Songs To Learn And Sing – Playlists
Songs To Learn And Sing – 2020 weekly playlists
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 787 – Wednesday 23 December 2020
A Songs To Learn And Sing Christmas Special!
The Sonics – Don’t Believe in Christmas
Booker T & The MG's – Jingle Bells
The Ventures – Sleigh Ride
The Sugarcubes – Birthday (Jim & William Reid Christmas Day Mix)
Cocteau Twins – Frosty the Snowman
Mary Margaret O'Hara – Blue Christmas
Joey Ramone – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Sultans Of Ping – Xmas Bubblegum Machine
Yo La Tengo – Rock n Roll Santa
The Wedding Present – Holly Jolly Christmas
They Might Be Giants – Santa Claus
The Sonics – Santa Claus
James Brown – Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto
The Three Wise Men (XTC) – Thanks for Christmas
Low – Little Drummer Boy
Big Star – Jesus Christ
Vince Guaraldi Trio – O Tannenbaum
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 786 – Wednesday 16 December 2020
Irish tunes and albums of 2020
Sean O’Hagan – The Wild Are Welcome
Emperor of Icecream – Know Me
Bleeding Heart Pigeons – Real Connection
Fontaines DC – I Don’t Belong
Revelino – Happiness is Mine
Stano – Room
Five Go Down to the Sea? – Knocknaheeny Shuffle
Five Go Down to the Sea? – There’s a Fish On Top of Shandon (Swears He’s Elvis)
Big Boy Foolish – B.B.F.
One Morning in August – Believe
Aoife Nessa Flanders – The End
CousteauX – When the Bloom Has Left the Rose
Brigid Mae Power – Wedding of a Friend
Eileen Gogan and the Instructions – Celebration
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 785 – Wednesday 09 December 2020
The House of Love – Christine
The Clouds – Tranquil
CousteauX – When the Bloom Has Left the Rose
Oliver Cole – Choose Carefully, Emily
Ghost Power – Asteroid Witch
Craven Faults – Deipkier
Big Boy Foolish – B.B.F.
Goat Girl – Sad Cowboy (Tony Njoku Remix)
Bleeding Heart Pigeons – Real Connection (Arvo Party Remix)
Local Gods – Flying Columns
Swimmers Jackson – So Tired
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 784 – Wednesday 02 December 2020
Swimmers Jackson – So Tired
Oliver Cole – Choose Carefully, Emily
Revelino – Don’t Lead Me Down
Eileen Gogan – Don’t Let Me Sleep
Calexico – Hear the Bells
Lambchop – Shirley
Lauren Auder – Animal
Christy Moore – Lanigan's Ball
Emily Bindiger – My Mother’s House
Emily Bindiger – Confession
The Catenary Wires – Dream Town
The Green Child – Low Desk, High Shelf
One Morning On August – Fight
Zombi – First Flower
Boa Morte – By the Time
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 783 – Wednesday 25 November 2020
Bill Callahan & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – Deacon Blues (feat. Bill MacKay)
Bill Callahan & Bonnie Prince Billy - Blackness of the Night (Feat. AZITA)
Bill Callahan & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Red Tailed Hawk (Feat. Matt Kinsey)
Lauren Auder – Animal
The Besnard Lakes – Raindrops
Stoat – The Glue That Holds Us All Together
August Wells – It’s Not a Journey
Swimmers Jackson – Pain in the Heart
Swimmers Jackson – Lose Myself
Silver Jews – Sleeping is the Only Love (chosen by Boa Morte)
Daniel Johnston – Walking the Cow (chosen by Boa Morte)
Boa Morte – By the Time
Adrianne Lenker – Dragon Eyes
Adrianne Lenker – Anything
Matt Berninger – My Eyes Are T-Shirts
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 782 – Wednesday 19 November 2020
Bill Callahan & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – Wish You Were Gay (Feat. Sean O' Hagan)
Bill Callahan & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – OD'd in Denver (Feat. Matt Sweeney)
Bill Callahan & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – I've Made Up My Mind (Feat. Alasdair Roberts)
