Ten Random Tracks A Day For 2026: 23rd July to 29th July

 

Picture taken by Altamart and used from Pexels, great picture Altamart!

Week 30 of 52 weeks, we are closer to the end than the beginning and it is starting to get real. Well, not that it hasn't been real, it's not as if posting lists is a labour (unless you count it as a labour of love(?)). But yes, it has been seven (well, six, as last week's blog was late, but there was seven days of posts on Bluesky & Threads) days of lists.  It has also been a period of warm weather, which is annoying me.  I mean, yes I love sunshine and vitamin D, but the plants and garden need rain, we've had the local yearly fair which usually bring rain and it's been bone-dry!  What the hell, I thought we had a deal rain gods (who's existence I doubt).... yet I digress and need to get back on track. 

And just like that, we are reaching the point, where I ask the age old question.  And what question is this? Well, as always, how in the blue hell-scape of space did we get here? At the start of the year on Threads (or possibly on Bluesky), I started to see people posting random 10 songs for the day.  Now, with lists being my sort of thing and finally having the itch to blog again, I thought "lets do this". My aim is to try to post at least one list of songs per day, but as has happened, sometimes I've had to do a few post together.  If you want to follow the lists as they are posted, that is happening on my Bluesky & Threads accounts, and once a week I am compiling into this blog/playlist.  

For full disclosure, I did miss a couple of these days, so I went to my iTunes/YouTube and looked at what I had played on the days missed. Also, when it comes to the playlists I have found that sometimes that track I played is not available.  In those cases, I've added a substitute track, which I will note when posting.  Also, I'm using Spotify.  It is the only streaming service I am used to, I am also looking into changing as Spotify sucks and their owner is a bad egg.  Much like the first post, this post and others might be edited for a new playlist provider.

23rd July 2026

01 - Goldfrapp - Train (taken off the 2003 album "Black Cherry")
02 - I'm Glad It's You - Every Sun, Every Moon (taken off the 2020 album "Every Sun, Every Moon")
03 - Rufio - Above Me (taken off the 2001 album "Perhaps, I Suppose...")
04 - Delian - Burning Bridges (taken off the 2020 album "Apocalypse & Chill")
05 - Whores. - I Am An Amateur At Everything (taken off the 2013 EP "Clean")
06 - girlpuppy - I Was Her Too (taken off the 2025 album "Sweetness")
07 - Seasonal - Honestly (taken off the 2018 album "Weathered")
08 - Bad Touch - Let Go (taken off 2020 album "Kiss The Sky")
09 - Alkaline Trio - We've Had Enough (taken off the 2003 album "Good Mourning")
10 - Killswitch Engage - Abandon Us (taken off the 2025 album "The Consequence")

24th July 2026

01 - High Vis - Guided Tour (taken off the 2024 album "Guided Tour")
02 - Modern Life Is War - Johnny Gone (taken off the 2025 album "Life On The Moon")
03 - Panic! At The Disco - The Only Difference Between Martyrdom & Suicide Is Press Coverage (taken off the 2005 album "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out")
04 - Miss Lava - Chaos Strain (taken off the 2025 album "Under A Black Sun")
05 - Silver Sun - Nobody (taken off the 1997 album "Silver Sun")
06 - Frank Zappa - Columbia, S.C (Pt. 2) (taken off the 2016 album "Little Dots")
07 - The Smashing Pumpkins - Necromance (taken off the 2026 album "Zodeon At Crystal Hall")
08 - Idles - Progress (taken off the 2021 album "Crawler")
09 - Miesha And The Spanks - s7elkst (taken off the 2023 album "Unconditional Love In Hi-Fi")
10 - Ghost - Life Eternal (taken off the 2018 album "Prequelle")

25th July 2026

01 - Sick Of It All - Who Sets The Rules (taken off the 1994 album "Scratch The Surface") (RIP Lou Koller)
02 - Tori Amos - I Can't See New York (taken off the 2002 album "Scarlet's Walk")
03 - Roy Orbison - In Dreams (taken off the 1963 album "In Dreams")
04 - Meat Puppets - Oh, Me (taken off the 1984 album "Meat Puppets II")
05 - Living Colour - Inner City Blues (taken off the 2017 album "Shade")
06 - Rush - Alien Shore (taken off the 1993 album "Counterparts")
07 - Jónsi - Exhale (taken off the 2020 album "Shiver")
08 - Pixies - Tenement Song (taken off the 2016 album "Head Carrier")
09 - Some Smoking Guys - Room 15 (taken off the 2018 album "Regular Faces")
10 - LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends (taken off the 2006 album "Sound Of Silver")

26th July 2026

01 - David Gilmour - Sorrow (Live) (taken off the 2017 album "Live At Pompeii")
02 - Crippled Black Phoenix - Self Control (taken off the 2024 album "Horrific Honorifics Number Two (2)")
03 - Jay Buchanan - Weapons Of Beauty (taken off the 2026 album "Weapons Of Beauty")
04 - Goose - Chiron (taken off the 2024 album "Ted Tapes 2024")
05 - Devin Townsend - Canada (taken off the 2001 album "Terria")
06 - Magnum - Ya Wanna Be Some (taken off the 2018 album "Lost On The Road To Eternity")
07 - Rise Against - Monarch (taken off the 2021 album "Nowhere Generation")
08 - Anathema - Temporary Peace (taken off the 2008 album "Hindsight")
09 - Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers (taken off the 2009 album "Journal For Plague Lovers")
10 - Stavesacre - Freefall (From Hand To Hand) (taken off the 1999 album "Speakeasy")

27th July 2026

01 - Miike Snow - My Trigger (taken off the 2016 album "iii")
02 - Villagers - I Want What I Don't Need (taken off the 2024 album "That Golden Time")
03 - Hot Chip - Clear Blue Skies (taken off the 2019 album "A Bath Full Of Ectasy")
04 - Kim Wilde - You Keep Me Hangin' On (taken off the 1986 album "Another Step")
05 - Pet Shop Boys - Bullet For Narcissus (taken off the 2024 album "Nonetheless")
06 - Tricky - Black Steel (taken off the 1995 album "Maxinquaye")
07 - Saul Williams - Thought About It (taken off the 2019 album "Encrypted & Vulnerable")
08 - Young Fathers - Geronimo (taken off the 2023 album "Heavy Heavy")
09 - Arrested Development - We Want This (To Be Ruled) (taken off the 2024 album "Bullets In The Chamber")
10 - The Prodigy - Out Of Space (taken off the 1992 album "Experience")

28th July 2026

01 - Decade - Peach Milk (taken off the 2017 album "Pleasantries")
02 - about tess - Seer (taken off the 2014 album "Shining")
03 - Feeder - Seven Days In The Sun (taken off the 2001 album "Echo Park")
04 - Iron Maiden - Ghost Of The Navigator (taken off the 2000 album "Brave New World")
05 - Shudder To Think - Hit Liquor (taken off the 1994 album "Pony Express Record")
06 - Division Of Laura Lee - Sit Up Straight (taken off the 2020 album "Apartment")
07 - Red Fang - No Air (taken off the 2016 album "Only Ghost")
08 - Junodream - Death Drive (taken off the 2024 album "Pools Of Colour")
09 - The Umbrellas - Autumn (taken off the 2021 album "The Umbrellas")
10 - Death Valley Girls - Dream Cleaver (taken off the 2020 album "Under The Spell Of Joy")

