Thursday, 21 May 2026

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! 

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