LNL Midnight Mixtape: New Year

Midnight Mixtape: New

On the midnight mixtape, Connor Phillips was joined by Claire Lim to look at listener selections (31/12/2024) with Songs that reference New Year / New beginnings / Newy Newness!

Songs in contention

• Carpenters - We've only just begun
• Feeder - Just a day
• Nina Simone - Feeling Good
• Otis Redding & Carla Thomas - New Year Resolutions
• Shires - New Year
• Paul Weller - Brand new start
• U2 - New Year's Day
• Big Dish - Big New Beginning
• Camera Obscura - Happy New Year
• Zombies - This Will be Our Year
• Taylor Swift - New Year's Day
• Blur - End of the Century
• Johnny Nash - I can see clearly now
• Deacon Blue - Queen of the New Year
• Gun - Better Days
• Brand New Heavies - Midnight at the Oasis
• Paolo Nutini - New Shoes
• Christy Moore - Delirium Tremens
• George Harrison - Ding Dong
• Blossoms - Perfect me

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1] Upbeat
1. U2 - New Year's Day
2. Feeder - Just a day
3. Deacon Blue - Queen of the New Year
4. Blossoms - Perfect me	
5. George Harrison - Ding Dong
6. Brand New Heavies - Midnight at the Oasis

[Side 2] Chilled out/come down
7. Nina Simone - Feeling Good
8. Carpenters - We've only just begun
9. Johnny Nash - I can see clearly now
10. Paolo Nutini - New Shoes
11. Paul Weller - Brand new start
12. Blur - End of the Century

Hidden:
Christy Moore - Delirium Tremens

Weekend Special: Best of 2024

Weekend Best Of: Now that's what I call a weekend playlist...

Here's the weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Lyricslinger looking at X/twitter selections (29/12/2024) with Songs that reference any Weekend Playlist song from 2024!

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1]
1. Roberta Flack - First time ever I saw your face
2. Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman
3. Dan Hartman - Instant Replay
4. Camera Obscura - Desire Lines
5. Anonhi - I will survive
6. Primal Scream - Rocks

[Side 2]
7. Cypress Hill - Insane in the brain
8. Blondie - Sunday Girl
9. Pixies - Where is my mind?
10. Asegir Trausti - Heart Shaped Box
11. Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa - Black Coffee
12. Alarm - The Rise

[Bonus]
Beatles - All you need is love
Kermit - Rainbow Connection
Lancashire Hotpots - Wigan Church of Pies

Considered

• Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl
• Gary Moore & Phil Lynott - Parisienne Walkways

Weekend Playlist: Festive Drinks

Weekend Playlist: Festive Drinks

Here's the weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Snail OB looking at X/twitter selections (27/12/2024) with Songs that reference festive drinks for this period of celebration between Christmas and New Years!

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] Champagne and Wine
Marc Almond - Champagne 
Kinks - Lola
Panic! At the Disco - I write sins not tragedies
UB40 - Red Red Wine
Frank Sinatra - I get a kick out of you
Oasis - Champagne Supernova

[Side 2] Festive Excess
John Lee Hooker - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
Chris Stapleton - Tennesse Whiskey
Motörhead - Beer Drinkers and Hellraisers
Terrorvision - Tequila
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
Underworld - Born Slippy

[Bonus]
Evelyn ‘Champagne’ King - Love come down
Bucks Fizz - Making your mind up

Long list

• AC/DC - Have a drink on me
• Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in LA
• Buck Fizz - Making your mind up
• Bucks Fizz - If you can't stand the heat
• Chris Stapleton - Tennessee Whiskey
• Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
• Crazy - Nani Wine
• Dead Kennedys - Too drunk to f&*k
• Declan McKenna - Champagne
• Eartha Kitt - Les danseurs Du Charleston
• Edmund Purdom & Anne Blyth - Drink Drink Drink
• Elton John - Piano Man
• Frank Sinatra - I get a kick out of you
• George Thorogood - One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer
• IDKHow - Absinthe
• John Lee Hooker - One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer
• Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning come down
• Kinks - Lola
• Levellers - Just the One
• LMFAO - Shots
• Mad dogs - No Lager
• Marc Almond - Champagne
• Motorhead - Beer Drinkers and Hellraisers
• Oasis - Champagne Supernova
• Orchard - Jinny Jinny Jinny
• Panic! at the disco - I write sins not tragedies
• Pogues - Streams of Whisky
• Portnoy & Angelo - Cheers Theme
• Robert Palmer - I'll be your baby tonight
• Sleepy Brown - Bowtie
• Status Quo - It's Christmas Time
• Terravision - Tequlia
• The Champs - Tequila
• Thin Lizzy - Whiskey in the Jar
• Tom McRae - Christmas Eve 1943
• UB40 - Red Red Wine
• Underworld - Born Slippy
• Wurzels - I am a Cider Drinker

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Returns

Midnight Mixtape: Returns

On the midnight mixtape, Connor Phillips was joined by Claire Lim to look at listener selections (26/12/2024) with Songs that reference return or returns! According to Connor we return over £80s worth of stuff to the shops on average every year.

Songs in contention

• AC/DC - Back in black
• Bryan Adams - Take me back
• Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack
• Elvis - Return to sender
• David Bowie - Changes
• Enigma - Return to innocence
• Saints - Know your product
• Bluetones - Slight Return
• Beatles - Get Back
• Mari Wilson - Just what I always wanted
• Scissor Sisters - Return to Oz
• Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child (slight return)
• Altered Images - Happy Birthday
• Upsetters - Return of Django
• Amy Winehouse - Back to black
• Pulp - Monday Morning
• Madness - Return of the Los Palmos 7
• Tom Waits - Return of Jackie and Judy
• McAlmont & Butler - Bring it back

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack
2. AC/DC - Back in black
3. Saints - Know your product
4. Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child (slight return)
5. Beatles - Get Back
6. McAlmont & Butler - Bring it back
[Side 2]
7. Elvis - Return to sender
8. Bluetones - Slight Return
9. Amy Winehouse - Back to black
10. Mari Wilson - Just what I always wanted
11. Upsetters - Return of Django
12. David Bowie - Changes
Hidden:
Altered Images - Happy Birthday

Previous Appearances

Already David Bowie and Elvis make the mixtape for a second time in the Livesey Era. Including the original midnight mixtapes, 7 acts had never been on before Altered Images, Bluetones, Mari Wilson, Mark Morrison, McAlmont & Butler, Saints, Upsetters Others will previous appearances:

• 15: Beatles
• 10: Elvis
• 9: David Bowie
• 6: AC/DC
• 3: Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix

Notable fact, Jimi Hendrix has never appeared in the mixtape with Voodoo Child.

Weekend Special: Regrets

Weekend Playlist: Regrets

Here's a special weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Lyric Slinger looking at X/twitter selections (01/12/2024) with Songs that made you go why didn't I think of that at the time!

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] Midnight Mixtape
1. Gabrielle - Dreams	[Dreams]
2. Maroon 5 - Memories	[Memories]
3. Tina Charles - I love to love	[Tennis]
4. Kirsty MacColl - My Affair	[Spanish]
5. Bob Seger - Night moves	[Summer lovin]
6. Bryan Adams/Mel C - When you're gone	[Couples/Phone]

[Side 2] Weekend Playlist
1. Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen [Clothes]
2. Ralph McTell - Streets of London [RPS]
3. Righteous Brothers - Just once in my life	[Wall]
4. Dan Reed Network - Come back baby	[Return]
5. Aerosmith - Mama Kin	[Dragons/Tea]
6. Disturbed - Sound Of Silence	[Walls]

[Bonus]
Pixies - Where is my mind	[Swim]
Bobby Vinton - Blue Velvet	[Blue]

Weekend Playlist: Short

Weekend Playlist: Short

Here's the weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Ian Eason looking at X/twitter selections (19/12/2024) with Songs that have song titles 4 characters or less.
This was inspired by the fact December 21st is the shortest day of the year (in the Northern hemisphere).

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] Go..Stop
1. Moby - Go
2. Van Halen - Jump
3. Public Image Ltd - Rise
4. Young Fathers - Drum
5. Shakespear's Sister - Stay
6. Sam Brown - Stop!

[Side 2] Yes!
7. David Bowie - Fame
8. Johnny Cash - Hurt
9. Radiohead - Nude
10. Kate Bush - Wow
11. Kirsty MacColl - Days
12. McAlmont & Butler - Yes

[Bonus]
Kim Wilde - Four Letter Word
Mary Poppins - Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Long list

• Annie Lennox - Why
• Arthur Brown - Fire
• Beatles - Help!
• Black Sabbath - I
• Blondie - Fun
• Bluetones - If
• Bolshoi - A way
• Bronski Beat - Why
• Cardiacs - R.E.S.
• Craig McLachlan - Mona
• Crowded House - Oh Hi
• David Bowie - Fame
• Des'ree - Life
• Dexy's Midnight Runners - Geno
• Dr Robert & Kym Mazelle - Wait
• Dubstar - I
• Edwin Starr - War
• EMF - Lies
• Erasure - Stop
• Fat Larry's Band - Zoom
• Gary Numan - Cars
• Godley & Creme - Cry
• Goldfrapp - A&E
• Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
• Gram Parsons - She
• Interpol - Evil
• INXS - Kick
• Jackson 5 - ABC
• James - Laid
• Johnny Cash - Hurt
• Julie Andrews - Do-re-mi
• K.Flay - Shy
• Kate Bush - Wow
• Kim Appleby - GLAD
• Kim Wilde - Four Letter Word
• Kinks - Lola
• Kirsty MacColl - Days
• Lightning Seeds - Pure
• Little Simz - X
• Mary Poppins - Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
• Matchbox Twenty - Push
• McAlmont & Butler - Yes
• Moby - Go
• New Order - 1963
• Pet Shop Boys - Rent
• Peter Gabriel - Biko
• Public Image Ltd - Rise
• Public Service Broadcasting - Go
• Queen - 39
• Radiohead - Lift
• Radiohead - Nude
• Randy Newman - Short people
• Sam Brown - Stop!
• Scott Walker - Next
• Shakespear's Sister - Stay
• Sm!rks - OK UK
• Snow Patrol - Run
• Softcell - So
• Stevie Wonder/George & Mary - As
• Suzanne Vega - Luka
• Take That - Pray
• Texas - Halo
• Thorns - Blue
• U2 - Bad
• U2 - One
• Van Halen - Jump
• Watercress - Sad
• White Stripes - Do
• Young Fathers - Drum

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Blue

Midnight Mixtape: Blue

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (19/12/2024) with Songs that reference Blue!

