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! 

Ten Random Tracks A Day For 2026: 4th June to 10th June

 

Picture taken by Mick Haupt and on Pexels, great picture Mick!

Week twenty three, and I am approaching the middle of this endeavour.  I must admit, as much as I love music and lists, this can sometimes feel a little taxing.  Which is strange as I'm just typing out a list, of my own free will.  But there are times when I just want to switch off, sleep for a few days and then come back.  But this year at least, I have stated that I want to do this for a year.  Yeah, I could walk away, but I want something to look back on and see how the year has gone, who had the most random plays, all that sort of thing.  My mind can be a strange place, OCD is the real mind-killer at times.

But hey, let's not worry about my mind and stuff,  let's talk about strange songs and paying 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.

4th June 2026

01 - A - Hello Sunshine (taken off the 2026 album "Prang")
02 - Bob Mould - Breathing Room (taken off the 2025 album "Here We Go Crazy")
03 - Nadine Shah - Club Cougar (taken off the 2020 album "Kitchen Sink")
04 - This Wild Life - Brick Wall (taken off the 2016 album "Low Tides")
05 - The Smashing Pumpkins - Galapogos (taken off the 1995 album "Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness")
06 - Suede - Snowblind (taken off the 2013 album "Bloodsports")
07 - Dunes - Fields of Grey (taken off the 2025 album "Land of The Blind")
08 - Not Scientists - Secrets (taken off the 2023 album "Staring At The Sun")
09 - Protomartyr - Feast of Stephen (taken off the 2015 album "The Agent Intellect")
10 - Cave In - Everest (taken off the 2002 EP "Tides of Tomorrow")

5th June 2026

01 - Jaga Jazzist - Apex (Live) (taken off the 2021 album "The Tower")
02 - Yeasayer - Crack a Smile (taken off the 2019 album "Erotic Reruns")
03 - Babybird - Candy Girl (taken off the 1996 album "Ugly Beautiful")
04 - Blissard - Godhead (taken off the 2018 album "Blissard II")
05 - Elton John - I Think I'm Going To Kill Myself (taken off the 1972 album "Honky Château")
06 - Swallow The Sun - November Dust (taken off the 2024 album "Shining")
07 - Porcupine Tree - Fear of A Blank Planet (taken off the 2007 album "Fear of A Blank Planet")
08 - Iggy Pop - Outta My Head (taken off the 1996 album "Naughty Little Doggie")
09 - Pete Murray - Fall Your Way (taken off the 2003 album "Feeler")
10 - The Psychedelic Furs - Goodbye (taken off the 1982 album "Forever Now")

6th June 2026

01 - Sylvaine - Everything Must Come To An End (taken off the 2022 album "Nova")
02 - King Garbage - Piper (taken off the 2022 album "Heavy Metal Greasy Love")
03 - Familiars - Keepin' On (taken off the 2024 album "Easy Does It")
04 - Leon III - Navigation Charts (taken off the 2023 album "Something Is Trying To Change My Mind")
05 - sleepmakeswaves - Black Paradise (taken off the 2024 album "It's Here, But I Have No Names For It")
06 - To Kill Achilles - Recovery (taken off the 2023 album "Recovery")
07 - PÆRISH - Amanita (taken off the 2023 album "You're In Both Dreams (And You're Scared)"
08 - Longpigs - Dozen Wicked Words (taken off the 1995 album "The Sun Is Often Out")
09 - Anathema - Lightning Song (taken off the 2012 album "Weather Systems")
10 - Empire of the Sun - Changes (taken off the 2024 album "Ask That God")

7th June 2026

01 - Weezer - Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori (taken off the 2016 album "Weezer (The White Album)"
02 - Frank Turner - Farewell To My City (taken off the 2022 album "FTHC")
03 - Tiny Moving Parts - Soft Spot (taken off the 2019 album "breathe")
04 - Zeal & Ardor - are you the only one now? (taken off the 2024 album "GREIF")
05 - The Auteurs - Light Aircraft On Fire (taken off the 1996 album "After Murder Park")
06 - Gratitude - The Greatest Wonder (taken off the 2025 album "Gratitude")
07 - Billie Marten - Garden of Eden (taken off the 2021 album "Flora Fauna")
08 - Buena Vista Social Club - La Bayamesa (taken off the 1997 album "Buena Vista Social Club")
09 - Lonely The Brave - The Harrow (taken off the 2021 album "The Hope List")
10 - Green Day - Chump (taken off the 1994 album "Dookie")

