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  • #ThePlaylist – 074 – Instruments (of pleasure)

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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's @#ThePlaylist@ spelled ou in instruments that are roughly the same shape as the letters they represent. In the background, a photo of the Royal Albert Hall.

    Wrap your lips around your horns, and finger your banjo strings, because this week the theme on #ThePlaylist is:

    Instruments (of pleasure)

    And what a pleasure this week’s show is. Who knew that two hours of music about instruments could be so enjoyable? WE DID, THAT’S WHY WE CHOSE THE THEME

    …breathe…

    Enjoy.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 1. Mike Oldfield - The Bell 2. T. Rex - Bang A Gong (Get It On) 3. The Avett Brothers - Kick Drum Heart 4. Flanders & Swann - Ill Wind 5. Dennis Brain & Morley College Symphony Orchestra - Concerto For Hosepipe And Strings (3rd Movement) 6. Lord Kitchener - Saxophone No. 2 7. Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Braggin’ in Brass 8. Black Moon - Two Turntables & A Mic 9. MC Honky - 3 Turntables & 2 Microphones 10. Billy Joel - Piano Man 11. Pete Atkin - Thirty Year Man 12. The Watersons - Sound, Sound Your Instruments of Joy 13. Portishead - Roads 14. Joyryde Joyryde Joyryde - HOT DRUM 15. Rhythim Is Rhythim - Strings of Life 16. Man Parrish - Six Simple Synthesizers 17. N.R.G. - Instruments of Destruction 18. Vibrators - Stiff Little Fingers 19. Candy Dulfer - Saxuality 20. The Gift - Love Without Violins feat. Brian Eno 21. The Alice Band - Tambourine song 22. Brenda Russell - Piano In The Dark 23. Stereophonics - Violins And Tambourines 24. Blink - Cello 25. B.B. King - My Lucille

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  • #ThePlaylist – 073 – Days become Nights

    The artwork for this week's edition of #ThePlaylist. It features a drawing of a crescent moon with twinkling stars, with layers of clouds, all designed to look like they're made from felt.
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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 features a drawing of a crescent moon with twinkling stars, with layers of clouds, all designed to look like they're made from felt.

    Rage, rage against the dying of the light with #ThePlaylist, and this week’s theme of:

    Days become Nights

    We intended it to be about the equinox, the nights getting longer, but most of you suggested songs about night and twilight. And honestly, you all understood the assignment better than I did, because these tunes are magnificent.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. The KLF - 3 A.M. Eternal (Live At The S.S.L.) 02. Selena Gomez, benny blanco - Sunset Blvd 03. Ed Rush vs Tali - Dark Days 04. Commodores - Nightshift 05. Leathers - Day for Night 06. Massive Attack - Hymn of the Big Wheel 07. Breakestra - At The End Of The Day 08. Ice-T - Midnight 09. Keith Hudson - Darkest Night 10. Ella Fitzgerald - A Night in Tunisia 11. Melody Gardot - Your Heart Is as Black as Night 12. Alan Clayson - The Moonlight Skater 13. Nick Drake - Pink Moon 14. Reginald Mobley - Sunset 15. The Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun 16. Pet Shop Boys - In The Night 17. Wire - Nocturnal Koreans 18. Jovanotti - Gente Della Notte 19. The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight 20. Mercury Rev - The Dark Is Rising 21. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Night Moves 22. Them - Here Comes the Night 23. Marc Laidlaw - Evening Air 24. R.E.M. - Daysleeper 25. Indigo Girls - Midnight Train To Georgia 26. The Gloaming - Freedom

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  • #ThePlaylist – 072 – International

    Artwork for this week's edition of #ThePlaylist It looks like an old BBC ident screen, featuring a drawing of Earth, with 'INTERNATIONAL' written across it in a very 70s font.
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    Artwork for this week's edition of #ThePlaylist It looks like an old BBC ident screen, featuring a drawing of Earth, with 'INTERNATIONAL' written across it in a very 70s font.

