Ten Random Tracks A Day For 2026 - 22nd January to 28th January

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Week four of fifty-two lists! I've got my list game on and we are into the last full week of January!  I can see for certain that it has been a mixed week music wise, but I am still enjoying doing this. So, how 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.

OK, you all know how a music list works, let's do this!

22nd January 2026

01 - Frank Black & the Catholics - California Bound (taken off the 2002 album "Black Letter Days")
02 - Bombay Bicycle Club - I Can Hardly Speak (taken off the 2020 album "Everything Else Has Gone Wrong")
03 - I'm Glad It's You - Myths (taken off the 2020 album "Every Sun, Every Moon")
04 - Billy Bragg - Ten Mysterious Photos That Can't Be Explained (taken off the 2021 album "The Million Things That Never Happened")
05 - Diane Birch - Fools (taken off the 2009 album "Bible Belt")
06 - Majestica - Ghost of Marley (taken off the 2020 album "A Christmas Carole")
07 - Interpol - The New (taken off the 2002 album "Turn On The Bright Lights")
08 - Def Leppard - Invincible (taken off the 2015 album "Def Leppard")
09 - TRAAMS - Sleep (taken off the 2013 album "Grin") (note from Eddie - "Sleep" is not on Spotify, but their 2022 song "Sleeper" is, so I've added that to the playlist.)
10 - Adam Green - Escape From This Brain (taken off the 2019 album "Engine of Paradise")

23rd January 2026

01 - Brutal Deluxe - Soul Murder (taken off the 2000 album "Divine Head")
02 - Goldfinger - Careful What You Wish For (w/ Monique Powell) (taken off the 2020 album "Never Look Back)
03 - Sugar - House of Dead Memories (2025 single)
04 - Throwing Muses - Soul Solider (taken off the 1986 album "Throwing Muses")
05 - Frank Turner - Falling In Love (taken off the 2020 album "West Coast Vs. Wessex")
06 - Toehider - Concerning Lix & Fairs (taken off the 2020 album "I LIKE IT")
07 - OTHERKIN - Bad Advice (taken off the 2017 album "OK")
08 - Alice in Chains - God Smack (taken off the 1992 album "Dirt")
09 - Lonely Robot - The Divine Art of Being (taken off the 2017 album "The Big Dream")
10 - Ginger Wildheart - Yeah Yeah Yeah (taken off the 2005 album "Valor Del Corazon")

24th January 2026

01 - Toehider - The Thing With Me (taken off the 2014 album "What Kind of Creature Am I?"
02 - Miike Snow - Genghis Khan (taken off the 2016 album "iii")
03 - CHVRCHES - Leave A Trace (taken off the 2015 album "Every Eye Open")
04 - Pixies - All I Think About Now (taken off the 2016 album "Headcarrier")
05 - Iggy Pop - Perforation Problems (taken off the 1993 album "American Caesar")
06 - Spinal Tap - Now Leaving Track-13 (taken off the 1992 album "Break Like The Wind")
07 - R.E.M. - Turn You Inside-Out (taken off the 1988 album "Green")
08 - OMD (Orchestral Manoeurves in the Dark) - Healing (taken off the 2023 album "Bauhaus Staircase")
09 - The Dopamines - The Vow (taken off the 2024 "80/20")
10 - Chelsea Grin - See You Soon (taken off the 2018 album "Eternal Nightmare")

25th January 2026

01 - PJ Harvey - Joe (taken off the 1992 album "Dry")
02 - Thee Oh Sees - Perm Act (taken off the 2022 album "A Foul Form)
03 - The Murder Capital - We Had To Disappear (taken off the 2023 album "Gigi's Recovery")
04 - The Cranberries - Still Can't... (taken off the 1993 album "Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?")
05 - Pixies - Alec Eiffel (taken off the 1991 album "Trompe le Monde")
06 - Sea Power - Who's In Control (taken off the 2011 album "Valhalla Dancehall") (Note from Eddie - the band were known as British Sea Power at the time the album was released)
07 - Green Day - All By Myself (taken off the 1994 album "Dookie")
08 - Sadler Vaden - Chameleon (taken off the 2016 album "Sadler Vaden")
09 - Autoheart - Hellbent (w/ Keziah) (taken off the 2021 album "Hellbent")
10 - Cimafunk - Basta (taken off the 2017 album "Terapia")

26th January 2026

01 - Corrosion of Conformity - So Much Left Behind (taken off the 2005 album "In The Arms of God")
02 - Buffalo Tom - Taillight Fades (taken off the 1992 album "Let Me Come Over")
03 - Sleeper - Lie Detector (taken off the 1996 album "The It Girl")
04 - Supersuckerts - How to Maximise Your Kill Count (taken off the 1994 album "La Mano Cornuda")
05 - Anna Ternheim - All Shadows (taken off the 2021 album "The Night Visitor")
06 - Close Talker - Reptiles (taken off the 2017 album "Lens")
07 - The Rolling Stones - Shake Your Hips (taken off the 1972 album "Exile on Main Street")
08 - Lord of the Lost - In the Field of Blood (taken off the 2021 album "Judas")
09 - Iron Maiden - The Clairvoyant (taken off the 1988 album "Seventh Son of A Seventh Son")
10 - Frank Zappa - I'm A Beautiful Guy (taken off the 1981 album "You Are What You Is")

