Toadcast #70 – The Snobcast
This week I am piling on the music snobbery. Oh, okay, I’m not really – if anything I’m undermining it with some truly guilty pleasures. There’s not much modern fluffy pop music which I happen to enjoy despite my snobbery because… well, because I just don’t think there’s anything I can think of which fits that bill at the moment.
I know nostalgic guilty pleasures and truly embracing low-brow music purely for the enjoyment of it aren’t quite the same thing but I think I’ve budged about as far as I am going to go on this one. Girls Aloud are unlikely to ever make an appearance on this podcast, but there’s a spot of memory-tickling being indulged in with picks from Kylie and Guns ‘n’ Roses. You can tell Mrs. Toad has been involved in choosing a playlist when it contains Guns and fucking Roses, but she was sacked from co-presenting duties due to excessive drunkenness, so her imprint on this particular episode is in selections only, and not in the presence of her dulcet tones on the interwaves.
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01. Kid Canaveral – Couldn’t Dance (03.52)
02. Popup – Lucy, What Are You Trying to Say (07.04)
03. Art Fag – Nakhla Dog (15.48)
04. Kylie Minogue – Confide In Me (23.27)
05. Motorhead – Ace of Spades (28.50)
06. The Seventeenth Century – Mid October (36.16)
07. Alan Pownall – The Others (43.56)
08. Haggard the Listener Group – Blackette (47.29)
09. Soft Cell – Tainted Love (51.22)
10. Guns ‘n’ Roses – Sweet Child o’ Mine (58.12)
This close to getting Van Halen onto a Toadcast.
I would have been difficult for me to introduce your choices in your absence, old chap. Bo’s from 7?
There is nothing guilty about the pleasure of Sweet Child o’ Mine. Three guitar solos! With Tainted Love coming right before? That’s a mixtape, that is.
They only guiltiness about it is the sheer mentalness of Axl Rose. And Slash’s ludicrous posturing. Musically, of course not.
Confide doesn’t work without the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NE7vZH4tv8
Kylie: Godess
Plastic surgeons: Vile bags of woman ruining shit.
Kylie, G’n'R, Motorhead and Soft Cell are classics. Good on ya : )
the kids are sick again
now that’s pop music and Maximo have made it 3.00 minutes, well you would wouldn’t you.
Matthew if you want to get the pop music tingly feelings back, pick up a ticket to see Maximo on this tour, singalong pop for the geeks, the weirdos,their ageing friends and their children.
The most eclectic audience I’ve ever seen.
Me and my 13 yr old daughter had a great time.
That Art Fag song is so fucking lovely… I want to hear so much more like that, Neil, et. al.!
Ok, I’ll grant that there is another level of enjoyment when you have studied all that surrounds the piece of work/art. You reasoning about movies is very sound, sir.
All this Kylie worship amuses me to no end. There was a rash of it over on Davy H.’s blog a while back, fascinating! We didn’t have her over here at all, that I know of. I guess the equivalent would be Jennifer Lopez? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvjRrwR2eA4
And “Sweet Child O’ Mine” will never, ever fade as one of the best rock songs ever. Fact.
xoxo
Jennifer Lopez <<<<< Kylie Minogue, Tart. To the extent that I am somewhat offended that you would even compare them.
Fucking plastic surgeons.
See? Kylie worship = still funny
There are very few indications that Kylie Minogue is even a fraction the egotistical whore that Jennifer Lopez is, so I stand by my statement.
I’m surprised you missed out on Kylie fever, Tart. She was absolutely massive here in the states around 2001-2002. It was nothing like it is in Europe, but she was all over the place with ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’ and ‘Love At First Sight’. I think she even performed at the Grammys.
And “Sweet Child O’ Mine” will never, ever fade as one of the best rock songs ever. Fact.
see,
i don’t get this almost as much as i don’t get neil and calum’s love of the boss
I don’t even know where to start as I just don’t get it
It;s not that I don;t understand that it’s not a ‘good’ song
but it feels no different to me saying manic’s ’suicide alley’ is one of the best rock songs ever
hmm
And yet no ABBA…
…too high-brow? (ABBA, I mean, not you.)
Oh little bear, you only have to peek at this or (watch out it’s a bit revealing!) this and see the inimitable style of the boss… his music is just a bonus, but what a bonus indeed, darlin xoxo
Can’t Get You OUt Of My Head. Now, there’s a truly great pop song.
Miles better than that Confide In Me pish that Matthew bangs on about.
It doesn’t hurt that she’s so fit in that video. Rawr.
The minute you stop trying to get Van Halen onto a Toadcast is the minute you earn even the slightest right to crticise my choices, Welshman.
Matthew
Ive been trying to purchase
Meursault – Nothing Broke
Meursault – Pissing on Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues
from your webshop but am having real problems using it.
First off – the webshop is being identified as a potential phishing site by IE7.
Secondly, it won’t let me buy 2 items at the one time!
Click add to cart and it opens paypal, but i can’t seem to continue shopping as each “add to cart” opens paypal in a new window requiring log in etc but with no record of the first cart.
Thirdly, just tried to email you with the details given on the contact page but this has now bounced back as mailbox unavailable
any help gratefully recieved
Cheers
P
Did you use @hotmail.com instead of hotmail.co.uk – that’s usually the issue. I don’t get any warnings in IE7 myself, that’s odd. Still, we’re in the process of redesigning the whole thing, so hopefully these things will be sorted out shortly.
I’ll email you to sort this out, probably easiest – thanks for not just giving up altogether.