Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2023 • Page 13

how did I forget Swans was this year

 

or last year I guess

 

i use Marvis on mobile and NepTunes on laptop for Apple music/Last.fm and it works great. NepTunes I believe is free, Marvis is a few bucks.

 

I love Apple Music

 

My top artists:
1. Bob Dylan
2. Wilco
3. Drive-By Truckers
4. Green Day
5. Oasis

Top songs:
1. Jason Isbell - When We Were Close
2. Militarie Gun - Do It Faster
3. Ruston Kelly - Brave
4. Jason Isbell - Death Wish
5. Drive-By Truckers - Birthday Boy

Top Albums:
1. Jason Isbell - Weathervanes
2. Wednesday - Rat Saw God
3. QOTSA - In Times New Roman
4. Foo Fighters - But Here We Are
5. Drive-By Truckers - The Big To-Do

 

I use Marvis on iOS (best Apple Music player with built in support) and Neptunes on the Mac (just an app that runs in the menu bar and scrobbles).

 

Most scrobbled 2023 releases:

 

My list starts as a ranked list and then eventually turns into "records I enjoyed that are too difficult to rank" but that I still wanted to highlight this year!

 

Next year we’ll get to 30k, next year!!

 

I thought it was funny how close our scrobble counts were. We can do this!

(If vinyl spins figured in, I’d probably be around 40k. Shame there’s no efficient way to track that.)

 

TOP ALBUMS OF 2023:

1. Trophy Eyes - Suicide and Sunshine

I never was even a huge fan of this band but this record hit me in the feels and has such a solid mix of sounds and styles all done so well. I'm shocked this album isn't more widely celebrated. "Sean" rips my heart out every time. "Kill" and "What Hurts the Most" are excellent by any standards and "People Like You" is such a different sound that I respect and enjoy it.

2. Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS

Love her or hate her this album had a little bit of everything. There were a lot of brave choices when yoh factor the weight of expectation, the pop stardom and the Taylor Swift comparisons many launched.

3. Blink 182 - One More Time

4. Magnolia Park - Halloween Mixtape II

If you haven't given this band a chance yet...please do. They seem to drop singles constantly that are consistently fantastic. They are great live. I have this at 4 but they were probably my most listened to artist of 2023. I also love that this band brings more diversity to the genre.

5. NF - HOPE

"Happy" is probably my most played song and most watched music video of the year. Rap isn't usually my thing but NF tells stories in a way that gets me.

6. Sabrina Carpenter - Emails I Can't Send

Sabrina is on fire exiting 2023. She got the prized spot as opener for Taylor Swifts Era's Tour. Emails I Can't Send was a great album that offers a ton. "Nonsense" became a huge hit single. This is just good music. I'm surprising myself by ranking this so highly but I think it's worthy.


The rest of the albums list isn't clear to me at the moment as I am admittedly rushing this before getting some much needed sleep but here's what else I think is worthy of checking out and shouting out:

Andrew McMahon - Tilt At The Wind No More
Caskets - Reflections
Jetty Bones - Songs I Wrote Instead of Killing Myself
Pierce the Veil - The Jaws of Life
Arrows in Action - Built to Last
Story of the Year - Tear Me To Pieces
Meet Me @ the Altar - Past // Present // Future
Bearings - The Best Part About Being Human
Knuckle Puck - Losing What We Love
Hail the Sun - Divine Inner Tension
Hot Mulligan - Why Would I Watch?
Gracie Abrams - Good Riddance
Real Friends - There's Nothing Worse Than Too Late
Holding Absence - The Noble Art of Self Destruction
FRND CRCL- Suburnan Dictionary
Hot Milk - A Call To The Void
Movements - RUCKUS!
Point North - Prepare For Despair


TOP EP'S OF 2023:

1. Capstan - nulla

How is this band not bigger!?!? This band writes lyrics that read like poetry and has tracks that are hardcore, heavy metal and then others that are ballads or emo or pop punk. They do it all and they do it incredibly well. There's also a maturity in their lyrics that a lot of emo and pop punk lacks. I challenge anyone reading this to read the lyrics to one of their older tracks called "We'll Always Have Paris" and not be incredibly impressed. Please give this band some love!

