Weekend Special: Best of 2024

Weekend Best Of: Now that's what I call a weekend playlist...

Here's the weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Lyricslinger looking at X/twitter selections (29/12/2024) with Songs that reference any Weekend Playlist song from 2024!

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1]
1. Roberta Flack - First time ever I saw your face
2. Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman
3. Dan Hartman - Instant Replay
4. Camera Obscura - Desire Lines
5. Anonhi - I will survive
6. Primal Scream - Rocks

[Side 2]
7. Cypress Hill - Insane in the brain
8. Blondie - Sunday Girl
9. Pixies - Where is my mind?
10. Asegir Trausti - Heart Shaped Box
11. Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa - Black Coffee
12. Alarm - The Rise

[Bonus]
Beatles - All you need is love
Kermit - Rainbow Connection
Lancashire Hotpots - Wigan Church of Pies

Considered

• Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl
• Gary Moore & Phil Lynott - Parisienne Walkways

Weekend Playlist: Festive Drinks

Weekend Playlist: Festive Drinks

Here's the weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Snail OB looking at X/twitter selections (27/12/2024) with Songs that reference festive drinks for this period of celebration between Christmas and New Years!

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] Champagne and Wine
Marc Almond - Champagne 
Kinks - Lola
Panic! At the Disco - I write sins not tragedies
UB40 - Red Red Wine
Frank Sinatra - I get a kick out of you
Oasis - Champagne Supernova

[Side 2] Festive Excess
John Lee Hooker - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
Chris Stapleton - Tennesse Whiskey
Motörhead - Beer Drinkers and Hellraisers
Terrorvision - Tequila
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
Underworld - Born Slippy

[Bonus]
Evelyn ‘Champagne’ King - Love come down
Bucks Fizz - Making your mind up

Long list

• AC/DC - Have a drink on me
• Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in LA
• Buck Fizz - Making your mind up
• Bucks Fizz - If you can't stand the heat
• Chris Stapleton - Tennessee Whiskey
• Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
• Crazy - Nani Wine
• Dead Kennedys - Too drunk to f&*k
• Declan McKenna - Champagne
• Eartha Kitt - Les danseurs Du Charleston
• Edmund Purdom & Anne Blyth - Drink Drink Drink
• Elton John - Piano Man
• Frank Sinatra - I get a kick out of you
• George Thorogood - One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer
• IDKHow - Absinthe
• John Lee Hooker - One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer
• Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning come down
• Kinks - Lola
• Levellers - Just the One
• LMFAO - Shots
• Mad dogs - No Lager
• Marc Almond - Champagne
• Motorhead - Beer Drinkers and Hellraisers
• Oasis - Champagne Supernova
• Orchard - Jinny Jinny Jinny
• Panic! at the disco - I write sins not tragedies
• Pogues - Streams of Whisky
• Portnoy & Angelo - Cheers Theme
• Robert Palmer - I'll be your baby tonight
• Sleepy Brown - Bowtie
• Status Quo - It's Christmas Time
• Terravision - Tequlia
• The Champs - Tequila
• Thin Lizzy - Whiskey in the Jar
• Tom McRae - Christmas Eve 1943
• UB40 - Red Red Wine
• Underworld - Born Slippy
• Wurzels - I am a Cider Drinker

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Returns

Midnight Mixtape: Returns

On the midnight mixtape, Connor Phillips was joined by Claire Lim to look at listener selections (26/12/2024) with Songs that reference return or returns! According to Connor we return over £80s worth of stuff to the shops on average every year.

Songs in contention

• AC/DC - Back in black
• Bryan Adams - Take me back
• Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack
• Elvis - Return to sender
• David Bowie - Changes
• Enigma - Return to innocence
• Saints - Know your product
• Bluetones - Slight Return
• Beatles - Get Back
• Mari Wilson - Just what I always wanted
• Scissor Sisters - Return to Oz
• Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child (slight return)
• Altered Images - Happy Birthday
• Upsetters - Return of Django
• Amy Winehouse - Back to black
• Pulp - Monday Morning
• Madness - Return of the Los Palmos 7
• Tom Waits - Return of Jackie and Judy
• McAlmont & Butler - Bring it back

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack
2. AC/DC - Back in black
3. Saints - Know your product
4. Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child (slight return)
5. Beatles - Get Back
6. McAlmont & Butler - Bring it back
[Side 2]
7. Elvis - Return to sender
8. Bluetones - Slight Return
9. Amy Winehouse - Back to black
10. Mari Wilson - Just what I always wanted
11. Upsetters - Return of Django
12. David Bowie - Changes
Hidden:
Altered Images - Happy Birthday

Previous Appearances

Already David Bowie and Elvis make the mixtape for a second time in the Livesey Era. Including the original midnight mixtapes, 7 acts had never been on before Altered Images, Bluetones, Mari Wilson, Mark Morrison, McAlmont & Butler, Saints, Upsetters Others will previous appearances:

• 15: Beatles
• 10: Elvis
• 9: David Bowie
• 6: AC/DC
• 3: Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix

Notable fact, Jimi Hendrix has never appeared in the mixtape with Voodoo Child.

