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Sunday, October 5, 2025

SpinTunes 25 Round 2 Results

SpinTunes 25 continues, and the Round 2 results are in. In Round 1, four of the five judges gave their Number 1 vote to the same artist. In Round 2, every judge gave their Number 1 vote to a different artist, and as you peruse the full rankings you'll see similar discrepancies up and down the board. What can account for this? One simple fact: these songs are all terrific.

You used the challenge as an opportunity to explore more complex harmonic writing; but you also, freed from any lyrical constraint, went in all sorts of conceptual directions that made comparing these songs to each other its own challenge. The judges rose to the challenge, and they've made their decisions.

Before we reveal the winner, a little SpinTunes history: Between SpinTunes 1 and SpinTunes 10, Edric Haleen won eight rounds, finally snagging the title of Champion in ST10. His record for individual round wins has stood uncontested, until now, when another SpinTunes legend also claims his eighth round victory.

Congratulations to Sober, whose country anthem "I Didn't Leave Texas" comes on top in the judges' rankings. Just a single point behind him is our second place finisher David Taro, and two tiny points behind him is Governing Dynamics in third.

Read on for the full rankings!

ST25.2 Rankings and Reviews - Mike of The Dutch Widows

Here are your rankings from Mike of The Dutch Widows:

1Good Guy Sôjàbé
2Sober
3David Taro
4Huge Shark
5This Big Old Endless Sky
6The Alleviators
7Governing Dynamics
8chewmeupspitmeout
9SEE/MAN/SKI
10Bob Voyg
11Hot Pink Halo
12The Pannacotta Army
13Boo Lee Crosser
14gammammannn
15Flintsteel
16Wendy Wiseman Fisher
17Jealous Brother
18glennny
19OutLyer
20Möbius Strip Club
21☀️bucket

Read on for Mike's reviews!

ST25.2 Rankings and Reviews - Ben

Here are your rankings from Ben:

1Huge Shark
2This Big Old Endless Sky
3Good Guy Sôjàbé
4OutLyer
5Jealous Brother
6Sober
7David Taro
8chewmeupspitmeout
9Governing Dynamics
10Bob Voyg
11Flintsteel
12SEE/MAN/SKI
13gammammannn
14Boo Lee Crosser
15The Pannacotta Army
16Hot Pink Halo
17The Alleviators
18Möbius Strip Club
19glennny
20Wendy Wiseman Fisher
21☀️bucket

Read on for Ben's reviews!

ST25.2 Rankings and Reviews - Joy Sitler

Joy submitted these rankings and reviews early in the week before her death. While she intended to revisit and expand them, they already display her discerning taste, her respect for musical diversity, her fondness for this community, and her high standards for technical execution.

1Governing Dynamics
2Bob Voyg
3The Alleviators
4Flintsteel
5glennny
6This Big Old Endless Sky
7Huge Shark
8Hot Pink Halo
9Boo Lee Crosser
10The Pannacotta Army
11Jealous Brother
12☀️bucket
13SEE/MAN/SKI
14gammammannn
15Sober
16Wendy Wiseman Fisher
17David Taro
18Good Guy Sôjàbé
19Möbius Strip Club
20OutLyer
21chewmeupspitmeout

Read on for Joy's reviews!

ST25.2 Rankings and Reviews - Nancy Rost

Here are your rankings from Nancy Rost:

1The Pannacotta Army
2David Taro
3The Alleviators
4Sober
5Hot Pink Halo
6SEE/MAN/SKI
7Boo Lee Crosser
8Jealous Brother
9Flintsteel
10glennny
11Governing Dynamics
12Bob Voyg
13Wendy Wiseman Fisher
14chewmeupspitmeout
15Huge Shark
16Good Guy Sôjàbé
17gammammannn
18OutLyer
19This Big Old Endless Sky
20Möbius Strip Club
21☀️bucket

Read on for Nancy's reviews!

ST25.2 Rankings and Reviews - Vehicles of Beware

Here are your rankings from SpinTunes 25 Champion Vehicles of Beware (aka Phil):

1David Taro
2Sober
3The Pannacotta Army
4Governing Dynamics
5This Big Old Endless Sky
6Flintsteel
7gammammannn
8Hot Pink Halo
9Bob Voyg
10Good Guy Sôjàbé
11SEE/MAN/SKI
12glennny
13Huge Shark
14Jealous Brother
15The Alleviators
16Boo Lee Crosser
17Wendy Wiseman Fisher
18OutLyer
19chewmeupspitmeout
20Möbius Strip Club
21☀️bucket

Read on for Phil's reviews!

ST25.2 Reviews - Micah Sommersmith

These songs were just altogether extremely good. Like, almost worryingly good. This round, you embraced the challenge in fun and surprising ways and the result was a batch of songs that was just a delight to listen to.

Read on for my thoughts on your songs!