I actually mispoke in the podcast. It's not Oregon that has the dual civil-partnership/gay-marriage-banned situation, it's Washington State (I always get those two states in the Pacific Northwest mixed up). New Hampshire has the same situation.

As far as gay marriage goes Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts and Vermont allow gay marriage and New Jersey allows civil partnerships with rights equal to marriage.

6 states out of 50. Fucking pitiful.

These maps are very interesting to see how far justice and equality has spread. Same Sex Marriage In USA and Same Sex Marriage in Europe.


I hope the fact I will soon start to have ads on the show doesn't turn too many people off. I simply can't afford to keep my two shows going without the free hosting that the fine people at LibSyn provide and the only way I can keep the free hosting is to have the ads. I think it's a small price to pay.


Not much on the video front this week, but the Cradle video is a really nice piece of work.

The Joy Formidable - Cradle
Show Me The Skyline - Clocks & Calendars [Live Performance, Poor Quality]
Rieser - The Actor [Live, Acoustic Performance]
The Calling Card - Why So Serious? [Live Performance]


On WMVP this week we have a really fun and unexpected video. Check it out on Wednesday


See you next week and go Toffees!

TRACK LIST

1: The Joy Formidable - Cradle

2: Show Me The Skyline - Clocks & Calendars

3: Rieser - The Actor

4: The Calling Card - Why So Serious?

5: Tieton Drive - Undone

6: Secret Archives Of The Vatican - The Stones At The Feet Of A Prophet

7: Lord Numb - Ice Cube Massage

8: Spidersleg - El Strippo!

The Intro Music is an excerpt from 'Put You In Your Place' by The Sunshine Underground 

All songs used with permission or are available under Creative Commons licenses.

Thanks to Grant Mason of Three From Leith for unwittingly providing this weeks episode title.

I got pretty angry about the cycling race attack this week, but I feel strongly about the need for closed-road cycle racing in mainland Britain. These not-in-my-back-yard idiots are going to have to accept that things are changing. The benefits of closed-road racing are demonstrated by the success of Isle of Man riders. Mark Cavendish is the fastest sprinter in the world, Jonny Bellis is a very promising top-level rider and Peter Kennaugh is almost certainly going to go pro next year with the Sky team. The ratio of IoM pro riders to pro riders from the rest of Britain speaks for itself.

Make The Girl Dance - Baby Baby Baby is one of the most amazing videos I have come across. Not because it's particularly well shot or clever, more because I can't believe they did it. Three models walking down a street in Paris on a Thursday afternoon absolutely stark naked. (Watch for the transition between the second and third girl. They mess up the timing a bit.) Matt & Kim did a similar video recently, but personally I have doubts about its authenticity. In the Make The Girls Dance video the bars to cover the naughty bits spell out the lyrics to the song, which is quite clever and reminiscent of this video by The BPA (AKA one of my heroes, Norman Cook).

I'm going to be appearing on The Random Three podcast soon, probably this week. It's like a condensed Desert Island Discs where you select three tracks that mean something to you. It's a non-podsafe show, so I treat it as a guilty pleasure. If you're interested in my musical influences then check it out.


Two good examples of videos that use a basic concept of only having the band perform, but do something interesting with it. Modern Caveman start miming their instruments before there equipment comes in and The Beauvilles line up before a cold war firing squad.

Call The Cops - Get Close [Live Performance]
Modern Caveman - Surrender
The Beauvilles - Snow


Lots of video links this week and here's another one. Check out WMVP on Wednesday for one of my favourite videos of the year. Sheer technical genius.

TRACK LIST

1: Smashed - Stoned Groove

2: Call The Cops - Get Close

3: Danish Daycare - A Purpose To My Sins

4: RedTrack - Addicted To Lust

5: Modern Caveman - Surrender

6: The Beauvilles - Snow

7: Glassacre - September 16th

8: 2-L8 - Monotone Ruins

The Intro Music is an excerpt from 'Put You In Your Place' by The Sunshine Underground 

All songs used with permission or are available under Creative Commons licenses.

TRACK LIST

1: Daisy Daisy - Michelle Plays Ping Pong [Played Episode #17]

2: Amaryoni - Lion Sleeps No More [Played Episode #37]

3: Effektor! - Self Immolation [Played Episode #42]

4: ORKA - Fjøllini standa úti [Played Episode #56]

5: Corrientes - A Big Dose Of Ideas [Played Episode #58]

The Intro Music is an excerpt from 'Put You In Your Place' by The Sunshine Underground 

All songs used with permission or are available under Creative Commons licenses.

TRACK LIST

1: Magen White - One Night [Played Episode #6]

2: Group 4 - Where You Live [Played Episode #11]

3: Momentary Prophets - GO! [Played Episode #30]

4: The Winning Season - 95 [Played Episode #45]

5: The Apathy Eulogy - Baby Maybe [Played Episode #45]

The Intro Music is an excerpt from 'Put You In Your Place' by The Sunshine Underground 

All songs used with permission or are available under Creative Commons licenses.

TRACK LIST

1: Karoshi Bros. - Fuck Da World [Played Episode #36]

2: The Whip - Trash [Played Episode #48]

3: Razmataz Lorry Excitement - The Biggest Waste Of 33 Minutes [Played Episode #48]

4: Electrocute - On The Beat [Played Episode #55]

5: Dress Code - Move [Played Episode #71]

The Intro Music is an excerpt from 'Put You In Your Place' by The Sunshine Underground 

All songs used with permission or are available under Creative Commons licenses.