Weekend Special: Regrets

Weekend Playlist: Regrets

Here's a special weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Lyric Slinger looking at X/twitter selections (01/12/2024) with Songs that made you go why didn't I think of that at the time!

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] Midnight Mixtape
1. Gabrielle - Dreams	[Dreams]
2. Maroon 5 - Memories	[Memories]
3. Tina Charles - I love to love	[Tennis]
4. Kirsty MacColl - My Affair	[Spanish]
5. Bob Seger - Night moves	[Summer lovin]
6. Bryan Adams/Mel C - When you're gone	[Couples/Phone]

[Side 2] Weekend Playlist
1. Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen [Clothes]
2. Ralph McTell - Streets of London [RPS]
3. Righteous Brothers - Just once in my life	[Wall]
4. Dan Reed Network - Come back baby	[Return]
5. Aerosmith - Mama Kin	[Dragons/Tea]
6. Disturbed - Sound Of Silence	[Walls]

[Bonus]
Pixies - Where is my mind	[Swim]
Bobby Vinton - Blue Velvet	[Blue]

Weekend Playlist: Short

Weekend Playlist: Short

Here's the weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Ian Eason looking at X/twitter selections (19/12/2024) with Songs that have song titles 4 characters or less.
This was inspired by the fact December 21st is the shortest day of the year (in the Northern hemisphere).

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] Go..Stop
1. Moby - Go
2. Van Halen - Jump
3. Public Image Ltd - Rise
4. Young Fathers - Drum
5. Shakespear's Sister - Stay
6. Sam Brown - Stop!

[Side 2] Yes!
7. David Bowie - Fame
8. Johnny Cash - Hurt
9. Radiohead - Nude
10. Kate Bush - Wow
11. Kirsty MacColl - Days
12. McAlmont & Butler - Yes

[Bonus]
Kim Wilde - Four Letter Word
Mary Poppins - Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Long list

• Annie Lennox - Why
• Arthur Brown - Fire
• Beatles - Help!
• Black Sabbath - I
• Blondie - Fun
• Bluetones - If
• Bolshoi - A way
• Bronski Beat - Why
• Cardiacs - R.E.S.
• Craig McLachlan - Mona
• Crowded House - Oh Hi
• David Bowie - Fame
• Des'ree - Life
• Dexy's Midnight Runners - Geno
• Dr Robert & Kym Mazelle - Wait
• Dubstar - I
• Edwin Starr - War
• EMF - Lies
• Erasure - Stop
• Fat Larry's Band - Zoom
• Gary Numan - Cars
• Godley & Creme - Cry
• Goldfrapp - A&E
• Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
• Gram Parsons - She
• Interpol - Evil
• INXS - Kick
• Jackson 5 - ABC
• James - Laid
• Johnny Cash - Hurt
• Julie Andrews - Do-re-mi
• K.Flay - Shy
• Kate Bush - Wow
• Kim Appleby - GLAD
• Kim Wilde - Four Letter Word
• Kinks - Lola
• Kirsty MacColl - Days
• Lightning Seeds - Pure
• Little Simz - X
• Mary Poppins - Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
• Matchbox Twenty - Push
• McAlmont & Butler - Yes
• Moby - Go
• New Order - 1963
• Pet Shop Boys - Rent
• Peter Gabriel - Biko
• Public Image Ltd - Rise
• Public Service Broadcasting - Go
• Queen - 39
• Radiohead - Lift
• Radiohead - Nude
• Randy Newman - Short people
• Sam Brown - Stop!
• Scott Walker - Next
• Shakespear's Sister - Stay
• Sm!rks - OK UK
• Snow Patrol - Run
• Softcell - So
• Stevie Wonder/George & Mary - As
• Suzanne Vega - Luka
• Take That - Pray
• Texas - Halo
• Thorns - Blue
• U2 - Bad
• U2 - One
• Van Halen - Jump
• Watercress - Sad
• White Stripes - Do
• Young Fathers - Drum

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Blue

Midnight Mixtape: Blue

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (19/12/2024) with Songs that reference Blue!

