Sunday, 3 August 2025

Weekend Playlist: Hairdressing

Weekend Playlist: Hairdressing

Here's the weekend playlist created by Ian with help from guest curator Adrian looking at X/twitter selections (01/08/2025) with Songs that reference hairdressing.
This was to commemorate "Hair Gloss Day" on August 3rd.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] Hair
1. De la soul - Can you keep a secret
2. Pavement - Cut your hair
3. Monkees - Daydream believer
4. South Pacific - Gonna wash that man right out of my hair
5. Jens Lekman - Shirin
6. We are scientists - I cut my own hair

[Side 2] Hairstyle
7. Little mix - Hair
8. 1 giant leap - Braided hair
9. Sparks - Veronica lake
10. Beck - Devil's haircut
11. Creatures - Festival of colours
12. Divine Comedy - Something for the weekend

[Bonus]
Wandering hearts - Almost cut my hair
Norman Beaton - Don't scratch my soca
Haircut 100 - Favourite Shirts

Long list

  • De la soul - Can you keep a secret
  • Echo & Bunmymen - Cutter
  • Norman Beaton - Don't scratch my soca
  • Wandering hearts - Almost cut my hair
  • South Pacific - Gonna wash that man right out of my hair
  • Flaming lips - She doesn't use jelly
  • Sparks - Veronica lake
  • Monkees - Randy scouse git
  • Morrissey - Hairdresser on fire
  • Who - Cut my hair
  • Shania Twain - Man i feel like a woman
  • Monkees - Daydream believer
  • Divine Comedy - Something for the weekend
  • Capital Cities - Farrah Fawcett Hair
  • Nirvana - Hairspray queen
  • Beck - Devil's haircut
  • Scissor Sisters - Hair baby
  • Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
  • We are scientists - I cut my own hair
  • Dead Prez - The Beauty Within
  • Pulp - Help the aged
  • Pavement - Cut your hair
  • At the drivein - One armed scissor
  • Fugees - Nappy heads
  • 1 giant leap - Braided hair
  • Super furry animals - Something for the weekend
  • Ben Lee - Running with scissors
  • Dollar - Mirror mirror
  • Bob Seger - Turn the page
  • Cowsills - Hair
  • Mark Ronson - Uptown funk
  • John Lennon - Oh Yoko
  • Nikki Blonsky (Hairspray) - Good morning Baltimore
  • Rod Stewart - First cut is the deepest
  • Lumineees - Flowers in your hair
  • Super furry animals - Ice hockey hair
  • Symarip - Skinhead moonstomp
  • Alma - Dye my hair
  • Reveremd & Makers - Haircut
  • David Bowie - Sorrow
  • Shania Twain - That don't impress me much
  • Frabkie Avalon (Grease) - Beauty school dropout
  • Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
  • Lauryn Hill - Doo wap
  • Mivhael Jackson - Man in the mirror
  • Beastie Boys - Fight for your right to party
  • Pulp - Common people
  • Scissor Sisters - Laura
  • Cutting crew - Died in your arms
  • Little mix - Hair
  • McFly - 5 colours in her hair
  • Odyssey - Going back to my roots
  • Oasis - Morning glory
  • Lorde - Buzzcut season
  • Tesla - Signs
  • Type o negative - Black #1
  • Alice Cooper - Teenage Lament 74
  • Jens Lekman - Shirin
  • Tom McRae - You cut her hair
  • Tom Jones - Delilah
  • Beatles - Penny lane
  • Bryan Adams - Cuts like a knife
  • Haircut 100 - Favourite Shirts
  • Idles - Never fight a man with a perm
  • Shampoo - Shampoo you
  • Sleaford Mods - Moptop
  • Beatles - Day in the life of
  • Ricky Martin - She bangs
  • Veggie Tales - Hairbrush song
  • Patrick Juvet - L'enfant aux cheveux blancs
  • Yello - Si senor the hairy grill
  • Creatures - Festival of colours
  • PJ Harvey - Hair
  • Tori Amos - General Joy

Friday, 1 August 2025

LNL Midnight Mixtape: One hit wonders

Midnight Mixtape: One hit wonders

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (31/07/2025) with Songs that are one hit wonders!

Songs in contention

  • Simon Park Orchestra - Eye Level
  • Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking
  • Laurie Anderson - O Superman
  • Babylon Zoo - Spaceman
  • Toni Basil - Mickey
  • Band Aid - Do they know it's Christmas
  • McAlmont & Butler - Yes
  • Black - Wonderful Life
  • Buggles - Video killed the radio star
  • Cameo - Word up
  • Cardiacs - Is this the life
  • Charlene - I've never been to me
  • Deee-Lite - Groove is in the heart
  • Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11
  • Martha & Muffins - Echo beach
  • Tony DiBart - The real thing
  • Joe Dolce - Shaddp you face
  • Carl Douglas - Kung fu fighting
  • Clive Dunn - Grandad
  • Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsboro - Je t'aime
  • Gotye - Somebody that I used to know
  • Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the sky
  • Benny Hill - Ernie
  • House of Pain - Jump around
  • It's Immaterial - Driving away from home
  • Gary Jules - Mad world
  • Knack - My Sharona
  • La's - There she goes
  • Lotus Eaters - First picture of you
  • MARRS - Pump up the volume
  • Scott McKenzie - San Francisco
  • Lee Marvin - Wandrin' Star
  • Nena - 99 red balloons
  • New Radicals - You get what you give
  • Nizlopi - JCB Song
  • Peter Sarstedt - Where do you go?
  • Teletubbies - Teletubbies say eh-oh
  • Anita Ward - Ring my bell
  • Wheatus - Teenage dirtbag
  • Firm - Star Trekkin'
  • Men without hats - Safety Dance
  • John Otway - Cor baby that's really free
  • Chesney Hawkes - One and only
  • Las Ketchup - Ketchup Song

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

Thank you for Leigh created a "spotified playlist.
[Side 1]
1. Deee-Lite - Groove is in the heart
2. McAlmont & Butler - Yes
3. Althea & Donna - Uptown top ranking
4. Cameo - Word up
5. House of Pain - Jump around
6. MARRS - Pump up the volume
[Side 2]
7. Joe Dolce - Shaddap you face
8. Scott McKenzie - San Francisco
9. Peter Sarstedt - Where do you go?
10. Nena - 99 red balloons
11. Martha & Muffins - Echo beach
12. La's - There she goes
Hidden: New Radicals - You get what you give

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, all but McAlmont & Butler and M/A/R/R/S have never appeared before. Both McAlmont & Butler (Bring it act on "Returns" LNL mixtape) and M/A/R/R/S ("Pump up the volume" on "Records" mixtape) have appeared once before.