1. Lance Roark - Bad Reputation 2. Turnpike Troubadours - Price of admission 3. Treaty oak revival - west texas degenerate 4. Yellowcard - better days 5. Whiskey myers - whomp whomp thunder 6. Motion city soundtrack - Same old wasted wonderful world 7. Muscadine bloodline - and what was left behind 8. Parker Mccollum - parker mccollum 9. Coheed - Father of make believe 10a. Starting line - eternal youth 10b. Tanney Usrey - These days
Best Songs of 2025 Haim- Relationships Fontaines DC- It’s Amazing To Be Young Doja Cat- Gorgeous Ed Sheeran- Azizam Hot Mulligan- It Smells Like Fudge Axe Starting Line- Eternal Youth Bon Iver- From Beach Bunny- Tunnel Vision Hayley Williams- Good Ol’ Days 10. Milaterie Gun- Bad Idea Best Albums of 2025 The Starting Line- Eternal Youth Haim- I Quit Tame Impala- Deadbeat Hayley Williams- Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party Good Charlotte- Motel Du Cap The Beaches- No Hard Feelings Hot Mulligan- The Sound A Body Makes When It’s Still Clipse- Let God Sort Em Out Milaterie Gun- God Save The Gun 10. Momma- Welcome To My Blue Sky
Geese - Getting Killed Greet Death - Die in Love Wednesday - Bleeds Deafheaven - Lonely People with Power Alex G - Headlights Big Thief - Double Infinity Liquid Mike - Hell Is an Airport James McMurtry - The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band - New Threats from the Soul Tyler Childers - Snipe Hunter Jason Isbell - Foxes in the Snow Bon Iver - Sable, Fable Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out Bonnie “Prince” Billy - The Purple Bird S.G. Goodman - Planting by the Signs Jeff Tweedy - Twilight Override Fust - Big Ugly Alien Boy - You Wanna Fade? Greg Freeman - Burnover Benjamin Booker - Lower Algernon Cadwallader - Trying Not to Have a Thought L.S. Dunes - Violet Ruston Kelly - Pale, Through the Window Turnstile - Never Enough
And Cameron Winter came out last year so I do not count it. The song of the year and the decade so far is Afterlife by Alex G.
Algernon Cadwallader - Trying Not To Have A Thought Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power Geese - Getting Killed The Starting Line - Eternal Youth Night Tapes - portals//polarities Bon Iver - SABLE,fable Khruangbin - The Universe Smiles Upon You ii (re-recording but whatevs, different enough) Spiritbox - Tsunami Sea Favorite single from band's album I'm looking forward -> Wintersleep - I Got A Feeling
1. Alien Boy - You Wanna Fade? 2. Moving Mountains - Pruning of the Lower Limbs 3. Geese - Getting Killed 4. Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE 5. Anxious - Bambi 6. Turnstile - NEVER ENOUGH 7. Petey USA - The Yips 8. Yellowcard - Better Days 9. Mallrat - Light hit my face like a straight right 10. Wolf Alice - The Clearing 11. People R Ugly - GARAGE 12. Gordi - Like Plasticine 13. Metal Bubble Trio - Cucumber 14. caroline - caroline 2 15. Hayley Williams - Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party 16. Dijon - Baby 17. Spacey Jane - If That Makes Sense 18. Pool Kids - Easier Said Than Done 19. ROSALÍA - LUX 20. Bartees Strange - Horror 21. Michigander - Michigander 22. All Time Low - Everybody’s Talking! 23. Momma - Welcome to My Blue Sky 24. Tyler, The Creator - DON’T TAP THE GLASS 25. Bad Suns - Accelerator 26. jasmine.4.t - You Are The Morning 27. The Starting Line - Eternal Youth 28. Lorde - Virgin 29. Jay Som - Belong 30. Hot Mulligan - The Sound a Body Makes When It’s Still EPs 1. Now, Now - 01 2. Sunday (1994) - Devotion 3. Lil Nas X - Days Before Dreamboy 4. Medium Build - takeaways 5. MICHELLE - Kiss/Kill 6. The Wonder Years - Burst & Decay (Volume III)
1) La Dispute - No One Was Driving The Car 2) People R Ugly - Garbage 3) Twenty One Pilots - Breach 4) Silverstein - Pink Moon/Antibloom 5) Petey USA - The Yips 6) Matt Maeson - A Quiet and Harmless Living 7) Hot Mulligan - The Sound a Body Makes When It's Still 8) Yellowcard - Better Days 9) The Lumineers - Automatic 10) Mobb Deep - Infinite
