Midnight Mixtape: Thunder & Lightning

Thunder & Lightning

On the midnight mixtape, Colin Murray was joined by Claire Lim to look at listener selections (24/08/2023) with songs that reference thunder and lightning! (Idea for the theme was the fact that Bruce Springsteen's third studio album "Born to run" was released 48 years ago (August 25th) which had "Thunder Road" as its opening track)

Songs in contention

(36 Tracks played is a record in itself!)

• (dEUS - Disappointed in the sun)
• AC/DC - Thunderstruck
• Arcade Fire - The lightning
• Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning
• Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
• Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning
• Eddie Floyd - Knock on the wood
• Amii Stewart - Knock on the wood
• Imagine Dragons - Thunder
• N-Trance - Set u free
• John Travolta - Grease Lightning
• Bruce Springsteen - Thunder road
• Men at work - Down under
• Mastodon - Blood and Thunder
• Dennis Brown - Lightning and Thunder
• Bob Marley - Revolution
• Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
• Flaming Lips - Lightning strikes the postman
• Live - Lightning Crashes
• Elton John - I guess that's why they call it the blues?
• Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
• Leo Sayer - Thunder in my heart
• Meck - Thunder in my heart
• Nick Cave - Tepula
• Jake Bugg - Thunder Bolt
• Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning
• Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah
• Toyah - Thunder in the mountains
• Promised Jetbacks - It's thunder and it's lightning
• Tom Verlaine/Television - Breakin' in my heart
• James - Sometimes
• Wanda Jackson - Thunder on the mountain
• Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms (Thunder intro)
• Thundercats Theme
• PJ & Duncan - Let's get ready to rumble
• Thunderclap Newman - Something in the air
• A-ha - Crying in the rain

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
2. Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
3. A-ha - Crying in the rain
4. Tom Verlaine/Television - Breakin' in my heart
5. Men at work - Down under
6. Dennis Brown - Lightning and Thunder
[Side 2]
7. Nick Cave - Tepula
8. Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning
9. AC/DC - Thunderstruck
10. N-Trance - Set u free
11. Mastodon - Blood and Thunder
12. Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning
Hidden: PJ & Duncan - Let's get ready to rumble

Thank you for Mog created an "applified" playlist.

Previous Appearances

There is a little irony that the original idea for the theme, Bruce Springsteen did NOT make the final playlist. More so with A-ha getting on here, considering in a previous mixtape, "searching" came about from an anniversairy of the album release for "Hunting high and low", they weren't even played!
Seven debuts with Alannah Myles, A-Ha, Dennis Brown, Mastodon, N-Trance, PJ & Duncan and Tom Verlaine.
Of the other acts with previous appearances:

Artist	#	Other Appearances
Men at work	2	Down Under (Car Showroom 1, #76)
Arctic Monkeys	3	R u mine? (Question of Love, #20) The view from the afternoon (See Clearly, #71)
Fleetwood Mac	5	Dreams (Dreams, #21) Dreams (Couples, #65) Songbird (Two Instruments, #79) The Chain (Fast*, #45)
Thin Lizzy	5	Boys are back in town (Homeward Bound*, #81) Jailbreak (Prison, #34) Jailbreak (Breaking Law, #109) Whiskey in the jar (Ireland, #42)
AC/DC	6	Dirty deeds done dirt cheap (Breaking Law, #109) Highway to Hell (Devils, #13) If you want blood.. (Blood, #35) It's a long way to the top (12 Days of Christmas, #31) Rock n Roll Train (Trains, #96)
Nick Cave	9	Henry Lee (Hundred, #100) Where the wild roses grow (Roses, #38) Where the wild roses grow (Plants, #107) Red right hand (Devils*, #13) Red right hand (TV Themes, #17) Red right hand (Snooker, #47) Ship Song (Ship Ahoy, #43) Ship Song (Bridges, #86)