The Chain is our never-ending list of records, with every new track somehow connected to the last.

On each show, Stuart and Mark will play three records and discuss the connections that link them.

You can suggest the next link in The Chain by using the contact form.

1477. THE CARPENTERS - YESTERDAY NO MORE
^ The Carpenters covered Please Mr Postman, so another tune by them...

1476. THE MARVELETTES - PLEASE MR POSTMAN
^ If Noel is Leon backwards, then Liam is Mail backwards, the mail is brought by a postman so how about...

1475. OASIS - CIGARETTES AND ALCOHOL
^ 'Leon' is an anagram of 'Noel'...a member of...

1474. KINGS OF LEON - RED MORNING LIGHT
^ St Etienne is near Lyon, in fact if you get a budget airline flight to Lyon you use St Etienne airport. Lyon takes us to the Kings of Leon...

1473. SAINT ETIENNE - YOU'RE IN A BAD WAY
^ From some saints to one...

1472. THE SAINTS - I'M STRANDED
^ From the Roxy album 'Stranded' to...

1471. ROXY MUSIC - STREET LIFE
^ Another street link...

1470. 10CC - WALL STREET SHUFFLE
^ The last song is from Springsteen's album 'The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle', which takes us to another street....

1469. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - 4TH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK (SANDY)
^ A Sandy link...

1468. SANDY DENNY - WHO KNOWS WHERE THE TIME GOES?
^ Staying with the time theme...

1467. PINK FLOYD - TIME
^ Play For Today was from the album Seventeen Seconds, which takes us to time...
 
1466. THE CURE - PLAY FOR TODAY
^ Double link alert! From 'playground' to 'play'... PLUS The Cure's Robert Smith played with Siouxsie & The Banshees...

1465. SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - PLAYGROUND TWIST
^ A school has a playground, hence...

1464. ALICE COOPER - SCHOOL'S OUT
^ From one school to another...

1463. SUPERTRAMP - SCHOOL
^ An order is an instruction, and a place of instruction is a school...

1462. NEW ORDER - CONFUSION
^ A link from confusion to confusion. Simple yet effective.

1461. THE TEMPTATIONS - BALL OF CONFUSION
^ Using a cricket link, from an 'over' to a cricket 'ball'...

1460. ROY ORBISON - IT'S OVER
^ Medicine Head were signed to John Peel's Dandelion Records. When John Peel went on Desert Island Discs he chose the following tune as one of his tracks...

1459. MEDICINE HEAD - ONE AND ONE IS ONE
^ If you need a cure, you might need medicine...

1458. LEONARD COHEN - AIN'T NO CURE FOR LOVE
^ A cure link...

1457. THE CURE - WHY CAN'T I BE YOU
^ From Kiss to a track from The Cure's album 'Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me'...

1456. PRINCE - KISS
^ OutKast's Andre 3000 was voted 'World's Sexiest Vegetarian' in 2004, as was Prince in 2006. So....

1455. OUTKAST - HEY YA
^ Hey! It's the chain link...

1454. GRAHAM PARKER & THE RUMOUR - HEY LORD DON'T ASK ME QUESTIONS
^ From an answer to some questions... 

1453. ATOMIC ROOSTER - DEVIL'S ANSWER
^ Sticking with the devil theme...

1452. BECK - DEVIL'S HAIRCUT
^ Jeff Beck was in The Yardbirds, hence...

1451. THE YARDBIRDS - SHAPES OF THINGS
^ Birds have wings....

1450. JIMI HENDRIX - LITTLE WING
^ You need wings to fly...

1449. ELBOW - WEATHER TO FLY
^ From one body part to another...

1448. TALKING HEADS - LIFE DURING WARTIME
^ The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand led to the start of World War One...

1447. FRANZ FERDINAND - MATINEE
^ R.E.M. are mentioned in one of the following band's lyrics....

1446. R.E.M. - MAN ON THE MOON
^ Keith Moon was reputed to have named Led Zeppelin hence...

1445. LED ZEPPELIN - HOUSES OF THE HOLY
^ Bonzo was the nickname of John Bonham, who was in...

1444. THE BONZO DOG DOO-DAH BAND - THE INTRO AND THE OUTRO
^ From the Gorillaz to a song from The Bonzos' Gorilla album...