Top 5 Records Jadu Heart - POST HEAVEN Turnstile - Never Enough T. Hardy Morris - Artificial Tears Youth Lagoon - Rarely Do I Dream Resavoir & Matt Gold - Horizon Top 5 EPs Murdermart - the science of everything lasting (digital pop punk boy band alt country rock) x x x x Top 5 Overlooked Records That I Just Learned About from Other EOY Lists: Saya Gray - SAYA Credit Electric - SALVATION Ninajirachi - I Love My Computer Hudson Freeman - Is a Folk Artist It's a Beautiful Place - Water from Your Eyes Top 5 Songs Turnstile - I CARE T. Hardy Morris - Fight Forever Portugal. The Man - Denali Youth Lagoon - Football HAIM - Relationships Top 5 Movies Sinners Weapons Eddington One Battle After Another Presence
Alabaster DePlume - A blade because a blade is whole Anika - Abyss Anna von Hausswolff - ICONCLASTS Cate Le Bon - Michelangelo Dying End It - Wrong side of heaven Genom Natten - Genom Natten Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover - What of Our Nature Hannah Frances - Nested in tangles Hilary Woods - Night CRIÚ Honningbarna - Soft spot Imploders - Targeted for termination La Dispute - No one was driving the car Seudo Youth - Nobody gets down like... Sun-Mi Hong - Fourth Page: Meaning of a Nest Sunny War - Armageddon in a summer dress Svart Katt - Tills ingen längre minns Tropical fuck storm - Fairyland codex Turnstile - Never Enough Viagra Boys - Viagr Aboys Wet Leg - Moisturizer
Sun-Mi Hong is from my area so yay EDIT: Apparently she’s not from my area but from Amsterdam, but that’s an hour away so I’m gonna count it
my most listened to records this year (based on lastfm which isn’t a full picture but as full as it’ll get)
Didn’t even think to do a favorite songs list when I did my favorite albums so here is a playlist that I spent too much time on.
Top 50 Albums of 2025 1. La Dispute - No One Was Driving the Car 2. Ethel Cain - Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You 3. Ayesha Erotica - Precum/My Last Disaster 4. President - King of Terrors 5. After - After EP 1 + 2 6. Taylor Acorn - Poster Child 7. Hot Mulligan - The Sound a Body Makes When It's Still 8. Violent Vira - Lover of a Ghost 9. Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl 10. Spiritbox - Tsunami Sea 11. Greyhaven - Keep It Quiet 12. Silverstein - Antibloom/Pink Moon 13. Julia Wolf - Pressure 14. Hayley Williams - Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party 15. Arm's Length - There's a Whole World Out There 16. Ninajirachi - I Love My Computer 17. FKA twigs - EUSEXUA 18. Grayscale - The Hart 19. Novelists - CODA 20. Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream 21. Caskets - The Only Heaven You'll Know 22. Anna von Hausswolff - Iconoclasts 23. McKinley Dixon - Magic, Alive! 24. Miley Cyrus - Something Beautiful 25. Sabrina Carpenter - Man's Best Friend 26. Rebecca Black - Salvation 27. Black Country, New Road - Forever Howlong 28. JADE - That's Showbiz Baby! 29. Oklou - Choke Enough 30. Motion City Soundtrack - The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World 31. The Beths - Straight Line Was a Lie 32. Amira Elfeky - Surrender 33. The Callous Daoboys - I Don’t Want to See You in Heaven 34. Lily Allen - West End Girl 35. Mikau - Agartha 36. The Last Dinner Party - From the Pyre 37. Babymetal - Metal Forth 38. Post Heaven - The Space That's in Between 39. Epica - Aspiral 40. Lady Gaga - Mayhem 41. clipping. - Dead Channel Sky 42. Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis - Act III: The Father of Make Believe 43. Dayseeker - Creature in the Black Night 44. Allie X - Happiness Is Going to Get You 45. Deftones - Private Music 46. PassCode - Insignia 47. Hail the Sun - Cut. Turn. Fade. Back. 48. The Maine - Dyed (2008 - 2023) 49. The Devil Wears Prada - Flowers 50. Ethel Cain - Perverts Top 30 Songs of 2025 1. Ethel Cain - Nettles 2. La Dispute - Environmental Catastrophe Film 3. After - Close Your Eyes 4. Ayesha Erotica - Funeral 5. President - RAGE 6. FKA twigs - Eusexua 7. Taylor Acorn - Home Videos 8. Babymetal - from me to u 9. Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia 10. Anna Von Hausswolff - The Iconoclast 11. Rebecca Black - Salvation 12. Grayscale - Not Afraid to Die 13. Violent Vira - Saccharine 14. Julia Wolf - Jennifer's Body 15. Post Heaven - Exit Wound 16. Ethel Cain - Punish 17. Novelists - K.O. 18. Black Country, New Road - Nancy Tries to Take the Night 19. Allie X - It's Just Light 20. Arm's Length - The Weight 21. Ninajirachi - iPod Touch 22. Amira Elfeky - Death of Me 23. Spiritbox - Crystal Roses 24. Hot Mulligan - Monica Lewinskibidi 25. Epica - Cross the Divide 26. JADE - Self Saboteur 27. Caskets - Our Remedy 28. Greyhaven - Burn a Miracle 29. Motion City Soundtrack - Things Like These 30. The Beths - Metal
