Friday is Going for Cirrhosis by Noon
Woo hoo, it’s house gig day! I am really looking forward to this. The lineup is ace, it should be nice and busy and we can even open the windows in the lounge nowadays to air the place out, because it can get awfy toasty in our living room when it’s full of people.
Other than that, there will be recording happening in Toad Hall this weekend; lots of it. Tomorrow King Creosote and Animal Magic Tricks will be recording… er, something or other together, which sounds really promising. And then on Sunday Neil and Pete will be recording the Meursault side of an Animal Magic Tricks and Meursault Split 10″ to be released later this year. Actually, I don’t know if it’ll be under the name Meursault or just as Neil, because it’s only really him and Pete, the band’s new cellist, who will be involved. I’ll have to ask about that.
Anyhew, I’m absolutely gasping for a pint. I’ve been incredibly good at entirely cutting out midweek drinking for the last month or so, and for some reason this week I’ve come up against three or four occasions when I’ve really fancied a pint of an evening, but my resolve has held true and it won’t be until tonight that I can finally punish my liver with the wrath of a thousand scorned stalkers.
No Honeytrap Toad Session once again. There’ll have to one more inbetweeny podcast, and then next week it will finally go up. Then I’m down to one last one in the band – Shenandoah Davis – and the slate will finally be wiped clean. The Honeytrap one is going to be brilliant, I think. An editor’s nightmare, but bloody hilarious if I get it right. There was drinking, there was comedy dancing, there were 80s singalongs. It was an alcoholic trainwreck, basically.
So here we go with the Friday Fives, as shamelessly pinched from the Guardian Talkboards. This is the delurking amnesty, because things can seem a little cliquey in the comments here, because a lot of us know one another in real life (wait, what, like socialising but not on the internet – what madness is this?) so on Fridays all lurkers are encouraged to come out of the shadows and chip in with their five, whereafter the talking of utter pish may commence.
1. To which song do you feel compelled to do your most exaggerated and embarrassing comedy dancing?
2. Favourite movie singalong moment.
3. Worst movie singalong moment.
4. Best point-and-laugh comedy dancing moment.
5. Which song(s) do you know all or most of the lyrics to (and for the band people on this thread, no, ones you perform regularly do not count).
Here are some random things from my inbox which I am very much enjoying at the moment:
The Limes – Dead Furniture (Buy)
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Khaya – Duet (Single Version) (Buy)
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1. After last Wednesday, it appears the shameful answer to that question is “All My Best Friends are Metalheads,” by Less Than Jake. Ahem.
2. Does that bit in High Fidelity with the Beta Band count? I hate musicals.
3. Every musical ever except Dancer in the Dark, which was good.
4. When in my early Citrus Club days, all the “cool kids” used to get on their knees and thrash their heads about to “Du Hast” by Rammstein.
5. I know my version of the lyrics to almost every song I hear regularly, including the entire repertoire of Forth 1. Whether these match up with the actual lyrics I will never know.
Yey, first post! I am disappointed to be flying to Ireland to run around on a featureless moorland in the pissing rain, and apparently now also gail force winds, instead of attending the house gig. At least you lot will be warm.
That’s quite alright Matthew, my pleasure.
1. I have to be so drunk to even begin dancing that by that point I would dance to pretty much anything in an exaggerated comedy fashion.
2. Does the bit in Grosse Pointe Blank count, when John Cusack walks into the convenience store with Live And Let Die playing on the movie soundtrack, and as the scene cuts to an interior shot of the store, the soundtrack switches so the song seamlessly becomes the store’s bingy-bongy background musak? That shouldn’t count because technically no-one’s singing. Great moment though.
3. Tom Cruise doing Freefallin’ in Jerry Maguire.
4. Tallah’s Beep-Beep-Yeah nights at the Cab Vol Speakeasy have been producing some great comedy dancing moments. They often involve Chutters.
5. All of them.
1)She Sells Sanctuary – Wavey arm fest
2) Anything from Mary Poppins. we had a whole coachload singing on the way back from Leeds Festival this year
3) Absolute beginners
4) Ice Ice Baby . by anyone ever
5) Geno and the dancing to this one is not pretty either.
Right, off to London to see Mott the Hoople, have a great gig in a house everyone
1) currently it is Just dance – Lady Ga Ga (love it)
2) the bit in Beautiful Girls where they are sitting around a piano in a bar and they all start singing Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond
3) the beginning of Waynes World
4) Bart’s dancing at Euan’s wedding was pretty fucking funny! i think that there is some photo evidence of his sartorial elegance coupled with some rock star moves. (i know cliquey as fuck, but hey ho)
5) You give love a bad name!
