User:Blakkandekka/Chain
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"The Chain" is an item on BBC 6 Music's Radcliffe and Maconie Show. It is billed as a 'never-ending list of thematically linked records'.
No. | Artist | Artist (More Alphabetical) | Track | Link |
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1 | Fleetwood Mac | Fleetwood Mac | The Chain | The first link |
2 | Booker T & The MG's | Booker T And The MG's | Soul Limbo | The Chain was the BBC’s F1 theme. Soul Limbo is the BBC’s cricket theme... |
3 | Otis Redding | Otis Redding | Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay | Booker T. Jones wrote and played for Otis Redding... |
4 | Lynyrd Skynyrd | Lynyrd Skynyrd | Sweet Home Alabama | Otis Redding died in a plane crash. So did members of Lynyrd Skynyrd... |
5 | Ash | Ash | Girl From Mars | The Lynyrd Skynyrd tragedy occurred in 1977, which was also the title of Ash’s second studio album... |
6 | KT Tunstall | KT Tunstall | Black Horse And The Cherry Tree | An ash is a type of tree. So is a cherry... |
7 | Hawkwind | Hawkwind | Silver Machine | Tunstall was one of the six towns that federated to form Stoke-on-Trent, which is Lemmy’s hometown... |
8 | David Essex | David Essex | Rock On | The film Silver Dream Racer starred David Essex, who also performed the soundtrack song ‘Silver Dream Machine’… |
9 | Bruce Springsteen | Bruce Springsteen | The River | David Essex starred in a sitcom called The River… |
10 | The Rembrandts | Rembrandts, The | I’ll Be There For You | Courtney Cox appeared in Bruce Springsteen’s 'Dancing in the Dark’ video. She also starred in the sitcom Friends… |
11 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Andy Warhol | Rembrandt was an artist, as was Andy Warhol... |
12 | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | Song For Woody | ‘Andy Warhol’ was a track on Bowie’s album Hunky Dory, as was ‘Song for Bob Dylan’… |
13 | 101’Ers | 101’Ers | Keys To My Heart | Joe Strummer was known as Woody in his early years, when he fronted the 101’ers… |
14 | The Pogues | Pogues, The | Dirty Old Town | Joe Strummer stood in for Shaun MacGowan as The Pogues’ vocalist on several occasions… |
15 | Kirsty Maccoll | Kirsty Maccoll | In These Shoes? | ‘Dirty Old Town’ was written by Ewan MacColl, AND his daughter Kirsty sang with The Pogues on ‘Fairytale of New York’… |
16 | Peter Gabriel | Peter Gabriel | I Don’t Remember | The late Kirsty MacColl’s former husband Steve Lillywhite produced Peter Gabriel’s third eponymous album… |
17 | Kate Bush | Kate Bush | Hounds Of Love | Peter Gabriel collaborated with Kate Bush on ‘Don’t Give Up’, and she sang backing vocals on his tracks ‘Games Without Frontiers’ and ‘No Self Control’… |
18 | Elvis Presley | Elvis Presley | (Marie Is The Name Of) His Latest Flame | Kate Bush’s 2005 album Aerial featured the track ‘King of the Mountain’, which referred to Elvis Presley… |
19 | The Smiths | Smiths, The | Rusholme Ruffians | Johnny Marr never denied borrowing the riff from ‘His Latest Flame’ for The Smiths’ ‘Rusholme Ruffians’. In concert they used to segue from one to the other… |
20 | The Cure | Cure, The | In Between Days | Another famous ‘Smith’ is Cure frontman Robert... |
21 | Sleeper | Sleeper | Inbetweener | From ‘In Between Days’ to ‘Inbetween-er’… |
22 | Golden Earring | Golden Earring | Radar Love | From Sleeper - part of an earring - to a hit from Dutch band Golden Earring... |
23 | Elvis Costello & The Attractions | Elvis Costello & The Attractions | Radio Radio | From 'Radar Love' to Elvis Costello's record label, Radar, hence... |
24 | Joni Mitchell | Joni Mitchell | Turn Me On, I'm A Radio | Elvis Costello sings on the new Joni Mitchell covers album... |
25 | Jimi Hendrix | Jimi Hendrix | Voodoo Chile | And Mitch Mitchell played bass in the Jimi Hendrix Experience, so... |
26 | The Animals | Animals, The | House Of The Rising Sun | Jimi Hendrix's manager was Chaz Chandler, who played bass in the Animals... |
27 | Dr John | Dr John | Such A Night | ...which is in New Orleans. And Dr John comes from New Orleans, therefore... |
28 | The Band | Band, The | Up On Cripple Creek | Dr John played at The Last Waltz, which was The Band's final concert... |
29 | Neil Young | Neil Young | Cripple Creek Ferry | Neil Young wrote a song called 'Cripple Creek Ferry', from the After the Goldrush album... |
30 | Oasis | Oasis | Live Forever | Another Neil Young of Manchester City FC scored the winning goal in the 1969 FA Cup Final. Oasis are well-known Man City fans, hence... |
31 | XTC | XTC | The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead | Oasis used a leisure centre in Swindon as inspiration for their band name. Also from Swindon were... |
32 | Frank Zappa | Frank Zappa | Valley Girl | Frank Zappa's record label was called Barking Pumpkin, so... |
33 | Nick Drake | Nick Drake | Pink Moon | Frank Zappa's daughter, Moon Unit sang on 'Valley Girl'. So from Moon Unit to... |
34 | Malcolm Mclaren | Malcolm Mclaren | Buffalo Gals | From Nick Drake to the following (which is on the 'Duck Rock' album. Drake - Duck - geddit?) |
35 | Bow Wow Wow | Bow Wow Wow | C30, C60, C90, Go! | Produced by Malcolm McLaren were... |
36 | Thomas Dolby | Thomas Dolby | Hyperactive | C30/C60/C90 - types of cassettes. Cassettes were made by Dolby... |
37 | Prefab Sprout | Prefab Sprout | Bonny | Thomas Dolby produced an album by... |
38 | Blur | Blur | The Universal | 'Bonny' was on the Prefab Sprout album Steve McQueen, who was in a film called The Great Escape., which is also a Blur album, upon which is... |
39 | Small Faces | Small Faces | The Universal | The Small Faces also had a hit called... |
40 | The Beach Boys | Beach Boys, The | God Only Knows | ...which featured dogs barking. Dogs are Pets that make Sounds, so... |
41 | Martha & The Muffins | Martha & The Muffins | Echo Beach | From the Boys on the Beach to... |
42 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Martha My Dear | From one Martha to another... |
43 | Dexy's Midnight Runners | Dexy's Midnight Runners | There There My Dear | From one Dear to another... |
44 | Pulp | Pulp | Sorted For E's And Whizz | Dexys are a speed-like drug. Apparently. Hence... |
45 | Chumbawumba | Chumbawumba | Tubthumping | Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker caused a bit of a fuss at the Brit Awards. So did frontman Danbert Nobacon of... |
46 | Donovan | Donovan | Mellow Yellow | Which was once sung by Homer Simpson of cartoon fame. He also sung... |
47 | U2 | U2 | Beautiful Day | 10th May (today) is Donovan's birthday. He also shares his birthday with Bono of... |
48 | Talking Heads | Talking Heads | Cities | Brian Eno produced U2 as well as... |
49 | Smashing Pumpkins | Smashing Pumpkins | 1979 | Talking Heads had a female bassist. So did... |
50 | The Coasters | Coasters, The | Charlie Brown | The pumpkin patch featured in the cartoon strip 'Peanuts' which featured Charlie Brown, so... |
51 | Matthews' Southern Comfort | Matthews' Southern Comfort | Woodstock | Another main character in the 'Peanuts' strip was Woodstock... |
52 | The Champs | Champs, The | Tequila | Southern Comfort - an alcoholic beverage. So is... |
53 | Bob Marley | Bob Marley | I Shot The Sheriff | Tequila is served in shots. Therefore... |
54 | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | Knockin' On Heaven's Door | From the film Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (played after the Sheriff has been shot)... |
55 | Dave Edmunds | Dave Edmunds | I Hear You Knocking | To which Dave Edmunds might answer... |
56 | Van Morrison | Van Morrison | Domino | 'Knocking' is something you do when you can't go in dominoes... |
57 | Paul Mccartney & Wings | Paul Mccartney & Wings | Live And Let Die | Domino was a Bond girl, as was Solitaire, played by Jane Seymour in Live & Let Die... |
58 | Manfred Mann | Manfred Mann | The Mighty Quinn | Jane Seymour was also in Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman... hence... |
59 | Rod Stewart | Rod Stewart | Handbags & Gladrags | Mike D'Abo, who sang The Mighty Quinn, also penned the following... |
60 | Suede | Suede | Animal Nitrate | This song is the theme to TV's The Office. Ricky Gervais, star of said show, also once managed... |
61 | The Velvet Underground | Velvet Underground, The | Venus In Furs | Suede is a material. So is velvet... |
62 | James | James | She's A Star | Venus was a Roman Goddess. The planet Venus is also known as the Morning Star... |
63 | The Undertones | Undertones, The | Jimmy Jimmy | From James to... |
64 | Love | Love | Alone Again Or | Maria McKee wrote a hit ('A Good Heart') for Feargal Sharkey, the lead singer of The Undertones. Maria McKee is the half-sister of Bryan MacLean, guitarist in... |
65 | The Damned | Damned, The | New Rose | 'Alone Again Or' was covered by... |
66 | Joe Jackson | Joe Jackson | Is She Really Going Out With Him? | The first line in 'New Rose' is... |
67 | Johnny Cash & June Carter | Johnny Cash & June Carter | Jackson | From one 'Jackson' to another... |
68 | Pink Floyd | Pink Floyd | Money | From Johnny Cash to a song which features the sound of a cash register... |
69 | Stealers Wheel | Stealers Wheel | Stuck In The Middle With You | Mr. Pink was a character in Reservoir Dogs. And famously on the soundtrack was... |
70 | Chuck Berry | Chuck Berry | You Never Can Tell | Another Tarantino film was Pulp Fiction. A famous song on that soundtrack was... |
71 | The Cranberries | Cranberries, The | Linger | From a Berry to some Berries... |
72 | John Lennon | John Lennon | Cold Turkey | Cranberry sauce goes very well with... |
73 | Elvis Costello | Elvis Costello | Oliver's Army | From cold turkey to turkey twizzlers, famously barred from school menus by chef Jamie Oliver, so... |
74 | Robert Wyatt | Robert Wyatt | Shipbuilding | Written by Elvis Costello (and Clive Langer)... |
75 | The Monkees | Monkees, The | I'M A Believer | Robert Wyatt also covered the following tunes, also covered by... |
76 | Stephen Stills | Stephen Stills | Love The One You'Re With | Someone who auditioned to be in the Monkees was... |
77 | Thin Lizzy | Thin Lizzy | Whiskey In The Jar | Whiskey was illicitly distilled in stills... so... |
78 | Steve Earle | Steve Earle | Copperhead Road | ...which follows on to this song, which is about illegal stills making whisky... |
79 | Nickel Creek | Nickel Creek | When In Rome | From copper to nickel... |
80 | The B52's | B52's, The | Roam | From Rome, to... |
81 | REM | REM | Shiny Happy People | The B-52's come from the same town as REM (Athens, Georgia, US) and Kate Pierson (B-52's singer) sings on the following... |
82 | Smokey Robinson & The Miracles | Smokey Robinson & The Miracles | You'Ve Really Got A Hold On Me | REM once appeared on Sesame Street. So did Smokey Robinson, who sang the following track whilst being chased around by a giant letter 'U'... |
83 | Abc | Abc | When Smokey Sings | From one singing Smokey to another... |
84 | Prince | Prince | Alphabet Street | ABC = start of the alphabet. So of course, this leads nicely to... |
85 | The Ramones | Ramones, The | Sheena Is A Punk Rocker | Prince did a duet with Sheena Easton. So, naturally... |
86 | Human League | Human League | Things That Dreams Are Made Of | The Ramones are mentioned on the following song... |
87 | Gorillaz | Gorillaz | Dare | ...which was on the album 'Dare'. Which brings us neatly to... |
88 | Steely Dan | Steely Dan | Reelin' In The Years | There was of course a comic character called Dan Dare. So... |
89 | The Beach Boys | Beach Boys, The | Good Vibrations | A Steely Dan was a sex toy featured in William S. Burroughs' classic book Naked Lunch. So why not... |
90 | Dick Dale & His Del-Tones | Dick Dale & His Del-Tones | King Of The Surf Guitar | From the Beach Boys to a surf guitarist par excellence... |
91 | Jimi Hendrix | Jimi Hendrix | All Along The Watchtower | Dick Dale played a guitar left-handed, without restringing it: so did... |
92 | Slade | Slade | Gudbuy T'Jane | Chas Chandler (ex Animals) discovered Jimi Hendrix & later became Slade's manager... |
93 | Belle & Sebastian | Belle & Sebastian | Lazy Line Painter Jane | From one Jane to another... |
94 | The Wonderstuff | Wonderstuff, The | Size Of A Cow | Belle....and cow make 'cowbell' (of course), which leads neatly onto... |
95 | Dr Feelgood | Dr Feelgood | Milk & Alcohol | Cows... milk... |
96 | Aretha Franklin | Aretha Franklin | Dr Feelgood | From Dr Feelgood to... |
97 | The Blues Brothers | Blues Brothers, The | Everybody Needs Somebody To Love | Aretha Franklin had a cameo in the film The Blues Brothers... |
98 | Roxy Music | Roxy Music | More Than This | Blues Brothers has Dan Ackroyd, who was in Ghostbusters with Bill Murray who was in Lost In Translation which featured him doing a killer karoke of... |
99 | The Waterboys | Waterboys, The | Glastonbury Song | ..which was on the Avalon album. Glastonbury is in the mythical land of Avalon, hence... |
100 | The Who | Who, The | Won't Get Fooled Again | The Waterboys' (arguably) most famous song is 'The Whole Of The Moon', and Keith Moon was the infamous drummer in The Who... |
101 | Al Green | Al Green | How Can You Mend A Broken Heart? | The Who's Roger Daltrey produced and starred in McVicar. A famous musical vicar is... |
102 | Mercury Rev | Mercury Rev | The Dark Is Rising | From the Reverend to the Rev... |
103 | Flaming Lips | Flaming Lips | Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots | And Mercury Rev's Dave Fridmann produced... |
104 | Flamin' Groovies | Flamin' Groovies | Shake Some Action | An exercise in elission: from Flaming to Flamin'... |
105 | A.T.V. | A.T.V. | Action Time Vision | From one 'action' to another... |
106 | Sleeper | Sleeper | Sale Of The Century | ATV also stands for Anglia Television. A famous gameshow on ATV was... |
107 | James Brown | James Brown | Night Train | From a sleeper...to a night train... |
108 | The Ethiopians | Ethiopians, The | Last Train To Skaville | Another type of train... |
109 | The Kinks | Kinks, The | Waterloo Sunset | Trains go from stations...hence... |
110 | Simon & Garkunkel | Simon & Garkunkel | Homeward Bound | Allegedly written in a train station... |
111 | Jerry Lee Lewis | Jerry Lee Lewis | Great Balls Of Fire | Simon & Garfunkel were originally called Tom and Jerry, so... |
112 | The Undertones | Undertones, The | My Perfect Cousin | J.L.L. married his second cousin twice removed, so... |
113 | The Divine Comedy | Divine Comedy, The | A Lady Of A Certain Age | Feargal Sharkey is from Derry, as is Neil Hannon... |
114 | The Trammps | Trammps, The | Disco Inferno | Part One of Dante's The Divine Comedy is 'Inferno'... |
115 | The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown | Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, The | Fire! | Inferno - caused by... |
116 | The Osmonds | Osmonds, The | Crazy Horses | Another 'crazy'... |
117 | Neil Young & Crazy Horse | Neil Young & Crazy Horse | Like A Hurricane | Another 'crazy' and another 'horse'... |
118 | The Stone Roses | Stone Roses, The | Sally Cinnamon | Neil Young & Crazy Horse also did a song called Cinnamon Girl, so... |
119 | Primal Scream | Primal Scream | Loaded | Mani went from The Stone Roses to... |
120 | Pulp | Pulp | Disco 2000 | Bobby Gillespie from Primal Scream apparently takes his kids to the park in Highbury Fields. As does Jarvis Cocker of... |
121 | Jesus & Mary Chain | Jesus & Mary Chain | Just Like Honey | Pulp's Jarvis Cocker was curator of this year's Meltdown Festival, at which the reformed Jesus & Mary Chain performed... |
122 | Patti Labelle | Patti Labelle | Lady Marmalade | Honey is good on toast, as is marmalade... |
123 | Fairport Convention | Fairport Convention | Si Tu Dois Partir | From one French lyric to another... |
124 | Squeeze | Squeeze | Up The Junction | Jools Holland is playing Fairport Convention's 2007 'Cropredy Convention'. A big hit for Jools' former band Squeeze... |
125 | Roxy Music | Roxy Music | Virginia Plain | The title of 'Up The Junction' is only mentioned in the last line of the song. Much like Virginia Plain... |
126 | Black Box Recorder | Black Box Recorder | The Facts Of Life | 'Plain'. Sounds like: 'plane'. Aeroplanes contain black box recorders. Et voila... |
127 | The Rolling Stones | Rolling Stones, The | Ruby Tuesday | Brian Jones played a recorder on the Stones' 'Ruby Tuesday'... |
128 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Life On Mars? | Mick Jagger and the alleged, legendary Mars Bar incident leads to... |
129 | Ian Dury & The Blockheads | Ian Dury & The Blockheads | Sweet Gene Vincent | In the BBC series, 'Life on Mars', Phillip Glenister played a character called Gene Hunt. On the album 'New Boots and Panties,' Ian Dury sings about another Gene... |
130 | Prince | Prince | Raspberry Beret | On heads, you wear hats. A type of hat is a beret... |
131 | Madness | Madness | The Prince | From Prince to 'The Prince'. We never said this had to be complicated... |
132 | Jilted John | Jilted John | Jilted John | Madness' had a song eponymously titled 'Madness'. Not unlike this Jilted John single... |
133 | The Monkees | Monkees, The | A Little Bit Of Me, A Little Bit Of You | Jilted John, aka Graham Fellows, appeared in Coronation Street, as did Davy Jones of... |
134 | Al Wilson | Al Wilson | The Snake | Monkeys feature in The Jungle Book. As does a sssssssssnake... |
135 | Python Lee Jackson | Python Lee Jackson | In A Broken Dream | From a snake to a python... |
136 | George Harrison | George Harrison | My Sweet Lord | From Python Lee Jackson to Monty Python, whose film The Life of Brian was made for George Harrison's film company so... |
137 | The Chiffons | Chiffons, The | He's So Fine | George Harrison was accused of ripping off 'He's So Fine' to write 'My Sweet Lord'... |
138 | The Verve | Verve, The | Bittersweet Symphony | Another court case: The Verve were successfully sued for sampling a symphonic version of the Rolling Stones' 'The Last Time' to make 'Bittersweet Symphony'... |
139 | The Sweet | Sweet, The | Ballroom Blitz | From bittersweet to sweet... |
140 | The Sugar Cubes | Sugar Cubes, The | Hit | Sugar cubes are sweet... |
141 | The Wannadies | Wannadies, The | Hit | From one song called 'Hit' to another... |
142 | Rufus Wainwright | Rufus Wainwright | Vibrate | If you hit something, it vibrates. Hence... |
143 | Pet Shop Boys | Pet Shop Boys | West End Girls | Neil Tennant executively produced Rufus' last album 'Release the Stars'... |
144 | The Beach Boys | Beach Boys, The | Sloop John B. | From the Pet Shop Boys to what you might hear in a pet shop... from their album 'Pet Sounds'... |
145 | Procul Harum | Procul Harum | A Salty Dog | A sailor, or a Salty Dog, might sail on a sloop, so... |
146 | Pixies | Pixies | Debaser | From 'A Salty Dog' to a mention (in the lyrics) of 'un chien andalusia'... |
147 | The Clash | Clash, The | Spanish Bombs | From Andalucia - keeping the Spanish connection going... |
148 | Mink De Ville | Mink De Ville | Spanish Stroll | Little explanation needed... |
149 | Sparks | Sparks | This Town Aint Big Enough For The Both Of Us | 'Ville' is French for 'town'. So... |
150 | Pizzicato Five | Pizzicato Five | Twiggy Twiggy | That track comes from the album 'Kimono My House'. A kimono is an item of clothing worn in Japan. Pizzicato Five are Japanese. What better way to mark the 150th link of the chain than... |
151 | Kraftwerk | Kraftwerk | The Model | Twiggy was a model, so... |
152 | The Pretenders | Pretenders, The | Brass In Pocket | Kraftwerk also did a record called 'Pocket Calculator'... therefore... |
153 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Changes | In your pocket you might find change... |
154 | Cher | Cher | Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves | Cher and David Bowie once duetted in 1975! So... |
155 | Martha Reeves & The Vandellas | Martha Reeves & The Vandellas | Heatwave | Cher's husband Sonny elected to public office, as was Martha Reeves... |
156 | All About Eve | All About Eve | Martha's Harbour | From one Martha to another... |
157 | Dexy's Midnight Runners | Dexy's Midnight Runners | Jackie Wilson Said | All About Eve's Julianne Regan once remained tight-lipped while the tape of their song was played on Top Of The Pops. In another TOTP debacle, a picture of darts player Jockey Wilson was displayed behind Dexy's as they performed... |
158 | Scott Walker | Scott Walker | Jackie | From one Jackie to another... |
159 | Magazine | Magazine | Shot By Both Sides | 'Jackie' was a girls' magazine in the seventies, hence... |
160 | Teenage Fanclub | Teenage Fanclub | Star Sign | Magazines have horoscopes. So why not... |
161 | The 5th Dimension | 5th Dimension, The | Aquarius | A star sign is aquarius... so... |
162 | Morrissey | Morrissey | Hairdresser On Fire! | This song was in the musical, Hair. So. from Hair to... |
163 | Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity | Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity | This Wheel's On Fire | From a hairdresser on fire to a wheel on fire: |
164 | Iggy Pop | Iggy Pop | The Passenger | 'This Wheel's on Fire' was covered by Siouxie and the Banshees on the 'Through the Looking Glass' album. They also covered... |
165 | New Order | New Order | Temptation | Passenger from Lust for Life LP, the title track of that was also on Trainspotting soundtrack...which also features... |
166 | Sigue Sigue Sputnik | Sigue Sigue Sputnik | Love Missile F1-11 | Peter Hook of New Order was married to Caroline Aherne, who wrote TV sitcom The Royle Family, of which the theme tune was performed by Oasis, which was also the name of a shop once worked in by Martin Degville of Sigue Sigue Sputnik! |
167 | The Tornados | Tornados, The | Telstar | Sputnik was a satellite, as was Telstar... |
168 | Beth Orton | Beth Orton | She Cries Your Name | Tornados tear up trailer parks, Beth Orton had an album called Trailer Park, hence... |
169 | Jimi Hendrix | Jimi Hendrix | The Wind Cries Mary | The name being cried might be... |
170 | Creedence Clearwater Revival | Creedence Clearwater Revival | Proud Mary | From one Mary to another... |
171 | Status Quo | Status Quo | Rockin' All Over The World | John Fogerty wrote 'Proud Mary'. He also wrote... |
172 | Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers | Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers | Ice Cream Man | Francis Rossi of The Quo was set to become an ice cream man before he made it big... |
173 | Dusty Springfield | Dusty Springfield | I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself | Jonathan Richman appeared in the film There's Something About Mary. 'Mary' was played by Cameron Diaz, who sang this next song in My Best Friend's Wedding... |
174 | Buffalo Springfield | Buffalo Springfield | For What It's Worth | From one Springfield to another... |
175 | Neneh Cherry | Neneh Cherry | Buffalo Stance | And from one Buffalo to another: |
176 | Wild Cherry | Wild Cherry | Play That Funky Music | And now it's the turn of the Cherry.... |
177 | Goldfrapp | Goldfrapp | Black Cherry | And another type of cherry: |
178 | Eddie Floyd | Eddie Floyd | Knock On Wood | 'Frappé' is 'knock' in French. Et voilà! |
179 | Pink Floyd | Pink Floyd | See Emily Play | From one Floyd to another... |
180 | Peter Gabriel | Peter Gabriel | Games Without Frontiers | Emily was a character in the kids TV classic Bagpuss, as was Gabriel the Toad. So... |
181 | The Avalanches | Avalanches, The | Frontier Psychiatrist | Through the frontiers to a frontier! |
182 | Ike & Tina Turner | Ike & Tina Turner | River Deep, Mountain High | Avalanches occur on mountains...hence... |
183 | Blur | Blur | There's No Other Way | Ike Turner was on the last Gorillaz album with Damon Albarn, who was also in... |
184 | Lenny Kravitz | Lenny Kravitz | Are You Gonna Go My Way | From one way to another.... |
185 | REM | REM | It's The End Of The World As We Know It | And because it mentions Lenny Bruce, and the last record was by Lenny Kravitz... |
186 | The Clash | Clash, The | The Four Horsemen | The end of the world is the Apocalypse. There are four horsemen of the Apocalypse in the Book of Revelation so... |
187 | James Brown | James Brown | Papa's Got A Brand New Bag | There is a horse's head in the film The Godfather. The Godfather of Soul was... |
188 | Pig Bag | Pig Bag | Papa's Got A Brand New Pig Bag | From one new bag to another... |
189 | Steely Dan | Steely Dan | Haitian Divorce | Papa Doc was the autocratic Haitian leader... so... |
190 | Deacon Blue | Deacon Blue | Dignity | Deacon Blue took their name from Steely Dan's song 'Deacon Blues'... |
191 | Nick Drake | Nick Drake | River Man | Lorraine McIntosh of Deacon Blue went on to play Alice in the soap River City. So... |
192 | Al Green | Al Green | Take Me To The River | From one river to another... |
193 | Fleetwood Mac | Fleetwood Mac | Green Manalishi | From one Green to another (Peter Green - guitarist in Fleetwood Mac) and another... |
194 | Judas Priest | Judas Priest | Breaking The Law | Green Manalishi was covered by.... |
195 | Thin Lizzy | Thin Lizzy | Jailbreak | From breaking the law to breaking from jail... |
196 | Supergrass | Supergrass | Grace | If you're one of these, you might give evidence to send someone to jail... |
197 | Aretha Franklin | Aretha Franklin | Say A Little Prayer | Grace is a type of little prayer you might say before a meal....so.... |
198 | Kate Bush | Kate Bush | Wuthering Heights | Aretha Franklin has the same name as Benjamin who was US President as is George Bush who has the same name as Kate... |
199 | The Move | Move, The | Flowers In The Rain | A bush can be found in the garden. So can flowers... |
200 | Van Der Graaf Generator | Van Der Graaf Generator | Theme One | Flowers in the Rain was the first record played by Radio 1. Theme One was Radio 1's station theme tune. |
201 | Electric Six | Electric Six | Danger! High Voltage | Van der Graaf Generator creates electricity... therefore... |
202 | The Electric Prunes | Electric Prunes, The | Get Me To The World On Time | From Electric Six to... |
203 | Louis Armstrong | Louis Armstrong | We Have All The Time In The World | To the world on time... to all the time in the world! |
204 | Dolly Parton | Dolly Parton | Jolene | Louis Armstrong famously duetted with Ella Fitzgerald on 'Hello Dolly'... so... |
205 | The Beautiful South | Beautiful South, The | 36D | Do we have to spell this one out? |
206 | Ac/Dc | Ac/Dc | Whole Lotta Rosie | Hmm. A ladies' measurements theme is definitely developing here... |
207 | Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue | Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue | Where The Wild Roses Grow | From Rosie to rose(s)... |
208 | The Troggs | Troggs, The | Wild Thing | From a 'wild' to a 'wild'...and Troglodytes lived in caves, so.... |
209 | The Jam | Jam, The | Going Underground | Troglodytes lived underground...hence... |
210 | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | Subterranean Homesick Blues | Another word for 'underground'... |
211 | Radiohead | Radiohead | Subterranean Homesick Alien | From one subterranean homesick thing to another... |
212 | The Cure | Cure, The | Friday I'M In Love | Radiohead were once called 'On A Friday'... |
213 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Friday On My Mind | From one Friday to another... |
214 | The Monkees | Monkees, The | Last Train To Clarksville | David Bowie was originally called David Jones, but changed it because of Davey Jones... |
215 | Suede | Suede | Metal Mickey | The Monkees' Micky Dolenz produced the TV show... |
216 | T.Rex | T.Rex | Metal Guru | From one metal to another... |
217 | Gloria Jones | Gloria Jones | Tainted Love | T. Rex's Marc Bolan was the boyfriend of... |
218 | Gene Pitney & Marc Almond | Gene Pitney & Marc Almond | Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart | Marc Almond was in Soft Cell, who also recorded Tainted Love, so therefore... |
219 | The Smiths | Smiths, The | Jeane | From one Gene to another... |
220 | Billy Bragg | Billy Bragg | Sexuality | Jeane was covered by Billy Bragg... |
221 | Kirsty Maccoll | Kirsty Maccoll | A New England | Kirsty MacColl covered Bragg's song 'A New England'... |
222 | Simon & Garfunkel | Simon & Garfunkel | The Leaves That Are Green | The opening lines of 'A New England' are the same as... |
223 | The G | G, The | Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed | The Leaves That Are Green' appeared on the album 'sounds of Silence', so let's go to... |
224 | Smokey Robinson & The Miracles | Smokey Robinson & The Miracles | Going To A Go-Go | From several 'Go-Gos' to a singular 'Go-Go'... |
225 | The Tom Robinson Band | Tom Robinson Band, The | 2-4-6-8 Motorway | From one Robinson to another... |
226 | The Doors | Doors, The | Love Me Two Times | 2, 4, 6, 8... that'll be the two times table then... |
227 | Laura Cantrell | Laura Cantrell | Two Seconds Of Your Time | To continue the 'two' theme: |
228 | Human League | Human League | Seconds | From seconds to, er, seconds! |
229 | The Adverts | Adverts, The | Gary Gilmore's Eyes | Seconds was about the murder of John Lennon. Gary Gilmore was a convicted murderer, hence... |
230 | Roxy Music | Roxy Music | Angel Eyes | An ocular connection... |
231 | Otis Redding | Otis Redding | Respect | Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry's son is called Otis... |
232 | Jimi Hendrix | Jimi Hendrix | Fire | Another Redding, Noel Redding, played bass for a certain James Marshall Hendrix... |
233 | Canned Heat | Canned Heat | On The Road Again | Jimi Hendrix died in September 1970, as did Alan Wilson of... |
234 | 10,000 Maniacs | 10,000 Maniacs | Hey Jack Kerouac | 'On The Road' is a book by Jack Kerouac, so... |
235 | The Whispers | Whispers, The | And The Beat Goes On | Jack was part of the Beat Generation... |
236 | Marrs | Marrs | Pump Up The Volume | From one type of chocolate bar (sic) to another... |
237 | Queen | Queen | Seven Seas Of Rhye | Mars is a planet. So is Mercury... Freddie Mercury, that is... |
238 | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin | Immigrant Song | Queen's final concert with Freddie Mercury was at Knebworth. Led Zeppelin's last gig on UK soil was also given there... |
239 | The Yardbirds | Yardbirds, The | Heart Full Of Soul | Led Zep started life as The New Yardbirds, so how about... |
240 | De La Soul | De La Soul | The Magic Number | A yard is three feet. So, from their album 'Three Feet High and Rising'... |
241 | The Byrds | Byrds, The | Eight Miles High | From three feet high...to... |
242 | Kenny Rogers & First Edition | Kenny Rogers & First Edition | I Just Dropped In... | "Tripped up on a cloud and fell eight miles high"....is a lyric in... |
243 | Supergrass | Supergrass | Caught By The Fuzz | Previous song was covered by Supergrass (and both share a drugs theme)... |
244 | Loudon Wainwright Iii | Loudon Wainwright Iii | Dead Skunk | Supergrass, slang for strong cannabis, not unlike skunk... |
245 | Doobie Brothers | Doobie Brothers | Take Me In Your Arms | Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter played in the Doobie Brothers... |
246 | Focus | Focus | Hocus Pocus | 'Take Me In Your Arms' was written by the songwriting team Holland-Dozier-Holland. From Holland came... |