Great songs from last year I put on repeat: Tyson Motsenbocker - “Catch Together (Like A Family)” murdermart - “itwasfun” Ruston Kelly - “Give Up The Ghost” Park National - “21” John Galm - “Darktown” Jason Anderson - “Start Tomorrow” John Van Deusen - “By Gracious Powers” The Midnight - “Long Island” Tyler Lyle - “Nagano” (only on this substack post) Ben Rector - “The Richest Man In The World” Ken Yates - “The Great Resolution” Sam Fender - “People Watching” Samia - “North Poles” Alexander Biggs - “Pocket Protector” Briston Maroney - “Bullshit” Luna Shadows - “Waiting” (Green Day cover) Jason Isbell - “Wind Behind The Rain” Chloe Moriondo - “Shoreline” Ruby Haunt - “Dogpile” Gigi Perez - “At The Beach, In Every Life” Adjy - “The Festival Grounds” Moving Mountains - “Everyone Is Happy, and Nothing Is Good” Shiver. - “Growth” Audrey Hobert - “Drive”
Most Listened: 1. Pool Kids - Easier Said Than Done 2. Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl 3. Pet Symmetry - Big Symmetry 4. Moving Mountains - Pruning of the Lower Limbs 5. Millington - Better Safe and Sorry EP 6. Yellowcard - Better Days 7. Bad Bunny - Debi Tirar Mas Fotos 8. Hot Mulligan - The Sound a Body Makes When it’s Still 9. Rematch - Nothing Like You Wanted EP 10. Grayscale - The Hart Best Albums: 1. Pool Kids - Easier Said Than Done 2. Pet Symmetry - Big Symmetry 3. Bad Bunny - Debi Tirar Mas Fotos 4. Moving Mountains - Pruning of the Lower Limbs 5. Yellowcard - Better Days This Pool Kids album is maybe my favorite album of the last 20 years. It hasn’t been since high school when my music fandom was at its peak that an album has caught and sustained my attention the way this has. I listed to 4x as much of this one album in 2025 compared to any other artist overall. meanwhile, I should have spent more time with motion city soundtrack, bright eyes, and the cure. Some of my favorite bands released new albums that I just didn’t make time for this year.
Favorite releases of 2025: 1. Hayley Williams - Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party 2. ROSALÍA - LUX 3. Ethel Cain - Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You 4. mewithoutYou - Live, Vol. Two 5. jasmine.4.t - You Are The Morning 6. various - KPop Demon Hunters (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film) 7. Semler - Revival In My Mind 8. aya - hexed! 9. Florence + the Machine - Everybody Scream 10. Ethel Cain - Perverts 11. Rico Nasty - LETHAL 12. ivri - the theory of you 13. Lorde - Virgin 14. Faetooth - Labyrinthine 15. ARTMS - <Club Icarus> EP Concerts I attended: - Poppy - Halsey - Ethel Cain - Sydney Sprague My most played artist based on my streaming app: Halsey
My Favorite Songs Of 2025 1. Jonny Greenwood - Baby Charlene (from “One Battle After Another”) 2. Nine Inch Nails - Shadow Over Me 3. Two Shell - Oops… 4. Thrice - Distant Suns 5. Thrice - Blackout 6. Jane Remover, Danny Brown - Psychoboost 7. Jonny Greenwood - One Battle After Another 8. Danny L Harle, PinkPantheress - Starlight 9. Faux Real, Wet Leg - Walking Away from My Demons - Wet Leg Remix 10. Theodore Shapiro - Together Again (from “Severance” S2) 11. Jonny Greenwood - Trust Device (from “One Battle Affer Another”) 12. Momma - Last Kiss 13. David Byrne, Hayley Williams - Open The Door (from “The Twits”) 14. Cristobal Tapia De Veer - Enlightenment (Main Title Theme from “The White Lotus” S3) 15. Skrillex - SPITFIRE 16. Nine Inch Nails - As Alive As You Need Me To Be (from “TRON:Ares”) 17. Magdalena Bay - Paint Me A Picture 18. INJI - EVERYTHING IS NEVER ENOUGH 19. Yellowcard - Barely Alive 20. Grimes - Artificial Angels 21. ROSALÍA, Björk - Berghain 22. Nine Inch Nails - Init (from “TRON:Ares”) 23. Hayley Williams - Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party 24. Magdalena Bay - Star Eyes 25. Machine Girl - Come On Baby, Scrape My Data