Top Ten of 2025

 Top Ten of 2025

Hey kids, just because social media is like over, doesn't mean the rockingest most moonstomping round-up of the year's top pop hits has gone away.  Back by dope demand, whoomp here it is!

Top Ten of 2025 am here!

1. Lambrini Girls - Cuntology 101

Trigger warning: Some strong language.  Riotous punk pop feminists Lambrini Girls released their debut album this year.  This sweary masterpiece provides a handy guide to current etiquette for teenage lesbians and middle-aged 6 Music Dads alike.  Good to see that 'shagging behind some bins' never goes out of style.

2. Chappell Roan - The Subway

More girl-girl action, this time from the US of States.  Flame-haired songbird Chappell, in surprisingly hirsute form here, is wrestling with the eternal post-breakup dilemma.  Try to get over it, or eff off to Sasketchewan?  Some excellent 'fits' in the background here, particularly the "Praying for all you hoes" t-shirt.  Lovely stuff.

3. The Last Dinner Party - This is the killer speaking

Everyone's favourite posh-girl 'Nepo Plant' combo returned with a sophomore album this year, which means their second one.  This swaggering tale of revenge following an unsatisfactory one-night-stand is just the thing that suggests 'Western movies and a centaur lead singer' to the fevered mind of a video director.  A stomping good time, and, in fairness to the victim, a post-coital fried breakfast is not to be sniffed at, what?

4. Blood Orange - The field

The late Anthony H Wilson, of Factory Records fame, reportedly had one big regret from his career.  That Durutti Column's music never became popular.  In the year of our lord 20 and 25, it seems like his troubled soul can rest at last.  Generous samples of Durutti Column suffuse this gorgeous track.  Mind you, Tony Wilson also proclaimed that Dermo from Northside was a songwriting genius, so his soul may have a few more years in pop purgatory before that one gains any traction.

5. Getdown Services - Dog Dribble

In an effort to be 'woke' and 'inclusive' we must include at least one track featuring 'men with guitars'.  Political correctness gone mad!  Anyhoo, as somebody who attends regularly a pub where, frankly, Too Many Cunts Bring Their Fucking Dog In, the lyric to this one hit home hard.  The song also contains a chunky c-bomb dropped in early doors for good measure.  Why wouldn't you?

6. Saint Etienne & Confidence Man - Brand New Me

Having chosen to bow out while still at the top of their game, this was the pick of the singles from Saint Etienne's final album.  If one was in the habit of hosting Stewie Griffin-style sexy parties, one feels this saucy tune would be the ideal soundtrack to the 'guests arriving' stage of proceedings.  

Try it, you might like it!

7.Baxter Dury - Allbarone

It's 'All Bar One', eee?  A slinky tale of being stood up in the rain from your boy Baxter, here.  He's always nicely turned out, isn't he?  The stander-upper doesn't know what's good for them.  

8. Robyn - Dopamine

This one sneaked in just under the wire.  Rumour has it that Robyn insisted this was released in December in order to have a chance of inclusion in "That fat knacker's top ten shit".  A welcome return for the pint-sized Swedish hyperpop songbird.  Blipping and blopping in all the right places, perfect plaintive vocals on-point, you know the score with Robyn. 

9. Kaparrak - Txepela

I know what you're thinking.  "When is there going to be some 'Basque chav flamenco-tinged drinking music' already?"  Chill bee-hatch, I'm on it like a dog on hot vomit.  Straight out of Euskeria, this heavy hitter draws on such traditional elements as flamenco guitar, guttural vocals, hitting a little wooden box, drinking your head off, and singing about not wanting to go to work.  

Aupa!

10. CMAT - Take a sexy picture of me

A stellar year for the Dunboyne Diana.  Wowing Glastonbury, slaying the charts with her album "Euro Country", and having a funny dance video on the Tik-Tok, she did it all.  This killer tune was her response to being abused online by boorish Radio 1 Roadshow fans, who took exception to the size of her arse.  An excellent outcome for CMAT, but not everyone is capable of writing bangers.  Maybe people should just stop being cunts on the internet, yeah? 

Playlist am here!

Top Ten of 2025

Merry Xmas and have fun with it, you all!