#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 – 059 – Karaoke

    Artwork for this week's show, which is a horrifying image of me yelling into a microphone with a demented look on my face. The word 'Karaoke' is slashed across the image, lit up in neon.
    #ThePlaylist
    #ThePlaylist – 059 – Karaoke
    Loading
    /

    The podcast version of the world renowned radio show that broadcasts every Monday, 1900-2100 UK time at https://stream.djdarren.site.

    Click to see the track listing
    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod. The songs are: 01. The Beach Boys - Surfin' Safari 02. Sly and the Family Stone - Everyday People 03. Isaac Hayes - Theme from Shaft 04. ABBA - Dancing Queen 05. Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen 06. Neil Diamond - Love On The Rocks 07. Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton - Islands in the Stream 08. Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire 09. Elvis Presley - Burning Love 10. Shania Twain - Man! I Feel Like A Woman 11. Tracy Byrd - Ten Rounds With Jose Cuervo 12. Martika - Toy Soldiers 13. Janet Kay - Silly Games 14. Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings 15. Bon Jovi - You Give Love A Bad Name 16. Alice Cooper - Poison 17. Black Sabbath - War Pigs 18. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Feel Like A Number 19. Alannah Myles - Black Velvet 20. Roxy Music - More Than This 21. Sparks - When Do I Get to Sing "My Way" 22. Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London 23. Just Jack - Starz In Their Eyes 24. Corey Hart - Sunglasses At Night 25. Scritti Politti - Absolute 26. Fools Garden - Lemon Tree 27. CAKE - I Will Survive 28. Meat Loaf - Paradise By The Dashboard Light

    // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //

  • #ThePlaylist – 058 – Hooked on Classics

    Artwork for this week's radio show. It features a series of composers over an image of some sheet music with a viola.
    #ThePlaylist
    #ThePlaylist – 058 – Hooked on Classics
    Loading
    /
    Click to see the track listing
    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod. The songs are: 01. Bachman-Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet 02. Mika - Grace Kelly 03. Falco - Rock Me Amadeus 04. Hieroglyphics - Classic 05. Busdriver - Imaginary Places 06. William Orbit - Barbers Adagio For Strings 07. Lamb - Angelica 08. Hybrid - Finished Symphony 09. Rob Dougan - Clubbed To Death 10. Malcolm Mclaren - Something's Jumping In Your Shirt 11. Sky - Toccata 12. David Essex - Rock on 13. Procol Harum - Whiter Shade Of Pale 14. Alicia Keys - Fallin’ 15. Extreme - Flight of the Wounded Bumblebee 16. Extreme - Play With Me 17. Dragonland - Beethoven's Nightmare 18. Muse - Plug In Baby 19. 악단광칠 ADG7 - 맞이를 가요(Hello, Lonely) 20. Public Image Ltd. - Swan Lake 21. A House - Endless Art 22. Wendy Carlos - Theme from A Clockwork Orange (Beethoviana) 23. Wendy Carlos - William Tell Overture 24. Vanessa-Mae - Bach Street Prelude 25. Sting - Russians 26. Tom Lehrer - The Elements 27. Erasure - In The Hall Of The Mountain King 28. Liquid Tension Experiment - Rhapsody in Blue 29. Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé - Barcelona

    // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //

  • #ThePlaylist – 057 – Pride

    Artwork for this week's show. It's a purple classic iPod. It says "#ThePlaylist PRIDE" on the screen.
    #ThePlaylist
    #ThePlaylist – 057 – Pride
    Loading
    /
    Click to see the track listing
    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod. The songs are: 01. The Muppet Show - Rainbow Connection 02. Pet Shop Boys - It's a Sin 03. Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy 04. Chappell Roan - Pink Pony Club 05. Lady Gaga - Born This Way 06. Janelle Monae - Make Me Feel 07. Nemo - The Code 08. Devo - Whip It 09. Bif Naked - Lucky 10. George Michael - Freedom 90 11. Ezra Furman - Power of the Moon 12. Rufus Wainwright - Going To A Town 13. Grace Petrie - Pride 14. Judas Priest - Breaking The Law 15. Pussy Riot, Boys Noize - RAGE (Boys Noize Remix) 16. One Shot - Patrick Hernandez - Born To Be Alive 17. Hannah Jones - I Am What I Am (Almighty Anthem Radio Edit) 18. The Magnetic Fields - When My Boy Walks Down The Street 19. Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colors 20. Pete Shelley - Homosapien 21. Tegan And Sara - Stop Desire 22. Kae Tempest - Statue In The Square 23. The Communards - There's More To Love [Than Boy Meets Girl] 24. Snap! - The Power 25. Zand - Boys Like U 26. Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)

    // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //

  • #ThePlaylist – 056 – The joy of being advertised at

    Artwork for this week's episode of the radio show. It's a hellish collage of various website popups and adverts.
    #ThePlaylist
    #ThePlaylist – 056 – The joy of being advertised at
    Loading
    /
    Click to see the track listing
    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod. The songs are: 01. Brian May - Driven by You 02. Pearl & Dean - Asteroid (Pearl & Dean Theme) 03. Dr. Alban - It’s My Life 04. Groove Armada - I See You Baby (Fatboy Slim remix) 05. Babylon Zoo - Spaceman 06. Leftfield - Phat Planet 07. Adam Freeland - We Want Your Soul 08. Arab Strap - The First Big Weekend 09. Trinity Roots - Little Things 10. Janis Joplin - Mercedes Benz 11. Aretha Franklin - Love for Sale (original session take) 12. Perry Como Mitchell Ayres Orchestra - Magic moments 13. Sarah McLachlan - Angel 14. Vashti Bunyan - Diamond Day 15. The Undertones - Mars Bars 16. Snuff - Bran Flakes 17. The Saints - Know Your Product 18. Stiltskin - Inside 19. Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi 20. The Adverts - The Adverts 21. The Go! Team - Buy Nothing Day 22. The Caesars - Jerk It Out 23. Small Ads - Small Ads 24. DEVO - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 25. Steve Harley - Mr Soft 26. Kinky Friedman - Sold American 27. The New Seekers - I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing 28. Tom Waits - Step Right Up 29. The Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs

    // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //

  • #ThePlaylist – 055 – Hungover

    Artwork for this week's radio show. It features a photo of me with an atrocious hangover, under a blanket on the sofa. The caption reads "Everything hurts and I'm dying"
    #ThePlaylist
    #ThePlaylist – 055 – Hungover
    Loading
    /
    Click to see the track listing
    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod. The songs are: 01. Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff - Dizzy 02. Nazareth - Hair of the Dog 03. Diana Ross - Love Hangover 04. Nouvelle Vague - Friday Night Saturday Morning 05. Ann Richards - The Morning After (The Night Before) 06. The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man 07. The Dubliners - Seven Drunken Nights 08. Spirit of the West - Home For a Rest 09. The Irish Rovers - Wasn't That a Party 10. Spin Doctors - If The River Was Whiskey 11. Blur - Badhead 12. Pulp - Bar Italia 13. Martyn Wyndham-Read - Oh for Me Grog 14. The Wildhearts - Caffeine Bomb 15. Feeder - Under the Weather 16. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Red Eyes and Tears 17. Machine Gun Kelly - hangover cure 18. Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine - Panic 19. Pop Will Eat Itself - Wake Up Time to Die 20. Gomez - Hangover 21. Buraka Som Sistema - Hangover (BaBaBa) 22. New Order - Regret 23. Spirit - Nature's Way 24. Great Big Sea - The Old Black Rum 25. Marillion - Gazpacho

    // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //

  • #ThePlaylist – 054 – EuropeVision

    Artwork for this week's show. It features a rainbow background, a circle of stars like the EU flag. The name of the show is styled to look like the Eurovision logo.
    #ThePlaylist
    #ThePlaylist – 054 – EuropeVision
    Loading
    /
    Click to see the track listing
    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod. The songs are: 01. Marc-Antoine Charpentier - Te Deum: Prélude 02. Dadi Freyr - Think About Things 03. Jaune Toujours - Song 2 04. Hothouse Flowers - Don't Go 05. Billy Ocean - European Queen 06. Japan - European Son 07. Emmelie De Forest - Only Teardrops 08. Kate Ryan - Je T'Adore 09. Verka Seduchka - Dancing Lasha Tumbai 10. Neil Points - Nil Points 11. Neil Innes - Mr. Eurovision 12. M - Pop Muzik 13. Berlin - Take My Breath Away 14. Gary Moore & Phil Lynott - Parisienne Walkways 15. Kate Bush - Oh England My Lionheart 16. Caroline Henderson - Made in Europe 17. Käärijä - Cha Cha Cha 18. Asian Dub Foundation - Fortress Europe 19. I Farm - Bill Shatner Speaks Esperanto, Do You? 20. Europe - Seven Doors Hotel 21. Europe - The Final Countdown 22. J.J. Burnel - Ode To Joy / Do The European 23. E-Rotic - Max Don't Have Sex With Your Ex 24. Go_A - SHUM 25. K2 - Der Berg ruft 26. Nena - 99 Luftballons 27. Sparkling - I Want to See Everything 28. Fleet Foxes - Mykonos 29. Will Ferrell & My Marianne - Husavik

    // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //

  • #ThePlaylist – 053 – One

    Artwork for this week's show. It features my face (kind of) as a robot atop a celebration cake that has a big number one on it.
    #ThePlaylist
    #ThePlaylist – 053 – One
    Loading
    /
    Click to see the track listing
    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod. The songs are: 01. A Chorus Line Ensemble - One 02. Blondie - One Way Or Another 03. Bob Marley & The Wailers - One Love/People Get Ready 04. Goldfrapp - Number 1 05. Scooter - One (Always Hardcore) 06. Faithless - We Come 1 07. And One - Techno Man 08. Dessa - Twelve To One 09. Yoh Kamiyama - UNO 10. Roots Manuva - Witness (1 Hope) 11. Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove 12. Prince Buster / Madness - Two Steps Beyond 13. Hot Chocolate - Everyone's A Winner 14. Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime 15. Aimee Mann - One 16. Drowning Pool - Bodies 17. Muse - Uno 18. Ignea - To No One I Owe 19. Queen - One Vision 20. Summer Cannibals - One Of Many 21. The Alarm - One Guitar 22. R.E.M. - The One I Love 23. Crowded House - Four Seasons in One Day 24. Gearoid McCarthy - Going Out For One 25. Eagles - One Of These Nights 26. ABBA - One of Us 27. Manfred Mann - 5-4-3-2-1 28. Johnny Cash - One 29. King Creosote - For One Night Only

    // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //

  • #ThePlaylist – 052 – Seven Deadly Sins

    Artwork for this episode of the show. It features a photo of me, a beardy bloke with glasses, looking somewhat demonic over a firey background. I'm surrounded by caricatures of a certain president loooking like a toddler having a tantrum, each of which is labeled with one of the sins.
    #ThePlaylist
    #ThePlaylist – 052 – Seven Deadly Sins
    Loading
    /
    Click to see the track listing
    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod. The songs are: 01. The Pointer Sisters - I'm So Excited 02. Kelis - Caught Out There 03. Sandy - Eat Eat Eat 04. X‐Press 2 feat. David Byrne - Lazy 05. Skee-Lo - I Wish 06. DJ Format - I'm Good (feat. Abdominal) 07. King - Love & Pride 08. Simple Minds - 7 Deadly Sins 09. Iggy Pop - Lust for Life 10. Queen - Drowse 11. Jamie Cullum - Twentysomething 12. Del Amitri - Nothing Ever Happens 13. Flanders & Swan - The Sloth 14. Upon a Burning Body - All Pride No Pain 15. Peter And The Test Tube Babies - I Lust For The Disgusting Things In Life 16. Bowling for Soup - Envy 17. Reel Big Fish - Sell Out 18. REN - Seven Sins 19. Nina Simone - Sinnerman (Felix da Housecat’s Heavenly House mix) 20. Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch 21. The Offspring - Why Don’t You Get a Job? 22. Van Halen - Jump 23. Barrett Strong - Money (That's What I Want) 24. Etta James - Almost Persuaded 25. Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him? 26. The The - Dogs of Lust 27. Billy Idol - Rebel Yell 28. Weird Al Yankovic - Eat It

    // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //

  • #ThePlaylist – 051 – New Beginnings

    Artwork for this episode, showing the new regular show artwork emerging from a broken egg.
    #ThePlaylist
    #ThePlaylist – 051 – New Beginnings
    Loading
    /
    Click to see the track listing
    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod. The songs are: 01. Justin Timberlake - SexyBack 02. Mark Morrison - Return Of The Mack 03. Cher - Believe 04. Daniele Silvestri - Salirò 05. Pet Shop Boys Dusty Springfield - What Have I Done to Deserve This? 06. Paul Young - Come Back And Stay 07. Was (Not Was) - Walk The Dinosaur 08. The Equals - Baby Come Back 09. The Spinners - Working My Way Back To You 10. Maxine Nightingale - Right Back Where We Started From 11. Elvis Presley - Return To Sender 12. Billy Joel - River Of Dreams 13. David Gray - Back in the World 14. Mac Miller - Come Back to Earth 15. Vashti Bunyan - Wayward 16. Halestorm - Back From The Dead 17. Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back in Town 18. Republica - Ready to Go 19. The Crystal Method - Comin' Back (The Lights Southern Grit Remix) 20. Panacea - Battle Stations (Dub) 21. Unknown Artist - Forgot about Dre (artfully dodged remix) 22. Digital Underground - The Return Of The Crazy One 23. Republic Of Loose - Comeback Girl 24. Mighty Wah! - Come Back 25. Straw - Dracula Has Risen From the Grave 26. XTC - Easter Theatre 27. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

    // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //

  • #ThePlaylist – 050 – Television

    Artwork for this episode. It features an old CRT TV with "#ThePlaylist" on the screen, and rays of light coming from it.
    #ThePlaylist
    #ThePlaylist – 050 – Television
    Loading
    /
    Click to see the track listing
    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod. The songs are: 01. Lisa Lougheed - Run With Us 02. Jovanotti - Televisione Televisione 03. Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers 04. Talking Heads - Found A Job 05. Buggles - On TV 06. A-Ha - The Sun Always Shines on T.V. 07. Urban Hype - Trip to Trumpton 08. The Normal - T.V.O.D. 09. Billy Idol - Neuromancer 10. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Throw Away Your Television 11. Bruce Springsteen - 57 Channels (and Nothin’ On) 12. Pale Blue Eyes - TV Flicker 13. Apparat - Goodbye 14. Pentangle - Light Flight 15. Johnny Flynn - Detectorists 16. Snuff - Shake 'n' Black 17. Black Flag - TV Party 18. Nuclear Assault - Brainwashed 19. The Rezillos - Top Of The Pops 20. Ming Tea - BBC 21. Dramarama - 70's TV 22. Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Kill Your Television 23. Frank Zappa & The Mothers - I'm the Slime 24. Harry Nilsson - Kojak Columbo 25. Dire Straits - Money For Nothing 26. Matt Berry - Take My Hand 27. The Mighty Terror & His Calypsonians - T.V. Calypso 28. Catatonia - Mulder and Scully 29. Television Personalities - I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives 30. Violent Femmes - I Hate The TV 31. Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

    // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //