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# playlist: the best punk songs of november 2025
- URL: https://see-saw.fun/playlist-the-best-punk-songs-of-november-2025/
- Published: 2025-12-01T20:53:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-01T21:20:50.000Z
- Description: Some thoughts on big year-end lists, plus a punk and rock'n'roll playlist of garage punk, power pop, hardcore, and more.
- Author: Evan Minsker
- Tags: playlist

List season is in full swing, which is wonderful—a time for clicking around to see what all I’ve missed while living in the underground punk rabbit hole. Over the past several years, including while I was still at Pitchfork, I stopped feeling invested in how the lists at big publications shook out. Individual and genre/niche-specific lists have always seemed more functionally interesting to me. Give me records and voices outside the critical consensus. 

I was just reading Marissa Moss’ new [Don’t Rock the Inbox](https://www.dontrocktheinbox.com/im-the-problem-with-your-year-end-lists-and-a-sale/?ref=dont-rock-the-inbox-newsletter) post (subscribe!) lamenting the lack of country music representation—aside from Morgan Wallen—in 2025’s first major year-end lists. “Morgan Wallen did not make the best country album of the year, nor the best song. Not even close.” It’s tempting to play that same game with punk music. CTRL-F the word “punk” in the Pitchfork songs list and you’ll find it used (by excellent writers!) largely to describe ethos or origins over sound. 

So who made the best punk song of the year according to this year’s big Pitchfork list? The jury’s out. Punk’s a big tent, and even so, I’d argue that anything you could call punk on that list veers more toward indie rock, capital-r rock music, or pop. Even if you do count their new one as a punk album (it isn’t), Turnstile didn’t even make the [best punk record of the year featuring the word “Turnstile.”](https://citricdummies.bandcamp.com/album/split-with-turnstile?ref=see-saw.fun) 

It’s not a surprise or remotely worth criticizing; while I was there, I never expected Pitchfork to confidently or definitively name the best punk songs of the year in the big lists. The last three years I was part of the voting system, the most highly ranked punk songs were by Mannequin Pussy, Fontaines D.C., and Turnstile. 

And that makes sense! Those bands are big, they record big songs that people love, and they play them to big crowds. I’m not putting those songs or artists down—great big punk bands with managers and big labels and crossover appeal can be incredible. There’s just no chance the best underground punk songs of the year are going to appeal to, or necessarily reach, a broad group of experts. 

That’s why I love a niche publication’s drill-down genre-specific list or a personalized list. Nina Corcoran and Madison Bloom’s [best rock of 2024 list for Pitchfork](https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-rock-albums-2024/?ref=see-saw.fun) ruled because it highlighted their individual favorites, several of which got lost in the overall consensus-based voting process. 

Big lists are monoliths to get ears on good music that broadly appealed to a big group of critics. For me, as I’ve been deep in the weeds of my preferred niche, they’re incredibly useful as shortcuts toward “what is considered good and new” listening. But if you’re looking for the best country music of the year, you’re not going to find it in a big list. Same goes for punk and so many other subgenres. 

Honestly, a lot of what I wrote here gets at why I started see/saw. Punk records are deeply important to me, and they deserve a platform of their own instead of being a sideshow to corporate media’s pop cultural overview. The see/saw best punk & rock'n'roll records of 2025 list is coming soon. Once again, it’ll be a big ass zine with sick artwork that I won’t publish online.

Quick note: Today (December 1) is the last day of the see/saw subscription sale. If you want to subscribe for $30/year for the first year instead of $40/year (25% off), go ahead and [subscribe here](https://see-saw.fun/r/66346234?m=a665affa-dd32-470d-a611-41ce8416dab9). If you know somebody who loves punk music and think they’d be into keeping up, consider getting them a [gift subscription](https://see-saw.fun/r/2616e3a2?m=a665affa-dd32-470d-a611-41ce8416dab9) for $30/year.

