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  • #ThePlaylist – 095 – Ya Mama

    Artwork for this week's episode, which is a photo of a mother holding her newborn baby to her breast. But the mother is me, a baldy, beardy man, and the newborn baby is an iPod with me on the screen. Looking on in horror is Troggie, the artist who devised this magnificent piece.
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    This week on #ThePlaylist we celebrated:

    Ya Mama

    Yes, YOUR mother. We celebrated her*, and we celebrated** her good. Two hours of songs about *your* mother.
    _
    *if she is/was great. We will berate her if not. Harshly.
    **or berate her

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 

01. Mr. T - Treat Your Mother Right
02. Big Mama Thornton - They Call Me Big Mama
03. Mama Cass - Make Your Own Kind Of Music
04. ABBA - Does Your Mother Know
05. Junior - Mama Used To Say
06. Fatboy Slim - Ya Mama
07. Outkast - Ms. Jackson
08. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
09. Rag 'n' Bone Man - Human
10. Cliff Richard - Devil Woman
11. Sparks - Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth
12. Nadine Shah - Topless Mother
13. Brian Eno - Mother Whale Eyeless
14. Jann Arden - Good Mother
15. La Femme Pendu - Maman
16. Tom Lehrer - Oedipus Rex
17. Lemmy Kilmister - Tie Your Mother Down
18. Babes In Toyland - Mother
19. Wolfmother - Joker And The Thief
20. John Butler Trio - Treat Yo Mama
21. Lenny Kravitz - Always On The Run
22. The Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love
23. Annie and the Caldwells - Wrong
24. LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
25. Suprême NTM - Police
26. Danzig - Mother
27. Rammstein - Mutter
28. Thunder - Low Life In High Places
29. Will Young - Leave Right Now

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

  • #ThePlaylist – 094 – Whistling

    #ThePlaylist – 094 – Whistling

    This week's artwork, featuring a photo of me - a baldy, beardy man with glasses and big headphones, whistling. "#ThePlaylist" is snaking out of my mouth.
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    Behold #ThePlaylist in its somewhat less than glorious form, having wrestled with us for two whole hours worth of every tech issue it could throw. But we managed it! And our theme this week was:

    Whistling.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera - Moves Like Jagger 02. Gorillaz - Orange County 03. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home 04. Jim Guthrie & JJ Ipsen - The Light in Us All 05. Andrew Bird - Sisyphus 06. Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers 07. Nik Kershaw - Bogart 08. Mike + the Mechanics - Over My Shoulder 09. Bobby Mcferrin - Don't Worry, Be Happy 10. Lick the Tins - Can't Help Falling in Love 11. Molly Lewis - On the Lips 12. Einstürzende Neubauten - Der Schacht von Babel 13. Goldfrapp - Lovely Head 14. Homespun - Whistlestop Blues 15. Avatar - A Secret Door 16. My Chemical Romance - Hang 'Em High 17. Thy Catafalque - Thy Catafalque - Embersolyom 18. Jethro Tull - The Whistler 19. Stromae - Santé 20. Bob Sinclar feat. Gary "Nesta" Pine - Love Generation 21. The Goodmen - Give It Up 22. Brother Bones & his Shadows - Sweet Georgia Brown 23. They Might Be Giants - Whistling in the Dark 24. Area Code 615 - Stone Fox Chase 25. Air - Alpha Beta Gaga 26. Otis Redding - Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay 27. Eliza Carthy - The Galaxy Song 28. Monty Python - Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

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

  • #ThePlaylist – 093 – Behind

    #ThePlaylist – 093 – Behind

    The artwork for this week's episode. It's a purple butt, with "The Playlist" tattooed on it in fancy script.
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    Behold the return of #ThePlaylist, with the theme this week of:

    Behind

    And, well, obviously most of the songs are about butts. We should have anticipated this. So yeah, kick back, relax, and enjoy two hours of fine, artisanal songs about arses.