29th July 2026

01 - Sallie Ford - Unraveling (taken off the 2017 album "Soul Sick")
02 - Fangclub - Better To Forget (taken off the 2017 album "Fangclub")
03 - The Black Keys - This Is Nowhere (taken off the 2024 album "Ohio Players")
04 - The Cranberries - A Place I Know (taken off the 2019 album "In The End")
05 - The Staves - Steady (taken off the 2015 album "If I Was")
06 - David Usher - Kill The Lights (taken off the 2008 album "Wake Up And Say Goodbye") (Eddie Note: "Wake Up And Say Goodbye" is not on Spotify, but a remix version (the Mile End Mix) is on there, taken from the album "The Mile End Session")
07 - The Menzingers - High School Friend (taken off the 2019 album "Hello Exile")
08 - Eleventh Dream Day - It's All A Game (taken off the 1991 album "Lived To Tell")
09 - Hot Snakes - Why Don't It Sink In (taken off the 2018 album "Jericho Sirens")
10 - Like Pacific - Waste Of Breath (taken off the 2021 album "Control My Sanity")

Here is a link to the playlist! 

Ten Random Tracks A Day For 2026: 16th July to 22nd July

 

Picture taken by Lisa from Pexels and used from...Pexels (obvs)! Great picture Lisa!

Week 29 people!  We are on the downward end of the posts! And somehow, I am still doing this. To be honest, I still am surprised that I am still posting, I have almost thrown in the towel every now and then.  But not because I wanted to stop, just life getting in the way.  However, my mind still want to do this, which I am taking as a positive.  I've also been looking at my 2026 AOTY list, I'm currently 267 deep at the moment, so might do a separate post about that as well.  Also, apologise for this being a day late, massive headache the day before, so delayed whilst that went away.

But enough about the future, let us talk about the past and find out what do we have going on! Well, as always, these posts are about the first ten random tracks of the day, and how in the blue hell-scape of space did we get here? At the start of the year on Threads (or possibly on Bluesky), I started to see people posting random 10 songs for the day.  Now, with lists being my sort of thing and finally having the itch to blog again, I thought "lets do this". My aim is to try to post at least one list of songs per day, but as has happened, sometimes I've had to do a few post together.  If you want to follow the lists as they are posted, that is happening on my Bluesky & Threads accounts, and once a week I am compiling into this blog/playlist.  

For full disclosure, I did miss a couple of these days, so I went to my iTunes/YouTube and looked at what I had played on the days missed. Also, when it comes to the playlists I have found that sometimes that track I played is not available.  In those cases, I've added a substitute track, which I will note when posting.  Also, I'm using Spotify.  It is the only streaming service I am used to, I am also looking into changing as Spotify sucks and their owner is a bad egg.  Much like the first post, this post and others might be edited for a new playlist provider.

16th July 2026

01 - Coyote Mad Seeds - Jaded Son (taken off the 2019 album "Terahedron")
02 - Bad Rabbits - Goin Up (taken off the 2023 album "Garden Of Eden")
03 - Tinariwen - Bismilah (taken off the 2000 album "The Radio Tisdas Sessions")
04 - Belle Sebastian - Give A Little Time (taken off the 2023 album "Late Developers")
05 - Idlewild - A Film For The Future (taken off the 1998 album "Hope Is Important")
06 - Interpol - All The Rage Back Home (taken off the 2014 album "El Pintor")
07 - Prefab Sprout - Elegance (taken off the 1984 album "Swoon")
08 - The Meffs - Life's Life (taken off the 2024 album "What A Life")
09 - Lissie - In Sleep (taken off the 2010 album "Catching A Tiger")
10 - Luke Haines & Peter Buck - The Skies Are Full Of Insane Machines (taken off the 2022 album "All The Kids Are Super Bummed Out")

17th July 2026

01 - Bombay Bicycle Club - Everything Else Has Gone Wrong (taken off the 2020 album "Everything Else Has Gone Wrong")
02 - Lakes - Lucerence (taken off the 2019 album "The Constance")
03 - Plexi - Magnet (taken off the 1996 album "Cheer Up")
04 - The Noise & The Naïve - Mary (taken off the 2017 EP "Debut")
05 - Snail Mail - Hell (taken off the 2026 album "Ricochet")
06 - The Smile - Thin Thing (taken off the 2022 album "A Light For Attracting Attention")
07 - The Smashing Pumpkins - Soothe (Demo) (taken off the 1994 compilation "Pisces Iscariot")
08 - Editors - Munich (taken off the 2005 album "The Back Room")
09 - The Levellers - Leave This Town (taken off the 1995 album "Zeitgesist")
10 - Jim Bob - Swordfight Outside McDonalds (taken off the 2025 album "Stick")

18th July 2026

01 - Pearl Jam - Can't Deny Me (2018 single)
02 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues (taken off the 2004 album "Abattoir Blues")
03 - Blueshift - Voyager (taken off the 2020 album "Voyager")
04 - Fiona Apple - Valentine (taken off the 2012 "The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw, and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do")
05 - The Wild Things - Drunk Again (taken off the 2024 "Afterglow")
06 - State Champs - Just Sound (taken off the 2022 album "Kings Of The New Age")
07 - Ed's Redeeming Qualities - Think (taken off the 1991 album "It's All Good News")
08 - Titans - Wake The Dead (2020 single)
09 - Soul And Pimp Sessions - Memai (taken off the 2006 album "Pimp Of The Year")
10 - The Smashing Pumpkins - The Tale Of Dusty & Pistol Pete (taken off the 1998 album "Adore")

19th July 2026

01 - The Joy Formidable - This Ladder Is Ours (taken off the 2013 album "Wolf Law's")
02 - Depeche Mode - Suffer Well (taken off the 2005 album "Playing The Angel")
03 - Tom Waits - Coney Island Baby (taken off the 2002 album "Blood Money")
04 - Lucky Malice - More Than A Ring (taken off the 2012 album "Homme Fatale")
05 - Lord Of The Lost - My Sanctuary (taken off the 2025 album "OPVS NOIR Vol.1")
06 - Okkervil River - Pulled Up The Ribbon (taken off the 2018 album "In The Rainbow Rain")
07 - BNQT - 100 Million Miles (taken off the 2017 album "Volume 1")
08 - The Divine Comedy - Lucy (taken off the 1993 album "Liberation")
09 - China Drum - Simple (taken off the 1996 album "Goosefair")
10 - L7 - Pretend We're Dead (taken off the 1992 album "Bricks Are Heavy") (RIP Jennifer Finch)

20th July 2026

01 - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Baudelaire (taken off the 2002 album "Source Tags & Codes")
02 - Sia - Gimme Love (taken off the 2024 album "Reasonable Woman")
03 - Le Butcherettes - My Mallely (taken off the 2015 album "A Raw Youth")
04 - Beck - Heart Is A Drum (taken off the 2014 album "Morning Phase")
05 - As It Is - Okay (taken off the 2017 album "okay.")
06 - Lanterns On The Lakes - The Saboteur (taken off the 2023 album "Versions Of Us")
07 - Cheap Trick - When I Wake Up Tomorrow (taken off the 2016 album "Bang, Zoom, Crazy... Hello")
08 - Being As An Ocean - Know My Name (taken off the 2017 album "Waiting For Morning To Come")
09 - Vox Vocis - Cold Snap (taken off the 2018 album "Star Meissa")
10 - The Menzingers - Try (taken off the 2023 album "Some Of It Was True")

21st July 2026

01 - Stabbing Westward - Dead And Gone (taken off the 2020 album "Dead And Gone")
02 - Primordial - Upon Our Spiritual Deathbed (taken off the 2018 album "Exile Amongst The Ruins")
03 - Hanging Garden - The Garden (taken off the 2023 album "The Garden")
04 - Moon Safari - A Lifetime To Learn How To Love (taken off the 2023 album "Himlabacken Vol.2")
05 - Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal (taken off the 2001 album "ANThology")
06 - Thrice - Promises (taken off the 2011 album "Major/Minor")
07 - Hundred Reasons - Drowning (taken off the 2002 album "Ideas Above Our Station")
08 - Queensrÿche - Breaking The Silence (taken off the 1988 album "Operation:Mindcrime")
09 - Funeral For A Friend - Recovery (taken off the 2005 album "Hours")
10 - Deftones - Hexagram (taken off the 2003 album "Deftones")

22nd July 2026

01 - Aimee Mann - Little Bombs (taken off the 2005 album "The Forgotten Arm")
02 - Paul Weller - In Full Flight (taken off the 2024 album "66")
03 - Mudhoney - This Is The Life (taken off the 1998 album "Tomorrow Hit Today")
04 - Disquiet, Black Country - Tearful Sordid Territory (2022 single)
05 - Toad The West Sprocket - Torn (taken off the 1990 album "Pale")
06 - No Thank You - Airport (taken off the 2020 album "Embroidered Foliage")
07 - Shallow - Trying (taken off the 2020 EP "Kill Your Friends")
08 - Goldfinger - It's Your Life (taken off the 2002 album "Open Your Eyes")
09 - onelinedrawing - Um... (taken off the 2002 album "Visitor")
10 - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - The Waiting (taken off the 1981 album "Hard Promises")

Here is a link to the playlist! 

Ten Random Tracks A Day For 2026: 9th July to 15th July

 

Picture taken by Odin Reyna, & used from Pexels, great photo Odin!

We are here at week 28 of this blog being almost regular, how the fuck did that happen! Honestly, there has been a few weeks where I've been late, but mostly it has been one a week and that is good for me. Considering how burnt out I was with my last blog, I am taking that as a victory!  Also, considering that the sun seems to have been left on full heat, I'm taking everything easy as it comes at the moment.  I am still looking at some other posts to add here, but until I am ready, just these lists for now.   

So, whilst we are melting here in the UK, what do we have going on! Well, as always, it is ten random tracks, and how in the blue hell-scape of space did we get here? At the start of the year on Threads (or possibly on Bluesky), I started to see people posting random 10 songs for the day.  Now, with lists being my sort of thing and finally having the itch to blog again, I thought "lets do this". My aim is to try to post at least one list of songs per day, but as has happened, sometimes I've had to do a few post together.  If you want to follow the lists as they are posted, that is happening on my Bluesky & Threads accounts, and once a week I am compiling into this blog/playlist.  

For full disclosure, I did miss a couple of these days, so I went to my iTunes/YouTube and looked at what I had played on the days missed. Also, when it comes to the playlists I have found that sometimes that track I played is not available.  In those cases, I've added a substitute track, which I will note when posting.  Also, I'm using Spotify.  It is the only streaming service I am used to, I am also looking into changing as Spotify sucks and their owner is a bad egg.  Much like the first post, this post and others might be edited for a new playlist provider.

9th July 2026

01 - They Might Be Giants - Overnight Sensation (Hit Record) (taken off the 2026 album "The World Is To Dig")
02 - Puscifier - A Singularity (taken off the 2020 album "Existential Reckoning")
03 - Dream Theater - The Dark Eternal Night (taken off the 2007 album "Systematic Cgaos")
04 - Biffy Clyro - Space (taken off the 2020 album "A Celebration of Endings")
05 - Deep Purple - Step By Step (taken off the 2020 album "Whoosh!")
06 - Dread Zeppelin - Misty Mountain Hop (taken off the 1991 album "5,000,000*")
07 - Windhand - Evergreen (taken off the 2013 album "Soma")
08 - Regurgitator - Music Is Sport (taken off the 1996 album "Tu Plang...")
09 - Foxing - Dead Internet (taken off the 2024 album "Foxing")
10 - The Zutons - Company (taken off the 2024 album "The Big Decider")

10th July 2026

01 - Two Lone Swordsmen - Taste Of Our Flames (taken off the 2004 album "From The Double Gone Chapel")
02 - Rancid - Olympia, WA (taken off 1995 album "And Out Come The Wolves")
03 - The Sword - Agartha (taken off the 2015 album "High Country")
04 - Suede - Whipsnade (originally taken off the 1994 single "We Are The Pigs", later released on the deluxe version of the 1994 album "Dog Man Star")
05 - Depeche Mode - The Darkest Star (taken off the 2005 album "Playing The Angel")
06 - Fury In The Slaughterhouse - Down There (taken off the 1995 album "The Hearing And The Sense Of Balance")
07 - Del Amitri - Mockingbird, Copy Me Now (taken off the 2021 album "Fatal Mistakes")
08 - The Joy Formidable - Sevier (taken off the 2021 album "Into The Blue")
09 - Father John Mistry - Two Wildly Different Perspectives (taken off the 2017 album "Pure Comedy")
10 - Mogwai - Drive The Nail (taken off the 2021 album "As The Love Continues")

11th July 2026

01 - Sleater-Kinney - Get Up (taken off the 1999 album "The Hot Rock")
02 - Daniel Cavanagh - Some Dreams Come True (taken off the 2017 album "Monochrome")
03 - Megadeth - Hangar 18 (taken off the 1990 album "Rust In Peace")
04 - Ministry - Corrosion (taken off the 1992 album "Pslam 69:The Way To Succeed And The Way To Suck Eggs")
05 - Royal Blood - Boliermaker (taken off the 2021 album "Typhoons")
06 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Aeroplane (taken off the 1995 album "One Hot Minute")
07 - The Smashing Pumpkins - Try, Try, Try (taken off the 2000 album "Machina/The Machines Of God")
08 - Ghost Atlas - Fox Rain (taken off the 2017 album "All Is In Sync, And There's Nothing Left To Sing About")
09 - Electronic - Get The Message (taken off the 1991 album "Electronic")
10 - Jazz Emu - English Language (taken off the 2022 album "Digital Spool")

12th July 2026

01 - Haim - All Over Me (taken off the 2025 album "I Quit")
02 - The Divine Comedy - Absolutely Obsolete (taken off the 2019 album "Office Politics")
03 - Bombay Bicycle Club - Just A Little More Time (taken off the 2023 album "My Big Day")
04 - Fall Out Boy - Fame < Infamy (taken off the 2007 album "Infinity On High")
05 - Alice In Chains - Bleed The Freak (taken off the 1990 album "Facelift")
06 - The Decemberists - All I Want Is You (taken off the 2024 album "As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again")
07 - Frank Zappa - No Not Now (taken off the 1982 album "Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch")
08 - Radiohead - Scatterbrain (As Dead As Leaves.) (taken off the 2003 album "Hail To The Thief")
09 - Counting Crows - Rain King (taken off the 1993 album "August And Everything After")
10 - Biffy Clyro - Re-Arrange (taken off the 2016 album "Ellipsis")

