#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 – 109 – Morally Bankrupt

    #ThePlaylist – 109 – Morally Bankrupt

    Promotional artwork for my radio show. It's designed to look like the now playing screen on a classic iPod, with the show info on the right side of the screen, and a photo of me on the left. It details that the show is broadcast on Mondays from 7pm until 9pm UK time.
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    This week on #ThePlaylist, we’re celebrating the World Cup™️, with the theme of:

    Morally Bankrupt

    So sit back and enjoy all the tunes that people paid us the most to play.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. Pet Shop Boys - Shameless 02. Heaven 17 - Temptation 03. BTS - BAEPSAE (뱁새) (Try-Hard/Silver Spoon) 04. The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury 05. Talking Heads - Talking Heads - Psycho Killer 06. She Drew The Gun - Class War (How Much) 07. Bo Burnham - Bezos I 08. Electronic - Getting Away With It 09. B.B. King - Sell My Monkey 10. Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band - Devils Look Like Angels 11. Elvis Presley - (You're the) Devil in Disguise 12. Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight 13. Midnight Oil - Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mine 14. Skunk Anansie - Hedonism (Just Because You Feel Good) 15. Violent Femmes - America Is 16. The Fall - Kicker Conspiracy 17. The Fatima Mansions - A Pack of Lies 18. The Northern Pikes - Things I Do For Money 19. TISM - (He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River 20. New Order - Thieves Like Us 21. Geto Boys - Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta 22. Alex Brightman - The Whole "Being Dead" Thing 23. Supergrass - In It For The Money 24. My Vitriol - Infantile 25. AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap 26. Neil Young - Rockin in the Free World 27. INXS - The Devil Inside 28. The Levellers - What A Beautiful Day

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  • #ThePlaylist – 109 – Car Wash Songs

    #ThePlaylist – 109 – Car Wash Songs

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    This week on #ThePlaylist, a guest theme, courtesy of @Nickiquote@mstdn.social, who wants to hear the world’s finest:

    Car Wash Songs

    And I do believe he’ll be very happy with what you’ve suggested. Will it be two hours of just that one song? Listen in and find out.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger 02. Take That - Shine 03. HyunA - Bubble Pop! 04. Rose Royce - Car Wash 05. Grace Jones - Pull Up to the Bumper 06. Prince - Soft And Wet 07. Chris Rea - The Road To Hell 08. Roxette - Joyride 09. The Cure - Mint Car 10. Cathy Davey - Clean & Neat 11. Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do 12. Rainy Miller - There's A Fiesta MkII On Fire 13. Einsturzende Neubauten - Fiat Lux 14. Cornershop - Summer Fun In A Beat Up Datsun 15. Sponge - Go Speed Racer Go 16. 7 Seconds of Love - My Car 17. Gino Vannelli - Black Cars 18. Studio Killers - Dirty Car 19. Crystal Method & Emily Haines - Come Back Clean 20. Chromeo - Fancy Footwork 21. Outkast - So Fresh and Clean 22. Masta Ace Incorporated - Sittin' on Chrome 23. Playlunch - Keith 24. Sweet Thing - Change of Seasons 25. The Turtles - Happy Together 26. Charlie Burse & His Memphis Mudcats - Oil It Up and Go 27. Squeeze - Up The Junction 28. The House of Love - Shine On

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  • #ThePlaylist – 108 – Puddin’

    #ThePlaylist – 108 – Puddin’

    This week's theme-specific artwork by Troggie, which is a trifle wearing headphones. Obviously. I am the raspberries in the jelly layer.
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    Behold the (knickerbocker) GLORY(ous) return of #ThePlaylist, where our theme this week is:

    Puddin’

    So go ahead and spoil your dinner with the (ice) CREAM of musical selections, some of which are actually related to the idea of pudding. Or dessert, if you’re one of *those*.

    You’d be a (strawberry) FOOL to miss out!

