Friday 26 May 2023

Midnight Mixtape: Windows

Windows

On the midnight mixtape, Colin Murray was joined by Nat Jamieson to look at listener selections (25/05/2023) with Songs that reference windows (but not glass or doors)!

Songs in contention

  • Tina Turner - Steamy Windows
  • Ann Peebles - I can't stand the rain (against my window)
  • Opus III - It's a fine day (people open windows)
  • Yazoo - Only you
  • Flying Pickets - Only you
  • Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #1 [Tunnels] (From my window to yours)
  • Beatles - She can't in through the bathroom window
  • Renegade ft Taylor Swift - Big Red Machine (I tapped on your window on your darkest night)
  • Roni Size - Watching Windows
  • Paul Simon - Graceland (losing love is like a window in your heart)
  • Athlete - Shake those windows
  • Parti Page - How Much Is That Doggy In The Window
  • Van Morrison - Cleaning Windows
  • Kim Wilde - Kids in America (Looking out a dirty old window)
  • Hollies - Look through any window
  • Ben Platt - Waving through a window [Dear Evan Hansen]
  • Radiohead - The Bends (fall asleep against the window pane)
  • Peat and Diesel - Western Isles (the dog is on the window)
  • Tom Jones - Delilah (I saw the light on the night that I passed by her window)
  • George Formby - When I'm cleaning windows
  • Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
  • Queen - Keep Passing The Open Window
  • Ella Fitzgerald - Open your window
  • Annie Lennox - Walking on Broken Glass (With all the windows smashed)
  • Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights (Let me in your window)
  • John Prine - Souvenirs (broken hearts and dirty windows make life difficult to see)
  • Northern Uproar - From a window
  • Jackson 5 - Looking through the windows
  • Dido - Thank you (The morning rain clouds up my window and I can't see at all)
  • Eminem - Stan

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Tina Turner - Steamy Windows
2. Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels)
3. Yazoo - Only you
4. Peat and Diesel - Western Isles 
5. Ella Fitzgerald - Open your window
6. Ben Platt - Waving through a window [Dear Evan Hansen]
[Side 2]
7. Ann Peebles - I can't stand the rain (against my window)
8. Renegade ft Taylor Swift - Big Red Machine
9. Queen - Keep Passing The Open Window
10. George Formby - When I'm cleaning windows
11. Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
12. Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
Hidden: Sash! - Encore une fois

Stats

Debuts for Ann Peebles, Aphex Twins, Ben Platt, George Formby, Peat and Diesel and Sash! Ella Fitzgerald makes only her second appearance after "There's a small hotel" (hotel mixtape) as does Yazoo's "Only you" (two instruments mixtape).
Third appearance for Taylor Swift after "All too well" (Autumn mixtape) and "Bad blood" (Blood tape). Note Renegade's first time on the mixtape. Also Arcade Fire's third time after "Rebellion" (Liar Liar) and "Wake up" (Human Spirit 2 mixtape)
Tina Turner makes her 6th appearance on the mixtape with "Goldeneye" (Bond), "What's love got to do with it?" (question of love) and "The Best" (Best) and twice with Ike "River deep mountain high" on Couples/Rivers.
Kate Bush makes her 9th appearance on the mixtape but first time with "Wuthering heights", last mixtape appearance was the running mixtape in April with "Running up that hill".
Queen makes their 12th appearance (and extends their most appearances lead) but first time with "Keep passing the open window", last mixtape appearance was the human spirit mixtape in February with "the show must go on"

Most Appearances Leaderboard

(On Colin Murray's mixtapes only)
12Queen
10Beatles
10Prince
10*Paul Simon (6 as Simon & Garfunkel)
9*Kate Bush (1 with Peter Gabriel)
8Blur
7Louis Armstrong
7Marvin Gaye
7Pink Floyd

Friday 19 May 2023

Midnight Mixtape: 100

Hundred

On the midnight mixtape, Colin Murray was joined by John Robb to look at listener selections (18/05/2023) with Songs that reference 100 as this was the 100th mixtape. Many happy returns!

