U2 X-Radio: Adam Clayton's Playlists Episode Guides
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"Adam Clayton's playlist will focus on a different genre each month."
Adam Clayton hosts a monthly program where he shares his own musical favourites through an hour long playlist. Each program will see him focus on a different genre of music. The show first aired on February 22, 2021, and is the first new regular program announced in that year. Below you will find the latest information about episodes of this program on U2 X-Radio on SiriusXM. Our full U2 X-Radio discography page is available if you are looking for news, scheduling information, and other information. Additional episode guides are available to the right.
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Adam Clayton's Playlists:
Episode: 01 Funk
Initially Aired: 2021-02-22 21:00
One Nation Under A Groove - Funkadelic / Got to Give it Up (Pt. 1) - Marvin Gaye / Super Freak - Rick James / Sign 'O' The Times - Prince / Papa's Got a Brand New Bag - James Brown / Pick Up the Pieces - Average White Band / Play that Funky Music - Wild Cherry / Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off) - Parliament / Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder / Low Rider - War / Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) - Sly & The Family Stone / Get Down On It - Kool & The Gang / Superfly - Curtis Mayfield / Theme from Shaft - Issac Hayes
Episode: 02 Funk Part 2
Initially Aired: 2021-03-22 21:00
Love Rollercoaster - Ohio Players / Brick House - Commodores / Slippin' into Darkness - The Brothers Johnson / Strawberry Letter 23 - The Brothers Johnson / That Lady - The Isley Brothers / Do It ('Til You're Satisfied) - B.T. Express / Anti Love Song - Betty Davis / Nothing from Nothing - Billy Preston / If You Want Me to Stay - Sly & The Family Stone / Shining Star - Earth, Wind & Fire / Cissy Strut - The Meters / Tell Me Something Good - Rufus / Chaka Khan / Hollywood Swinging - Kool & The Gang / The Payback - James Brown / Word Up! - Cameo / Slide - Slave / Papa Was A Rollin' Stone - The Temptations / Johannesburg - Gil Scott-Heron
Episode: 03 Disco
Initially Aired: 2021-04-22 21:00
Woman's Gotta Have It - Bobby Womack / For the Love of Money - The O'Jays / Soul Makossa - Manu Dibango / Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe - Barry White / Dancing Machine - Jackson 5 / Jive Talkin' - Bee Gees / The Hustle - Van McCoy / Disco Inferno - The Trammps / Dancing Queen - ABBA / I Feel Love - Donna Summer / Le Freak - Chic / Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees / Heart of Glass - Blondie / Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
Episode: 04 Garage Playlist
Initially Aired: 2021-05-28 20:00
All Day And All of the Night - The Kinks / Dirty Water - The Standells / We've Gotta Get Out of This Place - The Animals / Talk Talk - The Music Machine / My Generation - The Who / 96 Tears - ? and the Mysterians / Gloria - Them / Pushin' Too Hard - The Seeds / Walking in Different Circles - Goldie & The Gingerbreads / Little Girl - Syndicate of Sound / I'm Not Your Stepping Stone - Paul Revere and the Raiders / What'cha Gonna Do About It - Small Faces / I Fought the Law - The Bobby Fuller Four / Seven and Seven Is - Love / Train Kept On Rollin' - Yardbirds
Episode: 05 Glitter and Glam
Initially Aired: 2021-06-29 14:00
Jeepster - T. Rex / Suffragette City - David Bowie / All the Young Dudes - Mott the Hoople / Hangin' Round - Lou Reed / Raw Power - Iggy and the Stooges / Rebel Rebel - David Bowie / Gudbuy T'Jane - Slade / Teenage Rampage - The Sweet / Rock On - David Essex / Rock and Roll Part 2 - Gary Glitter / Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting - Elton John / Jet Boy - New York Dolls / School's Out - Alice Cooper / I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass - Nice Lowe / Cat on a Wall - Squeeze / Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll - Ian Dury and the Blockheads
Episode: 06 Pre-Punk
Initially Aired: 2021-07-24 20:10
Rock and Roll - The Velvet Underground / I Wanna Be Your Dog - The Stooges / Teenage Lust - MC5 / Glycerine Queen - Suzi Quatro / Personality Crisis - New York Dolls / Frenchette - David Johansen / She Does it Right - Dr Feelgood / Roadrunner - The Modern Lovers / What Goes On - The Greg Kihn Band / Motor Boy Motor - The 101ers / September Gurls - Big Star / Wild in the Streets - Garland Jeffreys / Cadillac Walk - Mink DeVille / Land: Horses - Land of a Thousand Dances - La Mer - Patti Smith / Help Me Shake It - Graham Parker / Down in the Bunker - Steve Gibbons Band / Marquee Moon - Television
Episode: 07 American Punk
Initially Aired: 2021-09-27 21:00
Blitzkreig Bop - Ramones / Gloria - Patti Smith / Denis - Blondie / Spanish Stroll - Mink DeVille / Venus - Television / Blank Generation - Richard Hell & The Voidoids / Ghost Rider - Suicide / Love -> Building on Fire - Talking Heads / Sonic Reducer - The Dead Boys / Human Fly - The Cramps / Cool Metro - David Johansen / You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Me - Johnny Thunders / Kerouac - Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom / Modern Dance - Pere Ubu / Banned in D.C. - Bad Brains / People Who Died - The Jim Carroll Band
Episode: 08 UK Punk
Initially Aired: 2021-10-26 12:00
Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols / Safe European Home - The Clash / Neat Neat Neat - The Damned / In the City - The Jam / Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie and the Banshees / Damaged Goods - Gang of Four / Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers / The Saints Are Coming - Skids / Pump It Up - Elvis Costello and The Attractions / 2-4-6-8 Motorway - Tom Robinson Band / No More Heroes - The Stranglers / Mannequin - Wire / Club Mekon - Mekons / Babylon's Burning - The Ruts / Top of the Pops - The Rezillos / Dancing With Myself - Generation X / Ever Fallen in Love - Buzzcocks / Rat Race - The Specials / Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division / Precious - The Pretenders / Public Image - Public Image Ltd.