8th June 2026

01 - Neighborhood Brats - I Want You (taken off the 2021 album "Confines of Life")
02 - Sea Wolf - Moving Colors (taken off the 2020 album "Through A Dark Wood")
03 - English Teacher - Sideboob (taken off the 2024 album "This Could Be Texas")
04 - Makiko Hirabayashi - Embracable Night (taken off 2021 album "Weavers")
05 - Undesirable People - Look At The Moon (taken off the 2018 EP "Ask Me If I Care")
06 - Bloods - Feelings (taken off the 2018 album "Feelings")
07 - Nine Inch Nails - Every Day Is Exactly The Same (taken off the 2005 album "With Teeth")
08 - Billy Talent - Rabbit Down The Hole (taken off the 2016 album "Afraid of Heights")
09 - The Cast of the Rocky Horror Picture Show - The Time Warp (taken off the 1975 OST "The Rocky Horror Picture Show")
10 - Andrew W.K. - Girls Own Love (taken off the 2021 album "I Get Wet")

9th June 2026

01 - Pearl Jam - Better Man (taken off the 1994 album "Vitalogy")
02 - SeeYouSpaceCowboy - Silhouettes In Motion (taken off the 2024 album "Coup De Grâce")
03 - Modest Mouse - Walking and Running (taken off the 2021 "The Golden Casket")
04 - Desperate Journalist - Underwater (taken off the 2024 "No Hero")
05 - Blacklisters - Sports Drinks (taken off the 2020 album "Fantastic Man")
06 - Blanket - Bind (taken off the 2026 album "True Blue")
07 - Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirits (taken off the 1991 album "Nevermind")
08 - The Smile - You Will Never Work In Television Again (taken off the 2022 album "A Light For Attracting Attention")
09 - Jimmy Eat World - Futures (taken off the 2004 album "Futures")
10 - Biffy Clyro - A Girl and His Cat (taken off the 2013 album "Opposites")

10th June 2026

01 - Boris - Farewell (taken off the 2005 album "Pink")
02 - Care Le Bon - Running Away (taken off the 2022 album "Pompeii")
03 - Michael Stipe - Drive To The Ocean (2020 single)
04 - CJ Wildheart - Yeah (taken off the 2007 album "Thirteen")
05 - The Prodigy - Their Law (taken off the 1994 album "Music For The Jilted Generation")
06 - The Courettes - You Woo Me (taken off the 2024 album "The Soul of... The Fabulous Courettes")
07 - Face To Face - Keep Your Chin Up (taken off the 2016 album "Protection")
08 - The Divine Comedy - Songs of Love (taken off the 1996 album "Casanova")
09 - Sleater-Kinney - Dress Yourself (taken off the 2024 album "Little Rope")
10 - Pearl Jam - Parting Ways (taken off the 2000 album "Binaural")

Here is a link to the playlist! 

Ten Random Tracks A Day For 2026: 28th May to 3rd June

 

Picture by Mick Haupt and used from Pexels, great picture Mick!

Week twenty two and summer had arrived with a vengeance here in North Tyneside!  I swear, I have gone down a belt hole these last few days alone!  Now dear reader, I am a chubby lad and from Scottish ancestry (from my Mom's side).  I am not handling this heat well at all, it is awful and I think I've had about 3 to 4 hours sleep each night since the deities have left their enternal furnace burning at night.  It's not fun, but it does mean orange ice lollies, so there is a small silver lining there.

But enough about my body slowly turning into water due to the heat,  I want to talk about random tracks and make a list about them! 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.

28th May 2026

01 - Morgan Delt - Sun Powers (taken off the 2016 album "Phase Zero")
02 - Madina Lake - In Another Life (taken off the 2007 album "From Them, Through Us, To You")
03 - Catherine Wheel - Thunderbird (taken off the 1997 album "Adam & Eve")
04 - Ginger Wildheart - I'll Have Another (Originally released on single 12 of the 2015 G.A.S.S. releases, later released on the 2020 compilation "G.A.S.S. Mark II")
05 - David Bowie - Seven Years In Tibet (taken off the 1997 album "Earthling")
06 - Guns N' Roses - Dust & Bones (taken off the 1991 album "Use Your Illusion I")
07 - The Living End - Prisoner of Society (taken off the 1998 album "The Living End")
08 - Poppy - halo (taken off the 2024 album "Negative Spaces")
09 - Folk Bitch Trio - Foreign Bird (taken off the 2025 album "Now Would Be A Good Time")
10 - Michael Monroe - Rode To Ruin (taken off the 2026 album "Outerstellar")

