
[Colorized photo by Antonio Castellano found in here.]

[Colorized photo by Antonio Castellano found in here.]
AI images by graphic artist Alphonse Marcel found here.
[h/t Charlene J.]

[Found here, and that’s not us.]

The end of a long year deserves a playlist to bring in the new one, so here’s a compilation of tunes that tugged on my earballs in 2025. Each set is in chronological order by date of recording.
Set 1 – January, February, March & April
Set 2 – May, June, July & August
Set 3 – September, October, November & December
I omitted seasonal tunes from the Halloween and Christmas playlists. Last year’s playlist (2024) is here, and the 2023 EoY list is here.

[Caveat: I don’t own the copyrights to any of these recordings. They are presented here for entertainment purposes only.]
[Found in here, with more.]
[Found here… and there’s more.]
[Found around the interverse. More Space Bimbos here.]

Help Me Make Up My Mind, Joyce Jones (1969) Born in Mississippi in 1949, Joyce Jones, (along with Reginald Hinesinger) wrote Help Me Make Up My Mind as an answer song to Tyrone Davis‘ Can I Change My Mind (1968). Jones was a member of the Philadelphia soul/disco group First Choice from 1972-75.
Hadzabe man shares an anecdote.
LBJ’s pants [via Everlasting Blört].
Steve Cropper: The Green Onions story.
Diet culture in the parking meters [via Thompson, blog].
55 times Mother Nature threw a hissy [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: The Lobster Wars, illustration by Maxfield Parrish, cover lining from Poems of Childhood by Eugene Field (1904) found here.]
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