Midnight Mixtape: Touch

Touch

On the midnight mixtape, Colin Murray was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (23/11/2023) with Songs that reference touch or touching!

Songs in contention

• Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus {Reach out and touch faith}
• Wetleg - Wet Dream
• Hall & Oates - Out of touch
• Cascada - Everytime We Touch
• Darkness - I believe in a crazy thing called love {touching hands}
• Tina Turner - What’s love got to do with it
• A-ha - Sun always shines on TV
• Razorlight - Golden Touch
• Madonna - Like a virgin
• Divinyls - I Touch Myself
• Doors - Touch me
• MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This
• AC/DC - Touch too much
• Alice Cooper - Poison
• Diana Ross - Touch me in the morning
• Pointer Sisters - Slow hand
• Genesis - Invisible Touch
• Samantha Fox - Touch me
• Fall - The Touch
• Rui Da Silva - Touch me
• Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline
• Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch
• Stan Bush - You got the touch
• Deacon Blue - Chocolate Girl
• Cathy Dennis - Touch me (all night long)
• Five Star - The Slightest Touch
• Dan Hill - Sometimes When We Touch
• Mudhoney - Touch me I'm sick
• New Order - Touched by the hand of God
• Susan Sarandon (Rocky Horror Show) - Touch-a touch-a me
• Tubes - Don't touch me there
• Righteous Brothers - Unchained melody
• Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger
• Sade - Your love is king
• Blondie - (I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence Dear (Tony Livesey's choice
• Thompson Twins - Hold me now (Clare McDonnell's choice)

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
2. Deacon Blue - Chocolate Girl
3. Mudhoney - Touch me I'm sick
4. Darkness - I believe in a thing called love
5. Fall - Touch Sensitive
6. Righteous Brothers - Unchained melody
[Side 2]
7. Divinyls - I Touch Myself
8. Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger
9. Wetleg - Wet Dream
10. Samantha Fox - Touch me
11. Cascada - Everytime We Touch
12. Diana Ross - Touch me in the morning
Hidden: MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This

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

Previous Appearances

No less than EIGHT debuts with Cascada, Darkness, Diana Ross, Divinyls, Mudhoney, Righteous Brothers, Sam Fox and Wetleg
Of the other acts with previous appearances:

Artist	#	Other Appearances
Fall	2	Lie dream of a casino soul (Liar Liar, #61)
MC Hammer	2	U can't touch this (Best, #49)
Depeche Mode	3	Blasphemous Rumours (Rumours*, #37) Tora tora tora (Groundhog Day 2, #88)
Shirley Bassey	5	Diamonds are forever (Bond, #19) Goldfinger (Wales, #9) Goldfinger (Bond, #19) Goldfinger (Villians, #26)
Deacon Blue	7	Chocolate Girl (Couples, #65) Dignity (Scotland, #5) Dignity (Respect, #41) Dignity (Ship Ahoy, #43) Queen of the new year (New Years, #83) Real Gone Kid (Records, #97)

Midnight Mixtape: Shopping List

Shopping List

On the midnight mixtape, Colin Murray was joined by Claire Lim to look at listener selections (16/11/2023) with Songs that reference shopping the process of shopping etc… not things you can buy in shops!

Songs in contention

• Pulp - Common People
• Freshies - I'm in love with a girl on a certain (virgin) megastore
• Madness - House of fun
• Jane's Addiction - Been caught stealing
• Bennett - Mum's has gone to Iceland
• Ariana Grande - 7 Rings
• Hollies - Bus Stop
• Dolly Parton - Bargain Store
• Clash - Lost in the supermarket
• Carter USM - Shoppers Paradise
• Toni Basil - Shopping A to Z
• 50 Cent - Candy Shop
• Smokey Robinson & Miracles - Shop around
• Elvis Presley - Shop around
• Bruce Springsteen - Queen of the Supermarket
• Sleeper - Inbetweener
• Smiths - Shoplifters of the world unite
• Wetleg - Supermarket
• Keith West - Excerpt from a Teenage Opera (Grocer Jack)
• Stakka Bo - Here we go
• Jam - Shopping
• Jam - Man In the Corner Shop
• Pet Shop Boys - Shopping
• Cornershop - Brimful of Asha
• Tiffany - I think we're alone now
• Manics - Motorcycle emptiness
• Tim Minchin - Canvas Bags
• Van Morrison - Cleaning Windows
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop
• Stereophonics - Thousand trees

