Day 99 The Almanac Singers "Roll The Union On"

Happy International Workers’ Day, brothers & sisters!

Day 98 The Monkees "Porpoise Song"

If you’ve never seen the Monkees’ film “Head”, you should – it’s a psychedelic piece of slapstick intercut with brutal footage from the Vietnam war, Ronnie Reagan and assorted other strangeness.

It also has this fantastic song in it.

Day 97 Leon Rosselson "World Turned Upside Down"

I searched on the internet for “Paris Night”, David Brent’s moving tribute to Princess Diana, and a song that has special significance on the day that her sprog drags a coalminer’s daughter up the aisle to start the process of creating a new generation of inbred parasites.

But I couldn’t find it.

So instead, here’s a song set during the last time Britons had the right idea about how to deal with the monarchy. Off with their heads!

Day 96 Nomeansno "Small Parts Isolated And Destroyed"

Saw them live once. Phenomenal.

Day 95 Tim Buckley "Song To The Siren"

My favourite Tim Buckley song on my favourite TV programme (well, it was when I was 10): "The Monkees"

Day 94 Chris Clark "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)"

It’s Susan’s birthday today, so no fancy pants stuff – just a great northern soul track that says it all. Happy birthday, my love.

Day 93 Steve Earle "Masters Of War"

“If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori”

Wilfred Owen