{"id":47991,"date":"2025-12-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/features\/2025-toms-top-ten\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T07:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T07:31:33","slug":"2025-toms-top-ten","status":"publish","type":"feature","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/features\/2025-toms-top-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"2025: Tom’s Top Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"

My\u00a010\u00a0favorite\u00a0records\u00a0of\u00a02025\u00a0(in\u00a0no\u00a0particular\u00a0order):<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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1.\u00a0Weep\u00a0Wave \u2013\u00a0Speck<\/p>\n

<\/i><\/b>Great Seattle rock in the area of punk, dream-pop, psyche-rock and garage rock. The producer Jack Endino worked on this one, and we all know how great of a job he does.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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2. Taste Testors \u2013 Taste Testors<\/i>
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More excellent Seattle punk. It\u2019s only 18 minutes long, and there\u2019s plenty of Ramones spirit, plus some doo-wop flavor and bubblegum pop, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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3. Lions Law \u2013 Evermore<\/i>
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The Paris street punks bring their Oi! ways to charged guitars, gruff singing and a really fun Flock Of Seagulls cover.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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4. Chad Price Peace Coalition \u2013 A Perfect Pearl<\/i>
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The onetime singer for pop-punk legends All, these days Chad Price is on the alt-country side of the spectrum with plenty of grit and folk music for the aging punks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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5. Zephr \u2013 Past Lives<\/i>
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The Denver outfit pen a masterpiece in the area of punk and hardcore, where both hard hitting sounds and introspection draws parallels to legends like Hot Water Music, Jawbreaker or The Lawrence Arms.<\/p>\n

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6. Unlettered \u2013 Five Mile Point<\/i>
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The brainchild of Mike Knowlton, as Unlettered he creates droning post punk that\u2019s dissonant, hypnotic, and noisy yet melodic in his own way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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7. Drop Nineteens \u2013 1991<\/i>
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A lost album from of shoegaze from 1991 by the Boston band Drop Nineteens, this recording landed them a record deal, where bands like Radiohead and The Cranberries opened for their timeless brand of dream-rock.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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8. Pinhead Gunpowder \u2013 Unt<\/i>
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Billie Joe from Green Day\u2019s other band, Pinhead Gunpowder have been around since \u201992 and uses an all star cast of members from Monsula, Chino Horde and Crimpshrine for scrappy and mature pop-punk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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9. 999 \u2013 Emergency At The Old Waldorf 1979<\/i>
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An early recording of the English band 999, these 17 wild tracks parallel the intensity of The Buzzcocks, Sex Pistols or The Clash.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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10. Slamdinistas \u2013 Wild & Restless<\/i>
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Somewhere between punk, blues and country, this sophomore album from Slamdinistas recruits plenty of rawness and energy with sing-alongs and anthemic moments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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My\u00a010\u00a0favorite\u00a0records\u00a0of\u00a02025\u00a0(in\u00a0no\u00a0particular\u00a0order): 1.\u00a0Weep\u00a0Wave \u2013\u00a0Speck Great Seattle rock in the area of punk, dream-pop, psyche-rock and garage rock. The producer Jack Endino worked on this one, and we all know how great of a job he does. 2. Taste Testors \u2013 Taste TestorsMore excellent Seattle punk. It\u2019s only 18 minutes long, and there\u2019s plenty of Ramones spirit, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":48097,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"tags":[],"feature_type":[5609],"class_list":["post-47991","feature","type-feature","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","feature_type-best-of"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/feature\/47991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/feature"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/feature"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/feature\/47991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47991"},{"taxonomy":"feature_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/feature_type?post=47991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}