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. The Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) 02. Sugar Pie Desanto - Go Go Power 03. Shanks & Bigfoot - Sweet Like Chocolate 04. Michelle Gayle - Sweetness 05. Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar 06. The KLF - Justified & Ancient (Stand By The Jams) (feat. Tammy Wynette) 07. Lady Danville - Spoon 08. The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition 09. Everything but the Girl - Missing (Todd Terry remix) 10. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey 11. Pixies - Wild Honey Pie 12. CAKE - I Will Survive 13. Jelly Roll - I Am Not Okay 14. RAYE - Ice Cream Man. 15. John Grant - Caramel 16. BABYMETAL - Gimme Chocolate!! 17. Bloodywood - Tadka 18. My Bloody Valentine - Sunny Sundae Smile 19. Sam Apple Pie - Tiger Man 20. Art d’Ecco - Honeycomb 21. Bodo Wartke - Barbaras Rhabarberbar (feat. Marti Fischer) 22. DNCE - Cake by the Ocean 23. Dagny - Strawberry Dream 24. Artemis Munoz - Yoghurt 25. The Cast of Schmigadoon! - Corn Puddin' 26. The Muppets - Cottleston Pie 27. Weird Al Yankovic - Eat It 28. Sweet - Ballroom Blitz 29. Led Zeppelin - Custard Pie 30. Dana Louise and the Glorious Birds - Sweetest Thing 31. Eileen Barton - If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked A Cake

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  • #ThePlaylist – 107 – To Gaol With Ye!

    #ThePlaylist – 107 – To Gaol With Ye!

    This week's theme-specific artwork, in which I, a mediocre bearded white man with Good Headphones and hipster glasses, have my mugshot taken. I look proud of my crimes, as, indeed, I am. But what are my crimes? Well, it's up to you to find out.
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    #ThePlaylist – 107 – To Gaol With Ye!
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    #ThePlaylist returns jingling a big ‘ol buncha keys, fixin’ to lock you away, because our theme this week is:

    To Gaol With Ye!

    Two hours of bangup bangers, celebrating feeling the grip of the long arm of the law.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. Supergrass - Caught By The Fuzz 02. Bananarama - Love In The First Degree 03. En Vogue - Free Your Mind 04. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak 05. AC/DC - Jailbreak 06. The Donutsh - The Other Ronald True 07. Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock 08. The Soggy Bottom Boys Tim Blake Nelson - In The Jailhouse Now 09. Toots & The Maytals - 54-46 Was My Number 10. Duke Reid's All Stars - Judge Sympathy 11. Pretenders - Back on the Chain Gang 12. TAEMIN - Criminal 13. Bob Marley & The Wailers - I Shot The Sheriff 14. Amigo the Devil - Letter From Death Row 15. System of a Down - Prison Song 16. Clutch - Your Love Is Incarceration 17. The Living End - Prisoner of Society 18. Lambrini Girls - Bad Apple 19. Tom Waits - Hell Broke Luce 20. The Jezabels - Prisoner 21. Primal Scream - Jailbird 22. WildChild - Renegade Master [Fatboy Slim Old Skool Mix] 23. elio mei - Partner in Crime 24. Soft Cell - Tainted Love 25. Pink Floyd - Arnold Layne 26. The Arrogant Worms - The Last Saskatchewan Pirate 27. DLT feat. Che Fu - Chains 28. The Pharcyde - Officer 29. The Clash - I Fought the Law

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  • #ThePlaylist – 106 – slooooow

    This week's theme-specific artwork, in which I am, amazingly, a sloth. A DJ Sloth no less. I'm sitting at my desk, spinning the tunes, and being a sloth.
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    The weather is hotting up here in the UK, so our theme here at #ThePlaylist this week is:

    slooooow

    in an effort to encourage everyone to just chill out, alright?

    But, well, not every track this week is chilled. Sorry about that.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. Kylie Minogue - Slow 02. Dolly Parton - Slowlene 03. Simon & Garfunkel - The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) 04. Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady 05. Jimi Hendrix - Slow Blues 06. Ultravox - Slow Motion 07. Slowdive - When The Sun Hits 08. Interpol - Slow Hands 09. Tegan and Sara - Speak Slow 10. Luis Fonsi Feat. Daddy Yankee - Despacito 11. Brand Nubian - Slow Down 12. Flight Of The Conchords - A Kiss Is Not a Contract 13. Spiers & Boden - Sloe Gin Set 14. Benjamin Booker - Slow Dance in a Gay Bar 15. Rumer - Slow 16. Obituary - Slowly We Rot 17. Strong Bad - Moving Very Slowly 18. Sum 41 - Still Waiting 19. slowthai & Mura Masa - Doorman 20. PJ Harvey - The Slow Drug 21. Collie Buddz - Take It Easy 22. J‐Live - Them That's Not 23. Julianna Raye - Slowly 24. Laufey - Slow Down 25. The Pointer Sisters - Slow Hand 26. Girls At Our Best - Getting Nowhere Fast 27. Metallica - Creeping Death 28. Epica - Tides of Time 29. Louis Armstrong - We Have All the Time in the World

