Weekend Playlist: Presents

Weekend Playlist: Gifts & Presents

Here's the weekend playlist created by Adrian with help from guest curator Leigh looking at X/twitter selections (24/12/2025) with Songs that reference gifts and presents (because it's Christmas) and RIP Chris Rea.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

Prologue: Chris Rea - Driving home for Christmas
[Side 1] Gifts
Elton John - Your song
Mari Wilson - Just what I always wanted
Gary Numan - Gift
Tom Paxton - Marvellous toy
Super Furry Animals - Gift that keeps on giving
RHCP - Give it away

[Side 2] All wrapped up
Fabulous Thunderbirds - Wrap it up
Kids in glass houses - Secret Santa
HMHB - All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague away kit
Willie Nelson - Pretty paper
Eartha Kitt - Santa baby
Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping

[Bonus]
Wedding Present - Dalliance
Nat King Cole - Little boy that Santa forgot
Twisted Sister - Heavy metal Christmas

Long list

• 10cc - Dreadlock holiday
• AC/DC - Giving the dog a bone
• Altered Images - Happy Birthday
• Amy Winehouse - Take the box
• Andrew Tuttle - Presents
• Annie Lennox - The gift
• Band Aid - Do they know it's Christmas?
• Billy Joel - Uptown girl
• Burt Bacharach - Bell that vouldn't jingle
• Chris Isaak - Wrapping presents for myself
• Christmas in the stars - What can you get a wookiee for Christmas
• Cream - Wrapping paper
• Daft Punk - Get lucky
• David Bowie - Sound & Vision
• David Bowie & Bing Crosby - Little drummer boy
• Eartha Kitt - Santa baby
• Electric Boys - If I had a car
• Elton John - Wrap her up
• Elton John - Your song
• Enablers - Some gift
• Fabulous Thunderbirds - Wrap it up
• Flaherty Brotherhood - I gave you everything
• Fountains of Wayne - I want an alien for Christmas
• FYC - She drives me crazy
• Gary Numan - Gift
• Girl Ray - (I wish I was giving you a gift) this christmas
• HMHB - All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague away kit
• INXS - The gift
• Jam - The gift
• Kevin Wilson - Hey Santa
• Kids in glass houses - Secret Santa
• Mari Wilson - Just what I always wanted
• Nat King Cole - Little boy that Santa forgot
• New Order - 1963
• Nicole - A little peace
• O little town of Bethlehem
• Olly Murs - Wrapped up
• Police - Wrapped around yout finger
• RHCP - Give it away
• Robert Plant - Greatest Gift
• Roy Orbison - Pretty paper
• Sabrina Carpenter - Buy me presents
• Sam Cooke - Bring it on home to me
• Saw Doctors - £25
• Stevie Wonder - Signed sealed dealievered
• Stylistics - I can't give you anything
• Super Furry Animals - Gift that keeps on giving
• Supertramp - Give a little bit
• Tom McRae - Deliver me
• Tom Paxton - Marvellous toy
• Tom Petty - Christmas all over again
• Twisted Sister - Heavy metal Christmas
• Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
• Way out west - The gift
• Wedding Present - Dalliance
• Wham! - Last Christmas
• Willie Nelson - Pretty paper
• Yara Asmar - Everything is wrapped in cling film