Friday, 7 November 2025

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Brackets

Midnight Mixtape: Brackets

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (06/11/2025) with Songs that have brackets in the title following on the previous week's theme of DIY!

Songs in contention

  • Clash - (White man) In Hammersmith Palais
  • Cheeky Girls - Cheeky Song (Touch my bum)
  • Jam - The bitterest pill (I ever had to swallow)
  • Bryan Adams - (Everything I do) I do it for you
  • Queen - Las Palabras de Amor (Words of love)
  • White Stripes - Pretty good looking (for a girl
  • Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't fear) The reaper
  • Meatloaf - I'll do anything for love (but i won't do that)
  • Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo chile (Slight Return)
  • REM - It's the end of the world as we know it (and i feel fine)
  • Buzzcocks - Ever fallen in love (with someone you shouldn't have)
  • Wet Wet Wet - Angel Eyes (home & away)
  • Frankie Valli & 4 Seasons - December 1963 (Oh what a night)
  • (We've got a) Fuzzbox (and we're gonna use it) - Pink Sunshine
  • T-Pain - Up down (Do this all day)
  • Rolling Stones - (I can't get no) Satisfaction
  • Libertines - Up the Bracket
  • Billy Joel - Moving out (Anthony’s song)
  • My Chemical Romance - I'm not ok (I Promise)
  • Boomtown Rats - (I never loved) Eva Braun
  • Beastie Boys - (You gotta) Fight for your right (to party)
  • Otis Redding - (Sitting on) Dock of the bay
  • Elvis Costello - (Angels wanna wear my) Red Shoes
  • Radiohead - Street spirit (Fade out)
  • Doors - Break on through on other side
  • Offspring - Pretty Fly (For a white guy)
  • Bloc Party - Song for Clay (Disppear here)
  • Tina Turner - We don't need another hero (Thunderdome)
  • Beatles - Norwegian Wood (This bird has flown)
  • Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye - Stop, Look, Listen (To your heart)
  • Shangri-las - Remember (Walking in the sand)
  • Tom McRae - End of the world news (Dose me up)
  • Scatman John - Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)
  • James Brown - I got you (I feel good)
  • The The - Armageddon Days (Are here again)
  • Duke Ellington/Ella Fitzgerald - It don't mean a thing (If it ain't got that swing)
  • Aretha Franklin & George Michael - I knew you were waiting (for me)
  • JoJo - Leave (Get out)
  • Benny Hill - Ernie (The fastest milkman in the west)
  • Dawn Penn - You don't love me (No No No)
  • Eurythmics - Beethoven (I love to listen)
  • Stevie Wonder - Signed sealed delivered (I'm yours)
  • Christopher Cross - Arthur's Theme (The best that you can do)
  • Undertones - You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It!)
  • Tribe called Quest - Jazz (We've got)
  • Elvis Presley - (Marie's the name) His latest flame
  • Proclaimers - (I'm gonna be) 500 miles
  • Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
  • Simon & Garfunkel - 59th Bridge Street Song (Feelin' Groovy)
  • Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make me smile (Come up and see me)
  • Hall & Oates - I can't go for that (No can do)
  • Grandmaster & Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't do it)
  • Sean Paul - (When You Gonna) Give It Up to Me
  • Elton John - Rocket Man (It’s going to be a long long time)
  • Lou Bega - Mambo No 5 (A little bit of)

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

Thank you for Leigh created a "spotified playlist.
[Side 1]
1. Buzzcocks - Ever fallen in love (with someone you shouldn't have)
2. White Stripes - Pretty good looking (for a girl)
3. Meatloaf - I'll do anything for love (but I won't do that)
4. Scatman John - Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)
5. James Brown - I got you (I feel good)
6. Radiohead - Street spirit (Fade out)

[Side 2]
7. Duke Ellington - It don't mean a thing (If it ain't got that swing)
8. Grandmaster & Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't do it)
9. Dawn Penn - You don't love me (No No No)
10. Undertones - You've got my number (Why don't you use it!)
11. Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make me smile (Come up and see me)
12. Stevie Wonder - Signed sealed delivered (I'm yours)
Hidden: Libertines - Up the Bracket

Previous Appearances

From this era of Livesey mixtapes, all but 3 have never been on before. Appearances of those that have been on before:
  • 2: Radiohead (12)
  • 1: James Brown (4), Undertones (5)

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