Monday Night Album Club 199

	18th of May 2026
	Classic Album
	Disintegration
	The Cure
	Scott's rating
Previous episode	Monday Night Album Club 198
Next episode	Monday Night Album Club 200

The Monday Night Album Club on the 18th of May 2026 was a listening party held on the Community Garden Radio Discord and on Community Garden Radio. It was the hundred and ninety ninth edition of the Album Club, and the album listened to was "The Afterparty" by Lykke Li. The pre-mix was curated by Tuftii..

It was the hundred and sixty fifth album club to be broadcast directly on Community Garden Radio.

Background

The Cure beat Wet Leg to be crowned Copa Album Club Champions for 2026, by 25 votes to 2.

Pre-pre Mix

• Demob Happy - Power Games Open in Spotify

• Violet Grohl - THUM Open in Spotify

• Lime Garden - 23 Open in Spotify

• Adult DVD - Do Something Open in Spotify

• GANS - THE KING'S HEAD Open in Spotify

Pre-mix

Tonight's premix had a match report from Macs McCachan and Tuftii.

Then the following tracks were played, interspersed with listener voice notes.

• Bauhaus - All We Ever Wanted Was Everything Open in Spotify

• The Smiths - Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want - 2011 Remaster Open in Spotify

• Joy Division - Twenty Four Hours - 2007 Remaster Open in Spotify

• Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again Open in Spotify

• The Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey Open in Spotify

• The Damned - Life Goes On Open in Spotify

• Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas Open in Spotify

• Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon Open in Spotify

The vote

The three albums up for next weeks vote will be:

• Elbow - Asleep In The Back
• I Am Kloot - Natural History
• Doves - Lost Souls

And the tracks that were played were:

• Elbow - Powder Blue Open in Spotify

• I Am Kloot - Twist - Remastered Open in Spotify

• Doves - Catch The Sun Open in Spotify

Copa Album Club Bloopers

Tuftii played out a selection of their CAC bloopers recorded with Macs.

• Harry Belafonte - Jump in the Line Open in Spotify

People's Penultimate Pick

• Fat Dog - Go Fuck Urself Open in Spotify

Ejected CAC Track

To complete the "Rules of CAC Engagement", Tuftii played a track from the last album to be removed from CAC this year.

• Wet Leg - mangetout Open in Spotify

Tuftii's Tail End Track

• Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere - 2005 Remaster Open in Spotify