Yep, it’s time to lie back on the shrink’s couch and ‘tell me about your childhood’.  Well.  Sort of.  Actually, my mum just happens to be in town, so I reckon that on Fresh Air Radio this week I might just play all sorts of mum songs, just for shits and giggles.

This came about because of the following comment by my brother on the thread about music formats this week:

“I need to at some point clarify Mum’s music taste for your readers because the poor woman just constantly gets dismissed as a ‘pop fan’.  

The poor woman has a massive collection of jazz, blues; a truly encyclopaedic Opera and symphonic collection and yet, one Lighthouse Family album and the poor woman’s whole musical taste just goes whooosh out the window while Dad is sanctified while you merrily ignore his David Grey albums.  Albums with an emphasis on the plural!”

Now, as you might well know by now, I am a philistine, so mum’s classical music and whatnot means absolutely bollocks-all to me.  However, I think it needs to be pointed out that I most certainly do not ‘dismiss’ my mum as a pop fan.  I fucking love the pop stuff she used to play around the house when we were growing up, and if anything it was my mum’s stuff which first properly got me into music in the first place.

On air from 3:30pm UK time – listen live here.

So for all I do indeed call her a pop fan, which she most certainly is, I do not at all mean that to be a dismissal.  As you will find out on Fresh Air today, when I will be playing all sorts of shite from my mum’s record collection.  And of course, seeing as I left home in 1993, it will be enormously 80s-tastic!

And now, while we’re at it, for the Friday Fives. Honestly, I doubt I can do much better with these questions than I’ll do with the music I’m going to play this afternoon, but Mrs. Toad and I were talking about doing a Saxcast this weekend, so I thought I might ask for some help.

1. Which instrument would you like to see get the saxophone Total Taboo treatment?
2. Best super cheesy 80s sax tune.
3. Acceptable use of sax.
4. Awesome Great Big Eighties Pop Song!
5. Most eighties of all eighties movies.

Song, by Toad’s Friday Fives radio tracklisting for today:
1. David Bowie – China Girl
2. Meat Loaf – Dead Ringer for Love
3. Bow Wow Wow – Aphrodisiac
4. Sparrow & the Workshop – Devil Song (Live)
5. Erasure – Sometimes
6. Bruce Springsteen – Dancing in the Dark
7. Withered Hand – Cornflake (Fresh Air Session)
8. Mike MacFarlane – Waltz (Fresh Air Session)
9. Simple Minds – Don’t You Forget About Me
10. Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill
11. The Magnets – Ever Fallen in Love (Buzzcocks cover)
12. ABC – Poison Arrow
13. Meursault – Lament for a Teenage Millionaire (Fresh Air Session)

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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