Well, it's been a pretty big year for all songs considered.

Stephen Thompson here. Hello, Robin. You turn 25 years old. The show turned 25 years old. The show can rent a car. The show can rent a car. Exactly. That is sort of the last big thing that you can do, right? Isn't it like at 25 you can finally rent a car. It's until the senior discount.

Yes, then the next thing, around 50, 55, if you're lucky.

But if you've been following along, we have been marking this occasion, the 25th anniversary,

by looking back at our number one songs from across the past quarter century.

We started off with a look at the first five years of the show 2000 to 2004. And then we did a

different year at the end of every show, or nearly every show, the Tuesday episodes, all through

the spring and summer. We just wrapped those little segments up last week, our number one songs from

2024. Those segments were criminally short. I think anyone can agree, right? I mean...

The public was clamory. Yeah, you played literally two songs for an... Thank you, sir. May I have another?

We really did. We only focused on a couple of songs from each year. So what we're going to do now is we're going to break those

years, those segments out

into their own little episodes and we'll expand them to include some more songs from across the

years. You are going to find these in the All Songs Considered feed every Monday. We will feature

a different year every Monday through the end of the year. But we're going to start here with the

original first five first five years But we're going to start here with the original

first five first five years that we did 2000 to 2004. And to clarify, these are not Billboard

number one songs from each year or whatever. These are songs that have helped define the

sound of all songs considered, songs that were big for us that shaped the show and our lives.

I thought it would be fun if we just sort of play some stuff for each other.

We can say what our number one song is, but there's so much other stuff.

We can test the limits of our pea-sized, dust-filled brains and see what we remember.

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