Lauren Auder – Animal
Future Islands – Born In A War
Ollie Cole – You Were the Right Turn
Sharon Van Etten – Let’s Go
St Vincent – Piggy
The Besnard Lakes – Raindrops
Tuneyards – Nowhere Man
Konk – Konk Party
Sleaford Mods – Mork N Mindy (Feat. Billy Nomates)
Michael Bundt – The Brain Of Oscar Panizza
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 777 – Wednesday 14 October 2020
Ordnance Survey – Moving Statues
One Morning in August – Time
Fontaines DC – Wouldn’t It Be Nice
Coldharbourstores – Zero
The Green Child – Fashion Light
The Green Child – Low Desk High Shelf
Adrianne Lenker – Dragon Eyes
Goat Girl – Sad Cowboy
Ntive Harrow – Smoke Burns
Native Harrow – Carry On
Adrian Crowley – A Northern Country
Jehnny Beth – The French Countryside
Ordnance Survey – The Communion
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 776 – Wednesday 07 October 2020
Revelino – Happiness is Mine
John Peel on Revelino
Revelino – The Only One Alive
Goat Girl – Sad Cowboy
Goat Girl – The Man
Sarathy Korwar – Bol (feat. Zia Ahmed & Aditya Prakash)
Sarathy Korwar – Turner on the Twenty (feat. Zia Ahmed)
Stoat – That Glue That Holds Us Altogether
Emperor of Icecream – Know Me
Arch Garrison – Like a Diamond Bright
Arch Garrison – The Bitter Lay
The Free Design – 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) [1987] Kites Are Fun
The Free Design – Now is the Time [1969] Heaven/Earth
The Free Design – Eleanor Rigby [1968] You Could Be Born Again
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 775 – Wednesday 30 September 2020
Stano – special
The Threat – High Cost of Living
Stano – I/V pt 1
Stano – Room
Stano – Seance of a Kondalike
Stano – A Dead Rose
Stano – I/V pt 2
Stano – White Field (In Isis)
Stano – I/V pt 3
Stano – Land Slips the Mind
Stano – I/V pt 4
Stano – Sleep Robin
Stano – The Bus (feat. Roddy Doyle)
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 774 – Wednesday 23 September 2020
Matt Berninger – One More Second
Matt Berninger – Different Axis
One Morning In August – Believe
Tuneyards – Nowhere Man
Jehnny Beth – We Will Sing Together
Revelino – Happiness is Mine
Bob – Plastic
Lena Lovich – Lucky Number
The Mo-dettes – White Mice
Au Pairs – Diet
Girls at Our Best – Fast Boyfriends
And the Native Hipsters – Stuck
Nico – Saeta
Frank Chick – We Are Chicken
The Apartments – What You Used to Be
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 773 – Wednesday 16 September 2020
Arch Garrison – Like a Diamond Bright
Arch Garrison – I Will Be Pilgrim
One Morning In August – Believe
Domenique Dumont – People on Sunday
Bleeding Heart Pigeons – All For the Best
Revelino – Happiness is Mine
Revelino – Don’t Lead Me Down
Revelino – Step On High
Power of Dreams – Hurricane
The Slits – Typical Girls
August Wells – No More Operators
The Apartments – Butterfly Kiss
Maija Sofia – The Wife of Michael Cleary
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 772 – Wednesday 09 September 2020
One Morning In August – Believe
Emperor of Ice Cream – Stranded
Bleeding Heart Pigeons – All For the Best
Bleeding Heart Pigeons – Real Connection
August Wells – No More Operators
Sean O’Hagan – The Wild Are Welcome
Gavin Friday – The Leopards
New Order – Be A Rebel
New Order – Run 2 (Extended Version)
Arab Strap – Love Detective
Arab Strap – The First Big Weekend
Arab Strap – The Week Never Starts Round Here
Arab Strap – The Turning Of Our Bones
Laraaji – Prana Light
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 771 – Wednesday 02 September 2020
Emperor of Ice Cream – Know Me
Emperor of Ice Cream – Grow As You Are
One Morning In August – Believe
One Morning In August – Time
Sorbet (feat. Arborist) – Living Dying
