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