13th July 2026

01 - Def Leppard - Hysteria (taken off the 1987 alum "Hysteria")
02 - Counting Crows - Another Horsedreamer's Blues (taken off the 1996 album "Recovering The Satellites")
03 - Nirvana - Milk It (taken off the 1993 album "In Utero")
04 - The Mock Turtles - Can You Dig It? (taken off the 1991 album "Turtle Soup")
05 - The Wonder Stuff - Unfaithful (taken off the 1989 album "Hup!")
06 - Haddaway - What Is Love (taken off the 1993 album "Haddaway - The Album")
07 - Pearl Jam - Dance Of The Clairoyants (taken off the 2020 album "Gigaton")
08 - Big Country - In A Big Country (taken off the 1983 album "The Crossing")
09 - Mariachi El Bronx - Sleepwalking (taken off the 2012 album "Mariachi El Bronx (I)")
10 - Grinderman - Honey Bee (Let's Fly To Mars") (taken off the 2006 album "Grinderman")

14th July 2026

01 - The Wonder Stuff - Room 410 (taken off the 1989 album "Hup!")
02 - Elton John - Have Mercy On The Criminal (taken off the 1973 album "Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player")
03 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Weeping Song (taken off the 1990 album "The Good Son")
04 - The Charlatans - (No One) Not Even The Rain (taken off the 1992 album "Between 10th and 11th")
05 - The Get Up Kids - Salina (taken off the 2019 album "Problems")
06 - Franz Ferdinand - Cats (taken off the 2025 album "The Human Fear")
07 - Father John Mistry - Mr. Tillman (taken off the 2018 album "God's Favorite Customer")
08 - Haim - Love You Right (taken off the 2025 album "I Quit")
09 - Queens Of The Stone Age - Quick And To The Pointless (taken off the 2000 album "Rated R")
10 - Pearl Jam - Bugs (taken off the 1994 album "Vitalogy")

15th July 2026

01 - Alice In Chains - Would? (taken off the 1992 album "Dirt")
02 - Thrice - Northern Lights (taken off the 2021 album "Horizons/East")
03 - Butler, Blake & Grant - The 90s (taken off the 2025 album "Butler, Blake & Grant")
04 - Elvis Costello - This Is Hell (taken off the 1994 album "Brutal Youth")
05 - Willie Dowling - Down The Slide (taken off the 2024 album "The Simpleton")
06 - Deftones - ecdysis (taken off the 2025 album "Private Music")
07 - Incubus - New Skin (taken off the 1997 album "S.C.I.E.N.C.E.")
08 - Rocket From The Crypt - Come See, Come Saw (taken off the 1995 album "Scream Dracula Scream")
09 - The Beatles - When I'm Sixty Four (taken off the 1967 album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band")
10 - Freddie Mercury - The Pretender (originally released as a single in 1987, later released as part of the 1992 compilation "The Freddie Mercury Album")

Here is a link to the playlist! 

Ten Random Tracks A Day For 2026: 2nd July to 8th July

Photo taken by Salva Amin Azaf and used from Pexels, great photo Salva!

Week 27 has passed, and it is a week of celebration.  It will have been my wedding anniversary, as well as Mrs C's birthday.  At the time I do this part, I am getting things together for it, and looking forward to the days. Been together a long time, she is amazing and I'm lucky to have her in my life.  Also, the poor lady has to put up with me listening to a lot of Frank Zappa!  

So, after celebrations, what do we have going o!n Well, as always, it is ten random tracks, and how in the blue hell-scape of space did we get here? At the start of the year on Threads (or possibly on Bluesky), I started to see people posting random 10 songs for the day.  Now, with lists being my sort of thing and finally having the itch to blog again, I thought "lets do this". My aim is to try to post at least one list of songs per day, but as has happened, sometimes I've had to do a few post together.  If you want to follow the lists as they are posted, that is happening on my Bluesky & Threads accounts, and once a week I am compiling into this blog/playlist.  

For full disclosure, I did miss a couple of these days, so I went to my iTunes/YouTube and looked at what I had played on the days missed. Also, when it comes to the playlists I have found that sometimes that track I played is not available.  In those cases, I've added a substitute track, which I will note when posting.  Also, I'm using Spotify.  It is the only streaming service I am used to, I am also looking into changing as Spotify sucks and their owner is a bad egg.  Much like the first post, this post and others might be edited for a new playlist provider.

2nd July 2026

01 - Spielbergs - You Can Be Yourself With Me (taken off the 2022 album "Vestil")
02 - Modern Nature - Zoology (taken off the 2025 album "The Heat Wraps")
03 - Hüsker Dü - Folk Lore (taken off the 1985 album "New Day Rising")
04 - Middle Kids - Stacking Chairs (taken off the 2021 album "Today We're The Greatest")
05 - Home Grown - Waiting On Me (taken off the 2002 album "Kings of Pop")
06 - The Wildhearts - The Renaissance Men (taken off the 2019 album "Renaissance Men")
07 - Queen - Innuendo (taken off the 1991 album "Innuendo")
08 - U2 - The Fly (taken off the 1991 album "Achtung Baby")
09 - Natalie Bergman - Dance (taken off the 2025 album "My Home Is Not In This World")
10 - Pixies - Another Toe In The Ocean (taken off the 2013 EP "EP1" & the 2014 album/compilation (depending on how you view it) "Indie Cindy")

3rd July 2026

01 - Little Comets - Violence Out Tonight (taken off the 2012 album "Life Is Elsewhere")
02 - Sundara Karma - Violence To The Spirit (taken off the 2023 album "Better Luck Next Time")
03 - Wino - Crystal Madonna (taken off the 2020 album "Forever Gone")
04 - The Black Keys - When The Light Goes Out (taken off the 2004 album "Rubber Factory")
05 - Imperial Drag - Overnight Sensation (taken off the 1996 album "Imperial Drag")
06 - Everclear - Father of Mine (taken off the 1997 album "So Much For The Afterglow")
07 - Ozzy Osborne - No Escape From Now (taken off the 2022 "Patient Number 9")
08 - Pixies - Ernest Evans (taken off the 2024 album "The Night The Zombies Came")
09 - Mastodon - The Crux (taken off the 2021 album "Hushed and Grim")
10 - The Mars Volta - The Requisition (taken off the 2022 album "The Mars Volta")

4th July 2026

01 - The Jesus and Mary Chain - Reverence (taken off the 1992 album "Honey's Dead")
02 - Silver Ginger 5 - Sonic Shake (taken off the 2001 album "Black Leather Mojo")
03 - Actors - Only Lonely (taken off the 2021 album "Acts Of Worship")
04 - The Wildhearts - Bang! (b-side to the 2003 single "Stormy In The North Karma In The South" & later released on the 2004 compilation "Coupled With!")
05 - Reel Big Fish - Where Have You Been? (taken off the 2002 album "Cheer Up")
06 - Wilt - Distortion (taken off the 2002 album "My Medicine")
07 - The Cranberries - In The End (taken off the 2019 album "In The End")
08 - Nina Simone - Day and Night (taken off the 1967 album "Nina Simone Sings The Blues")
09 - Wayward Sons - Tip Of My Tongue (taken off the 2021 album "Even Up The Score")
10 - Little Comets - Mathilda (taken off the 2011 album "In Search Of The Elusive Little Comets")

