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june 2026 favs

castles - skepta

golden brown - skepta et al (!! favorite song of the first half of the month)

above the clouds - gang starr

green river - CCR (if i teach myself to ignore john fogerty's weird fake accent these songs aren't so bad lol)

ramble tamble - CCR

san francisco knights - people under the stairs

ambient era - tim tama & remco beekwilder

sketch #7 - remco beekwilder

songbird & i don't wanna know - fleetwood mac

pretender - black marble

deathcalls - bones & grayera

girls like - tinie tempah/zara larsson (now i'm a certified zara larsson hater...but this one gets a pass...this also sure sounds like Exactly when it came out (compliment))

red sex - vessel

the days (notion remix) - chrystal

6's to 9's - big wild

somebody else - the 1975

where them girls at - megan thee stallion

almost (johnny's crown instrumental mix)

without me - halsey (also Not a fan but this song is a vibe. Tbh, i'm really mostly not a fan for pedantic/bateman blogging reasons...she named herself after halsey st but her music does not sound like halsey st lol)

tenement yard - jacob miller

you don't love me (no, no, no) - dawn penn

hey baby - dj ötzi

svijet voli pobjednike - colonia

DNA more than a game (WORLD CUP ANTHEM by legends!!!...sorry but this is better than the shakira one imho)

смарагдоне небо - drevo

4 morant (better luck next time) - com truise

disease - lady gaga

šermukšnis - solo ansamblis

club foot - kasabian (rare time when u should watch the video)

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This has been bothering me for YEARS and I finally figured it out but like...if a British band was going to do house of the rising sun it should have been Zeppelin. Hot take but the "classic" Animals version sounds like pure ass. It's such a very American song from a particular tradition and nothing like that is that FAST. Why are they rushing? Why is the organ so loud? Calm tf down

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2025 round up

This was a weird year!!! I was on tumblr far less because the Real World has been exhausting me to such an extent that I just read a lot of books instead. Not in a snooty intellectual™️ way--most were domestic thrillers 😂--but my brain just wanted to use a different part of itself instead of Being on a Screen. (But not that being on a screen is bad. It isn't necessarily! I hate when people make a huge deal about how they need to Be Offline bc the internet is evil. Man...just log off then). Work has been draining and I had been fortunate enough to forget what this felt like. We switched to a much more stable source of federal government funding, which is a very lucky thing in These Times, but it's required a lot more accountability and weird bureaucratic things that keep changing out of nowhere. Still, I am very fortunate and ought not complain too much about it. I'm just easily overstimulated 😂

I had a great spring/summer of consistency and success with executive function and managed to have a pretty good fall mood-wise. Only on this most wretched period of time of the year has the Bad appeared. Because of this I got to listen to a lot more music this fall and am super behind on my podcasts!

The year's music:

January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December

But I found it very hard to write this year. Not due to lack of inspiration and ideas! Just...couldn't make it happen.

lampards

Hate (not rated, Frank Sr)

The monster comes alive (E, Frank/Mark, Frank/Jamie)

Poison (M, Mark, Jamie, Harry)

Lyra (T, Frank/Jamie)

I also published something for the Other Fandom™️ I'd been working on since 2019, and wrote a private piece for the lad called The man with no face about Christine which I did not make public because it commits various Sins: 1) written from a younger person's perspective 2) Exploiting a Tragic Situation 3) Second-Person POV. It had a fuck of a last line if I do say so myself!

There are a few albums I listened to in full this year, which is pretty rare for me, and here they are:

Hair of the Dog - Nazareth

Roboxai - Solo Ansamblis

Scenos - Solo Ansamblis

Sebyggje Og Toledol - norwegian fiddle compilation

Oh, and my music was in a lot of languages this year, which is always so fun! This is what I got:

English

Albanian

Spanish

French

Irish

Swedish

Lithuanian

German

Scottish

Russian

Yiddish

Greek

Croatian

Vietnamese

Polish

Amharic

Georgian

Hungarian

Serbian 

I guess that's pretty much it for the year? I really hope 2026 can bring us all some good things.

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The Best Christmas Songs

according to someone with excellent taste!

-Silent Night (in my mind, one of the best songs ever actually. in english or in german!)

-Walking in a winter wonderland

-ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU!!! no hate!!! i listen to this year round

-COVENTRY CAROL. Underrated!!!!!!! For some reason we sang this in elementary school music class

-Adeste fideles/Oh come all ye faithful

-O holy night (I have a complicated relationship to this one, but it still is lovely)

-O come, o come, Emmanuel (my favorite arrangement of the Latin version)

-Blue Christmas

-Silver Bells

-Bethlehem duo in other languages: Betlehem Betlehem (hungarian)/Oi, Bethleem (euskera)

Bonus song I strongly dislike that everyone seems to love: Last Christmas! What do you mean you'll give your heart to someone special. That's not a new idea you just had? You gave it to someone special this year, they were just a dick and gave it away. Or are you trying to be a bitch and be like nah nah you're not special? Because they definitely won't give a shit if they've disregarded your heart!!! I also just don't love it but that line infuriates me lol

Also: Jingle Bell Rock. Tf is a jingle horse...

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having grown up on the CSNY cover of woodstock i realized last night i somehow had never heard the joni mitchell original. my thoughts...

the arrangement/instrumentals are perfect. ethereal and chilling. in this way i like it better than the cover (though it seems unfair to compare.). and it's quieter so it's easier to hear the lovely lyrics. so basically, it would be a perfect song if it didn't have joni mitchell singing it :(

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albums with Virtually No Skips

white album - the beatles | mark II -sorten muld | abbey road- the beatles

revolver - the beatles | fever to tell - yeah yeah yeahs | mer de noms - a perfect circle

muzikë e alltisë - mc kresha & lyrical son | hard core - lil kim | pornography - the cure

pad sistema - general woo | la seigneurie des loups - neige et noirceur | broke with expensive taste - azealia banks

happy woman blues - lucinda williams | sing the sorrow - AFI | confessions on a dance floor - madonna

the fame monster - lady gaga | november-coming-fire - samhain | keep on your mean side - the kills

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the thing about the beach boys is that mike love is a total wanker but his voice truly is iconic...we're singing a beach boys song in singing group that he didn't do lead vocals on, and when i listened to the actual recording i was like this sounds like absolute ass lol

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september 2024 favs

the pain of loving you - dolly parton/emmylou harris/linda ronstadt (this is one of my aunt's favorite albums and i have weirdly fond memories of listening to it with her on this chaotic car ride? also we sang this at my singing group last week)

365 - charli xcx

with or without you - u2 (funny story...my dad used to play this song all the time when i was a kid and i would get so upset because the high pitched sounds at the beginning made me imagine 'the end of the world' and i'd start to panic...me as a small kid aesthetic lol)

moonlight - kali uchis (thank u to the david raya comp a goonerina made that had this song in it)

another zuzu album recommendation!!! hot paradox by martin dupont...AMAZING 80s aesthetics. fav tracks so far: full moons and mouths hot paradox my analyst assez inside out

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first to love - blaqk audio (saw this live with davey at his gay best and i remembered how much i listened to it when it came out)

you're makin me high - toni braxton (WHY would someone think hot to go was good horny sentiment when this exists. someone please help the young gay girls)

still haven't found what i'm looking for - u2

kneecap (duhh): fine art obviously but the 3cag EP has been a little more my speed this month, it's more stripped-down so a different vibe

work it - missy elliott (every once in a while i have to revisit this video because not only is the song a true blast from the past, missy elliott's gender vibe in this is sublime)