27th January 2026

01 - Sigh - Midnight Sun (taken off the 2005 album "Gallows Gallery")
02 - GoGo Penguin - A Hundred Moons (taken off the 2018 album "A Humdrum Star")
03 - Junodream - The Oranges (taken off the 2024 album "Pools of Colour")
04 - Amon Tobin - Fooling Alright (taken off the 2019 album "Fear in a Handful of Dust")
05 - China Drum - Wuthering Heights (taken off the 1996 single "Can't Stop These Things" & the secret track to the 1996 album "Goosefair")
06 - Modesty Blaise - Oh! Redmond (taken off the 2021 album "The Modesty Blaise")
07 - To Rococo Rot - Prado (John Peel Session) taken off the 2022 album "The John Peel Sessions")
08 - Wagon Christ - Boom Bip (taken off the 2025 album "Planet Roll")
09 - Heaven & Hell - Bible Black (taken off the 2009 album "The Devil You Know")
10 - a-Ha - There's Never A Forever Thing (taken off the 1988 album "Stay On These Roads")

28th January 2026

01 - Albert Hammond Jr. - Razors Edge (taken off the 2015 album "Momentary Masters")
02 - Pearl Jam - Get Right (taken off the 2002 album "Riot Act")
03 - Bloods - Devo (taken off the 2022 album "Together, Baby")
04 - Mark Lanegan - Eden Lost and Found (taken off the 2020 album "Straight Songs of Sorrow")
05 - Gil Scott-Heron - The Middle of Your Day (taken off the 1972 album "Free Will")
06 - Brain Fallon - 21 Days (taken off the 2020 album "Local Honey")
07 - Ty Segall - Fantastic Tomb (taken off the 2025 album "Possession")
08 - In This Moment - Blood (taken off the 2012 album "Blood")
09 - Gorgon City - Make It Happen (feat DJ Pierre) (taken off the 2024 album "Reverie")
10 - Comeback Kid - Everything Relates (w/JJ) (taken off the 2022 album "Heavy Steps")

Here is a link to the playlist! 

Ten Random Tracks A Day For 2026 - 15th to 21th January

Photo taken by Isabella Mendes on Pexels, great picture Isabell! 

Week three of fifty-two lists!  I've managed to get this far, let us see if I can keep it up!  Anyway, why and more importantly, what am I doing 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 this being my sort of thing and I've been trying to thing of how to blog again, lets do this. I am going to aim to be posting my list of songs played on that day.  I'll be posting these on my Bluesky & Threads accounts, and then make a playlist to post with these blogs. 

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.

OK, you all know how a music list works, let's do this!

15th January 2026

01 - Ulver - Elephant Trunk (taken off the 2025 album "Neverland")
02 - Witching Waves - Fear of Falling Down (taken off the 2015 album "Fear of Falling Down)
03 - FFS - Johnny Delusional (taken off the 2015 album "FFS")
04 - Ben Folds Five - On Being Frank (taken off the 2012 album "The Sound of the Life of the Mind")
05 - Hurricane #1 - Step Into My World (taken off the 1997 album "Hurricane #1)
06 - The Pipettes - Pull Shapes (taken off the 2006 album "We Are The Pipettes")
07 - Illiterate Light - Payphone (taken off the 2024 album "Arches")
08 - Anton Barbeau - A Pattern Forming (taken off the 2025 album "Glitch Wizard")
09 - Stiff Little Fingers - I Don't Like You (taken off the 1980 album "Nobody's Heroes")
10 - Steven Wilson - Personal Shopper (taken off the 2021 album "THE FUTURE BITES")

16th January 2026

01 - Ben Folds Five - Jackson Cannery (taken off the 1995 album "Ben Folds Five")
02 - Gruntruck - Flesh Fever (taken off the 1992 album "Inside Yours")
03 - Cass McCombs - Peace (taken off the 2025 album "Interior Live Oak")
04 - The War on Drugs - In Chains (taken off the 2017 album "A Deeper Understanding")
05 - Dance Gavin Dance - Shelf Life (w/ Kurt Travis) (taken off the 2018 album "Artificial Selection")
06 - Frenzel Rhomb - The Ballad of Tim Webster (take off the 1997 album "Meet the Family")
07 - Queen - A Kind of Magic (taken off the 1986 album "A Kind of Magic")
08 - Leon III - Rumors of Water (taken off the 2021 album "Antlers in Velvet")
09 - Motion City Soundtrack - Things Like This (w/ Sincere Engineer) (taken off the 2025 album "The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World")
10 - William Denton Wilde - Paradise Lost on Leith (single released 2023)

17th January 2026

01 - Bates Motel - A Thousand Lies (taken off the 2021 album "Moving Forwards")
02 - Zen Guerrilla - What I Got (taken off the 1999 album "Trance States in Tongues")
03 - Frenzel Rhomb - Waiting for the Postman (taken off the 2017 album "Hi-Vis High Tea")
04 - Helloween - Lost in America (taken off the 2015 "My God-Given Right")
05 - Grinderman - Man in the Moon (taken off the 2006 album "Grinderman")
06 - Foo Fighters - Let It Die (taken off the 2007 album "Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace")
07 - Queens of the Stone Age - Fairweather Friends (taken off the 2013 album "...Like Clockwork")
08 - Amorphis - The White Swan (taken off the 2007 album "Silent Waters")
09 - alt-J - Deadcrush (taken off the 2017 album "Relaxer")
10 - Du Blonde - Isn't It Wild (taken off the 2015 album "Welcome Back to Milk")

18th January 2026

01 - The Killers - A Great Big Sled (w/Toni Halliday) (taken off the 2016 album "Don't Waste Your Light", but was originally released as a stand-alone single in 2006)
02 - Dreadzone - 16 Holes (taken off the 2017 album "Dread Times")
03 - Blur - Pyongyang (taken off the 2015 album "The Magic Whip")
04 - Spector - Another Life (taken off the 2023 album "Here Come The Early Nights")
05 - Skin - Take Me On (taken off the 2006 album "Fake Chemical State")
06 - Boa - Let Me Go (taken off the 2024 album "Whiplash")
07 - Liz Green - Bikya (taken off the 2014 album "Haul Away!")
08 - Cavorts - Wait On (taken off the 2014 album "Got Your Brass")
09 - Gazpacho - The Master's Voice (taken off the 2015 album "Molok")
10 - The Shamen - Hyperreal Orbit (taken off the 1991 album "En-Tact")

19th January 2026 

01 - Young Guns - Buried (taken off the 2016 album "Echoes")
02 - Martyn Joseph - Swansea (taken off the 1992 album "Being There")
03 - Pond - Neon River (taken off the 2024 album "Stung!")
04 - Deluge - Melas | Khole (taken off the 2015 album "Æther")
05 - Big Big Train - Miramare (taken off the 2024 album "The Likes of Us")
06 - Driven Serious - Through These Eyes (taken off the 2013 album "The Importance of Being Serious")
07 - William Elliot Whitmore - Johnny Law (taken off the 2009 album "Animals in the Dark")
08 - Sarchasm - Scorpio Texas Ranger (taken off the 2020 album "Sarchasm")
09 - M83 - Too Late (taken off the 2008 album "Saturdays = Youth")
10 - Wilco - Meant to Be (taken off the 2023 album "Cousin")

20th January 2026

I have decided that once a month, on a random day, I will have all ten tracks be for one artist/band.  For January, this will be Radiohead, if for no other reason apart from whimsy.

01 - Everything in its Right Place (taken off the 2000 album "Kid A")
02 - Lucky (taken off the 1995 complication "Help")
03 - Jigsaw Falling Into Place (taken off the 2007 album "In Rainbows")
04 - Dollars and Cents (taken off the 2001 album "Amnesiac")
05 - Pyramid Song (taken off the 2001 album "Amnesiac")
06 - Banana Co (b-side to the 1996 single "Street Spirit (Fade Out)"
07 - We Suck Young Blood (live) (taken off the 2025 album "Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009")
08 - Bodysnatchers (taken off the 2007 album "In Rainbows")
09 - Fake Plastic Trees (taken off the 1996 album "The Bends")
10 - Separator (taken off the 2011 album "The King of Limbs")

21st January 2026 

01 - Foreign Fields - The Beauty of Survival (taken off the 2020 album "The Beauty of Survival")
02 - R.E.M. - Lotus (taken off the 1998 album "Up")
03 - Cimafunk - Fiebre (taken off the 2017 album "Terapia")
04 - Bob Mould - Lost or Stolen (taken off the 2025 album "Here We Go Crazy")
05 - BMX Bandits - (We're Gonna) Shake You Down (taken off the 1996 album "Theme Park")
06 - Wilt - Dave You Were Right (taken off the 2002 album "My Medicine")
07 - Neil Young - Birds (taken off the 1970 album "After The Gold Rush")
08 - David Bowie - Something In The Air (taken off the 1999 album "Hours...")
09 - Harrison - inthecoupe (taken off the 2023 album "Birds, Bees, The Clouds & The Trees")
10 - Danko Jones - Ship of Lies (taken off the 2021 album "Power Trip")

Here is a link to the playlist! 

Until next week folks! - E 

Ten Random Tracks A Day For 2026 - 8th to 14th January

Picture by Jiri Ikonomidis, stock photo from Pexels, great picture Jiri!

Week two of fifty-two lists!  Honestly, I don't know how this is going to go, but I am having a blast hearing some tunes I've not heard in ages.  This could be a millstone for my neck, but who knows, we will find out when I have a nervous breakdown!  Anyway, why and more importantly, what am I doing 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 this being my sort of thing and I've been trying to thing of how to blog again, lets do this. I am going to aim to be posting my list of songs played on that day.  I'll be posting these on my Bluesky & Threads accounts, and then make a playlist to post with these blogs. 

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.

OK, you all know how a music list works, let's do this!

8th January 2025

01 - Hellvetika - Falling For You (Weezer Cover) (taken off 2020 album "Weezer//Redux") (Note - now, Hellvetika is not on Spotify, but their stuff is available on Bandcamp, which you can get here.  On the Spotify list, I've added the original by Weezer - Ed)
02 - Penfriend - Black Car (taken off the 2021 album "Exotic Monsters")
03 - Atari Teenage Riot! - Riot 1995 (taken off the 1995 "Delete Yourself")
04 - Titus Andornicus - Just Like Ringing (taken off the 2019 album "An Obelisk")
05 - Nada Surf - Believe You're Mine (taken off the 2016 album "You Know Who You Are")
06 - Death - The Storm Within (taken off the 2011 album "Spiritual-Mental-Physical")
07 - Neil Young - The Needle and the Damage Done (taken off the 1972 album "Harvest")
08 - Pil & Bue - The World is a Rabbit Hole (taken off the 2021 album "The World is a Rabbit Hole")
09 - Peel Dream Magazine - Venus in Nadir (taken off the 2025 album "Taurus")
10 - Wavves - Spun (taken off the 2025 album "Spun")

