FOE: BEST ALBUMS OF 2023

BEST ALBUMS OF 2023 Music that brought me joy in 2023.

Includes punk, ska, hardcore, metal, thrash, death metal, indie, soundtracks, rockabilly, country, reggae, pop, 2023 reissues, best of collections and rock alphabetically.

In reviewing other Best of 2023 lists I was amazed at how many of these albums were not on others lists. These albums brought me joy in 2023. Thank you to all the artists involved and thank you for sharing your art.

This Spotify playlist contains most of these songs https://open.spotify.com/playlist/780rjqfmFzj7P7mW2RtawE?si=8d7fa34e42ca43c0

Adolescents "Caesar Salad Days" LP
Alien Nosejob "The Derivative Sounds of... Or... A Dog Always Returns to it's Vomit" LP
Angel Du$t "Brand New Soul"
Baroness "Stone" LP
Be Your Own Pet "Mommy" LP
Big Laugh "Consume Me"
Blink 182 "One More Time..."
Bloc Party "The High Life" EP
Boris the Sprinkler "Group Sex" LP on Hey Suburbia Records
Bouncing Souls "Ten Stories High" LP on Pure Noise Records
boygenius - The Record" LP
Brian Setzer "The Devil Always Collects" LP
Brujeria "Esto Es Brujeria" LP
Buggin "Concrete Cowboys" LP
Burner "It All Returns to Nothing" LP
Burning Spear "No Destoyer" LP
Catatonic Suns "Catatonic Suns" LP
Cattle Decapitation "Terrasite" LP
Cavalera Conspiracy "Morbid Visions Re-recorded" LP
Cavalera Conspiracy "Bestial Devastation Re-recorded" LP
Chelsea Grin "Suffer in Heaven" LP ONErpm Records
Chisel, The "Retaliation" LP
Chisel, The "Fuck Em/Cry Your Eyes Out" single
Crown Court "Heavy Manners"
Creeping Death "Boundless Domain" LP
Cryptopsy "As Gomorrah Burns" LP
Damned, The "Darkadelic" LP
"Dance Craze (Deluxe Edition)" LP on Chrysalis Records
Darius Rucker "Carolyn's Boy" LP
"Dawn of the Dead Original Theatrical Soundtrack" LP on Waxwork Records
De La Soul "3 Feet High And Rising" Reissue LP
Dead Milkmen, The "Quaker City Quiet Pills" LP
Dead Wrong "Discography" LP
Death "Fate: The Best of Death" LP
Death Pill "Death Pill" LP
Defiant "Ignite the Sky/Boys Don't Cry" single
Depeche Mode "Memento Mori" LP
Depeche Mode "Delta Machine The Singles Boxset" LP
Depeche Mode "Sounds of the Universe The Singles Boxset" LP
Depeche Mode "Wagging Tongue Remixes" EP
Depeche Mode "Ghosts Again Remixes" EP
Depeche Mode "My Favourite Stranger Remixes" EP
Desmond Dekker "Essential Artist Collection" LP
Dethklok "Dethalbum IV"
Devo "50 Years of De-evolution 1973-2023" LP
Devo "Art Devo 1973-1977" LP
Dolly Parton "Rockstar" LP
Dollyrots "Night Owls" LP on Wicked Cool Records
Dollyrots "Hey Girl/I Touch Myself" 7" Wicked Cool Records
Donner Party, The "Cutting Class" LP
Dozer "Drifting in the Endless Void" LP
Drain "Living Proof" LP
Dream Wife "Social Lubrication"
Drowns, The "There She Goes/1979 Trans Am" single
Drowns, The and the Last Gang split single
Drowns, The and Suzi Moon "Ballroom Blitz" single
Duran Duran "Danse Macabre" LP
Dying Fetus "Make Them Beg for Death" LP
Enforcers, The "The Engorcers" LP
"Evil Dead Rise" Soundtrack by Stephen McKeon LP on Waxwork Records
Exhibition "The Last Laugh" LP on Triple B Records
Faintest Idea "The Road to Sedition" LP
Fake Names "Expendables" LP Epitaph Records
Fear "For Right and Order" LP
Fear Factory "RE-Industrialized" LP
Fiddlehead "Death is Nothing to Us" LP
Fiendz "Dummy" LP
Fit For An Autopsy, Thy Art Is Murder, Malevolence "The Aggression Sessions" EP
Flores y Fuego
Flying Raccoon Suit "Moonflower" LP
Fu Manchu "FU30 Pt3" 10" on At The Dojo Records
Fu Manchu "I-III" LP on At The Dojo Records
Full Choke "Hang Loose/The Fear" single
Galaxy Has Eyes "Beached Whale" single
Gee Tee "Goodnight Neanderthal" LP
Gel "Only Constant" LP
Geld "Currency // Castration" LP
Girlschool "WTFortyfive?"
Godflesh "Purge" LP on Avalanche Records
Godflesh "Nero" LP on Avalanche Records
Godslut "Procreation of God" LP
Golden Shitters "Golden Shitters" LP
"Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3" Soundtrack LP
