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)

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