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  • #ThePlaylist – 105 – Rumours

    #ThePlaylist – 105 – Rumours

    This week's theme-specific artwork, which is the cover to Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours', but instead of Mick Fleetwood and Stevie Nicks, it's me. And I look wonderful. Thanks, Troggie.
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    This week, another guest theme, this time from sodslawyer, who suggests:

    Rumours

    or ‘Rumors’ if you’re one of those folks who spells words wrong and that.

    Two hours of tunes that don’t like to spread gossip, but simply have to tell you that…

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way 02. Gossip - Standing In the Way of Control 03. Adele - Rumour Has It 04. Bananarama - I Heard A Rumour 05. Hear'Say - Pure And Simple 06. Snow - Informer 07. Missy Elliott - Gossip Folks 08. Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed 09. The Beautiful South - Don't Marry Her 10. Panic! at the Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies 11. Gin Blossoms - Found Out About You 12. Marvin Gaye - Heard It Through The Grapevine 13. Brownstone - Grapevyne 14. Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding 15. Half Man Half Biscuit - Secret Gig 16. Pixies - I'm Amazed 17. Stereophonics - A Thousand Trees 18. REO Speedwagon - Take It on the Run 19. Reba McEntire - Rumor Has It 20. George Michael - Careless Whisper 21. Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - Johannesburg 22. Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him? 23. Depeche Mode - The Things You Said 24. Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over 25. The Abyssinian Baptist Choir - Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody 26. Billlie - the rumor 27. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (A-Trak remix)

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  • #ThePlaylist – 104 – Lord Sir David Attenborough

    This week's theme-specific artwork. It's 16 repeated photos of Sir David Attenborough, all tinted different colours, like an Andy Warhol piece.
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    #ThePlaylist is back, bothering your ears like a tiny mosquito, but one that brings nothing but the finest vibes.

    This week our theme is:

    Lord Sir David Attenborough

    And it has to be said, some of the suggestions have come from straight out of the left field. Which is exactly how we like it.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. Biscuithead & the Biscuit Badgers - David Attenborough 02. Def Leppard - Animal 03. They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul 04. Lin-Manuel Miranda - It's a Habitat Song 05. The Lonely Island feat. T‐Pain - I'm on a Boat 06. Rico, Guan, Sticks - David Attenborough 07. Leftfield - Phat Planet 08. Reef - YER OLD 09. (Hed) P. E. - Bartender 10. Jack Rundell - The Indoctrination of Sir David Attenborough 11. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Iron Lion Zion 12. Toto - Africa 13. Embrace - Nature's Law 14. Bastille, Freya Ridings, Hans Zimmer - Pompeii 15. Scott Walker - Farmer In The City 16. Frenzal Rhomb - Bird Attack 17. shedfromthebody - Nature's Weapons 18. ANOHNI - 4 Degrees 19. Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag 20. Odds - Heterosexual Man 21. Concrete Blonde - Joey 22. DREAMCATCHER - Maison 23. DJ Format feat Edan - Spaceship Earth 24. World Party - World Party 25. Eels - I Like Birds 26. Sigur Rós - Hoppípolla 27. Leyla McCalla - A day for the hunter, a day for the prey 28. Died Pretty - D.C. 29. The Divine Comedy - Life on Earth

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  • #ThePlaylist – 103 – Monkey Man

    #ThePlaylist – 103 – Monkey Man

    This week's artwork, in which Troggie has turned me into a crested macaque. Which is a monkey, so it's ok.
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    #ThePlaylist has stalked into your podcast feed, eyeing up your car to see what it can pull off, because the theme this week is:

