#ThePlaylist Archive

Podcast: #ThePlaylist

#ThePlaylist is a weekly dive into seeing how tenuously people can connect a song they love to a given theme.

It goes out live on https://stream.djdarren.site every Monday, 1900-2100 UK time.

  • #ThePlaylist – 086 – The Twelve Days of Christmas

    An image depicting the 12 days of Christmas. There is: 1 partridge 2 turtle doves 3 hens in striped jumpers and French berets 4 blackbirds 5 gold rings 6 geese 7 swans 8 copies of the same image of Mel Giedroyc mimicking the Polish milk maids from Eurovision. Legs & co dance troupe from Top of the Pops with an extra copy of two of them so there are 9 and their shirts say “LEGS & Co & Co”. 10 posh twats in suits jumping in the air. A stream of Scottish pipers. A LOT of drummers on many kits trying to break some world record.
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    An image depicting the 12 days of Christmas. There is: 1 partridge 2 turtle doves 3 hens in striped jumpers and French berets 4 blackbirds 5 gold rings 6 geese 7 swans 8 copies of the same image of Mel Giedroyc mimicking the Polish milk maids from Eurovision. Legs & co dance troupe from Top of the Pops with an extra copy of two of them so there are 9 and their shirts say “LEGS & Co & Co”. 10 posh twats in suits jumping in the air. A stream of Scottish pipers. A LOT of drummers on many kits trying to break some world record.

    ROLL UP ROLL UP for this week’s edition of #ThePlaylist, and the final show of the year!

    Our theme this week:

    The Twelve Days of Christmas

    And yeah, you lot have dug deep and managed to rustle up a whole bunch of songs that are almost about the things from the song. Almost. And a quick look down the running order tells me that only two of the tunes in our massive record bag are Christmas songs. So that could well be a bonus for you.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. Frank Kelly - Christmas Countdown 02. Roachford - Cuddly Toy 03. Prince And The Revolution - When Doves Cry 04. Stereolab - French Disco 05. Fleetwood Mac - Songbird 06. Freda Payne - Band Of Gold 07. Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay 08. T. Rex - Ride a White Swan 09. Kelis - Milkshake 10. Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) 11. Basement Jaxx - Jump N' Shout 12. Billie Piper - Because We Want To 13. Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight 14. The Three Wise Men - Thanks for Christmas 15. Partners in Kryme - Turtle Power 16. D'Angelo - Chicken Grease 17. Telling The Bees - Blackbird (A Crumb For a Song) 18. Anita Ward - Ring My Bell 19. Aimee Mann - Goose Snow Cone 20. Megadeth - Black Swan 21. Helmet - Milktoast 22. The Pointer Sisters - I'm So Excited 23. Mogwai - The Lord Is Out of Control 24. The Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine 25. The Shamen - Boss Drum

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  • #ThePlaylist – 085 – We’re In The Mood For Dancing

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    This week's artwork, in which a number of notable dancers bust out their finest moves on a seventies light up dancefloor. Most notably, Raygun the Aussie breakdancer, and Baby from Dirty Dancing.

    Many folks are heading out to christmas parties, where they’ll be cutting the rug with reckless abandon, so this week’s theme is:

    We’re in the mood for dancing

    We’re taking the opportunity to celebrate all things dance. So two hours of dance floor fillers, and well, dancefloor emptiers, if we’re honest. But two hours of stone-cold bangers nonetheless.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 1 The Nolans - I'm In The Mood For Dancing 2 Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance 3 Irene Cara - Flashdance... What A Feeling 4 The Blues Brothers - Shake Your Tail Feather 5 The Pipettes - Pull Shapes 6 Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Dancing In The Street 7 Jimmy ''Bo'' Horne - Dance Across The Floor 8 Thin Lizzy - Dancing In The Moonlight 9 Jonathan Richman - I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar 10 Belle and Sebastian - The Party Line 11 Metric - Dead Disco 12 Walk The Moon - Shut Up and Dance 13 Band Spectra - It Starts Again 14 Daði Freyr - Bitte 15 Einstürzende Neubauten - Musentango 16 Madeleine Peyroux - Dance Me To The End Of Love 17 The Magnetic Fields - Nothing Matters When We're Dancing 18 AFI - Dancing Through Sunday 19 Fall Out Boy - Dance, Dance 20 Slayer - Dead Skin Mask 21 Smog - No Dancing 22 The Coup - Land of 7 Billion Dances 23 Joeski Love - Pee Wee Dance 24 Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body 25 Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancing 26 ADG7 - Let's Dance! 27 Madonna - Get Into The Groove 28 Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the Dark 29 Rubberbandits - Waiting 30 Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes

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  • #ThePlaylist – 084 – Be Thankful for what You Got

    This week's show artwork, in which Troggie has taken the avatars of the folks who have liked the show on the OwnCast page and made a collage of them, inside the words "thank you"
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    This week's show artwork, in which Troggie has taken the avatars of the folks who have liked the show on the OwnCast page and made a collage of them, inside the words "thank you"

    Our friends across the pond celebrated Thanksgiving last week, so being the timely professionals we are at #ThePlaylist, we figured it would be great to think about giving thanks. And so, this week’s theme is:

    Be thankful for what you got

    Leaving us with two hours of solid gold thankfulness. We’re on our knees, prostrate with thankfulness. But we didn’t do a genocide first.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. Cynthia Fee - Thank You for Being a Friend 02. Kirsty Maccoll - Days 03. Paolo Nutini - Pencil Full of Lead 04. Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3 05. Talking Heads - Thank You For Sending Me An Angel 06. Sublime - What I Got 07. Daði Freyr - Thank You 08. KAJ - Taco Hej 09. Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul - Thank You 10. Fdel - How Lucky Am I 11. Marvin Gaye - How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You 12. Ray Charles - I've Got A Woman 13. William DeVaughn - Be Thankful for What You Got (Pt. 1) 14. Dido - Thank You 15. World Party - It Can Be Beautiful (Sometimes) 16. King Crimson - Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With 17. Beastie Boys - Gratitude 18. David Bowie - Suffragette City 19. Dexys Midnight Runners - Thankfully Not Living in Yorkshire It Doesn’t Apply 20. Labi Siffre - Thank Your Lucky Star 21. Matt Lucas - Thank You Baked Potato 22. They Might Be Giants - Thankful For Your Service 23. Massive Attack - Be Thankful For What You Got 24. Filter - Thanks Bro 25. Radiohead - Optimistic 26. Drink Me - Thank the Lord 27. Fairport Convention - Now Be Thankful (New Stereo Mix) 28. Sam & Dave - I Thank You 29. Brian Wilson - I Got Rhythm 30. Abba - Thank You For The Music 31. Sly & The Family Stone - Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)

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  • #ThePlaylist – 083 – Clean

    The artwork for this week's episode of #ThePlaylist. It's a simple blue background with "#ThePlaylist" in orange, over which is a film of dirt, most of which has been wiped away to show the name of the show. In the dirt are a crude drawing of a penis, that matey with the big nose looking over a wall, that weird S that everyone drew, and "WASH ME!"
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    The artwork for this week's episode of #ThePlaylist. It's a simple blue background with "#ThePlaylist" in orange, over which is a film of dirt, most of which has been wiped away to show the name of the show. In the dirt are a crude drawing of a penis, that matey with the big nose looking over a wall, that weird S that everyone drew, and "WASH ME!"

    Behold, the return of #ThePlaylist, ready to wash your dishes and scrub your dirty, dirty underwear, for this week’s theme is:

    Clean

    Two hours of songs about cleaning, and washing, and generally not being discustang scrotters. Not that any of you Eternal Aoifes are, of course.

    (the Late Kates are, mind)

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. Barney - The Clean Up Song 02. The Buggles - Clean Clean 03. R.E.M. - Shiny Happy People 04. Alanis Morissette - Hands Clean 05. Dream Warriors - Wash Your Face in My Sink 06. OutKast - So Fresh, So Clean 07. Amy Winehouse - Rehab 08. PVA - Soap 09. Sleater‐Kinney - Prisstina 10. Muncie Girls - Bubble Bath 11. Grant McLennan - Bathe (In The Water) 12. Colin Hay - Wash It All Away 13. Eels - Fresh Feeling 14. Alela Diane - Laundromat Lady 15. Prong - Cut-Rate 16. The Damned - Neat Neat Neat 17. Motörhead - Stay Clean 18. AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap 19. Manic Street Preachers - The Masses Against the Classes 20. The Barcelona Pavilion - Tidy Up Tidy Up 21. Wu-Tang Clan - Shame On A Nuh 22. Betty Wright - Clean Up Woman 23. Clean Bandit feat. Zara Larsson - Symphony 24. MisterWives - Reflections 25. George Formby - When I'm Cleaning Windows 26. The Lightning Seeds - Pure 27. Del Amitri - Wash Her Away 28. The Clean - Tally Ho 29. Depeche Mode - Clean 30. X‐Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescence

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  • #ThePlaylist – 082 – Haaair

    The custom artwork for this week's radio show, by the extraordinary Troggie. It's a sink full of shaved hair that spells out the word "Playlist". It's nasty, and I love it.
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    The podcast version of the world renowned radio show that broadcasts every Monday, 1900-2100 UK time at https://stream.djdarren.site.

    The custom artwork for this week's radio show, by the extraordinary Troggie. It's a sink full of shaved hair that spells out the word "Playlist". It's nasty, and I love it.

    This week’s theme:

    Haaair

    We thought about just playing the original Broadway cast recording of the musical ‘Hair’, but instead decided to once again take suggestions from the Eternal Angies out there, who stepped up and suggested another raft of utter bangers.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. The Stone Roses - She Bangs The Drums 02. Dreadzone - Little Britain 03. 1 giant leap - Braided Hair (feat. Speech & Neneh Cherry) 04. Lady Gaga - Hair 05. Aesop Rock - Racing Stripes 06. Onyx - Atak of da Bal-Hedz 07. Lee 'Scratch' Perry & the Upsetters - Curly Locks 08. Ella Fitzgerald - I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair 09. Five Man Electrical Band - Signs 10. Lou Rawls - Hide Nor Hair 11. Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go to My Lovely 12. Scott Mckenzie - San Francisco 13. Madilyn Mei - Blue Haired Boy 14. Regina Spektor - Samson 15. Sepultura - Roots Bloody Roots 16. IDLES - Never Fight A Man With A Perm 17. Anthrax - London 18. Fu Manchu - Weird Beard 19. Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro 20. 4 Non Blondes - What's Up? 21. Camper Van Beethoven - Take the Skinheads Bowling 22. Lake Street Dive - Side Pony 23. Bibio - Curls 24. Middle Of The Road - Samson And Delilah 25. The Collide - Blue Hair Dye 26. CUD - Beyond Hair 27. ZZ Top - Gotsta Get Paid 28. The Beards - You Should Consider Having Sex with a Bearded Man

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  • #ThePlaylist – 081 – Maximum Nut November

    Artwork for this week's show. It's a picture of two coconuts, laid over a photo of a bunch of monkey nuts in their shells. At the bottom it says "THE PLAYLIST" in letters written on drawn acorns.
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    The podcast version of the world renowned radio show that broadcasts every Monday, 1900-2100 UK time at https://stream.djdarren.site.

    Artwork for this week's show. It's a picture of two coconuts, laid over a photo of a bunch of monkey nuts in their shells. At the bottom it says "THE PLAYLIST" in letters written on drawn acorns.

    In honour of the time of year when squirrels begin hoarding their winter feasts in earnest, this week’s theme is:

    Maximum Nut November

    So, two hours of songs about chestnuts, and peanuts, and butternuts, and hazelnuts and so on. And only songs about nuts. It’s the ultimate radio show about nutting*
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    *nutting is the eating of nuts

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. Ike & Tina Turner - Nutbush City Limits 02. CSS - Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above 03. Bronksi Beat & Marc Almond - I Feel Love 04. Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch 05. RuPaul Big Freedia - Peanut Butter (feat. Big Freedia) 06. Official Hige Dandism - Mixed Nuts 07. Funkadelic - Hit It and Quit It 08. Django Reinhardt - Brazil 09. Dizzy Gillespie - Salt Peanuts 10. Count Basie - Mama Don't Want No Peas an' Rice an' Cocoanut Oil 11. Harry Belafonte - Coconut Woman 12. Merv Griffin - I've Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts 13. Madness - Primrose Hill 14. The Gloaming - Hunting The Squirrel 15. Joanna Gruesome - Honestly Do Yr Worst 16. Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict 17. The Fratellis - Got Ma Nuts From a Hippy 18. Nightwish - Dark Chest of Wonders 19. Urusei Yatsura - Kernel 20. The Police - Peanuts 21. Divinyls - I Touch Myself 22. Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Spasticus Autisticus 23. Hawksley Workman - Jealous Of Your Cigarette 24. Marc Almond - Mother Fist 25. UK Apache Shy FX - Original Nuttah 26. Venetian Snares - Cashew 27. Ed O.G & Da Bulldogs - Feel Like A Nut 28. The Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake 29. Squirrel Nut Zippers - Suits Are Picking Up the Bill 30. The Marathons - Peanut Butter

