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