LNL Midnight Mixtape: Schools

Midnight Mixtape: School

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (19/06/2025) with Songs that reference Schools and teachers! This is commemorate "Thank a teacher" day on June 18th.

Songs in contention

• Alice Cooper - School's out
• Pink Floyd - Another brick in the wall Pt2
• Vampire Weekend - Campus
• Jackson 5 - ABC
• Gym Class Heroes - Scandalous Scholastics
• Hall & Oates - Adult Education
• Rufus Wainwright - Art Teacher
• Phish - Chalkdust torture
• James Brown - Don't be a drop-out
• Kanye West - Graduation Day
• Kinks - Education
• Blink-182 - Going away to college
• Smiths - Headmaster Ritual
• London Music Works - Please Sir
• Barenaked Ladies - Grade 9
• Hoosiers - Goodbye Mr A
• Boomtown Rats - I don't like Mondays
• Ramones - I don't wanna be learned
• Asher Roth - I love college
• Steely Dan - My old school
• 21 Pilots - Next semester
• Paul Simon - Me and Julio down by the schoolyard
• Bobbettes - Mr Lee
• Specials - Rat Race
• Gene Summers - School of rock'n'roll
• Belle & Sebastian - We rule the school
• Wombats - School Uniforms
• Cliff Richard - Schoolboy crush
• Kelly Rowland - Stole
• Rush - Subdivision
• Jethro Tull - Teacher
• Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag
• Taylor Swift - 15
• John K Samson - When I write my master's thesis
• Donna Summer - Love's unkind
• White Stripes - We're going to be good friends
• Strangers - School Mam
• Sam Cooke - Wonderful world
• Lulu - To sir with love
• Nada Surf - Popular
• Brownsville Station - Smoking in the boys room
• Busted - What I go to school for
• Pet Shop Boys - It's a sin
• Supertramp - School
• Madness - Baggy Trousers
• Flock of Seagulls - This used to be my playground
• Deftones - Back to school
• Pulp - Babies
• Hot Chip - Boy from school
• Jam - Art school
• Jam - Eton Rifles
• ABBA - When I kissed the teacher
• Doris Day - Teacher's pet
• Cocoa tea - Stay in school
• Van Halen - Hot for teacher
• Rod Stewart - Maggie May
• Kinks - David Watts
• Eels - Dog-faced boy

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

Thank you for Leigh created a "spotified playlist.

[Side 1]
1. Smiths - Headmaster Ritual
2. Belle & Sebastian - We rule the school
2. James Brown - Don't be a drop-out
3. Boomtown Rats - I don't like Mondays
4. Specials - Rat Race
5. Kinks - David Watts
6. Bruce Springsteen - Glory days

[Side 2]
7. Doris Day - Teacher's pet
8. Rod Stewart - Maggie May
9. Lulu - To sir with love
10. Busted - What I go to school for
11. Sam Cooke - Wonderful world
12. White Stripes - We're going to be good friends
Hidden: Alan Hackshaw - Chicken man (Grange Hill theme)

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 2 acts had never been on before Alan Hackshaw and Busted... Appearances of those that have been on before:

• 8: Kinks (6+2)
• 6: Bruce Springsteen
• 5: White Stripes
• 4: Sam Cooke, Specials
• 3: James Brown
• 2: Boomtown Rats, Doris Day (1+1), Rod Stewart, Smiths
• 1: Lulu

Note: Bruce Springsteen has made the long list 7 times before but the first time he's made the final 12 in his 8 appearance on the long list with Tony Livesey.