5th July 2026

01 - David Bowie - Let's Dance (taken off the 1983 album "Let's Dance")
02 - Tenacious D - Tribute (taken off the 2001 album "Tenacious D")
03 - Buckcherry - Crazy Bitch (taken off the 2005 album "15")
04 - Pearl Jam - The Fixer (taken off the 2009 album "Backspacer")
05 - Biffy Clyro - Mountains (taken off the 2009 album "Only Revolutions")
06 - Rush - Time Stand Still (w/Aimee Mann) (taken off the 1987 album "Hold Your Fire")
07 - The Darkness - I Believe In A Thing Called Love (taken off the 2003 album "Permission To Land")
08 - Audioslave - Cochise (taken off the 2002 album "Audioslave")
09 - Steve Vai - Still My Beating Heart (taken off the 1993 album "Sex & Religon")
10 - Seasick Steve - St. Louis Slim (taken off the 2008 album "I Started Out Nothin' And I've Still Got Most Of It Left")

6th July 2026

01 - Dunes - Everything Is OK (taken off the 2018 EP "Dunes EP 2")
02 - Tony Allen - Secret Agent (taken off the 2009 album "Secret Agent")
03 - R.E.M. - E-Bow The Letter (w/Marianne Faithful) (taken off the 1996 album "New Adventures In Hi-Fi")
04 - Sananda Maiteya - Wishing Well (taken off the 1987 album "Introducing The Hardline According to Sananda Maiteya")
05 - Doombird - The Salt (taken off the 2016 album "Past Lives")
06 - Dropkick Murphys - The Green Fields Of France (taken off the 2005 album "The Warrior's Code")
07 - a-Ha - The Living Daylights (taken off the 1987 soundtrack "The Living Daylights" and the 1988 album "Stay On These Roads")
08 - The Amazing - Piggies (taken off the 2024 album "Piggies")
09 - Yak - Harbour The Feeling (taken off the 2016 album "Atlas Salvation")
10 - The Darkness - Black Shuck (taken off the 2003 album "Permission To Land")

7th July 2026

01 - Lord Of The Lost - Live Pray Die Repeat (taken off the 2018 album "Thornstar")
02 - Fish - Internal Exile (taken off the 1991 album "Internal Exile")
03 - Billie Marten - Hello Sunshine (taken off the 2016 album "Writing Blues And Yellows")
04 - American Football - My Instincts Are The Enemy (taken off the 2016 album "American Football (2016)")
05 - Intastella - The Night (taken off the 1995 album "What You Gonna Do")
06 - Deafcult - Here Be Death (taken off the 2017 album "Auras")
07 - Elton John - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me (taken off the 1974 album "Caribou")
08 - The Gathering - We Rise (taken off the 2022 album "Beautiful Distoriton")
09 - Drag Me Out - Rip A Hole (taken off the 2019 album "Pressure")
10 - Joseph Arthur - I Used To Know How To Walk On Water (taken off the 2013 album "The Ballad Of Boogie Christ")

8th July 2026

01 - A.F.I. - Break Angels (taken off the 2018 EP "The Missing Man")
02 - Fishbone - They All Have Abandoned Their Hope (taken off the 1993 album "Give A Monkety A Brain And He'll Swear He's The Centre Of The Universe")
03 - Ulver - They're Coming! The Birds! (taken off the 2025 album "Neverland")
04 - The Joy Formidable - Whirring (taken off the 2011 album "The Big Roar")
05 - Pulp - Pink Glove (taken off the 1994 album "His N Her")
06 - Mute Math - You Are Mine (taken off the 2006 album "Mute Math")
07 - King Buffalo - Goliath (taken off the 2016 album "Orion")
08 - The Copper Temple Clause - Film-Maker (taken off the 2002 album "See This Through And Leave")
09 - Greta Van Fleet - Mountain Of The Sun (taken off the 2018 album "Anthem Of The Peaceful Army")
10 - Iron & Wine & Ben Birdwell - I Want To Know What Love Is (taken off the 2025 EP "Making Good Time")

Here is a link to the playlist! 

Ten Random Tracks A Day For 2026: 25th June to 1st July

 

Picture taken by Christelle Wehbe and from Pexels, great picture Christelle!

Week 26 people, as Bon Jovi said, we are half way there! And by Christ, is it not stupidly hot at the time of writing this opening.  I mean so hot that clothes are being drained of colour as they are dry on the line.  Also, there is a event in the US happening called The World Cup (football, or soccer if you are from east of the UK), which I am trying to avoid.  It is not holding my interest at all, but that is not really a surprise.  I've nothing against the game itself, mostly the armchair fans who do my nut in, shouting that they could do better themselves, which I am sure they could not.  If you enjoy it, have a great time, I'll be over here playing my records.

And what diamonds have I been listening to this week dear readers? Well, as always, how in the blue hell-scape of space did we get here? At the start of the year on Threads (or possibly on Bluesky), I started to see people posting random 10 songs for the day.  Now, with lists being my sort of thing and finally having the itch to blog again, I thought "lets do this". My aim is to try to post at least one list of songs per day, but as has happened, sometimes I've had to do a few post together.  If you want to follow the lists as they are posted, that is happening on my Bluesky & Threads accounts, and once a week I am compiling into this blog/playlist.  

For full disclosure, I did miss a couple of these days, so I went to my iTunes/YouTube and looked at what I had played on the days missed. Also, when it comes to the playlists I have found that sometimes that track I played is not available.  In those cases, I've added a substitute track, which I will note when posting.  Also, I'm using Spotify.  It is the only streaming service I am used to, I am also looking into changing as Spotify sucks and their owner is a bad egg.  Much like the first post, this post and others might be edited for a new playlist provider.

25th June 2026

01 - The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band - Scream At The Night (taken off the 2015 album "So Delicious")
02 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer - When The Apple Blossoms Bloom In The Windmills Of Your Mind I'll Be Your Valentine (originally the b-side to the 1973 single "Jerusalem", later released on various versions of the 1973 album "Brain Salad Surgery")
03 - Longpigs - Sally Dances (taken off the 1995 album "The Sun Is Often Out")
04 - The Wounded Kings - Vultures (taken off the 2016 album "Visions In Bone")
05 - Earthists - Cybele (taken off the 2017 album "Dreamscape")
06 - Amon Amarth - Skoll and Hati (taken off the 2019 album "Berserker")
07 - Whitelands - Road (taken off the 2018 EP "Old News")
08 - Bloc Party - Different Drugs (taken off the 2016 album "Hymns")
09 - Ride - I Came To See The Wreck (taken off the 2024 album "Interplay")
10 - Hootie & The Blowfish - Honeyscrew (taken off the 1996 album "Fairweather Johnson")

26th June 2026

01 - Stone Sour - Cardiff (Acoustic) (taken off the 2016 re-release of the 2006 album "Come What(ever) May)
02 - Orville Peck - Roses Are Falling (taken off 2019 album "Pony")
03 - Van Halen - A.F.U. (Naturally Wired) (taken off the 1988 album "OU812")
04 - We Are Scientists - Cash Cow (taken off the 2005 album "With Love And Squalor")
05 - Pet Shop Boys - Before (taken off the 1996 album "Bilingual")
06 - Circa Survive - Die On The West Coast (taken off the 2022 album "Two Dreams")
07 - Frank Turner - Four Simple Words (taken off the 2013 album "Tape Deck Heart")
08 - Ghost Hounds - Mountain Rain (taken off the 2021 album "A Little Calamity")
09 - Japandroids - Continuous Thunder (taken off the 2012 album "Celebration Rock)
10 - Daft Punk - Get Lucky (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rogers) (Drumless Version) (taken off the 2023 album "Random Access Memories (Drumless Version)"

