it's almost time for Your Favorite Songs 2025

It's almost that time of year again...and no I'm not talking about Vince Guaraldi Trio's A Charlie Brown Christmas Soundtrack Season. (Though I'm really never not talking about VGTACBCSS.) No, I am talking about LISTENING TO YOUR FAVORITE SONGS OF THE YEAR Season.

I did it last year...

listening to Your Favorite Songs 2024, part 15

A marathon post to wrap up this series! Yeehaw! Part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six, part seven, part eight, part nine, part ten, part eleven, part twelve, part thirteen, part fourteen. “Life Is” - Jessica Pratt from Patrick Mahan (Carefully Curated) “I was floored

i enjoy musicMolly Mary O’Brien

And the year before...

listening to Your Favorite Songs 2023, part 10 aka FINALE

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9) Oh my goodness, this series is at last coming to an end. I listened to 6 hours and 30 minutes of music, and wrote almost 14,000 words about it. Through this

i enjoy musicMolly Mary O’Brien

And now I'll be at it again. It's truly the highlight of my year, and I find it to be a pleasant alternative to the RANKED LIST VORTEX that overwhelms my music media capacity by the end of December. I love a ranked list as much as anyone but it's not my ideal way to absorb the power of music. Asking individual people for their single number 1 songs feels like a much more pro-social, community-building approach for my tender and mild sensibilities. Anyone can recommend a song into the void, but whom will listen? Me, the Music Enjoyer. I will listen.

So that's what will happen this year. I'm already asking some Friends of The Blog to contribute, but I also want to make more Friends of the Blog (make new friends but keep the old, so goes the Girl Scout song) so I'm asking you, the reader, to tell me about your number one favorite song of 2025.

SALIENT POINTS:

• I'm opening the google form for contributions now, but it will remain open until 12/15. That's a month-long window, as I am trying to leave room for songs that might come out in the New Music Dead Zone, as well as allow extra time for stragglers who might have been busy making figgy pudding.
• Though I probably can't write about all of the submissions, I want to cover as many songs as I can, and my blog time is limited by my other job as Baby Parent, so I plan on SHORTENING MY BLURBS...concentrating them for maximum power, like a tube of tomato paste.
• Rather than try to cram all the posts in before the new year, I'm going to chill out and do it for...as long as I feel like it, basically. Time isn't holding us, time isn't after us.
• Here is the google form—I want to hear from you, yes you, about your favorite song of the year. You can only pick one song—if you pick two, I shall disregard them both. And the song should have been released in 2025—or very very late 2024 if you feel very strongly about it. Those are the only rules. Go nuts.

Music is social, this is one of the main tenets of the I Enjoy Music blog. It's not a competition, it's not a marketing campaign, it's not a status symbol, it's not a widget to put in your shopping cart. Listening to a song that someone else says they like is basically the reason I am here on Earth. It is what gave me a personality, and possibly also a moral code. Life is not worth living without music, and as the wildly short-lived French house trio Stardust said, music sounds better with you.

SEE YOU OUT THERE!