Toadcast #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.
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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)
Well, Mr. Toad, I have to say that if you were a Viz character you could be…Roger Mellie, quite possibly! (Later wrote a book on swearing called Roger’s Prophanasaurus)
Seriously though, some thought-provoking stuff, and some excellent music.
Ed, honestly, I’m just grateful someone was brave enough to leave a comment! Anyone else out there? Really?
C&B, not for kids, honestly.
Your use of “fuck” as every other word made me feel like I was listening to a Tarantino movie. That bit after “What a Feeling” was hilarious, though I’m relieved that you didn’t have anything bad to say about “Fairytale of New York.”
I’ll be sure to note the phrase “creative thingy” in the future as well.
You know – thingy! Wotsit, doo-dah, thingumajig, wotchamacallit, etc..
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Think I actually heard the sound of ice clinking against glass in there…
Surprised Glasgow City Council haven’t yet used “Go west” to market the glory of the Weedge to Edingbuggers.
Christ, I was so plastered by the time I’d finished this. Honestly, I could barely see the keyboard on the computer!
Genius … maybe I should say less when we’re out. You are genuinely entertaining. Nice one mate.
There was a message, a structure, a point … this is coherent incoherence at it’s most coherent. You’re on to something
There certainly was a message! A frothing fountain of hate every five minutes!