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 #289 - The Monkeycast
Tomorrow morning we start recording the new Meursault album: The Organ Grinder's Monkey. The only problem is, we have no idea whatsoever what's going to be on this album, just yet, but we're going to have a go nevertheless.
The album is actually being fan-funded, so we thought it should probably also be fan-chosen, so if you buy a copy of the album from our Kickstarter page, you then get to vote for five songs, Meursault ones or covers, and we'll record the most popular ones for the album - hence the title.
Anyhow, picking an album involving so many potential covers is a nightmare. So many great ideas, so many awful-but-brilliant ideas, so many just plain awful ideas, and you just don't know where to stop! So this podcast is a combination of the most popular tunes, the most popular bands, and some brilliant covers by bands who have already done an amazing job of this kind of shit. As to the final album - hell, who knows, you've about as much idea of how it'll turn out as I do!
01. The Flaming Lips - I Just Can't Get You Out of My Head (00.22)
02. Wolf Parade - I'll Believe in Anything (09.27)
03. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Bats in the Attic (16.44)
04. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Fare Thee Well (20.10)
05. Admiral Radley - I'm All Fucked on Beer (26.47)
06. The Japanese War Effort - Face Like a Lemon (Live on Fresh Air Radio ) (32.44)
07. Baccara - Yes Sir, I Can Boogie (35.37)
08. Dead Kennedys - Viva Las Vegas (45.40)
09. Clem Snide - Beautiful (51.49)
10. The Mountain Goats - Dilaudid (59.19)
11. The Magnetic Fields - All the Desperate Things You Made Me Do (1.01.27)