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  • #ThePlaylist – 080 – Ocean

    Artwork for this week's episode of #ThePlaylist. Drawn by Troggie, it's a digital painting of under the sea. Shafts of light are dappled on the sea bed, coming down through the waves below. In the middle is the word "Ocean" with bubbles coming from it.
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    The podcast version of the world renowned radio show that broadcasts every Monday, 1900-2100 UK time at https://stream.djdarren.site.

    Artwork for this week's episode of #ThePlaylist. Drawn by Troggie, it's a digital painting of under the sea. Shafts of light are dappled on the sea bed, coming down through the waves below. In the middle is the word "Ocean" with bubbles coming from it.

    Bust out your sextant and chart a course for the deep, dark waters of #ThePlaylist, where our theme this week is:

    Ocean

    Two hours of nautical tunes that are …mostly… about actual oceans.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. Billy Ocean - Red Light Spells Danger 02. OMD - Sailing on the Seven Seas 03. Cinerama - Pacific 04. Cardiacs - Big Ship 05. Waterboys - This Is The Sea 06. Pogues And The Dubliners - The Irish Rover 07. Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald 08. Billy Joel - The Downeaster "Alexa" 09. Elle Cordova - Untitled Sea Shanty 10. John Glacier - Ocean Steppin' (ft. Sampha) 11. Ina Wroldsen - Sea 12. Tori Amos - 1000 Oceans 13. Pixies - Wave of Mutilation 14. Twin Atlantic - Make A Beast Of Myself 15. Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue 16. The Frank & Walters - Grand Parade 17. Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain 18. Hector Zazou feat. Suzanne Vega & John Cale - The Long Voyage 19. Charles Trenet - La mer 20. Donovan - Atlantis 21. Marshmallow - Seabird 22. Mr. Scruff - Ahoy There! 23. Geechi Suede - El QuaPO 24. Underworld - Pearl's Girl 25. Hoodoo Gurus - Like Wow-Wipeout 26. Hey Ocean! - Big Blue Wave

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  • #ThePlaylist – 079 – Festival of Lights

    The artwork for this week's edition of #ThePlaylist. It's simply the word 'Light" in front of a sky full of fireworks. The bottom half of the image is a reflection of the top half.
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    The podcast version of the world renowned radio show that broadcasts every Monday, 1900-2100 UK time at https://stream.djdarren.site.

    The artwork for this week's edition of #ThePlaylist. It's simply the word 'Light" in front of a sky full of fireworks. The bottom half of the image is a reflection of the top half.

    Look ye to the sky, for this week’s edition of #ThePlaylist is kinda sorta about bonfire night and the end of Diwali, but maybe kinda sorta not. The theme is:

    Festival of Lights

    So we’ve built two wonderful hours of music about splody things and lights and that, and it’s all great.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. Queen - Flash's Theme 02. Johnny Marr - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 03. The Fat Lady Sings - Arclight 04. Kate Bush - Rocket's Tail 05. Andreas Johnson - Shine 06. Royksopp - What Else Is There (Thin White Duke mix) 07. VÉRITÉ - Colors 08. J Dilla - Lightworks 09. The Go! Team - Flashlight Fight (feat. Chuck D) 10. The Tragically Hip - Fireworks 11. Villagers - A Trick of the Light 12. Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight 13. Leon Rosselson - Tim Mcguire 14. Explosions in the Sky - Moving On 15. Feuerschwanz - Blinding Lights 16. Biffy Clyro - Tiny Indoor Fireworks 17. Kyuss - Phototropic 18. Lanterns On The Lake - Don't Have Nightmares 19. Dead Can Dance - Carnival of Light 20. Lila Tirando a Violeta - Seeing the Light 21. Knife Party - Bonfire 22. B-52's - Strobe Light 23. Gene - Be My Light, Be My Guide 24. Todd Rundgren - I Saw The Light 25. Thin Lizzy - Dancing In The Moonlight 26. Lou Reed - White Light, White Heat 27. Elton John - Rocket Man '03

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  • #ThePlaylist – 078 – Haunting

    The artwork for this week's show. It features an image of my massive, ghostly head, hovering over the stairway of an old stately home.
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    The podcast version of the world renowned radio show that broadcasts every Monday, 1900-2100 UK time at https://stream.djdarren.site.