9th January 2025

01 - The Black Crowes - Profane Prophecy (taken off the 2026 album "A Pound of Feathers")
02 - The Black Crowes - Pharmacy Chronicles (taken off the 2026 album "A Pound of Feathers")
03 - Worriers - Pollen in the Air (taken off the 2023 album "Warm Blanket")
04 - Anthrax - Breathing Lightning (Live) (taken off the 2018 album "Kings Amongst Scotland")
05 - Pearly Drops - Deep-Fried (taken off the 2025 album "The Voices Are Coming Back")
06 - Public Service Broadcasting - E.V.A. (Instrumental) (taken off the 2023 album "The Race for Space (Instrumental) (Note - This version of the song is not on Spotify, so I added the original 2015 version - Ed)
07 - Vic Reeves - Vienna (taken off the 1992 compilation "Ruby Trax:The NME's Roaring Forty") (Note - This song was not on Spotify, so for the play list I have added "Oh! Mr Songwriter" off the 1991 album "I Will Cure You")
08 - Elton John - Teacher I Need You (taken off the 1973 album "Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player")
09 - Frank Zappa - Pound For A Brown (taken off the 2010 album "Hammersmith Odeon")
10 - Gone Is Gone - Sentient (taken off the 2017 album "Echolocation")

10th January 2025

01 - David Bowie - Hallo Spaceboy (taken off the 1995 album "1.Outside and subtitled The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper-cycle")
02 - Diamand Galás - Birds of Death (taken off the 1988 album "You Must Be Certain Of The Devil")
03 - Wilco - Pittsburgh (taken off the 2023 album "Cousin")
04 - Blonde Redhead, Fernando De Santiago & Yamil Rezc - Oda A Coda (taken off the 2025 album "The Shadow of the Guest")
05 - Ween - Flutes of Chi (taken off the 2009 album "White Pepper")
06 - As It Is - IDGAF (taken off the 2022 album "I Want To Hell And Back")
07 - Jane Jensen - Highway 90 (taken off the 1996 album "Comic Book Whore")
08 - Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - Rotten Blossom (taken off the 2015 album "Blossom")
09 - Dropkick Murphys - (F)lannigan's Ball (taken off the 2007 album "The Meanest of Times")
10 - Eric Victorino - Hope (taken off the 2017 album "Wake Up, I Miss You")

11th January 2025

01 - The Killers - Be Still (taken off the 2012 album "Battle Born")
02 - Primus - Tommy the Cat (taken off 1991 album "Sailing the Seas of Cheese")
03 - Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - The Tangle of Us (taken off the 2015 album "The Most Important Place In The World")
04 - Orange Goblin - Gemini (Twins of Evil) (taken off the 2024 album "Science, Not Fiction")
05 - Eels - The Gentle Souls (taken off the 2020 album "Earth to Dora")
06 - Therapy? & Fatal - Come and Die (taken off the 1993 OST "Judgement Night")
07 - Killing Joke - Unspeakable (taken off the 1981 album "What's THIS For....")
08 - Dämmerland - Für Fiete (taken off the 2025 album "Dämmerland 2")
09 - Black Sabbath - Cardinal Sin (taken off the 1994 album "Crossed Purposes")
10 - Goldmund - History (taken off the 2018 album "Occasus")

12th January 2025

01 - Ex-Norwegian - Ice (Live) (taken off the 2019 Compliation "Something Unreal: The Best of Ex-Norwegian")
02 - Pale Saints - Little Gestures (taken off the 1994 album "Slow Buildings")
03 - Sonic Youth - The World Looks Red (taken off the 1986 bootleg "Walls Have Eyes" which got an official release in 2024)
04 - Sweet Crystal - Warlords (taken off the 2016 complication "Brown Acid Volume 2 - The Second Trip")
05 - Fret! - Hillbilly (taken off the 2020 album "Fierce Business on South Street")
06 - Planet - Ship Won't Change (taken off the 2022 album "Information Overlord")
07 - Everything Everything - Dagger's Edge (taken off the 2024 album "Mountainhead")
08 - Metallica - Last Caress (Live) (taken off the 1993 album "Live Shit: Binge & Purge")
09 - Chris Cheney - Impossible Dream (taken off the 2022 album "The Storm Before The Calm")
10 - Metallica - Breadfan (Live) (taken off the remasters deluxe box set of the 1996 album "Load")

13th January 2025

01 - Hopesfall - Bradley Fighting Vehicle (taken off the 2018 album "Arbiter")
02 - Suno Deko - Touch Me (taken off the 2017 album "Suno Deko")
03 - The Gossip - Keeping You Alive (taken off the 2005 album "Standing In the Way of Control")
04 - Cardiacs - Ain't He Messy Though (taken off the 1999 album "Guns")
05 - Robert Plant &  Alison Krauss (taken off the 2021 album "Raise the Roof")
06 - The Picturebooks - Corrina Corrina (w/Neil Fallon) (taken off the 2021 album "The Major Minor Collective")
07 - Weezer - Keep Fishin' (taken off the 2002 album "Maladroit")
08 - David Lee Roth - Just Like Paradise (taken off the 1988 album "Skyscraper")
09 - Ricky Warwick - Crocodile Tears (taken off the 2025 album "Blood Ties")
10 - hurbis. - Heracles (taken off the 2020 album "Metempsychosis")

14th January 2025

01 - Arab Strap - Summer Season (taken off the 2024 album "I'm Totally Five With It Don't Give A Fuck Anymore")
02 - Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Les Prince (taken from the 2021 soundtrack "La Panthère Des Neiges (The Velvet Queen)")
03 - Andra Day - Not Today (taken from the 2015 album "Cheers To The Fall")
04 - New Found Glory - Slipping Away (taken from the 2020 album "Forever + Ever X Infinity")
05 - Dude York - Something In The Way (taken from the 2017 album "Sincerely")
06 - Bodega - I Am Not A Cinephile (taken from the 2018 album "Endless Scroll")
07 - Corrosion of Conformity - River of Stone (taken from the 2012 album "Corrosion of Conformity")
08 - Bethlehem Steel - New Dark (taken from the 2019 album "Bethlehem Steel")
09 - Frank Zappa & The Mothers - Dirty Love (taken from the 1973 album "Over-Nite Sensation")
10 - Erra - Unify (taken off the 2018 album "Neon")

Here is a link to the playlist 

Ten Random Tracks A Day For 2026 - 1st to 7th January

 

Image from stock photos on Pexels by Stavro Ligori, just a nice image! Great work Stavro!