247 | The Marvelettes | Marvelettes, The | My Baby Must Be A Magician | Hocus Pocus is often said by magicians....hence... |
248 | The Who | Who, The | Magic Bus | Maybe the magician drives a... |
249 | The Divine Comedy | Divine Comedy, The | National Express | From one type of bus to another... |
250 | Altered Images | Altered Images | Don't Talk To Me About Love | Divine Comedy had a song called Song About Love, so... |
251 | Gregory Isaacs | Gregory Isaacs | Night Nurse | Altered Images' Clare Grogan was in 'Gregory's Girl', hence... |
252 | Department S | Department S | Is Vic There? | Night Nurse is a well-known medicine. Vicks is a line of over-the-counter medicines... |
253 | The Jam | Jam, The | The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow) | Vaughn Toulouse of Dept S was on the cover of.... |
254 | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | Leopardskin Pillbox Hat | Where you'd keep your pills (maybe)... |
255 | The Blue Nile | Blue Nile, The | Downtown Lights | Take 'Hat' from Dylan's record and link it into a tune from the album 'Hats' by the Blue Nile: |
256 | Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers | Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers | Egyptian Reggae | The Nile is a river in Egypt... |
257 | Madness | Madness | Night Boat To Cairo | The capital of Egypt is... (pay attention at the back)... |
258 | Motörhead | Motörhead | Ace Of Spades | Madness appeared in TV sitcom The Young Ones, as did Motorhead... |
259 | The Thamesmen Aka Spinal Tap | Thamesmen Aka Spinal Tap, The | Gimme Some Money | Motörhead sport an umlaut in their name, as do Spinal Tap, incorrectly above the 'n' in their logo... |
260 | Ccs | Ccs | Tap Turns On The Water | From one tap to another... |
261 | Cornershop | Cornershop | Brimful Of Asha | From Alexis Korner of CCS to a certain shop on a corner... |
262 | Beck | Beck | Loser | Fatboy Slim remixed Brimful of Asha and... |
263 | Jimmy Cliff | Jimmy Cliff | Many Rivers To Cross | A 'beck' is a small river or stream... |
264 | Ben E. King | Ben E. King | Stand By Me | The late River Phoenix starred in the film 'Stand By Me'... |
265 | King | King | Love & Pride | From one 'king' to another... |
266 | The Fall | Fall, The | Mr Pharmacist | As the old saying goes, 'pride comes before a fall'... |
267 | The Kinks | Kinks, The | Autumn Almanac | 'The fall' is what Americans call the autumn... |
268 | The G | G, The | Betweens - Spring Rain | From one season to another... |
269 | The Velvet Underground | Velvet Underground, The | White Light White Heat | The Go-Betweens and the Velvet Underground both had female drummers... |
270 | Squeeze | Squeeze | Cool For Cats | The underground is also known as the tube. Jools Holland presented TV show 'The Tube' and also played in... |
271 | Lloyd Cole & The Commotions | Lloyd Cole & The Commotions | Perfect Skin | Cats purr. From purr to perfect... |
272 | Camera Obscura | Camera Obscura | Lloyd, I'M Ready To Be Heartbroken | Lloyd Cole sang 'Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken?' Camera Obscura answered... |
273 | Elvis Presley | Elvis Presley | Heartbreak Hotel | From the heartbroken to their heartbreak... |
274 | Steppenwolf | Steppenwolf | The Pusher | 'Heartbreak Hotel' was co-written by Mae Axton, and her son Hoyt wrote 'The Pusher'... |
275 | J.J. Cale | J.J. Cale | Cocaine | The pusher may have pushed cocaine... |
276 | Nick Drake | Nick Drake | Northern Sky | Another Cale - John Cale - played celeste, piano and organ on... |
277 | Cream | Cream | Crossroads | Nick Drake's sister Gabrielle acted in TV soap Crossroads, so... |
278 | Sensational Alex Harvey | Sensational Alex Harvey | Boston Tea Party | Cream... cream tea... Boston Tea Party... |
279 | Neil Young | Neil Young | Cinnamon Girl | Boston United's first goal in the Football League was an own goal by Bournemouth's Neil Young... |
280 | Guy Puckett & The Union Gap | Guy Puckett & The Union Gap | Young Girl | From one 'Young' and one 'Girl' to another, and another... |
281 | Simon & Garfunkel | Simon & Garfunkel | Mrs Robinson | In Young Girl, an undeage girl pursues an older man. In The Graduate, Mrs Robinson pursues the young Dustin Hoffman... |
282 | The Smiths | Smiths, The | This Charming Man | The lyrics to Mrs Robinson and This Charming Man both contain the word 'pantry'... |
283 | Pixies | Pixies | Monkey Gone To Heaven | A puppet on TV show Vic Reeves' Big Night Out was called Morrissey the Consumer Monkey... |
284 | Toots & The Maytals | Toots & The Maytals | Monkey Man | A nice simple link: monkey to monkey... |
285 | Bob Marley & The Wailers | Bob Marley & The Wailers | Get Up Stand Up | Chris Blackwell of Island Records went to Jamaica with the intention of signing Toots, but came away with Bob Marley... |
286 | Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers | Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers | Who Do Fools Fall In Love | Bob Marley's band was originally called The Teenagers...so.... |
287 | The Stone Roses | Stone Roses, The | Fool's Gold | From one type of fool to another... |
288 | Freda Payne | Freda Payne | Band Of Gold | And from one type of gold to another... |
289 | Alice Cooper | Alice Cooper | No More Mr Nice Guy | From a band of gold to Alice Bands in your hair. Hence... |
290 | Ash | Ash | Kung Fu | 'Mr Nice Guy' was a 1997 movie by martial artiste Jackie Chan, who is namedropped in... |
291 | Stiff Little Fingers | Stiff Little Fingers | Alternative Ulster | Ash is produced by burning 'Inflammable Material', the title of SLF's debut album. Also, they're another band from Ulster... |
292 | The Jam | Jam, The | That's Entertainment | Bruce Foxton played bass for Stiff Little Fingers and also for... |
293 | Traffic | Traffic | Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush | Jam, traffic... traffic jams... |
294 | The Human League | Human League, The | Being Boiled | Silkworms feed off mulberry bushes. In some production methods of silk-making, they are boiled... |
295 | The B52's | B52's, The | Rock Lobster | Another unfortunate creature which meets its maker by being boiled... |
296 | Squeeze | Squeeze | Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) | Staying on the seafood theme... |
297 | The Who | Who, The | Squeeze Box | From one squeeze to another... |
298 | Colourbox | Colourbox | The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme | And from one box to another... |
299 | The Four Tops | Four Tops, The | If I Were A Carpenter | The word 'colourbox' features in the lyrics of... |
300 | The Carpenters | Carpenters, The | Goodbye To Love | From a carpenter... to... well... |
301 | The White Stripes | White Stripes, The | Seven Nation Army | Another boy girl duo and another female drummer: from Karen Carpenter to Meg White... |
302 | Sensational Alex Harvey Band | Sensational Alex Harvey Band | Next | Alex Harvey almost always wore a stripey jumper! So... |
303 | Scott Walker | Scott Walker | The Old Man's Back Again | Jacques Brel wrote Next, and Scott Walker is a noted interpreter of Brel's songs... |
304 | Robert Wyatt | Robert Wyatt | Stalin Wasn't Stallin' | Or to give Scott Walker's song its official title....The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated To The Neo Stalinist Regime). Therefore.... |
305 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Back In The Ussr | A Russian link: |
306 | Blur | Blur | Beetlebum | From the Beatles, to a beetle... |
307 | The Clash | Clash, The | White Man In Hammersmith Palais | Damon Album is in The Good the Bad & the Queen. So is Paul Simenon from the Clash... |
308 | XTC | XTC | Statue Of Liberty | From white man to a track from their 'White Music' album... |
309 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Young Americans | Statue of Liberty is in America. So, naturally.... |
310 | Bjork | Bjork | Play Dead | The following tune was on the soundtrack to the film 'Young Americans'... |
311 | 808 State | 808 State | Pacific State | Bjork has also sung some of the tracks of... |
312 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | When I'M 64 | From 808 to 8 times 8. Which equals 64... so why not... |
313 | Steve Miller Band | Steve Miller Band | The Joker | Steve Miller is 64. Et voila... |
314 | Roger Miller | Roger Miller | King Of The Road | From one Miller to another... |
315 | Mercury Rev | Mercury Rev | Goddess On The Hiway | From a road... to a highway... |
316 | Neil Young | Neil Young | Heart Of Gold | From one precious metal to another... |
317 | Blondie | Blondie | Heart Of Glass | Er... from one type of heart to another... |
318 | Siouxsie & The Banshees | Siouxsie & The Banshees | Dear Prudence | From Debbie Harry to Harry Corbett and the Sooty Show, which featured Sue the panda. From Sue to Sioux... |
319 | The Cure | Cure, The | Close To Me | Robert Smith of The Cure also played for the Banshees... |
320 | Genesis | Genesis | I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) | The claustrophobic video for Close To Me features a wardrobe being filled with water, so... |
321 | Bob Marley & The Wailers | Bob Marley & The Wailers | Exodus | Genesis is the first book of the Bible, and Exodus is the second... |
322 | Dreadzone | Dreadzone | Little Britain | Bob Marley had dreadlocks, so... |
323 | Velvet Underground | Velvet Underground | Rock & Roll | In BBC comedy Little Britain, the characters Lou and Andy take their names from Lou Reed and Andy Warhol, so... |
324 | Emmylou Harris | Emmylou Harris | Boulder To Birmingham | From a rock...to a boulder... |
325 | The Flying Burrito Bros | Flying Burrito Bros, The | Hot Burrito #2 | Emmylou wrote 'Boulder...' about Gram Parsons. Gram Parsons was in... |
326 | The Rolling Stones | Rolling Stones, The | Wild Horses | Gram Parsons hung out with the Stones. This song was inspired by him: |
327 | Patti Smith | Patti Smith | Kimberley | Patti Smith had an album called 'Horses'. This track is on it: |
328 | Blue Oyster Cult | Blue Oyster Cult | Don't Fear The Reaper | Patti Smith's boyfriend and co writer of 'Kimberley' was in.... |
329 | The Clash | Clash, The | English Civil War | Sandy Pearlman produced 'Don't Fear the Reaper', and he also produced: |
330 | Toots & The Maytals | Toots & The Maytals | Pressure Drop | The B side to 'English Civil War' was 'Pressure Drop'. Also recorded by... |
331 | Robert Palmer | Robert Palmer | Looking For Clues | Robert Palmer had an album called 'Pressure Drop'..and here's another tune by him. |
332 | Elvis Costello & The Attractions | Elvis Costello & The Attractions | Watching The Detectives | Looking for clues...well, that's what detectives do isn't it? |
333 | Cosy Powell | Cosy Powell | Dance With The Devil | Robert Powell was in 'The Detectives'...he shares the same surname as.... |
334 | Orange Juice | Orange Juice | Rip It Up | 'Dance with the devil in the pale moonlight' was a line said by The Joker in the film 'Batman'. In France, 'Joker' is a brand of orange juice...therefore...^ |
335 | The O'Jays | O'Jays, The | Back Stabbers | Orange juice. Also known as OJ.... |
336 | Curved Air | Curved Air | Back Street Luv | From one Back to another... |
337 | John Martyn | John Martyn | Solid Air | From one Air to another... |
338 | Marvin Gaye | Marvin Gaye | Abraham, Martin & John | From one type of Martyn...to another... |
339 | Creedence Clearwater Revival | Creedence Clearwater Revival | I Heard It Through The Grapevine | Marvin Gaye sang 'I Heard it Through the Grapevine'. So did... |
340 | Jeff Buckley | Jeff Buckley | Lilac Wine | Grapes grow on a grapevines and make wine....so.... |
341 | Gogol Bordello | Gogol Bordello | Start Wearing Purple | Another type of purple is.... |
342 | The Police | Police, The | Roxanne | Roxanne apparently didn't need to put on a red light in her bordello... |
343 | Dr Feelgood | Dr Feelgood | Roxette | From Rox anne...to.... |
344 | Aretha Franklin | Aretha Franklin | Never Loved A Man | Dr Feelgood was also a song recorded by... |
345 | Scritti Politti | Scritti Politti | The Sweetest Girl | Aretha Franklin was mentioned in the title of a Scritti Politti song ('Wood Beez: Pray like Aretha Franklin'). So... |
346 | REM | REM | Orange Crush | Green Gartside is in Scritti Politti. 'Green' is also the album from which the following song is taken... |
347 | The Everly Brothers | Everly Brothers, The | All You Have To Do Is Dream | Since in rem sleep you remember dreams most vividly... |
348 | Wings | Wings | Let 'Em In | Phil and Don Everly brothers are given a 'shout out' by Sir Paul in the following tune: |
349 | Little Feat | Little Feat | Dixie Chicken | Wings are on birds. Chickens are birds. |
350 | Dixie Chicks | Dixie Chicks | Landslide | A band that named themselves after Dixie Chicken were... |
351 | The Avalanches | Avalanches, The | Since I Left You | Landslides, stuff slipping down hills, avalanches... |
352 | Rainbow | Rainbow | Since You'Ve Been Gone | From the other side of the relationship... |
353 | Nirvana | Nirvana | Rainbow Chaser | Staying with rainbows... |
354 | Supergrass | Supergrass | Richard Iii | "Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain" is a mnemonic to remember the colours of a rainbow. Richard of York was also known as Richard the Third.... |
355 | Pink Floyd | Pink Floyd | Cymbaline | Richard the Third was a play by Shakespeare. So was... |
356 | Psychedelic Furs | Psychedelic Furs | Pretty In Pink | From one pink to another... |
357 | Otis Redding | Otis Redding | Try A Little Tenderness | In the film 'Pretty in Pink', one of the characters mimes to the following: |
358 | The Durutti Column | Durutti Column, The | Otis | From one Otis to another... |
359 | The Lightning Seeds | Lightning Seeds, The | Life Of Riley | Vini Reilly is in the Durutti Column... therefore... |
360 | Howling Wolf | Howling Wolf | Smokestack Lightnin' | From one lightning to another... |
361 | Warren Zevon | Warren Zevon | Werewolves Of London | Staying with the lupine theme... |
362 | Fleetwood Mac | Fleetwood Mac | Rhiannon | John McVie and Mick Fleetwood played on Werewolves of London, and indeed in... |
363 | Kraftwerk | Kraftwerk | Computer Love | Apple Macs are computers, so... |
364 | Propanganda | Propanganda | Duel | Claudia Brucken made an album called Love And a Million Other Things, so... |
365 | Sex Pistols | Sex Pistols | Pretty Vacant | Duel... pistols at dawn... |
366 | Alice Cooper | Alice Cooper | I'M Eighteen | John Lydon auditioned for the Pistols by miming to... |
367 | Steely Dan | Steely Dan | Hey 19 | After 18 comes 19... |
368 | Eddie Cochran | Eddie Cochran | 20 Flight Rock | After 19 comes 20... |
369 | Little Richard | Little Richard | The Girl Can't Help It | 20 Flight Rock features in the film The Girl Can't Help It, so... |
370 | David Essex | David Essex | Stardust | Another great rock film was Stardust... |
371 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Lady Stardust | From one Stardust to another... |
372 | T-Rex | T-Rex | Cosmic Dancer | Lady Stardust was written about Marc Bolan, so... |
373 | The Jam | Jam, The | Town Called Malice | Another film on the Billy Elliot soundtrack was... |
374 | The Band | Band, The | The Weight | Nazareth had an album called Malice In Wonderland, and they took their name from a line in The Weight... |
375 | Steppenwolf | Steppenwolf | Born To Be Wild | The Weight was heard in the film Easy Rider, as was... |
376 | Herman's Hermits | Herman's Hermits | I'M Into Something Good | Hermann Hesse wrote 'Steppenwolf' the novel... therefore... |
377 | Super Furry Animals | Super Furry Animals | Hermann Loves Pauline | From one Hermann to another... |
378 | Selecter | Selecter | On My Radio | Pauline Black was in Selecter... |
379 | REM | REM | What's The Frequency, Kenneth? | Radios, frequencies... |
380 | Ian Brown | Ian Brown | My Star | Peter Buck of REM was associated with an air rage incident, as was Ian Brown... |
381 | Muse | Muse | Supermassive Black Hole | Stars collapse and create black holes, or something... |
382 | Massive Attack | Massive Attack | Unfinished Sympathy | From one massive to another... |
383 | Cocteau Twins | Cocteau Twins | Heaven Or Las Vegas | Massive Attack have on occasion employed the services of Cocteau Twins singer Liz Fraser... |
384 | The La's | La's, The | There She Goes | From Las to La's.... |
385 | The Doors | Doors, The | L.A. Woman | And from the La's to L.A. |
386 | Janis Joplin | Janis Joplin | Mercedes Benz | Jim Morrison died aged 27. As did... |
387 | Blackfoot Sue | Blackfoot Sue | Standing In The Road | Kev from the Isle of Man owns a Merc. It's broken down, therefore he is.... |
388 | Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel | Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel | White Lines (Don't Do It) | What do you get in the middle of the road? White lines.... |
389 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow | From white lines to white snow... |
390 | Wizzard | Wizzard | I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day | The first line of Roy's Christmas song is 'When the snowman brings the snow'... |
391 | Joni Mitchell | Joni Mitchell | A Case Of You | Roy Wood's other band ELO had a hit with Mr. Blue Sky. Joni Mitchell made the album Blue. From it... |
392 | The Blue Nile | Blue Nile, The | Tinseltown In The Rain | From Joni Mitchell's album Blue, to the Blue Nile... |
393 | The Verve | Verve, The | History | From the Nile to the Thames, a river mentioned in the opening verse of History... |
394 | Public Image Ltd | Public Image Ltd | This Is Not A Love Song | The lyrics of the first part of History were taken from William Blake's poem London. Jah Wobble made an album called 'Inspired By William Blake' and he played bass with Public Image... |
395 | Happy Mondays | Happy Mondays | Loose Fit | From PIL to the album Pills, Thrills & Bellyaches and this track... |
396 | The Sundays | Sundays, The | I Kicked A Boy | The day before Monday is... |
397 | Frank Sinatra | Frank Sinatra | That's Life | Kicking a boy would reasonably and most probably incur the wrath of Childline founder Esther Rantzen, who presented the TV series That's Life... |
398 | The Rolling Stones | Rolling Stones, The | 19Th Nervous Breakdown | The Stones' 19th Nervous Breakdown has always summed up life to Vashti Bunyan... |
399 | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin | Communication Breakdown | From breakdown... to breakdown... |
400 | Muddy Waters | Muddy Waters | You Need Love | Led Zep used this as the basis for Whole Lotta Love... |
401 | Slade | Slade | Merry Xmas Everybody | You Need Love was written by Willie Dixon. Many of his songs were covered by British groups including The Animals, who had a hit with You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover. Chas Chandler of The Animals managed Slade and gave them their name... |
402 | Pulp | Pulp | Common People | Slade School of Art is in London, as is Central St Martin's College of Art and Design. The latter is mentioned in the lyrics of... Christmas Celebrity Chain Noddy Holder |
403 | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Fanfare For The Common Man | From common people to common man... |
404 | David Bowie | David Bowie | China Girl | Fanfare... was the official theme of the 1976 Montreal Olympics. This year the Olympics are in China, so... |
405 | Jefferson Airplane | Jefferson Airplane | Somebody To Love | Jefferson Airplane's singer Grace Slick named her daughter China... |
406 | Status Quo | Status Quo | Paper Plane | Sticking with planes... |
407 | Jonathan Richman | Jonathan Richman | You'Re Crazy For Taking The Bus | Featuring the line "you take the plane, but I'll take the bus", it's... |
408 | Ian Hunter | Ian Hunter | Once Bitten, Twice Shy | From bus to the 'greyhound bus' mentioned in.... |
409 | The Zutons | Zutons, The | Valerie | Mick Ronson played on the previous record. Mark Ronson just recorded "Valerie" with Amy Winehouse so how about the original by... |
410 | The Monkees | Monkees, The | Valleri | From one Valerie to.... |
411 | Toni Basil | Toni Basil | Mickey | The Monkees' film 'Head', which was co written by Jack Nicholson. He appeared in the 1969 film, 'Easy Rider' as did... **(Double link |
412 | John Lee Hooker | John Lee Hooker | Boom Boom | From Toni Basil, to Basil Brush and his catchphrase... |
413 | The Stray Cats | Stray Cats, The | Stray Cat Strut | Lee Rocker is the bass player in... |
414 | The Cure | Cure, The | The Lovecats | From cats to cats... |
415 | Sandie Shaw | Sandie Shaw | Hand In Glove | Robert Smith of The Cure and Steven Severin both played in The Banshees and The Glove... |
416 | Robert Parker | Robert Parker | Barefooting | Sandie Shaw rarely wore shoes... |
417 | Zz Top | Zz Top | Legs | If you go barefoot, you can see your legs... |
418 | Elvis Presley | Elvis Presley | Viva Las Vegas | ZZ Top also recorded this song by... |
419 | Oasis | Oasis | Champagne Supernova | From the Vauxhall VIVA... to the Vauxhall NOVA by way of... |
420 | Ben Folds Five | Ben Folds Five | Battle Of Who Could Care Less | And Champagne Supernova was covered by... |
421 | The Who | Who, The | 5.15 | From Ben Folds Five... to Five Fifteen... |
422 | Blur | Blur | Parklife | The Who's film was called Quadrophenia, which starred Phil Daniels. Who also featured in... |
423 | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | Maggie's Farm | Alex James from Blur now lives on a farm... so... |
424 | The Beat | Beat, The | Stand Down Margaret | From Maggie...to Margaret... |
425 | The Ramones | Ramones, The | Beat On The Brat | And from one beat... to another... |
426 | The Clash | Clash, The | Tommy Gun | From Tommy Ramone to... |
427 | Cameo | Cameo | Word Up | Glasgow band Gun had a hit when they covered Word Up by Cameo... |
428 | Scritti Politti | Scritti Politti | The Word Girl | From word to word... |
429 | XTC | XTC | Jason And The Argonauts | From Scritti Politti's album Cupid & Psyche, sticking with Roman/Greek gods... |
430 | They Might Be Giants | They Might Be Giants | Birdhouse In Your Soul | Jason and the Argonauts are mentioned in the lyrics of... |
431 | Malcolm Mclaren | Malcolm Mclaren | Double Dutch | TMBG sang the theme tune to TV show Malcolm In The Middle, so... |
432 | Elvis Costello | Elvis Costello | New Amsterdam | Another connection with Holland... |
433 | Lloyd Cole & The Commotions | Lloyd Cole & The Commotions | Lost Weekend | The first line of the following song talks about a 'lost weekend in a hotel in Amsterdam'.... |
434 | Alice Cooper | Alice Cooper | Only Women Bleed | Alice has played golf with Lloyd (and once apparently introduced this song live saying that "even Lloyd Cole never wrote a song about menstruation"...) |
435 | Gene Vincent | Gene Vincent | Say Mama | Alice Cooper's real name is Vincent Furnier... |
436 | Richard Thompson | Richard Thompson | 1952 Vincent Black Lightning | From one Vincent to another... |
437 | Bruce Springsteen | Bruce Springsteen | Thunder Road | From Lightning... to Thunder... |
438 | Mott The Hoople | Mott The Hoople | Roll Away The Stone | Thunder Thighs backed Mott The Hoople on this track... |
439 | Abc | Abc | Poison Arrow | Roll Away The Stone has a bit of dialogue in the middle. So does... |
440 | The Shadows | Shadows, The | Apache | Native American tribes once used bows and arrows... |
441 | The Redskins | Redskins, The | Keep On Keeping On | Sticking with the Native American theme... |
442 | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | Tangled Up In Blue | This Dylan track features the phrase 'keep on keeping on'... |
443 | Aretha Franklin | Aretha Franklin | Think | When Dylan was first signed to Columbia by John Hammond, he was known as 'Hammond's Folly'. Mr Hammond also signed up Aretha... |
444 | The Housemartins | Housemartins, The | Think For A Minute | From one Minute to another... |
445 | The Byrds | Byrds, The | Mr Tambourine Man | Housemartins are birds.... |
446 | The Lemon Pipers | Lemon Pipers, The | Green Tambourine | From one tambourine to another... |
447 | Al Green | Al Green | Let's Stay Together | From one Green to another... |
448 | Paul Simon | Paul Simon | You Can Call Me Al | And one from Al to another... |
449 | Carly Simon | Carly Simon | You'Re So Vain | Are they related? From Paul to.... |
450 | The Human League | Human League, The | The Mirror Man | If you're vain you might look at yourself in the mirror... |
451 | Manfred Mann | Manfred Mann | 5 | From one man...to another! |
452 | XTC | XTC | Senses Working Overtime | Altogether now... "1 2 |
453 | The Move | Move, The | I Can Hear The Grass Grow | If your ears were working overtime, you might hear the grass growing... |
454 | Ike & Tina Turner | Ike & Tina Turner | Nutbush City Limits | From 'I Can' to 'Ike and'! Or from grass to bush... |
455 | Peter Gabriel | Peter Gabriel | Don't Give Up | Kate Bush joins Peter Gabriel for vocal duties on... |
456 | Depeche Mode | Depeche Mode | Personal Jesus | Peter Gabriel provided the score for the film The Last Temptation of Christ, so... |
457 | Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash | Hurt | Johnny Cash covered Personal Jesus. From the same album, this cover of a Nine Inch Nails song... |
458 | The Smiths | Smiths, The | The Boy With The Thorn In His Side | A thorn? In his side? That's got to hurt... |
459 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds | From 'the boy with the thorn in his side' to 'the girl with kaleidoscope eyes'... |
460 | Juicy Lucy | Juicy Lucy | Who Do You Love | From one Lucy to another... |
461 | Shocking Blue | Shocking Blue | Venus | Also from 1969, and to the Goddess of Love... |
462 | The B52's | B52's, The | Planet Claire | From the planet Venus to... |
463 | OMD | OMD | Enola Gay | B 52 was an aircraft, as was the B |
464 | Gay Dad | Gay Dad | To Earth With Love | From one gay to another... |
465 | Lou Reed | Lou Reed | Satellite Of Love | Sticking with love... |
466 | Bill Haley And The Comets | Bill Haley And The Comets | Rock Around The Clock | From satellites to comets... |
467 | Kula Shaker | Kula Shaker | Hush | From Bill Haley to actress Hayley Mills, and her son Crispian Mills, the frontman of Kula Shaker... |
468 | Bjork | Bjork | It's Oh So Quiet | Hush now... |
469 | T.Rex | T.Rex | Ride A White Swan | Bjork famously wore a dress that looked like a swan... hence... |
470 | Reef | Reef | Place Your Hands | The band Reef had an album called 'Rides'... |
471 | Otis Redding | Otis Redding | These Arms Of Mine | Hands are to be found on the ends of arms... |
472 | Aerosmith | Aerosmith | Love In An Elevator | The firm Otis makes lifts... |
473 | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin | Whole Lotta Love | Early 1990s ITV show Raw Power featured Love In An Elevator in its theme tune. The Top Of The Tops theme was... |
474 | The Clash | Clash, The | Rock The Casbah | 'Whole Lotta Love' was on Led Zep II, which Glyn Johns produced (although this was disputed by Jimmy Page). Glyn Johns also produced the 1982 album 'Combat Rock' by the Clash, which featured this song... |
475 | Crosby, Stills & Nash | Crosby, Stills & Nash | Marrakesh Express | The Casbah is Algiers, in North Africa, as is Marrakech... |
476 | The Hollies | Hollies, The | I'M Alive | Graham Nash was once in the Hollies... |
477 | The Cranberries | Cranberries, The | Zombie | If you're not very alive you might be undead... |
478 | The Zombies | Zombies, The | She's Not There | From one zombie... to many! |
479 | Fleetwood Mac | Fleetwood Mac | Black Magic Woman | Santana covered The Zombies' 'She's Not There' and also... |
480 | Norman Greenbaum | Norman Greenbaum | Spirit In The Sky | Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac was born Peter Allen Greenbaum, so... |
481 | The Pogues | Pogues, The | Streams Of Whiskey | Whiskey is a spirit, so... |
482 | Kiss | Kiss | Crazy, Crazy Nights | Pogue is kiss in Irish Gaelic, so... |
483 | Debbie Harry | Debbie Harry | French Kissin' (In The Usa) | From kiss to kiss... |
484 | Stereolab | Stereolab | French Disko | From French to French... |
485 | Lipps Inc. | Lipps Inc. | Funkytown | Here's a disco track, arguably the last big disco hit... |
486 | Tone Loc | Tone Loc | Funky Cold Medina | One type of funky connects another... |
487 | Little Richard | Little Richard | Tutti Frutti | A Medina is a type of cocktail. In the film 'Cocktail' the following song was featured... |
488 | The Stranglers | Stranglers, The | Peaches | Little Richard was also known as the Georgia Peach... |
489 | Buddy Holly | Buddy Holly | Peggy Sue | Peaches' B side was 'Go Buddy Go'... |
490 | Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash | A Boy Named Sue | From one Sue to another... |
491 | Toots & The Maytals | Toots & The Maytals | 54 | Johnny Cash performed that song at San Quentin prison. This song is also about being in a prison... |
492 | Chic | Chic | Le Freak | A song which has its origins in the nightclub Studio 54 is... |
493 | Robert Palmer | Robert Palmer | Johnny And Mary | Tony Thompson of Chic was in the Power Station with Robert Palmer, so... |
494 | Michelle Shocked | Michelle Shocked | Anchorage | Robert Palmer's video for Addicted to Love was once parodied by Michelle Shocked, so... |
495 | O.M.D. | O.M.D. | Electricity | From Michelle Shocked to electric shocks and... |
496 | The Boo Radleys | Boo Radleys, The | Wake Up Boo! | From one Wirral band to another... |
497 | Kate Bush | Kate Bush | Babooshka | 'Babooshka' has got 'boo' in it, innit... |
498 | The Purple Gang | Purple Gang, The | Granny Takes A Trip | 'Babooshka' is Russian for Grandmother so.... |
499 | Prince | Prince | 1999 | Prince wears purple... |
500 | T.Rex | T.Rex | 20Th Century Boy | 1999 was the end of the 20th century... |
501 | Fats Domino | Fats Domino | Blueberry Hill | 'Trex' is a type of cooking fat... |
502 | Derek & The Dominoes | Derek & The Dominoes | Layla | From one Domino to a lot of 'em... |
503 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | While My Guitar Gently Weeps | Derek and the Dominoes was Eric Clapton. Eric Clapton dedicated the song to Patti Boyd who, at the time, was George Harrison's wife. This song is written by George Harrison and Eric Clapton played guitar on it... |
504 | Roy Orbison | Roy Orbison | Crying | Sticking with the weeping theme... |
505 | Mott The Hoople | Mott The Hoople | All The Young Dudes | Roy 'The Big O' Orbison was known for wearing sunglasses, as was Ian Hunter of Mott The Hoople... |
506 | Bob Marley | Bob Marley | Three Little Birds | David Bowie gave the previous song to Mott the Hoople. Bowie's alter ego was Ziggy Stardust. Bob Marley named a son Ziggy, so... |
507 | The Flying Burrito Brothers | Flying Burrito Brothers, The | Sin City | From birds to The Byrds, who Gram Parsons once played with. He was also a member of the Flying Burrito Brothers... |
508 | The Drifters | Drifters, The | Under The Boardwalk | Bruce Willis was in the film Sin City. He covered Under The Boardwalk, originally by The Drifters... |
509 | Iggy Pop | Iggy Pop | I'M Bored | Board... sounds like... bored... so... |
510 | M | M | Pop Musik | From Pop....to pop... |
511 | The Waterboys | Waterboys, The | Whole Of The Moon | 'M' was fronted by Robin Scott...Mike Scott was frontman of... |
