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In WOTS’ first year back, we’ve seen indie bangers, expanded our Chillers playlist, watched the industry chew up its workers, and stared at a never-ending sea of 8/10 review scores.

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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of 2025 – A WOTS Year in Review
In WOTS’ first year back, we’ve seen indie bangers, expanded our Chillers playlist, watched the industry chew up its workers, and stared at a never-ending sea of 8/10 review scores. Here’s the Good…
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December 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” is a sing-along classic hiding one of the most melancholy barroom stories ever written. A snapshot of shared misery, fading dreams, and the man playing everyone through another Saturday night.

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Chillers – Piano Man (Billy Joel)
Billy Joel’s Piano Man blends shared misery, nostalgia, and barroom storytelling into a timeless portrait of lives stuck in place.
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December 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Chillers dives into “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” a haunting folk-rock classic that wrestles with memory, loss, and the complicated weight of history. A song as chilling as the story behind it.

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Chillers – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (The Band)
A powerful yet complicated folk-rock classic, “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” reflects on loss, pride, and the lingering weight of history in the waning days of the Civil War.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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A genre-blending burst of warmth and smooth jazz joy, “Feels So Good” hits straight in the soul. Chuck Mangione’s flugelhorn is pure sunshine.

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Chillers – Feels So Good (Chuck Mangione)
Chuck Mangione’s “Feels So Good” is a warm blend of jazz fusion, Latin rhythm, and pure musical joy. A soaring flugelhorn leads a track that’s impossible not to sway to, earning its place as a timeless feel-good classic.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Bowie wrote a fever dream. Nirvana made it haunt you. The Man Who Sold the World walks the line between ghost story and confession. Which version chills you more?

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Chillers – Cover Up
Bowie’s original is a glam-tinged ghost story; Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged cover turns it into an intimate haunting. In this Cover Up, we weigh mirror vs. apparition—and why Nirvana’s raw restraint ultimately wins.
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December 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Chillers continues with one of the strangest and most unexpectedly tender closers in modern music. Raw, chaotic, and weirdly sincere — Bound 2 is a messy masterpiece of love + contradiction.

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Chillers – Bound 2 (Ye)
Bound 2 is one of the strangest and most unexpectedly tender closers in modern music. A chaotic blend of chopped soul, humor, and raw honesty, it captures a messy, magnetic kind of love that somehow hits harder than any polished ballad.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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The Avett Brothers’ Bring Your Love to Me is a quiet gamble on love—simple lyrics, gentle picking, and a plea to be met halfway.

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Chillers – Bring Your Love to Me (The Avett Brothers)
The Avett Brothers’ Bring Your Love to Me is a gentle plea wrapped in simple lyrics and quiet bluegrass beauty—a gamble on love that feels both fragile and brave.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant Massacree is Thanksgiving chaos turned folk epic—funny, sharp & timelessly absurd.

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Chillers – Alice’s Restaurant Massacree (Arlo Guthrie)
Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant Massacree turns Thanksgiving chaos into satire—a 20-minute folk epic about life, justice, and absurdity.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Cast Iron Skillet is storytelling at its most haunting—love, hate & tragedy forged into one timeless, devastating song.

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Chillers – Cast Iron Skillet (Jason Isbell)
Cast Iron Skillet is a lyrical gut punch—Jason Isbell’s haunting storytelling weaves love, hate, and tragedy into something timeless.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Cohen wrote a prayer. Buckley turned it into a confession. Hallelujah cuts two ways—cathedral and candlelight. Which one gives you chills?

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Chillers – Cover Up
Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah is solemn and layered, his baritone framed by synths and choir. Jeff Buckley’s cover pares it back to guitar and a lone, elastic voice—intimate and devastating. In this Cover Up, we weigh cathedral versus candlelight and pick a winner.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Dear John is heartbreak written with clarity & bruised grace—tender, biting, and beautifully self-aware.

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Chillers – Dear John (Taylor Swift)
Dear John is heartbreak written with surgical precision—tender, bitter, and brutally self-aware, it’s Taylor Swift at her most vulnerable.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Leanna Firestone’s Becoming Unbecoming is the burnout anthem for the gifted kids all grown up—tender, funny & devastatingly true.

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Chillers – Becoming Unbecoming (Leanna Firestone)
Leanna Firestone’s Becoming Unbecoming is a raw reflection of burnout and lost innocence—a haunting mirror for the gifted kids all grown up.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Joe Diffie’s John Deere Green is goofy, heartfelt & timeless—a love story painted in all the wrong colors for all the right reasons.

