November 2025 wrap up

 

In November 2025 I...

 

Played: Blue Wish Desire (2021), Crisis Wing (2020), Sophstar (2022), Blazend (2022), Virtua Racing (1992, 2019)

Got: Gaiares (1991,2023), , Space Invaders Invincible Collection (2020), Cannon Dancer - Osman (1996, 2023), Virtua Racing (1992, 2019), Zed Blade (1994, 2017)

Favourite: Virtua Racing (1992, 2019)

Read: The Jazz of the Southwest, San Antonio Rose, Sixty Stories (re-read)

Got: Robert Bouchet, Peintre & Luthier

Favourite: Sixty Stories (re-read)

Listened to (new): Charles Bradley - Black Velvet, Porridge Radio - Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There For Me, Black Country, New Road - Forever Howlong, Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There, Black Country, New Road - For the First Time

Got: Merle Haggard - Live from Austin, TX (1985), Merle Haggard - Live from Austin, TX '78, Guy Clark - Live from Austin, TX, Asleep at the Wheel (feat. Texas Playboys) - Live from Austin, TX, Hank Williams - The Very Best of Hank Williams, Hank Williams Jr. - Hank Williams Jr's Greatest Hits, Hank Williams Jr - The Very Best of Hank Williams Jr, Billie Marten - Dog Eared, Béla Fleck - My Bluegrass Heart, Jerry Lee Lewis - Killer Country, Charles Bradley - Black Velvet, La LOM - The Los Angeles League of Musicians, Porridge Radio - Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There For Me, Porridge Radio - The Machine Starts to Sing, Alice Phoebe Lou - Oblivion, strongboi - EP 1, strongboi - strongboi, Black Country, New Road - Forever Howlong, Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There, Black Country, New Road - For the First Time, Black Country, New Road - Live at Bush Hall, black midi - Schlagenheim, black midi - Hellfire, black midi - Cavalcade.

Favourite (new): Black Country, New Road - Forever Howlong, Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There, Black Country, New Road - For the First Time

SINGLES:

Brennen Leigh - Running out of Hope, Arkansas; strongboi - magic; strongboi - special; strongboi - flame; Black Country, New Road - For the Cold Country; Black Country, New Road - Forever Howlong; Black Country, New Road - Besties; M. Ward - Too Young to Die; Black Country, New Road - Sunglasses; Black Country, New Road - Basketball Shoes

Final thoughts: As we're nearing December and the year's end it seems we have come full circle. Despite actually getting the most games this month, I actually played very little. On the other hand, it's been all about listening to music, the complete opposite of last January. This is mostly a lack of free time. I still can't seem to juggle everything equally - at the same time I have been neglecting playing music. Yet I still feel there's a lot to avidly listen to. Reading seems to escape this as it's the only activity I can do in bed while trying to sleep. 

This also comes at a time when I have met my second favourite group this year, which is extraordinary. Folk Bitch Trio meet Black Country, New Road. As I mostly listen on the computer, getting records or records themselves are not fully illustrative of my most listened to songs. So this month I've tried listing singles as well. To come up with ten each month might be too much but I'll try to put the most significant. By the year's end wrap up I'll list my top tracks, regardless of number.

As I'll have a few days off in December I hope to get to some games before the end of the year. Still many shmups to go after, but the big goal is to get through Shenmue 2, for the last time. Let's hope I can make it.