Midnight Mixtape: In the wash

Washing/Drying

On the midnight mixtape, Colin Murray was joined by Claire Lim to look at listener selections (07/09/2023) with Songs that reference actual bridgeswashing and/or drying clothes!

Songs in contention

• Buddy Holly - PEGgy Sue
• Blondie - TIDE is high
• Paragons - TIDE is high
• Cold War Kids - Hang Me Up To Dry
• Green Day - BASKET Case
• Lancashire Hotpots - Tissue in the WASH
• Dead or Alive - You SPIN me right round [Tony Livesey's Choice]
• Vic Reeves and the Wonder Stuff - Dizzy my [head is SPINNING like a WHIRLPOOL]
• Laura Imbruglia - My dream of a magical WASHING MACHINE
• Madonna - HUNG UP
• Rolling Stones - (Can't get no) Satisfaction [How white my shirts can be]
• Kursaal Flyers - Little does she know [She was sharing her SPIN DRYER with a guy in a tie-dye]
• Flanagan & Allen - We're going to HANG out the WASHING on the Siegfried LINE
• Vivien Goldman - LAUNDERETTE
• Marvin Gaye - Heard it through the Grapevine [Hidden: 80s Levi 501's Ad Campaign with Nick Kamen]
• Space - You and Me vs The World [HANGING knickers on the line]
• Outkast - So FRESH so CLEAN
• Spandau Ballet - Chant No 1 (I don't need this pressure on) [I'm washing my clothes, but the stain still grows]
• Sonic Youth - WASHING MACHINE
• Mitski - WASHING MACHINE Heart
• Radiohead - High and dry
• Curtis Mayfield - DIRTY LAUNDRY
• Don Henley - DIRTY LAUNDRY
• Detergents - Leader of the LAUNDROMAT
• Kate Bush - Mrs Bartolozzi (Aerial) [Laundry Basket, Dirty clothes, etc]
• Culture Club - I'll TUMBLE for you
• Belle & Sebastian - The blues are still blue [washing in the launderette]
• Handsome Family - The woman downstairs [beret in the LAUNDRY room, left it on a DRYER]
• Simon & Garfunkel - My little town [my mom doing the LAUNDRY]
• Bela Band - DRY the rain [iron board]
• Bob Dylan - BLOWING in the wind
• Pretenders - Watching the clothes [Clare McDonnell's choice]

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Green Day - BASKET Case
2. Sonic Youth - WASHING MACHINE
3. Dead or Alive - You SPIN me right round
4. Vic Reeves and the Wonder Stuff - Dizzy
5. Curtis Mayfield - DIRTY LAUNDRY
6. Outkast - So FRESH so CLEAN
[Side 2]
7. Lancashire Hotpots - Tissue in the WASH
8. Cold War Kids - Hang Me Up To Dry
9. Madonna - HUNG up
10. Vivien Goldman - LAUNDERETTE
11. Simon & Garfunkel - My little town
12. Kursaal Flyers - Little does she know
Hidden: Marvin Gaye - Heard it through the Grapevine

Thank you for Mog created an "applified" playlist.

Previous Appearances

Four debuts with Kursaal Flyers, Lancashire Hotpots, Vic Reeves and Vivien Goldman.
Of the other acts with previous appearances:

Artist	#	Other Appearances
Cold War Kids	2	Hang me up to dry (Cleaning up, #104)
Curtis Mayfield	2	Move on up (Trumpets, #2)
Dead or Alive	2	You spin me round (Records, #97))
Sonic Youth	2	100% (100, #100)
Green Day	3	Good Riddance (Memories, #46) Wake me up when September ends (Autumn, #69)
Outkast/td>	3	Roses (Roses, #38) Dracula's Wedding (Monster, #23)
Madonna	6	Holiday (Holidays, #12) Like a prayer (Choirs, #68) Music (Records, #97) Vogue (One name, #16) Vogue (Movie Stars, #58)
Simon & Garfunkel	7	Bridge over troubled water (Bridges, #86) El Condor Pasa (Toolbox, #55) Homeward bound (Homeward Bound, #81) Mrs Robinson (Non Sport, #18) Sound of Silence (Whisper, #48) Sound of Silence (Hello, #50)
Marvin Gaye	9	End of our road (End of the Road, #59) Heard it through the grapevine (Fruit, #3) Heard it through the grapevine (Rumours, #37) Heard it through the grapevine (Whisper*, #48) Heard it through the grapevine (Plants, #107) What's going on? (Album, #1) What's going on? (Louder than War, #22) Yesterday (Beatles, #44)