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