Sunday 3 November 2024

Weekend Playlist: Countdown

Weekend Playlist: Countdown

Here's the weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Adrian looking at X/twitter selections (31/10/2024) with Songs that reference the quiz show, Countdown.
This was inspired by the first episode of countdown, which was the first show broadcasted on Channel 4 on November 2, 1982.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

Thanks to Jack for the spotified list
[Side 1] Countdown
Manfred Mann - 5 4 3 2 1
David Bowie - Space Oddity
Peter Schilling - Major Tom
Dan Hartman - Instant Replay
Big Pink - Countbackwards from Ten
Prince - 1999

[Side 2] Conundrum
Extreme - More than words
FR David - Words
White Stripes - We're going to be friends
Robert Vincent - Conundrum
Public Service Broadcasting - Go!
Europe - Final Countdown

[Bonus]
Jackson 5 - ABC
Brass incorporated - At the sign of the swinging cymbal
Countdown Theme

Long list

  • Abdominal - Countdown
  • Adam Ant - Apollo 9
  • Allergies - Blast off
  • Brass incorporated - At the sign of the swinging cymbal
  • Cameo - Word Up
  • Chris Hadfield - Space Oddity
  • Clean Bandit & Mabel - Tick Tock
  • Coral - Goodbyes
  • Count Basie & his Orchestra - Down for the Count
  • Count Von Count - Song of the Count
  • Countdown Theme
  • Cure - Close to me
  • Curiosity - Name and number
  • Dan Hartman - Instant Replay
  • Dan Hartman - Countdown/This is it
  • David Bowie - Space Oddity
  • Def Leppard - Rocket
  • Doors - LA woman
  • Ella Fitzergerald - Too marvellous for words
  • Elton John - Ticking
  • Europe - Final Countdown
  • Extreme - More than words
  • FR David - Words
  • Gloria Estefan - 1-2-3
  • Hives - Countdown to shutdown
  • Iron Maiden - 2 minutes to midnight
  • Iron Maiden - Number of the beast
  • Jackson 5 - ABC
  • Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince - Boom boom shake the room
  • Johnny Cash - 25 minutes to go
  • Kim Wilde - Four letter word
  • Kirsten Adamson - Time with you
  • M - Pop Muzik
  • Manfred Mann - 5 4 3 2 1
  • Megadeath - Countdown to Extinction
  • New Musik - Living by numbers
  • P!nk - Funhouse
  • P1 Harmony - Countdown to love
  • Peter Schilling - Major Tom
  • Pop will eat itself - Def Con 1
  • Prince - 1999
  • Public Service Broadcasting - Go!
  • Robert Vincent - Conundrum
  • Rush - Countdown
  • S'Express - Theme from S'Express
  • Saliva - Tick tick boom
  • Silver Bullet - 20 seconds to comply
  • Soft Cell - Numbers
  • Sorels - Countdown to Love
  • Sparks - Beat the clock
  • The Big Pink - Countbackwards from Ten
  • Tom McCrae - One Mississippi
  • Travis - Turn
  • Unit4+2 - Concrete and Clay
  • White Stripes - We're going to be friends

Friday 1 November 2024

Midnight Mixtape: November

Fireworks Mixtape

Mixtape: #24 Fireworks
Date: (05/11/21)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Paul McNamee

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Handel - Music for the Royal Fireworks
Herbie Hancock - Rockit
Katy Perry - Firework
Louis Armstrong - Fireworks
Ash - Shining Light
Elvis Costello - Indoor Fireworks

[Side 2]
Def Leppard - Rocket
Stone Roses - Waterfall
Runaways - Cherry Bomb
Catherine Wheel - Sparks gonna fly
Elton John - Rocketman
Embrace - Fireworks

Hidden:
Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture

Superheroes Mixtape

Mixtape: #25 Superheroes
Date: (12/11/21)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Mike Bubbins

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Black Sabbath - Iron Man
Karyn White - Superwoman
Billy Connolly - Supergran
Flaming Lips - Waiting for a Superman
Barenaked Ladies - One week
Ash - Kung Fu