    (though not *entirely* about arses)

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 
01. Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back
02. Groove Armada, Gram’ma Funk - I See You Baby
03. Kylie Minogue - Step Back in Time
04. Phil Collins - Behind the Lines
05. The O’Jays - Back Stabbers
06. The Isley Brothers - Behind a Painted Smile
07. Ella Fitzgerald - Get Thee Behind Me Satan
08. Spın̈al Tap - Big Bottom
09. Scott Walker - Get Behind Me
10. Stump - Buffalo
11. AFI - Behind The Clock
12. The Nectarine No. 9 - This Arsehole's Been Burned Too Many Times Before
13. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
14. Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
15. Slipknot - Left Behind
16. The Jonny Cats - Pinky Black
17. The Saints - (I'm) Stranded
18. The Offspring - Leave It Behind
19. Rise Against - Behind Closed Doors
20. INFINITE - The Chaser
21. Yellow Magic Orchestra - Behind the Mask
22. Darren Hayes - Strange Relationship
23. Green Day - Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
24. The Who - Behind Blue Eyes
25. Brian - Don't Leave Me Behind
26. Rickie Lee Jones - The Last Chance Texaco
27. Wolfe Tones - The Men Behind The Wire
28. Ride - Leave Them All Behind

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

  • #ThePlaylist – 092 – Geology

    #ThePlaylist – 092 – Geology

    This week's theme-specific artwork by Troggie. It depicts the artwork for this week's songs, presented as geological strata.
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    Grab your pickaxes and hard helmets with the little lights on them and join #ThePlaylist on a journey through the Earth’s layers, with this week’s theme:

    Geology

    Two hours of songs about how much people wanna ROCK! and that. But also mostly about mining. But in a good way, like.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are:

01. Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground
02. The Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron
03. Carole King - I Feel the Earth Move
04. Elton John - Crocodile Rock
05. Ashford And Simpson - Solid
06. DJ Format & Abdominal - Diamond Hammer
07. De La Soul - Cool Breeze On The Rocks
08. EPMD - Richter Scale
09. The Shamen - Move Any Mountain
10. Jamiroquai - Deeper Underground
11. Model/Actriz - Slate
12. Cabaret Voltaire - Landslide
13. Show of Hands - Cousin Jack
14. John Grant - Glacier
15. Bryan Adams - Kids Wanna Rock
16. Rancid - Ruby Soho
17. Wind Rose - Diggy Diggy Hole
18. Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
19. Trini Lopez - If I Had A Hammer
20. Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground
21. Heather Nova - Valley Of Sound
22. Jim Ghedi - Old Stones
23. Great Lake Swimmers - Your Rocky Spine
24. Harry McLintock - Big Rock Candy Mountain
25. Sam Cooke - Wonderful World
26. Hunters & Collectors - The Slab
27. Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song
28. ROSALÍA - Berghain
29. Aretha Franklin - Climbing Higher Mountains

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

  • #ThePlaylist – 091 – We All Stand Together

    This week's theme-specific artwork by Troggie. It's a collage of images of people at anti-racist protests.
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    Unite and fight, for #ThePlaylist returns once more to promote solidarity for all, with our theme this week being:

    We All Stand Together

    Because, well, the world feels a tiny bit fractured now, doesn’t it? And yes, that’s mostly because of the media we consume, but it still doesn’t feel great. So here we have two hours of tunes about sticking together one way or the other, and fighting for what’s right.

    And what’s right is listening to #ThePlaylist and sharing it with all your friends. This is the Wyld Stallyns of radio.