Songs in contention

• Deacon Blue - Fergus sings the blues
• Adventures - Greatest shade of blue
• Crystal Gale - Don't it make my brown eyes blue
• Bob Dylan - Subterranean homesick blues
• Madonna - True Blue
• Wah! - Story of the blues
• Everton - Spirit of the blues
• New Order - Blue Monday
• Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
• Laurel & Hardy - Trail of the lonesome pine (Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia)
• Picture this - Get on my love
• Scott Walker - Montague Terrace
• Icehouse - Electric Blue
• Erasure - Blue Savannah
• Cerys Matthews - Into the blue
• Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains
• UB40 - Forever blue
• Manic Street Preachers - International Blue
• John Coltrane - Blue Train
• Neil Diamond - Song sung blue
• Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat
• Malcolm Middleton - Blue Plastic Bags
• Elvis - Blue Christmas
• Elvis - Blue Suede Shoes
• Elton John - I guess that's why they call them the blues
• Elton John - Tiny Dancer
• Steely Dan - Deacon Blues
• Corrs - Give me a reason
• David Bowie - Sound & Vision
• Guns'n'Roses - Sweet child o mine
• Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue
• Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
• Frank Turner - Peggy Sue sings the blues
• REM - Electron Blue
• Del Amitri - Move away Jimmy Blue
• Siouxsie & Banshees - Something Blue
• Fats Domino - Blue Monday
• Lovely Eggs - Nothing/Everything
• Beautiful South - Blue is the colour
• ELO - Mr Blue Sky
• Blues Traveller - But anyway
• Frank Sinatra - Have yourself a merry little Christmas

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1] spotify | apple
1. Bob Dylan - Subterranean homesick blues
2. Guns'n'Roses - Sweet child o mine
3. Wah! - Story of the blues
4. Laurel & Hardy - Blue Ridge Mountains
5. Crystal Gale - Don't it make my brown eyes blue
6. Malcolm Middleton - Blue Plastic Bags

[Side 2]  spotify | apple
7. Scott Walker - Montague Terrace
8. John Coltrane - Blue Train
9. Elvis - Blue Suede Shoes
10. Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
11. Lovely Eggs - Nothing / Everything
12. Johnny Cash  Folsom Prison Blues
Hidden: Frank Sinatra - Have yourself a merry little christmas

Thank you Mog who created the applified and spotified playlists.

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 5 acts had never been on before John Coltrane, Lovely Eggs, Malcolm Middleton, Scott Walker, Wah.
Previous entrants:

• 11: Johnny Cash
• 10: Bob Dylan
• 9: Elvis Presley
• 7: Frank Sinatra
• 3: Guns n'Roses
• 1: Crystal Gale, Laurel & Hardy, Velvet Undeground

Weekend Playlist: 50

h2>Weekend Playlist: 50 Here's the weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Adrian looking at X/twitter selections (12/12/2024) with Songs that reference fifty.
This was commemorate the 50th episode of the Weekend Playlist.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

Thanks to Mog for the spotified list.

[Side 1] 50 Shades
Roger Miller - King of the Road
Ventures - Hawaii Five-O
Paul Simon - 50 ways to leave your lover
Edwyn Collins - 50 shades of blue
Kate Bush - 50 words for snow
David Bowie - Young Americans
[Bonus 1]
Jacques Dutronc - Et moi...
Suzanne Vega - Fifty-fifty chance

[Side 2] In da 50
Duke of Iron/Louis Jordan - 50 cents
Squeeze - Up the junction
Saw Doctors - Broke my heart
Cocteau Twins - Fifty-fifty clowns
Aimee Mann - 50 years after the fair
Rolling Stones - You can't always get what you want
[Bonus 2]
50 cent - In da club
The Fall - 50 year old man

Long list

• 50 Cent - In da club
• 50 Foot Wave - Bug
• Aimee Mann - 50 years after the fair
• Cocteau Twins - Fifty-fifty clowns
• David Bowie - Cracked Actor
• David Bowie - Young Americans
• Dorothy Loudon - 50%
• Edwyn Collins - 50 shades of blue
• Erasure - Drama
• Fall - 50 year old man
• Jacques Dutronc - Et moi Et moi Et moi
• James - Five-O
• Jimi Hendrix Experience - 51st anniversary
• Kate Bush - 50 words for snow
• Lemar - 50/50
• Louis Armstrong - Fifty fifty blues
• Louis Jordan - 50 cents
• Paul Simon - 50 ways to leave your lover
• People TV - Lovely Eggs {50 piece jigsaw, 48...}
• PJ Harvey - 50ft Queenie
• Pogues - Fiesta
• Roger Miller - King of the Road
• Rolling Stones - You can't always get what you want
• Saw Doctors - Broke my heart
• Squeeze - Up the junction {this morning at 4:50}
• Suzanne Vega - Fifty-fifty chance
• Tubes - Attack of the 50 ft woman
• Ventures - Hawaii Five-O
• Zager & Evans - In the year 2525

Weekend Playlist: Return

Weekend Playlist: Returns

Here's the weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Adrian looking at X/twitter selections (05/12/2024) with Songs that reference returns, comebacks or resurrection.
This was inspired with the return after 11 months of the Midnight Mixtape.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] Going Back
1. Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack
2. Elvis - Return to sender
3. Take That - Back for good
4. AC/DC - Back in black
5. Amy Winehouse - Back to black
6. Eminem - Without me (Guess who's back)

[Side 2] Mixtape's coming home!
7. Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny come home
8. The Equals - Baby Come Back
9. Peter Schilling - Major Tom
10. Mighty Wah - Come back
11. Paul Young - Come back and stay
12. Tim Curry (Rocky Horror Picture Show) - I'm going home

[Bonus]
PJ Harvey - In the dark places
Fisherman's Friends - Leaving of Liverpool

Long list

• AC/DC - Back to black
• Amy Winehouse - Back to black
• Backstreet Boys - Backstreets back
• Belle & Sebastian - Sleep the clock around
• Bluetones - Slight Return
• Bryan Adams - Back to you
• Chris Isaak - Return to me
• Elton John Return to Paradise
• Elvis - Return to sender
• Embrace - Come back to what you know
• Eminem - I'm back
• Eminem - Without me (Guess who's back)
• Expose - Point of no return
• Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny come home
• Fisherman's Friends - Leaving of Liverpool
• Gram Parsons & Emma Lou Harris - Return of Grievous Angel
• Imagine Dragons - Top of the world
• Jamiroquai - Space Cowboy
• Madness - Return of the Los Palmas 7
• Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack
• Michael Buble - Home
• Mighty Wah - Come back
• National - Alien
• Ozzy Osborne - Maria I'm coming home
• Paul Young - Come back and stay
• Peter & Lee - Welcome home
• Peter Schilling - Major Tom
• PJ Harvey - In the dark places
• Pogues - Sea Shanty
• Powderfinger - My happiness
• Primal Scream - Can't go back
• Robert Earl Kean - I'm coming home
• Shapeshifter - When I return
• Skid Row - Born a beggar
• Skylar Grey - Coming home
• Take That - Back for good
• The Equals - Baby Come Back
• Tim Curry (Rocky Horror Picture Show) - I'm going home
• Tom Petty - Learning to fly
• Trash Can Sinatras - Welcome back
• Undertones - Got to have you back
• You Me at Six - Back Again

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Swimming

Midnight Mixtape: Swimming

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (12/12/2024) with Songs that reference swimming!