Songs in contention

  • T-Rex - 20th Century Boy
  • Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes - Last 100
  • Blur - End of a Century
  • Wilson Pickett - 99 and half won't do
  • King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
  • Sharon Jones & Dap Kings - 100 days, 100 nights
  • Sonic Youth - 100%
  • Toots and the Maytals - 54-46 that's my number (adds up to 100)
  • Jam - Town called Malice (for and a hundred lonely housewives)
  • Isley Brothers - This old heart of mine (if you leave me 100 times, 100 times i'll take you back
  • Five for fighting - 100 years
  • Ocean Colour Scene - 100 mile high city
  • Sigue Sigue Sputnik - 21st Century boy
  • Terry Riley - In C
  • Toto - Africa
  • Amy Winehouse - Back to back (I died a hundred times)
  • Jurassic 5 - Concrete schoolyard (cause it's the 100 watt blood shot)
  • Cure - 100 years
  • Byrds (& Gram Parsons) - One hundred years from now
  • Nick Cave & PJ Harvey - Henry Lee
  • Sleeper - Sale of the century
  • OrelSan - La Terre est Ronde (J'ai des centaines de trucs sur le feu / I got hundreds of things on fire)
  • Skunk Anasie - 100 ways to be a good girl
  • Florence & Machine - 100 years

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Toots and the Maytals - 54-46 that's my number
2. Amy Winehouse - Back to back
3. Nick Cave & PJ Harvey - Henry Lee
4. Ocean Colour Scene - 100 mile high city
5. Wilson Pickett - 99 and half won't do
6. Blur - End of a Century
[Side 2]
7. Sigue Sigue Sputnik - 21st Century boy
8. King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
9. Jurassic 5 - Concrete schoolyard
10. Skunk Anansie - 100 ways to be a good girl
11. Sonic Youth - 100%
12. Sharon Jones & Dap Kings - 100 days, 100 nights
Hidden: Haircut 100 - Fantastic Day

Stats

Colin and John decided that side 2 would be all debutants. It so happens that Haircut 100 is also a first-timer on the mixtape.
Toots and Maytals and Amy Winehouse made their second appearancea after "Louie Louie" (Groundhog day) and "Back to black" (Gone too soon) respectively. Ocean Colour Scene on for third time after previous with "Riverboat song" (Ship Ahoy) and "The day we caught the train" (Memories)
Wilson Pickett also on for a third time after previous with "Hey Jude" (Beatles) and "Mustang Sally" (Car Showroom).
Nick Cave is on for a sixth time with previous appearance "Red right hand" (Devils hidden track, TV Themes), "Ship song" (Ship Ahoy, Bridges) and "Where the wild roses grow" (Roses). PJ Harvey is actually a debutant too.
Blur makes it 8 appearances after "Girls & Boys" (Greatest album, holidays, Summer lovin), "No distance left to run" (Running), "Song 2" (Shortest) and "This is a low" (Radio, Ship Ahoy hidden track).

