Song, by Toad

This is called the Slowcast because there are so many songs and, more commonly, whole albums out there which I took ages and ages to get into, and for no really obvious reason.

There are several reasons, I guess: how familiar a sound is, your emotional state at the time, what your mates are listening to, how popular something is and stuff like that.  I know I’ve admitted plenty of times in the past that I have a habit of refusing to like things if they get too popular.  That sounds ludicrous, but it’s not exactly a conscious decision, more an instinctive recoiling.  I never have liked much popular stuff, although I do certainly go through phases.  Maybe that’s one of the reasons that, with the label, I am not looking to sign or work with the modern equivalent of a Top 40 band – I have never much liked Top 40 music.

Anyway, that’s not really the point of the podcast.  This is dedicated to those albums which for some reason you have to hear about a million times before you eventually, out of nowhere, realise that you love them.

Toadcast #72 – The Slowcast

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01. Billy Bragg – Honey I’m a Big Boy Now (04.36)
02. Tom Waits – Goin’ Out West (08.37)
03. Radiohead – My Iron Lung (14.14)
04. The Mutton Birds – Envy of Angels (23.42)
05. Mancino – Definition of an Accident (32.26)
06. The Mabuses – I’m the Greatest (36.09)
07. Interpol – Obstacle #1 (43.31)
08. My Latest Novel – Wolves (49.30)
09. The Wedding Present – 2, 3, Go! (55.29)
10. Yo La Tengo – Big Day Coming (59.56)

After last weekend’s heavily gin-related podcasting fiasco I am a little wary of entirely surrendering to the tender ministrations of my Juniperous Mistress this evening.  I don’t know if any of you listened to the bonus podcast I posted this week, but it is a scary example of car-crash TV er, podcastery at its most excruciating.

Either way, I am busting for a nice straight pint glass three-quarters full of ice, half a juiced lime bunged in and filled to within an inch of the top with Tanqueray.

Oh yes, and the tonic, sorry.

Anyhow, let’s get cheerful shall we people – it’s the ferkin weekend: time for festivities, frotting, fumbling and fornication. Go forth, get plastered, shag someone you really shouldn’t, make a total arse of yourself – you know you secretly want to! Dignity is overrated anyway, loosen up some and don’t be afraid to make a fool of yourself.  And how about some tunes to get in the mood…

A certain willenvelope left a message on my Thunderegg post earlier this week about further investigating The Mutton Birds.  Well, they’re not always this guitary, but it’s one of my favourite of their songs – from their first album, Nature. The Mutton Birds – The Heater
Levellers – Dog Train The Levellers are pretty enormously unfashionable these days, but this song is made for upbeaty happiness.
Morrissey – Certain People I Know No, not a moany one.
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies – Here Comes the Snake Remember what I said about shagging someone you shouldn’t?  Well this appears to be a song about it![audio http://www.matthewjamesyoung.com/sbt/CherryPoppinDaddies-HereComesTheSnake.mp3]
And just  to remind us all why we were all so looking forward to the new Interpol album, and at the same time, why it is such a disappointment: Interpol – NYC

Yes, another one. Mwah hah haaa. Lock up the kids, Campfires & Battlefields, because the Song, by Toad musical cuss-o-rama is back on air for more blethering, swearing, slurring and first class tunery.

Actually, I don’t think this one is anything like as good as the first, if I’m honest. It’s a bit over-long at fifteen songs so I think in future I’m going to limit myself to ten or twelve at the most, not least because my shitbox of a computer starts having a panic once I’ve stuffed that many audio files into a single project. So, fifteen songs then, with a bit of an emphasis on late 80s jangly indie guitar and containing one of the most brilliant ever drunken fuck-ups about three-quarters of the way through. Beware the horrors of letting your children turn into indie kids, people! So a bit too long, and occasionally too much inconsequential chatter, but we live and learn and the next one will be better, I promise.

Toadcast #2, the 80s English Indie One

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1. My Teenage Stride – Terror Bends (01.00)
2. Honeytrap – Let’s Do Naked Dancing (03.37)
3. The Mutton Birds – The Queen’s English (09.38)
4. The Veils – The Wild Son (17.38)
5. The 63 Crayons – Devils (21.40)
6. The Smiths – I Started Something (26.05)
7. Honeytrap – Death Before the Silver Screen (31.03)
8. Lloyd Cole & the Commotions – Morning is Broken (36.14)
9. The Indelicates – New Art For the People (41.57)
10. The Indelicates – Stars (45.51)
11. MJ Hibbett & the Validators – The Lesson of The Smiths (50.32)
12. The Specials – Guns of Navarone (55.02)
13. Echo & the Bunnymen – The Killing Moon (57.20)
14. Honeytrap – Mussolini’s Son (66.06)
15. Frank Turner – Heartless Bastard Motherfucker (73.25)