Travis Wiebe
@twiebe.bsky.social
Music lover who wants to find and share great songs. https://linktr.ee/travisywiebe
Tuesday features the 80s or 90s. Thursday features the 60s or 70s. Rest of the week, more current.
Tuesday features the 80s or 90s. Thursday features the 60s or 70s. Rest of the week, more current.
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Trav's Sound Digest: Listeners Choice Award Bracket 2025
Daily Posts: Bluesky | Weekly Videos: Instagram YouTube | Last 50 Songs: Spotify
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Coming in December. My song bracket for 2025. Jump in, would love your votes once this thing starts rolling!
Trav's Listeners' Choice Award Bracket: Match 6
Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads
VERSUS
Something's Always Wrong by Toad the Wet Sprocket
Yesterday's Winner: Jersey Giant by Evan Honer and Julia DiGrazia
67% to 33%
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Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads
VERSUS
Something's Always Wrong by Toad the Wet Sprocket
Yesterday's Winner: Jersey Giant by Evan Honer and Julia DiGrazia
67% to 33%
Click here to vote now!
Trav's Listeners' Choice Award Bracket
December 6th 2025
Group 2: Decades (1960s. 1970s, 1980s, 1990s)
Part B: '80s/'90s
Match 6: Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads VERSUS Something's Always Wrong by Toad the Wet Sprocket
Full Bracket: L...
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December 6, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Trav's Listeners' Choice Award Bracket: Match 6
Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads
VERSUS
Something's Always Wrong by Toad the Wet Sprocket
Yesterday's Winner: Jersey Giant by Evan Honer and Julia DiGrazia
67% to 33%
Click here to vote now!
Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads
VERSUS
Something's Always Wrong by Toad the Wet Sprocket
Yesterday's Winner: Jersey Giant by Evan Honer and Julia DiGrazia
67% to 33%
Click here to vote now!
A relationship on the edge. Divorce? Let's talk, over coffee, "We can work it out." Coffee (May 2021) by #Roses&Revolutions and #Lostboycrow feels so fragile they need a neutral hotel lobby to meet. One last plea. Song ends unresolved.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
Roses & Revolutions - Coffee ft. Lostboycrow (Official Visualizer)
YouTube video by Roses & Revolutions
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December 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
A relationship on the edge. Divorce? Let's talk, over coffee, "We can work it out." Coffee (May 2021) by #Roses&Revolutions and #Lostboycrow feels so fragile they need a neutral hotel lobby to meet. One last plea. Song ends unresolved.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
Trav's Listeners' Choice Award Bracket: Match 5
Broken Window Serenade by Whiskey Myers
VERSUS
Jersey Giant by Evan Honer and Julia DiGrazia
Yesterday's Winner: Risk by Gracie Abrams
63% to 37%
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Broken Window Serenade by Whiskey Myers
VERSUS
Jersey Giant by Evan Honer and Julia DiGrazia
Yesterday's Winner: Risk by Gracie Abrams
63% to 37%
Click here to vote now!
Trav's Listeners' Choice Award Bracket
December 5th 2025
Group 1: The New Old (2000-2022)
Part B: Whiskey-Soaked Heartache
Match 5: Broken Window Serenade by Whiskey Myers VERSUS Jersey Giant by Evan Honer and Julia DiGrazia
Full Bracket:...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Trav's Listeners' Choice Award Bracket: Match 5
Broken Window Serenade by Whiskey Myers
VERSUS
Jersey Giant by Evan Honer and Julia DiGrazia
Yesterday's Winner: Risk by Gracie Abrams
63% to 37%
Click here to vote now!
Broken Window Serenade by Whiskey Myers
VERSUS
Jersey Giant by Evan Honer and Julia DiGrazia
Yesterday's Winner: Risk by Gracie Abrams
63% to 37%
Click here to vote now!
In Ooh La La (Mar 1973) by #Faces that jaded old grandpa tries to warn "you're far too kind," women will take advantage. But the words don't hit. "You'll have to learn, just like me." The young must make their own mistakes.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
The Faces - Ooh La La (1973)
YouTube video by pedrolimaonline
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December 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
In Ooh La La (Mar 1973) by #Faces that jaded old grandpa tries to warn "you're far too kind," women will take advantage. But the words don't hit. "You'll have to learn, just like me." The young must make their own mistakes.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
Trav's Listeners' Choice Award Bracket: Match 4
Not Your Man by Teddy Swims
VERSUS
Risk by Gracie Abrams
Yesterday's Winner: Mulclair Road by Darren Kiely
60% to 40%
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Not Your Man by Teddy Swims
VERSUS
Risk by Gracie Abrams
Yesterday's Winner: Mulclair Road by Darren Kiely
60% to 40%
Click here to vote now!
