/Tuesday Ten /620 /Tracks of the Month /Jan-26
Finally, the eternal month of January is over, and now we’re into February, it’s time for the best tracks of the first month of the year.
Category: /Tuesday Ten
Now ten years old and counting, my regular series of Tuesday posts takes in new music and sometimes rather random categories.
/Tuesday Ten /619 /Inspiration
Perhaps ironically, given the subject, this post has taken three or four attempts to complete. I’ve looked at the suggestions before without success since the suggestion thread was posted back in 2020, finding little inspiration to actually complete the post.
/Tuesday Ten /618 /Boredom
The first couple of weeks of January are usually a drag. There’s little going on, most people are saving their money for more interesting times later in the year, and the weather, at least in the northern hemisphere, is usually pretty grim.
/Tuesday Ten /617 /Starman – David Bowie covers
David Bowie died ten years ago this week (on 10-Jan 2016). He’s been one of those artists whom I’ve been listening to his music probably as long as I was able to appreciate music. My dad, naturally, was/is a fan, and it was probably Let’s Dance I heard first (I was nearly five when that […]
/Tuesday Ten /616 /Tracks of the Month /Dec-25
2026 is an important year for me: it marks thirty years since I began writing about music (the actual anniversary comes at the end of September). But it is also going to be the year where I start to wind down my writing, and this website.
/Tuesday Ten /615 /All I Want for Christmas Is a Dukla Prague Away Kit
Yes, it’s the last days of November, yes, it’s one month until Christmas today, and yes, this is the last /Tuesday Ten of 2025.
/Tuesday Ten /614 /There’s No Future In Optimism
By a quirk of fate, I wrote a /Tuesday Ten on positivity eleven years ago today, and a late change of plan over the weekend as to what subject I was going to write about meant that I settled on pessimism, without realising the significance of it.
/Tuesday Ten /613 /No Medicine For Regret
Regret is a funny human condition, isn’t it? The concept that you can obsess over past mistakes, when you can do little or nothing other than acknowledge what happened, apologise and move on.
/Tuesday Ten /612 /Tracks of the Month /Oct-25
The last /Tracks of the Month of the year has come around quickly – from the beginning of December, of course, I’ll be posting /Countdown /2025 over four weeks as I look at the best music of the year.
/Tuesday Ten /611 /Denial Is A River
Denial can take many forms. It can be public denials, it can be denials to friends and lovers, it can be denial to yourself.
/Tuesday Ten /610 /Keep It Clean
After last week’s filth and dirt, let us wipe the slate and this week, clean things up.
/Tuesday Ten /609 /Filthy Underneath
In the latest instalment of “why didn’t I consider this subject before?”, this week and next cover twin subjects that I’m genuinely surprised that it took this long to think about.
/Tuesday Ten /608 /Tracks of the Month /Sep-25
Blimey, 2025 is flashing by. I’m now just two months out from /Countdown /2025 beginning (the best music of the year on /amodelofcontrol.com), and so I’m now seriously considering what the best of the year actually is.
/Tuesday Ten /607 /In This Together
This week’s post has been written from our remote cottages in the East Hampshire countryside, where we’re staying for the week with friends.
/Tuesday Ten /606 /I Pity Inanimate Objects
This is another of those /Tuesday Tens where the original inspiration for asking about this subject is likely lost to time. But, just to make sure we know what we’re talking about: “A living thing may be an object, and is distinguished from non-living things by the designation of the latter as inanimate objects. Inanimate […]
/Tuesday Ten /605 /Kitchen
Sometimes, I ask for submissions on a subject that I think will have loads of easy-to-use suggestions, and the reality is rather different: and so, it gets shelved for a while until the right time to use it comes up. This subject was one of those.
/Tuesday Ten /604 /Eat It
This is one of the rare times where I’m returning to a subject. I first wrote about food (and drink) on /Tuesday Ten /124, way back in March 2011, but the more I thought about it, the more I realised that most of the songs that I’d used at the time were barely about food, […]
/Tuesday Ten /603 /Tracks of the Month /Aug-25
September has arrived down here on the coast with a lot of rain, and intermittent sunshine: and with my hop plants due to harvest in the coming week or two, it definitely feels like autumn is here. Autumn also means the usual deluge of new releases, so this week’s /Tracks of the Month has expanded […]
/Tuesday Ten /602 /Infest: Shocks and Surprises
The recent edition of Infest being a week earlier than usual – and now that the festival appears to have moved to Manchester permanently – has had me in a reflective mood, especially as that was my 25th Infest (including the two online editions), having first attended in 2000, and of course there wasn’t one […]
/Tuesday Ten /601 /Desire Is A Mess
Back from what felt like a blink-and-you-miss-it Infest, and coverage of that will follow later this week. In the meantime, I prepared this mostly in the week before Infest to ensure it would be posted today.