Sunday, 24 August 2025

Weekend Playlist: Volcanoes

Weekend Playlist: Volcano

Here's the weekend playlist created by Lyricslinger with help from guest curator Whichwasnice1 looking at X/twitter selections (22/08/2025) with Songs that reference Volcanoes inspired by Vesuvius Day which occurs 24/08.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist! Thanks to Lyricslingre for the spotified list

[Side 1] Hot
Presidents of the United States - Volcano
Damien Rice - Volcano
Perry Farrell - Hot Lava (from South Park)
Missy Higgins – Craters
Leftfield - Release the pressure
Ash - Burn baby burn

[Side 2] Cool
B52s - Lava
Trammps - Disco Inferno
Bjork - Mutual Core
Jack Bruce - Concul at sunset
Dead Milkmen - Born to love volcanoes
Bullet for my valentine - Ashes of the innocent

[Bonus]
La Maison Tellier - Sur un volcan
Van Halen - Eruption (Guitar Solo)
Psychedelic Source Records - Lava

Long list

  • Johnny Cash - I get everywhere
  • La Maison Tellier - Sur un volcan
  • Andrea Bocelli - Funiculi Funicula
  • Dead Milkmen - Born to love volcanoes
  • Eruption - One way ticket
  • B52s - Lava
  • Gorillaz - Fire coming out of a Monkey's Head
  • Pixies - Bird dream of the Olympus Mons
  • Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
  • U2 - Volcano
  • Kings of Leon - Molly's Chambers
  • David Bowie & Queen - Under Pressure
  • Rick Wakeman - Mount Etna
  • Babyshambles - Killamangiro
  • Kasabian - Fast Fuse
  • Superman IV: The Quest For Peace
  • Armand Hammer - The Gods Must Be Crazy
  • Meshell Ndegeocello - Another Country
  • Psychedelic Source Records - Lava
  • Bear's Den - Above the clouds of Pompeii
  • Genesis - Dance on a volcano
  • Sean Kingston - Fire Burning
  • Ash - Burn baby burn
  • Will Smith - Boom! Shake the Room
  • Bruce Springsteen - I'm on fire
  • Eruption - I can't stand the rain
  • Johnny Cash - Ring of fire
  • Bastille - Pompeii
  • Janis Joplin - Buried alive in the blues
  • Van Halen - Eruption (Guitar Solo)
  • Bjork - Mutual Core
  • Damien Rice - Volcano
  • Missy Higgins – Craters
  • Morcheeba - Molten
  • Jack Bruce - Concul at sunset
  • Bullet for my valentine - Ashes of the innocent
  • Lord Echo - Molten Lava
  • Bastille - Things we lost in the fire
  • Veruca Salt - Volcano Girls
  • Linkin Park - Heavy is the Crown
  • Slipknot - Sulfur
  • David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
  • Westworld – Sonic Boom Boy
  • Iron & Wine - Cinder and Smoke
  • Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
  • Perry Farrell - Hot Lava (from South Park)
  • Mazzy Star - Into Dust
  • Kuana Torres Kahele, Napua Greig, James Ford Murphy - Lava
  • Bjork - Possibly maybe
  • Def Leppard - Ring of fine
  • Bryan Adams - Into the fire
  • Chemical Brothers ft Flaming Lips - Golden Path
  • King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Magma
  • Presidents of the United States - Volcano
  • Shaggy - Mr Boombastic*
  • Ladytron - Destroy everything you touch
  • Leftfield - Release the pressure
  • Rammstein - Zerstören (Destroy)
  • Underworld - Born Slippy*
  • Martika (or Carole King) - I feel The Earth move
  • Trammps (or Tina Turner) - Disco Inferno
  • KIBOOMERS - Floor is Lava

Friday, 22 August 2025

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Buildings

Midnight Mixtape: Buildings

On the midnight mixtape, Johnny I'Anson was joined by Jo Kendall to look at listener selections (21/08/2025) with Songs that reference buildings on the news of an entire 113 year old Swedish church was moved 5km down the road to a new dstination this week!