512 | The Beastie Boys | Beastie Boys, The | Intergalactic | The moon is in space. Space has galaxies.... |
513 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Eleanor Rigby | The Beastie Boys were infamous for their Volkswagen themed jewellery...Volkswagen Beetles...to... |
514 | Lindisfarne | Lindisfarne | Lady Eleanor | From one Eleanor to another... |
515 | Dr Feelgood | Dr Feelgood | She Does It Right | Lindisfarne is an island off the mainland as is Canvey Island, home of Dr Feelgood... |
516 | James Brown | James Brown | I Got You (I Feel Good) | James Brown... he feels good too... |
517 | The Kinks | Kinks, The | You Really Got Me | I got you... and you... well... |
518 | Happy Mondays | Happy Mondays | Kinky Afro | From kinks... to... |
519 | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Siouxsie And The Banshees | Happy House | A happy link... |
520 | The Housemartins | Housemartins, The | Caravan Of Love | A house link... |
521 | Camper Van Beethoven | Camper Van Beethoven | Take The Skinheads Bowling | From caravans to camper vans... |
522 | Bob & Marcia | Bob & Marcia | Young, Gifted & Black | The skinhead movement liked its reggae, and this was a particular favourite... |
523 | Bob & Earl | Bob & Earl | Harlem Shuffle | From one Bob including |
524 | U2 | U2 | Angel Of Harlem | A Harlem connection... |
525 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Under The Bridge | The City of Angels, Los Angeles, is mentioned in the following song... |
526 | Simon & Garfunkle | Simon & Garfunkle | Bridge Over Troubled Water | From under to over the bridge... |
527 | Deep Purple | Deep Purple | Smoke On The Water | From over water to... |
528 | Steam | Steam | Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye | Smoke on water could be mistaken for steam, so... |
529 | Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy | Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy | Kiss Me | From one kiss to another... |
530 | Fontella Bass | Fontella Bass | Rescue Me | Tintin was a character in Thunderbirds, which featured the exploits of International Rescue, so... |
531 | The Sundays | Sundays, The | Here's Where The Story Ends | From Fontella to fonts, and writing, and a track from the album 'Reading, Writing and Arithmetic'... |
532 | Elvis Costello | Elvis Costello | Every Day I Write The Book | From stories to books... |
533 | Tubeway Army | Tubeway Army | Are Friends Electric? | Costello wrote Oliver's Army, so here's another army... |
534 | B.J. Thomas | B.J. Thomas | Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head | Gary Numan fronted the Tubeway Army, Paul 'sounds like Numan' Newman starred in Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, which featured this song... |
535 | Manic Street Preachers | Manic Street Preachers | A Design For Life | The previous song was covered by the Manics, so... |
536 | Dusty Springfield | Dusty Springfield | Son Of A Preacher Man | From the preachers to a preacher... |
537 | The Special Aka | Special Aka, The | Nelson Mandela | The Very Rev Horace Dammers had a son called Jerry, who was in The Special AKA... |
538 | Neil Young | Neil Young | Rockin' In The Free World | Neil Young played this at the Nelson Mandela concert at Wembley... |
539 | The Jam | Jam, The | The Modern World | From world to world... |
540 | Strawberry Switchblade | Strawberry Switchblade | Since Yesterday | Jam....strawberry... strawberry jam? |
541 | Bobby Darin | Bobby Darin | Mack The Knife | From a blade to a knife... |
542 | Echo & The Bunnymen | Echo & The Bunnymen | The Cutter | Blades cut...and Ian McCulloch was known as Mack the Mouth... double link! Wooh |
543 | The Members | Members, The | The Sound Of The Suburbs | An echo is a repeated sound... |
544 | Petula Clark | Petula Clark | Downtown | Going from the suburbs and going downtown... |
545 | Althea & Donna | Althea & Donna | Uptown Top Ranking | From downtown... going... uptown... |
546 | White Town | White Town | Your Woman | Sticking with the town connection... |
547 | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | Just Like A Woman | A female connection... |
548 | The Divine Comedy | Divine Comedy, The | Songs Of Love | Ah, finally a meatier link. Dylan was a rabbit in The Magic Roundabout, and another character in that was Dougal the dog. Father Dougal was a character in Father Ted, and the theme to that programme was... |
549 | The Ruts | Ruts, The | Babylon's Burning | Dante's Inferno is from The Divine Comedy, so here's something else that's on fire... |
550 | Talking Heads | Talking Heads | Burning Down The House | From burning to burning... |
551 | Dire Straits | Dire Straits | Sultans Of Swing | David Byrne of Talking Heads and Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits were both born in Scotland, so... |
552 | Maria Muldaur | Maria Muldaur | Midnight At The Oasis | From sultans, to deserts, and an oasis... |
553 | Ac/Dc | Ac/Dc | You Shook Me All Night Long | Sticking with the night time... |
554 | E.L.O. | E.L.O. | Mr. Blue Sky | |
555 | O.M.D. | O.M.D. | Souvenir | From the Electric LIGHT Orchestra to Orchestral Manoeuvres in the DARK... |
556 | Sandie Shaw | Sandie Shaw | Always Something There To Remind Me | Souvenirs remind us of things... |
557 | Shangri | Shangri | Las | From Sandie (sandy) Shaw (shore) to sand... |
558 | Ventures | Ventures | Walk Don't Run | We're still walking... |
559 | The Who | Who, The | Who Are You? | The Ventures did the theme to Hawaii 5 0. Another US cop show, CSI, had this Who track as its theme... |
560 | The Mamas And The Papas | Mamas And The Papas, The | California Dreamin' | Keith Moon of The Who and Mama Cass Eliott died in the same flat at 9 Curzon Place, London... |
561 | Ray Charles | Ray Charles | Georgia On My Mind | Still thinking about American states... |
562 | Sam & Dave | Sam & Dave | Soul Man | Ray Charles had a music shop in the Blues Brothers film. A song from its soundtrack is... |
563 | Pulp | Pulp | A Little Soul | Soul to soul... |
564 | Joe Cocker | Joe Cocker | With A Little Help From My Friends | From Pulp's Jarvis Cocker to fellow Sheffielder Joe Cocker (no relation)... |
565 | Rod Stewart | Rod Stewart | Gasoline Alley | Joe Cocker was a gas fitter. So... |
566 | Elvis Costello | Elvis Costello | Alison | From Alley, to Ali, or Alison... |
567 | Kirsty Maccoll | Kirsty Maccoll | There's A Guy Works Down The Chipshop... | From one Elvis to another... |
568 | XTC | XTC | Making Plans For Nigel | Kirsty Maccoll was married to Steve Lillywhite, who produced XTC and... |
569 | Focus | Focus | The House Of The King | Andy Partridge was lead singer with XTC. Alan Partridge was created by Steve Coogan who also played Saxondale. The theme for Saxondale was... |
570 | Paul Simon | Paul Simon | Graceland | The home of The King, aka Elvis, was Graceland, so... |
571 | Simon Dupree & The Big Sound | Simon Dupree & The Big Sound | Kites | From Simon to Simon... |
572 | The Byrds | Byrds, The | Turn, Turn, Turn | A kite is a type of bird, so... |
573 | The Bees | Bees, The | Chicken Payback | From the Byrds to the Bees! |
574 | The Honeycombs | Honeycombs, The | Have I The Right | Bees produce honeycombs... |
575 | The Bangles | Bangles, The | Manic Monday | The Honeycombs had a female drummer (Honey Lantree). How about a track from the all female Bangles... |
576 | Adam & The Ants | Adam & The Ants | Prince Charming | Manic Monday was written by Prince... hence... |
577 | The Doors | Doors, The | Love Her Madly | The 'Prince Charming' video featured Diana Dors, so how about... |
578 | Radiohead | Radiohead | Creep | Jim Morrison was featured in the lyrics of Radiohead's 'Anyone Can Play Guitar', from the Pablo Honey album. Also on that album is... |
579 | Roxy Music | Roxy Music | Ladytron | Radiohead took their name from a song (by Talking Heads). Another band, Ladytron, took their name from this Roxy Music song... |
580 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Heroes | Brian Eno was in Roxy Music. And he produced... |
581 | Laurie Anderson | Laurie Anderson | O Superman | From heroes... to a hero... |
582 | Cypress Hill | Cypress Hill | Insane In The Brain | German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche introduced a concept known as Superman (Übermensch). Nietzsche is thought to have contracted syphilis and died insane. So... |
583 | Pixies | Pixies | Where Is My Mind? | Sticking with the insanity theme... |
584 | Randy Newman | Randy Newman | Short People | Pixies are short, right? |
585 | Nilsson | Nilsson | Everybody's Talkin' | Randy Newman had a song turned down for the soundtrack of Midnight Cowboy. From that soundtrack... |
586 | Talk Talk | Talk Talk | Life's What You Make It | From Talkin' to Talk Talk... |
587 | Moloko | Moloko | Pure Pleasure Seeker | From 'Life's What You Make It' to a single from Moloko's album 'Things To Make And Do'... |
588 | Billy Bragg | Billy Bragg | The Milkman Of Human Kindness | Moloko is Russian for milk.... |
589 | The Inspiral Carpets | Inspiral Carpets, The | This Is How It Feels To Be Lonely | Milk comes from cows, and this band had the cow as their logo... |
590 | Buzzcocks | Buzzcocks | Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn'T'Ve) | From inspiral to spiral... Buzzcocks first single EP was Spiral Scratch, so... |
591 | Lulu | Lulu | Shout | 'Buzz' is a sound made by Bees. One of the BEE Gees was married to... |
592 | Tears For Fears | Tears For Fears | Sowing The Seeds Of Love | Another band recorded a song called 'Shout'... |
593 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | A Day In The Life | Double Link Alert! 'Sowing The Seeds Of Love' is a Beatles pastiche of 'I Am The Walrus', and Tears For Fears were named after a type of psychotherapy, the inventor of which (Arthur Janov) treated John Lennon. So... |
594 | Dream Warriors | Dream Warriors | I Wash Your Face In My Sink | A Day In The Life details what you do when you get up (comb your hair, etc.) but makes no reference to face washing! Tut tut. So to correct the balance... |
595 | The Beat | Beat, The | Mirror In The Bathroom | You might wash your face and then look at it in the... |
596 | Thin Lizzy | Thin Lizzy | Dancing In The Moonlight | Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy had a mirrored bass... |
597 | Van Morrison | Van Morrison | Moondance | That would be a Moondance then, right? |
598 | Joni Mitchell | Joni Mitchell | Big Yellow Taxi | From a 'Van' to another type of transport.... |
599 | Prince | Prince | Little Red Corvette | From a big yellow taxi to a... |
600 | Jimi Hendrix | Jimi Hendrix | Crosstown Traffic | A Corvette is a model of car, and lots of cars = traffic, so... |
601 | Traffic | Traffic | Hole In My Shoe | From traffic to... er... traffic! |
602 | Elvis Presley | Elvis Presley | Blue Suede Shoes | From holey shoes to... |
603 | Carl Perkins | Carl Perkins | Matchbox | Carl Perkins wrote 'Blue Suede Shoes'. He also wrote this: |
604 | Prodigy | Prodigy | Firestarter | A matchbox contains matches... they start fire... |
605 | The Move | Move, The | Fire Brigade | Blimey! Keith Flint's started a fire. Better call the... |
606 | Curtis Mayfield | Curtis Mayfield | Move On Up | From The Move to Move On Up... |
607 | Joy Division | Joy Division | Transmission | Another Curtis, Ian Curtis, fronted Joy Division... |
608 | Blur | Blur | Music Is My Radar | Radars transmit signals, so... |
609 | The Housemartins | Housemartins, The | Me And The Farmer | Blur's Alex James is now a farmer so.... |
610 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | And Your Bird Can Sing | The housemartin is a type of bird. And it can sing. Hence.... |
611 | Marianne Faithfull | Marianne Faithfull | As Tears Go By | 'And Your Bird Can Sing' was allegedly about Mick Jagger, whose 'bird' at the time was... |
612 | Chris Farlowe | Chris Farlowe | Handbags And Gladrags | Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote 'As Tears Go By' for Marianne Faithfull. They also wrote 'Out of Time' for Chris Farlowe, who also recorded.... |
613 | The Kinks | Kinks, The | Dedicated Follower Of Fashion | Someone who likes their gladrags could be a.... |
614 | Radiohead | Radiohead | The Bends | Kink... bend... |
615 | Talking Heads | Talking Heads | Road To Nowhere | From Head to Heads... and roads have bends so... |
616 | Brian Eno | Brian Eno | King's Lead Hat | An anagram of Talking Heads is... |
617 | The Dandy Warhols | Dandy Warhols, The | Bohemian Like You | B. Eno to Beano to Dandy to Dandy Warhols... |
618 | Vashti Bunyan | Vashti Bunyan | Diamond Day | That track featured in an advert for a mobile phone company, as did... |
619 | Flatlanders | Flatlanders | Dallas | There was a massive gap between two of Vashti Bunyan's albums, as there was with the Flatlanders... |
620 | Peter Gabriel | Peter Gabriel | Solsbury Hill | From flat land, to hills... |
621 | Kate Bush | Kate Bush | Sat In Your Lap | Kate Bush once duetted with Peter Gabriel... |
622 | Bob Marley | Bob Marley | Buffalo Soldier | Kate Bush also sang 'Army Dreamers'. So, keeping with the military theme: |
623 | Small Faces | Small Faces | Tin Soldier | From a buffalo soldier to a metallic one... |
624 | Stiff Little Fingers | Stiff Little Fingers | Suspect Device | Stiff Little fingers also had a song called 'Tin Soldiers'. So why not play another Stiff Little Fingers track... |
625 | Elvis Costello | Elvis Costello | (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding | One of the first artists signed to the record label Stiff was Elvis Costello... |
626 | Fairground Attraction | Fairground Attraction | Perfect | Elvis Costello's band was called The Attractions, so why not play... |
627 | Buddy Holly & The Crickets | Buddy Holly & The Crickets | That'Ll Be The Day | In the film 'That'll Be The Day', David Essex worked on a fairground... |
628 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Ashes To Ashes | From cricket to The Ashes... |
629 | R. Dean Taylor | R. Dean Taylor | There's A Ghost In My House | Ashes to Ashes was on the Scary Monsters album, so on a scary theme... |
630 | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry | From ghosts... to the original title of this tune, 'The Phantom Engineer'... |
631 | Smokey Robinson & The Miracles | Smokey Robinson & The Miracles | Tears Of A Clown | Tears? Laughter? That'll be a clown then... |
632 | Dave Davies (The Kinks) | Dave Davies (The Kinks) | Death Of A Clown | From tears... to a mortality... |
633 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Taxman | As Benjamin Franklin once said, "Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes"... |
634 | The Flying Lizards | Flying Lizards, The | Money | The taxman wants your... |
635 | Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash | Ring Of Fire | From money to cash... |
636 | Elvis Presley | Elvis Presley | Thats Alright Mama | Johnny Cash was on Sun Records, as was... |
637 | Mama Cass | Mama Cass | Dream A Little Dream Of Me | From one Mama to another... |
638 | Simple Minds | Simple Minds | Belfast Child | Mamas and papas... have children! |
639 | U2 | U2 | Where The Streets Have No Name | Belfast was allegedly the town behind this song... |
640 | Emmylou Harris & Gram Parsons | Emmylou Harris & Gram Parsons | Love Hurts | The last song opened The Joshua Tree album. Gram Parsons died at Joshua Tree in the Mojave desert... |
641 | The Faces | Faces, The | Cindy Incidentally | Gram Parsons was in The Byrds. Another band, The Birds, featured Ronnie Wood. Ronnie Wood was later in The Faces... |
642 | Tom Waits | Tom Waits | Downtown Train | Rod Stewart was in The Faces and also sang this song, as did... |
643 | The Doobie Brothers | Doobie Brothers, The | Long Train Running | From one train to another.... |
644 | Fun Lovin' Criminals | Fun Lovin' Criminals | Scooby Snacks | "Scooby doobie doo, where are you"... |
645 | The Clash | Clash, The | I Fought The Law | From criminals...to the law.... |
646 | Steve Earle | Steve Earle | The Devil's Right Hand | The subject of Steve Earle's song fought the law.... |
647 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Red Right Hand | From one hand to another... |
648 | The Velvet Underground | Velvet Underground, The | All Tomorrow's Parties | Nick Cave covered the following track... |
649 | The Rolling Stones | Rolling Stones, The | Brown Sugar | Andy Warhol designed the cover for Velvet Underground and then Sticky Fingers by The Stones, so... |
650 | The Pogues | Pogues, The | Sally Maclennane | Brown Sugar makes molasses, which are used to make rum. The album "Rum, Sodomy And The Lash" has this song.... |
651 | Morrissey | Morrissey | Every Day Is Like Sunday | "Sally MacLennane" is based on the pub that Shane Macgowan's uncle used to run in Dagenham. "Dagenham Dave" is a song by Morrissey, who also sang... |
652 | New York Dolls | New York Dolls | Personality Crisis | Morrissey was once chairman of the New York Dolls fanclub! |
653 | Julian Cope | Julian Cope | Beautiful Love | Julian Cope likes dolls and released the China Doll EP, so... |
654 | Jimmy Cliff | Jimmy Cliff | Wonderful World, Beautiful People | From love...to people... |
655 | Sam Cooke | Sam Cooke | Wonderful World | Another wonderful world... |
656 | Wreckless Eric | Wreckless Eric | Whole Wide World | And another! |
657 | Talking Heads | Talking Heads | Psycho Killer | Wreckless Eric had another single with a French title ('Reconnaissez Cherie'). David Byrne speaks French in the following...^ |
658 | Arthur Conley | Arthur Conley | Sweet Soul Music | David Byrne sings 'fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa'....Arthur Conley sings the same in honour of Otis Redding...^ |
659 | Sweet | Sweet | Blockbuster | From one sweet to another... |
660 | Joni Mitchell | Joni Mitchell | Raised On Robbery | Buster Edwards was in the Great Train Robbery.... |
661 | Glen Campbell | Glen Campbell | Wichita Lineman | From Joni Mitchell to "Mitchell and Webb" to Jimmy Webb who wrote the following song for... |
662 | Supertramp | Supertramp | Take The Long Way Home | Campbell is a famous type of soup producer. Soup er! |
663 | Elvis Presley | Elvis Presley | It's A Long Lonely Highway | Sticking with the long journey theme... |
664 | Lucinda Williams | Lucinda Williams | Passionate Kisses | Lucinda Williams is on Lost Highway Records, so... |
665 | New Order | New Order | Perfect Kiss | Staying with kisses... |
666 | Ac/Dc | Ac/Dc | Highway To Hell | After the death of singer Ian Curtis, Joy Division continued successfully as New Order. AC/DC also continued successfully after the death of their original frontman. So, for link 666, a hellish track... |
667 | The Associates | Associates, The | Party Fears Two | AC/DC's lead guitarist is Angus Young. Dundee is in Angus in Scotland, and The Associates were from Dundee... |
668 | The Smiths | Smiths, The | William It Was Really Nothing | The next song was rumoured to be about Billy MacKenzie of The Associates... |
669 | The Walker Brothers | Walker Brothers, The | No Regrets | Smiths made crisps. So do Walkers... |
670 | The Charlatans | Charlatans, The | The Only One I Know | "The Brothers" was a Sunday night TV Drama featuring a company called Hammond Transport. The Hammond Organ features heavily in... |
671 | The Only Ones | Only Ones, The | Another Girl Another Planet | From the only one (singular)... to... |
672 | Bjork | Bjork | Venus As A Boy | Another planet is Venus... so... |
673 | Badly Drawn Boy | Badly Drawn Boy | Something To Talk About | From one boy to another... |
674 | The Monkees | Monkees, The | (I'M Not Your) Steppin' Stone | Badly Drawn Boy famously wears a woolly hat. Another famous woolly hat wearer was Mike Nesmith of... |
675 | Happy Mondays | Happy Mondays | Step On | Stepping stones are for stepping on, so... |
676 | Joy Division | Joy Division | Love Will Tears Us Apart | Another band on Factory Records were... |
677 | Bryan Ferry | Bryan Ferry | Let's Stick Together | Tearing apart, sticking together... |
678 | Canned Heat | Canned Heat | Going Up The Country | Canned Heat did a version of that song 'Let's Work Together'. Here's another Canned Heat song... |
679 | Bow Wow Wow | Bow Wow Wow | Go Wild In The Country | If you go up the country, you might go wild... |
680 | Suede | Suede | We Are The Pigs | From the canine entitled album, 'Dog Star Man'.... |
681 | Junior Marvin | Junior Marvin | Police & Thieves | 'Pig' is an offensive slang term for the police so... |
682 | The Beach Boys | Beach Boys, The | Heroes & Villains | Opposites...police and thieves to..... |
683 | Morrissey | Morrissey | The Last Of The International Playboys | Reggie Kray, a well known villain, is mentioned on this song... |
684 | Jesus Jones | Jesus Jones | International Bright Young Thing | Sticking with the international theme... |
685 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Oh You Pretty Things | From young things to pretty things... |
686 | The Pretty Things | Pretty Things, The | Rosalyn | More pretty things... |
687 | Lynn Anderson | Lynn Anderson | Rose Garden | Split Rosalyn in two, and you get Rose, and Lynn, so... |
688 | Elvis Costello | Elvis Costello | Good Year For The Roses | Sticking with bittersweet love songs with roses in the title... |
689 | 10 Cc | 10 Cc | Rubber Bullets | Goodyear make tyres with rubber, so... |
690 | Elastica | Elastica | Connection | From rubber to elastic! Also, if you had a gun full of rubber bullets you might be 'trigger happy', and the theme to TV show 'Trigger Happy TV' was 'Connection'... |
691 | Madness | Madness | Baggy Trousers | Insufficient elastic? That might cause you to have baggy trousers... |
692 | Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers | Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers | Got To Get You Into My Life | 'Bennetts' could be rhyming slang for trousers, i.e. Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers = trousers! Or if you prefer, 'trousers' just rhymes with 'rousers'... |
693 | Black Sabbath | Black Sabbath | Sweet Leaf | 'Got To Get You Into My Life' is allegedly about cannabis, as is... |
694 | Pink Floyd | Pink Floyd | Wish You Were Here | The last song began with a cough. This next song also features a cough near the start... |
695 | Belle And Sebastien | Belle And Sebastien | Funny Little Frog | You might cough if you get a frog in your throat... |
696 | Black Grape | Black Grape | Reverend Black Grape | From funny little frog... to Kermit the frog... to Kermit the rapper in Black Grape... |
697 | Crowded House | Crowded House | Pineapple Head | On a fruity theme, we go from grape to pineapple... |
698 | The Drifters | Drifters, The | Up On The Roof | If your house was crowded you might want to get some space up on the roof... |
699 | Cliff Richard & The Drifters | Cliff Richard & The Drifters | Move It | From one Drifters to another... |
700 | Rolling Stones | Rolling Stones | Get Off Of My Cloud | Keith Richards is rumoured to have removed the 's' at the end of his name (for a period) to emulate Cliff Richard... |
701 | The Temptations | Temptations, The | Cloud Nine | Sticking with clouds... |
702 | Heaven 17 | Heaven 17 | Temptation | Sticking with temptations... |
703 | The Smiths | Smiths, The | Cemetery Gates | Oscar Wilde said he could resist anything, except temptation. Wilde appears in this Smiths song... |
704 | Tenpole Tudor | Tenpole Tudor | Swords Of A Thousand Men | Smiths made crisps, as did Tudor, so... |
705 | Edwin Starr | Edwin Starr | War | Sticking with the war theme... all together now: "HUH! WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?" |
706 | Frankie Goes To Hollywood | Frankie Goes To Hollywood | Two Tribes | "Two tribes go to war..." |
707 | Nancy Sinatra | Nancy Sinatra | These Boots Are Made For Walking | Frankie Goes To Hollywood took their name from a magazine headline about Frank Sinatra. Here's his daughter... |
708 | Carly Simon | Carly Simon | Why | Nancy Sinatra and Carly Simon both sang Bond themes so... |
709 | ? & The Mysterians | ? & The Mysterians | 96 Tears | "Why" is a question, needing a question mark hence... |
710 | Nena | Nena | 99 Red Balloons | Add 3 to 96... |
711 | Youssou N'Dour & Neneh Cherry | Youssou N'Dour & Neneh Cherry | Seven Seconds | From Nena to Neneh... |
712 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Strawberry Fields Forever | Sticking with summer fruits... |
713 | Strawberry Alarm Clock | Strawberry Alarm Clock | Incense And Peppermints | Sticking with strawberries... |
714 | The Brothers Johnson | Brothers Johnson, The | Strawberry Letter 23 | Continuing the Pick Your |
715 | Elvis Presley | Elvis Presley | Return To Sender | A postal themed connection now... |
716 | Stevie Wonder | Stevie Wonder | Signed, Sealed, Delivered | Sticking with the mail connection... |
717 | Fun Boy Three | Fun Boy Three | Our Lips Are Sealed | Letters are sealed... so are... |
718 | The Flaming Lips | Flaming Lips, The | Race For The Prize | From sealed lips to flaming ones... |
719 | Abba | Abba | The Winner Takes It All | Whoever wins the race for the prize is... |
720 | The Who | Who, The | Pinball Wizard | Who wins it all? He sure plays a mean pinball... |
721 | Wizzard | Wizzard | See My Baby Jive | From a wizard to... |
722 | The Bee Gees | Bee Gees, The | Jive Talkin' | From dancing to talking. Or talkin', even... |
723 | Suede | Suede | Saturday Night | The Bee Gees did the music for Saturday Night Fever, so... |
724 | Tom Waits | Tom Waits | Heart Of Saturday Night | Sticking with Saturday nights... |
725 | Tom Tom Club | Tom Tom Club | Wordy Rappinghood | From Tom to Tom Tom... |
726 | The Dave Clark Five | Dave Clark Five, The | Bits & Pieces | A tom tom is a drum. Dave Clark is a drummer so... |
727 | Cyndi Lauper | Cyndi Lauper | Time After Time | Dave Clark produced 1986 musical 'Time'... |
728 | Oasis | Oasis | Wonderwall | Time is told on clocks. Oasis' album 'Stop the Clocks' contains this song... |
729 | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin | Rock And Roll | Son of Ringo Starr, Zac Starkey, played drums for Oasis. Son of legendary drummer, John Bonham, namely, Jason Bonham, replaced his dad in Led Zeppelin's latest gig... |
730 | Joan Jett & The Blackhearts | Joan Jett & The Blackhearts | I Love Rock And Roll | From rock and roll... to rock and roll! |
731 | Paul Mccartney & Wings | Paul Mccartney & Wings | Jet | From Jett... to... |
732 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Suffragette City | ..."And jet, i thought the major was a lady suffragette"... hence... |
733 | Blondie | Blondie | Union City Blue | From one city to another... |
734 | The Strawbs | Strawbs, The | Part Of The Union | And from one union to another... |
735 | Yes | Yes | Roundabout | Rick Wakeman was a member of The Strawbs and Yes... |
736 | Simon & Garfunkel | Simon & Garfunkel | America | Yes covered America by Simon & Garfunkel... |
737 | Presidents Of The Usa | Presidents Of The Usa | Peaches | Staying in America... |
738 | Suzi Quatro | Suzi Quatro | Can The Can | Peaches are sometimes in cans so... |
739 | Elvis Presley | Elvis Presley | Jailhouse Rock | Jail is sometimes known as 'the can'.... |
740 | Jane's Addiction | Jane's Addiction | Been Caught Stealing | In jail? Have you... |
741 | Free | Free | The Stealer | And you must be a... |
742 | The Clash | Clash, The | Bankrobber | Or maybe a... |
743 | Barrett Strong | Barrett Strong | Money (That's What I Want) | Bankrobbers are only after one thing... |
744 | Wah! | Wah! | Seven Minutes To Midnight | An anagram of money is 'nemoy'. Leonard Nimoy played Spock, who was a character in Star Trek, as was Captain Kirk. 'Where's Captain Kirk' was a song by Spizz Energi, a band who were known for always changing their name. So was the following band... |
745 | Jonathan Richman | Jonathan Richman | Roadrunner (Once) | Pete Wylie was in the Wah!. The Wiley Coyote chased Roadrunner hence... |
746 | Bruce Springsteen | Bruce Springsteen | Born To Run | What else is a roadrunner born to do? |
747 | Echo & The Bunnymen | Echo & The Bunnymen | The Killing Moon | Another Bruce, Bruce Grobbelaar, was a goalkeeper for Liverpool FC. The following band was formed in Liverpool... |
748 | Creedence Clearwater Revival | Creedence Clearwater Revival | Bad Moon Rising | From one moon to another... |
749 | George Thorogood & The Destroyers | George Thorogood & The Destroyers | Bad To The Bone | And from one bad to another... |
750 | The Kinks | Kinks, The | Sunday Afternoon | Lazy bones! Lazing on a... |
751 | Eddie Cochran | Eddie Cochran | Summertime Blues | "Lazing on a Sunday afternooooooon, in the summertime......in the summertime...". |
752 | The Lovin' Spoonful | Lovin' Spoonful, The | Summer In The City | From summer to summer... |
753 | Aztec Camera | Aztec Camera | Somewhere In My Heart | The first line in this Aztec Camera song is 'Summer in the city where the air is still"... |
754 | A Flock Of Seagulls | A Flock Of Seagulls | Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) | Cameras take photographs... |
755 | Pulp | Pulp | Babies | In the film Pulp Fiction, Samuel L. Jackson's character addresses someone as 'Flock of Seagulls' in reference to their haircut. So lets have a bit of Pulp... |
756 | The Babys | Babys, The | Isn't It Time? | From Babies to Babys... |
757 | Gladys Knight & The Pips | Gladys Knight & The Pips | Midnight Train To Georgia | Yes it's time to catch that train... |
758 | Blondie | Blondie | Hanging On The Telephone | For those who remember phone boxes and the pips... |
759 | Iggy Pop & The Stooges | Iggy Pop & The Stooges | I Wanna Be Your Dog | Cockney rhyming slang for the telephone? That'll be the dog and bone... |
760 | The Korgis | Korgis, The | Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime | A type of dog is... |
761 | Queen | Queen | Killer Queen | The most famous keeper of corgis must surely be the... |
762 | Jerry Lee Lewis | Jerry Lee Lewis | Rockin' The Life Away | Jerry Lee Lewis was also known as 'The Killer', hence... |
763 | Mungo Jerry | Mungo Jerry | In The Summertime | From one Jerry to another... |
764 | Primal Scream | Primal Scream | Rocks | St Mungo is the patron saint of Glasgow from where the following band come... |
765 | John Lennon | John Lennon | Gimme Some Truth | John Lennon's 'Primal Scream' therapy with Arthur Janov influenced him a lot... |
766 | Spencer Davis Group | Spencer Davis Group | Gimme Some Lovin | From 'Gimme Some Truth' to 'Some Lovin' |
767 | Joy Divison | Joy Divison | Decades | 'Gimme Some Lovin' was in the film Blues Brothers which John Belushi starred in. The night he died he rang Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones who produced a series of paintings called 'Decades' |
768 | Paul Simon | Paul Simon | Still Crazy After All These Years | Decades are made up of years... |
769 | Slade | Slade | Mama Weer All Crazee Now | From crazy....to crazee... |
770 | Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash | Folsom Prison Blues | Slade was the name of the prison in TV series, Porridge... |
771 | The Rattles | Rattles, The | The Witch | If you have too much cash, all your change might rattle around in your pocket.... |
772 | Redbone | Redbone | The Witch Queen Of New Orleans | From one witch to another... |
