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Yoo hoo Toadlings, welcome to Toadcast No. 22.  This one is a sort of natural follow-on from the series of movie soundtrack posts we ran on the site a week or so ago.  I can’t believe we managed an entire series without mentioning either Ennio Morricone or Quentin Tarantino.

So I’ve tried to put that part right here, as well as throwing in some corkers by the likes of Nick Cave & Warren Ellis and a few others.  It may come across slightly as a novelty podcast, what with the Darth Vader theme music and so on, but I still think it makes an interesting listen.

It actually made an interesting listen for me this morning too, because I was so utterly shanghaied on gin by the end of it that I actually don’t remember half of the introductions to the songs towards the end.  So join me on a voyage of discovery and find out exactly what on earth I found to say about Nick Cave whilst pickled out of my tits on a Friday evening.

Toadcast #22 – The Cinecast

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01. John Williams – The Imperial March (00.00)
02. Barry Adamson – 007, A Phantasy Bond Theme(05.37)
03. Ennio Morricone – The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (11.44)
04. Hans Zimmer – True Romance (16.20)
05. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Rather Lovely Thing (23.37)
06. The Divine Comedy – Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds (28.10)
07. The Psychedelic Furs – Pretty in Pink (32.21)
08. Simple Minds – Don’t You Forget About Me (36.12)
09. Andrew Lloyd Webber – Everything’s Alright (45.04)
10. The Divine Comedy – Les Jours Tristes (51.43)
11. R.E.M. – Leave (58.31)
12. The Shins – Saint Simon (62.27)
13. Eels – Your Lucky Day in Hell (70.52)
14. Tom Waits & Crystal Gale – Take Me Home (77.49)
15. Barry Adamson – Mitch & Andy (80.30)
16. Andrew Lloyd Webber – King Herod’s Song (88.53)
17. John Williams – Cantina Band Theme (93.01)
18. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand (Scream 3 Version) (97.01)
19. The Pogues – Night on Bald Mountain (105.22)
20. Ennio Morricone – Once Upon a Time in the West (Deborah’s Theme) (109.01)
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My dearest Toadlings it is with enormous pleasure and brimming pride that I present the light of my silly life, the bright and shining star at the centre of my universe and the bad tempered little Scottish strumpet to whom my every waking hour is devoted.  That sounds sarcastic, but it isn’t.

She treats the music I play with a sort of contemptuous indifference and has some truly shocking stuff in her rather limited collection.  But she has a punk side, she loves Bob Dylan and has taken to some unexpected groups recently, like The Sequins, The Builders & the Butchers and Grandaddy.  It slowly started to dawn on me that actually, Dolly Parton aside for the moment, she could probably put together a better playlist than I could, and I was absolutely mortified to be proved absolutely right.

So I thought I’d get her along to co-present too, which seemed like it might be fun.  It was a bit odd at first, but we warm up a bit by the end and it turns slowly into what I think it a pretty decent podcast, all told.  I’m not sure I’ll be able to talk her into doing this too often, but if it proves a success I promise to do my best.

Toadcast #13 – The Mrs. Toadcast

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01. Lambchop – Dallas Theme Song (00.00)
02. Sham 69 – Borstal Breakout (03.10)
03. The Clash – I Fought the Law (06.49)
04. Stiff Little Fingers – Alternative Ulster (10.53)
05. Depeche Mode – Just Can’t Enough (16.18)
06. The Cure – Just Like Heaven (19.50)
07. Ennio Morricone – The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (26.14)
08. Nirvana – Sliver (33.02)
09. Guns ‘n’ Roses – Get in the Ring (38.32)
10. Bob Dylan – Tangled Up in Blue (48.21)
11. Eels – Fresh Feeling (53.58)
12. The Von Bondies – No Regrets (61.31)
13. The 63 Crayons – Spoils For Survivors (66.16)
14. Honeytrap – Andy the Freefaller (71.15)
15. The Builders & the Butchers – Black Dresses (76.11)
16. Night Jar – Poor Man’s Son (81.46)
17. The Indelicates – Waiting For Pete Doherty to Die (89.54)