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Be afraid, very afraid ... that your makeup might smudge
Physical phobias to worldly worries, horror, panic, dread, to jittery unease, name everything in song that teases the imagination, from scary clowns to spiders, to insecurity in love
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Peter Gabriel gets tooled up ...
Stitching to scything, hammering to drilling, this week's guest writer Mnemosene2 gets busy with a musical toolkit to build a practically perfect playlist from last week's suggestions
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If I had a hammer ...
From hand-held hammering to skilful sawing, sewing, screwing, or searching, take a good look in your musical shed for top tool-related tunes and place them in the suggestion box below
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Siouxsie's verdant moment
Siouxsie to XTC, Cure to Coltrane, this week's guest writer severin picks and musical colour scheme from your songs suggestions with a full range of shades. It will definitely grow on you
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Green is the colour ...
Trees to traffic lights, climate change to cultures, jealousy to money to weed, suggest your songs relating to anything about this colour. It will be more than a shade better
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Some universal songs have tears and fears, and Tears for Fears ...
They just keep coming back. What are they? Guest writer takeitawayGuru authentically defines 'asafarae' songs, great works that missed previous lists and cover many topics, all from last week's suggestions
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The dance of the bird of paradise as tries to woo a mate ... expression of the ultimate love song?
Every time a theme comes up, they always spring to mind. Are they about love, time, suffering, hope, happiness, a journey? This week suggest those timeless 'afasarae' songs that always seem relevant
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Ibeyi, aka tempestuous sisters Naomi and Lisa-Kaindé Díaz
From cleaning up to getting dirty, leaving the country to new life at forty, black eyes to old blues, this week's guest writer Marco den Ouden's playlists show brilliant breadth of perspective on ways to start again
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Mr Benn. Artful master of weekly self-renewal or bored man in a constant crisis?
What links Mr Benn, Reginald Perrin, John Lennon, Beck, Jill Scott, Siobhan Fahey, Stephen King and Franz Kafka? From philosophy to religion, giving up drugs to leaving prison, visit Song Bar to find out more and suggest songs on this topic ...
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What is this foot doing at the start of this? It's a clue. Read on to find out more …
Wanna be starting something? Then what's the best foot forward? Guest writer EnglishOutlaw artfully identifies the absurd and surprising in song starts to pick perfect playlists from last week's suggestions
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Crossing into surprising territory ...
Unrecognisable after the first few seconds? It begins with odd sounds or another style? This week let's play with songs that initially keep you guessing, and don’t start as a they mean to go on
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The Dresden Dolls might have a few ... Bad Habits
Addiction is no laughing matter, so guest writer Violet Vivid gets down to the nitty gritty about 'It' and 'Them' in a visceral description of the inner process, mapped by some powerful music
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Addicted? Me? What've you got?
Drink, drugs, sex, creativity, the internet, or whatever takes over all of your energy, this week suggest songs that touch on the causes or effects of addiction. Can you resist?
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Why worry about being in tune when you have a dose of PiL?
It didn't stop Public Image Limited, Joy Division or Teardrop Explodes from a great performance. Check out guest writer ParaMhor's playlists from last week's topic to find out why going off key will still keep you on song
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Oh Lou, what key for you?
Whether through emotion, offbeat oddness, anger, charisma, or for effect, suggest songs where the voice or instrument’s note-imperfect wavering somehow works wonders
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Bat for Lashes
From Siouxsie's new skin to Eels's tattoo, guest writer takeitawayGuru takes surgically skilled multi-layered approach to create some silky smooth lists from last week's song suggestions
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I had this one done at the weekend. Slightly PhotoShopped of course, to look less sexy.
Body art to bruises, colour issues to cutaneous tissues, getting into, out of or under skin, this week suggest songs all about the many-toned organ that surrounds us every moment of our lives
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Dyolf Kinp
Ever get the feeling you're going in circles? Check out this week's guest writer Flatfrog's fiendishly clever playlist from last week's topic, all defined by pithy palindromes
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It started with a kiss ...
In song lyrics, music form, story or subject matter, this week suggest songs with a circularity that brings the end back to the beginning
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HI! I'm Andy Kaufman. Where am I? Who sang about me?
Andy to Billy, Carey to Terry, this week's guest writer treefrogdemon does a roll call through hundreds of your song suggestions from last week's topic to show how lyrics define far more than just a name
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