New mix: my honorable mentions of the ‘20s so far as I fill the hole where 2022 should be, plus Taiwanese pop and music I should dislike on paper (a reminder that I don’t listen to paper) www.otherdavemoore.com/p/i-wont-fol...

Overheard a parent having a Serious Talk with their kid on the way to school (“what is the Jesus Lizard?”)

Every time poptimism comes up even for good reasons I get to promote A-POP again sorry it’s the rules. (For the record I am an A-pessimist poptimist) www.otherdavemoore.com/p/the-rise-o...

Sabrina Carpenter’s adult fans are called Carpenter Aunts

I made a few changes to my 2020s Top 50, which now brings it to: 2020: 2 2021: 9 2022: 3 2023: 8 2024: 19* 2025: 9 *a few of these are Dec 2024 that I originally counted as 2025. Could imagine rebalancing a bit away from 2024...but not that much

do I need a brits explain me olivia dean?

near miss from a mix that I feel like I should throw to @jelbugle.bsky.social not sure if it's too indie to get past the 6/10 (and I might put it on after all) www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPTg...

did this corny dumbass very much enjoy a jazz album of hip-hop beats? obviously yes kassaoverall.bandcamp.com/track/big-po...

A reminder that you can read the whole A-pop series in a non-newsletter format all in one place. I will stop constantly banging on about it soon, promise! otherdavemoore.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/t...

this is really good logic1000.bandcamp.com/album/dj-kic...

Here's the playlist of my #TheTwen2ie5 honorable mentions, 11 songs per year 2020-2025. (A few songs on here are ones that I'm really hoping get other votes.) Will probably do a pre-challenge countdown of these open.spotify.com/playlist/5xl...

Imagine going out of your way in 2025 to make the next Columbus Day

should do something more with this idea than tuck it into a parenthetical in the middle of an overlong Kesha song review "Projection is the second-worst sin of decent parents, after possession."

New mix: Sneak preview of next year’s series, Twenty One Pilots ditch lore for a Metric song, and phonk for the whole family, plus recs from @spacedan.bsky.social and @humblepopstar.bsky.social and non-LOONA lore from @hannahjocelync.bsky.social www.otherdavemoore.com/p/my-heart-g...

Some truly agonizing cuts got me down to a decent 50 for the 2020-2025 challenge. In the end I had to cut a big one that I can only hope a bunch more people are going to vote for, was the only one left that didn't immediately spark joy in the first second.

Eating the entire package with a large glass of milk in front of the television in the 11-year-old latchkey kid ‘90s fashion, still two years away from developing T1 diabetes 👍

ICYMI — the final A-pop essay

this is some bullshit indoctrination broccoli ice cream would be good www.youtube.com/watch?v=frN3...

God: Hold my beer

and isn't it iconic? dontcha think?

There are two songs that I think about when I think about "the celestial jukebox", and one of them is "Everything Is Free," which Gillian Welch released in 2001

The final A-pop installment, an epilogue about the long promised realization of the “celestial jukebox,” the miraculous impossibility of hearing or saving it all, and why we should try anyway www.otherdavemoore.com/p/the-rise-o...

Important update from @bradluen.bsky.social — please listen to this link for Kristina Dawn’s “Onehalf And” which is nearing 300 views m.youtube.com/watch?v=zYMQ...

Rune a song by transcribing it in an unknown tongue

So far every song title with the word “literally” added is improving instead of ruining them

As a general rule if you can only name the people you are NOT talking about you might want to think about the argument a little more. But the most offensive part is thinking poptimism sounds like “populism.” It was not a Taylor Swift-style off-rhyme

Motherfuckers act like they forgot about Tom Ewing’s middling 5.3 review of Madonna’s “Hard Candy” in Pitchfork in 2008

Oh god gender and instrument discourse in the politics hobbyhorse cave, I’ll throw in my sixth favorite album of 2001 “New Problems” by k. and run away open.spotify.com/album/3H2Q1O...

Listening to the JADE album in the revisionist Ashlee Autobiography fashion (as an EP starting after the singles, then the singles if I'm in the mood). It's good!

BUT YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO CALL ME AL www.youtube.com/watch?v=K348...

Cursed earworm of the day: “But you didn’t have to CALL ME AL….”

Scheduling the last A-pop post like Daniel Day-Lewis at the end of "There Will Be Blood"

Whew, glad this take aged well: "My minorly-informed sense is that there’s been an infusion of sunshine into baile funk this year—more millennial funk throwback beats and cheerful vocals. Maybe the vibes are better in places where you can credibly put coup attempts on trial."

Such Great Heights mention on Threedom today @chrisdeville.bsky.social

"hm seems a little quiet today" <checks news> "ah, right. well."

It is possible that my eight-year-old has written more about "Passo Bem Solto," a song that went to #32 on the global charts and has been on the charts for most of the year, than any music publication I follow (the writing in question: "DO YOU KNOW THIS SONG???? it's good right?")

People always talk about opening a can of worms like you can't just close it again and put a rubber band on there. They won't get out, they're just worms.

I feel like we can get Pac-Man to try a little harder on this one, the Operation Ivy alb is great

New mix: a Proper Pop Star with a “whirlwind of acrobatic raunch,” Snow Tha Product’s accelerating whodunit, and my new sixth-favorite album of 2001, k.’s “New Problems” with a reminder not to give meanspirited old reviews the benefit of survivorship bias www.otherdavemoore.com/p/grocery-st...

tfw you shazam an old mix you made because you can't for the life of you remember the name of a song on it

I know, I know, it's serious, Charlie Brown

I discovered music from the internet in 1989 (my dad was message board friends with a guy who sent us a dozen novelty music tapes in 1988 that I promptly committed to memory)

Finally revised this thing, figured Wayne and Addison would fall quickly after my initial enthusiasm waned. Lasting affection for the Marina album has been a surprise, though. New entries: Lella Fadda, Titanic, Simona, the Príncipe comp "Não Estragou Nada," Irmãs de Pau, BunnaB, d.silvestre

New Titanic album is also really really good tinangelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hagen

this is a very cool album of electric cello drone recorded in a single take lorigoldston.bandcamp.com/album/open-s...

Once again ambushed by unexpected Turnstile interest

I have concluded my trip down memory lane (posting to 1x message board) it was kind of fun!

death and taxes (derogatory) dole and taxes (complimentary)

You need sugar to make lemonade. The saying should be, "when life gives you lemons, go suck a lemon"