Playlist - May 2026
What I've been spinning at home, work, and everywhere else lately...
May 25-31, 2026
- Siouxie and the Banshees — Kaleidoscope
- Madonna — Like a Virgin
- Yes — Time and a Word
- Rick Wakeman — The Six Wives of Henry VIII
- Genesis — The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
- Dean Elliott and His Big Band — Zounds! What Sounds!
- Percy Faith — 16 Most Requested Songs
- Lola Young — From Down Here
- Mort Garson — Mother Earth's Plantasia
- Mort Garson — Black Mass Lucifer
- The Lively Ones — Surf City
- The Lively Ones — Surf Rider
- various artists — Rock Instrumental Classics, Vol. 5: Surf
- The Ghastly Ones — A-Haunting We Will Go
- Mr. Gasser & The Weirdos — Surfink!
- The Astronauts — Surfin' with the Astronauts
- Renaldo & The Loaf — Songs for Swinging Larvae
- Paul McCartney &mdashl The Boys at Dungeon Lane
- Los Straitjackets — Los Straitjackets Play Favorites
- Los Straitjackets — Deke Dickerson Sings the Great Instrumental Hits
- The Cramps — Smell of Female
Sorry for not posting an updated list or annotating the previopus one. The surf-heavy latter half of this list was binged for reasons that will be revealed later.
May 10-12, 2026
- Fred Frith — Speechless
- Faust — The Faust Tapes
- Front 242 — Front By Front
- The Residents — Duck Stab
- Lucifer (Mort Garson) — Black Mass
- Yui Horie — Sky
- You Horie — Mitzutamari ni utsuru sekai
- Siouxie and the Banshees — The Scream
- Public Image Ltd. — Second Edition
- Bauhaus — In the Flat Field
- various artists — Roy G. Biv Playlist [created by Tara]
- The Dickies &mash; Second Coming
- Big Black — Lungs
- Big Black — Bulldozer
- Big Black — Racer X
- Big Black — Atomizer
- The Psychedelic Furs — The Psychedelic Furs
- Siouxie and the Banshees — Join Hands
- Siouxie and the Banshees — Kaleidoscope
- Siouxie and the Banshees — Ju Ju
- The Radha Krsna Temple (London) — The Radha Krsna Temple
- various artists — Post-Punk Classics 1978-1981 Echoes
May 9, 2026
- Aerosmith — Rocks
- Fred Frith — Speechless
- Fred Frith — Gravity
NOTES: The Aerosmith spin was for my fallen brother Bryan Morgan, who at 3AM today (5.9.26) was claimed by the aggressive cancer that was detected by doctors over a week before. The Fred Frith albums — from his Ralph Records years — were for me and it had been awhile since I listened to them.
May 8. 2026
- various artists — A Bunch Of Songs Picked by CJ Marsicano [shuffled]
- various artists — Big Blunts: 11 Smokin' Reggae Hits
NOTES: This was a day devoted mostly to shuffling the "playlist from hell" (as people whose musical intake only comes from mainstream radio and Walmart's lone half-aisle of CDs and vinyl in their electronics department might term it). The Big Blunts compilation was deployed in the Hidizs AP80 when my AirPods demanded an immediate charging, case and all.
May 7, 2026
- Howard Mitchell & National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center — Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47
- The Whiskey Bats — Flesh Eaters
- One Revived — Is This A Nightmare
- The Cramps — RockinnReelininAucklandNewZealand XXX
- various artists — A Bunch Of Songs Picked By CJ Marsicano [shuffled]
NOTES: Started off with my boy Shostakovich via the first recording of the Fifth Symphony that I had ever heard. Been a while since I spun some classical at work. The Whiskey Bats and One Revived are two bands that essential brother Riggz Miller is in. Riggz is the main singer and songwriter in the Whisley Bats, a horror=punk band; One Revived is a psychobilly band that he wound up being co-guitarist in. He told me the other day when we went to visit Bryan Morgan at home that he has a third project, a horror-surf instrumental band (I forget the name right now) in the works. That kind of set me off to listen to some Cramps afterward. The playlist at the end is one that is massive and often meant for shuffling. I frequently cue it up when I can't decide what to listen to next (or first). In fact, I'm shuffling it right now as I type this during a work break.
