (05.49) 02. The Man From Delmonte - Drive Drive Drive (13.00) 03. The Magnetic Fields - Drive On Driver (15.24) 04. Modernaire - Bloodshed in the Woodshed (21.27) 05. Rats With Wings - Hungry Like the Wolf (29.27) 06. Pet Shop Boys - Rent (36.09) 07. David Bowie - Let's Dance (40.59) 08. Huey Lewis & the News - The Power of Love (54.50) 09. Glaciers - Brooklyn (61.15) 10. The Moulettes - Bloodshed in the Woodshed (71.25) | 5/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #121 - The Votecast | I will be in Macclesfield at Unconvention, pretending to know what the f**k I am talking about when it comes to new music business models when you come to listen to this. I do get a shiny new pair of Converse, courtesy of the sponsors, which is cool. But above all, me, the chance to talk s**t... well, it's just a match made in heaven isn't it. My Granddad lives in Manchester too, which is rather convenient, so on Sunday I will go round to his house and say hello. Who knows, it might even shunt me slowly out of the Bad Son status I have been occupying for all these years. This playlist is largely composed of new stuff which has appeared in my inbox recently, and a couple of bizarre wild cards - two covers, Toadcast #121 - The Votecast 01. Yusuf Azak - Turn on the Long Wire (06.23) 02. Micah P. Hinson - 2s and 3s (12.50) 03. Nina Nastasia - Cry, Cry, Baby (17.58) 04. Emit Bloch - Milkshake vs. Passenger (Kelis & Iggy Pop) (23.50) 05. Run on Sentence - Out in the Woods (30.16) 06. eagleowl - Morpheus (33.43) 07. David Tattersall - The Old Family (39.15) 08. Los Hombres - Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) (41.36) 09. Male Bonding - Year's Not Long (46.12) 10. Willie Nelson - Smells Like Teen Spirit (49.22) 11. Super Adventure Club - Pick Up Sticks (57.03) | 5/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #120 - The Swing-O-Cast | We have been collecting for the lifeboats today and as usual we have had a massive, lovely meal prepared by my darling Mrs. Toad. It was f*****g awesome, I have to tell you, and anyone who wasn't here truly did miss out. We, and the RNLI, owe a massive debt of thanks to Sharon from the Wirral, Euan from The Kays Lavelle (and many other things), Peter from next door, Matthew from Glasgow (as of last week), Ella from the Last Battle, Lucy and Catherine from Mrs. Toad's Finance Corp., Jamie from Broken Records, and Dylan and Ed who turned up and were nice but didn't really do much. In terms of actually making a difference, it's worth pointing out that the collection in Stockbridge has hovered around the £200 mark for about the last thirty years, but since us young 'uns have been involved that number has almost tripled, which is sort of nice. It actually does make a big difference when you all turn up and show some enthusiasm and commit even just a few hours to helping out. Charity people can be a bit pushy at times, so it gets a bit of a bad rap, but it really does make an important difference. So thank you. And hopefully we'll see you all again next year. Toadcast #120 - The Swing-O-Cast 1. The Bonzo Dog Band - No Matter Who You Vote For, the Government Always Gets In (5.35) 2. Billy Bragg - The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions (13.27) 3. Wham! - Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do) (22.23) 4. Pet Shop Boys - Opportunites (28.59) 5. The Dead Kennedys - Kill the Poor (41.00) 6. Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City (44.04) 7. REM - Ignoreland (52.33) 8. Pearl Jam - Bu$hleaguer (60.39) 9. Gao Yuqian, Liu Changyu, Qian Haoliang - The Party Has Taught Your Son to be a Man of Iron (80.01) 10. Erase Errata - Another Genius Idea from our Government (81.44) | 5/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #119 - The Popcast | Tomorr... yesterday I flew out to Paris to see Mrs. Toad, who has been stuck in God Bless America for the last two weeks because of Iceland's seismic indiscipline. We are going to have dinner and walk together and hold hands and generally act like a couple of idiots. More or less like we always do. For a couple of curmudgeonly old f*****s who spend their entire lives swearing at one another, we are a pretty sentimental pair, really. This podcast is mostly based around my Dad and his music. For my early years I was well into my Mum's stuff, but as I got older I got more into my Dad's kind of stuff - Tom Waits, Dylan, Neil Young and all that. When I really, really got into music it was never into contemporary, modern or trendy stuff, it was always the old shite my parents were into. I repay them the favour nowadays, or at least, I try to, but I never really picked up on music from my peers, it was always from my folks. Hence this podcast. Toadcast #119 - The Popcast 01. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road (05.16) 02. The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (13.27) 03. Willie Nelson - Mommas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys (16.53) 04. Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Walking Song (24.12) 05. Tom Waits & Thelonious Monster - Adios Lounge (32.54) 06. Elton John - Ballad of a Well Known Gun (41.21) 07. Bob Dylan - Days of 49 (46.07) 08. Elvis Perkins in Dearland - I Heard Your Voice in Dresden (53.49) 09. The Builders & the Butchers - Barcelona (57.51) 10. Jackson Browne - Fountain of Sorrow (66.15) | 4/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #118 - The Ashcast | Mrs. Toad has been stranded in God Bless America by that infernal cloud of Icelandic ash, so I am home alone for the last week and all of the next one. This is very much Not Fun, because as much as she's a mean old bitch, I do seem to have developed a grudging affection for the silly old mare so a fortnight apart is very much unappreciated. It's about time those Icelanders re-established some bloody discipline, honestly. Anyhew, there is some excellent stuff on this podcast, even though it really doesn't hang together around a particular theme as they sometimes do. In actual fact, I don't think I've done a themey one for a while - might give that a go next week. Toadcast #118 - The Ashcast 01. Johnny Flynn - Kentucky Pill (4.11) 02. Burnt Island - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (10.51) 03. Draw Me Stories - Becomes the Hunted (18.25) 04. Haunted Stereo - Lock the Doors (22.29) 05. Ragged Claws - Lamed Wufniks (30.44) 06. Fleet Foxes - Silver Dagger (36.07) 07. Hezekiah Jones - I Love My Family (40.13) 08. Cocorosie - Lemonade (42.14) 09. Br'er - Crocus (50.41) 10. Devolver - Promise (56.24) 11. Giant Sand - Anarchistic Bloshevistic Cowboy Bundle (58.44) | 4/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #117 - Mumford & Sons Toad Session | Video: Vimeo – YouTube Photos: Flickr – Blueback Hotrod Audio: below This was without a shadow of a doubt the most scary level of military efficiency that anything even slightly Toad-related has ever achieved. Mumford & Sons were playing to a sold-out Queen's Hall in the evening, so we had to have them in and out of the door within an hour and a half, and we actually bloody managed it! As the like of the Pictish Trail, who left Toad Hall completely plastered after his session, can testify, this isn't really what we're good at around here. So, not only did they go to extreme lengths to actually make time to record this, they did a f*****g lovely job of it as well. If you watch the video for Untitled, embedded below, you'll see that they rattled our floors so hard that something actually falls off the shelves behind Marcus at the end of the video. Gavin has done a lovely job of the recording and mixing, and many thanks to Dylan for the photography and Matthew for help with the filming. As usual with the Toadcasts, there is a full set of pictures on our Flickr page, Dylan's own choices on his Blueback Hotrod page, freely downloadable and shareable mp3s of the session tracks below, a full podcast of the interview, with playlist at the bottom of the page, and videos of the individual songs themselves embedded below. I've also made a video of the whole day, with bits of interviews and excerpts from the songs, and that is embedded at the top of the page. Enjoy! Toadcast #117 - Mumford & Sons Toad Session Mumford & Sons - Untitled (Toad Session) Mumford & Sons - Dance Dance Dance (Neil Young Cover) (Toad Session) Mumford & Sons - White Blank Page (Toad Session) Mumford & Sons - Awake My Soul (Toad Session) Podcast Playlist: 01. Mumford & Sons - Untitled (Toad Session) (04.26) 02. Vampire Weekend - UR a Contra (13.29) 03. Love.Stop.Repeat - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (17.52) 04. Mumford & Sons - Dance Dance Dance (Neil Young Cover) (Toad Session) (21.54) 05. Billie Holiday - God Bless the Child (26.42) 06. Eels - In the Beginning (29.49) 07. Mumford & Sons - White Blank Page (Toad Session) (36.27) 08. My Kappa Roots - It was Rough When the Rain Came (41.19) 09. Mumford & Sons - Awake My Soul (Toad Session) (50.23) | 4/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #116 - The Dead Calmcast | It's been a very, very long time since we had a nice simple podcast of me just chattering about music without extraneous distractions of various drunken people babbling to one another over the top of it. Last week was Ruth, Michael and Dylan, the week before that was Vic and Peej, then me and Mrs. Toad and then there was the one from Homegame, which was nuts, so this one is just calm and sensible and plain vanilla and basically just me playing some songs, wondering how to pronounce names like Borcherdt, and talking pish like usual. Next week will be the Mumford & Sons Toad Session, which is nice. Toadcast #116 - The Dead Calmcas 01. The Van Allen Belt - The Way You Look (02:14) 02. Songdog - Gene Autry's Ghost (08.50) 03. Over the Wall - Settle Down (16.56) 04. Deathpodal - Squirrel and the Fox (20.55) 05. Brian Borcherdt - While I was Asleep (28.27) 06. Emit Bloch - Dorothy (34.34) 07. David Thomas Broughton - Perfect Louse (40.49) 08. Mat Riviere - FYH (43.09) 09. Member of the Wedding - New Century (51.37) 10. The Sequins - Offside & Beautiful (57.09) | 4/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #115 - The Messcast | The Toadcasts stumble from one c*********k to the next, each one more incoherent than the last. This, I think it's fair to say, makes the Homegame one look good by comparison. Not that the songs aren't good, just that the instances of people talking over one another and two conversations going on at once and so on and so forth are notably worse on this. However, the music is excellent, and surprisingly up to the minute by my standards. We even managed to sneak the new National song in there, which they only released on Thursday - how's that for happening and newsworthy and so on and so forth. We have some new Sam Amidon as well, a track by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti which dropped through my letterbox while I was away in Austin, and some splendid stuff by Harlem and Clogs. If only it wasn't for the pish chat, this would be a great podcast, actually. Toadcast #115 - The Messcast 1. Trevor Moss & Hannah Lou - Ruth Drink My Whisky (05.12) 2. The National - Blood Buzz Ohio (13.40) 3. Loch Lomond - Spine (MMIX) (25.50) 4. Sam Amidon - Way Go Lily (29.43) 5. Harlem - Friendly Ghost (34.49) 6. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round and Round (44.02) 7. Ghostkeeper - By Morning (49.10) 8. Love is All - Bigger Bolder (53.57) 9. Grand Champeen - Broken Records (62.16) 10. Clogs - Last Song (68.24) | 3/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #114 - The South by Southcast | Another stunt podcast for you, this was recorded on Sunday night after and afternoon of beer and Margaritas on South Congress in Austin - probably the most enjoyable day of the whole festival for me actually, and one which involved no more music than walking past the queue for an Alejandro Escovedo show. What it did involve, however, was breakfast tacos, a splendid Mexican tat shop, a Western supply shop full of incredibly cool cowboy boots and shirts and so on, and then an afternoon sitting in the sun and shooting the breeze with Peej, Vic, Alex from Fatcat and Ben from Instinctive Raccoon. Oh, and repeatedly having people spill beer on my jeans, there was that as well. Anyhow, in the evening we were joined by Stuart from the Scottish Arts Council (who does a highly passable impersonation of Groundskeeper Willie from the Simpsons) and recorded this rather messy podcast before, erm... going bowling with Broken Social Scene and We Were Promised Jetpacks, sort of. Actually, that's rather an exaggeration. We went to a fantastically cool bowling alley place to eat, and then those two bands, who seem to have become friends, wandered in, ate something, said hello and then proceeded to spend the rest of the evening bowling. I wouldn't recognise Broken Social Scene of course, but apparently that's who they were, and it did lend the evening a slightly surreal tinge. Toadcast #114 - The South by Southcast 01. We Were Promised Jetpacks - It's Thunder and it's Lightning (02.53) 02. The Entrance Band - Grim Reaper Blues (11.33) 03. Shearwater - Black Eyes (20.49) 04. Broken Social Scene - Let's Get Out of Here (Live at Radio Aligre) (24.17) 05. Hudson Mohawke - Fuse (33.59) 06. Midlake - Young Bride (41.31) 07. The Real Heroes - Baby Must've Known (46.07) 08. Plants & Animals - Jacques (56.19) 09. Dan Mangan - Robots (63.09) 10. Gay Witch Abortion - Down With Giants (73.07) | 3/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #113 - The Anstercast | We're in Anstruther this weekend for Homegame, and so we got incredibly p****d late at night and recorded a podcast for you all, just as a special extra Sunday Supplement. This should give you a taste of our Homegame fun and, sadly, also an idea of just how much of a wreck we all make of ourselves in Fife once a year. Honestly, this is my favourite festival in the f*****g universe, possibly only equalled by Pickathon, which is incredibl e. Toadcast #113 - The Rhubarbcast [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/songbytoad/ToadcastNo113.mp3] 01.Withered Hand - No Cigarettes (01.34) 02.Silver Columns - Yes and Dance (Silver Columns Remix) (08.31) 03.Findo Gask - Wrapped in Plastic (Live) (14.00) 04.Adem - Everything You Need (20.02) 05.Django Django - Love's Dart (29.52) 06.FOUND - Freaky Freaky Chancer (33.37) 07.Cold Seeds - The Perfume of Mexican Birds (43.43) 08.Love.Stop.Repeat - The Ghost of What You Used to Be (50.52) 09.FOUND & eagleowl - Some R. Kelly Cover (58.52) | 3/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #112 – eagleowl Toad Session | eagleowl Toad Session from Song, by Toad on Vimeo. Video: Vimeo - YouTube Photos: Flickr - Blueback Hotrod Audio: below A large part of me thinks there should be an Eagleowl Interviewers' Support Group. They are some of the loveliest people you will ever meet, but getting them to talk is like trying to learn Kung-Fu in an afternoon. I've been down the pub with these guys, so I know it's not like they don't have anything to say for themselves, it's just that teasing it out of them with cameras and microphones present requires a black belt in interviewing people which I quite simply do not have yet. Next time I will be prepared. Possibly no more successful, but prepared nevertheless. The music has come out beautifully, recorded by Neil Pennycook and Gavin Tarling, and mixed by Neil - eventually. Dylan took the pictures, and I have a Song, by Toad set on our Flickr page, but Dylan's full set can be found on his own site at Blueback Hotrod. I've made videos of the songs themselves and there is of course the main video at the top of the page which gives a not-entirely honest and rather heavily edited impression of what the whole day was like. The playlist for the interview podcast is at the bottom of the page and as per usual all the Toad Session recordings are available for free for you to download and generally do as you please with. Hope you like it. Toadcast #112 - eagleowl Toad Session [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/songbytoad/ToadcastNo112.mp3] eagleowl -Into the Fold (Toad Session) [audio:http://www.matthewjamesyoung.com/ToadSessions/eagleowl-IntotheFold-ToadSession.mp3] eagleowl -Blanket (Toad Session) [audio:http://www.matthewjamesyoung.com/ToadSessions/eagleowl-Blanket-ToadSession.mp3] eagleowl - Laughter (Toad Session) [audio:http://www.matthewjamesyoung.com/ToadSessions/eagleowl-Laughter-ToadSession.mp3] eagleowl - Sleep the Winter (Toad Session) [audio:http://www.matthewjamesyoung.com/ToadSessions/eagleowl-SleeptheWinter-ToadSession.mp3] Toadcast Playlist: 01. eagleowl - Into the Fold (Toad Session) (07.03) 02. Rob St. John - December & Whiskey (Live) (16.26) 03. Silver Jews - How to Rent a Room (19.31) 04. eagleowl - Blanket (Toad Session) (30.25) 05. Spokane - Proud Graduates (36.12) 06. eagleowl - Laughter (Toad Session) (49.21) 07. Adrian Crowley - Bless our Tiny Hearts (54.54) 08. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Willow Garden (57.34) 09. eagleowl - Sleep the Winter (Toad Session) (66.42) | 3/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #111 - The Beebcast | Well in all the chatter about the Beeb this week I was strongly considering ignoring it completely in this podcast and giving everyone a welcome break from the wailing and gnashing of teeth... but naah, that was never going to happen, was it. So there's a lot of railing against the Beeb and the threat to 6Music and yaddah yaddah you know the script don't you. Sadly, and somewhat ironically, we spend so much time talking about the state of the Beeb and the loss their support of small bands will represent, that we actually forgot to talk much about the small bands we ourselves put on the bloody podcast. Toadcast #111 - The Beebcast [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/songbytoad/ToadcastNo111.mp3] 01. Ballboy - All the Records on the Radio are Shite (03.21) 02. Love is All - Bigger Bolder (13.02) 03. Fredrik - Vinterbarn (15.53) 04. Exrays - Everything Goes (27.16) 05. Phil Ochs - Automation Song (34.33) 06. Ghostkeeper - By Morning (37.26) 07. The Light Footwork - Carlsbad Irrigation Project (47.54) 08. Mondrian - Rise and Fall of a Golden Boy Seen by a Porn Star Using No Sextoy (50.21) 09. The Leaf Library - Losing Places (ISAN Remix) (63.00) | 3/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #110 - The Pervcast | You know, I'm not exactly naive when it comes to the internet. I've done perfectly innocent Google image searches at work and then hurriedly had to cover up or stove in my monitor as all manner of filth made its appearance, irrespective of the tame nature of the search terms. So I was up quite late recording this podcast and because only pervs and loonies seem to be up late* using the internet I reckoned that this should be called the Pervcast. Particularly as I recorded most of it with a glass of wine in one hand and my nuts in the other - hey, it's just comfortable alright, stop being so judgmental. Anyhow, the minute I hit return on the search for a banner image for this Toadcast... well, I realised my mistake pretty much immediately. I didn't even realise most of that s**t was even physically possible, never mind sought after. Yeauch. You internet people - you're all wrong 'uns, that's what you are! Toadcast #110 - The Pervcast 01. The Silver Columns - Brow Beaten (04.50) 02. The Morning Benders - Promises (14.10) 03. Inspector Tapehead - Phenrenzik Tear (17.10) 04. Amanaz - Khala My Friend (28.15) 05. The Tim & Sam Band - Choices (34.57) 06. Japandroids - Art Czars (48.24) 07. Waskerley Way - Yonder (52.19) 08. Fire Engines - Get Up and Use Me (56.32) 09. Patrick Bower & the World Without Magic - One Day Soon, I Will Break You (58.37) 10. Woozy Viper - Whoah, Baby! (66.12) *Yes, I know, it was made up for (faintly) comical purposes - f**k off. | 2/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #109 - The Suitcast | I don't know what the damn hell it is about dressing formally which makes me feel so uncomfortable, but it does. Presumably just because I'm such a scruffy f****r for the entire rest of my life, those few hours every year I spend in a (vaguely) ironed shirt and pair of proper shoes just seem so completely out of character as to be really quite discomfiting. Still, at our age everyone we know seems to be either getting married or breeding (and not infrequently both) so the old whistle is going to have to get used to seeing a little bit more action over the next few years, it seems. The ludicrous thing is that I actually have a couple of really nice suits, but I never get round to wearing the f*****s because it just all seems too much like hard work. This weekend, people. In a suit. Me! Would you believe it. I really should thank all these marrying bastards for saving my investment in suits from being complete waste of money it would be if I actually was left to my own devices. Toadcast #109 - The Suitcast 01. Joker's Daughter - The Bouncing Liquorice (02.22) 02. Lloyd Cole - Undressed (05.52) 03. The Besnard Lakes - Like the Ocean, Like the Innocent Pt.1: The Innocent (11.53) 04. Shearwater - God Made Me (18.52) 05. King Post Kitsch - Alaska (24.52) 06. Cold Lake Flight School - Driftwood (30.16) 07. Dan Sartain - Ruby Carol (32.52) 08. The Japanese War Effort - Lanark (38.01) 09. Oreaganomics - Self-assembled Martyr (45.35) 10. The Stands - Some Weekend Night (53.45) | 2/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #108 - The Boabycast | Hooray for us - possibly the vilest and least romantic Valentine's Day Podcast yet! And before anyone whinges about that picture, go to f*****g Wikipedia and complain, because that's where we bloody got it from. I know! Scandalous! Someone should complain. So erm, yes. I don't think we left anyone unoffended this year. I sincerely hope not because I don't like to think of people out there nurturing an anticipated false outrage complex only to be let down. We do not like romance, we do not like being told when to have fun by people who are simply hoping to exploit our disposable income, we do not like it being implied that being single is some sort of failure, we do not like people measuring their self-worth by how much their partner can be emotionally blackmailed into spending on them, we do not like having to live up to commercially defined standards to demonstrate that we love one another, we do not like having to skip the football just cos we're supposed to behave one some particular day or other, we do not like f*****g teddy bears or f*****g chocolates, we do not like sitting in tumbleweed-infested restaurants whilst people glance nervously around them wondering if they've done it right, and we do not like having a list of things to live up to before our relationship is considered functional thank you very f*****g much. We do like lazy Saturdays in the garden, crackling fires, meals with friends, new places, fresh flowers when we feel like it and walks on Porty beach that just happen. Listening to vinyl so loud the floor shakes, a bit too much to drink with people that you really like, laughing at films, arguing about the side of the bed, swearing blind it's not your turn with the chores when you know damn well it is, drinking coffee in the garden when it's sunny, slagging off almost everyone, shouting at reactionaries on TV, emailing stuff that interests us, insulting the cat (he is an inbred retard, I like to think he's a member of the Royal Family), surprise cups of tea, buying s**t on the internet when we're drunk, coping with the washing mountain when it threatens to start a SARs epidemic, watering the plants only minutes before death and walking hand in hand through the park and peering at cool old dudes chuntering around at the allotments or sailing model boats in the park pond. Now, isn't that a better basis for a relationship than trotting out a box of chocolates 1/365? Toadcast #108 - The Boabycast 01. Cracker - Mr. Wrong (03.10) 02. Billy Bragg & Wilco - Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key (09.57) 03. The Smiths - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me (17.11) 04. Eels - Love of the Loveless (20.16) 05. The Clash - Brand New Cadillac (29.40) 06. Bill Hicks - Pussywhipped Satan (31.41) 07. Evan Dando - Hard Drive (44.33) 08. The Coathangers - Nestle in My Boobies (48.11) 09. Virgin of the Birds - She's in the Moon Again (59.10) 10. David Cross - Your Baby is F*****G BORING! (65.59) | 2/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #107 - The Tardicast | Erm, really sorry that this is so very, very late, but life rather caught up with me this week. So I never quite managed to find time to get my s**t together until this evening, unfortunately. It's surprising how much of my time these weekly podcasts seem to take up - it can be quite hard to find an evening every single week to record these things. What I find amazing is that I don't run out of blather. I don't recall ever saying anything profound or all that intelligent either, so this little collection must represent hours and hours of inconsequential rambling. On Friday a nice young lady in the pub asked me "Has anyone ever told you that you talk loads and loads." I suppose, looking back at a hundred and some podcasts the miracle is that actually the answer to that question is 'no, not really, not that I can remember'. Oh, and yes, that is Tina Turner and Kim Carnes you see there. Suck it up, hipsters. Toadcast #107 - The Tardicast 01. The Walkmen - This Job is Killing Me (03.30) 02. Grandaddy - Hey Cowboy, the Phone's For You (09.57) 03. Comaneci - Satisfied Girl (15.51) 04. Tina Turner - Private Dancer (17.50) 05. Trevor Moss & Hannah Lou - England (27.33) 06. Ruth Theodore - False Alarm (34.09) 07. The Waterboys - Sweet Thing (40.54) 08. Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes (48.04) 09. R.E.M. - Half a World Away (53.55) 10. Radiohead - Creep (Acoustic) (59.59) | 2/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #106 - The Sinocast | Mrs. Toad has been away in China for the last week or so and, frankly, I am jealous. I am wedded to Edinburgh now, for fairly obvious reasons, but I have always been something of a gypsy, as have my parents, and as such China has held a pretty significant fascination for several years now. I spent three years in Singapore between the ages of eleven and fourteen and I absolutely loved the place. Not just Singapore, but all the travelling we did in South East Asia - I was absolutely captivated. Honestly, if it were not for you musical muppets I would be pestering Mrs. Toad for us to move to China already. Toadcast #106 - The Sinocast 01. T'Pau - China in Your Hand (5.12) 02. I Am Oak - Ohayo (10.49) 03. Django Django - Love's Dart (13.27) 04. Django Reinhart - China Boy (22.49) 05. Clem Snide - Wal-Mart Parking Lot (31.22) 06. Frightened Rabbit - Fun Stuff (33.51) 07. The Shop Assistants - Somewhere in China (41.07) 08. David Bowie - China Girl (46.26) 09. Lincoln - Great Wall of China (51.47) 10. Snapline - S2 (65.31) | 1/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #105 - The Myopiacast | This podcast is slightly kinda somewhat about about the myopia of the London media, in particular as to how it pertains to Scotland and Scottish music, and slightly about the Glasgow media. There are a number of different triggers for this, starting with this article in the Scotsman's Under the Radar blog last year about the rejection by the editor of a London glossy of an article on four up-and-coming Scottish bands, made even more offensive by the fact that said editor had requested the damn article in the first place.Of course, anyone who reads the London glossies knows they don't half cover an awful lot of shite themselves, so they really are in no position to pass judgment, but these things are about personal taste at the end of the day and you really can't force anyone to like stuff. Then of course there was a wee bit of chatter about the Glasgow focus of the media in Scotland - like and endless set of Russian dolls - particularly focussed on the remarkable Glasgow-centrism of The List's Hot 100 list and then some stupid woman on BBC radio sneering at the Edinburgh music scene despite knowing no more of Glasgow than Mogwai or Franz Ferdinand. So yes, there's a bit of that going on as well, but for the most part it's surprisingly non-confrontational given the level of annoyance I felt with both the BBC lady and the List list at the time. Toadcast #105 - The Myopiacast 01. James Yorkston - A Man of My Skills (04.26) 02. Frightened Rabbit - The Greys (10.22) 03. Orange Juice - Blue Boy (16.02) 04. The Pogues - Rake at the Gates of Hell (18.53) 05. Fang Island - Life Coach (27.56) 06. Her Name is Calla - Long Grass (30.51) 07. Fire Engines - Get Up and Use Me (37.59) 08. Last Battle - Ward 119 (47.44) 09. Sebastian Dangerfield - Morris (49.53) 10. Sigur Ros - Gong (58.05) | 1/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #104 - The Bleepcast | This is all about my beepy-bloopy tendencies and how I got into the stuff in the first place. I better point out, right at the beginning, that I don't see there being any difference between indie and electronica exactly. Or at least, the dividing line is so blurred and there is so much crossover that the distinction is completely pointless, really. I think the only reason I really make a distinction myself is because I became a music obsessive by listening to the likes of Dylan and Tom Waits and so on, and then moved onto the like of The Pogues and the Waterboys - not a beep in sight, basically. Consequently, when I heard bands like Saint Etienne, although I loved lots of it I didn't explore much further because I just wasn't to electronic noises. In actual fact, by the end of the podcast I think I come to the conclusion that it was actually an electronic beat which I really wasn't used to, mostly, but in any case, I found it quite hard to get into anything vaguely electro for ages. Given that I could barely make a distinction between the two these days, that seems kind of odd, too. Toadcast #104 - The Bleepcast 01. The Pet Shop Boys - Rent (03.46) 02. Stereolab - The Light That Will Cease to Fail (12.09) 03. Dubstar - St. Swithin's Day (15.25) 04. U2 - Lemon (23.05) 05. Jason Lytle - On a Piece of Wood I Go (30.49) 06. The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist (35.57) 07. LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum (40.42) 08. Money Can't Buy Music - We Are All Asphyxiate (48.59) 09. Magic Arm - Daft Punk is Playing at My House (52.41) 10. Parts & Labour - Fractured Skies (.) 11. Jon Hopkins - Circle My Demise (King Creosote) (65.13) | 1/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #103 - Baby, it's Cold Outside | It's freezing outside and (just slightly) covered in snow (about half an inch) so naturally the entire nation has ceased to function. Erm, okay, it really isn't that cold and the snow really isn't that big a deal in all honesty but of course given the worst weather conditions we usually have to deal with are constant and life-sapping drizzle it seems that it's all come as a bit of a shock to the nation as a whole.We live in a city by the sea of course, which means that we never get the sunshine which is promised and sadly, during the winter, we never get the snow or the cold either. In the countryside it may occasionally be dangerous, but in the city it's never much more than a stunningly picturesque inconvenience, and the bastard stuff will all have melted by next week anyway, so we might as well enjoy it while we still can. This week the podcast is not themed at all, it's just new and interesting stuff from my inbox. I tend not to just slap up promo tracks emailed to me by PR chappies on the blog because, frankly, I really have nothing to say about them yet and I don't really like firing out posts on the site when I don't really have an opinion, right wrong or otherwise, to accompany it. Podcasts, on the other hand, are a bit more spontaneous so they seem like a more suitable place to put new and interesting stuff before I have any real chance to figure out whether or not I actually like it properly. Toadcast #103 - Baby, it's Cold Outside 01. Timber Timbre - Magic Arrow (Daytrotter Session) (01.47) 02. Drew Danburry - Many are Cold, but Few are Freezing (11.11) 03. Barton Carroll - The Poor Boy Can't Dance (14.57) 04. Kid Canaveral - Good Morning (21.50) 05. The Middle East - The Darkest Side (28.19) 06. Eluvium - The Motion Makes Me Last (38.04) 07. Final Fantasy - Lewis Takes Action (43.12) 08. Rachael Dadd - Table (50.13) 09. Woodpigeon - Music Belongs to Those Who Make It (56.15) 10. Samamidon - How Come That Blood (62.32) | 1/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #102 - Song, by Toad Records | I do try and avoid shilling for the label on this blog, because no-one wants to read a twice-daily sales pitch, but I reckon it's okay to have a look forward at what we've got planned for the year. That's what the new year is for, really, isn't it?So I've got a nice big release schedule drawn up, just like real record labels do, and honestly it scares the shite out of me. I can pretty much plan out my free time for the whole of the next twelve months just looking at it, but there are some great releases in there. By the end of 2010 we are going to have a back catalogue to be bloody proud of, honestly, especially when you consider that we had only been a record label for about a month at this time last year. Toadcast #102 - Song, by Toad Records 01. Trips and Falls - We Were Like Strangers Today (05.30) 02. Maxwell Panther - My Ex-Identity (09.02) 03. Cold Seeds - Leave Me to Lie Alone in the Ground (17.19) 04. Jesus H. Foxx - This is Not a Rental Car (26.43) 05. Animal Magic Tricks - Smallish Hooves (29.35) 06. The Savings and Loan - Virgin's Lullaby (36.36) 07. Inspector Tapehead - Sugar on Your Sheets (40.02) 08. Loch Lomond - Holiday (48.25) 09. Meursault - What You Don't Have (Live on Fresh Air Radio) (58.34) 10. Nightjar - Sweet Annie Lee (66.56) | 1/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #101 - Boxing Day | I recorded this podcast marooned in the middle of France at my parents' house, with no more musical resources than the compilation CDs I've been taking them constantly since I left home. It was quite weird to poke through all the old songs I've sent home over the years, actually. There's something unavoidably honest about the mixes you make for other people. Look back on the year or the decade yourself and you apply hindsight, selective memory and all sorts, but if you look at the stuff you send to other people then you don't get the chance to quietly forget the shite because it looks a little unfashionable in hindsight. Of course, due the benefits of hindsight and making sure I save face I am not playing you any of the shite because my ego is fragile and couldn't stand the mockery if I told you the absolute and honest truth. So here is a version of the music I used to send to my parents, handily sanitised so I don't make a total t*t out of myself. Right, happy Christmas, I'm off to watch Back to the Future... Toadcast #101 - Boxing Day 01. Sparklehorse - Eyepennies (02.48) 02. Evan Dando - Hard Drive (11.57) 03. Jay Farrar - Fool King's Crown (14.57) 04. Lucky Jim - You Stole My Heart Away (21.31) 05. Mark Lanegan - Wedding Dress (29.39) 06. Grand National - Boner (32.34) 07. Arizona Amp & Alternator - Baby, it's Cold Outside (41.29) 08. The Zincs - Finished in This Business (46.50) 09. Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel (54.10) 10. Tom Waits - The Part You Throw Away (61.23) | 12/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanToadcast #100 - Shenandoah Davis Toad Session | Video: Vimeo - YouTube Photos: Flickr - Blueback Hotrod Audio: below Shenandoah Davis plays the piano, and needless to say, we don't just happen to have one in the house. So given she was on a Summer tour of Europe, and given we'd invited her to Edinburgh to record a Toad Session we needed a Plan B. That Plan B came in the form of Penicuik Town Hall. Our friend Ben comes from Penicuik and his dad was able to secure three hours in the Town Hall for us to rock up in the Toad Van, unpack like some sort of alcoholic SWAT team, record our session, and bugger off before we were chased off. Fortunately it has all worked out extremely well, with the usual videos below to be watched, or alternatively you can find them on the Song, by Toad page at either Vimeo or YouTube. As you probably know, we always make individual videos of the songs and then an overall video of the whole day - sort of like Jools Holland, but with more gin and far less boogie-woogie piano. The excellent photos were taken by Dylan from Blueback Hotrod and Fiona Buckle, and the main set can be found on the Song, by Toad Flickr page, with Dylan's full set available on his own site. As ever the session tracks are all freely downloadable and pass-roundable, and the podcast tracklist can be found at the bottom of the page. Enjoy! Toadcast #100 - Shenandoah Davis Toad Session Shenandoah Davis - Proof (Toad Session) Shenandoah Davis - Our Favourite Idols (Toad Session) Shenandoah Davis - Milagros (Toad Session) Shenandoah Davis - We, Camera (Toad Session) Below I have embedded all the videos, starting with the overall session video, and followed by those for the individual songs. Toadcast playlist: 01. Shenandoah Davis - Proof (Toad Session) (04.25) 02. Hello, Broken Arrow - Golden Fools (10.57) 03. Karen Dalton - Katie Cruel (13.46) 04. Shenandoah Davis - Our Favourite Idols (Toad Session) (20.37) 05. Grand Hallway - Blessed Be, Honey Bee (24.49) 06. Shenandoah Davis - Milagros (Toad Session) (36.56) 07. Christopher Bell - All My Ghosts (40.31) 08. Anni Rossi - Glaciers (47.47) 09. Shenandoah Davis - We, Camera (Toad Session) (58.44) | 12/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #99 - The Decade | Before you break out into a cold sweat about having to sit through another list of the best albums of the decade, don't worry, this is not one of those. Although most of these songs would be there or thereabouts if I were actually compiling a favourite songs of the decade list, that's not why they're here.Basically, rather than try and rank anything against anything else, all this is is a meander through the last ten years and me chattering about how my relationship with music has changed and what sort of stuff I was into at what times of my life. Basically, this is the soundtrack to a perfectly normal, albeit enthusiastic, music fan's descent into full-on deranged internet mania. Toadcast #99 - The Decade 01. Eels - A Daisy Through Concrete (04.09) 02. Goldfrapp - Pilots (10.04) 03. Grandaddy - The Crystal Lake (14.17) 04. Lift to Experience - To Guard and to Guide You (23.13) 05. Interpol - NYC (30.46) 06. Tom Waits - Kommienezuspadt (34.57) 07. The Decemberists - Red Right Ankle (40.41) 08. The Walkmen - The Rat (44.06) 09. The Mountain Goats - Dilaudid (51.20) 10. Broken Records - Lies (Demo Version) (57.07) 11. The Savings and Loan - Christmastime in the Mountains (64.11) | 12/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #98 - Randomness | I get an awful lot of stuff in my inbox. When I get jaded and fed up it seems like a bit of a burden, in all honesty, like I owe it to every band and every publicity monkey who ever gets in touch with me to give them complete attention and the time to let the music sink in and all these things which just aren't possible. Sometimes, though, I get in the right mood and having an inbox full of bits and bobs is an indulgent treat. This week is one of those weeks, where I am enjoying pottering through my inbox and having a listen to this and that and basically, it's just a bit of a treat. So, after weeks of structured and themed stuff, this week I am basically playing whatever the f**k it is I fancy. No theme, no plan no goal and no coherence in particular Toadcast #98 - Randomness 01. Stanley Brinks - The End of the World (01.42) 02. Tune Yards - Hap-B (08.09) 03. eagleowl - Laughter (17.00) 04. Stringjammer - Long Road Home (19.45) 05. Eels - Little Bird (26.09) 06. Fang Island - Daisy (31.32) 07. Candy Claws - Island Grows (41.30) 08. Animal Collective - Bleeding (43.41) 09. Dylan in the Movies - Josephine (52.53) 10. Clues - Perfect Fit (61.20) | 12/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #97 - The Nineties | I'm not sure why the end of the noughties should necessarily lead to any kind of retrospective of the nineties, but it has. I guess it has a lot to do with the fact that I just feel it's way too early for me to figure out what I make of the noughties. So, given that it must be about time for the nineties revival (actually, probably best give it another year or so) and given that the nineties are now quite a long way away and given that, erm... well I dunno. Given I was poking around at that stuff recently and listening to some Pulp and Gene and Blur and stuff I figured I might as well pop the whole bloody lot into a podcast. Toadcast #97 - The Nineties 01. Pearl Jam - Even Flow (Unplugged) (4.16) 02. The Stone Roses - (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister (12.23) 03. Belly - Untitled & Unsung (18.37) 04. Echobelly - Insomniac (22.13) 05. Blur - Yuko & Hiro (29.00) 06. Gene - Wasteland (36.14) 07. Ben Folds Five - Underground (38.49) 08. Blur - Country Sad Ballad Man (44.56) 09. REM - Parakeet (52.03) 10. Radiohead - Everything in its Right Place (59.30) | 11/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #96 - The Excast | The Excast is so named because I am playing a lot of people's former bands. There's Shane MacGowan's Nipple Erectors, Phil Chevron's Radiators, Shilpa Ray's Beat the Devil and Billy Bragg's Riff Raff. I concentrate so much on new music these days that I often decide whether or not I like a band on the basis of a handful of demos, maybe a single, sometimes a debut EP, stuff like that. And of course, bands don't stumble into the world fully-formed, it takes some of them ages to become brilliant, and a lot of the time the initial forms of a band can be really strange, presumably because the people in question were still casting around a bit for their sound. So there's a bit of that here, but it's not all that rigid a theme, and the playlist is a bit messy but, erm, well never mind. There are some great songs, so enjoy! Toadcast #96 - The Excast 01. Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers - Beating St. Louis (04.07) 02. Beat the Devil - Plea Bargain (11.09) 03. Bright Eyes - Neely O'Hara (19.56) 04. Richard Hawley - Naked in Pitsmoor (26.16) 05. The Young Republic - The Alchemist (33.20) 06. Construction & Destruction - The Signal (41.24) 07. The Nipple Erectors - Nervous Wreck (48.34) 08. The Radiators - Walking Home Alone Again (50.39) 09. The Pogues - Lorca's Novena (56.37) 10. Riff Raff - You Shaped House (63.33) | 11/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #95 - The Craigcast Pt.2 | I think it would be only fair to describe this podcast as a little bit messy. We recorded it immediately after first Craigcast two weeks ago, and so by the end of it we were all f*****g hammered. I promise I have tried to edit out as much of the madness as I could, but it was difficult. The problem with incoherent drunken rambling is there don't tend to be a lot of natural breaks, so it was devilishly hard to cut down. Anyhow, this won't be the first or last time you listen to a load of mental old nonsense on the Toadcasts, so I am going to just have to wish you luck and let you get on with it. Toadcast #95 - The Craigcast Pt.2 1. Mississippi Fred McDowell - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (04.31) 2. RL Burnside - Fireman Ring the Bell (12.22) 3. RL Burnside - Don't Let My Baby Ride (22.08) 4. Junior Kimbrough - Stay All Night (24.59) 5. Charles Caldwell - Old Buck (34.31) 6. Robert Lucas - Miss Being High (40.35) 7. Steve James - Grain Alcohol (45.22) 8. Kelly Joe Phelps - House Carpenter (57.06) 9. North Mississippi Allstars - Circle in the Sky (66.57) 10. Buddy Guy - Baby Please Don't Leave (75.50) | 11/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #94 - The Not-Notcraigcast | I know I promised the Notcraigcast last week, but it didn't happen I'm afraid. After last week's amazing Craigcast Neil and I were intending to introduce Craig to all sorts of modern music which we thought continued some of the traditions of the blues music he was describing to us, but circumstances have rather conspired against us unfortunately. Neil is off on tour with Meursault playing his songs, and Craig is off on tour with his liver, taking it around the watering holes of Edinburgh and giving it a good, hard kicking in each one. Consequently I've sort of cobbled together a podcast from fragments of the Pantscast and the stuff I'd intended to play for Craig. It's largely folky, but that wasn't wholly by design, more to do with the fact that listening to the really early blues stuff Craig played for us sent me back to listening to old Smithsonian Folkways stuff and so there are a couple of songs from there, as well as a couple of modern things which those recordings brought to mind. Smithsonian Folkways, incidentally, is a non-profit record label run by the Smithsonian Institute to preserve and support a truly epic amount of our musical heritage. Just go and have a browse through their archives - it's amazing how much incredible stuff these guys are looking after on everyone else's behalf. Toadcast #94 - The Not-Notcraigcast 1. Micah P. Hinson - She Don't Own Me (02.57) 2. Hem - The Cuckoo (11.13) 3. Saint Etienne - Like a Motorway (16.52) 4. White Antelope - Silver Dagger (22.15) 5. The Boggs - Plant Me a Rose (28.00) 6. Willard Grant Conspiracy - River in the Pines (31.47) 7. Berzilla Wallin - Conversation With Death (Oh Death) (39.22) 8. Samamidon - O Death (44.26.) 9. Dock Boggs - Sugar Baby (49.21) 10. Alela Diane - White as Diamonds (Daytrotter Session) (54.09) 11. Sandy Denny - By the Time it Gets Dark (59.07) | 11/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #93 - The Craigcast | I have a friend Craig who works in Waterstones and is an obsessive about old American folk music and, more specifically, blues. He has been making Neil Meursault mix CDs for ages, which I've heard and consistently found myself asking what the hell I was listening to. I usually hate the tedious collections of old blues music which seem to always adorn Uncut covers when they ask bands to name their formative influences, but some of the really scratchy old recordings Craig put on his CDs were amazing, so erm... this is the podcast I guess. At last - someone who actually knows what he's talking about! 01. Blind Boy Fuller - Rattlesnakin' Daddy (02.57) 02. Charley Patton - Pea Vine Blues (12.34) 03. Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go (18.54) 04. Willie Brown - Future Blues (22.16) 05. Skip James - Hardtime Killing Floor Blues (31.32) 06. Robert Johnson - Hellhound on My Trail (39.57) 07. Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied (50.54) 08. Muddy Waters - Trouble No More (57.16) 09. Howlin' Wolf - Spoonful (59.54) 10. Mississippi Fred McDowell - Fireman Ring the Bell (71.15) | 10/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #92 - The Pantscast | This podcast is a little bit random, I have to say. There are songs which follow on from the like folk/hate covers posts which have appeared over the course of the last week or so on the site, a couple are related to the fact that Mrs. Toad is once more away in God Bless America shooting illegal aliens, chewing gum, whistling Dixie, or whatever the f**k it is they do over there, while most of the first half is related to the fact that my friend Andrew is coming to visit this weekend. They do sort of relate to one another, the songs, at least. Or there's a bit of overlap anyway. I never keep much track of it, but this is at least the second version of Blues Run the Game we've had on the podcasts, and I have no idea if I've ever actually repeated a song on these things. I wouldn't be surprised if I had, because I'm bloody disorganised when it comes to this kind of thing. Anyhow, no scary metal bastards making your ears bleed this week, just a lot of lovely folky stuff and a couple of scratchy indie bands. Oh, and Jack White. I'd say that he was an egomaniacal dick, but he's massive and would probably kick my arse, so I won't. Recent stuttering aside, though, he's produced some cracking tunes, whatever you think of the guy. Toadcast #92 - The Pantscast 01. Soul Asylum - New World (04.17) 02. The Tragically Hip - Pigeon Camera (10.29) 03. Beck - Guess I'm Doing Fine (14.47) 04. The White Stripes - I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself (24.46) 05. Elbow - Fugitive Motel (29.57) 06. Billy Bragg - Wishing the Days Away (Alternative Version) (34.53) 07. Tortoise & Bonnie Prince Billy - Thunder Road (43.15) 08. Christopher Bell - Pretty Thing (53.53) 09. Nick Drake - Blues Run the Game (55.33) 10. Fairport Convention - Crazy Man Michael (60.52) | 10/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #91 - The Metalcast | Well the Funkcast was probably about as gentle a 'tell me about this genre' podcast as you're likely to get. This, on the other hand, is not gentle. I suppose it was never likely to be - there's only so gentle an introduction you can give to this kind of music. Basically, I was becoming increasingly curious about the number of alt-folkies I know who come from heavy metal backgrounds. Loads of my friends here who I know because we all listen to indie rock or alternative folk or all sorts of things inbetween seem to have been really into metal when they were young. This doesn't entirely make sense to me because I see very little connection between the two kinds of music, and for so many people to have made that transition it must be a strong connection. Then, of course, it turns out that loads of people whose music I listen to - alt-folk, once again - also grew up listening to metal. The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle, Phil Elverum of Mount Eerie and, more locally, Dan from Withered Hand and Neil from Meursault. So, having been round at the house doing artwork for their single releases I asked the Neil and Chris from Meursault and Matthew who helps out with the label to put together a metal podcast. It might not be quite as pleasant to cook your bacon sandwiches to on Sunday afternoon, but erm, well I never made any promises with these bloody podcasts anyway - just deal with it, we'll probably be back to the alt-folk next week. Toadcast #91 - The Metalcast 01. Half Man Half Biscuit - Vatican Broadside (0.00) 02. Withered Hand - Takeaway Food (05.03) 03. AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie (13.17) 04. Slayer - Jesus Saves (17.25) 05. Mount Eerie - Wind's Dark Poem (24.21) 06. Nirvana - School (35.13) 07. Dinosaur Jr. - On the Way (37.50) 08. Lightning Bolt - Ride the Sky (42.59) 09. Richard Cheese - Rape Me (47.47) 10. Children of Bodom - The Trooper (53.50) 11. Meshuggah - Autonomy Lost (57.05) 12. The Mountain Goats - No Children (62.01) 13. Anal C**t - You're Old (F**k You) (73.27) | 10/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #90 - Honeytrap Toad Session | We'd already recorded the FOUND Toad Session earlier this same day, and Honeytrap had just recorded their session with Off the Beaten Tracks. So basically, the sun was baking and we were all absolutely s**t-faced. Consequently, to describe the interview as any sort of conversation as opposed to some kind of deranged, cataclysmic cluster-f**k would be to massively flatter it. In all honesty, this is a complete and completely splendid mess - enjoy! Again, all the videos can be seen on the Song, by Toad Vimeo or YouTube pages, and the photo galleries can be perused on our Flickr page. Dylan from Blueback Hotrod took all the photos, and the set he has posted has a few more pics than the one on the Toad Flickr page, so go and have a look to view the full set. The whole interview is below, in the podcast file, and after that there are all the session mp3s which you are welcome to pass around as you see fit. Good luck with the interview; it's f*****g mental. Toadcast #90 - Honeytrap Toad Session Honeytrap - Roslin is a Cylon (Toad Session) Honeytrap - Death Before the Silver Screen (Toad Session) Honeytrap - Hours With the Masters (Toad Session) Honeytrap - Broken Violin (Toad Session) Now we have the increasingly chaotic session video first, and then three session videos for Roslin is a Cylon, Death Before the Silver Screen and Hours With the Masters. 01. Honeytrap - Roslin is a Cylon (Toad Session) (8.15) 02. Kate Bush - Army Dreamers (14.08) 03. Jack Charman - Wibbly Wobbly Walk (16.54) 04. Honeytrap - Death Before the Silver Screen (Toad Session) (25.03) 05. The Sequins - Let's Go Drinking in the Morning (28.43) 06. Dirty Projectors & David Byrne - Knotty Pine (31.39) 07. Honeytrap - Hours With the Masters (Toad Session) (41.29) 08. Beach Boys - Honkin' Down the Highway (50.22) 09. Prince - Raspberry Beret (52.57) 10. Honeytrap - Broken Violin (Toad Session) (66 39.) | 10/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #89 - The Latecast | This podcast is unconscionably late once more and again I am going to plead that there is a perfectly good reason for this. Today has been taken up with constant recording here at Toad Hall, and I myself have been finishing the video for the Honeytrap Toad Session which finally, finally will be making an appearance this time next week. My job is virtually finished, and it's messy, but it will be a corker. This podcast has no real theme, but I did let Neil choose most of the songs, so that gives the podcast something of a character of its own. I did make him be on a podcast with a Noah & the Whale song on it though. Ha haaa! That'll teach the trendy little bastard! Toadcast #89 - The Latecast 01. Sunset Rubdown - I'll Believe in Anything You'll Believe in Anything (02.09) 02. King Creosote - Homeboy (09.14) 03. Rob St. John - Domino (Live) (18.13) 04. Noah & the Whale - The First Days of Spring (23.05) 05. Melanie - What Have They Done to My Song, Ma (31.35) 06. The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir - Stop! (39.42) (Interlude music: The Divine Comedy - Theme From Casanova) 07. The Notwist - The Devil, You & Me (45.53) 08. Mum - Green Grass of Tunnel (49.26) 09. Sol Seppy - Hafiz, a Mime (60.18) | 10/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #88 - The Manchester Podcast | Right, given we've come down to Manchester for the Meursault gig, I thought I might make a podcast based around the two years I spent living here. As I mentioned on this week's Friday Five, however, those were really not very happy times so basically this podcast is just a great big hour-long whinge about how s**t my life was a couple of times a few years ago. Nah, not really. I mean, I do describe why life was tough then but it really isn't just a great big moan, I promise. For some reason the music in my life at those times seems to have really stuck in my head and become incredibly strongly associated with the period in question. Partly, I suppose, because the emotional succour you get from music when things are a bit rough is something you're grateful enough for for it to really form an important connection. The other aspect is that on both those occasions I had so little music with me that the stuff I did have got played over and over again, so a really small amount of stuff really dominated my listening habits at that point, and became incredibly strongly intertwined with all of my memories of the time. So, er, yes. Here you go: The Manchester Podcast. Toadcast #88 - The Manchester Podcast 01. Pearl Jam - Dissident (03.16) 02. The Newcranes - Box of Shadows (08.53) 03. James - Say Something (17.17) 04. The Lemonheads - Into Your Arms (20.30) 05. Blur - Clover Over Dover (27.00) 06. Yo La Tengo - On Our Way to Fall (39.47) 07. Moby - Southside (41.31) 08. Calexico - Removed (48.10) 09. Jolene - Constantinople (51.46) 10. The Magnetic Fields - Yeah! Oh, Yeah! (57.57) | 9/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #87 - The Paincast | Well this podcast has been recorded from my sick bed, given my current immobility. Actually, recording the Toadcast from bed was quite pleasant, once I got over the slightly unusual surroundings. Imagine me in my pants and scratching my balls whilst talking to you and you'll pretty much have the ambience down pat.I sort of intended this to be a selection of poppy little tunes from my inbox, because all the last podcasts have been so heavily themed, but instead it's ended up a little bit on the experimental side, through no real intent of my own. Nevertheless, if you're happy to listen to the growl of Polvo, the monologues of George Pringle and the peculiar electro-experimentalism of Mark Linkous and Fennesz all in one podcast then, f**k it, you're in the right place. Toadcast #86 - The Paincast 01. Langhorne Slim - I Love You But Goodbye (03.11) 02. Cast Spells - Glamorous Glowing (07.39) 03. The Pineapple Chunks - Art Storage (13.02) 04. The Leg - A Rat's Health (17.04) 05. Polvo - Fractured (Like Chandeliers) (22.40) 06. Vandaveer - A Might Leviathan of Old (29.22) 07. Sparklehorse & Fennesz - If My Heart (from In the Fishtank #13) (40.13) 08. George Pringle - SW10 (45.03) 09. X Lion Tamer - Tugboat (52.40) 10. Kurt Vile - Blackberry Song (59.54) | 9/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #86 - The Deathcast | DO NOT WORRY! This is not a podcast stuffed full of tedious moralising and empty pontificating and generally depressing garbage about a subject far too weighty and philosophical for this sort of half-arsed internet enterprise. In fact, towards the end it really gets quite chipper. Basically, there are so many extraordinarily good murder ballads that that particular aspect could so easily have entirely overtaken a podcast ostensibly about prison, crime and criminal justice. This week, however, I have still managed to marginalise the role of the murder ballad, because the concept of death incorporates so many disparate emotions and aspects that simply doing a whole podcast about murderous folk tales and their musical counterparts seemed unnecessarily narrow. So you get this. Which starts out a little heavy but becomes positively gleeful by the end, I promise you. Toadcast #86 - The Deathcast 01. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Painter Blue (03.01) 02. Samamidon - O Death (12.33) 03. Eels - Going to Your Funeral (22.31) 04. Melanie Rivaud & Strange Weather - The Fall of Troy (Tom Waits Cover) (25.05) 05. Bob Frank & John Murry - Jesse Washington 1916 (31.53) 06. Bruce Springsteen - Dead Man Walking (37.02) 07. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Up Jumped the Devil (41.15) 08. The Men They Couldn't Hang - The Green Fields of France (48.26) 09. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Tramp the Dirt Down (57.02) 10. Chumbawamba - Passenger List for Doomed Flight 1471 (66.35) | 9/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanToadcast #85 - The Ruthcast | Hello, welcome to the Ruthcast. Why the Ruthcast? Because my friend Ruth who runs the Bowery with Jane came round to the house last week to thoroughly upstage me on my own podcast. Last yearRuth was a guest on my Fresh Air radio show and completely and utterly upstaged me, and in this podcast we agreed that she would come on every week this year. And that, frankly, sounds like a bloody good idea to me. I mentioned on the Friday Five a couple of weeks ago that Ellie Greenwich had died, and as this is something which upset Ruth rather a lot, so the podcast is absolutely chock-full of Ellie Greenwich songs Toadcast #85 - The Ruthcast 01. The Ronettes - Baby I Love You (05.51) 02. Golden Ghost - If You Are in Love Then Why Are You Asleep? (13.36) 03. The Crystals - Then He Kissed Me (16.07) 04. Parenthetical Girls - A Song for Ellie Greenwich (23.25) 05. The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack (34.25) 06. Jeremy Jay - Beautiful Rebel (37.10) 07. The Blank Tapes - Listen to the One (41.41) 08. Dusty Springfield - What Good is I Love You (43.59) 09. Julie Doiron - Last Night (56.52) 10. Mount Eerie - Between Two Mysteries (69.06) | 9/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanToadcast #84 - The Playing With the Pastcast | Playing With the Past is an annual (we hope) event at the Edinburgh Film Festival where contemporary bands are invited to write new soundtracks for old films. Last year was the first of these, when the superb British Sea Power wrote a brilliant score for Man of Aran, a (slightly fake) documentary about the lives of the inhabitants of a remote island off the West Coast of Ireland (extract here). This was such a success that the band have been performing it all over the place ever since. This year David Drummond, who put the event together, decided to invite three different bands to work with roughly half an hour or so of footage each, and he started off by inviting eagleowl, who suggested a number of other bands, from which David chose FOUND and Meursault. We decided not to include more than a few excerpts of the music in this because the bands were a little uncomfortable about listening to too much of their stuff in the absence of the film to which it belongs. So a big thank you to Tommy, Bart and Neil for coming in to talk about their music, and to David and Theresa from the Filmhouse who came by to chip in at the beginning, before having to rush off. It may not be the catchiest of podcasts in a musical sense this week, but I think this is easily one of the best podcasts we've done - one of the most interesting, certainly. Also, although I haven't tracked down all these films on the internet, I have got some bits and pieces for you to give you an idea of what was going on. Confusingly, they all have the original scores on these clips, but erm... well, hopefully you'll find them instructive. The Films: 1. eagleowl: Granton Trawler 2. eagleowl: Begone Dull Care 3. Meursault: Stan & Ollie 4. Meursault: Night Mail (Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3) 5. FOUND: Camera Makes Whoopee (Sorry, couldn't find this one anywhere - here's a Google search though if you want to have a go yourself. And a bit more about Norman McLaren, here.) Toadcast #84 - The Playing With the Pastcast 01. British Sea Power - Oh Larsen B (06.17) 02. eagleowl - Granton Trawler (Excerpt) (17.16) 03. eagleowl - Begone Dull Care (Excerpt) (24.46) 04. Six Organs of Admittance - Eighth Cognition/All You've Left (27.34) 05. Meursault - Night Mail (Excerpt) (35.46) 06. Meursault - Stan & Ollie (Excerpt) (43.24) 07. The Books - All Our Base are Belong to Them (46.25) 08. FOUND - Camera Makes Whoopee (Excerpt 2) (56.43) 09. Marvin Gaye - T Plays it Cool (68.39) 10. FOUND - Camera Makes Whoopee (Excerpt 1) (72.56) | 8/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #83 - The Funkcast | Would you believe that this podcast is finished and ready and done and I am ready to go to bed by 10pm. This is a f*****g scarily strange occurrence. I've only had about four beers too, which is also a little unsual. The only organisational task at which I have abjectly failed is keeping the length of this podcast down to an hour. Basically, having different people co-present is really nice, and I think it makes the podcasts miles better, but I am still coming to terms with the discipline of keeping the talky talky down to a manageable level and sticking to that hour which has made these weekly swear-morsels so digestible in the last few months. At the Wickerman Festival Callum from Meursault made the highly contentious statement that not all funk music was buttock-clenchingly awful and, whilst I mocked him, I decided that someone with that kind of crazy recklessness must be brave enough to bring a Toadcast full of funky classics to an audience of sulky, morose indie kids with art school fringes. So good luck to Callum - I am going to be listening to this with the same curiosity as the rest of the audience I would think. It's hard to get a handle on what a podcast sounds like as you record it, so I guess if I am going to absorb the lesson of the funk then I will have to have a cup of coffee, put my feet up on the couch and listen to it the same as everyone else. Toadcast #83 - The Funkcast 01. Parliament - Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker) (06.23) 02. Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information (17.21) 03. Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band - The E-Street Shuffle (25.55) 04. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges (30.15) 05. The Come Ons - Strangelove (37.00) 06. Charles Mingus - Boogie Stop Shuffle (49.39) 07. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Mr. Brown (54.33) 08. Sly Stone - Can't Nickname the Truth (63.09) 09. Funkadelic - You Scared the Lovin' Outta Me (74.53) | 8/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #82 - FOUND Toad Session | The most enormous difficulty with recording this podcast was that it was monumentally, wonderfully, amazingly sunny and hot outside. So there we were, stuck in our house, trying to play songs and conduct an interview while we were all secretly (and not so secretly) longing to just be out in the back garden. Mrs. Toad was making burgers, you know. Gaaaaah! I remember when FOUND recorded a show with Marc Riley recently and I got plenty of emails saying that they really weren’t very talkative. Which is odd really, because I didn’t entirely get that kind of impression as we recorded this session or about them in general, but then I listen back to it again and the first few interviewy segments really do take a while to get going. I guess it took a while for Ziggy (who I’d never met before) and myself to figure out exactly how to talk to one another and whether or not we really got on. So that whole dynamic makes for a really good podcast, which gets more and more interesting, from my point of view anyway, as the thing progresses. As usual, all the videos are embedded below and can be seen at the Song, by Toad Vimeo on YouTube pages, along with a portfolio of photos by Dylan from Blueback Hotrod, and Fee on Flickr here. The session tracks can all be downloaded below, and the main interview podcast itself is immediately below. Have fun Toadlings. I am going to sleep like a freshly-slaughtered corpse. Toadcast #83 – FOUND Toad Session FOUND – Mullokian (Toad Session) FOUND – You’re No Vincent Gallo (Toad Session) FOUND – Medley (Toad Session) FOUND – Anti-Climb Paint (Toad Session) FOUND – Gifted (Toad Session) Now we’ve got the main session video below, followed by the videos we made for the individual songs (Vimeo are being f*****g useless at the moment, but eventually that main video and Gifted won’t be on YouTube). 01. FOUND – Mullokian (Toad Session) (05.11) 02. Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks (09.27) 03. The Avett Brothers – The Greatest Sum (Acoustic) (13.26) 04. FOUND – You’re No Vincent Gallo (Toad Session) (20.39) 05. Animal Collective – Brother Sport (20.32) 06. FOUND – Medley (Toad Session) (36.00) 07. Phil Collins – In the Air Tonight (44.20) 08. Lambchop – Your F*****g Sunny Day (49.11) 09. FOUND – Anti-Climb Paint (Toad Session) (64.29.) 10. FOUND – Gifted (Toad Session) (72.25) | 8/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #81 - The Mulecast | Helloooo people. This morning the Toadcast comes to you from Leith. There were beers and there was a fuckload of incoherent rambling, and it ran way over time but, erm, who really cares? This week I went to visit my crippled friend Steven (v? ph?) Kearney in Leith and we recorded a podcast in his house prattling on about all the usual nonsense. He got all jumpy about sound quality, omitting to mention the fact that the Toadcasts are the most incredibly badly recorded show on the interwaves. Honestly, why would this week be the one single week it suddenly didn't sound like s**t? Still, Steven has recently started his own podcast, leading on from his Fresh Air show Dylan and the Mule. It's only one episode down, but it sounds very promising indeed, so with a bit of luck there could be very good things coming from that part of the world this year. Me, I just desperately need a sleep. Night night Toadlings. I will probably be gawping at the wonderful Cybraphon by the time you read this. With a hangover. Toadcast #81 - The Mulecast 01. Withered Hand - No Cigarettes (06.56) 02. Buster Fantastic - Mess of Me (17.57) 03. Mountain Goats - Genesis 3-23 (19.47) 04. Kill It Kid - Send Me an Angel Down (29.07) 05. Joe Cocker - Dear Landlord (33.51) 06. Loch Lomond - Blood Bank (44.52) 07. Micah P. Hinson - Don't You Forget (Parts 1 & 2) (59.24) 08. The Palace Flophouse - Until My Lungs Hurt (64.52) 09. Tom Waits - A Little Rain (78.17) | 8/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #80 - The Jailcast | When we were out in Italy on our holidays Mrs. Toad and I had very few CDs with us but one of them was an Uncut compilation of prison blues and murder ballads which, amazingly, given the very promising subject matter, really wasn't very good. In fact, it was rotten, so I've made a podcast based on the self same concept, but with what I personally think are vastly better songs. Most obviously, to my mind, there were very few contemporary songs in there, and I thought that was a little weird. Now, I actually think that the level of political commentary in popular music is just a little weak at the moment, but there are nevertheless some amazingly good prison and criminal justice-related songs to be had, and certainly some exceptional murder ballads, although I must confess that the most recent bit of genuine social commentary here pre-dates the 1990s by a couple of years. There was probably more recent material I could have used, it just didn't spring to mind at the time I'm afraid. So here we have the Jailcast, complete with some largely incoherent ranting about politics and my own stupid f*****g jail story which Mr.s Toad takes such delight in sniggering about at every available opportunity, the bitch. It's not that exciting, really it isn't. Toadcast #80 - The Jailcast 01. Tom Waits - Jockey Full of Bourbon (02.05) 02. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Drunkard's Prayer (08.37) 03. Pulp - Down by the River (16.14) 04. Bob Dylan & the Rolling Thunder Revue - The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll (Live, 1975) (19.42) 05. The Pogues - Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six (31.36) 06. Bruce Springsteen - Vigilante Man (Woody Guthrie Cover) (39.33) 07. The Radiators - Prison Bars (43.34) 08. Enfant Bastard - Compilation Tapes (50.10) 09. Nightjar - The Hanging Tree (55.30) 10. Pete Wylie - Stay Free (Clash Cover) (60.49) | 8/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #79 - The Wickerman | This is our first attempt at a stunt podcast, live from a festival. We go to festivals and I am trying to figure out how much work I can make for myself without taking the fun out of the festival for myself, or just generally trying too hard. I didn't really set up any interviews this time around - no, not even Billy Bragg - but I did manage to grab Mark from emerging Glasgow band The Seventeenth Century for a chat. The audio is terrible, I'm afraid, but it should be just about audible. If I'd been able to locate the keys for the Toad van at that point we'd have gone in there, just for a respite from the wind noises on the recording and the colossal amount of bleed from the main stage. In any case, it should be entertaining enough, I hope, and with a bit of luck subsequent attempts at the same thing will be a lot better. Toadcast #79 - The Wickerman 01. The Cave Singers - Beach House (04.04) 02. Julian Plenti - The Fun That We Had (07.31) 03. The Second Hand Marching Band - Mad Sense (15.37) 04. The Seventeenth Century - Mid October (22.59) 05. Celebrity Chimp - Pornstar (35.37) 06. The Lemonheads - The Outdoor Type (40.00) 07. The Human League - All I Ever Wanted (47.11) 08. The Go Team! - Feelgood by Numbers (50.25) 09. Meursault - Lament For a Teenage Millionaire (59.16) | 7/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #78 - The Uncast | Uncut Magazine and I had a pretty amazing relationship between the turn of the millennium and about 2004 or 2005. Basically, I would buy it every month and turn straight to the reviews section and the cover mount CD of what they considered to be the best of new music released that month, and devour both simultaneously, taking notes about what I wanted to spend that monthís meagre wages on. Those cover mount CDs were amazing, at the time, and almost invariably related to that monthís new releases, but in the last few years they have become way, way more concepty, and I have started to enjoy them less and less. For some reason, Uncutís relationship with contemporary music seems to have come adrift even faster than my own, even as I approach my mid-thirties. Even if I am exaggerating that particular claim - maybe blogging is keeping my tastes young(ish), you never know - it seems a shame that I have drifted away from what was one of my major sources of new music for years, so this podcast is something of a retrospective and also a salute to all the stuff I picked up from Uncut and in particular their amazing cover mount CDs over the years. Toadcast #78 - The Uncast 01. The Magnetic Fields - I Donít Want to Get Over You (03.36) 02. Ismael Lo & Marianne Faithful - Without Blame (10.01) 03. Gemma Hayes - Over & Over (14.19) 04. Elliot Smith - Memory Lane (19.01) 05. The Woodentops - Well Well Well (26.59) 06. Lift to Experience - To Guard and to Guide You (31.07) 07. Heather Nova - Iím On Fire (39.55) 08. Roddy Frame - I Canít Start Now (46.36) 09. The Flatlanders - Going Away (50.10) 10. The Acorn - Crooked Legs (59.37) | 7/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #77 - The Grouchcast | Sorry, I know this is going up late, but I have been working on the promotional material for the Jesus H. Foxx EP release. There's a fair bit still to be done, but for the time being I am cautiously optimistic that it is going to look f*****g brilliant. There will be a lot of painting to be done though, so putting the final touches on the thing is going to take bloody ages, but I think it is going to be easily worth it. In other news, this week's podcast is a prolonged chat with Euan (of Kays Lavelle, Trampoline, Steinberg Principle and Woodenbox fame) as a way of rounding up the excellent fortnight he spent feeding and changing Song, by Toad whilst Mrs. Toad and I were off gallivanting. So, rather than make his usual grouchy, joyless comments on posts I thought I might invite him to make his grouchy joyless comments on a podcast. So he came round and complained and complained and generally sulked his way through the whole thing, which was nice. Oh alright, of course he didn't. But it just wouldn't be fun for me if I didn't make fun of Euan for being grouchy long past the time anyone else has ceased to find it funny. Oh stop sulking. You're turning into him. All of you. Shame on you, people, shame on you. Cheer the f**k up for God's sake. Toadcast #77 - The Grouchcast 01. Wilco - Bull Black Nova (06.39) 02. The Kays Lavelle - Scars From the City (15.14) 03. There Will Be Fireworks - We Sleep Through the Bombs (27.37) 04. Beerjacket - Father (31.46) 05. iLiKETRAiNS - Terra Nova (39.36) 06. Andrew Bird - The Giant of Illinois (50.10) 07. Finn - The Fourth the Fifth (61.47) 08. Fleet Foxes - Oliver James (65.29) 09. Tom Waits - Temptation (74.12) | 7/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #76 - The Presscast | I recently did an interview with Billy from The Scotsman's Under the Radar blog (amongst other venerable organs) which took the form of an interesting chat about the current tension between bloggers and professional journalists. He has played off my opinions against those of his friend Mike Diver, who is currently the online editor for (the excellent) Clash magazine. The whole thing can be found here, along with plenty of comments from Ally and Milo, professional writers from around these parts, and myself and Tart, on the side of the bloggers. The comments on that thread It's an interesting debate, frankly, and one which, as a blogger with aspirations, as opposed to someone who is happy to simply chat for the sake of it, I have applied a fair deal of thought to. Ultimately, though, I think it is something of a false dichotomy: some of the best reporters keep blogs as ways of expressing themselves outwith the constraints of the editorial policy of whatever rag pays their wages and a lot of the best bloggers end up parlaying their writing skills into professional careers in journalism. And of either side there is a vast amount of detritus, professional and amateur. So, yes, the Toad once again holds forth passionately on subjects he knows far too little about and may in general be making a fool of himself once more. The, erm, songs are good though. Toadcast #76 - The Presscast 01. Billy Bragg - Which Side Are You On? (03.17) 02. The Decemberists - Cautionary Song (Live) (11.03) 03. Jens Lekman - No Time For Breaking Up (14.09) 04. The Meteors - Out of Time (22.21) 05. Franz Ferdinand - Darts of Pleasure (32.47) 06. The Dead 60s - Horizontal (35.17) 07. Sleepy Horses - Lubbock Love Song (42.27) 08. Eels - I Write the B-sides (52.05) 09. The Replacements - Unsatisfied (62.30) 10. David Cross - My Kids are Amish (68.09) | 7/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #75 - The Bone Idlecast | Well, we are nearing the end of our time in Puglia. We're spending a couple of days in or near Napoli before we fly back on Sunday, presumably troughing like total pigs, rather than paying all that much attention to culture and all that bobbins. Mrs. Toad is doing Sudoku and complaining about the 'wrong sort of paper'. I kid you not, it's just like British f*****g Rail and their 'wrong type of snow', but she insists it's just for that reason that she can't solve them, not because they're too hard. Personally I find myself wondering if 'evil' is used to describe the comments one's spouse will inevitably make when you fail to complete it, rather than the actual difficulty of the Sudoku puzzle itself. So yes, we have done the lazing about and there are now a few days of actually doing s**t in between us and a return to the damp splendour of the British Isles. I suppose this is what you're supposed to do on holiday - pay attention to the country you're in and return, eventually - but honestly, another week of doing bollocks-all wouldn't hurt anyone would it? Toadcast #75 - The Bone Idlecast 01. Snow Patrol - An Olive Grove Facing the Sea (04.14) 02. Beck - The Golden Age (12.33) 03. Belle & Sebastian - Simple Things (19.32) 04. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Tom Justice, the Choirboy Robber (21.00) 05. Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues (29.10) 06. Navigator - Work is Done (NOT Change, as we announced, sorry!) (34.44) 07. Lord Cut Glass - Holy F**k! (40.19) 08. Son Volt - Sultana (46.46) 09. Smog - Drinking at the Dam (56.30) 10. Alela Diane - Age Old Blue (60.17) | 6/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #74 - The Poolcast | Mrs. Toad and I might be gallivanting about the Italian countryside, but we are still thinking of you, our loyal Toadlings. We may be relaxing by the pool, but we understand that life might not be quite so easy for those of you at home. Actually, f**k it, life is never this easy for us either. This is like some bizarre anomaly for us - time, peace, reading books… it’s all so f*****g restful I’ve almost forgotten to swear at the locals. The place we’re staying is just plain ridiculous. We are living in what amounts to the tiniest of little comedy garden sheds imaginable, but the outside space is some great big gigantic plaza. It’s just ridiculous. Fortunately, there is something to lower the tone. Nature is basically a great big urinal, as we all know, and I have been doing my best to maintain a time-honoured male principle of ‘no place being too sacred or picturesque for having a sly piss’. So when the bladder beckons, so does the wall, and there I go to water the olive groves of Puglia. It feels like a public service, really it does. Thanks again to Euan and the lads for keeping things going while we're away. The connection here is so damn slow I really haven't been able to read it all, but Mrs. Toad periodically checks up on things on her Blackberry (the woman's insane) and lets me know how things are going. This news I generally treat with an indifferent grunt, before returning to the pondering of precisely which sort of cheese I most fancy for lunch, but I appreciate her efforts. Toadcast #74 - The Poolcast 01. The Shaky Hands - Summer’s Life (03.26) 02. Lemonjelly - Spacewalk (12.45) 03. Grandaddy - Ghost of 1672 (19.44) 04. Billie Holiday - Good Morning Heartache (24.36) 05. Animal Magic Tricks (with Neil from Meursault & Pete from The Leg) (34.42) 06. Edith Piaf - C’etait Une Histoire D’amour (38.11) 07. The Flaming Lips - Can’t Get You Out of My Head (48.12) 08. Wilco - Jolly Banker (52.17) 09. The Laurel Collective - No Pirates Left (63.04) 10. Yoshimi! - Philosophy For Fangirls (69.12) | 6/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #73 - The Holiday Podcast | This is not so much the holiday podcast as the pre-holiday podcast, because for all we are away now, I recorded this on Thursday night before going away, as we prepare ourselves for the unspeakable burden of doing absolutely f**k all for two weeks. I am taking a pile of books and a pile of new music and we are going to do pretty much nothing at all. My parents used to do really adventurous travelling when we were young, but honestly I don't have the energy. I am so incredibly f*****g exhausted from constant Toadery that actually, despite having a holiday inferiority complex, pretty much all I can cope with at the moment is a couple of weeks of f**k all. Even last year when we went to Portland for a couple of weeks, we took all the technology and recorded interviews and all sorts at Pickathon. It was relaxing and nice, but I still got a hell of a lot of work done. This time I will take along some tunes which I have been meaning to catch up with, perhaps record a podcast or two, and basically spend the rest of the time lying in the sun by the pool. My folks might not be all that impressed, but the recharging of the batteries is the sole purpose of this trip and I think we might manage just that. Toadcast #73 - The Holiday Podcast 01. MJ Hibbett & the Validators - Being Happy Doesn't Make You Stupid (04.17) 02. Midnight Oil - Bushfire (10.06) 03. Headless Heroes - Hey, Who Really Cares? (Jon Hopkins Remix) (16.56) 04. Alela Diane - Pieces of String (21.05) 05. Inspector Tapehead - A Fillet of Bozo (25.42) 06. Maxwell Panther - Shiver on a Twist of Fate (33.19) 07. Jack Richold - Lady of the Calico (37.00) 08. Grant-Lee Phillips - Calamity Jane (41.16) 09. Billy Bragg - Bread & Circuses (50.20) 10. The Divine Comedy - Les Jours Tristes (57.45) | 6/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanToadcast #72 - The Slowcast | This is called the Slowcast because there are so many songs and, more commonly, whole albums out there which I took ages and ages to get into, and for no really obvious reason. There are several reasons, I guess: how familiar a sound is, your emotional state at the time, what your mates are listening to, how popular something is and stuff like that. I know I've admitted plenty of times in the past that I have a habit of refusing to like things if they get too popular. That sounds ludicrous, but it's not exactly a conscious decision, more an instinctive recoiling. I never have liked much popular stuff, although I do certainly go through phases. Maybe that's one of the reasons that, with the label, I am not looking to sign or work with the modern equivalent of a Top 40 band - I have never much liked Top 40 music. Anyway, that's not really the point of the podcast. This is dedicated to those albums which for some reason you have to hear about a million times before you eventually, out of nowhere, realise that you love them. Toadcast #72 - The Slowcast 01. Billy Bragg - Honey I'm a Big Boy Now (04.36) 02. Tom Waits - Goin' Out West (08.37) 03. Radiohead - My Iron Lung (14.14) 04. The Mutton Birds - Envy of Angels (23.42) 05. Mancino - Definition of an Accident (32.26) 06. The Mabuses - I'm the Greatest (36.09) 07. Interpol - Obstacle #1 (43.31) 08. My Latest Novel - Wolves (49.30) 09. The Wedding Present - 2, 3, Go! (55.29) 10. Yo La Tengo - Big Day Coming (59.56) | 6/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #71 - The Tough Lovecast | Oh dear god almighty I have a hangover. F*****g bastard music people. Last night there was gigging and drinking and wandering the streets of a most balmy and pleasant Edinburgh with an assortment of miscreants and other ne'er-do-wells. We saw Honeytrap and Meursault play at Sneaky Pete's - I was recording this podcast, hence late for X-Lion Tamer, sorry to both Ed and Tony - and it was f*****g amazing. And after that there was drinking. F**k me there was lots of drinking. And then I came home and went into the local all night shop and purchased a couple of steaks for late-night snacking purposes, and was harassed by a bunch of young lads when I came out. Not harassed in a bad way, but I think I was asked to buy them some f*gs or something like that. Anyhow, the conversation... erm, well I'm not really sure how the conversation went, because I was f*****g hammered, but at some point the van came up, which was parked just along the road. So, ah, for some slightly bizarre reason I ended up with five high school lads and me sat in the van with the stereo up f*****g loud - so loud apparently that you could hear it all the way down the street. Or, at least, so Mrs. Toad tells me. Because at some point she came home from wherever it was she was out drinking and hopped in as well. So, after a little van-based rocking out, they came back into the house for a bit and Mrs. Toad played them Motorhead and The Sex Pistols and The Wedding Present so f*****g loud the windows shook. Funnily enough, these nice, polite lads kept insisting throughout that we should just let them know when we were bored and we would like them to go. Such nice, polite boys! I think one of them even did the dishes. I didn't want to have to try and explain what a couple of total f*****g bozos they were dealing with, but erm, yeah, that was our Friday night. Weird, huh? I think we went to bed at about five, eventually. And now to record a couple of Toad Sessions, at least one with a very, very hung over band. Toadcast #71 - The Tough Lovecast 01. Belle & Sebastian - Take Your Carriage Clock & Shove It (03.46) 02. Adam Balbo - Debating a Time Metaphor (07.16) 03. The Sequins - The Usual Delights (14.05) 04. Situationists - A Cold Front (16.31) 05. Blur - Out of Time (23.02) 06. New Ruins - Symptoms (32.37) 07. The Laurel Collective - Hindenburg Mile High Club (41.26) 08. The Lovely Eggs - Tyrannosaurus Rex for Christmas (45.07) 09. The Empty Set - A Challenge to Copernicus (49.34) 10. Honeytrap - Mussolini's Son (55.29) | 5/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #70 - The Snobcast | This week I am piling on the music snobbery. Oh, okay, I'm not really - if anything I'm undermining it with some truly guilty pleasures. There's not much modern fluffy pop music which I happen to enjoy despite my snobbery because... well, because I just don't think there's anything I can think of which fits that bill at the moment. I know nostalgic guilty pleasures and truly embracing low-brow music purely for the enjoyment of it aren't quite the same thing but I think I've budged about as far as I am going to go on this one. Girls Aloud are unlikely to ever make an appearance on this podcast, but there's a spot of memory-tickling being indulged in with picks from Kylie and Guns 'n' Roses. You can tell Mrs. Toad has been involvedin choosing a playlist when it contains Guns and f*****g Roses, but she was sacked from co-presenting duties due to excessive drunkenness, so her imprint on this particular episode is in selections only, and not in the presence of her dulcet tones on the interwaves. Toadcast #70 - The Snobcast 01. Kid Canaveral - Couldn't Dance (03.52) 02. Popup - Lucy, What Are You Trying to Say (07.04) 03. Art F*g - Nakhla Dog (15.48) 04. Kylie Minogue - Confide In Me (23.27) 05. Motorhead - Ace of Spades (28.50) 06. The Seventeenth Century - Mid October (36.16) 07. Alan Pownall - The Others (43.56) 08. Haggard the Listener Group - Blackette (47.29) 09. Soft Cell - Tainted Love (51.22) 10. Guns 'n' Roses - Sweet Child o' Mine (58.12) | 5/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanToadcast #69 - The Fifecast | My Homegame review is pretty brief, but it is here, and there is a wee video thingy as well for you to enjoy. This is of course the accompanying podcast, with songs either from the bands I saw there, or from EPs and bits and pieces I acquired at the merch table up in Fife. I should really have included some interviews and s**t in this podcast, shouldn't I, but then I wasn't actually as well prepared or as organised as I should have been, really. Inasmuch as I kind of think I would prefermy video to have turned out a bit more like Milo's, I would also have preferred my podcast to turn out a little more like DC's Homegame show over at the Waiting Room. I'm not saying that I dislike the stuff that I've done this year, just that to my eyes it lacks a little bit of fizz and personality, unfortunately. Oh well, it's all a learning process, and by the time Wickermancomes around I reckon I should be able to produce something a lot better. Toadcast #69 - The Fifecast 01. The Phantom Band - Island (03.00) 02. The Hand - Happa Yori (15.02) 03. King Creosote - Nothing Rings True (19.52) 04. James Yorkston & Adrian Crowley - Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Your Grieviance (25.42) 05. Jake Flowers - One For the Ditch (30.07) 06. Love.Stop.Repeat - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (33.25) 07. Viking Moses - Clown School (39.03) 08. Inspector Tapehead - A Fillet of Banjo (46.14) 09. Animal Magic Tricks - Smallish Hooves (51.26) 10. Jonnie Common - Taken Out (57.16) | 5/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #68 - The Leprecast | Me and the missus are rambling away together on this one. It's largely new music, bookended by a couple of more well-known things. We Invent a new term - a weird combination of food and sex called culiniungus. We offend the Irish and the Scots. In fact, we are as offensively and predictably us as you could imagine. We were out and totally smashed at the Broken Records gig at the Bowery yesterday, followed by some hot Sneaky Pete's action. There are some disastrously embarrassing pictures here, if you want to point and laugh. The gig was amazing. I knew a group like Broken Records would be amazing in a small space like that, and so it proved. I had to do some very pointed Standing Up though, which was f*****g annoying. What the f**k is it with people, sitting down at f*****g gigs? If the room's empty that's one thing, but the room was full, people were on tiptoes up the back, and this shower of c**ts insisted on sitting on their f*****g arses down the front, protecting a meter and a half of empty floor space between them and the band. So, as Mr. Discreetandtactful, I went and stood in front of them. F*****ts. The band did get everyone on their feet after a song, which was a f*****g relief, but honestly... it's rock 'n' roll bitches, get up off your f*****g hippy folk arseholes and stop acting like the Chipping Sodbury Chapter of the National Union of Knitting Champions. It's not, to paraphrase a friend of mine, the f*****g Teddy Bears' Picnic. This delightful little anecdote does have a darker side, however. Some lass tugged on my sleeve to ask me to sit down during the first song, and I attempted to politely but firmly say no thank you. Unfortunately I may have succeeded more at the latter than the former, and ended up just being rude to the woman. Who was very pregnant. Well done me. Picking fights with pregnant women isn't really all that clever, is it. So, er, sorry pregnant lady, I didn't mean to be quite so terse, nor did I mean to imply that you should just stop moaning about your baby and stand up. But then, you can't really expect to sit two metres back from the stage and object to anyone standing in front of you either, because that's just silly. Oh, and we met Peej, a reader from New York, who was in town for the week and said hello. He was a really nice chap, so why he reads this f*****g site is a mystery, to be honest, but it was brilliant of him to say hello, and then to put up with our drunken stumbling later on as well. Sometimes I love teh internetz. Not times like this of course, but sometimes. Podcast #68 - The Leprecast 1. Joy Zipper - Dosed & Became Invisible (01.40) 2. Love Like Fire - William (08.37) 3. Rock Plaza Central - O Lord, How Many are My Foes (13.17) 4. Animal Magic Tricks & Neil Pennycook (17.24) 5. Ambulances - Last Old Fiver (24.45) 6. King Creosote - Camels Swapped for Wives (27.11) 7. Jesus H. Foxx - I'm Half the Man You Were (33.51) 8. God Help the Girl - Act of the Apostle (44.15) 9. The Limes - Dead Furniture (46.47) 10. The Pogues - Night Train to Lorca (58.06) | 5/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #67 - The Wuzzlecast | This podcast is sort of like the Clustercast should have been. I haven't actually listened to it yet, so I don't know if it's any good, but it sort of felt better, somehow. It isn't anything like that incoherent and garbled anyway, which is a relief. We spent the day collecting for the lifeboats, along with some excellent help from our pals Dylan from Blueback Hotrod, Neil from Meursault, Ed from 17 Seconds, Dave, Michael and the Stormettes from The Stormy Seas and Morgan from, erm, Glasgow. I have to point out how important their help was as well. It's easy to talk a good game and then to pussy out at the last minute, but despite the fact that both Neil and Ed had other things on today, everyone made the time to come down and help out, which is bloody good of them. We collected a fair chunk of cash - Mrs. Toad's pretty blonde colleague collected the most, rather predictably. Maybe we need fewer beardy alt-folkies and more hot babes next year. Enjoy the podcast, then; we've got a lot of nautically-themed songs this week and could have had even more. There are loads of songs, and we had far more on the list before trimming. It's a bit out of control, this podcast, but actually I think it's quite good. Dylan's roving reporter slots are just... well, they're just. They're just. That's what they are. Experience them for yourself. Good luck. Podcast #67 - The Wuzzlecast 01. The Pogues - The Ship Comes In (05.57) 02. Sad Day For Puppets - Big Waves (09.07) 03. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (17.44) 04. James Yorkston - Sir Patrick Spens (26.22) 05. The Second Hand Marching Band - Not Yet (38.40) 06. The Stormy Seas - The Sea Wind (42.40) 07. Ute Lemper - Little Water Song (50.31) 08. Frightened Rabbit - Floating in the Forth (57.25) 09. Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians - The Wreck of the Arthur Lee (64.53) 10. American Music Club - The Song of the Rats Leaving the Sinking Ship (75.43) | 5/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #66 - The Greedcast | Today I am angry at Capitalism. Partly, funnily enough, I am angry at Capitalism because in many ways I myself am a Capitalist. The problem I have with Capitalism is not really the theory, but the practise. So many people and companies who chant the free market mantra simply are not free marketeers. They want isolationism and protectionism as much as the most paranoid Marxist when it will protect their interests, but they won't for a second entertain the economic theory behind that sort of behaviour - gosh no! So there is plenty of paranoid ranting in this week's podcast, railing against people who talk all Capitalist whilst not actually being Capitalist, people who are moral and honorable in their personal lives but who turn into voracious w***es as soon as they put on a suit and, erm, well generally there's lots of pish to be talked, sorry. Still, at least it's marginally better than last week. Podcast #66 - The Greedcast 01. Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (03.27) 02. Billy Bragg - NPWA (16.27) 03. Eric Bachmann - Liars & Thieves (21.30) 04. The Zincs - Moguls' Wives (28.04) 05. Tom Lehrer - Selling Out (34.24) 06. Depeche Mode - Everything Counts (39.16) 07. The Clash - Bankrobber (45.07) 08. Tom Waits - God's Away on Business (54.07) 09. Billy Bragg - To Have and to Have Not (65.56) | 4/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #65 - The Clustercast | As you might expect from the title, this is one ungodly c*********k of a podcast. It was recorded well into the early hours of the morning with Dylan, Neil and DC who were all in the house by virtue of Homegame being imminent (happening already by the time you hear this) and the Meursault EP being in the final stages of completion. DC stopped by the house on his way to Fife, Neil was around to put CDs into card envelopes and Dylan, er, just likes beer I think. There's was also some heinous Norweigan anus cheese being eaten as well. Toffee-flavoured cheese. F*****g toffee-flavoured f*****g cheese. Honestly, it is the most disgusting substance known to man and looks just a little bit like brown plasticine. Anyway, please don't expect anything coherent or, frankly, even anything listenable. Four of us sat around and bellowed incoherently into a microphone for a couple of hours, and frankly that's exactly what it sounds like. There are some good songs, though, and somereally good new music but, erm, honestly you might want to skip the talky bits. Actually, you know the first time anyone talks any sense whatsoever on this podcast? The last link. Really. We get drunker and drunker and more incoherent, and then right at the end there's an utterly shocking outbreak of common sense. Toadcast #65 - The Clustercast 01. Eels - Fresh Blood (02.27) 02. Jeffrey Lewis - Don't Be Upset (10.10) 03. Slim Twig - Young Hussies (17.07) 04. Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows (21.04) 05. Dame Satan - Suffering Daughter (33.03) 06. Eagle Winged Palace - Hand of Doom (36.21) 07. Arab Strap - F*****g Little Bastards (43.49) 08. Graffiti Island - Wolfguy (53.47) 09. Graham Coxon - In the Morning (66.12) | 4/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #64 - The Welshcast | It's been a longish week, but believe me this weekend is going to be worse. I am offering up my poor old Volvo for sale, which breaks my embittered little alcoholic heart, so it does. I am going to miss that car, we've had some wonderful times pottering about in her and I am going to miss the silly old girl, really I am. This is a joint podcast, seeing as how I was in the pub with Dylan and the poor whelp seemed to have nowhere else to go, I invited him back to the house to add his own particular brand of incoherent nonsense to this week's podcast. Because lazy racial stereotyping is something of a stock in trade around here, I find myself making several lame attempts to bring up Welshness and national identity and all that pish, but ultimately this is just two drunk people chattering about music. More or less the usual, then. Toadcast #64 - The Welshcast 01. Billy Bragg & Kirsty MacColl - A New England (05.12) 02. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Miniature Kingdoms (14.54) 03. Manic Street Preachers - From Despair to Where (18.53) 04. M.J. Hibbett & the Validators - The Fight for History (27.46) 05. Broken Records - And They All Fell Into the Sea (35.50) 06. Drunk Country - The Rain That Almost Drove the Windows In (44.44) 07. Meursault - William Henry Miller (49.34) 08. Super Furry Animals - Into the Night (57.24) 09. Supergrass - Moving (65.15) | 4/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #63 - Sprrring is Here! | Spring makes a f*****g colossal difference, doesn't it. People have been tripping around Edinburgh with a spring in their step for the last week, when the sun has come out and the air, whilst it may still be a little chilly, is notably warmer. It's gentler, I suppose, is the main difference. There's something of a release about Spring, as if all the uncomfortable restraint of Winter no longer has to be acknowledged. Does anyone remember that episode of Northern Exposure when the ice melted? Everyone went nuts, and the relieved exhalation we all express on the coming of the sunshine does remind me in many ways of a tame version of the exact same mania depicted in that episode of, erm, a serialised drama from the, er, mid ah nineties... anyone still reading? Never mind. In any case, this is a purposeless but musically excellent podcast which is something of a lazy one, if I'm honest. Frankly though, I think I deserve it after the effort put into the Pictish Session, so f**k you if you have an issue with that. Tee hee. There's a lot of new release stuff on here, a couple of bands reviewed recently on the site, and a couple who are going to be reviewed later this week. Next week I'll think of a theme. Promise. Toadcast #63 - Sprrring is Here! 01. The Soft Pack - Right & Wrong (01.33) 02. Maxwell Panther - A Shade Away (08.24) 03. Phil & the Osophers - They Threw a Shoe at You (11.16) 04. The Felice Brothers - The Big Surprise (15.34) 05. The Empty Set - Alice & Bob (Forlorn Photo Love) (24.01) 06. The Van Allen Belt - The Revolution Will be Merchandised (27.24) 07. Meursault (no, not that Meursault) - Blindfolds (33.31) 08. Outlaw Con Bandana - Rainy Season (37.16) 09. Dame Satan - Ghost Dance (39.25) 10. Peter Doherty - 1939 Returning (49.30) | 4/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanToadcast #62 - The Pictish Trail Toad Session | This Toad Session has been a wee while coming, but frankly I think it's f*****g superb. The videos have turned out wonderfully, Neil and Gav have done an amazing job with the sound, Fee and Dylan have taken some great photos. I'm happy as a pig in s**t, quite frankly. Johnny Lynch (Mr. Pictish Trail) had plenty of time to kill, so we drank some beer, took our time and talked a monumental amount of shite. The podcast is really strong this time around, I think. We talk a lot but I think it's pretty decent stuff for the most part, not random blather, so I really think it should be an enjoyable listen. Hopefully, anyway. Johnny picked really nice songs, too. He's recorded a couple of unreleased ones, and a Lone Pigeon cover, as well as his Top of the Pops hit single Winter Home Disco. It makes for a really nice mix. As per usual the songs are all available for downloading, hotlinking and sharing around, the videos can be watched below, on our YouTube (yeuch) page or our Vimeo page, and the photos are all to be seen as a slideshow here or on the general Song, by Toad Flickr page here. Go to Blueback Hotrod for more of Dylan's live music photography. And enjoy the podcast - it can be played below, and the tracklisting is at the bottom of the page. I'm really proud of this, people, so I hope you enjoy it. Toadcast #62 - The Pictish Trail Toad Session The Pictish Trail - Winter Home Disco (Toad Session) The Pictish Trail - I Will Pour it Down (Toad Session) The Pictish Trail - You Covered the Earth With Your Thumb (Toad Session) The Pictish Trail - Won't You Take Me Back (Lone Pigeon Cover) (Toad Session) And now the videos, starting with the overall session video, and then the ones we made for the individual songs: 01. The Pictish Trail - Winter Home Disco (06.04) 02. Bonnie Prince Billy - Today I Started Celebrating Again (17.33) 03. Adam Beattie - Bank Street (22.12) 04. The Pictish Trail - I Will Pour It Down (34.37) 05. Judson Claiborne - Song For Dreaming (38.30) 06. Amadou & Mariam - Sabali (43.35) 07. Why? - The Song of the Sad Assassin (48.51) 08. The Pictish Trail - You Covered the Earth With Your Thumb (62.31) 09. Preston School of Industry - Walk of a Gurl (69.03) 10. The Pictish Trail - Won't You Take Me Back (Lone Pigeon Cover) (76.42) Thanks folks, hope you enjoyed that. | 3/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #61 - The 1990s | Well, as DC pointed out on Five Friday Fatwas, the 90s revival is not quite upon us yet. It's both totally inevitable and somewhat due, so it will be here sooner rather than later, but for the time being it has yet to entirely arrive.So in anticipation of the inevitable, I thought I might just make a podcast which partly tried to anticipate the revisionism and partly talked just a little about what I myself might remember when the 90s revival hits full swing in a couple of years. I wouldn't describe myself as a child of the 90s, but I think that I might be wrong in neglecting to do so. When they started I was 15, just moved from Singapore back to Vienna and very much a kid. By the time they ended I had finished my Master's degree and spent a long time pouring pints waiting for a proper job, which in some ways I suppose might just make you an adult. It was an interesting era for me personally and when the revival arrives , as it inevitably will, I am downright fascinated to know what the younger generation will make of the music with which I grew up. Toadcast #60 - The Blandcast 01. Pearl Jam - Go (03.47) 02. R.E.M. - Oddfellows Local 151 (11.05) 03. Cocteau Twins - An Elan (18.16) 04. Gene - Sleep Well Tonight (21.46) 05. Counting Crows - Omaha (30.33) 06. Supergrass - She's So Loose (38.37) 07. Echobelly - King of the Kerb (41.33) 08. Alice in Chains - Nutshell (47.47) 09. Pavement - Gold Soundz (53.22) 10. Skuobhie Dubh Orchestra - Eggshell Miles (59.01) Song, by Toad | 3/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #60 - The Blandcast | This week I welcome you to the absolutely 100% guaranteed non-controversial podcast. Nothing to see here. Move along. Although, it might be slightly controversial, just possibly, around two thirds of the way through if you are excessively religious or perhaps if you have some objection to pointing and laughing as Jade Goody dies of cancer or Pete Doherty and Amy Winehouse slowly expire in the full and relentless gaze of the public eye. Has anyone seen the film Deathwatch? It's set in Glasgow in the 1980s and almost entirely obscure, despite an amazing cast: Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel and Max von Sydow. What it amounts to is that a woman discovers that she is going to die, and then a TV company ask to buy the rights to film her last weeks. It's a bit over the top at times, but a pretty visionary movie nevertheless. It's always disconcerting where something like that makes a prediction which proves to be so uncannily true. I think the scariest thing about 1984 is how utterly determined the species seems to be to make sure that it comes true. If you can find a copy, I'd recommend that you watch it. It's pretty hard to track down though - we had to get ours from Amazon France for some bizarre reason, so good luck to you. Toadcast #60 - The Blandcast 1. Belle & Sebastian - Women's Realm (04.41) 2. Clem Snide - Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Your Grievience (09.00) 3. Pree - Light Falls (17.05) 4. Frivolous Laura - A Lullaby (20.22) 5. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Statues (27.27) 6. The Low Anthem - Oh My God Charlie Darwin (37.18) 7. Kill It Kid - Burst its Banks (41.31) 8. Pete Doherty - The Last of the English Roses (49.03) 9. R.E.M. - Perfect Circle (59.41) | 3/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #58 - The Livecast | Live recordings - in fact, specifically, live albums - came up in a recent post on Song, by Toad and the idea of doing a podcast composed entirely of live recordings really appealed to me because there are so many great ones. That said, on the post in question there arose a debate, one voice expressing my deepest hatreds of the genre, and another being perhaps over-generous in the other direction. Frankly, I despise the vast majority of live albums. Mostly they are s**t recordings of songs we already know, released for the sole reason of fleecing fans whose devotion has already been established, and whose wallets can clearly be plundered for a few more empty sheckles. Despite that, of course, there are some truly stunning live recordings. In fact, I'd argue that some of the most memorable, legendary recordings of all time are in fact live ones. Bob Dylan live at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester in 1966. Bruce Springsteen pretty much any time in the seventies. Basically, for all live recordings are mostly rip-off bollocks, there are some truly phenomenal live albums, ones which open your eyes to the artist, ones which fill in that artist's musical upbringing, and some which are just genuinely amazingly wonderful recordings in their own right. Therefore we bring to you the Livecast. Enjoy, Toadlings... Toadcast #57 - Production Values 01. Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - 10th Avenue Freeze Out (04.09) 02. Andrew Bird - Why (11.47) 03. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Papa Won't Leave You Henry (16.22) 04. The Moulettes - Country Joy Song (25.29) 05. Colin Meloy - Blues Run the Game (32.49) 06. Quasar Wut-Wut - The Partisan (35.45) 07. Jeff Mangum - Two Headed Boy (43.04) 08. Tom Waits - Diamonds on My Windshield (54.37) 09. Billy Bragg - Days Like These (DC Remix) (56.46) 10. Ben Folds Five - Satan is My Master (60.15) 11. Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone (64.16) Song, by Toad | 2/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanToadcast #57 - Production Values | After a week spent debating it, how about a podcast embodying the discussions we've been having about production values I thought a podcast which sort of pulls all the disagreements and moans and whingeing and so on into one big mp3 of joy would be a good idea. So we've got some Big Production, some demo scratchy stuff and a few bands who have dabbled with both. I fart on about production values as if I have the faintest idea what I'm talking about, which of course I don't. I'm not sure how well it works as a playlist - it might be a bit disjointed - but in general I like it. I like the debate in general, I like the thought process we've all gone through together this week, and in general, by association, I like this podcast. Toadcast #57 - Production Values 01. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA (Original Nebraska Sessions Demo Version) (04.31) 02. Radiohead - Everything in its Right Place (11.13) 03. Enfant Bastard - Vessel (20.19) 04. Half Man Half Biscuit - 1966 and All That (22.37) 05. U2 - Red Hill Mining Town (29.56) 06. Snow Patrol - Last Ever Lone Gunman (37.40) 07. The Divine Comedy - Life on Earth (42.10) 08. Yann Tiersen - Geronimo (Black Session w. Neil Hannon) (46.07 ) 09. The Wave Pictures - A Long Way Away From Me (53.34) 10. Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) (Live at Hammersmith Odeon, 1975) (57.35) | 2/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #56 - Valentine's Schmalentine's | We both hate Valentine's day and have no desire to take part in its consumerist pantomime. It seems to have created its own little rituals in our house though: we have an annual Valentine's hate-fest, which lasts a couple of days, where we pour scorn on both the event itself and anyone who takes part in it. The problem is, in doing so, we have sort of made ourselves part of what gets on our own nerves. F*****g people and their f*****g stupid valentine's traditions like, er... this one. This is probably only the second in what will probably become an annual Valentine's Scorn-o-rama, but it already feels like a time-honoured tradition. So if you're single, generally antagonistic, miserable, lonely or just plain indifferent then this is the podcast for you. We even have an odd conversation where we wonder what the point of marriage is - a slightly bizarre thing for a married couple to start wondering about. But that's the Toadcasts for you. Toadcast #56 - Valentine's Schmalentine's 01. Nirvana - Rape Me (00.57) 02. Weeping Willows - Failing in Love (06.39 03. Cherry Poppin' Daddies - When I Change Your Mind (13.36) 04. The White Stripes - Conquest (16.04) 05. Tammy Wynette - D.I.V.O.R.C.E. (22.38) 06. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - She's Leaving You (25.32) 07. Yo La Tengo - Stockholm Syndrome (35.26) 08. Aidan Moffat & the Best Ofs - Oh Men! (42.33) 09. The Avett Brothers - The Ballad of Love & Hate (45.36) 10. Arab Strap - There is No Ending (59.09) Song, by Toad | 2/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanToadcast #55 - Samamidon Toad Session | The day after his amazing live set at the Bowery, Sam Amidon came round to the house to record a Toad Session. He didn't have all that much time, and I don't think he quite knew what he'd let himself in for either, so this one is pretty brief. Still, between this and the footage from the live show I think we have a really nice portrait of the guy, who is so different in person from his recordings. Whilst the latter may be beautiful, and whilst All Is Well is an amazingly lovely album, his personality dominates his live show so much it gives you such a different perspective on his music. As per usual, we have the session podcast below, and after that the Toad Session mp3 files, which you are free to pass around as you please. The videos are posted below that, and can all be found on the Song, by Toad Vimeo page (recommended) as well as the YouTube page (s**t, but popular, so I have to put them there too). There's also a series of photos from the session, which can be found on our Flickr page. The tracklisting for the podcast is at the bottom of this post - enjoy! Toadcast #55 - Samamidon Toad Session [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/songbytoad/ToadcastNo55.mp3] And the downloadable, shareable, huggable mp3s from the session: Samamidon - 1842 (Toad Session) [audio:http://www.matthewjamesyoung.com/sbt/ToadSessions/Samamidon-1842-ToadSession.mp3] Samamidon - Pretty Fair Damsel (Toad Session) [audio:http://www.matthewjamesyoung.com/sbt/ToadSessions/Samamidon-PrettyFairDamsel-ToadSession.mp3] Samamidon - Fiddle Mayhem (Toad Session) [audio:http://www.matthewjamesyoung.com/sbt/ToadSessions/Samamidon-FiddleMayhem-ToadSession.mp3] And the videos: This is the main Toad Session video. Samamidon's live Toad Session version of 1842, recorded in January 2009 for songbytoadcom. During his Toad Session we persuaded Sam to play his fiddle, and believe me it's something to behold. He switches from these perfect reels into abstract experimentalism and back and, as long as the screeching doesn't put you off, it's truly amazing to see. Recorded for songbytoad.com in January 2009. Samamidon's live Toad Session version of Pretty Fair Damsel, recorded in January 2009 for songbytoad.com And the playlist for Toadcast #55 - Samamidon Toad Session: 01. Samamidon - 1842 (Toad Session) (05.23) 02. Peter & Mary Alice Amidon - True Born Sons of Levi (10.23) 03. Mary Margaret O'Hara - When You Know Why You're Happy (12.49) 04. Shirley Collins - Lovin' Hannah (18.17) 05. Samamidon - Pretty Fair Damsel (Toad Session) (24.16) 06. Othar Turner & The Rising Star Fife And Drum - Bouncin' Ball (33.20) 07. Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Swimming Song (36.29) 08. Doveman - Happy (38.53) 09. Samamidon - Fiddle Mayhem (Toad Session) (47.49) | 2/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #54 - The Spacecast | The Spacecast is yet another podcast dreamed up in the pub, this time between myself and Dylan, the official Song, by Toad photographer. And again it's one of those podcast which could have gone on for over two hours quite easily, but we don't do that anymore, not around here, we're disciplined these days goddammit. So I've missed off about a million other suggestions and come up with a combination of songs genuinely about space, and few that use space as some sort of metaphor and then a few which just stick a few spacey words in the title. And of course, it starts with something rather splendid... but you'll have to listen to find out what it is. Alright, it's not that special. Just mildly amusing. Toadcast #54 - The Spacecast 01. Me First & the Gimme Gimmes - Rocket Man (03.52) 02. David Bowie - Space Oddity (07.06) 03. Bob Geldof - Thinking Voyager 2 Type Things (15.09) 04. Inspiral Carpets - Saturn V (24.49) 05. The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet (28.30) 06. Shirley Bassey - In Other Words (Fly Me to the Moon) ( 32.36) 07. Yann Tiersen (Black Session w. Neil Hannon) - Life on Mars (36.04) 08. Riff-Raff - I Wanna be a Cosmonaut (41.34) 09. The Holy Modal Rounders - Mr. Spaceman (42.59) 10. Tom McRae - 2nd Law (48.29) 11. Blur - Far Out (51.46) 12. Queen - Flash Gordon Theme (57.30) Song, by Toad | 1/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #53 - Shiny! | This is just an overspilling of all the shiny new things I have in my inbox this week. It's so fabulously up to the minute that there are songs in here which only landed in my inbox yesterday. There's a slightly sneaky legend making an appearance as well, in the shape of Jason Lytle. Jason was the lead singer of Grandaddy, a legendary group who disbanded back in about, erm, 2006 or so, leading to Jason moving to a house out in Montana and apparently giving up on the idea of making a living out of music altogether. The thing is, music is an art form, and no-one makes a f*****g living out of making art. The only exceptions are deplorable c**ts like Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst and f*****g Bono, so please can we dispel the idea that art is a profession. It's not a job, nor a career, it's a f*****g calling; an obsession. Of course, the good news for us fans is that, because it's a calling rather than a job, Mr. Lytle was never likely to stay away forever. If you care about something it's almost impossible to stop yourself doing it. Believe me, I know - I feel the same way about m**********n (sorry, not that funny, I know). Oooh, by the way, I was very macho this evening. I got home and I opened the gate to find some random chump sitting on our steps drinking beer. So I bellowed with rage, grabbed him by the lapels and flung him out into the street, shouting angry man things like 'get the f**k out of my f*****g house you c**t or I'll f*****g batter you f*****g senseless' and other well known aristotelian arguments. Unfortunately, as is often the case with fighting, one proved vastly less capable than the other, and he apologised and asked for the rest of his beer back and acknowledged that was in the wrong. Christ that made me feel like a p***k and a bully. So I ended up pointing out that my wife was small and that if she came home and found someone sitting on our steps drinking beer she's have been scared, and that I was sorry for being so violent and please just bugger off etc etc. He agreed and apologised and basically took all the fun out of being an alpha male, the bastard. Christ, I might have to wait ten years to be that macho again, why did he have to ruin it for me? Toadcast #53 - Shiny! 