Weekend Playlist: Airplane

Weekend Playlist: Airplane

Here's the weekend playlist created by Leigh with help from guest curator Graham looking at X/twitter selections (16/07/2025) with Songs that reference airplanes and things you'd find on an aeroplane.
This was commemorate Flight Attendent Safety Professional Day on Sunday 19th July.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] On Board
John Denver - Leaving on a jet plane
M.I.A. - Paper Planes
Busted - Air Hostess
Scooch - Flying the flag (For You)
Bowling for Soup - Turbulence
KT Tunstall - I am the pilot

[Side 2] Flying
Steve Miller Band - Jet Airliner
Dierks Bentley - Drunk on a plane
Cerys Matthews - Aeroplanes
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the aeroplane over the sea
De La Soul - Cabin in the sky
Elbow - Take off & landing of everything

[Bonus]
Hollies - On a carousel
Saxboy Billy - Puerto Rico song

Midnight Mixtape: Heroes & Villains

Midnight Mixtape: Heroes & Villains

On the midnight mixtape, Johnny I'Anson was joined by Claire Lim to look at listener selections (16/07/2026) with Songs that reference Heroes & Villains on back of the heroes and villains at the World Cup!

Songs in contention

• Beach Boys - Heroes & Villains
• Junior Murvin - Police & Thieves
• David Bowie - Heroes
• Queens of the stone age - Villains of circumstance
• Laurie Anderson - O Superman
• Chad Kroeger - Hero
• It bites - Calling all the heroes
• Tenacious D - Wonderboy
• Madness - Shut up
• Kiki Dee - Star
• Willie Nelson - My heroes have always been cowboys
• Stranglers - No more heroes
• Who - Behind blue eyes
• Bonnie Tyler - Holding out for a hero
• Neu! - Hero
• Cher - Just like Jessie James
• Hoosiers - Cops & Robbers
• Beloved - Hello
• Nina Simone - Sinnerman
• Tina Turner - We don't need another hero
• Billie Ellish - bad guy
• Reverend & Makers - Champion of the world
• Carole King - He's a bad boy
• Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal
• Bon Jovi - Wanted dead or alive
• Queen - Killer queen
• Superman lovers - Starlight
• Georgie Fame - Ballad of Bonnie & Clyde
• Tom Jones - Delilah
• Shed Seven - Heroes
• Automatic - What's that coming over the hill?
• Specials - Gangsters
• Enrique - Hero
• Mariah Carey - Hero
• Eminem - Superman
• Britney - Criminal
• Talking heads - Psycho Killer
• Daughtry - Waiting for Superman
• Foo Fighters - There goes my hero
• Black Lace - Superman
• Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the devil
• Adam Ant - Friend or foe
• Taylor Swift - I did something bad
• Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Beach Boys - Heroes & Villains
2. Junior Murvin - Police & Thieves
3. Adam Ant - Friend or Foe
4. Hoosiers - Cops & Robbers
5. Specials - Gangsters
6. Talking heads - Psycho Killer
[Side 2]
7. Bonnie Tyler - Holding out for a hero
8. Mariah Carey - Hero
9. Tina Turner - We don't need another hero
10. Tenacious D - Wonderboy
11. Shed Seven - Heroes
12. David Bowie - Heroes

Hidden: Queen - Killer Queen

Weekend Playlist: Equals

Weekend Playlist: Equals

Here's the weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Adrian looking at X/twitter selections (09/07/2026) with Songs that reference Tied, drawing level and being equal.
This was celebrate the 133rd Weekend Playlist same number as the number of mixtapes Colin Murray did...

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1]
Avicii - Levels
Equals - Baby come back
Ultramagnetic MCs - Critical Beatdown
Billy Woods - Scales
Coral - Time the equaliser
Stewart Copeland - Equalizer busy equalizing

[Side 2]
Aerosmith - Don't get mad get even
Pearl Jam - Even flow
Queen - Tie your mother down
Cocteau Twins - Fifty fifty clown
Belinda Carlisle - We want the same thing
Joni Mitchell - Both sides now

[Bonus]
Little Boots - Mathematics
Radiohead - 2+2=5

Weekend Playlist: Independence

Weekend Playlist: Independence

Here's the weekend playlist created by Snail with help from guest curator Charlie looking at X/twitter selection (02/07/2026) with Songs that reference independent or independence.
This was commemorate the independence days of America (4th July), Cape Verde and Venezuela (5th July).

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1]
Jon & Vangelis - State of Independence
Kelly Clarkson - Miss Independent
Destiny's Child - Independent woman Part I
Shires - Independence day
Bruce Springsteen - Independence day
Neyo - Miss Independent

[Side 2]
Simon & Garfunkel - I am a rock
Lesley Gore - You don't own me
Soup Dragons - I'm free
Alison Limerick - Make it on my own
Joan Armatrading - Me myself I
De'Lacy - Hideaway

[Bonus]
Surjan Stevens - 4th of July
Galaxie 500 - 4th of July
Taylor Swift - End Game