The Mixed Tape is a weekly music programme on Bailrigg 87.7 FM – the Lancaster student radio station. The long suffering hosts are friends of mine and last week they asked for
your favourite pop songs. Be as cheesy, quirky, hip, camp, or ridiculous as possible.
I didn’t really feel like recommending Cotton Eye Joe to them, so I recommended a bunch of track that I really like and show up a lot in my last.fm “most listened tracks” section.
The Mixed Tape tends to play relatively mainstream indie things, so I made an effort to not include awesome self-released tracks where possible to fit with whatever guidelines they have to work within.
So without further ado, here’s a bunch of my favourite “pop” tracks, in the loosest form of the word:
Classic rock:
Mark Knopfler – Why Aye Man
Driving:
Toto – Hold The Line
Just-Try-And-Put-It-In-A-Genre:
Manu Chao – Bongo Bong
Inspirational:
Ian Brown – The World is Yours
Cheese::
Groove Coverage – You
Mashup:
Norweign Recycling – Soul of Fireflies
Stuck In Your Head
Starsplash – Cold As Ice
Just-Try-And-Keep-Still
Starsplash – Cold As Ice
Trollface
As this was for Lancaster student radio
The Beautiful South – Manchester
Obviously, there’s a good deal of other music I love to listen to. To see what else I’ve written about, see the Music category on the right hand side or visit www.culturejacker.com