LNL Midnight Mixtape: Work

Midnight Mixtape: Work

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (19/02/2026) with Songs that reference Work!

Songs in contention

• Missy Elliott - Work it
• Dolly Parton - 9 to 5
• Beatles - We can work it out
• REM - Finest worksong
• Skids - Working for the Yankee dollar
• Steely Dan - Dirty work
• Sheena Easton - 9 to 5 (Morning train)
• XTC - Senses working overtime
• Donna Summer - She's works hard for the money
• Clash - Julia's been working for the drug squad
• Fifth Harmony - Work from home
• Lee Dorsey - Working in a coalmine
• Clash - Career Opportunities
• Sam Cooke - Chain gang
• Heaven 17 - Crushed by the wheels of industry
• Human League - Don't you want me
• Men at work - Down under
• Beatles - Hard day's night
• Bob Dylan - Maggie's farm
• Cat Stevens - Matthew & Son
• ABBA - Money money money
• Verve - Drugs don't work
• Rihanna ft Drake - Work
• Tears for fears - Working hour
• Rush - Working man
• Benny Hill - Ernie
• Detorit Spinners - Working my way back to you
• Rakes - 22 Grand job
• Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor!
• Huey Lewis - Couple days off
• Gwen Guthrie - Ain't nothing going on but the rent
• Billy Joel - Allentown
• Jimmy Dean - Big Bad John
• Christy Moore - Don't forget your shovel
• Bangles - Manic Monday
• Talking heads - Found a job
• Lou Reed - Don't talk to me about work
• Wham! - Everything she wants
• Bruce Springsteen - Factory
• Rory Gallagher - Goin' to my hometown
• John Handy - Hard work
• Lykke Li - I'm good I'm gone
• Freshies - I'm in love with the girl on a certain Manchester Megastore checkout desk
• Hue & Cry - Labour of love
• Monty Python - I'm a lumberjack
• Prince - Let's work
• Canned Heat - Let's work together
• Bon Jovi - Livin' on a prayer
• Glenn Campbell - Wichita Lineman
• Kirsty MacColl - There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis
• Housemartins - Me and the farmer
• Jam - Smithers-Jones
• Cilla Black - Work is a 4 letter word
• Deacon Blue - Dignity
• Specials - Rat Race
• Stevie Wonder - We can work it out
• Rose Royce - Car wash
• Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding
• Dwarf Chorus - Heigh-ho (Off to work we go)

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Dolly Parton - 9 to 5
2. REM - Finest worksong
3. Skids - Working for the Yankee dollar
4. Bon Jovi - Livin' on a prayer
5. Human League - Don't you want me
6. Bob Dylan - Maggie's farm
[Side 2]
7. Specials - Rat Race
8. Bangles - Manic Monday
9. Deacon Blue - Dignity
10. Freshies - I'm in love with the girl on a certain Manchester Megastore checkout desk
11. Christy Moore - Don't forget your shovel
12. Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman
Hidden: Clash - Career Opportunities

Previous Appearances

From the Livesey midnight mixtapes, 2 acts had never been on before Bon Jovi and Freshies Appearances of those that have been on before:

• 4: Bob Dylan (14)
• 3: REM (10), Specials (7)
• 2: Deacon Blue (10), Glen Campbell (6)
• 1: Bangles (5), Christy Moore (2), Clash (6), Dolly Parton (4), Human League (1), Skids (1)

Random Musings - Day #359

Merry Christmas...
Just post some thoughts from a friend...

Top 10 reasons why you might be burnt out

1. "They told me at the blood bank this might happen."


2. "This is just a 15 minute power nap like they raved about in that time management course you sent me to."


3. "Whew! Guess I left the top off the white out. You probably got here just in time."


4. "I wasn't sleeping, I was meditating on the mission statement and envisioning a new paradigm."


5. "I was testing my keyboard for drool resistance."


6. "I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve work-related stress. Do you discriminate against people who practice Yoga?"


7. "Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a solution to our biggest problem."


8. "The coffee machine is broken."


9. "Someone must have put decaf in the wrong pot."


10. " ... in God's name, Amen."

Work Ethics

• Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them.


• If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos...then you probably haven't completely understood the seriousness of the situation.


• Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.


• A person who smiles in the face of adversity...probably has a scapegoat.


• Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.


• TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself.


• The beatings will continue until morale improves.


• Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.


• We waste time, so you don't have to.


• Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!


• Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker.


• A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.


• When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break.


• INDECISION is the key to FLEXIBILITY.


• Aim Low, Reach Your Goals, Avoid Disappointment.

Random Musings - Day #76

It's day 76, so it's time to mention the NBA team called the 76ers from Philadelphia.

Lent
Read a little more into Lent. In some quarters, lent is not on consecutive days. The Sundays during Lent are considered as mini-Easter. Well that means I could eat my chips (I've given that up for lent, don't ask why;) on Sundays. I think that defeats the purpose of Lent.

Holidays
There are 4 bank holidays coming real soon. Two for Easter and Two in May.

Extracurricular Activities
You've heard the term, "Never mix business with pleasure". Well a couple of interesting stories have cropped up. A Ryanair pilot found out that one of the air stewardess, Edita Schindlerova was actually a porn star off hours.
Interesting that a Ryanair spokesman said "What people do before or after they work for us is their business." Contrast, this to a female director who is suing a city fund manager for a half million for sacking her after she declined to date him.

Sonicwall can meet the Government criteria in the products.