The Friday Music Shuffle (3rd April 2026)

Hi pop pickers and welcome to my weekly music shuffle. I hope you are enjoying your Good Friday and the annual weekend celebration of Easter Eggs.

What happens is this. My music device selects ten random songs from my collection and I tell you what it’s selected. I invite you to click on the song title in order to listen and, if you are in a good mood, sing along.

I hope you find some music you like.

1. Love TKO by Hall and Oates. Great cover of the Teddy Pendergrass classic, from their 2004 long player Our Kind Of Soul.
2. Girl From The North Country by Crosby, Stills and Nash. Lovely version of the Dylan song, from the band’s excellent 2012 live album called … Crosby, Stills and Nash 2012.
3. Drop Dead Gorgeous by Princess Nokia. Great track from her 2025 album Girls. WARNING: VIDEO INCLUDES SCANTILY CLAD WOMEN. LOOK AWAY NOW.
4. Let Me Be Your Car by Rod Stewart. God knows which album this on (a compilation?) because I don’t have 1974’s Smiler. Written by Elton John (who sings and plays, too) and Bernie Taupin, this is a proper dud!
5. Bodhisattva by Steely Dan. It would have been impossible to successfully follow-up their debut album Can’t Buy A Thrill with another classic, but the Dan did it in 1973 with Countdown To Ecstasy. Perfect.
6. Present Tense by Radiohead. Good Friday just gets better and better, with this lovely joint from 2016’s A Moon Shaped Pool. What a band.
7. Closer Than Close by Rosie Gaines. A club classic from 1997. Superb.
8. American Eulogy: Mass Hysteria / Modern World by Green Day. A banger from my favourite album of theirs, 2009’s 21st Century Breakdown.
9. What Kind Of Fool Am I by Anthony Newley. Back to 1961 for this classic, apparently a big favourite of one David Bowie.
10. The Bell by First Aid Kit. And finally, this lovely tune from the Swedish folk duo, from their 2014 album Stay Gold.

This week’s Desert Island Disc is Bodhisattva by Steely Dan. Of course it is.

Have a good week till next week.