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