Trav's Listeners' Choice Award Bracket
December 4th 2025
Group 4: Neon Youth & Heartbreak Glow
Part A: Neon Glow
Match 4: Not Your Man by Teddy Swims VERSUS Risk by Gracie Abrams
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December 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Trav's Listeners' Choice Award Bracket: Match 4
Not Your Man by Teddy Swims
VERSUS
Risk by Gracie Abrams
Yesterday's Winner: Mulclair Road by Darren Kiely
60% to 40%
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Not Your Man by Teddy Swims
VERSUS
Risk by Gracie Abrams
Yesterday's Winner: Mulclair Road by Darren Kiely
60% to 40%
Click here to vote now!
Ultimate wedding song? Maybe. But #MaggieRogers says Love You For A Long Time (Nov 2019) is about her passion for making music returning after a period of burn out. Double-meaning? Sure. But songs are what YOU hear.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
Maggie Rogers - Love You For A Long Time (Official Audio)
YouTube video by MaggieRogersVEVO
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December 3, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Ultimate wedding song? Maybe. But #MaggieRogers says Love You For A Long Time (Nov 2019) is about her passion for making music returning after a period of burn out. Double-meaning? Sure. But songs are what YOU hear.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
Trav's Listeners' Choice Award Bracket: Match 3
Mulclair Road by Darren Kiely
VERSUS
Walking on the Edge by Sons of Legion
Yesterday's Winner: Think by Aretha Franklin
59% to 41%
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Mulclair Road by Darren Kiely
VERSUS
Walking on the Edge by Sons of Legion
Yesterday's Winner: Think by Aretha Franklin
59% to 41%
Click here to vote now!
Trav's Listeners' Choice Award Bracket
December 3rd, 2025
Group 3: Backroad Soul & Redemption
Part A: Highway Redemption Anthems
Match 3: Mulclair Road by Darren Kiely VERSUS Walking on the Edge by Sons of Legion
Full Bracket: Link
Full ...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Trav's Listeners' Choice Award Bracket: Match 3
Mulclair Road by Darren Kiely
VERSUS
Walking on the Edge by Sons of Legion
Yesterday's Winner: Think by Aretha Franklin
59% to 41%
Click here to vote now!
Mulclair Road by Darren Kiely
VERSUS
Walking on the Edge by Sons of Legion
Yesterday's Winner: Think by Aretha Franklin
59% to 41%
Click here to vote now!
Joy. It's fleeting. The ordinary as exceptional. "These are the days you'll remember." Friends, new love, potential blooming. "It's true." These Are Days (Aug 1992) by #10,000Maniacs is feeling, mid-moment, that you are blessed. Right Now.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
10,000 Maniacs - These Are Days
YouTube video by Natalie Merchant
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December 2, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Joy. It's fleeting. The ordinary as exceptional. "These are the days you'll remember." Friends, new love, potential blooming. "It's true." These Are Days (Aug 1992) by #10,000Maniacs is feeling, mid-moment, that you are blessed. Right Now.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
Trav's Listeners' Choice Award Bracket: Match 2
Second Hand News by Fleetwood Mac
VERSUS
Think by Aretha Franklin
Yesterday's Winner: Everything Has Changed by Taylor Swift
65% to 35%
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Second Hand News by Fleetwood Mac
VERSUS
Think by Aretha Franklin
Yesterday's Winner: Everything Has Changed by Taylor Swift
65% to 35%
Click here to vote now!
Trav's Listeners' Choice Award Bracket
December 2nd, 2025
Group 2: Decades (1960s. 1970s, 1980s, 1990s)
Part A: '60s/'70s
Match 2: Second Hand News by Fleetwood Mac VERSUS Think by Aretha Franklin
Full Bracket: Link
Full Details: Link
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December 2, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Trav's Listeners' Choice Award Bracket: Match 2
Second Hand News by Fleetwood Mac
VERSUS
Think by Aretha Franklin
Yesterday's Winner: Everything Has Changed by Taylor Swift
65% to 35%
Click here to vote now!
Second Hand News by Fleetwood Mac
VERSUS
Think by Aretha Franklin
Yesterday's Winner: Everything Has Changed by Taylor Swift
65% to 35%
Click here to vote now!