2. Yellowcard - Childhood Eyes


TOP "I DON'T GET THE LOVE" LIST OF 2023:

1. Koyo- Would You Miss It?

This band opened for TBS on Long Island for their Christmas show and I thought it was terrible. I tried listening to their album and I've seen it highly ranked on many lists in this thread but my musical taste buds reject this band. This is not meant to put down the band or those who like them, for some reason their music jusf falls flat for me.

2. TBS - 152

I can listen to this album and not hate it but I don't love it either. At the TBS concert I was just at I was disappointed every time they started to play a new song. I just prefer the rest of their discography more.


WORST OF 2023:

Stand Atlantic - Sex on the Beach (single)


*post is under construction..I'm too sleepy to finish tonight*

 

I can't possibly catch up to all of these I missed in any reasonable amount of time, but can you maybe suggest a couple you think I might dig or that you really wish more people would check out.

 

I use vinylscrobbler.com but it’s kind of a pain in the ass. Better than nothing though (site is down today for some reason).

 

I think Holding Absence and Katie Dey definitely deserve more attention.

I'd guess you'd like Movements, Gunship and Boys Like Girls? Maybe Black Country, New Road? Idk, I'm not the best at knowing what will click with other people but those would be my first thoughts.

 

Thank you @Jason Tate and @phaynes12 for the heads up on the Marvis app. Working perfect so far. Dont have a MacBook YET but should have one soon and I’ll add Neptunes once I do.

 

Alright, think this is as good as its going to get. Didn't get much of a chance to play catch up this year. My top 50 albums of 2023 with about 150 LPs/EPs logged:

1. Narrow Head - Moments of Clarity
2. Initiate - Cerebral Circus
3. Fiddlehead - Death Is Nothing to Us
4. Hotline TNT - Out Of Town
5. Wild Nothing – Hold
6. Angel Du$t - BRAND NEW SOUL
7. Beach Fossils – Bunny
8. Mad Honey - Satellite Aphrodite
9. Svalbard - The Weight of the Mask
10. Slowdive - Everything Is Alive

11. Mick Jenkins - The Patience
12. HEAVENWARD - Pyrophonics
13. Slaughter Beach, Dog - Crying, Laughing, Waving, Smiling
14. Sign Language - Madison & Floral
15. FAIM - Your Life and Nothing Else
16. Steve Marino - Too Late To Start Again
17. Crime In Stereo - House & Trance
18. Drain - Living Proof
19. Flower Language - Thrown Into Air
20. Slow Pulp – Yard

21. Another Michael - Wishes to Fulfill
22. Rocket - Versions of You
23. Nothing & Full of Hell - When No Birds Sang
24. Broken Record - Nothing Moves Me
25. Tanukichan - Gizmo
26. Mansions - Tuff Luff
27. Militarie Gun - Life Under The Gun
28. Bigger Better Sun - bbs
29. Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE
30. Magazine Beach - Constant Springtime

31. Year Of The Knife - No Love Lost
32. Citizen - Calling the Dogs
33. MIL-SPEC - Marathon
34. Harms Way - Common Suffering
35. Koyo - Would You Miss It?
36. Fuming Mouth - Last Day of Sun
37. Day Aches - One Last Dream Before Dying
38. Destiny Bond - Be My Vengeance
39. Deafcult - Future Of Illusion
40. Geese - 3D Country

41. BDRMM - I Don't Know
42. Truth Club - Running From the Chase
43. The Japanese House - In the End It Always Does
44. Cursetheknife - There's a Place I Can Rest
45. Keep - Happy In Here
46. Flyying Colours - You Never Know
47. Wednesday - Rat Saw God
48. Code Orange - The Above
49. Temple of Angels - Endless Pursuit
50. Foo Fighters - But Here We Are

 

