The Toadcast - The Weekly Podcast From Song, By Toad
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Indie Podcast From songbytoad.com, with Added Gin & Swearing
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Toadcast #25 - The Quickcast
21/03/2008 Duração: 01h28minThis is a real quickie this week as I am working my hairy little buttocks off on the Broken Records stuff at the moment. Still, in your insatiable thirst for pointless, self-indulgent rambling I was sure you'd want to listen to something splendid in the meantime.There's no underlying theme to anything this week, just me rattling on about some current and very interesting music, as well as a couple of confessions so shocking you may never come back here again. Looking at the playlist, I'm sure you can guess what they are.So good luck with this, and I am already looking forward to the next one. Toadcast #25 - The Quickcast 01. The Futureheads - Broke Up the Time (02.02) 02. Tapes 'n' Tapes - Hang Them All (05.05) 03. Meursault - Pissing on Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues(13.21) 04. The Byrons - Azerbaijan (19.13) 05. The Fire Engines - Candyskin (26.04) 06. The Close Lobsters - Firestation Towers (28.53) 07. Mighty Mighty - Law (34.21) 08. Kim Carnes - When I'm Away From You (41.14) 09. Meat Loaf - Took th
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Toadcast #23½ - The Freshcast
14/03/2008 Duração: 02h14minA week or so ago, I recorded a demo show for Fresh Air FM, the local student radio station, with a view to applying for a slot during next term, only the computer ate the bastard thing. Fucking technology. Anyhow, Sunday was Mrs. Toad’s birthday, and for some reason she was keen to get plastered and do a podcast with me, so we re-did it together. It wasn’t played quite as straight as I’d hoped, and by the time I’d had time to reflect on submitting it I was pretty certain Fresh Air would chase me out of the building with sticks. Fortunately for me, however, they didn’t hate it, didn’t seem to think I was a smart-arsed twat and didn’t dispatch me from the building with a boot print in my arse. As this show is just a pre-record and will be going out randomly over the night when they stop broadcasting, I thought I’d pop it up here for you to have a listen. I won’t be doing this with any more Fresh Air things because, well, you need to go over there and listen for yourselves really, don’t you. But for this once
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Toadcast #23 - The Filthcast
09/03/2008 Duração: 01h23minIn preparation for applying for a slot on Edinburgh's student radio station Fresh Air, I thought I would challenge myself to get through an entire podcast without actually swearing because, on public access radio, you can't use naughty words. A Toad without swearing, you say, what the fuck has the world come to? Well to make sure I don't disappoint you in your noble quest for dissolute anti-culture I thought I'd compensate by playing a collection of the filthiest and most sweary songs I could lay my hands on. Thinking about it, I've managed to forget Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot's truly foul 'Je T'aime, Moi Non Plus', but there you go. I could have improved just about every playlist I've ever done in retrospect, I think, so at some point I have to draw the line. So, I use bad words when I quote other people and when I give you the names of the songs but I don't think I let a single naughty word slip during my own chat on this one, but let me know if you catch me out. Toadcast #23 - The Filthcas
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Toadcast #22 - The Cinecast
23/02/2008 Duração: 01h53minYoo hoo Toadlings, welcome to Toadcast No. 22. This one is a sort of natural follow-on from the series of movie soundtrack posts we ran on the site a week or so ago. I can't believe we managed an entire series without mentioning either Ennio Morricone or Quentin Tarantino. So I've tried to put that part right here, as well as throwing in some corkers by the likes of Nick Cave & Warren Ellis and a few others. It may come across slightly as a novelty podcast, what with the Darth Vader theme music and so on, but I still think it makes an interesting listen. It actually made an interesting listen for me this morning too, because I was so utterly shanghaied on gin by the end of it that I actually don't remember half of the introductions to the songs towards the end. So join me on a voyage of discovery and find out exactly what on earth I found to say about Nick Cave whilst pickled out of my tits on a Friday evening. Toadcast #22 - The Cinecast 01. John Williams - The Imperial March (00.00) 02. Barry Ada
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Toadcast #21 - The Lurvecast
13/02/2008 Duração: 01h26minGreetings and Happy Valentine’s day my little Toadlings. Wait, what’s that? You hate Valentine’s Day? Loathe it in fact? Would dearly love to nuke fucking Hallmark and every last shitty little shop peddling their tawdry baubles and meaningless rubbish that serve no purpose other than to defile the pure concept of true love and disrespect the dignity of the un-mated? Good. Me too. In fact, us too, for the wildly popular (grumble, sulk) Mrs. Toad is back to do the great Valentine’s anti-podcast with me. To bitch and moan, to get side-tracked, to ramble and to poke pointed sticks in the side of the great marketing behemoth that the most shallow and meaningless of public celebrations has become. If you do not like Valentine’s Day very much, then this is the place to be. Toadcast #21 - The Lurvecast 01. Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night? (00.23) 02. The Velvet Underground - Femme Fatale (08.06) 03. The Raveonettes - Little Animal (10.57) 04. R.E.M. - The One I Love (13.57) 05. Half-Man Half-Biscuit - Pai
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Toadcast #20 - The Late, Late News
