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