Fucking ciabatta. I can’t stand this stuff: mealy, floury, flavourless, inedible rubbish. I don’t mean proper ciabatta of course, but it’s been so long since I had one of those that I barely remember what they’re supposed to taste like.
Basically, we in the UK have done to the ciabatta what we long ago did to the baguette: made it ubiquitous and inedible. The texture is repellent, it dries your mouth out to eat the fucking things, and they are to be found in every shitty sandwich shop on these bloody islands. The bread itself is so overpoweringly joyless that it completely overwhelms the ingredients of the fucking sandwich as well, and all you end up tasting is one tortuous mouthful after another of indigestible, mealy, thousand-chew garbage.
Stop with the fucking ciabatta, already. If you can’t actually make ciabatta properly, leave it the fuck alone.
Johnny Flynn & the Sussex Wit – Cold Bread
Eels – Hospital Food
Hello, more Toadcastery. I’ve, erm, focussed on Dadrock for this one. Not too much of it on the playlist, fortunately, although there’s a couple of well-known names on there. In my defence though, I couldn’t bring myself to feature Coldplay, so I was forced into the compromise of playing an almighty butchering of one of their songs by the splendid Richard Cheese.
Basically I spend most of this podcast trying to justify the presence of so much bland music in the charts and how the hell that came to pass. There’s plenty of chatter about how music is used as a sort of social glue as well, in which case the quality of the stuff becomes almost secondary. There are some really good new bands on this as well – The Velcro Quartet are particularly brilliant, as are the songs by Mumford & Son, Yoshimi! and Honeytrap. Enjoy responsibly.
Toadcast #32 – The Tribecast
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01. Hercules & Love Affair – Hercules Theme (01.32)
02. The Velcro Quartet – Dead Dog’s Hill Replaced with Johnny Cashback, at the band’s request. (07.53)
03. Seabear – Teenage Kicks (11.17)
04. Athlete – Shake Those Windows (21.02)
05. Richard Cheese – Yellow (30.31)
06. ESL – Czarne Oczy (31.59)
07. Emiliana Torrini – Me & Armeni (39.50)
08. Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal (43.24)
09. Snow Patrol – Last Ever Lone Gunman (48.11)
10. The Killers – All These Things That I’ve Done (58.17)
11. The Pictish Trail – All I Own (66.52)
12. Mumford & Sons – White Blank Page (73.01)
13. Honeytrap – Song For Nona (82.17)
14. The Velcro Quartet – How to Kill Your Wife (87.04)
15. Yoshimi! – Song For Suzy (Demo) (94.34)
16. Frank Turner – The Outdoor Type (100.34)