100 Songs from Twitter

Only because it's the 100th mixtape, 100 songs mentioned on twitter...
Adam Ant - Room at the top (an 18th century brain in a 21st century head)
Amy Winehouse - Back to back (I died a hundred times)
Baxter Drury - Centipedes
Beach Boys - Little Deuce Coupe (she'll do a hundred and forty with the top end floored)
Belle & Sebastian - Century of fakers
Blur - End of a Century
Blur - The Universal (this is the next century)
Bon Jovi - Next 100 years
Byrds - One hundred years from now
Candi Staton - Young hearts run free (say you're going to leave a hundred times a day)
Carter USM - Sheriff Fatman (at six foot and a hundred tonnes)
CDBaby100 - 100 Flowers
Cornell Campbell - 100lbs of Collie
Crystal Waters - 100% Pure Love
Cure - 100 years
Dionne Warwick - Do you know the way to San Jose (put a hundred down and buy a car)
Divine Comedy - Freedom Road (One hundred miles)
Duke Dumont - Need you (100%)
Edguy - Catch of the century
Editors - Ton of love
El Presidente -  100mph
Exuma - 22nd Century
Fall out boy - Centuries
Fatman Scoop - Put your hands up (got a $100 bill put your hands up)
Feelings - 100 Sinners
Five for fighting - 100 years
Florence & Machine - 100 years
Francesca Battistelli - Hundred More Years
Frank Sinatra - 100 Years Today
Game ft Drake - 100
Golden Horde - 100 Boys
Gram Parsons - $1000 Wedding
Haircut 100 - Fantastic day / Love + 1/Favourite shirts
Harkenbacks - 100 tons of sleep
Helen Love - Punk Boy (do you grow a hundred feet tall)
Honeycreepers - Ton
Ian Drury - Spasticius
Idlewild - Century by century
Isley Brothers/Rod Stewart - This old heart of mine (if you leave me 100 times, 100 times i'll take you back
Jam - Bitterest Pill
Jam - Absolute Beginners (I stared a century thinking this would never change)
Jam - Town called Malice (for and a hundred lonely housewives)
Jay-Z - 99 Problems
Jethro Tull - Too old to rock and roll, too young to die (To make a ton before he takes his leave)
Jim Reeves (Harry Belafonte) - Scarlet Ribbons
Jurassic 5 - Concrete schoolyard (cause it's the 100 watt blood shot)
Kenny Rogers - Ruby, don't take your love to town (I've heard it slam one hundred times before)
King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
Kinks - 20th Century man
Leftfield - 21st Century Poem
Leonard Cohen - I tried to leave you (I closed the book on us, at least a hundred times)
Long Blondes - Century
Luke Combs - When it rains it pours (I won a hundred bucks)
Mavis Staples/Wilson Pickett - 99 and half won't do
Mazarati - 100 mph
Moloko - 100%
Nick Cave & PJ Harvey - Henry Lee
Nena - 99 Luft Balloons
NWA - 100 miles and running
Ocean Colour Scene - 100 mile high city
OrelSan - La Terre est Ronde (J'ai des centaines de trucs sur le feu / I got hundreds of things on fire)
Peter Paul and Mary - 500 miles
Power of dreams - 100 ways to kill a love
Prince - 100mph
Quincy Jones - One Hundred Ways
Ramones - End of the century
Randy Travis - Written In Stone (and darling if we live to be a hundred)
REM - Losing my religion (consider this, the hint of the century)
Rick Ross - 100 Black Coffins
Rolling Stones - 100 Years ago
Sampha - Plastic 100C
Scott Walker - Next (there were one hundred like me)
Sharon Jones & Dap Kings - 100 days, 100 nights
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - 21st Century boy
Skunk Anansie - 100 ways to be a good girl
Skyzoo & The Other Guys - 100 to One
Sleeper - Sale of the century
Smiths - Frankly, Mr Shankly (I've got the 21st century breathing down my neck)
Sonic Youth - 100%
Sparks - Angst in my pants (give it a hundred years, it won't go away)
Spiritualised - 100 Bars
@stephanierainey - 100 Like Me
Stormzy - 100 bags
Supertramp - Crime of the century
T-Rex - 20th Century Boy
Ted Hawkins - 100 miles
Ten Pole Tudor - Swords of 1000 men
Terry Riley - In C
Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes - Last 100
Tom Petty - Century City
Tom Waits - 9th and Hennepin (there's nothing wrong with her $100 won't fix)
Tony Orlando - Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree (100 yellow ribbons)
Toots and the Maytals - 54-46 that's my number
Toto - Africa
Tragically Hip - Ahead by a century
U2 - Bullet the blue sky (slapping the down, one hundred, two hundred)
Yall feat Gabriela Richardson - Hundred Miles
@YardActband - 100% Eudurance
Yeah yeah yeahs - 10 x 10
Sale of the Century theme

Sunday 14 May 2023

Midnight Mixtape: Greatest Songs

Midnight Mixtape - Greatest Hits

As we approach the midnight mixtape, here's a unique midnight mixtape featuring the greatest songs from Colin Murray's Midnight Mixtape. All twelve songs on the mixtape have appeared three times.

#TrackMixtapes
1Deacon Blue - DignityScotland (5) / Respect (41) / Ship Ahoy (43)
2Elvis Costello - ShipbuildingFruit (3) / Rumours (37) / Whisper (48)*
4Blur - Girls and BoysGreatest Album Opening (1) / Holidays (12) / Summer lovin' (62)
5Grandmaster Flash - White LinesAnyone for tennis (53) / Sugar (63) / White Album (66)
6Queen - Flash80s Movies (11) / Superheroes (25) / Planets (78)*
7White Stripes - Fell in love with a girlShortest (6) / Couples (65) / Two Instruments (79)
8Ice Cube - It was a good dayNon-Sport (18) / Summer lovin' (62) / Day (85)
9Survivor - Eye of the tiger80s Movies (11) / Eyes (40) / Human Spirit 1 (90)
10Beck - LoserForeign (4) / Say what (52) / Lost Property (92)*
11Seal - Kiss from a roseRoses (38) / North Pole (80)* / Kiss (93)
12Otis Redding - Dock of the bayGone too soon (8) / Ship Ahoy (43) / Whistle (94)
HiddenTimmy Trumpet - Narcos

(* hidden track for that mixtape)

For the hidden track, I went with the track used to present the Midnight Mixtape and really it was choice between the previously used, "Together in Electric Dreams" by Phillip Oakley and Giorgio Moroder and the new theme, "Narcos" by Timmy Trumpet. Gone for the later as I don't see being in a mixtape (as trumpets already done) unless it is about drugs or words (slang).