75 Phenomenal Songs from 2023: part 3 of 3 (51–75)

The 3rd collection gets contemplative, explores grief and love, travels the globe, celebrates the year’s best cover tunes, and finishes with a few ambient instrumentals

Steve Goldberg
9 min readJan 10, 2024
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Welcome to part 3 of the 3-part Best-Songs-of-2023!

If you missed part 1 (punk, indie, shoegaze, metal, power-pop, ’80s, ’90s, and more) you can read/listen to it here:

If you missed part 2 (soul, R&B, funk, world, dance, hip-hop, more) you can read/listen to it here:

The Spotify playlist for songs 51–75 is below, as well as YouTube video options!

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Steve Goldberg

Music obsessive with a constant song playing in his head. You can read his music-themed personal essays at his Substack: earworm.substack.com