Songs in contention

  • Blur - Country house
  • Simon & Garfunkel - So long Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Ed Sheeran - Castles in the sky
  • Talking Heads - Burning down the house
  • Culture Club - Church of the poison mind
  • Hosier - Take me to church
  • XTC - Towers of London
  • Madness - Our house
  • Jay-Z/Alicia Keys - Empire state of mind
  • B52s - Love shack
  • Commodores - Brick house
  • Linkin Park - Burn it down
  • Kate Nash - Foundations
  • Unit 4+2 - Concrete and clay
  • Aretha Franklin - The house that Jack built
  • David Byrne - Glass concrete stone
  • Eagles - Hotel California
  • Counting Crows - Perfect Blue Buildings
  • Tasmin Archer - Lords of the new church
  • Pixies - Alec Eiffel
  • Hamish Hawk - Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion...
  • Bad Religion - Skyscraper
  • Johnny Dowd - Corner Laundromat
  • David Bowie - Thru' these architect's eyes
  • Arctic Monkeys - brick by brick
  • Rolling Stones - Citadel
  • Dionne Warwick - A house is not a home
  • R Dean Taylor - There's Ghost in my house
  • Verve - I see houses
  • Modest Mouse - Little Motel
  • Foundations - Build me up buttercup
  • Animals - House of the rising sun
  • Handsome Family - Cathedrals
  • Miley Cyrus - Wreaking ball
  • Elvis - Heartbreak hotel
  • Housemartins - Build
  • Brooks & Dunn - Proud of the house we built
  • No doubt - Under construction
  • Elton - Burning buildings
  • Bruce Springsteen - Mansion on the hill
  • Starship - We built this city
  • Andy Williams - House of Bamboo
  • Barenaked Ladies - Old apartment
  • Stackridge - 32 West mall
  • Architecture in Helsinki - Heart it races
  • Underworld - Skyscraper
  • Paramore - Brick by boring brick
  • Dixie Cups - Chapel of love
  • Rufus Wainwright - Sanssouci

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1] Architects
1. Blur - Country house
2. David Bowie - Thru' these architect's eyes
3. Pixies - Alec Eiffel
4. B52s - Love shack
5. Animals - House of the rising sun
6. Stackridge - 32 West mall

[Side 2] Houses
7. Talking Heads - Burning down the house
8. Verve - I see houses
9. Culture Club - Church of the poison mind
10. Jay-Z & Alicia Keys - Empire state of mind
11. Eagles - Hotel California
12. Dionne Warwick - A house is not a home

Hidden: Miley Cyrus - Wreaking ball

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 2 acts had never been on before, Animals and Stackridge Appearances of those that have been on before:
  • 12: David Bowie
  • 10: Blur
  • 9: Pixies
  • 5: Eagles
  • 4: Talking Heads (3+1)
  • 3: Dionne Warwick (2+1)
  • 2: B52s, Culture Lub
  • 1: Alicia Keys & Jay-Z, Miley Cyrus, Verbe

Monday, 18 August 2025

Weekend Playlist: Promises

Weekend Playlist: Promises

Here's the weekend playlist created by Leigh with help from guest curator Graham looking at X/twitter selections (15/08/2025) with Songs that reference promises.
This was inspired by the release of Calvin Harris' "Promises" featuring Sam Smith on Sunday, 8 years ago (17/08/2018)

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] Promise Me
1. Girls Aloud - The Promise
2. Simple Minds - Promised you a miracle
3. Shayne Ward - No Promises
4. Beverley Craven - Promise me
5. Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden
6. Eric Clapton - Promises

[Side 2] Promises Promises
7. When in Rome - The Promise
8. Robin S - Show me love
9. Beautiful South - A little time
10. Dire Straits - Romeo & Juliet
11. Leona Lewis - Footprints in the sand
12. Terrorvision - Promises

[Bonus] 
My Chemical Romance - I'm not okay (I promise)
New Order - Broken Promise
UB40 - Promises & Lies

