The Doledrums can be found here, and are a recently discovered (by me anyway) Edinburgh band who play an upbeat psychobilly style of music that I really like.

Psychobilly is generally a genre I’ve always wanted to like more than actually liked – I hear a stray Cramps song and really enjoy it, for example, but if I try and listen to an entire album it often just doesn’t quite do it for me.  These lads, however, are excellent.  I put them in the podcast a few weeks ago but I thought they definitely deserved a post of their own.

I don’t know what sets this apart, but there’s something upbeat and spiky about the rhythm which I like, and that elusive quality of being able to write a tune that sticks in your heard doesn’t exactly hurt either.  Basically, when they are on I tap my feet, bounce up and down and cheer right up.  And you can’t say much fairer than that.

The Doledrums – Midweek Dreamer
The Doledrums – Suspect Minds

The Doledrums on MySpace

More errant podcastery from your favourite slippery green amphibian. This week I find myself yelling abuse at JC who writes a terrible blog called The Vinyl Villain and is currently stranded in Toronto for a few months, far away from his Glasgow home. JC was pretty much the first blogger to take any interest in Song, by Toad in its formative days and I have always been rather grateful for the encouragement Jim showed me back when I was starting out.

As such I thought I’d play a few songs from his favourite groups, a couple of things he’s brought us in the last few months and some songs about missing folk, seeing as he’ll presumably be pining like a teenager for the lovely Mrs. Villain. Well, that or masturbating himself into a zinc-deficient coma, of course.

Either way, hope you’re enjoying yourself JC. Here’s some bloody songs for ya!

Toadcast #5 – Distant Villainy

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1. Belly – Trust In Me (01.54)
2. Maximo Park – Girls Who Play Guitars (08.30)
3. The Doledrums – Midweek Dreamer (12.50)
4. Waylon Jennings – Dukes of Hazzard Theme (15.20)
5. Billy Bragg – Wishing the Days Away (Ballad Version) (18.33)
6. Alex Cornish – This One’s For You (24.28)
7. Adam Balbo – Rock Ballad (31.02)
8. Elbow – Fugitive Motel (36.24)
9. R.E.M. – Half a World Away (41.21)
10. The Doledrums – He Said (47.14)
11. The Meteors – Out of Time (51.21)
12. James – Say Something (55.33)
13. Thunderegg – Long Way From Home (59.50)
14. The Pendulums – Brand New Song (66.52)