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