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 #6 - About a Boy
Erm, I ave no idea how to explain what you're in for if you bother to listen to this I'm afraid. The story goes like this: it was our anniversary, we were drinking and chatting and listening to music. A classic came on the stereo and we got talking about songs that would be so popular and so ingrained in popular culture that the writer of them would never have to work again and could live off the royalties, be they from television, advertising, movies or everyone wanting to cover your song. Like that chap in about a boy, for example.
Unfortunately, we were far from sober already and by the end of this, honestly: take my gin consumption, take the equivalent volume of water out of Noah's flood, and the Ark would have run aground on Clapham Common. In Toad world, apart from slurring, that means ranting and a relatively well-conceived podcast about commercial immortality descends into a rambling, incoherent tirade against the advertising industry, with songs.
So listen to it at your peril, you have been warned.
Toadcast #6 - About a Boy
1. Blur - Song 2 (02.38)
2. Eileen Carr - What a Feeling (04.46)
3. Eels - Mr. E's Beautiful Blues (10.10)
4. Bob Marley - Three Little Birds (16.15)
5. Tom Waits - Innocent When You Dream (20.58)
6. Kinobe - Slip Into Something (27.00)
7. The Pet Shop Boys - Go West (30.28)
8. Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love (35.34)
9. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'n' Roll (38.06)
10. The Pogues - Fairytale of New York (43.15)
11. The Who - My Generation (49.40)
12. The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go? (52.55)
13. The Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict a Riot (58.14)
14. The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army (64.04)
15. Bill Hicks - Marketing & Advertising (71.09)
Song, by Toad