    Excellent. *air guitar*

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 

01. Sister Sledge - We Are Family
02. Missy Elliott - We Run This
03. Canned Heat - Let's Work Together
04. Nigerian Union Rhythm Group - Unity
05. Strawbs - Part Of The Union
06. U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love)
07. Gogol Bordello - Solidarity
08. KNEECAP - Parful
09. The Parachute Club - Rise Up
10. Simply Red - We’re in This Together (Universal Feeling mix)
11. Robert Palmer - Every Kind of People
12. Al Jarreau - We're In This Love Together
13. Blue Murder - No One Stands Alone
14. mclusky - What We've Learned
15. Hyphen, Aadarsh Gautam - Go Back
16. IDLES - Danny Nedelko
17. Waterparks - Waterparks - ICE
18. Rage Against the Machine - Take the Power Back
19. Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y.
20. Bill Withers - Lean on Me
21. Spiritualized - Come Together
22. Goanna - Solid Rock
23. Nickelback - When We Stand Together
24. James - Sit Down
25. Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis
26. Billy Bragg - City of Heroes
27. John Farnham - You're The Voice

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

  • #ThePlaylist – 090 – A Land Down Under

    #ThePlaylist – 090 – A Land Down Under

    This week's artwork, featuring my beautiful face, with a map of Tasmania as my beard.
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    G’day cobbers, and behold the glorious return of #ThePlaylist.

    Our theme this week:

    A Land Down Under

    where we’ve got two hours of songs that we’ll be playing upside down, while fighting off kangaroos and emus and flaming galahs and that, while some mongrel nicks our ute.

    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. Men At Work - Down Under
02. Midnight Oil - Beds are Burning
03. Savage Garden - I Want You
04. Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
05. Kylie Minogue - I can't get you out of my head
06. INXS - Need You Tonight
07. The Cat Empire - Hello
08. John Williamson - Old Man Emu
09. Johnny Cash - Ned Kelly
10. The Cruel Sea - The Honeymoon Is Over
11. The Angels - Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again (Live, Melbourne, 1988)
12. Jack Johnson - Better Together
13. Dead Can Dance - The Host Of Seraphim
14. Amyl and the Sniffers - Security
15. The Chats - Smoko
16. Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl
17. Eskimo Joe - Sarah
18. The Drones - The Minotaur
19. Dan McCabe - Van Diemen's Land
20. Yothu Yindi - Gone is the Land
21. Redgum - Laughing It All Away
22. OMC - How Bizarre
23. The Go-Betweens - Streets Of Your Town
24. Matt Hsu's Obscure Orchestra - Live Laugh Decolonise
25. Tina Turner - We Don't Need Another Hero
26. Icehouse - Mr. Big (1986)
27. AC/DC - It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)

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

  • #ThePlaylist – 089 – Shoes

    This week's theme-specific artwork, which is the Nikes from Back to the Future 2, with ThePlaylist written down the side of them.
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    This week all-star edition of #ThePlaylist, where our theme is:

    Shoes

    Or, well, footwear as a whole if we’re honest. Because MOST of you seem to believe that a boot is a shoe.

    Two hours of the finest footwear themes for your fanciest footwork.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 

01. Patrick McNee & Honor Blackman - Kinky Boots
02. Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes
03. Run DMC - My Adidas
04. Technotronic - Pump Up the Jam
05. Little Boots - Remedy
06. U96 - Das Boot
07. Tiga - Shoes
08. Depeche Mode - Walking in My Shoes
09. Lenny Kravitz - Dirty White Boots
10. Lionrock - Fire Up the Shoesaw
11. 2NU - This Is Ponderous
12. Zoé Basha - Traveling Shoes
13. Rumer - Aretha
14. Sultans Of Ping F.C. - Kick Me With Your Leather Boots
15. Kings of Leon - Four Kicks
16. The Films - Black Shoes
17. The Fall - Kicker Conspiracy
18. Sabaton - The Last Stand
19. Luce - Chaussures
20. Todrick Hall - Nails, Hair, Hips, Heels
21. ITZY - SNEAKERS
22. Lo Fidelity Allstars feat․ Pigeonhed - Battle Flag
23. Jenny Wilson - Let My Shoes Lead Me Forward
24. Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'
25. Chava Alberstein & The Klezmatics - Kh'vel Oyston Di Shikh
26. Paolo Nutini - New Shoes
27. Marc Cohn - Walking in Memphis

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

  • #ThePlaylist – 088 – Rubbish!

    #ThePlaylist – 088 – Rubbish!

