KC’s Top 100 Singles/Tracks of 2023
Year 5 of completing a comprehensive list of my 100 favorite tracks from the past calendar year. For the past 5 years doing this, I’ve used a scale based on intervals of .25 stars/points from 0 to 5 to organize my songs. The number itself doesn’t matter as much as how I feel about the song/album at the end of the year, but it helps me to organize things. I’m going to try a different scale for this year, going by a scale of .5 to 10 ( 8.5, 9.0, 9.5 so on). I’m hoping this gives me a stronger feeling for how I feel about songs when I go back to check them at the end of next year.
In 2024, I’d like to check out more punk, metal and R&B.
My top songs lists from (all linked):
2022
2021
2020
2019
Here are a bunch of songs that nearly made the list:
Fall Out Boy — Love from the other side
AJJ — Strawberry (Probably)
Jeff rosenstock — HEALMODE
Gorillaz — New Gold
Soccer Mommy — I’m Only Me When I’m With You
Ratboys — Black Earth, WI
Paul Russell — Lil Boo Thang
Being dead — come on
Alex lahey — good Time
Ratboys — crossed that line
Sza — kill Bill
Kara Jackson — No Fun/party
Palehound — eye on the bat
Ratboys — It’s Alive
Birdy — Automatic
AJJ — Disposable Everything
Gorillaz — Skinny Ape
Chris farren — cosmic leach
Alex lahey — makes me sick
Birdy — tears don’t fall
Blondshell — Veronica Mars
Chris farren — doom singer
Another Michael — Guitars
Noname — balloons
Youth Lagoon — Mercury
Iggy Pop — Comments
New Found Glory — kiss the floor
Arlo parks — impurities
Jason Isbell — cast iron skillet
Wilco — Ten Dead
Blondshell — salad
John Cale, Tei Shi — I KNOW YOU’RE HAPPY
Cut worms — let’s go out on the town
Local natives — hourglass
Anohni — can’t
Queens of the Stone Age — straight jacket fitting
MAC Demarco — gualala
Sincere Engineer — Old Coat Pocket
Carly Rae Jepsen — Shy Boy
The national — your mind is not your friend
Yo La Tengo — until it happens
Sigur ros — gold
Paramore — C’est comme cA
Shame — six-pack
Margo Price — Hell In The Heartland
Little simz — gorilla
Genesis Owusu — the roach
Iggy Pop — Strung Out Johnny
Alex lahey — on the way down
Andy Shauf — Daylight Dreaming
Buck Meek — Haunted Mountain
M83 — Sunny boy
White reaper — asking for a ride
boygenius — $20
Blonde redhead — Not for me
McKinley Dixon — dedicated to tar feather
The national — Tropic Morning News
Rolling Stones, Lady Gaga — Sweet SoundsOf Heaven
The national — this isn’t helping
Angelo De Augustine — Memory Palace
Liturgy — Caela
Arlo parks, Phoebe Bridgers — pegasus
Smashing pumpkins — empires
Belle And Sebastian — The Evening star
Caroline palochek — butterfly net
Boygenius — Satanist
Home is where — Floral Organs
Fall Out Boy — Love from the other side
TOP 100 of 2023
SPOTIFY PLAYLIST OF TOP 100 SONGS
100. Augustine — for the moment
99. The armed — sport of form
98. Chris Farren — all we ever
97. Durry — I’m fine (no really)
96. SPELLING — Under the Sun
95. Angel Olsen — Nothing’s Free
94. McKinley Dixon — run, run, run
93. Washer — Not Like You
92. Sincere engineer — fireplace
91. Margo cilker- lowland trail
90. Bonny Doon — Let Their Be Music
89. Chris farren — first place
88. Sampha — dancing circles
87. King Tuff — love letters to plants
86. Kylie minogue — Padam Padam
85. Bonny Doon — Fine Afternoon
84. The tallest man in earth — in your garden still
83. Tyler Childers — Rustin in the rain
82. Lies — Blemishes
81. Fog Lake - Hot Knives
80. The Men — Anyway I Find You
79. White reaper — pages
78. King tuff — rock River
77. Chvrches — Over
76. Mandy, Indiana — pinking shears
75. The national — once upon a poolside
74. IDLES, LCD Soundsystem - Dancer
73. Local natives — just before the morning
72. Woods — Sip of Happiness
71. Blur — goodbye Albert
70. Jack Black — peaches
69. Big Thief — Vampire Empire
68. Margo Cilker — I remember Carolina
67. Youth Lagoon — Trapeze Artist
66. Andy Shauf — Telephone
65. Cory Hanson — Housefly
64. Carly Rae Jepsen — come over
63. Noname — namesake
62. Another Michael — wishes to fulfill
61. Spoon — Sugar Babies
60. King tuff — bandits of the blue sky
59. Glass beach — CIA
58. Fever Ray — Shiver
57. Animal collective — gem & I
56. Mitski — bug like an Angel
55. Curt Hanson — Driving Through Heaven
54. Kylie Minogue — Padam Padam
53. The tallest man on earth — major league
52. Miley Cyrus — Flowers
51. John Allison Weiss — different now
50. Foo Fighters — Rescued
49. Militarie Gun — do it faster
48. Andy Shauf — Catch Your Eye
47. Yves Tumor — Echolalia
46. Geese — Cowboy Nudes
45. Jeff Rosenstock — DOUBT
44. King Tuff — Portrait of God
43. Runner — I only sing about food
42. Being Dead — Last Living Buffalo
41. Birdy — Your Arms
40.Gorillaz — Tarantula
39. Blink 182 — edging
38. White reaper — bozo
37. Yves Tumor — lovely sewer
36. Animal Collective — Soul Capturer
35. King Tuff — the wheel
34. U.S. Girls — Only Daedalus
33.McKinley Dixon — beloved paradise jazz
32. Gorillaz — Oil (Feat. Stevie Nicks)
31. Carly Rae Jepsen — Aeroplanes
30. Shame — Fingers of Steel
29. ANOHNI — It must change
28. Geese — 3D Country
27. King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard— Gila Monster
26. Genesis Owusu — Leaving the light
25. Bonny Doon — Crooked Creek
24. Shame — All the people
23. Mitski — my love mine all mine
22. Woods — White Winter Melody
21. Wednesday — chosen to deserve
20. Youth Lagoon — Rabbit
19. Carly Rae Jepsen — Kamikaze
18. Andy Shauf — Norm
17. MSPAINT — Hardwired
16. Chris Farren — only u
15. Sincere Engineer — Anemia
14. Toro y moi — sidelines
13. Tyler Childers — In Your Love
12. Alex Lahey — Shit talkin’
11. Sufjan Stevens — Will Anybody Ever Love me?
10. Home Is Where — Skin Meadow
9. Jeff Rosenstock — LIKED U BETTER
8. Osees — Intercepted Message
7. Carly Rae Jepsen — Psychedelic Switch
6. Blink 182 — Dance With Me
5. King Tuff — how I love
4. AJJ — Dissonance
3. Wilco — Evicted
2. Home Is Where — yes! yes! A thousand times yes!
- Andy Shauf — Wasted On You
