#ThePlaylist

This week on #ThePlaylist, a guest theme from @[email protected] who wants hear songs with: Improvised Instruments Do you know of songs where the percussion is played on a pangolin? Or a jerry can used as a contralto sax? Well, maybe – just maybe – they were played on this week’s show. Listen in the find […]

On this week’s edition of #ThePlaylist, guest suggestor @[email protected] wanted to hear your: Openers “What does that mean?” we hear you cry. Well, join us and find out what that meant in the slightly broken minds of The Glorious Suggestorate. Click to see the track listing // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //// https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/ //

It’s spoopy season once more, so this week’s theme on #ThePlaylist takes us down to the: Underworld So will it be two hours of songs about a fictional lingerie factory in Manchester, or something less interesting. Let’s find out… Click to see the track listing // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //// https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/ //

Behold this week’s edition of #ThePlaylist, where @[email protected] wanted to hear your suggestions for songs about: The Clap Is this about rounds of applause, or the ol’ Val Doonicans? Listen in and find out. Click to see the track listing // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //// https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/ //

This week on #ThePlaylist You know all those tracks where the lyrics say one thing, but people stubbornly refuse to accept them? Well, those songs have been: Misconstrued We wanted to hear your favourite examples of these, and you didn’t disappoint. Click to see the track listing // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //// https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/ […]

Our theme this week comes courtesy of @losttourist who wanted to hear YOUR favourite songs about: Horticulture So bust out your little trowels, and grab that foam pad you have to kneel on these days because your knees aren’t what they used to be, and join in the fun. Click to see the track listing […]

On this week’s episode of #ThePlaylist… Two weeks ago I admitted the terrible secret of my birth, and the disco banger that heralded it, which has led to wanting to hear your: Birthday Number Ones We weren’t cruel though, and allowed you to pick from tracks that have attained the summit of Mount Pop on […]

Last week’s theme inspired this week’s, so, from perfect 3 minute 45rpm vinyl to: Format Wars Do *you* know any songs about wax cylinders, or shellac discs, or MiniDiscs? Listen in, and you just might hear them… Click to see the track listing // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //// https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/ //

This week’s theme is: Three Minute (or thereabouts) Pop Bangers So, very simply, the favourite songs of the Suggestorate that fall into the three minute pop song category. How many of them could charitably be described as ‘pop’ we will leave up to you to decide. Click to see the track listing // https://stream.djdarren.site // […]

This week we have a theme brought to you by none other than @daveybot, Laird of the Wild Lands Beyond The Wall, who wanted to hear your best songs about: Furniture So we’ve got two hours of tunes about tables and chairs and ottomans and beds, and armchairs and sofas and that. Or whatever sparked […]

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 […]

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? Click to see the track listing // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 […]

Behold the glorious return of #ThePlaylist! This week we have another guest theme, this time from @[email protected] 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 […]

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? Click to see the track listing // https://stream.djdarren.site […]

This week we have another guest theme, this time from @[email protected] who flew in, (without a cape) to ask for songs about: Heroes He wanted to hear YOUR most heroic tunes. He wanted to hear songs that’ll save people from a hijacked passenger jet, or have the capability to leave the last chocolate Hob Nob […]

Join #ThePlaylist once again, where this week the Mainframe has chosen the theme of: Electric Dreams And we’re too scared of the Mainframe to go against its wishes. So two hours of whatever the phrase “electric dreams” conjured up in the silicon minds of the LLMs that sent in their suggestions for thematically appropriate songs […]

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 […]

Find the spare key for your combine harvester (if John Deere will even let you have one), and pull on your wellies, because #ThePlaylist, along with @RolloTreadway is off: Farming the land Yes, in another guest theme, this week we’re looking at the songs that popped into the collective, diseased minds of #ThePlaylist listeners when […]

This week, a theme brought to you – yes YOU – by @[email protected], who wants to hear your songs about: DIY Davey has been “working in his shed” a lot lately, so needs a good soundtrack to help him along. And wouldn’t you know, this week’s show *is* a good soundtrack to help him along. […]

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. Click to see the track listing // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //// https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/ //