03/02/2008 Duração: 01h39minIT disasters in Toad Hall meant that this podacast was delayed so long that I ended up posting pretty much all of it on the blog before I got to record the thing and all the news was so outdated that I had to find some more news. Fortunately we have some pre-release splendidness from Elbow, Goldfrapp and Stephen Malkmus to make up for it. There’s also some excellent unsigned music to be had as well, from Maxwell Panther and Meursault, as well as some splendid new singles from Elle S’Appelle and Operahouse. So it’s late, but some of this stuff is really quite excellent. And then there’s LCD Soundsystem who have taken me so long to get into that I am only starting to even enjoy the album now, some eight months or so after its release. What a fuckwit. There’s a fairly detailed explanation of what is going to be happened with Song, by Toad Records in the new year as well, and how I am going to move these podcasts onwards and upwards. Unfortunately it takes the longest bloody link in recorded history t
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Toadcast #19 - The Scotchcast
27/01/2008 Duração: 01h39minBack at long last, would you believe. After the abortive attempt at a Christmas podcast and then the IT disaster in Toad Hall - when my retarded computer ground to a halt and had to have its entire operating system reinstalled - I have finally managed to record another podcast. Sorting out the IT department was not at all as easy as it should have been, so it’s taken ages to get to the point where I could record a podcast again. So, excuses over and done with, what am I going to inflict on you this time? The bloody Scots, that’s who. The Scottish music scene is an amazingly fertile one, so I thought I’d review 2007 and have a bit of a look forward to 2008. So I’ve pulled together some of the big guys like Malcolm Middleton, Emma Pollock and King Creosote and interspersed a few of the lesser known acts from around here to give you a nicely rounded look at what’s going on musically in the land of Buckfast and deep-fried Mars bars. Toadcast #19 - The Scotchcast< 01. Sons & Daughters - Gilt Comple
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Toadcast #18 - The Homecast
13/12/2007 Duração: 01h45minWell you know how I said I wasn't so convinced by Toadcast #17? Well it proved somewhat prophetic, although that prophesy may have been somewhat self-fulfilling of course. It's one of my least downloaded podcasts for ages, but this one should sort that out. There's some genuinely excellent music on here, although most of it is pretty obscure. There's no Arcade Fire or anything to pull in the punters, bar a bit of The Magnetic Fields, but a really good selection of new and emerging music nevertheless. And why the Homecast? Well that's obvious of course: we're back in our house at long last and I recorded this from my massive old lab bench that doubles as a desk and music centre all at once. It's fucking brilliant - I really should take a picture and post it for you so you can see. The bench is 2.75m long, so I have computer and stuff at one end, stereo equipment at the other and a couple of good sized speakers either side. A music anorak's paradise! Toadcast #18 - The Homecast 01. Aidan John Moffat - E
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Toadcast #17 - The Cellarcast
29/11/2007 Duração: 01h39minThe 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 th
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Toadcast #16 - The Birthday Podcast
15/11/2007 Duração: 01h43minMorning you 'orrible lot. My wench is away being important once more. She said to me the other day when she was trying to skive off work due to a hangover: 'I can't go into work in a bad state, I handle money.' Haha, what bollocks. I love it when financial people get all delusional like that, so don't worry I set her straight. I calmly pointed out to her that if I fucked up my last job someone might have found a small metal implant buried in their spinal column. This means dead or paralysed. She stopped, fortunately. 'I handle money though.' Yeah well, I handle my penis and every last little sperm is a potential human life, so don't gimme that. The frustration's setting in again, can't you tell. This podcast has some news and some current things, and then explores the randomiser on my music library, doffing my cap to the recent Contrast Podcast episode which I was too slow to participate in. Gah. It is also my birthday on Monday, thirty-two since you ask, and we will be down in London to celebrat
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Toadcast #15 - The Homeless Toadcast
08/11/2007 Duração: 01h31minWe 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 D
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Toadcast #14 - Total Self Indulgence
18/10/2007 Duração: 01h29minWhat a lovely, lovely podcast this is. No Mrs. Toad this week (yeah, yeah, I know, fuck 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 cunts 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 woul
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Toadcast #13 - The Mrs. Toadcast
02/10/2007 Duração: 01h36minMy 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.
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Toadcast #12 - The End of the Roadcast
24/09/2007 Duração: 01h41minMy 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 t
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Toadcast #11 - Not Sure What This One's About
17/09/2007 Duração: 01h22minThere’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
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Toadcast #10 - The Pink Podcast
11/09/2007 Duração: 01h57minThe 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
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Toadcast #9 - The Folly of Youth
04/09/2007 Duração: 01h26minI'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)
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Toadcast #8 - New Things & Englishness
20/08/2007 Duração: 01h12minThis, 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-ple
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Toadcast #7 - The Chillout Tent
05/08/2007 Duração: 01h15minYes, 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. Lem
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Toadcast #6 - About a Boy
01/08/2007 Duração: 01h15minErm, 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