Unity Surrender – Ay Ah Oo
The Teardrop Explodes – Tiny Children
Van Morrison – Rave On John Donne
Van Morrison – Haunts Of Ancient Peace
Van Morrison – In the Garden
Nun Attax – White Cortina
Nun Attax – Reekus Sunfare
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 770 – Wednesday 26 August 2020
Sorbet – Birth (My First Day)
Unity Surrender – Ay Ah Oo
The Lemon Twigs – No One Holds You (Closer Than The One You Haven't Met)
Junk Drawer – What I've Learned, What I'm Learning
Idles – Model Village
Local Gods – Flying Columns
Dean & Britta – Massachusetts
Suicide – Diamonds, Fur Coat, Champagne
Our Daughter's Wedding – Lawnchairs
The Fallout Club – Falling Years
Liner Converter – Temple of Mars
Sorbet – Living Dying (feat. Arborist)
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 769 – Wednesday 13 January 2021
North Sea Radio Orchestra – Move Eastward Happy Earth
Lisa O’Neill – Blackbird
Seti the First – New Brass Bird
Tunng – The Roadside
The Eighteenth Day of May – Cold Early Morning
The Accidental – I Can Hear Your Voice
Seamus Fogarty – Carlow Town
Lone Wolf – Keep Your Eyes On the Road
Voices of the Seven Thunders – Dry Leaves
Alexander Tucker – Window Sill
Lanterns On the Lake – Send Me Home
Adrian Crowley – The Wish
The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock – Sweeny’s Frenzy
The Shanks – Crystal Clear
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 768 – Wednesday 07 January 2021
Gavin Friday Special
Gavin Friday – Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves
Gavin Friday – King of Trash
Gavin Friday – Angel
I/V Pt1
Virgin Prunes – Baby Turns Blue
I/V Pt2
Virgin Prunes – Pagan Lovesong
I/V Pt 3
Virgin Prunes – Red Kettle
I/V Pt4
Virgin Prunes – Caucasian Walk
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 767 – Wednesday 05 August 2020
Dizzy – Beatrice
This Is The Kit – This Is What You Did
Jehnny Beth – We Will Sin Together
Zombi – First Flower
Big Boy Foolish – Up the Airy
Big Boy Foolish – Horsey
Sufjan Stevens – America
The Dears – I Know What You're Thinking And It's Awful
The Dears – The Worst In Us
Rolling Blackouts CF – Cars in Space
Maija Sofia – The Glitter
Julianna Barwick In Light ft. Jónsi
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 766 – Wednesday 29 July 2020
Emperor of Icecream – Everyone Looks So Fine
A Certain Ratio – Always In love
A Certain Ratio – Waterline
A Certain Ratio – Knife Slits Water
A Certain Ratio – Shack Up
Thomas Bartlett – Lucida
This Is The Kit – This Is What You Did
This Is The Kit – Sometimes the Sea
This Is The Kit – Moonshine Freeze
Cornershop – Everywhere That Wog Army Roam
Cornershop – St Marie Under Canon
Cornershop – 6AM Jullander Shere
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 765 – Wednesday 22 July 2020
Anne Briggs – Tangled Man
Green Gartside – Wishing Well
Fontaines DC – A Hero’s Death
The Go! Team – Cookie Scene
Beverly Copeland – Good morning Blues
Beverly Glynn-Copeland – River Dreams
Beverly Copeland – Northwind
Zombi – Mountain Ranges
Junk Drawer – What I’ve Learned, What I’m Learning
Junk Drawer – Mumble Days
Eileen Gogan – Don’t Let Me Sit
Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard – John Lennon Is My Jesus Christ
Green Gartside – Tangled Man
Anne Briggs – Wishing Well
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 764 – Wednesday 15 July 2020
Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard – Double Denim Hop
Future Islands – For Sure
Emperor of Icecream – Everyone Looks So Fine
Fontaines DC – Televised Mind
Sufjan Stevens – America
Hannah Peel – Deep Space Cluster
Elaine Mai – Somewhere Else
Washed Out – Time to Walk Away
Jane Weaver – The Architect
Big Boy Foolish – Horsey!