Episode: 09 New Wave
Initially Aired: 2021-12-08 20:00
So Lonely - The Police / Let's Go - The Cars / Brass in Pocket - Pretenders / Town Called Malice - The Jam / Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads / The Magnificent Seven - The Clash / Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant / Is She Really Going Out With Him? - Joe Jackson / White Wedding (Part I) - Billy Idol / Pretty in Pink - The Psychedelic Furs / The One Thing - INXS / There is a Light that Never Goes Out - The Smiths / Save it For Later - The Beat / Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream) - The Icicle Works / I Melt With You - Modern English / Boys in Town - Divinyls / Someone Somewhere (in Summertime) - Simple Minds / The Whole of the Moon - The Waterboys / In A Big Country - Big Country / Seven Seas - Echo and the Bunnymen
Episode: 10 Britpop
Initially Aired: 2022-01-28 23:00
I Wanna Be Adored - The Stone Roses / Step On - Happy Mondays / The Only One I Know - The Charlatans / This is How It Feels - Inspiral Carpets / Cigarettes & Alcohol - Oasis / Girls & Boys - BLur / Common People - Pulp / Movin' On Up - Primal Scream / Far Gone and Out - The Jesus and Mary Chain / The Drowners - Suede / International Bright Young Thing - Jesus Jones / Down by the Water - PJ Harvey / Alright - Supergrass / Sometimes - James / Karma Police - Radiohead / No More Keeping My Feet on the Ground - Coldplay / Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve
Episode: 11 Alternative Soul
Initially Aired: 2022-02-14 22:00
Keep On Movin' - Soul II Soul / Protection - Massive Attack / Overcome - Tricky / Hippychick - Soho / Delicate - Terence Trent D'Arby / I'm Diggin' You - Meshell Ndegeocello / Tennessee - Arrested Development / I Know - Dionne Farris / Television, The Drug of the Nation - Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy / Connected - Stereo MCs / Woman - Nenah Cherry / This Woman's Work - Maxwell / Brown Sugar - D'Angelo / Appletree - Erykah Badu / You Got Me - The Roots / Gone Till November - Wyclef Jean / Doo Wop (That Thing) - Lauryn Hill / Dy-Na-Mi-Tee - Ms. Dynamite / I Try - Macy Gray / Trouble Man - Angie Stone
Episode: 12 Women's History Month
Initially Aired: 2022-03-16 20:00
I'm A Mother - The Pretenders / You Don't Love Me (No, No, No) - Dawn Penn / Slave to the Rhythm - Grace Jones / Love is to Die - Warpaint / Head Over Heels - The Gogo's / Kimberly - Patti Smith / When Under Ether - PJ Harvey / Husbands - Savages / The Ballad of Lucy Jordan - Marianne Faithfull / Wordy Rappinghood - Tom Tom Club / I Heard it through the Grapevine - The Slits / Moses - Elizabeth Fraser / Don't Dictate - Penetration / Worry With You - Sleater-Kinney / Me & Mr Jones - Amy Winehouse / Oh Bondage Up Yours! - X-Ray Spex / Naked Eye - Luscious Jackson / Under Pressure - David Bowie with Gail Anne Dorsey / River Deep, Mountain High - Ike & Tina Turner / I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day - The Pogues
Episode: 13 Women of Colour
Initially Aired: 2022-05-09 20:30
Stay High - Brittany Howard / Thang - Esperanza Spaulding / I Am Not My Hair - India.Arie & Akon / Black Crow - Cassandra Wilson / Say Her Name (Hell You Talmbout) - Janelle Monae / Talkin' Bout a Revolution - Tracy Chapman / Choose Love - Angelique Kidjo / Mountain Top - Toshi Reagon / Cosmic Dancer - Valerie June / When I Get It Right - Joan Armatrading / Ball And Chain - Big Mama Thornton / Chain of Fools - Aretha Franklin / 'S iomadh rud tha dhith orm - Rhiannon Giddens / Movin' It On - Odetta / I"ll Take You There - The Staples Singers / You Are Not Alone - Mavis Staples / Strange Things Happening Every Day - Sister Rosetta Tharpe / Transformation - Nona Hendryx / How Come You Don't Call Me (Live) - Alicia Keys / I Feel for You - Chaka Khan / Quit It - Miriam Makeba / Blessed & Free - Kane Brown and H.E.R. / Skeedle Um - Josephine Baker