29th May 2026

01 - Within Temptation - Entertain You (taken off the 2023 album "Bleed Out")
02 - Bokassa - The Ending Starts Today (taken off the 2024 album "All Out of Dreams")
03 - Diemonds - Burn It Down (taken off the 2018 album "Diemonds")
04 - Face to Face - You've Got A Problem (taken off the 1992 album "Don't Turn Away")
05 - Wolf Alice - Fluffy (taken off the 2015 album "My Love Is Cool")
06 - Tree River - Laughing With (taken off the 2022 album "Time Being")
07 - Drive-By Truckers - Lookout Mountain (taken off the 2023 album "The Complete Dirty South")
08 - Big Business - Chump Chance (taken off the 2013 album "Battlefields Forever")
09 - Blood Red Shoes - Anxiety (taken off the 2019 album "Get Tragic")
10 - Joseph Arthur - I Am (taken off the 2004 album "Our Shadows Will Remain")

30th May 2026

01 - Crippled Black Phoenix - Ravenettes (taken off the 2026 album "Sceaduhelm")
02 - Treeboy & Arc - Hang Nail (taken off the 2026 album "GOOSE")
03 - Toadies - Damage (taken off the 2026 album "The Charmer")
04 - Dream Nails - Organoid (taken off the 2026 album "You Wish")
05 - Hey Colossus - Party of Fleas (taken off the 2026 album "Heaven Was Wild")
06 - The Maine - Alone For A Year (taken off the 2026 album "Joy Next Door")
07 - LØLØ - me with no shirt on (taken off the 2026 album "god forbid a girl spits out her feelings")
08 - Joe Jackson - I'm Not Sorry (taken off the 2026 album "Hope and Fury")
09 - Courtney Barnett - One Thing At A Time (taken off the 2026 album "Creature of Habit")
10 - I Am The Avalanche - Laughing and Bleeding (taken off the 2026 album "The Horror Show")

31st May 2026

01 - Teenage Dads - Fire Fire (taken off the 2025 EP "My Memento")
02 - Another Sky - I Caught On Fire (taken off the 2024 album "Beach Day")
03 - 3 Colours Red - Hate Slick (taken off the 1997 album "Pure")
04 - Foo Fighters - My Poor Brain (taken off the 1997 album "The Colour and The Shape")
05 - Gone Is Gone - Pawns (taken off the 2017 album "Echolocation")
06 - Devin Townsend - Heartbreaker (taken off the 2022 album "Lightwork")
07 - Kim Gordon - Dream Dollar (taken off the 2024 album "The Collective")
08 - Pearl Jam - Hail, Hail (taken off the 1996 album "No Code")
09 - Stonefield - Broken Stone (taken off the 2018 album "Far From Earth")
10 - Nirvana - On A Plain (taken off the 1991 album "Nevermind")

1st June 2026

01 - Green Lung - Mountain Throne (taken off the 2023 album "This Heathen Land")
02 - Tame Impala - Eventually (taken off the 2015 album "Currents")
03 - Sports Team - Condensation - Boys These Days (taken off the 2025 album "Boys These Days")
04 - Ride - Eternal Recurrence (taken off the 2019 album "This Is Not A Safe Place")
05 - Bill Fisher - Better Than You (taken off the 2021 album "Hallucinations Of A Higher Truth")
06 - The Raconteurs - Only Child (taken off the 2019 album "Help Us Stranger")
07 - Boris - Riot Sugar (taken off the 2011 album "Heavy Rocks")
08 - Hammish Hawk - Disingenuous (taken off the 2024 album "A Firmer Hand")
09 - The Wonder Stuff - Merry Go Round (taken off the 1988 album "The Eight Legged Groove Machine")
10 - Bombay Bicycle Club - Leave It (taken off the 2011 album "A Different Kind of Fix")

2nd June 2026

01 - Led Zeppelin - The Battle of Nevermore (taken off the 1971 album "Led Zeppelin IV")
02 - Pavement - Slowly Typed (taken off the 1997 album "Brighten The Corners")
03 - Throwing Mises - Manic Depression (taken off the 1992 album "The Curse")
04 - Not Scientists - Dark Tornado (taken off the 2018 album "Golden Staples")
05 - Alter Ego - Rocker (taken off the 2004 album "Transphomer")
06 - Psy of the Dead - Found You (taken off the 2021 album "Forgotten Memories")
07 - Twin Atlantic - Get Out (taken off the 2024 album "Meltdown")
08 - Highly Suspect - Champagne At Our Funeral (taken off the 2024 album "As Above, So Below")
09 - Muse - Time Is Running Out (taken off the 2003 album "Hysteria")
10 - Bad Cop Bad Cop - Note To Self (taken off the 2025 album "Lighten Up")