[Side 2]
Queen - Flash
Lazlo Bane - Superman
Public Enemy - Raise the roof
Pixies - Tony's Theme
Cure - Lullaby
Tenacious D - Wonderboy

Hidden:
Bonnie Tyler - Holding out for a hero

Villains Mixtape

Mixtape: #26 Villains
Date: (19/11/21)
Host: Nick Bright
Guest: John Robb

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Doors - Riders in the storm
Steve Miller Band - The Joker
Ghostface Killah - Slept on Tony
ODB - Shimmy shimmy ya
Macy Gray - Relating to a Psychopath
Cramps - TV Set

[Side 2]
Motorhead - The Game
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger
Hildur Guonadottir - Bathroom Dance
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give it away
Shy FX - Original Nuttah

Hidden:
Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes 

La la land Mixtape

Mixtape: #27 La la land
Date: (26/11/21)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Charlie Webster

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
2Pac ft Dr Dre - California Love
Doris Day - Hooray for Hollywood
Weezer - Beverly Hills
Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in LA
Tribe called quest - Left my wallet in El Segundo
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the bridge

[Side 2]
NWA - Straight outta Compton
America - Ventura Highway
Doors - LA Woman
Mamas & Papas - California Dreamin
Tom Petty - Free Fallin'
Randy Newman - I love LA

Hidden:
Patsy Gallant - From New York to LA

Brain Mixtape

Mixtape: #75 Brain
Date: (04/11/22)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Paul McNamee

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
All seeing I - Beat goes on
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Wizard of Oz - If I only had a brain
Rhianna - Love on the brain
Cypress Hill - Insane in the brain
Pink Floyd - Brain Damage

[Side 2]
Pinky & The Brain - (Theme Tune)
Prodigy - Out of space
The National - Conversation 16
Avanlanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

Hidden:
Pixies - Where is my mind?

Car Showroom 1 Mixtape

Mixtape: #76 Car Showroom 1
Date: (11/11/22)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Paul McNamee

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Janis Joplin - Mercedes Benz
Prince - Little Red Corvette
Billy Bragg - Sexuality
Men at work - Down under
Dickies - Tritia Toyota
Chuck Berry - Maybellene

[Side 2]
Feeder - Buck Rogers
Beach Boys - Fun Fun Fun
Don Henley - Boys of Summer
Kanye West - Gold Digger
Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
Wilson Pickett - Mustang Sally

Hidden:
Rose Royce - Car Wash

Car Showroom 2 Mixtape

Mixtape: #77 Car Showroom 2
Date: (18/11/22)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Paul McNamee

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Billy Murray - In my merry oldsmobile
Oasis - Supersonic
Joan Armatrading - Shape of a pony
Lloyd Cole & Commotions - 2cv
Madness - Driving in my car
Marc Cohen - Silver Thunderbird

[Side 2]
Tinie Tempah/SHM - Miami 2 Ibiza
Sheryl Crow - All I wanna do
Van Dyke/Howes - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Tom Robinson Band - Grey Cortina
Blondie - Rapture
Nizlopi - JCB Song

Hidden:
Todd Terje - Delorean Dynamite

Planets Mixtape

Mixtape: #78 Planets
Date: (25/11/22)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Zoe Howe

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Stranglers - Mercury rising
Bananarama - Venus
Carole King - I feel the earth move
David Bowie - Life on Mars
Train - Drops of Jupiter
Stevie Wonder - Saturn

[Side 2]
Beastie Boys - Intergalactic (Uranus)
Foals - Neptune
Birds 0f Chicago - Old Calcutta (Pluto)
Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock
Only ones - Another girl, another planet
Weird Al Yankovic - Saga begins

Hidden:
Queen - Flash

Shoes Mixtape

Mixtape: #124 Shoes
Date: (02/11/23)
Host: Johnny I'Anson
Guest: Nat Jamieson

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Kirsty MacColl - In these shoes
Adam Ant - Goody two shoes
KC & Sunshine band - Boogie shoes
Emmylou Harris - White shoes
Stereophonics - Step on my old size nines
Kenny Loggins - Footloose