Long list

  • Radiohead - I promise
  • Bruce Springsteen - The Promise
  • Cock Robin - The promise you made
  • Jon & Vangelis - Beside
  • Oysterband - We'll be there
  • Simple Minds - Promised you a miracle
  • Christone "kingfish" Ingram - Empty promises
  • Terry Kowaski - Empty promises
  • Alarm - Declaration
  • Carpenters - We've only just begun
  • Script - The man who can't be moved
  • Beverly Craven - Promise me
  • Julie Covington - Don't cry for Me Argentina
  • Police - Every breath you take
  • Thin Lizzy - Don't believe a word
  • Cranberries - Promises
  • Eric Clapton - Promises
  • Terrorvision - Promises
  • All 4 One - I swear
  • Bruce Springsteen - If I should fall behind
  • José Gonzales - Heartbeats
  • Michael Garrick Septet featuring Joe Harriott - Promises
  • Richard & Linda Thompson - Dimming of the Day
  • Talk Talk - I believe in you
  • Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love
  • Nero - Promises
  • Shayne Ward - No Promises
  • Madness - Promises Promises
  • Tracy Chapman - The Promise
  • UB40 - Promises and lies
  • Dwight Yoakam - Promise you can't keep
  • Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden
  • Vince Gill - Pocket full of gold
  • Dionne Warwick - Promises Promises
  • Buzzcocks - Promises
  • Dennis Brown & Aswad - Promised Land
  • John Denver & Muppets - Poems, Prayers and Promises
  • Cast - Promised land
  • My Chemical Romance - I'm not okay
  • Shania Twain - From this moment on
  • Muse - Starlight
  • Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky
  • Queens of the Stone - The lost art of keeping a secret
  • Girls aloud - Promise
  • Broken Records - A Promise
  • King Creosote - Something to believe in
  • Ultravox - Western Promise
  • Aerosmith - Lick and Promise
  • Dire Straits - Romeo & Juliet
  • Saw Doctors - It won't be tonight
  • Chumbawamba - The day the Nazi died
  • Foo Fighters - Everlong
  • Jam - Going underground
  • Garbage - Vow
  • Michael Nyman - The heart asks pleasure first / The Promise (The Piano)
  • New Order - Broken Promise
  • Beautiful South - A Little Time
  • Robin S - Show Me Love
  • Delirious - Promise
  • Take That - Promises
  • Bon Jovi - You give love a bad name
  • Rammstein - Du Hast
  • Calvin Harris ft Sam Smith - Promises
  • Joe Smooth - Promised land
  • When in Rome - The Promise

Friday, 15 August 2025

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Sleeping

Midnight Mixtape: Sleeping

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Jo Kendall to look at listener selections (13/08/2025) with Songs that reference sleeping! This is to do with a feature about Conch shells being a rememdy for snoring and helping people to sleep better.

Songs in contention

  • Pretenders - I go to sleep
  • Natalie Imbruglia - When you're sleeping
  • Crystal Gayle - Talking in my sleep
  • Faithless - Insomnia
  • Everly Brothers - Wake up little Susie
  • Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite
  • Salad & Terry Hall - Dream a little dream
  • Smiths - Asleep
  • Empire of the sun - Walking on a dream
  • Tight fit - Lion sleeps tonight
  • Teardrop explodes - Sleeping gas
  • Beatles - I'm only sleeping
  • Metallica - Enter sandman
  • Seekers - Morningtown Ride
  • Roy Orbison - In dreams
  • Leonard Cohen - Lullaby
  • 5 Eurythmics - Sweet dreams
  • Gillan - Sleeping on the job
  • Graham Nash - Sleep song
  • Keith Whitley - Don't close your eyes
  • Simian Mobile Disco - Sleep deprivation
  • Suede - Sleeping pills
  • Romantics - Talking in your sleep
  • Simple Minds - Big Sleep
  • Sam Smith - How do you sleep?
  • 5th Dimension - (Last night) I didn't get to sleep at all
  • Melissa Ehteridge - You can sleep while I drive
  • Wham! - Wake me up before you go-go
  • Colter Wall - Sleeping on the blacktop
  • Jack White - I guess I should go to sleep
  • Beck - Sleeping bag
  • Robert Wyatt - Heaps of sheeps
  • Ray Peterson - Goodnight my love
  • Radiohead - Go to sleep
  • Rotimi - In my bed
  • Alyson Williams - Sleeptalk
  • Go West - We close our eyes
  • Billy Woods - Sleep
  • Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers - Sleeping Dancer Sleep
  • Aerosmith - I don't want to miss a thing
  • Annie Lennox - Into the west
  • REM - I don't sleep I dream
  • Mamas & Papas - Dream a little dream of me
  • Beastie Boys - No Sleep till Brooklyn
  • Boo Radleys - Wake up Boo
  • Kate Bush - And dream of sheep
  • Matt Bianco - Get out of your lazy bed
  • Suzanne Vega - Tired of sleeping
  • Charlatans - Can't get out of bed
  • XTC - Wake up