3rd June 2026

01 - The Doors - Blue Sunday (taken off the 1970 album "Morrison Hotel")
02 - Kiss - Cold Gin (taken off the 1974 album "Kiss")
03 - TV Party - Pocket Full of Harold (taken off the 2023 album "Psychic Driving")
04 - Heather Nova - Butterflies and Moths (taken off the 2025 album "Breath and Air")
05 - Urge Overkill - Positive Bleeding (taken off the 1993 album "Saturation")
06 - Honeycrack - No - Please Don't (taken off the 1996 album "Prozaic")
07 - Rocket From The Crypt - On A Rope (taken off the 1995 album "Scream Dracula Scream")
08 - Osta Love - Amethyst Deceiver (taken off the 2020 album "About Time")
09 - Metallica - The Thing That Should Not Be (Live) (taken off the 1999 album "S&M")
10 - The Prodigy - Climbatize (taken off the 1997 album "The Fat of The Land")

Here is a link to the playlist!

Ten Random Tracks A Day For 2026: 21st May to 27th May

 

Photo taken by Ezgi and used from Pexels, great picture Ezgi!

Week twenty one of fifty-two lists! And in a turnaround from the rest of the year, it is starting to warm up here in deepest, darkest Tyneside!  Personally, I hate it, I am very much of the "let it rain and be cooler" side of humanity, it is what comes from having family roots which go back to the Outer Hebrides (on my Mam's side of the family).  It just means I will be extra meh with things and want to sleep more, what I would give for a good thunderstorm right now!  That being said, I am currently being distracted with new video games (Astro Bot & the new Lego Batman, both are great), and also distracted by sleep.... did I mention that!!!!

But enough about my inability to stay awake in the heat,  I want to talk about random tracks and make a list about them! 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.

21st May 2026

01 - Fugazi - Public Witness Program (taken off the 1993 album "In On The Kill Taker")
02 - Manic Street Preachers - (It's Not War) Just The End of Love (taken off the 2010 album "Postcards From A Young Man")
03 - Jack's Mannequin - The Mixed Tape (taken off the 2005 album "Everything In Transit")
04 - Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - Inca Road (taken off the 1975 "One Size Fits All")
05 - Nation of Language - In Your Head (taken off the 2025 album "Dance Called Memory")
06 - Taken By Trees - Sweet Child o' Mine (2008 single)
07 - Deftones - Change (In The House of Flies) (taken off the 2000 album "White Pony")
08 - Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Get Down Moses (taken off the 2003 album "Streetcore")
09 - Ex-Norwegian - Turn Left (taken off the 2010 album "Sketch")
10 - Banks & Steelz - Giant (taken off the 2016 album "Anything But Words")

22nd May 2026

01 - Papa Roach - Never Enough (taken off the 2000 album "Infest")
02 - These New South Whales - Rotten Sun (taken off the 2022 album "TNSW")
03 - Anna Ternheim - No, I Don't Remember (taken off the 2009 album "Leaving On Mayday")
04 - Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now (taken off the 1984 album "Into The Gap")
05 - Alkaline Trio - Sweet Vampires (taken off the 2018 album "Is This Thing Cursed?")
06 - The Ataris - So Long, Astroia (taken off the 2003 album "So Long, Astoria")
07 - Inspiral Carpets - She Comes In The Fall (taken off the 1990 album "Life")
08 - Justice - Phantom Pt. II (Boyz Noise Mix) (taken of the 2007 EP "Phantom")
09 - Van Halen - Hot For Teacher (taken off the 1984 album "1984")
10 - Gyasi - Baby Blue (taken off the 2025 album "Here Comes The Good Part")

23rd May 2026

01 - Unto Others - Butterfly (taken off the 2024 album "Never, Neverland")
02 - Wilt - Wait A Minute (taken off the 2002 album "My Medicine")
03 - Zeal & Ardor - Church Burns (taken off the 2022 album "Zeal & Ardor")
04 - Mustasch - Lawbreaker (taken off the 2018 album "Silent Killer")
05 - Soft Cell - Bedsitter (taken off the 1981 album "Non Stop Erotic Cabaret")
06 - Pearl Jam - Alright (taken off the 2020 album "Gigaton")
07 - Pulp - Tina (taken off the 2025 album "More")
08 - Fiddlehead - Welcome To The Situation (taken off the 2023 album "Death Is Nothing To Us")
09 - Placebo - Scared of Girls (taken off the 1998 album "Without You I'm Nothing")
10 - Joy Division - Atmosphere (1980 single, later released on various compilations, but I have the 1988 compilation "Substance")