27th June 2026

01 - Kula Shaker - Knight On The Town (taken off the 1996 album "K")
02 - Frank Zappa - Uncle Remus (taken off the 1974 album "Apostrophe (')")
03 - Time Thieves - You Should Know (taken off the 2020 album "Space")
04 - BMX Bandits - Motorboat (taken off the 1996 album "Theme Park")
05 - Depeche Mode - Scum (taken off the 2017 album "Spirit")
06 - Metallica - My Apocalypse (taken off the 2008 album "Death Magnetic")
07 - Whores. - Back When I  Was A Savage (taken off the 2024 album "War.")
08 - Trashcan Sinatras - Killing The Cabinet (taken off the 1993 album "I've Seen Everything")
09 - Dry Cleaning - Leafy (taken off the 2021 album "New Long Leg")
10 - Blink-182 - When We Were Young (taken off the 2023 album "One More Time...")

28th June 2026

01 - Weezer - Say It Ain't So (taken off the 1994 album "Weezer (The Blue Album)")
02 - Alice Cooper - Escape (taken off the 1975 album "Welcome To My Nightmare")
03 - The Dickies - Infidel Zombie (taken off the 1979 album "Dawn Of The Dickies")
04 - Carousel Kings - Fool's Gold (taken off the 2017 album "Charm City")
05 - Blink-182 - Wishing Well (taken off the 2011 album "Neighborhoods")
06 - Coal Chamber - Shock The Monkey (w/ Ozzy Osbourne) (taken off the 1999 album "Chamber Music")
07 - Skegss - My Mind (taken off the 2018 album "My Own Mess")
08 - Sugar - Mind Is An Island (Originally the b-side of the 1994 single "Believe What You're Saying", then released on the 1995 compilation "Besides")
09 - For Giants - This Green Fields (taken off the 2017 album "Big Sky")
10 - Puscifier - Horizons (taken off the 2011 album "Conditions Of My Parole")

29th June 2026

01 - Neneh Cherry - Phoney Ladies (taken off the 1989 album "Raw Like Sushi")
02 - The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Here It Comes (taken off the 1996 album "Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request")
03 - Frank Zappa - RDNZL (Rehearsal 10/20/1973) (taken off the 2019 album "Halloween '73")
04 - The Jayhwaks - Sleep While You Can (taken off the 1995 album "Tomorrow The Green Grass")
05 - The Vaccines - Another Nightmare (taken off the 2024 album "Pick-up Full Of Pink Carnations")
06 - The House Of Love - Phone (taken off the 1990 album "A Spy In The House Of Love")
07 - a-Ha - Out Of The Blue Comes Green (taken off the 1988 album "Stay On These Roads")
08 - Hum - Songs Of Farewell And Departure (taken off the 1995 album "You'd Prefer An Astronaut")
09 - Dunes - Everything Is Blue (taken off the 2019 album "Take Me To The Nasties")
10 - William The Conqueror - The Many Faces Of A Good Truth (taken off the 2017 album "Proud Disturber Of The Peace")

30th June 2026

01 - Idles - Hall & Oates (taken off the 2024 album "TANGK")
02 - Balthazar - On A Roll (taken off the 2021 album "Sand")
03 - Crippled Black Phoenix - Ghostland (taken off the 2022 album "Banefyre")
04 - Nirvana - Bleach (taken off the 1989 album "Bleach")
05 - Mew - Candy Pieces All Smeared Out (taken off the 2017 album "Visuals")
06 - Pendulum - Immunize (w/Liam Howlett) (taken off the 2010 album "Immersion")
07 - The Jesus Lizard - Fly On The Wall (taken off the 1994 album "Down")
08 - Tom Waits - Wrong Side Of The Road (taken off the 1978 album "Blue Valentine")
09 - R.E.M. - Ignoreland (taken off the 1992 album "Automatic For The People")
10 - Slipknot - Surfacing (taken off the 1999 album "Slipknot")

1st July 2026 (For July's day with all 10 Random Tracks by one band/artist, this month is the might Faith No More")

01 - Black Friday (taken off the 2015 album "Sol Invictus")
02 - We Care A Lot (taken off the 1985 album "We Care A Lot")
03 - Superhero (taken off the 205 album "Sol Invictus")
04 - Everything's Ruined (taken off the 1992 album "Angel Dust")
05 - Mouth To Mouth (taken off the 1997 album "Album Of The Year")
06 - Digging The Grave (taken off the 1995 album "King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime")
07 - The Real Thing (taken off the 1989 album "The Real Thing")
08 - Get Out (taken off the 1995 album "King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime")
09 - Epic (taken off the 1989 album "The Real Thing")
10 - Home Sick Home (taken off the 1997 album "Album Of The Year")

Here is a link to the playlist 

Ten Random Tracks A Day For 2026: 18th June to 24th June

Picture taken by Zeynep Aldan and used from Pexels, great picture Zeynep!

We are almost hitting the middle part of the year, it is week 25 of this journey and what a journey it is! This week, outside of the random tracks, I've went on a bit of a deep dive back into the back catalogue of We Are Scientists.  An American Indie band who really have a British feel to their sound, We Are Scientists are going to be coming back to the UK later in the year, playing their first album "With Love & Squalor" in full.  It has made a few people very excited, me included, and I am hoping to get to see them.  They are a band which I feel need to be shown a lot more love, especially their last four albums ("Megaplex" (my favourite), "Huffy", "Lobes", and "Qualifying Miles").  Back when I was writing for Bearded Gentlemen Music, I wrote an article about them (link here), I think I need to start writing again, just need a starting subject...

Anyway, enough of that and let's talk about this!  And by this I mean playing ten songs a day, randomly, and posting the results! So, as always, how in the blue hell-scape of space did we get here? At the start of the year on Threads (or possibly on Bluesky), I started to see people posting random 10 songs for the day.  Now, with lists being my sort of thing and finally having the itch to blog again, I thought "lets do this". My aim is to try to post at least one list of songs per day, but as has happened, sometimes I've had to do a few post together.  If you want to follow the lists as they are posted, that is happening on my Bluesky & Threads accounts, and once a week I am compiling into this blog/playlist.  

For full disclosure, I did miss a couple of these days, so I went to my iTunes/YouTube and looked at what I had played on the days missed. Also, when it comes to the playlists I have found that sometimes that track I played is not available.  In those cases, I've added a substitute track, which I will note when posting.  Also, I'm using Spotify.  It is the only streaming service I am used to, I am also looking into changing as Spotify sucks and their owner is a bad egg.  Much like the first post, this post and others might be edited for a new playlist provider.