1443. GORILLAZ - FEEL GOOD INC
^ From one cartoon band to another...

1442. THE ARCHIES - SUGAR SUGAR
^ Simon & Garfunkel previously recorded as 'Tom and Jerry', which is also the name of a cartoon, and takes us to The Archies - a famous cartoon band... 

1441. SIMON & GARFUNKEL - SCARBOROUGH FAIR
^ Staying with the seasoning link, we go from a Sgt Pepper track to a song from another 'seasoning titled' album - Simon & Garfunkel's Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

1440. THE BEATLES - GETTING BETTER
^ Pepper is a type of season-ing, so to something from the Sgt Pepper album...

1439. DONOVAN - SEASON OF THE WITCH
^ A season link...

1438. THE ZOMBIES - TIME OF THE SEASON
^ You use a clock to tell the time...hence...

1437. NICK DRAKE - AT THE CHIME OF THE CITY CLOCK
^ A drake is a type of duck is a type of bird...

1436. LYNYRD SKYNYRD - FREE BIRD
^ And using the 'free' connection...

1435. JIMI HENDRIX - STONE FREE
^ Staying with the stone theme...

1434. SLY & THE FAMILY STONE - DANCE TO THE MUSIC
^ Foxes are thought to be sly, so...

1433. AREA CODE 615 - STONE FOX CHASE
^ Classical Gas was also recorded by Area Code 615, who recorded our next track (the theme tune to The Old Grey Whistle Test)

1432. MASON WILLIAMS - CLASSICAL GAS
^ Nick Mason is in Pink Floyd. Using the 'Mason' link, we go to...

1431. PINK FLOYD - LUCIFER SAM
^ And from one Sam to yet another...

1430. SAM AND DAVE - SOOTHE ME
^ Double link alert! From one Sam to another, and also to a song written by Sam Cooke...

1429. SAM COOKE - YOU SEND ME
^ Vic Godard used to be a postman...so...

1428. VIC GODARD & SUBWAY SECT - AMBITION
^ From one Vic to another...

1427. VIC REEVES & THE WONDER STUFF - DIZZY
^ From one Reeves to another...

1426. MARTHA REEVES & THE VANDELLAS - NOWHERE TO RUN
^ 'Nineteen' was about the Vietnam war. The film soundtrack to 'Good Morning Vietnam' contained the following tune...

1425. PAUL HARDCASTLE - NINETEEN
^ Add 1+9+6+3 you get 19...

1424. NEW ORDER - 1963
^ Surfin' USA was a hit in 1963 so...

1423. THE BEACH BOYS - SURFIN' USA
^ Tube is a type of wave that's good for surfing, so...

1422. THE TUBES - WHITE PUNKS ON DOPE
^ The underground is also known as 'the tube', so...

1421. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - WHO LOVES THE SUN
^ From the moon to the sun...

1420. THE POLICE - WALKING ON THE MOON
^ Another Wainwright (Alfred) is famous for his walking guides, so...

1419. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT - OH WHAT A WORLD
^ Staying with the fashion theme, our next song opens with the line 'Men reading fashion magazines'...

1418. DAVID BOWIE - FASHION
^ Vogue magazine is all about fashion, so...

1417. MADONNA - VOGUE
^ A type of magazine is...

1416. MAGAZINE - SONG FROM UNDER THE FLOORBOARDS
^ Sly and the Family Stone recorded "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)", which was covered by Magazine. Another song by Magazine is...

1415. SLY & THE FAMILY STONE - IF YOU WANT ME TO STAY
^ From one Family to another....

1414. FAMILY - A WEAVER'S ANSWER
^ Tapestries are made by weavers (and tapestry also features in the lyrics of the next song)...

1413. CAROLE KING - TAPESTRY
^A type of kraftwerk (craftwork) is tapestry, so...

1412. KRAFTWERK - TOUR DE FRANCE
^ 'The King of the Mountains' is one of the stages in the Tour De France, so...

1411. KATE BUSH - KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
^ From 'The King' to a king titled track which references Elvis in the lyrics...

1410. ELVIS PRESLEY - WAY DOWN
^ The last song mentions Elvis in the lyrics, so...

1409. TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS - FREE FALLIN'
^ Jeff Lynne was in The Move. He also produced Tom Petty's 1989 album, 'Full Moon Fever', so here's a track from that album, pop-pickers...

