Weekend Playlist: School

Weekend Playlist: School

Here's the weekend playlist created by SnailOB and Walt looking at X/twitter selections (31/01/2025) with Songs that reference hard and/or soft.
This was to commemorate the debut of the Wonder Years on 31/01/1988.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1] PLAYTIME
1. Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days
2. Madness - Baggy Trousers
3. Paul Simon - Me and Julio down by the schoolyard 
4. Busted - What I go to school for
5. Flock of Seagulls - Used to be my playground
6. Cat Stevens - (Remember the days of) The old schoolyard

[Side 2] HOMETIME
7. Pink Floyd - Another brick in the wall Pt2
8. Boomtown Rats - I don't like Mondays
9. Jeannie C Riley - Harper Valley PTA
10. Run DMC/Aermosmith - Walk this way
11. Beastie Boys - (You've gotta) Fight for your right (to Party!)
12. Alice Cooper - School's out

[Bonus]
Joe Cocker - With a little help from my friends
St Winifred's School Choir - There's no one quite like Grandma

Long List

• Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days
• Madness - Baggy Trousers
• Paul Simon - Me and Julio down by the schoolyard
• Busted - What I go to school for
• Flock of Seagulls - This used to be my playground
• Cat Stevens - (Remember the days of) The old schoolyard
• Pink Floyd - Another brick in the wall Pt2
• Boomtown Rats - I don't like Mondays
• Jeannie C Riley - Harper Valley PTA
• Run DMC/Aerosmith - Walk this way
• Beastie Boys - (You've gotta) Fight for your right (to Party!)
• Alice Cooper - School's out
• Joe Cocker - A little help from my friends
• St Winifred's School Choir - There's no one quite like grandma
• Bassheads - Back to the old school
• Beatles - Getting better
• Beverley Knight - Flavour of the old school
• Black Box Recorder - School Song
• Busted - What I go to school for
• Chuck Berry - School days
• Dan Reed Network - Get to you
• Elvis - Wonder of you
• Fountains of Wayne - Stacy's mom
• France Gall - Le temps de la Rentrée
• Gavin James - Cigarette Break
• Girls Aloud - No good advice
• Grange Hill Theme
• Jurassic 5 - Concrete Schoolyard
• Kaiser Chiefs - Never miss a beat
• Kinks - Days
• Lucy Spraggan - You're too young
• Luke Kelly - School days over
• Paul Simon - Me and Julio down by the schoolyard
• Pearl Jam - Jeremy
• Pet Shop Boys - It's a sin
• Pink - Don’t let me get me
• Robie Williams - Hello sir
• Sam Cooke - What a wonderful world
• Snow Patrol - Spitting game
• Steely Dan - My old school
• Super Furry Animals - The Teacher
• Supertramp - School
• Taylor Swift - High School
• Tears For Fears - Mad World
• Van Halen - Hot for teacher
• Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag
• White Stripes - We're going to be good friends

LNL Midnight Mixtape: Goodbye

Midnight Mixtape: Goodbye

On the midnight mixtape, Connor Phillips was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (30/01/2024) with Songs that reference goodbyes with BBC5 Live weeknights producer Niamh leaving the show and Steven Gerrard leaving Al-Ettifaq!

Songs in contention

• N'Sync - Bye bye bye
• Ray Charles - Hit the road Jack
• Beatles - Hello Goodbye
• Verve - History
• Gloria Gaynor - Never can say goodbye
• (Communards - Don't leave me this way)
• Bronski Beat - Small town boy
• Leonard Cohen - So long Marianne
• Marianne Faithfull - (Goodbye) Ruby Tuesday
• Placebo - Song to say goodbye
• Camera Obscura - Big love
• Pogues - Sally MacLennane
• Pogues - Thousands are sailing
• Julie Andrews (Sound of Music) - So long farewell
• Soft Cell - Say hello wave goodbye
• David Gray - Say hello wave goodbye
• Semisonic - Closing time
• Elton John - Goodbye yellow brick road
• Bob Dylan - It's over now baby blue
• Bob Dylan - Don't think twice it's alright
• Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman - Time to say goodbye
• Ella Fitzgerald - Ev'ry time we say goodbye
• Leggy Blondes - Flight of the conchords
• Bay City Rollers - Bye bye baby
• Willie Nelson - Blue eyes crying in the rain
• Jimmy Radcliffe - Long after tonight is all over
• Spiritualised - Broken Heart
• Dubliners - Leaving of Liverpool
• Green day - Good riddance

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

Thank you for Leigh created a "spotified playlist.

[Side 1]
1. Beatles - Hello Goodbye
2. Marianne Faithfull - Ruby Tuesday
3. Elton John - Goodbye yellow brick road	
4. Bay City Rollers - Bye bye baby	
5. Sound of Music - So long farewell
6. Ella Fitzgerald - Ev'ry time we say goodbye
[Side 2]
7. Bronski Beat - Small town boy
8. David Gray - Say hello wave goodbye	
9. Green day - Good riddance	
10. Gloria Gaynor - Never can say goodbye
11. Pogues - Sally MacLennane
12. Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman - Time to say goodbye	
Hidden: Ray Charles - Hit the road Jack

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 2 acts had never been on before David Gray and Marianne Faithfull.

