The Toads Music
Still Available!
Detour Records, via their Bored Teenagers label, released Volume 9, which features five Toads tracks on the LP and nine on the extended CD.
Here are the front and back covers to the LP:
Bored Teenagers Volume 9 font cover
Bored Teenagers Volume 9 back coverThe release includes a 16 (LP) or 20 (CD) page booklet with information on all the bands, with a full section on the Toads. The LP version is shown below:
The Toads pages from the Bored Teenagers Volume 9 booklet
Early promotional shot taken along Thorpe Road, NorwichBelow is the complete list of all original songs by the Toads - those marked # were never played live. We occasionally played covers, Bowie's Heroes and the Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat are the only ones that come to mind.
| Title | Writer | Song Batch |
|---|---|---|
| All I Wanna Be Is A Star | Viner | BT9, D1 |
| Bad Time | Smith | D2, R2 |
| Bank Job | Viner | BT9c, D1, R1 |
| Blood On My Wheels | Viner | BT9, D2, L1, R2, S |
| Death Waltz# | Smith | R3 |
| Eyes | Viner | BT9c, D2, L3, R1, S |
| Fatlip* | Cheetham | L2 |
| Get Ready | Smith | L3 |
| I Don't Care About You | Smith | BT9, D1, L1, R1, R3, S |
| I Hate Japan | Smith | L2, R3 |
| I'm So Bored | Cheetham | L3 |
| In The Subway | Smith | BT9, D1, L2, R1, S |
| Mixed Up Kid | Smith | BT9c, D2, R2 |
| Never Happen Here | Viner | D2 |
| Nowhere To Go | Viner | BT9c, D1, L1, R1 |
| On The Run | Smith | L1 |
| Safe Living# | Viner | R3 |
| Shit Parade | Lyrics: Smith; Music: Viner | L3 |
| Slimey Toad | Cheetham | L1 |
| Stick It Up | Smith | R2, R3 |
| Suppression/Oppression | Viner | BT9, D1 |
| Walking Case Surgery# | Lyrics: Smith; Music: Viner | R2 |
| You're So Blank | Smith | - |
| You're The Girl | Smith | D2 |
*Paul wrote this after someone beat him up because he was punk - he really did have a fat lip for a few days!
Some of the songs can be downloaded as batches of zipped up MP3s (recorded at 96Kbps) and others are available on CD/LP:
- BT9 - Bored Teenagers Volume 9 (LP and CD) - see right
- BT9c - Bored Teenagers Volume 9 (CD only)
- D1, D2, D3 - Demo recordings 1977 (currently not available for download)
- L1 - Live At Wymondham College 1977 part 1
- L2 - Live At Wymondham College 1977 part 2
- L3 - Live At Wymondham College 1977 part 3
- R1, R2, R3 - Rehearsals 1977/8 (currently not available for download)
- S - Studio Recordings 1977/8
Click on an icon or title to download/view the file.
 | L1 - Toads Live 1 | 8Mb |
| L2 - Toads Live 2 | 8Mb |
| L3 - Toads Live 3 | 8Mb |
| S - Toads Studio Recordings | 6Mb |