Songs in contention

• Deacon Blue - Fergus sings the blues
• Adventures - Greatest shade of blue
• Crystal Gale - Don't it make my brown eyes blue
• Bob Dylan - Subterranean homesick blues
• Madonna - True Blue
• Wah! - Story of the blues
• Everton - Spirit of the blues
• New Order - Blue Monday
• Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
• Laurel & Hardy - Trail of the lonesome pine (Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia)
• Picture this - Get on my love
• Scott Walker - Montague Terrace
• Icehouse - Electric Blue
• Erasure - Blue Savannah
• Cerys Matthews - Into the blue
• Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains
• UB40 - Forever blue
• Manic Street Preachers - International Blue
• John Coltrane - Blue Train
• Neil Diamond - Song sung blue
• Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat
• Malcolm Middleton - Blue Plastic Bags
• Elvis - Blue Christmas
• Elvis - Blue Suede Shoes
• Elton John - I guess that's why they call them the blues
• Elton John - Tiny Dancer
• Steely Dan - Deacon Blues
• Corrs - Give me a reason
• David Bowie - Sound & Vision
• Guns'n'Roses - Sweet child o mine
• Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue
• Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
• Frank Turner - Peggy Sue sings the blues
• REM - Electron Blue
• Del Amitri - Move away Jimmy Blue
• Siouxsie & Banshees - Something Blue
• Fats Domino - Blue Monday
• Lovely Eggs - Nothing/Everything
• Beautiful South - Blue is the colour
• ELO - Mr Blue Sky
• Blues Traveller - But anyway
• Frank Sinatra - Have yourself a merry little Christmas

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1] spotify | apple
1. Bob Dylan - Subterranean homesick blues
2. Guns'n'Roses - Sweet child o mine
3. Wah! - Story of the blues
4. Laurel & Hardy - Blue Ridge Mountains
5. Crystal Gale - Don't it make my brown eyes blue
6. Malcolm Middleton - Blue Plastic Bags

[Side 2]  spotify | apple
7. Scott Walker - Montague Terrace
8. John Coltrane - Blue Train
9. Elvis - Blue Suede Shoes
10. Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
11. Lovely Eggs - Nothing / Everything
12. Johnny Cash  Folsom Prison Blues
Hidden: Frank Sinatra - Have yourself a merry little christmas

Thank you Mog who created the applified and spotified playlists.

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 5 acts had never been on before John Coltrane, Lovely Eggs, Malcolm Middleton, Scott Walker, Wah.
Previous entrants:

• 11: Johnny Cash
• 10: Bob Dylan
• 9: Elvis Presley
• 7: Frank Sinatra
• 3: Guns n'Roses
• 1: Crystal Gale, Laurel & Hardy, Velvet Undeground

Weekend Playlist: 50

h2>Weekend Playlist: 50 Here's the weekend playlist created by Benny with help from guest curator Adrian looking at X/twitter selections (12/12/2024) with Songs that reference fifty.
This was commemorate the 50th episode of the Weekend Playlist.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

Thanks to Mog for the spotified list.

[Side 1] 50 Shades
Roger Miller - King of the Road
Ventures - Hawaii Five-O
Paul Simon - 50 ways to leave your lover
Edwyn Collins - 50 shades of blue
Kate Bush - 50 words for snow
David Bowie - Young Americans
[Bonus 1]
Jacques Dutronc - Et moi...
Suzanne Vega - Fifty-fifty chance

[Side 2] In da 50
Duke of Iron/Louis Jordan - 50 cents
Squeeze - Up the junction
Saw Doctors - Broke my heart
Cocteau Twins - Fifty-fifty clowns
Aimee Mann - 50 years after the fair
Rolling Stones - You can't always get what you want
[Bonus 2]
50 cent - In da club
The Fall - 50 year old man

Long list

• 50 Cent - In da club
• 50 Foot Wave - Bug
• Aimee Mann - 50 years after the fair
• Cocteau Twins - Fifty-fifty clowns
• David Bowie - Cracked Actor
• David Bowie - Young Americans
• Dorothy Loudon - 50%
• Edwyn Collins - 50 shades of blue
• Erasure - Drama
• Fall - 50 year old man
• Jacques Dutronc - Et moi Et moi Et moi
• James - Five-O
• Jimi Hendrix Experience - 51st anniversary
• Kate Bush - 50 words for snow
• Lemar - 50/50
• Louis Armstrong - Fifty fifty blues
• Louis Jordan - 50 cents
• Paul Simon - 50 ways to leave your lover
• People TV - Lovely Eggs {50 piece jigsaw, 48...}
• PJ Harvey - 50ft Queenie
• Pogues - Fiesta
• Roger Miller - King of the Road
• Rolling Stones - You can't always get what you want
• Saw Doctors - Broke my heart
• Squeeze - Up the junction {this morning at 4:50}
• Suzanne Vega - Fifty-fifty chance
• Tubes - Attack of the 50 ft woman
• Ventures - Hawaii Five-O
• Zager & Evans - In the year 2525