March/April/May playlists

Here are our playlists for March, April and May 2011.

BEAT songs - 3 March
Turn the Beat Around - Gloria Estefan & the Miami Sound Machine
A Beat for You - Pseudo Echo
Heart Beat Rock - Kylie Minogue
The Beat Goes On - Britney Spears
Beatnik Fly - Johnny & The Hurricanes
Counting The Beat - The Swingers
Wen dein Herz zu schlagen aufhört* - Wir sind Helden
Beat Me Up - Allison Iraheta
The Beat Goes On - Mark Trevorrow feat. Bob Downe
Beat It - Michael Jackson

* translates as 'When your heart stops beating'

HIT songs - 10 March
Hit That Perfect Beat - Bronski Beat
Hit 'Em Up Style - Blu Cantrell
Hit the Road Jack - Ray Charles
Three Hits - Indigo Girls
Hit the Road - The Andrews Sisters
Feel Good Hit of the Summer - Queens of the Stone Age
Heavenly Pop Hit - The Chills
Hit the Freeway - Toni Braxton
Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick - Pastel Vespa
Hit Me with Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar
Hit the Road to Dreamland - Betty Hutton

IRISH songs for St Patrick's Day - 17 March
C'est la Vie - B*witched
New Beginning - Stephen Gately
Fairytale of New York - The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl
Never Meant to Stay - Jimeoin
Gotta Pull Myself Together - The Nolans
This Is to Mother You - Sinead O'Connor
Rugby - Dead Cat Bounce
All I Want Is You - Damien Leith
I've Just Seen a Face - The Paperboys

Celebrity Theme Party - 24 March
For February's Celebrity Theme Party we were thrilled to have Melbourne cabaret artist Pastel Vespa in the studio with us. (We have a Celebrity Theme Party on one Thursday of every month, in which our guest brings some of his or her favourite party tracks and we fill up the playlist with party songs of our own.) Here's the playlist, with the name of the person who chose each song in parentheses:

Fever (Glam Nation live) - Adam Lambert (Katie)
Pais Tropical - Wilson Simonal (Pastel)
Never Let Me Go - The Black Sorrows (Nat)
Senza Paura - Ornella Vanoni & Toquinho (Pastel)
Music to Watch Girls By - Andy Williams (Pastel)
Teenage Dirtbag - Pastel Vespa (Katie, Nat & Daniel)
Elizabeth - Keith Cromwell (from Howard Crabtree's Whoop de Doo) (Daniel)
Wedding Bell Blues - The 5th Dimension (Pastel)
Chasing Pavements - Adele (Katie)
Tubthumping - Pastel Vespa (Katie, Nat & Daniel)

LIGHT songs - 31 March
Light Years - Kylie Minogue
Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
The Boys Light Up - Australian Crawl
I'm Beginning to See the Light - Della Reese
Light My Fire - Will Young
Love Shine a Light - Katrina & The Waves
Lights - Scissor Sisters
Keep the Light On - The Whitlams

DARK songs - 7 April
Dance in the Dark - Lady Gaga
(Better) In the Dark - Rogue Traders
Dark Sky - Jimmy Somerville
In the Dark - Nina Simone
Dark Road - Annie Lennox
After Dark - Kylie Minogue
Into the Dark - Ben Lee
In the Darkest Place - Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach
Sensations in the Dark - Gruff Rhys
Dark of Night - Little Birdy

GOLD songs - 14 April
Gold - Spandau Ballet
Black and Gold - Sam Sparro
Gold Canary - Cloud Control
GoldenEye - Tina Turner
After the Gold Rush - k.d. lang
We Are Golden - Mika
Band of Gold - Freda Payne
Golden Revolver - San Cisco
Gold - John Stewart

VIEW songs - 21 April
View from a Bridge - Kim Wilde
Point of View - DB Boulevard
A Different Point of View - Pet Shop Boys
Rear View Mirror - Alicia Keys
Rear View Mirror - Tim Finn
The Hill, the View and the Lights - Cajun Dance Party
The View - Modest Mouse
Beautiful View - Wendy Matthews
A View to a Kill - Duran Duran
The Greatest View - Silverchair

Celebrity Theme Party - 28 April
For February's Celebrity Theme Party Katie was lucky enough to prerecord an interview with fabulous Australian actor Sacha Horler, who is currently appearing in a new Australian TV dramedy called Small Time Gangster. Here's the playlist, with the name of the person who chose each song in parentheses:

Born This Way - Lady Gaga (Katie)
Can't Stop the Beat - Original Broadway Cast of Hairspray (Katie, Nat & Daniel)
Popular - Eric Saade (Daniel)
Someone Like You - Adele (live on Ellen) (Katie)
Man Overboard - Deborah Conway (Nat)
Poetry Man - Phoebe Snow (Katie)
Fever - Kylie Minogue (Daniel)

EUROPEAN CITIES songs I - 5 May
Berlin Berlin - Video Video
Rome Wasn't Built in a Day - Morcheeba
Istanbul - They Might Be Giants
Barcelona - Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballe
Vienna - Ultravox
London Still - The Waifs
Everyone Falls in Love in Prague - Janet Robin
Every Fucking City - Paul Kelly

EUROPEAN CITIES songs II - 12 May
Moscow - Genghis Khan (aka Moscau - Dschinghis Khan)
Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon
Rome Munich Rome - Robbie Williams
Rotterdam (or Anywhere) - The Beautiful South
Dublin Song - george
Amsterdam - John Waters
I'm Sarajevo, Taste Me - Bronya (aka Julia Zemiro)
I Love Paris - Les Negresses Vertes
London Bridge - Fergie
Lisbon Sunrise - S Groove

RUNNING songs - 19 May
Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush
Running Out - Scissor Sisters
Running - Clare Bowditch & The New Slang
Off and Running - Lesley Gore
Running Away - Spacifix
Running Away - Delta Goodrem
Running on Ice - Billy Joel
I'll Come Running Back to You - Anoop Desai
Running on Empty - Jackson Browne
Keep the Car Running - Arcade Fire
You & Me Running - Tiddas

Celebrity Theme Party - 26 May
For May's Celebrity Theme Party we were joined by JOY presenter and celebrity interviewer Stevie T. Here's the playlist, with the name of the person who chose each song in parentheses:

I Don't Feel Like Dancing - Scissor Sisters (Katie)
Get Outta My Way - Kylie Minogue (Stevie)
Rolling in the Deep/Crazy - Adele/Gnarls Barkley (mashup by Divide & Kreate) (Katie)
Lipstick - Jedward (Daniel)
On the Floor - Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull (Stevie)
Whole Lotta Love (Jump Around Remix) - Adam Lambert (Katie)
Million Dollar Bill - Whitney Nouston (Stevie)
Ooh Aah ... Just a Little Bit - Gina G (Daniel)
These Boots Are Made for Walkin' - Little Birdy (Katie)