18th June 2026

01 - Primus - Los Bastardos (taken off the 1991 album "Sailing The Sea of Cheese")
02 - Sum 41 - Goddamn I'm Dead Again (taken off the 2016 album "13 Voices")
03 - Blaqk Audio - Waiting To Be Told (taken off the 2016 album "Material")
04 - John Frusciante - Remain (taken off the 2001 album "To Record Only Water For Ten Days")
05 - Future Islands - The Tower (taken off the 2024 album "People Who Aren't There Anymore")
06 - Placebo - Try Better Next Time (taken off the 2022 album "Never Let Go")
07 - Circa Waves - Lost In The Fire (taken off the 2025 album "Death & Love")
08 - Spiritualized - Let's Dance (taken off the 2018 album "And Nothing Hurt")
09 - Bloc Party - Hunting For Witches (taken off the 2007 album "A Weekend In The City")
10 - Queens of the Stone Age - Monsters In The Parasol (taken off the 2000 album "Rated R")

19th June 2026

01 - The Wildhearts - Dislocated (taken off the 2019 album "Renaissance Men")
02 - The Interrupters - Broken World (taken off the 2018 album "Fight The Good Fight")
03 - Alice Cooper - Is It My Body (taken off the 1971 album "Love It To Death")
04 - Queen - The Hitman (taken off the 1991 album "Innuendo")
05 - Veruca Salt - Fly (taken off the 1994 album "American Thighs")
06 - Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 2 (taken off the 1979 album "The Wall")
07 - Holy Fuck - Evie (taken off the 2026 album "Event Beat")
08 - Soul Asylum - Runaway Train (taken off the 1992 album "Grave Dancers Union")
09 - Supersuckers - Volunteer (taken off the 2025 album "Liquor, Women, Drugs & Killing")
10 - The Flatliners - Gush (taken off the 2026 album "Cold World")

20th June 2026

01 - Lita Ford - Shot of Poison (taken off the 1991 album "Dangerous Curves")
02 - CEREMONY - From Another Age (taken off the 2019 album "In The Spirit World Now")
03 - Hot Hot Heat - Get In Our Get Out (taken off the 2002 album "Make Up The Breakdown")
04 - Biffy Clyro - Shot One (taken off the 2025 album "Futique")
05 - The Dollyrots - Tonight With You (taken off the 2023 album "Night Owls")
06 - Depeche Mode - Higher Love (taken off the 1993 album "Songs Of Faith And Devotion")
07 - Face To Face - Merchandise (taken off the 1999 album "Standards And Practices")
08 - Ivy League TX - Egress (taken off the 2013 album "Transparency")
09 - Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good (taken off the 2006 album "Back To Black")
10 - Shawn Smith - For Everyone To See (taken off the 2008 album "The Diamond Hand")

21st June 2026

01 - Father John Misty - Goodbye Mr. Blue (taken off the 2022 album "Chloë and the Next 20th Century")
02 - The Twilight Sad - Chest Wound To The Chest (taken off the 2026 album "It's The Long Goodbye")
03 - Cypress Hill - When The Shit Goes Down (taken off the 1993 album "Black Sunday")
04 - Astronoid - A New Color (taken off the 2019 album "Astronoid")
05 - Bowling For Soup - Love Goes Boom (taken off the 2009 album "Sorry For Partyin'")
06- Everclear - Unemployed Boyfriend (taken off the 200 album "Songs From An American Movie Vol 1: Learning How To Smile")
07 - Atlas For Home - Home (taken off the album 2018 "Late Bloomer")
08 - Me Lost Me - Take It On Board (taken off the 2025 "This Material Moment")
09 - Moist - Break Her Down (taken off the 1994 album "Silver")
10 - Beak> - Ah Yeah (taken off the 2024 album ">>>>>")

22nd June 2026

01 - Mesh - I Lost A Friend Today (taken off the 2026 album "The Truth Doesn't Matter")
02 - Big Country - Winter Sky (taken off the 1996 album "Steeltown")
03 - Frank Zappa - Florentine Pogen (taken off the 2013 album "A Token Of His Extreme")
04 - Funeral For A Friend - Red Is The New Black (taken off the 2003 album "Casually Dressed & Deep In Conversation")
05 - Wild Pink - Battle Of Bedford Falls (taken off the 2017 album "Wild Pink")
06 - Iron Maiden - Empire Of The Clouds (taken off the 2015 album "The Book Of Souls")
07 - Kerbdog - Sorry For The Record (taken off the 1997 album "On The Turn")
08 - Massive Attack - Man Next Door (taken off the 1998 album "Mezzanine")
09 - Rush - Digital Man (taken off the 1982 album "Signals")
10 - The Cardigans - Do You Believe (taken off the 1998 album "Gran Turismo")

23rd June 2026

01 - Astronoid - Embark (taken off the 2025 album "Stargod")
02 - Erasure - Drama! (taken off the 1989 album "Wild")
03 - My Chemical Romance - It's Not A Fashion Statment It's A Deathwish (taken off the 2004 album "Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge")
04 - Subway To Sally - Atlas (taken off the 2024 album "Post Modern")
05 - Mariachi El Bronx - Despretador (taken off the 2012 album "Mariachi El Bronx I")
06 - William Elliot Whitmore - Break Even (taken off the 2024 album "Silently, The Mind Breaks")
07 - Joe Satriani - Lords Of Karma (taken off the 1987 album "Surfing With The Alien")
08 - Frank Zappa - Magic Fingers (taken off the 1971 album "200 Motels")
09 - Kent - Den Döda Vinkeln (taken off the 2005 album "Du & Jag Döden")
10 - Father John Misty - Total Entertainment Forever (taken off the 2017 album "Pure Comedy")

24th June 2026 (On this date, I listened to 10 songs by the same band, as I do once each month.  For this month, I've picked We Are Scientists)

01 - The Great Escape (taken off the 2005 album "With Love & Squalor")
02 - Handshake Agreement (taken off the 2021 album "Huffy")
03 - Heart Is A Weapon (taken off the 2018 album "Megaplex")
04 - Slow Down (taken off the 2013 album "TV en Français")
05 - Dispense With Sentiment (taken off the 2023 album "Lobes")
06 - Please Don't Say It (taken off the 2025 album "Qualifying Miles")
07 - Hoppipolla (taken off the 2006 compilation "Crap Attack")
08 - Ambition (taken off the 2010 album "Barbara")
09 - Waiting For You (taken off the 2016 album "Helter Seltzer")
10 - After Hours (taken off the 2008 album "Brain Thrust Mastery")

Here is a link to the playlist! 

Ten Random Tracks A Day For 2026: 11th June to 17th June

 

Picture by Poranimm Athithawatthee and used from Pexels, great photo Poranimm!

Week twenty four out of fifty five, we are approaching the halfway mark on this journey, and let's be honest, the more I do this, the more I realise how much Pearl Jam I listen to.  Honestly, they've not even had a day dedicated to them and they are over 20 tracks so far this year, and they are not even in my top five bands.  Granted, I have seen them live once and it was amazing, but I have not went out of my way to hear one of their albums for ages.  No reason why I mention it, just something that arrived in my mind when I was looking at the statistic of the year so far.  

But hey, let's not worry about that and move onto this, let's talk about strange songs and playing ten songs a day! So, as always, how in the blue hell-scape of space did we get here? At the start of the year on Threads (or possibly on Bluesky), I started to see people posting random 10 songs for the day.  Now, with lists being my sort of thing and finally having the itch to blog again, I thought "lets do this". My aim is to try to post at least one list of songs per day, but as has happened, sometimes I've had to do a few post together.  If you want to follow the lists as they are posted, that is happening on my Bluesky & Threads accounts, and once a week I am compiling into this blog/playlist.  

