Once again featured on this week’s perky nonsense, along with the omnipresent Mr. Toad (off of his whipsmart Song, BY Toad bloggerthon) & his equally potty-mouthed wife-type Mrs Toad, is the swoony chops of The Woman of The House imparting her limited knowledge on all things music. Not to forget, of course, the presence of the Scout Master himself one half of leading them all to their certain doom ‘cross windy hillock & dale of non-sequitorial plains.
Welcome, then, you, to this brand spanked installment of what we will be Christening Drunk Covers VI — 3 hours of cover versions playlisted as follows:
1) The Power of Love – The Pigeon Detectives / Huey Lewis & The News
2) The Edge of Heaven – The Hot Stewards / Wham!
3) Dry Your Eyes – Brian Kennedy / The Streets
4) Toxic – Yael Naim / Britney Spears
5) Don’t Let Me Down – Marcia Griffiths / The Beatles
6) All That She Wants – The Kooks / Ace of Base
7) Over & Over – The Miserable Rich / Hot Chip
8) Born Slippy Nuxx – Get Well Soon / Underworld
9) You Oughta Know – Jaymz Bee & The Royal Jelly Orchestra / Alanis Morissette
10) Rubber Biscuit – Supersuckers / The Chips
11) Hello Sunshine – Syd Matters / Super Furry Animals
12) White Wedding – Whip / Billy Idol
13) Be My Baby – Glasvegas / The Ronettes
14) Take A Chance - WFMU’s Tom Scharpling, Ben Gibbard, Pharmacist’s Ted Leo & Patton Oswalt / ABBA
Song, By Toad Recommends
15) Gin & Juice – The Gourds / Snoop Doggy Dogg
16) Can’t Get You Out of My Head – The Flaming Lips / Kylie Minogue
17) Untitled Melody – The Divine Comedy / Orange Juice
18) Felicity – The Wedding Present / Orange Juice
19) Next – Richard Godwin / Jacques Brel
20) Common People – William Shatner / Pulp
21) Blowin’ In The Wind – Dolly Parton + Nickel Creek / Bob Dylan
22) Exit Music (For A Film) – Vampire Weekend / Radiohead
23) Angel Eyes – The Czars / ABBA
24) Sunshine Superman – Rickie Lee Jones / Donovan
25) Find The River – Dr Dog / REM
26) Girls Just Wanna Have Fun – Norman Palm / Cyndi Lauper
27) Baby, It’s Cold Outside – Zooey Deschanel + Leon Redbone / Esther Williams & Ricardo Montalban
28) Delilah – Jon Langford w/Sally Timms / Tom Jones
29) So Long Marianne – Ravens & Chimes / Leonard Cohen
30) Graceland – Hot Chip / Paul Simon
31) Top Of The World – Shonen Knife / The Carpenters
32) One Way Or Another + Teenage Kicks – CSS / Blondie + The Undertones
33) Where Is My Mind – Emmy The Great / Pixies
34) Such Great Heights – The Wrong Trousers / The Postal Service
35) This Charming Man - Bostonians / The Smiths
What with all the irreverent funtimes had in a very vocal manner, the foulmouthedness of a certain amphibious element, & the rather genius tracklist what you just done read, you, then, most blwdy certainly should wake up tomorrow & feel like perspective has taken on an out of the ordinary appearance.
Thank us for the memories another day. Right now? Just enjoy.
½DC + TWoTH + Mr. & Mrs Toad
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I LOVE THE WAITING ROOM!!!
That’s one prodigious playlist. A tour de force, DC!
you, then, most blwdy certainly should wake up tomorrow & feel like perspective has taken on an out of the ordinary appearance.
As David St. Hubbins opined after Tap’s own “barbershop raga” cover of Heartbreak Hotel, “there’s too much fucking perspective now.”
Cheers guys.
Really, really, really enjoyed tonight’s show. The playlist was a gem to construct, & I could have put in a hell of a lot more had I the time allowed.
Not so 100% on the Toad’s selections of The Flaming Lips & Richard Godwin, but overall I think this is the best one we’ve done in the series.
Thanks again for tuning in.
½DC
Have you heard the Battle of Land and Sea’s cover of “Harden My Heart” by Quarterflash? Gives me the collywobbles, that one.
That one has passed me by, I’m afraid - but, were you to consider sending it over for immersion then I’d be happy to indulge
Will do. Erm, what’s your email address? When I hit “contact” up on the top right of this page it asks me to set up a podbean account, but it doesn’t give me access to your email. And the little “Email it” thingy is only to share podbean. I think you have my email address so if you send me one I’ll respond with some delights (of a strictly musical variety of course).
DC/2 and Mrs DC/2: Thoroughly enjoyed this show. Excellent commentary , very funny and lively conversation, Mr Toad made me GROAN then surprised me with the detestable well coiffed crooner singing a tune from one of my all time favorite artists, the Pulp tune sung by Joe Jackson and Capt Kirk is one of my favorites. Mrs Toad did a very fine job, the interaction with Mr Toad is a hoot, they sound like a married couple. Leon Redbone… excellent selection, thanks for putting in the time.
