Midnight Mixtape: New Beginnings

New Beginnings

On this new year's eve mixtape, Colin Murray was joined by Claire Lim to look at listener selections (31/12/2023) with Songs that reference new starts, resetting the clock, dusting ourselves off, going again!

Songs in contention

• Average White Band - Let's go round again
• Deacon Blue - Dignity
• Primal Scream - Movin' on up
• Nina Simone - Feeling Good
• Stylistics - You Make Feel Brand New
• Tom McRae - Got a suitcase
• Tracy Chapman - New beginning
• Propellerheads - History repeating
• Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure
• Bucks Fizz - New beginning
• Orange Juice - Rip it up
• Green day - Good riddance
• Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten
• Biffy Clyro - Biblical
• Elton John - I'm still standing
• McFadden & Whitehead - Ain't no stopping us now
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• Whitesnake - Here I go again
• Talking heads - Road to nowhere
• Frank Sinatra - That's life
• John Lennon - Just like starting over
• Beatles - Here Comes The Sun
• Curtis Mayfield - Move on up
• Iron Maiden - Brave new world
• Hall & Oates - Starting all over again
• INXS - New Sensation
• Big Country - Chance
• Bill Withers - Lovely day
• Cardiacs - Is this the life
• Rush - Wish them well
• Simple Minds - New gold dream
• You me and 6 - Fresh Start Fever
• Arcade Fire - Ready to start
• Stone Roses - I am the resurrection
• Johnny Nash - I can see clearly
• Embrace - Ashes
• Human Resource - Dominator
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• Feeder - Buck Rogers
• Carpenters - We've only just begun
• Bright eyes - First day of my life
• Fred Astaire - Pick yourself up
• Teenage Fanclub - Start again
• Sigma ft Paloma Faith - Changing
• Gabrielle - Rise
• Sam Cooke - A change is gonna come
• Daniel Shiells - one more step along the world i go
• Jack Hylton - Happy Days Are Here Again

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Nina Simone - Feeling Good
2. Whitesnake - Here I go again
3. Elton John - I'm still standing
4. Deacon Blue - Dignity
5. Embrace - Ashes
6. Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten
{Side 2]
7. Talking heads - Road to nowhere
8. Curtis Mayfield - Move on up
9. Beatles - Here Comes The Sun
10. Johnny Nash - I can see clearly
11. Arcade Fire - Ready to start
12. Stone Roses - I am the resurrection
Hidden: Willy Mason - Oxygen [Your Choice]

Previous Appearances

TWO debuts with Natasha Bedingfield and Whitesnake.
Of the other acts with previous appearances: killer"

Artist	#	Other Appearances
Embrace	2	Other time with "Fireworks"
Curtis Mayfield	3	2 with "Move on up"
Johnny Nash	3	All 3 times with "I can see clearly now"
Stone Roses	3	1st time with "I am the resurrection
Talking Heads	3	Previous 2 times with "Psycho
Arcade Fire	4	1st time with "Ready to start"
Elton John	5	1st time with "I'm still standing"
Deacon Blue	8	4 with "Dignity"
Nina Simone	9	4 with "Feeling good"
Beatles	15	2 with "Here comes the sun"

Should also be noted that there was a similar mixtape curated by Nick Bright and John Robb. Two songs that feature in both mixtapes are Nina Simone's "Feeling good" and Johnny Nash's "I can see clearly now".