I think the "how famous do you think 'Geese' is" question is a genuinely interesting one to have an opinion about right now because I think it says something about society, you, and your place in it, and it is good for us to embrace the idea that any of our individual opinions does not have to be the exactly correct one, but that some of us dare to share our honest and detailed opinions about it. but you first!

Owen Pallett should record a cover of Taylor Swift's "Never Grow Up"

we'd like to thank g chat
we'd like to thank weed rap
the best rapper is b real
jokes, it's us, c'mon, be real

it is a club for people who have strong feelings about Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" and "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" and no other Adele songs. Let me know if you are in this club

Some people are probably familiar with the Special Herbs instrumentals, which MF Doom released under the "Metal Fingers" alias and represent beats he made for both his own albums as well as ones he contributed to artists like MC Paul Barman, but what I think some people might not know is that the "Box Set" release, because it was made in the pre-streaming era, has significantly shorter versions of each track than the individual (well, technically two at at time) "Volume" releases. If you really want to luxuriate in these beats, skip the "Box Set" and check out the split releases!

I always liked how the end of Dummy's first album Mandatory Enjoyment sounds like it came off the dang Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles soundtrack

for comparison:

I did some end-of-the-year music type things across different "platforms" this year. Here are each of them:

• I rounded up my favorite albums of the year on record.club, along with thoughts about each of them. I'm trying to spend more time on record.club and less time on other social media platforms!
• I made an (unordered, intended to be shuffled) playlist of the songs that felt most important to me in 2025 on Apple Music.
• Lastly, there's a YouTube playlist with my favorite music videos of 2025, ordered chronologically by release date. It doesn't stand out to me as an incredible year for music videos but there are some really good ones and as I've said elsewhere Doechii kind of set the bar impossibly high with her January 2 music video release for the previous year's single "Denial is a River", which you should really watch if you haven't.

I think that's it for 2025 as a real focus, though obviously I will continue talking about music that was released in all years, not just the present one, here on this website. I'm already looking forward to new albums and concerts and whatever else 2026 has in store!