Episode: 14 Songs of Pride
Initially Aired: 2022-06-20 22:00
You Are My Sister - Antony & The Johnsons / Born This Way - Lady Gaga / (Sing if You're) Glad to Be Gay - Tom Robinson Band / Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed / Blind (Radio Edit) - Hercules and Love Affair / Tainted Love - Soft Cell / Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat / What Have I Done to Deserve This - Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield / The Joke - Brandi Carlile / Everybody Hurts - R.E.M. / Lady Marmalade - LaBelle / Streets Of Philadeliphia - Bruce Springsteen / Can't Get You Out of My Head - Kylie Minogue / Old Town Road - Lil Nas X / Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood / Tutti Frutti - Little Richard / The Bitch is Back - Elton John / Sexy Mama - Laura Nyro / Queen Bitch - David Bowie / The Man That Got Away - Rufus Wainwright / GMF - John Grant / Perfume Genius - Queen / Somebody to Love (93) - George Michael and Queen
Episode: 15 Alt America
Initially Aired: 2022-07-27 06:00
Come As You Are - Nirvana / Basket Case ('94) - Green Day / Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden / Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins / Never Said - Liz Phair / Better Man - Pearl Jam / Cannonball - The Breeders / A Good Idea - Sugar / Dyslexic Heart - Paul Westerberg / Nearly Lost You - Screaming Trees / You Oughta Know - Alanis Morissette / Pretend We're Dead - L7 / Where It's At - Beck / Sunless Sunday - Fishbone / Mojo Pin - Jeff Buckley / Your Ghost - Kristin Hersh / Crush with Eyeliner - R.E.M. / Celebrity Skin - Hole / A Shot in the Arm - Wilco / Sleep Now in the Fire - Rage Against the Machine / Sleeps with Angels - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Episode: 16 Summertime Playlist
Initially Aired: 2022-08-26 15:00
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry / Hot Hot Hot - Arrow / Three Little Birds - Bob Marley & The Wailers / Master Blaster (Jammin') - Stevie Wonder / Summer - War / Someone Somewhere in Summertime - Simple Minds / Cool Down the Pace - Gregory Isaacs / My Jamaican Guy - Grace Jones / Smile Jamaica - Chronixx / Bankrobber - The Clash / Peaches - The Stranglers / Nightswimming - R.E.M. / Sail On Sailor - Beach Boys / Sunny Afternoon - Kinks / Long Hot Summer - The Style Council / Summer Breeze - The Isley Brothers / Twist and Shout - Chaka Demus and Pliers / Vacation - Go-Gos / Summer Romance - Rolling Stones / Summer in the City - B.B. King / Sleep All Summer - Neko Case ft Eric Bachmann / Under the Boardwalk - The Drifters / Hot in Herre - Nelly / Hot Fun in the Summertime - Sly and the Family Stone / Got to Give it Up - Marvin Gaye / I Feel Love - Donna Summer / Summertime in England - Van Morrison / Ancient of Days - Petra
Episode: 17 Island Records Playlist
Initially Aired: 2022-10-25 20:00
Episode: 18 21st Century Rock Playlist
Initially Aired: 2022-11-24 20:00
Episode: 19 Winter Comfort Playlist
Initially Aired: 2022-12-20 20:00
Episode: 20 Trios Playlist
Initially Aired: 2023-01-11 20:00
Episode: 21 Irish Rock Playlist Part 1
Initially Aired: 2023-03-13 20:00
Episode: 22 Irish Rock Playlist Part 2
Initially Aired: 2023-03-14 20:00
Episode: 23 Irish Diaspora
Initially Aired: 2023-05-19 22:00
Episode: 24 Brian Eno Playlist
Initially Aired: 2023-07-07 22:00
Episode: 25 Daniel Lanois Playlist
Initially Aired: 2023-08-08 22:00
Episode: 26 Steve Lillywhite Playlist
Initially Aired: 2023-09-08 22:00
Episode: 27 Achtung Baby Playlist
Initially Aired: 2023-10-15 22:00
Episode: 28 Desert Playlist
Initially Aired: 2023-11-24 22:00
Episode: 29 Achtung Baby Track-by-Track Playlist
Initially Aired: 2023-12-22 22:00
Episode: 30 Hal Willner Playlist
Initially Aired: 2024-01-26 22:00
Episode: 31 Live Music Playlist
Initially Aired: 2024-02-23 22:00
Episode: 32 Jacknife Lee Playlist
Initially Aired: 2024-03-29 22:00