Feels way too early to be thinking about this but I saw Bill’s message asking for Furtive 50 choices so it seems the end of the year list season is upon us.
Another year of fragmented choices? Or clear favourites?
The well established Furtive 50 format is your top 3 tunes (in order) and your favourite album. No edits, no re releases, must be new tunes from the year.
We’ve generally been a bit more flexible on here.
So when you’re ready TP Forum, let’s have ‘em: your best tunes of 2025.
Still got a longlist of about 300 to whittle down! No runaway leader so far
We can waive the no re-edits rule in 2 clear cases - Lovehandles cosmic masterpiece and The Nightlark’s, erm, other cosmic masterpiece.
Can we do clobber of the year, and mix of the year as well? Enjoyed those the past couple of years.
Changed the topic to be Best Things of 2025.
Tunes
Mixes
Podcasts
Clobber
TV
Cinema
People
Events
Stuff…
That’s way too kind thanks x
Been on this forum 5 years and I still don’t know how to embed bandcamp links ha… (I think I’ve figured it out)
Right theres a few of my favourites from this year for now. I’ll do a longer post at a later time once I have a proper think and dig through some records
First one that sprang to mind for me for best track was ‘Confessions of a Queen’ by Payfone!
If we were allowed edits then Lovehandles’ Pat Benatar edit would win by a country mile.
this came out in 2024 ?
Oh stop it
They’re not allowed!
We should probably have a best music thread and then a best of everything else thread. What do you think?
Probably a sensible idea. I’ll change this one back to music then.
Whoops! My bad - think I first heard in Jan and wasn’t able to track it down until late Feb.
My starter for best of 2025 lists. More to follow.
Edit: I went too early with this! Updated it twice already. Now a Top 15. I’ll stop now.
Ducked the tunes question as I haven’t bought any new releases this year.
As for the rest;
Mixes - Luke Una Essential Mix
Podcasts - Word In Your Ear/Rest Is History (couldn’t separate them).
Clobber - Uniqlo sweatshirts. Reasonably priced, very comfy and I seem to be accumulating them in various colours.
TV - Big Boys
Cinema - A Real Pain
People - President Zelensky (again)
Events - The paedo formerly known as Prince Andrew finally getting stripped of his titles.
Other stuff- An absolutely bumper crop of tomatoes from my backyard plants.
And finally, my own category.
Disappointment Of The Year- Keir Starmer. A bitter,bitter, disappointment.
I’d forgotten about A Real Pain. Loved that movie.
Adding the latest Lex Wolf release on MAD Edits to the very short list (ie Lovehandles) of edits of the year.
All three of the Lextended releases are excellent imo.
3 Mediterranean sounding albums I dug this year
Giorgio Lopez – Sud des Îles
Pellegrino & Zodyaco – Koinè
Mystic Jungle - Sunset Breaker
God I look forward to this so much every year, you sublime, kind geniuseses
Tracks -
The All Seeing I - Return of The Crooked Cat
Alek Lee - Too Soon
Keanu Nelson - Place Where I Go
@pacific.coliseum - Hatsudai
@Joe - When Love Takes Over
Edits -
@lovehandles - Unrequited Dub (digital in 2024 though, but I am still counting it, one, because I had no idea it existed before this year, and, two, I have played it at two gigs and the reaction has been incredible - also if you forget to mix out of it because you are distracted the second track flows in perfectly).
Protek - I Love to Dance with You - @TheNightlark edit
LCD Soundsystem - Home - Tom Sharkett edit
Albums -
Rio Kosta - Unicorn
@Joe - Some Kind of Paradise
DD Mirage - Exotic Illusions
Good Block - Window
Discovery Tracks -
Eden - Free - Special Maxi Version
Secret Service - Lets Dance Just A Little Bit More
Apsaras - Apsaras
Vermettya Royster - Give Me Your Love
Miss Kittin - Cosmic Love Radiation
Discovery Albums -
Alle - Dine Paen Ojne (finally pulled the trigger)
Mixes -
@joe Live at Mareh Festival
@howler live at The Golden Lion
Hunee at Dekmantel Selectors
Auntie Flo - TPP550
Clobber -
Kavi Handprinted Shirt from Otherwise.
Also, special shout out to @elzorro who responded to me moaning that the Tears t-shirt wasn’t available to be sent to the US, and he bought it for me, packed it in his luggage for a family trip to the US, went to a post office and mailed it to me. What a dude.
TV - Traitors (all of them, I find it fascinating and I don’t really have to do much thinking so I can zone in and out), oh and Andor, that was top.
I will be adding this, I’m sure but this is a good way to get this thread back up to the top.
