This thread is hilarious (mostly because of Craig and Jason's little interactions), but you guys made my morning discovering this! Def combing through everyone's lists to see if I missed anything on mine.
Ranking will be impossible this year. So many good releases. 1. The Menzingers - Some Of It Was True 2. Trophy Eyes - Suicide And Sunshine 3. Bully - Lucky For You 4. The Bouncing Souls - Ten Stories High 5. The Aces - I've Loved You For So Long 6. Jenny Own Youngs - Avalanche 7. Fireworks - Higher Lonely Power 8. Chris Cresswell - The Stubbornness Of The Young 9. Slaughter Beach, Dog - Crying, Laughing, Waving, Smiling 10. Bethany Cosentino - Natural Disaster 11. The Gaslight Anthem - History Books 12. Hot Mulligan - Why Would I Watch 13. Worriers - Trust Your Gut 14. Just Friends - Gusher 15. The Pomps - Bottom Of The Pomps 16. Citizen - Calling The Dogs 17. Dessa - Bury The Lede 18. Spanish Love Songs - No Joy 19. Anjimile - The King 20. Oldsoul - Education On earth 21. boygenius - the record 22. Koyo - Would You Miss It? 23. Paramore - This Is Why 24. Single Mothers - Roy 25. Can't Swim - Thanks But No Thanks 26. Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness - Tilt At The Wind No More 27. The Abruptors - Noticeably Cheerless 28. The Hold Steady - The Price Of Progress 29. Palette Knife - New Game + 30. Taking back Sunday -152
Here’s all the shit I loved Wednesday - Rat Saw God Bedridden - Amateur Heartthrob EP Hazing Over - Tunnel Vision EP Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You Flooding - Silhouette Machine Shady Bug - What’s The Use? EP Jane Remover - Census Designated Yeule - Softscars Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden The Callous Daoboys - God Smiles Upon The Callous Daoboys EP 100 Gecs - 10,00 Gecs Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We Year Of The Knife - No Love Lost Strange Ranger - Pure Music Zulu - A New Tomorrow Cauldron - Suicide In The City Feeble Little Horse - Girl With Fish Glixen - She Only Said EP Chamber - A Love To Kill For Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loveliest Time Computer Wife - Computer Wife Chappell Roan - The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess Militarie Gun - Life Under The Gun Samia - Honey
1. Hotline TNT - Cartwheel 2. Militarie Gun - Life Under The Gun 3. Wednesday - Rat Saw God 4. Taking Back Sunday - 152 5. The Menzingers - Some of it Was True 6. blink-182 - One More Time... 7. Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE 8. Superviolet - Infinite Spring 9. Hot Mulligan - Why Would I Watch 10. Origami Angel - The Brightest Days 11. Home is Where - The Whaler 12. Talking Kind - It Did Bring Me Down 13. Chris Farren - Doom Singer 14. as a sketch pad - as a sketch pad (lp) 15. The Gaslight Anthem - History Books top 3 are locked in, rest can move around depending on the day! great year for tunes. tried to boil down my fav songs here as well.
Top Album: MxPx - Find a Way Home Top EP: Midwest Goodbye - The Descent (I didn't hear anything about this anywhere but it is fantastic)
think i finally figured out my top 25: tirzah trip9love…??? laurel halo atlas paramore this is why corinne bailey rae black rainbows sofia kourtesis madres strange ranger pure music amaarae fountain baby veeze ganger tinashe bb/angel purelink signals ml buch suntub water from your eyes everyone’s crushed pj harvey i inside the old year dying chief adjuah bark out thunder roar out lightning eddie chacon sundown sam goku things we see when we look closer pile all fiction john cale mercy babyface ray summer’s mine godflesh purge fireworks higher lonely power meshell ndegeocello the omnichord real book avalon emerson & the charm empty country ii taking back sunday 152
My top eleven in alphabetic order: City and Colour - The Love Still Held Me Near DULL - Dive Deep Down FAIM - Your Life and Nothing Else Lael Neale - Star Eaters Delight Les Rallizes Dénudés - CITTA' '93 Maggot Heart - Hunger Maria BC - Spike Field Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying Teksti-TV 666 - Vapauden Tasavalta Vännäs Kasino - Album
Used Jason's bias sorter for ranking these and pretty happy with the results. Good year. 1. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin 2. Wednesday - Rat Saw God 3. Hotline TNT - Cartwheel 4. PinkPantheress - Heaven knows 5. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You 6. Kaytraminé - Kaytraminé 7. Militarie Gun - Life Under The Gun 8. Bully - Lucky for You 9. JPEGMAFIA / Danny Brown - Scaring the Hoes 10. Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS 11. Joanna Sternberg - I've Got Me 12. billy woods / Kenny Segal - Maps 13. Lana Del Rey - Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd 14. Nourished by Time - Erotic Probiotic 2 15. Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World 16. boygenius - The Record 17. 