773 | Omd | Omd | Maid Of Orleans | And from one Orleans to another... |
774 | The Stone Roses | Stone Roses, The | Made Of Stone | Was the Maid of Orleans 'made of' stone?... |
775 | Morrissey | Morrissey | First Of The Gang To Die | Stones can come from a quarry, so a track from the album "You are the Quarry" |
776 | Dream Academy | Dream Academy | Life In A Northern Town | Morrissey is from "the North" |
777 | Nick Drake | Nick Drake | Hazy Jane Ii | "Life in a Northern Town" was dedicated to Nick Drake.... |
778 | Crosby, Stills & Nash | Crosby, Stills & Nash | Wooden Ships | From Nick Drake to Sir Francis Drake, who used to sail in... |
779 | The Pogues | Pogues, The | Irish Rover | A famous type of ship was "The Irish Rover"... |
780 | Cream | Cream | Tales Of Brave Ulysses | James Joyce was a writer from Ireland. He wrote 'Ulysses', hence... |
781 | Madonna | Madonna | Music | Ulysses visited the island of the Ciccones, which is the surname of... |
782 | Johnny Kidd & The Pirates | Johnny Kidd & The Pirates | Shakin' All Over | Our caller Anthony saw Madonna play once... it made him start... |
783 | Status Quo | Status Quo | Caroline | A famous pirate radio station was called Radio Caroline... hence... |
784 | David Bowie | David Bowie | The Jean Genie | Status Quo are famed for their love of blue denim... hence... |
785 | The Four Tops | Four Tops, The | Bernadette | From jeans to Levi's Levi Stubbs that is, the lead singer of... |
786 | The Toys | Toys, The | A Lovers Concerto | Spinning tops are toys, so... |
787 | Bachman Turner Overdrive | Bachman Turner Overdrive | You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet | The previous tune is based on Bach's Minuet in G. So... |
788 | Pink Floyd | Pink Floyd | Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 2 | From one doubl negative to another! "We don't need no education"... |
789 | Suzanne Vega | Suzanne Vega | Marlene On The Wall | From one wall to another... |
790 | The Passions | Passions, The | I'M In Love With A German Film Star | Marlene Dietrich was a German film star... |
791 | Haysi Fantaysee | Haysi Fantaysee | John Wayne Is Big Leggy | Another film star is called... |
792 | The Searchers | Searchers, The | When You Walk In The Room | John Wayne starred in the film 'The Searchers'.... |
793 | King Curtis | King Curtis | Memphis Soul Stew | From The Searcher's original drummer, the late Chris Curtis, to King Curtis who recorded thje following (which should be one of Stuart's selection of Pot Stews's)... |
794 | Mott The Hoople | Mott The Hoople | All The Way From Memphis | Where is the stew from, Stuart? Has it come... |
795 | The Wonderstuff | Wonderstuff, The | Welcome To The Cheap Seats | Elvis was from Memphis. 'Never Loved Elvis' was an album by... |
796 | The Who | Who, The | I Can See For Miles | Miles Hunt is the lead singer of The Wonderstuff...hence... |
797 | Kate Bush | Kate Bush | Cloudbusting | If The Who could see for miles and miles, there were obviously no clouds in the way. So... |
798 | Joni Mitchell | Joni Mitchell | Chelsea Morning | From the album, 'Clouds'.... |
799 | Elvis Costello | Elvis Costello | I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea | From one Chelsea to another... |
800 | Lene Lovich | Lene Lovich | Lucky Number | Elvis Costello was on Stiff Records. A labelmate was... |
801 | Blur | Blur | Tender | An unlucky number is 13. '13' is an album by Blur, which features... |
802 | Crowded House | Crowded House | Four Seasons In One Day | 13. 1 + 3 = 4, so... |
803 | Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons | Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons | The Night | From Four Seasons in One Day... to Four Seasons in one band... |
804 | The Skids | Skids, The | Into The Valley | From one "Valli" to another... |
805 | Desmond Dekker | Desmond Dekker | The Israelites | 'Into the Valley' featured on a Maxell advert. So did... |
806 | The Smiths | Smiths, The | Vicar In A Tutu | From Desmond Dekker to Desmond Tutu... |
807 | T.Rex | T.Rex | I Like To Boogie | A tutu suggests ballet. Billy Elliot did ballet, and this was a song that featured on the soundtrack... |
808 | Squeeze | Squeeze | Tempted | Boogie woogie joanna player Jools Holland was once in Squeeze... |
809 | Jeff Beck | Jeff Beck | Hi Ho Silver Lining | Paul Carrack, who sang the previous song, is a Sheffield Wednesday supporter. Wednesday fans sing 'Hi Ho Sheffield Wednesday' to the tune of... |
810 | The Ramones | Ramones, The | Blitzkrieg Bop | From Hi Ho... to Hey ho! Let's Go!... |
811 | Gene Vincent | Gene Vincent | Be Bop A Lula | From one bop to another... |
812 | Be Bop Deluxe | Be Bop Deluxe | Maid In Heaven | And from one Be Bop... to another... |
813 | Dee | Dee | Lite | De luxe to Dee |
814 | Sugarhill Gang | Sugarhill Gang | Rapper's Delight | From dee lite... to delight... |
815 | Chic | Chic | Good Times | 'Rapper's Delight' used the same bassline as... |
816 | The Undertones | Undertones, The | Teenage Kicks | If you have good times, you might be getting some 'kicks'... |
817 | The Beastie Boys | Beastie Boys, The | Fight For Your Right | 'Kick it!' starts the next tune... |
818 | Jona Lewie | Jona Lewie | You'Ll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties | From fighting for your right to party... to hiding in the kitchen at one... |
819 | The Sugarcubes | Sugarcubes, The | Birthday | One might have a party on their birthday... |
820 | Sailor | Sailor | A Glass Of Champagne | We might toast you on your birthday with a glass of bubbly... |
821 | The Jackson 5 | Jackson 5, The | I Want You Back | Champers is known for its bubbles, and Michael Jackson owned a chimp called Bubbles... |
822 | The Inspiral Carpets (Feat. Mark E Smith) | Inspiral Carpets (Feat. Mark E Smith), The | I Want You | From wanting someone back... to just wanting someone! |
823 | The Rolling Stones | Rolling Stones, The | You Can't Always Get What You Want | And the Rolling Stones say in reply... |
824 | The Temptations | Temptations, The | Ain't Too Proud To Beg | 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' is on the soundtrack to the film 'The Big Chill'. Also on that soundtrack is... |
825 | Billy Bragg | Billy Bragg | Levi Stubb's Tears | ....which was written by Norman Whitfield. He's name checked in this song... |
826 | The Swinging Blue Jeans | Swinging Blue Jeans, The | You'Re No Good | Levi's are a type of jeans... hence... |
827 | New Order | New Order | Blue Monday | From blue jeans... |
828 | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | Like A Rolling Stone | New Order ask, 'how does it feel?'... so does... |
829 | Lou Reed | Lou Reed | Walk On The Wild Side | Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman, Zimmer frames are an aid to walking so... |
830 | The Kinks | Kinks, The | Lola | 'Walk on the Wild Side' is a song about tranvesticism, as is... |
831 | Patti Smith | Patti Smith | Gloria | Double link alert! Lola is a girl's name, so is Gloria. Both names are spelt out in both songs! |
832 | Leonard Cohen | Leonard Cohen | Hallelujah | Gloria is an ecclesiastical chant, as is Hallelujah... |
833 | Otis Redding | Otis Redding | Hard To Handle | The 'Hallelujah Chorus' is part of Handel's Messiah. From Handel, to handle... |
834 | Salt N Pepa | Salt N Pepa | Push It | A door has a handle. To open it you can pull it... or... |
835 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | From Pepa... to Pepper... |
836 | XTC | XTC | Sgt. Rock (Is Going To Help Me) | From one sergeant to another... |
837 | Abba | Abba | Knowing Me, Knowing You | Andy Partridge is the lead singer of XTC. Alan Partridge's 'theme tune' is... |
838 | A | A | Ha | 'Knowing me, Alan Partridge, Knowing You, Chain caller... A Haaaaa!' |
839 | Desmond Dekker | Desmond Dekker | 007 (A Shanty Town) | A Ha sang the theme tune to the James Bond film, 'Living Daylights'. Bond. James Bond... |
840 | The Specials | Specials, The | Ghost Town | From one town to another... |
841 | The Primitives | Primitives, The | Crash | The Specials were from Coventry... so were... |
842 | The Monkees | Monkees, The | Pleasant Valley Sunday | From primitives to primates to monkeys... |
843 | Cream | Cream | Strange Brew | From the Monkees to the PG Tips chimps... to a cup of tea... a brew... |
844 | The Clovers | Clovers, The | Love Potion No.9 | From brews, to potions... |
845 | Tom Waits | Tom Waits | Heartattack And Vine | The previous song contains the line "When I kissed a cop on 34th & Vine", so here's a neighbouring street... |
846 | Roxy Music | Roxy Music | Do The Strand | Vine Street is a street on the Monopoly board. So is The Strand... |
847 | Zz Top | Zz Top | Sharp Dressed Man | Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry is renowned as... |
848 | Nick Drake | Nick Drake | Fruit Tree | ZZ Top were named after two brands of cigarette rolling paper, so we go to something from Nick Drake's '5 Leaves Left' album (after the message at the back of a Rizla packet)... |
849 | The Move | Move, The | (Here We Go Round) The Lemon Tree | From one tree to another... |
850 | The Lemonheads | Lemonheads, The | It's A Shame About Ray | From one lemon to another... |
851 | Ray Charles | Ray Charles | Busted | From one Ray to another... |
852 | The Doors | Doors, The | Riders On The Storm | "Like a dog without a bone" is a line in the last song, a line in the next... |
853 | World Of Twist | World Of Twist | The Storm | From one storm to another... |
854 | Sam Cooke | Sam Cooke | Twistin' The Night Away | From one twist to another... |
855 | Isaac Hayes | Isaac Hayes | Theme From Shaft | From a Cook(e) to a chef! Isaac Hayes played the character Chef in 'South Park'... |
856 | Lee Dorsey | Lee Dorsey | Workin' In A Coalmine | From shafts to mines... |
857 | The White Stripes | White Stripes, The | Icky Thump | Loretta Lynn sang 'Coal Miners' Daughter'. Jack White produced her 'Van Lear Rose' album, so... |
858 | George Jones | George Jones | White Lightning | From one White to another... |
859 | Thunderclap Newman | Thunderclap Newman | Something In The Air | From lightning to thunder... |
860 | Prince | Prince | Purple Rain | After a thunderstorm comes the rain... |
861 | Grace Jones | Grace Jones | Slave To The Rhythm | Prince once appeared with 'slave' written on his face after a dispute with his record label... |
862 | Jeff Buckley | Jeff Buckley | Grace | From one Grace to another... |
863 | This Mortal Coil | This Mortal Coil | Song To The Siren | Jeff Buckley's dad, Tim, wrote this song, which was covered by... |
864 | Roxy Music | Roxy Music | Love Is The Drug | A track from the album 'Siren' is... |
865 | Eels | Eels | Novocaine For The Soul | A type of drug is... |
866 | Talking Heads | Talking Heads | Slippery People | Eels are slippery, hence... |
867 | The Staple Singers | Staple Singers, The | I'Ll Take You There | The Staple Singers did a version of Slippery People, so... |
868 | Harry J. Allstars | Harry J. Allstars | The Liquidator | 'I'll Take You There' and 'The Liquidator' start with the same tune... |
869 | Sham 69 | Sham 69 | Hurry Up Harry | From one Harry to another... |
870 | Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs | Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs | Woolly Bully | From Sham 69 to another Sham... |
871 | The Cardigans | Cardigans, The | Lovefool | Woolly jumpers or... |
872 | The Byrds | Byrds, The | The Bells Of Rhymney | Cardigan is in Wales. Rhymney is also in Wales, hence... |
873 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | I Am The Walrus | A raven is a type of bird. There is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe called 'The Raven'. Edgar Allan Poe is referenced in the following song... |
874 | The Turtles | Turtles, The | Happy Together | Other marine creatures are... |
875 | The Soup Dragons | Soup Dragons, The | I'M Free | You can get turtle and mock turtle soup... hence... |
876 | Chuck Berry | Chuck Berry | Roll Over Beethoven | With soup, you get a roll, hence... |
877 | Joy Division | Joy Division | She's Lost Control | Beethoven's Ode to Joy... hence... |
878 | Cherry Ghost | Cherry Ghost | Mathematics | You get division in maths, so... |
879 | Big Audio Dynamite | Big Audio Dynamite | E=Mc 2 | Sticking with maths, let's have a formula... |
880 | Aztec Camera | Aztec Camera | Good Morning Britain | Mick Jones of B.A.D. (and of course, The Clash), features on this record too... |
881 | Blondie | Blondie | Picture This | From Roddy Frame of Aztec Camera, to picture frames! |
882 | Simon & Garfunkel | Simon & Garfunkel | I Am A Rock | 'Picture This' mentions the word 'December', as does... |
883 | Sly & The Family Stone | Sly & The Family Stone | Everyday People | From a rock to a stone... |
884 | Family | Family | Burlesque | From one family to another... |
885 | Cat Stevens | Cat Stevens | Matthew & Son | In a family, you might get a son... |
886 | Three Dog Night | Three Dog Night | Mama Told Me Not To Come | From a Cat... to a dog! |
887 | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin | Black Dog | From one dog to another... |
888 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Diamond Dogs | From one dog to a few... |
889 | Prince | Prince | Diamonds & Pearls | From a diamond to diamonds... |
890 | Prince Buster | Prince Buster | Al Capone | And from one Prince to another... |
891 | Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot | Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot | Bonnie & Clyde | Sticking with famous criminals... |
892 | R. Dean Taylor | R. Dean Taylor | Indiana Wants Me | Bonnie and Clyde were on the run from the law, as is the protagonist in this song... |
893 | Belle & Sebastian | Belle & Sebastian | The State That I Am In | Indiana is a U.S. state... |
894 | Gil Scott Heron | Gil Scott Heron | The Revolution Will Not Be Televised | A state can be overthrown in a revolution, hence... |
895 | Bruce Springsteen | Bruce Springsteen | 57 Channels And Nothing On | Apparently there's nothing good on TV at the moment so... |
896 | Heinz | Heinz | Just Like Eddie | From 57 channels to Heinz 57... |
897 | Otis Redding | Otis Redding | Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) | From beans to been... |
898 | Roxy Music | Roxy Music | Avalon | Bryan Ferry's son is called Otis so... |
899 | Crosby, Stills & Nash | Crosby, Stills & Nash | Guinevere | Avalon was where King Arthur was supposed to come from. His second wife was Guinevere, hence... |
900 | Donovan | Donovan | Jennifer Juniper | Guinevere is the French version of 'Jennifer'... |
901 | Chuck Berry | Chuck Berry | Johnny B. Goode | A juniper is a type of berry... |
902 | Dave Edmunds | Dave Edmunds | I Knew The Bride | Chuck Berry's You Never Can Tell was adapted into this song, first by Nick Lowe, then by... |
903 | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | You Ain't Going Nowhere | "Tomorrow's the day my bride's gonna come" is a line in... |
904 | The Rolling Stone | Rolling Stone, The | (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction | On a grammatical theme, we go from one double negative to another... |
905 | Nils Lofgren | Nils Lofgren | Keith Don't Go | Let's have a song about Rolling Stone Keith Richards... |
906 | Them | Them | Baby Please Don't Go | Keith, don't go baby, please don't go either! |
907 | The Equals | Equals, The | Baby Come Back | If baby doesn't go, then it might... |
908 | The Art Of Noise Feat. Duane Eddy | Art Of Noise Feat. Duane Eddy, The | Peter Gunn | Eddy Grant wrote 'Baby Come Back' for the Equals so another 'Eddy' takes the Chain to... |
909 | Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood | Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood | Summer Wine | Lee Hazlewood was the producer of the original version of 'Peter Gunn', hence... |
910 | The Smiths | Smiths, The | There Is A Light That Never Goes Out | Nancy and Morrissey collaborated on a single. Therefore... |
911 | Elvis Presley | Elvis Presley | Always On My Mind | There is an eternal flame that burns over Elvis' grave at Graceland. So how about... |
912 | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin | When The Levee Breaks | Elvis was from Memphis. Memphis Minnie wrote the following song... |
913 | Manfred Mann | Manfred Mann | Pretty Flamingo | From Led Zep's John Paul Jones to Manfred Mann's Paul Jones... |
914 | Sam Cooke | Sam Cooke | Little Red Rooster | From one bird to another... |
915 | Suzanne Vega | Suzanne Vega | Small Blue Thing | Another miniature primary coloured object... |
916 | Crowded House | Crowded House | Fall At Your Feet | Suzanne Vega was married to Mitchell Froom, who produced Crowded House... |
917 | Mud | Mud | Tiger Feet | Sticking with feet... |
918 | Black Sabbath | Black Sabbath | War Pigs | Pigs like mud. Hence... |
919 | Blondie | Blondie | Sunday Girl | From the Sabbath, aka Sunday... |
920 | Gorillaz | Gorillaz | Dirty Harry | From Debbie Harry to... |
921 | The Monkees | Monkees, The | Randy Scouse Git | From gorillas to monkeys... |
922 | Paul Weller | Paul Weller | Wild Wood | Davey Jones of The Monkees was in Coronation Street,as was Sally Lindsay, who's about to wed Steve White, who played for... |
923 | Buddy Holly | Buddy Holly | Rave On | The opening line of 'Rave On' starts: "A weller |
924 | The Pretenders | Pretenders, The | I'Ll Stand By You | Buddy Holly played with his band The Crickets. Crickets are also known as Katydids. The guitarist in the band, The Katydids, Adam Seymour, latterly played with The Pretenders... so... |
925 | Radiohead | Radiohead | Fake Plastic Trees | Pretend equals fake hence... |
926 | XTC | XTC | Radios In Motion | From Radio to Radios... |
927 | The Band | Band, The | Stage Fright | Andy Partridge from XTC suffered from stage fright... |
928 | Muddy Waters | Muddy Waters | Mannish Boy | At The Band's 'Last Waltz', they were joined by, amongst others, Muddy Waters... |
929 | Spencer Davis Group | Spencer Davis Group | I'M A Man | "I'm a maaaan!" was an assertion of Frank Spencer... |
930 | Chaka Khan | Chaka Khan | I'M Every Woman | From a man... to a woman... |
931 | Spizz Energi | Spizz Energi | Where's Captain Kirk | Khan was the enemy of Captain Kirk... |
932 | Orange Juice | Orange Juice | Felicity | From one Captain James Kirk to another, via the following song (written by James T Kirk, the band's original guitarist)... |
933 | Madness | Madness | Bed And Breakfast Man | People drink orange juice with their breakfast... |
934 | John Martyn | John Martyn | May You Never | From beds to a song with the line "...make your bed out in the cold..." |
935 | James | James | Laid | From "may you never lay your head down..." to Laid... |
936 | Abc | Abc | The Look Of Love | Eggs get laid. They also get fried. Martin Fry is the singer in ABC... |
937 | Len Barry | Len Barry | 123 | ABC, it's as easy as 123... |
938 | Edwyn Collins | Edwyn Collins | A Girl Like You | '123' by Len Barry is sampled at the start of this song... |
939 | Grandaddy | Grandaddy | The Crystal Lake | Edwyn Collins was in Orange Juice. Orange Juice is in a Bucks Fizz, as is champagne. Cristal is a type of champagne... |
940 | Bill Withers | Bill Withers | Grandma's Hands | From Grandaddy to Grandma... |
941 | The Byrds | Byrds, The | Chestnut Mare | Horses have withers, so... |
942 | B Bumble & The Stingers | B Bumble & The Stingers | Nut Rocker | From the birds to the bees... |
943 | The Bees | Bees, The | A Minha Menina | More bees... PLUS! A brazil is a type of nut. And this was originally a Brazilian song... |
944 | The Faces | Faces, The | You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything | The Bees are Brentford F.C. Rod Stewart had a trial for them. He of course fronted The Faces... |
945 | The Who | Who, The | The Better You Bet | The Who had an album called 'Face Dances', so... |
946 | Elbow | Elbow | The Fix | From betting to fixing a horse race... |
947 | The Doors | Doors, The | Touch Me | From that family TV favourite ‘Jim’ll Fix It’ to another Jim, Mr Morrison and his band... |
948 | Jimi Hendrix | Jimi Hendrix | Foxy Lady | 'Touch Me' was a hit for Sam Fox. Let's not play that though. Let's have... |
949 | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | Lay Lady Lay | From one lady to another... |
950 | Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers | Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers | American Girl | Bob Dylan toured with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, so... |
951 | Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash | I Walk The Line | Given that Tom Petty recorded with Johnny Cash when the Man in Black was in his American Recordings phase.... |
952 | Elliott Smith | Elliott Smith | Waltz #2 | A 'line' is a type of dance (er, line dancing), so is a waltz hence... |
953 | The Rolling Stones | Rolling Stones, The | Gimme Shelter | Another Smith, Delia Smith, baked the cake which was on the front of the Stones' 'Let It Bleed' album...hence... |
954 | The Hollies | Hollies, The | Bus Stop | A type of shelter is a... |
955 | The Coasters | Coasters, The | Poison Ivy | From the holly...to the... |
956 | The Hives | Hives, The | Main Offender | Poison ivy might give you... |
957 | Scritti Politti | Scritti Politti | Wood Beez | In The Hives live.... |
958 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Norwegian Wood | From one wood to another... |
959 | Stina Nordenstam | Stina Nordenstam | Little Star | From Norway to Sweden's Stina Nordenstam... |
960 | The Box Tops | Box Tops, The | The Letter | From Little Star to Big Star, which featured Alex Chilton, who was also in The Box Tops... |
961 | Grandmaster Flash | Grandmaster Flash | The Message | A letter is a message... |
962 | World Party | World Party | Put The Message In The Box | Where to put that message? Erm.....how about... |
963 | The Waterboys | Waterboys, The | Fisherman's Blues | Karl Wallinger was a member of the Waterboys before forming World Party and there is a track on the Fisherman’s Blues album entitled ‘World Party’ so.... |
964 | Rod Stewart | Rod Stewart | Mandolin Wind | A fisherman uses a rod. So... |
965 | Millie | Millie | My Boy Lollipop | There's a rumour that Rod played the harmonica solo on this... |
966 | Nick Drake | Nick Drake | Time Has Told Me | Millie was looked after by Chris Blackwell of Island Records, to which was signed Nick Drake... |
967 | Lemon Jelly | Lemon Jelly | Nice Weather For Ducks | A drake is a male duck... |
968 | The Divine Comedy | Divine Comedy, The | Gin | You might put lemon in your gin and tonic.... |
969 | Nick Lowe | Nick Lowe | I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass | You might drink said gin from a glass, which often results in this lovable noise... |
970 | Rush | Rush | Spirit Of Radio | Nick Lowe is a singing bass player, as is Geddy Lee of the band Rush... |
971 | Simon & Garfunkel | Simon & Garfunkel | The Sound Of Silence | Spirit of Radio borrows lyrics from... |
972 | Julian Cope | Julian Cope | World Shut Your Mouth | The world would be a lot quiter if everybody shut up... |
973 | Massive Attack | Massive Attack | Teardrop | From one teardrop to another... |
974 | Steppenwolf | Steppenwolf | Magic Carpet Ride | "A tack" attaches the floor to the carpet...so... |
975 | Santana | Santana | Black Magic Woman | From one kind of magic to another... |
976 | The Rolling Stones | Rolling Stones, The | Honky Tonk Woman | From one woman to another....(plus a hefty dose of cowbell in both tracks!)... |
977 | Ry Cooder | Ry Cooder | Get Rhythm | Ry Cooder was rumoured to have co written 'Honky Tonk Woman', hence... |
978 | Elvis Presley | Elvis Presley | Little Sister | As Ry Cooder also recorded Little Sister, and it's Elvis's birthday... |
979 | Rufus Wainwright | Rufus Wainwright | The Art Teacher | Rufus Wainwright also had a song called Little Sister. But the next track on his album 'Want Two' is... |
980 | Roxy Music | Roxy Music | Remake/Remodel | Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry was an art teacher (of pottery).... |
981 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Ticket To Ride | Remake/Remodel contains a bass reference by the Beatles so... |
982 | Goldfrapp | Goldfrapp | Train | You will need a ticket to ride on a... |
983 | The Clash | Clash, The | Train In Vain | From one train to another... |
984 | Spencer Davis Group | Spencer Davis Group | Keep On Running | If you train, you probably run a lot... |
985 | Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers | Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers | Running Down A Dream | Keep on running, and running, and running... |
986 | Roy Orbison | Roy Orbison | In Dreams | From one dream to another... |
987 | The Pretenders | Pretenders, The | I Go To Sleep | You dream when you sleep... |
988 | Devo | Devo | Whip It | Chrissie Hynde is from Akron, Ohio, as are... |
989 | Cream | Cream | The White Room | One of many things you can whip is... |
990 | The White Stripes | White Stripes, The | Blue Orchid | From one white to another... |
991 | X | X | Ray Spex | You get white stripes in toothpaste. The following record mentions teeth cleaning... |
992 | Supergrass | Supergrass | Alright | 'Keep their teeth nice and clean'...a hymn to adolescents.... |
993 | Kid Creole & The Coconuts | Kid Creole & The Coconuts | Stool Pigeon | A person acting as a decoy or as an informer, especially one who is a spy for the police can be a supergrass or a... |
994 | Elvis Presley | Elvis Presley | King Creole | Kid Creole adapted his name from the film of the same name... |
995 | Bruce Springsteen | Bruce Springsteen | Born In The Usa | From The King to The Boss... |
996 | Richard Hawley | Richard Hawley | Born Under A Bad Sign | Sticking with birthplaces... |
997 | Prince | Prince | Sign 'O' The Times | Sticking with signs... |
998 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Here Comes The Sun | The Times is a type of newspaper. So is the Sun... |
999 | Ernie K. Doe | Ernie K. Doe | Here Come The Girls | And here come... |
1000 | Chuck Berry | Chuck Berry | Memphis, Tennessee | The River Doe runs through Tennessee... |
1001 | Patti Smith | Patti Smith | Because The Night | 'Chuck' was the name used by Peppermint Patty for Charlie Brown in the 'Peanuts' cartoon... |
1002 | The Electric Prunes | Electric Prunes, The | I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) | The first song on 'Nuggets', which was compiled by Lenny Kaye, who was also guitarist with the Patti Smith Group is... |
1003 | Athlete | Athlete | Wires | Too many prunes give you the runs. An athlete runs....hence... |
1004 | The Long Ryders | Long Ryders, The | Looking For Lewis & Clark | Some well known athletes are Carl Lewis and Rob Clark.... |
1005 | The Kingsmen | Kingsmen, The | Louie Louie | Short for Lewis/Louis is... |
1006 | John Lennon | John Lennon | Instant Karma | 'Louie Louie' was once investigated by the FBI. As was... |
1007 | The House Of Love | House Of Love, The | Shine On | ..contains the line, 'And we all shine on'...as does... |
1008 | Madness | Madness | House Of Fun | From a house of love to a house...of.... |
1009 | The Divine Comedy | Divine Comedy, The | Becoming More Like Alfie | Madness did a song called 'Michael Caine', who starred in... |
1010 | Bryan Ferry | Bryan Ferry | A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall | …Dante wrote Divine Comedy, he also wrote Inferno…The line "I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'" in A Hard Rain… is a possible reference to Dante's Inferno where a group of sinners are doomed for eternity to be trapped in black trees. When Dante breaks one of the branches the tree bleeds and cries out… |
1011 | Peter Gabriel | Peter Gabriel | Red Rain | From one type of rain to another... |
1012 | Kate Bush | Kate Bush | Running Up That Hill | Peter Gabriel duetted with Kate Bush so... |
1013 | Pink Floyd | Pink Floyd | Comfortably Numb | Kate Bush was discovered by David Gilmour of.... |
1014 | The Searchers | Searchers, The | Needles And Pins | If your arm goes numb, it might be because you have pins and needles, or... |
1015 | Neil Young | Neil Young | The Needle And The Damage Done | From needles to a needle... |
1016 | The Tams | Tams, The | Hey Girl Don't Bother Me | Like a Needles in a haystack, you'll need to search hard for this Chain link. From 'hay' to 'hey'.... |
1017 | Klf Feat. Tammy Wynette | Klf Feat. Tammy Wynette | Justified And Ancient | From Tams to Tammy... |
1018 | Bob Marley & The Wailers | Bob Marley & The Wailers | Jamming | KLF also were known as the JAMMs, or the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu... |
1019 | The Specials | Specials, The | Rat Race | Bob Marley played a song called Rat Race. Here's another song called Rat Race... |
1020 | XTC | XTC | The Mayor Of Simpleton | Here's another song about not having an education... |
1021 | Supergrass | Supergrass | Pumping On Your Stereo | XTC were from Swindon. Swindon Town's arch rivals are Oxford United. Supergrass are from Oxford... |
1022 | Elvis Costello | Elvis Costello | Pump It Up | Simply, from pumping to pump... |
1023 | Creedence Clearwater Revival | Creedence Clearwater Revival | Up Around The Bend | From one 'up' to another... |
1024 | Marvin Gaye | Marvin Gaye | Let's Get It On | CCR did a cover of the Marvin Gaye classic, 'I Heard it Through the Grapevine', so... |
1025 | Little Stevie Wonder | Little Stevie Wonder | Fingertips Pt. 2 | Marvin Gaye plays drums on this... |
1026 | Little Eva | Little Eva | The Locomotion | From one little singer to another... |
1027 | Kraftwerk | Kraftwerk | Trans | And from one train to another... |
1028 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Golden Years | 'Trans Europe Express' mentions the lyrics 'Station to Station'... |
1029 | The Stranglers | Stranglers, The | Golden Brown | From one Golden to another... |
1030 | Dionne Warwick | Dionne Warwick | Walk On By | The Stranglers did a cover of the following song, originally sung by... |
1031 | Rufus Thomas | Rufus Thomas | Walking The Dog | Walk on by, walking the dog... |
1032 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Hey Bulldog | Keeping with canines... |
1033 | Elvis Costello | Elvis Costello | Veronica | The bulldog in Tom & Jerry was called Spike, which is an album by Elvis Costello. Here's the track from it that he co wrote with one P. McCartney (double link alert!)... |
1034 | The Ronettes | Ronettes, The | Be My Baby | Ronnie (short for Veronica) Spector was in the... |
1035 | The Ramones | Ramones, The | Baby I Love You | From one baby to another... |
1036 | Richard Hell & The Voidoids | Richard Hell & The Voidoids | Blank Generation | The Ramones were a famous band from CBGBs in New York, as was Television and co founding member Richard Hell... |
1037 | The Who | Who, The | My Generation | From one generation to another... |
1038 | John Martyn | John Martyn | Over The Hill | Both The Who and John Martyn had 'Live at Leeds' albums... |
1039 | Free | Free | Wishing Well | Paul Kossoff played on John Martyn's 'Live At Leeds' album. He was also guitarist in... |
1040 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Penny Lane | We throw pennies into wishing wells, so... |
