TheMusicinMyEars (@MusicMyEarsBlog)

#1465: Manic Street Preachers – Virginia State Epileptic Colony

In early 2014, the only song I had in my iTunes library from Manic Street Preachers’ 2009 album, Journal for Plague Lovers, was ‘Jackie Collins Existential Question Time’. There w…

TheMusicinMyEars@MusicMyEarsBlogOct 23

TheMusicinMyEars · Oct 23, 2026 · 4:05 PM UTC

#1464: Coldplay – Violet Hill

Eighteen years can go by just like that, apparently. It was 2008 that Coldplay released Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends. I was 13, a full functioning human being. A naïve one, but existin…

TheMusicinMyEars@MusicMyEarsBlogOct 21

TheMusicinMyEars · Oct 21, 2026 · 4:14 PM UTC

#1463: Blur – Villa Rosie

It seems 2016 was the year that I came to properly understood Blur’s Modern Life Is Rubbish. On the 3rd April that year, two days before I turned 21, I spent a couple hours in the afternoon g…

TheMusicinMyEars@MusicMyEarsBlogOct 19

TheMusicinMyEars · Oct 19, 2026 · 4:03 PM UTC

#1462: Arctic Monkeys – The View from the Afternoon

You might not be able to believe that this will be the first time I’ve covered a song from Arctic Monkeys’ debut album. I’ve written about ‘Fake Tales of San Francisco’…

TheMusicinMyEars@MusicMyEarsBlogOct 19

TheMusicinMyEars · Oct 19, 2026 · 7:27 AM UTC

A new lineup of songs in the playlist is available for all for the next two weeks. And there’s 22 of them now! Good times. Featuring @BillyTalentBand, @wolfmother, @SupergrassHQ, @pinkfloyd and more! open.spotify.com/playlist/6e…

TheMusicinMyEars · Oct 17, 2026 · 4:01 PM UTC

TheMusicinMyEars@MusicMyEarsBlogOct 17

#1461: The Velvet Underground – Venus in Furs

According to my Spotify data, I listened to The Velvet Underground & Nico, first time ever, on 20th October 2012. That was near the beginning of a period in time when I was really trying to che…

TheMusicinMyEars@MusicMyEarsBlogOct 15

TheMusicinMyEars · Oct 15, 2026 · 4:03 PM UTC

#1460: Kings of Leon – Velvet Snow

And so we’ve reached the final time a Kings of Leon song will be mentioned in this long, long list. You can click on the ‘kings of leon’ tag below and see how far my coverage of t…

TheMusicinMyEars@MusicMyEarsBlogOct 13

TheMusicinMyEars · Oct 13, 2026 · 7:49 PM UTC

I think I might really like XTC

TheMusicinMyEars · Oct 13, 2026 · 4:00 PM UTC

TheMusicinMyEars@MusicMyEarsBlogOct 13

#1459: Pixies – Velouria

My personal knowledge of ‘Velouria’ by Pixies goes back a while. Again, it’s the setting of being a kid in front of the television, watching MTV2 at some hour during the day, and …

TheMusicinMyEars@MusicMyEarsBlogOct 11

TheMusicinMyEars · Oct 11, 2026 · 4:38 PM UTC

#1458: Nine Black Alps – Vampire in the Sun

So Nine Black Alps’ third album Locked Out from the Inside was released on 5th October 2009 – 17 years ago last Monday – which is actually insane. I mean, I’ve been around a…

TheMusicinMyEars@MusicMyEarsBlogOct 9

TheMusicinMyEars · Oct 9, 2026 · 4:22 PM UTC

#1457: Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Vague Space

Aha! Surprise ‘V’ attack. Yeah, there were only 16 songs to write about beginning with the letter ‘U’. Wasn’t quite the marathon the ‘T’-section was. I don…

TheMusicinMyEars@MusicMyEarsBlogOct 7

TheMusicinMyEars · Oct 7, 2026 · 4:12 PM UTC

#1456: Beach House – Used to Be

Only very recently have I found out, you’re able to gain access to your whole streaming history on Spotify, from the very first stream after you downloaded the service to the latest stream be…

TheMusicinMyEars@MusicMyEarsBlogOct 5

TheMusicinMyEars · Oct 5, 2026 · 4:19 PM UTC

#1455: Green Day – Uptight

Have I talked about my Green Day obsession of 2005? I must have referred to it at some point. By that year, American Idiot had been out for a few months already. But it was seeing the music video f…

TheMusicinMyEars@MusicMyEarsBlogOct 5

TheMusicinMyEars · Oct 5, 2026 · 7:28 AM UTC

It’s playlist time. It’s playlist time. 21 “new” songs to keep you going for the next 14 days. Featuring @hipcatscience, @slipknot, @tomwaits, @daftpunk and more! open.spotify.com/playlist/6e…

the music in my ears

Playlist for "The Music in My Ears" on Wordpress. Changes every two weeks (Mondays). Shuffle or front to back, do what you want.

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TheMusicinMyEars · Oct 3, 2026 · 4:22 PM UTC

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#1454: The Libertines – Up the Bracket

So I’m sure I’ve mentioned in the past, I’m a Black man. It shouldn’t really matter all that much. But, you know, the type of music I share my thoughts on wouldn’t usu…

TheMusicinMyEars@MusicMyEarsBlogOct 1

TheMusicinMyEars · Oct 1, 2026 · 4:04 PM UTC

#1453: Nine Black Alps – Unsatisfied

I remember when the video for Nine Black Alps’ ‘Unsatisfied’ was the band’s new video playing regularly on MTV2. I didn’t want to watch it, because singer/guitarist Sa…

TheMusicinMyEars@MusicMyEarsBlogSep 29

TheMusicinMyEars · Sep 29, 2026 · 4:01 PM UTC

#1452: They Might Be Giants – Unpronounceable

In 2015, They Might Be Giants revived their Dial-A-Song service. Now, instead of calling the number on your phone and hearing a TMBG song on the other end, they were releasing a new song every week…

TheMusicinMyEars@MusicMyEarsBlogSep 27

TheMusicinMyEars · Sep 27, 2026 · 5:56 PM UTC

#1451: Soundgarden – An Unkind

I think it’s okay to get a little personal with you guys, lay down some serious stuff. I’m slowly coming out of a period in my life where I think I might have been going slowly insane. …

TheMusicinMyEars@MusicMyEarsBlogSep 25

TheMusicinMyEars · Sep 25, 2026 · 4:02 PM UTC

#1450: Red Hot Chili Peppers – Universally Speaking

Not so long ago, I was writing about another Red Hot Chili Peppers song on here. That too also happened to be a single. The Peppers are a really good singles band. I don’t think people would …

TheMusicinMyEars@MusicMyEarsBlogSep 23

TheMusicinMyEars · Sep 23, 2026 · 4:02 PM UTC

#1449: Blur – The Universal

Readers from the UK, it is that song from the British Gas adverts. There will be people out there who would have been introduced to Blur’s ‘The Universal’ through its use on the c…