MUSICAL MONDAY: Mausoleum (Manic Street Preachers)

MUSICAL MONDAY: Samurai Mambo (LADYBABY)

MUSICAL MONDAY: Sweet Memories (Atarashii Gakko! featuring アイナ・ジ・エンド)

MUSICAL MONDAY: Faster (Manic Street Preachers)

My favourite Manics song from my favourite Manics album, The Holy Bible.

An official live-recording of this seminal album, along with a Blu-Ray of the concert performance, is being released in late October.

In 2014, to mark 20-years since the release of their landmark album The Holy Bible, Manic Street Preachers embarked on a sold-out tour playing the record in full. 

More than a decade later, The Holy Bible Live captures an unforgettable show at London’s Roundhouse, documenting a band revisiting a defining chapter of their history... this format includes the incredible full live show on CD, a Director's Cut of Kieran Evans' acclaimed live film Be Pure – Be Vigilant – Behave on Blu-Ray.

MUSICAL MONDAY: TTTTOKYO (Atarashii Gakko!)

MUSICAL MONDAY: Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) (My Chemical Romance)

MUSICAL MONDAY: DESTROYA (My Chemical Romance)

MUSICAL MONDAY: The Kids from Yesterday (My Chemical Romance)

MUSICAL MONDAY: S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W (My Chemical Romance)

MUSICAL MONDAY: Welcome To The Black Parade (My Chemical Romance)

MUSICAL MONDAY: Oi AG! (Atarashii Gakko!)

Oi AG!, the latest release from the peerless Atarashii Gakko! It's also the opening track on the band's new album, From Tokyo With Love.

MUSICAL MONDAY: Drank Too Much (Flo & Joan)

Rachel's favourite Flo & Joan tune.

MUSICAL MONDAY: Storm (OTYKEN)

The music video was filmed in Siberia, Krasnoyarsk Territory, on the Chulym River. 30 km from the village of Pasechnoye (the capital of the Chulyms). This is the birthplace of the members of the OTYKEN group.

Chulyms are the smallest indigenous people of Siberia. According to one version, the Chulyms are the ancestors of the Japanese Ainu and the indigenous peoples of North America. According to another version, the Chulyms are an ancient Turkic tribe.

The song OTYKEN - STORM talks about the difficulties that people face when traveling to the East.

The music of the OTYKEN group is dedicated to giving kindness and warm light to all people on earth! The magical power of our music will heal your soul and your body as well, and it can even send you into a trance.

Another retro slice of bombastic music, from way back in 2022 (remember those halcyon times?)

MUSICAL MONDAY: Veteran of the Psychic Wars (Blue Öyster Cult)

Massive hat tip to Dungeons & Possums, who posted this the other month and wrote:

"This is the live performance of Veteran of the Psychic Wars by Blue Öyster Cult, from the Extraterrestrial Live! tour ca 1981, recorded in Pembroke Pines, FL and released on the 1982 live album of the same name.

"It contains one of the all-time coolest extended instrumentals in rock and roll, a guitar solo journey with spot-on accompaniment that rises and rises and rises in intensity until it feels like a laser beam, a cathartic blast to break the weight of a heavy song that would have surely melted a few faces in that lucky audience."

MUSICAL MONDAY: Sky Kite Valley (Original Music from Obojima: Tales from the Tall Grass)

Sky Kite Valley from Obojima, a new single by 1985 Games for the hit campaign setting Obojima: Tales From The Tall Grass.

Recorded and composed by Steve Gernes.

MUSICAL MONDAY: International Rescue (Fuzzbox)

Another part of my youth scraped up from the depths of my addled memory by a random sighting on YouTube!

I was a massive We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It aka Fuzzbox fan back in the day and pretty sure I owned both of their studio albums.

International Rescue - their Thunderbirds parody track - came from 1989's Big Bang.

MUSICAL MONDAY: Tada Utsukushii Noroi (Nakamura Hak)

MUSICAL MONDAY: Horn Of Destiny (Hawkwind w/Michael Moorcock)

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MUSICAL MONDAY: Dream A Little Dream Of Me (Li Jun Li)

Li Jun Li's cover version of Dream A Little Dream Of Me, from Spider-Noir, currently streaming on Prime Video.

MUSICAL MONDAY: Kaze no Anthem (Eve feat. Suis of Yorushika)