Bob – Plastic
Local Gods – Flying Column
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 763 – Wednesday 08 July 2020
Dizzy – The Magician
Fontaines DC – Televised Mind
Jehnny Beth – Heroine
John & Jehn – Fear, Fear, Fear
Savages – Evil
Emperor of Icecream – Everyone Looks So Fine
Emperor of Icecream – Lambert Eyes
Big Boy Foolish – Horsey!
Five Go Down to the Sea? – Knocknaheeny Shuffle
Five Go Down to the Sea? – Why Wait Until April
Power of Dreams – America
The Innocence Mission – You Are the Light
Britta Philips – Fallin’ In love
American Spring – Shyin’ Away
Calla – Televised
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 762 – Wednesday 01 July 2020
Bleeding Heart Pigeons – I Don’t Love You Anymore
Sean O’Hagan – The Wild Are Welcome
Sean O’Hagan – McCardle Brown
The High Llamas – The Ring of Gold
Brigid Mae Power – The Blacksmith
Brigid Mae Power – Lookin At You In A Photo
Maija Sofia – The Wife of Michael Cleary
Rolling Blackout CF – Cars In Space
Carla Togerson – Today is Tomorrow, Another Day
The Walkabouts – lazarus Heart
Ann Scott – Dead Souls
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 761 – Wednesday 24 June 2020
Bleeding Heart Pigeons – Real Connection
Emperor of Icecream – Lambert Eyes
Sarathy Korwar feat. Zia Ahmed – Turner on the 20
Sean O’Hagan – The Wild Are Welcome
Eileen Gogan and the Instructions – Echo
Brigid Mae Power – Not Yours to Own
Aoife Nessa Francis – Less is More
Alex Taylor Tribute
The Shop Assistants – It's Up To You
The Motorcycle Boy – Boy Big Rock Candy Mountain
The Motorcycle Boy – Trying To Be Kind
Power of Dreams - Across the Shannon
Power of Dreams – American Dream
Power of Dreams – America
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 748 – Wednesday 11 March 2020
Gavin Friday & Man Seezer – Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves
Boa Morte – Burn
Boa Morte – A Sound
Ann Scott – Universe
Nina Hynes – Staros
Percolator – Law and Order
Sack – What Did the Christians Ever Do For Us
Whipping Boy – We Don’t Need Nobody Else
John Haggis - Mother Rotollos Cookin'
Adrian Crowley – Halfway to Andalucia
Rollerskate Skinny – Speed to My Side
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 749 – Wednesday 18 March 2020
Bill Callaghan – Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest
Bill Callaghan – The Ballad of the Hulk
Cornershop – St Marie Under Canon
Cornershop – England Is a Garden
Cornershop – Everywhere That Wog Army Roam
The Primitives – Crash
The Primitives – Stop Killing
The Primitives – Tru the FLowers
The Primitives – Out of Reach
Luke Haines & Peter Buck – Andy Warhol Was Not Kind
Luke Haines & Peter Buck – Bobby's Wild Years
Vanishing Twin – Cryonic Suspension May Save Your Life
Prefab Sprout – Life of Surprises
Prefab Sprout – Diana
Caribou – Never Come Back
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 746 – Wednesday 19 February 2020
Andrew Weatherall RIP
Cut Copy – Sun God (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
Primal Scream – Loaded
Dayglo Maradona – Rock Section (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
Grinderman – Heathen Child (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
My Bloody Valentine – Soon (Weatherall Remix)
Saint Etienne – Only Love Can Break Your Heart (A Mix of Two Halves)
The Horrors – Wild Eyed (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
Fuck Buttons – Sweet Love For Planet Earth (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 745 – Wednesday 12 February 2020
