On this week's episode of #ThePlaylist...

Two weeks ago I admitted the terrible secret of my birth, and the disco banger that heralded it, which has led to wanting to hear your:

Birthday Number Ones

We weren't cruel though, and allowed you to pick from tracks that have attained the summit of Mount Pop on any of your birthdays, be they singles, or from albums. And there are some CRACKERS in the pile.

#TheArchive - https://djdarren.site

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#Podcast #NowPlaying #Music #Radio

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This week's theme-specific artwork, which is the late '90s Top of the Pops artwork, but instead it says 'The Playlist'.

NEXT WEEK ON #ThePlaylist, a guest theme from @losttourist...

Here in the northern hemisphere, the nights are beginning to draw in, the temperatures are beginning to drop, so when better to choose the theme of:

Horticulture

We realise that you lot don't look like your average horti-bleedin-culturalists, but you surely know some songs about plants and trees and that. And no weed-shaming on our watch! Remember, a weed is just a plant you didn't grow on purpose!

Sow your suggestions in the fertile grounds of #ThePlaylistSuggestion, and let them grow into beautiful beanstalks, upon which my giant bot will gobble them all up.

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The Ten Commandments movie (1956) is a masterpiece.

I hadn't seen the movie since I was a tyke.

I watched it again and I was mesmerized.

Vintage movies and musicals are much better than any of the modern cinematic brain rot.

#Movies #Video #Films #Vintage #Retro #NowPlaying #Cinema #Nostalgia #TenCommandments #Moses #Bible #Israel #Egypt #History

@Earl

• Horse Soldier, Horse Soldier *

https://youtu.be/Bg_rabxk_ww

#NowPlaying #Music #CorbLund #WarHorse

"I Know the Blasphemy of the Synagogue of Satan" - Jesus

[LINK] https://youtu.be/o_7c82i0E70

"Jesus called them "the synagogue of Satan." But who were they, and what had they done?"

"The phrase appears only twice in the Bible, in the letters to Smyrna and Philadelphia in Revelation 2:9 and 3:9. Today it gets quoted everywhere, and people build some very large conclusions on it. In this video, we investigate the phrase using the CAAP method (Context, Author, Audience, Purpose), digging into first-century Smyrna, Rome's imperial cult, the Greek words behind the text, and the martyrdom of Polycarp, to find out who Jesus was actually talking about and what's been done with his words since."

Some 'crusaders' mis-use the Bible as a way to bludgeon Israel and Jews by calling them the 'Synagogue of Satan'.

This track debunks popular heresies and shows just who this synagogue of satan really is. IMHO the talking sheep head does a great job of succinctly touching on the right points. This information is useful ammunition for shooting down the screeds and credos of cranks who spread their false and hateful interpretations of the Bible.

#Race #Racism #AntiSemitism #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Jews #Judaism #Prophecy #Religion #Christian #Christ #Christianity #Church #Synagogue #Faith #Jesus #Bible #Theology #SerpentSeed #SynagogueOfSatan #Revelation #ChristianIdentity #YouTube #Video #Podcast #BibleTalk #Heresy #Blasphemy #Crusaderism #Crusaders #Hate #NowPlaying

@christianity
@christianity
@israel_palestine_pol
@bible
@bible

Last week's theme inspired this week's, so, from perfect 3 minute 45rpm vinyl to:

Format Wars

Do *you* know any songs about wax cylinders, or shellac discs, or MiniDiscs? Listen in, and you just might hear them...

#TheArchive - https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/theplaylist-122-format-wars/

Listen! Enjoy! Tell all your friend!

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This week's theme specific artwork, courtesy of Troggie. It's a jumbled pile of CDs, MiniDiscs, and cassettes, all brightly coloured. Over them is written "ThePlaylist"

#nowPlaying #thePlaylist with @DJDarren

Were you cool enough to have a minidisc player? No? Me neither…

https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/theplaylist-122-format-wars/

@IridescentSnow, our daughter and I have been watching movies but we alternate who gets to pick the movie. Tonight was my choice so I picked Back to the Future (1985). I haven’t seen it in a while and my daughter hasn’t seen it at all.

She thought it was awesome. Great Scott! 🎬

#Movies #Film #NowPlaying

My wife, daughter and I watched The Sixth Sense (1999) tonight. It’s been about 20 years since I’ve last seen it and my daughter hasn’t seen it at all yet. It’s cool that she’s about the age I was when I first watched it. Of course I didn’t spoil the ending

There’s so many more movies for her to watch! She really enjoyed this one.

#Movies #Film #NowPlaying

I posted about the movie Donnie Darko not too long ago but today I see this.

