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Toadcast #130 – The Poshcast

Posted by Matthew in Podcast on 10 Jul 10 • 5 Comments »

My little brother is in town visiting, and he is the sound designer for the Boston Ballet, and on Wednesday night (I think) we got obliterated on gin and had something of a musical duel; each taking turns on the stereo, me playing some of the weirder stuff I listen to and him playing bits of classical music. Honestly, it was fucking ace. As a DJ set it would have absolutely delighted me anyway, even if everyone else ended up fucking off, but nevertheless, that evening was what music fandom is really about for me.

So this podcast isn’t really a recreation by any means (we are far, far too sober and nothing like argumentative enough for starters) but I thought it would be nice to do a podcast along those lines. Personally, it’s maybe not even as classical as I might personally have liked it to be, but never mind, I really like it.

And, as usual, there is a correction to be made. We describe the them tune to Star Trek Deep Space Nine as Theme for the Common Man, and apparently it isn’t that at all. What it is is heavily, heavily borrowed from Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man. So the bit of classical music Ben describes hearing before we play that song must actually have been Fanfare for the Common Man, which only reminded him of the Deep Space Nine theme without actually being it. Whoops. Next time research before talking!

Toadcast #130 – The Poshcast

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01. Mozart – Requiem in D Minor (02.40)
02. Yann Tiersen – La Lettre d’Explication (16.18)
03. The Flaming Lips – Watching the Planets (23.33)
04. Theme to Star Trek – Deep Space Nine (28.47)
05. Les Têtes Raides – Manuela (38.49)
06. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – The Proposition #1 (49.13)
07. The Books – S is for Everysing (52.29)
08. Nico Muhly – The Only Tune (64.00)

Tags: flaming lips, les tetes raides, mozart, nick cave and warren ellis, nico muhly, star trek, the books, yann tiersen

Space – The Final Front-Bottom

Posted by Matthew in Rambling on 23 Jan 09 • 9 Comments »

Enterprise

This is a little teaser for tomorrow’s podcast, because the playlist became so long that all sorts of good things ended up being cut from it, including three splendid suggestions by Dylan from Blueback Hotrod.

As most of you probably know already, for some inexplicable reason back at the height of the popularity of the original Star Trek series a couple of the main characters dipped their toes in the muddy shallows of the Celebrity Music Vanity Project. With some bafflingly bizarre results:

Most of you probably know that video already, not that that makes it any less funny. Less well known is that Leonard Nimoy also dabbled in the world of music, and it was no less weird:

This kind of crazy stuff just didn’t seem as incredibly fucking ludicrous back then, or at least so it seems, looking back. Remember when the cast of Star Wars appeared on the Muppet Show? Genius! Can you imagine the beast from Alien doing a song and dance number with a bunch of felt puppets? No, me neither.

Anyway, enough of such visual nonsense. Tomorrow’s podcast is going to be all space related and these rather splendid songs didn’t quite make the cut, so seeing as they are so odd and so brilliant at the same time I thought they had to make an appearance somewhere, and seeing as it’s Friday and the weekend is only hours away, some silliness won’t go amiss.

Leonard Nimoy – Highly Illogical