    The artwork for this week's show. It features an image of my massive, ghostly head, hovering over the stairway of an old stately home.

    Mind the shivers down your spine, because the theme on #ThePlaylist this week is:

    Haunting

    Two hours of haunting tunes, most of which are about ghosts and ghoulies and that. But not all.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me 02. PVRIS - Mirrors 03. SoKo - I'll Kill Her 04. Concrete Blonde - Ghost Of A Texas Ladies Man 05. The Cure - A Forest 06. Sinead O'Connor & Shane Macgowan - Haunted 07. St. Vincent - Slow Disco 08. The Chieftains with Mick Jagger - The Long Black Veil 09. Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party - The lover's ghost 10. Kate Rusby - I Am Stretched on Your Grave 11. Annie Lennox - Love Song For A Vampire 12. Agnes Obel - Aventine 13. Lau - Ghosts 14. Rob Zombie - Dragula 15. Therapy? - Joey 16. The Awakening - Haunting 17. Gerry Cinnamon - Ghost 18. Ella Henderson - Ghost 19. Buraka Som Sistema Afrikan Boy - Eskeleto 20. Shirt - Phantom (Redux) 21. The Wailers - Mr Brown 22. 10CC - I'm Not In Love 23. Peter Knight's Gigspanner - Two Constant Lovers (Live) 24. Hannah Cartwright & Ross Tones - All You Leave Behind 25. This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren 26. Goldfrapp - Lovely Head

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  • #ThePlaylist – 077 – Science

    Artwork for this week's edition of #ThePlaylist, in which Troggie has used a photo of me looking quite mad, staring at a flask of blue liquid that "#ThePlaylist" written on it. On the bench are more flasks with different genres written on them. Behind me are indistinct creatures in tanks.
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    The podcast version of the world renowned radio show that broadcasts every Monday, 1900-2100 UK time at https://stream.djdarren.site.

    Artwork for this week's edition of #ThePlaylist, in which Troggie has used a photo of me looking quite mad, staring at a flask of blue liquid that "#ThePlaylist" written on it. On the bench are more flasks with different genres written on them. Behind me are indistinct creatures in tanks.

    Don your safety goggles and white lab coats, because this week #ThePlaylist is concerned only with the highest scientific rigour. The theme this week is:

    Science

    Two hours of dangerous bangers for you to enjoy. Just keep them away from sources of ignition.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. Girls Aloud - Biology 02. The Pointer Sisters - Neutron dance 03. Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science 04. Public Service Broadcasting - ROYGBIV 05. Moby - We Are All Made of Stars 06. CHVRCHES - Science/Visions 07. Björk - Human Behaviour 08. They Might Be Giants - Science Is Real 09. They Might Be Giants - Solid Liquid Gas 10. They Might Be Giants - Particle Man 11. They Might Be Giants - Why Does the Sun Shine? 12. They Might Be Giants - Why Does the Sun Really Shine? 13. Anja Kotar - Anja Kotar - Timekeeper's Secret 14. Peter Gabriel - We Do What We're Told 15. Coldplay - The Scientist 16. Pixies - Distance equals rate times time 17. We Are The Physics - Goran Ivanisevic 18. Chris Knox - The Uncertainty Principle 19. Goldfrapp - Strict Machine 20. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Electricity 21. Tom Lehrer - The Elements song 22. Mighty Sparrow - Russian Satellite 23. Cut Chemist - Work My Mind 24. LAAKE - ELECTRICITY 25. Landscape - Einstein a Go-Go 26. Eat Static - Science of the Gods 27. The Coup - The Gods of Science 28. Semisonic - Chemistry 29. Hawkwind - Silver Machine 30. GLaDOS - Still Alive

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