Comments on: Mrs. Toad on The Waiting Room

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:47:32 +0000

Ben Folds did most of the album, but not that particular duet.

By: ben

ben — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:25:28 +0000

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!

By: Drunk Country

Drunk Country — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:52:38 +0000

Oui, c’est magnifique!

By: Campfires & Battlefields

Campfires & Battlefields — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:17:21 +0000

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.

By: Drunk Country

Drunk Country — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:38:57 +0000

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.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:19:58 +0000

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.

By: Drunk Country

Drunk Country — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:17:27 +0000

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.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:07:31 +0000

By which I mean, I can do it if I so choose. It’s just not how I express myself.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:07:02 +0000

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: Drunk Country

Drunk Country — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:04:56 +0000

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.