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The biggest tunes to start the day

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Plus there's a second pick from this week's 5 Before 6 DJ - Gary Moorcroft in Shawbury, picking songs from artists that - in his opinion - should be bigger than they are.

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Tue 20 May 2025 05:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Kelis

    Millionaire (feat. André 3000)

    • Virgin.

  • Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke

    Gangsters

    • Warp.

  • Bob Dylan

    The Times They Are A-Changin'

    • Columbia.

  • Max Cooper & Tawiah

    My Choices Are Not My Own

  • Father John Misty

    I Guess Time Just Makes Fools Of Us All

    • Bella Union.

  • Sudan Archives

    Glorious (6 Music Session, 18 Nov 2019)

  • Future Utopia & Lava La Rue

    The Pleasure Trap

    • 70Hz Recordings.

  • The Cure

    Boys Don't Cry

    • Fiction.

  • Perfume Genius

    Clean Heart

    • Matador.

  • Future Islands

    Seasons (Waiting On You)

    • 4AD.

  • Fugees

    Ready Or Not

    • COLUMBIA.

  • Marie Davidson

    Y.A.A.M.

    • DEEWEE / Because Music.

  • Four Tops

    Standing In The Shadows Of Love

    • Soul (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Miso Extra

    POP

    • Transgressive.

  • Nathan Gray

    Rebel Songs

  • TOKiMONSTA & PARTYOF2

    Feel It

    • Young Art Records.

  • Cheetah & Nia Archives

    Get Loose

    • Up Ya Archives.

  • Pavement

    Cut Your Hair

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Domino.
    • 1.

  • Captain Black

    Come On Up To Our House

    • 2004 - 2009.
    • Captain Black.
    • 10.

  • Blondshell

    23's A Baby

    • Partisan.

  • The Kinks

    Till The End Of The Day

    • Sanctuary.

  • Suede

    Disintegrate

    • Antidepressants.
    • BMG.

  • David Bowie

    Young Americans

    • EMI.

  • Wolf Alice

    Bloom Baby Bloom

    • Columbia.

  • The Futureheads

    Radio Heart

    • CD SINGLE.
    • NUL.
    • 1.

  • Maruja

    Look Down On Us

    • Music For Nations.

  • Irvine Welsh & The Sci-Fi Soul Orchestra

    A Man In Love With Love

  • Manfred Mann

    Mighty Quinn

    • Ages Of Mann.
    • Polygram Tv.

Broadcast

  • Tue 20 May 2025 05:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music