01. Orouni - A Greased & Golden Palm (05.47) 02. The Gillyflowers - Country Boy (09.25) 03. Trips & Falls - And in Real Life He Wears Corduroy Pants (16.45) 04. Ragged Claws - On the Death of an Emperor (25.00) 05. Findo Gask - Wrapped in Plastic (Live) (32.00) 06. Enfant Bastard - Landscape Painting is Easy (36.23) 07. Scuff - Sailing Three Sheets to the Wind (40.56) 08. Jason Lytle - Birds Encouraged Him (Live at Maps) (47.34) 09. Auld Lang Syne - Where My Fortune Lies (51.01) 10. Scott Pinkmountain & the Golden Bolts of Tone (58.24) Song, by Toad | 1/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #52 - Let's Go | Well here we go. The new year is yet to quite take hold or take off, but I promise you that things will kick back into gear this weekend. There are some fine love shows appearing on the calendar, slowly but surely, and eventually 2009 will get going. No rush though. This Toadcast is a bit of a mix. I've got some of this year's favourites, I look back at some of last year's favourites, and I also poke away at a couple of the bands I hope will make their mark in 2009. In that sense, examining last year's favourites makes a lot of sense. I'm always curious about how well our fads and fancies bear up to the passage of time. I've not been too fickle in recent years, which is sort of nice, so I don't mind looking back like this. There aren't too many embarrassments to be had, so it's kind of nice to take the chance to look backwards, look forwards a little and generally just take the opportunity to pause for breath and enjoy the new year. As should you, toadlings, as should you. Happy new year, folks. Toadcast #52 - Let's Go 01. Bombadil - Cavaliers' Har Hum (02.24) 02. Gerry Mitchell & Little Sparta - The Ragged Garden of Your Eye (08.57) 03. Aidan John Moffat - The Boy That You Love (12.19) 04. Mitchell Museum - Extra Lives (18.11) 05. The Savings & Loan - The Virgin's Lullaby (24.36) 06. The Builders & the Butchers - When it Rains (28.06) 07. Elvis Perkins - It's Only Me (34.30) 08. Mother & the Addicts - Are Others (38.21) 09. The Pictish Trail - Winter Home Disco (46.27) 10. The Low Lows - Dear Flys, Love Spider (54.49) | 1/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #51 - The Yulecast | Oh thank f**k it's Christmas. Or, any holiday really. I am so f*****g incredibly tired I could pitch face first on the tarmac and sleep for six months without so much as coming up for air. I have been reading, with some amusement, the bickering over the religious nature of Christmas which seems to take place in the American press with monotonous regularity. Apparently the Christians are adamant that we remember the religious nature of a pagan festival, which seems a little odd considering that the Christianisation of Christmas itself was basically the Christian colonists' acceptance that they could never defeat local pagan religions. So basically they adopted Yuletide and tried to wedge their amusing Biblical myths into a story that their conquered people would never give up, and then waited a few years for it to degrade into some sort of carnival of aquisitiveness which they could have a tantrum about. So it's a pagan festival which has turned into an unbridled celebration of Western consumerist greed... erm, which part of this came up in the Bible again? Personally, as an atheist, I love Christmas. It's got nothing to do with that Jeebus character, it's closer akin to the the pagan celebration of light and life in the middle of the darkest part of the year. As a family we have always come together and spent peaceful time together at this time of year. We play music, we read books, we cook together, but above all we rest. We get together and enjoy one another's company. Mrs. Toad and I will, this year, be doing nothing more than snuggling up on the couch and wasting time. And that time wasting together is oddly one of the most important things you can do to forge a strong relationship. Just taking time to be together and enjoy one another's company is, after the year we've had, going to be a rare treat, and one which I intend to enjoy immensely. Toadcast #51 - The Yulecast 01. Yo La Tengo - On Our Way to Fall (03.12) 02. Tom Waits - Soldier's Things (07.21) 03. Pale Young Gentlemen - We Will Meet (15.23) 04. The Felice Brothers - Greatest Show on Earth (19.15) 05. Eels - Beautiful Freak (27.27) 06. Clem Snide - The Dairy Queen (35.25) 07. Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue (43.13) 08. A.A. Bondy - Black Rain, Black Rain (48.45) 09. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Brompton Oratory (54.19) 10. Sufjan Stevens - Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother (60.06) Song, by Toad | 12/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #50 - The Friendcast | Ah, mates. Can't live with 'em, can't kill 'em. Mrs. Toad's best friend from her reckless yoof is visiting us here in Edinburgh with her gentleman friend, and consequently I got to thinking about my own old friends, and all the people who, over the years, have introduced me to so much brilliant music. So I started to patch together a playlist of all the important friends who have added a lot of music to my life. The problem is that it became way too long for my one hour restriction, so for this week I cast that aside, and allowed myself an extra ten minutes. Honestly though, old friends are so important, this could have gone on for two hours, easily. Every one of the people I mention here has a whole story of their own, and it was quite difficult to resist telling all of them in proper detail. It seems such a shame, actually, to reduce all of these people to a two-minute link. I could almost do a whole podcast for any one of these scenarios really, and maybe I'll do that in future. For now, though, you'll have to make do with this. It may be shabby, but it really could have been so much worse. Meanwhile, Mrs. Toad is f*****g plastered. Oh good. Enjoy! Toadcast #50 - The Friendcast 01. Pink Floyd - On the Turning Away (02.27) 02. Pearl Jam - Black (11.23) 03. The Tragically Hip - Wheat Kings (18.30) 04. Gene - Her Fifteen Years (25.23) 05. Radiohead - Black Star (28.04) 06. Verve - Lucky Man (34.41) 07. Weeping Willows - Eternal Flames (39.19) 08. Billy Bragg - Days Like These (DC Remix) (45.41) 09. Bob Dylan - Po' Boy (49.42) 10. Elbow - Newborn (55.46) 11. Blanche - Do You Trust Me? (63.19) 12. Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure (69.07) | 12/13/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #49 - Hangovers | By the time this is published I will be lying in bed in Toad Hall with a hangover like a nasty case of death warmed up. The Song, by Toad Christmas Party was on Friday 5th December, and given how exhausted I am at the moment I would imagine that about two or three gins into the evening I will be whistling Waltzing Matilda out my f*****g ears. Still, the Meursault album will be out, the party will be sorted, the Song, by Toad Records publicity juggernaut will be chuntering along comfortably and I will be able to begin the gentle slide into Christmas relaxation. Finally finally finally. I am so f*****g exhausted from all the bloody time I've thrown into this since the Summer, and over Christmas there will be two weeks off with little to do but move this site all over to self-hosting and tinker a little with the design. I'll be trying to make the sessions and Toad Records things a little more prominent, and generally poking about in general. The problem is that my CSS is so p**s-poor that I really am limited in what I can do, so I'll just have to hope it turns out okay. I am loath to pay someone to redesign the thing for me though, because that seems to be somewhat contrary to the Spirit of All Things Toad. The Spirit of All Things Toad, of course, being gin. Toadcast #49 - Hangovers 01. The National - Fake Empire (01.30) 02. Doveman - Teacup (06.05) 03. Samamidon - Wild Bill Jones (12.53) 04. Phil & the Osophers - High Art (22.43) 05. Miracles of Modern Science - MR2 (26.15) 06. Radiohead - Idioteque (32.49) 07. Chopps Derby - Down the Dogs (41.22) 08. The 1900s - Age of Metals (47.01) 09. Alela Diane - White as Diamonds (50.12) 10. The Wave Pictures - Leave the Scene Behind (58.07) Song, by Toad | 12/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #48 - The Jeffcast | This may be the limpest of all excuses I've ever had for naming a podcast. You know why it's called the Jeffcast? Because I kinda mention Jeffrey Lewis a couple of times. Oooh, yes, that makes sense. Still, sorry, I couldn't think of anything else really, off the top of my head. I suppose I am off to see Jeffrey Lewis directly after recording this, so I guess it sort of counts. He is playing a secret gig at Henry's Cellar Bar after sneaking out of the Beggars Banquet Christmas Party at the Picture House over the road. It's one of the things I love about the anti-folk crowd: you genuinely get the impression that they'd rather be playing to an appreciative crowd of their mates, rather than a bigger crowd of anonymous punters who may stand there and demand entertainment. So there you go, that's the deal for tonight. For the rest of the weekend we're putting together Meursault albums, ready for the official (re)launch of their record next Friday at the Song, by Toad Christmas Party. So, after folding and screen-printing a thousand of the bastards we'll all be well ready for Gimme Shelter in the Caves on Saturday and a spot of Candythief action in the Jazz Bar on Sunday. Enjoy the 48th Toadcast. Toadcast #48 - The Jeffcast 01. Yo La Tengo - Double Dare (04.12) 02. Wolf Parade - Call it a Ritual (07.29) 03. Modey Lemon - Loch Ness Monster (11.25) 04. Sly & the Family Stone - Life (17.09) 05. The Velcro Quartet - The Love Song of Little Cosmo Nostradamus (20.03) 06. The Pernice Brothers - The Ballad of Bjorn Borg (25.57) 07. Caramel Jack - The Lincoln Jackson Incident (34.37) 08. The Magnetic Fields - All the Umbrellas in London (38.29) 09. Sparklehorse - Happy Man (Memphis Version) (44.46) 10. The Veils - Birthday Present (49.44) 11. Grandaddy - Miner at the Dial-A-View (54.24) Song, by Toad | 11/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #47 - The Oldcast | I know it's a bit obvious to do a podcast like this so shortly after my birthday, but it gives me the opportunity to ramble a bit and play some classics I might not otherwise have played. There are so many wonderful songs about growing old, and I actually think I may have missed most of them. I have no fear of being old, but for some reason it feels a little more immediate this year but I don't know why. So goodnight people, it's been a pleasure. Sleep well and don't be too rough on yourselves. Take Kirsty's advice and don't be too rough on my cold, cold heart; it's all I've got left to me now." That may be the smart-arsed line, but the most important line in this song is the bit where she says that 'there's a light in your eyes tells me somebody's in and you won't come the cowboy with me'. It's such a crucial judgment, isn't it. You take a bet on someone, you throw in your chips and you hope for the best. So if you're feeling brave, good luck to you. Look after her, I'll be there anytime soon. Toadcast #47 - The Oldcast 01. The Rolling Stones - Mother's Little Helper (00.01) 02. The Band - Rockin' Chair (07.46) 03. Michelle Shocked - Memories of East Texas (11.21) 04. Hafdis Huld - Tomoko (20.57) 05. Baby Walrus - Some Dawns No Bird Will Sing (28.44) 07. Donny Hue & the Colors - The World Came Running (30.25) 08. Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man (34.21) 08. Soko - The Dandy Cowboys (43.31) 09. Kirsty MacColl - Don't Come the Cowboy With Me, Sonny Jim (47.04) 10. Neil Young - Old Man (55.09) 11. Jeffrey Lewis - Back When I Was Four (58.12) | 11/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #46 - Sparrow & the Workshop Toad Session | Christ this has taken me ages. We recorded this in late August after myself and Mrs. Toad came back from the States, but the intervention of the End of the Road Festival and an unspeakable disaster with video tape has delayed this beyond the bounds of pretty much everyone's patience. I eventually had to give up trying to extricate video from chewed tapes and make do with the video we actually had, which has been bloody frustrating. As per usual we have the videos all posted either on the Toad Vimeo page (the best quality) and YouTube (more accessible). We also have pictures taken by both my friend Morgan, who is also the official Song, by Toad camerman, and Dylan as well. Dylan has all his pictures, including these, on his own site, and we've also uploaded them to the Song, by Toad Flickr page as well. So, firstly, here is the podcast, with the tracklisting at the bottom of the page: Toadcast #46 - Sparrow & the Workshop Toad Session Here are the session tracks themselves as downloadable, shareable and loveable mp3s: Sparrow & the Workshop - Last Chance (Toad Session) Sparrow & the Workshop - Magic Tricks (Toad Session) Sparrow & the Workshop - The Gun (Toad Session) Sparrow & the Workshop - My Crime (Toad Session) Toadcast #46 - Sparrow & the Workshop Toad Session Playlist: 01. Sparrow & the Workshop - Last Chance (Toad Session) (07.21) 02. Scuff - Step a Little Closer (10.14) 03. Skeeter Davis - My Last Date With You (17.50) 04. Micah P. Hinson - Come Home Quickly Darling (21.22) 05. Sparrow & the Workshop - Magic Tricks (Toad Session) (26.19) 06. Rob St. John - Tipping In (30.17) 07. Langhorne Slim - Restless (35.27) 08. Sparrow & the Workshop - The Gun (41.50) 09. The Everley Brothers - Crying in the Rain (46.56) 10. The Skids - In the Valley (48.51) 11. Sparrow & the Workshop - My Crime (Toad Session) (58.25) Song, by Toad | 11/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #45 - The Stevecast | Okay, not so much a podcast this week, more my effort to recreate a mix tape sent to me by my Mum's cousin when I was far too young to appreciate its brilliance. On the plus side though, despite my failure to really understand how lucky I was, they leaked more indelibly into my consciousness because I was so young that it all went beyond 'music I remember' and became something more fundamental than that. I played this tape quite literally to death. I think it finally gave up the ghost some time when I was about thirteen or fourteen - about 1988 or 1989. I forgot about it for some time after that, and it was only some ten years later, about the time of Napster, that it occurred to me to finally try and reassemble all these brilliant songs together again. Well, I tried but I failed. The biggest problem was remembering what was on the thing. I mean, a tape I last listened to ten years ago, whatare the chances? Still, aided by perseverance and some good fortune I prety much managed to as best I could. Some I remembered immediately, others took a while, and still others took the discovery of songs on the tape itself to trigger the memory. Easily the best playlist of any Toadcast to date, I'm only ashamed that it's me talking about this music instead of someone more knowledgeable. Toadcast #45 - The Stevecast 01. The Piranhas - Tom Hark (02.06) 02. The Clash - Bankrobber (03.57) 03. John Cooper Clarke - Gimmix (Live) (10.42) 04. The Specials - Why? (18.00) 05. The Piranhas - Boyfriend (21.54) 06. Madness - Baggy Trousers (25.35) 07. The Piranhas - Getting Beaten Up (29.00) 08. The Specials - Ghost Town (32.16) 09. The Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia (37.57) 10. The Beat - Stand Down Margaret/Whine & Grine (46.37) 11. Adam & the Ants - Antmusic (52.39) Song, by Toad | 11/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #44 - The Whingecast | It's teh next Great Depreshun oh noes! Or maybe we're just moaning like a bunch of f*****g girls. After the doom and gloom in the papers it seems time to actually compare the current financial tantrum to the Great Depression and tell anyone who makes that comparison to f**k right off and stop being so self-indulgent. Even compared to the rough times in the f*****g eighties when Margaret Thatcher eviscerated everywhere in England outside the M25. She destroyed the country. Annihilating nationalised industries which were no longer economic makes sense, but completely destroying the industries that keep a town alive at the same time as you destroy the support networks provided by the state and also refusing to do anything to encourage industries to grow that might replace the thousands of jobs you have just made vanish is just slash and burn social policy. There may be a little too much opinionated political opinion and general drunken rambling between myself and my darling girl Mrs. Toad, but erm, well, f**k it you're own your own. Listen if you think you can face it. But you must understand, we were vewy bewwwy drnk. Toadcast #44 - The Whingecast 01. Woody Guthrie - Do Re Mi (04.20) 02. Ray's Vast Basement - Black Cotton (12.52) 03. The Specials - Ghost Town (15.31) 04. The Clash - Career Opportunities (25.33) 05. Billy Bragg - To Have and to Have Not (36.04) 06. Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing (36.03) 07. 4 or 5 Magicians - Forever on the Edge (39.25) 08. The Men They Couldn't Hang - The Ghosts of Cable Street (52.29) 09. The Willard Grant Conspiracy - Evening Mass (62.44) 10. Phil Ochs - No Christmas in Kentucky (68.29) Song, by Toad | 11/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #43 - The Fightcast | The Fightcast? Yes, the f*****g Fightcast. Why? Well because mp3 bloggers have been taking it in the arse with some force over the last week. Posts are being deleted left right and centre, so presumably the major labels have decided to declare all-out war on blogs. This is because they are scabby old unwashed cheesy p***ses. This is not slander, I can prove it with charts and graphs. Ultimately this is about corporate control of culture. I don't want to sound like a ranting conspiracy theorist, but put simply, this is how it works. People pay for things they feel passionate about. People feel passionate about art, the creation thereof and the participation therein. Consequently any company vaguely engaged in cultural endeavours desperately wants to own the loyalty and devotion of as many people as possible, and anyone participating in this arena is a threat. Because grassroots art has more emotional resonance with people it is an ever bigger threat and must be exterminated. They want blogs to exist inasmuch as we provide free market research and free A&R, but if we think we have any influence, any rights, or indeed any genuine loyalty, they wish us dead. F**k them, f**k their little games and f**k the horse they rode in on, they are w***es. If they don't want to play with normal people then let them withdraw. Let them take REM and U2 and f**k off. I would rather form a massive great list of small independent record labels that do want to play nicely and only ever cover them and unsigned bands, and let the big boys compete with the X-Factor, if they think they can. F**k them, let them drown in their own greed. Toadcast #43 - The Fightcast 01. The Love Language - Lalita (02.20) 02. Honey Claws - Shout Out (07.14) 03. Findo Gask - One Eight Zero (10.56) 04. The Avett Brothers - Murder in the City (23.25) 05. Yusuf Azak - Ursa Major (28.02) 06. Miracle Fortress - Have You Seen in Your Dreams (30.53) 07. How To Swim - From Here to Dundee/Eternity (33.55) 08. Jib Kidder - Flip Flap (45.09) 09. Situationists - Onwards & Upwards (46.17) 10. Yusuf Azak - 19.19 (53.45) 11. The Avett Brothers - The Greatest Sum (Acoustic) (62.02) Song, by Toad | 10/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #42 - Noise Please | Oh deary me. A somewhat slurred podcast this week. I recorded this on Friday night after coming home from sharing about seven pints with my boss at Proper Job, who is a thoroughly decent chap and doesn't get out for beers as often as he used to due to an unfortunate breeding accident in which his wife had a baby, thus confining him to the house. The lesson - gentlemen, for the love of god, don't let them breed! So I came back to the house and wanted to play some loud music. I popped a bottle of beer, bought some munchies and mumbled my way through a pile of loud, rambunctious songs that I played far too loud as I sorted out the playlist, and great fun it all was too. I asked about modern rowdy music this week, and Bart kindly recommended some bands, a couple of whom I assume I may have been a little quick to dismiss in the past, so I am going to have another go at them. Looking through the playlist, I find one thing sticking out more than anything else: how the hell can you tell a Sex Pistols demo from a Sex Pistols recording? Toadcast #42 - Noise Please 01. The Libertines - What a Waster (02.56) 02. The Von Bondies - Shallow Grave (08.59) 03. The Bellrays - Blues For Godzilla (12.05) 04. Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Ballad of the Sulphate Strangler (17.49) 05. The Damned - Thrill Kill (23.07) 06. Hoggboy - Left & Right (29.31) 07. Liars - Mr You're on Fire Mr (35.33) 08. Monster Magnet - Kiss of the Scorpion (37.57) 09. The Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK (Demo) (43.24) 10. The Fall - Two Librans (49.47) 11. The Small Faces - All or Nothing (Live) (.) 12. The Detroit Cobras - Hey Sailor (.) Song, by Toad | 10/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #41 - The Soulcast | This week's Toadcast has no theme at all because, erm... well, frankly they're difficult to come up with and therefore seem just a tiny little bit like hard work. So given I'm podcasting once a week now, I am not going to be arsed coming up with some immaculately scripted (ah ha haaa!) arrangement once every seven days, so this week it's really just a brief tour of inbox fodder. This weekend there are loads of good things happening, not least a performance by Mumford & Sons at the Voodoo Rooms, and a first look for me at what could potentially become an excellent new venue in Edinburgh. That's a secret though, so no more details than that. So, for now enjoy the Soulcast, so named for no better reason than that the first couple of songs have the word soul in the title. P**s-poor excuse really, isn't it. Toadcast #41 - The Soulcast 01. Nat Johnson - Dirty Rotten Soul (02.39) 02. Maxwell Panther - Lost Soul on a Roll (06.21) 03. Deerhoof - Chandelier Searchlight (11.40) 04. Aberfeldy - Claire (15.01) 05. Hot Lava - Blue Dragon (21.11) 06. Deathbot - The Cold Wind Revival (23.20) 07. Lambchop - Sharing a Gibson With Martin Luther King Jr. (28.41) 08. Wilco - Company in My Back (35.45) 09. Woodenbox - Twisted Mile (39.17) 10. Pale Young Gentlemen - There is a Place (46.33) 11. Japanese Motors - Spendin' Days (54.52) Song, by Toad | 10/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanToadcast #40 - The Birthcast | Hello people, more podcastenfun once again. Having done the Deathcast recently, I thought it might be nice to do the polar opposite - the Birthcast. This week's podcast is all about the birth of Song, by Toad. I'll tell you about how I started writing about music, how I discovered blogs, how I discovered that what I was writing was in fact a blog and how I ultimately ended up on Wordpress writing what you are now reading. r casually skimming over, depending on your bent. It has also ended up being something of a 2004 retrospective, because that's when this all started, however slowly, and that side of it has been nice. I had met Mrs. Toad by this point, and I was all excited, and despite the fact that my job was bollocks, living in London was great fun. I was on a narrowboat at Nine Elms Pier at this point, which was an amazingly brilliant place to live, and I used to cook myself kettle noodles because I couldn't be arsed firing up the stove. I'd boil some water, throw it over some noodles and some stock and chuck in lots of fresh veg - bloody delicious. Toadcast #40 - The Birthcast 01. Modest Mouse - Bury Me With It (01.39) 02. The Fiery Furnaces - Chris Matthews (07.57) 03. The Innocence Mission - I Have Not Seen This Day Before (Live) (17.54) 04. American Music Club - Only Love Can Set You Free (22.57) 05. Brian Wilson - Cabin Essence (28.40) 06. Andrew Bird - Lull (35.30) 07. Jim White - Static on the Radio (42.52) 08. Tom Waits - Trampled Rose (49.09) 09. The Dears - Lost in the Plot (54.36) 10. Giant Sand - Anarchistic Bolshevistic Cowboy Bundle (59.43) | 10/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #39 - Orphaned Songs | This podcast contains a large number of songs from albums which I didn't really enjoy enough to want to review, but which nevertheless contained some excellent songs. I never want to give a small or emerging band a s****y review because it just feels mean. For me there's a certain threshold to be reached, after which you are fair game for anything I feel like saying because, frankly, why would you care, but smaller bands are never going to get a really hard time on this site. Unless they behave like dicks of course, but I digress. A lot of these albums contain songs I really like, but only one or two, and I really wanted them to be heard. Also, give that your music taste and mine probably only partially overlap anyway (otherwise it would just be creepy) I think it's quite possible you might disagree and want to explore further. It always amazes me how seriously people can take even my opinion, as some sort of self-appointed arbiter of musical worthiness, when neither I nor any other critic is any better placed or more worthy to judge than any random fanny off the street. The only thing that sets us apart is not musical judgment, it's the slightly dubious compulsion to constantly be writing or talking about it for some unknown reason. Anyway, that's only about half a dozen songs on this list, the rest are just there either because they don't entirely belong anywhere else, hence the Orphaned Songs title, and partly because I just felt like it. Enjoy... Toadcast #39 - Orphaned Songs 01. Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers - Let the Fever Out (HearYa Live Session) (02.40) 02. Passion Pit - Sleepyhead (07.30) 03. The Hurricanes - Down Below (13.46) 04. Simon Bookish - Dumb Terminal (21.30) 05. Adam & the Amethysts - Bumble Bee (23.49) 06. KiNo - Won't Do (29.29) 07. Rags & Feathers - Silent Movie Starlets (33.04) 08. Woodpigeon - Home as a Romaticised Concept Where Everyone Loves You Always & Forever (37.39) 09. Eagle Seagull - I'm Sorry but I'm Beginning to Hate Your Face (44.56) 10. Meursault - Westward, Ho (51.53) 11. Sun Kil Moon - Carry Me Ohio (57.26) Song, by Toad | 9/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #38 - The Deathcast | Yes, another podcast dedicated entirely to the End of the Road Festival. I did the very same last year because I do rather love this festival, and the sheer quality of the lineup easily merits a podcast to itself. Unlike last year, Mrs. Toad actually came with me this time around. We drove this stupid old 1960s VW camper van down there, and Christ knows how we didn't die in the process. The f*****g thing steered like a bathtub full of water, there were no brakes at all and the only crumple zone was us. The other disconcerting thing is the fact that VW campers are something of a community, so everyone who passed us in one would flash their lights and wave with the sort of sincere enthusiasm that made us mortally ashamed to be mere renters - mere passengers in a club full of such obviously devoted members, Christ we felt like charlatans. Anyway, ignore our guilt and enjoy the podcast. There's some f*****g great music on this one. And why is it called the Deathcast? Because that blasted camper van we drove down in was an absolute death trap. Honestly, want to die in a nasty accident? Try driving a 60s VW camper van around the English countryside in the middle of the night in the p*****g rain. Toadcast #37 - The Oddcast[audio http://media.libsyn.com/media/songbytoad/ToadcastNo38.mp3] 01. Micah P. Hinson - Patience (03.17) 02. Nick Cave & the Dirty Three - Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum (09.41) 03. The Young Republic - Shiloh (20.19) 04. Over the Wall - Thurso (23.22) 05. British Sea Power - Carrion (29.40) 06. The Pictish Trail - All I Own (36.50) 07. Shearwater - Levithan, Bound (41.31) 08. Jeffrey Lewis - Do They Owe (45.50) 09. The Wave Pictures - Leave That Scene Behind (50.39) 10. Richard Hawley - Coming Home (53.21) 11. Calexico - Minas de Cobre (For Better Metal) (59.55) Song, by Toad | 9/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #37 - The Oddcast | Bill Oddie, for those of you who don't know, is a legendary British television birdwatcher - twitcher as they're known. He is also the subject of one of the most famous of all mondegreens: Madonna's "Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body". Anyhow, as a legendary feather flutterer it seemed only appropriate that his name should adorn a podcast entirely made up of bands with ornithological names. We have everything here, from the albatross to the gull to the guillemot to the owl to the sparrow to the pigeon. Honestly, this podcast could have been twice the length that it is, there were just so many appropriate bands - no Flock of Seagulls, for example, no Sparrow & the Workshop, no Sheryl Crow. So I hope you enjoy it. While you're listening to this, Mrs. Toad and I will be enjoying the End of the Road Festival, and hopefully getting a few interesting interviews in for you all. It'll be my first ever attendance as a legitimate press person, so I am feeling very full of myself at the moment, but with a bit of luck I'll justify the inflated sense of self-importance and bring back some fine bits and pieces for you to enjoy in the next week or two. Toadcast #37 - The Oddcast 01. Hate Beak - Feral Parrot (02.27) 02. The Eagles - Outlaw Man (04.52) 03. Eagleowl - M**********r (10.55) 04. Woodpigeon - Knock Knock (15.22) 05. The Lovely Sparrows - Department of Foreseeable Outcomes (19.45) 06. The Bowerbirds - In Our Talons (23.47) 07. Doves - A House (35.30) 08. Counting Crows - Start Again (38.12) 09. Andrew Bird - Why (Live) (46.32) 10. Guillemots - Take Me Out (Live Lounge) (50.43) 11. A Hawk & a Hacksaw - Portlandtown (56.07) 12. Gossamer Albatross - Held Hands (59.57) 13. The Housemartins - Me & the Farmer (63.26) Song, by Toad | 9/13/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #36 - The Domesticast | Well, no gin, no misbehaviour (except the mandatory foul language), Christ you'd be forgiven for thinking I'd sold out on you and actually grown up at last. No fear of that actually, just a bit of liver protection. We're trying to guzzle just that little bit less midweek, and save the beer tokens for when we really need them, so it's tea and slippers this time around. In fact I thought I was being exceptionally tame until such time as I realised that I hadn't reigned in the swearing one little bit. F**k, I thought to myself. Thematically, erm, you're on your own I'm afraid. I've no real idea if you can think of anything that holds all these songs together as a coherent whole, but damned if I can. There's quite a bit of new stuff and quite a few stray songs that I didn't know how to cover because I didn't want to review the whole album, but there was a song or two that I liked. You know what I mean. And thirteen songs in just under an hour - f*****g hell that's efficient. Toadcast #36 - The Domesticast[audio http://media.libsyn.com/media/songbytoad/ToadcastNo36.mp3] 01. Christian Williams - 30 Minutes (00.17) 02. Calexico - The News About William (05.03) 03. Crystal Stilts - Crippled Croon (07.42) 04. Glasvegas - Flowers & Fitba Tops (14.39) 05. Fishboy - Half Time at the Proper Name Spelling Bee (20.12) 06. From - One Spring Away (23.21) 07. Eef Barzelay - Make Another Tree (28.19) 08. Michael Zapruder - Ads For Feelings (34.23) 09. Okkervil River - Singer Songwriter (37.37) 10. Marc Farre - La Plaie et le Couteau (42.42) 11. Adam Balbo - Big Kid Now (48.14) 12. Christian Williams - Judas (50.24) 13. Micah P. Hinson - Throw the Stone (57.00) | 9/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #35 - Meursault Toad Session | It's been a while since the last Toad Session, but this one is a bit good and thoroughly worth waiting for. Meursault's debut album is one of my favourite of the year, and their acoustic set is easily as good. This is the first session to be held in our house too, which brought its own challenges and then some. Mrs. Toad's preposterous cat makes an appearance at one point, and the videos look very, very, erm... green? Blue? Whatever f*****g stupid colour it is we've painted our living room. Anyway, the recordings have come out really nicely, and I think the videos are good too. I've posted a few here, but the whole lot can be found on the Song, by Toad YouTube page. The photos turned out rather well too, so go to the Flickr page for the ones we liked. And, without further ado, here is the Meursault Toad Session podcast (the track listing is at the bottom of the page): Toadcast #35 - Meursault Toad Session[audio http://media.libsyn.com/media/songbytoad/ToadcastNo35.mp3] Here are the individual songs: Meursault - The Furnace (Toad Session)[audio http://www.matthewjamesyoung.com/ToadSessions/Meursault-TheFurnace-ToadSession.mp3] Meursault - P*****g on Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues (Toad Session)[audio http://www.matthewjamesyoung.com/ToadSessions/Meursault-PissingonBonfires-KissingWithTongues-ToadSession.mp3] Meursault - The Dirt & the Roots (Toad Session)[audio http://www.matthewjamesyoung.com/ToadSessions/Meursault-TheDirtandtheRoots-ToadSession.mp3] Meursault - Nothing Broke (Toad Session)[audio http://www.matthewjamesyoung.com/ToadSessions/Meursault-NothingBroke-ToadSession.mp3] Toadcast #35 - Meursault Toad Session Playlist: 01. Meursault - The Furnace (Toad Session) (06.14) 02. Meursault - A Few Kind Words (09.33) 03. Eef Barzelay - Ballad of Bitter Honey (14.54) 04. Withered Hand - Religious Songs (18.22) 05. Meursault - P*****g on Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues (Toad Session) (30.11) 06. The Postal Service - Nothing Better (34.29) 07. Meursault - The Dirt & the Roots (Toad Session) (37.52) 08. Tenniscoats - Baibaba Bimba (40.40) 09. The Cave Singers - Seeds of Night (47.11) 10. Samamidon - Wild Bill Jones (55.41) 11. Casiotone For the Painfully Alone - Young Shields (60.56) 12. Meursault - Nothing Broke (Toad Session) (68.49) | 9/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #34 - The Portland Podcast | This is the podcast to accompany all the Portland and Pickathon things I've been slowly but surely writing up over the course of the last couple of weeks. With all the video to edit it may take a while to get it all sorted, but just follow this Pickathon search and you'll find it all. My full review of the festival is here. This is a musical journey through our trip, from the Shaky Hands and The Builders & the Butchers who got us out there, to Eef Barzelay who we saw in Portland, several bands from the Pickathon Festival and even a song from Ray Rude's Gameboy pop outfit Operation Mission. It's rather shorter than usual, but that is part of a new strategy: shorter podcasts more often. I am going to try and go for once a week, and make them a maximum of an hour long. I can't promise anything, but I am going to try, and I think this might be a better approach for all of us, frankly. Toadcast #34 - The Portland Podcast 01. The Shaky Hands - A New Parade (2.20) 02. The Builders & the Butchers - When It Rains (08.47) 03. Eef Barzelay - Numerology (12.21) 04. Operation Mission - Aqueous (19.30) 05. Lackthereof - Choir Practise (23.22) 06. Langhorne Slim - Restless (31.20) 07. Bombadil - Cavalier's Har Hum (40.47) 08. Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers - Beloved, We Have Expired (43.26) 09. Oz St. Fossils - Jeweller's Daughter (53.54) 10. Loch Lomond - Tic (59.49) 11. The Cave Singers - Cold Eye (66.34) Song, by Toad | 8/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #33 - The Popecast | 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 f*****g grow up and get the f**k 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 f*****g mollycoddled as to be deemed immune from criticism and contempt. Come on, people, f**k 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. Toadcast #33 - The Popecast 01. Vatican Broadside - Half Man Half Biscuit (00.07) 02. Beck - Profanity Prayers (02.27) 03. Punch & the Apostles - Nouveau Gypsy (10.20) 04. I Said Yes - The Town Crier (15.07) 05. Albert Hammond Jr. - GFC (20.47) 06. Bonnie Prince Billy - So Everyone (23.51) 07. Tom Lehrer - Vatican Rag (33.53) 08. The Savings & Loan - Catholic Boys in the Rain (37.12) 09. Derek Meins - The Gin Song (42.57) 10. Holly Golightly & the Broke-Offs - Devil Do (48.47) 11. Ghostkeeper - Solid Gold (56.02) 12. Forest Fire - Fortune Teller (60.44) 13. Silver Jews - Strange Victory, Strange Defeat (70.22) 14. Sparrow & the Workshop - Magic Tricks (77.55) 15. The Just Joans - Hey Boy, You’re Oh So Sensitive (79.43) 16. Roy Zimmerman - Ted Haggard is Completely Heterosexual (85.41) 17. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Evening Mass (97.16) Song, by Toad | 7/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #32 - The Tribecast | 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. Toadcast #32 - The Tribecast 01. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules Theme (01.32) 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 | 7/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #31 - The Newcast | There’s not much of a unifying theme to this podcast, but there are a healthy number of breaking tracks in the playlist, so I guess calling it the Newcast will suffice for want of anything more inspired. There’s new tracks from the impending singles by Kid Canaveral and The Left Outsides, a good few new bands you’ve never heard of, a couple of JC’s selections for the Toad Records Launch Night and some of the tracks from the sampler that I gave away at the party itself. There’s also the first Recorded and Produced by Toad song in the world: Fearing Lothian by Uhersky Brod. The band are friends of mine and we used the Toad Sessions recording equipment to put togethera demo for them. It’s the first time I’ve ever recorded anything, so I presume there must be all sorts of issues with it but, well, you’ve got to start somewhere. It’s a cracking song, whatever I’ve ended up doing to it. So I hope you enjoy this rather disjointed collection of songs, because for all the lack of any real coherence it’s a good collection of songs nonetheless. Toadcast #31 - The Newcast 01. Cinerama - Health & Efficiency (03.57) 02. David Cronenburg’s Wife - My Ukrainian Girlfriend (12.39) 03. The Ukrainians - Batya (Bigmouth Strikes Again) (16.14) 04. The Lucksmiths - T-Shirt Weather (21.34) 05. Porlolo - There is No I in Athens (26.22) 06. Uhersky Brod - Fearing Lothian (33.17) 07. Sparrow & the Workshop - Grizzly Bear (38.46) 08. The Futureheads - The Beginning of the Twist (43.24) 09. Kid Canaveral - Teenage Fanclub Song (47.11) 10. The Left Outsides - Deep Rivers Move in Silence, Shallow Brooks are Noisy (Found Remix) (53.15) 11. King Creosote - Ear Against the Wireless (61.34) 12. Eagleowl - Blanket (64.50) 13. Rob St. John - Domino (72.22) 14. Les Enfant Bastard - Plastic Bag (79.27) 15. Dinosaur Pile-Up - My Rock ‘n’ Roll Demo (85.43) 16. Computer vs. Banjo - Give Up on Ghosts (95.06) | 6/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #30 - Alela Diane & Mariee Sioux Toad Session | Hello and welcome back to the Toad Sessions. I was a little drunk when I noticed that Alela Diane was playing in Edinburgh as part of the Triptych Festival, so the idea of emailing her label and inviting her to do a Toad Session didn't seem quite so preposterous. In the morning, I thought I was mad and would be laughed at, but amazingly they agreed, and now here it is. This one was also recorded by Nick at Bananarow and he's done another amazing job - the songs sound absolutely gorgeous. Dylan's pictures can be found at the Flickr page, and we have some more videos at the Song, by Toad YouTube page. Here's the interview podcast, with the tracklisting at the bottom of the page. Toadcast #30 - Alela Diane & Mariee Sioux Toad Session Here are the sessions tracks themselves. The Cuckoo is a traditional song, and Dry Grass & the Shadows is from Alela's new album which should hopefully be out later this year. Mariee's songs are Flowers & Blood from her recent album Faces in the Rocks, whereas the gorgeous Icarus Eye is an old song from a home release. Alela Diane - Dry Grass & the Shadows Alela Diane - The Cuckoo Mariee Sioux - The Icarus Eye Mariee Sioux - Flowers & Blood Here are the videos, all hosted at the YouTube page. Again, the interview is going to have to go up later because I seem to have entirely lost Morgan, my resident editing expert, so I've had to cobble these things together myself. I am going to work on the interview movies as best I can, so they should hopefully be available in a week or two. Alela Diane - Dry Grass & the Shadows movie. Mariee Sioux - The Icarus Eye movie. 01. Alela Diane - Dry Grass & the Shadows (Toad Session) (04.51) 02. The Shaky Hands - Summer's Life (08.36) 03. Johnny Cash - I See a Darkness (11.45) 04. The Holy Modal Rounders - Hesitation Blues (20.42) 05. Neutral Milk Hotel - The Communist's Daughter (24.10) 06. Mariee Sioux - Flowers & Blood (Toad Session) (26.07) 07. Hem - Half Acre (32.29) 08. Bonnie Prince Billy - No Bad News (41.41) 09. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Twistification (46.05) 10. Vashti Bunyan - Glow Worms (53.35) 11. Mariee Sioux - The Icarus Eye (Toad Session) (58.10) 12. Alela Diane - The Cuckoo (Toad Session) (62.56) Well I hope you like these. The next session is going to be with local band Meursault, and will be the first one to be recorded in Toad Hall. Very exciting! | 5/31/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #29 - The Summercast | The missus and I got pished and did a podcast! Huzzah! It was a lovely Summery day on Wednesday and we sat out and had a meal in the back garden and then when it got chilly we came inside and did a podcast. There's not much of a theme this week because I can get a little bored of them, and from time to time it's nice to just throw some tracks together that you like. And then get hammered and ramble on about them at interminable length. Sorry about that. Toadcast #29 - The Summercast 01. Lemonjelly - Nice Weather For Ducks (01.47) 02. Elbow - Station Approach (10.47) 03. The Eighteenth Day of May - Cold Early Morning (19.08) 04. Aberfeldy - Tom Weir (25.56) 05. Tiny Tim - Tiptoe Through the Tulips (27.48) 06. Uncle Moon - Pepper (34.41) 07. Lo-Fidelity Allstars - On the Pier (41.32) 08. The Boo Radleys - Find the Answer Within (48.18) 09. The Libertines - The Good Old Days (56.41) 10. The Undertones - Teenage Kicks (65.51) 11. The Von Bondies - C'Mon C'Mon (68.11) 12. The Builders & the Butchers - Spanish Death Song (76.41) 13. The Walkmen - The Rat (82.59) 14. Calexico - Corona (93.33) 15. Lloyd Cole - You're a Big Girl Now (106.46) | 5/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanToadcast #28 - The Fencecast | The 28th Toadcast is all about the Fence Collective. People who read this site regularly must know them, I assume, but I’ve been intending to do this post for a while as they might be my favourite label in music at the moment. After Kenny Anderson’s last band fell apart about ten years ago or more, he started releasing his own stuff on hand made CD-Rs under the name of King Creosote and between him and his brothers and some of the other local musicians he’d grown up with in Fife, a collective started to form which has grown and grown. Now, thanks to the spotlight cast their direction by Kenny’s brother Gordon’s involvement with The Beta Band and The Aliens, the success of King Creosote and James Yorkston, and the rising of KT Tunstall (also a Fence alumnus, believe it or not) Fence Records have turned into one of the most beloved record labels in the country. And actually, I think their approach of building a community rather than just pimping product might just have the potential to make them one of the success stories of Music 2.0, although that’s another story. So this podcast is all about Fence Records and the bands I have discovered due to their hard work, and why I think they’re great. What an arse-kisser I’ve turned into. (Warning: I’m drunker than I sound and there is way too much talking in this one.) Toadcast #28 - The Fencecast 01. Skuobhie Dubh Orchestra - Our Last Needle (03.17) 02. King Creosote - You’ve No Clue Do You (09.21) 03. James Yorkston & the Athletes - St. Patrick (16.33) 04. Art Pedro - Joanne (21.19) 05. MC Quake - It Feels Good to Be In Scotland (27.57) 06. Down the Tiny Steps - Handstand (36.44) 07. Adam Beattie - Bank Street (46.39) 08. Player Piano - Mercy (AC Mix) (49.35) 09. Candythief - A Good Day (56.47) 10. Rob St. John - Tipping In (60.06) 11. Adrian Crowley - Star of the Harbour (65.11) 12. Eagleowl - This is Not Your Lucky Day (67.47) 13. OLO Worms - Fingers & Thumbs (77.04) 14. HMS Ginafore - You Built a City Inside of Me (85.41) 15. Gummi Bako - She’s the Carrot & I’m the Stick (87.44) 16. The Pictish Trail - Words Fail Me Now (94.39) 17. Rich Amino - Chicken & Chips (99.02) 18. Sara Lowes - Uniform Days (104.22) 19. Magic Arm - Outdoor Games (108.11) 20. King Creosote - I’ll Fly By the Seat of My Pants (115.32) | 4/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #27 - Europop | Well, perhaps Europop isn't quite the right term. Eurindie perhaps. This podcast is stuffed full of splendid tracks from the rest of the European continent which we, as marvellously parochial and narrow-minded Brits, seem to forget exists half the time. I have no real idea how much this music actually intersects with any of the local scenes to which it might belong, but it is certainly nicely in tune with the British scene as I know it at the moment. Scandinavia is inevitably rather over-represented, but I have managed to track down a Belgian, a little Dutch and something (tangentially) Italian to throw into the mix as well. And a special secret bonus surprise for right at the end, but wait for it patiently and don't ruin it for yourselves by peeking. The big thing I can't get over is just how much I had to leave out of this podcast actually. I'd lazily assumed that it might be a little tricky to fill an entire playlist, but I could just as easily have filled two. So don't whinge about what's not on there, because I know, I know! Toadcast #27 - Europop 01. The Divine Comedy - Europop (00.06) 02. Mikrofisch - The Kids Are All Shite (05.52) 03. A Classic Education - Stay, Son (10.40) 04. Wolfkin - These Are Illusions (14.14) 05. Tafra - Cheesy Epic View (19.47) 06. Kottarashky - Chetiri (21.32) 07. Teitur - Catherine the Waitress (29.40) 08. Jens Lekman - No Time For Breaking Up (35.44) 09. Shout Out Louds - Parents' Living Room (40.01) 10. The Tellers - Hugo (45.34) 11. Cats on Fire - Born Again Christian (49.47) 12. Yann Tiersen - Ginette (57.21) 13. Air - Alpha Beta Gaga (61.44) 14. The Raveonettes - That Great Love Sound (70.33) 15. Die Ärzte - Quark (73.41) 16. Bettie Serveert - I'll Keep it With Mine (77.19) 17. Snake & Jet's Amazing Bullit Band - Doom City (82.46) 18. Röyksopp - Remind Me (87.36) 19. Sigur Rós - Untitled (?lafoss) (90.50) 20. Snapline - S2 (102.59) Song, by Toad | 4/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanToadcast #26 - Broken Records Toad Session | Here we go folks: the first ever Toad Session, with local band and all-round Toad pals Broken Records. These sessions are generally going to take place in my living room, but seeing as these guys were quite keen to record one and their single release is imminent, it seemed sensible to rush things a little. So given my equipment has yet to arrive, we went down to Banana Row Studios and recorded four session tracks and had a bit of chat, and this is the result. There's a full podcast, mp3s of the individual songs, a Flickr photo gallery and couple of videos of the whole business, so there's lots and lots of stuff to play with. I think in terms of workload I can possibly manage about one of these per month, so keep an eye out in the future. Toadcast #26 - Broken Records Toad Session The mp3s include their forthcoming single If the News Makes You Sad Don't Watch It, a couple of new tracks, Wolves and They All Fell Into the Sea, and a special Toad request, the truly beautiful Out on the Water. Broken Records - If the News Makes You Sad, Don't Watch It Broken Records - And They All Fell Into the Sea Broken Records - Wolves Broken Records - Out on the Water The videos are all posted on the main Song, by Toad YouTube page. There are session videos of Out on the Water and Wolves, but the video of the whole session will be posted a little bit later. We're new to this, so the video editing is taking a little bit of time. It should be up in two weeks', hopefully, so you'll have to gird your loins until then I'm afraid, but I promise to let you know as soon as it makes an appearance. Toadcast #26 Playlist: 01. Broken Records - If the News Makes You Sad, Don't Watch It (03.34) 02. Broken Records - A Good Reason (07.28) 03. Micah P. Hinson & the Gospel Of Progress - Don't You Forget (14.33) 04. John Cale - Paris 1919 (24.32) 05. The Moulettes - The Cannibal Song (29.40) 06. Yann Tiersen - Comptine D'un Autre Ete - L'apres-Midi (39.08) 07. Broken Records - And They All Fell Into the Sea (40.21) 08. Beirut - Elephant Gun (45.24) 09. The Waterboys - Sweet Thing (52.11) 10. Broken Records - Wolves (63.23) 11. My Latest Novel - When We Were Wolves (66.34) 12. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Love Letter (72.39) 13. Broken Records - Out On the Water (83.16) If I have one slight issue with these it's that they're a little too polished and sensible, really. Not enough of the rude, random style I tend to think gives this site its character. Maybe recording them in the house will change this, but then the recordings won't be as good. Thoughts? Too shiny? Good like this? Let me know what you think. | 3/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #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 - P*****g 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. F**k off. Song, by Toad | 3/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanToadcast #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. F*****g 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 t**t 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 f*****s 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) | 3/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #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 f**k 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 - C**t (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 F**k (35.47) 10. Frank Turner - Heartless Bastard M**********r (42.03) 11. Les Enfant Bastard - U R My F*****g Sunshine U C**t (44.52) 12. Plans & Apologies - Tony Blair Fucknut (49.50) 13. The Libertines - What a Waster (57.00) 14. Lambchop - Your F*****g Sunny Day (60.49) 15. The Ex-Men - Suck Her (67.35) 16. Micah P. Hinson - Patience (73.04) 17. Eels - It's a M**********r (76.59) 18. Doug Anthony Allstars - I F**k Dogs (80.07) Song, by Toad | 3/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #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 t**s 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) | 2/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #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 f*****g Hallmark and every last s****y 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 | 2/13/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #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 f*****t. 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) | 2/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanToadcast #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 Scotchcast01. 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 | 1/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanToadcast #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 f*****g 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 | 12/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanToadcast #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 | 11/29/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanToadcast #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 f****d 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 p***s 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 | 11/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanToadcast #15 - The Homeless Toadcast | We are bloody well homeless, which is making it very tricky to record podcasts at the moment, so I apologise for the enormous wait since the last one. I promise I’m not losing interest, it’s just been a logistical nightmare to find the time and space to actually sit down and record of late. It takes a few hours, not least because my computer is depressingly slow, so please bear with me. I’ve got a couple of new singles by The Indelicates and The National, as well as a couple of groups I’ve seen live recently, and then some more esoteric stuff towards the end including the highly uncharacteristic Nicole Atkins and a potentially naughty sneak preview of the new Raveonettes album. Enjoy, Toadlings, enjoy yourselves all to pieces. Toadcast #15 - The Homeless Podcast 01. Dragons - Here Are the Roses (01.50) 02. Killing Joke - Eighties (08.28) 03. The Indelicates - Sixteen (13.42) 04. The National - Apartment Story (18.30) 05. Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels) (21.51) 06. The Parish Music Box - Heavy Drinkers (30.40) 07. Rick Redbeard - Dreams of the Trees (35.45) 08. Loch Lomond - Tic (41.49) 09. Over the Rhine - Don’t Wait For Tom (48.10) 10. Ravens & Chimes - The House Where You Were Born (52.10) 11. Siberian - Islands Forever (59.27) 12. Ice Cream Socialists - Mr Crazy (65.42) 13. 586 - Rags & Tags (71.47) 14. Nicole Atkins - Brooklyn’s On Fire (75.03) 15. The Raveonettes - Aly Walk With Me (82.22) 16. The Sugars - Monsters (88.27) | 11/8/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #14 - Total Self Indulgence | What a lovely, lovely podcast this is. No Mrs. Toad this week (yeah, yeah, I know, f**k off the lot of you) partly because she is away in the States being important and businesslike and so forth and partly because you are all a bunch of c**ts for liking her best, you shower of ungrateful bastards. Anyway, needless alienation of one's audience aside, I am a little tired of doing themed podcasts. Nothing particularly pressing leapt to mind this month so I thought I'd just throw on a pile of stuff I was really enjoying and sod having a coherent theme - that's for the professionals anyway. So it's just a big old mish-mash of stuff I'm enjoying at the moment, but I think it's quite a good playlist for all that. There are actually a couple of songs chosen for other women in my life! Oh shock horror! One is our reception lady here at work who revealed a surprisingly excellent vinyl collection when a few of us went round to her place after a staff night out recently, including Pavement and The Pixies. Who would have thought it! The other lady song is from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, after I was entirely charmed by the niece of our next door neighbour who apparently used to go out with their keyboard player. She is trying to move to New York at the moment actually, where there are plans to play fiddle and harp on the new Au Revoir Simone album, which is splendid news. Apparently this one is to be more folky than the last, which bodes very well indeed. So go Ruth! I can't wait to hear it. Better stop talking about ze laydees now of course, before I get skelped by my lovely lady. Not one of of 'em a patch on the sparkling gem that is the delectable Mrs. Toad of course, not even close! *ahem* Toadcast #14 - Total Self-Indulgence 01. The White Stripes - 300mph Torrential Outpour Blues (03.04) 02. Rachel Unthank & the Winterset - Blue Bleezin' Blind Drunk (12.34) 03. Jonquil - Lions (18.58) 04. Misophone - The Sea Has Spoken (20.46) 05. The Pixies - Where is My Mind (29.25) 06. The Sequins - Let's Go Drinking in the Morning (36.09) 07. The Monochrome Set - Tomorrow Will Be Too Long (39.37) 08. iLiKETRAiNS - Death of an Idealist (44.10) 09. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Over and Over Again (Lost & Found) (50.23) 10. Ringo Deathstarr - Starrsha (55.00) 11. Babyshambles - UnBiloTitled (57.02) 12. New Pornographers - Adventures in Solitude (64.29) 13. Phil Ochs - Here's to the State of Mississippi (75.18) 14. The Mabuses - Bonus Track (82.46) 15. The Real Tuesday Weld - Waltz For One (86.49) 16. Kenneth Williams - When the Toad Came Home (88.40) Song, by Toad | 10/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #13 - The Mrs. Toadcast | My dearest Toadlings it is with enormous pleasure and brimming pride that I present the light of my silly life, the bright and shining star at the centre of my universe and the bad tempered little Scottish strumpet to whom my every waking hour is devoted. That sounds sarcastic, but it isn’t. She treats the music I play with a sort of contemptuous indifference and has some truly shocking stuff in her rather limited collection. But she has a punk side, she loves Bob Dylan and has taken to some unexpected groups recently, like The Sequins, The Builders & the Butchers and Grandaddy. It slowly started to dawn on me that actually, Dolly Parton aside for the moment, she could probably put together a better playlist than I could, and I was absolutely mortified to be proved absolutely right. So I thought I’d get her along to co-present too, which seemed like it might be fun. It was a bit odd at first, but we warm up a bit by the end and it turns slowly into what I think it a pretty decent podcast, all told. I’m not sure I’ll be able to talk her into doing this too often, but if it proves a success I promise to do my best. Toadcast #13 - The Mrs. Toadcast 01. Lambchop - Dallas Theme Song (00.00) 02. Sham 69 - Borstal Breakout (03.10) 03. The Clash - I Fought the Law (06.49) 04. Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster (10.53) 05. Depeche Mode - Just Can’t Enough (16.18) 06. The Cure - Just Like Heaven (19.50) 07. Ennio Morricone - The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (26.14) 08. Nirvana - Sliver (33.02) 09. Guns ‘n’ Roses - Get in the Ring (38.32) 10. Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue (48.21) 11. Eels - Fresh Feeling (53.58) 12. The Von Bondies - No Regrets (61.31) 13. The 63 Crayons - Spoils For Survivors (66.16) 14. Honeytrap - Andy the Freefaller (71.15) 15. The Builders & the Butchers - Black Dresses (76.11) 16. Night Jar - Poor Man’s Son (81.46) 17. The Indelicates - Waiting For Pete Doherty to Die (89.54) | 10/2/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanToadcast #12 - The End of the Roadcast | My what a splendid festival. You’ve read what I had to say about the thing (overview, day one, day two & day three), now here’s the ‘downloadable in one easy to digest chunk’ version, with more tunes. I had a splendid time at this, I really did. The line-up was spectacularly good and, despite being not much more than a well-executed variant on the standard festival format, I would highly recommend it to those of you sick of the exercise in cattle-herding and aggressively intrusive marketing that the modern festival has become. Anyhow, I’ve gone through the festival in chronological order, playing songs from artists in the order in which I attended them over the weekend. Hopefully I give you a decent overview of the festival itself as well as a taster of the quality of the lineup, from the indie legends to the connoisseur’s selection of emerging acts that made this such a quality bill. No ranting in this one either, or at least, very little. What a relief for you all. Toadcast #12 - The End of the Roadcast 1. Midlake - Young Bride (02.08) 2. Yo La Tengo - By the Time it Gets Dark (07.43) 3. My Brightest Diamond - Dragonfly (14.17) 4. King Creosote - You’ve No Clue Do You (23.19) 5. Monkey Swallows the Universe - Sheffield Shanty (28.29) 6. David Thomas Broughton - Unmarked Grave (34.56) 7. British Sea Power - Remember Me (46.11) 8. Port O’Brien - Five & Dime (51.39) 9. The Young Republic - Excuses to See You (56.14) 10. The Wave Pictures - Long Island (63.28) 11. Johnny Flynn & the Sussex Wit - Tickle Me Pink (70.44) 12. Paris Motel - My Demeter (77.20) 13. Charlie Parr - Worried Blues (80.53) 14. Howe Gelb - Get to Leave (88.34) 15. Lambchop - Up With People (95.35) Song, by Toad | 9/24/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanToadcast #11 - Not Sure What This One's About | There’s no real theme to this week’s podcast, but there’s plenty of splendid new music. Basically I felt so guilty about the crazy rant that the Pink Podcast descended into that I have tried to say as little as possible in this one. I’m off to the End of the Road Festival this weekend, which is why I recorded an advance post, so you’ll be enjoying this while I’m away getting rained on. The lineup is just phenomenal actually, so it should be really quite a splendid weekend. Tim from the Daily Growl will be there, as will Jamie from the Runout Groove and I believe possibly Sweeping the Nation as well, so it may turn into quite a blog-in. Tragically, however, I will be without my Midget Companion. Mrs. Toad is away in Australia (jammy bitch) with work and doesn’t get back in time to come along, so I will be taking a book and enjoying the pleasure of my own company as best I can. There was at least one inevitable balls-up though - when describing the Catherine Howe song I said ‘I can’t believe this is current - it sounds so old-fashioned!’ and I have since discovered that in fact it is a 2007 re-release of a 1971 record which may just explain that. In the process I also discovered that I am something of a f*****g idiot. So, End of the Road, and in the meantime, enjoy the podcast - Toad on his very best behaviour! Toadcast #11 - Not Sure What This One’s About 01. A.A. Bondy - Vice Rag (00.52) 02. White Rabbits - The Plot (03.39) 03. The Courteeners - Cavorting (08.19) 04. Alaska in Winter - Close Your Eyes/We Are Blind (11.46) 05. Beirut - Fork & Knife (La Fete) (18.32) 06. Band of Horses - Is There a Ghost (21.57) 07. Nathan Lawr & the Minotaurs - We Go Down (26.52) 08. David Dondero - Rothko Chapel (30.34) 09. Jackson C. Clarke - Blues Run the Game (38.15) 10. Calexico - All the Pretty Horses (41.45) 11. Catherine Howe - In the Hot Summer (48.53) 12. Little Name - How to Swim & Live (53.31) 13. Emma Pollock - Adrenaline (56.36) 14. George Pringle - Fellini For Prime Minister (63.52) 15. Octoberman - By the Wayside (67.27) 16. The 1900s - When I Say Go (74.54) 17. (The Real) Tuesday Weld - Kix (79.44) | 9/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #10 - The Pink Podcast | The tenth Toadcast is a Pink Podcast, celebrating all things gay in indie music, but trying to steer well clear of any sort of annoying Graham Norton stereotypes. So, in avoiding anything that might have seen this lapse into the Priscilla, Queen of the Desert podcast I enlisted the help of my friend James, who was Mrs. Toad’s best man at our wedding. As well as being gay, James is a real indie fan so I though he’d be perfect to consult with on the playlist and most of these songs are his choices.It’s surprising actually, just how indie this ended up being.I left off quite a few things I really wanted to play and it’s still the longest ever Toadcast. Ultimately, I’ve tried to explore the relationship between the gay community and indie music, but needless to say there are times where it descends into slightly angry ranting. Hopefully not too much to allow you to enjoy the music though. It’s also not really ended up being as much of a discussion of gay culture as I’d hoped and that is almost entirely down to my own ignorance. I should probably have got James round to help actually present, but that would have been a right pain the arse logistically, as well as technically in terms of capturing both voices on one s****y little webcam microphone. On a technical point, there is a bit of an echo on the vocal recording. This is because I we have moved out of our house for a couple of months while builders tear it to pieces and I am having to rather make do in terms of recording location. I’ll try and sort this out by next week. Also, I at one point described the Book of Ruth as being in the New Testament, which is also wrong. What a muppet. Toadcast #10 - The Pink Podcast 01. Pet Shop Boys - It’s a Sin (01.20) 02. The Mamas & the Papas - Dream a Little Dream of Me (08.35) 03. Bloc Party - This Modern Love (13.55) 04. Rufus Wainwright - The Rebel Prince (18.08) 05. The Radiators - Under Clery’s Clock (24.34) 06. The Magnetic Fields - When My Boy Walks Down the Street (29.15) 07. Donna Summer - I Feel Love (35.28) 08. Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf (41.36) 09. The Ballet - I Hate the War (47.52) 10. Madonna - Ray of Light (51.02) 11. Blur - Girls & Boys (60.00) 12. M.J. Hibbett & the Validators - The Gay Train (67.25) 13. David Bowie - China Girl (71.50) 14. Morrissey - November Spawned a Monster (80.40) 15. R.E.M. - First We Take Manhattan, Then We Take Berlin (90.27) 16. Scissor Sisters - Return to Oz (103.20) 17. Elton John - Ballad of a Well-Known Gun (112.12) Song, by Toad | 9/11/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #9 - The Folly of Youth | I'm trying to kill two birds with one stone with this podcast. Firstly, I am throwing in a couple of songs that I wanted to put on the Contrast Podcast episode entitled Young a few weeks ago. I was away at my brother's wedding at the time, and I never got the chance so here they are. Secondly, a good while ago a regular reader of mine called Allen Lulu tagged me with one of these internetty meme thingies whereby you write about the music that was in the charts the year you turned 18. Well for me that year was 1993, but the chart music was abysmal, so I couldn't possibly do that to you. Instead I had a look at what I was listening to myself from that year and came across so many excellent old songs I haven't heard for ages that a quick post turned into an entire podcast. And this is that podcast - me at age 18. Toadcast #9 - The Folly of Youth 1. The Spin Doctors - Two Princes (03.21) 2. Stereo MCs - Connected (09.08) 3. Radiohead - Anyone Can Play Guitar (13.41) 4. Stone Temple Pilots - Plush (17.30) 5. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Loverman (25.12) 6. Levellers - This Garden (31.29) 7. James - Five-O (38.24) 8. The Long Blondes - Once & Never Again (6Music Acoustic Session) (43.12) 9. Gogol Bordello - Never Want to be Young Again (49.48) 10. The Mathletes - Linger (Cranberries Cover) (55.27) 11. Pearl Jam - Daughter (57.45) 12. Blind Melon - No Rain (63.19) 13. Soul Asylum - New World (67.57) 14. The Lemonheads - If I Could Talk I'd Tell You (71.50) 15. Portishead - Mysterons (75.24) 16. Engine Alley - Song For Someone (82.26) Song, by Toad | 9/4/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanToadcast #8 - New Things & Englishness | This, ladies and gentlemen, is a quite splendid podcast. Not the chat - there's actually blessed little of that for a change - but the actual music. There may not be the one or two big names I tend to try and slip in to make sure that casual listeners are more likely to have a listen and thus bring an audience to the smaller bands, and also because I quite like to throw in a few for my own benefit as well but it just didn't quite happen. For some reason they just didn't quite get a look in this week, although I did throw in a rather obscure Pogues track, but it just seemed fine without them. I really like this one though, and there are some excellent new things to hear, so get stuck in. It has quite an acoustic folk-pop sort of atmosphere, so I hope that sort of thing is your bag, but I've thrown in a couple of slightly different things, like David Cronenberg's Wife, Mother & the Addicts and A Hawk & a Hacksaw to make sure it's not too one-paced. So get stuck in, my little Toadlings, music a-plenty and jolly fine stuff too! Toadcast #8 - New Things & Englishness 1. Donny Hue & the Colours - Humming With the Flowerbirds (01.01) 2. Monkey Swallows the Universe - Jimmy Down the Well (06.19) 3. Emmy the Great - Canopies & Grapes (10.26) 4. Mother & the Addicts - Are Others (14.30) 5. Champion Kickboxer - Perforations (20.42) 6. Jake Flowers & the Carol-Anne Showband - Annabel (26.06) 7. Johnny Flynn & the Sussex Wit - Tickle Me Pink (28.07) 8. Mirah & Spectratone International - Supper (34.09) 9. Patti Page - Old Cape Cod (38.01) 10. A Hawk & a Hacksaw - The Way the Wind Blows (41.52) 11. David Cronenberg's Wife - My Ukrainian Girlfriend (47.20) 12. The Pogues - First Day of Forever (54.08) 13. Iron & Wine - Kingdom of the Animals (57.22) 14. The Ralfe Band - Albatross Waltz (63.23) 15. A Hawk & a Hacksaw - Portlandtown (68.19) Song, by Toad | 8/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanToadcast #7 - The Chillout Tent | Yes, we’re back and this time we’ve relaxed a little. There’s a bit less cussing and ranting in this podcast than usual - in fact virtually no ranting at all, which is probably as much of a surprise to me as it is to you. I’m looking at late evening music this week because Mrs. Toad and I were recently talking about the Chillout craze which kicked off about six or seven years ago. It descended into electronic muzak unfortunately, but there were some good things in there at the beginning, so I thought I’d have a look at it. I’ve thrown in some stuff I find nice and eveningy and relaxing as well just to stop it becoming too tedious. Toadcast #7 - The Chillout Tent 01. Groove Armada - At The River (01.31) 02. The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist (04.32) 03. Calexico - Human (10.31) 04. Cinerama - Diamonds Are Forever (15.14) 05. Jazzy Jeff - For Love of Da Game (19.02) 06. Fear of Pop - In Love (23.12) 07. The 18th Day of May - Cold Early Morning (31.11) 08. Lucinda Williams - Ventura (35.40) 09. Lemonjelly - In the Bath (41.51) 10. Sandy Bull - Carmina Burana Fantasy (48.28) 11. The Hold Steady - The Chillout Tent (54.04) 12. RJD2 - Ghostwriter (57.36) 13. Edith Piaf - La Vie en Rose (63.22) 14. Marilyn Monroe - Through With Love (67.02) 15. The Divine Comedy - Theme From Casanova (69.50) Song, by Toad | 8/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #6 - About a Boy | Erm, I ave no idea how to explain what you're in for if you bother to listen to this I'm afraid. The story goes like this: it was our anniversary, we were drinking and chatting and listening to music. A classic came on the stereo and we got talking about songs that would be so popular and so ingrained in popular culture that the writer of them would never have to work again and could live off the royalties, be they from television, advertising, movies or everyone wanting to cover your song. Like that chap in about a boy, for example. Unfortunately, we were far from sober already and by the end of this, honestly: take my gin consumption, take the equivalent volume of water out of Noah's flood, and the Ark would have run aground on Clapham Common. In Toad world, apart from slurring, that means ranting and a relatively well-conceived podcast about commercial immortality descends into a rambling, incoherent tirade against the advertising industry, with songs. So listen to it at your peril, you have been warned. Toadcast #6 - About a Boy 1. Blur - Song 2 (02.38) 2. Eileen Carr - What a Feeling (04.46) 3. Eels - Mr. E's Beautiful Blues (10.10) 4. Bob Marley - Three Little Birds (16.15) 5. Tom Waits - Innocent When You Dream (20.58) 6. Kinobe - Slip Into Something (27.00) 7. The Pet Shop Boys - Go West (30.28) 8. Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love (35.34) 9. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'n' Roll (38.06) 10. The Pogues - Fairytale of New York (43.15) 11. The Who - My Generation (49.40) 12. The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go? (52.55) 13. The Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict a Riot (58.14) 14. The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army (64.04) 15. Bill Hicks - Marketing & Advertising (71.09) Song, by Toad | 8/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #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 | 7/29/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast 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 | 7/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #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 | 7/7/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDeuxieme 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 f**k-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 M**********r (73.25) Song, by Toad Technorati Profile | 7/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitToadcast #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 f*****g 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 - s**t, 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 s**t 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 | 6/29/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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