Weekend Playlist: Flash

Weekend Playlist: Flash

Here's the weekend playlist created by Ian Eason with help from guest curator Louise looking at X/twitter selections (04/04/2025) with Songs that reference flash or flashing.
This was inspired by Flash Drive Day and Body Care Day on April 5th.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1]
1. Eels - Blinking lights
2. Lady Gaga - Paparazzi
3. Jessie J - Flashlight (Pitch Perfect 2)
4. Joy Division - Disorder
5. Chase & Status, Sub Focus - Flashing Lights
6. ABC - Show Me
[Side 2] 
7. Queen - Flash
8. Fall Out Boy - The take over the breaks over
9. Rolling Stones - Jumpin’ Jack Flash
10. Goaksaka - Flashlight and Explosion
11. Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash - On the wheels of steel
12. Pandora's Box - It's all coming back to me now
[Bonus]
Ray Stevens – The Streak
Irene Cara - Flashdance (what a feeling)
Alannah Myles - Black Velvet

Long list

• ABC - Show Me
• AC/DC - Hells Bells
• Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash - On the wheels of steel
• Aerosmith - Lightning Strikes
• Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
• Art Brut - DC Comics and Chocolate Milkshakes
• ‬‪(BBE - Flash)
• Bright Eyes - At the bottom Of everything
• Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn!
• Chase & Status, Sub Focus - Flashing Lights
• Clash - Magnificant 7
• Deep Dish - Flashdance
• Doors - Crystal Ship
• Duran Duran - Girls on film
• Edwyn Collins - Magic Piper (of love)
• Eels - Blinking lights
• Electric Boys - Psychedelic eyes
• Eva & The Heartmaker - Gone in a flash
• Fall Out Boy - The take over the breaks over
• Flash and the pan - Waiting for a train
• Goaksaka - Flashlight and Explosion
• Grease - Grease Lightning
• Irene Cara - Flashdance (what a feeling)
• Jessie J - Flashlight (Pitch Perfect 2)
• Joe McElderry - Any dream will do
• Joy Division - Disorder
• Justin Timberlake - LoveStoned / I think she knows (Interlude)
• Lady Gaga - Paparazzi
• NEEDTOBREATHE - Oohs and Ahhs
• Pandora's Box - It's all coming back to me now
• Pet Shop Boys - Flamboyant
• Queen - Flash
• Ray Stevens – The Streak
• Rolling Stones - Jumpin’ Jack Flash
• Screaming Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends - Flashing lights
• Soft Cell - Torch
• Steel Pulse - Roller skates
• Stereophonics - Indian Summer
• Stray kids - Comflex
• Tommy Steele - Flash Bang Wallop (half a Sixpence)