Songs in contention

• Tom Grennan - Little bit of love
• REM - Nightswimming
• David Bowie - Heroes
• Glenn Miller - Three little fishes
• Bruce Springsteen - The river
• John Williams - Jaws
• Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
• Killers - Mr Brightside
• Dire Straits - Twisting by the pool
• Grease (ONJ/JT) - Summer lovin'
• Echo & Bunnymen - Seven seas
• Coldplay - Clocks
• Aqualung - Strange & Beautiful
• Harry Styles - Two Ghosts
• Kendrik Lamar - Swimming Pools
• Peter Gabriel - I go swimming
• PJ Harvey - Down by the water
• Bedknobs & Broomstricks - Beautiful Briny
• Florence & the Machine - Swimming
• Stereophonics - 1000 trees
• Bombfunk MCs - Freestyler
• JJ72 - October Swimmer
• Maccabees - Latchmere
• Jam - Butterfly Collector
• Dubliners & Pogues - Irish Rover
• Hamish Hawk - Grey Seals
• Toots & Maytals - Still is still moving to me
• Waterboys - This is the sea
• Frank Turner - Front Crawl

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. David Bowie - Heroes
2. PJ Harvey - Down by the water
3. Florence & the Machine - Swimming
4. Kendrik Lemar - Swimming Pools
5. Tom Grennan - Little bit of love
6. Bombfunk MCs - Freestyler
[Side 2]
7. Bedknobs & Broomstricks - Beautiful Briny
8. Maccabees - Latchmere
9. Coldplay - Clocks
10. Waterboys - This is the sea
11. Toots & Maytals - Still is still moving to me
12. REM - Nightswimming
Hidden: Dubliners & Pogues - Irish Rover

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

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 6 acts had never been on before Bombfunk MCs, Bedknobs & Broomsticks, Coldplay, Kendrik Lamar and Tom Grennan.

• 8: David Bowie
• 7: REM
• 6: Pogues
• 3: Toots & Maytals
• 2: Dubliners, Waterboys
• 1: Florence & The Machine, Maccabees, PJ Harvey (duet with Nick Cave)

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Toast

Midnight Mixtape: Toast

Colin Murray handed over the reins of the midnight mixtape to Tony Livesey for its return and was joined by Claire Lim to look at listener selections (05/12/2024) with Songs that reference toast!

Songs in contention

• Jam - Mr Clean
• Streetband - Toast
• Courteeners - Not 19 Forever
• Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
• Roots Manuva - Witness (1 hope)
• Flaming Lips - She don't use jelly
• Dean Martin - How d’ya like your eggs in the morning
• Lucy Spraggan - Tea & Toast
• Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone
• Harry Styles - Matilda
• Willie Nelson - So much to do
• Sound of Wales - Bread of Heaven
• Matt Berry - Take my hand (Toast of London Theme)
• Carly Simon - Coming around
• Cocteau Twins - I wear your ring
• Coral - In the morning
• Des'ree - Life
• George Michael - Mothers pride
• Glenn Frey - Heat is on
• Joni Mitchell - Both sides now
• La belles - Lady marmalade
• Original Koffee - Toast
• Pink - Raise your glass
• Pitbull - 11:59
• Portnoy & Angelo - Cheers Theme
• St Etienne - You're in a bad way
• Sting - Englishman in New York
• Stone Roses - Love spreads
• Stranglers - Golden brown
• U2 - Crumbs from your table
• Verdi (La traviata) - Libiamo ne'lieti calici
• Bread - Bread Theme
• Mario Lanza - Drink drink drink
• Pogues - Sea shanty

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Jam - Mr Clean
2. Streetband - Toast
3. Courteeners - Not 19 Forever
4. Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
5. Roots Manuva - Witness (1 hope)
6. Flaming Lips - She don't use jelly
[Side 2]
7. Dean Martin - How d’ya like your eggs in the morning
8. Lucy Spraggan - Tea & Toast
9. Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone
10. Harry Styles - Matilda
11. Willie Nelson - So much to do
12. Sound of Wales - Bread of Heaven
Hidden:
Matt Berry - Take my hand (Toast of London Theme)

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

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 6 acts had never been on before Streetband, Courteeners, Roots Manuva, Lucy Spraggan, Sound of Wales/Bread of Heaven and Matt Berry. Not one of the remaining acts have been on the mixtape more than 3 times before.

• 3: Arctic Monkeys, Flaming Lips
• 2: Dean Martin, The Jam, Sugar Hill Gang, Willie Nelson
• 1: Harry Styes

Weekend Playlist 2024 Recap

Weekend Playlist 2024 Recap

All the Weekend Playlists from 2024 on one page.

1. (1) Connections
2. (2) Penguins
3. (3) Australia
4. (4) Fighting Cancer
5. (5) Superbowl
6. (6) Kindness
7. (7) Buses
8. (8) Dragons
9. (9) Colin Murray
10. (10) Mothers
11. (11) Pies
12. (12) Chemical Elements
13. (13) Backwards & Forwards
14. (14) Wrestling
15. (15) Human Sounds
16. (16) Tea
17. (17) Freedom
18. (18) Snooker Terms
19. (19) Sweden
20. (20) First
21. (21) Slow
22. (22) Birds
23. (23) Remember the past
24. (24) Loony
25. (25) Clothes
26. (26) Farms
27. (27) Politics
28. (28) France
29. (29) Moon
30. (30) Olympic Sports I
31. (31) Q&A
32. (32) Olympic Sports II
33. (33) Feet
34. (34) Rock Paper Scissors
35. (35) Paralympics
36. (36) Supermarket
37. (37) Hard & Soft
38. (38) Pause
39. (39) Money
40. (40) Breakfast
41. (41) Chess
42. (42) Chocolate Cupcake
43. (43) Cats
44. (44) Countdown
45. (45) Cookie
46. (46) Telephone I
47. (47) Telephone II
48. (48) Walls
49. (X)

Midnight Mixtape 2021-2023

Midnight Mixtape (2021-2023)

All the midnight mixtapes during Colin Murray's run as host on Weeknights on BBC5 Live. (Order in monthly recaps)

• January
• February
• March
• April
• May
• June
• July
• August
• September
• October
• November
• December

Weekend Playlist: Walls

Weekend Playlist: The Wall

Here's the weekend playlist created by Adrian with help from guest curator Walt looking at X/twitter selections (28/11/2024) with Songs that reference walls and barriers.
This was inspired by the release of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" on the November 30th 1979.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1]
Hadestown - Why we build the wall
Housemartins - Build
Suzanne Vega - Marlene on the wall 
Michael Jackson - Off the wall 
David Bowie - Heroes
Pink Floyd - Another brick in the wall

[Side 2]
Pogues - Dirty old town 
Eddi Reader - Patience of angels
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
Delta Rhythm Boys - Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
Bastille - Pompeii
Style Council - Walls come tumbling down 

[Bonus]
Walls Cornetto Ad (Just one Cornetto)
David Hasselhoff - Looking for freedom

Long list

• tbc

Midnight Mixtape: December

More Cowbell Mixtape

Mixtape: #28 More Cowbell
Date: (03/12/21)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Edith Bowman

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't fear the reaper
Queens of the Stone Age - Little Sister
Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Woman
Mountain - Mississippi Queen
Guns N Roses - Nightrain
Rage against the machine - Killing in the name of

[Side 2]
Prince - U got the look
Low Rider - War
LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk is playing at my house
Rapture - House of Jealous Lovers
Wild Cherry - Play that funky music 
Salt'n'Pepa - Push it

Hidden:
Booker T and MGs - Soul Limbo

Radio Mixtape

Mixtape: #29 Radio
Date: (10/12/21)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: DJ Spoony

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Rush - Spirit of the Radio
Smiths - Panic
Selecter - On my radio
Starship - We built this city
Home T, Coca T, Shabba - Pirates Anthem
Poison - Every rose has its thorn

[Side 2]
Autograph - Turn up the radio
Donna Summer - On the radio
Joy Division - Transmission
Buggles - Video killed the radio star
Public Enemy - Don't believe the hype
Blur - This is a low

Hidden:
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees

Children's Toys Mixtape

Mixtape: #30 Children's Toys
Date: (17/12/21)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: John Robb

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Eminem - Like Toy Soldiers
Athlete - Rubik's Cube
Roachford - Cuddly Toy
Half Man Half Biscuit - AIWFCIA Dukla Prague AK
Sandie Shaw - Puppet on a string
The Who - Pinball Wizard

[Side 2]
SLF - Tin Soldiers
Ed Sheeran - Lego House
Elvis Presley - (LMBY) Teddy Bear
Pet Shop Boys - Domino Dancing
Julie Andrews - Let's go fly a kite
Aqua - Barbie Girl

Hidden:
Pink Floyd - Bike

12 Days of Christmas Mixtape

Mixtape: #31 12 Days of Christmas
Date: (24/12/21)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Paul McNamee
Guest: Cleopatra

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Alan Partridge - ABBA Medley
Prince - When doves cry
Bob Marley - Three little birds
Wurzels - Blackbird
Freda Payne - Band of gold
Bob Dylan - Lay lady lay

[Side 2]
The National - Vanderlyle crybaby geeks
Judy Garland - Pretty girl milking her cow
Beyonce - Single Ladies
Billy Bragg - Waiting for the great leap forward
AC/DC - It's a long way to the top
The beat goes on - Buddy Rich

Hidden:
Johnny Cash - Ring of fire

New Beginnings Mixtape

Mixtape: #32 New Beginnings
Date: (31/12/21)
Host: Nick Bright
Guest: John Robb

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Nina Simone - Feeling good
David Bowie - Changes
Dizzee Rascal - Brand new day
Yazz - Only way is up
Kanye West - Stronger
Beatles - Here comes the sun

[Side 2]
Primal Scream - Movin' on up
Bob Marley - Redemption Song
Stranglers - Something better change
Chuck Berry - Promised Land
Orange Juice - Rip it up
Johnny Nash - I can see clearly now

Hidden:
Sam Cooke - A change is gonna come

Two Instruments Mixtape

Mixtape: #79 Two Instruments
Date: (02/12/22)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Nat Jamieson

