LNL Midnight Mixtape: Telephone

Midnight Mixtape: Telephone

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee> to look at listener selections (23/01/2025) with Songs that reference Telephone on the news of growing numbers of people, especially the younger generations suffer telephobia, a fear of making and receiving phone calls.

Songs in contention

• Drake - Hotline Bling
• Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman
• Haircut 100 - Love plus one
• Carly Rae Jepson - Call me maybe
• Nick Cave - 15ft of pure white snow
• Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust
• Super Furry Animals - Wherever I lay my phone (that's my home)
• Lady Gaga & Beyonce - Telephone
• Arctic Monkeys - Why'd you only call me when you're high?
• Meri Wilson - Telephone man
• Rockwell - Obscene phone caller
• Nas & AZ - Phone tap
• Blondie - Call me
• Blondie - Hanging on the telephone
• Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
• Lionel Richie - Hello
• Robert Cray - Phone booth
• De La Soul - Ring Ring Ring
• Yazoo - Bad Connection
• Jam - Girl on the phone
• Lou Reed - New York Telephone Connection
• City Boy - 5705
• ELO - Telephone Line
• Fun Boy Three - Telephone always rings
• Deacon Blue - When will you (make my telephone ring)
• New Order - Regret
• Jim Reeves - Put your sweet lips closer to the phone
• Spagna - Call me
• Fall - Telephone Thing
• Maroon 5 - Payphone
• Rose Murphy - Busy Line
• OMD - Red Frame/White Light
• ABBA - Ring ring
• Wilson Pickett - 634-5789
• Clash - London calling
• John Williams - ET Flying Theme
• Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusters
• Dr Hook - Sylvia's Mother

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

Thank you for Mog created an "applified" and a "spotified playlist.

[Side 1]
1. Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman
2. ELO - Telephone Line
3. Fun Boy Three - Telephone always rings
4. Rose Murphy - Busy Line
5. De La Soul - Ring Ring Ring
6. City Boy - 5705

[Side 2]
7. Blondie - Hanging on the telephone
8. ABBA - Ring Ring
9. Deacon Blue - When will you (make my phone ring)
10. Haircut 100 - Love Plus One
11. Wilson Pickett - 634-5789
12. Joan Baez - Diamonds & Rust

[Bonus]
John Williams - ET (Flying Theme)

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 3 acts had never been on before: City Boy, Fun boy three and Rose Murphy. Of those that have been on before. ELO was on last week. John Williams is the only act to appear twice on the same mixtape (Alien mixtape with ET Theme and Star Wars Cantina Band)

• 9: Deacon Blue (8+1)
• 6: De La Soul
• 4: Blondie, Glen Campbell
• 3: John Williams (2+1), Wilson Pickett
• 2: ABBA
• 1: ELO, Haircut 100, Joan Baez

Weekend Playlist: Telephone

Weekend Playlist: Making a call (part I & II)

Here's the weekend playlist created by Adrian with help from guest curator Stephen looking at X/twitter selections (14/11/2024) with Songs that reference phones, calls, ringing. This was extended to a second week (21/11/2024)
This was inspired by the first push button telephone invented on 18th November 1963 and Fibonacci day on 23rd November.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist I!

Thanks to Stephen for the spotified list

[Side 1]
1. Nick Lowe - Switchboard Susan
2. Blondie - Hanging in the Telephone
3. Sugababes - Push the button
4. Kraftwerk - Der Telefon Anruf (the telephone call)
5. Deacon Blue - When will you (make my telephone ring)?
6. Judie Tzuke - For you

[Side 2]
7. Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusers
8. St Etienne - He's on the phone
9. Yazoo - Bad Connection
10. City Boy - 5-7-0-5
11. Dire Straits - Calling Elvis
12. Glenn miller - Pennsylvania 65000

[Bonus]
Telephone - Hygiaphone
Telephones - Call it if it is

Here's the final playlist II!

[Side 3]
1. Fall - Telephone Thing
2. Meri Wilson - Telephone Man
3. ELO - Telephone line
4. Mercury Rev - Holes
5. Muddy Waters - Long distance call
6. Gary Numan - I die I die

[Side 4]
7. ABBA - Ring Ring
8. Poison - Talk dirty to me
9. Wilson Pickett - 634-5789
10. Fun Boy Three - Telephone always rings
11. REM - Sidewinder sleeps tonight
12. Glen Campbell - Wichita Linesman

[Bonus]
John Lee Hooker - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Telephone and rubber band

Long list

• Akbertos - Telephone
• Alice Cooper - Under my wheels
• Arctic Monkeys - Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?
• Beach Boys - Had To Phone Ya
• Ben Folds - Landed
• Big Bopper - Chantilly Lace
• Blondie - Call Me
• Blondie - Hanging in the Telephone
• Chuck Berry - Memphis Tennessee
• City Boy - 5-7-0-5
• Curiosity killed the cat - Name and number
• De La Soul - Ring Ring
• Deacon Blue - When will you (make my telephone ring)?
• Dire Straits - Calling Elvis
• Dr Hook - Sylvia's mother
• ELO - Telephone line
• Fall - Telephone Thing
• Forest Blakk - Heaven's Telephone
• Fun Boy Three - Telephone always rings
• Glenn miller - Pennsylvania 65000
• Haircut 100 - Calling Captain Autumn
• Jim Croce - Operator
• Jimmy Buffett - If the phone doesn't ring, it's me
• John Lee Hooker - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
• Judie Tzuke - For you
• Kraftwerk - Der Telefon Anruf (the telephone call)
• Labi SIffre - Bless the telephone
• Laurie Anderson - O Superman
• Maroon 5 - Payphone
• Mauro Picotto - Communication
• Meri Wilson - Telephone Man
• Nick Lowe - Switchboard Susan
• NKOTB - Single
• Paul Evans - This is Joannie
• Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Telephone and rubber band
• Pink Floyd - Dirty Woman
• Poison - Talk dirty to me
• Pretenders - The phone call
• Rah Band - Clouds across the moon
• Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusers
• Rose Murphy - Busy Line
• Roxette - Cooper
• Ryan Adams - Call Me on Your Way Back Home
• Specials - Gangsters
• Squeeze - 8535937
• St Etienne - He's on the phone
• Stevie Wonder - I just called to say I love you
• Sugababes - Push the button
• Taylor Swift - Look What You Made Me Do
• Telephone - Hygiaphone
• Telephones - Call it if it is
• Yazoo - Bad Connection
• ABBA - Ring Ring
• David Ford - Why Don't You Answer Your Telephone
• De La Soul - Ring Ring Ring
• Erasure - Stop!
• Gary Numan - I die I die
• Glen Campbell - Wichita Linesman
• It bites - Calling all the heroes
• Mario Piu - Communication
• Mercury Rev - Holes
• Milli Vanilli - Baby don't forget my number
• Muddy Waters - Long distance call
• New Edition - Mr Telephone Man
• Oasis - Headshrinker
• Queensryche - Revolution calling
• REM - Sidewinder sleeps tonight
• Telephone rising
• Wilson Pickett - 634-5789