Not to beat around the bush, but I do love a list.  Especially one about songs and I am all for this!  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 this being my sort of thing and I've been trying to thing of how to blog again, lets do this. I am going to aim to be posting my list of songs played on that day.  I'll be posting these on my Bluesky & Threads accounts, and then make a playlist to post with these blogs. 

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.  Either way, this post and others might be edited for a new playlist provider.

OK, you all know how a music list works, let's do this!

1st January 2026

01 - Dog Day - Start It Up (taken from the 2020 album "Present")
02 - The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Walking Up The Hand Present (taken from the 2012 album "Aufheben")
03 - Hog Molly - Alcohol (taken from the 2001 album "Kung-Fu Cocktail Grip")
04 - Leg Puppy 2.0 - I've Had Enough of This Dimension (taken from the 2021 album "The Air in Utopia is Poison")
05 - Madness - The Young & The Old (taken from the 1979 album "One Step Beyond")
06 - Hello Casanova - Fall Back Down (Live Acoustic BBC) (taken from the 2021 album "2016-2020")
07 - Ghostpoet - Social Lacerations (taken from the 2020 album "I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep")
08 - Withered Hand - Black Tambourine (taken from the 2014 album "New Gods")
09 - How To Destroy Angels - A Drowning (taken from the 2010 album "How To Destroy Angels")
10 - Asylums - Spat Out the Other Side (taken from the 2022 album "Signs of Life")

2nd January 2026

01 - Yungblud & The Smashing Pumpkins - Zombie (2026 single release)
02 - Pulp - The Man Comes Around (2025 single)
03 - Young Fathers - Shame (taken from the 2015 album "White Men Are Black Men Too")
04 - Jimmy Eat World - Sure and Certain (taken from 2016 album "Integrity Blues")
05 - Toro Y Moi - Undercurrent (taken from 2025 album "Unerthed: Hole Erth Unplugged")
06 - Dear Seattle - Promise (taken from the 2025 album "TOY")
07 - Longpigs - On & On (taken from the 1995 album "The Sun Is Often Out")
08 - Bandit Queen - Miss Dandys (taken from the 1995 album "Hormone Hotel")
09 - Ben Folds Five - Sky High (Live) (taken from the 2013 album "Live")
10 - Urge Overkill - Bottle of Fur (taken from the 1993 album "Saturation")

3rd January 2026

01 - Billy Ocean - Love Really Hurts Without You (taken from the 1976 album "Billy Ocean")
02 - Sense Field - Found You (taken from the 1994 album "Killed for Less")
03 - Pulp - We Are The Boyz (taken from the 1998 EP "Party Hard")
04 - James - Butterfly (taken from the 2024 album "Yummy")
05 - Shower of Teeth - Greaser (taken from the 2023 album "Eternal Gut Rot")
06 - Ben Folds - Side of the Road (taken from the 2006 album "Songs for Goldfish")
07 - Love Is Noise - Jawbreaker (taken from the 2025 album "To Live In A Different Way")
08 - Matthew Ryan - The World Is On Fire (taken from the 2000 album "East Autumn Grin")
09 - Rico - Attack Me (taken from the 2003 album "Sanctuary Medicines")
10 - Queen of Jeans - Karaoke (taken from the 2024 album "All Again")

4th January 2026

01 - Diamond Construct - Submerged (taken from the 2019 album "Diamond Construct")
02 - Nine Inch Nails - Sucker (taken from the 1992 EP "Broken")
03 - Guns N' Roses - Breakdown (taken from the 1991 album "Use Your Illusion II")
04 - Gentlemans Pistols - Private Rendezvous (taken from the 2015 album "Hustlers Row")
05 - Ginger Wildheart - Down The Dip (taken from the 2015 album "Year of the Fanclub")
06 - Ibibio Sound Machine - I Need You To Be Sweet Like Sugar (Nnge Nte Suka) (taken from the 2019 album "Doko Mien")
07 - Captain, We're Sinking - Smash 2 (taken from the 2017 album "King of No Man")
08 - Midlake - Small Mountain (taken from the 2010 album "The Courage of Others")
09 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Long Time Man (taken from the 1986 album "Your Funeral... My Trail")
10 - PUP - Hunger for Death (taken from the 2025 album "Who Will Look After The Dogs?")

5th January 2026

01 - Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares For Me (taken from the 1959 album "Little Girl Blue")
02 - Little Caesar - Tears Don't Lie (taken of the 1989 EP "Name Your Poison") (this track was not on Spotify, so on the playlist, I have added From the Start off the 1990 album "Little Caesar")
03 - The Pretenders - Hate for Sale (taken from the 2020 album "Hate for Sale")
04 - Def Leppard - Comin' Under Fire (taken from the 1983 album "Pyromania")
05 - Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Broken Circle (Over and Over) (taken from 2024 album "Fuckin' Up")
06 - Michael Rother - Bitter Tang (taken off the 2020 album "Dreaming")
07 - David Bowie - Stay (taken off the 1976 album "Station to Station")
08 - Every Time I Die - L'Astronaut (taken from the 2005 album "Gutter Phenomenon")
09 - Tess Park - California's Dreaming (taken from the 2024 album "Pomegranate")
10 - Amon Tobin - Feed (taken from the 2019 album "Long Stories")

