Toadcast #125 – The Whorecast
This is a not entirely accurately-titled podcast, in that the whoring only takes place over a couple of songs at the tail end and does not at all influence any of the rest of the playlist.
What am I talking about, you ask? Well when I played a few trendy songs a few months back the listership of the podcast doubled over the course of a few weeks. I noticed this back when I was a bit more rigorous about the blog in the early days: if I reviewed high-profile new releases in the week of release it generated a large spike in readership.
So I’ve dropped a couple of very hype-friendly songs into the end of this podcast to see if that actually has any influence on anything at all. I found nice ones – ones I actually like, I mean – so don’t worry, your normally glittering listening experience will not be tarnished one bit. But bear in mind that this week we are all the guineau pigs in a silly internet hit-whoring experiment. Sorry.
Toadcast #125 – The Whorecast
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01. Burnt Ones – Sunset Hill (03.46)
02. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – The Mercy Seat (09.34)
03. Girls Names – You Should Know by Now (18.32)
04. Pagan Wanderer Lu – Banish Negative Thoughts (20.26)
05. The Cure – Pictures of You (28.01)
06. Echo & the Bunnymen – The Killing Moon (35.37)
07. Taken by Trees – Watch the Waves (42.12)
08. Wild Nothing – Summer Holiday (49.21)
09. The Beets – What Did I Do (53.20)
10. Silver Columns – Warm Welcome (56.17)
11. Velvet Underground – Venus in Furs (62.41)
Wild Nothing you trendy bastard! Have you now got one of those half shaved heads and a sweeping fringe?!
I jest. Their debut is pretty strong. See also in the ‘hipster music but not shite’ category;
Knight School
Beach Fossils
Future Islands
Radio Dept.
Delorean
and, somewhat begrudingly The Drums (I REALLY LIKE THEIR ALBUM, OKAY?!)
You don’t like it, you’re just saying that to be cool.
I really wanted not to like it to be cool. I guess I am a square.
Hope London is treating you all nicely. Last time I was there five Polish guys kicked the shit out of me for pulling one of their wives. Dont make that mistake!
Girls Names too, I really like that record – everything on Tough Love at the moment is great in my book.
No Ian, I managed to steer clear of that one thanks. Although it’s not the Polish guys I’d have to fear…
Tim – yep, Tough Love have had the golden touch for some time now.
You should stick “Connected” on your podcast. They didnt even come in 3rd. Gutted.
Howabout GAYNGS, AVI Buffalo, or Wild Beasts. For some hipster chique.
Isn’t it hip to be bored by Wild Beasts yet? Can’t be long surely, the hipster attention span is surely just not that long.
Wild Beast?! Yawn.
Avi Buffalo? Not yawn.
wild beasts- like jeff buckley being dry humped in the face by morrissey. in a bad way. fact.
Wild Beasts are fucking ace, whether or not it’s hip to be bored of them. Inconsistent maybe, but nevertheless excellent.
So fuck off.
I saw a wee bit of their set at Stag and Dagger. Sounded great and pulled the biggest crowd of the night. So you may still be hip, old yin!
I’ll be the first to admit, i don’t get wild beasts…. every so often a band comes along that almost everyone i know really loves but, for whatever reason i just can’t get into… i’m sure this is a fairly universal thing.
Well there’s still a fair bit of their stuff I don’t like either, but some of it I really do think is brilliant.
it’s difficult to know sometimes when to stop trying to like a band isn’t it? as in, when to give in and admit that it’s just not for you and that there isn’t some kind of hidden element that you’ve yet to uncover….still, i reckon this one’s had it’s turn
If you don’t like them by now, I don’t think you’re gonna. I play them almost every time I DJ, so you’ve had more than enough tries.
” I play them almost every time I DJ”
For the uninitiated, Mr Toad sometime plays records on twin decks. When one record finishes, he plays the next. He refers to this as “DJing”.
It counts.
Avi Buffalo.
AVI. BUFFALO.
Dylan? You okay mate?
With all of these bands I have to kind of turn off my brain, and just listen.
Not saying its a good thing, but it works.
I think its because Im too beyond it to be a hipster. The jeans hurt my balls.
I think it becomes harder as you get older and realise how new and exciting it often is not. In that case you have to fall back on whether or not they write good melodies, in which case the hit rate is a lot lower.
Thats about right. Its always tempting to go with what you know.
There has to be some sort of tune going on, somewhere amongst the
clever cutting edge new ideas
Indeed, there’s nothing to stop a good songwriter getting a trendy haircut.
However, getting a trendy haircut doesn’t make you a good songwriter.
Hair hair.
Oh. Dear.