    Grab your passports and your tiny bottles of liquid, because this week #ThePlaylist is going:

    International

    Two hours of cromulent bangers, crossing the globe from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe (though not necessarily touching down in either country)

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated ipod The songs are: 01. Animaniacs - Yakko's World 02. Fuzzbox - International Rescue 03. Public Service Broadcasting - Towards the Dawn 04. Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World 05. New Order - World in Motion 06. Sys Bjerre - Hey Vanessa 07. Camera Obscura - Let’s Get Out of This Country 08. Japan - Visions Of China 09. Depeche Mode - World in My Eyes 10. Luna - IHOP 11. Tom Waits - Singapore 12. Pekko Kappi - Sonja 13. Daniel Kahn - Ekh lyuli lyuli 14. Billy Bragg - The Internationale 15. The HU - The Trooper 16. The Von Bondies - It Came From Japan 17. La Femme Pandu - Je Vous Jette Dehors 18. Ladytron - International Dateline 19. Super Furry Animals - (Drawing) Rings Around The World 20. Think of One - Tirar Onda 21. Juan Luis Guerra 4.40 - La Travesia 22. Vaudou Game - Garantie 23. The Beach Boys - Kokomo 24. Stereophonics - Long Way Round 25. Dolly Parton - Travelin' Prayer 26. Mr. Oizo - Toodoo (feat. Carmen Castro) 27. Riit - Qaumajuapik 28. Hamish Hawk - Bridget St. John 29. Daft Punk - Around The World

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  • #ThePlaylist – 071 – School Days

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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 episode, featuring me as a headmaster wearing a mortarboard, looking very stern in front of a blackboard.

    You boy! Don your starchy, new, ill-fitting uniform and pray you’re not late for your first lesson, because the kids are back to school, so we’re celebrating with two hours of the finest tunes about, well, school. And learning.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod. The songs are: 01. Madness - Baggy Trousers 02. Busted - What I Go to School For 03. The School - I Want You Back 04. Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks 05. Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag 06. Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm 07. Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 08. Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Schooldays 09. Cat Stevens - (Remember The Days Of The) Old Schoolyard 10. Pete Seeger - What Did You Learn In School Today 11. Jeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley PTA 12. Chuck Berry - School Day 13. Sam Cooke - Wonderful World 14. The White Stripes - We're Going to Be Friends 15. Beck - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes 16. The Replacements - Fuck School 17. Nirvana - School 18. Ramones - Rock 'n' Roll High School 19. Nada Surf - Popular 20. U.S. Maple - Breeze, It's Your High School 21. Pulp - Pta 22. Ooberman - Physics Disco 23. Level 42 - Lessons In Love 24. The Chemical Brothers - No Geography 25. The Prodigy - Back 2 Skool 26. Monie Love - Monie In The Middle 27. Jurassic 5 - Lesson 6: The Lecture 28. School Of Rock - School Of Rock

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  • #ThePlaylist – 070 – What About this Weather, eh?

    This week's theme-specific artwork. It's a satellite image of the UK being battered by a hurricane. In the eye of the storm is me!
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    This week's theme-specific artwork. It's a satellite image of the UK being battered by a hurricane. In the eye of the storm is me!

    Here in the UK we ruddy bloody love talking about the weather, so here’s two hours of music about it. And yeah, 12 of the 26 tracks are about rain. IT RAINS HERE ALOT, OK‽

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod. The songs are: 01. The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men 02. Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again 03. A-Ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV 04. The Midnight - Days of Thunder 05. Lindisfarne - Fog on the Tyne 06. The Cast of A Mighty Wind - A Mighty Wind 07. Elvis Presley - I Don’t Care If the Sun Don’t Shine 08. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Didn't It Rain 09. Francis Dunnery - Sunshine 10. Crowded House - Weather with You 11. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Patio Song 12. The Handsome Family - Cold, Cold, Cold 13. John Martyn - Bless The Weather 14. Scott Walker - It's Raining Today 15. Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane 16. The Cult - Rain 17. Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains 18. Wunderhorse - Rain 19. JJ72 - Snow 20. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain 21. Blind Melon - No Rain 22. Terry Hall - Chasing A Rainbow 23. Peter Gabriel - Red Rain 24. Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall 25. The Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith 26. Prince And The Revolution - Sometimes It Snows In April

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  • #ThePlaylist – 069 – Niiice

    The artwork for this week's edition of #ThePlaylist. It's a picture of a Nice biscuit, underneath which it says #ThePlaylist
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    The artwork for this week's edition of #ThePlaylist. It's a picture of a Nice biscuit, underneath which it says #ThePlaylist

    This week being show 069 means that the proceedings are very nice indeed. So the theme this week is:

    Nice.