6th January 2026

01 - Pearl Jam - Last Kiss (taken from the 2018 album "Lost Dogs")
02 - New Found Glory - Hit or Miss (taken from the 2000 album "New Found Glory")
03 - Jesus Jones - International Bright Young Thing (taken from the 1991 album "Doubt")
04 - Sleaford Mods - Jobseeker (taken from the 2014 album "Chubbed Up+", also on the 2020 compliation "All That Glue")
05 - Killing Joke - Loose Cannon (taken off the 2023 album "Killing Joke")
06 - To My Surprise - Sunday (taken off the 2003 album "To My Surprise")
07 - Gratitude - Sadie (taken off the 2005 album "Gratitude")
08 - Frank Zappa - Dancin' Fool (taken off the 1979 album "Sheik Yerbouti")
09 - Radiohead - Daydreaming (taken off the 2016 album "A Moon Shaped Pool")
10 - Porcupine Tree - Trains (taken from the 2002 album "In Absentia")

7th January 2026

01 - Nadine Shah - Stealing Cars (taken from the 2015 album "Fast Food")
02 - Polkadot Cadaver - Worship the Sun (taken from the 2013 EP "From Bethlehem to Oblivion")
03 - Interpol - Stay In Touch (taken from the 2018 album "Marauder")
04 - London Plane - Come Out of the Dark (taken off the 2022 album "Bright Black") 
05 - David Bowie - Real Cool World (taken from the 1992 OST "Cool World", but also on a lot of Bowie compliations and bonus tracks, it is on a lot of things)
06 - Up, Bustle & Out - Los Locos Cubanos (Snowboy Mix) (taken from the 2000 compliation "Xen Cuts")
07 - Andrew Bird Trio - You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (taken from the 2024 album "Sunday Morning Put-On")
08 - Early Man - The Longer The Life (taken from the 2014 album "Thank God You've Got the Answers for Us All")
09 - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Hate the Taste (taken from the 2013 album "Specter At the Feast")
10 - Talking Head - The Big Country (taken from the 1978 album "More Songs About Buildings and Food")

Here is a link to the playlist 

So, that was a long pause.....

Yeah, I've been very, very, very quiet, haven't I...

Well, might as well start the way I mean to go on.  Bascially, I have had a lot of things happen since I last wrote anything.  I've had losses and am still with my wonderful wife, discovered the joy of boardgames, stepped away from Attention Please (that is a story I will write someday), bought more Zappa albums, found out I really enjoy RPG's and dice are the shiniest treasure that you will ever find.  

It's been a mad few years to say the least, some of it was difficult to go through, but that is life.  If you're having an easy time everyday, then do you really live?  I'd like to give an answer, but as I seem to have been bless with the shitty end of the stick at times, not really gonna be able to give a pearl of wisdom here.

But over the past few weeks and months, I've really wanted to get back into blogging.  But not in the way that I used to blog.  The idea of doing a million album reviews holds as much appeal as presenting a radio show these days, I've already gave my pound of flesh to that altar, I truly do not need to do it again.  So, what do I want to talk about?

Well, I want talk about things I find interesting

And what would that entail?  So I will be looking at things that appeal to myself first and foremost, then I will see if I really want to share these views with the world.  So, RPGs, music, wrestling and films then.  Aren't you the luckiest audience at this point.😉

I just want to try something and see how it works.  Not expecting anything from this, I will probably not have a schedule for my postings, but let us see how it pans out. 

Anyway, I think my first few posts will be about some of the games I've been playing, so expect that at "some point"...

Laters

 E

#NowPlaying

Lip Critic - Hex Dealer
Hot Water Music - VOWS
Elbow - AUDIO VERTIGO
Belle Royals - Robustly Armenian
Middle Kids - Faith Crisis Pt1
Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
Future Island - People Who Aren't There Anymore

Blog Update - Don't Eat That Yellow Snow

Hey up, Eddie here with a quick update for you all!

Whilst I may be quiet at the moment (focusing on radio stuff), I'm still working on two blogs to be posted here.  One is a look at the first three phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (minus non-cannon material, sorry Fantastic Four, X-Men and Deadpool fans).  That is proving to be a challenge, so working on a three-parter for that one.  Having to re-watch them all is fun, but also very time consuming, especially with other films/TV/YouTube content to watch.  Either way, I intend to post the first part within the next few weeks, so there is that.  I watched the recent Marvel TV/Film announcements and I'm very excited for Wandavision, Blade, The Eternals and the concepts of both She-Hulk and Ms. Marvel. 

I'm also going to write my thoughts about AEW (All Elite Wrestling) and WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment).  For those of you who do not know, I'm a big wrestling fan and I'm under no illusion that it's not a real sport (in terms of these shows at least).  But the people in the ring are professional athletes, even if VKM is determined to call them otherwise for tax reasons.  They must be at peak condition (for the most part) to do half their move sets.  For what seems like an eternity, WWE has been the only big name in the game.  Sure, TNA/Impact tried (and sadly failed), whilst other promotions such as Ring of Honour never quite hit the big time (sadly).  However, with the rise of AEW on the scene, WWE is now facing some competion on a national scale that they have not faced since the start of WCW.  So, I want to do a few posts about that.

I will also be looking at the Star Wars universe again with Attack of the Clones, which is (spolier alert) my least favourite of the series.  To watch this again will be akin to dipping my private parts in battery acid for fun. However, I have started the series, so I will continue.  But I hold little hope that my thoughts on AotC will miraculously change with another view.  Speaking of Star Wars, the recent announcements for the future are interest to say the least, especially Rogue Squadron with Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman/Monster).  At the time of writing, I'm yet to watch the second series of The Mandalorian.  Not because I hated the first series, quite the opposite.  I just want to watch it all in one go, damn Netflix for making binge watching a thing!