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs 18. Slowdive - everything is alive 19. feeble little horse - Girl with Fish 20. André 3000 - New Blue Sun 21. Slow Pulp - Yard 22. Strange Ranger - Pure Music 23. Earl Sweatshirt / The Alchemist - VOIR DIRE 24. awakebutstillinbed - chaos takes the wheel and i am a passenger 25. Sofia Kourtesis - Madres 26. Avalon Emerson - & the Charm 27. Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We 28. DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ - Destiny 29. Victoria Monét - Jaguar II 30. Troye Sivan - Something to Give Each Other 31. MSPAINT - Post-American 32. Noname - Sundial 33. Hannah Diamond - Perfect Picture 34. Ratboys - The Window 35. The Menzingers - Some Of It Was True 36. GEL - Only Constant 37. Yves Tumor - Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) 38. ANOHNI and the Johnsons - My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross 39. Fiddlehead - Death is Nothing to Us 40. Jeromes Dream - The Gray In Between 41. Yaeji - With a Hammer 42. SUNAMI - SUNAMI 43. Spanish Love Songs - No Joy 44. Chris Farren - Doom Singer 45. Jesus Piece - ...So Unknown 46. Indigo De Souza - All of This Will End 47. P Money - Money Over Everyone 4 48. Home Is Where - the whaler 49. Crime In Stereo - House & Trance 50. Fall Out Boy - So Much (For) Stardust
1. The Gaslight Anthem - History Books 2. blink-182 - One More Time 3. Spanish Love Songs - No Joy 4. The Menzingers - Some Of It Was True 5. There Will Be Fireworks - Summer Moon 6. Taking Back Sunday - 152 7. Dave Hause - Drive It Like It’s Stolen 8. boygenius - The Record 9. Petey - USA 10. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Weathervanes 11. Fall Out Boy - So Much (For) Stardust 12. Chris Farren - Doom Singer @whitenblue88 - Did it right just for you
Man I’m happy to see this list….this is the first list that I recognize more than half of the artists (and they are good choices!)
HYLI - Patrick's Best of 2023 (The Not-Metal One) if you wanna see me write about my list, if not, here's a graphic image for you
Not enough dad rock on these lists so I am here to fix that. No album really stood out significantly for me above others however I'd break down my list like this Good, but nowhere near as good as everyone says it is: Boygenius Pleasant surprises from bands that I thought I'd never listen to again: Fall Out Boy, Taking Back Sunday, Blink 182 Really Strong Rock Albums: Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Smashing Pumpkins, Gaslight Anthem, The National, Manchester Orchestra (EP) Best Album I listened to this month after reading the lists of others: There Will Be Fireworks
Great year of music. 1. The Sons of Rainier - Take Me Anywhere 2. Dean Johnson - Nothing For Me, Please 3. John R. Miller - Heat Comes Down 4. Bella White - Among Other Things 5. Hiss Golden Messenger - Jump For Joy 6. Dougie Poole - The Rainbow Wheel of Death 7. Cactus Lee - Caravan/Big Red 8. Margo Cilker - Valley of Heart's Delight 9. Kassi Valazza - Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing 10. Willy Tea Taylor - The Great Western Hangover 11. Vincent Neil Emerson - The Golden Crystal Kingdom 12. Jeffrey Martin - Thank God We Left The Garden 13. Sunny War - Anarchist Gospel 14. Rose City Band - Garden Party 15. Skyway Man - Flight of the Long Distance Healer 16. The Pink Stones - You Know Who 17. Logan Ledger - Golden State 18. Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - Weathervanes 19. Graves - Gary Owens: I Have Some Thoughts 20. Tre Burt - Traffic Fiction 21. Cut Worms - S/T 22. Bonnie Prince Billy - Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You 23. Florry - The Holey Bible 24. Nat Myers - Yellow Peril 25. The Felice Brothers - Asylum On The Hill 26. Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band - Dancing On the Edge 27. A. Savage - Several Songs About Fire 28. Michael Nau - Accompany 29. Esther Rose - Safe To Run 30. Anna St Louis - In The Air 31. Fust - Genevieve 32. Geese - 3D Country 33. Joanna Sternberg - I've Got Me 34. Jess Williamson - Time Aint Accidental 35. Hayden Pedigo - The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored 36. Country Westerns - Forgive the City 37. Buffalo Nichols - The Fatlist 38. Doug Paisley - Say What You Like 39. Stella Kola - S/T 40. Protomartyr - Formal Growth In The Desert 41. Bonny Doon - Let There Be Music 42. Duff Thompson - Shadow People 43. Muireann Bradley - I Kept These Old Blues 44. The Natvral - Summer of No Light 45. Jamie Wyatt - Feel Good 46. Maybel - Gloam 47. Bobby Lee - Endless Skyways 48. Nick Hans - Crooked Line 49. Jackson and the Janks - S/T 50. Max Bien Kahn - When I Cross It Off
The more I listen to "If I Don't See You in the Future, I'll See You in the Pasture" the more it might be my favorite release of the year.
1. The Armed - Perfect Saviors 2. KNOWER - KNOWER FOREVER 3. The Callous Daoboys - God Smiles Upon The Callous Daoboys 4. Teeth - A Biblical Worship of Violence 5. Necry Talkie - Odore! Lambada 6. Mouthbreather - Self-Tape 7. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin 8. AJJ - Disposable Everything 9. Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE 10. .gif from god - Digital Red