    And the tunes are very, very nice indeed.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod. The songs are: 01. Small Faces - Here Comes The Nice 02. Sleeper - Nice Guy Eddie 03. Stereophonics - Have A Nice Day 04. Prince - Head 05. King Errisson - Well, Have a Nice Day 06. Bebel Gilberto - So Nice (Summer Samba) 07. Helen Merrill - You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To 08. Nice - America 09. Small Faces - Lazy Sunday 10. Kimya Dawson - So Nice So Smart 11. Pugwash - It's Nice To Be Nice 12. The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice 13. John Smith - Salty And Sweet 14. Green Day - Nice Guys Finish Last 15. Viagra Boys - Ain’t Nice 16. Nice As Fuck - Higher 17. Nine Inch Nails - Closer 18. Alice Cooper - No More Mr. Nice Guy 19. R.E.M. - Star 69 20. Plant - In the End It's All Nice 21. The Bug - Run The Place Red (Featuring Daddy Freddy) 22. 52nd Street - Cool As Ice 23. The Grid - Slow Down 24. Rodriguez - It Started Out So Nice 25. Jane Birkin Avec Serge Gainsbourg - Je T'aime... Moi Non Plus

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  • #ThePlaylist – 068 – Suggestions

    The artwork for this week's radio show. It is a cartoon drawing of me, dressed in a fetching yellow shirt, feeding suggestions into a shredder.
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    The artwork for this week's radio show. It is a cartoon drawing of me, dressed in a fetching yellow shirt, feeding suggestions into a shredder.

    Might I suggest you listen to this week’s edition of #ThePlaylist, where the theme was:

    Suggestions.

    Whether you act on the suggestions offered by these tunes is between you and your lawyer.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod. The songs are: 01. Black Lace - Agadoo 02. S Club 7 - Don't Stop Movin' 03. CHVRCHES - Get Out 04. Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (to Wear Sunscreen) 05. Harry Belafonte - Jump in the Line 06. Spirit Of The West - Home For A Rest 07. Was (Not Was) - Walk the Dinosaur 08. Chali 2na - Don't Stop (Feat. Anthony Hamilton) 09. The Coup - Wear Clean Draws 10. Massive Attack - Be Thankful for What You’ve Got 11. Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should've Come Over 12. Al Green - Let's Stay Together 13. IDLES - Never Fight a Man With a Perm 14. Stormtroopers of Death - Speak English or Die 15. Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name 16. Fugazi - Suggestion 17. The Lovely Eggs - Don't Look at Me (I Don't Like It) 18. Chinese American Bear - Take Me To Beijing 19. The Temptations - Get Ready 20. The Shangri-Las - Give Him A Great Big Kiss 21. Bessie Smith - You Ought To Be Ashamed 22. The Monkees - Listen To The Band 23. Michael Jackson - Beat It 24. The Waterboys - Don’t Bang the Drum 25. Trooper - We're Here For a Good Time 26. Rilo Kiley - Give a Little Love

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  • #ThePlaylist – 067 – My Name Is…

    The artwork for this week's radio show. It features a generic workplace nametag laying on a desk. On it is writtern "Hello, my name is #ThePlaylist"
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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 radio show. It features a generic workplace nametag laying on a desk. On it is writtern "Hello, my name is #ThePlaylist"

    Please allow me to introduce you to this week’s edition of #ThePlaylist, where the theme this week was:

    My Name Is…

    So we have two hours of excellent tunes featuring people’s names. And to give you some idea of how good the tunes in the show are; Enola Gay by OMD had to be relegated to #ThePlaylistExtras.