The movie will be returning to select theaters for 3 days starting on October 2nd! You should totally go watch it in theaters if you haven’t seen the movie yet. It’ll be an unforgettable experience 🎬

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/movies/the-best-r-rated-sci-fi-thriller-of-all-time-officially-returns-to-theaters/ar-AA2bR46c

#Movies #Film #NowPlaying

Raphael Loher - Figuren

Эдакий ambient, но на пианино. Любопытный экспериментальный минимализм.

Grab your shotguns and bags of jerky and start journeying to your nearest safe town with this week's edition of #ThePlaylist.

I bought a t-shirt that made me laugh last week, and, well, @MintSpies decreed that it should be a theme. Therefore it is this week's theme:

Radio Desolation

We asked what that might conjure up in your lightly broken minds, as you trawl your way across an empty wasteland, desperately trying to survive. Or as you watch people doing that from your secure, well-appointed bunker.

https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/theplaylist-119-radio-desolation/

Listen! Enjoy! Tell all your friend!

#Podcast #NowPlaying #Music #Radio

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This week's theme specific artwork. My head is laying on the floor of a desolate wasteland. In the mid ground two people are picking though the stony ground. Off in the distance, a Nikola Tesla's huge tower has been repurposed as a radio tower, broadcasting #ThePlaylist and making everything ever worse.

NEXT WEEK ON #ThePlaylist we have a theme brought to you by none other than @daveybot, Laird of the Wild Lands Beyond The Wall, who wants to hear your best songs about:

Furniture

So we want two hours of tunes about tables and chairs and ottomans and bed, and armchairs and sofas and that. Or whatever sparks in your brain at seeing the word 'furniture'.

Give your removal men the special code #ThePlaylistSuggestion so they know to pass them on this way. And try to limit yourself to three or four if possible. Manythank

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Flea - Honora
Немного красивого джаза от бас-гитариста из RHCP
#ЧтоПослушать #NowPlaying

Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers - Islands In The Stream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpWldTFq2Jk

#DollyParton #Dolly #KennyRogers #NowPlaying #Music #Song #CountryMusic #Love #Farewell #Obituary

... yodeling ...

Be sure to jack up the volume BEFORE you play it.

https://youtu.be/orfuTrKsYyM

#DollyParton #Dolly #NowPlaying #Music #Song #Yodel

This song is for you. So appropos.

Now Playing: Always Keep an Edge on Your Knife, by Corb Lund

https://youtu.be/SOcMtHcjMyk

#NowPlaying #Music #CorbLund

The Offspring’s “Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace” album turned 18 years old this June.

It’s a great album and probably my favorite from them. Go give it a listen now if you haven’t heard it!

#Music #NowPlaying

We're off to Discworld Con this weekend, so the theme for this week's edition of #ThePlaylist is:

The Discworld

Songs about wizards, and flying turtles, and DEATH, and THE DEATH OF RATS, will abound. Or just songs about discs, or worlds. Are there any flat Earth bangers?

#TheArchive - https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/theplaylist-116-the-discworld/

Listen! Enjoy! Tell all your friend!

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This week's theme-specific artwork, which is a digital painting of the Discworld on the backs of four elephants, which are in turn riding on the shell of the Great A'Tuin, an enormous turtle flying through space.

C’mon, folks! It’s time to give my new album a listen. It’s available everywhere, but we can see where people actually listen.
“singularity” #NowPlaying

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An image from Apple Music for artists shows that in its first week, “singularity” received 117 plays.

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A screenshot from Spotify for artists shows that “singularity” received a single play.

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A screenshot from Bandcamp for artists shows that “singularity” received 138 plays since its release there.

#nowPlaying The Durutti Column - Renascent

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/renascent/1894442782

#NowPlaying I feel the need for demons at the moment. Either that, or I simply sense their abundant presence (he said, whilst doom-scrolling the relentlessly dire news).
Such an excellent score by Wojciech Kilar.

#cinema #soundtrack

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Record on a stand: The Ninth Gate (Polanski film) by Wojciech Kilar

Join #ThePlaylist once again, where this week the Mainframe has chosen the theme of:

Electric Dreams

And we're too scared of the Mainframe to go against its wishes. So two hours of whatever the phrase "electric dreams" conjured up in the silicon minds of the LLMs that sent in their suggestions for thematically appropriate songs that humans 'enjoy'.

#TheArchive - https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/theplaylist-114-electric-dreams/

Listen! Enjoy! Tell all your friend!

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This week's theme-specific artwork, as produced for us by Troggie. It's a glitchy bundle of wires and neon lights in a cool, futuristic blue and purple, with a tremendously digital font that says "THEPLAYLIST"

Be (5) Yourself #NowPlaying
#NowPlaying #originalmusic #streaming
#MusicReleasebyStanStewart https://muz4now.com/2021/be-5-yourself-nowplaying

Join #ThePlaylist on a grand tour as this week's theme takes us to:

South (of the United States of) America

where all of the tunes are, in some ways moreso than others, related to the lands to be found South (of the United States of) America. And not South Africa. Definitely not. It's a whole different place.