    This week's artwork, featuring a photo of a bin with some rubbish. Prominent in the centre is a can of Playlist hazy IPA, produced by the Siren brewery. It is very nice.
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    For absolutely no reason whatsoever, this week’s theme is:

    Rubbish

    Yes. Two hours of rubbish music. Or music about rubbish. I dunno. The Eternal Ednas once again worked well together and built the best rubbish show it’s possible to have.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. The Wombles - The Wombling Song 02. Suede - Trash 03. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop 04. “Weird Al” Yankovic - Trash Day 05. Foster the People - Waste 06. Ronan Keating - Lovin' Each Day 07. Randy Newman - I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away 08. The Lancashire Hotpots - Has the Bin Man Bin Mon? 09. Oscar the Grouch - I Love Trash (feat. Josh Groban) 10. Lonnie Donnegan - My Old Man's Dustman 11. Ian Dury And The Blockheads - What A Waste 12. Cathy Davey - Rubbish Ocean 13. The Who - Baba O’Riley 14. Garbage - The World Is Not Enough 15. The Cardigans - Junk of the Hearts 16. Alice Cooper - Trash 17. Ministry - Goddamn White Trash 18. Faith No More - Everything's Ruined 19. Sisters Of Mercy - This Corrosion 20. Carter USM - Rubbish 21. Frente! - Horrible 22. LEATHERS - Daydream Trash 23. Lake Street Dive - Bad Self Portraits 24. Shirley Davis, Silverbacks - Take out the Trash 25. The Trashmen - Surfin' Bird 26. The Coasters - Yakety Yak 27. Half Man Half Biscuit - Breaking News 28. Fullscratch - Garbage 29. Roni Size - Brown Paper Bag 30. The Cherry Thing - Dirt

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

  • #ThePlaylist – 087 – Looking Forward

    Lovely artwork created by @Troggie@beige.party It shows a road in the New Forest stretching towards the horizon. There's a beautiful sunset studded with fluffy clouds, over which reads "ThePlaylist" in a fat,opaque font. At the bottom, on the road, it says "Looking Forward" in a black font, with a shadow stretching towards the camera.
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    Lovely artwork created by @Troggie@beige.party It shows a road in the New Forest stretching towards the horizon. There's a beautiful sunset studded with fluffy clouds, over which reads "ThePlaylist" in a fat,opaque font. At the bottom, on the road, it says "Looking Forward" in a black font, with a shadow stretching towards the camera.

    Behold the GLORIOUS return of #ThePlaylist, ready to fiddle with your ears and generally make you feel all funny inside.

    It’s the start of yet another year, so the theme this week is:

    Looking Forward

    We have two splendid hours of splendid tunes, all about looking forward. Or, more literally, being able to see. Either way, tunes good.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 

01. Busted - Year 3000
02. Huey Lewis & The News - Back In Time
03. The Cure - Friday I'm in Love
04. Doris Day - Que Sera Sera
05. Caro Emerald - Coming Back as a Man
06. Omd - Pretending To See The Future
07. Roger Taylor - Future Management
08. Gossip - Move in the Right Direction
09. Flight Of The Conchords - Robots
10. Tom Waits - Straight to the Top (Vegas)
11. Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now
12. Pete Atkin - Song for Rita
13. Willy Mason - Oxygen
14. Joshua Kadison - Jessie
15. Living Colour - Sailin' On
16. Iron Maiden - Days of Future Past
17. Matthew Good Band - The Future Is X-Rated
18. Front Line Assembly - Provision (12" Version)
19. Autograf - Future Soup (feat. Patrick Baker)
20. Leftfield With Africa Bambaataa - Afrika Shox
21. The B‐52s - Song for a Future Generation
22. Sparks - Sainthood Is Not in Your Future
23. The Five Stairsteps - O-o-h Child
24. The Kinks - This Time Tomorrow
25. Tall Dwarfs - The Future See
26. Public Service Broadcasting - Progress
27. Timbuk3 - The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades

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

  • #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

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