Have a rummage around in the big box for this week's edition of #ThePlaylist, where our theme is:

Toys & Games

So all of the suggestions this week have been formatted to play on one of those Fisher Price 'My First Record Players'. Two hours of gentle tinkling that vaguely reminds you of Top Pop Tunes.

Or not.

#TheArchive - https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/theplaylist-096-toys-games/

Listen! Enjoy! Tell all your friend!

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The tunes played this week, in case you couldn't work out what they were supposed to be when played on a Fisher Price record player.

#ThePlaylist

This week's playtime buddies, all of whom are It. But I'm not, because I made up the rules and they say I'm immune.

@arakin
@astronomerritt
Papa @astronomerritt ๐ŸŽ‰
Ben Gray c/o @RealAleRocks
Dr Caitlin @swisslet
@ccferrie
Teen @ccferrie ๐ŸŽ‰
@daveybot
@dddz ๐ŸŽ‰
@giflian
@imalcolm
@KaraLG84
@LuluHelle
@missmelanieh
@MrAndrewD
Master @MrAndrewD ๐ŸŽ‰
@Nickiquote
@RealAleRocks
@Rhevian
@RolloTreadway
Mrs @roytoo
@roytoo
@sheepnik
@sodslawyer
@steve199nwep
@swisslet
@theplaguedoc
@Vibracobra23
@WiteWulf

The bell's just rung, so everyone line up and go back back in.

#ThePlaylist

As ever, we've collected all the tracks from this week's show into streaming playlists, so you can add your favourites to your own libraries:

Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/theplaylist-toys-games/pl.u-GgA5YEzHxxYZqGr
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6m4hT96vVePxuJIQf9IQxI

And #ThePlaylistExtras; all the other tunes that we didn't have time for:

Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/theplaylist-toys-games-extras/pl.u-NpXmYAmFLLVmMr0
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/354sjb0x8kj6NZ2apJ6EWk

#ThePlaylist

#ThePlaylist - 'Toys & Games' by ThePlaylist on Apple Music

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NEXT WEEK ON #ThePlaylist the theme will be:

Accents

This one has been bubbling about in my branes for a few months, so I'm interested to see if people come at it from the same direction as me.

Fling your suggestions this way with #ThePlaylistSuggestion, and together we'll be build a radio show the direction of which I have no way of predicting.

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@DJDarren the theme "accents" is setup for #AusMusic #ThePlaylistSuggestion suggestions!

360 - Boys Like You (feat. Gossling). Besides 360's very Aussie hip hop style you have Gossling's unique voice, shortened words but such a unique (accented?) vocal style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDGSlfXsRiw

Emma Louise - Jungle. Again, the shortened Australian style wording "dreamin', dreamin'", "speakin'", "feelin'". The upward tone inflection at the end of every line which Aussies have. She's got a beautiful voice, and I had a ball dancing on top of a picnic table at a rave to a dance remix of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvzu3bKgt5Y

Pez - The Festival Song (feat. 360 & Hailey Cramer). More Aussie hip hop about the experience of going to music festivals, replete with Aussie slang. Bonus sample from Bruce Hornsby (?).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3X38hhr4a4

The Waifs - London Still. Besides the lyrics ("Can you pick up my accent on the phone"), the very West Australian broad accent of the husky vocals. Plus it captures the Australian traveller in London experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJFPbdcLbnc

360 - Boys Like You (feat. Gossling)

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@MrAndrewD

Oh yeah, London Still by the The Waifs totally nails it.

(Have a nostalgic connection to the Waifs - can still remember buying their (then-only) CD from Donna at a festival, sitting in the back of the van they were still living in at the time.)

@DJDarren