[Side 2]
Dizzie Rascal - Fix up look sharp
Hamish Hawk - Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion 1973
Tom Waits - Red shoes (by the drugstore}
Billy Joel - Stiletto
Paul Simon - Diamonds on the soles of her shoes
I am kloot - Same shoes

Hidden:
Paolo Nutini - New Shoes

Shakespeare Mixtape

Mixtape: #125 Shakespeare
Date: (09/11/23)
Host: Johnny I'Anson
Guest: Paul McNamee

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Dire Straits - Romeo And Juliet
Elvis Costello - Miss Macbeth
Joni Mithcell - Talk to me
David Essex - A winter's tale
Reflections - Just like Romeo and Juliet
Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More

[Side 2]
Taylor Swift - Love Story
Kids from Fame - Desdemona
Elvis - Lonesome onight
Band - Ophelia
Cole Porter (Kiss me Kate) - Brush up your Shakespeare
Radiohead - Exit Music (for a Film)

Hidden:
Bach - Air on G String

Shopping List Mixtape

Mixtape: #126 Shopping List
Date: (16/11/23)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Claire Lim

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Pulp  - Common People
Bennett  - Mum's has gone to Iceland
Pet Shop Boys  - Shopping
Toni Basil  - Shopping A to Z
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis  - Thrift Shop
Stakka Bo  - Here we go

[Side 2]
Dolly Parton  - Bargain Store
Miracles  - Shop around
Hollies  - Bus Stop
Keith West  - Excerpt from a Teenage Opera (Grocer Jack)
Elvis Presley  - Shop around
Tim Minchin  - Canvas Bags

Hidden:
Manics  - Motorcycle emptiness

Touch Mixtape

Mixtape: #127 Touch
Date: (23/11/23)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Paul McNamee

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
Deacon Blue - Chocolate Girl
Mudhoney - Touch me I'm sick
Darkness - I believe in a thing called love
Fall - Touch Sensitive
Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody

[Side 2]
Divinyls - I Touch Myself
Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger
Wetleg - Wet Dream
Samantha Fox - Touch me
Cascada - Everytime We Touch
Diana Ross - Touch me in the morning

Hidden:
MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This

Walls Mixtape

Mixtape: #128 Walls
Date: (30/11/23)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Claire Lim

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Pink Floyd - Another brick in the wall
Suzanne Vega - Marlene on the wall
PJ Harvey - This is love
Echo & Bunnymen - Over the wall
Kings of Leon - Walls
Sam Smith - Writing's on the wall

[Side 2]
Tracy Chapman - Behind the wall
Labi Siffre - Something inside so strong
Naturalites - Picture on the wall
Phylis Dillon  - Picture on the wall
Johnny Cash - The wall
Pogues - Dirty Ol' Town

Hidden:
David Hasselhoff - Looking for freedom

Wednesday 30 October 2024

Midnight Mixtape: October

James Bond Mixtape

Mixtape: #19 James Bond
Date: (01/10/21)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Charlie Webster

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Monty Norman - James Bond Theme
Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger
Tina Turner - Goldeneye
Matt Monro - From Russia with love
Nancy Sinatra - You only live twice
Adele - Skyfall

[Side 2]
Paul McCartney - Live and let die
Tom Jones - Thunderball
Shirley Bassey - Diamonds are forever
Duran Duran - A view to a kill
Chris Cornell - You know my name (Casino Royale)
Carly Simon - Nobody does it better (The Spy who loved me)

Hidden:
Louis Armstrong - We have all the time in the world

Question of Love Mixtape

Mixtape: #20 Question of Love
Date: (08/10/21)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Edith Bowman

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Heavy D - Now that we found love
Bob Marley - Is this love?
Tracy Chapman - Baby can I hold you
Bee Gees - How deep is your love?
Supremes - Where did our love go?
KLF - What time is love?

