For the final selection of 2025, I’m going with a song that was released just a year earlier. “Feel”, by The Heavy Heavy, has put that band square on my concert radar.
“Let it never be said
The romance is dead”
Ruby, by the Kaiser Chiefs, was a big hit in 2007. Catchy as all get out.
“Commissioning a Symphony in C” is great in its own right, and the lyrics are interesting, and not your normal rock song story.
Song 360, “Sad Song” is a little known song by The Cars, done past their highest moments as a band in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Yes, it’s another song in the language of Portuguese, but this is actually a Portuguese artist, not a Brazilian one. Desfado, performed by Ana Moura, is a happy sounding song that’s really about sadness.
“Other Side” should be a hit at any time. This version has so many enjoyable artists participating (Illenium & Said The Sky & Vera Blue).
So many of the songs I love from this millennia snuck by me without notice when first released. So is true for Pete Yorn’s “Life On A Chain” and I’ve only been enjoying it for the last five years or so.
Sir Sly isn’t a household name. I honestly don’t know if I ran across them from radio station WXPN or some other way. But “&Run” is an earworm, and the vocals are absorbing.
Neko Case’s “Fox Confessor Brings the Flood” could be my favorite album of 2006. It brings back memories of working out with weights at the YMCA, and of vacationing with family in Montana. It’s an album that I had on heavy rotation for my personal listening for a long time.
I just discovered the song “Fun Destruction” by Teleman about half a year ago and it quickly became an earworm. I find it very reminiscent of Ultravox, not so much due to the music as the lyrics.