Hellripper "Warlocks Grim and Withered Hags" LP
Helmet "Left" LP
Helmet "Big Shot" EP
Hives "The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons"
Home Front "Games of Power"
Hot Water Music "Drawn" single
Howard Jones "Celebrate It Together: The Very Best Of Howard Jones 1983-2023"
Hunting Lions "Light" LP on Pirates Press Records
Hunting Lions "Dark" LP on Pirates Press Records
Iggy Pop "Every Loser" LP on Atlantic Records
Impact Driver "EP"
Initiate "Cerebral Circus" LP
J Navarro and the Traitors "All of Us or None" LP
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit "Weathervanes" LP
JFA "Last Ride" LP
John Holt "Essential Artist Collection" LP
Joseph Trapanese "No One Will Save You" Soundtrack LP
Joystick "Dwell" EP
Judas Priest "Trial By Fire/Panic Attack" single
Juliana Hatfield "Sings ELO" LP
Juliana Hatfield "Telephone Line/Can't Get it out of my Head" single
Kepi Ghoulie "Ramones in Love" LP on Pirates Press Records
Kepi Ghoulie and Friends "Full Moon Fever" LP Pirates Press Records
Killer Kin "Killer Kin" LP
Kills, The "God Games" LP
Kruelty "Untopia" LP on Profound Lore Records
Kylie Minogue "Tension" LP
Kylie Minogue "Extension" LP
Lil Yachty "Let's Start Here."
Lyida Loveless "Nothing's Gonna Stand In My Way Again"
Madness "Theatre of the Absurd Presents C'est La Vie" LP
Marcia Griffiths "Essential Artist Collection" LP
Mark Mothersbaugh "Cocaine Bear" LP Soundtrack
Maytals "Essential Artist Collection LP on Trojan Records
MDC "War is a Racket" LP
Metallica "72 Seasons" LP on Blackened Records
Minor Threat "Out of Step Outtakes" 7" on Dischord Records
Modern English "Crazy Lovers/Long in the Tooth" single
Motorhead "Seriously Bad Magic" LP
Motorhead "Another Perfect Day Deluxe" LP
Motorhead "The Lost Tapes Vol 5" LP
MSPaint "Post-American"
Mudhoney "Plastic Eternity" LP Sub Pop Records
Mustard Plug "Where Did All My Friends Go"
Obituary "Dying of Everything" LP on Relapse Records
OC Rippers "Happy Hours Air Travel Club" LP on Ruined Records
Off! "FLSD" EP
Oliva Rodrigo "Guts" LP
Omnigone "Against the Rest" LP
Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark "Bauhaus Staircase" LP
Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark "Bauhaus Staircase" EP
Overkill "Scorched" LP
Pain of Truth "Not Through Blood" LP
Paramore "Re: This is Why"
Peter Gabriel "i/o Dark Side Mix"
Peter Gabriel "i/o Bright Side Mix"
Pink "Trustfall" LP
Plastic Presidents "Good Times Can't Last" LP
Plummet "The Devil Made Me Do It" LP
Poindexter "Treats" LP
Prong "State of Emergency" LP
PWRUP "Just Devils" LP
Queens of the Stone Age "In Times New Roman..."
Rancid "Tomorrow Never Comes" LP
Random Hand "Random Hand" LP
Rattus "Rikki" LP
Reverend Horton Heat "Roots of the Rev" LP on Fun-Guy Records
Rick Astley "Are We There Yet" LP
Ringworm "Seeing Through Fire" LP
Riverside Odds "Punching Above our Weight" LP
Rolling Stones, The "Hackney Diamonds" LP
Samiam "Stowaway" LP on Pure Noise Records
Scowl "Psychic Dance Routine" LP on Flatspot Records
Scream "DC Special" LP
Selecter, The "Human Algebra" LP
"Seven" Soundtrack by Howard Shore LP on Waxwork Records
Shitkid "Rejected Fish" LP
Skatalites "Essential Artist Collection" LP on Trojan Records
Snooper "Super Snooper" LP
Stomper 98 "Stomper 98" LP
Suffocation "Hymns from the Acoprypha"
Superchunk "Misfits and Mistakes: Singles, B-Sides and Strays 2007-2023"
Teenage Bottlerocket "So Dumb" EP
Terveet Kadet "Kaikki Kaikki Vastan" LP on Svart Records
Thee Headcoats "Irregularis (The Great Hiatus" LP
Thee Headcoats "Heavens To Murgatroyd, Even! It's Thee Headcoats! Already" Reissue LP
Thee Oh Sees, Osees "Intercepted Message" LP
Turnpike Troubadours "A Cat in the Rain"
Virulence "If This Isn't A Dream" LP on Southern Lord Records
Wednesday "Rat Saw God"
White Reaper "Asking for a Ride" LP
Willie Nelson "Long Story Short - Willie Nelson 90" LP
Yes "Yessingles" LP