Toadcast #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 tits on a Friday evening.
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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)
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Fucking lovely.
& the Tom Waits/Crystal Gayle track, as much as I love that album, I always forget how gorgeously simple, direct & goose-bumpy Take Me Home is. Ta. Very relevant, it is, right now.
But, & there’s always one, eh?, 28 Days Later? It’s nothing but a collection of bad pastiche scenes lifted from any horror/zombie/monster movie you can name. Didn’t like it one bit.
I won’t even start on A Life Less Ordinary; should have been called A Lifeless Ordinary,rather than just imply it with a sardonic wink.
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Oh, & p.s., have you noticed the opening bars to this version of Cave’s Red Right Hand share a startling similarity to Walking Spanish by Waits?
Cheers mate. I really enjoyed A Life Less Ordinary to be honest. It was stylised and it did have Cameron Diaz in it, but I found it to be slightly preposterous, but enormous fun.
I get more than just a little slurry towards the end – you can almost hear me trying not to fall over my own words. Christ I was wasted!
Danny Boyle’s Sunshine is hopelessly wretched and quite dull, and very much unlike most of the rest of his work.
Love that version of Leave. Far better than the one on New Adventures in Hi-Fi. On the album; I do find the car-alarm siren motif something of a thrill, but only for – ooh – the first ten seconds. Six minutes later it really is beginning to grate. Either way Michael Stipe’s voice is one of the most beautiful sounds we’re lucky to have amongst us.
Enjoying the toadcast – remembered to open two browser windows so I can add comments on the fly!
Snigger. I’ve done that – been in mid-comment and hit ‘submit comment’, only to terminate my listening experience prematurely.
You really are getting delightfully sozzled toward the end here, aren’t you?!
“Classical music hasn’t produced a lot recently”
You opened the damn podcast with just about the most recognisable piece fo classical music in the world you world champion muppet!
That wasn’t classical – it was set in the future!
Come on Matthew – have you been on the gin again? Everyone knows it was set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away!
Speaking of Star Wars, and in particular the Cantina song – I wonder why the alien band are playing a Charleston. Must have been a popular dance around the swinging hotspots of Mos Eisley at the time..
If they have spaceships, then it can’t be classical. Bow ties and intergalactic warp drives just don’t mix.
Um, 2001 anyone?
No thanks, DC.
2001 was a particularly turgid bucket of pretentious wank if you ask me. The best bit was Leonard Rossiter’s Russian accent.
Sorry to be a pedant but Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds is from The Draughtsman’s Contract not The Piano.(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing_Sheep_Is_Best_Left_to_Shepherds) It just goes to show you only bought the soundtrack as an arty pose!
And to continue the pedantry Tim Rice wrote the words for Jesus Christ Superstar not ALW. The only ALW that is any good are those he wrote with Rice. It is Rice that supplied the delicious heresy not ALW
Well I’m afraid I long since abandoned the Piano soundtrack, so the chances of me remembering where it came from are pretty slim. Whoops.
And of course, yes, Tim Rice. That one I should have known a little better with.
Tim Rice (and not Andrew Lloyd Webber) is partly responsible for one of my darkest of guilty pleasures. I’m not even sure I should mention it here on the same day as I said I liked Caravan Girl by Goldfrapp.
I have to admit I really like the track One Night In Bangkok as performed by Murray Head on the Chess soundtrack, with some fine lyrics (I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine
) by Tim Rice.
I shall now go outside and thrash myself soundly with a birch rod.
Aye, but that is a genuine Pinnacle of Cheese Classic! I love that too, I just have no idea if I love it because it’s good or just because it’s hilarious. Maybe both.
Weird. WTH isn’t this coming through on my iTunes subscription? I would have missed it if I hadn’t wandered through my feeds. Looks great.
Sorry Andy, no idea. When I click on the iTunes link it’s there.
Seems like I had a bit of a hiccup on my iTunes subscription, sorted.
I have to agree with everything you say about A Life Less Ordinary (thus ensuring others in this comment thread will think I’m an idiot) – the soundtrack used to be on permanent rotation when I first got hold of it. Love the Ash theme tune too.
Ah, glad someone here is on my side. I remember hearing it at a friend’s house and it was on so quietly that it was only when Peace in the Valley came on towards the end of it that I realised what was on.
Sir,
I stumbled across your Podcast quite by accident trying to find the ‘Red Right Hand – Scream 3′ version you played, and I can honestly say that was the most fun I’d had listening to a drunk talk to me about music for two hours.
I will definately be tuning in again.
Regards,
Joe
Heh heh, much appreciated. They’ve been a bit sober recently, so it might be about time I wheeled out the gin for the next one!