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Bob Dylan - Blowin in the wind
White Stripes - Fell in love with a girl
Nitin Sawney/Ayanna Witer - Johnson
Peggy Lee - Fever
Billy Bragg - Saturday Boy
Royal Blood - Figure it out
Queen - We will rock you
Billy Joel - For the longest time
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Manic Street Preachers - Small black flowers...
Yazoo - Only you
Fleetwood Mac - Songbird

[Side 2]

Hidden:
Eric Weissberg - Duelling Banjos

North Pole Mixtape

Mixtape: #80 North Pole
Date: (09/12/22)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Jo Kendall

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Tom Hanks - Polar Express
Stranglers - No more heroes
Eartha Kitt - Santa baby
Wigan's Ovation - Skiing in the snow
Kate Bush - 50 words for snow
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal

[Side 2]
Mighty Boosh - Ice flow
Renaissance - Northern Lights
Julie London - Midnight sun
Lightning Seeds - Sugar Coated Iceberg
Beatles - I am the walrus
Sigur Ros - Staralfur

Hidden:
Seal - Kiss from a rose

Homeward Bound Mixtape

Mixtape: #81 Homeward Bound
Date: (16/12/22)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Paul McNamee

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Drake - Hold on, we're going home
Simon & Garfunkel - Homeward bound
Saw Doctors - N17
John Denver - (Take me home) Country Roads
Sam Cooke - Bring it on home to me
Tim Minchin - White wine in the sun

[Side 2]
Odyssey - Going back to my roots
Frankie Miller - Caledonia
Ed Sheeran - Castle on the hill
Blue Nile - Over the hillside
Chris Rea - Driving home for Christmas
Mark Knofler - Going home

Hidden:
Thin Lizzy - Boys are back in town

Just Breathe Mixtape

Mixtape: #82 Just Breathe
Date: (23/12/22)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Claire Lim

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Prodigy - Breathe
Hollies - Air that I breathe
Blu Cantrell - Breathe
Radiohead - My iron lung
Pink Floyd - Breathe (in the air)
Abdominal - Breath Later

[Side 2]
Police - Every breath you take
Willie Nelson - Just Breathe
Kate Bush - Breathing
REM - Try not to breathe
Badly Drawn Boy - Silent sigh
Queen - Take my breath away

Hidden:
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

New Year Mixtape

Mixtape: #83 New Year
Date: (31/12/22)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Paul McNamee

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Nina Simone - Feeling good
Specials - Enjoy yourself
Primal Scream - Movin' on up
Faithless - We come one
Deacon Blue - Queen of the new year
Pink - Raise your glass
Labi Siffre - Something so strong

[Side 2]
James - Sit down
Sly and the Family Stone - Dance to the music
Yazz - Only way is up
Dubliners - The Parting Glass
Source - You got the love
Prince - 1999
U2 - New Years Day
Louis Armstrong - We have all the time in the world

Jamaica to Brum Mixtape

Mixtape: #129 Jamaica to Brum
Date: (07/12/23)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Paul McNamee

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Benjamin Zephaniah - I luv me mudder
Ruts - Babylon's Burning
U-Roy - Natty Rebel
Bob Marley - Redemption Song
Burning Spear - Land of my birth
Prince Buster - Al Capone
Musical Youth - Pass the dutchie

[Side 2]
Benjamin Zephaniah - No Problem
The Beat - Doors of your heart
Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution
Bomb the bass ft Benjamin/Sinead - Empire
Streets - Turn the page
Nick Cave & Bad Seeds - Red right hand
Johnny Cash - Ghostriders in the sky

Hidden:
Benjamin Zephaniah - Talkin' Turkey

Songs that refer Mixtape

Mixtape: #130 Songs that refer
Date: (14/12/23)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Claire Lim

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Billy Joel - We didn't start the fire
Bon Jovi - It's my life
Wolfmother - Joker and the thief
Def Leppard - Rocket
Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
Pogues - Fairytale of New York

[Side 2]
Eminem - Stan
Warren G - What's love go to do with it
Tone Loc - Funky cold medina
Orange Juice - Rip it up
Pet Shop Boys - I want to wake up
Snow Patrol - Hands open

Hidden:
Tenacious D - Tribute

Referred Songs Mixtape

Mixtape: #131 Referred Songs
Date: (14/12/23)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Claire Lim

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Bill Hailey & Comets - Rock around the clock
Frank Sinatra - My way
Bob Dylan - All along the watchtower
Lou Reed - Satellite of Love
Elvis - Love me tender
Bing Crosby - Galway Bay

[Side 2]
Phil Collins - In the air tonight
TLC - Creep
Rolling Stones - (I can't get no) Satisfacation
Buzzcocks - Boredom
Gloria Jones - Tainted love
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago

Hidden:
Metallica - One

Last Orders Mixtape

Mixtape: #132 Last Orders
Date: (21/12/23)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Paul McNamee
Guest: Claire Lim

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Daft Punk - One more time
Giorgio Moroder/Phil Oakey - Together in electric dreams
Divine Comedy - Tonight we fly
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Frank Sinatra - One for my baby 
Killers - All these things

[Side 2]
Cure - Close to me
Boyz II Men - End of the road
Modest mouse - Float on
Tom Waits - I hope I dont fall in love with you
Green Day - Good riddance
Edith Piaf - Je ne regrette rien

Hidden:
Abba - Thank you for the music

New Beginnings Mixtape

Mixtape: #133 New Beginnings
Date: (31/12/23)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Claire Lim

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Nina Simone - Feeling Good
Whitesnake - Here I go again
Elton John - I'm still standing
Deacon Blue - Dignity
Embrace - Ashes
Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten

[Side 2]
Talking heads - Road to nowhere
Curtis Mayfield - Move on up
Beatles - Here Comes The Sun
Johnny Nash - I can see clearly
Arcade Fire - Ready to start
Stone Roses - I am the resurrection

Hidden:
Willy Mason - Oxygen

Weekend Playlist: Telephone

Weekend Playlist: Making a call (part I & II)

Here's the weekend playlist created by Adrian with help from guest curator Stephen looking at X/twitter selections (14/11/2024) with Songs that reference phones, calls, ringing. This was extended to a second week (21/11/2024)
This was inspired by the first push button telephone invented on 18th November 1963 and Fibonacci day on 23rd November.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist I!

Thanks to Stephen for the spotified list

[Side 1]
1. Nick Lowe - Switchboard Susan
2. Blondie - Hanging in the Telephone
3. Sugababes - Push the button
4. Kraftwerk - Der Telefon Anruf (the telephone call)
5. Deacon Blue - When will you (make my telephone ring)?
6. Judie Tzuke - For you

[Side 2]
7. Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusers
8. St Etienne - He's on the phone
9. Yazoo - Bad Connection
10. City Boy - 5-7-0-5
11. Dire Straits - Calling Elvis
12. Glenn miller - Pennsylvania 65000

[Bonus]
Telephone - Hygiaphone
Telephones - Call it if it is

Here's the final playlist II!

[Side 3]
1. Fall - Telephone Thing
2. Meri Wilson - Telephone Man
3. ELO - Telephone line
4. Mercury Rev - Holes
5. Muddy Waters - Long distance call
6. Gary Numan - I die I die

[Side 4]
7. ABBA - Ring Ring
8. Poison - Talk dirty to me
9. Wilson Pickett - 634-5789
10. Fun Boy Three - Telephone always rings
11. REM - Sidewinder sleeps tonight
12. Glen Campbell - Wichita Linesman

[Bonus]
John Lee Hooker - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Telephone and rubber band

Long list

• Akbertos - Telephone
• Alice Cooper - Under my wheels
• Arctic Monkeys - Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?
• Beach Boys - Had To Phone Ya
• Ben Folds - Landed
• Big Bopper - Chantilly Lace
• Blondie - Call Me
• Blondie - Hanging in the Telephone
• Chuck Berry - Memphis Tennessee
• City Boy - 5-7-0-5
• Curiosity killed the cat - Name and number
• De La Soul - Ring Ring
• Deacon Blue - When will you (make my telephone ring)?
• Dire Straits - Calling Elvis
• Dr Hook - Sylvia's mother
• ELO - Telephone line
• Fall - Telephone Thing
• Forest Blakk - Heaven's Telephone
• Fun Boy Three - Telephone always rings
• Glenn miller - Pennsylvania 65000
• Haircut 100 - Calling Captain Autumn
• Jim Croce - Operator
• Jimmy Buffett - If the phone doesn't ring, it's me
• John Lee Hooker - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
• Judie Tzuke - For you
• Kraftwerk - Der Telefon Anruf (the telephone call)
• Labi SIffre - Bless the telephone
• Laurie Anderson - O Superman
• Maroon 5 - Payphone
• Mauro Picotto - Communication
• Meri Wilson - Telephone Man
• Nick Lowe - Switchboard Susan
• NKOTB - Single
• Paul Evans - This is Joannie
• Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Telephone and rubber band
• Pink Floyd - Dirty Woman
• Poison - Talk dirty to me
• Pretenders - The phone call
• Rah Band - Clouds across the moon
• Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusers
• Rose Murphy - Busy Line
• Roxette - Cooper
• Ryan Adams - Call Me on Your Way Back Home
• Specials - Gangsters
• Squeeze - 8535937
• St Etienne - He's on the phone
• Stevie Wonder - I just called to say I love you
• Sugababes - Push the button
• Taylor Swift - Look What You Made Me Do
• Telephone - Hygiaphone
• Telephones - Call it if it is
• Yazoo - Bad Connection
• ABBA - Ring Ring
• David Ford - Why Don't You Answer Your Telephone
• De La Soul - Ring Ring Ring
• Erasure - Stop!
• Gary Numan - I die I die
• Glen Campbell - Wichita Linesman
• It bites - Calling all the heroes
• Mario Piu - Communication
• Mercury Rev - Holes
• Milli Vanilli - Baby don't forget my number
• Muddy Waters - Long distance call
• New Edition - Mr Telephone Man
• Oasis - Headshrinker
• Queensryche - Revolution calling
• REM - Sidewinder sleeps tonight
• Telephone rising
• Wilson Pickett - 634-5789

Weekend Playlist: Cookie

Here's the weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Cookie looking at X/twitter selections (07/11/2024) with Songs that reference cookies.
This was commemorate last week's "Cookie Monster Day" on November 2nd and "Sesame Street Day" on November 10th!

