I did my best to find what I consider good music in 2025. I was able to do so (but it's taking more work each year). I humbly offer the following 120+ songs for your consideration.
- “Anti-Superstar” – Haute and Freddy
- “Spike Island” – Pulp
- “Run Free” – Soulwax
- “Cold. Hard. Love” – the Bug Club
- “No One Leaves This Discotheque Alive” – Rialto
- “Aerial Troubles” – Stereolab
- “White Horses” – Wolf Alice
- “davina mccall” – Wet Leg
- “Punkrocker” – Teddybears featuring Iggy Pop
- “It’s Amazing to Be Young” – Fontaines D.C.
- “Horses” – Mallrat
- “Stay” – Sea Lemon
- “Dancing in the Club” – This Is Lorelei featuring MJ Lenderman
- “catch these fists” – Wet Leg
- “Lovebomb” – the Neighborhood
- “Lonsdale Slipons” – the Bug Club
- “Looking Back” – Lord Huron
- “Inept Apollo” – Nation of Language
- “Metal” – the Beths
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“Good People Do Bad Things” – the Ting Tings
- “UFO” – UFOs featuring Phoenix, Braxe + Falcon
- “Dies Irae” – Patrick Wolf
- “Lucky Dimes” – the Temper Trap
- “cpr” – wet leg
- “Appropriate Emotions” – the Bug Club
- “She Cleans Up” – Father John Misty
- “Palm Readers” – Palmyra
- “Thorns” – Wolf Alice
- “undressed” – sombr
- “Lovers and Strangers” – a Flock of Seagulls
- “Love” – OK Go [best music video of 2025]
- “Problems” – Being Dead
- “The Wolf” – Witch Post
- “Final Days” – Lucius
- “The Scythe” – the Last Dinner Party
- “Taxes” – Geese
- “God Knows” – Tunde Adebimpe
- “Bonnet of Pins” – Matt Berninger
- “Hooked” – Franz Ferdinand
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“Year of the Snake” – Arcade Fire
- “Running Out of Heartbeats” – My Life Story
- “Beta Fish” – Vundabar
- “Forever” – Mother Mother
- “Driver” – Soccer Mommy
- “This Is the Killer Speaking” – the Last Dinner Party
- “What Do I Know” – Deep Sea Diver
- “Elderberry Wine” – Wednesday
- “Undertow” – the Hidden Cameras
- “Begin Here” – Goon
- “The Great Unknown” - Ivy
- “Scantily Clad” – Haute and Freddy
- “Cathode Ray” – Folk Bitch Trio
- “Time of Your Life” – Bob Moses
- “Shovel” – Deep Sea Diver
- “Polaroid” – Cloth
- “Shy Girl” – Haute and Freddy
- “We’re Both Idiots” – Shrink the Giant
- “safeandsound” – Parcels
- “I Love America and She Hates Me” – the Wombats
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“Colors” – Eastern Souvenirs
- “Ankles” – Lucy Dacus
- “Bang Bang Bang” – Sports Team
- “Wristwatch” – MJ Lenderman
- “I Know You Are Watching Me” – the Dream Eaters
- “This Hate Hurts” – Pinc Louds
- “Running/Planning” – CMAT
- “Him” – a Flock of Seagulls
- “Ghost” – Delivery Service
- “Empty Words” – Radio Free Alice
- “Love to Death” – Mother Mother
- “Nothing I Need” – Lord Huron
- “Reverberotic” – Alison Goldfrapp
- “Wait & See” – Saint Motel
- “Eyes Full of Animal” – Midlake
- “The Happy Dictator” – Gorillaz featuring Sparks
- “Lord, Let That Tesla Crash” – CMAT
- “Magnetic” – Tunde Adebimpe
- “As Alive as You Need Me to Be” – Nine Inch
Nails
- “As Good as It Gets” – Katie Gavin and Mitski
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“Dinner @ Brasserie Zédel” – Luvcat
- “Try to Sleep” – Chrissy Hynde featuring Debbie Harry
- “Days Gone By” - Midlake
- “mangetout” – Wet Leg
- “Dracula” – Tame Impala
- “Porcupine” – Sparks
- “Break Right” – Hotline TNT
- “Bag of Bones” – Lord Huron
- “Now That You’re Gone” – Nation of Language
- “I Can’t Escape Myself” – the Dare
- “I Believe in You” – Ladytron
- “I Want You” – Rialto
- “5 Years Time” – Noah and the Whale
- “Cradle the Pain” – Morgan Nagler
- “The Actor” – Folk Bitch Trio
- “Build It Up” – Franz Ferdinand
- “Nightcall” – Kavinsky, Angèle, Phoenix
- “Abracadabra” – Lady Gaga
- “Basic Being Basic” – Djo
- “Fashion Over Function” – Haute and Freddy
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“A Stone Only Rolls Downhill” – OK Go
- “Legalize Living” – the Hives
- “Ticket to Explode” – He’s Dead Jim
- “Wreck” – Neko Case
- “Crash” – Leathers
- “Cant’ Do Without You” – Pink Turns Blue
- “Cherry Bomb” – Circa Waves
- “Fades” – Warfield
- “Inland Ocean” – Matt Berninger
- “I hate this tune” – Royel Otis
- “Enough” – Jeff Tweedy
- “Drown in a Sea of Tears” – Sparks
- “Private” – the Neighbourhood
- “When Your Heart Is Broken” – Bob Mould
- “Devotion” – Hot Chip
- “The Traveller” – Art d’Ecco
- “Neon and Ghost Signs” – Rialto
- “Freaks” – Haute and Freddy
- “Do Things My Own Way” – Sparks
- “Incomprehensible” – Big Thief
- “Watch Me Go” – Lord Huron
- “Surprise Surprise” – Alkaline Trio
- “In This Twilight” – Raven Numan
- “Dancing with the Europeans” – Suede
- “Who Laughs Last” – Lord Huron
- “Champagne” – Declan McKenna
- “We’re All Made of Stars” – Miami Horror featuring Telenova
- “I Am the Fear” – IST IST