My Favorite Songs Of 2023

1. blink-182 - DANCE WITH ME
2. blink-182 - TURPENTINE
3. Lana Del Rey - A&W
4. Ludwig Goransson - Destroyer Of Worlds (From "Oppenheimer")
5. The Smile - Bending Hectic
6. Ludwig Goransson - Can You Hear The Music (From "Oppenheimer")
7. Yaeji - For Granted
8. Fall Out Boy - So Much (For) Stardust
9. Olivia Rodrigo - bad idea right?
10. JPEGMAFIA, Danny Brown - Fentanyl Tester
11. Lana Del Rey - Peppers
12. blink-182 - ANTHEM PART 3
13. blink-182 - CUT ME OFF
14. 100 gecs - 757
15. Justin Hurwitz - Voodoo Mama (From "Babylon")
16. Dudu Tassa, Jonny Greenwood - Taq ou-Dub
17. Paramore - Running Out Of Time
18. Paramore - C'est Comme Ça
19. Skrillex, Missy Elliott - RATATA
20. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - New Form Of Life Itself (From "TMNT: Mutant Mayhem")
21. Nicki Minaj, Skillibeng, Skeng - Forward From Trini
22. Skrillex, Boys Noize, Opus III - Fine Day Anthem
23. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - She's Gonna Milk Us (From "TMNT: Mutant Mayhem")
24. Kylie Minogue - Padam Padam
25. Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar - AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM
26. Fred again.., Skrillex, Four Tet - Baby again..
27. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - One Of The Many (From "The Killer")
28. Skrillex, Fred again.., Flowdan - Rumble
29. LVL1 - GOBL1N
30. Justin Hurwitz - Gold Coast Sunset (From "Babylon")
31. Olivia Rodrigo - vampire
32. blink-182 - MORE THAN YOU KNOW
33. The Smile - Wall Of Eyes
34. Kylie Minogue - Tension
35. Lana Del Rey - Taco Truck x VB
36. Yellowcard - Three Minutes More
37. Fever Ray - Even It Out
38. Chico Blanco, LVL1 - NOT SORRY
39. Fall Out Boy - Love From The Other Side
40. WARGASM - Do It So Good
41. Grimes, Illangelo - I Wanna Be Software
42. Flowdan, Lil Baby, Skrillex - Pepper
43. Fall Out Boy - Hold Me Like A Grudge
44. 100 gecs - Dumbest Girl Alive
45. Wet Leg - C'est Çomme Ca (Paramore Cover)
46. Ludwig Goransson - Gravity Swallows Light (From "Oppenheimer)
47. The Beatles - Now And Then
48. Fall Out Boy - What A Time To Be Alive
49. Peggy Gou - (It Goes Like) Nanana
50. Anberlin - Animals

 

Awesome year in music. Life got wild towards the end of the year but here’s my top 10 in no real order:
Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions
Alex Lahey - The Answer Is Always Yes (you need to check out that expanded edition Newsreader is one of my songs of the year)
Beach Fossils - Bunny (also the show of the year for me)
Blackbraid - II
Citizen - Calling the Dogs
Daniel Pemberton - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse
Health - Rat Wars
Incendiary - Change The Way You Think About Pain
Judiciary - Flesh + Blood
Koyo - Would You Miss It? (every time I think I’m done with pop-punk it pulls me back in)

 

Rough year for me. Once again gravitated towards music without vocals or music that revolved around silence. Here's what I liked, in an order that doesn't really matter:
1. Strange Ranger - Pure Music
2. Powers / Pulice / Rolin - Prism
3. Hot Mulligan - Why Would I Watch
4. Greg Mendez - Greg Mendez
5. Spanish Love Songs - No Joy
6. Blue Lake - Sun Arcs
7. As a Sketch Pad - As a Sketch Pad
8. dreamTX - Living in Memory Of Something Sweet
9. Joanna Sternberg - I’ve Got Me
10. Cole Pulice - “If I Don’t See You in the Future, I’ll See You in the Pasture”

Other stuff:
Wednesday - Rat Saw God
Free Range - Practice
Runnner - Like Dying Stars, We’re Reaching Out
Lonnie Holley - Oh Me Oh My
Nourished by Time - Erotic Probiotic
Sufjan Stevens - Javelin
Arthur Russell - Pictures of a Bunny Rabbit
Jim Legxacy - homless n pop music
Fust - Genevieve
Hotline TNT - Cartwheel
The Casper Fight Scene - Haymaker
Earl x Al - Voir Dire
Boldy James - Indiana Jones
Parannoul - After the Magic
Petey - USA
Blink 182 - One More Time
Ruston Kelly - The Weakness
Ther - A Horrid Whisper Echoes in a Palace of Endless Joy
There Will Be Fireworks - Summer Moon

EDIT:
Oh and this single ruled

 

When are the staff lists out again?