Friday, 25 July 2025

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Teens (Non-Starter)

Midnight Mixtape: Teenagers

On the midnight mixtape, Nick Bright to look at listener selections (17/07/2025) with best songs about being a teenager with the voting age in the UK being reduced from 18 to 16!

Songs in contention

  • Alberto y los Trios Paranoios - Kill
  • Alice Cooper - I'm 18
  • Ash - Oh yeah
  • Beatles - I saw her standing there
  • Beatles - She's leaving home
  • Billy Idol - Sweet 16
  • Blur - Girls & Boys
  • Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap
  • Broken Science Scene - Anthems for a 17yo
  • Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict
  • Chicks - Travellin' Soldier
  • Chuck Berry - You never can tell
  • Cliff Richard - Young ones
  • Climie Fisher - Love changes everything
  • Clive Pig & Hopeful Chinamen - Happy birthday sweeet 16
  • Commercials - 16 again & again
  • David Bowie - Young Americans
  • Depeche Mode - Little 15
  • Dion & Belmonts - Teenager in love
  • Echosmith - Cool kids
  • El Wali - Youth of the Nation
  • Elbow - Lippy kids
  • Fred Wedlock - Oldest swinger in town
  • Fureys - WHen you were sweet 16
  • Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia
  • Half man half biscuit - I was a teenage armchair honved fan
  • Heaven 17 - Come live with me
  • House of Love - Shine on
  • Jam - Saturday's Kids/When you're young
  • Janis Ian - At 17
  • Jesus & Mary Chain - Teenage Lust
  • John Mellencamp - Jack & Diane
  • Katy Perry - Teenage dream
  • Ladytron - 17
  • Madness - House of fun
  • Marvelettes - When you're young and in love
  • Mott the Hoople - All the young dudes
  • My chemical romance - Teenagers
  • Nina Simone - To be young gifted & black
  • Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit
  • Partners in Kryme - Turtle Power
  • Paul Hardcastle - 19
  • Pete Wingfield - 18 with a bullet
  • Placebo - Teenage Angst
  • Queen - Radio ga ga
  • Queen - These are the days of our lives
  • Ramones - I don't want to grow up
  • Sam Cooke - Only 16
  • Sam Fender - Seventeen going under
  • Sonic Youth - Teenage riot
  • Sound of Music - 16 going on 17
  • Stephen Duffy - 17
  • H Supergrass - Alright
  • Supergrass - Caught by Fuzz
  • Sweet - Six teens
  • Sweet - Teenage Rampage
  • T-Rex - Teenage Dream
  • Taylor Swift - 15
  • Tom Waits - I don't wanna grow up
  • Undertones - Teenage kicks
  • Wheatus - Teenage dirtbag
  • Who - Baba O'Reilly
  • Who - Kids are alright
  • Who - My generation

Final Mixtape

No final mixtape because of the Lioness penalty shootout exploits in the QFs of the Women's Euro 2025. This is merely for information proposes
[Side 1]
1. Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit
2. Undertones - Teenage kicks
3. Dion & Belmonts - Teenager in love
4. Queen - Radio ga ga
5. Wheatus - Teenage dirtbag
6. Who - Baba O'Reilly
[Side 2]
7. Elbow - Lippy kids
8. Echosmith - Cool kids
9. John Mellencamp - Jack & Diane
10. Janis Ian - At 17
11. Alice Cooper - I'm 18
12. Paul Hardcastle - 19
Hidden: Supergrass - Alright

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