Comments on: Fucking Women and Their Shitty Fucking Music

By: consequenceofsounds

consequenceofsounds — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:30:10 +0000

This post is just awesome. Here (Italy) it’s now the song for one commercial, I’m so “lucky” that I get to hear it tons of times every day and I sometimes wish I was deaf

By: Fucking Men & Their Shitty Fucking Music « Song, by Toad

Fucking Men & Their Shitty Fucking Music « Song, by Toad — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:38:28 +0000

[...] folks, it’s Mrs. Toad. Apparently my ramble about Toploader didn’t go down all that well in certain circles. She’s not disputing the Toploader hatred of [...]

By: jc

jc — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:33:50 +0000

And here was me thinking that I hated this song more than anyone else on the planet…..

I’ve just read ‘Kill Your Friends’ by John Niven while on holiday – a fantastic satire of the music industry that could be a book-long version of a Toad rant, only from the perspective that bands like Toploader should reign supreme. An extract:-

“With the indie kids you have to remember this: they really think that what they do matters in some way. They reckon that history will care. (They dont know that history will have other shit to be getting on with). The indie kids figure that they’re passing on the torch or some fucking thing. That. just as they were influenced by someone – the Velvet Underground, Jonathan Richman, the Stooges, whoever – then, in the future, young bands will be influenced by them. Maybe so. Maybe a few thousand malnourished cockless freaks scattered around the globe will give a shit. So what? Real people don’t care do they? Real people put stone cladding and UPVC double-glazing on their council houses, they buy four albums a year and they want to be able to hear all the words. And there’s fucking billions of them.”

Go buy. And dont be ashamed to laugh out loud at the most un-PC book I’ve had the pleasure of reading in years…

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:17:02 +0000

Toploader has probably been superceded by taking a cheese grater to your foreskin, in terms of capacity to cause unimaginable pain and suffering.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:57:38 +0000

Toploader is a type of automatic washing machine, right?

Largely superceded nowadays by the frontloader.

By: Martin Aaron

Martin Aaron — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:30:33 +0000

Quality vitriol. Keep it up.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:12:16 +0000

Yes, I think we’ve established that it’s a cover. But seeing as the original is never played ever, it’s difficult for it to be even a fraction as annoying as this version. Never mind the cover, never mind what a fanny the chief Toploader is, even if those two were equal the mere fact that I have heard the original maybe twice in my whole life makes it almost impossible that I could hate it as much as this painful, gut-wrenchingly aggravating version.

A wedding band playing Dancing in the Moonlight, how appropriate. Ours played Better Off Without a Wife.

By: Mrs. Brother of Toad

Mrs. Brother of Toad — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:07:17 +0000

I usually keep quiet from the other side of the pond. I do. But I want to correct some inaccuracies here. First, my darling brother in law might remember – but probably doesn’t, as he and his brother had each polished off a bottle of Plymouth at this point – that Dancing in the Moonlight was the final song at our wedding. But that’s ok, you don’t have to like it. What you do have to recognize is that in 2000, your sorry excuse for countrymen, er, I mean, Toploader, went and remade one of the greatest songs from 1973 – “Dancing in the Moonlight” by King Harvest. This is NOT a Toploader original and I would encourage you all to do your research before your rants. Piss on Toploader. Not the song. And I’m done.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 27 May 2008 08:42:18 +0000

I think the key to ranting like me is actually not growing up, I’m afraid. But good luck to you – let the bile flow, with sprinkles on top!

By: angrybonbon

angrybonbon — Tue, 27 May 2008 08:20:44 +0000

When I grow up I want to be able to rant like you, Mr Toad. One of the best things I’ve read in ages. Many thanks.