75 Fantastic Songs from 2023: part 1 of 3 (1–25)
A banner year of music expressed in a 75-song earxstravaganza!
The one downside to loving so many music genres is that narrowing down my favorites is a major challenge when the year nears its end. It’s a low-stakes Sophie’s choice deciding who gets included and who ends up in the cut-out bin.
That’s why I prefer featuring favorite songs rather than favorite albums; I can share ten times the amount of music, and if you like what you hear, then you have something new to explore in 2024! Win-win!
I am not someone who likes to genre-box, but in order to create a flow in each of the three 25-song playlists, I have loosely broken each triad into a mood, as it were. You will get some of everything in the 75-song bucket.
1Part 1 (below) features elements of punk, indie, shoegaze, metal, power-pop, and more. I also feature artists and bands from the ’80s, ’90s, and early aughts who put out killer music in 2023.
2Part 2 (will be linked here when posted) incorporates a heavy dose of soul, R&B, dance, electronic, gospel, funk, and disco.
3Part 3 (will be linked here when posted) features a wide variety of styles, including singer-songwriter, country, Americana, experimental, ambient, and unique cover songs.
