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Palace of Versailles courtyard
Real, fictional or metaphorical, these grand buildings have found inspiration across musical genres, opening the drawbridge to many fabulous narratives and sounds. Inspired by last week’s topic, guest Marco den Ouden takes us on a grand tour
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Funkadelic: forever expansive
They're almost alway more expansive than the 7-inch versions, and this week guest DiscoMonster chooses albums cuts is simply far more satisfying experience, musically and lyrically, inspired by last week's topic
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Spanning the ages in 3/4: OMD’s Maid of Orleans
Beethoven to Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin to Funkadelic, Joe Cocker to Cocteau Twins, it’s time to waltz into a set of lists that swing across time and genres, picked expertly by guest playlister DJ Bear from a mass of nominations
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Cream, with a heavy dose of Ginger
Collaborations, surprising or predictable, are of what music is made. But this week’s topic focuses on artists from different, already successful acts who collaborate not only on one song or performance, but a whole LP or more
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Hip priestess? Shakira video
Shoulders to toes, hips to knees, this week’s playlists, picked by our flexibly skilful guest Noodsy from last week’s topic connect up through all the styles and genres, from Shakira to Sparklehorse, The Beat to The Beach Boys …
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Sly and the Family Stone … more than happy to stay on this playlist
Bowie to Dylan, Sly Stone to Suede, this week’s playlists, picked perfectly by this week’s guest Amylee, from a mountain of timeless nominations, is hanging around here for good, a monument to staying
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How does Two Suns end up? Bat For Lashes is joined by Scott Walker
Where will it all end? With medicine, moonlight, sleep or a starship? All of these and much more, as our guest playlist writer ParaMhor picks two superb sets of conclusions to hundreds of nominated songs
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Ooh Betty. Davis.
Inspired by last week's pyroclastic flow of song suggestions, the Song Bar Landlord takes a visit to see who is playing at the House of Funk and finds a vibe that is both super cool and hot, hot, hot
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Turning a final corner … George Michael
Crossing The Streets and serendipity, to turning different corners with George Michael, this week's guest writer Maki takes his chance with not entirely random nominations to create inevitably perfect playlists
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How do you know it's really gonna happen? Because it's the Undertones
Got a ticket to ride? This week's guest writer TatankaYotanka takes us on a lyrical, journey inspired by last week's topic. The bus is filled with hope for 2017. Where does it go? Hop in and find out
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