Now to business—a playlist featuring the best punk songs of November 2025\. It’s embedded in the browser version of this piece below, or you can [follow this link](https://www.buymusic.club/list/seesaw-best-punk-november-2025?ref=see-saw.fun).

[**see/saw’s best punk songs of november 2025**](https://www.buymusic.club/list/seesaw-best-punk-november-2025?ref=see-saw.fun)

Pill Mill: Yuppie Farm  
No Idols: Into the Spiral  
Baby Jane: McDonald’s Hiroshima  
Attention Deficit: Attention Deficit  
Power Pants: Hero in a Half Shell  
Tee Vee Repairmann: Only a Memory  
Flippeur: Le Monde Marche Sur La Tête  
Italian Bed: Collapse  
Enemic Interior: Eterns  
Jacky Cougar & the Vampyres From Africa: Nancy  
Clickbait: Fish Fillet  
Smirk: Domestic Dog  
BAG: The Problem  
Mr. Strong: Bad Luck  
Béton Armé: Coupde Foudre \[ft. Fizzy\]  
Scrabbled: Waiting for Godot  
Sub Rosa: Opie’s Song (I Eat a Little Cat Food Every Day)  
Jacket Burner: All the Time  
Payphones: Cold Call  
Dr. Sure’s Unusual Practice: No Pigs  
Prise Rapide: Prise Rapide  
Extraña Humana: Desperdicio  
Chained Bliss: Don’t Come Looking  
Jimmy and the Boonies: Here Comes the Spectre  
Amerol: Fuck Everything  
Happy Farm: The Plan  
Angstmäler: Dehumanization  
KLINT: Swingtime Up in Haithabu  
Dick Move: Run For Your Money  
N.E. Vains: Running Down Pylons  
Home Front: D.W.A.  
Bad Vibes: Eeyore  
Psico Falera: Imperfetto, sii Imperfetto  
Hektär: Big Blood  
Soft on Crime: Summer Fix  
Fantasma: Onde Eu Estou?  
Lifeguard: Ultra Violence  
Bridch: PDM (Punk de Mentiras)  
Bella Larson & the Scene Kids: Hotline BIB  
Fruit Tones: Easy Peeler  
Total Sham: Makes Me Wild  
Pen16: King of Ska  
Big Modern: Gatekeep  
Parking Lot: Mini Pocket Liquidator  
The Moats: Lead Hat  
Tony Molina: Lie to Kick It  
Sharp Pins: Takes So Long  
Andresa Nugraha: Nothing Lasts Forever  
The Wesleys: Magic Wand  
Thee Headcoatees: I Can’t Find Pleasure  
Fashion Bathers: Harder Than Fuck  
Sweet Reaper: Motion  
Itches: Mahahual  
Strange Passage: Hunter’s Fancy  
The Metric Ton: Hoomfree Hinkus  
Total Revold of All Limbs: It’s Coming From Inside (T.R.O.A.L.)  
Maraudeur: 58141  
Casa Dragon: Mascletá  
Rites of Hadda: Fuck Them  
Frida Kill: Queen of the Thrill  
Water Heater: No Longer Oba Yozo  
snarewaves: Variable (Love Song)  
Rat Art: Expression  
The WRS: Watcha (Don’t Believe the Hype)  
Havana Syndrome: AI Brain  
Mini Skirt: Mud  
Blood Cookie: Out at Sea  
Team Trust: Got All Day  
Onyon: Molasses  
Wiccans: Prison Planet BIOS-4  
Blood Rite: The Unending Hell  
Selfish Teammate: It’s Your World  
Industry: Manipulated Reality  
screensaver: Drip Feeding  
80HD: Elf Tavern  
Detergent: Pain Is Pay  
Hektiks: Wealth in Death  
Glowing Orb: Power Reveals  
Laughing Corpse: Slaughtered and Maimed  
Tardive Dyskinesia: Numb Life