For full disclosure, I did miss a couple of these days, so I went to my iTunes/YouTube and looked at what I had played on the days missed. Also, when it comes to the playlists I have found that sometimes that track I played is not available.  In those cases, I've added a substitute track, which I will note when posting.  Also, I'm using Spotify.  It is the only streaming service I am used to, I am also looking into changing as Spotify sucks and their owner is a bad egg.  Much like the first post, this post and others might be edited for a new playlist provider.

11th June 2026

01 - The Charlatans - Hey Sunrise (taken off the 2017 album "Different Days")
02 - The Futureheads - Stupid Dumb (taken off the 2010 album "The Chaos")
03 - Dunes - One Eyed Dog (taken off the 2025 album "Land Of The Blind")
04 - Autoheart - We Can Build A Fire (taken off the 2016 album "I Can Build A Fire")
05 - Suzanne Vega - No Cheap Thrill (taken off the 1996 album "Nine Objects of Desire")
06 - Crown Lands - White Buffalo (taken off the 2021 EP "White Buffalo")
07 - Fever Ray - Mustn't Hurry (taken off the 2017 album "Plunge")
08 - FigureItOut - Never Too Late (taken off the 2020 album "Searching For More")
09 - The Bevis Frond - Sink Estate (taken off the 2026 album "Horrorful Heights")
10 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - God Is In The House (taken off the 2001 album "No More Shall We Part")

12th June 2026

01 - Prince - Partyman (taken off the 1989 album "Batman")
02 - The Smashing Pumpkins - Tales Of A Scorched Earth (taken off the 1995 album "Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness")
03 - Pixies - The Sad Punk (taken off the 1991 album "Trompe Le Monde")
04 - The Rural Alberta Advantage - Candu (taken off the 2022 EP "The Rise" & the 2023 album "The Rise & Fall")
05 - Cardiacs - Sleep All Eyes Open (taken off the1999 album "Guns")
06 - Suede - Barriers (taken off the 2013 album "Bloodsports")
07 - The Virginmarys - Falling Down (taken off the 2016 album "Divides")
08 - Hardcore Superstar - Have You Been Around (taken off the 2000 album "Bad Sneakers And A Piña Colada")
09 - Champagne Colored Cars - Super Silver (taken off the 2017 EP "Champagne Colored Cars")
10 - Calabrese - At Night I Am The Warmest (taken off the 2013 album "Born With A Scorpion's Touch")

13th June 2026

01 - Metallica - The God That Failed (taken off the 1991 album "The Black Album")
02 - The Bens - Stop! (taken off the 2003 EP "The Bens")
03 - The Auteurs - Show Girl (taken off the 1993 album "New Wave")
04 - Pearl Jam - Nothingman (taken off the 1994 album "Vitalogy")
05 - Throbbing Gristle - AB/7A (taken off 1978 album "D.o.A. The Third & Final Report")
06 - Bad Rabbits - 1979 (2011 single)
07 - We Were Promised Jetpacks - I Wish You Well (taken off the 2021 album "Enjoy The View")
08 - Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song (taken off the 1970 album "Led Zeppelin III")
09 - R.E.M. - Shiny Happy People (taken off the 1991 album "Out Of Time")
10 - Story Of The Year - Taste The Poison (taken off the 2005 album "In The Wake Of Determination")

14th June 2026

01 - Airhead - Counting Sheep (taken off the 1992 album "Boing!")
02 - Ben Folds & Nick Hornby - Picture Window (taken off the 2010 album "Lonely Avenue")
03 - Ash - Burn Baby Burn (taken off the 2001 album "Free From Angels")
04 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Fable Of The Brown Ape (taken off the 2004 album "Abattoir Blues")
05 - Spectaclist - Coole Park '79 (taken off the 2020 album "Our Days Are Multiplied")
06 - Nada Surf - In The Mirror (taken off the 2005 album "The Weight Is A Gift")
07 - Billie Eilish - Male Fantasy (taken off the 2021 album "Happier Than Ever")
08 - Shane MacGowen & The Popes - Haunted (taken off the 1998 album "The Snake")
09 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge (taken off the 1991 album "Blood Sugar Sex Magik")
10 - Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Goin Down (taken off the 2005 album "From Under The Cork Tree")

15th June 2026

01 - Shane MacGowan & The Popes - Wander' Star (taken off the 1997 album "Crock of Gold")
02 - Hardcore Superstar - Hey Now (taken off the 2000 album "Bad Sneakers And A Piña Colada")
03 - Guns N' Roses - 14 Years (taken off the 1991 album "Use Your Illusion II")
04 - Biters - Don't Turn This Good Heart Bad (taken off the 2017 album "The Future Ain't What It Used To Be")
05 - How To Destroy Angels - The Space In Between (taken off the 2010 EP "How To Destroy Angels")
06 - Compulsion - Juvenile Scene Detective (taken off 1996 album "The Future Is Medium")
07 - Story Of The Year - We Don't Care Anymore (taken off the 2005 album "In The Wake Of Determination")
08 - Danko Jones - (I Can't Handle) Moderation (taken off the 2010 album "Below The Belt")
09 - Alice Cooper - Poison (taken off the 1989 album "Trash")
10 - Iggy Pop - I Wanna Live (taken off the 1996 album "Naughty Little Doggie")

16th June 2026

01 - Backyard Babies - I'm On My Way To Save Your Rock 'N' Roll (taken off the 2015 album "Four By Four")
02 - Corrosion Of Conformity - Heaven's Not Overflowing (taken off the 1994 album "Deliverance")
03 - Anthrax - You Gotta Believe (taken off the 2016 album "For All Kings")
04 - Isis - Hand Of The Host (taken off the 2009 album "Wavering Radiant")
05 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Suck My Kiss (taken off the 1991 album "Blood Sugar Sex Magik")
06 - Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (taken off the 1977 album "Taling Heads:99")
07 - Hüsker Dü - Something I Learned Today (taken off the 1984 album "Zen Arcade")
08 - Pulp - I Spy (taken off the 1995 album "Different Class")
09 - Atoms For Peace - Ingenue (taken off the 2013 album "AMOK")
10 - Tunic - Nylon (taken off the 2021 album "Exhaling")

17th June 2026

01 - Butler, Blake & Grant - Me & Magdalena (taken off the 2026 album "Murmurs")
02 - Joseph Arthur - Bottle of You (taken off the 1997 album "Big City Secrets")
03 - Naima Bock - Feed My Release (taken off the 2024 album "Below A Massive Dark Land")
04 - Nada Surf - Come Get Me (taken off the 2020 album "Never Not Together")
05 - Hot Chip - Thieves In The Night (taken off the 2010 album "One Life Stand")
06 - Tori Amos - Wild Way (taken off the 2014 album "Unrepentant Geraldines")
07 - The Stunning - Heads Are Gonna Roll (w/Mundy) (taken off the 2024 album "We Come Alive")
08 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Sorrow's Child (taken off the 1990 album "The Good Son")
09 - Patrick Wolf - Magpie (taken off the 2007 album "The Magic Position")
10 - Led Zeppelin - Your Time Is Gonna Come (taken off the 1969 album "Led Zeppelin I")

Here is a link to the playlist!