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] Cookies
1. Jaynetts - Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar
2. Stevie Ray Vaughan & Lonnie Mack - Oreo Cookie Blues
3. Wise Guys - Chocolate Chip Cookies
4. Jacknife Lee - Cookies
5. Talking Heads - (Nothing but) Flowers
6. Tony Bennett - Two by Two

[Side 2] Biscuits
7. Limp Bizkit - Nookie
8. Squeeze - Bonkers
9. Pulp - Mis-shapes
10. Blues Brothers - Rubber Biscuit
11. Sir Mixalot - Buttermilk Biscuits
12. Divine Comedy - How can you leave me on my own

[Bonus]
Urban Cookie Collective - The Key: The Secret
Cookie Crew - Got to keep on
Cookie Monster - C is for cookie (Sesame Street Fever/Robin Gibb version)

Long list

• 2 Pints.. - Biscuit Rap
• 50 cent – In da club
• Blues Brothers - Rubber Biscuit
• Cookie Crew - Got to keep on
• Cookie Monster - C is for Cookie {funky version}
• Da Fly Hooligan - Jaffa Cake
• Divine Comedy - How can you leave me on my own
• Fun loving criminals - Scooby snacks
• Gordon Lightfoot - Biscuit City
• Haircut 100 - Milk Film
• Hein Baljet - Stroopwafel
• Holly Johnson - Americanos
• Jacknife Lee - Cookies
• Jaynetts - Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar
• Killers - Leave the bourbon on the shelf
• Limp Bizkit - Nookie
• Lizzo (ft Sophia Eris) - Batches and Cookies
• New Order – Temptation
• Pat Benetar - Hit me with your best shot
• Pink Panther Theme
• Portishead – Biscuit
• Pulp - Mis-shapes
• REM - Milk & Cookies
• Sir Mixalot - Buttermilk Biscuits
• Squeeze - Bonkers
• Stevie Ray Vaughan & Lonnie Mack- Oreo Cookie Blues
• Sting - Moon over Bourbon Street
• Stranglers - Nice in Nice
• Talking Heads - (Nothing but) Flowers
• Tinie tempah - Frisky
• Tony Bennett - Two by two and cookie
• TOOL - Die Eier von Satan
• Urban Cookie Collective - The Key: The Secret
• White Stripes - Ball and a Biscuit
• Wise Guys - Chocolate Chip Cookies

Weekend Playlist: Countdown

Weekend Playlist: Countdown

Here's the weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Adrian looking at X/twitter selections (31/10/2024) with Songs that reference the quiz show, Countdown.
This was inspired by the first episode of countdown, which was the first show broadcasted on Channel 4 on November 2, 1982.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

Thanks to Jack for the spotified list

[Side 1] Countdown
Manfred Mann - 5 4 3 2 1
David Bowie - Space Oddity
Peter Schilling - Major Tom
Dan Hartman - Instant Replay
Big Pink - Countbackwards from Ten
Prince - 1999

[Side 2] Conundrum
Extreme - More than words
FR David - Words
White Stripes - We're going to be friends
Robert Vincent - Conundrum
Public Service Broadcasting - Go!
Europe - Final Countdown

[Bonus]
Jackson 5 - ABC
Brass incorporated - At the sign of the swinging cymbal
Countdown Theme

Long list

• Abdominal - Countdown
• Adam Ant - Apollo 9
• Allergies - Blast off
• Brass incorporated - At the sign of the swinging cymbal
• Cameo - Word Up
• Chris Hadfield - Space Oddity
• Clean Bandit & Mabel - Tick Tock
• Coral - Goodbyes
• Count Basie & his Orchestra - Down for the Count
• Count Von Count - Song of the Count
• Countdown Theme
• Cure - Close to me
• Curiosity - Name and number
• Dan Hartman - Instant Replay
• Dan Hartman - Countdown/This is it
• David Bowie - Space Oddity
• Def Leppard - Rocket
• Doors - LA woman
• Ella Fitzergerald - Too marvellous for words
• Elton John - Ticking
• Europe - Final Countdown
• Extreme - More than words
• FR David - Words
• Gloria Estefan - 1-2-3
• Hives - Countdown to shutdown
• Iron Maiden - 2 minutes to midnight
• Iron Maiden - Number of the beast
• Jackson 5 - ABC
• Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince - Boom boom shake the room
• Johnny Cash - 25 minutes to go
• Kim Wilde - Four letter word
• Kirsten Adamson - Time with you
• M - Pop Muzik
• Manfred Mann - 5 4 3 2 1
• Megadeath - Countdown to Extinction
• New Musik - Living by numbers
• P!nk - Funhouse
• P1 Harmony - Countdown to love
• Peter Schilling - Major Tom
• Pop will eat itself - Def Con 1
• Prince - 1999
• Public Service Broadcasting - Go!
• Robert Vincent - Conundrum
• Rush - Countdown
• S'Express - Theme from S'Express
• Saliva - Tick tick boom
• Silver Bullet - 20 seconds to comply
• Soft Cell - Numbers
• Sorels - Countdown to Love
• Sparks - Beat the clock
• The Big Pink - Countbackwards from Ten
• Tom McCrae - One Mississippi
• Travis - Turn
• Unit4+2 - Concrete and Clay
• White Stripes - We're going to be friends

Midnight Mixtape: November

Fireworks Mixtape

Mixtape: #24 Fireworks
Date: (05/11/21)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Paul McNamee

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Handel - Music for the Royal Fireworks
Herbie Hancock - Rockit
Katy Perry - Firework
Louis Armstrong - Fireworks
Ash - Shining Light
Elvis Costello - Indoor Fireworks

[Side 2]
Def Leppard - Rocket
Stone Roses - Waterfall
Runaways - Cherry Bomb
Catherine Wheel - Sparks gonna fly
Elton John - Rocketman
Embrace - Fireworks

Hidden:
Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture

Superheroes Mixtape

Mixtape: #25 Superheroes
Date: (12/11/21)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Mike Bubbins

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Black Sabbath - Iron Man
Karyn White - Superwoman
Billy Connolly - Supergran
Flaming Lips - Waiting for a Superman
Barenaked Ladies - One week
Ash - Kung Fu

[Side 2]
Queen - Flash
Lazlo Bane - Superman
Public Enemy - Raise the roof
Pixies - Tony's Theme
Cure - Lullaby
Tenacious D - Wonderboy

Hidden:
Bonnie Tyler - Holding out for a hero

Villains Mixtape

Mixtape: #26 Villains
Date: (19/11/21)
Host: Nick Bright
Guest: John Robb

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Doors - Riders in the storm
Steve Miller Band - The Joker
Ghostface Killah - Slept on Tony
ODB - Shimmy shimmy ya
Macy Gray - Relating to a Psychopath
Cramps - TV Set

[Side 2]
Motorhead - The Game
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger
Hildur Guonadottir - Bathroom Dance
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give it away
Shy FX - Original Nuttah

Hidden:
Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes 

La la land Mixtape

Mixtape: #27 La la land
Date: (26/11/21)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Charlie Webster

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
2Pac ft Dr Dre - California Love
Doris Day - Hooray for Hollywood
Weezer - Beverly Hills
Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in LA
Tribe called quest - Left my wallet in El Segundo
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the bridge

[Side 2]
NWA - Straight outta Compton
America - Ventura Highway
Doors - LA Woman
Mamas & Papas - California Dreamin
Tom Petty - Free Fallin'
Randy Newman - I love LA

Hidden:
Patsy Gallant - From New York to LA

Brain Mixtape

Mixtape: #75 Brain
Date: (04/11/22)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Paul McNamee

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
All seeing I - Beat goes on
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Wizard of Oz - If I only had a brain
Rhianna - Love on the brain
Cypress Hill - Insane in the brain
Pink Floyd - Brain Damage

[Side 2]
Pinky & The Brain - (Theme Tune)
Prodigy - Out of space
The National - Conversation 16
Avanlanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

Hidden:
Pixies - Where is my mind?

