- 28 Dec, 2025 *
Welcome to selected commentary on my favourite YouTube videos of 2025. The full list of my favourite videos is here. I’ve not necessarily picked the best ones in this post, just ones that I felt needed further context. There are music videos in the second half.
Non-music
1976 BIG JIM’S Big BOOZY Bike Adventure
Not strictly recorded and published this year but uploaded to YouTube in 2025. What a story—makes me wonder how important diet is compared to mental health and exercise. I love the softness of …
- 28 Dec, 2025 *
Welcome to selected commentary on my favourite YouTube videos of 2025. The full list of my favourite videos is here. I’ve not necessarily picked the best ones in this post, just ones that I felt needed further context. There are music videos in the second half.
Non-music
1976 BIG JIM’S Big BOOZY Bike Adventure
Not strictly recorded and published this year but uploaded to YouTube in 2025. What a story—makes me wonder how important diet is compared to mental health and exercise. I love the softness of the film and of course there are comments from people who actually knew the guy. Brilliant.
The Myth That Rogue One Shattered
This video made me cry. I love Rogue One (not to the surprise of anyone reading this I suspect) yet I don’t feel I’d be able to communicate quite why to others in my life. This video communicates why; and more than I could. Furthermore, in the wake of Andor—which rocketed to my top 3 TV shows of all time this year—this video is only augmented. Fighting genocide, climate change and the otherwise generally insurmountable hasn’t been so blatantly publicised in the popular media in my memory.
The Most Extreme Free Clean I’ve Ever Done
I just couldn’t stop watching this. I don’t know why I clicked on it and I’m not sure I’d click on it again. Yet this made me so emotional. It ends up being very direct human commentary on how broken our society can be, yet how good and kind people can also be.
Music
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You Live at Shoreline Amphitheatre (1994)
Bit of a shoo-in as it wasn’t recorded and/or published this year but it entered my life this year. This is the definition of aura.
Ragazzi at 214 Mulberry
My most played set of the year. One hour of no misses—although the see through vest is questionable.
A history of Jazz in 10 Songs
This is the video for those of you who “don’t know where to start with jazz”. Really accessible with old dogs, new cats and heaps of charisma.
The homies mixing r&b and burning grilled cheese
My girl starts rapping on a Kendrick remix with the most dulcet voice at 13 mins in. Unreal.