Ever since 2010 I’ve kept track of the music I listen to each month. It’s fascinating to see how some bands stay with me over the years whilst others have their moment on my stereo before vanishing from my mind… well, until years later when I check out to see what I was listening to way back when in any case!

Anyway, I ran a Top 50 (which turned in to a Top 100) bands of the month chart on various social media platforms recording my listening habits for posterity and to share my earworms of the month. I listen to a lot of music when working, and also when relaxing. My tastes are fairly broad and I love discovering new bands, as well as new sounds and genres.

October saw 10 new entries hit my Top 100 for the first time. Leading that pack, straight in at #4, was AFI, largely courtesy of their fantastic new album “Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…”. Other new entries included F.O.O.L. (#21), Sprints (#25), Home Video (#55), Dusty Springfield (#60), Hookworms (#68), Deerhunter (#72), Paul Simon (#84), Ray Charles (#82), and The Good, the Bad & the Queen (#90).

There were also 20 re-entries this month, with the highest being The Cure at #17. Some of the other re-enteries included Sleepthief (#20), Carbon Based Lifeforms (#27), Creaming Jesus (#32), PJ Harvey (#47), Bauhaus (#53), How To Destroy Angels (#61), Zaniasc (#71), and Faith No More (#99).

Several of Octobers bands have appeared courtesy of the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die book group I’m now in, where one random album is selected from the book each day for us to listen to and review. Some have been great – either new finds or beloved classics – others less so. But it has meant that a few of those artists have started appearing in the monthly Top 100s.

Anyway, here’s my Top 100 for October 2025…

The Mission – Deliverance

Top 100 Bands – October 2025

Position	Last Month	Band
1	26	The Mission
2	9	Kite
3	12	The Midnight
4	NE	AFI
5	11	Portishead
6	4	Carrellee
7	94	Ari Mason
8	6	Nine Inch Nails
9	7	Chvrches
10	13	Fields of the Nephilim

AFI – Behind The Clock

11	24	Magic Wands
12	2	Gunship
13	88	Hunter as a Horse
14	1	Melt Motif
15	5	The Devil & The Universe
16	17	Paris Paloma
17	RE	The Cure
18	42	All About Eve
19	3	Shadowdream
20	RE	Sleepthief

The Cure – Lullaby

21	NE	F.O.O.L.
22	10	NewDad
23	8	Halsey
24	52	HEALTH
25	NE	Sprints
26	55	The Sisters of Mercy
27	RE	Carbon Based Lifeforms
28	14	It Bites
29	15	Lowering
30	RE	Luna Shadows

The Sprints – Descartes

31	39	Conjure One
32	RE	Creaming Jesus
33	RE	Gazelle Twin
34	35	Patriarchy
35	58	Sunday’s Child 9
36	18	Cult of Luna
37	20	Wisteria Lodge
38	29	Priest
39	19	So Below
40	22	Saint Mesa

Creaming Jesus – Lillies

41	65	All India Radio
42	33	GoldCry
43	28	Lamb
44	57	New Model Army
45	25	Purity Ring
46	56	Hemelbestormer
47	RE	PJ Harvey
48	31	Autoisolation
49	83	Collide
50	30	Fat Dog

PJ Harvey – This Is Love

51	71	Jahrund
52	RE	London Grammar
53	RE	Bauhaus
54	21	Dlina Volny
55	NE	Home Video
56	34	Innerpartysystem
57	RE	MXMS
58	36	Radio Roadhouse
59	37	The Dandy Warhols
60	NE	Dusty Springfield
61	RE	How To Destroy Angels
62	40	Julie Christmas
63	41	Pearly Drops
64	RE	Red Mecca
65	45	Sidewalks and Skeletons
66	RE	Akoviani
67	32	Enigma
68	NE	Hookworms
69	44	Ramones
70	46	Somewhere off Jazz Street
71	RE	Zanias
72	NE	Deerhunter
73	43	Manet
74	NE	Paul Simon
75	RE	Sneaker Pimps

Dusty Springfield – Son Of A Preacher Man

76	48	The Lovecraft Sextet
77	49	10 Years
78	50	Bat for Lashes
79	RE	Essenger
80	53	Midnight Smoke
81	54	Pink Floyd
82	NE	Ray Charles
83	RE	Siouxsie and the Banshees
84	59	adam is a girl
85	85	Covenant
86	60	Kat Leon
87	61	Metric
88	62	Monica Richards
89	63	Sally Dirge
90	NE	The Good, the Bad & the Queen
91	RE	The Psychedelic Furs
92	64	Trevor Rabin
93	RE	In Strict Confidence
94	66	Metallica
95	27	Mind.In.A.Box
96	47	REM
97	67	Sleep Token
98	68	UNKLE
99	RE	Faith No More
100	69	Dark Jazz Café Assembly

Faith No More – A Small Victory