Midnight Mixtape: Cleaning

Cleaning Up

On the midnight mixtape, Colin Murray was joined by Claire Lim to look at listener selections (14/06/2023) with Songs that reference cleaning, chores, house work and cleaning products!

Songs in contention

• Queen - I want to break free
• Queen - Flash
• Alesha Dixon - The boy does nothing
• Flaming Lips - Suddenly everything has changed
• Roger Miller - King of the road
• Holly Johnson - Americanos
• Cold War Kids - Hang me up to dry
• Coasters - Yakety Yak
• Burna Boy- Common Person
• Madness - Our House
• Average White Band - Picking up the pieces
• Beautiful South - Don't marry her
• Deacon Blue - Dignity
• Eminem - Cleaning out my closet
• Faces/Rod Stewart - You can make me dance...
• Robert Johnson - I believe I'll dust my broom
• Dolly Parton - Washday blues
• Mandy Moore - When will my life begin
• Betty Wright - Clean up woman
• X-Ray Spex - Germ free adolescent
• Clifford T Ward - Scullery
• Wilco - Hate it here
• Rose Royce - Car Wash
• TLC - No Scrubs
• Christina Aguilera - Dirrty
• Def Leppard - Let's Get Rocked
• Fat and Frantic - Last night my wife hoovered my head
• Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins) - Spoonful of sugar
• B52s - Housework

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Coasters - Yakety Yak
2. Average White Band - Pick up the pieces
3. Eminem - Cleaning out my closet
4. Cold War Kids - Hang me up to dry
5. Def Leppard - Let's get rocked
6. Flaming Lips - Suddenly everything has changed
[Side 2]
7. Queen - Flash
8. Madness - Our House
9. B52s - Housework
10. Betty Wright - Clean up woman
11. Clifford T Ward - Scullery
12. Burna Boy - Common People
Hidden: Christina Aguilera - Dirrty!

Stats

The weirdest stat is that all but two artists (Madness and Queen) begin with a letter from A-F.
Debuts for Betty Wright, Burna Boy, Christina Aguilera, Clifford T Ward, Coasters and Cold War Kids.
Average White Band and B52s on for a second time after "Let's go round again" (Deja Vu) and "Rock Lobster" (Under the sea).
Third appearances for Def Leppard (with previous appearances with "Pour some sugar on me" (Sugar) and "Rocket" (Firework)) and Madness (with previous appearances with "Driving my car" (Car Showroom and "Night boat to Cairo" (Ship ahoy)).
Fourth appearance for Flaming Lips after "She don't use jelly" (fruit, set the table) and "Waiting for a superman" (superhero).
Eminem appears for a fifth time after previous appears with Stan (One name and Going Postal), "Like toy soldiers" (toys) and "Lose yourself" (human spirit).
Queen on a mixtape for a 13th time and now 3 clear of Prince, Beatles and Paul Simon. The song "Flash" has appeared for 4th time!