    Monkey Man

    Two hours of SWINGING tunes, all set and ready to get you shaking your (bright red) arses. Not all of the songs are about monkeys though. Some are about apes, great and otherwise. But we’ll overlook that.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. Toots & The Maytals - Monkey Man 02. Pet Shop Boys - Monkey business 03. Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch 04. Gorillaz - 19-2000 (Soulchild Remix) 05. Tones and I - Dance Monkey 06. Justice vs. Simian - We Are Your Friends 07. Simian Mobile Disco - Audacity Of Huge 08. Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight 09. The Monkees - Last Train To Clarksville 10. Louis Prima, Phil Harris - I Wanna Be Like You 11. The Goodies - The Funky Gibbon 12. Rodrigo y Gabriela - Hanuman 13. Chimpo feat. Sålo - I Don't Care 14. dodie - Human 15. The Black Dahlia Murder - Statutory Ape 16. Die Spitz - Monkey Song 17. Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench 18. THE BOBBY LEES - Monkey Mind 19. AC/DC - Money Talks 20. The Kinks - Apeman 21. Findlay Napier - King Kong's Visit to Glasgow 22. Jake Thackray - Brother Gorilla (Le Gorille) 23. Dave & Ansell Collins - Monkey Spanner 24. Little Simz - Gorilla 25. Aphex Twin - Monkey Drummer 26. Plants and Animals - The Jungle 27. Regular Fries - King Kong 28. George Michael - Monkey

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  • #ThePlaylist – 102 – Other

    #ThePlaylist – 102 – Other

    This week's theme-specific artwork by Troggie. It me viewed from the side, but there are loads of Others of me, all stretching off to the left, like the stacking cards at the end of a game of Windows Solitaire.
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    This week on #ThePlaylist, we welcome a Guest Suggestor. Giflian brings us the theme of:

    Other

    And like Santa working as a butcher, we’re bringing you a sackful of bangers. Some of them even fit the theme!

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet 02. One Direction - One Way or Another 03. Christina Aguilera - Ain't No Other Man 04. Benny Benassi - Who's Your Daddy 05. Beverly Ann - You Got Your Mind On Other Things 06. Dolly Parton - Jolene 07. Caro Emerald - The Other Woman 08. KT Tunstall - Other Side of the World 09. Del Amitri - Some other sucker's parade 10. KD Lang - Constant Craving 11. Weird Al Yankovic - The Alternative Polka 12. The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO 13. Mika - Any Other World 14. Yann Tiersen - Comptine d’un autre été (l’après‐midi) 15. Jeff Buckley - The Other Woman 16. Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster 17. Supergrass - Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others 18. Wire - The Other Window(Peel Session) 19. The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes 20. Sloan - The Other Man 21. Birds of Tokyo - The Others 22. Geoff Thompson - Drone081622 23. Sally Shapiro - The Other Days 24. Maribou State; Holly Walker - Otherside 25. Digital Underground - Same Song 26. TV Rock vs. Dukes of Windsor - The Others 27. Elbow - Fugitive Motel 28. Biffy Clyro - Different People 29. The Doors - Break On Through (To The Other Side)

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  • #ThePlaylist – 101 – Moooon!

    #ThePlaylist – 101 – Moooon!

    The artwork for this week's episode. It's a drawing of the moon, but it has my creepy, distorted face. Orbiting around it is an Artemis craft, presumably full of astronauts who are suitably terrified by what they are witnessing. Thanks Troggie.
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    This week we’re all about the:

    Mooooon!

    Because, y’know, the ruddy bloody moon and folks flying around it and that. So two hours of tunes all about (or tangentially related to) our greatest satellite.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon 02. Tasmin Archer - Sleeping satellite 03. Mike Oldfield - Moonlight shadow 04. Gil Scott‐Heron - Whitey on the Moon 05. Ernie, Aaron Neville - I Don't Want To Live On The Moon 06. Hooters - Satellite 07. Gowan - Moonlight Desires 08. Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon 09. Belinda Carlisle - La Luna 10. AfroCubism - A la Luna Yo Me Voy 11. Feist - My Moon My Man 12. Enya - Astra et luna 13. Marielle Kraft, William Hinson - Carroll 14. Julie London - Fly Me To The Moon 15. Posthuman - Lander 16. The Field Mice - Missing The Moon_edit 17. Flight Facilities - Clair de Lune 18. The Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight 19. Creeper - Black Moon 20. Fields of the Nephilim - Moonchild 21. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising 22. Dave Cortez & The Moon People - Happy Soul 23. Murda x Ezhel - AYA 24. Nanci Griffith - Once In A Very Blue Moon 25. Elliott Smith - St. Ides Heaven 26. Shakespears Sister - Moonchild 27. Television - Venus 28. Public Service Broadcasting - Go!

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