This week on #ThePlaylist, a guest theme, courtesy of @[email protected], who wants to hear the world’s finest: Car Wash Songs And I do believe he’ll be very happy with what you’ve suggested. Will it be two hours of just that one song? Listen in and find out. Click to see the track listing // https://stream.djdarren.site […]

Behold the (knickerbocker) GLORY(ous) return of #ThePlaylist, where our theme this week is: Puddin’ So go ahead and spoil your dinner with the (ice) CREAM of musical selections, some of which are actually related to the idea of pudding. Or dessert, if you’re one of *those*. You’d be a (strawberry) FOOL to miss out! Click […]

#ThePlaylist returns jingling a big ‘ol buncha keys, fixin’ to lock you away, because our theme this week is: To Gaol With Ye! Two hours of bangup bangers, celebrating feeling the grip of the long arm of the law. Click to see the track listing // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //

The weather is hotting up here in the UK, so our theme here at #ThePlaylist this week is: slooooow in an effort to encourage everyone to just chill out, alright? But, well, not every track this week is chilled. Sorry about that. Click to see the track listing // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //

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… Click to see the track listing // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK […]

#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. Click […]

#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 […]

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! Click to see the track listing // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //

This week we’re all about the: Mooooon! Because, y’know, the ruddy bloody moon and folks flying around it and that. So two hours of tunes all about (or tangentially related to) our greatest satellite. Click to see the track listing // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //

This week on #ThePlaylist: ONE HUNDRED Because, somehow, despite EVERYONE’S better judgement, we’ve still managed to wring one hundred weeks out of this nonsense. Which says more for my endless desire to be relevant than anything else. Click to see the track listing // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //

Behold this week’s glorious edition of #ThePlaylist, where our theme this week is: Tin It’s mine and Troggie’s tenth anniversary on Thursday, and the Big Tin Men from down Cornwall way have decreed that we must be showered with tin gifts, and what finer gifts that songs that are in some tangential way related to […]

Strap in for this week’s high-octane edition of #ThePlaylist, where our theme is: Fast Or, for our Northern comrades, ‘fast’. Will the tunes rocket along at 300bpm, or will they be about being fast? Or a secret third option. Listen in to find out. Click to see the track listing // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 […]

Behold this week’s edition of #ThePlaylist, where our theme is: Accents This week we’re taking a trip around the world of accents – both linguistically and designerly. You won’t hear a single generic mid-Atlantic voice in this show. Apart from that one tune. Oh, and that other one. Click to see the track listing // […]

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 […]

This week on #ThePlaylist we celebrated: Ya Mama Yes, YOUR mother. We celebrated her*, and we celebrated** her good. Two hours of songs about *your* mother._*if she is/was great. We will berate her if not. Harshly.**or berate her Click to see the track listing // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //

Behold #ThePlaylist in its somewhat less than glorious form, having wrestled with us for two whole hours worth of every tech issue it could throw. But we managed it! And our theme this week was: Whistling. Click to see the track listing // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //

Behold the return of #ThePlaylist, with the theme this week of: Behind And, well, obviously most of the songs are about butts. We should have anticipated this. So yeah, kick back, relax, and enjoy two hours of fine, artisanal songs about arses. (though not *entirely* about arses) Click to see the track listing // https://stream.djdarren.site […]

Grab your pickaxes and hard helmets with the little lights on them and join #ThePlaylist on a journey through the Earth’s layers, with this week’s theme: Geology Two hours of songs about how much people wanna ROCK! and that. But also mostly about mining. But in a good way, like. Click to see the track […]

Unite and fight, for #ThePlaylist returns once more to promote solidarity for all, with our theme this week being: We All Stand Together Because, well, the world feels a tiny bit fractured now, doesn’t it? And yes, that’s mostly because of the media we consume, but it still doesn’t feel great. So here we have […]

G’day cobbers, and behold the glorious return of #ThePlaylist. Our theme this week: A Land Down Under where we’ve got two hours of songs that we’ll be playing upside down, while fighting off kangaroos and emus and flaming galahs and that, while some mongrel nicks our ute. Click to see the track listing // https://stream.djdarren.site […]