Toadcast #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
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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)
Awesome tracklisting, love hearing Stiff Little Fingers, the clash ANND Bob Dylan in the same pod cast!!
Yup. Better playlist…. hen
Mr + Mrs T. = a slightly more articulate & refined (read less drunk) HE + ½DC. nice.
now this i’m looking forward to! tell mrs. toad i think she’s a great sport, and i haven’t even listened to it yet. : )
‘Bridge of Allan – is about as residently middle-class as you can get’…..what a perfect description and she delivers the line with so much affection yet loathing at the same time. Me thinks Mrs T is even funnier than you my ambphibian amigo.
To my running commentary…
Q. Does Mrs T still bounce on the couch???
It was indeed Bobby Fuller who first recorded ‘I Fought The Law’ – you should check out his story and how he died in mysterious circumstances.
“I like her…she’s like me” – that’s about the nicest thing you could ever say about anyone you old romantic.
Jaysus….the Paris and Vienna stories. Turns out Mrs T is even more posh than you…..but does she still dance the same way as she did in the 80s???
She wants to do what to Ken Tucky??
“You were a geek and I was cool” Have things changed???
Me and Mrs V also had tix for the same never-happened Nirvana gig at the SECC. I got my money back,but Mrs V still has her ticket as a memory of her beloved Kurt C.
Good to her you both take the piss out of the truly awful G’n'R.
“You do get laid – occasionally” – fuckin’ priceless line. I’m falling in love with Mrs T….
“Eventually you can win a fucking hand of poker with a pair”. Fabulous analogy……
This is turning into the best radio pairing since Radcliffe and Riley – but what sort of Internet sites does Mrs T watch???
69 Crayons? This woman should do stand-up at the Fringe next year……
Loved those songs by ‘The Builders & The Butchers’ and ‘Night Jar’. The gal has taste.
I’m sorry that this is coming to an end. I feel I’ve just listened to a hugely entertaining audio version of ‘This Is Your Life’.
If she wants to come over to Villain Towers for a Kylie evening, she would be more than welcome. I hope however she borrows copies of ‘Heat’ magazine from folk in her office rather than buy it week after week.
And as for the closing credits post the last song…(or is it a sly attempt at a podcast ‘hidden track’?) – you’re a sly old toad. But is your manhood intact???
I hope all of that will help make a few more folk listen to what was a fun-filled 90 minutes….
Big thanks to you both.
this is the loveliest podcast I’ve ever heard.
and yes, spastic yelps! that’s what irritates me about her performances too.
Toad(s),
Entirely entirely entertaining and more than a bit touching. 63 Crayons- brilliant, but there is never a time that Depeche Mode doesn’t suck. Gahan couldn’t even kill himself properly, for christaske.
Jesus fucking Christ, you utterly disloyal bastards.
I am going to have to rename this bloody thing Song, by Mrs. Toad if this keeps up, then there’ll be ‘Do You Know the Way to San Jose’ and then you’ll be sorry!
Aw shucks, I am flattered. Especially after putting up with mini lectures on How Easy Podcasting Looks But Really Its Very Hard, You Must Understand for the last few months.
Piece of piss if you ask me…
Isn’t that right dear?
Ooh, you cheatery-chot!
http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX/.775ed10e/0?14@oooohhhhh@
Glad to hear that you are supporting toads. Those frogs get way too much attention.
What!! no Dido????
You, sweetheart, are fucking divorced.
Guardian reading muesli crunching brown sock wearing pseudo liberal corduroy bastards! How dare they grass me up.
Moosey is now officially awarded the Song, by Toad Blue Ribbon of Excellence for Counter-Intelligence.
You, dear, on the other hand, are awarded a giant raspberry.
And the Mrs Toad Award For AssHatted WebCunterry 2.0.
Pshaw!
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i thoroughly enjoyed this podcast, i really did. i do feel compelled to clear up one misconception, though. contrary to popular belief, most americans actually can read and write. just because our president speaks like an illiterate idiot doesn’t mean we’re all at his level.
Awww … I actually made it all the way through ! Good stuff. Richard and Judy are no doubt. bricking it … though it’s debatable who drinks more gin.
Judy.