    Yes. I know.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod. The songs are: 01. Prince - My Name Is Prince 02. Del The Funky Homosapien - Mistadobalina 03. Ian Dury - Billericay Dickie 04. Ben Folds Five - Kate 05. The Magnetic Fields - Andrew in Drag 06. Eels - Susan’s House 07. Sam Lee - The Ballad Of George Collins 08. Them - Gloria 09. Barry Ryan - Eloise 10. Suzanne Vega - Luka 11. The Beautiful South - Song For Whoever 12. Paul Simon - Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War 13. Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U 14. Machine Head - Davidian 15. Me First And The Gimme Gimmes - Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard 16. The Wedding Present - Felicity 17. Idlewild - Roseability 18. Queen - Bring Back That Leroy Brown 19. PJ Harvey - C'mon Billy 20. Roy Rogers - Built for Comfort 21. Jonny & The Baptists - Farage 22. Bruce McCulloch - Daves I Know 23. Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen 24. Yard Act - Fixer Upper 25. Teleman - Cristina 26. Prefab Sprout - Bonny 27. The Goo Goo Dolls - Iris

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  • #ThePlaylist – 066 – Unsuitable (Funeral) Songs

    Artwork for this week's radio show. It's a solitary grave stone, upon which is carved "RIP The Playlist 'Unsuitable;"
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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod. The songs are: 01. AC/DC - Highway to Hell 02. Norma Tanega - You're Dead 03. Yvonne Fair - It Should Have Been Me 04. Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing 05. Rufus Thomas - Do the Funky Chicken 06. Scary Pockets - Stayin' Alive 07. Prince Buster - Hard Man Fe Dead 08. The Trammps - Disco Inferno 09. Orbital - The Box 10. Tegan and Sara feat. The Lonely Island - Everything is AWESOME!!! 11. Pharrell Williams - Happy 12. Living In A Box - Living in a Box 13. Madness - Cardiac Arrest 14. Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go 15. Art Garfunkel - Bright Eyes 16. Electric Eel Shock - Don't Say Fuck 17. Green Day - Ha Ha You're Dead 18. My Chemical Romance - Dead! 19. The Jam - Going Underground 20. The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go 21. Chuck Prophet - Wake The Dead 22. Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere 23. Simple Minds - Alive and Kicking 24. Half Man Half Biscuit - Tending the Wrong Grave for 23 Years 25. Daniel Johnston - Funeral Home 26. The Vaselines - Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam 27. Smog - Dress Sexy At My Funeral 28. Charlie Winston - Kick The Bucket 29. Kishi Bashi - I Am the Antichrist to You 30. Jarvis Cocker - I Will Kill Again

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  • #ThePlaylist – 065 – Hangin’ on the Telephone

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod. The songs are: 01. Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters 02. ABBA - Ring Ring 03. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe 04. Saint Etienne - He’s on the Phone 05. Falco - Vienna Calling (Parov Stelar Remix) 06. Burial - Phoneglow 07. kh - looking at your pager 08. The Pharcyde - 4 Better Or 4 Worse 09. De La Soul - Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey) 10. Rah Band - Clouds Across The Moon 11. Yazoo - Bad Connection 12. Active Child - Call Me Tonight 13. CMAT - Phone Me 14. Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman 15. Téléphone - Hygiaphone 16. The Nerves - Hanging On The Telephone 17. Electric Light Orchestra - Ma-Ma-Ma-Belle 18. Chuck Berry - Memphis Tennessee 19. R.E.M. - The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite 20. Toto - Hold the Line 21. Sleater-Kinney - Hurry On Home 22. Sonoio - Thanks For Calling 23. Super Furry Animals - Wherever I Lay My Phone (That's My Home) 24. Mario Piu - Communication (Somebody Answer the Phone) 25. Baxter Dury & Jgrrey - Allbarone 26. Chris De Burgh - Man On The Line 27. Mina - Se telefonando 28. Fairport Convention - Jesus On The Mainline (Featuring Robert Plant) 29. Everclear - Unemployed Boyfriend

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