24th May 2026

01 - The Cosmic Dead - Furthur (taken off the 2026 album "Beyond The Beyond")
02 - Corrosion of Conformity - The Nectar (taken off the 2014 album "IX")
03 - The Devils - Til Life Do Us Part (taken off the 2024 album "Let The World Burn Down")
04 - The Prescriptions - Love Is Red (taken off the 2022 album "Time Apart")
05 - Green River - Come On Down (taken off the 1985 album "Come On Down")
06 - Freeze The Atlantic - No Goodbyes (taken off the 2017 album "The People Are Revolting")
07 - Paul Westerberg - Dyslexic Heart (taken off the 1992 OST "Singles")
08 - Albert Hammond Jr. - Drunched In Crumbs (taken off the 2015 album "Momentary Masters")
09 - Gnome - Back To The Mud (taken off the 2024 album "Vestiges of Verumex Visidrome")
10 - Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache (taken off the 2004 album "The End of Heartache")

25th May 2026

01 - Thornley - Come Again (taken off the 2004 album "Come Again")
02 - Billy Nomates - Override (taken off the 2025 album "Metalhorse")
03 - Dinosaur Jr. - Back To Your Heart (taken off the 2007 album "Beyond")
04 - The Smashing Pumpkins - Hello Kitty Kat (taken off the 1994 compilation "Pisces Iscariot")
05 - Pearl Jam - Corduroy (taken off the 1994 album "Vitalogy")
06 - Danko Jones - Shake Your City (taken off the 2023 album "Electric Sounds")
07 - Stone Temple Pilots - Sin (taken off the 1992 album "Core")
08 - Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - Sinner (taken off the 2013 album "Repent Replenish Repeat")
09 - Squeeze - Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) (taken off the 1980 album "Argy Bargy")
10 - The Levellers - Battle of the Beanfield (taken off the 1991 album "Levelling The Land")

26th May 2026

01 - The Sundays - You're Not The Only One I Know (taken off the 1990 album "Reading, Writing and Arithmetic")
02 - Blur - It Could Be You (taken off the 1995 album "The Great Escape")
03 - Throwing Muses - Stand Up (taken off the 1996 compilation "In A Dog House")
04 - Fugazi - Turkish Disco (taken off the 1999 album "Instrument Soundtrack")
05 - Rush - Tom Sawyer (taken off the 1981 album "Moving Pictures")
06 - Primus - DMV (taken off the 1993 album "Pork Soda")
07 - True North - Closer You (taken off the 2020 EP "The Closer You Get")
08 - The Wedding Present - Let's Make Some Plans (taken off the 1992 album "Hit Parade 1")
09 - Julia Fordham - (Love Moves In) Mysterious Ways (taken off the 1991 album "Swept")
10 - The Get Up Kids - Holiday (taken off the 1999 album "Something To Write Home About")

27th May 2026

01 - Pet Shop Boys - Jealousy (taken off the 1990 album "Behaviour")
02 - Pet Needs - Can We Get This Straight? (taken off the 2026 album "Elbows Out! This Is Capitalism")
03 - Meshuggah - Concatenation (Remix) (taken off the 2001 compilation "Rare Trax")
04 - Octopus - Jealousy (taken off the 1996 album "From A To B")
05 - Single Mothers - A-OK (taken off the 2017 album "Our Pleasure")
06 - The Dowling Poole - Empires Buildings and Strategies (taken off the 2014 album "Bleak Strategies")
07 - Gruff Rhys - Seeking New Gods (taken off the 2020 album "Seeking New Gods")
08 - Flaw - Alive and Kicking (taken off the 2022 album "Revival")
09 - Withered Hand - Waking Up (taken off the 2023 album "How To Love")
10 - The Charlatans - Love To You (taken off the 2001 album "Wonderland")

Here is a link to the playlist! 

Ten Random Tracks A Day For 2026: 14th May to 20th May

 

Photo taken by Tiago Fagundes Soares and used via Pexels, great picture Tiago!

Week twenty of fifty-two lists! Somehow, as I start to type this, even though it is the middle of May, it is fucking freezing in the North-East of England.  Not sure how that is far, but there you go.  It is also the usual chaos up here, but feeling rather calm and rested.  Must be because I'm still on holiday, but it is all good for once.  What is that sword doing over my head there.... Also, sorry for this being late, I was a very tired boy last night!

But enough about the pending sense of doom,  I want to talk about random tracks and make a list about them! 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.

14th May 2026 (In memory of Kev Easton who was laid to rest on this day, rest well fella)

01 - Transplants - Diamonds and Guns (taken off the 2002 album "Transplants")
02 - Nirvana - Dive (originally the b-side to the 1990 single "Sliver", later released on the 1992 compilation album "Incesticide")
03 - Iron Maiden - Aces High (taken off the 1984 album "Powerslave")
04 - Pet Needs - Separation Anxiety (taken off the 2024 album "Intermittent Fast Living")
05 - System of A Down - P.L.U.C.K. (taken off the 1998 album "System of A Down")
06-  Frank Turner - 1933 (taken off the 2018 album "Be More Kind")
07 - Therapy? - Still Hurts (taken off the 2015 album "Disquiet")
08 - Alkaline Trio - Mercy Me (taken off the 2005 album "Crimson")
09 - Sugar - Man on The Moon (taken off the 1992 album "Copper Blue")
10 - A Perfect Circle - So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish (taken off the 2018 album "Eat the Elephant")

15th May 2026

01 - Monolord - Alone Together (taken off the 2019 album "No Comfort")
02 - Drop Nineteens - Soapload (taken off the 2025 album "1991")
03 - The Dignity Complex - Concrete (taken off the 2017 album "Accede")
04 - Mandible Klaw - Death Grip (taken off the 2020 album "Mankind Grind")
05 - Gene - Haunted By You (taken off the 1995 album "Olympian")
06 - Flobots - Handlebars (taken off the 2008 album "Fight With Tools")
07 - Jaga Jazzist - Spiral Era (taken off the 2020 album "Pyramid")
08 - Deaf Havana - Sinner (taken off the 2018 album "RITUALS")
09 - Pet Needs - The Burning Building (taken off the 2024 album "Intermittent Fast Living")
10 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (taken off the 1993 album "Live Seeds")

16th May 2026 (this day was the one day a month where I pick songs by one band/artists)

01 - David Bowie - Jump They Say (taken off the 1993 album "Black Tie White Noise")
02 - David Bowie - Sound and Vision (taken off the 1997 album "Low")
03 - David Bowie - The Last Thing You Should Do (taken off the 1997 album "Earthling")
04 - David Bowie - Andy Warhol (taken off the 1971 album "Hunky Dory")
05 - David Bowie - Watch That Man (taken off the 1973 album "Aladdin Sane")
06 - David Bowie - Something In The Air (taken off the 1999 album "Hours")
07 - David Bowie - She Shook Me Cold (taken off the 1970 album "The Man Who Sold The World")
08 - David Bowie - Blackstar (taken off the 2016 album "★")
09 - David Bowie - Within You (taken off the 1986 OST for "Labyrinth")
10 - David Bowie - Everyone Says 'Hi' (taken off the 2002 album "Heathen")

17th May 2026

01 - The Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide (originally released as the 1994 single "Disarm", later released as part of the 1994 compilation "Pisces Iscariot")
02 - Coldplay - The Hardest Part (taken off the 2005 album "X&Y")
03 - The Sundays - Love (taken off the 1992 album "Blind")
04 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower (taken off the 1968 album "Electric Ladyland")
05 - The Blood Brothers - Fucking's Greatest Hits (taken off the 2003 album "...Burn, Piano Island, Burn")
06 - Outkast - Hey Ya! (taken off the 2003 album "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below")
07 - The Divine Comedy - Island Life (taken off the 2010 "Bang Goes The Knighthood")
08 - R.E.M. - King of Comedy (taken off the 1994 album "Monster")
09 - Everclear - A Beautiful Life (taken off the 2003 album "Slow Motion Daydream")
10 - The Cast of The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Over At The Frankenstein Place (taken off the 1985 OST "The Rocky Horror Picture Show")

18th May 2026

01 - Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth (taken off the 1987 album "Heaven On Earth")
02 - Saint Etienne - After Hebden (taken off the 2017 album "Home Counties")
03 - Sarah Gross - Stranger (taken off the 2023 album "The Killjoy")
04 - Laura Cox - Wiser (taken off the 2023 album "Head Above Water")
05 - PJ Harvey - The Darker Days of Me & Him (taken off the 2004 album "Un Huh Her")
06 - Eliza Carthy - Romeo (taken off the 2011 album "Neptune")
07 - Tori Amos - Past The Mission (taken off the 1994 album "Under The Pink")
08 - Florence + The Machine - Seven Devils (taken off the 2011 album "Ceremonials")
09 - St.Vincent - Digital Witness (Live) (taken off the 2026 album "Live In London (BBC Proms at The Royal Albert Hall")
10 - Kate Bush - This Woman's Work (taken off the 1989 album "The Sensual World")

19th May 2026

01 - Frank Zappa - I Have Been In You (taken off the 1979 album "Sheik Yerbouti")
02 - The Divine Comedy - Can't Let Go (taken off the 2025 album "Rainy Sunday Afternoon")
03 - We Are Scientists - Spoken For (taken off the 2008 album "Brain Thrust Mastery")
04 - Anna Ternheim - Feels Like Sand (taken off the 2006 album "Separation Road")
05 - The Beatles - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (taken off the 1967 album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band")
06 - Devendra Banhart - Sight Seer (taken off the 2023 album "Flying Wig")
07 - The Black Keys - Nova Baby (taken off the 2011 album "El Camino")
08 - Tom Waits - I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You (taken off the 1973 album "Closing Time")
09 - Mamas Gun - Had Me At Goodbye (taken off the 2026 album "DIG!")
10 - Zeal & Ardor - Vigil (taken off the 2020 EP "Wake of A Nation")

20th May 2026

01 - We Are Scientists - One In One Out (taken off the 2018 album "Megaplex")
02 - Paradise Lost - Yearn For Change (taken off the 1995 album "Draconian Times")
03 - Glen Hansard - Down On Our Knees (Funkhauds Version) (taken off the 2026 album "Don't Settle")
04 - Triángulo de Amor Bizarro - De la monarquía a la criptocracia (taken off the 2010 album "Año Santo")
05 - The Beatles - Revolution (originally off the 1968 album "The White Album", but this version was taken off the 1973 compilation "The Beatles 1967 - 1970")
06 - Death Cab For Cutie - The Ghosts of Beverly Drive (taken off the 2015 album "Kintsugi")
07 - Idles - Mercedes Marxist (2019 single)
08 - Jack's Mannequin - Bloodshot (taken off the 2008 album "The Glass Passenger")
09 - Elbow - Seven Veils (taken off the 2019 album "Giants of All Sizes")
10 - Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (taken off the 1973 album "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road")

Here is a link to the playlist! 

Ten Random Tracks A Day For 2026: 7th May to 13th May

 

Picture taken by Pascal Bronsert and used from Pexels, great picture Pascal!

Week nineteen of fifty-two lists! In the past week, I have turned 50! I mean, it should be obvious from the way my musical taste has been shown over the last few months that I am of the older ilk, but you never know.  Anyway, the birthday was quiet, work didn't do anything for it, so that is that.  However, my wife has spoilt me, and I am currently on holiday, so I will take that as a victory there. 

But enough about that,  I want to talk about random tracks and make a list about them! 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.

7th May 2026

01 - Lana Del Rey - Wild At Heart (taken off the 2021 album "Chemtrails Over The Country Club")
02 - Sleater-Kinney - Needlessly Wild (taken off the 2024 album "Little Rope")
03 - Ramones - Let's Dance (taken off the 1976 album "Ramones")
04 - The Replacements - Kiss Me On The Buss (taken off the 1985 album "Tim")
05 - Mudhoney - Suck You Dry (taken off the 1992 album "Piece of Cake")
06 - Peel - The Cloak (taken off the 2024 album "Acid Star")
07 - The Beatles - Think For Yourself (taken off the 1965 album "Rubber Soul")
08 - Nirvana - Blandest (Demo) (taken off the 1988 album "Sliver: The Best of the Box")
09 - Macy Gray - Still (taken off the 1999 album "On How Life Is")
10 - The National - Lucky You (taken off the 2003 album "Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers")

8th May 2026

01 - Frank Zappa - Peaches En Regalia (taken off the 1969 album "Hot Rats")
02 - Electric Six - Gay Bar (taken off the 2003 album "Fire")
03 - Not Scientists - Golden Staples (taken off the 2018 album "Golden Staples")
04 - Blink-182 - Bored to Death (taken off the 2016 album "California")
05 - Youth Killed It - Islands (single released 2017)
06 - Depeche Mode - Stripped (taken off the 1986 album "Black Celebration")
07 - Heavy Belly - Only For Myself (taken off the 2018 album "By Grand Central Station")
08 - Everclear - Santa Monica (taken off the 1995 album "Sparkle and Fade")
09 - Timber Timbre - Stops (taken off the 2023 album "Lovage")
10 - Prey Drive - Empty Orchestra (taken off the 2018 album "Once More With Feeling")

9th May 2026

01 - Van Halen - Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (taken off the 1978 album "Van Halen")
02 - boysetsfire - Don't Panic (taken off the 2015 album "boysetsfire")
03 - Paradise Lost - Return To The Sun (taken off the 2015 album "The Plague Within")
04 - Audrey Horne - California (taken off the 2018 album "Blackout")
05 - Descendents - Spineless and Scarlet Red (taken off the 2016 album "Hypercaffium Spazzinate")
06 - Gluecifer - Mind Control (taken off the 2026 "Same Drug New High")
07 - The Wildhearts - Splitter (taken off the 2021 album "21st Century Love Songs")
08 - Splashh - See Through (taken off the 2017 "Waiting A Lifetime")
09 - Pixies - Silver Bullet (taken off the 2019 album "Beneath the Eyrie")
10 - Bison Bisou - Peaches Forever (taken off the 2019 album "Pain & Pleasure")

10th May 2026

01 - Pulp - Slow Jam (taken off the 2025 album "More")
02 - Frank Black - (I Want To Live) On An Abstract Plain (taken off the 1994 album "Teenager of the Year")
03 - Maxïmo Park - Apply Some Pressure (taken off the 2005 album "A Certain trigger")
04 - Pearl Jam - Unemployable (taken off the 2006 album "Pearl Jam")
05 - Ben Folds - Not The Same (taken off the 2001 album "Rockin' The Suburbs")
06 - The Afghan Whigs - Parked Outside (taken off the 2014 album "Do To The Beast")
07 - Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life (taken off the 1996 album "Everything Must Go")
08 - David Bowie - Strangers When We Meet (taken off the 1995 album "1.Outside and subtitled The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper-cycle")
09 - a-Ha - Living A Boys Adventure tale (taken off the 1985 album "Hunting High and Low")
10 - Okkervil River - Okkervil River R,I.P. (taken off the 2016 album "Away")

11th May 2026

01 - Chris Staples - American (taken off the 2004 album "Blackest Hair, Bluest Eyes")
02 - We Are Scientists - Operator Error (taken off the 2023 album "Lobes")
03 - Ben Folds Five - Missing The War (taken off the 1997 album "Whatever and Ever Amen")
04 - Volbeat - The Human Instrument (taken off the 2007 album "Rock The Rebel:Metal The Devil")
05 - The New Pornographers - Angelcover (taken off the 2023 album "Continue As A Guest")
06 - DIIV - Brown Paper Bag (taken off the 2024 album "Frog In Boiling Water")
07 - Cheap Track - All Wrong Long Gone (taken off the 2025 album "All Washed Up")
08 - Weezer - Buddy Holly (taken off the 1994 album "Weezer (The Blue Album)")
09 - The Smashing Pumpkins - Anaise! (taken off the 2014 album "Monuments to an Elegy")
10 - The Hold Steady - City At Eleven (taken off the 2023 album "The Price of Progress")

12th May 2026

01 - Weezer - Troublemaker (taken off the 2008 album "Weezer (The Red Album")"
02 - Big Country - Republican Party Reptile (taken off the 1991 album "No Place Like Home")
03 - Laura Cox - Glassy Days (taken off the 2023 album "Head Above Water")
04 - Pink Floyd - Set The Controls For The Heart of The Sun (taken off the 1968 album "A Saucerful of Secrets")
05 - Them Moose Rush - Jerry's Bacon Flavored Vegan Potion (taken off the 2020 album "Dancing Maze")
06 - Delays - There's Water Here (taken off the 2004 album "Faded Seaside Glamour")
07 - "Weird Al" Yankovic - Amish Paradise (taken off the 1996 album "Bad Hair Day")
08 - Butthole Surfers - Dust Devil (taken off the 1993 album "Independent Worm Saloon")
09 - Fugazi - Version (taken off the 1995 album "Red Medicine")
10 - The Lemonheads - Bit Part (taken off the 1992 album "It's A Shame About Ray")

13th May 2026

01 - Miki Berenyi Trio - Big I Am (taken off the 2025 album "Tripla")
02 - Astronoid - Love Weapon (taken off the 2025 album "Stargod")
03 - Aimee Mann - Thirty-One Today (taken off the 2008 album "Fucking Smilers")
04 - The Flaming Lips - It's Summertime (taken off the 2002 album "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots")
05 - Matt Berry - I Gotta Limit (taken off the 2025 album "Heard Noises")
06 - Vintage Trouble - Feelin' On (taken off the 2023 album "Heavy Hymnal")
07 - Queen Adreena - Wolverines (taken off the 2005 album "The Butcher and The Butterfly")
08 - Far - If You Cared Enough (taken off the 2010 album "At Night We Live")
09 - The Vandals - OK (taken off the 1998 album "Hitler Bad, Vandals Good")
10 - The White Stripes - You've Got Her In Your Pocket (taken off the 2003 album "Elephant")

Here is the link to the playlist!