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 #17 - The Cellarcast
The wench is away and I am here by myself, managing the last few days of our house project. You can imagine what fun that must be, I’m sure. Still, we move back in this weekend, so it may be a crap couple of days but it’ll all be over soon and then you’ll be relieved of me constantly whinging about it, which will be nice for you.
Given we’re living in a basement flat on a short term let for a month I got quite into the basementy idea with this playlist. I digressed into The Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan and the Band, but mostly it’s music from ‘95/6 when I was living in a damp, grotty basement flat in Glasgow with a mate and the girl I was seeing at the time.
I bought stacks of CD singles back then and lost them all when someone broke into the flat. Thanks to the joys of the internet I’ve been able to track most of them down recently, so you get a few of those, as well as some of the stuff I was listening to at the time.
It’s interesting as a historical document, to me anyway, but I am not sure how well the playlist itself works. There’s something about this podcast that I’m not sure I like as much as the others, even though I like all the songs on it. I don’t know, let me know what you think. Perhaps Tears of Rage, Oasis and the Cranberries aren’t good enough songs to have all on the same podcast.
Toadcast #17 - The Cellarcast
01. Blur w. Francoise Hardy - To the End (03.33)
02. Oasis - Rocking Chair (10.54)
03. Bob Dylan & the Band - Tears of Rage (17.59)
04. Bob Dylan - Baby, Let Me Follow You Down (Live) (25.54)
05. The Band - Rockin’ Chair (29.17)
06. Lloyd Cole - Unhappy Song (37.59)
07. Hootie & the Blowfish - Sad Caper (48.40)
08. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Shallow Grave (54.03)
09. Tom Waits - November (55.55)
10. Barenaked Ladies - The Old Apartment (63.26)
11. Ray’s Vast Basement - Black Cotton (68.33)
12. The Bluetones - Colorado Beetle (71.08)
13. The Boo Radleys - Almost Nearly There (79.35)
14. The Cranberries - Joe (87.07)
15. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Ballad of Robert Moore & Betty Coltrane (96.13)
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