Wolf Parade – Julia Takes Your Man Home
Caribou – Home
Caribou – Never Come Back
Daniel Know – Hollow
Michael Kiwanuka – Solid Ground
Neneh Cherry – Manchild
Neneh Cherry – Buffalo Stance
Ólafur Arnalds – Partial (Choir Version)
Brighter – Noah’s Ark
Heavenly – I Fell in love Last Night
New Fast Automatic Daffodils – Beam Me Up
Aoife Nessa Frances – Geranium
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 744 – Wednesday 05 February 2020
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin – Aim
Th’ Faith Healers – Pop Song
The Milltown Brothers – Seems To Me
Spacemen 3 – Big City (Waves Of Joy) (Demo)
The Telescopes – To Kill A Slow Girl Walking
Cate Le Bon – I Was Born On the Wrong Day
Cate Le Bon – How Do You Know
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Undoing A Luciferian Towers
The Icicle Works – Up Here in the North of England
The Icicle Works – Evangeline
The Icicle Works – Hope Springs Eternal
Lal & Mike Waterson – The Scarecrow
Lal & Mike Waterson – Danny Rose
Lal & Mike Waterson – Never the Same
Howling Bells – Slowburn
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 743 – Wednesday 29 January 2020
Spiritualized – Anyway that You Want Me
Lush – Thoughtforms
The Sundays – Can’t Be Sure
St Etienne – Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Graham Gouldman – No Mil Today
Graham Gouldman – For Your Love
Aoife Nessa Frances – Less Is More
Aoife Nessa Frances – The End
Brenda and the Beach Balls – Rain Keeps Falling
Brenda and the Beach Balls – Wait
The La’s – Timeless Melody
Hey Paulette – I Really Do Love You Penelope
Ramsey 2C-3D – Fly Guy and the Unemployed
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 742 – Wednesday 22 January 2020
Mum – The Ballad of the Broken Birdie Records
Mum – The Ballad of the Broken String
Darren Hayman – The First Happy Valley
Darren Hayman – Plea for a Little Railway
Darren Hayman – Don't Clip My Wings (Alan Shepard)
Aoife Neasa Frances – Blow Up
Aoife Neasa Frances – A Long Dress
Aoife Neasa Frances – Less Is More
Care – My Boyish Days
Care – Flaming Sword
Algiers – We can’t be Found
Algiers – There is No Year
Michael Kiwanuka – Rolling
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 741 – Wednesday 15 January 2020
Lankum – Bear Creek
Laura Cannell – Cathedral of the Marshes
Julianna Barwick – Nebula
John Foxx – Europe After the Rain
John Foxx – The Garden
John Foxx – Underpass
Lindstrøm – Spire
Roll the Dice – Cannonball
Sudan Archives – Glorious
Sudan Archives – Confessions
Steve Mason – Rocket
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 740 – Wednesday 08 January 2020
Michael Kiwanuka – You Ain’t the Problem
Michael Kiwanuka – Hard To Say Goodbye
Ernest Flippin II – Supersonic Space Lady
Solaris – Space Invaders
The Comet is Coming – Summon the Fire
Sarathy Korwar – Coolie (feat. Delhi Sultanate & Prabh Deep)
Sarathy Kormar – Bol (feat. Zia Ahmed & Aditya Prakash)
Richard Dawson – Two Halves
Richard Dawson – The Queens’s Head
Speckled Doves – Rage
Songs To Learn And Sing EP 739 – Wednesday 01 January 2020
Michael Kiwanuka – You Ain’t the Problem
Michael Kiwanuka – Hard To Say Goodbye
Ernest Flippin II – Supersonic Space Lady
Solaris – Space Invaders
The Comet is Coming – Summon the Fire
Sarathy Korwar – Coolie (feat. Delhi Sultanate & Prabh Deep)
Sarathy Kormar – Bol (feat. Zia Ahmed & Aditya Prakash)
Richard Dawson – Two Halves
Richard Dawson – The Queens’s Head
Speckled Doves – Rage