Toad and Ruth Back on Fresh Air Tonight
Fresh Air, after giving its hard-working students an entirely deserved and not at all excessive four months off over the Summer, is back on the interweb airwaves this week. And you know what that means, don’t you? Yes, Ruth calling me names for an hour and a half while we play songs! Hooray! Kind of.
We’ve been off the air for ages, and I actually haven’t seen Ruth all that much in the intervening time, so it will be nice to have a chat and catch up, although I promise to try and do most of that whilst the songs are playing so as not to bore you too much.
Live from 8pm (UK time) – listen here.
The player on the page linked to above can be a little flaky, so just pause and un-pause it and that should sort it out. Alternatively I am pretty certain you can find us on iTunes quite easily. We’ll be updating the playlist live below as we go along, so feel free to chip in with comments during the show and we’ll… well, probably just tell you to piss off, really.
1. Meursault – Crank Resolutions
2. Jackson C. Frank – Blues Run the Game
3. Sweet Baboo – I’m a Dancer
4. Onions – I Want to be a Dancer
5. The Decemberists – Down by the Water
6. The National – Terrible Love (New Version)
7. The Driftwood Singers – Coco Ellis
8. Oz St. Fossils – The Jeweller’s Daughter
9. Trips and Falls – I Learned Sunday Morning, on a Wednesday
10. REM – I Believe
11. Ray’s Vast Basement – The Story of Lee
12. Pet Shop Boys – What Have I Done to Deserve This?
13. Sparta Philharmonic – Devotion
14. Nick Drake – Blues Run the Game
Tuned in during that Jackson C Frank song and was instantly gripped, so I’m glad to know that my soul must therefore be in full working order.
What, even after the sock fiasco?
just missed it, damn.
You can still pick a cover of the same song to end the show with: Bert Jansch, Nick Drake, Counting Crows or Simon and Garfunkel?
Just tuned in here in Austin.
Haven’t heard anyone calling you names yet.
That National mix is rubbish, its all radio two and no drum kit falling down the stairs and as for the ooo oos …bless
woops, the ends quite good though
I thought the same thing at the beginning and then was like… oh, actually that’s quite nice, but maybe not worth a rerelease of a whole ablum nice.
And Counting Crows.
Peej – No Ruth this week, sadly, she’s stuck at work.
Cogstar – barely worth re-releasing a whole record for though. Mind you, I know there were other reasons.
And pick a Blues Run the Game cover, you two. So far Simon & Garfunkel are winning.
I am voting for Nick Drake, incidentally.
Counting Crows for me too. and bollocks Onions Manchester gig is on the same night as our works christmas party.
Balls. I’d really like to see them. Maybe we should try and get them up to Edinburgh!
Even after the sock fiasco… you know, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, so I guess I’ll live to hoover another day. Nick Drake gets my vote for the end of the show, by the way.
…Oooh REM. I love a bit of REM. It’s my music for getting through slow fridays at work.
We need a deciding vote to separate Counting Crows and Nick Drake – come on people, don’t let this turn into Florida all over again!
you could always just play the losing song. That would serve us right! hehe.
How about some sort of AV voting system? That would surely work…..? No?
Woo hoo, Nick Drake – see you all next week.