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Pulp - Common People
2. Bennett - Mum's has gone to Iceland
3. Pet Shop Boys - Shopping
4. Toni Basil - Shopping A to Z
5. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop
6. Stakka Bo - Here we go
[Side 2]
7. Dolly Parton - Bargain Store
8. Smokey Robinson & Miracles - Shop around
9. Hollies - Bus Stop
10. Keith West - Excerpt from a Teenage Opera (Grocer Jack)
11. Elvis Presley - Shop around
12. Tim Minchin - Canvas Bags	
Hidden: Manics - Motorcycle emptiness

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

Previous Appearances

Six debuts with Bennett, Keith West, Macklemore/Ryan Lewis, Miracles, Stakka Bo and Toni Basil
Of the other acts with previous appearances:

Pet Shop Boys	2	Domino Dancing (Toys, #30)
Tim Minchin	2	White wine in the sun (Homeward Bound, #81)
Dolly Parton	3	9 to 5 (Day in life of*, #85) 9 to 5 (80s Movies, #11)
Hollies	3	Air that I breathe (Breathing, #82) He ain't heavy, he's my brother (Human Spirit 1, #90)
Pulp	5	Disco 2000 (Wood, #60) DISHES (Set the table, #74) I spy (Whisper, #48) Mis-shapes (Human Spirit 2, #91)
Manic Street Preachers	6	Faster (Fast, #45) If you tolerate (Wales, #9) Love us (Gone too soon*, #8) Postcards from a young man (Going Postal, #56) Small black flowers... (Two Instruments, #79)
Elvis	7	Lonesome onight (Shakespeare, #125) (LMBY) Teddy Bear (Toys, #30) Heartbreak Hotel (Hotels, #70) Jailhouse Rock (Prison, #34) Lonesome tonight (Alone, #57) Return to sender (Tennis, #53)

Midnight Mixtape: Shakespeare

Shakespeare

On the midnight mixtape, Johnny I'Anson covering for a poorly Colin Murray (GWS!) was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (09/11/2023) with Songs that reference Shakespeare or his immortal work celebrating the 400th birthday this week of his first folio!

Songs in contention

• Dire Straits - Romeo And Juliet
• Killers - Romeo and Juliet
• Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
• Billy Bragg - The Milkman Of Human Kindness
• Beatles - I Am the Walrus
• Blue Oyster Cult - Don't fear the reaper {Romeo and Juliet}
• David Essex - A winter's tale {Tony Livsey's choice}
• Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
• Iron Maiden - The Evil That Men Do
• Crowded House - Weather with you
• Elvis - Lonesome onight
• Shakespears Sister - You're history
• Reflections - Just like Romeo and Juliet
• Chris De Burgh - Fatal Hesitation
• Nick Lowe - Cruel to be kind
• Lumineers - Ophelia
• Eagles - Get over it
• Elvis Costello - Miss Macbeth
• Cud - Rich & Strange
• BA Roberston - To be or not to be {Clare McDonnell's choice}
• Rush - Limelight
• Band - Ophelia
• Joni Mithcell - Talk to me
• Supergrass - Richard III
• Kids from Fame - Desdemona
• Cole Porter (Kiss me Kate) - Brush up your Shakespeare
• Bach - Air on G String
• Genesie - Cinema show
• Taylor Swift - Love Story
• Radiohead - Exit Music (for a Film)
• France Gail - Shakespeare et Pire Encore

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Dire Straits - Romeo And Juliet
2. Elvis Costello - Miss Macbeth
3. Joni Mithcell - Talk to me
4. David Essex - A winter's tale
5. Reflections - Just like Romeo and Juliet
6. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
[Side 2]
7. Taylor Swift - Love Story
8. Kids from Fame - Desdemona
8. Elvis - Lonesome onight
10. Band - Ophelia
11. Cole Porter (Kiss me Kate) - Brush up your Shakespeare
12. Radiohead - Exit Music (for a Film)
Hidden: Bach - Air on G String

Previous Appearances

6 debuts with Bach, Cole Porter, Joni Mitchell, Mumford & Sons, Reflections and Kids from Fame* debut. (*Note: excluding Irene Cara's "Fame" from the fame mixtape)
Of the other acts with previous appearances:

Artist	#	Other Appearances
The Band	2	When I paint my masterpiece (Spanish 2, #112)
David Essex	2	A Winter's tale (Winter, #33)
Dire Straits	3	Sultans of swing (Royals, #7) Sultans of Swing (Baseball, #120)
Taylor Swift	3	All too well (Autumn, #69) Bad Blood (Blood, #35)
Elvis	6	(LMBY) Teddy Bear (Toys, #30) Heartbreak Hotel (Hotels, #70) Jailhouse Rock (Prison, #34) Lonesome tonight (Alone, #57) Return to sender (Tennis, #53)
Elvis Costello	7	Shipbuilding (Trumpets*, #2) 45 (Records, #97) Good year for the roses (Roses, #38) Indoor Fireworks (Fireworks, #24) Shipbuilding (Louder than War, #22) Shipbuilding (Ship Ahoy, #43)
Radiohead	9	Fake Plastic Trees (Radio*, #29) Fake plastic trees (Plants*, #107) Airbag (Fast, #45) Idioteque (Oh Brother, #14) My iron lung (Breathing, #82) The bends (Under the Sea, #51) There There (Groundhog Day 2, #88) Everything in it's right place (Day/Night Before, #110) Idioteque (End of the world, #118)

Midnight Mixtape: Shoes

Shoes

On the midnight mixtape, Johnny I'Anson covering for a poorly Colin Murray (GWS!) was joined by Nat Jamieson to look at listener selections (02/11/2023) with Songs that reference shoes in commeration of the release this day 30 years ago of Kate Bush's "Red shoes!"

Songs in contention

• Arctic Monkeys - Dancing shoes
• David Bowie - Let's dance
• Jimmy Nail - Crocodile Shoes
• Dizzie Rascal - Fix up look sharp
• Stereophonics - Step on my old size nines
• Tom Waits - Red shoes (by the drugstore}
• Elvis - Blue Suede Shoes
• Billy Connolly - If it wisnae fur yer welles
• Adam Ant - Goody two shoes
• Kirsty MacColl - In these shoes
• KC & Sunshine band - Boogie shoes
• Hamish Hawk - Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion 1973
• Paul Simon - Diamonds on the soles of her shoes
• Marc Cohn - Walking in Memphis
• Foster the people - Pumped up kicks
• Elvis Costello - Red shoes
• Emmylou Harris - White shoes
• Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner's daughter
• Billy Joel - Stiletto
• Nik Kershaw - Wouldn't it be good
• Paolo Nutini - New Shoes
• Nancy Sinatra - These boots are made for walking
• Sia - Little black sandals
• I am kloot - Same shoes
• Kenny Loggins - Footloose
• Elton John - Ballad of the boy in the red shoes
• Calvin Harris - Ready for the weekend
• Tribe called quest - Buggin' out
• Fred Astaire - Shine on your shoes

Note: Kate Bush - "Red Shoes" was selected by a listener but not played!

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Kirsty MacColl - In these shoes
2. Adam Ant - Goody two shoes
3. KC & Sunshine band - Boogie shoes
4. Emmylou Harris - White shoes
5. Stereophonics - Step on my old size nines
6. Kenny Loggins - Footloose
[Side 2]
7. Dizzie Rascal - Fix up look sharp
8. Hamish Hawk - Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion 1973
9. Tom Waits - Red shoes (by the drugstore}
10. Billy Joel - Stiletto
11. Paul Simon - Diamonds on the soles of her shoes
12. I am kloot - Same shoes
Hidden: Paolo Nutini - New Shoes

Previous Appearances

FIVE debuts with Emmylou Harris, Hamish Hawk, I am kloot, Kenny Loggins and Kirsty MacColl.
Of the other acts with previous appearances:

Artist	#	Other Appearances
KC & Sunshine Band	2	Queen of Clubs (Cards, #84)
Paolo Nutini	2	Pencil full of lead (Toolbox, #55)
Adam Ant	3	Dog eat dog (Dogs, #39) Prince Charming (Royals, #7)
Dizzie Rascal	3	Brand new day (New Beginnings, #32) Holiday (Holidays, #12)
Paul Simon	5	50 ways to leave your lover (End of the Road, #59) Diamonds on the soles of her shoes (Foreign, #4) Diamonds on the soles.. (Choirs, #68) You can call me Al (Trumpets, #2)
Stereophonics	5	A thousand trees (Rumours, #37) Just looking (See Clearly, #71) Local boy in the photograph (Wales, #9) Thousand Trees (Plants, #107)
Tom Waits	5	Last Leaf (Autumn, #69) Rain Dogs (Dogs, #39) Way down in the hole (TV Themes, #17) What's he building in there? (Toolbox, #55)
Billy Joel	6	...Italian restaurant (Set the table, #74) Downeaster Alexa (Ship Ahoy, #43) For the longest time (Two Instruments, #79) River of Dreams (River, #36) We didn't start the fire (Movie Stars, #58)