Toadcast #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 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.
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01. Aidan John Moffat – Cunt (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 Porn (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 Fuck (35.47)
10. Frank Turner – Heartless Bastard Motherfucker (42.03)
11. Les Enfant Bastard – U R My Fucking Sunshine U Cunt (44.52)
12. Plans & Apologies – Tony Blair Fucknut (49.50)
13. The Libertines – What a Waster (57.00)
14. Lambchop – Your Fucking Sunny Day (60.49)
15. The Ex-Men – Suck Her (67.35)
16. Micah P. Hinson – Patience (73.04)
17. Eels – It’s a Motherfucker (76.59)
18. Doug Anthony Allstars – I Fuck Dogs (80.07)
Nice one on the Ed Uni Radio. The interweb has its plus points, but I will be cutting the swearmouthing down, too. Strangely, I’ve just pre-recorded the show for 19th & I’ve included “Cunts” as well.
And just where is Martha Wainright’s “Bloody Motherfucking Asshole”? Hmmm?
Ah damn, of course. I’m not a huge fan of hers, but that one deserved to be on this by name alone!
during the discussion of Irish kids and ‘feck’ you referred to them as ‘little buggers,’ but I also think you mentioned that ‘bugger’ has become tame these days… over there… yeah.
Thanks for all the Pogues in the podcasts, by the way!
What, little bugger is highly rude in Ireland is it? I hadn’t realised that. What about feck though? You’ve got to admit that’s a bit silly!
Dunno much about Irish slang actually, but if I heard someone use the word ‘little bugger’ here in Oregon I’d probably slap him for insufferably pedantic pretension. Well, more likely I’d just mock him. Is ‘bugger’ still innocuous if you put more of an inflection in saying it? (if that makes sense…)
‘Feck’ does sound a bit of a hypocritical compromise between generations, as you described it, and not as aesthetically satisfying as a clear, visceral ‘fuck!’
Little bugger is still fairly common over here I’d say, although it’s increasingly going out of fashion. My Granddad would use it to avoid naughty language, but bugger in general is still in pretty common use in the UK.
St Swithin’s Day really is a work of genius isn’t it. Knocking one out whilst thinking of an old love just couldn’t be more more romatically. The line about the polariods is so beautifully true too.
Well done for getting through the cast without cursing! How you managed it I’ll never know.