Weekend Playlist: Roads

Weekend Playlist: Roads

Here's the weekend playlist created by Adrian with help from guest curator Leigh looking at X/twitter selections (31/10/2025) with Songs that reference Roadst.
This was to commemorate the opening of the M1 on Sunday (02/11/1959).

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

Thanks to Leigh for the spotified list

[Side 1] Traffic Jam
Talking Heads - Road to nowhere
Green Day - Boulevard off broken dreams
Kelly Clarkson - High road
Jimi Hendrix - Crosstown traffic
America - Ventura Highway
Tom Robinson - 2-4-6-8 Motorway

[Side 2] Drive all night
Canned Heat - On the road again
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Steppenwolf - Born to be wild
Cyndi Lauper - I drove all night
Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
Van Morrison - Bright side of the road

[Bonus]
A1 - Take on me
Spice Girls - Stop
Chris Rea - Driving home for Christmas

Long list

• Arcade Fire - Keep the car running
• Primitives - Crash
• Trashcan Sinatras - Maybe I should drive
• Ella Fitzgerald - Manhatten
• Iron Maiden - 22 Acacia Avenue
• Sinead O'Connor - Raglan Road
• Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
• Eagles - Life in the fast lane
• Radiohead - Street spirit
• Chris Rea - Road to Hell
• Bon Jovi - Runaway
• Sheryl Crow - Every day is a winding road
• Mercury Rev - Goddess On A Hiway
• dEUS - Instant Street
• Joe Dassin - Les Champs-Elysées
• America - Ventura Highway
• Aztec Camera - Killermont St
• David Ford - Song for the road
• Van Morrison - Bright side of the road
• Jane Wiedlin - Rush hour
• Jimi Hendrix - Crosstown traffic
• Queen - I'm in love with my car
• Radar Love - Golden Earring
• Willie Nelson - On the road again
• AC/DC - Highway to hell
• Beatles - Why don't we do it in the road
• Grand Funk Railroad - Some kind of Wonderful
• East River Pipe - Down 42nd Street to the Light
• Heshoo Beshoo Group - Armitage Road
• Primal Scream - Kowalski
• 3 Doors down - Road I'm on
• Allman Brothers - Jessica (Top Gear)
• Counting Crows - Sullivan Street
• Stereophonics - Traffic
• A1 - Take on me
• Toots & Maytals - (Take me home) Country roads
• Saw Doctors - N17
• Billy Bragg - A13 Trunk Road
• Gorillaz - M1 A1
• Ray Charles - Hit the road Jack
• Talking Heads - Road to nowhere
• Beatles - Long and winding road
• Go-Gos - Skidmarks on my heart
• Ocean colour Scene - One for the road
• Tracy Chapman - Crossroads
• Richard Hawley - Not the only road
• Spice Girls - Stop
• Flaming Lips - Go
• I Royals - Coronation Street
• Proclaimers - King of the Road
• Doors - Roadhouse Blues
• U2 - Where the streets have no name
• Kelly Clarkson - High road
• Kraftwerk - Autobahn
• Ian Brown - Longsight M13
• Portishead - Roads
• Deep Purple - Highway star
• B52s - Love Shack
• Kirsty MacColl - Walking down Madison
• Doves - M62
• Jimmy Cliff - Hard road to travel
• Catatonia - Road Rage
• Steppenwolf - Born to be wild
• Billy Gibbons - I was a highway
• Cinderella - Gypsy Road
• Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
• Levellers - The Road
• Tom McRae - Silent boulevard
• Lock - Everlasting road
• Robert Plant - Tie dye on the highway
• St Etienne - Like a motorway
• Bryan Adams - Open Road
• New Order - 60 miles an hour
• Blur - He thought of cars
• Rascal Flatts - Life is a Highway
• Shara Nelson - Down that road
• Stock, Aitken & Waterman - Roadblock
• Green Day - Boulevard off broken dreams
• Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue
• Zazie - Rue de la Paix
• Tom Robinson - 2-4-6-8 Motorway
• Canned Heat - On the road again
• Cyndi Lauper - I drove all night
• Satoshi Tomiie ft Kelli Ali - Love in traffic
• Chris Rea - Driving home for Christmas
• Ralph McTell - Streets of London

LNL Midnight Mixtape: DIY

Midnight Mixtape: DIY

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (30/10/2025) with Songs that reference anything found at a DIY store! The inspiration was wen it was suggested by Tony and Paul previously when Peter Gabriel's "Red rain" was mentioned and that he'd (with Sledgehammer) have better chance if it was a "things you'd find in a DIY store".

Songs in contention

• Michael Torke - Architrade
• Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
• English Beat - Mirror in the bathroom
• Hank Williams - My bucket's got a hole in it
• Rolling Stones - Paint it black
• Shed Seven - Waiting for the catch
• Dr Hook - Sharing the night together
• Peter Paul Mary - I had a hammer in the morning
• Muse - Plug in baby
• Black Crowes - Hard to handle
• Metallica - Hit the lights
• Sandie Shaw - Puppet on a string
• Gary Numan - Metal
• Beatles - Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
• Goo Goo Dolls - Lights
• Shakin' Stevens - Green door
• Squeeze - Another nail in my heart
• Pretenders - Back in the chain gang
• Unit 4+2 - Concrete & Clay
• MC Hammer - U can’t touch this
• Blur - Coping
• Motorhead - Ace of Spades
• Bread - If (picture paints 1000 words)
• Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
• Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench
• Melanie - Brand new key
• White Stripes - Screwdriver
• Pulp - Common people
• Queen - Hammer to fall
• Gloria Gaynor - I will survive
• Barenaked Ladies - Duct tape heart
• Floaters - Float on
• Tom Robinson - Wallpaper
• Minor Threat - Filler
• CCS - Taps turn on the water
• Nova Twins - Toolbox
• Coldplay - Fix you
• Tim Hardin - If I were a carpenter
• Dream Warriors - Wash your face in my sink
• Elton John - Screw you
• Smiths - Shoplifters of the world unite
• Chaka Demus & Pliers - Murder she wrote
• Belinda Carlisle - Circle in the sand
• Spinners - Rubberband man
• Athlete - Wires
• Breeders - Divine hammer
• Jam - Bricks & mortar
• Nick Berry - Every loser wins
• Patty Loveless - Timber I’m falling in love
• Peter Bjorn John - Young Folks
• Soft Cell - Torch
• Taylor Swift - Wood
• Tom Waits - New coat of paint
• Stereophonics - Hanging on your hinges
• Zach Bryan - Sandpaper
• Tubes - Power Tools

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

Thank you for Leigh created a "spotified and "applified playlist.

[Side 1]
1. Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
2. English Beat - Mirror in the bathroom
3. Hank Williams - My bucket's got a hole in it
4. Sandie Shaw - Puppet on a string
5. Pretenders - Back in the chain gang
6. Tim Hardin - If I were a carpenter
[Side 2]
7. Dream Warriors - Wash your face in my sink
8. Spinners - Rubberband man
9. Unit 4+2 - Concrete & Clay
10. Athlete - Wires
11. Rolling Stones - Paint it black
12. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Hidden: Smiths - Shoplifters of the world unite

Previous Appearances

From this era of Livesey mixtapes, 8 acts had never been on before English Beat*, Hank Williams(1), Tim Hardin*, Dream Warriors*, Spinners(1), Unit4+2*, Athlete(1), Motorhead(3) have not been on before (* neither on Colin's Midnight Mixtapes) Appearances of those that have been on before:

• 3: Peter Gabriel (6)
• 1: Pretenders (2), Rolling Stones (8), Sandie Shaw (2), Smiths (3)