Car Showroom 1 Mixtape

Mixtape: #76 Car Showroom 1
Date: (11/11/22)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Paul McNamee

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Janis Joplin - Mercedes Benz
Prince - Little Red Corvette
Billy Bragg - Sexuality
Men at work - Down under
Dickies - Tritia Toyota
Chuck Berry - Maybellene

[Side 2]
Feeder - Buck Rogers
Beach Boys - Fun Fun Fun
Don Henley - Boys of Summer
Kanye West - Gold Digger
Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
Wilson Pickett - Mustang Sally

Hidden:
Rose Royce - Car Wash

Car Showroom 2 Mixtape

Mixtape: #77 Car Showroom 2
Date: (18/11/22)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Paul McNamee

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Billy Murray - In my merry oldsmobile
Oasis - Supersonic
Joan Armatrading - Shape of a pony
Lloyd Cole & Commotions - 2cv
Madness - Driving in my car
Marc Cohen - Silver Thunderbird

[Side 2]
Tinie Tempah/SHM - Miami 2 Ibiza
Sheryl Crow - All I wanna do
Van Dyke/Howes - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Tom Robinson Band - Grey Cortina
Blondie - Rapture
Nizlopi - JCB Song

Hidden:
Todd Terje - Delorean Dynamite

Planets Mixtape

Mixtape: #78 Planets
Date: (25/11/22)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Zoe Howe

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Stranglers - Mercury rising
Bananarama - Venus
Carole King - I feel the earth move
David Bowie - Life on Mars
Train - Drops of Jupiter
Stevie Wonder - Saturn

[Side 2]
Beastie Boys - Intergalactic (Uranus)
Foals - Neptune
Birds 0f Chicago - Old Calcutta (Pluto)
Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock
Only ones - Another girl, another planet
Weird Al Yankovic - Saga begins

Hidden:
Queen - Flash

Shoes Mixtape

Mixtape: #124 Shoes
Date: (02/11/23)
Host: Johnny I'Anson
Guest: Nat Jamieson

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Kirsty MacColl - In these shoes
Adam Ant - Goody two shoes
KC & Sunshine band - Boogie shoes
Emmylou Harris - White shoes
Stereophonics - Step on my old size nines
Kenny Loggins - Footloose

[Side 2]
Dizzie Rascal - Fix up look sharp
Hamish Hawk - Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion 1973
Tom Waits - Red shoes (by the drugstore}
Billy Joel - Stiletto
Paul Simon - Diamonds on the soles of her shoes
I am kloot - Same shoes

Hidden:
Paolo Nutini - New Shoes

Shakespeare Mixtape

Mixtape: #125 Shakespeare
Date: (09/11/23)
Host: Johnny I'Anson
Guest: Paul McNamee

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Dire Straits - Romeo And Juliet
Elvis Costello - Miss Macbeth
Joni Mithcell - Talk to me
David Essex - A winter's tale
Reflections - Just like Romeo and Juliet
Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More

[Side 2]
Taylor Swift - Love Story
Kids from Fame - Desdemona
Elvis - Lonesome onight
Band - Ophelia
Cole Porter (Kiss me Kate) - Brush up your Shakespeare
Radiohead - Exit Music (for a Film)

Hidden:
Bach - Air on G String

Shopping List Mixtape

Mixtape: #126 Shopping List
Date: (16/11/23)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Claire Lim

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Pulp  - Common People
Bennett  - Mum's has gone to Iceland
Pet Shop Boys  - Shopping
Toni Basil  - Shopping A to Z
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis  - Thrift Shop
Stakka Bo  - Here we go

[Side 2]
Dolly Parton  - Bargain Store
Miracles  - Shop around
Hollies  - Bus Stop
Keith West  - Excerpt from a Teenage Opera (Grocer Jack)
Elvis Presley  - Shop around
Tim Minchin  - Canvas Bags

Hidden:
Manics  - Motorcycle emptiness

Touch Mixtape

Mixtape: #127 Touch
Date: (23/11/23)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Paul McNamee

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
Deacon Blue - Chocolate Girl
Mudhoney - Touch me I'm sick
Darkness - I believe in a thing called love
Fall - Touch Sensitive
Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody

[Side 2]
Divinyls - I Touch Myself
Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger
Wetleg - Wet Dream
Samantha Fox - Touch me
Cascada - Everytime We Touch
Diana Ross - Touch me in the morning

Hidden:
MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This

Walls Mixtape

Mixtape: #128 Walls
Date: (30/11/23)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Claire Lim

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Pink Floyd - Another brick in the wall
Suzanne Vega - Marlene on the wall
PJ Harvey - This is love
Echo & Bunnymen - Over the wall
Kings of Leon - Walls
Sam Smith - Writing's on the wall

[Side 2]
Tracy Chapman - Behind the wall
Labi Siffre - Something inside so strong
Naturalites - Picture on the wall
Phylis Dillon  - Picture on the wall
Johnny Cash - The wall
Pogues - Dirty Ol' Town

Hidden:
David Hasselhoff - Looking for freedom

Midnight Mixtape: October

James Bond Mixtape

Mixtape: #19 James Bond
Date: (01/10/21)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Charlie Webster

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Monty Norman - James Bond Theme
Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger
Tina Turner - Goldeneye
Matt Monro - From Russia with love
Nancy Sinatra - You only live twice
Adele - Skyfall

[Side 2]
Paul McCartney - Live and let die
Tom Jones - Thunderball
Shirley Bassey - Diamonds are forever
Duran Duran - A view to a kill
Chris Cornell - You know my name (Casino Royale)
Carly Simon - Nobody does it better (The Spy who loved me)

Hidden:
Louis Armstrong - We have all the time in the world

Question of Love Mixtape

Mixtape: #20 Question of Love
Date: (08/10/21)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Edith Bowman

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Heavy D - Now that we found love
Bob Marley - Is this love?
Tracy Chapman - Baby can I hold you
Bee Gees - How deep is your love?
Supremes - Where did our love go?
KLF - What time is love?

[Side 2]
Buzzcocks - Ever fallen in love
Shirelles - Will you still love me tomorrow?
Arctic Monkeys - R u mine?
Tina Turner - What's love got to do with it
Contours - Do you love me?
Haddaway - What is love?

Hidden:
Queen - Somebody to love

Dreams Mixtape

Mixtape: #21 Dreams
Date: (15/10/21)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: DJ Spoony

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
The Coral - Dreaming of you
Mamas & Papas - California Dreaming
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
Smokin Beats - Dreams
Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald - Dream a little dream

[Side 2]
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Crowded House - Don't dream it's over
Bob Marley - Dreamland
Moroder/Oakley - Electric Dreams
Everly Brothers - All I have to do is dream
Aerosmith - Dream on

Hidden:
Clint Mansell - Lux aeterna

Louder than war Mixtape

Mixtape: #22 Louder than war
Date: (22/10/21)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: John Robb

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Edwin Starr - War
Cranberries - Zombie
Barry McGuire - Eve of destruction
Paul Hardcastle - 19
Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding
Bob Dylan - Masters of war

[Side 2]
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
Supremes - Stoned love
Buffalo Springfield - For what it's worth
John Lennon - Imagine
Marvin Gaye - What's going on?
Black Sabbath - War Pigs

Hidden:
Crass - Nagasaki Nightmare

Monster Mixtape

Mixtape: #23 Louder than war
Date: (29/10/21)
Host: Qasa Alom
Guest: John Robb

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Automatic - Monster
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's dead
Alice Cooper - Feed my Frankenstein
Siouxsie & Banshees - Halloween
Bobby Pickett - Monster Mash
Metallica - Enter Sandman

[Side 2]
David Bowie - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Outkast ft Kelis - Dracula's wedding
Specials - Ghost Town
Lana Del Ray - Gods and Monsters
Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
Rolling stones - Sympathy for the devil

Hidden:
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (The Exorcist)

Sight Mixtape

Mixtape: #71 Sight
Date: (07/10/22)
Host: Qasa Alom
Guest: Paul McNamee

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
The Who - I can see for miles
Johnny Nash - I can see clearly
Bob Dylan - Blind Willie McTell
Hank Williams - I saw the light
Roberta Flack - The first time ever I saw your face
Prince & Sheena Easton - U got the look

[Side 2]
Streets - Blinded by the lights
Arctic Monkeys - The view from the afternoon
James Brown - Out of sight
Stereophonics - Just looking
Blondie - Picture this
Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes

Hidden:
Kate Bush - The man with the child in his eyes

Imagination Mixtape

Mixtape: #72 Imagination
Date: (14/10/22)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: John Robb

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Gene Wilder - Pure Imagination
Oasis - Cigarettes & Alcohol
Imagination - Just an illusion
Temptations - Just my imagination
Pretenders - Brass in pocket
Orb - Little fluffy clouds

[Side 2]
Gladys Knight - ...Use my imagination
Divine Comedy - My imaginary friend
John Lennon - Imagine
Fox - Imagine me imagine you
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
Louis Armstrong - What a wonderful world

Hidden:
Mr Bean - (Theme Tune)

Deja vu Mixtape

Mixtape: #73 Deja vu
Date: (21/10/22)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Claire Lim

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Propellerheads ft Shirley Bassey - History Repeating
Ok Go - Here it goes again
Waterboys - I've lived here before
Beyonce - Deja Vu
Chubby Checker - Let's twist again
Lightning Seeds - Three Lions

[Side 2]
Average White Band - Let's go round again
Olivia Rodrigo - Deja Vu
Iron Maiden - Deja Vu
Train - Drive by
Bastille - Pompeii
Dionne Warwick - Deja Vu

Hidden:
Sonny & Cher - I got you babe

Set the table Mixtape

Mixtape: #74 Set the table
Date: (28/10/22)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Nat Jamieson

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the middle...
Billy Joel - ...Italian restaurant
Pulp - DISHES
Blondie - Heart of GLASS
Flaming Lips - She don't use jelly
Las Ketchup - KETCHUP song

