#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 – 123 – Birthday Numbers One

    #ThePlaylist – 123 – Birthday Numbers One

    This week's theme-specific artwork, which is the late '90s Top of the Pops artwork, but instead it says 'The Playlist'.
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    #ThePlaylist – 123 – Birthday Numbers One
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    On this week’s episode of #ThePlaylist…

    Two weeks ago I admitted the terrible secret of my birth, and the disco banger that heralded it, which has led to wanting to hear your:

    Birthday Number Ones

    We weren’t cruel though, and allowed you to pick from tracks that have attained the summit of Mount Pop on any of your birthdays, be they singles, or from albums. And there are some CRACKERS in the pile.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. Donna Summer - I Feel Love 02. Chic - Le Freak 03. M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up the Volume 04. Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe 05. S Club 7 - Don't Stop Movin' 06. ABBA - Waterloo 07. Adam and the Ants - Stand and Deliver 08. The Supremes - You Keep Me Hangin' On 09. Freda Payne - Band Of Gold 10. The Rolling Stones - Satisfaction 11. T'pau - China In Your Hands 12. Phil Collins - Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) 13. No Doubt - Don’t Speak 14. Perry Como - Catch a Falling Star 15. The Chi-lites - Oh Girl 16. Skindred - You Got This 17. Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 18. Irene Cara - Fame 19. Aqua - Doctor Jones 20. TWICE - What is Love? 21. MC Miker G & Deejay Sven - Holiday Rap 22. Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks 23. Pet Shop Boys - Heart 24. Dolores Keane - Lion In A Cage 25. Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking 26. Rod Stewart - Baby Jane 27. The Beatles - Get Back 28. Elmore James - Dust My Broom 29. The New Seekers - I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing

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  • #ThePlaylist – 122 – Format Wars

    #ThePlaylist – 122 – Format Wars

    This week's theme specific artwork, courtesy of Troggie. It's a jumbled pile of CDs, MiniDiscs, and cassettes, all brightly coloured. Over them is written "ThePlaylisst"
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    Last week’s theme inspired this week’s, so, from perfect 3 minute 45rpm vinyl to:

    Format Wars

    Do *you* know any songs about wax cylinders, or shellac discs, or MiniDiscs? Listen in, and you just might hear them…

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. Cornershop - Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook remix) 02. Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) 03. Deacon Blue - Real gone kid 04. The Gaslight Anthem - 45 05. Reef - Naked 06. NTFS - Burn 4 U 07. Mohinder Kaur Bhamra - Disco Wich Aa 08. The Nonce - Mix Tapes 09. Barry Adamson - Cinematic Soul 10. Imogen Heap - First Train Home 11. Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On 12. Neil Young - The Needle And The Damage Done 13. Radiohead - Videotape 14. Dinosaur Pile-up - Thrash Metal Cassette 15. Creeper - VCR 16. Television Personalities - Part Time Punks 17. Vinyl Stripes - I've Just Seen A Face 18. Lucius - Old Tape (feat. Adam Granduciel) 19. Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club - Video Killed the Radio Star 20. The Buggles - Kid Dynamo 21. Stereophonics - T-Shirt Suntan 22. Bow Wow Wow - C30, C60, C90, Go! 23. Joy Division - Komakino 24. Mama's Boys - Needle In The Groove 25. Tracy Chapman - Talkin' 'bout a Revolution 26. Beth Gibbons - Rewind 27. The Cardigans - Erase/Rewind 28. Feeder - Buck Rogers

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  • #ThePlaylist – 121 – Three Minute (or thereabouts) Pop Bangers

    #ThePlaylist – 121 – Three Minute (or thereabouts) Pop Bangers

    This week's theme specific artwork, which is, quite simply, a three minute countdown timer with lots of ghostly '03:00' behind a big '03:00' in the middle.
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    #ThePlaylist – 121 – Three Minute (or thereabouts) Pop Bangers
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    This week’s theme is:

    Three Minute (or thereabouts) Pop Bangers

    So, very simply, the favourite songs of the Suggestorate that fall into the three minute pop song category. How many of them could charitably be described as ‘pop’ we will leave up to you to decide.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. The Selecter - Three minute hero 02. Kelis - Milkshake 03. Yazoo - Don't Go 04. M - Pop Muzik 05. The Jackson 5 - i Want You Back 06. Jackie Wilson - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher 07. Tim Minchin - Three Minute Song 08. The Fauves - Dogs Are The Best People 09. Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze 10. Kungs vs. Cookin' On 3 Burners - This Girl 11. Emei - Night at the Opera [Explicit] 12. Kelly Marie - Feels Like I'm in Love 13. Pantelis Pantelidis - Ginete 14. Verka Serduchka - Dancing Lasha Tumbai 15. King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - Horology 16. Amy Winehouse - Love Is a Losing Game 17. Motörhead - Ace of Spades 18. Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love 19. The Romantics - What I Like About You 20. Press Club - Tightrope 21. Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love 22. The Beatles - Twist and Shout 23. Sofie Royer - Actress 24. Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers 25. Beastie Boys - Sabotage 26. bis - Kandy Pop 27. Queen - Coming Soon 28. The Beaches - Blame Brett 29. The Scarlet Opera - What Good Is Love 30. Nik Kershaw - Wide Boy 31. Madness - Embarrassment 32. Roxy Music - Virginia Plain 33. Tenpole Tudor - Swords Of A Thousand Men 34. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows

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  • #ThePlaylist – 120 – Furniture

    #ThePlaylist – 120 – Furniture

    This week's theme specific artwork. It's me, a baldy beardy bloke with glasses, but I'm a grumpy armchair. Obviously.
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    This week we have a theme brought to you by none other than @daveybot, Laird of the Wild Lands Beyond The Wall, who wanted to hear your best songs about:

    Furniture

    So we’ve got two hours of tunes about tables and chairs and ottomans and beds, and armchairs and sofas and that. Or whatever sparked in your brains at seeing the word ‘furniture’.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. Furniture - Brilliant Mind 02. Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls 03. Wolf Alice - The Sofa 04. Wet Leg - Chaise Longue 05. Warmduscher - Top Shelf 06. TV on the Radio - Happy Idiot 07. Arctic Monkeys - Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair 08. Victoria Wood - Barry And Freda 09. They Might Be Giants - Bed Bed Bed 10. PJ Harvey - C’mon Billy 11. Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman - Stumblin' In 12. Johnny Cash - Grandfather's Clock 13. Gwen McCrae - Rockin’ Chair 14. Nits - The Bauhaus Chair 15. Daze of June & Hollow Front - Hospital Bed 16. The Twilight Sad - Another Bed 17. bdrmm - It's Just A Bit Of Blood 18. Stray Kids - Back Door 19. Missy Higgins - Futon Couch 20. Our Daughter's Wedding - Lawn Chairs 21. The Weakerthans - Sun In An Empty Room 22. The Cure - Close to Me 23. The Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom 24. The Modern Lovers - Government Center 25. Biffy Clyro - Black Chandelier 26. Martika - Martika's Kitchen 27. Sub Urban - Cradles 28. Green Day - Basket Case

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  • #ThePlaylist – 119 – Radio Desolation

    #ThePlaylist – 119 – Radio Desolation

    This week's theme specific artwork. My head is laying on the floor of a desolate wasteland. In the mid ground two people are picking though the stony ground. Off in the distance, a Nikola Tesla's huge tower has been repurposed as a radio tower, broadcasting #ThePlaylist and making everything ever worse.
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    #ThePlaylist – 119 – Radio Desolation
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    I bought a t-shirt that made me laugh last week, and, well, @MintSpies decreed that it should be a theme. Therefore it is this week’s theme:

    Radio Desolation

    We asked what that might conjure up in your lightly broken minds, as you trawl your way across an empty wasteland, desperately trying to survive. Or as you watch people doing that from your secure, well-appointed bunker.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. The Ink Spots - I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire 02. Bruce Springsteen - Radio Nowhere 03. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes 04. Warren Zevon - Splendid Isolation 05. Kraftwerk - Radioaktivität 06. Metric - All Comes Crashing 07. Electric Six - Radio Ga Ga 08. The Dears - No Cities Left 09. James - Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) 10. Monty Python - I Bet You They Won't Play This Song on the Radio 11. Peggy Lee - Is That All There Is 12. Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved 13. Emmylou Harris Linda Ronstadt And Dolly Parton - After The Gold Rush 14. My Chemical Romance - Desolation Row 15. Rage Against The Machine - Guerilla Radio 16. Liz Phair - Supernova 17. Bongwater - Great Radio 18. 10,000 Maniacs - Green Children 19. The Whitlams - Buy Now Pay Later (Charlie No. 2) 20. Kay Kyser and His Orchestra - Jingle, Jangle, Jingle 21. Nirvana - Radio Friendly Unit Shifter 22. R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe (original Hib-Tone single) 23. Mark Knopfler - Je Suis Desole 24. Frank Turner - The Road 25. Superheaven - Stare at the Void 26. Linkin Park - Wastelands 27. Nelly Furtado - Shit On The Radio

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  • #ThePlaylist – 118 – Broke. Skint. Strapped. Brassic.

    #ThePlaylist – 118 – Broke. Skint. Strapped. Brassic.

