Given my near-total ignorance of hip hop, I was never likely to get the joke without a little bit of help. When I first listened to this EP I got myself in a right state because I really enjoyed it but the lyrics are quite amazingly offensive in so many places I was squirming. It took Mrs. Toad’s common sense and Google-fu to point out to me that it was actually supposed to be tongue in cheek, but to a neophyte like myself it was hardly obvious. Even the press release described it as ‘the wrongest thing you’ll ever have the pleasure of listening to’.
So I am really not quite the audience for this, and I doubt many of you are either, but I bloody love it anyway. The work of Mofo Snot on the samplified backing tracks is outstanding, to my ears. And between the glitch-hop musical atmosphere and Chopps’ lazy, indifferent delivery they’ve created something I find oddly brilliant.
Don’t ask me why I like this. It’s awful, even when you know it’s supposed to be tongue in cheek, but I just can’t stop myself listening to it. For some reason, despite being put together from almost no elements which I ever like, I love this EP.
Chopps Derby – Shite is Real
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By the time this is published I will be lying in bed in Toad Hall with a hangover like a nasty case of death warmed up. The Song, by Toad Christmas Party was on Friday 5th December, and given how exhausted I am at the moment I would imagine that about two or three gins into the evening I will be whistling Waltzing Matilda out my fucking ears.
Still, the Meursault album will be out, the party will be sorted, the Song, by Toad Records publicity juggernaut will be chuntering along comfortably and I will be able to begin the gentle slide into Christmas relaxation. Finally finally finally. I am so fucking exhausted from all the bloody time I’ve thrown into this since the Summer, and over Christmas there will be two weeks off with little to do but move this site all over to self-hosting and tinker a little with the design.
I’ll be trying to make the sessions and Toad Records things a little more prominent, and generally poking about in general. The problem is that my CSS is so piss-poor that I really am limited in what I can do, so I’ll just have to hope it turns out okay. I am loath to pay someone to redesign the thing for me though, because that seems to be somewhat contrary to the Spirit of All Things Toad.
The Spirit of All Things Toad, of course, being gin.
Toadcast #49 – Hangovers
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02. Doveman – Teacup (06.05)
03. Samamidon – Wild Bill Jones (12.53)
04. Phil & the Osophers – High Art (22.43)
05. Miracles of Modern Science – MR2 (26.15)
06. Radiohead – Idioteque (32.49)
07. Chopps Derby – Down the Dogs (41.22)
08. The 1900s – Age of Metals (47.01)
09. Alela Diane – White as Diamonds (50.12)
10. The Wave Pictures – Leave the Scene Behind (58.07)