[Side 2]
Bobby Darin - Mack the KNIFE
Soundgarden - SPOONman
T'Pau - CHINA in your hand
Salt'n'Pepa - Push it
Spinners - LAZY SUSAN
Elton John - CANDLE in the wind

Hidden:
James - Sit down

Baseball Mixtape

Mixtape: #120 Baseball
Date: (05/10/23)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Claire Lim

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Carly Simon - Take me out to the ball game
Beastie Boys - Sure Shot
Count Basie - Did you see Jackie Robinson hit that ball?
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
Simon and Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson
Kenny Rogers - The Greatest

[Side 2]
Echo & Bunnymen - The Cutter
K7 - Come baby come
Belle and Sebastian - Piazza, New York Catcher
John Fogerty - Centerfield
Sam & Dave - Knock it out the park
Don Henley - Boys of Summer

Hidden:
Simpsons - Talkin' softball

Rats Mixtape

Mixtape: #121 Rats
Date: (12/10/23)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Paul McNamee

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Big Mama Thornton - I smell a rat
Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap
Kelis & Andre 3000 - Millionaire
Walkmen - The Rat
Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite Pas De Deux (Rat King)
Stranglers - Down in the sewer

[Side 2]
Specials - Rat Race
Michael Jackson - Ben
Dr Rubberfunk - Riding with the Ratman
Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet with butterfly wings
Drifters - Rat Race
Badly Drawn Boy - Year of the Rat

Hidden:
Sammy Davis Jr (Rat Pack) - Mr Bojangles

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Shyness Mixtape

Mixtape: #122 Shyness
Date: (19/10/23)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Claire Lim

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Nick Cave - Shyness (Letter to Daniel and Vera)
Adele - Someone like you
Abba - Name of the game
Pointer Sisters - He's so shy
Diana King - Shy Guy
Kajagoogoo - Too Shy

[Side 2]
Placebo - Nancy Boy
K.Flay - Shy
Idlewild - Actually it’s darkness
Great White - Once bitten twice shy
Killers - Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll
Ben Folds Five - Underground

Hidden:
Chi-lites - Have you seen her?

Dog Talk Mixtape

Mixtape: #123 Dog Talk
Date: (26/10/23)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Paul McNamee

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Queen - You're my best friend
Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen
Drake - Hold on, we're going home
Maurice Williams & Zodiacs - Stay
Paul Johnson - Get get down

[Side 2]
James - Sit down
Pantera - Walk
James Brown - Get up offa that thing
Gilbert O'Sullivan - Get down
Snoop Dogg - Drop it like it's hot
Norah Jones - Man of the hour

Hidden:
Strokes - Modern Age

Weekend Playlist: Cats

h2>Weekend Playlist: Cats Here's the weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Nicky looking at X/twitter selections (24/10/2024) with Songs that reference cats.
This was to commemorate National Black Cat Day on Sunday (October 27), just in time for Halloween week.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

Thanks to Jack for the spotified list

[Side 1] Fat Cats
1. Squeeze - Cool for Cats
2. Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut
3. David Bowie - Cat People (putting out fire)
4. Elton John - Honky Cat
5. Janet Jackson - Black Cat
6. Tom Jones - What's new pussycat?
[Side 2] Sophisticats
7. Cure - Lovecats
8. Alice Cooper - Gutter Cat vs The Jets
9. Hothouse Flowers - Don't go
10. Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat
11. Taylor Swift - Gorgeous
12. Brian & Michael - Matchstalk Men & Matchstalk Cats & Dogs
[Bonus]
Blondie - Sunday Girl
Phoebe Buffay - Smelly Cat

Long list

• 10000 Maniacs - The Lion's Share
• Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat
• Alice Cooper - Gutter Cat vs The Jets
• Aristocats - Everybody wants to be a cat
• Blondie - Sunday Girl
• Bob Marley - Iron Lion Zion
• Brian & Michael - Matchstalk Men & Matchstalk Cats & Dogs
• Bruce Springsteen - Kitty's back
• Catatonia - Lost Cat
• Cliff Richard - Devil Woman
• Cure - Lovecats
• David Bowie - Cat People (putting out fire)
• Dogs D'Amour - Dogs hair
• Eartha Kitt - The heel
• Elton John - Honky Cat
• Faster Pussycat - Cathouse
• Gene Vincent - Wildcat
• Grateful Dead - China Cat Sunflower
• Harry Chapin - Cats in the cradle
• Harry Roy and His Orchestra - My girl's pussy
• Hold Steady - Sequestered in Memphis
• Hollies - Mad Professor Blyth
• Hothouse Flowers - Don’t go
• Janet Jackson - Black Cat
• Ken Barrie - Postman Man Theme
• Lovin’ Spoonful - Nashville Cats
• Max Bygraves - Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellenbogen by the sea
• Metric - Lost Kitten
• Mud - Tiger Feet
• Nick Cave - God is in the house
• Phoebe Buffay - Smelly Cat
• Pogues - Dirty Old Town
• Poison - Look what the cat dragged in
• POTUSA - Kitty
• Primus - Tommy the cat
• Prodigy - Charly
• Solomon Linda - Mbube
• Squeeze - Cool for Cats
• Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut
• Survivor - Eye of the tiger
• Taylor Swift - Gorgeous
• The method - I've got a cat
• Thundercats
• Tight Fit - Lion sleeps tonight
• Tom Jones - What's new pussycat?
• Topcat
• Whitesnake - Kitty got claws

Weekend Playlist: Chocolate Cupcake

Weekend Playlist: Chocolate Cupcake

Here's the weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Heather looking at X/twitter selections (17/10/2024) with Songs that reference chocolate and/or cupcakes.
This was to commemorate National Chocolate Cupcake Day on October 18.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

Thanks to Jack for the spotified list

[Side 1] Chocolate
1 Deacon Blue - Chocolate Girl
2 Shanks & Bigfoot - Sweet like chocolate
3 Snow Patrol - Chocolate
4 Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus
5 Tay Zonday - Chocolate Rain
6 Sammy Davis Jnr - Candy Man

[Side 2] Cake
7 Eileen Barton - If I knew you were comin' I'd've bake a cake
8 The Fall - Hot Cake
9 Crowded House - Chocolate Cake
10 Van Halen - Poundcake
11 Average White Band - Cut the cake
12 Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson

[Bonus]
Half Man Half Biscuit - Dickie Davies Eyes
Little Mix - Black Magic

Long list

• Animal Crossing – Stale Cupcakes
• Archies - Sugar Sugar
• Average White Band - Cut the cake
• Barenaked Ladies - Piece of cake
• Bent - Chocolate Wings
• Bing Crosby - Sunshine Cake
• Crowded House - Chocolate Cake
• Deacon Blue - Chocolate Girl
• DNCE - Cake by the ocean
• Eileen Barton - If I knew you were comin' I'd've bake a cake
• Gene Wilder - Pure Imagination
• Half Man Half Biscuit - Dickie Davies Eyes
• James Blunt - Chocolate
• Jay-Z - 99 Problems
• King Africa - Paquito el chocolatero
• Lancashire Hotpots - Baking Song
• Lartiste ft Awa Imani - Chocolat
• Little Mix - Black Magic
• Liv Divine – Cupcakes & Wine
• MARRS - Pump up the volume
• Melanie Martinez - Cake
• Michael Rosen – Chocolate Cake
• Miles Davis – Chocolate Chip
• Mountain Goats - Send me an angel
• One Eskimo - Chocolate
• Richard Harris - MacArthur Park
• Sammy Davis Jnr - Candy Man
• Shanks & Bigfoot - Sweet like chocolate
• Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson
• Snow Patrol - Chocolate
• Stereolab - Les Bon Bons des Raisons
• Tay Zonday - Chocolate Rain
• The Fall - Hot Cake
• Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus
• Tori Amos - Chocolate Song
• Undertones - Mars Bars
• Van Halen - Poundcake
• Weezer - Piece of cake
• Wes Fowler - Chocolate Cake Song

Weekend Playlist: Chess

Weekend Playlist: Chess

Here's the weekend playlist created by Adrian with help from guest curator LyricSlinger looking at X/twitter selections (10/10/2024) with Songs that reference Chess.
This is to commemorate National Chess Day (in the States) on October 12th.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

Thanks to Jack for the spotified list

[Side 1] Chess Pieces
1	Colm Wilkinson - The Bishop
2	Sergei Prokofiev - Dance of the knights
3	Muse - Knights of Cydonia
4	Aerosmith - Kings & Queens
5	Killing Joke - Chessboards
6	Willie Nelson - That’s Life

[Side 2] About Chess
7	Half Man Half Biscuit - Bad losers on Yahoo Chess
8	Prefab Sprout - Cue Fanfare
9	Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok
10	Fun boy 3 & Bananarama - It ain't what you do it's the way that you do it
11	Arcade Fire - Deep Blue
12	Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit

[Bonus]
H1	Chuck Berry - Little Queenie
H2	Noel Harrison - Windmills of your Mind

