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
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