1041 | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | The Times They Are A Changing | Twelve pennies was a shilling, aka a bob... |
1042 | Sam Cooke | Sam Cooke | A Change Is Gonna Come | Still changing... |
1043 | Bobby Womack | Bobby Womack | Across 110Th Street | Sam Cooke and Bobby Womack shared a long suffering wife in Barbara Cooke. Not at the same time, though! |
1044 | The Rolling Stones | Rolling Stones, The | It's All Over Now | Bobby Womack co wrote the following tune... |
1045 | Aerosmith Feat. Run Dmc | Aerosmith Feat. Run Dmc | Walk This Way | From the Stones' 'Glimmer Twins' (Mick Jagger and Keith Richards) to the 'Toxic Twins' (Steve Tyler and Joe Perry) of... |
1046 | Jo Jo Gunne | Jo Jo Gunne | Run Run Run | From one run to another... |
1047 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Get Back | The following tune starts 'Jo Jo was a man who thought he was a loner'... |
1048 | James Taylor | James Taylor | Up On The Roof | The Beatles recorded the previous tune on the roof of the Apple Building in London... |
1049 | The Small Faces | Small Faces, The | Sha La La La Lee | Kenny Lynch had a hit with Up On The Roof. He also wrote this... |
1050 | The Shangri Las | Shangri Las, The | Leader Of The Pack | Sha la la la... Shangri Las! |
1051 | Manic Street Preachers | Manic Street Preachers | Motorcycle Emptiness | From the leader of a pack of motorbiking boys, to... |
1052 | Al Green | Al Green | I Want To Hold Your Hand | From some Preachers to a preacher... |
1053 | Scritti Politti | Scritti Politti | Snow In Sun | From Al Green to Scritti Politti's lead singer, Green Gartside... |
1054 | Aztec Camera | Aztec Camera | Walk Out To Winter | From snow, continuing the wintry theme... |
1055 | Duran Duran | Duran Duran | Girls On Film | Use might use a camera to make a film... |
1056 | Suede | Suede | Beautiful Ones | The girls on film were the... |
1057 | Stevie Nicks | Stevie Nicks | Leather & Lace | From Suede to... |
1058 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Ziggy Stardust | Stevie Nicks shared a birthday with Mick Ronson (David Bowie's guitarist)... |
1059 | Steve Earle | Steve Earle | Guitar Town | The opening line of 'Ziggy Stardust' is 'Ziggy played guitar'... |
1060 | Stevie Wonder | Stevie Wonder | Sir Duke | From an Earle to a Duke (and a Sir)... |
1061 | Sir Douglas Quintet | Sir Douglas Quintet | She's About A Mover | Sticking with knighthoods... |
1062 | Ray Charles | Ray Charles | What I'D Say | 'What I'd Say?' is a lyric in the previous song, so... |
1063 | Soft Cell | Soft Cell | Say Hello Wave Goodbye | From 'say' to 'say'... |
1064 | Squeeze | Squeeze | Goodbye Girl | And from 'goodbye' to 'goodbye'... |
1065 | Slade | Slade | Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me | From one squeeze to another... |
1066 | Amen Corner | Amen Corner | Bend Me, Shape Me | From skweeze ME, pleeze ME to... |
1067 | Billy Fury | Billy Fury | Halfway To Paradise | Amen Corner also sang 'If Paradise is Half as Night'... |
1068 | The Housemartins | Housemartins, The | Happy Hour | Billy Fury was a birdwatcher. The Housemartins were named after Paul Heaton's favourite bird, he's another famous birder, so lets have... |
1069 | Coldplay | Coldplay | Yellow | From the Housemartins to Chris Martin of... |
1070 | Yello | Yello | The Race | From Yellow to Yello... |
1071 | Eddie Cochran | Eddie Cochran | Cut Across Shorty | From one song about a race to another... |
1072 | Urge Overkill | Urge Overkill | Girl, You'Ll Be A Woman Soon | John Travolta was in the film 'Get Shorty'. He was also in Pulp Fiction, which also had the following tune in its soundtrack... |
1073 | Suzanna Vega | Suzanna Vega | Luka | John Travolta's character in Pulp Fiction was called Vincent Vega... |
1074 | The Lemonheads | Lemonheads, The | Into Your Arms | 'Luka' was also covered by.... |
1075 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Into My Arms | Into your arms....into mine! |
1076 | Colin Blunstone | Colin Blunstone | I Don't Believe In Miracles | Nick Cave's 'Into My Arms' includes the line 'I don't believe (in an interventionist God)...' |
1077 | Argent | Argent | Hold Your Head Up | Colin Blunstone was in The Zombies, as was Rod Argent, who went on to form... |
1078 | The Human League | Human League, The | Empire State Human | If you held your head up high, you would be tall, so... |
1079 | Long John Baldry | Long John Baldry | Let The Heartaches Begin | A very tall person is.... |
1080 | David Bowie | David Bowie | John, I'M Only Dancing | From one John to another... |
1081 | The Rolling Stones | Rolling Stones, The | Let's Spend The Night Together | The previous song was banned from Top of the Pops...as was... |
1082 | Hawkwind | Hawkwind | Hurry On Sundown | If you were going to spend the night together, you might think... |
1083 | New Order | New Order | World In Motion | From a hawk to another bird of prey: the hobby. The Latin for "hobby" is "Subbuteo" and Subbuteo is a football game so... |
1084 | Lily Allen | Lily Allen | Smile | Keith Allen was part of Fat Les who did the classic world cup song Vindaloo, Vindaloo, Vindaloo...his daughter is... |
1085 | The Beach Boys | Beach Boys, The | Wouldn't It Be Nice | 'Smile' was the title of an album by the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson...so... |
1086 | The Small Faces | Small Faces, The | Here Comes The Nice | From one Nice to another... |
1087 | The Verve | Verve, The | The Drugs Don't Work | The Small Faces' song was allegedly a song about a drug dealer... |
1088 | Placebo | Placebo | Nancy Boy | A placebo is a drug that doesn't intentionally work... |
1089 | Portishead | Portishead | Sour Times | A placebo is a dummy drug, Dummy is the album by Portishead, and a track from it is... |
1090 | Dave And Ansel Collins | Dave And Ansel Collins | Monkey Spanner | Portishead's lead singer is Beth Gibbons which is a type of ape |
1091 | Roy C | Roy C | Shotgun Wedding | Dave and Ansel Collins' other big hit was 'Double Barrel'....so... |
1092 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Got To Get You Into My Life | From a shotgun to a track from the Revolver album... |
1093 | Stevie Wonder | Stevie Wonder | Higher Ground | 'Got to Get You Into My Life' was allegedly about drugs...if you take drugs you might get high or higher... |
1094 | Squeeze | Squeeze | Black Coffee In Bed | Ground... ground coffee... |
1095 | The Cult | Cult, The | She Sells Sanctuary | From Squeeze which featured Jools Hooland who introduced the first public performance of the Cult on the Channel 4 TV programme, The Tube...so... |
1096 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Helter Skelter | Charles Manson's 'Family' was a cult. Allegedly the next song inspired him to commit murder... |
1097 | Siousxie & The Banshees | Siousxie & The Banshees | Christine | Helter Skelter was covered by.... |
1098 | Chicken Shack | Chicken Shack | I'D Rather Go Blind | Christine Perfect was the lead singer in.... |
1099 | The Beach Boys | Beach Boys, The | Little Deuce Coupe | Chickens also live in a coop...so from one coop to another...And Dennis Wilson 'had a thing' with Christine Perfect....so... |
1100 | Eddie & The Hot Rods | Eddie & The Hot Rods | Do Anything You Wanna Do | A coupe is a type of car. So is a hot rod.... |
1101 | Rod Stewart | Rod Stewart | Maggie May | Another Hot Rod is Rod Stewart so... |
1102 | REM | REM | Losing My Religion | The biggest hit song with a mandolin since Rod Stewart's Maggie May in 1971 is... |
1103 | New Order | New Order | True Faith | If you haven't lost your religion, you'd probably have... |
1104 | Eddie Cochran | Eddie Cochran | Three Steps To Heaven | Putting his 'steps to heaven' in order is... |
1105 | The Pogues | Pogues, The | If I Should Fall From Grace With God | If you were to miss a rung on the stairs heavenwards you might fall... |
1106 | Jefferson Airplane | Jefferson Airplane | White Rabbit | Grace Slick was in Jefferson Airplane so... |
1107 | Cheap Trick | Cheap Trick | I Want You To Want Me | From a rabbit to Cheap Trick's drummer, 'Bun. E' Carlos... |
1108 | Genesis | Genesis | Trick Of The Tail | From one trick to another... |
1109 | Jr. Walker & The All Stars | Jr. Walker & The All Stars | Shotgun | Phil Collins co wrote some songs with Motown’s Lamont Dozier, including ‘Two Hearts’, and ‘Loco In Apapulco’ (performed by The Four Tops). So here’s a Motown record... |
1110 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Happiness Is A Warm Gun | From one gun to another... |
1111 | The Breeders | Breeders, The | Cannonball | 'Happiness is a Warm Gun' was covered by... |
1112 | Blondie | Blondie | Atomic | From the Breeders to Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor... |
1113 | Lou Reed | Lou Reed | Perfect Day | 'Atomic' (as covered by Sleeper) plays in the nightclub sceen in Trainspotting. This song is also on the soundtrack... |
1114 | The Saints | Saints, The | This Perfect Day | From one perfect day to another... |
1115 | Chuck Berry | Chuck Berry | No Particular Place To Go | To Chuck Berry via 'Bury' Saint Edmunds...geddit... |
1116 | Gary Numan | Gary Numan | Cars | As Chuck once sang, 'Driving along in my automobile'... |
1117 | Traffic | Traffic | Paper Sun | From cars...to lots of cars equalling traffic |
1118 | Scissor Sisters | Scissor Sisters | Laura | We play 'Paper, Scissors, Stone', so let's have some scissors... |
1119 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Michelle | Laura Bush was the last President of America's wife the current First Lady's name is... |
1120 | Jean | Jean | Michel Jarre | From Michelle to Michel.... |
1121 | The Orb | Orb, The | Toxygene | From Oxygene to Toxygene... |
1122 | Kate Bush | Kate Bush | Breathing | A song about breathing toxic nuclear air was.... |
1123 | Radiohead | Radiohead | My Iron Lung | You need lungs to breath so... |
1124 | In Deep | In Deep | Last Night A D.J. Saved My Life | D.Js appear on the radio so..... |
1125 | The Smiths | Smiths, The | Panic | The DJ in The Smiths' song 'Panic' is going to be hanged! Blimey... |
1126 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Panic In Detroit | From one Panic to another... |
1127 | The Detroit Spinners | Detroit Spinners, The | It's A Shame | From Detroit....to Detroit.... |
1128 | Madness | Madness | Embarrassment | Oh the shame of it! I'm embarrassed... |
1129 | Prince | Prince | Let's Go Crazy | And from madness to craziness... |
1130 | Tears For Fears | Tears For Fears | Mad World | From crazy to mad... |
1131 | The Teardrop Explodes | Teardrop Explodes, The | Reward | From tears to a teardrop... |
1132 | The Coral | Coral, The | In The Morning | The Teardrop Explodes' 'Reward' is covered by the following during their gigs... |
1133 | The Faces | Faces, The | Stay With Me | 'In the morning' is the first line of the next song.... |
1134 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Lovely Rita | Rod Stewart sang about a Rita in 'Stay with Me'....here's another Rita... |
1135 | Chairmen Of The Board | Chairmen Of The Board | Give Me Just A Little More Time | You might ask the parking meter maid to give you.... |
1136 | Dexy's Midnight Runners | Dexy's Midnight Runners | Geno | Both 'Give Me Just a Little More Time' and 'Genos lead singer's both sing 'rrrrrrr', employing the tongue rolling technique... |
1137 | Jackie Wilson | Jackie Wilson | Reet Petite | Dexy's Midnight Runners sing 'Jackie Wilson Said'. The tongue rolling technique is also used....'Rrrrrrrr |
1138 | Peter Gabriel | Peter Gabriel | Sledgehammer | The music video to 'Reet Petite' featured plasticine characters...so did... |
1139 | Soft Cell | Soft Cell | Tainted Love | People say something is ‘like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut’. A type of nut is an almond, so… |
1140 | Alice Cooper | Alice Cooper | Poison | If something is tainted, you could say it's been poisoned, hence... |
1141 | Dave & Ansell Collins | Dave & Ansell Collins | Double Barrel | A cooper makes barrels....so... |
1142 | Midnight Oil | Midnight Oil | Beds Are Burning | From Double Barrel… oil is kept in barrels… |
1143 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Nature Boy | From the environmental theme of 'Beds Are Burning' to nature...and fellow Antipodean... |
1144 | Carole King | Carole King | You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman | From Nature to Natural... |
1145 | Ub40 | Ub40 | King | From one King to another... |
1146 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Lady Madonna | UB40's track, Food For Thought', starts with 'Ivory Madonna', so.... |
1147 | Danny Wilson | Danny Wilson | Mary's Prayer | From Lady Madonna to the Virgin Mary... |
1148 | The Undertones | Undertones, The | Wednesday Week | Danny Wilson played for (and managed) Sheffield Wednesday, so… |
1149 | The Specials | Specials, The | Too Much Too Young | From The Undertones to "Two Tone".... |
1150 | Doves | Doves | Black And White Town | The Specials' label, Two Tone, was black and white... |
1151 | Dobie Gray | Dobie Gray | Out On The Floor | Black and white mixed together make grey.... |
1152 | The Pipettes | Pipettes, The | Pull Shapes | Pulling shapes is what one does out on the floor... |
1153 | Thomas Dolby | Thomas Dolby | She Blinded Me With Science | Pipettes are used in science so.... |
1154 | Prefab Sprout | Prefab Sprout | Faron Young | Thomas Dolby produced Prefab Sprout....such as.... |
1155 | Cherry Ghost | Cherry Ghost | 4Am | The previous song was about Faron Young singing about 'Four in the Morning'...so... |
1156 | Simon & Garfunkel | Simon & Garfunkel | Wednesday Morning 3Am | From 4am to...3am.... |
1157 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | She's Leaving Home | 'Wednesday morning at five o'clock' was when she left home.... |
1158 | Bronski Beat | Bronski Beat | Smalltown Boy | Staying on the subject of leaving home... |
1159 | Del Shannon | Del Shannon | Runaway | From the lyrics of the previous tune ('Run Away)... |
1160 | Wings | Wings | Band On The Run | From runaway....to run! |
1161 | Frankie Goes To Hollywood | Frankie Goes To Hollywood | Relax | From a band to.... a record that was banned ('band', geddit)... |
1162 | Stevie Wonder | Stevie Wonder | Uptight | If you find it hard to relax, you might be a bit uptight... |
1163 | Deep Purple | Deep Purple | Black Night | Stevie sang: 'Uptight, out of sight'. Everything would be ‘out of sight’ on a ‘black night’…! |
1164 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Blackbird | From a black night to a blackbird... |
1165 | Fleetwood Mac | Fleetwood Mac | Albatross | From one bird to another... |
1166 | Dion | Dion | The Wanderer | An albatross is a wandering seabird so... |
1167 | Simon & Garfunkel | Simon & Garfunkel | The Boxer | The Wanderer had 'fists of iron'... so does a boxer... |
1168 | Jimi Hendrix | Jimi Hendrix | Hey Joe | A famous boxer is Joe Calzaghe... |
1169 | Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros | Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros | Redemption Song | Here's another great Joe... |
1170 | Eric Clapton | Eric Clapton | I Shot The Sheriff | Redemption Song was a cover of a Bob Marley tune. So is this... |
1171 | The Bobby Fuller Four | Bobby Fuller Four, The | I Fought The Law | The protagonist in I Shot The Sheriff is having a battle with the law... |
1172 | Adam & The Ants | Adam & The Ants | Stand & Deliver | A highwayman is also fighting against the law hence... |
1173 | James | James | Sit Down | Leading on from 'Stand and deliver', why not have 'Sit Down' by James 'Stand/Sit' geddit? |
1174 | James Brown | James Brown | Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine | Double link alert! From Sit Down to Get Up by James Brown. |
1175 | Elmore James | Elmore James | Shake Your Moneymaker | Double link alert! From a James to a James, and in 'Get Up', James Brown sings 'Shake your moneymaker'.... |
1176 | Slade | Slade | Coz I Luv You | A Moneymaker is a variety of tomato, a variety of lettuce is cos (coz).... |
1177 | Love | Love | She Comes In Colors | From Luv to Love... |
1178 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Hey Jude | The next track in the Love album is 'Revelations', the chapter before in the Bible is 'Jude'....so... |
1179 | Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel | Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel | Judy Teen | From Jude to Judy... |
1180 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Rebel Rebel | From one rebel to another... |
1181 | Oasis | Oasis | Acquiesce | Rebel Rebel sounds like Neville Neville: and he is Man United's Gary Neville's Dad. Another Manchester Football Club is Man City spme well |
1182 | Fleetwood Mac | Fleetwood Mac | Oh Well Part 1 | To acquiesce is to concede defeat. And you find a well in an oasis. Oh well.... |
1183 | Joni Mitchell | Joni Mitchell | Little Green | From Fleetwood Mac's Peter Green to Joni Mitchell's.... |
1184 | King Crimson | King Crimson | In The Court Of The Crimson King | Green is opposite red in the colour spectrum. A type of red is crimson... |
1185 | Steely Dan | Steely Dan | Deacon Blue | 'The Crimson Tide' is a lyric mentioned in the following tune... |
1186 | De La Soul | De La Soul | Eye Know | A sample of Steely Dan is in the following song... |
1187 | The Bar Kays | Bar Kays, The | Soulfinger | From De La SOUL and EYE Know, to another soulful body part… |
1188 | Shirley Bassey | Shirley Bassey | Goldfinger | The most obvious connection..... |
1189 | The Hollies | Hollies, The | King Midas In Reverse | King Midas had a golden touch.... |
1190 | Maurice Williams & The Zodiac | Maurice Williams & The Zodiac | The Hollies were one of many groups to cover 'Stay', which was... | |
1191 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Wild Is The Wind | 'Stay' is also the title of a track from Bowie's 'Station to Station' LP. So, from the same record, how about... |
1192 | The Leisure Society | Leisure Society, The | The Last Of The Melting Snow | A meteorological link... |
1193 | The Kinks | Kinks, The | The Village Green Preservation Society | From one society to another! |
1194 | 10Cc | 10Cc | Dreadlock Holiday | You can play cricket on the village green, even if you don't like it! |
1195 | Herman's Hermits | Herman's Hermits | No Milk Today | It was also written by Graham Gouldman... |
1196 | Cream | Cream | Badge | On top of full fat milk, you get cream...hence... |
1197 | Blur | Blur | Coffee And Tv | Some put cream in their coffee....so.... |
1198 | Buggles | Buggles | Video Killed The Radio Star | From TV to video... |
1199 | Yes | Yes | Owner Of A Lonely Heart | Buggles' Trevor Horn later joined Yes... |
1200 | Roy Orbison | Roy Orbison | Only The Lonely | From one lonely heart to another... |
1201 | The Orb | Orb, The | Little Fluffy Clouds | From 'The Orb' to The Orb... |
1202 | Shed Seven | Shed Seven | Chasing Rainbows | Keeping with the meteorological theme... |
1203 | Jimi Hendrix | Jimi Hendrix | Purple Haze | Geoffrey Hayes was in children's TV programme, 'Rainbow'. From Hayes to Haze... |
1204 | Blur | Blur | Song 2 | Haze? Ooh it's all a bit of a Blur to me... |
1205 | The Bee Gees | Bee Gees, The | Massachusetts | The second song ('Song No. 2') to be played on Radio 1 was... |
1206 | Neil Young | Neil Young | Alabama | From one U.S. state to another... |
1207 | Alabama 3 | Alabama 3 | Woke Up This Morning | From one Alabama to...3 of them! |
1208 | Bruce Springsteen & The E | Bruce Springsteen & The E | Street Band | |
1209 | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | Positively 4Th Street | From one street to another.... |
1210 | Oasis | Oasis | Whatever | Positively 4th Street was only ever released as a single. As was... |
1211 | Ann Peebles | Ann Peebles | I Can't Stand The Rain | Oasis were formerly known as The Rain... |
1212 | Elvis Costello & The Attractions | Elvis Costello & The Attractions | I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down | Ann Peebles can't stand the rain. Elvis Costello can't stand up! |
1213 | Andy Fairweather | Andy Fairweather | Low | Previous song was about being drunk. So is... |
1214 | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin | Dazed & Confused | If you were wide eyed and legless, you might also be....dazed and confused! |
1215 | The B52's | B52's, The | Love Shack | To continue the aircraft theme... |
1216 | Hank Williams | Hank Williams | Hey Good Lookin' | The B 52's are encouraging their friends to go to a party... Hank's trying to get a particular friend to come to a party in the following song... |
1217 | Leonard Cohen | Leonard Cohen | Tower Of Song | Hank Williams gets a mention in the following song... |
1218 | Jeff Buckley | Jeff Buckley | Hallelujah | Leonard Cohen wrote Hallelujah, famously covered by Jeff Buckley... |
1219 | Happy Mondays | Happy Mondays | Hallelujah | From one Hallelujah to another... |
1220 | Oi Va Voi | Oi Va Voi | Yuri | Hallelujah is an old Hebrew word. Another Yiddish derived exclamation popular in modern Hebrew is... |
1221 | Space | Space | Female Of The Species | Yuri Gagarin went into space. So... |
1222 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Space Oddity | From Space to space! |
1223 | Elton John | Elton John | Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting) | Bowie's pupil was damaged by a punch in a fight. |
1224 | The Rolling Stones | Rolling Stones, The | Street Fighting Man | Continuing with the fighting theme... |
1225 | Martha Reeves & The Vandellas | Martha Reeves & The Vandellas | Dancing In The Street | And continuing down the same street... |
1226 | Tom Waits | Tom Waits | Martha | From one Martha to another... |
1227 | The Velvet Underground | Velvet Underground, The | I'M Waiting For My Man | From one who "waits" to another... |
1228 | Lindisfarne | Lindisfarne | Meet Me On The Corner | The previous song was allegedly about waiting for a drugs dealer. Many people think that the next song is too! |
1229 | Kraftwerk | Kraftwerk | Autobahn | Kraftwerk sound like they're singing 'Farne' when they sing 'Wir fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der autobahn'... |
1230 | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | Highway 61 Revisited | Autobahns are roads, like highways... |
1231 | Muddy Waters | Muddy Waters | Hoochie Coochie Man | Bluesmen travelled up Highways 51 and 61 to Chicago... |
1232 | The Hollies | Hollies, The | Stop! Stop! Stop! | A hoochie coochie is a lascivious dance. Here's a song about a lascivious belly dance... |
1233 | The Smiths | Smiths, The | Stop Me If You Think You'Ve Heard This One Before | From one Stop! to another... |
1234 | Radiohead | Radiohead | Just | Mark Ronson covered 'Stop Me', the previous song. He also did a cover of the next song... |
1235 | Mcalmont & Butler | Mcalmont & Butler | Yes | From a one word song title...to another! |
1236 | New Order | New Order | Bizarre Love Triangle | From one Bernard (Butler) to another (Sumner)! |
1237 | Monaco | Monaco | What Do You Want From Me? | Peter Hook was in New Order. Another Hooky band.... |
1238 | Teenage Fanclub | Teenage Fanclub | Sparky's Dream | Monaco is home to the Grand Prix. Teenage Fanclub had an album called 'Grand Prix' and the following track is from it... |
1239 | Nirvana | Nirvana | Smells Like Teen Spirit | From one teen to another ... |
1240 | Heaven 17 | Heaven 17 | (We Don't Need No) Fascist Groove Thang | Nirvana a similar concept to heaven. Hence... |
1241 | The Human League | Human League, The | Don't You Want Me | Heaven 17's Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh were both previously in The Human League, thus... |
1242 | The Rezillos | Rezillos, The | (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures | Don't You Want Me was party written by Joe Callis of The Rezillos |
1243 | Television | Television | Venus | One of the world's most famous sculptures is the Venus De Milo |
1244 | Super Furry Animals | Super Furry Animals | (Drawing) Rings Around The World | Venus is a planet. Saturn is also a planet, which has rings around it.... |
1245 | The Inspiral Carpets | Inspiral Carpets, The | Saturn V | Heeeeeeere's Saturn! |
1246 | Gorillaz | Gorillaz | Clint Eastwood | Clint Boon was in The Inspiral Carpets. From one Clint to another... |
1247 | The Beach Boys | Beach Boys, The | California Girls | Clint Eastwood was Mayor of Carmel, in California....hence.... |
1248 | Elvis Presley | Elvis Presley | Hound Dog | The Beach Boys did the album Pet Sounds. One type of pet is.... a hound dog. |
1249 | Al Stewart | Al Stewart | Year Of The Cat | From dog to cat... |
1250 | Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers | Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers | Chinese Rocks | The Chinese calendar names its years after animals in the Chinese Zodiac, so on a Chinese theme... |
1251 | Siouxsie & The Banshees | Siouxsie & The Banshees | Hong Kong Garden | A Chinese city is Hong Kong... |
1252 | Ian Dury & The Blockheads | Ian Dury & The Blockheads | Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick | The Sioux are a Native American tribe, as are the Arapaho, who get mentioned in this tune... |
1253 | Dr. Feelgood | Dr. Feelgood | Back In The Night | Wilko Johnson played in The Blockheads and Dr. Feelgood... |
1254 | The Kursaal Flyers | Kursaal Flyers, The | Little Does She Know | The Feelgoods and The Kursaal Flyers were both from Essex... |
1255 | Depeche Mode | Depeche Mode | Enjoy The Silence | Mike Batt produced the previous track. He made a track called 'A Minute's Silence'. So... |
1256 | Yazoo | Yazoo | Only You | Vince Clarke was in Depeche Mode and Yazoo... |
1257 | Wilson Pickett | Wilson Pickett | In The Midnight Hour | Only You was covered by The Flying Pickets, taking us to another picket(t).... |
1258 | The Jam | Jam, The | Down In The Tube Station At Midnight | Staying with the midnight theme... |
1259 | The Lovin' Spoonful | Lovin' Spoonful, The | Do You Believe In Magic | You can serve jam with a spoon... |
1260 | Belle & Sebastian | Belle & Sebastian | I'M A Cuckoo | The Lovin' Spoonful's lead singer was John Sebastian, which leads us to another Sebastian... |
1261 | Rare Bird | Rare Bird | Sympathy | From one bird to another... |
1262 | The Rolling Stones | Rolling Stones, The | Sympathy For The Devil | Still feeling sympathetic... |
1263 | The Icicle Works | Icicle Works, The | Love Is A Wonderful Colour | The last song appeared on the album Beggar's Banquet. The next one was released on a label of the same name... |
1264 | The Lightning Seeds | Lightning Seeds, The | Pure | The Icicle Works hailed from Liverpool, as do the Lightning Seeds... |
1265 | Simple Minds | Simple Minds | Someone, Somewhere In Summertime | If something's very clear, you may say it's "pure and simple", so here's the simple bit... |
1266 | Cream | Cream | Sunshine Of Your Love | In summer, you might reasonably expect some sunshine... |
1267 | Public Image Limited | Public Image Limited | Rise | Ginger Baker of Cream also played with PiL... |
1268 | Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds | Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds | Midnight Man | PiL's John Lydon was on 'I'm A Celebrity...' in the Australian jungle. Nick Cave is Australian... |
1269 | REM | REM | Nightswimming | It's still night time... |
1270 | The Clash | Clash, The | London Calling | REM are from Athens, Georgia. The first Olympics were held in Athens and the next Olympics will be in London. Hence... |
1271 | The Pogues | Pogues, The | A Rainy Night In Soho | The Clash's video for London Calling was filmed on a rainy night by the Thames. Joe Strummer also went on to sing with the Pogues for a while. So... |
1272 | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 | From rainy night to rainy day... |
1273 | Kris Kristofferson | Kris Kristofferson | Me & Bobby Mcgee | Kris Kristofferson worked as a janitor in the studio where Bob Dylan recorded his album Blonde On Blonde... |
1274 | Bobbie Gentry | Bobbie Gentry | Ode To Billie Joe | From one Bobby to another! |
1275 | Van Morrison | Van Morrison | Tupelo Honey | Tupelo is mentioned in Ode to Billie Joe, hence... |
1276 | Van Halen | Van Halen | Jump | Double link alert! From one Van to another... and also... Ted Templeman produced both Tupelo Honey and Jump! |
1277 | The Jam | Jam, The | Start! | Jump... start! Geddit!? |
1278 | The Pretenders | Pretenders, The | Stop Your Sobbing | From start to stop!... |
1279 | The Beautiful South | Beautiful South, The | Old Red Eyes Is Back | Sobbing can give you red eyes... |
1280 | The Fall | Fall, The | Hit The North Part 1 | Moving around the compass... |
1281 | Julee Cruise | Julee Cruise | Falling | Still falling... |
1282 | The Stone Roses | Stone Roses, The | Waterfall | The last song was the theme tune of TV classic Twin Peaks. That show featured a waterfall in the titles... |
1283 | The Kinks | Kinks, The | Victoria | A famous waterfall is Victoria....hence... |
1284 | Paul Mccartney | Paul Mccartney | Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey | From Victoria....to Albert... |
1285 | The Smiths | Smiths, The | Ask | From one famous vegetarian to another... |
1286 | The Skatalites | Skatalites, The | Guns Of Navarone | Rather brilliantly, 'Ska' is an anagram of 'ask'.... |
1287 | Kate Bush | Kate Bush | James And The Cold Gun | Another gun ... |
1288 | James | James | Just Like Fred Astaire | From one James to another... |
1289 | Free | Free | My Brother Jake | From Fred Astaire to Ginger Rogers, Ginger Rogers to Paul Rodgers of.... |
1290 | Steely Dan | Steely Dan | Peg | Rolf Harris had a famous tune called 'Jake the Peg'... |
1291 | Pink Floyd | Pink Floyd | Arnold Layne | You use pegs to hang out washing. 'Arnold Layne' stole clothes from washing lines... |
1292 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Drive | From Pink Floyd, to 'Shine on You Crazy Diamond' to someone who called an album 'Diamond Dogs'...and another tune by the same... |
1293 | Iggy Pop | Iggy Pop | Lust For Life | David Bowie produced this song for mate Iggy... |
1294 | Underworld | Underworld | Born Slippy | 'Lust for Life' is on the soundtrack to 'Trainspotting'. So is... |
1295 | The Herd | Herd, The | From The Underworld | Staying with the underworld theme... |
1296 | Fleetwood Mac | Fleetwood Mac | Tusk | Elephants come in herds. They also have tusks... |
1297 | Jennifer Warnes | Jennifer Warnes | Famous Blue Raincoat | A 'Mac' is a raincoat. Hence... |
1298 | Rod Stewart | Rod Stewart | Street Fighting Man | After 'Famous Blue Raincoat', here's a track from Rod's album, 'An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down'... |
1299 | The Move | Move, The | California Man | From one type of man, to another! |
1300 | The Red Hot Chilli Peppers | Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The | Californication | From California to... |
1301 | Catatonia | Catatonia | Mulder And Scully | David Duchovny was in the hit American TV series 'Californication'. He also played Fox Mulder in The X Files series. Hence.. |
1302 | Elvis Costello | Elvis Costello | Turning The Town Red | Scully was a British TV series and it's theme tune was ... |
1303 | Red Box | Red Box | Lean On Me | Staying with red... |
