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