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left field left field adventures in baseball fanaticism music obsession craft beer enthusiasm and other stuff from out of left field wednesday december 31 2025 best music of 2025 part 5 usually i write something about the past year here and i guess i will keep with that theme although 2025 was certainly a bittersweet year as i said earlier my father passed away he lived a terrific long life despite an upbringing that wasn t so great so the fact that he modeled for me what it s like to be a strong father figure and family man is certainly something to be celebrated my mom died over 30 years ago so it s definitely strange no longer having a living parent but i m obviously not the first person to feel that emotion shortly after my father s passing lc broke his leg in a skiing accident that made his life difficult for a few months and ruined his entire baseball season but he handled it well overall and it didn t stop us from seeing ac dc live in may in fact it allowed us to obtain ada seating and handicapped parking which made the whole experience significantly easier than it might have been so politics aside 2025 wasn t bad and it probably helped me learn to see the bright side and make the most of an otherwise not great situation happy new year to all who made it this far 5 cassandra jenkins my light my massage parlor this album is a mostly instrumental companion piece to 2024 s my light my destroyer yet somehow i enjoyed this even more than that album and it s her second top five in the past five years 4 julien baker torres send a prayer my way julien baker s second top ten appearance and torres s first this is definitely my country album of the year 3 hamilton leithauser this side of the island another entry to the second top five in the past five years category i ve been really taking to the walkmen frontman s solo material 2 craig finn always been i m pretty sure i ve ranked this album higher than probably anyone else but the addition of the war on drugs the album was produced by adam granduciel and features several of this band mates to finn s wonderful storytelling puts this one on another level for me 1 jason isbell foxes in the snow this one has essentially been in my top spot since it came out in march i really expected something else to come along and bump it down but that never happened not to take anything away from this effort it s really a great album but 2023 s weathervanes is significantly better regardless with two 1s and a 2 at just past the halfway point of the decade isbell is well on his way to artist of the decade status posted 10 38 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest subjects best music of 2025 lists music sunday december 28 2025 best music of 2025 part 4 10 mike reid joe henry life and time continuing the 30th year celebration theme my inaugural list featured joe henry s trampoline as the 1 album of 1996 he hasn t made an appearance in the top ten since until this year this album is also the best thing to come out the penn state football program this year 9 heartworms glutton for punishment i owe a little of my interest in this album to my pal el squared s obsession with wet leg when i first heard it i thought it would be a good album to recommend to him because they were both produced by dan carey not the tool drummer and seemed to have fans in common but with each subsequent listen it continued to grow on me and became a bit of my own obsession 8 laura stevenson late great this year s top five is all familiar faces but this round of five is mostly newcomers with laura stevenson being one of two solo artists to make their first top ten appearance 7 the besnard lakes the besnard lakes are the ghost nation the besnard lakes join some pretty select company with their third consecutive top ten album 6 lucy dacus forever is a feeling come to think of it lucy dacus is not a first timer to my top ten having appeared here with boygenius in 2023 but this is lucy s first time as a solo artist posted 7 39 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest subjects best music of 2025 lists music thursday december 25 2025 retrospective albums of the year 1995 as i mentioned earlier 2025 is the 30th year of this list so to commemorate i m going to squeeze in an extra post which hearkens back to the inception of this annual tradition i ve been compiling a list of at least my ten favorite albums of the year since 1996 it s part ritual part obligation but still is something i find enjoyable you could argue that although this is the 30th year next year is actually the 30th anniversary of the list since it started in 1996 but 1995 was really the year the idea for this list was conceived as i basically had a top 7 in my head that year so i thought it would be appropriate to revisit my 1995 list with the benefit of a little hindsight although each of the original top 7 i still consider worthy 10 space needle voyager one of two albums in this top ten by artists who were and still are friends of mine this was space needle s debut and remains frontman jud ehrbar s best work in my opinion 9 varnaline man of sin my awareness of most of the music that appears on this list i owe to the brainchild behind this band who grew up on the other side of the apple orchard from me 8 emmylou harris wrecking ball the first of three albums on this list that i didn t hear until a year or two later this one has really grown on my since 7 radiohead the bends you ve probably heard of this band 6 palace music viva last blues will oldham s discography is pretty extensive and there are quite a few of his albums that are much more critically acclaimed but this is easily my favorite 5 blue mountain dog days i would honestly say that blue mountain hasn t aged as well as some of my other alt country favorites but this is still easily their best album 4 wilco a m not quite as impressive a debut as his son volt counterpart but jeff tweedy s career certainly benefited from his break from jay farrar 3 whiskeytown faithless street this would be the highest ranking album that wouldn t have made my list back in 1995 as i didn t get turned onto whiskeytown until two years later when i read an article in no depression magazine that described them as country and westerberg 2 the jayhawks tomorrow the green grass i had been a fan of the jayhawks for a couple years when this album came out but it blew me away almost as much as the next album on this list there s really no match for the harmonies of gary louris and mark olson in their primes 1 son volt trace i can still remember how excited i was to hear this album for the first time after obsessing over all four uncle tupelo albums for at least several months prior it might sound strange but i was also thrilled at the opportunity to use a urinal next to son volt drummer mike heidorn during their show at bogie s in albany that year posted 6 08 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest subjects lists music retrospective albums of the year tuesday december 23 2025 best music of 2025 part 3 it actually just occurred to me that this is my 30th year compiling this list more on that and what reminded me of it in the next post 20 matt berninger get sunk 19 margo price hard headed woman 18 snocaps snocaps this is the highest ranking album that i hadn t heard of until earlier this month 17 blondshell if you asked for a picture 16 jens lekman songs for other people s weddings 15 midlake a bridge too far perhaps their best album since tim smith s departure over a decade ago or have i said this before 14 big thief double infinity 13 the swell season forward this is definitely the best material glen hansard and markéta irglová have produced together since the once soundtrack 12 bon iver sable fable 11 bob mould here we go crazy posted 2 01 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest subjects best music of 2025 lists music friday december 19 2025 best music of 2025 part 2 some old and some very old friends make an appearance in this installment 30 patterson hood exploding trees airplane screams 29 horsegirl phonetics on and on 28 mumford sons rushmere 27 willie nelson oh what a beautiful world some years ago i started a bit of a christmas tradition where i gifted my dad a cd that most closely represented the intersection of our musical tastes dad passed away this year but this is the album that would have fit the bill 26 sun kil moon all the artists 25 jakko m jakszyk son of glen somewhat fitting that the album written by the current king crimson lead singer about his father makes an appearance in this round of ten 24 brown horse all the right weaknesses 23 kathleen edwards billionaire continuing with the somber theme it wasn t until i saw her live this year that i realized this album s title track is about a friend she lost recently 22 alan sparhawk with trampled 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