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RC 395: River Is Beautiful

RC 395: River Is Beautiful

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 RIVER iS BEAUTIFUL! Fresh off a long walk along the River Thames – over a 100 miles sweetie – so we have a London and water themed podcast, an imagined soundtrack for my new YouTube video series on the Thames Path – cos I can’t afford the rights! And new mashups from me and others and original music as well, and some old classics, And Video Killed The Radio Star? Hope not… I wish I had a river so long, I would teach my feet to fly (2:23, 192Mb) The Bran Flakes – Fifty Four FiftyToToM – I Promise You Flowers, Don’t Panic (Miley Cyrus vs. Coldplay)HallMighty – Take My Heart Back To London (Ed Sheeran & Stormzy vs Pet Shop Boys)Captain Obvious – Murder Everywhere On The Dancefloor (Sophie Ellis Bextor vs Fleetwood Mac)Minor Arth – Video Killed Digital Love (Daft Punk vs The Buggles)Mighty Mike – Time killed the radio star (Cyndi Lauper vs The Buggles)Minor Arth – Andromeda’s Teardrops (Womack & Womack vs Gorillaz vs DRAM)Overmono – BbyBicep – Water (featuring Clara La San)HallMighty (ft Lady T) – The RhythmPhoenix City All-stars – London CallingThe Unusuals – I’m Walking, Babeoki – walk idiot don’t stop (the hives vs. fleetwood mac)London Elektricity – Possible Worlds (feat. Inja)Charla Green – Babylon FallMen – Who Am I To Feel So FreeBluey – Creek is Beautiful!Solange – Cranes in the SkyKae Tempest – Bad Place For A Good TimeBilly Nomates – saboteur forcefieldThe Handless Organist – Turn Your Radio OnGorillaz – The Lost Chord (feat. Leee John)The Revolutionaries – Kunta Kinte (Dub Plate Version 2)HallMighty – Hurt Me Under The Bridge (RHCP vs K’Naan ft Robbie Williams & The Beatles)Working Men’s Club – CircumferenceToToM – Everybody Would Drown and Y.O.U.D. Too (How To Destroy Angels and Billie Eilish vs. Culoe De Song)Danny Macabre – Vampire Creep (Olivia Rodrigo vs Radiohead)ah! – Black Frog Peace Swan (The Doors vs Thom Yorke)iWillBattle – Feeling Beautiful Good Things (Benson Boone x Muse)Goldie & The Gingerbreads – Walking In Different Circlestbc aka Instamatic – Whisper Forever (George Michael vs The Spice Girls)10000 Spoons – Chariots Killed The Radio Star (The Buggles vs Vangelis) Transcript WEBVTT 00:04:07.600 –> 00:04:14.600Hello, welcome to Radio Clash, this is 395, called River is Beautiful, and Curse you, Totom, 00:04:14.600 –> 00:04:16.360for making a Coldplay Mash. 00:04:16.360 –> 00:04:18.040Making me play a Coldplay Mash. 00:04:18.040 –> 00:04:22.600Well, not making me play it, but making me like Coldplay Mash. 00:04:22.600 –> 00:04:29.600After I said I really can’t stand Coldplay Mashes, Totom has to go and mash the one Coldplay 00:04:29.600 –> 00:04:34.880song off the one album I can stand, which is the first album, and Don’t Panic. 00:04:34.880 –> 00:04:42.720Yeah, all the feels, that’s I Promise You Flowers, Don’t Panic, Miley Cyrus vs. Coldplay. 00:04:42.720 –> 00:04:49.800And at the start we had the Branflakes with Fifty Four Fifty from their 2016’s Ultimate Hits, which 00:04:49.800 –> 00:04:51.600I missed, I somehow missed. 00:04:51.600 –> 00:04:56.440I have several, at least one Branflakes album, and yeah, somehow I didn’t know about that 00:04:56.440 –> 00:04:57.440one. 00:04:57.440 –> 00:05:00.080I was checking out the discography and went, “What’s this?” 00:05:00.080 –> 00:05:04.600And it sounds like a best-off, but none of the tracks I’d heard before, so it’s like 00:05:04.600 –> 00:05:07.920a mock best-off, but I might be wrong on that. 00:05:07.920 –> 00:05:11.320And yes, it’s called River is Beautiful because I’ve been walking the Thames path, I spent 00:05:11.320 –> 00:05:14.440two weeks walking a lot of the Thames path. 00:05:14.440 –> 00:05:17.800I’m not going to say exactly where I ended up, because it’s a bit spoilers, spoilers 00:05:17.800 –> 00:05:18.800sweetie, spoilers. 00:05:18.800 –> 00:05:29.920But yeah, I walked from Yantlet, which is where the London Stone is, to quite a bit of it, 00:05:29.920 –> 00:05:34.640to more than halfway, and it’s 200 miles, so a lot of walking. 00:05:34.640 –> 00:05:40.080And as this is a YouTube, as this is a video for my YouTube channel, I can’t afford the 00:05:40.080 –> 00:05:41.080copyright. 00:05:41.080 –> 00:05:45.600I can’t afford the musical rights to any of these songs. 00:05:45.600 –> 00:05:50.320So weirdly, during the whole of it, I wasn’t listening to music. 00:05:50.320 –> 00:05:57.840This episode is kind of a mixture of new stuff that I really dig, and also an imagined soundtrack 00:05:57.840 –> 00:06:00.200for the Thames Path series. 00:06:00.200 –> 00:06:04.160It’s going to be called Thames Spring when it comes out. 00:06:04.160 –> 00:06:06.000I’m just editing it at the moment. 00:06:06.000 –> 00:06:11.240And yeah, there’s a lot of tracks in here that are London based and river based. 00:06:11.240 –> 00:06:17.680And yes, if I ...
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