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

Thank you for Leigh created a "spotified playlist.
[Side 1]
1. Kate Bush - And dream of sheep
2. Faithless - Insomnia
3. Radiohead - Go to sleep
4. Robert Wyatt - Heaps of sheeps
5. Eurythmics - Sweet dreams
6. Beastie Boys - No Sleep till Brooklyn
[Side 2]
7. Roy Orbison - In dreams
8. Metallica - Enter sandman
9. Everly Brothers - Wake up little Susie
10. Wham! - Wake me up before you go-go
11. Matt Bianco - Get out of your lazy bed
12. Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers - Sleeping Dancer Sleep
Hidden: Seekers - Morningtown Ride

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 5 acts had never been on before, Art Blakey, Robert Wyatt, Roy Orbison, Matt Bianco, Seekers Appearances of those that have been on before:
  • 16: Kate Bush (4)
  • 10: Faithless (10)
  • 7: Metallica (1)
  • 4: Beastie Boys (2)
  • 3: Wham! (1)
  • 2: Eurythmics (0), Everly Brothers
  • 1: Faithless (0)

Sunday, 10 August 2025

Weekend Playlist: Wizard of Oz

Weekend Playlist: Wizard of Oz

Here's the weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Lennway looking at X/twitter selections (08/08/2025) with Songs that reference the Wizard of Oz.
This was commemorate the release of Wizard of Oz on 10/08/1939.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1]
1. Who - Pinball Wizard
2. Alison Moyet - Dorothy
3. Mumford & Sons - Little lion man
4. America - Tin man
5. Pink Floyd - Scarecrow
6. Donovan - Season of the witch

[Side 2]
7. National - Not in Kansas
8. Seekers - Emerald City
9. Scissor Sisters - Return to Oz
10. Kate Bush - Red shoes
11. T-Rex - Teenage Daydream
12. Elton John - Goodbye yellow brick road

[Bonus]
Toto - Africa
Kansas - Dust in the wind
Men At Work - Down Under

Long list

  • Beatles - Lucy in the sky with diamonds
  • Gary Numan - Magic
  • Marie de Malicorne - La Nuit Des Sorcières
  • Angel Witch - Angel Witch
  • Redbone - Witch queen of New Orleans
  • Black Sabbath - Wizard
  • Elton John - Goodbye yellow brick road
  • Elvis Costello - The angels wanna wear my Red Shoes
  • Nina Simone - I put a spell on you
  • Don McLean - Magdalene Lane
  • Rick Springfield - Living in Oz
  • Tracy Chapman - Remember the Tinman
  • Mumford & Sons - Little lion man
  • Scissor Sisters - Return to Oz
  • Waterboys - My love is my rock in the Weary Land
  • Eagles - Witchy Woman
  • Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon
  • Paul Hardcastle - The Wizard
  • Dave Gardner - Mad Witch
  • Gang Starr - You Know My Steez
  • Minor Threat - Cashing in
  • Doug Wood Band - Drag Racer (BBC Snooker Theme)
  • Fall out boy - Alpha dog
  • Tracy Chapman - Remember the Tinman
  • Frank Sinatra - Witchcraft
  • America - Tin man
  • Madness - The Wizard
  • Men At Work - Down Under
  • Bon Jovi - Let's dance
  • Kate Bush - Waking the witch
  • National - Not in Kansas
  • John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - I'm your Witch Doctor
  • Lily Allen - Hot air balloon
  • Suede - Asbestos
  • Kate Bush - Red shoes
  • Arctic Monkeys - Old Yellow Bricks
  • Panic at the Disco - Northern Downpour
  • Wizzard - See my baby jive
  • Angus & Julia Stone - Yellow brick road
  • Mission - Swim with the dolphins
  • Rufus Wainwright - Oh What a world
  • Who - Pinball Wizard
  • Alison Moyet - Dorothy
  • Pink Floyd - Scarecrow
  • Furniture - Love your shoes
  • Mogwai - Lion rumpus
  • Kansas - Dust in the wind
  • Aerosmith - Farm
  • Metallica - Frayed ends of Sanity
  • T Rex - Teenage Daydream
  • Queens of the Stone Age - Burn the witch
  • Sinead O'Connor - John I love you
  • Bon Jovi - Mystery Train
  • Tamperer ft Maya - Feel it
  • Glen Campbell - There's no place like home
  • Make A Wish - Beatsteaks
  • Donovan - Season of the witch
  • Seekers - Emerald City
  • Toto - Africa
  • Chad Jackson - Hear the drummer (get wicked)

