Song, by Toad

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

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William Shatner – Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds

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William Shatner – Real (From this – buy it, it’s actually really, honestly a good album!)

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Star Wars Theme

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Star Trek Theme

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Jetsons Theme

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Greetings and Happy Valentine’s day my little Toadlings. Wait, what’s that? You hate Valentine’s Day? Loathe it in fact? Would dearly love to nuke fucking Hallmark and every last shitty little shop peddling their tawdry baubles and meaningless rubbish that serve no purpose other than to defile the pure concept of true love and disrespect the dignity of the un-mated?

Good. Me too. In fact, us too, for the wildly popular (grumble, sulk) Mrs. Toad is back to do the great Valentine’s anti-podcast with me. To bitch and moan, to get side-tracked, to ramble and to poke pointed sticks in the side of the great marketing behemoth that the most shallow and meaningless of public celebrations has become. If you do not like Valentine’s Day very much, then this is the place to be.

Toadcast #21 – The Lurvecast

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01. Nirvana – Where Did You Sleep Last Night? (00.23)
02. The Velvet Underground – Femme Fatale (08.06)
03. The Raveonettes – Little Animal (10.57)
04. R.E.M. – The One I Love (13.57)
05. Half-Man Half-Biscuit – Paintball’s Coming Home (20.54)
06. The Pierces – Boring (25.43)
07. (The Real) Tuesday Weld – Terminally Ambivalent Over You (31.03)
08. Shane MacGowan & the Popes – Her Father Didn’t Like Me Anyway (34.41)
09. The Wave Pictures – When I Leave You For Somebody Else (38.30)
10. Pulp – Pink Glove (45.33)
11. The Raincoats – Don’t Be Mean (50.15)
12. Rufus Wainright – One Man Guy (59.34)
13. William Shatner – Ideal Woman (66.34)
14. The Sequins – Nobody Dreams About Me (71.45)
15. The Smiths – Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want (77.31)
16. The Walkmen – Don’t Forget Me (82.58)
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