Matinee Idle for Thursday 1 January 2026
12 - 1 p.m.
12:15
Artist: Chris Isaak
Title: Back on Your Side
Composer: Chris Isaak
Album: Silvertone
Label: Warner Bros.
12:19
Artist: Stiff Little Fingers
Title: Back to Front
Composer: Fingers, Ogilvie
Album: All the Best
Label: Chrysalis
12:25
Artist: Boom! Boom! Deluxe
Title: Back Seat Bingo
Composer: Henrieta Tornyai
Album: (Single release)
Label: Boom! Boom! Deluxe
12:30
Artist: The Shangri-Las
Title: Sophisticated Boom Boom
Composer: George Morton
Album: Shangri-Las-65!
Label: Red Bird
12:33
Artist: Ringo Strarr
Title: Give Me Back the Beat
Composer: Starkey, Hudson, Burr, Dudas, Grakal
Album: Choose Love
Label: Koch
12:41
Artist: Ace Frehley
Title: Back in the New Groove
Composer: Russ Ballard
Album: Ace Frehley
Label: Casablanca
12:44
Artist: Dion
Title: Your Own Back Yard
Composer: DiMucci, Fasce, Gernhard
Album: Born to Be with You
Label: Phil Spector Records
12:49
Artist: Front 242
Title: Headhunter
Composer: Bressanuti, Codenys, De Meyer, 23
Album: Front by Front
Label: Wax Trax!
12:55
Artist: Kirsty MacColl
Title: Walking Down Madison
Composer: Kirsty MacColl
Album: Electric Landlady
Label: Charisma
1 - 2 p.m.
1:06
Artist: Harry Nilsson
Title: Walk Right Back
Composer: Sonny Curtis
Album: The Music of Nilsson
Label: BBC
1:08
Artist: Temple of the Dog
Title: Pushin' Forward Back
Composer: Chris Cornell
Album: Temple of the Dog
Label: A&M
1:15
Artist: Baba Yaga
Title: Back in the USSR
Composer: Lennon-McCartney
Album: Baba Yaga
Label: DSB
1:19
Artist: Warren Zevon
Title: Excitable Boy
Composer: Warren Zevon
Album: Excitable Boy
Label: Asylum
1:24
Artist: Royel Otis
Title: Oysters in My Pocket
Composer: Collins, Pavlovic, Maddell
Album: Bar & Grill / Sofa Kings
Label: Ourness
1:28
Artist: Joey Ramone
Title: What a Wonderful World
Composer: Thiele, Weiss
Album: Don't Worry About Me
Label: Sanctuary
1:32
Artist: Cyndi Lauper
Title: Strawberry Fields Forever
Composer: Lennon-McCartney
Album: Come Together - A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music
Label: Pioneer
1:40
Artist: Barney Kessel
Title: Back Home Again in Indiana
Composer: Hanley MacDonald
Album: To Swing or Not to Swing
Label: Contemporary
1:45
Artist: Waylon Jennings
Title: Smokey on Your Front Door
Composer: Seals, Jennings, Barnes
Album: Too Dumb for New York, Too Ugly for L.A.
Label: Epic
1:49
Artist: Marshall Crenshaw & Mark Johnson
Title: My Back Pages
Composer: Bob Dylan
Album: Bleecker Street - Greenwich Village in the 60's
Label: Astor Place
1:53
Artist: Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood
Title: Some Velvet Morning
Composer: Lee Hazlewood
Album: Movin' with Nancy
Label: Reprise
1:58
Artist: Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Title: Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp Bomp Bomp)
Composer: Mann, Goffin
Album: Blow in the Wind
Label: Fat Wreck
2 - 3 p.m.
2:06
Artist: Helen Shapiro
Title: Walkin' Back to Happiness
Composer: Schroeder, Hawker
Album: Best of the EMI Years
Label: EMI
2:11
Artist: Devo
Title: That's Go
Composer: Mothersbaugh, Casale
Album: Oh, No! It's Devo
Label: Warner Bros.
