📌 #1 Added to playlist: "Mr. E's Beautiful Blues" by Eels

A good start to the week, threes keeping their place just ahead of the fours on my scoreboard. Good luck with Monday. Wordle 1,612 3/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Start the week with Mark Oliver Everett and Eels in upbeat mode. What do the lyrics mean, I have absolutely no idea, but this will stay in your head for the rest of the day! @listigeplaylists.bsky.social open.spotify.com/track/6ujL9d...

In a week where the BBC is under attack, for those who likes this kind of thing, this skewering of the current situation in the UK in the guise of a classic children’s story is pure gold. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Frustrating, too many possibilities, never mind, safely home and dry. Good luck Wordle 1,611 6/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟩⬜🟨🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

📌 #3 Added to playlist: "La Yugular" by ROSALÍA

Sunday morning with Spain’s Rosalia Vila Tobella, renowned for mixing traditional Spanish music with hip hop, reggae and electronics. This from her 2025 4th album Lux. She holds the record for the most Spanish number one hits (12). @listigeplaylists.bsky.social open.spotify.com/track/7JKpS5...

📌 #1 Added to playlist: "There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Sho..." by Kirsty MacColl

A steady four will do for me today, best of luck. Wordle 1,610 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Back to the ‘80s for the first single from Kirsty MacColl’s debut album. MacColl died after a speedboat accident whilst diving in Mexico aged just 41. In the USA this song’s chip shop was swapped for a truck stop. @listigeplaylists.bsky.social open.spotify.com/track/4P6JPi...

Sara Cox radio show I could take or leave, but her achievement this week overshadows that. I’m a fan, she is one cool woman.

📌 #2 Added to playlist: "Casual" by Chappell Roan

That is a bit better, best of Friday luck. Wordle 1,609 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

From 2023’s The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess, which I haven’t played for a while. Currently in the middle of a world tour and due back in the UK next summer. @listigeplaylists.bsky.social open.spotify.com/track/3WSOUb...

Sorry #thearchers why does a car dealer have to be a stereotypical “ruff diamond“ Arthur Daley character. Scriptwriting by numbers?

📌 #2 Added to playlist: "MacArthur Park - Single Version" by Donna Summer

A little bit better than it has been so I will take that. Good luck. Wordle 1,608 4/6 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Something bright and upbeat as we head towards the end of the week. The song was first recorded by Irish actor Richard. Harris in 1967, but this version by Donna Summer 11 years later is the most famous. Lyrics are famously weird. @listigeplaylists.bsky.social open.spotify.com/track/42tYHq...

It was looking really dreary first thing this morning, and then this happened.

📌 #2 Added to playlist: "(Feels Like) Heaven - Live at the BBC" by Manic Street Preachers

Not feeling on top of this game this week, think the lack of daylight is affecting my brain. Good luck Wordle 1,607 4/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Something bright for a rather dreary UK Wednesday. From the 2022 covers album Sleep Next To Plastic by the Manic Street Preachers. Original was from 1982 by Scotland’s Fiction Factory one of the forerunners of the “shoegaze” movement. @listigeplaylists.bsky.social open.spotify.com/track/7kzYEx...

Seat of the pants flying this morning, just avoiding bombing out two days running 😱. Best of luck with this one. Wordle 1,606 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Original by Cat Stevens was released 1970, but this 1988 version by Maxi Priest, with Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare is the one I remember. Priest was born Max Alfred Elliot in Lewisham 64 years ago. @listigeplaylists.bsky.social open.spotify.com/track/3vYrrM...

Just love an Irish pub, Monday night in November!

Dublin bay in the sunshine

📌 #3 Added to playlist: "Last Nite" by The Strokes

Oops, fell into a Wordle trap today, sure you can do better. Wordle 1,605 X/6 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩

Good morning Monday, kick starting the week on the jukebox today, New York’s Strokes and their biggest UK hit; from their debut album “This Is It”. The sound is unmistakably NY, I can hear Blondie and The New York Dolls in this single? @listigeplaylists.bsky.social open.spotify.com/track/7kzKAu...

📌 #2 Added to playlist: "Die On This Hill" by SIENNA SPIRO

Well, that was a tough one for a Sunday morning! Best of luck. Wordle 1,604 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Brand new and certainly has the Sunday vibe. Sienna Spiro is a British singer songwriter with a voice similar to Lana Del Rey, who started her career by posting videos on TikTok, generating a following large enough to start recording. @listigeplaylists.bsky.social open.spotify.com/track/2gYTC8...

So close! #scotlandrugby

Oh flower of Scotland !

Looking to my Caledonian roots this afternoon for what I think might be a small piece of rugby history. #flowerofscotland

📌 #1 Added to playlist: "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses" by U2

Sticking with the threes today, best of luck. Wordle 1,603 3/6 ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨 ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Plenty to choose from in the U2 back catalogue, this the last single release from 1991’s Achtung Baby. The album signalled a move away from the earlier purely guitar driven sound with more use of electronics. @listigeplaylists.bsky.social open.spotify.com/track/4SzIZF...

A solid three to end the working week. Best of luck. Wordle 1,602 3/6 ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

📌 #3 Added to playlist: "Spice Up Your Life" by Spice Girls

Kicking off Friday with the song that started the girl power revolution. Not especially musically unique or vocally outstanding, but so much of what followed owes everything to this band and this song. Credit @chlöeT for today’s choice. @listigeplaylists.bsky.social open.spotify.com/track/0Co5UM...

📌 #2 Added to playlist: "no body, no crime (feat. HAIM)" by Taylor Swift

Not the easiest word today so happy with a safe four. Good luck Wordle 1,601 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This from 2020 and an interesting combination of pop royalty Taylor Swift with indie rockers Haim. I think it works? @listigeplaylists.bsky.social open.spotify.com/track/3RaT22...

Sorry all, late, but great 🤣Hope as good for you? Wordle 1,600 2/6 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

📌 #1 Added to playlist: "The Tracks Of My Tears - Live" by Big Country

Nice to see the Republican Party get a deserved kicking in New York. Less convinced that politics in general lurching between radical right and radical left without any common central ground is a healthy situation for the world?

I love a great cover, but some of the very best are this sort of unexpected,incongruous, live performance. Can’t work out where it is, maybe Barrowlands, and probably late ‘80s . Scottish rock royalty goes Motown! @listigeplaylists.bsky.social open.spotify.com/track/3maQFf...

A little bit of a lucky guess at line two, and then everything fell into place. Good luck. Wordle 1,599 3/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

📌 #1 Added to playlist: "So Easy (To Fall In Love)" by Olivia Dean