#ZachBryan was an underdog, "In a world full of people out to cut his young ass down." But, one sweaty iPhone video and Heading South (Sep 2019) flipped everything. Raw, defiant, honest, zero polish made a TikTok breakthrough legend.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
Heading South
YouTube video by Zach Bryan - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM
#ZachBryan was an underdog, "In a world full of people out to cut his young ass down." But, one sweaty iPhone video and Heading South (Sep 2019) flipped everything. Raw, defiant, honest, zero polish made a TikTok breakthrough legend.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
Trav's Listeners' Choice Award Bracket: Match 1
Everything Has Changed by Taylor Swift
VERSUS
Something Loud by Jimmy Eat World
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Everything Has Changed by Taylor Swift
VERSUS
Something Loud by Jimmy Eat World
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Trav's Listeners' Choice Award Bracket
December 1st, 2025
Group 1: The New Old (2000-2022)
Part A: Pop-Radio Daydreams
Match 1: Everything Has Changed by Taylor Swift VERSUS Something Loud by Jimmy Eat World
Full Bracket: Link
Full Detai...
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December 1, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Trav's Listeners' Choice Award Bracket: Match 1
Everything Has Changed by Taylor Swift
VERSUS
Something Loud by Jimmy Eat World
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Everything Has Changed by Taylor Swift
VERSUS
Something Loud by Jimmy Eat World
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Trav's Sound Digest: The November 2025 Edition
Daily Posts: Bluesky | Weekly Videos: Instagram YouTube | Last 50 Songs: Spotify
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November 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Check out all my November #SongsoftheDay in one place! And be sure to subscribe!
I became what I despised, mocked, rallied against. Gold records and a deer feeder? #TylerChilders' conflicted laugh-cry in Eatin’ Big Time (Jul 2025) is a raw self-roast. Success is hard on a class warrior.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
Tyler Childers - Eatin' Big Time (Official Video)
YouTube video by TylerChildersVEVO
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November 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I became what I despised, mocked, rallied against. Gold records and a deer feeder? #TylerChilders' conflicted laugh-cry in Eatin’ Big Time (Jul 2025) is a raw self-roast. Success is hard on a class warrior.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
You're not 'fine' and #Henrik sees through it. In Speak Your Mind (Oct 2025), he's pressing you to let it out "All your grief, all your pain" and "Let your pieces become whole again." Like a friend who knows and can't stand to see you this way.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
Henrik - Speak Your Mind (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Henrik
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November 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
You're not 'fine' and #Henrik sees through it. In Speak Your Mind (Oct 2025), he's pressing you to let it out "All your grief, all your pain" and "Let your pieces become whole again." Like a friend who knows and can't stand to see you this way.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
11/28/2025
Gen X calling 2000s pop-punk ‘sellout’ is nuts. That polished heartbreak is literally what birthed emo. Now brace for the sonic time-warp: You Broke Me Too (Oct 2025) brings #YellowCard and #AvrilLavigne back like royalty. Pure time-warp fire.
#SongoftheDay
Gen X calling 2000s pop-punk ‘sellout’ is nuts. That polished heartbreak is literally what birthed emo. Now brace for the sonic time-warp: You Broke Me Too (Oct 2025) brings #YellowCard and #AvrilLavigne back like royalty. Pure time-warp fire.
#SongoftheDay
Yellowcard ft Avril Lavigne - You Broke Me Too (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Better Noise Music
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November 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
11/28/2025
Gen X calling 2000s pop-punk ‘sellout’ is nuts. That polished heartbreak is literally what birthed emo. Now brace for the sonic time-warp: You Broke Me Too (Oct 2025) brings #YellowCard and #AvrilLavigne back like royalty. Pure time-warp fire.
#SongoftheDay
Gen X calling 2000s pop-punk ‘sellout’ is nuts. That polished heartbreak is literally what birthed emo. Now brace for the sonic time-warp: You Broke Me Too (Oct 2025) brings #YellowCard and #AvrilLavigne back like royalty. Pure time-warp fire.
#SongoftheDay
#Toto was a "Super Group." Power: They completely rock. Does it matter what Hold The Line (Sep 1978) is about? Listen: Arena rock sound, huge guitar lift, massive vocals. Ok, fine, it's about the right person at the wrong time, "Love isn't always on time."
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
Toto - Hold The Line (Official Video)
YouTube video by TotoVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
#Toto was a "Super Group." Power: They completely rock. Does it matter what Hold The Line (Sep 1978) is about? Listen: Arena rock sound, huge guitar lift, massive vocals. Ok, fine, it's about the right person at the wrong time, "Love isn't always on time."
