This is it. The last post of 2025. The final post of our Year in Review. Shed no tears. We have no time for them anyway.

Not quite raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens....but our favorite things still mean something special to us, each for a very different reason.

Warning: This isn't your usual music magazine covers list. These are actually good.

We believe album art to be nearly as important as the music itself. Who else shares this belief? Pickled Priest finds out.

Our second installment counts down our 52 favorite songs of 2025. Our elite list. Our go bag. Our songs to save in case of emergency.

The first two mixtapes in our year-end series count down from song 104 to song 53. This is where you find the most interesting assortment of tracks, so don't skip it!

Cruelty (noun): Limiting your year-end favorites list to 50 records when you listened to countless more.

Our mixtapes are like our children. Which is why we hate them all. Just kidding! Here's another jam-packed love fest for our beloved parishioners!

Pickled Priest seeks lifetime relationship with great songs. Must all be from 1987. Inquire within.

Spice up your fantasy life by eavesdropping on our own fantasy draft, but drop football and add musical artists. I know. Genius, right?

28 new songs curated by the Pickled Priest. What's that worth to you? Shall we start the bidding at FREE?

Nothing happened in 1991, so go back to your homes. Nothing to see here, but just about everything.

Our very first album cover story ranked Bruce's studio album covers. Now he's dumped seven more on us at once, the sneaky bastard.

It's 1964 and that means only one thing. We've got a really big post for you tonight.

Did you leave something in your cart? Come back now and get 28 new songs for free. Limited time offer.

John Baizley is one of the greatest album cover artists of the 21st century. Get ready for one surreal journey.

Less than a decade after making our 2017 list we're back to rip it apart, rebuild it, and then openly criticize it again.

That new music mixtape you ordered will be delivered shortly. It's only 10 stops away!

2006 was nineteen years ago. Even the younger people feel old now.

As non-believers, nothing gets us more excited than a new pope. Especially one from Chicago! So, to celebrate, we've made you our third new music mixtape of 2025. Personally blessed by the pontiff!

Purple smoke has appeared from the chimney of Pickled Priest's home office, which can mean only one thing: Habemus Mixtapum! We have a new mixtape!!

Bowing down in the church of Stax! The Priest looks into the visual side of Memphis's premiere soul label!

Please note: Until further notice all songs are subject to a 45% tariff for no reason at all.

This mixtape may not be pretty and it's loaded with sexual frustrations, but at least it sounds amazing.