1304 | Morrissey | Morrissey | Boxers | From box to boxer... |
1305 | The Bonzo Dog Doo | Bonzo Dog Doo, The | Dah Band | A boxer is a type of dog, so... |
1306 | Noel Harrison | Noel Harrison | Windmills Of Your Mind | The B side of I'm The Urban Spaceman was 'Canyons Of Your Mind', which is one word away from... |
1307 | Joni Mitchell | Joni Mitchell | The Circle Game | The last song mentions 'the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind...', which leads us to another circular song... |
1308 | Rush | Rush | Tom Sawyer | The Circle Game was covered by Tom Rush, so... |
1309 | The Supremes | Supremes, The | You Can't Hurry Love | If you're in a rush you can hurry, but... |
1310 | The Rolling Stones | Rolling Stones, The | Jumpin' Jack Flash | You Can't Hurry Love is on the soundtrack to the 1986 film Jumpin' Jack Flash. So... |
1311 | The Temptations | Temptations, The | Papa Was A Rolling Stone | Sticking with Rolling Stones... |
1312 | Was (Not Was) | Was (Not Was) | Walk The Dinosaur | Papa Was A Rolling Stone was covered by Was (Not Was), so... |
1313 | Nick Lowe | Nick Lowe | Cruel To Be Kind | 'Was' is a form of the verb 'to be', so... |
1314 | The Bees | Bees, The | Listening Man | From 'be' to 'bees'... |
1315 | Paul Weller | Paul Weller | The Changingman | Here's another man, doing something, i.e. changing... |
1316 | The Small Faces | Small Faces, The | Lazy Sunday | The Changingman was on Paul Weller's album Stanley Road. Another Stanley Stanley Unwin |
1317 | The Velvet Underground | Velvet Underground, The | Sunday Morning | Staying with Sunday... |
1318 | The Mamas And The Papas | Mamas And The Papas, The | Monday Monday | From Sunday to Monday... |
1319 | Sister Sledge | Sister Sledge | Lost In Music | Family link: from Mamas, Papas, sisters... |
1320 | The Chemical Brothers | Chemical Brothers, The | Music:Response | Keeping the family link alive from a sister to some brothers... |
1321 | Steely Dan | Steely Dan | Do It Again | The Chemical Brothers recorded a tune called 'Do It Again'. So did... |
1322 | Paul Simon | Paul Simon | 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover | From the last song's lyrics that say, 'Go back, Jack, and do it again' to the next song's 'Slip out the back, Jack'.... |
1323 | The Clash | Clash, The | Guns Of Brixton | From Paul Simon to The Clash's Paul Simonon... |
1324 | Eddy Grant | Eddy Grant | Electric Avenue | In Brixton, there's the Electric Avenue... |
1325 | Oasis | Oasis | She's Electric | Continuing the electric theme... |
1326 | Fountains Of Wayne | Fountains Of Wayne | Stacy's Mom | From She's Electric which features the lyric 'I quite fancy her mother' to a whole song about fancying a friend's 'mom'... |
1327 | Fleetwood Mac | Fleetwood Mac | Landslide | A Jersey link: Fountains of Wayne were named after a garden centre in New Jersey. The next song featured in the film Jersey Girl... |
1328 | Martha Reeves & The Vandellas | Martha Reeves & The Vandellas | Jimmy Mack | From Mac....to Mack! Simple yet effective. |
1329 | The Rolling Stones | Rolling Stones, The | Paint It Black | Jimmy Mack became popular during the Vietnam War. Another song associated with the Vietnam War, after its use in the TV series Tour of Duty and the film Full Metal Jacket, is ... |
1330 | Ac/Dc | Ac/Dc | Back In Black | Staying with black... |
1331 | Electronic | Electronic | Getting Away With It | An electric link! |
1332 | Altered Images | Altered Images | I Could Be Happy | And the next song contains the lyrics 'get away'.... |
1333 | Stevie Wonder | Stevie Wonder | Superstition | Altered Images did 'Happy Birthday'. Someone who also did a prominent 'Happy Birthday' song is... |
1334 | Elvis Presley | Elvis Presley | Good Luck Charm | If you were superstitious, you might carry a.... |
1335 | Kings Of Convenience | Kings Of Convenience | I'D Rather Dance With You | Elvis was known as The King. He was a fan of convenience food. Hence... |
1336 | The Arctic Monkeys | Arctic Monkeys, The | I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor | Connecting the next song by the word 'dance'... |
1337 | Chuck Berry | Chuck Berry | Too Much Monkey Business | A monkey link |
1338 | Rickie Lee Jones | Rickie Lee Jones | Chuck E's In Love | Another Chuck ... |
1339 | Steely Dan | Steely Dan | Rikki Don't Lose That Number | From Rickie to Rikki... |
1340 | Tom Robinson | Tom Robinson | War Baby | Tom Robinson did a cover of the previous song. Another simple yet effective Chain link, which leads us to... |
1341 | War | War | Low Rider | A war link ... |
1342 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Sound And Vision | From Low Rider to a song from David Bowie's Low album ... |
1343 | Nick Lowe | Nick Lowe | Marie Provost | And to another Lowe... |
1344 | 10Cc | 10Cc | The Dean And I | A University teaching link: from a Provost to a Dean... |
1345 | Jan And Dean | Jan And Dean | Surf City | From one Dean to another... |
1346 | Focus | Focus | Sylvia | From one Jan to another (Jan Akkerman)... |
1347 | Aztec Camera | Aztec Camera | Oblivious | You need to focus a camera... |
1348 | Marvin Gaye | Marvin Gaye | What's Going On? | If you were oblivious, you'd probably ask... |
1349 | Radiohead | Radiohead | Paranoid Android | 'Marvin The Paranoid Android' is a character in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy... |
1350 | Black Sabbath | Black Sabbath | Paranoid | From Paranoid to Paranoid... |
1351 | Doves | Doves | There Goes The Fear | From paranoia to fear... |
1352 | Wilson Pickett | Wilson Pickett | Mustang Sally | Men are often regarded as having a fear of commitment. The next song was performed in the film 'The Commitments'... |
1353 | Happy Mondays | Happy Mondays | 24 Hour Party People | Wilson Pickett shares a name with Tony Wilson, who signed the Happy Mondays to his Factory label. Hence... |
1354 | The Kinks | Kinks, The | All Day And All Of The Night | 24 hours equals all day and all night, so... |
1355 | The Stranglers | Stranglers, The | No More Heroes | The Stranglers covered 'All Day and All of the Night'...so.... |
1356 | The Stone Roses | Stone Roses, The | I Am The Resurrection | A chocolate based link: from 'Heroes' to 'Roses' |
1357 | Soul Ii Soul | Soul Ii Soul | Back To Life | A resurrection link... |
1358 | James Brown | James Brown | It's A Man's Man's Man's World | From Soul, to the Godfather of Soul... |
1359 | Van Morrison | Van Morrison | Brown | From one Brown to another... |
1360 | Buddy Holly | Buddy Holly | Brown | And from one brown eyed person to another... |
1361 | Sam Cooke | Sam Cooke | Cupid | Buddy Holly was born 'Charles Hardin Holley' and removed the 'E' from his surname, while Sam Cooke added an 'E' to his real surname. Hence... |
1362 | The Shamen | Shamen, The | Ebeneezer Goode | From an artist who added an 'E' to his surname to a song about Es... |
1363 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Money | Another Ebeneezer Dickens' Ebeneezer Scrooge was only interested in money, so ... |
1364 | Teenage Fanclub | Teenage Fanclub | The Concept | From Money to a song from Teenage Fanclub's Bandwagonesque album, which features a bag of money on the front cover... |
1365 | Status Quo | Status Quo | Break The Rules | The previous song mentions Status Quo, so... |
1366 | The Pretenders | Pretenders, The | Back On The Chain Gang | If you 'break the rules' you might end up on a chain gang... |
1367 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Cracked Actor | Someone who 'pretends' is an actor... |
1368 | Madness | Madness | Michael Caine | An actor is... |
1369 | The Ting Tings | Ting Tings, The | That's Not My Name | Michael Caine is famed for his saying, 'My name is Michael Caine'. The Ting Tings disagree... |
1370 | Gang Of Four | Gang Of Four | I Love A Man In Uniform | Sticking with the 'name' theme people who wear uniforms often display their name... |
1371 | Kate Bush | Kate Bush | Army Dreamers | A man in uniform? Could be in the army... |
1372 | The Polyphonic Spree | Polyphonic Spree, The | Soldier Girl | In the army there are soldiers... |
1373 | Billy Bragg | Billy Bragg | Between The Wars | From soldier to war... |
1374 | The Four Tops | Four Tops, The | Reach Out I'Ll Be There | Billy Bragg wrote the song 'Levi Stubbs' Tears'. Levi Stubbs was the lead singer of The Four Tops... |
1375 | Orange Juice | Orange Juice | I Can't Help Myself | The Four Tops are mentioned in the lyrics of this song... |
1376 | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again | Orange is a mobile phone provider. Mobile is in Alabama, and this song... |
1377 | Elvis Presley | Elvis Presley | Guitar Man | Mobile, Alabama gets namechecked by Elvis in our next track... |
1378 | Radiohead | Radiohead | Anyone Can Play Guitar | A guitar link... |
1379 | Carl Perkins | Carl Perkins | Honey Don'T | The last track was from the album 'Pablo Honey'... |
1380 | Elvis Costello | Elvis Costello | (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes | Carl Perkins wrote Blue Suede Shoes. From Blue Suede shoes to some red ones... |
1381 | Tommy Tucker | Tommy Tucker | Hi | From shoes to sneakers... |
1382 | Tommy James & The Shondells | Tommy James & The Shondells | Mony Mony | From one Tommy to another... |
1383 | Billy Idol | Billy Idol | Rebel Yell | Billy Idol covered 'Mony Mony' hence... |
1384 | The Band | Band, The | The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down | The Rebel Yell was the Confederate battle cry in the American Civil War.... |
1385 | The Dixie Cups | Dixie Cups, The | Iko Iko | A Dixie link... |
1386 | Kings Of Leon | Kings Of Leon | Molly's Chambers | The last band and the next band both consist of siblings and a cousin... |
1387 | The Four Tops | Four Tops, The | 7 Rooms Of Gloom | A chamber is a room, so... |
1388 | Madness | Madness | The Return Of The Los Palmas 7 | 7 + 7 = another link in the chain... |
1389 | Fun Boy Three | Fun Boy Three | The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum) | From madness to lunatics (and from 7 to 3)... |
1390 | The Cure | Cure, The | Boys Don't Cry | It's a boy link... |
1391 | Aztec Camera | Aztec Camera | The Crying Scene | From cry to crying... |
1392 | Paul Simon | Paul Simon | Kodachrome | Continuing the camera theme... |
1393 | Chuck Berry | Chuck Berry | Maybelline | Simon & Garfunkel segued from Kodachrome into a version of the next song during their famous Central Park concert... |
1394 | The Icicle Works | Icicle Works, The | Evangeline | Another girl's name, and it rhymes with Maybelline... |
1395 | Emmylou Harris | Emmylou Harris | Where Will I Be | Evangeline was title of an Emmylou Harris album. So, a tune by her... |
1396 | Elbow | Elbow | Mirrorball | The last tune was from the album 'Wrecking Ball'...to another type of ball... |
1397 | Keane | Keane | Crystal Ball | Staying with the ball theme... |
1398 | Robert Plant And Alison Krauss | Robert Plant And Alison Krauss | Fortune Teller | The owner of a crystal ball might be a fortune teller... |
1399 | Fleetwood Mac | Fleetwood Mac | Gypsy | Telling fortunes was once considered to be the pastime of a gypsy... |
1400 | The Velvet Underground | Velvet Underground, The | Sweet Jane | Fleetwood Mac's 'Gypsy' has the lyric 'So I'm Back To the Velvet Underground' (it's the first line of the lyrics)... |
1401 | The Clash | Clash, The | Janie Jones | From one Jane to another... |
1402 | Culture | Culture | Two Sevens Clash | And from one clash to another... |
1403 | Love | Love | Seven And Seven Is | From sevens to seven... |
1404 | The Jam | Jam, The | Away From The Numbers | And, steering clear of any more numbers, let the Jam take us... |
1405 | Klf | Klf | Last Train To Trancentral | KLF were formerly known as the JAMMS... |
1406 | Emf | Emf | Unbelievable | Another band that uses 3 initials... |
1407 | Elo | Elo | Roll Over Beethoven | ***Triple Link Alert!** Also 3 intials plus the word Electric in the band's name AND the EMF album the previous song was from was called 'Schubert Dip'.... so from Schubert to Beethoven.... |
1408 | The Move | Move, The | Blackberry Way | To commemorate Pie Monday, and to link in with the previous song by way of Roy Wood... |
1409 | Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers | Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers | Free Fallin' | Jeff Lynne was in The Move. He also produced Tom Petty's 1989 album, 'Full Moon Fever', so here's a track from that album, pop pickers... |
1410 | Elvis Presley | Elvis Presley | Way Down | The last song mentions Elvis in the lyrics, so... |
1411 | Kate Bush | Kate Bush | King Of The Mountain | From 'The King' to a king titled track which references Elvis in the lyrics... |
1412 | Kraftwerk | Kraftwerk | Tour De France | 'The King of the Mountains' is one of the stages in the Tour De France, so... |
1413 | Carole King | Carole King | Tapestry | type of kraftwerk (craftwork) is tapestry, so... |
1414 | Family | Family | A Weaver's Answer | Tapestries are made by weavers (and tapestry also features in the lyrics of the next song)... |
1415 | Sly & The Family Stone | Sly & The Family Stone | If You Want Me To Stay | From one Family to another.... |
1416 | Magazine | Magazine | Song From Under The Floorboards | Sly and the Family Stone recorded "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)", which was covered by Magazine. Another song by Magazine is... |
1417 | Madonna | Madonna | Vogue | A type of magazine is... |
1418 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Fashion | Vogue magazine is all about fashion, so... |
1419 | Rufus Wainwright | Rufus Wainwright | Oh What A World | Staying with the fashion theme, our next song opens with the line 'Men reading fashion magazines'... |
1420 | The Police | Police, The | Walking On The Moon | Another Wainwright (Alfred) is famous for his walking guides, so... |
1421 | The Velvet Underground | Velvet Underground, The | Who Loves The Sun | From the moon to the sun... |
1422 | The Tubes | Tubes, The | White Punks On Dope | The underground is also known as 'the tube', so... |
1423 | The Beach Boys | Beach Boys, The | Surfin' Usa | Tube is a type of wave that's good for surfing, so... |
1424 | New Order | New Order | 1963 | Surfin' USA was a hit in 1963 so... |
1425 | Paul Hardcastle | Paul Hardcastle | Nineteen | Add 1+9+6+3 you get 19... |
1426 | Martha Reeves & The Vandellas | Martha Reeves & The Vandellas | Nowhere To Run | 'Nineteen' was about the Vietnam war. The film soundtrack to 'Good Morning Vietnam' contained the following tune... |
1427 | Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff | Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff | Dizzy | From one Reeves to another... |
1428 | Vic Godard & Subway Sect | Vic Godard & Subway Sect | Ambition | From one Vic to another... |
1429 | Sam Cooke | Sam Cooke | You Send Me | Vic Godard used to be a postman...so... |
1430 | Sam And Dave | Sam And Dave | Soothe Me | Double link alert! From one Sam to another, and also to a song written by Sam Cooke... |
1431 | Pink Floyd | Pink Floyd | Lucifer Sam | And from one Sam to yet another... |
1432 | Mason Williams | Mason Williams | Classical Gas | Nick Mason is in Pink Floyd. Using the 'Mason' link, we go to... |
1433 | Area Code 615 | Area Code 615 | Stone Fox Chase | Classical Gas was also recorded by Area Code 615, who recorded our next track (the theme tune to The Old Grey Whistle Test) |
1434 | Sly & The Family Stone | Sly & The Family Stone | Dance To The Music | Foxes are thought to be sly, so... |
1435 | Jimi Hendrix | Jimi Hendrix | Stone Free | Staying with the stone theme... |
1436 | Lynyrd Skynyrd | Lynyrd Skynyrd | Free Bird | And using the 'free' connection... |
1437 | Nick Drake | Nick Drake | At The Chime Of The City Clock | A drake is a type of duck is a type of bird... |
1438 | The Zombies | Zombies, The | Time Of The Season | You use a clock to tell the time...hence... |
1439 | Donovan | Donovan | Season Of The Witch | A season link... |
1440 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Getting Better | Pepper is a type of season ing, so to something from the Sgt Pepper album... |
1441 | Simon & Garfunkel | Simon & Garfunkel | Scarborough Fair | Staying with the seasoning link, we go from a Sgt Pepper track to a song from another 'seasoning titled' album Simon & Garfunkel's Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme |
1442 | The Archies | Archies, The | Sugar Sugar | Simon & Garfunkel previously recorded as 'Tom and Jerry', which is also the name of a cartoon, and takes us to The Archies a famous cartoon band... |
1443 | Gorillaz | Gorillaz | Feel Good Inc | From one cartoon band to another... |
1444 | The Bonzo Dog Doo | Bonzo Dog Doo, The | Dah Band | From the Gorillaz to a song from The Bonzos' Gorilla album... |
1445 | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin | Houses Of The Holy | Bonzo was the nickname of John Bonham, who was in... |
1446 | REM | REM | Man On The Moon | Keith Moon was reputed to have named Led Zeppelin hence... |
1447 | Franz Ferdinand | Franz Ferdinand | Matinee | REM are mentioned in one of the following band's lyrics.... |
1448 | Talking Heads | Talking Heads | Life During Wartime | The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand led to the start of World War One... |
1449 | Elbow | Elbow | Weather To Fly | From one body part to another... |
1450 | Jimi Hendrix | Jimi Hendrix | Little Wing | You need wings to fly... |
1451 | The Yardbirds | Yardbirds, The | Shapes Of Things | Birds have wings.... |
1452 | Beck | Beck | Devil's Haircut | Jeff Beck was in The Yardbirds, hence... |
1453 | Atomic Rooster | Atomic Rooster | Devil's Answer | Sticking with the devil theme... |
1454 | Graham Parker & The Rumour | Graham Parker & The Rumour | Hey Lord Don't Ask Me Questions | From an answer to some questions... |
1455 | Outkast | Outkast | Hey Ya | Hey! It's the chain link... |
1456 | Prince | Prince | Kiss | OutKast's Andre 3000 was voted 'World's Sexiest Vegetarian' in 2004, as was Prince in 2006. So.... |
1457 | The Cure | Cure, The | Why Can't I Be You | From Kiss to a track from The Cure's album 'Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me'... |
1458 | Leonard Cohen | Leonard Cohen | Ain't No Cure For Love | A cure link... |
1459 | Medicine Head | Medicine Head | One And One Is One | If you need a cure, you might need medicine... |
1460 | Roy Orbison | Roy Orbison | It's Over | Medicine Head were signed to John Peel's Dandelion Records. When John Peel went on Desert Island Discs he chose the following tune as one of his tracks... |
1461 | The Temptations | Temptations, The | Ball Of Confusion | Using a cricket link, from an 'over' to a cricket 'ball'... |
1462 | New Order | New Order | Confusion | A link from confusion to confusion. Simple yet effective. |
1463 | Supertramp | Supertramp | School | An order is an instruction, and a place of instruction is a school... |
1464 | Alice Cooper | Alice Cooper | School's Out | From one school to another... |
1465 | Siouxsie & The Banshees | Siouxsie & The Banshees | Playground Twist | A school has a playground, hence... |
1466 | The Cure | Cure, The | Play For Today | Double link alert! From 'playground' to 'play'... PLUS The Cure's Robert Smith played with Siouxsie & The Banshees... |
1467 | Pink Floyd | Pink Floyd | Time | Play For Today was from the album Seventeen Seconds, which takes us to time... |
1468 | Sandy Denny | Sandy Denny | Who Knows Where The Time Goes? | Staying with the time theme... |
1469 | Bruce Springsteen | Bruce Springsteen | 4Th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) | A Sandy link... |
1470 | 10Cc | 10Cc | Wall Street Shuffle | The last song is from Springsteen's album 'The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle', which takes us to another street.... |
1471 | Roxy Music | Roxy Music | Street Life | Another street link... |
1472 | The Saints | Saints, The | I'M Stranded | From the Roxy album 'Stranded' to... |
1473 | Saint Etienne | Saint Etienne | You'Re In A Bad Way | From some saints to one... |
1474 | Kings Of Leon | Kings Of Leon | Red Morning Light | St Etienne is near Lyon, in fact if you get a budget airline flight to Lyon you use St Etienne airport. Lyon takes us to the Kings of Leon... |
1475 | Oasis | Oasis | Cigarettes And Alcohol | 'Leon' is an anagram of 'Noel'...a member of... |
1476 | The Marvelettes | Marvelettes, The | Please Mr Postman | If Noel is Leon backwards, then Liam is Mail backwards, the mail is brought by a postman so how about... |
1477 | The Carpenters | Carpenters, The | Yesterday Once More | The Carpenters covered Please Mr Postman, so another tune by them... |
1478 | Jethro Tull | Jethro Tull | Living In The Past | Yesterday is something in the past, so... |
1479 | The Who | Who, The | Pictures Of Lily | Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson was a fish farmer, as was The Who's Roger Daltrey... |
1480 | Status Quo | Status Quo | Pictures Of Matchstick Men | More pictures... |
1481 | Prefab Sprout | Prefab Sprout | Cars And Girls | A matchstick man appeared on the cover of Prefab Sprout's Cars and Girls... |
1482 | Ian Dury & The Blockheads | Ian Dury & The Blockheads | Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll | From cars and girls to other 'indulgences' |
1483 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Rock 'N' Roll Suicide | A Rock & Roll link... |
1484 | Lou Reed | Lou Reed | Vicious | David Bowie produced Lou Reed's Transformer album.... |
1485 | A Tribe Called Quest | A Tribe Called Quest | Can I Kick It? | A sample from Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side is found on this track... |
1486 | The Pioneers | Pioneers, The | Long Shot Kick De Bucket | Staying with the 'kick' connection... |
1487 | Arcade Fire | Arcade Fire | Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles) | If you kick the bucket, you'll need a funeral. Taken from the album 'Funeral' comes the following... |
1488 | Space | Space | Neighbourhood | From one neighbourhood to another... |
1489 | Elton John | Elton John | Rocket Man | Keeping with the space theme... |
1490 | The Troggs | Troggs, The | I Can't Control Myself | Elton's real name is Reg Dwight, which takes us to another Reg The Trogg's Reg Presley... |
1491 | Elvis Presley | Elvis Presley | In The Ghetto | From The Trogg's Reg Presley to another Presley... |
1492 | The Smiths | Smiths, The | The Queen Is Dead | A picture of Elvis appeared on the front cover of a Smiths single (Shoplifters of the World Unite), taking us to a Smiths track... |
1493 | Queens Of The Stone Age | Queens Of The Stone Age | No One Knows | From Queen to Queens... |
1494 | The Divine Comedy | Divine Comedy, The | Everybody Knows (Except You) | From no one knowing, to everyone... |
1495 | Neil Young | Neil Young | Tell Me Why | From The Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon, to another Neil... |
1496 | The Jam | Jam, The | When You'Re Young | From Young to young... |
1497 | Booker T & The Mgs | Booker T & The Mgs | Green Onions | Jam is a preserve. So are pickled onions... |
1498 | The Cars | Cars, The | My Best Friend's Girl | An MG is a type of car, so... |
1499 | Racing Cars | Racing Cars | They Shoot Horses Don't They | From cars to racing cars... |
1500 | America | America | Horse With No Name | From one horse to another... |
1501 | James Brown | James Brown | Living In America | Using the America connection... |
1502 | The Clash | Clash, The | I'M So Bored With The U.S.A. | And staying with the American theme, but becoming rather weary of it... |
1503 | Kaiser Chiefs | Kaiser Chiefs | I Predict A Riot | Another Clash song was White Riot, so... |
1504 | Paul Simon | Paul Simon | Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes | Kaiser Chiefs were named after a South African football team. Our next rack was recorded with a South African band... |
1505 | 10Cc | 10Cc | Art For Art's Sake | Paul Simon's singing partner was 'Art' Garfunkel... |
1506 | Billy Bragg | Billy Bragg | Must I Paint You A Picture? | Keeping to the artistic theme... |
1507 | Kirsty Maccoll | Kirsty Maccoll | Days | After Billy Bragg, why not move on to his friend and collaborator... |
1508 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Where Have All The Good Times Gone | Last tune was a Ray Davies' cover...so is this... |
1509 | The Pretenders | Pretenders, The | 2000 Miles | Ray Davies had a child with Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders... |
1510 | The Rolling Stones | Rolling Stones, The | 2000 Light Years From Home | From 2000....to 2000! |
1511 | Slade | Slade | Far Far Away | 2000 light years from home is far, far away... |
1512 | The Fifth Dimension | Fifth Dimension, The | Up Up And Away | Staying with the away theme... |
1513 | Diana Ross | Diana Ross | Upside Down | The previous song was also recorded by Diana Ross & The Supremes, so... |
1514 | The Hollies | Hollies, The | I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top | If you were upside down you might not be able to tell bottom from top... |
1515 | Dusty Springfield | Dusty Springfield | In The Middle Of Nowhere | From the bottom & top, to the middle... |
1516 | Zz Top | Zz Top | La Grange | From Dusty Springfield to Dusty Hill, bass player in ZZ Top... |
1517 | Mazzy Star | Mazzy Star | Fade Into You | From a ZZ to another ZZ... |
1518 | The Rolling Stones | Rolling Stones, The | Not Fade Away | Keeping with the 'fade' theme... |
1519 | The Libertines | Libertines, The | Can't Stand Me Now | "A rolling stone gathers no moss". Kate Moss went out with Pete Doherty, from the Libertines... |
1520 | Gene | Gene | Olympian | The band Gene had an album called 'Libertine'... |
1521 | Soft Cell | Soft Cell | Torch | The Olympics has a torch...and Genes to Cell.... |
1522 | Madonna | Madonna | Ray Of Light | A torch gives out a ray of light.... |
1523 | George Harrison | George Harrison | Give Me Love, Give Me Peace On Earth | The opposite of 'light' is dark... 'Dark Horses' is an album by George Harrison, so here he is! |
1524 | The Police | Police, The | Spirits In The Material World | The last song was from the album 'Living in the Material World'.... |
1525 | Peter And Gordon | Peter And Gordon | World Without Love | From world...to another world! |
1526 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | All You Need Is Love | A love link... |
1527 | Air | Air | Sexy Boy | The last song begins with the French national anthem... the next track is by a band from France... |
1528 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Star Man | Sexy Boy is from Air's album Moon Safari. To get to the moon you'd need a starship, so... |
1529 | Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel | Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel | Mr Soft | The next song's lyrics mention a 'star man' ('Spot the Star man, rough and tumble...')... |
1530 | The Flaming Lips | Flaming Lips, The | Waitin' For A Superman | A soft link... the next track comes from the album 'The Soft Bulletin'... |
1531 | Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames | Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames | Yeh Yeh | From flaming to flames... |
1532 | The Animals | Animals, The | We'Ve Gotta Get Out Of This Place | Georgie Fame and Alan Price had a TV show called 'The Price of Fame'. Alan was keyboardist in The Animals... |
1533 | Eels | Eels | Susan's House | From 'place' to 'plaice'....and another type of fish... |
1534 | Leonard Cohen | Leonard Cohen | Suzanne | From Susan to Suzanne... |
1535 | The Soggy Bottom Boys | Soggy Bottom Boys, The | I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow | From Leonard Cohen to the Coen Brothers, and a song from their film, 'O Brother, Where Are Thou?'.... |
1536 | The Smiths | Smiths, The | Heaven Knows I'M Miserable Now | Continuing the misery theme... |
1537 | The Elgins | Elgins, The | Heaven Must Have Sent You | And staying celestial... |
1538 | Blur | Blur | Girls And Boys | The Elgin Marbles came from Greece. The following song contains the line, 'Following the herd down to Greece'... |
1539 | T.Rex | T.Rex | Children Of The Revolution | Girls and boys are children, so... |
1540 | The Pretenders | Pretenders, The | Kid | Another young person link... |
1541 | The Charlatans | Charlatans, The | North Country Boy | Double link alert! A kid can also be a boy... plus, a pretender is a charlatan... |
1542 | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | Girl From The North Country | Staying with the north country... |
1543 | The Everly Brothers | Everly Brothers, The | Wake Up Little Susie | The last song comes from the album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan which features Bob and his then girlfriend Suze Rotolo on the front cover. So, from Suze to Susie... |
1544 | Elastica | Elastica | Stutter | Elastica had a single called 'Waking Up', so here's another number by them... |
1545 | James | James | Hymn From A Village | James had an album called 'Stutter', and here's another track by them... |
1546 | James Brown | James Brown | The Boss | From one James to another... |
1547 | Tom Tom Club | Tom Tom Club | Genius Of Love | James Brown is mentioned in the lyrics of... |
1548 | Elvis Costello & The Attractions | Elvis Costello & The Attractions | Clubland | From one Club to another! |
1549 | The Killers | Killers, The | Read My Mind | Elvis Costello used the pseudonym 'Napoleon Dynamite', which is the title of a film starring Jon Heder, who is a famous Mormon...as is lead singer of the Killers, Brandon Flowers... |
1550 | John Lennon | John Lennon | Mind Games | Mind the link... |
1551 | Simple Minds | Simple Minds | New Gold Dream | From mind to minds... |
1552 | Neil Young | Neil Young | Only Love Can Break Your Heart | A gold link From New Gold Dream to a song from Neil Young's album After the Gold Rush... |
1553 | Saint Etienne | Saint Etienne | Like A Motorway | The last song was also a hit for Saint Etienne, so... |
1554 | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Fast Car | From motorway to car... |
1555 | Grace Jones | Grace Jones | Warm Leatherette | A car link the next song is about car crashes, referencing JG Ballard's novel Crash... |
1556 | The Housemartins | Housemartins, The | The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death | Grace Jones famously attacked a chat show host (Russell Harty), as did Rod Hull (Michael Parkinson). The Housemartins are from Hull... |
1557 | Fatboy Slim | Fatboy Slim | Praise You | Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, was in The Housemartins...hence... |
1558 | The Beastie Boys | Beastie Boys, The | No Sleep Til Brooklyn | The video for 'Praise You' was directed by Spike Jonze, who also directed videos by Beastie Boys... |
1559 | The Rolling Stones | Rolling Stones, The | Beast Of Burden | From The Beasties to a beast... |
1560 | The Flying Burrito Brothers | Flying Burrito Brothers, The | Hot Burrito #1 | A donkey is a beast of burden. 'Burrito' is Spanish for a little donkey... |
1561 | Patti Smith | Patti Smith | Redondo Beach | From a donkey to a horse...from her album 'Horses' comes this track... |
1562 | The Smiths | Smiths, The | How Soon Is Now? | From a Smith to The Smiths... |
1563 | Roxy Music | Roxy Music | Jealous Guy | The last song features some whistling, as does the next... |
