Weekend Playlist: Life

Weekend Playlist: Life

Here's the weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Adrian looking at X/twitter selections (11/07/2025) with Songs that reference life or lives.
This was inspired by the 40th anniversairy of Live Aid!

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist 1!

[Side 1] Journey of Life
1. Queen - Radio Ga Ga
2. David Bowie - Life on Mars
3. Snow Patrol - Life on Earth
4. Tom Cochrane - Life is a highway
5. Ronan Keating - Life is a rollercoaster
6. Cars - Drive
Bonus: Lightning Seeds - Life of Riley

[Side 2] Living your life
7. Noah and whale - LIFEGOESON
8. Ezra Collective (Ft Sampa the great) - Life goes on
9. John Cougar - Jack and Diane
10. Jay-Z - Hard knock life
11. Frank Sinatra - That's life
12. Wings - Live and let die
Bonus: Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town

[Hidden]
Bryan Adams & Tina Turner - It's only love

Here's the final playlist 2!

[Side 3] Help Life
1. Band Aid - Do they know it's Christmas
2. Fray - How to save a life
3. Indeep - Last night a DJ saved my life
4. Evanescence - Bring me to life
5. Simple Minds - Alive & Kicking
6. Bill Withers - Lean on me
Bonus: Birdy - People help the people

[Side 4] Celebrate Life
7. American Authors - Best day of my life
8. OPUS - Live is life
9. Black - Wonderful life
10. Level 42 - Sun goes down (livin' it up)
11. Talk Talk - Life's what you make it
12. Iggy Pop - Lust for life
Bonus: Amy Macdonald - This is the life

[Hidden]
David Bowie - Heroes

Long list

• James - Life's a f***ing miracle
• Richard Ashcroft - This thing called life
• James - Sit down
• David Bowie - Heroes
• Cars - Drive
• Hampshire/Horsey (Oliver!) - Consider yourself
• Oasis - Live forever
• Iggy Pop - Lust for life
• Elton John - Someone saved my life tonight
• Frank Sinatra - That's life
• Japan - Quiet Life
• Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - AKA..What a life
• Inner City - Good life
• Manic Street Preachers - A design for life
• Noah and whale - LIFEGOESON
• Jay-Z - Hard knock life
• Simple Minds - Alive & Kicking
• Good Life Theme
• Queen - One vision
• Elton John - Someone saved my life
• Four Tops - Reach out I'll be there
• Buju Banton - Helping hand
• Joan Armatrading - Help yourself
• Birdy - People help the people
• American Authors - Best day of my life
• Amy Macdonald - This is the life
• Blue Oyster Cult - Don't fear the reaper
• Self Esteem - How can I help you
• Catmando - Today's the first day of your life
• Indeep - Last night a DJ saved my life
• 21 Pilots - My blood
• Fray - How to save a life
• Passenger - Life’s for the living
• Band - Life is a carnival
• Rascal Flatts - Life is a highway
• 10cc - Life is a minestrone
• Madness - Run for your life
• OPUS - Live is life
• Merle Haggard - Mama Tried
• Steve Winwood - Back in the high life again
• Talking Heads - Life during wartime
• Simple Minds - Life in a Day
• David Bowie - Life on Mars
• Tina Turner - One of the living
• Snow Patrol - Life on Earth
• Dream Academy - Life in a Northern town
• Oasis - Live Forever
• George Harrison - What is life
• Wings - Live and let die
• Band Aid - One year on
• Queen - Radio Ga Ga
• Girls Aloud/Pretenders - I'll stand by you
• John Cougar - Jack and Diane
• Skid Row - 18 & Life
• Thunder - Low life in high places
• Talk Talk - Life's what you make it
• Eric Idle - Always look on the bright Side of life
• Dido - See the sun
• Evanescence - Bring me to life
• Mike & Mechanics - Get up
• Audioslave - Show me how to live
• Eagles - Life in the fast lane
• Level 42 - Sun goes down (livin' it up)
• Black - Wondeful life
• Kirsty MacColl - Still life
• Ronan Keating - Life is a rollercoaster
• Carole King - You've got a friend
• Ezra Collective (Ft Sampa the great) - Life goes on
• Lightning Seeds - Life of Riley
• Glasvegas - Geraldine
• Kris Kristofferson - Help me make it through the night
• Levellers - One way
• Slade - Do you believe in miracles?
• Shania Twain - C'est la vie
• Bryan Adams & Tina Turner - It's only love
• Tina Turner - Help
• USA for africa - We are the world
• Bill Withers - Lean on me