Friday, 8 August 2025

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Doctors

Midnight Mixtape: Doctors

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (07/08/2025) with Songs that reference Doctors to celebrate the return of Dr Beat Joe Bennett to late nights on BBC5 live!

Songs in contention

  • Thompson Twins - Doctor Doctor
  • Steely Dan - Dr Wu
  • P!nk - Just a pill
  • Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine
  • Hannah Marcus - Demerol
  • Kiss - Calling Dr love
  • Dr Dre ft Eminem & Skylar Grey - I need a doctor
  • Motley Crue - Dr Feelgood
  • Bee-Gees - Stayin' alive
  • Huey & News - I want a new drug
  • Robert Palmer - Bad case of loving you
  • Queen - Another bites of the dust
  • Sheryl Crow - First cut is the deepest
  • Weird Al Yanokvic - Like a surgeon
  • Shawn Mendes - Stitches
  • Counting Crows - Hospital
  • Dolly Parton - Chemo Hero
  • Cheaptrick - The doctor
  • First Choice - Doctor Love
  • David Saville - Witch Doctor
  • Black Keys - Fever
  • Blondie - Hanging on the telephone
  • Harry Styles - Medicine
  • Doobie Brothers - The doctor
  • Fray - How to save a life
  • Cutting Crew - I just died in your arms tonight
  • Velvet Underground/Fatima Mansions - Lady Godiva's operation
  • Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine
  • Bea Miller - I can't breathe
  • Ramones - I wanna be sedated
  • Wyclef ft Wayne Wonder - I am your doctor
  • David Gray - Hospital Food
  • Marvlettes - You're my remedy
  • Colbie Caillat - Oxygen
  • Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse
  • Evanescence - My Immortal
  • Stephanie Mills - Medicine Song
  • Caged the elephant - Cold cold cold
  • Coldplay - Fix you
  • David Bowie - Lazarus
  • Garbage - Trick is to keep breathing
  • Alanis Morrisette - Not the doctor
  • Frank Ocean - Novocaine
  • Verve - Drugs don't work
  • Aqua - Dr Jones
  • Madness - Cardiac arrest
  • Mylo vs Miami Sound Machine - Dr Pressure
  • Pogues - Sick bed of Cuchulainn
  • Fugazi - Waiting room
  • Kasabian - Club foot
  • Dr Feelgood - Down at the doctors
  • Smiths - Girlfriend in a coma
  • Wet Leg - CPR
  • Black Sabbath - Rock'n'Roll Doctor
  • White Stripes - The nurse

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

Thank you for Leigh created a "spotified playlist.
[Side 1]
1. Ramones - I wanna be sedated
2. Marvlettes - You're my remedy
3. Bee Gees - Stayin' alive
4. Madness - Cardiac arrest
5. Dr Feelgood - Down at the doctors
6. Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine

[Side 2]
7. Hannah Marcus - Demerol
8. Gregory Isaacs - Night nurse
9. Coldplay - Fix you
10. Fugazi - Waiting room
11. Black Sabbath - Rock'n'Roll doctor
12. Verve - Drugs don't work
Hidden: David Bowie - Lazarus

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 6 acts had never been on before, Dr Feelgood, Fugazi, Gregory Isaacs, Hannah Marcus, Ramones, Verve Appearances of those that have been on before:
  • 11: David Bowie (8+3)
  • 7: Rolling Stones
  • 5: Madness
  • 4: Black Sabbath (3+1)
  • 2: Bee Gees
  • 1: Coldplay, Marvelettes

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.