[Side 2]
Buzzcocks - Ever fallen in love
Shirelles - Will you still love me tomorrow?
Arctic Monkeys - R u mine?
Tina Turner - What's love got to do with it
Contours - Do you love me?
Haddaway - What is love?

Hidden:
Queen - Somebody to love

Dreams Mixtape

Mixtape: #21 Dreams
Date: (15/10/21)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: DJ Spoony

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
The Coral - Dreaming of you
Mamas & Papas - California Dreaming
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
Smokin Beats - Dreams
Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald - Dream a little dream

[Side 2]
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Crowded House - Don't dream it's over
Bob Marley - Dreamland
Moroder/Oakley - Electric Dreams
Everly Brothers - All I have to do is dream
Aerosmith - Dream on

Hidden:
Clint Mansell - Lux aeterna

Louder than war Mixtape

Mixtape: #22 Louder than war
Date: (22/10/21)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: John Robb

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Edwin Starr - War
Cranberries - Zombie
Barry McGuire - Eve of destruction
Paul Hardcastle - 19
Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding
Bob Dylan - Masters of war

[Side 2]
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
Supremes - Stoned love
Buffalo Springfield - For what it's worth
John Lennon - Imagine
Marvin Gaye - What's going on?
Black Sabbath - War Pigs

Hidden:
Crass - Nagasaki Nightmare

Monster Mixtape

Mixtape: #23 Louder than war
Date: (29/10/21)
Host: Qasa Alom
Guest: John Robb

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Automatic - Monster
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's dead
Alice Cooper - Feed my Frankenstein
Siouxsie & Banshees - Halloween
Bobby Pickett - Monster Mash
Metallica - Enter Sandman

[Side 2]
David Bowie - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Outkast ft Kelis - Dracula's wedding
Specials - Ghost Town
Lana Del Ray - Gods and Monsters
Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
Rolling stones - Sympathy for the devil

Hidden:
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (The Exorcist)

Sight Mixtape

Mixtape: #71 Sight
Date: (07/10/22)
Host: Qasa Alom
Guest: Paul McNamee

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
The Who - I can see for miles
Johnny Nash - I can see clearly
Bob Dylan - Blind Willie McTell
Hank Williams - I saw the light
Roberta Flack - The first time ever I saw your face
Prince & Sheena Easton - U got the look

[Side 2]
Streets - Blinded by the lights
Arctic Monkeys - The view from the afternoon
James Brown - Out of sight
Stereophonics - Just looking
Blondie - Picture this
Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes

Hidden:
Kate Bush - The man with the child in his eyes

Imagination Mixtape

Mixtape: #72 Imagination
Date: (14/10/22)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: John Robb

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Gene Wilder - Pure Imagination
Oasis - Cigarettes & Alcohol
Imagination - Just an illusion
Temptations - Just my imagination
Pretenders - Brass in pocket
Orb - Little fluffy clouds

[Side 2]
Gladys Knight - ...Use my imagination
Divine Comedy - My imaginary friend
John Lennon - Imagine
Fox - Imagine me imagine you
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
Louis Armstrong - What a wonderful world

Hidden:
Mr Bean - (Theme Tune)

Deja vu Mixtape

Mixtape: #73 Deja vu
Date: (21/10/22)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Claire Lim

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Propellerheads ft Shirley Bassey - History Repeating
Ok Go - Here it goes again
Waterboys - I've lived here before
Beyonce - Deja Vu
Chubby Checker - Let's twist again
Lightning Seeds - Three Lions

[Side 2]
Average White Band - Let's go round again
Olivia Rodrigo - Deja Vu
Iron Maiden - Deja Vu
Train - Drive by
Bastille - Pompeii
Dionne Warwick - Deja Vu

Hidden:
Sonny & Cher - I got you babe

Set the table Mixtape

Mixtape: #74 Set the table
Date: (28/10/22)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Nat Jamieson

