Mind the shivers down your spine, because the theme on #ThePlaylist this week is:
Haunting
Two hours of haunting tunes, most of which are about ghosts and ghoulies and that. But not all.
The Archive - https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/theplaylist-078-haunting/
Mixcloud - https://www.mixcloud.com/DJDarren/theplaylist-271025-haunting/
Listen! Enjoy! Tell all your friend!
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The tracks played on this week's show, in case you couldn't hear my links over all the screaming.
This week's Spoopy Judes in all their glory;
@aaron
@alicemcalicepants
@AndyIncarnate
@Andyyyfish82
@artnacrea
@ccferrie
@daveybot
@giflian
@heapy
@KaraLG84
@MrAndrewD
@Nickiquote
@Rhevian
@RolloTreadway
@roytoo
@saposcat
@sharongascoigne
@sheepnik
@slevelt
@sodslawyer
@swisslet
@theplaguedoc
@tygerkrash
@WiteWulf
Without wishing to spoiler anything, they can all see dead people.
As is tradition, we've taken all the tracks played tonight and thrown them into streaming playlists so you can add your favourites to your own libraries.
Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/theplaylist-haunting/pl.u-jV899PLsaa2dYAV
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5BnrlHZvf6I3Pf6whxWyQ2?si=80a30cfd396b438f&pt=9005df2205d73a53b2eec3f7fff7ac34
And here are #ThePlaylistExtras; the tunes we loved, but didn't have the time to play.
Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/theplaylist-haunting-extras/pl.u-xlyNN3kToo5kRNE
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5HVpRr0WuQ7QfLF9ZFvdw9?si=e9bc9255ce5441d3&pt=401f367aea327834a5994638b070cc75
NEXT WEEK ON #ThePlaylist
To reflect that we've just had Diwali, and we're about to have bonfire/Guy Fawkes night, and in a vain attempt to bring some light into a darkening hemisphere, the theme next week is:
The Festival of Lights
So, songs about light, about fireworks and flashes and brightness. Throw them this way with #ThePlaylistSuggestion, and together we'll build a little oasis of light in a dark world.
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@DJDarren Ok, straight in there while they're in my brain -
'Carnival Of Light' - Dead Can Dance
'Flash Cube, Or Eyeball' - Melt-Banana
@sodslawyer @DJDarren #ThePlaylistSuggestion The first few that come to me...
I want to see the bright lights tonight - Richard and Linda Thompson
Blinded by the light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
A trick of the light - Villagers
@DJDarren #ThePlaylistSuggestion
Biffy Clyro - Tiny Indoor Fireworks
Darren Hayes - Tiny Little Flashlights
@DJDarren I'm gonna pull U2 "City of Blinding Lights", the utter fantastic, Linkin Park "One More Light" & "There is a Light That Never Goes Out" by Johnny Marr.
A wide musical selection
#ThePlaylistSuggestion
Arclight - The Fat Lady Sings
I Saw The Light - The Pooh Sticks
White Light - New Model Army
Flash Light - Parliament
Bright Phoebus - Lal & Mike Waterson
Of course you’ll have to contact Paul McCartney and get that exclusive first radio play of Carnival of Light by the Beatles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Light
But failing that, I’ll request White Light / White Heat, either the solo Lou Reed live version from Rock n Roll Animal, or the Bowie live version from Ziggy Stardust The Motion Picture.
Back on my Nightwish bullshit - this time "Lanternlight". Very different to their usual, but gorgeous and haunting enough to have been on this week's list, too.
Also, I'm sure others will suggest Blinding Lights - but I'll point you in the direction of the cover by Feuerschwanz (recent friends of the playlist with their cover of Dragostea Din Tei).
@DJDarren
Give "Shine" by Andreas Johnson a spin!
Watch: https://youtu.be/S_hfXVOTkJc
Listen: https://song.link/i/80022712
- Rocket Man by Elton John
- Rocket by Def Leppard
- Light my Fire by The Doors
- Firestarter by The Prodigy
- Blinded by the Light by Bruce Springsteen
- Blinded by the Lights by The Streets
- I know you won’t play this, but it’s maybe their finest song: There Is A Light that Never Goes Out by The Smiths
- Be My Light, Be My Guide by Gene
@DJDarren #ThePlaylistSuggestion Don't know if I'm just too tired or what, but I'm struggling to think of much. Maybe I'll have better ideas later.
Kim Tolliver - Party Lights
Delilah Keenebruew - Bright Lights
SAULT - Red Lights
Rosie Lowe - There Goes the Light
Couple of bed suggestions:
36 - The Lower Lights
Lila Tirando a Violeta - Seeing the Light
@DJDarren Oh I have another thought. Have you played Lit Up by Public Service Broadcasting lately? I'm sure I've heard it lately but maybe not on your show.
Anyway, if not, you can take that as a #ThePlaylistSuggestion - the version on the first PSB record, not the much longer one on the New Noise album.
Jane Siberry - All the Candles in the World
Lou Reed - Beginning to See the Light
Robbie Robertson - Sonny Got Caught in the Moonlight
Deacon Blue - This Changing Light
Thin Lizzy - Dancing in the Moonlight
@DJDarren the Shepshed Panel humbly proffers the following #thePlaylistSuggestions
Explosions In The Sky - Moving
Colonel Claypool's Fearless Frog Brigade - Lights In The Sky
Jimmy Eat World - Just Watch The Fireworks
Matt Berry - Bonfire
AKB48 - Green Flash
@DJDarren #ThePlaylistSuggestion
I'm adding some pictures of light too, this week, because it's a visual thing and why not, eh? Anyway:
👟 Hot Chip - Huarache Lights
💡 Ash - Shining Light
🌤️ Madonna - Ray Of Light
🚦 Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf - Red Light Green Light
❤️ Éric Serra - Little Light Of Love
🔦 The Go! Team & Chuck D - Flashlight Fight
🌃 Quakers - Dark City Lights
🚲 Bombay Bicycle Club - Lights Out, Words Gone
🐭 Mouse Rat - 5,000 Candles In The Wind
🦀 Jemaine Clement - Shiny
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) - pure audio pyrotechnics
Crowded House - Catherine Wheels
@DJDarren #ThePlaylistSuggestion
Frank Zappa - City of Tiny Lites
Lanterns On The Lake - Don't Have Nightmares (which many will recognise from Danny Robin's Uncanny)
For some noise and explosions, and some light when it goes off:
AC/DC - TNT
And a different kind of festival with light:
Meatloaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Why not a song about a spotlight?
ABBA - Super Trouper
@DJDarren @aaron @alicemcalicepants @AndyIncarnate @Andyyyfish82 @artnacrea @ccferrie @daveybot @giflian @heapy @KaraLG84 @MrAndrewD @Nickiquote @Rhevian @RolloTreadway @roytoo @saposcat @sharongascoigne @sheepnik @slevelt @sodslawyer @swisslet @tygerkrash @WiteWulf
I frequently see dead people. Goes with the job.
Also, "teacher's pet?".
Yeah, fair enough, that was me.
@DJDarren Man, that Rockwell song is a banger.
It has been brought to my attention* that sniggering schoolboys used to change the lyrics to "it always feels like/someone castrated me/ain't got no privates, see!"
* by my memory
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