2:16
Artist: Tony Christie
Title: Avenues and Alleyways
Composer: Murray, Callander
Album: With Loving Feeling
Label: MCA
2:21
Artist: Pharrell
Title: Frontin' (feat. Jay-Z)
Composer: Hugo, Williams, Carter
Album: Clones
Label: Star Trak
2:26
Artist: Sierra Hull
Title: Bombshell
Composer: Sierra Hull
Album: Daybreak
Label: Rounder
2:32
Artist: Backstreet Boys
Title: Backstreet's Back
Composer: Martin, Volle
Album: Backstreet's Back
Label: Jive
2:37
Artist: Ray Wylie Hubbard
Title: Snake Farm
Composer: Ray Wylie Hubbard
Album: Snake Farm
Label: Sustain
2:43
Artist: Lindsay Buckingham
Title: Never Going Back Again
Composer: Lindsay Buckingham
Album: Live at the Bass Performance Hall
Label: Reprise
2:47
Artist: Pentatonix
Title: Ghostbusters
Composer: Ray Parker Jr.
Album: Ghostbusters - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Label: RCA
2:51
Artist: Billy Bragg & Wilco
Title: Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key
Composer: Guthrie, Bragg
Album: Mermaid Avenue
Label: Elektra
2:56
Artist: The Pretenders
Title: Back on the Chain Gang
Composer: Chrissie Hynde
Album: Learning to Crawl
Label: Sire
3 - 4 p.m.
3 p.m. Feature - Phil talks to English singer-songwriter Charlie Dore
3:27
Artist: Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction
Title: Backseat Educaton
Composer: Mark Manning
Album: Tattooed Beat Messiah
Label: Vertigo
3:21
Artist: Billy Joe Shaver
Title: Georgia on a Fast Train
Composer: Billy Joe Shaver
Album: Texas Outlaws
Label: Compadre
3:36
Artist: Amy Winehouse
Title: Back to Back
Composer: Amy Winehouse
Album: Back to Black
Label: Island
3:42
Artist: The Brooklyn Rundfunk Orkestra
Title: My Favourite Things
Composer: Rodgers, Hammerstein
Album: The Hills are Alive
Label: Canal
3:47
Artist: Los Lobos
Title: Tomorrow Never Knows
Composer: Lennon-McCartney
Album: (Taken from In the Spotlight - A Beatles Songbook)
Label: (Aired on PBS, 1993)
3:53
Artist: The Human League
Title: Together in Electric Dreams
Composer: Oakey, Moroder
Album: Electric Dreams (Soundtrack)
Label: Virgin
3:57
Artist: Eilert Pilarm
Title: Little Cabin on the Hill
Composer: Monroe, Flatt
Album: Greatest Hits
Label: Green Pig
4 - 5 p.m.
4:06
Artist: k.d. lang and the Reclines
Title: Luck in My Eyes
Composer: lang, Mink
Album: Absolute Torch & Twang
Label: Sire
4:12
Artist: Soundgarden
Title: Dusty
Composer: Chris Cornell
Album: Down on the Upside
Label: A&M
4:19
Artist: Dusty Springfield
Title: Goin' Back
Composer: Goffin, King
Album: Goin' Back - The Very Best of Dusty Springfield
Label: Polygram
4:23
Artist: The Buoys
Title: Timothy
Composer: Rupert Holmes
Album: The Buoys
Label: Scepter
4:28
Artist: Lisa Fischer
Title: Get Back to Love
Composer: Miller, Vandross
Album: So Intense
Label: Elektra
4:33
Artist: Homer & Jethro
Title: I've Got Tears in My Ears from Lying on My Back in Bed While I Cry Over You
Composer: Harold Barlow
Album: Ooh, That's Corny
Label: RCA Victor
4:37
Artist: Bob Dylan
Title: Open the Door, Homer
Composer: Bob Dylan
Album: The Basement Tapes
Label: Columbia
4:40
Artist: The Pointer Sisters
Title: That's a Plenty/Surfeit, U.S.A.
Composer: Gilbert, Pollack/Good, Cohen
Album: That's a Plenty
Label: Blue Thumb
4:46
Artist: Pat Donohue
Title: Would You Like to Play Guitar
Composer: Donohue, Burke,
Album: Nobody's Fault
Label: Bluesky
4:50
Artist: The Box Tops
Title: Neon Rainbow
Composer: Wayne Carson Thomson
Album: The Letter/Neon Rainbow
Label: Sundazed
4:53
Artist: Ringo Starr
Title: Back Off Boogaloo
Composer: Richard Starkey
Album: Blast from Your Past
Label: Arc
4:56
Artist: Elvis Presley
Title: My Way
Composer: Francois, Thibaut, Revaux, Anka
Album: This Is Elvis
Label: RCA
