This is the day

Song: This is the day

Band/Artist: The The

Album: Soul Mining

Duration: 04:56

Year: 1983

Listens on Spotify: 100,000,000ish

Jamie Pond

This is the day featured on the following episodes

SF0204 The Bicentenary Poll Ep3 #70-56

21 January 2026
Ian Forth

The third episode in the Top 100 rundown of listeners’ favourite tracks

Discussing music by:: The Human League; The Dead Kennedys; Standard Fare; Courtney Barnett; Mazzy Star; The Blue Nile; The The; The Libertines; Gil Scott Heron; Steely Dan; Can; Nice Biscuit; Buffalo Tom; Radiohead; The Magnetic Fields

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SF0170 The Days of our Lives

21 November 2024
Ian Forth

A selection of day tracks with yesterdays, todays, tomorrows, weekdays – and starting with “This Perfect Day”.

Discussing music by:: The Saints; Joy Division; Medications; The The; Tanukichan; Death Cab for Cutie; Black Tambourine; The Siddeleys; European Sun; Dehd; Slow Fiction; Burning Spear; Beck; St Vincent

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Jamie Pond

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