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Chillers – John Deere Green (Joe Diffie)
Joe Diffie’s John Deere Green is a boot-stomping love story—heartfelt, humorous, and painted in the most unconventional shade of romance.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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What’s Up by 4 Non Blondes is frustration turned into anthem—raw, honest & timeless. We’re all still asking, what’s going on?

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Chillers – What’s Up (4 Non Blondes)
4 Non Blondes’ What’s Up is an anthem of confusion and catharsis—an unforgettable cry of frustration that still echoes decades later.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Patsy Cline’s Walking After Midnight turns loneliness into melody—haunting, human & timelessly beautiful.

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Chillers – Walkin’ After Midnight (Patsy Cline)
Patsy Cline’s Walking After Midnight is a timeless classic—loneliness turned lyrical, carried on one of the most iconic voices in country music.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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🌊 Jeff Klemm’s Ocean Meets the Sky blends crashing emotion & soaring vocals—love’s calm & chaos rolled into one.

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Chillers – Ocean Meets the Sky (Jeff Klemm)
Jeff Klemm’s Ocean Meets the Sky soars between love and longing, pairing raw emotion with powerful vocals in a criminally underrated gem.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Gladys belted it. Marvin smoothed it. Fogerty stretched it to 11 minutes.
I Heard It Through the Grapevine might be the most covered classic of its era — but who did it best?

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Chillers – Cover Up
Gladys Knight brought the energy. Marvin Gaye slowed it down and made it iconic. Creedence Clearwater Revival stretched it into an 11-minute jam. In this special triple-threat edition of Chillers – Cover Up, we look at three takes on I Heard It Through the Grapevine — and why Marvin’s version still reigns supreme.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Carly Rae Jepsen’s Go Find Yourself or Whatever is heartbreak unspooled—a jumbled mess of frustration & longing, beautiful in its honesty.

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Chillers – Go Find Yourself or Whatever (Carly Rae Jepsen)
Carly Rae Jepsen’s Go Find Yourself or Whatever is an emotional knot—frustration, love, and longing tangled into a bittersweet breakup ballad.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Alanis’ Hand in My Pocket turns contradictions into an anthem—messy, human & ultimately fine, fine, fine.

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Chillers – Hand in My Pocket (Alanis Morissette)
Alanis Morissette’s Hand in My Pocket is a flag-waving anthem for contradictions—messy, human, and ultimately fine, fine, fine.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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We are gathered here today to remember Nintendo’s most misunderstood console.
Ambitious. Awkward. Unloved.
The Wii U stumbled so the Switch could sprint.

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A Eulogy for the Wii U, the Child Nintendo Never Wanted

A heartfelt and slightly irreverent farewell to Nintendo’s most misunderstood console. From asymmetric gems like Nintendo Land to the Switch ports that saved its legacy, we look back at the Wii U’s quirks, failures, and quiet triumphs.
A Eulogy for the Wii U, the Child Nintendo Never Wanted
A heartfelt and slightly irreverent farewell to Nintendo’s most misunderstood console. From asymmetric gems like Nintendo Land to the Switch ports that saved its legacy, we look back at the Wii U’s quirks, failures, and quiet triumphs.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Bowie’s Life on Mars? is cinematic chaos—existential, absurd & achingly human. A surreal escape into sound & meaning.

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Chillers – Life on Mars? (David Bowie)
David Bowie’s Life on Mars? is cinematic chaos—surreal storytelling, soaring vocals, and existential beauty wrapped in glam perfection.
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October 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Novacaine for the Soul is funky 90s detachment turned poetic—numbing the pain but never truly escaping it.

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Chillers – Novacaine for the Soul (Eels)
Eels’ Novacaine for the Soul captures the ache of modern detachment—pain numbed into poetry beneath a funky, 90s groove.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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🖋️ Your Reality blurs love, loss & fiction into one aching truth—some worlds were never meant to meet.

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Chillers – Your Reality (Dan Salvato)
Your Reality from Doki Doki Literature Club is a deceptively sweet heartbreak—where love, longing, and fiction blur into something unforgettable.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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💔 Phil Collins’ Against All Odds is heartbreak in slow motion—raw, desperate, and beautiful in its acceptance of loss.

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Chillers – Against All Odds (Phil Collins)
Phil Collins’ Against All Odds is a power ballad for the ages—heartache, longing, and a glimmer of acceptance all wrapped in that iconic 80s sound.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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☀️ Donovan’s Sunshine Superman is pure 60s groove—psychedelic guitars, playful lyricism, and carefree love painted in paisley & sunshine.

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Chillers – Sunshine Superman (Donovan)
Donovan’s Sunshine Superman is a colorful snapshot of the 60s—psychedelic guitars, playful lyricism, and carefree love wrapped in paisley and groove.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM