This has taken fucking days to write and you can see me either getting drunker or just losing my mind as I try to vamp it out so enjoy…
| Artist | Title | Comments |
| Therapy? | No Sunshine | There is a line that says “depression is a thief” and it was a game changer for me. |
| The Cure | Alone | The opening song of the album of the year (2024) for me. Just perfection. |
| Joy Division | Shadowplay | Sometimes only Joy Division will do what you need. |
| Slint | Washer | Whenever I am trying to help someone with their mental health I tell them that it might be dark now but the sun will rise again. which is a blatant case of plagiarism of the lyrics to this. |
| The Cure | Lullaby | I like to think the spiderman in this song is THE Spiderman off of the comics. Imagine Bobby Smith and Petey Parker having some scran together. |
| Therapy? | 30 Seconds | There is a light at the end of the tunnel. |
| Mark Lanegan | The Killing Season (Unkle remix) | The first bit of Lanegan and a remix, once this was released I never saw him perform it any other way. |
| Interpol | Evil | Someone said this was about Rose West and I’ve never been able to think about in any other way since. |
| Morphine | Good | Morphine were a relatively new discovery for me at this point and I bored a lot of people talking about yet another already dead artist. |
| Manic Street Preachers | 4st 7lb | The Holy Bible is the greatest album of the 90s and it’s not even close. |
| Nine Inch Nails | Right Where It Belongs | If you look at your reflection is it all you want it to be? |
| Joy Division | New Dawn Fades | I remembered a Moby cover of this but it is nowhere near as good as I remembered plus Moby is a dick. |
| Rico | Float | A line from this song is the epigraph to Stay Happy (more on that another day) . |
| mewithoutYou | New Wine, New Skins | [untitled] by mewithoutYou is the best album of the last decade. |
| Clutch | Gone Cold | I love Clutch but I think it might have just been cold on this day. |
| …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead | Marc David Chapman | For a while I thought this was the best song by the best band. I was kinda right both are bloody brilliant. |
| mewithoutYou | In A Sweater Poorly Knit | I listen to this when my brain won’t stop and I need to sleep. I want it played at my funeral. |
| Mark Lanegan | Death’s Head Tattoo | Fun fact, I have a Death’s Head tattoo as a tribute to Mark and this song (and Silence Of The Lambs) |
| mewithoutYou | Silencer | More mewithoutYou once I start listening to them I find it hard to stop and I wasn’t at the point where I considered having the same artist twice in a row yet. |
| Nothing | Everyone Is Happy | Nothing are a band that the almighty algorithm threw my way years ago and are bloody brilliant, like shoegaze but more. |
| The Gutter Twins | Idle Hands | The first instance of a sneaky Lanegan. |
| Karate | Sever | At times the line between Post-Rock and Jazz is wafer thin. |
| PJ Harvey | Sheela-Na-Gig | The first bit of PJ and the first lady, I should be ashamed of meself. |
| Alice In Chains | Nutshell | The first AIC, Layne is a bigger loss to music than Cobain is a hill that I’ll die on. |
| Melissa Auf der Maur | Taste You | Sneaky Lanegan backing vocals. |
| Mark Lanegan | One Hundred Days | One day I will find the right project to use this bloody title, I have tried a few times now. |
| Queens Of The Stone Age | God Is In The Radio | Sneaky Lanegan. |
| Morphine | In Spite Of Me | Morphine IS really moreish. |
| Mark Lanegan | Brompton Oratory | This man could do no wrong. |
| 1000 Homo DJs | Supernaut | The change in pace here is unfortunate but it was an itch I needed to scratch. |
| Courtney Love | All The Drugs | Courtney Love on MTV was how I found out I liked girls after all. |
| The Gutter Twins | God’s Children | Sneaky Lanegan. |
| Deftones | Bored | After everything I did to her, Taz keeping my Deftones hoodie when we split up seems more than fair in hindsight. |
| Shellac | Crow | Albini’ best work as a producer was with Bush, yet another hill to die on. |
| Soundgarden | Big Dumb Sex | I get the line “I wanna fuck fuck fuck YOU.” stuck in my head more than I care to admit. |
| Joe Satriani | Faceless | I bought tickets to see Joe Satriani on this day. |
| PJ Harvey | This Is Love | More Polly, she’s just bloody brilliant isn’t she. |
| Sunny Day Real Estate | Pillars | I can, will and have argued about what is and what isn’t emo for as long as I have been online. |
| mewithoutYou | Winter Solstice | Posted on the solstice as I am a comedy genius. |
| Braid | The New Nathan Detroits | Braid ARE emo. |
| Brutalligators | Get Better | Brutalligators are bloody brilliant and should be huge, they would have been 15 years ago. |
| Sean Wheeler & Zander Schloss | Spiritual | I saw this performed live and it made my Uncle cry (more on him another day) |
| …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead | Tao Of The Dead, Part 2: Strange News From Another Planet | The longest song on the list, it is as epic as Bohemian Rhapsody thinks it is. |
| Quicksand | Fazer | Post-hardcore is best hardcore. |
| Deftones | Passenger | This is the best Tool song. |
| Tool | Forty Six & 2 | This is probably the second best one. |
| Helmet | I Know | My best mate growing up was called Helmet due to an unfortunate undercut. |
| Sunny Day Real Estate | Seven | SDRE ARE emo |
| Rival Schools | Good Things | Walter Schreifels should be worshipped as Dave Grohl is/was. |
| The Cure | Burn | The first of The Crow soundtrack, I have a Crow tattoo. |
| A Perfect Circle | The Outsider | APC are the band Tool could be if they weren’t all such nerds. |
| Fugazi | Waiting Room | I saw Fugazi once and shaved my head and went straight edge days later. |
| Therapy? | Callow | Is Cleave the best Therapy? album? Maybe? |
| Jets To Brazil | Resistance Is Futile | JTB ARE emo. |
| Mudhoney | Touch Me I’m Sick | Such an obvious choice for Mudhoney but fuck me what a song. |
| Lambrini Girls | God’s Country | The first offering from LG, yet another band I bore people about and try to drag people to. |
| Leftfield | Open Up | Fun fact Hollywood was in fact burning on this day. |
| Lambrini Girls | Love | The only song to appear twice on the list. |
| Manic Street Preachers | Motorcycle Emptiness | James Dean Bradfield buys wine in the big Tesco. |
| Mark Lanegan | One Way Street | I met Mark a few times as he would sit at the merch stand and sign stuff and pose for pics with you. The first I could hardly speak I was so in awe of him and I think it pissed him off a little. |
| Dinosaur Jr. | Start Chopping | I saw Dinosaur Jr. at Reading 97 and they changed guitars between every single song. |
| Lambrini Girls | Love | The only song to appear twice on the list. |
| Filter | Welcome To The Fold | Your man out of NIN whose brother is your man out of Terminator 2. |
| Buzzcocks | Late For The Train | Instrumental! |
| Blue October | Calling You | Very depressed here guys. |
| Blue October | Hate Me | Yup, really depressed. |
| Nine Inch Nails | The Perfect Drug | Edgy teen me thought this was a love song. |
| Alice In Chains | Would? | I love AIC and the new fella is alright but really it’s Jerry’ band innit. |
| Mutoid Man | Bandages | This and the next but one song fall into this weird little niche that’s not quite a genre in it’s own right but should be. |
| Orange Goblin | The Ballad Of Solomon Eagle | Orange Goblin announced they were splitting up on this day. Ben Ward bit my head once while pretending to be a zombie, it was awesome. |
| Baroness | Eula | This and the song before the last one fall into this weird little niche that’s not quite a genre in it’s own right but should be. |
| Corrosion Of Conformity | King Of The Rotten | I waited a decade to see COC live and Clutch opened for them and blew them off the stage. The second time I saw them Orange Goblin did it. |
| Melissa Auf der Maur | Followed The Waves | This song reminds me of not sleeping and staying up watching MTV drunk AF. |
| Queens Of The Stone Age | The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret | A Lanegan free QOTSA. |
| Killing Joke | You’ll Never Get To Me | The best things Dave Grohl do involve him shutting the fuck up and drumming. |
| Entombed | Like This With The Devil | I accidentally saw Entombed once and got whipped in the face by a dreadlock, it left a red welt across my face that took days to go. |
| Nine Inch Nails | Eraser | This is one of the very few I’m not entirely happy with as it needs a very certain mindset and that mindset is depressed and at the point where you are delirious from lack of sleep. It reminds me of 12 hour night shifts. |
| Queens Of The Stone Age | First It Giveth | Sneaky Lanegan. |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees | Spellbound | The first band to go back to back as I was torn between this and Happy House. |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees | Happy House | The first band to go back to back as I was torn between this and Spellbound. |
| At the Drive-In | Quarantined | The people who try and decipher ATD-I lyrics are fools. |
| Sparta | Cut Your Ribbon | I always preferred Sparta to ATD-I as Jim gives it all a vibe and dials back the wankery. |
| Nine Inch Nails | We’re In This Together | I will scream along to this and cry while doing so as it makes me feel bitterly alone. |
| PJ Harvey | A Place Called Home | Very depressed and lonely here. |
| At the Drive-In | 198d | I wrote a follow up to C90 called 198d that pretty much no one ever read. |
| Paw | Hope I Die Tonight | A beautiful song I first heard on a Kerrang! tape. Has aged quite well but yeah… not good mental health vibes. |
| SPRINTS | Heavy | Do you ever feel like the room is heavy? |
| Kyuss | Demon Cleaner | Despite being drug free for 20 years now (go me!) I do like me some stoner rock. |
| PJ Harvey | This Mess We’re In | I can’t ever hear Thom Yorke without thinking about that tattoo that uses a nipple for his squinty eye. |
| At the Drive-In | Napoleon Solo | There’s a post that references this, you should go read it. |
| Against Me! | 333 | (lol at excel formatting) Trans Rights Are Human Rights |
| Against Me! | Norse Truth | My song of the year for 2016. |
| The Get Up Kids | Valentine | It is February 14th. |
| Black Lips | O Katrina! | Scott Pilgrim soundtrack innit. |
| The White Stripes | Fell In Love With A Girl | The further away we get from The White Stripes the less real they feel. |
| Diary | Sunday’s Shadow | An algorithm offering and a very good one at that. |
| Alice In Chains | We Die Young | Every AIC album has to have least one fuck awful track on it. |
| Sunny Day Real Estate | Killed By An Angel | Every SDRE album is good some of them are great. |
| Ten Foot Pole | A.D.D | Remember the old Punk-O-Rama albums? That’s where this came from. |
| Undeclinable Ambuscade | 7 Years | And this one. |
| Mark Lanegan | The Gravedigger’s Song | This was my ringtone for years. |
| Queens Of The Stone Age | Burn The Witch | Sneaky Lanegan |
| Quicksand | Freezing Process | I was recommended the album Slip by Quicksand by a fella working at a record fair. I say recommended he basically bullied me into buying it. |
| Red Fang | Over The Edge | I think I’ve seen Red Fang, I picked them up from somewhere and they have big support band energy. |
| Hole | Turpentine | Early Hole is great but this should have been their cover of Over The Edge. |
| Therapy? | Accelerator | Therapy? haven’t released a bad record, they are incapable of it. |
| Melvins | Civilized Worm | Sometimes you just want big dirty sludgy riffs. Today was one of them days. |
| Wipers | Over The Edge | I was still hunting for the Hole cover at this point. |
| Veruca Salt | Seether | A song you always kind of forget. |
| Grandaddy | A.M. 180 | I watched 28 Days Later. |
| Kerbdog | On The Turn | I found out Kerbdog were supporting Reef. |
| Wilt | Expedestrians | This is the band that formed out of the Kerbdog ashes after they split. |
| Manic Street Preachers | Sleepflower | For all the songs the Manics are known for how is this not one of them? |
| Floodlights | Buoyant | Released on this day and grabbed my attention. |
| Tom Williams and the Boat | See My Evil | The previous song reminded me of this. Tom Williams liked the post declaring this the best song in the world. |
| Everclear | Heroin Girl | One of the first songs I ever played on CD.(I was a very late adopter) |
| Meat Puppets | Backwater | Meat Puppets always sound like a pub band covering their own songs. |
| Jane’s Addiction | Mountain Song | COMIN’ DOWN THE MOUNTAIN! |
| Hole | Asking For It | If you live through this with me I swear that I will die for you. |
| Compulsion | Juvenile Scene Detective | This was on the same CD as Heroin Girl. Bonus points if you can find it. |
| Feeder | My Perfect Day | I once drunkenly heckled Feeder live on the radio. |
| Bush | Machine Head | Genuinely one of the best bands I’ve ever seen. |
| Coldplay | God Put A Smile Upon Your Face | The first album was good, shut up. |
| Therapy? | Safe | One of my best friends is called Safe but not after this. |
| Pixies | Tame | One of the most frustrating bands I have ever seen live. |
| The Primitives | Crash | I didn’t know what this song was and kept singing it at Sals until she figured it out. |
| The B-52’s | Roam | THIS is the best song in the world. |
| …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead | Caterwaul | Fuck I love this band. The first time we saw them they were supporting the Foo Fighters and we never saw the Foos again but saw Trail Of Dead every time they played the UK. |
| Hell Is For Heroes | I Can Climb Mountains | A jaw droppingly good live band. |
| For Love Not Lisa | Slip Side Melting | More Crow soundtrack innit. |
| mewithoutYou | Nice And Blue | There is a post called this, you should go and read it. |
| Amen | Coma America | I went to Reading 00 with the ex so she could see Oasis. I made her see Amen play one of the side tents really early in the day. She did *NOT* enjoy them. |
| Flesh Juicer | 打開太陽 – 美聲版 | Flesh Juicer are from Taiwan and sing in their mother tongue for the most part. I have no idea what this song is called or how to pronounce it. |
| God Is An Astronaut | Adrift | At times the line between Post-Rock and Jazz is wafer thin. This isn’t one of them. |
| The Wildhearts | Suckerpunch | One day we’re going to be too late to save Ginger and there is going to be a lot of hand wringing and guilt. I hope he find peace before it’s too late. |
| The Fall | Victoria | Brilliant cover, awful band. |
| Butthole Surfers | Who Was In My Room Last Night | Brilliant song awful band name. |
| Ministry | Jesus Built My Hotrod | I saw Ministry once at a festival in the middle of the day in glorious sunshine. Really ruined the vibe they were going for. |
| White Zombie | More Human Than Human | White Zombie closed the show at the 95 MTV music Video Awards and I thought they were the coolest thing ever. |
| Pitchshifter | Virus | I went to see Pitchshifter in Wolverhampton dressed in a black suit and sunglasses. |
| Nine Inch Nails | March Of The Pigs | Another one time ringtone of mine. It’s currently Potato Junkie. |
| Ugly Mus-tard | Hate | I bought this album from Andy’s Records in Hereford while comically drunk. |
| Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs | GNT | I will never, NEVER, refer to Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs by anything other than their full name. They’ve made their bed. |
| Shellac | Surveyor | Around this time I needed loud noises to drown things out in my head. |
| Mastodon | Steambreather | This is who I think Red Fang may have supported. Singing drummers tho, they are always annoying. |
| Machine Head | Ten Ton Hammer | I hate deep down inside. |
| Cold | Go Away | I was fully, properly, obsessed with this band to the point I named a kitten Scooter after the singer and then wrote into Kerrang! about it. |
| Minor Threat | Seeing Red | As drunk As I am RIGHT NOW. I’d still go Straight Edge in a heart beat. |
| Fear Factory | Your Mistake | This and the next three songs were all on a tape that came free with Kerrang! |
| Carcass | Generation Hexed | This and the next two songs were all on a tape that came free with Kerrang! |
| Monster Magnet | Dead Christmas | This and the next song were on a tape that came free with Kerrang! |
| Cathedral | Suicide Asteroid | This was on a tape that came free with Kerrang! |
| Therapy? | He’s Not That Kind Of Girl | Calling an album Suicide Pact You First was a brilliant bit of self sabotage. |
| Against Me! | True Trans Soul Rebel | This was when the bullshit supreme court ruling was passed regarding Trans rights |
| Lambrini Girls | Terf Wars | and fuck them all to hell |
| Against Me! | Delicate, Petite & Other Things I’ll Never Be | and back. |
| Marillion | Kayleigh | Do you remember dancing in stilettos in the snow? |
| Arctic Monkeys | Do I Wanna Know? | A genuinely sexy as fuck song. |
| Puscifer | Rev 22:20 | I have a friend who has stripped to this. No I never saw it. |
| A Perfect Circle | The Noose | I could nail this at Karaoke but it is never going to be on the list. |
| Therapy? | Little Tongues First | Suicide pact, you first. |
| Quicksand | Illuminant | Walter Schreifels is annoyingly talented… |
| Dead Heavens | Basic Cable | Like this is a one off side project… |
| Vanishing Life | Vanishing Life | As is this and this has members of Trail Of Dead in it! |
| Shelter | In Praise Of Others | This is where I was reading Ray Cappo’ book and fell in love with Krishnacore again |
| Shelter | Civilized Man | This was on a tape that came free with Kerrang! |
| Shelter | Here We Go | Three in a row is a bit much innit? |
| Better Than A Thousand | Just One | This is totally NOT Shelter (it’s a Ray Cappo side project) |
| Minor Threat | Salad Days | The end of Hardcore. |
| Ned’s Atomic Dustbin | Kill Your Television | Not a bad idea but what would you point your furniture at? |
| Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine | The Only Living Boy In New Cross | This is so much better than Sheriff Fatman. |
| Lush | Single Girl | I was briefly the singer in a band that was only going to play songs that mentioned being a girl. I say in a band, we never even had a rehearsal, we were stoned and thought it would be funny. |
| Terrorvision | Time O’the Signs | Terrorvision get written off as one hit wonders but they are fucking brilliant. |
| Trucker Diablo | Voodoo | I saw these support Terrorvision. |
| The Curse Of K.K. Hammond | Walk With Me Through The Fire | Everything about this says delta blues but she’s from England (and bloody brilliant) |
| B.B. King | Please Accept My Love | The version of this on Live At Cook County is the greatest thing ever committed to tape. |
| The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band | Devils Look Like Angels | Rev Peyton is the greatest living guitarist. |
| Fleetwood Mac | Man Of The World | Best Fleetwood Mac |
| Fleetwood Mac | Rhiannon | I saw this Fleetwood Mac at Madison Square Garden and we were sat so high up you could see the additional musicians needed but never acknowledged hidden behind the stage. |
| Honour | Ginger Wildheart | The night I saw him play this with Courtney Love she showed me (and only me, there was no one else in the world at that moment in time) her pants. I love her so much. |
| Stone Temple Pilots | Interstate Love Song | I was kind of losing my way here and the list was getting to be a bit of a chore |
| Stone Temple Pilots | Plush | these are still great songs |
| Alice In Chains | I Stay Away | AIC always make things better, |
| Mad Season | Wake Up | Mad Season were great, |
| Mad Season | I’m Above | but this was a bad week. |
| Everclear | The Man Who Broke His Own Heart | I saw Everclear open for Feeder and I got kicked out for crowd surfing during Heroin Girl and missed Feeder. |
| Thrice | The Window | The first showing of Thrice who appear twice. That rhymes so is funny. |
| Be Well | In The Shadow Of Who You Thought I Was | Hardcore but really positive, great stuff. A sudden uptick in mental health as this was speaking to me. |
| Monk | Nothing Matters | Hardcore band who do guided meditations. |
| Be Well | Treadless | More Be Well, I was on a little roll of lightness here. |
| Texas Is The Reason | Back And To The Left | A band that I missed at the time as did 99% of their fans. |
| Shelter | Empathy | More Krishnacore! |
| Quicksand | Can Opener | Quicksand are Post-Hardcore but Walter has fingers in a lot of SXE pies. |
| With Honor | Like Trumpets | An algorithm pick based off just how much hardcore I was consuming at the time. |
| Sparta | Guns Of Memorial Park | I bought this album while Christmas shopping the year I left the ex. Yes it was for me. |
| Sunny Day Real Estate | One | SDRE are tied sixth for the most popular artist with five songs. |
| As Friends Rust | Coffee Black | I drink black (decaf) coffee at work as I refuse to be drawn into the milk rota arguments. |
| Iron Chic | Ruinous Calamity | East Coast Punk > West Coast Punk |
| Cactus Black | Bootlickers/Shitlickers | An algorithm suggestion that seemingly came from nowhere but I really liked it. |
| Nate Bergman | Livin’ On The Line | Nate is the lead singer of Lionize. |
| Lionize | Fire In Athena | I saw Lionize open for Clutch a few times and they were better every time and not shabby to start with. |
| Clutch | 50,000 Unstoppable Watts | I have seen Clutch so many times I can tell you if certain songs are being played based on the support act and how the stage is set up. |
| Delta Sleep | Slow Burn | I saw Delta Sleep open for mewithoutYou and The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, I left after Delta Sleep and mewithoutYou. |
| Helmet | Biscuits For Smut | Smut is a great word, Helmet are a great band. |
| Kilgore | Introverted | I saw Kilgore open for Fear Factory and tracked down Jason the singer for C90 and then a book that I tried to write that was ultimately sacked off as I told too many people about it before it happened. |
| Seven Mary Three | Honey Of Generation | I first found 7M3 on The Crow 2 soundtrack but it wasn’t this song. |
| Pearl Jam | Yellow Ledbetter | Next time you go to the dentist and have teeth removed try singing this before the drugs wear off, you’ll nail it. |
| Temple Of The Dog | Hunger Strike | We didn’t deserve Chris Cornell. |
| Fightstar | Amethyst | This is an annoying pick as it’s actually two songs wedged together off the EP and I couldn’t find Amethyst on it’s own. really half assed effort from me. |
| Scowl | Special | As great as this is it makes me miss Human Waste Project who aren’t on Spotify. |
| Lambrini Girls | Special Different | I’m special, good in small doses. |
| The Dirty Nil | Zombie Eyed | When this came out I told everyone who would listen (an admittedly small crowd) that The Dirty Nil were going to be huge and they did grace the cover of Kerrang! at one point a while later. |
| Melvins | A History Of Bad Men | I saw Melvins once as Jon Spencer was support and he (Mr Spencer) had a “drummer” playing a car radiator. Melvins were thankfully much much better. |
| King Buffalo | Repeater | I have mate who is massively into his music like I am but our tastes only overlap very occasionally King Buffalo are one of them moments. |
| Sleepy Sun | Marina | Back when this was getting airplay on Radio 6 me and two mates used to troll the DJs on a daily basis for our own amusement all listening in different offices spread across the UK. |
| Jimi Hendrix | Castles Made Of Sand | I had a best of Hendrix CD that soundtracked a summer of loneliness. It’s weird how music ties so many of my memories together and a song can take me back to a very specific moment in my life. This song sounds like lying on my bed in a box room staring at the ceiling* wondering how the fuck I get myself out of the mess I was in. *I had painted all the walls, ceiling, window ledge and skirting boards black. |
| Clutch | Fortunate Son | If you’re going to cover a song cover a fucking good song and then make it your own. |
| Graveyard | Hisingen Blues | I saw Graveyard open for Clutch and they were great. |
| Kilgore | Providence | Support bands are great, always, ALWAYS, watch the openers. |
| Clutch | Mercury | Yeah I was on a Clutch groove here. |
| Orange Goblin | Lunaville 7 Airlock 3 | This will be where the splitted up Orange Goblin announced a final final tour. If they reform again after this I’ll not darken their door. |
| SPRINTS | Adore Adore Adore | SPRINTS are so fucking good, you should check them out. |
| Tool | The Pot | I must have been out of my head. |
| Legend Of The Seagull Men | The Fogger | I still maintain this is a joke band done accidentally well. |
| Scream | Gods Look Down | Everything that you hear Grohl on that isn’t Foo Fighters makes you realise just how bland that band is. |
| mewithoutYou | Bullet To Binary | I love it when a band seemingly randomly decide to sing in French. No I don’t speak French. |
| Bob Vylan | Makes Me Violent | Bob Vylan did nothing wrong. |
| Fugazi | Merchandise | The next two songs all link to this one |
| Minor Threat | I Don’t Wanna Hear It | This song links to the last one and the next one. |
| Coriky | Hard To Explain | This song is linked to the last two. |
| Hüsker Dü | Don’t Want To Know If You Are Lonely | Yes I am. |
| The Psychedelic Furs | Pretty In Pink | This is my Karaoke song. |
| Groop Dogdrill | Cocksucker Blues | I once wrote a poem that stole/borrowed heavily from this. |
| The Reverend Horton Heat | Lie Detector | This song takes me back to a warehousing job in the late 90s listening to Mark and Lard. |
| Stevie Wonder | Sir Duke | I saw Stevie Wonder this night and he was fucking brilliant. |
| Eurythmics | There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart) | Stevie plays on this. |
| Yazoo | Only You | Quick 80s pop jaunt. |
| Gary Numan | Are ‘Friends’ Electric | DO CARS! |
| Pet Shop Boys | Suburbia | I’d love to see the Pet Shop Boys me. |
| Electronic | Getting Away With It | Shares a member with PSB |
| New Order | Temptation | Shares a member with Electronic |
| Joy Division | Atmosphere | Is New Order + Ian Curtis. |
| Therapy? | Isolation | Cover of a Joy Division Track. |
| Nine Inch Nails | Dead Souls | Cover of a Joy Division track for The Crow soundtrack. |
| Seven Mary Three | Shelf Life | Is the track off The Crow 2 soundtrack that introduced me to 7M3. |
| Days Of The New | Touch, Peel And Stand | I had this on numbered 7″ vinyl and I Imagine it still wouldn’t be worth what I paid for it. |
| Alice In Chains | Heaven Beside You | Another run where |
| Mary Beats Jane | Fall | my heart wasn’t really in it |
| Sunny Day Real Estate | Every Shining Time You Arrive | but still solid choices |
| Rico | Big Black Sea | as I clearly |
| Nine Inch Nails | Wish | have impeccable taste in music. |
| mewithoutYou | Son Of A Widow | This is what my depression sounds like. I can close my eyes and hear this in the darkness. |
| A Perfect Circle | Weak And Powerless | Accidentally linked to the previous song with the topic of grave digging. But ultimately it’s about being hopelessly in love. |
| The Gutter Twins | The Stations | Sneaky Lanegan as it’s been a while. |
| Drink The Sea | Outside Again | This band is full of Lanegan associates I am positive that if he were still with us he’d be involved. |
| Screaming Trees | Look At You | Not so sneaky Lanegan. |
| mewithoutYou | Gentleman | I’ll live without you love, but what good is one glove without the other? |
| Bob Vylan | Dream Big | The Bobby V drama was still raging and he had still done nothing wrong. |
| Local H | High-Fiving MF | A band caught up in Grunge who weren’t Grunge but were ace. |
| A Day For Honey | Laserblast | Chuggy riffs and female vocals, Human Waste Project aren’t on Spotify but this is a close second. |
| Mutoid Man | Bridgeburner | Balls out metal that brings a smile to your face. |
| The Gutter Twins | Flow Like A River | Sneaky Lanegan and a cover of Eleven. |
| Eleven | Reach Out | Go and read Alain Johannes’ wiki entry his credits are insanity. |
| L7 | Fuel My Fire | The temptation to post The Prodigy was immense, I’m not going to lie. |
| Nine Inch Nails | Head Like A Hole | I always thought this was “got money” but I found out at karaoke that it is actually “God money” proper threw me off. |
| Mudhoney | Sweet Young Thing Ain’t Sweet No More | Is this better than Touch Me I’m Sick? Probably not but it’s still fucking brilliant. |
| Melvins | The Talking Horse | A Senile Animal is clearly the best Melvins album. |
| Kyuss | Green Machine | Someone once described Kyuss as the stoner version of The Velvet Underground and I don’t know how to feel about that. |
| Orange Goblin | Turbo Efflunt (Elephant) | I’ve only ever seen Goblin play this once but by Christ I hope they wheel it out for the final tour. |
| Tad | Grease Box | Grunge was an odd genre, all the big hitters were barely part of it and just happened to be about at the time. Tad ARE grunge. |
| Helmet | Tic | The only way to follow Tad was with more chunky filthy riffs. |
| Silverchair | No Association | Who remembers Silverchair! Taz taught me how to play the riff to Freak. Or rather she tried to teach me and I tried to get her to let me siphon the morphine out of a bottle of Kaolin and Morphine. |
| Alice In Chains | Grind | I wrote a novella called Grind. It’s a suitably grubby little thing (more on that another day) |
| Kyuss | Gardenia | Kyuss are another band that once I start playing them I struggle to stop. |
| mewithoutYou | Messes Of Men | Posted on my birthday. Opens with “I do not exist” which is where “none of this is real” spun off from. (I will post stickers out soon) |
| The Wedding Present | Kennedy | The night I posted this choice, I finally blurted everything out about how unwell I really was (am?) I span out of control from a post about losing my love of life. And I had but there was nothing I could do about it. |
| Fugazi | No Suprise | The next few are all lyrical choices as I unwound over who I was or at least not knowing who I am anymore. Hey what’s your name? |
| American Football | Silhouettes | The muscle memory it must take to stay close to me. |
| Jets To Brazil | Starry Configurations | My dear diary, it’s just you and me tonight. |
| mewithoutYou | Pale Horse | Pale horse songs of a slow decline Sideshow words if the songs don’t mind. |
| Quicksand | Dine Alone | It’s a cinch to, pass the time with you But hard to pass the time alone. |
| Rival Schools | My Echo | Walter sparked an emo run here and we have a different type of self pity for the next few. |
| The Get Up Kids | The Company Dime | I saw The Get Up Kids on an anniversary tour of Something To Write Home About and stood behind the most annoying person in the world as they held a SLR camera aloft for the entire gig. |
| Braid | A Dozen Roses | late 90s emo is best emo. |
| Drive Like Jehu | Do You Compute | Drive Like Jehu are criminally underrated, they sounded like no one else but influenced everything that followed. |
| Hell Is For Heroes | I Should Never Have Been Here In The First Place | The music book I was trying to write was interviewing bands who were “there” in my youthful prime and were either still going now or had gone back to the nine to five. It was all built to climax with the question “Do you ever look at where you are now and think fuck you I was on Top Of The Pops” Probably a good job it died on its arse before I could ask anyone really. |
| Funeral For A Friend | Escape Artists Never Die | The drunkest I have ever been at a gig was an MTV2 recording of a Funeral For A Friend gig. I heckled Zane Lowe mercilessly and then spewed on the way home. |
| Black Mountain | Cemetery Breeding | This song is perfect if you’re painfully depressed but still in love with life. |
| Murder By Death | Foxglove | I love this song but can never remember its title or the name of the band but the album is called Good Morning Magpie. |
| mewithoutYou | [dormouse sighs] | mewithoutYou ending their career with their best album is the most mewithoutYou thing possible. |
| Mutoid Man | Kiss Of Death | Mutoid Man deserve to be so much bigger than they are. |
| Killing Joke | Love Like Blood | Yet another one time ringtone of mine. |
| The Psychedelic Furs | Love My Way | This little run is a blur of panic trying to find a song to sing at karaoke. |
| Joy Division | Love Will Tear Us Apart | I sung this (badly). |
| Echo & the Bunnymen | Seven Seas | This wasn’t on the list but Killing Moon was. |
| The Cure | A Forest | Lol no. |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees | Dear Prudence | What was I thinking here? |
| Killing Joke | Millenium | If I could be in a band I’d want them to sound like a mix of this and the next song. |
| Pitchshifter | Triad | If I could be in a band I’d want them to sound like a mix of this and the previous song. |
| Fear Factory | T-1000 | This should be the fastest song on the list but I wasn’t confident in the Spotify BPM readings. It’s a ridiculous techno techno techno remix from the 90s. |
| mewithoutYou | Red Cow | These two songs basically play as one. |
| mewithoutYou | Dorothy | I think I may have forgotten a day and had to do two in quick succession. |
| The Cure | Pictures Of You | People who say The Cure are depressing forget just how many love songs Bobby Smith has written. |
| Echo & the Bunnymen | The Killing Moon | I sang this at karaoke. |
| My Bloody Valentine | When You Sleep | MBV sound like a migraine and it is either perfect or too much. This day they were perfect. |
| Half Man Half Biscuit | The Announcement | It took me a very long time to “get” HMHB. I mistook them as a novelty act with funny little songs when really there is barely concealed venom in a lot of it. |
| Crapsons | Poor Old Prince Philip | The shortest song on the list. The title makes up half of the lyrics. |
| …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead | Mistakes And Regrets | I have bought the album this is off at least three times. |
| Mercury Rev | Goddess on a Hiway | Another late 90s radio one staple. |
| Ooberman | Shorley Wall | Another another late 90s radio one staple. |
| Air | Playground Love | This is the sexiest song ever. |
| Morphine | You Look Like Rain | This is a close second. |
| Soulsavers | Kingdoms Of Rain | Kingdoms of Rain was a perfectly good song, Soulsavers tweaked it a little and improved it a thousandfold. (A not so sneaky Lanegan) |
| Turin Brakes | Brighter Than The Dark | The first time I heard this was at a Turin Brakes gig and it stunned me. |
| Gomez | We Haven’t Turned Around | For years my top two bands that I wanted to see but hadn’t were Gomez and Turin Brakes. I’ve seen them both now and both were excellent. |
| Blue October | Into The Ocean | Blue October = A depressed Edna. |
| Good Charlotte | Hold On | I used to think this song was so deep and meaningful and the video powerful but it’s really not what I remembered it to be. |
| Jimmy Eat World | The Middle | Are JEW emo? I’m torn, they are that Myspace era brand of emo and I’m a snob but they are aces. |
| Thrice | Black Honey | The fact I only posted Thrice twice, find it funny and did it entirely by accident should tell you everything you need to know about me. |
| At the Drive-In | Helitrope | ATD-I have nonsense lyrics that even when you read them you’re not sure they are right but there will always be a line that you latch onto. TURN SLOWLY FOR MAXIMUM VEND. |
| My Chemical Romance | Helena | MCR are NOT emo. |
| American Football | Uncomfortably Numb | AF are emo. |
| Outlander | Threadbare | I have mentioned this band on the blog already. They are fantastic and sound like what the inside of my head did before I knew they existed. |
| Giraffes? Giraffes! | I Am S/H(im)e[r] As You Am S/H(im)e[r] As You Are Me And We Am I And I Are All Our Together: Our Collective Consciousness’ Psychogenic Fugue | At times the line between Post-Rock and Jazz is wafer thin, this is it at its most self indulgent. |
| Mogwai | Ceiling Granny | I’ve never seen Mogwai and I really need to change that. |
| David Bowie | I’m Afraid Of Americans | I went to see Nine Inch Nails in Brixton in 99 and me and the lad I went with were utterly convinced that Bowie was going to come on stage. He didn’t. |
| Neil Young | Heart Of Gold | This was on the night of the Harvest Moon which is also a Neil Young song but this is clearly better. |
| Starsailor | Good Souls | I had a dream about this song once. People who tell you about their dreams are normally boring BUT last night I trumpeted like an elephant in my sleep and woke my wife, the dog but not myself up. |
| JJ72 | October Swimmer | I want to be a happy boy. |
| Turin Brakes | State Of Things | The album this is off is 24 years old and I can’t imagine what that version of me would make of this one. Everything in my life is different apart from my hairline. |
| American Football | Fade Into You | Better than the original and I will fight you on this. |
| The Cure | And Nothing Is Forever | I never want to lose them but if this was the last song The Cure released it would be the perfect ending. |
| Idlewild | You Held The World In Your Arms | I saw Idlewild support Ash at Hereford leisure centre and I only still listen to one of them to this day. |
| Mogwai | Take Me Somewhere Nice | Sometimes I can’t sleep and I need to listen to music and if it is not one very specific song that is on this list and will be written about at some point it’ll be slow melodic Post-rock like this. |
| Explosions In The Sky | First Breath After Coma | And like this. |
| Kate Bush | Cloudbusting | UTAH SAINTS! |
| PJ Harvey | Down By The Water | More songs should have whispering in. |
| Hole | Nobody’s Daughter | Is this a Hole album? Like is it really? I think not but I still dig it. |
| The Besnard Lakes | Glass Printer | The band are a radio 6 call back but the song isn’t. |
| Alcest | Kodama | French post-death metal. I’m such a tosser at times. |
| Felt | Primitive Painters | I always feel sorry for this Lawrence fella has he has a knack for a great tune but bad taste in hats. |
| The Gun Club | A House Is Not A Home | I checked The Gun Club out after Lanegan mentioned them in his autobiography. |
| Mark Lanegan | Go Tell The Mountain | This is a cover of The Gun Club and has Nick Cave and Warren Ellis on backing vocals. |
| Chrissie Hynde | Can’t Help Falling In Love | Sneaky Lanegan. |
| Bob Dylan | The Times They Are A Changing | This was when the clocks changed, I am hilarious. |
| Mark Lanegan | Creeping Coastline Of Lights | I think this *may* be Lanegan’s best track. I never tire of it. |
| Jeff Buckley | Grace | Sometimes I think about what Buckley could have gone on to do. But him not being here makes what he did do little slices of perfection never sullied by a bad review or difficult albums. |
| Joni Mitchell | Blue | Songs are like tattoos. |
| Nick Drake | Time Has Told Me | A troubled cure for a troubled mind. |
| Idlewild | Love Steals Us From Loneliness | I’d rather have hope than sadness. |
| The Cure | A Fragile Thing | The last The Cure and another off the bloody brilliant Songs For A Lost World. |
| Editors | Blood | I thought Editors were the next Joy Division. That was silly they are who they need to be and that’s enough for anyone. |
| Eels | Rags To Rags | After dropping out of college I worked in a canteen for a bit and Eels were big on Radio One over the summer of 97. I have a weird nostalgia for that period where nothing had gone wrong yet and nothing mattered. |
| Elbow | Grounds For Divorce | One Day Like This gets all the attention but this is clearly better. |
| Manic Street Preachers | Autumnsong | The Manics had no business writing a song this good so late in their career. |
| PJ Harvey | You Said Something | Last PJ |
| Mark Lanegan | Hit The City | Last Lanegan, and a rare sneaky PJ |
| Soulsavers | Revival | Last sneaky Lanegan |
| Reef | Choose To Live | I saw Reef the night before this. Fuck they were good. |
| Portishead | Only You | The best band I have ever seen and I still can’t believe it happened. |
| Morphine | Cure For Pain | Last Morphine. |
| Gene | Olympian | I don’t know where this one came from as I was gearing up for a big finale but it fits perfectly with what is to come. |
| Suede | Stay Together | This song gets stuck in my head for days on end. |
| McAlmont & Butler | Yes | A clear clean link to Suede and a bloody brilliant song. No messing. |
| Manic Street Preachers | No Surface All Feeling | Shout out to @Badger500 for telling me how that Yes was pretty instrumental in the run up to Everything Must Go and when you stop and listen to both the sound IS there. There will be a long rambling post about the Manics and EMG at some point but right now I never want to write about music again. (this is a lie, there are plans afoot) |
So there you go 365 songs, notes for for every one in my own little style. I’m not sure what I have achieved or learned but I sure do like me some Mark Lanegan.
Prozac and Whimsy 
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