1408. THE MOVE - BLACKBERRY WAY
^ To commemorate Pie Monday, and to link in with the previous song by way of Roy Wood...

1407. ELO - ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN
^ ***Triple Link Alert!** Also 3 intials - plus the word Electric in the band's name AND the EMF album the previous song was from was called 'Schubert Dip'.... so from Schubert to Beethoven....

1406. EMF - UNBELIEVABLE
^ Another band that uses 3 intials...

1405. KLF - LAST TRAIN TO TRANCENTRAL
^ KLF were formerly known as the JAMMS...

1404. THE JAM - AWAY FROM THE NUMBERS
^ And, steering clear of any more numbers, let the Jam take us...

1403. LOVE - SEVEN AND SEVEN IS
^ From sevens to seven...

1402. CULTURE - TWO SEVENS CLASH
^ And from one clash to another...

1401. THE CLASH - JANIE JONES
^ From one Jane to another...

1400. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - SWEET JANE
^ Fleetwood Mac's 'Gypsy' has the lyric 'So I'm Back To the Velvet Underground' (it's the first line of the lyrics)...

1399. FLEETWOOD MAC - GYPSY
^ Telling fortunes was once considered to be the pastime of a gypsy...

1398. ROBERT PLANT AND ALISON KRAUSS - FORTUNE TELLER
^ The owner of a crystal ball might be a fortune teller...

1397. KEANE - CRYSTAL BALL
^ Staying with the ball theme...

1396. ELBOW - MIRRORBALL
^ The last tune was from the album 'Wrecking Ball'...to another type of ball...

1395. EMMYLOU HARRIS - WHERE WILL I BE
^ Evangeline was title of an Emmylou Harris album. So, a tune by her...

1394. THE ICICLE WORKS - EVANGELINE
^ Another girl's name, and it rhymes with Maybelline...

1393. CHUCK BERRY - MAYBELLINE
^ Simon & Garfunkel segued from Kodachrome into a version of the next song during their famous Central Park concert...

1392. PAUL SIMON - KODACHROME
^ Continuing the camera theme...

1391. AZTEC CAMERA - THE CRYING SCENE
^ From cry to crying...

1390. THE CURE - BOYS DON'T CRY
^ It's a boy link...

1389. FUN BOY THREE - THE LUNATICS (HAVE TAKEN OVER THE ASYLUM)
^ From madness to lunatics (and from 7 to 3)...

1388. MADNESS - THE RETURN OF THE LOS PALMAS 7
^ 7 + 7 = another link in the chain...

1387. THE FOUR TOPS - 7 ROOMS OF GLOOM
^ A chamber is a room, so...

1386. KINGS OF LEON - MOLLY'S CHAMBERS
^ The last band and the next band both consist of siblings and a cousin...

1385. THE DIXIE CUPS - IKO IKO
^ A Dixie link...

1384. THE BAND - THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN
^ The Rebel Yell was the Confederate battle-cry in the American Civil War....

1383. BILLY IDOL - REBEL YELL
^ Billy Idol covered 'Mony Mony' hence...

1382. TOMMY JAMES & THE SHONDELLS - MONY MONY
^ From one Tommy to another...

1381. TOMMY TUCKER - HI-HEELED SNEAKERS
^ From shoes to sneakers...

1380. ELVIS COSTELLO - (THE ANGELS WANNA WEAR MY) RED SHOES
^ Carl Perkins wrote Blue Suede Shoes. From Blue Suede shoes to some red ones...

1379. CARL PERKINS - HONEY DON'T
^ The last track was from the album 'Pablo Honey'...

1378. RADIOHEAD - ANYONE CAN PLAY GUITAR
^ A guitar link...

1377. ELVIS PRESLEY - GUITAR MAN
^ Mobile, Alabama gets namechecked by Elvis in our next track...

1376. BOB DYLAN - STUCK INSIDE OF MOBILE WITH THE MEMPHIS BLUES AGAIN
^ Orange is a mobile phone provider. Mobile is in Alabama, and this song...

1375. ORANGE JUICE - I CAN'T HELP MYSELF
^ The Four Tops are mentioned in the lyrics of this song...

1374. THE FOUR TOPS - Reach Out I'll Be There
^ Billy Bragg wrote the song 'Levi Stubbs' Tears'. Levi Stubbs was the lead singer of The Four Tops...