TRACK LIST

1: Far From The Dance - Don't Give It Up! [Played Episode #2]

2: Echolounge - I Thought You Had It All [Played Episode #23]

3: The Slants - Capture Me Burning [Played Episode #39]

4: Taken By Cars - Uh Oh [Played Episode #60.5]

5: Acusis - Seaside Backchat [Played Episode #73]

The Intro Music is an excerpt from 'Put You In Your Place' by The Sunshine Underground 

All songs used with permission or are available under Creative Commons licenses.

TRACK LIST

1: Ahab Rex - The Queen Of Softcore [Played Episode #1]

2: Helalyn Flowers - DGTal Blood [Played Episode #31]

3: Post Death Soundtrack - Fingerprints [Played Episode #33]

4: Riothead - Screaming Beauty [Played Episode #43]

5: Halo In Reverse - Pop Icon Puppets [Played Episode #45]

The Intro Music is an excerpt from 'Put You In Your Place' by The Sunshine Underground 

All songs used with permission or are available under Creative Commons licenses.

TRACK LIST

1: Anemo - Johnny 5 [Played Episode #1]

2: Johnny Panic - Dislocation [Played Episode #39]

3: Sugar Army - Now You're Old Enough [Played Episode #40]

4: Lowstar - Alphabet Blues [Played Episode #45]

5: Little Fish - Am I Crazy? [Played Episode #54]

The Intro Music is an excerpt from 'Put You In Your Place' by The Sunshine Underground 

All songs used with permission or are available under Creative Commons licenses.

TRACK LIST

1: Bound Stems - Western Biographic [Played Episode #5]

2: Infidelity - Is This Emotion? Never... [Played Episode #7]

3: Ravishers (Formerly Dominic Castillo & The Rock Savants) - Keep You Around [Played Episode #33]

4: Slovakia - Part Of The Factory [Played Episode #48]

5: Fez - Gone Too Far [Played Episode #61]

The Intro Music is an excerpt from 'Put You In Your Place' by The Sunshine Underground 

All songs used with permission or are available under Creative Commons licenses.

So here is the penultimate episode before the week-long celebrations for my hundredth episode. Starting next Saturday there will be one podcast a day, lasting around 20 minutes each, that delve into the genres of music that have been played in the first 2 years of this show. Some great stuff out of the archives that you might not have heard before.

In my usual rambling and unscripted way I might have buried my conclusions about the Atheism/Religion debate. Put succinctly my feelings are as follows:

1. I am against Evangelistic and Fundamentalist Christians, not Christians in general.
2.People like Pat Condell and Richard Dawkins have every right to reply to these Evangelists, especially since they started the war of words.
3. The Atheism that Condell, Dawkins et al promote is in itself a religious dogma, or more precisely an anti-religious dogma.
4. This Atheist dogma is not necessarily dignified or even helpful, but it may be possible that it is the only way to respond.

Further to these main points there's one thing that I didn't mention on the show, but is probably worth pointing out. The 'vocals' for the track in question that was played last week are anti-Bible not anti-Christian. There is a difference. As with all religions there is a question of interpretation and it's when people follow an absolutely literal interpretation that problems start.


Interesting video selection this week.
The Super700 video is so close to being brilliant, but it ends up being rather predictable. When the vocals of the track talk about woods, suddenly the singer is in the woods. It's frustrating because there are some genuinely arresting images in the video, but the whole does not add up to the sum of the parts.
There is also a good example of the differences between live videos on YouTube. Some, like the Atomic Tom video, have probably been shot on somebodies phone and the quality suffers; but some, like the Core Effect video, have been shot on proper equipment by somebody associated with the band and are pretty much broadcast quality.
Whatever the quality if I can find a video of the full song on YouTube I will always give a link to it.

Super700 - S.T.T.S.M.C. 
The Steps - Cold Floors
Sugar Army - Acute
Atomic Tom - Take Me Out [Live Performance]
Core Effect - I Did It All [Live Performance]


On WMVP this week there will be the notorious video that YouTube banned. I couldn't hold off playing it any longer.

So see you next week for the start of the week long Episode #100 extravaganza!

TRACK LIST

1: The Breathing - Happy

2: Super700 - S.T.T.S.M.C (Somebody Tried To Steal My Car)

3: The Steps - Cold Floors

4: Sugar Army - Acute

5: Atomic Tom - Take Me Out

6: Core Effect - I Did It All

7: The Thrifters - The Heartbreak Scenario

8: Molgam - Mental Helpline

The Intro Music is an excerpt from 'Put You In Your Place' by The Sunshine Underground 

All songs used with permission or are available under Creative Commons licenses.

I realised late in the recording that I left you hanging about the popularity of The Totally Rad Show. It turns out that the two different formats that the show is released in are at 91 and 98 in the top 100 Entertainment video podcasts. You really needed to know that didn't you? If you're interested in seeing the episode that I appear in and was so controversial then it's episode 110.


Not a bad selection of videos this week.

Transit Studio - Forty and Desperate [Live Performance]
Anison - Spatial Awareness
Sweet Water - Rock Steady
Stars And Sons - If It's Good For Me
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Everything With You
Richard Termini - Desert Dogma


On WMVP this week we have a very sweet very artful video. Check it out on Wednesday.

Next week it's Episode #99 and only one week away from the Episode #100 extravaganza

TRACK LIST

1: Transit Studio - Forty And Desperate

2: Anison - Spatial Awareness

3: Sweet Water - Rock Steady

4: Darling - Nothing Left To Give

5: Stars And Sons - If It's Good For Me

6: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Everything With You

7: 1090 Club - ITSON

8: Richard Termini - Desert Dogma

The Intro Music is an excerpt from 'Put You In Your Place' by The Sunshine Underground 

All songs used with permission or are available under Creative Commons licenses.