It's also around this time of year that people do there end of year lists.  As 2020 has been harsh on the film industry, I cannot honest do a top 5 films list without it be older movies, let alone a top 20.  I will be posting my top 20 albums, with another few lists as well. Nothing as big as I used to do with All The Time I Was Listening To My Own Wall of Sound, but it will be posted after I've made the announcement on Attention Please, airing on Nova Radio North East 102.5FM on 28th December 2020.

So, that is me up to date here.  Not expecting much traction from this post, but that is not what this blog is about. :-)

Eddie

The Day of the Jackal (1973)

Alternative poster by Chungkong Arts available at Fine Art America.
Check out the rest of Chungkong's work at this website here!

Plot

Gentlemen, I have come to help you
find Linda!
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On 22nd August 1962, the French militant paramilitary OAS attempt to assassinate French President General Charles de Gaulle, as they are not too happy with the way that France granted independence to Algeria.  This was back in the day when Europe pretty much ruled the world, so naturally, there was a little bit of turmoil during these transitional periods.  Needless to say, Charly was OK, saying as he's nails and sped off with an imaginary two-fingered salute to the would-be assassins.  This leads to de Gaulle doubling down on the OAS, arresting members left, right and centre, bring the organisation to its knees, as well as executing their leader.  That's right, don't mess with Prez Charly!  The remaining members of the OAS have left France, regrouping in Austria.  They decide to have another go at de Gaulle, but this time they would hire an assassin who is outside of their group.

Got, got, got, SWAP!
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A meeting is arranged in Vienna, Austria, where an unnamed British man (Edward Fox) is interviewed for the job.  He agrees to do it for the fee of $500,000, which was a lot back in the '60s.  The OAS agree, asking him for a codename, he picks the name Jackal, they all laugh and the game is afoot.  Cue dramatic montage of banks being robbed by the OAS, as they have to raise the money somehow.  Those naughty boys and girls, not many ladies in this film to be honest, when they are, it's sort of seedy.  More on that later.  Whilst all of this is happening, the Jackal heads to Genova to arrange for a customed rifle to be made, as well as some forged documents to be created too.  He also visits a graveyard, applies for a passport in the name of someone who died at a young age, pops to Paris to gain entry to a flat at the Place du 18 Juin 1940 for reasons, and buys some old war medals from a flea market. None of these separately might seem s big now, but they all have a purpose later on.  Preparation is obviously key when you're trying to nail Charly dG!  The Jackal returns to Genova to collect his items, the rifle creation process runs smoothly, he even gets to test it on a few watermelons.  But the forger, well he is a very naughty lad.  He tries to blackmail the Jackal, who in turn kills him.  Thus proving that the Jackal is the ultimate bad egg, big boo's all-round, boooooooooo!

We have to stop him from finding Linda,
it's our only hope!
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The French authorities have not been napping whilst Jackie the Jackal has been busy, no, no, no!  They've noticed the OAS bank robberies, so they realise that something is going on.  To find out what that something is, they kidnap the OAS's chief clerk, Viktor Wolenski.  Just pick him up out of the street, like animals!  They sit him down, strap him in tight and then torture him.  All in the name of getting any information out of him, killing him in the process.  You see, the good guys are bad too in this movie.  As they had no live people to interrogate, they listen back to their handy work, smoking intensely and trying to figure out what is being screamed.  It's a bit like listening to Death Metal or Noise music, but without the massive volume of bass noise.  They manage to distinguish one word from the screams, Jackal.  The French Interior Minister requests that President de Gaulle shields himself whilst they look into this matter, but Big Prezie dG ain't no hider!  Naturally huffed by this turn of events, the Interior Minister to bring together a secret council, to investigate this threat against their leader.  At the meeting,  they ask the Police Commissioner Berthier to provide his best detective.  He picks his deputy, Claude Lebel (Michael Lonsdale), an unassuming man who like to be in his garden, as well as tending to his pigeons.  Lebel is given complete control of the investigation, where he picks his staff and begins his investigation.  He arranges for each of his counterparts around the world to be contacted, asking if any of them know anything about the Jackal.

This is Dense, she is the mistress in this movie.  Not much
else to say really.  But she's definitely not Linda!
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The British, as per our birthright, start to look in earnest, to either prove that the Jackal is not British and if he is, to bring him to justice at once! The British come back to Lebel with two pieces of information.  Firstly, that there was a suspicious character named Charles Calthrop who was in the Dominican Republic around the time its dictator Trujillo was assassinated (Jackal in French is "chacal", the word formed from the first three letters of each name); a search on Calthrop's home reveals he is absent. Second and more worryingly, a review of all recent passport applications reveals that one was made for one Paul Oliver Duggan, who had died at the age of two.  Meanwhile, one of the members of the secret council is talking to his mistress about what is happening, who is secretly supplying information to the OAS.  See, loose lips do sink ships!  During one of his after-work rants, he lets his mistress know that they have a name for the would-be assassin.  This information is fed back to the Jackal, who knows that the police are now on his tail, so he'll have to work fast to get to Paris on time, as well as undetected.

Practice makes perfect!
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Whilst hiding in a small hotel, the Jackal seduces fellow hotel guest Colette de Montpellier, a married aristocrat who's rich and bored.  The next morning, he leaves the hotel quickly, picking up his documents and making it out of the building before the Police arrive.  The Police interview the staff at the hotel, where they hear from one of the maids that two people had been in the bed of Madame de Montpellier (nudge, nudge, wink, wink, so no more).  They go to the de Montpellier estate, where our unfaithful aristocrat is forced to admit sleeping with a man, but had no idea of his background.  Meanwhile, in his haste to avoid the authorities, the Jackal crashes his car, which leads him to head also head to the de Montpellier estate, missing the police.  After staying the night and sleeping with Colette again, she confesses that the police have been there, but that she would not tell them anything.  The Jackal makes sure of this, by killing her.  Before he leaves, he dons a new identity of a Danish man, who's passport he'd stolen back in London.  Using this identity, he travels to the local train station in Madame de Montpellier's car, climbs aboard a train to Paris, whilst the servants at the de Montpellier estate discover the body of their mistress.

