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  • Friday Playlist: #WorstRappersAlive

    03/02/12 at 14:41 — edited 03/02/12 at 14:42

    Never contribute to Twitter trending topics. That's the lesson we learnt today in a compiling session that swiftly turned one of the week's most pleasurable tasks into a horrendous journey through musical sin and desperation.

  • Friday playlist: January blues

    27/01/12 at 14:29

    You can tell a lot about a person from the songs they choose to sum up a dreary winter morning. It’s hardly surprising, then, that this week’s theme has created quite the divide down at IdeasTap HQ. Today, half of us are raising glasses half full in praise of joyful housemates (strangely, all called Alice) while the others gloomily stare on through make-up smudged by tears...

  • Friday Playlist: C*ns*rsh*p

    20/01/12 at 14:28 — edited 20/01/12 at 14:28

    Whether you side with Wikipedia or not, censorship and intellectual rights are hot topics this week. In honour of the website we’d least like to take on in a pub quiz, we’re taking this opportunity to consume the best of YouTube and Spotify – while we still can…

  • Friday Playlist: Instructions

    13/01/12 at 15:07 — edited 13/01/12 at 15:08

    Put your left leg in, put your left leg out... or just put on your red shoes and dance the blues. This week we’ve decided to abandon our responsibilities with a selection of tracks that tell us what to do.

  • So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye

    06/01/12 at 15:02

    Three months ago, at the end of our first week as IdeasTap interns, Becky and I stepped into the playlist-making shoes. Twelve Friday Playlists later, it's time to hand the baton, pass the torch, and say our farewells. With our inaugaral playist theme being New Additions, you know how this is going to go - self referential we came into this game, and self referential we depart.

  • Friday Playlist: Christmas

    22/12/11 at 15:21 — edited 22/12/11 at 15:26

    Father Christmas is loading up his sledge with sacks of thoughtful presents – from the same unwanted book as last year to second hand grooming sets and matching tabards for you and your mum, he's coming to a Christmas tree near you.

  • Friday Playlist: Post-Party

    16/12/11 at 15:13 — edited 16/12/11 at 15:42

    Snow was falling briefly, Sarah is wearing a tiara and Alice can look public transport in the eye again after waking up in Surrey.