All Songs Considered At 25

All Songs Considered

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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As we celebrate a quarter century of music nerdom and buffoonery, we remember the songs that shaped the show and our lives, with 25 No. 1 tracks from our first 25 years (and whatever else we can manage to recall).

We aren't going to ruin the fun with a tracklist — listen along as All Songs Considered host Robin Hilton and New Music Friday's Stephen Thompson try to guess each other's favorite cuts.

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0:22.1	So I think, you know, if you listen to all songs considered with any regularity at all,
0:27.5	you have probably picked up on the fact that we barely know what we're doing.
0:32.6	I mean, not terribly organized.
0:35.8	Horrible planners.
0:37.1	No.
0:37.5	Just not the greatest taste in music.
0:39.8	Not even that.
0:41.4	Honestly, just cannot get our act together.
0:43.7	It's been a hallmark of this show, really, its entire life.
0:47.3	In fact, the last time there was a really big milestone for all songs considered, it was our 15th anniversary.
0:54.8	And we totally missed it.
0:56.2	I mean, we knew it was coming, which is even worse.
1:00.0	We knew it was coming, but we just could not plan.
1:03.2	We couldn't get anything ready in time for it.
1:05.3	It was actually on your calendar and you just careened right past.
1:08.6	Yeah, and we were like, okay, well, so instead, we celebrated the next year, and we called it
1:13.7	our Sweet 16.
1:14.5	Yeah, it was kind of genius, honestly.
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