May 6, 2026
- various artists — Industrial Music: A Three-Hour Journey (Apple Music "Playlist Playground" playlist)
- Lee "Scratch" Perry — On The Wire
- Dead Kennedys — Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death
- John Holt — Police In Helicopter
- Black Uhuru — Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
- Peter Tosh — Legalize It (Legacy Edition)
NOTES: More reggae goodness save for a three-hour generated playlist of industrial goodness and the Dead Kennedys' posthumous singles compilation.
May 5, 2026
- Shabba Ranks — Rough & Ready, Vol. 1
- Capleton — Prophecy
- Prince Far I — Under Heavy Manners
- Linton Kwesi Johnson — Dread Beat and Blood
- Lee "Scratch" Perry & Bullwackie — Lee "Scratch" Perry Meets Bullwackie in Satan's Dub
- 10 Ft. Ganja Plant — Bass Chalice
- Sly & Robbie — Sly & Robbie Essentials (Apple Music playlist)
NOTES: All reggae, all goddamn day. Jah live. One love.
May 4, 2026
- The Dave Brubeck Quartet — Time Out
- U-Roy — Dread in a Babylon
- Led Zeppelin — Led Zeppelin III
- Big Youth — Screaming Target
- Tappa Zukie — Tappa Zukie In Dub
- Shabba Ranks — As Raw As Ever
NOTES: First of all, what else am I going to listen to first thing on 5/4 but the album with "Take Five" on it? A movie soundtrack from 1977? Other than that, heavy on the reggae except for Led Zeppelin III because of the simple fact that it's the favorite Led Zep album of both myself and my BFF Bryan Morgan, who is currently in home hospice with an agressive form of esophageal cancer, and who I'd visited along with our band brothers from Insomnia Station, Riggz Miller and Leo Kelly the day before.
May 2, 2026
- King Tubby, Roots Radics & Scientist — In a Dub Explosion
- Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour
- Kacey Musgraves — star-crossed
- John Frusciante — To Record Only Water For Ten Days
- yeule — softscars
- The Clash — The Clash (original UK version)
- The Dickies — Second Coming
- various artists — Relaxing Female Vocals with Electronic Keyboards
NOTES: Started the workday with the King Tubby/Roots Radics/Scientist album and man, it went fast! Hearing "Follow Your Arrow" on the playlist my wife made me had me cue up the last two Kacey albums I had bought on vinyl (via Apple Music, of course, because I was at work) and it had been a while since I listened to them last. The rest was all old favorites save for later in the evening, when my post-dinner nap was soundtracked by a playlist created by a promot I gave Apple Music's Playlist Playground.
April 26-May 1, 2026
- Jah Wobble — Redux: Anthology 1978-2015
- various artists — CJ's Playlist (compiled by Tara)
- various artists — She's Dawning On Me (playlist recreation of old CD mix)
- Burt Bacharach — Make It Easy On Yourself
- Burning Spear — Marcus Garvey
- Culture — Two Sevens Clash (The 30th Anniversary Edition)
- Psychic Temple — Plays Music For Airports
- Peter Tosh — Legalize It
- Peter Tosh — Equal Rights
- Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters — Lee Perry The Upsetter presents Roast Fish, Collie Weed & Corn Bread
- Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters — Super Ape
- Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters — Return of the Super Ape
- Yabby You — One Love, One Heart
- Lee "Scratch" Perry — Scratch Attack!
- Red Hot Chili Peppers — The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
- Red Hot Chili Peppers — Mother's Milk
- Lee "Scratch" Perry & Mad Professor — Black Ark Experryments
- Lee "Scratch" Perry & Mad Professor — Experryments at the Grass Roots of Dub
- Yabby You Meets Mad Professor & Black Steel — ...In Ariwa Studio
- Red Hot Chili Peppers — Blood Sugar Sex Magik
- Jane's Addiction — Nothing's Shocking
This is what happens when you've forgotten to catalog the last days of April 2026. I should start keeping track in a notebook from now on. Been really heavy on the reggae lately, which makes sense since most of what I've been listening to in the past few weeks has been heavy on the bass. The playlist my wife made me was done as a sort of request/challenge as she had been discussing making one for me for sometime, seeing how on the drives to work I'd be sitting in the passenger set making playlists on my phone.