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the middle...
Billy Joel - ...Italian restaurant
Pulp - DISHES
Blondie - Heart of GLASS
Flaming Lips - She don't use jelly
Las Ketchup - KETCHUP song

[Side 2]
Bobby Darin - Mack the KNIFE
Soundgarden - SPOONman
T'Pau - CHINA in your hand
Salt'n'Pepa - Push it
Spinners - LAZY SUSAN
Elton John - CANDLE in the wind

Hidden:
James - Sit down

Baseball Mixtape

Mixtape: #120 Baseball
Date: (05/10/23)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Claire Lim

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Carly Simon - Take me out to the ball game
Beastie Boys - Sure Shot
Count Basie - Did you see Jackie Robinson hit that ball?
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
Simon and Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson
Kenny Rogers - The Greatest

[Side 2]
Echo & Bunnymen - The Cutter
K7 - Come baby come
Belle and Sebastian - Piazza, New York Catcher
John Fogerty - Centerfield
Sam & Dave - Knock it out the park
Don Henley - Boys of Summer

Hidden:
Simpsons - Talkin' softball

Rats Mixtape

Mixtape: #121 Rats
Date: (12/10/23)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Paul McNamee

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Big Mama Thornton - I smell a rat
Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap
Kelis & Andre 3000 - Millionaire
Walkmen - The Rat
Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite Pas De Deux (Rat King)
Stranglers - Down in the sewer

[Side 2]
Specials - Rat Race
Michael Jackson - Ben
Dr Rubberfunk - Riding with the Ratman
Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet with butterfly wings
Drifters - Rat Race
Badly Drawn Boy - Year of the Rat

Hidden:
Sammy Davis Jr (Rat Pack) - Mr Bojangles
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Shyness Mixtape

Mixtape: #122 Shyness
Date: (19/10/23)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Claire Lim

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Nick Cave - Shyness (Letter to Daniel and Vera)
Adele - Someone like you
Abba - Name of the game
Pointer Sisters - He's so shy
Diana King - Shy Guy
Kajagoogoo - Too Shy

[Side 2]
Placebo - Nancy Boy
K.Flay - Shy
Idlewild - Actually it’s darkness
Great White - Once bitten twice shy
Killers - Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll
Ben Folds Five - Underground

Hidden:
Chi-lites - Have you seen her?

Dog Talk Mixtape

Mixtape: #123 Dog Talk
Date: (26/10/23)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Paul McNamee

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Queen - You're my best friend
Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen
Drake - Hold on, we're going home
Maurice Williams & Zodiacs - Stay
Paul Johnson - Get get down

[Side 2]
James - Sit down
Pantera - Walk
James Brown - Get up offa that thing
Gilbert O'Sullivan - Get down
Snoop Dogg - Drop it like it's hot
Norah Jones - Man of the hour

Hidden:
Strokes - Modern Age

Sunday 27 October 2024

Weekend Playlist: Cats

h2>Weekend Playlist: Cats Here's the weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Nicky looking at X/twitter selections (24/10/2024) with Songs that reference cats.
This was to commemorate National Black Cat Day on Sunday (October 27), just in time for Halloween week.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

Thanks to Jack for the spotified list
[Side 1] Fat Cats
1. Squeeze - Cool for Cats
2. Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut
3. David Bowie - Cat People (putting out fire)
4. Elton John - Honky Cat
5. Janet Jackson - Black Cat
6. Tom Jones - What's new pussycat?
[Side 2] Sophisticats
7. Cure - Lovecats
8. Alice Cooper - Gutter Cat vs The Jets
9. Hothouse Flowers - Don't go
10. Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat
11. Taylor Swift - Gorgeous
12. Brian & Michael - Matchstalk Men & Matchstalk Cats & Dogs
[Bonus]
Blondie - Sunday Girl
Phoebe Buffay - Smelly Cat