1564 | The Beat | Beat, The | Hands Off She's Mine | A jelous guy might say the following... |
1565 | Suede | Suede | Stay Together | The Beat were called 'The English Beat' in the U.S. Similarly, Suede were 'The London Suede' in the U.S. so... |
1566 | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | Boots Of Spanish Leather | From suede to another type of material leather... |
1567 | The Four Tops | Four Tops, The | Walk Away Renee | Boots are made for walking, so... |
1568 | Fats Domino | Fats Domino | Walking To New Orleans | From walk to walking... |
1569 | Franz Ferdinand | Franz Ferdinand | Darts Of Pleasure | You might play domino in a pub. You might also play darts...! |
1570 | Frankie Goes To Hollywood | Frankie Goes To Hollywood | Welcome To Pleasuredome | And keeping the 'pleasure' theme going... |
1571 | The Rolling Stones | Rolling Stones, The | Route 66 | Route 66 passes through Hollywood... |
1572 | It's Immaterial | It's Immaterial | Driving Away From Home | ....from Route 66 to a mention of the M62 on the following song... |
1573 | The Blue Nile | Blue Nile, The | Headlights On The Parade | Continuing the driving theme.... |
1574 | Talking Heads | Talking Heads | And She Was | The last song was on the album 'Hats'. Hats go on heads, hence... |
1575 | Manfred Mann | Manfred Mann | Blinded By The Light | Talking Heads had an album called Remain In Light so, staying with light... |
1576 | Magazine | Magazine | The Light Pours Out Of Me | Another light link... |
1577 | The Jam | Jam, The | Eton Rifles | A magazine is part of a gun, so, staying with the gun link... |
1578 | Steely Dan | Steely Dan | My Old School | Eton is a school, so... |
1579 | The Who | Who, The | Happy Jack | The last song features on the album 'Countdown To Ecstasy'. If you're ecstatic, you're happy so... |
1580 | Jerry Lee Lewis | Jerry Lee Lewis | Wild One (Real Wild Child) | "Jack" was a film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He also directed the film 'The Outsiders', which features this song on the soundtrack... |
1581 | Kate Bush | Kate Bush | The Man With The Child In His Eyes | From a wild child...to another child! |
1582 | Neneh Cherry | Neneh Cherry | Manchild | And from a man to a man AND child! Wooah! |
1583 | Air | Air | Cherry Blossom Girl | From Cherry to cherry... |
1584 | T.Rex | T.Rex | Life's A Gas | From air to gas... |
1585 | Kraftwerk | Kraftwerk | Neon Lights | A type of gas is... |
1586 | Bruce Springsteen | Bruce Springsteen | Streets Of Philadelphia | Kraft makes Philadelphia cheese, so... |
1587 | Marlena Shaw | Marlena Shaw | California Soul | From one place in the U.S.A. to another... |
1588 | Scott Mckenzie | Scott Mckenzie | San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) | Another American geography link... |
1589 | The Stone Roses | Stone Roses, The | I Wanna Be Adored | From 'flowers in your hair' to a type of flower: rose... |
1590 | REM | REM | (Don't Go Back To) Rockville | The Stone Roses' Ian Brown was arrested for air rage, as was REM's guitarist Peter Buck, so... |
1591 | Tim Hardin | Tim Hardin | How Can We Hang On To A Dream | REM stands for 'rapid eye movement' which often occurs while dreaming, so, staying with dreams... |
1592 | Lou Reed | Lou Reed | Hangin' Round | Still hanging onto the theme of hanging... |
1593 | Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazelwood | Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazelwood | Some Velvet Morning | Lou Reed was in The Velvet Underground keeping with 'velvet'... |
1594 | The Sex Pistols | Sex Pistols, The | Anarchy In The Uk | From Nancy... to Sid (Vicious) and Nancy (Spungen)... |
1595 | Thin Lizzy | Thin Lizzy | Waiting For An Alibi | Steve Jones and Paul Cook from the Sex Pistols recorded a Christmas single in 1979 with Thin Lizzy, so... |
1596 | The Kinks | Kinks, The | Tired Of Waiting For You | A waiting link... |
1597 | Al Green | Al Green | Tired Of Being Alone | Staying with the tired theme... |
1598 | Todd Rundgren | Todd Rundgren | I Saw The Light | When you're alone, you're "on your tod" which takes us to Todd... |
1599 | The Supremes | Supremes, The | The Happening | The phrase 'I Saw The Light' is in the lyrics of the next track... |
1600 | The Yardbirds | Yardbirds, The | Happenings Ten Years Time Ago | From happening to happenings... |
1601 | Noah & The Whale | Noah & The Whale | Five Years Time | From ten years to five years... |
1602 | Moby | Moby | We Are All Made Of Stars | Moby Dick was a whale... |
1603 | Dick Dale | Dick Dale | Miserlou | From Moby to Moby Dick...and another Dick... |
1604 | Pulp | Pulp | Do You Remember The First Time? | Miserlou was in the film Pulp Fiction. So on we go to Pulp... |
1605 | The Rolling Stones | Rolling Stones, The | The Last Time | From the first time...to the last! |
1606 | Coldplay | Coldplay | Clocks | Time...brings us to telling the time, with clocks...! |
1607 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | In My Life | Coldplay's Chris Martin has a daughter called Apple. The Beatles were on the Apple label, so... |
1608 | Rubberband Girl | Rubberband Girl | Kate Bush | The last track was from The Beatles' Rubber Soul album so, staying with rubber... |
1609 | Elastica | Elastica | Waking Up | Rubber bands are elastic, which takes us to Elastica... |
1610 | Lorna Bennett | Lorna Bennett | Breakfast In Bed | When you wake up, you might get breakfast in bed... |
1611 | Tori Amos | Tori Amos | Cornflake Girl | A popular breakfast food is cornflakes, so... |
1612 | Genesis | Genesis | Turn It On Again | Amos is a book of the Bible, as is Genesis... |
1613 | The Stranglers | Stranglers, The | Duchess | The last track was from the album 'Duke', so from Duke to Duchess... |
1614 | Boston | Boston | More Than A Feeling | From The Stranglers, to The Boston Strangler to Boston... |
1615 | The Standells | Standells, The | Dirty Water | This song is a paean to the city of Boston and its then famously polluted Boston Harbour and Charles River... |
1616 | The Dells | Dells, The | Wear It On Our Face | From The Standells to The Dells... |
1617 | Rod Stewart | Rod Stewart | You Wear It Well | Staying with wear... |
1618 | Suede | Suede | She's In Fashion | Someone who 'wears it well' would be 'in fashion'... |
1619 | Denim | Denim | Middle Of The Road | A material link from suede to denim... |
1620 | The White Stripes | White Stripes, The | Fell In Love With A Girl | In the middle of the road you can often find white stripes... |
1621 | Blondie | Blondie | One Way Or Another | The cover of Blondie's Parallel Lines album has white stripes on it, so, a song from that album... |
1622 | Echo & The Bunnymen | Echo & The Bunnymen | Nothing Lasts Forever | Blondie's Debbie Harry used to be a 'bunnygirl'... |
1623 | The Klf | Klf, The | 3Am Eternal | Echo & the Bunnymen used to be on the KLF's Bill Drummond's record label... |
1624 | The Who | Who, The | Baba O'Riley | KLF had another hit under an alias of 'The Timelords' and had a hit with 'Doctorin' the Tardis'...so from Dr Who...to The Who! |
1625 | Crosby, Stills & Nash | Crosby, Stills & Nash | Almost Cut My Hair | From Baba to a Barber...! |
1626 | Pp Arnold | Pp Arnold | The First Cut Is The Deepest | Sticking with the cutting link... |
1627 | Deep Purple | Deep Purple | Highway Star | From deepest...to deep! |
1628 | Big Star | Big Star | September Gurls | From one star to another! |
1629 | The Bangles | Bangles, The | Walk Like An Egyptian | September Gurls was covered by... |
1630 | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | She Belongs To Me | Sticking with the Egyptian theme, the following Dylan song has the lyric 'She wears an Egyptian ring'... |
1631 | Eric Clapton | Eric Clapton | Lay Down Sally | The last song is from Bob Dylan's 'Bringing It All Back Home' album. The woman reclining on the album's front cover is the wife of Dylan's manager, Sally Grossman. So, a Sally link... |
1632 | The Strawbs | Strawbs, The | Lay Down | From Lay Down Sally to simply 'Lay Down'... |
1633 | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin | The Battle Of Evermore | Strawbs member Sandy Denny sang on the following track... |
1634 | Robert Plant & Alison Krauss | Robert Plant & Alison Krauss | Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) | From a duet between Robert Plant and Sandy Denny to another Plant duet... |
1635 | Jimi Hendrix | Jimi Hendrix | Castles Made Of Sand | The last song was from the album 'Raising Sand' so, a sand link... |
1636 | Kirsty Maccoll | Kirsty Maccoll | They Don't Know | Hendrix had an album called Electric Ladyland, Kirsty MacColl had one called Electric Landlady, so a song from Kirsty... |
1637 | Roberta Flack | Roberta Flack | The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face | The following song is written by Kirsty's father, Ewan McColl... |
1638 | The Small Faces | Small Faces, The | All Or Nothing | From one face to some more...! |
1639 | Sinead O'Connor | Sinead O'Connor | Nothing Compares 2 U | And keeping with the 'nothing' link... |
1640 | Prince | Prince | U Got The Look | Prince wrote the previous tune. And he also wrote this one! |
1641 | Elton John | Elton John | Tiny Dancer | Prince is rather tiny, some might say. He also dances. Hence... |
1642 | The Killers | Killers, The | Human | 'Are we human, or are we dancer?' as the following tune lyric goes... |
1643 | The Human League | Human League, The | Louise | From human to Human... |
1644 | Madonna | Madonna | Into The Groove | Louise is the middle name of Madonna... |
1645 | The Stone Roses | Stone Roses, The | She Bangs The Drums | A groove link. The following song begins with the lyric 'I can feel the earth begin to move, I hear my needle hit the groove.' |
1646 | Primal Scream | Primal Scream | Movin' On Up | Mani was in the Stone Roses....and also in... |
1647 | The Blue Nile | Blue Nile, The | A Walk Across The Rooftops | Primal Scream are from Glasgow, as are following band. And if you move on up, you might end up on the roof... |
1648 | The Pogues | Pogues, The | The Broad Majestic Shannon | The Nile's a river. So is the Shannon... |
1649 | Steve Earle | Steve Earle | Johnny Come Lately | The Pogues collaborated with Steve Earle on the following track... |
1650 | REM | REM | The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite | The last song features on Steve Earle's album 'Copperhead Road'. A copperhead is a type of snake, as is a sidewinder... |
1651 | Fleetwood Mac | Fleetwood Mac | Dreams | REM stands for 'rapid eye movement', which often occurs when we dream... |
1652 | Supertramp | Supertramp | Dreamer | From dreams to one who dreams... |
1653 | Otis Redding & Carla Thomas | Otis Redding & Carla Thomas | Tramp | And from one tramp to another! |
1654 | Bryan Ferry | Bryan Ferry | The Price Of Love | Otis is also the name of Bryan Ferry's son... |
1655 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Can't Buy Me Love | From the price of love to trying to buy it... |
1656 | Steely Dan | Steely Dan | Dirty Work | From Can't Buy Me Love to Steely Dan's Can't Buy A Thrill and a song from that album... |
1657 | Chuck Berry | Chuck Berry | Reelin' And Rockin' | The last song appears on the same album as 'Reelin' In The Years' so, to another reelin'... |
1658 | The Isley Brothers | Isley Brothers, The | Behind A Painted Smile | Chuck Berry served time for tax evasion, as did Ron Isley of The Isley Brothers... |
1659 | Smokey Robinson & The Miracles | Smokey Robinson & The Miracles | The Tracks Of My Tears | From painted smile to a song containing 'smile' lyrics such as 'my smile is my makeup'... |
1660 | Jethro Tull | Jethro Tull | Locomotive Breath | From tracks to something that runs on them... |
1661 | XTC | XTC | Love On A Farmboy's Wages | Jethro Tull took their name from an 18th-century agriculturalist... |
1662 | Radiohead | Radiohead | Street Spirit (Fade Out) | XTC has a Colin in the band. A Colin is also in... |
1663 | Aqualung | Aqualung | Strange And Beautiful (I'Ll Put A Spell On You) | The last record was from the album 'The Bends'. When divers have the bends they have to use an aqualung... |
1664 | Lotus Eaters | Lotus Eaters | The First Picture Of You | The last song contains the words 'I'll put a spell on you, you'll fall asleep...' In Greek mythology, eating the fruit or flower of the lotus would make you fall asleep... |
1665 | Madonna | Madonna | Like A Virgin | Lotus have just reentered Formula One this year so has Virgin...hence... |
1666 | George Baker Selection | George Baker Selection | Little Green Bag | In the beginning of the film 'Reservoir Dogs', they are discussing the virtues of 'Like a Virgin'. When they all leave the café, this is what is playing... |
1667 | Tindersticks | Tindersticks | Travelling Light | If you carried a little bag, you'd be travelling light... |
1668 | Creedence Clearwater Revival | Creedence Clearwater Revival | Travelin' Band | A travelling link... |
1669 | Santana | Santana | Oye Como Va | CCR were the favourite band of 'The Dude' in the film The Big Lebowski. The next track featured in the same film... |
1670 | Wall Of Voodoo | Wall Of Voodoo | Mexican Radio | Carlos Santana is Mexican, so... |
1671 | Donald Fagen | Donald Fagen | The Nightfly | From Mexican Radio to a song about a radio dj... |
1672 | T.Rex | T.Rex | Debora | A fly link In the 70s, the label Fly Records released material by T.Rex... |
1673 | The Beautiful South | Beautiful South, The | Song For Whoever | Debora is one of the girls' names mentioned in the lyrics of...^ |
1674 | Kirsty Maccoll | Kirsty Maccoll | England 2 Columbia 0 | Paul Heaton's other band, The Housemartins, had an album called 'London 0 Hull 4'... |
1675 | The Pogues | Pogues, The | A Pair Of Brown Eyes | Kirsty MacColl famously duetted with The Pogues....so let's go to the Pogues... |
1676 | The Velvet Underground | Velvet Underground, The | Pale Blue Eyes | Keeping with the eyes... |
1677 | Sneaker Pimps | Sneaker Pimps | 6 Underground | From one Underground to another... |
1678 | Tubeway Army | Tubeway Army | Down In The Park | From the Underground to the Tube... |
1679 | Neil Young | Neil Young | Down By The River | From down to down... |
1680 | Joni Mitchell | Joni Mitchell | River | Staying with river... |
1681 | The Associates | Associates, The | Tell Me Easter's On Friday | The last song has a Christmas theme... so from Christmas to Easter... |
1682 | Rialto | Rialto | Monday Morning 5.19 | From Friday to Monday! |
1683 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Eight Days A Week | Continuing with the days of the week theme... |
1684 | Elbow | Elbow | One Day Like This | From eight days to one day... |
1685 | The Sensational Alex Harvey Band | Sensational Alex Harvey Band, The | Tomahawk Kid | The last track was from Elbow's 'The Seldom Seen Kid' album...and onto another 'kid'... |
1686 | The Wailers | Wailers, The | Small Axe | From a tomahawk to.... |
1687 | Foo Fighters | Foo Fighters | Monkey Wrench | An axe is a tool. So is a wrench... |
1688 | Michael Nesmith | Michael Nesmith | Rio | From monkey to a song by a former member of The Monkees... |
1689 | The Clash | Clash, The | Should I Stay Or Should I Go | The last song contains the lyrics 'I probably won't fly down to Rio, but then again, I just might.' So, to another song with indecisive lyrics... |
1690 | The Stranglers | Stranglers, The | Go Buddy Go | A 'go' link... |
1691 | The Shadows | Shadows, The | F.B.I. | Both The Stranglers and the Shadows had members called Jet (Jet Black/Stranglers and Jet Harris/Shadows)... |
1692 | Jet | Jet | Are You Gonna Be My Girl | Staying with the Jet theme... |
1693 | Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers | Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers | I'M A Little Airplane | From a jet to an airplane... |
1694 | Talking Heads | Talking Heads | Once In A Lifetime | Keyboardist Jerry Harrison from The Modern Lovers went on to join Talking Heads... |
1695 | Talk Talk | Talk Talk | It's My Life | A double link from Talking to Talk and Lifetime to Life... |
1696 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Do You Want To Know A Secret | From talking to listening. The following song has the line 'Listen, Do You Want to Know a Secret'... |
1697 | Roy Orbison | Roy Orbison | I Drove All Night | The Beatles' George Harrison was in The Traveling Wilburys, as was... |
1698 | Marc Bolan & T. Rex | Marc Bolan & T. Rex | Jeepster | If you drove all night, you might drive in a jeepster... |
1699 | Booker T & The Mg'S | Booker T & The Mg'S | Time Is Tight | Double link! From a 'T' and a type of car, to another 'T' and another type of car... |
1700 | The Clash | Clash, The | Armagideon Time | From 'time' to 'time' |
1701 | Bob Marley & The Wailers | Bob Marley & The Wailers | One Love / People Get Ready | From armagideon to armageddon, which is mentioned in the lyrics of the next song... |
1702 | The Stone Roses | Stone Roses, The | One Love | A 'one love' link... |
1703 | Kate Bush | Kate Bush | This Woman's Work | Roses grow on a bush... |
1704 | REM | REM | World Leader Pretend | From Kate Bush to George 'Dubya', ex World Leader... |
1705 | Blondie | Blondie | I'M Always Touched By Your Presence, Dear | The word 'REM'is used in the lyrics of the next song... |
1706 | Billy Bragg | Billy Bragg | Greetings To The New Brunette | From a blondie to a brunette... |
1707 | The Smiths | Smiths, The | Sheila Take A Bow | The last song featured Johnny Marr on guitar... he was also in... |
1708 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | A Taste Of Honey | The previous track is considered to be about Shelagh Delaney, who wrote the play 'A Taste Of Honey', so... |
1709 | The Streets | Streets, The | Dry Your Eyes | Actress Sally Lindsay has performed in the play 'A Taste Of Honey'... Sally also starred in Coronation Street, which is often called 'The Street', so... |
1710 | Bob Marley & The Wailers | Bob Marley & The Wailers | No Woman, No Cry | You dry your eyes after you've had a cry, so... |
1711 | John Lennon | John Lennon | Woman | A woman link... |
1712 | The Motors | Motors, The | Airport | John Lennon has an airport named after him, so... |
1713 | Buffalo Springfield | Buffalo Springfield | Expecting To Fly | You go to an airport to fly... |
1714 | Dusty Springfield | Dusty Springfield | I Only Want To Be With You | From one Springfield to another... |
1715 | The Byrds | Byrds, The | All I Really Want To Do | A simple link. From one 'want' to another... |
1716 | Doves | Doves | Kingdom Of Rust | A type of bird is a dove... |
1717 | Prince | Prince | When Doves Cry | And Prince singing about doves... |
1718 | Madness | Madness | One Step Beyond | Madness also wrote a 'Dove' based tune (namely, 'On the Wings of a Dove'). They also wrote... |
1719 | George Harrison | George Harrison | The Lord Loves The One (Who Loves The Lord) | From 'one' (step) to another 'one'... |
1720 | The Animals | Animals, The | Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood | From 'The Lord...' to a song with the lyric "Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood"... |
1721 | Talking Heads | Talking Heads | Animals | Staying with animals... |
1722 | Pet Shop Boys With Dusty Springfield | Pet Shop Boys With Dusty Springfield | What Have I Done To Deserve This? | Animals can be found in pet shops... |
1723 | Devo | Devo | Jocko Homo | The Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant was editor of Smash Hits. Big Smash was an album by Wreckless Eric, who was on the Stiff Record label, as were Devo... |
1724 | The Monkees | Monkees, The | Daydream Believer | The last song is about evolution... man evolved from monkeys, so... |
1725 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Moonage Daydream | Double link alert! From daydream to daydream AND from The Monkees' Davy Jones to another Davy Jones who is better known as... |
1726 | Graham Parker | Graham Parker | Heat Treatment | David Bowie released ‘Low’, Nick Lowe released ‘Bowi’ (without an 'e') in response. Nick Lowe played with Brinsley Schwarz, who went on to become The Rumour, who played with Graham Parker... |
1727 | The Trammps | Trammps, The | Hold Back The Night | Graham Parker covered the next song... |
1728 | Supertramp | Supertramp | Breakfast In America | From trammps to tramp... |
1729 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Yesterday | For breakfast you might have scrambled eggs. Paul McCartney called the following song 'Scrambled Eggs' before he came up with the lyrics... |
1730 | The Strokes | Strokes, The | Last Nite | The last part of yesterday can also be called 'last night', so... |
1731 | Blondie | Blondie | 11.59 | The Strokes also wrote the song '12.51', so to another number titled track... |
1732 | Bryan Ferry | Bryan Ferry | This Is Tomorrow | From yesterday's 11.59 which becomes the next day, tomorrow... |
1733 | Yachts | Yachts | Suffice To Say | From one type of sailing vessel to another... |
1734 | The Beach Boys | Beach Boys, The | Sail On Sailor | Keeping with the sailing link... |
1735 | Fleet Foxes | Fleet Foxes | Mykonos | Lovely beaches can be found on Mykonos... |
1736 | Ultravox | Ultravox | Young Savage | John Foxx was the lead singer of... |
1737 | The Rock Steady Crew | Rock Steady Crew, The | (Hey You) The Rock Steady Crew | A young (Robbie) Savage played for Crewe, so... |
1738 | Bob Marley & The Wailers | Bob Marley & The Wailers | Trenchtown Rock | From one rock to another... |
1739 | The Mock Turtles | Mock Turtles, The | Can You Dig It? | You dig a trench, so... |
1740 | Alice Cooper | Alice Cooper | Elected | The Mock Turtle is a character in Alice in Wonderland...so, to another Alice... |
1741 | The Psychedelic Furs | Psychedelic Furs, The | President Gas | Presidents get elected... |
1742 | The Kinks | Kinks, The | Dead End Street | There are brothers in The Psychedelic Furs as there are in... |
1743 | Elbow | Elbow | Station Approach | The dead end street up to Manchester Piccadilly train station has a song named after it... |
1744 | Morrissey | Morrissey | Piccadilly Palare | Station Approach is at Manchester Piccadilly... |
1745 | Gomez | Gomez | Whippin' Piccadilly | Staying with the Piccadilly theme.... |
1746 | Family | Family | In My Own Time | Gomez was a character in The Addams Family.... |
1747 | The Byrds | Byrds, The | My Back Pages | From Family's Roger Chapman to Roger McGuinn of The Byrds... |
1748 | Split Enz | Split Enz | Bold As Brass | The Byrds is a misspelled band name, as is... |
1749 | Haircut 100 | Haircut 100 | Love Plus One | You find split ends in hair, so... |
1750 | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | Love Minus Zero | Sticking with the maths/love theme... |
1751 | Bryan Ferry | Bryan Ferry | Slave To Love | Dylan is the rabbit in The Magic Roundabout, which also stars a snail called Brian... |
1752 | Arctic Monkeys | Arctic Monkeys | Brianstorm | From Bryan to Brian... |
1753 | Peter Gabriel | Peter Gabriel | Shock The Monkey | Sticking with the monkey theme... |
1754 | Vampire Weekend | Vampire Weekend | Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa | Peter Gabriel gets a mention in the next song... |
1755 | Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers | Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers | New England | Cape Cod is in New England, so... |
1756 | The Waterboys | Waterboys, The | Old England | From New England to old England... |
1757 | British Sea Power | British Sea Power | Canvey Island | From water to sea... |
1758 | Roxy Music | Roxy Music | Pyjamarama | An island link from Canvey Island to a song by a band signed to Island Records... |
1759 | Ringo Starr | Ringo Starr | Back Off Boogaloo | Pyjamarama's lyrics contain the word 'boogaloo', so... |
1760 | T.Rex | T.Rex | Get It On | The last song was said to have been inspired by Marc Bolan of T.Rex... |
1761 | Prince | Prince | Gett Off | From Get It On to Get Off... |
1762 | The Duckworth Lewis Method | Duckworth Lewis Method, The | Age Of Revolution | Prince used to play with The Revolution... |
1763 | Roy Harper | Roy Harper | When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease | The Duckworth Lewis Method is a scoring system in cricket... |
1764 | Belle & Sebastian | Belle & Sebastian | Roy Walker | From one Roy to another... |
1765 | Scott Walker | Scott Walker | Montague Terrace (In Blue) | And from one Walker to another... |
1766 | Echo & The Bunnymen | Echo & The Bunnymen | Villiers Terrace | And from one terrace to another... |
1767 | Genesis | Genesis | Carpet Crawlers | The previous song mentions people rolling around on carpets, so... |
1768 | Brian Eno | Brian Eno | Seven Deadly Finns | On the Genesis album The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, Brian Eno is credited as providing 'Enossification'... |
1769 | Crowded House | Crowded House | Don't Dream It's Over | Neil Finn leads Crowded House... |
1770 | The Showstoppers | Showstoppers, The | Ain't Nothin' But A House Party | From one house to another... |
1771 | Solomon Burke | Solomon Burke | Everybody Needs Somebody To Love | From The Showstoppers' Alex and Laddie Burke, to their older brother... |
1772 | The Mighty Wah! | Mighty Wah!, The | Story Of The Blues Part 1 | The previous song featured in the film 'The Blues Brothers', the story of Blues...so keeping with the blues theme... |
1773 | George Harrison | George Harrison | Wah | From one Wah to another... |
1774 | The Stone Roses | Stone Roses, The | Elephant Stone | This Stone Roses track features lots of wah wah pedal... |
1775 | The Chi | Chi, The | Lites | Sticking with stones... |
1776 | The Easybeats | Easybeats, The | Friday On My Mind | Sticking with minds... |
1777 | Ac/Dc | Ac/Dc | Live Wire | The Easybeats' George Young is the older brother of Malcolm and Angus from AC/DC... |
1778 | Sparks | Sparks | Amateur Hour | From AC/DC to another electricity themed band ... |
1779 | The Vapors | Vapors, The | Turning Japanese | The last song is from Sparks' album Kimono My House. Kimonos are Japanese, so... |
1780 | Peter Gabriel | Peter Gabriel | Steam | Water vapour is often called steam... |
1781 | Jimi Hendrix | Jimi Hendrix | Angel | Gabriel is also the name of a famous angel... |
1782 | Talking Heads | Talking Heads | Heaven | From angel to heaven... |
1783 | Sweet | Sweet | Hell Raiser | From heaven to hell... |
1784 | Cocteau Twins | Cocteau Twins | Pearly | Dew drops are a type of sweet, so... |
1785 | Sister Sledge | Sister Sledge | We Are Family | Twins are family... |
1786 | Percy Sledge | Percy Sledge | When A Man Loves A Woman | A Sledge link... |
1787 | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin | Heartbreaker | Percy is the nickname of Led Zep's Robert Plant... |
1788 | Abc | Abc | All Of My Heart | A heart link... |
1789 | Jackson 5 | Jackson 5 | Abc | Staying with ABC... |
1790 | Mc5 | Mc5 | Kick Out The Jams | A 5 link... |
1791 | Kate Bush | Kate Bush | The Kick Inside | From one kick to another... |
1792 | Teenage Fanclub | Teenage Fanclub | I Need Direction | The Kick Inside album was released when Kate Bush was a teenager, so... |
1793 | REM | REM | Stand | Various directions, as well as the lyric "Think about direction", feature in the next track... |
1794 | Scritti Politti | Scritti Politti | Absolute | The last song is from REM's album Green. Green Gartside is in Scritti Politti, so... |
1795 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Absolute Beginners | An absolute link... |
1796 | The Jam | Jam, The | In The City | Absolute Beginners is also a song by The Jam, so... |
1797 | Marvin Gaye | Marvin Gaye | Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) | Staying with city... |
1798 | Iron Butterfly | Iron Butterfly | In | From 'Inner' to 'In A'....we go to.... |
1799 | The Divine Comedy | Divine Comedy, The | Absent Friends | The French for butterfly is 'Papillon'. Steve McQueen starred in the film of the same name, and is given a namecheck in the lyrics of the following song... |
1800 | Mark Ronson Feat. Amy Winehouse | Mark Ronson Feat. Amy Winehouse | Valerie | An absent friend seems to be that Valerie...when will she ever come over? |
1801 | The Coral | Coral, The | Dreaming Of You | 'Valerie' was originally by The Zutons, whose album was produced by Ian Broudie...who also produced the next track... |
1802 | Depeche Mode | Depeche Mode | Dreaming Of Me | Staying with dreaming... |
1803 | Blondie | Blondie | Denis | Depeche toi is a lyric in Blondie's Sunday Girl, which takes us to another French |
1804 | Danny & The Juniors | Danny & The Juniors | At The Hop | Blondie's Debbie Harry was once a bunny girl...Bunnies hop, so... |
1805 | House Of Pain | House Of Pain | Jump Around | From a hop, via a skip, to a jump...around... |
1806 | Madness | Madness | Our House | A house link... |
1807 | Pet Shop Boys | Pet Shop Boys | Love Etc | A house has tenants...and from tenants to Neil Tennant... |
1808 | The Smiths | Smiths, The | Sweet And Tender Hooligan | From etcetera in the title to a song with etcetera in the lyrics... |
1809 | Sparks | Sparks | Lighten Up, Morrissey | From a song sung by Morrissey to a song about him... |
1810 | The Beach Boys | Beach Boys, The | Surf's Up | From Sparks' Mael brothers, to the brothers in The Beach Boys... |
1811 | Glen Campbell | Glen Campbell | Galveston | Glen Campbell was a touring member of The Beach Boys... |
1812 | Archie Bell And The Drells | Archie Bell And The Drells | Tighten Up | Galveston is in Texas. Archie Bell and the Drells announce they are from Houston, Texas at the beginning of the next track... |
1813 | Otis Redding | Otis Redding | I Can't Turn You Loose | The opposite of tight is loose, so... |
1814 | Sly & The Family Stone | Sly & The Family Stone | I Want To Take You Higher | Otis is a brand of elevator...and elevators can take you higher... |
1815 | Fleet Foxes | Fleet Foxes | White Winter Hymnal | Sly ... as a fox... |
1816 | Belle & Sebastian | Belle & Sebastian | Fox In The Snow | From foxes to fox...and from winter to snow... |
1817 | Simon & Garfunkel | Simon & Garfunkel | Hazy Shade Of Winter | A winter link... |
1818 | Procol Harum | Procol Harum | A Whiter Shade Of Pale | Staying with shade... |
1819 | Lou Reed | Lou Reed | Lady Day | BJ Wilson joined Procol Harum as a drummer. He also played on some tracks on Lou Reed's Berlin album, including... |
1820 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Queen Bitch | David Bowie was a big fan of Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground, and this song is a tribute by him to them... |
1821 | Queen | Queen | Bohemian Rhapsody | From a Queen to Queen! |
1822 | King Crimson | King Crimson | 21St Century Schizoid Man | From queen to king... |
1823 | Blur | Blur | End Of A Century | A century link... |
1824 | Ramones | Ramones | Do You Remember Rock 'N' Roll Radio? | 'End of the century' is a lyric in the next track... |
1825 | Grandaddy | Grandaddy | A.M. 180 | Radio has an AM band... |
1826 | Steely Dan | Steely Dan | Fm | From AM to FM... |
1827 | REM | REM | Radio Free Europe | Staying with the radio theme... |
1828 | The B52'S | B52'S, The | Dance This Mess Around | REM come from Athens, as do... |