1. The Tamperer ft Maya -’Feel It.’
2. Singing In the Rain, Guys and Dolls etc..
3.Tom Cruise’s take on You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin.’ (Top Gun)
4. I could clear a dancefloor when Smells Like Teen Spirit came on.
5. Atmosphere by Joy Division, Life On Mars By David Bowie, Charlotte Sometimes by The Cure..actually, lots of The Cure’s back catalogue
1. Apparently it’s Surfin’ Bird by the Trashmen.
2. The Deer Hunter, when they’re playing pool and singing “I love you baby”. Christopher Walken is a fucking legend.
3. Again, Wayne’s World. People used to say I looked like Garth. I’ve never really gotten over it.
4. Anytime I hear Once in a Lifetime, I try and do the weird jiggery dance from the video. I usually fail, and also come dangerously close to smacking my elbow into someone’s face. But in my head, I am David Byrne. (This may or may not have happened at Euan’s wedding. I really can’t remember.)
5. I always think I know all the lyrics to most songs, until I hit the second verse. But probably Not on Top by Herman Dune. It’s such a good sing a long. Especially if you happen to be celebrating your 27th birthday.
1. Katy Perry – Hot and Cold
2. Tiny Dancer by Elton John in Almost Famous
3. Tom Cruise singing anything in anything.
4. Our old drummer Gordon always produced amazing comedy dance moves though Michael from Cancel the Astronauts tearing up the dance floor at Limbo one evening was also brilliant. But maybe best of all was Jake our old bassist at the ABC in Glasgow.
5. Probably something by Pearl Jam maybe Jeremy or Alive. Or Losing My Religion by REM.
1. My moves are not exaggerated, they’re for real.
2. Great Balls of Fire from Top Gun, one of the greatest movies ever.
3. We are the Champions at the end of The Mighty Ducks, one of the greatest movies ever.
4. A friend of mine once told me about a time he was dancing rather drunkenly and looked over at another drunken dancer, he was relieved that his dancing wasn’t nearly as bad as the drunken stranger only to realise that it wasn’t a stranger but infact a mirror.
5. Bruce Springsteen or Paul Simon.
Apparently it’s Surfin’ Bird by the Trashmen
Can I change my answer to number four?
i recommend going dancing with Bart at anytime…..in fact i can see us putting our dancing shoes on for Saturday night……
Actually, I don’t need to change my answer to number four, do I?
Beep Beep!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’d like to go dancing with anyone who believes that they’re David Byrne.
That’s tomorrow isn’t it?
Woohoo!
I haven’t been this excited about a regular club night in about ten years!
1. Modern Love. Get me to the church on time!
2. Anything from Grease 2.
3. Anything from Grease 1.
4. The kids at 3.17 in Feeder’s video for Just A Day (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGrUVHqt2mE). Not a great band by any stretch of the imagination, but this video is a surefire cure for the blues.
5. Most vaguely famous songs, and a fair chunk of the melancholy maestros, T. Waits and L. Cohen.
this is my dancing inspiration
i know the guy at 0:22-0:25 seconds in the feeder video!
went to uni together……nice guy
I can confirm that Bart did not dance to this tune at my wedding. He did however pull some of the best shapes I have ever seen in my life that night. He’s a chameleon, that’s for sure. I can also confirm that he and RCC were pulling some insane shapes at the speakeasy after the Jesus H Foxx ep launch.
this is my dancing inspiration
1. The Furnace because it really makes me want to dance and it’s just impossible to fucking dance to. Bastards!
2. Wayne’s World Bohemian Rhapsody. I want that Pacer.
3. Chick flicks do this all the time to show just how much fun the sistas have together and how clos they are and IT MAKES ME WANT TO SMASH THINGS!
4. Any time Mrs. Toad has had a few too many.
5. Only football songs, really. What a yobbo.
That version of Radio Free Europe could have me throwing some shapes right here at my desk.
Which would be entertaining for my colleagues, no doubt.
What the fuck’s happening on Saturday night, then? Apart from the Kid Canaveral EP launch, that is.
Nothing. You wouldn’t like it.
1. Back in Black, Blame it on the Boogie, Teenage Kicks. Oh there are too may to choose from. Also anything vauguely ok at wedding discos tend to send me into a pogo frenzy.
2. The old lady rapping to Sugarhill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight in the Wedding Singer. Infact that song could be added the answer above too.
3.Any sinister soundtrack in Steven Speilberg films designed to heighten the emotions. Evil.
4. Dancing with my skirt tucked in my knickers when I was 17. Tragic.
5. I have no memory and can’t even recall all of the lyrics to my favourite ever songs. I tend to do a mixture of rewriting first verses with what I think is being sung (usually different from the actual lyrics) singing anthemic choruses with gusto and humming or making up the rest. I am ashamed to admit that I do know many of the lyrics to Living on a Prayer. I don’t know why I know that Tommy used to work on the dock and that he is down on his luck, I just do ok?