Long list

  • 10000 Maniacs - The Lion's Share
  • Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat
  • Alice Cooper - Gutter Cat vs The Jets
  • Aristocats - Everybody wants to be a cat
  • Blondie - Sunday Girl
  • Bob Marley - Iron Lion Zion
  • Brian & Michael - Matchstalk Men & Matchstalk Cats & Dogs
  • Bruce Springsteen - Kitty's back
  • Catatonia - Lost Cat
  • Cliff Richard - Devil Woman
  • Cure - Lovecats
  • David Bowie - Cat People (putting out fire)
  • Dogs D'Amour - Dogs hair
  • Eartha Kitt - The heel
  • Elton John - Honky Cat
  • Faster Pussycat - Cathouse
  • Gene Vincent - Wildcat
  • Grateful Dead - China Cat Sunflower
  • Harry Chapin - Cats in the cradle
  • Harry Roy and His Orchestra - My girl's pussy
  • Hold Steady - Sequestered in Memphis
  • Hollies - Mad Professor Blyth
  • Hothouse Flowers - Don’t go
  • Janet Jackson - Black Cat
  • Ken Barrie - Postman Man Theme
  • Lovin’ Spoonful - Nashville Cats
  • Max Bygraves - Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellenbogen by the sea
  • Metric - Lost Kitten
  • Mud - Tiger Feet
  • Nick Cave - God is in the house
  • Phoebe Buffay - Smelly Cat
  • Pogues - Dirty Old Town
  • Poison - Look what the cat dragged in
  • POTUSA - Kitty
  • Primus - Tommy the cat
  • Prodigy - Charly
  • Solomon Linda - Mbube
  • Squeeze - Cool for Cats
  • Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut
  • Survivor - Eye of the tiger
  • Taylor Swift - Gorgeous
  • The method - I've got a cat
  • Thundercats
  • Tight Fit - Lion sleeps tonight
  • Tom Jones - What's new pussycat?
  • Topcat
  • Whitesnake - Kitty got claws

Sunday 20 October 2024

Weekend Playlist: Chocolate Cupcake

Weekend Playlist: Chocolate Cupcake

Here's the weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Heather looking at X/twitter selections (17/10/2024) with Songs that reference chocolate and/or cupcakes.
This was to commemorate National Chocolate Cupcake Day on October 18.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

Thanks to Jack for the spotified list
[Side 1] Chocolate
1 Deacon Blue - Chocolate Girl
2 Shanks & Bigfoot - Sweet like chocolate
3 Snow Patrol - Chocolate
4 Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus
5 Tay Zonday - Chocolate Rain
6 Sammy Davis Jnr - Candy Man

[Side 2] Cake
7 Eileen Barton - If I knew you were comin' I'd've bake a cake
8 The Fall - Hot Cake
9 Crowded House - Chocolate Cake
10 Van Halen - Poundcake
11 Average White Band - Cut the cake
12 Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson

[Bonus]
Half Man Half Biscuit - Dickie Davies Eyes
Little Mix - Black Magic

Long list

  • Animal Crossing – Stale Cupcakes
  • Archies - Sugar Sugar
  • Average White Band - Cut the cake
  • Barenaked Ladies - Piece of cake
  • Bent - Chocolate Wings
  • Bing Crosby - Sunshine Cake
  • Crowded House - Chocolate Cake
  • Deacon Blue - Chocolate Girl
  • DNCE - Cake by the ocean
  • Eileen Barton - If I knew you were comin' I'd've bake a cake
  • Gene Wilder - Pure Imagination
  • Half Man Half Biscuit - Dickie Davies Eyes
  • James Blunt - Chocolate
  • Jay-Z - 99 Problems
  • King Africa - Paquito el chocolatero
  • Lancashire Hotpots - Baking Song
  • Lartiste ft Awa Imani - Chocolat
  • Little Mix - Black Magic
  • Liv Divine – Cupcakes & Wine
  • MARRS - Pump up the volume
  • Melanie Martinez - Cake
  • Michael Rosen – Chocolate Cake
  • Miles Davis – Chocolate Chip
  • Mountain Goats - Send me an angel
  • One Eskimo - Chocolate
  • Richard Harris - MacArthur Park
  • Sammy Davis Jnr - Candy Man
  • Shanks & Bigfoot - Sweet like chocolate
  • Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson
  • Snow Patrol - Chocolate
  • Stereolab - Les Bon Bons des Raisons
  • Tay Zonday - Chocolate Rain
  • The Fall - Hot Cake
  • Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus
  • Tori Amos - Chocolate Song
  • Undertones - Mars Bars
  • Van Halen - Poundcake
  • Weezer - Piece of cake
  • Wes Fowler - Chocolate Cake Song

