Seen ‘em headlining: Approximation of a playlist §42

Seen them live

(in no particular order…)

Staying Out For The Summer - Dodgy
Hit - The Wannadies
Honey I’m a big boy now - Billy Bragg
The Hanging Garden – The Cure
Saturday Night Special - Fad Gadget
End of a century - Blur
Spirit In The Sky - Doctor & The Medics
Oh Yeah - Ash
Ultra Twist - The Cramps
Great Things - Echobelly
Kelly’s Heroes - Black Grape
Good year for the roses - Elvis Costello
The Day We Caught The Train - Ocean Colour Scene
Small Town Boy – Bronski Beat
Each and every one - Everything but the Girl
Are everything - Buzzcocks
I Don’t Want a Lover - Texas
Champagne supernova - Oasis
Cracked actor - David Bowie
Hanging around - The Stranglers
Do you remember the first time? - Pulp
Soldier girl - The Polyphonic Spree
Empire State Human - Human League
2-4-6-8 Motorway - Tom Robinson Band
Mandela Day - Simple Minds
Mesh - New Order
Orange crush - REM
Happy House - Siouxsie & The Banshees
Totally Wired - The Fall

Honorable performers: Approximation of a playlist §41

Featuring artists who, perhaps improbably in some cases, have been awarded Honorary Degrees by one institution or another:

Alfie - Cilla Black
Stir It Up - Patti LaBelle
7 Days – Craig David
School’s Out - Alice Cooper
If She Knew What She Wants - The Bangles
No Regrets – Midge Ure
Rat Trap - The Boomtown Rats
See My Baby Jive - Wizzard
Chanson D’amour - The Manhattan Transfer
Merry Christmas Everybody - Slade
I Want You - Bob Dylan
You Win Again - Bee Gees
There she goes, my beautiful world - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Pipes Of Peace - Paul McCartney
Heart Of Gold - Neil Young
Perfect - Fairground Attraction
Good year for the roses - Elvis Costello
River – Joni Mitchell
Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
The Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
Love On The Rocks - Neil Diamond
My Cherie Amour - Quincy Jones
Release Me – Engelbert Humperdinck
Desire - U2
The Longest Time - Billy Joel
So Lonely - The Police
The Boy in the Bubble – Paul Simon
Easy Lover - Philip Bailey and Phil Collins
Kooks - David Bowie
Isn’t She Lovely – Stevie Wonder

Exclamation! Approximation of a Playlist §40

Song titles which just shout!

Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) ABBA
Hyperactive! Thomas Dolby
Hey Ya! OutKast
Hot Hot Hot!!! The Cure
Stop! In The Name Of Love Diana Ross and the Supremes
Oh shit! Buzzcocks
Wake Up Boo! The Boo Radleys
Hello, Dolly! Bobby Darin
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Lena Horne
Hey now! Oasis
Wham Rap! Wham!
Help! The Beatles
Danger! High voltage Electric Six
Melt! Siouxsie and the Banshees
Me ship came in! The Style Council
We Like To Party! Vengaboys
Hooray! Hooray! It’s A Holi-Holiday Boney M.
Cab it up! The Fall

Songs recalled from the Potterrow jukebox, circa 1985-86

Songs recalled from the Potterrow jukebox, circa 1985-86

Rise - Public Image Ltd.
Where Do You Go To My Lovely – Peter Sarstedt
Kiss Me – Stephen Duffy
Running up That Hill (A Deal With God) – Kate Bush
Daydream Believer - The Monkees
Road To Nowhere – Talking Heads
Close (To The Edit) - The Art Of Noise
The Power Of Love - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits
Sex Crime (1984) - Eurythmics
You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Dead Or Alive
Since Yesterday – Strawberry Switchblade
A New England - Kirsty MacColl
Don’t You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
Slave to the Rhythm - Grace Jones
A Good Heart - Feargal Sharkey
See The Day - Dee C. Lee
West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat
Eloise – The Damned
I Don’t Want to Be Friends With You - Shop Assistants

Howzat! Approximation of a playlist §39

Vaguely topical cricket-related playlist

Joy Division Oven Gloves – Half Man Half Biscuit
What’s a Girl to Do? - Bat for Lashes
Tea In The Sahara – The Police
Slip Slidin’ Away – Paul Simon
Vanishing point - New Order
Nice weather for ducks – Lemonjelly
20th Century Boy - T.Rex
Rubber Ball - Avons
Deep and Wide and Tall - Aztec Camera
Bye Bye Love - The Everly Brothers
I saw a maiden - Choir Of King’s College
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Glory Box - Portishead
Cap in hand - The Proclaimers
Catch - The Cure
The cutter – Echo and the Bunnymen
Hello, Dolly! - Bobby Darin
Drop dead gorgeous – Republica
Drive – The Cars
Extras - Boo Hewerdine
I Will Follow [on] - U2
Bernadette - Four Tops
Gay bar - Electric Six
A Little Bit More - Dr. Hook
The In Crowd - Dobie Gray
Out In The Street - The Who
Move closer - Phyllis Nelson
All Over The World - Electric Light Orchestra
Working My Way Back To You - Detroit Spinners
Howzat - Sherbet
Ashes To Ashes - David Bowie
Test Match Special – The Duckworth Lewis Method