Wayne’s fucking World? Seriously?
It’s not 1993.
Yes Barticles, actually it is.
1. ‘Hot Generation’ by The Pandoras. Oh, how I love that surf-style guitar.
2. It’s not a movie, but I liked the episode of Buffy that was a musical. It’s the only one I can actually remember with any sort of clarity.
3. The musical Brigadoon. Terrible stuff.
4. Anytime I see my older brother dancing. So very, very awkward.
5. Deanna by Nick Cave. Probably. I don’t think I could sing any song without the song actually playing, though.
The Buffy musical was oddly excellent. Partly because actually enjoying Buffy confused the shit out of me.
A photo of our master recently as he celebrates after selling another copy of the nothings broke ep.
it’s not 1989 toad!
It is an experience I’ve not often had.
Fuck off Rubbish Husband.
I was going to post but you can eat my pants you two left feet mofo.
i actually really love Mrs Toad?
Hey! There are rules here woman. Where are your five?
1. Vanilla Ice, without a shadow of doubt
2. Bohemian Rhapsody in Waynes World
3. Chim Chim-n-ney or whatever it is on Mary poppins. Hate it. Hate it. Hate it.
4. The one on Youtube when the guy in skin tight lycra does a high kick and kicks himself in the head and the Australian host says ‘looks like he’s pulled a hammy’
5. Fog On the Tyne by Gazza, I have no idea why this is and didn’t even realise I knew the words until it came on somewhere and I could spookily sing/badly rap all of it.
1. Whatever was playing at Beep Beep Yeah after the Jesus h foxx ep launch. Lives were nearly lost.
2. Twist & Shout in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
3. I have to go with Lost That Loving Feeling in Top Gun too.
4. See answer 1 above.
5. Concrete schoolyard by Jurrasic 5.
1. To which song do you feel compelled to do your most exaggerated and embarrassing comedy dancing?
Err, theres such a variety but I’d have to go with anything that allows a little headbanging. GnR or the Cult She Sells Sanctuary
2. Favourite movie singalong moment.
I fucking hate singy movies.
3. Worst movie singalong moment.
All of them. Especially where its unacknowledged and life reverts to normal immediately. High School wotsit.
4. Best point-and-laugh comedy dancing moment.
Mr Toad doesn’t stick his tongue out to the side while dancing but he looks like he wants to.
5. Which song(s) do you know all or most of the lyrics to (and for the band people on this thread, no, ones you perform regularly do not count).
Och. Paradise City probably. Best screamed tunelessly at 4am under influence of Vodka Red Bull or Jagermeister.
2. Twist & Shout in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
AMAZING!
Christ if I didn’t stick my tongue out to the side when I danced I’d fall over all the fucking time.
Was Mrs. Toad’s random chastising of Matthew actually in relation to anything – or did she just swing by – slag him off – and then bugger off again?!
If so – brilliant!
Aww… Forgot to refresh before posting.
1. Gold by Spandau Ballet. But only at weddings, natch. There’s a particularly good sax solo bit in it.
2. It’s gotta be Always Look On the Bright Side of Life in Life Of Brian, surely? Although I did immediately think of Bohemian Rhapsody in Waynes World, it’s true (bah bah-bah bah bah, you know that much is true….sorry, I’m a bit demob-happy)
3. Anything from Grease or Dirty Dancing
4. Probaby myself at a wedding. I’m usually so drunk I can’t count, and end up totally messing up someone’s strip the willow/wedding/life, as I’m surrounded by indignant relatives thinking “it’s not my fault, I wasn’t trained to do this from Primary school”
5. Where the Wild Roses Grow, or in fact anything from Murder Ballads (particularly impressive in the case of Stagger Lee I feel, as it’s about three years long).
A fucking drive-by pwning.
The bitch.
1) Frightened Rabbit – Good Arms vs Bad Arms
2) The Big Chill – All of it.
3) My Best Friends Wedding – All of it
4) My wife and cousin have a choreographed dance routine they do to Rick Astley ‘Never Going to Give You Up. It’s impressive. But also terrible.
5) Mumford and Sons – White Blank Page. And I sing it with some tremendous emotional gusto.
Mrs. Toad. My wife taught me to dance watching the movie Hitch. It’s terrible. I mean really terrible. But his advice on dancing has allowed us to dance together at wedding. Which is apparently important.
Oh yeah, Twist and Shout in Ferris Buellers Day Off is great, I’d forgotten that. It was on at the cameo recently, and I had to drag Mr Scientist kicking and screaming to see it, he claimed he hated it, but I’m certain I heard laughter coming from his general direction on more than one occasion..
