Midnight Mixtape: Rats

Rats

On the midnight mixtape, Colin Murray was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (12/10/2023) with Songs that reference rats!

Songs in contention

• Michael Jackson - Ben
• Roland Rat Superstar - Rat Rapping
• Walkmen - The Rat
• Drifters - Rat Race
• Dr Rubberfunk - Riding with the Ratman
• Blur - Country House
• Specials - Rat Race
• Placebo - Slave to the wage
• Partners in Kryme - Turtle Power
• Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap
• Badly Drawn Boy - Year of the Rat
• Honeyblood - Super Rat
• Grandmaster Flash - The Message
• Pearl Jam - Rats
• UB40 - Rat in mi Kitchen
• Big Mama Thornton - I smell a rat
• Al Bowlly - Pied Piper of Hamelin
• Nutcracker - Dance of the Sugarplum fairy
• Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet with butterfly wings
• Stranglers - Down in the sewer
• Damned - Smash it up (hidden)
• Supergrass - Sun hits the sky (hidden)
• Rat Pack - Mr Bojangles (hidden)
• Queen - Great King Rat (not played)
• Editors - Racing Rats
• Kelis & Andre 3000 - Millionaire

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Big Mama Thornton - I smell a rat
2. Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap
3. Kelis & Andre 3000 - Millionaire
4. Walkmen - The Rat
5. Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite Pas De Deux (Dance of the Sugarplum fairy/Rat King)
6. Stranglers - Down in the sewer
[Side 2]
7. Specials - Rat Race
8. Michael Jackson - Ben
9. Dr Rubberfunk - Riding with the Ratman
10. Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet with butterfly wings
11. Drifters - Rat Race
12. Badly Drawn Boy - Year of the Rat
Hidden: Sammy Davis Jr (Rat Pack) - Mr Bojangles

Thank you for Mog created an "applified" and a "spotified" playlist.

Previous Appearances

Four debuts with Dr Rubberfunk, Drifters, Tchaikovsky and Walkmen.
Of the other acts with previous appearances:

Artist	#	Other Appearances
Badly Drawn Boy	2	Silent sigh (Breathing. #82)
Big Mamma Thorton	2	Hound Dog (Dogs, #39)
Boomtown rats	2	I don't like Mondays (Day in life of, #85)
Kelis	2	Caught out there (Liar Liar, #61)
Smashing Pumpkins	2	Tonight Tonight (Groundhog Day 2, #88)
Michael Jackson	3	Billie Jean (Tennis, #53) Leave me alone (Alone, #57)
Pearl Jam	3	Spin the black circle (Records, #97) Yellow Ledbetter (Snooker, #47)
Sammy Davis Jr	3	I gotta be me (Human Spirit 2, #91) Mr Bojangles (Whistle, #94)
Specials	4	Enjoy yourself (New Years, #83) Ghost Town (Monster, #23) Too much too young (Shortest, #6)
Stranglers	5	Duchess (Royals, #7) Mercury rising (Planets, #78) No more heroes (North Pole, #80) Something better change (New Beginnings, #32)