Tag: Radio

  • #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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    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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    #ThePlaylist – 117 – Pharmacy
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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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    #ThePlaylist – 116 – The Discworld
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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 – 113 – South (of the United States of) America

    #ThePlaylist – 113 – South (of the United States of) America

    This week's theme-specific artwork. Screenshot of a globe of South America. An arrow is pointing at Mexico with a note that says "Also South America"
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    #ThePlaylist – 113 – South (of the United States of) America
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    Join #ThePlaylist on a grand tour as this week’s theme takes us to:

    South (of the United States of) America

    where all of the tunes are, in some ways moreso than others, related to the lands to be found South (of the United States of) America. And not South Africa. Definitely not. It’s a whole different place.

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

01. Shakira - Suerte
02. Sash! - Ecuador
03. Os Mutantes - A minha menina
04. Terrorvision - Tequila
05. Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We’re Goin Down
06. Pacifica - What You Doing
07. Fun Lovin' Criminals - Fisty Nuts
08. Duran Duran - Rio
09. Kirsty MacColl - England 2 Columbia 0
10. Toto la Momposina y sus Tambores - El Pescador
11. Mario  Gareña - YO  ME  LLAMO  CUMBIA  (LETRA)
12. luz - Disco Ball
13. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Ship Song
14. Sepultura - Ratamahatta
15. System Of A Down - Sugar
16. Skiltron - Bagpipes of War
17. Bakermat / Nia Archives - Baianana
18. Kaleidoscópio - Você me Apareceu
19. Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca
20. Juçara Marçal - Sem cais
21. Stan Getz / João Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema
22. Enya - Orinoco Flow
23. Athlete - El Salvador
24. Latin Quarter - The beautiful Game?
25. The Longest Johns - Paddy Lay Back
26. Quantic & Nickodemus Feat. Tempo & The Candela Allstars - Mi Swing Es Tropical
27. J Balvin & Willy William - Mi gente

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  • #ThePlaylist – 110 – Morally Bankrupt

    #ThePlaylist – 110 – 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 – 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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    #ThePlaylist – 105 – Rumours
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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 – 104 – Lord Sir David Attenborough
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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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