Long list

• Aerosmith - Kings & Queens
• Alterbridge - Pawns and Kings
• Annihilator - Knight jumps Queen
• Arcade Fire - Deep Blue
• Average white band - Pick Up The Pieces
• Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen
• Bob Dylan - Only a pawn in their game
• Busta Rhymes - Turn it up
• Don McLean – Castles in the air
• Chris De Burgh - Spanish Train
• Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode
• Chuck Berry - Little Queenie
• Coldplay - Til KINGdom come
• Colm Wilkinson - The Bishop
• Conan Gray - Checkmate
• David Essex - One night in Bangkok
• Don McLean - Castles in the air
• Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson - I know him so well
• Emile Ford & Checkmates - What do you want to make these eyes at me for?
• Faith no more - War Pigs
• Frank Sinatra - That's Life
• Willie Nelson - That’s Life
• Fugees - Ready or not
• Fun boy 3 & Bananarama - It ain't what you do it's the way that you do it
• Gerry Cinnamon - Canter
• Grandmaster Flash - White Lines
• Half Man Half Biscuit - Bad losers on Yahoo Chess
• Ian Van Dahl - Castles in the sky
• Jay Z - This life forever
• Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
• Killing Joke - Chessboards
• Kingmaker - Queen Jane
• Limp Bizkit - Stalemate
• Lisa Goasdoue - White Knights
• Love - The Castle
• Michael Jackson - Black or white
• Moxy The Band - Pawns
• Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok
• Muse - Knights of Cydonia
• Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
• Noel Harrison - Windmills of your Mind
• Prefab Sprout - Cue Fanfare
• Public Enemy - Rebel without a pause
• Queen - Killer Queen
• Rod Wave - Checkmate
• Roger Miller - King of the Road
• Scott Walker - Seventh Seal
• Sergei Prokofiev - Dance of the knights
• Shack - Black & White
• Sharwater - Rooks
• Stephen Bishop - On and on
• Taylor Swift - Dear John
• Tenpole Tudor - Swords of a thousand men
• Thompson Twins - King for a Day
• Tik Tok - Ballad of Bobby Fischer
• Wamdue Project - King of my Castle
• Wu Tang Clan - The Mysteries of Chessboxing
• Yes - I've seen all good people

Weekend Playlist: Breakfast

Breakfast!

Midnight Mixtape: September

Oh Sister Mixtape

Mixtape: #15 Oh Sister
Date: (03/09/21)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Charlie Webster
Guest: Cleopatra

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Cleopatra - Cleopatra's Theme
Wilson Phillips - Hold on
Ronettes - Be my baby
Sister Sledge - Lost in music
Breeders - Cannonball
Eternal - I wanna be the only one

[Side 2]
HAIM - Want you back
All Saints - Never ever
Pointer Sisters - Automatic
Andrews Sisters - Beer barrel polk
Heart - Alone
Bangles - Eternal Flame

Hidden:
Shakespear's Sister - Stay

One Name Mixtape

Mixtape: #16 One Name
Date: (10/09/21)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Charlie Webster

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Prince - Let's go crazy
Adele - Set fire to the rain
Eminem ft Dido - Stan
Enya - Orinoco Flow
Madonna - Vogue
Avicii - Wake me up

[Side 2]
Adamski - Killer
Bjork - It's oh so quiet
Lulu - Shout
Sade - Your love is king
Tricky - Hell is round the corner
Sia - Chandelier

Hidden:
Vangelis - Chariots of Fire

One Name Mixtape

Mixtape: #17 TV Themes
Date: (17/09/21)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Charlie Webster

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Jimi Jamison - Baywatch
Nick Cave & Bad Seeds - Red right hand
Jed Clampett - Beverly Hillbillies
Tom Waits - Way down in the hole
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Because of you
Massive Attack - Teardrop

[Side 2]
Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince - Fresh Prince of Bel
Johnny Mandel - Suicide is painless
Public Enemy - Harder than you think
Oasis - Half the world
Joe Cocker - With a little help from my friends
Gary Portnoy & Judy Hart Angelo - Where everybody knows your name

Hidden:
Michael Kiwanuka - Cold Heart

Non-Sport Mixtape

Mixtape: #18 Non-Sport
Date: (24/09/21)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Charlie Webster

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Fugees - Ready or not
Undertones - My perfect cousin
Ice Cube - It was a good day
Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days
Belle & Sebastian - Stars of track and field
Half Man Half Biscuit - All I want for Christmas is Dukla Prague away kit

[Side 2]
AJ Tracey - False 9
REM - Man on the moon
Sugar Hill Gang - Rapper's Delight
Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson
Streets - Don't mug yourself
10cc - Dreadlock Holiday

Hidden:
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Jackie Wilson said

Magic Mixtape

Mixtape: #67 Magic
Date: (02/09/22)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Paul McNamee

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra
Prodigy - Voodoo People
Pilot - Magic
Perry Como - Magic moments
Peter Paul & Mary - Puff the magic dragon

[Side 2]
Queen - It's a kind of magic
De La Soul - (3 is) The magic number
Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
Police - Every little thing she does is magic
Carlos Santana - Black magic woman
Nina Simone - I put a spell on you

Hidden:
Jamie and the Magic Torch - (Theme Tune)

Choirs Mixtape

Mixtape: #68 Choirs
Date: (16/09/22)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Paul McNamee

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Take That - Never forget
Pink Floyd - Another brick in the wall (part 2)
Handels Messiah - Amen Chorus
Madonna - Like a prayer
Kanye West - Jesus walks
Edwin Hawkins Singers - Oh happy day

[Side 2]
Rolling Stones - You can't always get...
Foreigner - I wanna know what love is
Paul Simon - Diamonds on the soles..
Primal Scream - Movin on up
St Winifred's - THere's no one quite like grandma
Paul McCartney - We all stand together

Hidden:
Polyphonic Spree - Light and day

Autumn Mixtape

Mixtape: #69 Autumn
Date: (23/09/22)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Paul McNamee

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Justin Hayward - Forever Autumn
Ella & Louis - Autumn in New York
White Stripes - Dead leaves...
Tom Waits - Last Leaf
Taylor Swift - All too well
Estelle White - Autumn Days (Hymn)

[Side 2]
Kinks - Authun Almanac
Green Day - ...When September ends
Isley Brothers - Harvest for the world
Miles Davis - Autumn Leaves
Neil Young - Harvest Moon
Beth Orton - Last leaves of Autumn

Hidden:
Earth Wind & Fire - September

Hotels Mixtape

Mixtape: #70 Hotels
Date: (30/09/22)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Claire Lim

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Doors - Roadhouse Blues
Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel
Fred Astaire - Putting on the Ritz
Leonard Cohen - Chelsea Hotel
Pitbull - Hotel Room Service
Chris Isaac - Blue Hotel

[Side 2]
Sugar Hill Gang - Rapper's Delight
Elbow - Fugitive otel
Ella Fitzgerald - There's a small hotel
Deep Purple - Smoke on the water
Lloyd Cole & Commotions - Last Weekend
Eagles - Hotel California

Hidden:
Fawlty Towers - (Theme Tune)

In the Wash Mixtape

Mixtape: #116 In the Wash
Date: (07/09/23)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Claire Lim

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Green Day - BASKET Case
Sonic Youth - WASHING MACHINE
Dead or Alive - You SPIN me right round
Vic Reeves and the Wonder Stuff - Dizzy
Curtis Mayfield - DIRTY LAUNDRY
Outkast - So FRESH so CLEAN

[Side 2]
Lancashire Hotpots - Tissue in the WASH
Cold War Kids - Hang Me Up To Dry
Madonna - HUNG up
Vivien Goldman - LAUNDERETTE
Simon & Garfunkel - My little town
Kursaal Flyers - Little does she know

Hidden:
Marvin Gaye - Heard it through the Grapevine

Aliens Mixtape

Mixtape: #117 Aliens
Date: (14/09/23)
Host: Laura Mcghie
Guest: Nat Jamieson

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Pixies - The happening/Motorway to Roswell
Ash - Girl from Mars
Ella Fitzgerald - 2 little men in a flying saucer
Little shop of horrors - Mean green monster from outer space
Tubeway Army - Praying to the aliens
Katy Perry - ET

[Side 2]
John Williams - Flying theme (ET)
Carpenters - Calling occupants of interplanetary craft
Blondie - Rapture
Blink 182 - Aliens exist
Byrds - Mr Spaceman
Fountains of Wayne - I want an alien for Christmas

Hidden:
John Williams - Cantina Band (A new hope)

End of the world Mixtape

Mixtape: #118 End of the world
Date: (21/09/23)
Host: Colin Murray
Guest: Claire Lim

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Jeff Wayne - Eve of the war
Metallica - For whom the bell tolls
Soundgarden - Black hole sun
Aphrodite's Child - Four horsemen
Johnny Cash - The man comes around
Doors - The End

[Side 2]
Prince - 1999
REM - End of the word as we know it
DJ Shadow - 6 Days feat Mos Def (soulwax rmx)
Radiohead - Idioteque
Flight of the Conchords - Robots
Europe - Final Countdown

Hidden:
Super Furry Animals - It's not the end of the world

Perfect Mixtape

Mixtape: #119 Perfect
Date: (28/09/23)
Host: Johnny I'Anson
Guest: Paul McNamee

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
Undertones - My Perfect Cousin
Lou Reed - Perfect Day
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Perfect Skin
Chet Baker - My Ideal
Martine McCutcheon - Perfect Moment
Fairground Attraction - Perfect

[Side 2]
Beautiful South - Perfect 10
Beyonce - Pretty hurts
Carly Simon - Nobody does it better
Kodaline - Perfect World
Declan J Donovan - Perfectly Imperfect
Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London (keep me in your heart)

Hidden:
Christine Perfect - I'd rather go blind