    This week's theme specific artwork, courtesy of @Troggie@beige.party. It's a banking app on a phone, showing an empty account, £0 on the overdraft, and a bunch of failed payments to #ThePlaylist for £1. The owner of that phone is no longer allowed to listen to the show. Povvo.
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    #ThePlaylist – 118 – Broke. Skint. Strapped. Brassic.
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    This week on #ThePlaylist, the theme is brought to you by none other than @swisslet and Dr Caitlin, who want to hear YOUR suggestions about being:

    Broke. Skint. Strapped. Brassic.

    Two hours of tunes about poverty. What could be more cheerful in *this* economy?

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. Spın̈al Tap - Gimme Some Money 02. Barrett Strong - Money (That’s What I Want) 03. Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar 04. Gwen Guthrie - Ain’t Nothin’ Goin’ on but the Rent 05. Adventures Of Stevie V - Dirty Cash (Money Talks) 06. Cut La Roc - Post Punk Progression 07. Fatboy Slim - Gangster Trippin 08. The Smashing Pumpkins - Zero 09. The Brilliant Corners - One Of These Days 10. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get 11. Lindisfarne - Together Forever 12. Seasick Steve - Started out with Nothin 13. Woody Guthrie - Do Re Mi 14. The Streets - Dry Your Eyes 15. A Lazarus Soul - Black & Amber 16. Lankum - What Will We Do When We Have No Money 17. Panic Shack - Meal Deal 18. Dartz - Steal from the Supermarket 19. The Wildhearts - Greetings From Shitsville 20. bbno$ - Burger 21. Gala - Freed From Desire 22. Mathieau Boogaerts - The Price 23. Busdriver - Worlds to Run (feat. Milo & Anderson .Paak) 24. Shinyribs - Poor People's Store 25. O.V. Wright - A Nickel And A Nail 26. Paul Young - Love of the Common People 27. Ian Prowse - My Name Is Dessie Warren 28. Amyl and the Sniffers - Big Dreams 29. Laura Nyro - Poverty Train 30. Flight of the Conchords - Inner City Pressure 31. Wolfsbane - Money to Burn

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  • #ThePlaylist – 117 – Pharmacy

    #ThePlaylist – 117 – Pharmacy

    A terrifying vision of me in a trilby with an ill-considered moustache, gurning at the camera through a psychedelic swirl of pinks and greens. I don't think this version of me really is a pharmacist.
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    Behold the glorious return of #ThePlaylist!

    This week we have another guest theme, this time from @RealAleRocks@mastodon.social and Ben Gray, who are colleagues who work in a:

    Pharmacy

    So two hours of songs about having to wait for an hour because the pharmacist has just gone on their lunch break, and only being able to buy two boxes of paracetamol, despite there being nothing to stop us also going to the Tesco Express next door to buy two more, should we so choose.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. Madness - House of Fun 02. Prince - Cream 03. Huey Lewis and the News - I Want a New Drug 04. Shampoo - Trouble 05. Garfunkel and Oates - Weed Card 06. The Scaffold - Lily the Pink 07. The Flaming Lips - She Don't Use Jelly 08. Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - Heart Problems 09. The Dandy Warhols - Horse Pills 10. NOFX - Pharmacist’s Daughter 11. The Prodigy - Mescaline 12. Tavares - It Only Takes a Minute 13. P!nk - Just Like a Pill 14. Du Blonde feat. Shirley Manson - Medicated 15. Troye Sivan - Happy Little Pill 16. Ibeyi - Tears Are Our Medicine 17. Everclear - Amphetamine 18. Jimmy Eat World - Pain 19. The Goo Goo Dolls - Black Balloon 20. Jess Cornelius - Laps in the Drugstore 21. Ian Dury and The Blockheads - Sex & Drugs & Rock and Roll 22. The Jam - The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow) 23. Daughter - Medicine 24. HotWax - Pharmacy 25. Can - Vitamin C 26. Puretone - Addicted to Bass 27. Toasted Heretic - Some Drugs 28. Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians - Tell Me about Your Drugs 29. Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar on Me 30. Pulp - Sorted for E’s & Wizz 31. The Fall - Mr Pharmacist

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  • #ThePlaylist – 116 – The Discworld

    #ThePlaylist – 116 – The Discworld

    This week's theme-specific artwork, which is a digital painting of the Discworld on the backs of four elephants, which are in turn riding on the shell of the Great A'Tuin, an enormous turtle flying through space.
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    We’re off to Discworld Con this weekend, so the theme for this week’s edition of #ThePlaylist is:

    The Discworld

    Songs about wizards, and flying turtles, and DEATH, and THE DEATH OF RATS, will abound. Or just songs about discs, or worlds. Are there any flat Earth bangers?