#TheArchive - https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/theplaylist-113-south-of-the-united-states-of-america/

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This week's theme-specific artwork. Screenshot of a globe of South America. An arrow is pointing at Mexico with a note that says "Also South America"

NEXT WEEK ON #ThePlaylist

After this week's shambolic with the theme, we figured it might be good to land on firmer ground that we couldn't possibly bugger up, so with that in mind, next week's theme is:

Electric Dreams

Other than the obvious, what does that conjure in your mind? Fling your suggestions at #ThePlaylistSuggestion (and try to ensure that the posts are public, because my greedy little bot is respectful of privacy and won't see them).

We're looking forward to seeing where this one goes!

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#NowPlaying #MusicWomenWednesday #SoulPop #PsychPop

#JeanniePiersol - "The Nest" (1969)

Apparently a close friend of #GraceSlick, Jeannie's late 60's SF sides (reissued last year by High Moon Records) are mature, confident, and distinctive - why it took 56 years for her to be reappraised is a mystery to me.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=A9dkzKjqlBY

Meditation Suite 2
#NowPlaying #originalmusic
#MusicReleasebyStanStewart
https://muz4now.com/2023/meditation-suite-2-nowplaying

#NowPlaying #MusicWomenWednesday #Funk #MúsicaPopularBrasileira #Samba

Here's London-based bassist #MarlaKether (who plays on the latest #LittleSimz & #Obongjayar releases) nailing the vocal line to #Djavan's "Jogral". Marla's new EP is due out in September on Strut Records.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=qfc3xRGx0bE

Ritual and Mayhem #NowPlaying
#NowPlaying #originalmusic #streaming
#MusicReleasebyStanStewart https://muz4now.com/2025/ritual-and-mayhem-nowplaying

#MusicWomenWednesday #NowPlaying #RandB #OddFuture #TheInternet

New #Syd album drops 17th July - same day as the new #SteveLacy album

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=KpL6evjGRNU

#nowplaying

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My hand holding up the CD jewel case for Muse’s Origin of Symmetry album next to a CD player

#NowPlaying Marmozets - CO.WAR.DICE 🎶 Definitely one for a #MusicWomenWednesday. The welcome return of this band wasn't reduced by the quality of this great album. #posthardcore #mathrock #mathcore

#NowPlaying #MusicWomenWednesday #Soul #RandB #NewOrleans #Rap

#TankAndTheBangas - "Ain't That Deep" (2026)

"Bougie, black bish, saditty"

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=RJaTZ2LBpR8

@sknob

Hier j'en ai profité pour explorer tes créations sur https://sknob.fr/music/ de Zeke et Wallace je suis remonté aléatoirement jusqu'à la dernière sortie en date "Off Beat".

Off Beat: C'est bien produit, bien mixé, y a de belles chansons, plein qui ont une couleur progrock d'ailleurs (certaines couleurs comme les 1ers Genesis). Un album cohérent qui passe comme du miel! De très bons textes.. des messages. Well done! :0)

#nowplaying #mirlo https://mirlo.space/sknob/release/offbeat

@mirlo

#nowplaying #bandcamp

Llarga vida al Tarannà
par POWER BURKAS

https://bcpowerburkas.bandcamp.com/album/llarga-vida-al-tarann

#musique #music #musica #musik #rock #alternative #punk #garage #powerpop #punkrock #spain #Vic

Behold the (knickerbocker) GLORY(ous) return of #ThePlaylist, where our theme this week is:

Puddin'

So go ahead and spoil your dinner with the (ice) CREAM of musical selections, some of which are actually related to the idea of pudding. Or dessert, if you're one of *those*.

You'd be a (strawberry) FOOL to miss out!

#TheArchive - https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/theplaylist-108-puddin/

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This week's theme-specific artwork by Troggie, which is a trifle wearing headphones. Obviously. I am the raspberries in the jelly layer.

https://www.youtube.com/@oysterbandvaults

#FolkMusic #FolkBand #FolkSinger #NowPlaying

Bright Morning Star | Oysterband | a cappella
https://youtu.be/NRCB3egodx4

#NowPlaying #Music #Acappella #Oysterband #Vocals #FolkMusic #Inspirational #TearJerker #Mommy

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oysterband logo consisting of black barcode on white background with rainbow colored human sillouhettes in the top right corner.

#Calexico - Hair Like Spanish Moss

https://youtu.be/j-oNUff37YE

https://youtu.be/t4IY7LgLUE0

#NowPlaying #NowListening #Music #Video #SalvatoreGanacci #FatalFury #WorkHardNotSmart #DJ #Techno #Rave #GamingMusic #GamerTunes #Radio #YouTube #YouTubeMusic #EuroBeats