Midnight Mixtape: Fast & Slow

Midnight Mixtape: Fast & Slow

On the midnight mixtape, Qasa Alom was joined by Claire Lim to look at listener selections (17/09/2026) with Songs that reference Fast and Slow to represent contrasting thoughts on how AI should develop!

Songs in contention

• Bucks Fizz - Making your mind up
• Billy Joel - Vienna
• Queen - Don't stop me now
• Manic Street Preachers - Faster
• Foghart - Slow ride
• Steve Gibbons Band - Speed kills
• Eagles - Take it easy
• Primitives - Crash
• Pretenders - Fast or slow
• Tracy Chapman - Fast car
• Bob Dylan - Slow train
• Dee D Jackson - Automatic Lover
• Mercury Rev - Goddess on a hiway
• Simon & Garfunkel - 59th Street Bridge Song (feelin' groovy)
• Michael Jackson - Don't stop til you get enough
• Loose Ends - Slow down
• Housemartins - Think for a minute
• John Miles - Slow down
• Blondie - Slow motion
• Artful Dodger - Movin' too fast
• Pointer Sisters - Slow hand
• Daft Punk - Harder better faster stronger
• Spice Girls - Stop
• Playmates - Beep beep
• Beach Boys - Kokomo
• Mikis Theodorakis - Zorba's Dance
• Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free bird
• Eagles - Life in the fast lane
• St Vincent - Fast Slow Disco
• Kraftwerk - Autobahn
• Kylie - Slow
• AA Bondy - Slow parade
• Benny Hill - Ernie (the fastest milkman in the west)
• Metallica - Fuel
• Rumer - Slow
• Niall Horan - Slow hand
• Chris Spedding - Motorbikin'
• Jim Croce - Rapid boy
• Peggy Lee & Bing Crosby - Slow boat to China
• Deep Purple - Speed king
• Vangelis - Chariots of fire
• Chipmunks - You spin me around
• Amy McDonald - Slow it down
• Mark Knopfler - Speedway at Nazareth
• John Mayer - Stop this train
• Jam - Slow down
• Babylon Zoo - Spaceman
• Tiffany - I think we're alone now
• Depeche Mode - Below
• Supremes - Stop in the name of love
• Duran Duran - Reflex

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1] Fast
1. Daft Punk - Harder better faster stronger
2. Queen - Don't stop me now
3. Manic Street Preachers - Faster
4. Primitives - Crash
5. Tiffany - I think we're alone now
6. Eagles - Life in the fast lane

[Side 2] Slow
7. Foghart - Slow ride
8. Bob Dylan - Slow train
9. Beach Boys - Kokomo
10. Pointer Sisters - Slow hand
11. Billy Joel - Vienna
12. S&G - 59th Street Bridge Song
HIDDEN TRACK: Mikis Theodorakis - Zorba's Dance

Previous Appearances

From the new era of mixtapes, 6 acts had never been on before, Daft Punk (2), Foghart, Miki Theodorakis, Pointer Sisters (2), Primitives (1), Tiffany (1). (Numbers in brackets featured in Colin Murray's midnight mixtapes)
Appearances of those that have been on before:

• 8: Queen (23)
• 6: Bob Dylan (16)
• 4: Beach Boys (8)
• 3: Manic Street Preachers (9)
• 2: Billy Joel (10), Eagles (7), Simon & Garfunke (10)