Around Ambridge: Approximation of a playlist §38

Songs or artists with references to characters in everyone’s favourite long-running agriculturally leaning radio soap opera:

Oh, Pretty Woman – Roy Orbison
Fever – Peggy Lee
Fly Me To The Moon – Matt Monro
Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On – Jerry Lee Lewis
Love Is A Battlefield – Pat Benatar
Making plans for Nigel – XTC
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do – Neil Sedaka
Moonlight Shadow – Mike Oldfield
Looking for Linda – Hue And Cry
Days - Kirsty MacColl
Kathy’s Song – Simon & Garfunkel
Army Dreamers – Kate Bush
Steppin’ out Joe Jackson
Jolene – Strawberry Switchblade
Jennifer juniper – Donovan
Run to You – Bryan Adams
Jumpin’ Jack Flash – The Rolling Stones
Walkin’ Back To Happiness – Helen Shapiro
Searchin’ - Hazell Dean
Outside – George Michael
You Were Made For Me – Freddie & The Dreamers
What I Am – Tin Tin Out Feat. Emma Bunton
I Want That Man – Debbie Harry
Dayyyvvviiiid Watts – The Jam
Daniel – Elton John
Christine – Siouxsie & the Banshees
Caroline, yes – Kaiser Chiefs
This Is the Life - Amy MacDonald
Goody Two Shoes - Adam & the Ants
Willyerm, It Was Really Nothing – The Smiths
Stripper Vicar – Mansun
Me and the farmer – The Housemartins
More Than A Dream - The Farmers Boys
Sleeping Satellite – Tasmin Archer

Officer Training: approximation of a playlist §37

Officers and other ranks

Private Investigation - Dire Straits
I Left My Heart In Papworth General - Half Man Half Biscuit
The ordinary boys – Morrissey
Inner flight [lieutenant] – Primal Scream
I Won’t Back Down Tom Petty [Officer] & The Heartbreakers
Nightshift - Commodores
Dancing in the city – [Field] Marshall Hain
From No Strings Attached – Captain Scarlet Theme – Barry Gray
Generals and Majors – XTC
Dance commander – Electric Six
Do That To Me One More Time - Captain & Tennille
Private Eyes – Hall & Oates
Me And The Major – Belle & Sebastian
January – Pilot
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – Beatles
Where’s Captain Kirk – Spizz Energi

Fourth estate: approximation of a playlist §36

Newspaper titles

Plenty more than this when you think about it…

The Hindu Times – Oasis
Lucky Star – Madonna
Pillar To Post – Aztec Camera
Mirror Mirror – Dollar
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy – The Andrews Sisters
Always the Sun – The Stranglers
Summertime – The Sundays
Invisible Sun – The Police
National Express – The Divine Comedy
Stealing people’s Mail – Dead Kennedys
Independent Woman #1 – Destiny’s Child
Telegraph - OMD
Put Your Records On – Corinne Bailey Rae
The Dark Is Rising – Mercury Rev
Times like these – Foo Fighters
Mirror In the Bathroom – The Beat
Gonna Make You A Star – David Essex
Trans Europe Express – Kraftwerk
You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Dead Or Alive
Paper Sun - Traffic
Star – David Bowie
I’ll be your mirror – The Velvet Underground & Nico
Express Yourself – Madonna
You stole the Sun from my heart – Manic Street Preachers
She’s a Star – James
News of the World – The Jam
Mirror man – Human League
Sporting Life – Young Marble Giants

Respect: Approximation of a playlist §35

Songs which include references to other artists, perhaps not always as respectfully as they should.

My perfect cousin – The Undertones
Cast no shadow – Oasis
Rock Me Amadeus – Falco
The Prince – Madness
Geno – Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Joy Division Oven Gloves – Half Man Half Biscuit

Lady stardust – David Bowie
Elvis Ain`t Dead – Scouting For Girls
Let’s Dance to Joy Division – The Wombats
Levi Stubbs’ tears – Billy Bragg
Paul McCartney – Scissor Sisters
Elvis impersonator, Blackpool pier – Manic Street Preachers
Song for Bob Dylan – David Bowie
Velvet Underground – Jonathan Richman
Mahalia – The Bible
Daft punk is playing at my house – LCD Soundsystem
When Smokey Sings – ABC
The Bastard Son Of Dean Friedman – Half Man Half Biscuit
Fergus sings the blues – Deacon Blue
Bowie – Flight Of The Conchords

Previously Presidential: Approximation of a playlist §34

Songs by artists with Presidential names/aspirations

Summer Of ‘69 – Bryan Adams
Fly Me To The Moon – Matt Monro
Bad – Michael Jackson
Total Eclipse Of The Heart – Bonnie Tyler
I don’t wanna dance – Eddie Grant
Sweet Soul Music – Arthur Conley
Reet Petite – Jackie Wilson
All Time High – Rita Coolidge
After The Watershed (Early Learning The Hard Way) – Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine
Better Together - Jack Johnson
Army Dreamers - Kate Bush
Don’t Call Me Baby – Madison Avenue
California uber alles – Dead Kennedys
Mad about the boy – Dinah Washington
Lump – The Presidents Of The United States Of America