By the way, Tuned into Error FM and was disappointed by the all too familiar hip California DJ spinning tunes from AM/FM radio. I think that you have the best show on that channel 1, lively, intensely interesting, very funny and dare I say cheeky. The woman of the house excelled once again, her previous exceptional performances were no accident evidebtly, nice to hear her. Where’s Mr Fisk? hh
They sound like a married couple?
Married? Us? Fuck right off!
;-)
Cheers, again, again, HH
:o)
We thoroughly enjoyed the show this week AND we were sober!
ErrorFM is a weird one - sometimes it throws up a wonderful DJ/show. e.g. Versetrane’s Inoculated Radio on directly after TWR. It’s proper eclectic, hugely varying in styles & content, very chatty, lots of guests & interviews & sessions, & generally a bloody good listen (if you can get over V’s stuttergun delivery); the trouble is he cracks off at 12am UK time so I can only listen for as long as my eyes are in wide awakeland - but a cursory scan of Channel 1 will reveal, at its heart, a tepid soft rock/drive time mentality, mainly driven (no pun) by the DJs providing their own lifetime soundtrack playlists. That’s the disadvantage, I guess, of allowing that amount of freedom.
I have noticed, however, that the autoplaylist is beginning to play more & more TWR sounding bands (if not the exact sorts we feature) as the months have gone on. I’m not saying we’re influencing the output at all, especially as the bands they’re playing are now receiving an avalanche of respectable coverage, but it makes a change from that anodyne shite that stopped me listenig to mainstream radio years & years ago.
Channel 2 fairs a little betterer, under the catch-all tag ‘indie’, & I guess that should really be our spiritual home (I’m not sure if the direction change of TWR music-wise, i.e. when I came on board, was a driving force behind the addition of Channel 2′ & its ‘indie’ fest back last year) but we’re happy to be the cherry on the turd cocktail
As for us being ‘the best show’ on Channel 1, we can’t possibly comment but we have one purpose, with the risk of sounding like total twats: entertainment. Whether that’s the music, the chat, the silly incidental celebrity stings, the Celebrity Muggings, Toad, the little jingles, or whatever. We try & keep it as broad as possible on the *ahem* humour front, as I do recognise a tendency of DJs crawling up their own cul de sac when being too exclusive (i.e. no one’s going to get that joke outside of Delaware, for example) with their ‘fun’. Sure, we are ‘local’, as in UK, humour-wise, but I think we pull off an inclusion to the moment. & maybe I’m spouting wank. It’s ultimately the audience’s call to continue listening & sending messages & the like, or simply to switch off the computer & go & do something less boring instead.
Either way, over 5,000 downloads worldwide this past month alone seems to indicate we’re doing something right.
So, back to point, cheers HH - your comments are always welcome. & I agree the Toads do sound very ‘married’
Mr. Fisk is currently enjoying the end of the football (i.e. soccer) season over here (his team are very close to winning the FA Cup), but will be back in the navigator’s seat I think next week.
Cf+Bf - thewaitingroom (@) btinternet.com’ll be fine, mate; just remove the parentheses.
Cheers again, guys.
½DC
Untitled Melody is a b-side to Becoming More Like Alfie. Their early b-sides were brilliant.
Cheers Matthew.
It’s odd I’d never heard it before as TWoTH has pretty much EVERYTHING that man has ever commited to vinyl.
Nice, nice ending old chap. Most satisfying, even more so than the flush.
Cheers
Did you like the Dolly Parton + Nickel Creek cover?
Erm, no. Shit.
And I don’t mind Abba in an inoffensive, vaguely catchy tat-pop sort of way. They just don’t generate any emotions in me one way or the other.
hee hee.
I actually enjoyed the Dollyness of the cover, but nowhere near as much as TWoTH - I like Nickel Creek & I could hear their influence right through it.
I was sure I heard you once say you positively hated ABBA, but maybe I’m mistaken. Emotional wasteland or otherwise, I would never say they’re ‘vaguely catchy’ though. They have extremely complicated arrangements & harmonies, & are very gifted songwriters & throat merchants. Sure, some of it is tainted with the D.I.S.C.O.ness of the 70s, but fuck it. Not everything has to be in the minor key, eh?
Yes, Mr Toad married, that wonderful relationship where you get to badger another person for a lifetime, where after 40 years of contention you take on the characteristics of your mate. You and Mrs Toad are tightly bound already and will probably grow very old together and may likely even resemble one another someday. Mrs Toad will drive you to the pub as you stare out the window, occasionally shouting a string of expletives for no apparent reason, yes Mr Toad … married. Thanks for a very entertaining segment as well as a very entertaining response.
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On the nail.