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my 2025 music listening (per last fm)
January 1, 2026 at 9:25 PM
my 2025 music listening (per last fm)
Charles Portis - True Grit
Robertson Davies - The Manticore
China Miéville - Embassytown
Kenneth Fearing - The Big Clock
Robertson Davies - The Manticore
China Miéville - Embassytown
Kenneth Fearing - The Big Clock
January 1, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Charles Portis - True Grit
Robertson Davies - The Manticore
China Miéville - Embassytown
Kenneth Fearing - The Big Clock
Robertson Davies - The Manticore
China Miéville - Embassytown
Kenneth Fearing - The Big Clock
Dan Simmons - Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones
Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
William Beckford - Vathek
Banana Yoshimoto - NP
Agatha Christie - The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side
(cont.)
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones
Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
William Beckford - Vathek
Banana Yoshimoto - NP
Agatha Christie - The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side
(cont.)
January 1, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Dan Simmons - Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones
Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
William Beckford - Vathek
Banana Yoshimoto - NP
Agatha Christie - The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side
(cont.)
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones
Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
William Beckford - Vathek
Banana Yoshimoto - NP
Agatha Christie - The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side
(cont.)
2025 Q4 reads:
John Higgs - William Blake vs the World
Sebastian Barry - Days Without End
Frank Herbert - Heretics of Dune
Jack Vance - Eyes of the Overworld
Thomas Pynchon - Shadow Ticket
Ursula K. Le Guin - Buffalo Gals, Book of Cats [both one-sitting reads]
(cont.)
John Higgs - William Blake vs the World
Sebastian Barry - Days Without End
Frank Herbert - Heretics of Dune
Jack Vance - Eyes of the Overworld
Thomas Pynchon - Shadow Ticket
Ursula K. Le Guin - Buffalo Gals, Book of Cats [both one-sitting reads]
(cont.)
January 1, 2026 at 3:43 PM
2025 Q4 reads:
John Higgs - William Blake vs the World
Sebastian Barry - Days Without End
Frank Herbert - Heretics of Dune
Jack Vance - Eyes of the Overworld
Thomas Pynchon - Shadow Ticket
Ursula K. Le Guin - Buffalo Gals, Book of Cats [both one-sitting reads]
(cont.)
John Higgs - William Blake vs the World
Sebastian Barry - Days Without End
Frank Herbert - Heretics of Dune
Jack Vance - Eyes of the Overworld
Thomas Pynchon - Shadow Ticket
Ursula K. Le Guin - Buffalo Gals, Book of Cats [both one-sitting reads]
(cont.)
Bugcity is already one of my favorite albums since first hearing a few years ago. This was stuck in my head for a year.
(Yoichi Aoyama — Bad Melody Bad)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IZe...
(Yoichi Aoyama — Bad Melody Bad)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IZe...
Bad Melody Bad
YouTube video by Yoichi Aoyama - Topic
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December 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Bugcity is already one of my favorite albums since first hearing a few years ago. This was stuck in my head for a year.
(Yoichi Aoyama — Bad Melody Bad)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IZe...
(Yoichi Aoyama — Bad Melody Bad)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IZe...
Strong recommendation for fans of Carnation (which shares a member with Grandfathers) and Moonriders (Hirobumi and Keiichi Suzuki produced his first albums). "4D Raven" off Bugcity also has a duet from Yasuyuki Horigome from Kirinji
December 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Strong recommendation for fans of Carnation (which shares a member with Grandfathers) and Moonriders (Hirobumi and Keiichi Suzuki produced his first albums). "4D Raven" off Bugcity also has a duet from Yasuyuki Horigome from Kirinji
Four excellent Yoichi Aoyama albums have hit streaming. I love this guy: very catchy, bluesy, and with soulful vocals. You might've heard him on the Hosono or (Jim O'Rourke produced) Burt Bacharach tribute albums, but his solo output and albums with Grandfathers are all must-listens.
