#ThePlaylist is a weekly dive into seeing how tenuously people can connect a song they love to a given theme.It goes out live on https://stream.djdarren.site every Monday, 1900-2100 UK time.All episodes are available in gloriously high quality at https://djdarren.site/archive
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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? 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 @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 […]
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 @FloatingOnion@cyberplace.social 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 @daveybot@mastodon.scot, 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 @Nickiquote@mstdn.social, 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 //
