The Waiting Room: divine comedy mrs toad waiting room
by Matthew
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Toad 2.0
Mrs. Toad on The Waiting Room
Yes, my darling Mrs. Toad, the acid-tongued misanthropic centre of my world, has put in a bit of an appearance on The Waiting Room this week. Needless to say we consequently had far too much fun, talked far too much and DC had to take the shears to our segment to make the whole thing fit. No discipline, these new UGC stars, honestly. It’s all covers in this week’s episode, and we put that splendid Richard Godwin in there, some William Shatner and a hillbilly reworking of Snoop Dogg’s Gin & Juice. Splendid!
The Waiting Room – Drunk Covers – Wednesday 23rd April 2008
Anyhow, as there was no time to throw in half the covers I know, I thought I’d post a couple here just for fun. Generally I refuse to post covers on this site because, for all many people do it with total sincerity, there is a distinct whiff of hit-whoring about it – sort of like constantly posting fucking Hot Chip and Radiohead remixes. Anyhow, time for a bit of an exception because I have three very good Divine Comedy covers, to go with the one we played in the show itself. I know The Divine Comedy have been both piss-poor and hopelessly unfashionable for quite some time now, but their early stuff was brilliant, and even now ol’ Mr. Hannon still produces the odd gem from time to time.
The Divine Comedy – Famous (The Magnetic Fields)
The Divine Comedy – Oh Yeah (Bryan Ferry)
The Divine Comedy – Radioactivty (Kraftwerk)
Fucksake. Being warned about language by an Essex girl. There’s irony in action for you.
Did you actually hear much of my Fresh Air show? Not a single curse word – I was very proud.
By which I mean, I can do it if I so choose. It’s just not how I express myself.
p.s. The Gourds are far from hillbilly, old boy – based in Austin TX, they’ve a long, excellent back catalogue filled with an americana mountain folk/banjo country twinge. Sure they have an almost appalachian singing style, but I’d say it was far from hillbilly.
I know they do, but I tried one of their albums and wasn’t so much the fan really and that’s about as far as I got.
Try Stadium Blitzer or Dem’s Good Beeble. Good launching points for them, & their infectiousness should lead you to get over the more standard countryfied works.
Their last 2 efforts are very slack, very ‘hmmmm’, very workaday. Mainstream boring in some areas. But the earlier stuff is brilliant. Live they are fucking awesome.
I’m thinking of doing a whole show dedicated to them, have been for a long while, & that will give you a really good example of what they’re good at.
I noticed the lack of swearing (’cussin, as we call it here in ol’ Virginny) in your Fresh Air show, Matthew, and I must admit that I was glued to the computer just hoping you’d get comfortable enough that you’d forget yourself for a moment and go off on an ear-blistering tirade of sweet profanity. Needless to say I was disappointed. Your discipline is commendable, although I see you and the missus felt no such constraint during your contribution to Drunk Covers VI.
By the way, have you heard Galaxie 500’s cover of Yoko Ono’s “Listen, the Snow Is Falling”? Magnifico.
Oui, c’est magnifique!
I thought it was Ben Folds singing ‘Common People’ with The Shat.
in totally unrelated news, a ballet company in the states (and a reasonable well respected one at that) has just signed on to do a ballet based on a William Shatner album. I have plugged the numbers into my supercomputer, and extrapolated every possible out come and it turns out there is but a 0.0001% chance of it not being absolute and total genius!
Ben Folds did most of the album, but not that particular duet.
I only took out about a minutes worth in the end, just lopping off the odd out of the blue meaning nothing much to anything non sequitor, ums & errs, the tongue fluffs, as well as a million pregnant pauses. I don’t think you couulfd tell all thast much.
Hope was in the chat room last night (first time in ages & first time she’d heard one of your sections) & she asked Why is he swearing so much? It makes the show sound bad! I think you have been told, young lad.