December 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Four excellent Yoichi Aoyama albums have hit streaming. I love this guy: very catchy, bluesy, and with soulful vocals. You might've heard him on the Hosono or (Jim O'Rourke produced) Burt Bacharach tribute albums, but his solo output and albums with Grandfathers are all must-listens.
getting this giant poster home in 40mph winds was awesome
December 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
getting this giant poster home in 40mph winds was awesome
if anything, check out my pretty website
Tis the season! 🎅🎄🎶 Find out what albums from this year are “lush”, “evocative”, “varied but cohesive”, “have impressive range”, and “remind me of video games”!
www.simulacreage.com/aoty-2025
www.simulacreage.com/aoty-2025
Albums of the Year 2025
The best of what I heard in 2025
www.simulacreage.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
if anything, check out my pretty website
get ready by tonight for three months of people insisting the new Avatar is really quotable with something like “ash is the mountain, fire is the tree”
December 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
get ready by tonight for three months of people insisting the new Avatar is really quotable with something like “ash is the mountain, fire is the tree”
Great list! Again! (All of our overlap gives away how many 2025 albums I'm finding from David sharing them 🙏) I missed a new Steve Hauschildt and Takuro Okada??
hey guys I posted my AOTY 2025 list. optimisticunderground.com/2025/12/15/1...
December 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Great list! Again! (All of our overlap gives away how many 2025 albums I'm finding from David sharing them 🙏) I missed a new Steve Hauschildt and Takuro Okada??
snow is on the ground, I'm deploying the Gontiti
December 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
snow is on the ground, I'm deploying the Gontiti
I sign my approval to some of the Big Ones, but if I have anything unique to contribute here, I’ve listened to every ECM release this year, as well as a lot of ambient, jazz, and country. There’s a solo lute album here, also 3 paragraphs about the latest Katamari soundtrack
December 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I sign my approval to some of the Big Ones, but if I have anything unique to contribute here, I’ve listened to every ECM release this year, as well as a lot of ambient, jazz, and country. There’s a solo lute album here, also 3 paragraphs about the latest Katamari soundtrack
I may slap some more on this before the year is up, but for now, this is my top 75 albums from between the... 534 2025 albums I have at least one play on
December 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I may slap some more on this before the year is up, but for now, this is my top 75 albums from between the... 534 2025 albums I have at least one play on
Tis the season! 🎅🎄🎶 Find out what albums from this year are “lush”, “evocative”, “varied but cohesive”, “have impressive range”, and “remind me of video games”!
www.simulacreage.com/aoty-2025
www.simulacreage.com/aoty-2025
Albums of the Year 2025
The best of what I heard in 2025
www.simulacreage.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Tis the season! 🎅🎄🎶 Find out what albums from this year are “lush”, “evocative”, “varied but cohesive”, “have impressive range”, and “remind me of video games”!
www.simulacreage.com/aoty-2025
www.simulacreage.com/aoty-2025
I finished Shadow Ticket earlier this week but needed to get the pomegranate juice for the grenadine
November 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I finished Shadow Ticket earlier this week but needed to get the pomegranate juice for the grenadine
thank you Mr. Pynchon
November 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
thank you Mr. Pynchon
(to the Godzilla theme) trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat,
October 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
(to the Godzilla theme) trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat,
Frank Herbert making a quick aside in Heretics of Dune to reflect on restaurant gatekeeping
October 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Frank Herbert making a quick aside in Heretics of Dune to reflect on restaurant gatekeeping
I like that Autechre metaled up their logo for Confield only
October 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I like that Autechre metaled up their logo for Confield only
I think this is a one-off theme for this TV show, but she does have an album out next year and has been playing a song from it at concerts ❤️
October 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I think this is a one-off theme for this TV show, but she does have an album out next year and has been playing a song from it at concerts ❤️
and cover of the year, naturally
October 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
and cover of the year, naturally