Totally unofficial Friends of the Earth playlist

So, after our staff away-day - well, technically all-staff-in-our-London-office-day, but who's quibbling - when some of us had adjourned to a nearby pub, I asked my colleagues two questions:

What have you been listening to a lot lately?

Or, what's the last thing you listened to?

The results have been added to a Spotify playlist, but here's a breakdown of what we get down to when we're resting and celebrating after fighting the good fight. Nearly all of musical life is here - from top ten hits present and past tense to treasured obscurities, from soul and funk to punk and metal. Names have been omitted to protect the guilty and preserve the innocent,

Idina Menzel - Let It Go (the only song to be nominated twice, by fathers of young children)

Gillian Welch - Scarlet Town

Metallica - Battery

Offspring - Come Out And Play

FKA Twigs - Video Girl

Anais Mitchell - Young Man In America

AC/DC - Skies on Fire (sadly Spotify not rock and roll enough for AC/DC, so not on playlist)

L'Orchestra Cinematique - The Theme From True Detective

Lau - Far From Portland

We Shall Not Be Moved (no version specified, we went with the marvellous Mavis Staples for the civil rights connection)

Jay Electronica - Better In Tune With The Infinite (available here but not on Spotify)

Radio 4 or Radio 3 when annoyed by Radio 4 (not Spotifiable - Radio 4 the band not deemed suitable replacement)

Salt n Pepa - Push It

Cat Power - Lived In Bars

Ed Sheeran - Sing

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Three Little Birds

Saint Motel - My Type

Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)

Squeeze - Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)

St Lucia - Elevate

Jamie T - Limits Lie

Chris Malinchak - So Good To Me

George Ezra - Did You Hear The Rain

Dan Croll - Compliment Your Soul

Two White Cranes, Walls

Baba Yetu - aka the theme from Civilisation IV (a version by Peter Hollens and Malukah Fenix was the one we ended up using)

Le Tigre - Deceptacon

Jason Isbell - Elephant

Mae gen i dipyn o dŷ bach twt (a Welsh children's song - was worried we wouldn't find this one but Dafydd Ian and Edward came up with the goods)

Frankie Valli - December '63 (Oh What A Night)

And last, but by no means least - Elvis Presley - All Shook Up

NB Where albums or artists were mentioned, I exercised editorial fiat and picked particular tracks. Where a song wasn't available, I went for something from the same artist.