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Patti Smith. Why? Because …
Heavy breath to throbbing riff, finger exercise to femme fatale, this week's selection by guest writer AmyLee from last week's big bulge of nominations will leave you hot under more than the collar
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Bad Benny
Sleazy to sexy, rampant to repressed, Bacchanalian to baroque, hip-hop to rock, suggest your lust-based songs here to help create a playlist we might all desire
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Playing it easy ... Dr John
Want to be calmed, collect and compose yourself? From sleep to breakfast in bed, you can be sure this week's playlists from guest writer EspressoBongo will have you feeling good
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Husky in a hammock. Obviously
Tea and biscuits? Sporty stretches? Swedish massage? Giant chess? Chillout with Tai chi? Suggest songs that talk about or or seek stress relief in mind or body. Relax to do it ...
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PJ Harvey ... crossing musical and other boundaries
Rope boundaries to big bouncers, river banks to border patrols, this week's guest writer ParaMhor breaks through musical thresholds to show there's no limit to making perfect playlists
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Banksy, not far from Bethlehem
Do walls have ears? Do your ears have walls? Cross all musical boundaries, and as you breach this topic, suggest songs that may span everything personal space to prison, national, political or cultural
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John Lennon
This week's guest writer Hoshino Sakura takes us on a fantastical, loud, emotional and joyously entertaining trip through experience of choosing nominations from last week's topic
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Prime screamer … Little Richard
… squeals and squeaks. This week, suggest songs that feature moments of involuntary or intentional vocal exclamation that stretch with emotion beyond a sung note
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Frazier, Foreman and Ali. All friendly like.
Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Liston, and Louis? You can bet this week's round of themed song selections by guest writer Ravi Raman packs a punch – and check out even more music moves with kung fu and karate …
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Poetry in motion ...
Boxing to street brawling, wrestling to karate or kung fu, Muhammad Ali to Bruce Lee to Big Daddy, throw your musical martial arts skills into the ring by suggesting songs on this subject
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Band of Skulls … magpie spotters
Days, marks, knocks, tears, murders and magpies? Can you spot these and other patterns in this week's themed playlist? You can certainly count on our guest writer takeitawayGuru for a great listen …
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Fractal order from mental chaos? The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh (1889)
Sequential numbers? Patterns of behaviour? Lyrical list structures? This week let's shape up and show how repetition is used in lyrics to expand our horizons and make order out of chaos
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Let's have a big hand for ... James and Luciano
Walk this way! From James Brown to Bob Dylan, Baaba Maal to the Bunnymen, this world would mean nothing without some fabulous collaborations, this week chosen by our guest writer Flatfrog
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Jack White rocks out on The Muppet Show
Eno, Albarn, Bowie, the Muppets and more? This week suggest outstanding outcomes when the meeting of minds brings original recorded work or memorable one-off performance. The odder, the better ...
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Bad teacher ... good teacher
Stafford? Present. Shadow? Present. Floyd? Present Fela? Present ... No one is bunking off in this week's class as guest writer DiscoMonster takes us on a highly personal perspective through good and bad lessons
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Teacher feedback? Richard Linklater's The School of Rock (2003). Oh yes.
Quiet everyone! Now listen carefully. In today's lesson, from the good, bad, angry, funny, punishing, even sexy or inspirational, we're suggesting songs about figures of learning in song lyrics. Are you paying attention? Now you can begin ...
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Whose song sees the curves of Earth through Yuri Gargarin's eyes?
Space, time, the sun; smacking sports balls to curvy bodily fun; this week's well rounded playlists by this week's guest guru Marco den Ouden arch across the far reaches of the universe from the intimate to the infinite
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Egg-centric. A view of the Salvador Dali Museum in Figueres, Spain. Photograph: Marco den Ouden
This week take a rounded look – extend your spheres of thought to music that touches on such 3D objects and places, balls and eggs to planets, circles to curvaceous figures, even lines curving all the way to the horizon …
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'Now then, Bond, makes sure Jemima does a wee-wee.' 'Yes, ma'am'.
Whether it's aspiring to be Dando or Brando, straight or a spy, this week's top-rank playlists by treefrogdemon chosen from your suggestions have it all, including some topical political humour ...
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'I'm not a politician' ... Welcome to two-faced Trumpton town ... Photograph: Flickr
Restless, bored, or ambitious? Fuelled by feelings of inadequacy? No, this isn’t a help or advice line, they’re just a few things may spark songs about wanting to become someone else, real or imagined. Can you suggest any?
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