'Blue Jam' soundtrack playlist

Greetings!

Honoured members, distinguished guests, and new joinees!!

Having originally set up a playlist on my personal profile page featuring *virtually* all of the music heard over all three series of Blue Jam, I have since replaced it with a dedicated tag radio station:

http://www.last.fm/tags/Music+from+Blue+Jam

Weighing in at a tasty 250+ tracks, it's as close as I've managed to get to recreating the ambient, funky eclecticism of Blue Jam for you, without the comedy bits of course.

While numerous songs featured in full in between the many sketches, others appeared only for the briefest of moments, by way of short samples in the DJ 'stings' in some instances, while elsewhere, intros or instrumental mid-sections were looped to act as a background counterpoint to the twisted mad world of the sketches. While some of the songs may not seem immediately apparent as 'original soundtrack', hearing them in full, I think, makes for a particularly intriguing and original mix.

Do feel free to comment here on what you think, especially if you never actually heard the original series! Enjoy!

It's an eclectic mix, to be sure. There's a lot of ambient stuff, but there are plenty of catchy and quirky ones too - makes for a surprising listen! Blue Jam certainly introduced me to some fantastic new artists - if it does likewise for anybody else here then it's a job done well, in my book.

As for there being many full tracks - ALL of the tracks with the 'play' button icons next to the song details will play in full while you are listening via the playlist - it works on a random shuffle process. All of the tracks have played in full for me thus far, anyway!

As far as I can work out, the '30 second preview' only applies if you want to listen to a track 'in-page' on the respective artist's profile page. The only tracks in the playlist that won't play are the ones you can see in the list currently without (obviously) the 'play' button icon.

I trust that all makes enough sense!

I'm currently in the process of setting up a Tag Radio alternative, as I want to use my playlist for other things!

Needless to say I will send a global alert to all group members once this task has been completed.

Cheers for now,
Ade

Hi ShadyAdy,

I'm looking for the music track on Series 1 Episode 2, after the "pull yourself together" Doc joke approx 52 minutes in?

I'm really happy you've taken the time to put this together - thanks. Chris Morris is a latter day polymath, his taste in music is almost as good as his comedy.

ShadyAdy said:
In fact, now I think of it - and since I have a pretty reliable and comprehensive list now - I may well start a separate thread listing ALL the known music/artists as featured in all three series of Blue Jam, and in order of appearance - watch this space!

did this list ever materialise? i am recently getting really into blue jam (i had the condensed best-of mix but just downloaded the actual full-length shows a few weeks ago) and would love to follow up on some of the music i've heard on the show!

the tag doesn't work when i try

Aye, I think LastFM have made a few changes since I set up that link, sorry!

If I get chance to find the time needed to set up a new one, I will.