• 16: Beatles (1)
• 7: Pogues (1)
• 6: Elton John (1)
• 5: Green Day (1)
• 4: Ella Fitzgerald
• 3: Ray Charles
• 2: Julie Andrews
• 1: Andrea Bocelli, Bay City Rollers (1), Bronski Beat, Gloria Gaynor

Niamh's Midnight Mixtape

Niamh's Midnight Mixtape

Niamh has been a producer on the late show on weeknights on BBC5 Live. A number of songs were suggested for a mini-mixtape. Unfortunately Niamh isn't a popular name for songs, so some rules had to bent...
A song that features "Niamh" is Waterboys' version of "Hosting of the shee", which is actually poem written by WB Yeats with the line, "And Niamh calling Away, come away"

Final Playlist

[Side A] Need / Eve / Knees
It was Christmas Niamh Babe...
1. Beatles - All you Niamh is love
2. Hollies - All Niamh is the air that I breathe
3. Leo Sayer - When I Niamh you
4. Dickies - Niamh of destruction
5. Pogues - Fairytale of New York
6. "Head Shoulders Niamh & Toes"

[Side B] Leave / Believe
7. John Denver - Niamhing on a jetplane
8. Journey - Don't stop be Niamh
9. Rod Stewart - Reason to be Niamh
10. Chicago - If you Niamh me now
11. Communards - Don't Niamh me this way
12. Daniel O'Donnell - Home to Donegal

Hidden: Queen Latifah (Chicago) - When you're good to mama

Other Suggestions

• Monkees - I'm a believer [be Niamh]
• Rick Astley - Never [Niamh] gonna you up
• Reflections - Adam and Eve [Nimah]
• Engelbert - Please release [re Niamh] me
• Beatles - She's leaving [niamhing] home
• Nina [Niamh] Simone - My baby just cares for me
• Limahl [Nimahl] - Neverending [Nimahevernding] story
• Pulp - Babies
• Boyz II Men - Song for Mama

Weekend Playlist: Speeches

Weekend Playlist: Speeches

Here's the weekend playlist created by Ian with help from guest curator SnailOB looking at X/twitter selections (24/01/2025) with Songs that reference speeches.
This was to commemorates primarily Burns Night, a celebration of the birth of Robert Burns on 25th January, 1759. Speeches (aka immortal memory) are a feature of a Burns Supper and the gov.uk website lists a special "Burns Night Speech. Notable for his speeches, particularly his "We shall fight on the beaches", Sir Winston Churchill passed away 60 years ago on January 24th.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

Thanks to Lyricslinger for the spotified list

[Side 1] Hope
Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's free to wear sunscreen
Sinead O'Connor - Don't cry for me Argentina
Living Colour - Cult of Personality
Primal Scream - Loaded
Johnny Cash - Gettysburg Address
Dreadzone - Little Britain

[Side 2] Drama
Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution will not be televised
Public Enemy - Fight the Power
Guns 'N Roses - Civil War
Iron Maiden - Aces High
Pink Floyd - Keep Talking
Paolo Nutini - Iron Sky

[Bonus]
Talk Talk - Talk Talk
10cc - Rubber Bullets

Long list

• 10000 Maniacs - Don't talk
• 10cc - Rubber Bullets
• ABBA - I have a dream
• Art of Noise - Instruments of Darkness
• Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's free to wear sunscreen
• Cardiacs - Alphabet Business Concern
• Cerys Matthews - Salutations
• Coldplay - Everglow
• Def Leppard - Gods of War
• Dreadzone - Little Britain
• Frankie goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes
• Fun Lovin' Criminals - Scooby Snacks
• Fun-da-mental - Wrath of the black man
• Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution will not be televised
• Gladys Knight - The way we were
• Guns 'N Roses - Civil War
• Guns 'n Roses - Madagascar
• Idlewild - In remote part/Scottish Ficton
• Iron Maiden - Aces High
• Iron Maiden - Number of the beast
• Johnny Cash - Gettysburg Address
• Kinks - Mr Churchill says
• Living Colour - Cult of Personality
• Manic Street Preachers - Let Robeson sing
• Mel Gibson - Freedom
• Neneh Cherry - Manchild
• Oingo Boingo - Nothing to fear (but fear itself)
• Paolo Nutini - Iron Sky
• Pink Floyd - Keep Talking
• Pixies - Bagboy
• Primal Scream - Loaded
• Prince - Sign o'the times
• Prodigy - Charly
• Public Enemy - Fight the Power
• Public Service Broadcasting - Gagarin
• Public Service Broadcasting - Race for Space
• Simple Minds - All the things she said
• Sinead O'Connor - Don't cry for me Argentina
• Talk Talk - Talk Talk

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: Cold

Weekend Playlist: Cold

Here's the weekend playlist created by Adrian with help from guest curator Ian looking at X/twitter selections (17/01/2025) with Songs that reference the cold.
This was inspired by Captain Robert Falcon Scott arrival at the South Pole, 123 years ago on 17/01/1912.