1373. BILLY BRAGG - BETWEEN THE WARS
^ From soldier to war...

1372. THE POLYPHONIC SPREE - SOLDIER GIRL
^ In the army there are soldiers...

1371. KATE BUSH - ARMY DREAMERS
^ A man in uniform? Could be in the army...

1370. GANG OF FOUR - I LOVE A MAN IN UNIFORM
^ Sticking with the 'name' theme - people who wear uniforms often display their name...

1369. THE TING TINGS - THAT'S NOT MY NAME
^ Michael Caine is famed for his saying, 'My name is Michael Caine'. The Ting Tings disagree...

1368. MADNESS - MICHAEL CAINE
^ An actor is...

1367. DAVID BOWIE - CRACKED ACTOR
^ Someone who 'pretends' is an actor...

1366. THE PRETENDERS - BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG
^ If you 'break the rules' you might end up on a chain gang...

1365. STATUS QUO - BREAK THE RULES
^ The previous song mentions Status Quo, so...

1364. TEENAGE FANCLUB - THE CONCEPT
^ From Money to a song from Teenage Fanclub's Bandwagonesque album, which features a bag of money on the front cover...

1363. THE BEATLES - MONEY
^ Another Ebeneezer - Dickens' Ebeneezer Scrooge was only interested in money, so ...

1362. THE SHAMEN - EBENEEZER GOODE
^ From an artist who added an 'E' to his surname to a song about Es...

1361. SAM COOKE - CUPID
^ Buddy Holly was born 'Charles Hardin Holley' and removed the 'E' from his surname, while Sam Cooke added an 'E' to his real surname. Hence...

1360. BUDDY HOLLY - BROWN-EYED HANDSOME MAN
^ And from one brown-eyed person to another...

1359. VAN MORRISON - BROWN-EYED GIRL
^ From one Brown to another...

1358. JAMES BROWN - IT'S A MAN'S MAN'S MAN'S WORLD
^ From Soul, to the Godfather of Soul...

1357. SOUL II SOUL - BACK TO LIFE
^ A resurrection link...

1356. THE STONE ROSES - I AM THE RESURRECTION
^ A chocolate-based link: from 'Heroes' to 'Roses'

1355. THE STRANGLERS - NO MORE HEROES
^ The Stranglers covered 'All Day and All of the Night'...so....

1354. THE KINKS - ALL DAY AND ALL OF THE NIGHT
^ 24 hours equals all day and all night, so...

1353. HAPPY MONDAYS - 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE
^ Wilson Pickett shares a name with Tony Wilson, who signed the Happy Mondays to his Factory label. Hence...

1352. WILSON PICKETT - MUSTANG SALLY
^ Men are often regarded as having a fear of commitment. The next song was performed in the film 'The Commitments'...

1351. DOVES - THERE GOES THE FEAR
^ From paranoia to fear...

1350. BLACK SABBATH - PARANOID
^ From Paranoid to Paranoid...

1349. RADIOHEAD - PARANOID ANDROID
^ 'Marvin The Paranoid Android' is a character in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy...

1348. MARVIN GAYE - WHAT'S GOING ON?
^ If you were oblivious, you'd probably ask...

1347. AZTEC CAMERA - OBLIVIOUS
^ You need to focus a camera...

1346. FOCUS - SYLVIA
^ From one Jan to another (Jan Akkerman)...

1345. JAN AND DEAN - SURF CITY
^ From one Dean to another...

1344. 10CC - THE DEAN AND I
^ A University teaching link: from a Provost to a Dean...

1343. NICK LOWE - MARIE PROVOST
^ And to another Lowe...

1342. DAVID BOWIE - SOUND AND VISION
^ From Low Rider to a song from David Bowie's Low album ...

1341. WAR - LOW RIDER
^ A war link ...

1340. TOM ROBINSON - WAR BABY
^ Tom Robinson did a cover of the previous song. Another simple yet effective Chain link, which leads us to...

1339. STEELY DAN - RIKKI DON'T LOSE THAT NUMBER
^ From Rickie to Rikki...

1338. RICKIE LEE JONES - CHUCK E'S IN LOVE
^ Another Chuck ...

1337. CHUCK BERRY - TOO MUCH MONKEY BUSINESS
^ A monkey link

1336. THE ARCTIC MONKEYS - I BET YOU LOOK GOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR
^ Connecting the next song by the word 'dance'...

1335. KINGS OF CONVENIENCE - I'D RATHER DANCE WITH YOU
^ Elvis was known as The King. He was a fan of convenience food. Hence...

