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The National Anthem

Steve has one last task for you before the end of the working day, suggesting a song to suit a classic news story from this day in history in The National Anthem.

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Mon 17 Jul 202316:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • The Smashing Pumpkins

    Bullet With Butterfly Wings

    • Hut Music.

  • The Chemical Brothers

    Live Again (feat. Halo Maud)

    • EMI.

  • Lene Lovich

    Lucky Number

    • MCA.

  • Coach Party

    What's The Point In Life

    • Chess Club Records.

  • Little Simz

    Point and Kill (feat. Obongjayar)

    • Age 101.

  • Do Nothing

    Nerve

    • The Orchard.

  • Dylan John Thomas

    Yesterday is Gone

    • Ignition Records.

  • Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

    Mr Medicine (6 Music Session, 21 Feb 2023)

  • The Cardigans

    Erase/Rewind

    • Stockholm.

  • Aphex Twin

    Blackbox Life Recorder 21f

    • Warp.

  • Brass Construction

    Movin'

    • Greatest Hits Of The 70's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Nas

    Get Down

    • God's Son.
    • Columbia.

  • Frankie and The Witch Fingers

    Futurephobic

    • Futurephobic.
    • RAS / Greenway.
    • 1.

  • Weezer

    Hash Pipe

    • Geffen.

  • Quantic

    Run (feat. Andreya Triana)

    • PIAS.

  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

    Electricity

    • VIRGIN.

  • The Electric Soft Parade

    There's A Silence

    • There's A Silence.
    • db records.
    • 1.

  • Electric Six

    Danger! High Voltage!

    • XL.

  • Romy

    Loveher

    • Young.

  • Marvin Gaye

    This Love Starved Heart of Mine (It's Killing Me)

    • Lost & Found: Love Starved Heart - Expanded Edition.
    • Motown.
    • 4.

  • Sigur Rós

    Gold

    • Von Dur / BMG.

  • Vampire Weekend

    A-Punk

    • CD SINGLE.
    • XL.

  • Basement Jaxx

    Where's Your Head At

    • XL.

  • Queens of the Stone Age

    Paper Machete

    • Matador.

  • The Undertones

    Jimmy Jimmy

    • Castle Communications.

  • The Still Brothers & Shoshy

    It's Not Over

    • Lewis Recordings.

  • Desmond Dekker & the Aces

    Israelites

    • Island.

  • Palehound

    Independence Day

    • Polyvinyl Records.

  • Corinne Bailey Rae

    New York Transit Queen

    • Thirty Tigers.

  • Everything Everything

    Photoshop Handsome

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Geffen.
    • 1.

  • Blur

    St. Charles Square

    • Parlophone.

  • Tom Robinson Band

    Up Against The Wall

    • EMI.

  • Gotts Street Park

    Got To Be Good (feat. Pip Millett)

    • Blue Flowers Music.

  • The Grid

    Texas Cowboys (Club Mix)

    • Evolver.
    • Deconstruction.
    • 8.

  • Dizzy

    Close

    • Communion Records.

  • Girls at Our Best!

    Getting Nowhere Fast

    • Pleasure.
    • Happy Birthday.

  • Moon Panda

    Machina Sky

    • Fierce Panda.

  • The Dead Weather

    Treat Me Like Your Mother

    • CD SINGLE.
    • COLUMBIA.
    • 1.

  • Yard Act

    The Trench Coat Museum

    • Zen FC.

  • The Wedding Present

    Once More

    • Tommy 30.
    • Scopitones.
    • 3.

  • Pigeon

    Ikanabore

    • Soundway Records.

  • CVC

    Sophie

    • CVC Recordings.

  • TV21

    Ambition

    • Snakes and Ladders - Almost Complete: 1980-82.
    • Cherry Red Records.
    • 3.

  • SPRINTS

    Adore Adore Adore

    • City Slang.

Broadcast

  • Mon 17 Jul 202316:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music