Every couple of weeks I sit down with a couple of gins and talk you through the new music that's caught my ears in the last fortnight. There'll be a few classics and a few mainstream bands but the focus will always be on the new, the emerging, the eclectic and the interesting.
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Toadcast #301 - The Bettecast
As you should well know by now, this is not the Bett-cast, it is the Bettycast, as our ridiculous car is named after Bette Davis, who spelled it Bett but pronounced it Betty. So there.
Once again this is a bit of a Rust2Rome retrospective, with ruminations on brake fade in the Alps, grown men sporting mohicans, driving far too fast and complaining about things not being entirely predictable when on holiday in a car which cost lest than £500. There may also be a little teeny-tiny bit of ranting about stupid people, but y'know, there usually is on these things isn't there.
Also, I think some of my Rust2Rome pals might end up listening to this, which is going to be weird, because they'll get to realise what depressing taste in music I have. Generally when you tell someone you work in music they think 'oh, that's interesting' and you can pretend to be cool for a bit. Then they hear the kind of music you're into and the illusion is shattered. Ah well, they had to find out sooner or later.
01. The Wedding Present - Drive (00.24)
02. The Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) (06.24)
03. Parts & Labor - Fractured Skies (16.16)
04. My Teenage Stride - The Genie of New Jersey (20.20)
05. R.E.M. - Be Mine (26.43)
06. Jonnie Common - Summer is For Going Places (35.52)
07. David Thomas Broughton - Ain't Got No Sole (40.47)
08. Steven Malkmus & the Jicks - Baby C'mon (50.23)
09. Eels - Woman Driving, Man Sleeping (54.49)
10. Band of Horses - The Funeral (1.03.25)