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. Super Furry Animals - God! Show Me Magic 02. Sugababes - Round Round 03. Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now 04. Norma Tanega - You're Dead 05. Doris Troy - Face Up To The Truth 06. Sam & Dave - Soul Man 07. Sir Jablonski - More Pork 08. Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper 09. The Band With Rocks In - The Messenger 10. Dave Greenslade - Wizard's Staff Has A Knob On The End 11. Steeleye Span - The Dark Morris Song 12. Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Can Blue Men Sing The Whites 13. Donovan - Season of the Witch 14. Willie Nelson - They All Laughed 15. Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman 16. Big Black - My Disco 17. Swoop - Apple Eyes 18. Funeral For A Friend - Into Oblivion (Reunion) 19. Pendulum - Witchcraft 20. Adam F - Circles 21. Oliver Tree - One & Only 22. De La Soul - Transmitting Live from Mars 23. Jacques Brel - La Mort 24. Harry "Haywire Mac" McClintock - Hedge Hog 25. The Who - Pinball Wizard 26. The Police - Man in a Suitcase 27. Traffic - Hole in My Shoe 28. The Atomic Fireballs - Man With the Hex 29. Peter Gabriel - Steam 30. Bishop Allen - Cue The Elephants 31. Kirsty MacColl - There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis

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  • #ThePlaylist – 115 – Heroes

    #ThePlaylist – 115 – Heroes

    This week's theme-specific artwork, which is pretty much the box design from Heroes chocolates, but it says 'ThePlaylist' instead of that firm that used to make decent chocolate, but then got bought out by Americans and now it's 90% palm oil and tastes like ass.
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    #ThePlaylist – 115 – Heroes
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    This week we have another guest theme, this time from @FloatingOnion@cyberplace.social who flew in, (without a cape) to ask for songs about:

    Heroes

    He wanted to hear YOUR most heroic tunes. He wanted to hear songs that’ll save people from a hijacked passenger jet, or have the capability to leave the last chocolate Hob Nob in the packet. He wanted songs that were strong, and fast, and fresh from the fight, and by golly, he got ’em.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out for a Hero 02. It Bites - Calling All The Heroes 03. Kool & The Gang - Celebration 04. Black Grape - Kelly's Heroes 05. The Timelords - Doctorin' the Tardis 06. Jimmy Dean - Big Bad John 07. Woody Guthrie - Pretty Boy Floyd 08. Percival Schuttenbach - Silver For Monsters... 09. Electric Youth, College - A Real Hero 10. Underworld - Bruce Lee 11. Fontella Bass - Rescue Me 12. Reuben Bell - Superjock 13. Metallica with Michael Kamen - Hero of the Day 14. Scala & Kolacny Brothers - Heroes 15. Rise Against - Savior 16. 3 Doors Down - Kryptonite 17. Spin Doctors - Jimmy Olsen's Blues 18. Skunk Anansie - I Hope You Get To Meet Your Hero 19. The Stranglers - No More Heroes 20. Madness - The Prince 21. Redman - A Day Of Sooperman Lover 22. Post Malone Swae Lee - Sunflower 23. Strange Boy, Enda Gallery - Immortal 24. The Pogues - The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn 25. Jon Anderson - Do You Want To Be A Hero 26. John Parr - St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion) 27. Go West - We Close Our Eyes 28. Tina Turner - We Don't Need Another Hero

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  • #ThePlaylist – 114 – Electric Dreams

    #ThePlaylist – 114 – Electric Dreams

    This week's theme-specific artwork, as produced for us by Troggie. It's a glitchy bundle of wires and neon lights in a cool, futuristic blue and purple, with a tremendously digital font that says "THEPLAYLIST"
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    #ThePlaylist – 114 – Electric Dreams
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    Join #ThePlaylist once again, where this week the Mainframe has chosen the theme of:

    Electric Dreams

    And we’re too scared of the Mainframe to go against its wishes. So two hours of whatever the phrase “electric dreams” conjured up in the silicon minds of the LLMs that sent in their suggestions for thematically appropriate songs that humans ‘enjoy’.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder - Together In Electric Dreams 02. Kabin Krew & Lisdoornvarma Crew - The Spark 03. Daft Punk - Aerodynamic 04. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Electricity 05. Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue 06. Sparks feat. Faith No More - This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us 07. Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric 08. Classix Nouveaux - Is It a Dream 09. Alec Bathgate - Your Heavy Dream (Won't Fly) 10. Moody Joody - Dream Girl 11. Marnie - Electric Youth 12. Tight Fit - The Lion Sleeps Tonight 13. Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town 14. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Have You Ever Been (to Electric Ladyland) 15. Dan Mangan - Robots 16. Electric Callboy - Tekkno Train 17. Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage 18. Brother Wallace - Electric Love 19. My Robot Friend - Robot High School 20. Bedrock KYO - For What You Dream Of 21. Dan Hartman - I Can Dream About You 22. Debbie Gibson - Only in My Dreams 23. Faust vs. Dälek - T-Electronique 24. Toshybot - The Life of Toshybot 25. Rush - The Body Electric 26. Say Anything - Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too 27. Lonely Robot - False Lights

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