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
Punk-pop-rock with jazzy undertones. What is that? A killer hook, a danceable beat, and a crazy-good vocalist in #IzzyEscobar with her breakout Vendetta (Sep 2025). Gaslit. Cloned even. And replaced in the worst way. Righteous anger overrides everything.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
Izzy Escobar - Vendetta (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by IzzyEscobarVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Punk-pop-rock with jazzy undertones. What is that? A killer hook, a danceable beat, and a crazy-good vocalist in #IzzyEscobar with her breakout Vendetta (Sep 2025). Gaslit. Cloned even. And replaced in the worst way. Righteous anger overrides everything.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
I'm so burnt out I'm ready to break out. In Learn to Fly (Oct 1999) by #FooFighters, it's past time, "I'm looking to the sky to save me, looking for a sign of life." The guitars make it sound possible to get unstuck and lift off.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by foofightersVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I'm so burnt out I'm ready to break out. In Learn to Fly (Oct 1999) by #FooFighters, it's past time, "I'm looking to the sky to save me, looking for a sign of life." The guitars make it sound possible to get unstuck and lift off.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
Runaway (Nov 2019) could be an 80s banger. #SophieAndTheGiants is an English band, huge in Europe, led by Sophie Scott; think the cool of Debbie Harry combined with the vocal power of Annie Lennox. A breakup song? No. A getaway song.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
Runaway
YouTube video by Sophie and the Giants - Topic
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November 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Runaway (Nov 2019) could be an 80s banger. #SophieAndTheGiants is an English band, huge in Europe, led by Sophie Scott; think the cool of Debbie Harry combined with the vocal power of Annie Lennox. A breakup song? No. A getaway song.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
A “lonely” oak tree. Ghosts, rituals, secret rendezvous. Dance-track?! Totally, like EDM with a fiddle. The East Pointers fuse Celtic tradition, mysticism, and defiant revelry in Halfway Tree (Oct 2019).
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
The East Pointers - Halfway Tree
YouTube video by The East Pointers
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November 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A “lonely” oak tree. Ghosts, rituals, secret rendezvous. Dance-track?! Totally, like EDM with a fiddle. The East Pointers fuse Celtic tradition, mysticism, and defiant revelry in Halfway Tree (Oct 2019).
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
Unstoppable (Jul 2016) by #TheScore is glory. First heard this in champion HS wrestling team's end of season highlight video. Endless takedowns, pins, and escapes, "Keeping us down is impossible 'Cause we're unstoppable."
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
The Score - Unstoppable (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by TheScoreVEVO
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November 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Unstoppable (Jul 2016) by #TheScore is glory. First heard this in champion HS wrestling team's end of season highlight video. Endless takedowns, pins, and escapes, "Keeping us down is impossible 'Cause we're unstoppable."
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
Your “Forever” is met with “Get back in the car?" In Rubber Band Man (Oct 2025) by #Mumford&Sons & #Hozier it hurts. But the song proves intimacy can survive breakdown, ending with a quiet request for another start.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
Mumford & Sons, Hozier - Rubber Band Man
YouTube video by MumfordAndSonsVEVO
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November 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Your “Forever” is met with “Get back in the car?" In Rubber Band Man (Oct 2025) by #Mumford&Sons & #Hozier it hurts. But the song proves intimacy can survive breakdown, ending with a quiet request for another start.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
When I hear British Invasion, I think Beatles. Maybe I should think #The Animals. The House of the Rising Sun (Jun 1964) is not a light love song. "Oh, mother, tell your children, not to do what I have done." Heavy.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
The Animals - House of the Rising Sun (1964) ♫ 60+ YEARS 🎶⭐ ❤
YouTube video by The Animals Tribute Channel (unofficial)
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
When I hear British Invasion, I think Beatles. Maybe I should think #The Animals. The House of the Rising Sun (Jun 1964) is not a light love song. "Oh, mother, tell your children, not to do what I have done." Heavy.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
Words can't capture the feeling. The first time, waking up next to a person you now know you love, "My whole world is you." #ThePaperKites breakout hit is also their most lasting. Bloom (Sep 2010) is that golden moment.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
The Paper Kites - Bloom (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by thepaperkitesband
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November 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Words can't capture the feeling. The first time, waking up next to a person you now know you love, "My whole world is you." #ThePaperKites breakout hit is also their most lasting. Bloom (Sep 2010) is that golden moment.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
#Journey isn’t classic rock. It’s perennial. Instantly recognizable. Big guitars, stadium-anthem lyrics, HUGE. Stone in Love (Jul 1981) was never even a single. So is it a deep cut? Hardly. You’ll be singing along without realizing it. Awesome.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay
Journey - Stone in Love (Official Audio)
YouTube video by journeyVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
#Journey isn’t classic rock. It’s perennial. Instantly recognizable. Big guitars, stadium-anthem lyrics, HUGE. Stone in Love (Jul 1981) was never even a single. So is it a deep cut? Hardly. You’ll be singing along without realizing it. Awesome.
#SongoftheDay
#SongoftheDay