Oooh ooh. I am changing my first answer to Journey – Don’t Stop Believing.
For some reason white Americans migrate to dance floors whenever that or Living on a Prayer by Bon Jovi happens. It’s like moths to a flame. Or something out of a Zombie movie, sinster political rally. They can’t help themselves.
Living on a Prayer?
Paging Chutters!
You should have seen our house at Christmas when Dancing in the Dark went on – it was like a herd of rhythmically challenged wildebeest waving their arms around.
5) Mumford and Sons – White Blank Page. And I sing it with some tremendous emotional gusto.
Do you sing “Bi-dim-dim-dim-dim-dim-dim. Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum.” to
Ted’s little descending scale bit he does at the end of the second chorus?
Like I do.
1. Probably “Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough” (I once danced along to an instrumental version in Henry’s Cellar Bar that went on for about 20 minutes, I was in heaven) or “Around the World” (by Daft Punk lest anyone confuse that with the similarly titled Oasis debacle).
2. Fave movie singalong – it’s not really a singalong but the bit in Dirty Dancing where they mime to some song that mentions “lover boy” and answering and they crawl around on the floor for a bit and Swayze is a legend – and I’m only saying that cos he’s dead now. I hated that movie when I was a child but I was just being a dick, it’s a masterpiece, and someone told me the other day that it wasn’t intended to be cheesy or ironic – how they can have made that movie and not intended it to be cheesy, and still absolutely nailed it, is a miracle.
I also really like the bit in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off when they sing Twist & Shout on the street cavalcade. Ace. RIP John Hughes.
Damnit – and the bit in Anchorman when they sing Afternoon Delight – skyyyyyrockets in flight!
3. Top Gun probably or that bit in My Best Friend’s wedding where Rupert Everett leads that Say a Little Prayer dinner table singalong – but actually I kind of like it a little too.
4. My wife’s mother is an incredibly inelegant mover, she’s a very elegant woman but her dancing involves demonstrative bouncy stomping about with legs spread widely and an element of arhythmic contortioning. I pissed myself involuntarily the first time I saw and received a stern ticking off from my wife as a result. It is hilarious though.
5. Maybe Living on a Prayer or something.
the bit in Anchorman when they sing Afternoon Delight – skyyyyyrockets in flight!
Nailed it. Brilliant call.
ANCHORMAN!!!
Anchorman?
I haven’t actually. But I really thrown my back into the aaaahhh aaaahhhh aaaaahhhh.
Also, Anchorman? Really.
Liking your RBQ work, Rhi.
Yes, Anchorman.
Best of luck for the House Gig! Have a great weekend!
1. Everyone always gets a bit crazy during ‘Strip the Willow’ and throws eachother around, but I suspect that’s not what you mean.
2. This Is Spinal Tap, ‘Big Bottom’ or any of a their tunes, really.
3. Any musical ever.
4. Any of mine, which is why I avoid it. Aside from that I always thought that bit on Blockbusters at the end where they all did ‘hand jives’ was fucking hilarious.
5. I put ‘Graceland’ on the turntable today for the first time in ages and realised I knew all the words to every song. My mum bught it along with everyone else’s parents and it was played it in the car. I can remember my mum telling me that Paul Simon was married to Princess Lea and thinking he was the coolest guy on the planet.
This is my dancing inspiration.
This topped VH1’s list of worst music videos ever made. VH1, apparently, are oblivious to the concept of irony.
1. I’ve occasionally been drunk and/or oblivious enough to think that it’s alright to try and copy the film moves for something like ‘Shake your Tailfeather’ and that nobody will mind.
2. I think the buffy musical (‘Once More With Feeling’) is brilliant, but then I think buffy is generally brilliant. I love the fact that they’d reached a point in various narrative threads and arcs where they all distrusted each other, they all were lying to each other, they were all becoming isolated from each other and, essentially, nothing but a musical could save them.
3. ‘Having It All’ in Absolute Beginners ALTHOUGH if it’s possible to put the leads to one side (as they were, in their very different ways, dreadful) I really really like Absolute Beginners – partially it’s context, it was something we all kind of decided to support when it came along, we even dressed up to go together to the first night of release – but it’s full of brilliant cameos, and some fantastic studio sets and camera stuff, and even if it didn’t work I’m very pleased they tried.
4. There was a bloke in my first year at university who had the full on miami vice look and used to dance very expressively indeed to the then-as-now contemporary ‘never gonna give you up’ and I used to stand at the side and laugh and wait for them to play ‘I Want You Back’ again or the strange house (??? possibly, or I may just be very very bad at genre labels) thing that sampled it.
5. All of them.