Sunday 13 October 2024

Weekend Playlist: Chess

Weekend Playlist: Chess

Here's the weekend playlist created by Adrian with help from guest curator LyricSlinger looking at X/twitter selections (10/10/2024) with Songs that reference Chess.
This is to commemorate National Chess Day (in the States) on October 12th.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

Thanks to Jack for the spotified list
[Side 1] Chess Pieces
1	Colm Wilkinson - The Bishop
2	Sergei Prokofiev - Dance of the knights
3	Muse - Knights of Cydonia
4	Aerosmith - Kings & Queens
5	Killing Joke - Chessboards
6	Willie Nelson - That’s Life

[Side 2] About Chess
7	Half Man Half Biscuit - Bad losers on Yahoo Chess
8	Prefab Sprout - Cue Fanfare
9	Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok
10	Fun boy 3 & Bananarama - It ain't what you do it's the way that you do it
11	Arcade Fire - Deep Blue
12	Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit

[Bonus]
H1	Chuck Berry - Little Queenie
H2	Noel Harrison - Windmills of your Mind

Long list

  • Aerosmith - Kings & Queens
  • Alterbridge - Pawns and Kings
  • Annihilator - Knight jumps Queen
  • Arcade Fire - Deep Blue
  • Average white band - Pick Up The Pieces
  • Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen
  • Bob Dylan - Only a pawn in their game
  • Busta Rhymes - Turn it up
  • Don McLean – Castles in the air
  • Chris De Burgh - Spanish Train
  • Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode
  • Chuck Berry - Little Queenie
  • Coldplay - Til KINGdom come
  • Colm Wilkinson - The Bishop
  • Conan Gray - Checkmate
  • David Essex - One night in Bangkok
  • Don McLean - Castles in the air
  • Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson - I know him so well
  • Emile Ford & Checkmates - What do you want to make these eyes at me for?
  • Faith no more - War Pigs
  • Frank Sinatra - That's Life
  • Willie Nelson - That’s Life
  • Fugees - Ready or not
  • Fun boy 3 & Bananarama - It ain't what you do it's the way that you do it
  • Gerry Cinnamon - Canter
  • Grandmaster Flash - White Lines
  • Half Man Half Biscuit - Bad losers on Yahoo Chess
  • Ian Van Dahl - Castles in the sky
  • Jay Z - This life forever
  • Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
  • Killing Joke - Chessboards
  • Kingmaker - Queen Jane
  • Limp Bizkit - Stalemate
  • Lisa Goasdoue - White Knights
  • Love - The Castle
  • Michael Jackson - Black or white
  • Moxy The Band - Pawns
  • Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok
  • Muse - Knights of Cydonia
  • Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
  • Noel Harrison - Windmills of your Mind
  • Prefab Sprout - Cue Fanfare
  • Public Enemy - Rebel without a pause
  • Queen - Killer Queen
  • Rod Wave - Checkmate
  • Roger Miller - King of the Road
  • Scott Walker - Seventh Seal
  • Sergei Prokofiev - Dance of the knights
  • Shack - Black & White
  • Sharwater - Rooks
  • Stephen Bishop - On and on
  • Taylor Swift - Dear John
  • Tenpole Tudor - Swords of a thousand men
  • Thompson Twins - King for a Day
  • Tik Tok - Ballad of Bobby Fischer
  • Wamdue Project - King of my Castle
  • Wu Tang Clan - The Mysteries of Chessboxing
  • Yes - I've seen all good people

Sunday 6 October 2024