Nothing to see here, just reading my
book.  Not secretly planning to shoot
President G!
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Lebel, frustrated that the Jackal has slipped through his fingers, uses the murder of de Montpellier to start a public manhunt, which gives him more power than working in secret.  After questioning the servants at the de Montpellier estate and the workers at the train station, Lebel announces the name of the Danish man who the Jackal is impersonating to the world.  He has also had all the phones of the secret council tapped, to find out who has been leaking information.  In Paris, the Jackal goes to a Turkish bath and picks up a man, so he can stay in his house, what with hotels being out of the question.  Whilst staying at the man's house, they see a public announcement about the manhunt, which results in the Jackal killing his host.  Again, we know that he's not a very nice man, so this is not a surprise.  Lebel then reveals to the council that he's been tapping their phone, he also plays them the audio of the mistress calling the OAS.  The minister walks out of the room (he later would kill himself), whilst revealing that he thinks the Jackal will attempt to assassinate "massive balls" de Gaulle on Liberation Day, which is in two days.

Come on Charly, get into range...
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As Liberation Day approaches, the Jackal dons a new disguise, of a crippled war veteran.  Lebel arranges for the tightest security that he can for the President, as de Gaulle continues his public appearances and will be presenting medals to veterans.  The Jackal slips past security that has been set, heading for the apartment he visited earlier in the movie.  Whilst there, he kills the caretaker of the building, so he can set up his rifle and get ready for the assassination.  Lebel is pacing around, looking for anything different, where he finds out about the random veteran who's turned up.  He races up the building as the Jackal takes his shot, but Charly-Boy moves out of the way!!! Whilst reloading his rifle, Lebel and a nameless shield, I mean officer enters the room.  The Jackal shoots the officer, and whilst trying to reload his gun once more, Lebel shoots the Jackal!  Back in London, the real Charles Calthrop turns up and he is definitely not the would-be assassin.  The British intelligent forces pass on this information to the French, also washing their hands clean of the nameless Jackal.  As he'd adopted so many disguises and nationalities, it was impossible for him to be identified to any nation with 100% certainty.  The film ends with Lebel watching the body of the Jackal being buried, being none the wiser to who his foe really was.

A slightly more sensible and boring clear plot, with less silliness about President Charles de Gaulle, can be found here.

Pros

Ah, it'll all end in tears!
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+ This greatest strength of The Day of the Jackal is the direction from Fred Zinnemann.  He keeps the suspense rolling all the way until the dramatic assassination attempt, there is never any noticeable lag in quality.  Thrillers can fall apart very easily, least we not forget Rise of the Titanic. 

+ Edward Fox as the Jackal was a superb piece of casting, the man is a tour de force in this movie.  You really believe him in all his disguises, you see him evading the authorities and heading towards his goal of blowing chunks out of Charly-dG's head.  You also, and this is very important, never truly root for him.  For all his charm and charisma, you're reminded throughout the film that he's a bit of a bastard.  This is important, as you need to want him stopped, no matter how charismatic he is.

Hello, 118 118?  Can you help
us find Linda?
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+ But you need the good guys to be just as convincing as the Jackal himself, hence why the star of this show is really the unassuming Michael Lonsdale.  His portrayal of the quiet, but determined Lebel is wonderfully understated.  He's the exact opposite of his target, a man of simple tastes, but with the same level of intelligence and cunning.  The end scene where he is the one to shoot the Jackal is really tense, but also very quick too. 

+ The location work on this film is brilliant, all these famous areas which would cost a fortune to film in, not other places being made to look like another part in the world.  It's rather nice to see.

+ The film is close to the book, with a few slight changes (names and other things), all of which are minor.  This makes it a really satisfying film, as it doesn't deviate too much, something that is the downfall to other projects.

Cons

Watching this go boom is fun!
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- The ending after the Jackal is killed.  This is the only con that I have for this film.  Charles Calthrop turns up to find the police still looking through his house (what else are they going to find after so many weeks), the British wipe there hands and then you are at the burial.  That is all done in a few minutes.  For a film that took so long to build the drama, the ending was a little weak.

- I know that people will use the excuse "but that's what it was like at the time", but the only two real female characters here are both portrayed in an unflattering light.  The mistress who is a spy, betraying her Country, and the Baroness who sleeps with people to alleviate the boredom.  I mean, I was not expecting depth from this, but could it have hurt them to have a female detective in the background?  But, this was the '70s, so make of that what you will.

Final Verdict

Jackal - Master of disguise.
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The Day of the Jackal is a near-perfect political thriller, with a cast and director that work in perfect harmony.  Director Fred Zinnemann attention to detail (apart from where it comes to females) is spot on, he creates a tense atmosphere that drags you in, as you watch the Jackal make his way to the assassination day.  Edward Fox and Michael Lonsdale are the bedrock of this movie, driving the narrative forward and creating a film that has mostly aged very well indeed.  My two cons aside, I think this is one of the best British based movies ever made, in terms of drama, quality and sheer scope.  There is no big final verdict here, just watch the movie.  But don't bother with the remake from 1997, it's shit.

9 out of ten - An almost perfect movie, loses a point for the rushed ending.