1829 | The Foo Fighters | Foo Fighters, The | Learn To Fly | The B 52 was a type of bomber. Staying with the flying theme... |
1830 | The Rezillos | Rezillos, The | Flying Saucer Attack | Foo Fighters are Undentified Flying Objects. Keeping with the UFO theme... |
1831 | Creedence Clearwater Revival | Creedence Clearwater Revival | It Came Out Of The Sky | Staying with the extra terrestrial theme... |
1832 | Talking Heads | Talking Heads | Take Me To The River | From clear water to river... |
1833 | Groove Armada | Groove Armada | At The River | A river link... |
1834 | The Ruts | Ruts, The | In A Rut | A groove can also be described as a rut... |
1835 | The Monkees | Monkees, The | (Theme From) The Monkees | From one debut single where the band's name is mentioned in the song title, to another... |
1836 | The Kinks | Kinks, The | Apeman | From monkee to ape... |
1837 | Pete Shelley | Pete Shelley | Homosapien | 'Homosapien' is mentioned in the first line of 'Apeman'... |
1838 | The Human League | Human League, The | Human | Homosapien is the taxonomic (thanks David) term for a human...hence... |
1839 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Always Crashing In The Same Car | The 'Human' track was on the album 'Crash'....from a crash to.... |
1840 | Low | Low | Just Like Christmas | The last song was on Bowie's Low album, so... |
1841 | Blur | Blur | She's So High | From low to high... |
1842 | Lily Allen | Lily Allen | The Fear | Blur's bassist Alex James was in Fat Les with Keith Allen, the father of... |
1843 | Ian Brown | Ian Brown | F.E.A.R. | From fear to fear... |
1844 | Aretha Franklin | Aretha Franklin | Respect | From F.E.A.R. to R.E.S.P.E.C.T. |
1845 | Simon & Garfunkel | Simon & Garfunkel | So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright | From Franklin to Frank... |
1846 | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | Our House | Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect, as was John Nash, hence... |
1847 | The Foundations | Foundations, The | Baby Now That I'Ve Found You | A house is built on foundations... |
1848 | REM | REM | Crush With Eyeliner | Foundation is a type of make up. So is eyeliner... |
1849 | The Smithereens | Smithereens, The | Behind A Wall Of Sleep | REM happens behind a wall of sleep... |
1850 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | I'M Only Sleeping | From sleep to sleeping... |
1851 | The Alarm | Alarm, The | 68 Guns | The last song is from the album Revolver... a revolver is a type of gun... |
1852 | The Chi-Lites | Chi-Lites, The | Have You Seen Her? | The last track was a record. Eugene Record was in The Chi Lites... |
1853 | Jimi Hendrix | Jimi Hendrix | Are You Experienced? | From one song title with a question, to another... |
1854 | Orange Juice | Orange Juice | What Presence?! | And, to another question... |
1855 | Wings | Wings | C Moon | Orange juice is full of vitamin C, so... |
1856 | L7 | L7 | Pretend We'Re Dead | C Moon's lyrics feature the line 'It will be L7'... |
1857 | Sparks | Sparks | Something For The Girl With Everything | One of the founding members of L7 was Donita Sparks, so... |
1858 | The Walker Brothers | Walker Brothers, The | Everything Under The Sun | Double link alert! From everything to everything...AND...from Sparks' Mael brothers to the Walker Brothers... |
1859 | Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash | Get Rhythm | From everything under the the sun to Johnny Cash, who was signed to Sun Records... |
1860 | Ry Cooder | Ry Cooder | Little Sister | The last song was also covered by Ry Cooder, so... |
1861 | David Bowie | David Bowie | 1984 | From little sister to Big Brother and 1984... |
1862 | Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons | Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons | December 1963 (Oh What A Night) | From 1984 to 1963... |
1863 | New Order | New Order | Regret | 1963 was also a song by New Order, so... |
1864 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Revolution | A new order might bring about a Revolution... |
1865 | The Clash | Clash, The | White Riot | Riots usually happen during a Revolution...and also 'Revolution' was on The Beatles' White Album... |
1866 | The Byrds | Byrds, The | Chimes Of Freedom | The Clash's drummer on White Riot was called Terry Chimes... |
1867 | The Impressions | Impressions, The | Fool For You | The Byrds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in 1991, as were The Impressions... |
1868 | Iggy Pop | Iggy Pop | Nightclubbing | A fool could also be described as an idiot...so to a song from Iggy Pop's album The Idiot... |
1869 | Prince | Prince | Pop Life | From one pop to another... |
1870 | Joe Walsh | Joe Walsh | Life's Been Good | A life link... |
1871 | Ramones | Ramones | California Sun | Joe Walsh was in the Eagles...and an eagle is featured in the Ramones' logo... |
1872 | Joni Mitchell | Joni Mitchell | California | Staying with California... |
1873 | Tom Waits | Tom Waits | Singapore | From California, across the Pacific Ocean to Singapore.... |
1874 | Plastic Bertrand | Plastic Bertrand | Ca Plane Pour Moi | From SingaPORE, to POUR... |
1875 | Blur | Blur | To The End | There is also French being sung in the Blur song that follows... |
1876 | Creedence Clearwater Revival | Creedence Clearwater Revival | Susie Q | The End was a song by The Doors which featured in the film Apocalypse Now...as did a version of the next song... |
1877 | Blondie | Blondie | X Offender | From one song with a letter in the title to another... |
1878 | Morrissey | Morrissey | Suedehead | A hair link: Blonde is a hair colour...and a type of hairstyle is a suedehead... |
1879 | The Chiffons | Chiffons, The | Sweet Talkin' Guy | From suede to another material...chiffon... |
1880 | Guns N Roses | Guns N Roses | Sweet Child O Mine | A sweet link... |
1881 | Nancy Sinatra | Nancy Sinatra | Bang Bang | Guns go bang... |
1882 | The Doors | Doors, The | People Are Strange | On 'Bang Bang', the guitar was played by Billy Strange... |
1883 | Echo & The Bunnymen | Echo & The Bunnymen | The Back Of Love | 'People Are Strange' was covered by Echo & the Bunnymen...so here's a tune by them! |
1884 | Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins | Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins | Rabbit Fur Coat | From Bunny to rabbit... |
1885 | Wire | Wire | Dot Dash | Lewis is the assistant of Inspector Morse...Morse code is made up of dots and dashes, so... |
1886 | T.Rex | T.Rex | Telegram Sam | Wire used to be another word for telegram... |
1887 | The Specials | Specials, The | A Message To You Rudy | Telegram is a way to send a message... |
1888 | Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark | Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark | Messages | From a message to messages... |
1889 | Bruce Springsteen | Bruce Springsteen | Dancing In The Dark | A dark link... |
1890 | Bjork | Bjork | Big Time Sensuality | Dancer in the Dark is a film starring Bjork, so... |
1891 | Kate Bush | Kate Bush | The Sensual World | Sticking with the sensual theme... |
1892 | John Martyn | John Martyn | One World | From one world to another... |
1893 | Nick Drake | Nick Drake | Things Behind The Sun | John Martyn was friends with singer songwriter Nick Drake... |
1894 | Gil Scott Heron | Gil Scott Heron | The Bottle | A bird link...from a drake to a heron... |
1895 | Elvis Costello | Elvis Costello | Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down | From one bottle to another... |
1896 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Don't Let Me Down | A 'let me down' link... |
1897 | Billy Preston | Billy Preston | That's The Way God Planned It | The last track also featured Billy Preston, so... |
1898 | Kc And The Sunshine Band | Kc And The Sunshine Band | That's The Way I Like It | Staying with 'That's the way'... |
1899 | The Temptations | Temptations, The | My Girl | Sunshine is mentioned in the first line of the next song... |
1900 | Mary Wells | Mary Wells | My Guy | From My Girl....to.... |
1901 | Elbow | Elbow | Powder Blue | Guy Garvey is in the band Elbow... |
1902 | Burning Spear | Burning Spear | Marcus Garvey | ...and er, Garvey is Guy's surname, so here's another Garvey! |
1903 | Fairport Convention | Fairport Convention | Crazy Man Michael | Marcus Garvey famously read his own premature obituary, as did Dave Swarbrick from Fairport Convention... |
1904 | Michael Jackson | Michael Jackson | Off The Wall | From one Michael to another... |
1905 | Blancmange | Blancmange | Living On The Ceiling | From wall to ceiling... |
1906 | The Clash | Clash, The | Safe European Home | Ceilings can be found in homes... |
1907 | Roxy Music | Roxy Music | In Every Dream Home A Heartache | A home link... |
1908 | Pulp | Pulp | Lipgloss | The Roxy was a famous club in Sheffield...the city that Pulp came from... |
1909 | Dave Edmunds | Dave Edmunds | Girl's Talk | Lyrics link, from lipgloss to lipstick, "There are some things you can' cover up/With lipstick and powder..." |
1910 | Orchestral Manouevres In The Dark | Orchestral Manouevres In The Dark | Talking Loud And Clear | From talk to talking... |
1911 | REM | REM | Everybody Hurts | Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark also known as OMD. Another band known by their initials is... |
1912 | Metallica | Metallica | Enter Sandman | REM sleep is when we dream and sometimes when we dream we have nightmares...a song along those lines is... |
1913 | Neil Young | Neil Young | After The Goldrush | A type of metal is gold, so... |
1914 | Teenage Fanclub | Teenage Fanclub | Neil Jung | From one Neil Young to another... |
1915 | Orange Juice | Orange Juice | Blue Boy | Teenage Fanclub performed a cover of Orange Juice's 'Rip It Up' with Edwyn Collins... |
1916 | The Sensational Alex Harvey Band | Sensational Alex Harvey Band, The | Gamblin' Bar Room Blues | From one Scottish band to another... |
1917 | Franz Ferdinand | Franz Ferdinand | Take Me Out | From one Alex to another one (Alex Kapranos), lead singer of... |
1918 | U2 | U2 | Desire | Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo...On their Zoo TV Tour U2 did live satellite link ups with Sarajevo...so to a song by U2... |
1919 | Bill Haley And His Comets | Bill Haley And His Comets | Shake Rattle & Roll | Desire was on U2's album Rattle & Hum, so using rattle as the link... |
1920 | Oasis | Oasis | Roll With It | From one roll to another... |
1921 | 10Cc | 10Cc | Life Is A Minestrone | You'd have a roll with minestrone soup... |
1922 | The Yardbirds | Yardbirds, The | For Your Love | 10cc's Graham Gouldman wrote the next song... |
1923 | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin | Custard Pie | Jimmy Page was in The Yardbirds and Led Zep...AND...Birds make custard, so... |
1924 | The Monotones | Monotones, The | Book Of Love | The last song was from Led Zep's Physical Graffiti album...so to the film American Graffiti and a song from the soundtrack... |
1925 | Stereo Mc'S | Stereo Mc'S | Connected | From mono to stereo... |
1926 | Run Dmc | Run Dmc | You Be Illin' | An MC link... |
1927 | The Chemical Brothers | Chemical Brothers, The | Hey Boy, Hey Girl | Run DMC were famous for wearing a brand of trainers called 'Superstar'. Using the main lyric, 'Superstar DJs...here we go!', takes us to... |
1928 | Aerosmith | Aerosmith | Dude Looks Like A Lady | From the Chemical Brothers to the so called 'The Toxic Twins', Steve Tyler and Joe Perry of... |
1929 | Bo Diddley | Bo Diddley | You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover | Lyric link: from 'Dude Looks Like a Lady' and its mention of 'Never judge a book by its cover...' to.... |
1930 | Broadcast | Broadcast | The Book Lovers | A book link... |
1931 | Doves | Doves | Pounding | From Broadcast to a song from Doves' album 'The Last Broadcast'... |
1932 | The Byrds | Byrds, The | Feel A Whole Lot Better | Doves are birds... |
1933 | Little Feat | Little Feat | Rock N Roll Doctor | If you want to 'feel a whole lot better' you might see a doctor... |
1934 | Julian Cope | Julian Cope | Trampolene | You use your feet to jump on a trampoline... |
1935 | Jackie Wilson | Jackie Wilson | (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher | If you bounce on a trampoline, you go higher and higher, as Jackie Wilson sings... |
1936 | The Doors | Doors, The | Light My Fire | The word 'higher' was used controversially in the Doors' song... |
1937 | The Jam | Jam, The | Strange Town | A joke link... when is a door not a door? When it's a jar.. a JAM jar... |
1938 | The Thrills | Thrills, The | One Horse Town | From one town to another... |
1939 | Echo & The Bunnymen | Echo & The Bunnymen | Bring On The Dancing Horses | A horse link... |
1940 | Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins | Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins | You Are What You Love | From bunnymen to rabbit...and a song from Jenny Lewis' album Rabbit Fur Coat... |
1941 | Blondie | Blondie | Eat To The Beat | From 'You are what you love' to 'You are what you eat' and an eat link... |
1942 | Morrissey | Morrissey | You'Re The One For Me, Fatty | If you eat a lot you might become fat... |
1943 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Sorrow | From fat to the Thin White Duke... |
1944 | The Mccoys | Mccoys, The | Hang On Sloopy | 'Sorrow' was written by The McCoys, so here's another tune by them... |
1945 | The Walker Brothers | Walker Brothers, The | The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore | McCoys are also a type of crisp... so are Walkers.... |
1946 | Pulp | Pulp | The Trees | Scott Walker produced the following track... |
1947 | The Cure | Cure, The | A Forest | Trees are often found in forests... |
1948 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Doctor Robert | Dr Robert Smith could be just the chap to offer a cure... |
1949 | The Beach Boys | Beach Boys, The | I Get Around | Dr Robert was on the Revolver album.From revolving, to going around in a revolving manner... |
1950 | Sandie Shaw | Sandie Shaw | Long Live Love | The Beach Boys could often be found surfing on the beach. Another name for a beach is a sandy shore... |
1951 | The Seahorses | Seahorses, The | Love Is The Law | From wanting long lived love to making it enforceable by law... |
1952 | Scritti Politti | Scritti Politti | Asylums In Jerusalem | The law is set by Government legislation, or 'political writing'. The Italian for political writings is Scritti Politti... |
1953 | Siouxsie & The Banshees | Siouxsie & The Banshees | Israel | From Jerusalem to Israel... |
1954 | The Human League | Human League, The | The Lebanon | Continuing the tour of the Middle East, we cross the border to the Lebanon... |
1955 | Bjork | Bjork | Human Behaviour | Using 'human' as the link, we go from the league to human behaviour... |
1956 | Thin Lizzy | Thin Lizzy | Rosalie | Bjork's accent is a mixture of Icelandic and Cockney. She used to be in the Sugarcubes. You put sugar in tea and Cockney rhyming slang for tea is "Rosie Lee" |
1957 | Fatboy Slim | Fatboy Slim | The Rockafeller Skank | From thin to fat... |
1958 | Sam Cooke | Sam Cooke | Chain Gang | From Fatboy Slim's Norman Cooke to Sam Cooke.. |
1959 | Aretha Franklin | Aretha Franklin | Chain Of Fools | From one chain to another... |
1960 | The Tams | Tams, The | Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy | From fools to foolish... |
1961 | Gnarls Barkley | Gnarls Barkley | Smiley Faces | ontinuing the happy theme... |
1962 | The Small Faces | Small Faces, The | Itchycoo Park | From some Faces to some more.... |
1963 | Prince | Prince | Paisley Park | And from one park to another... |
1964 | The Smiths | Smiths, The | Frankly Mr Shankly | And because Bob Paisley was Liverpool's football manager after Bill Shankly... |
1965 | Dexy's Midnight Runners | Dexy's Midnight Runners | Dance Stance | From one rhyming song title to another... |
1966 | Jj Cale | Jj Cale | After Midnight | A midnight link... |
1967 | Zz Top | Zz Top | Gimme All Your Lovin' | From JJ to ZZ... |
1968 | Prefab Sprout | Prefab Sprout | Don't Sing | ZZ Top are from Texas, which shares a border with Mexico and Mexico features heavily in the next song... |
1969 | The Triffids | Triffids, The | Wide Open Road | Prefab Sprout had two brothers McAloon (Paddy and Martin). The Triffids also had two 'Mc' brothers (David and Robert McComb)... |
1970 | Minnie Riperton | Minnie Riperton | Les Fleurs | A triffid is a fictional plant with flowers, which takes us to les fleurs... |
1971 | Francoise Hardy | Francoise Hardy | The Rose | Les Fleurs is French for flowers...so to the French Francoise Hardy and a type of flower... |
1972 | The Jam | Jam, The | English Rose | A rose link... |
1973 | Kate Bush | Kate Bush | Oh England My Lionheart | From English to England... |
1974 | Richard & Linda Thompson | Richard & Linda Thompson | I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight | From Lionheart to 'Richard the Lionheart' to another Richard... |
1975 | Teddy Thompson | Teddy Thompson | In My Arms | From Richard Thompson to his son... |
1976 | Martha Wainwright | Martha Wainwright | Factory | A singer songwriter with famous parents (Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle) is... |
1977 | The Clash | Clash, The | 1977 | artha My Dear is a song by The Beatles, who are one of the artists namechecked in the next song... |
1978 | Ash | Ash | Oh Yeah | 1977 is an album by Ash which includes the next track... |
1979 | The Nashville Teens | Nashville Teens, The | Tobacco Road | Ash is what is left from burning tobacco, so... |
1980 | The Rolling Stones | Rolling Stones, The | Tumbling Dice | You roll tobacco...you also roll dice... |
1981 | Lloyd Cole & The Commotions | Lloyd Cole & The Commotions | Rattlesnakes | You need a dice to play snakes and ladders... |
1982 | The Bluebells | Bluebells, The | Young At Heart | Lawrence Donegan was bass player in the Commotions and went on to play bass for The Bluebells... |
1983 | Jethro Tull | Jethro Tull | Ring Out Solstice Bells | From Bluebells to solstice bells... |
1984 | The Lightning Seeds | Lightning Seeds, The | Sense | Jethro Tull (the man) invented the seed drill so, staying with seeds... |
1985 | U2 | U2 | Electrical Storm | Lightning occurs during an electrical storm... |
1986 | All Saints | All Saints | Pure Shores | From one song produced by William Orbit to another... |
1987 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Good Day Sunshine | The last song was written for the Danny Boyle film 'The Beach'...Also by Danny Boyle was the film 'Sunshine', so... |
1988 | The Gun | Gun, The | Race With The Devil | Good Day Sunshine was on The Beatle's Revolver album...a revolver is a type of gun... |
1989 | Chuck Berry | Chuck Berry | Run Rudolph Run | If you race, you will probably run... |
1990 | Donna Summer | Donna Summer | I Feel Love | Rudolph is one of Santa's reindeers, as is Donner...so here's another Donna...ho ho ho! |
1991 | Talk Talk | Talk Talk | I Don't Believe In You | From Summer to Spring and a song from Talk Talk's album The Colour Of Spring... |
1992 | The Tubes | Tubes, The | Talk To Ya Later | A talk link... |
1993 | Mike Oldfield | Mike Oldfield | Tubular Bells | From tubes to tubular... |
1994 | The Pogues & Kirsty Maccoll | Pogues & Kirsty Maccoll, The | Fairytale Of New York | From bells to a song that references Christmas bells in the lyrics... |
1995 | Prefab Sprout | Prefab Sprout | Hey Manhattan | Manhattan is in New York... |
1996 | The Cranberries | Cranberries, The | Dreams | You have sprouts at Christmas...as well as cranberry sauce, so... |
1997 | The Waitresses | Waitresses, The | Christmas Wrapping | 'You forgot the cranberries too' is a line from the next song... |
1998 | Cream | Cream | Wrapping Paper | From wrapping to wrapping paper... |
1999 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Paperback Writer | A paper link... |
2000 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Fame | John Lennon co wrote and sang on the next song... |
2001 | The Rolling Stones | Rolling Stones, The | Angie | David Bowie's former wife was called Angie... |
2002 | Van Morrison | Van Morrison | And It Stoned Me | From stones to stoned... |
2003 | REM | REM | Star 69 | 'And It Stoned Me' was on the Moondance album, so staying in space, and going to a star... |
2004 | Sham 69 | Sham 69 | If The Kids Are United | From Star 69 to Sham 69... |
2005 | Stevie Wonder | Stevie Wonder | Living For The City | From United to City (a football link).... |
2006 | The Velvelettes | Velvelettes, The | Needle In A Haystack | Stevie sings about 'the haystack needle'....hence... |
2007 | Primal Scream | Primal Scream | Country Girl | Haystacks can be found in the country... |
2008 | Neil Young | Neil Young | Harvest Moon | Carrying on with the country theme.. |
2009 | The Isley Brothers | Isley Brothers, The | Harvest For The World | A harvest link... |
2010 | Carole King | Carole King | It Might As Well Rain Until September | In Britain, harvest usually happens around September... |
2011 | Robert Palmer | Robert Palmer | Addicted To Love | Might as well' face it you're addicted to love ... lyrics from the next song... |
2012 | Amy Winehouse | Amy Winehouse | Rehab | If you're addicted to something you might go to rehab... |
2013 | Dawn Penn | Dawn Penn | You Don't Love Me (No No No) | In the lyrics of the last song Amy Winehouse says 'no no no'...as does Dawn Penn in the next song... |
2014 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | She Loves You | From 'No no no' to 'She Loves You, Yeah yeah yeah'... |
2015 | The Rolling Stones | Rolling Stones, The | We Love You | A love you link... |
2016 | Mumford & Sons | Mumford & Sons | Roll Away Your Stone | From Rolling Stones to 'Roll Away Your Stone'... |
2017 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Sons Of The Silent Age | A sons link... |
2018 | World Of Twist | World Of Twist | Sweets | ons Of The Stage was a song by World Of Twist, so to another of their records... |
2019 | The Velvet Underground | Velvet Underground, The | Candy Says | The American word for sweets is candy... |
2020 | Bruce Springsteen | Bruce Springsteen | Candy's Room | A candy link... |
2021 | The Beach Boys | Beach Boys, The | In My Room | From one room to another... |
2022 | Ramones | Ramones | Rockaway Beach | A beach link... |
2023 | Bruce Springsteen | Bruce Springsteen | Hungry Heart | Bruce Sprinsteen wrote the next song for the Ramones... |
2024 | The Human League | Human League, The | Open Your Heart | Staying with heart... |
2025 | Wizzard | Wizzard | Ball Park Incident | The Human League's frontman is Phil Oakey...Oak trees grow in woods...and Roy Wood was in Wizzard... |
2026 | Steve Miller Band | Steve Miller Band | Abracadabra | A wizzard might say 'abracadabra'... |
2027 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | Magical Mystery Tour | Abracadabra is a magic word, so... |
2028 | Elvis Presley | Elvis Presley | Mystery Train | Keeping with mystery... |
2029 | Paul Simon | Paul Simon | Train In The Distance | A train link... |
2030 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Tvc15 | From train to station and a song from Bowie's album Station To Station... |
2031 | Television | Television | Marquee Moon | From TV to television... |
2032 | Pink Floyd | Pink Floyd | Eclipse | The moon can eclipse the sun, so... |
2033 | Buddy Holly | Buddy Holly | Heartbeat | The last song ends with the sound of a heartbeat, so... |
2034 | Weezer | Weezer | Buddy Holly | A Buddy Holly link... |
2035 | Jerry Lee Lewis | Jerry Lee Lewis | Breathless | Add an h to weezer, you become a wheezer...and a little bit breathless... |
2036 | Sweet | Sweet | Love Is Like Oxygen | If you are breathless you might need some more oxygen... |
2037 | Crosby, Stills & Nash | Crosby, Stills & Nash | Suite: Judy Blue Eyes | From sweet to suite... |
2038 | The Who | Who, The | Behind Blue Eyes | Staying with blue eyes... |
2039 | Travis | Travis | Why Does It Always Rain On Me? | From The Who to Travis' 'The Man Who' and a song from that album... |
2040 | The Cascades | Cascades, The | Rhythm Of The Rain | A rain link... |
2041 | Rihanna | Rihanna | Umbrella | When it rains, you need a... |
2042 | Echo & The Bunnymen | Echo & The Bunnymen | Silver | You have an umbrella when it rains, so to a song from the Bunnymen's Ocean Rain album... |
2043 | T.Rex | T.Rex | Solid Gold Easy Action | From silver to gold... |
2044 | James | James | How Was It For You? | From Solid Gold to a song from James' album Gold Mother... |
2045 | Was (Not Was) | Was (Not Was) | Out Come The Freaks | A 'was' link... |
2046 | Rick James | Rick James | Superfreak | A freak link... |
2047 | Johnny Cash | Johnny Cash | (Ghost) Riders In The Sky | Another Rick Rick Rubin |
2048 | Joni Mitchell | Joni Mitchell | Both Sides Now | In the sky there are clouds, so a song from Joni Mitchell's album Clouds... |
2049 | Robert Knight | Robert Knight | Love On A Mountain Top | The last song was from the Clouds album...clouds are often found around mountain tops, so... |
2050 | The Teardrop Explodes | Teardrop Explodes, The | Treason | Kilimanjaro is a mountain...and an album by The Teardrop Explodes, which includes the next track... |
2051 | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin | Gallows Pole | Treason was once a crime subject to capital punishment, so... |
2052 | The Stranglers | Stranglers, The | Hanging Around | From gallows to hanging... |
2053 | The Supremes | Supremes, The | You Keep Me Hangin' On | From hanging to hangin' |
2054 | Rufus Thomas | Rufus Thomas | Do The Funky Chicken | From The Supremes, via Chicken Supreme, to... |
2055 | Paul Simon | Paul Simon | Mother And Child Reunion | Eating a chicken and egg sandwich is said to have inspired Paul Simon to write the following song... |
2056 | David Bowie | David Bowie | Kooks | From a mother and child, to a song from a parent's perspective... |
2057 | Sam Cooke | Sam Cooke | Only Sixteen | From Kook to Cooke... |
2058 | Buzzcocks | Buzzcocks | Sixteen Again | It's sixteen again... |
2059 | The Regents | Regents, The | 7 Teen | From sixteen to seventeen... |
2060 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | I Saw Her Standing There | 'Well, she was just seventeen' is the first line of the next song... |
2061 | The Four Tops | Four Tops, The | Standing In The Shadows Of Love | Still standing... |
2062 | Left Banke | Left Banke | Walk Away Renee | The Four Tops sang Walk Away Renee.. so did... |
2063 | Paul Simon | Paul Simon | Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The Way | From Renee to Rene... |
2064 | Elvis Presley | Elvis Presley | If I Can Dream | Paul Simon had an album called 'Graceland'. Elvis lived at Graceland... |
2065 | The Smiths | Smiths, The | Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me | Staying with dreaming... |
2066 | Grace Jones | Grace Jones | Pull Up To The Bumper | From The Smiths, via 'Smith & Jones', to Grace Jones... |
2067 | Black Uhuru | Black Uhuru | Sponji Reggae | Grace Jones was on Island Records. An offshoot of Island Records was Mango Records, which Black Uhuru were on, so... |
2068 | Donna Summer | Donna Summer | State Of Independence | Uhuru can mean 'national independence', so... |
2069 | The Edgar Winter Group | Edgar Winter Group, The | Frankenstein | From summer to winter... |
2070 | Buzzcocks | Buzzcocks | I Don't Mind | Frankenstein was written by Mary Shelley...and Pete Shelley was in... |
2071 | Colin Blunstone | Colin Blunstone | Say You Don't Mind | A 'don't mind' link... |
2072 | Santana | Santana | She's Not There | Colin Blunstone was in The Zombies, who had a hit with She's Not There, as did... |
2073 | The Beatles | Beatles, The | For No One | If 'she's not there'... there's no one... |
2074 | Gram Parsons | Gram Parsons | $1000 Wedding | Emmylou Harris covered For No One, and sings with Gram Parsons on the next song... |
2075 | Alice Cooper | Alice Cooper | Billion Dollar Babies | From thousand dollar to billion dollar... |
2076 | The Skids | Skids, The | Working For The Yankee Dollar | Staying with dollar... |
2077 | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | It Ain't Me, Babe | The New York Yankees' famous star player was Babe Ruth, so... |
2078 | The Yardbirds | Yardbirds, The | Over, Under, Sideways, Down | The last song is from the album 'Another Side of Bob Dylan' so, taking side as the link... |
2079 | Fyfe Dangerfield | Fyfe Dangerfield | She Needs Me | From Yardbirds to a song from the lead singer of bird titled band Guillemots... |
2080 | Ronnie Lane & Slim Chance | Ronnie Lane & Slim Chance | The Poacher | Fyfe Dangerfield is in the Guillemots. A 'ghillie' is a gamekeeper, the nemesis of whom is a poacher, so... |
2081 | Robert Palmer | Robert Palmer | Sneakin' Sally Thru The Alley | From a Lane to an alley... |
2082 | Lou Reed | Lou Reed | Sally Can't Dance | From one Sally to another... |
2083 | James Brown | James Brown | Cold Sweat | Sally can't dance, but someone who definitely can is... |
2084 | Jackson Browne | Jackson Browne | Running On Empty | From Brown to Browne... |
2085 | Sly & The Family Stone | Sly & The Family Stone | Runnin' Away | Keep on running... |
2086 | The Runaways | Runaways, The | Cherry Bomb | From Runnin' Away to Runaways... |
2087 | Joe Jackson | Joe Jackson | Different For Girls | The Runaways' Joan Jett has the same initials as... |
2088 | Outkast | Outkast | Ms Jackson | Staying with Jackson... |
2089 | Kate Bush | Kate Bush | Experiment Iv | There was an American president called Andrew Jackson and there were another two presidents called Bush, so... |
2090 | Blur | Blur | Chemical World | Experiments are often associated with test tubes and chemicals... |
2091 | The Chemical Brothers | Chemical Brothers, The | Block Rockin' Beats | A chemical link... |
2092 | Elvis Presley | Elvis Presley | Good Rocking Tonight | From Block Rockin' to Good Rocking... |
2093 | Prince | Prince | Take Me With U | From 'The King' to Prince... |
2094 | Bruce Springsteen | Bruce Springsteen | Pink Cadillac | Prince also wrote 'Little Red Corvette' so from a Corvette to a Cadillac... |
2095 | Show Of Hands | Show Of Hands | Boys Of Summer | A Cadillac is mentioned in the lyrics of Boys of Summer... |
2096 | George Harrison | George Harrison | What Is Life | The last song was originally a hit for Don Henley...a resident of Henley on |
2097 | Stevie Wonder | Stevie Wonder | I Wish | From 'What is Life' to a track from the album 'Songs In The Key Of Life'... |
2098 | The Kinks | Kinks, The | Better Things | From I Wish to song with the first line 'Here's wishing you the bluest sky'... |
2099 | Grace Jones | Grace Jones | Private Life | The Kinks' Ray Davies was once in a relationship with Chrissie Hynde who wrote the next track... |
2100 | John Martyn | John Martyn | Sweet Little Mystery | From Grace Jones to a song from John Martyn's album 'Grace and Danger'... |
2101 | Scritti Politti | Scritti Politti | Oh Patti (Don'T Feel Sorry For Loverboy) | Sweet Little Mystery was also the title of a song by Wet Wet Wet, who named themselves after a Scritti Politti song, so... |
2102 | Santana | Santana | Samba Pa Ti | From Patti to Pa Ti... |
2103 | Villagers | Villagers | Becoming a Jackal | From Carlos Santana via Carlos The Jackal to 'Becoming a Jackal'... |