I could write and re-write this list 100 times and still not come up with a definitive 100 songs, I know I’ve missed out songs from some of my favourite albums, I’ve hummed and hawed over songs to include, and I know these lists are subjective and could change by the day depending on my mood. The list also leans heavily towards home grown talent, not an unintentional move, as I want the blog to be a platform to promote Scottish bands, but not at the exclusion of everything else… There also occasions where some bands could have had several songs in the 100, so to avoid multiple entries, I’ve limited my choices to one song per band.
Anyway, I just checked my monthly playlists for 2025 and there are around 900 songs across the 12 months of singles round ups, so imagine how hard it was to narrow that down….
Here it is in it’s full glory – 1 to 100….
- Lacuna – Shelley
- Keeley – Who Wants to See the World
- Fo machere – I’m Fine are you
- Sister Madds – Performative Exercise
- Son of the Right Hand – Refuweegee (The House Isn’t Full)
- Brontes – San Francisco
- Martha May & the Mondays – Gold
- Alcatraz – You Make Me Bleed
- The Froobz – Manchild
- The Zebecks – Persona
- Tanzana – Covet
- Slime City – Never Stop Giving Up
- Y – Why
- The Cords – Fabulist
- Self Esteem – Focus is Power
- Bikini Body – The News
- Tina Sandwich – Grit
- Soapbox – Mess
- Count the Days – Springbank Road
- Pedalo – Never You
- Lung leg – Girls
- Quad 90 – Contort Yourself
- Water Machine – Tiffany
- Scorpio Leisure – Milk
- Her picture – Big Girl
- Sister John – You’re a Big Girl Now
- Milange – Man Like Me
- Shock and Awe – Yesterdays Kids
- Panic Shack – Gok Wan
- Bandit Country – Loathsome Tonight
- Prolapse – Cha Cha Cha 2000
- Cowboy Hunters – Mating Calls
- GIRLS.SPEAK.FRENCH – Miss Versailles
- Wet Leg – Catch These Fists
- Vanderlye – Blackout Sky
- Voitures – Doesn’t Know It Yet
- Conscious Pilot – Kitchen Knife
- Comfort Girl – Junket
- PVC – Cara’s Song
- Awful Eyes – Post Punk Revival
- Mogwai – Fanzine Made of Flesh
- The Twistettes – Bounce Baby
- Savage Cut – Collapse of the Imagination
- Isabella Strange – Sally’s Day
- The Bluebells – No Pasaran!
- The Cowboy Mouth – Fool Again
- The Girobabies – Foggy Windows
- Cloth – Polaroid
- wojtek the bear – kylie’s put a curse on us
- Divorce – Pill
- Mercy Girl – Closer
- Fog Bandits – Get a Match
- Dead Pioneers – Post American
- Apologies – Solitude
- Straid – Can’t Hide
- The Joshua Hotel – Easy Feeling
- Bratakus – Final Girls
- Brogeal – Tuesday Paper Club
- Dancer – Happy Halloween
- Legss – 909
- The New Leaves – Bluebell Wood
- Leisureland – Suzie
- Molly Vulpyne – My Expiry
- Puppy Teeth – Blood
- Fiendz YT – Mad Man
- Kim Logan and the Silhouettes – Heart of Crystal
- Hector Gannet – The Jetty’s End
- Too Red – Yours to Take
- The Just Joans – Here Come the Rugby Boys
- Former Champ – more than you give
- Eater – Breakdown
- Jo Jo and the Teeth – Whiskey Dreams
- Gurriers – Erasure
- Oedipus and the Mama’s Boys – Bleed
- Corrine – One More Breath
- Peter Capaldi – Sweet Illusions
- Morphamish/Jackal Trades/The Bonnie Duchess – Quantum Leap
- David Luximon – Pertichor
- Peter Cat – Instrumentality
- Kirsty Millard – The Patriarchy
- Burnt Log – Sharks
- Smoking Popes – Allegiance
- Miki Berenyi Trio – Big I Am
- Twat Union – Singer of the Band
- The Boojums – Burning Up
- The Brains – One More Time
- Shinlifter – Close Encounters
- Disco Mary – Proof
- Sugar – House of Dead Memories
- Mackenzies – Blow By Blow
- heavyskint- Vice
- Sloan Brothers – In a Movie
- Fairways – Sunlounger
- Static – Slow Living
- Peach Crumb – Wanna Miss/Don’t
- Yama Rama – Smoky Mountain
- Hens Bens – Baby
- Opus Kink – I’m a Pretty Showboy
- Stray Cats – Stampede
- The Balboas – Florida Man
I have 12 monthly playlist on Tidal to listen to all the singles round ups for 2025, but here’s one I did today for the 100 songs listed here.