Weekend Playlist: Spades

Weekend Playlist: Spades

Here's the weekend playlist created by Ian Eason with help from guest curator Hastings looking at X/twitter selections (13/06/2025) with Songs that reference spades.
This was inspired by World Series of Poker which currently taking place in Las Vegas.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1]
1. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
2. Clash - Card Cheat
3. BPA ft Martha Wainwright - Spade
4. Bob Dylan - I want you
5. Duke Ellington - Trumpet in Spades
6. Genesis - Driving the last spike
[Side 2]
7. Frank Turner - Get better
8. Travis - Driftwood
9. Gravediggaz - Pass the Shovel
10. Mississippi John Hurt – Monday Morning Blues
11. Nizlopi - JCB Song
12. Bernard Cribbins - Hole in the ground
[Bonus]
Gene Kelly – Dig dig dig
Great Escape – Tonight we dig

Long list

• Clash - Card Cheat
• Bruce Springsteen - Does this bus stop at 82nd street
• Frank Turner - Get better
• Housemartins - Build
• The Band - 4% Pantomime
• Glenn Miller - Chattanooga Choo Choo
• Link Wray - Ace of Spades
• KRS1 - Jack of Spades
• Robert Johnson - Little Queen of Spades
• Bernard Cribbins - Hole in the ground
• BPA ft Martha Wainwright - Spade
• Echo & Bunnyman - The Disease
• Snow White - Heigh ho
• Motorhead - Ace of Spades
• M People - Moving on up
• Sting - Shape of my heart
• Blow Monkeys - Digging your scene
• Duke Ellington - Trumpet in Spades
• Gravediggaz - Pass the Shovel
• Mississippi John Hurt – Monday Morning Blues
• Linkin Park - Bleed it out
• Paramore - Brick by boring brick
• Nick Cave - Dig Lazarus dig
• Incredible String Band - Smoke shovelling song
• Silverbacks - Selling shovels
• Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden
• Shovels and Rope - Coping Mechanism
• Billy Joel - Goodnight Saigon
• Ike & Tina - I dig you
• Genesis - Driving the last spike
• Carter USM - Bloodsport for all
• Clash - Bankrobber
• Travis - Driftwood
• Pogues - Navigator
• Mock Turtles - Can you dig it?
• Simon Boswell - A Spade, We Need A Spade
• Bob Dylan - I want you
• Styx - Queen of Spades
• X - Tonight we dig
• Christy Moore - Don't forget your shovel
• Christy Moore - Missing you
• Levellers - Hard fight
• Lady Gaga - Poker Face
• Nizlopi - JCB Song
• Doris Day - Steam Heat
• Rosemary Clooney - Snow
• Jethro Tull - Up the pool
• Gene Kelly – Dig dig dig
• Great Escape – Tonight we dig