Toadcast #130 – The Poshcast
My little brother is in town visiting, and he is the sound designer for the Boston Ballet, and on Wednesday night (I think) we got obliterated on gin and had something of a musical duel; each taking turns on the stereo, me playing some of the weirder stuff I listen to and him playing bits of classical music. Honestly, it was fucking ace. As a DJ set it would have absolutely delighted me anyway, even if everyone else ended up fucking off, but nevertheless, that evening was what music fandom is really about for me.
So this podcast isn’t really a recreation by any means (we are far, far too sober and nothing like argumentative enough for starters) but I thought it would be nice to do a podcast along those lines. Personally, it’s maybe not even as classical as I might personally have liked it to be, but never mind, I really like it.
And, as usual, there is a correction to be made. We describe the them tune to Star Trek Deep Space Nine as Theme for the Common Man, and apparently it isn’t that at all. What it is is heavily, heavily borrowed from Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man. So the bit of classical music Ben describes hearing before we play that song must actually have been Fanfare for the Common Man, which only reminded him of the Deep Space Nine theme without actually being it. Whoops. Next time research before talking!
Toadcast #130 – The Poshcast
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01. Mozart – Requiem in D Minor (02.40)
02. Yann Tiersen – La Lettre d’Explication (16.18)
03. The Flaming Lips – Watching the Planets (23.33)
04. Theme to Star Trek – Deep Space Nine (28.47)
05. Les T̻tes Raides РManuela (38.49)
06. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – The Proposition #1 (49.13)
07. The Books – S is for Everysing (52.29)
08. Nico Muhly – The Only Tune (64.00)
1. A sort of dark, blueish purple. Like the colour of a bruise.
2. I quite liked him in The Fifth Element.
3. I used to have one hung over the rear-view mirror of this Volkswagen Vento I had about ten years ago, and it used to bounce around like crazy! I think the shocks had gone on that old Vento.
4. Is it a koala bear holding a cobra?Â
5. Best thing is to dab it with a little white spirit first. Â
1) By a mile the underbelly of a newt
2) He would have been the best batman ever
3) my second girlfriend was obsessed by them but I found they were quite painful by day 2
4) definitely a monkey with a hand grenade
5) Singing yanky doodle dandy under the bath water helps
MOZART!
Fucking yas min.
Erm, yeah. Not going to be a big hit-magnet, this one!
Fuck them, Matthew. People are wrong.