1334. ELVIS PRESLEY - GOOD LUCK CHARM
^ If you were superstitious, you might carry a....

1333. STEVIE WONDER - SUPERSTITION
^ Altered Images did 'Happy Birthday'. Someone who also did a prominent 'Happy Birthday' song is...

1332. ALTERED IMAGES - I COULD BE HAPPY
^ And the next song contains the lyrics 'get away'....

1331. ELECTRONIC - GETTING AWAY WITH IT
^ An electric link!

1330. AC/DC - BACK IN BLACK
^ Staying with black...

1329. THE ROLLING STONES - PAINT IT BLACK
^ Jimmy Mack became popular during the Vietnam War. Another song associated with the Vietnam War, after its use in the TV series Tour of Duty and the film Full Metal Jacket, is ...

1328. MARTHA REEVES & THE VANDELLAS - JIMMY MACK
^ From Mac....to Mack! Simple yet effective.

1327. FLEETWOOD MAC - LANDSLIDE
^ A Jersey link: Fountains of Wayne were named after a garden centre in New Jersey. The next song featured in the film Jersey Girl...

1326. FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE - STACY'S MOM
^ From She's Electric which features the lyric 'I quite fancy her mother' to a whole song about fancying a friend's 'mom'...

1325. OASIS - SHE'S ELECTRIC
^ Continuing the electric theme...

1324. EDDY GRANT - ELECTRIC AVENUE
^ In Brixton, there's the Electric Avenue...

1323. THE CLASH - GUNS OF BRIXTON
^ From Paul Simon to The Clash's Paul Simonon...

1322. PAUL SIMON - 50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER
^ From the last song's lyrics that say, 'Go back, Jack, and do it again' to the next song's 'Slip out the back, Jack'....

1321. STEELY DAN - DO IT AGAIN
^ The Chemical Brothers recorded a tune called 'Do It Again'. So did...

1320. THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS - MUSIC:RESPONSE
^ Keeping the family link alive - from a sister to some brothers...

1319. SISTER SLEDGE - LOST IN MUSIC
^ Family link: from Mamas, Papas, sisters...

1318. THE MAMAS AND THE PAPAS - MONDAY MONDAY
^ From Sunday to Monday...

1317. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - SUNDAY MORNING
^ Staying with Sunday...

1316. THE SMALL FACES - LAZY SUNDAY
^ The Changingman was on Paul Weller's album Stanley Road. Another Stanley - Stanley Unwin - contributed to The Small Faces album Ogden's Nut Gone Flake. So, a song from that album...

1315. PAUL WELLER - THE CHANGINGMAN
^ Here's another man, doing something, i.e. changing...

1314. THE BEES - LISTENING MAN
^ From 'be' to 'bees'...

1313. NICK LOWE - CRUEL TO BE KIND
^ 'Was' is a form of the verb 'to be', so...

1312. WAS (NOT WAS) - WALK THE DINOSAUR
^ Papa Was A Rolling Stone was covered by Was (Not Was), so...

1311. THE TEMPTATIONS - PAPA WAS A ROLLING STONE
^ Sticking with Rolling Stones...

1310. THE ROLLING STONES - JUMPIN' JACK FLASH
^ You Can't Hurry Love is on the soundtrack to the 1986 film Jumpin' Jack Flash. So...

1309. THE SUPREMES - YOU CAN'T HURRY LOVE
^ If you're in a rush you can hurry, but...

1308. RUSH - TOM SAWYER
^ The Circle Game was covered by Tom Rush, so...

1307. JONI MITCHELL - THE CIRCLE GAME
^ The last song mentions 'the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind...', which leads us to another circular song...

1306. NOEL HARRISON - WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND
^ The B-side of I'm The Urban Spaceman was 'Canyons Of Your Mind', which is one word away from...

1305. THE BONZO DOG DOO-DAH BAND - I'M THE URBAN SPACEMAN
^ A boxer is a type of dog, so...

1304. MORRISSEY - BOXERS
^ From box to boxer...

1303. RED BOX - LEAN ON ME
^ Staying with red...

1302. ELVIS COSTELLO - TURNING THE TOWN RED
^ Scully was a British TV series and it's theme tune was ...

1301. CATATONIA - MULDER AND SCULLY
^ David Duchovny was in the hit American TV series 'Californication'. He also played Fox Mulder in The X-Files series. Hence..

1300. THE RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS - CALIFORNICATION
^ From California to...