2023 end of year lists

I need a distraction. Luckily, here's Mojo's top 75 list (in their order of preference, not release date or alphabetical etc.):

1. Blur - The Ballad of Darren
2. PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying
3. Lankum - False Lankum
4. Robert Forster - The Candle and the Flame
5. Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy
6. Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
7. jaimie branch - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
8. Paul Simon - Seven Psalms
9. Everything But the Girl - Fuse
10. Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings
11. Wilco - Cousin
12. The Coral - Sea Of Mirrors
13. The Necks - Travel
14. Grian Chatten - Chaos For The Fly
15. BC Camplight - The Last Rotation of Earth
16. Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily - Love In Exile
17. boygenius - the record
18. James Holden - Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities
19. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Council Skies
20. Pretenders - Relentless
21. billy woods & Kenny Segal - Maps
22. John Cale - Mercy
23. Teenage Fanclub - Nothing Lasts Forever
24. Lisa O'Neill - All Of This Is Chance
25. Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World
26. ANOHNI and the Johnsons - My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross
27. Mozart Estate - Pop-Up! Ker-ching! and The Possibilities of Modern Shopping
28. Fatoumata Diawara - TCOTU Ko
29. Billy Nomates - CACTI
30. Sparks - The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte
31. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin
32. Bill Orcutt - Jump On It
33. Sarabeth Tucek - Joan Of All
34. Corinne Bailey Rae - Black Rainbows
35. Depeche Mode - Memento Mori
36. Shirley Collins - Archangel Hill
37. Sleaford Mods - UK GRIM
38. Gaz Coombes - Turn The Car Around
39. Slowdive - everything is alive
40. The Tubs - Dead Meat
41. Gina Birch - I Play My Bass Loud
42. Lloyd Cole - On Pain
43. Kassa Overall - Animals
44. Ian Hunter - Defiance, Pt. 1
45. Susanne Sundfør - blómi
46. Rickie Lee Jones - Pieces of Treasure
47. Animal Collective - Isn't It Now?
48. Dexys - The Feminine Divine
49. Osees - Intercepted Message
50. Jana Horn - The Window Is The Dream
51. Rogê - Curyman
52. Hamish Hawk - Angel Numbers
53. King Krule - Space Heavy
54. Blake Mills - Jelly Road
55. Eddie Chacon - Sundown
56. Janelle Monáe - The Age of Pleasure
57. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Weathervanes
58. Lonnie Holley - Oh Me Oh My
59. Róisín Murphy - Hit Parade
60. Iggy Pop - EVERY LOSER
61. Baaba Maal - Being
62. Gabriels - Angels & Queens
63. Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
64. The Lemon Twigs - Everything Harmony
65. Public Image Ltd. - End of World
66. Jonathan Wilson - Eat the Worm
67. Cécile McLorin Salvant - Mélusine
68. Billy Valentine - Billy Valentine and The Universal Truth
69. bar italia - Tracey Denim
70. Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy - O Yinne!
71. Edgar Jones - Reflections of a Soul Dimension
72. Margo Cilker - Valley Of Heart's Delight
73. Irreversible Entanglements - Protect Your Light
74. Say She She - Silver
75. Robert Finley - Black Bayou

Mojo is definitely better than Uncut this year.

Surprised people are still pretending the PJ Harvey lp is good though.

I don't remember the Blur album being that good. It wasn't terrible, but album of the year?

I'll have to have another listen.

I played it yesterday and was reminded it is absolutely rubbish. Not for me.

*spoiler* It features highly on my list *spoiler*

I really like the Blur record

Looks like this album is going to split the men from the boys.

Iggy I GOT A COCK AND TWO BALLS Pop!

Rough Trade top 100 up: blog.roughtrade.com/gb/uk-albums-of-the-year-2023/

1. Nation of Language - Strange Disciple
2. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin
3. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
4. Lankum - False Lankum
5. Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy
6. Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music
7. Baxter Dury - I Thought I Was Better Than You
8. Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
9. Overmono - Good Lies
10. Grian Chatten - Chaos For The Fly
11. Wednesday - Rat Saw God
12. Daughter - Stereo Mind Game
13. Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan - The Nation's Most Central Location
14. Altın Gün - Aşk
15. Black Pumas - Chronicles of a Diamond
16. Durand Jones - Wait Til I Get Over
17. Everything But the Girl - Fuse
18. Blondshell - Blondshell
19. Mandy, Indiana - i've seen a way
20. RVG - Brain Worms
21. Margo Price - Strays II
22. JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - SCARING THE HOES
23. Rozi Plain - Prize
24. Romy - Mid Air
25. The WAEVE - The WAEVE
26. Sleaford Mods - UK GRIM
27. bdrmm - I Don't Know
28. Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings
29. Avalon Emerson - & The Charm
30. Girl Ray - Prestige
31. Slowdive - everything is alive
32. yeule - softscars
33. Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
34. Beach Fossils - Bunny
35. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Land of Sleeper
36. ANOHNI and the Johnsons - My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross
37. Queens of the Stone Age - In Times New Roman...
38. Joanna Sternberg - I’ve Got Me
39. Fever Ray - Radical Romantics
40. Beirut - Hadsel
41. Dexys - The Feminine Divine
42. Swans - The Beggar
43. Vanishing Twin - Afternoon X
44. Belle and Sebastian - Late Developers
45. Temples - Exotico
46. The Hives - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
47. Jungle - Volcano
48. shame - Food for Worms
49. Teenage Fanclub - Nothing Lasts Forever
50. Emma Anderson - Pearlies


Blur watch:
Not listed - The Ballad of Darren
83. Gorillaz - Cracker Island
58. Dave Rowntree - Radio Songs

Rough Trade clearly had a load of that Nation of Language lp to shift on vinyl then.

Fopp best albums, not in order thus no list (a privilege only afforded to Radio X): www.fopp.com/best-albums-of-2023/

I mean they have basically listed every album released last year in no order. WTF? Fuck those guys.

Good to see the Yussef Dayes album get some love. And Avalon Emerson too.

Yeah that's very true Bern. The early albums were pure wizardry.
I guess early Eels could be considered a counterpoint to early Beck?!
Do you see the similarities?! DO YOU??!!

By the way, there was an episode of Futurama where they played Manchild, off their first LP.
Have you seen that? It's wonderful.

Yes, there are similarities. No, 90s is not my favourite period from any of them

What a terrible year

Are you going to be doing the soapy stats this year Kev?

kevin's lack of enthusiasm makes me sad.