Listen to a playlist of the year's best songs as selected by The Times' August Brown, Cerys Davies and Mikael Wood.

We're bringing back our listener poll to help stick a fork in 2025 and make sense of all the amazing music that came out. So.

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Voting for Round 1 continues through 11:59 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27. Don't see your favorite song? Let us know what we should have included at [email protected]. In the words of Ringo Starr, it don't come ...

As The Beatles release Anthology 4, MOJO sifts through all the previously unreleased tracks unearthed to select the fab-est of the fab gear within.

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While Johnny Marr and Morrissey don't agree on much anymore, they do, however, agree on which The Smiths song is the best as ...

"I Write The Songs" was chosen as Song of the Year on Grammy Night in 1977. But did it deserve that honor over the other nominees?

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...