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

[Side 1]
1. Mecano - Heroes de la Antartida
2. Al Stewart - Antarctica
3. Muddy waters - Cold weather blues
4. Tori Amos - Winter
5. Frank Sinatra - Violets for your furs
6. Pogues - Greenland Whale Fisheries

[Side 2]
7. Foreigner - Cold As Ice
8. Madonna - Frozen
9. Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
10. Elton John - Sacrifice
11. Major Lazer - Cold Water
12. Freeez - Southern Freeez

[Bonus]
Tenpole Tudoe - Swords a thousand men
Bright Eyes - At the bottom of everything

Long list

• Al Stewart - Antarctica
• Annie Lennox - Cold
• Avril Lavigne - I’m With You
• B52s - Roam
• Bangles - Hazy shade of winter
• Billy Bragg - Bitter Tears
• Bright Eyes - At the bottom of everything
• Bruce Springsteen - 10th Avenue Freeze out
• Coldplay - Shiver (George Benson or Natalie Imbruglia)
• Eagles - Lyin' eyes
• Elton & Dua Lipa - Cold Heart
• Elton John - Sacrifice
• Fleet foxes - White winter hymnal
• Follian Films - Ny Kirree Fo Niaghtey
• Foreigner - Cold As Ice
• Frank Sinatra - Violets for your furs
• Frank Zappa - Don't eat the yellow snow
• Freeez - Southern Freeez
• Gary Moore - Cold Day in Hell
• Ian Dury - I wanna be straight
• Idina Menzel - Let it go (Frozen)
• James - 10 below
• JJ72 - Snow
• Katy Perry - Hot n Cold
• Lightning Seeds - Sugar coated iceberg
• Madonna - Frozen
• Major Lazer - Cold Water
• Mecano - Heroes de la Antartida
• Midnight Oil - Antartica
• Mike Posner - Cooler than me
• Muddy waters - Cold weather blues
• Nick Cave - 15ft of pure white snow
• Orchard - Cold day in hell
• Pogues - Greenland Whale Fisheries
• Pulp - Feeling called love
• Sea Power - Oh Larsen B
• Status Quo - Ice in the sun
• Steps - A Hundred Years of Winter
• Tenpole Tudoe - Swords a thousand men
• Thin Lizzy - Cold Sweat
• Tom Jones & Cerys Matthews - Baby it's cold outside
• Tori Amos - Winter
• Van Morrison - Cold wind in August
• Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
• You me at six - Cold Night
• Zac Brown Band - Colder Weather

LNL Midnight Mixtape: News

Midnight Mixtape: News

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Claire Lim> to look at listener selections (16/01/2025) with Songs that reference News on the news that 5live newsreader, Laura leaving after the show!

Songs in contention

• Jam - News of the world
• Emeli Sande - Read all about it
• Mott the Disciple - All the young dudes
• Beatles - A day in the life of
• Lily Allen - The Fear
• Public Enemy - More news at 11
• Manic Street Preachers - Kevin Carter
• Tom Waits - I don't want to grow up
• Aztec Camera - Good morning Britain
• Queen - Scandal
• Ramones - I don't want to grow up
• Fleetwood Mac - Second Hand News
• Ron Burgundy (Anchormen) - Afternoon Delight
• Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight
• Drake - Headlines
• Midnight Starr - Headlines
• Randy Newman - Good news
• Sundays - Here's where the story ends
• Green Day - American Idiot
• Ralph McTell - Streets of London
• Moby - Go
• Gil Scott Heron - The revolution will not be televised
• Bay City Rollers - Shang-a-lang
• Clash - Magnificant 7
• Johnny Cash - God is gonna cut you down
• Wire - Reuters
• Pretenders - Back on the chain gang
• Don McLean - American Pie
• U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
• ELO - Here is the news
• HMHB - Breaking News
• Frank Sinatra - New York New York
• Blink 182 - Bad News

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1] Sharp-end
1. Green Day - American Idiot
2. Public Enemy - More news at 11
3. Manic Street Preachers - Kevin Carter
4. Wire - Reuters
5. Queen - Scandal
6. Gil Scott Heron - Revolution will not be televised

[Side 2] Soft-end
7. ELO - Here is the news
8. Mott the Disciple - All the young dudes 
9. Bay City Rollers - Shang-a-lang
10. Pretenders - Back on the chain gang
11. Ralph McTell - Streets of London
12. Emeli Sande - Read all about it

Hidden: Anchormen - Afternoon Delight

Previous Appearances

All artists have NEVER been on Tony Livesey's midnight mixtape. From the original midnight mixtapes, 7 acts had never been on before: Bay City Rollers, ELO, Emeli Sande, Gil Scott Heron, Mott the disciple, Ralph McTell, Ron Burgundy, Wire

• 15: Queen
• 6: Manic Street Preachers
• 4: Public Enemy, Green Day
• 1: Pretenders