2023 Mixes

Better late than never?

Past mixes: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

Since I was behind on putting these together, I didn't take a ton of time on perfecting them. C'est la vie. 

Disc 1
1. Blame Brett - The Beaches. Love this album.

2. Dilemma - Green Day. Hey! Best new Green Day song in ages. 

3. Los Ageless - St. Vincent. I don't know how I missed this one before. 

4. Am I Dreaming - A$AP Rocky, Roisee, Metro Boomin. I'm personally rooting for this for best song. (Well - or maybe Sharon Van Etten, since I love her? But I only just heard her Past Lives song. Maybe one for next year's mixes)

5. Black Cloud - POSTDATA. My most listened to song this year? I dig the Girl Walk video. 

6. Kendrick Lamar x Feel Good Inc

7. American Teenager - Ethel Cain. I listened to SO MUCH Ethel Cain this year. Let's kick it off with her most accessible song

8. The Hardest Cut - Spoon

9. Teenage Kicks - The Undertones. I don't remember why this came back on my radar in August. Buzzcocks?

10. Obstacle 1 - Interpol. Okay - a real throw back, but I saw them live for the first time this year and it was GREAT.

11. New York - The Kills

12. Crush - Ethel Cain

13. Broken Horses - Brandi Carlile

14. $20 - boygenius. I didn't LOVE the record the way I had hoped to, but I liked a couple of the songs.

15. Cigarette - The Beaches

16. Wild - Spoon

17. Paint the Town Red - Doja Cat

18. Barbie Dangerous - Nicki Minaj

19. Venom - Little Simz

20. Crosses - Genesis Owusu

21. Sheesh - Josh Sallee & Blev

22. The Next Episode ft. Snoop Dogg - Dr. Dre. This one was definitely buzzcocks.

23. Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen

Disc 2 - Yet again, the ladies are pissed

1. Vampire - Olivia Rodrigo. I mean. What a thrilling single to kick off her new album. 

2. Me & Me - The Beaches

3. Bahm Bahm - Nicki Minaj

4. Demons - Doja Cat

5. Burn Your Village - Kiki Rockwell

6. labour - Paris Paloma. My third most-listened to song this year. 

7. Gibson Girl - Ethel Cain

8. A&W - Lana del Rey

9. Mama Werewolf - Brandi Carlile

10. Satanist - boygenius

11. I Could Be - Kyla La Grange. Vampire Smile made the playlist back in 2016, and I thought I should look up some of her other work this year. Nothing I like quite as much as that one, but I did end up with quite a few good ones. 

12. all-american bitch - Olivia Rodrigo

13. Flagpole Sitta - MS MR. I loved MS MR so much! (see here) They've basically been on hiatus since their second album, but they came back this year with one final song (below) and this cover, which is so great. 

14. Mountain (2023 remaster) - Tori Amos. I'll have more to say about seeing Tori live again after an extended hiatus below, but I love that there's some new(ish) music this year as well. 

15. Thoroughfare - Ethel Cain

16. 103 - The Kills

17. Dead Body - Little Simz

18. Cities in Dust - Garbage

19. The Underground - Meg Myers

20. Cup Runneth Over - Kiki Rockwell

21. Good Day - The Dresden Dolls. I saw the Dresden Dolls for New Years and it was FANTASTIC. It was everything I needed and so cathartic. They opened with this, which was one I never listened to much but I'm listening to it a bunch these last two weeks. 

22. Why D'Ya Do It - Shirley Manson & Peaches

23. What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Paranoid - The Beaches

24. Troy - Jessie Buckley & the RTÉ Orchestra. The first of two Sinéad tributes on here. I know there are a few more I haven't gotten to. But I'm obsessed with this performance

Disc 3 - the eclectic stuff.

1. love is Embarrasing - Olivia Rodrigo

2. Saturn Return - MS MR

3. Fires - Phildel

4. Smoke - Caroline Polachek

5. Lipstick Lover - Janelle Monae

6. The Knife - Kyla La Grange 😏

7. I Just Wanna Touch Somebody - Meg Myers

8. Light House - Future Islands Again - not sure where this came from. Titane? (Titane didn't do it for me, although I appreciated the use of The Kills to open, as I've said before.)

9. Dancing in the Dark - Lucy Daucus

10. Lost Coastlines - Okkervil River. The bit where Jonathan Meiburg comes in at :45? Perfection.

11. bad idea right? - Olivia Rodrigo

12. In Between Days - The Cure

13. Disco 2000 - Pulp

14. Sixers - The Hold Steady

15. Damage Gets Done - Hozier ft. Brandi Carlile. Who weirdly sounds like Pink in parts of this?

16. Hollywood Forever Cemetery - Allison Ponthier

17. This is Too Right - Sharon van Etten

18. Attention - Doja Cat

Disc 4 - the dancy/pop stuff.

1. Haute - Janelle Monae

2. Pink Friday Girls - Nicki Minaj

3. Ansiedades - Mora

4. Music Sessions 53 - Bzrp ft. Shakira

5. Other Boys - Marshmello & Dove Cameron

6. By the End of the Night - Ellie Goulding

7. Champagne Shit - Janelle Monae

8. Rush - Troye Sivan He's gay famous!

9. Storm Song (Paul Sawyer remix) - Phildel

11. Breaks My Back (All the Damn Vampires remix) - Meg Myers

12. Point and Kill - Little Simz ft. Obongjayar

13. Take it to the Top - Becky G. & Ayra Starr

14. TQG - KAROL G & Shakira

15. Ethical Slut - Boyfriend

16. dicktatorshit - Pyra ft. Boyfriend

17. Dictator - Rei Ami

18. Need to Know - Doja Cat

19. Forever - Jessie Reyez ft. 6LACK

Disc 5 - the softer stuff.

1. Right on Time - Brandi Carlile

2. Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd - Lana del Rey

3. I Need More - Hayley Bennett. This was the best bit in an otherwise pretty mediocre movie (Peter Dinklage deserved better!)

4. Neverland - Kyla la Grange

5. From Persephone - Kiki Rockwell

6. Unpunishable - Ethel Cain

7. I Am Stretched On Your Grave/Three Babies - Tori Amos. Seeing Tori the night Sinéad died was otherwordly. 

8. Bug Like an Angel - Mitski

9. Not Strong Enough - boygenius

10. Space Invader - The National

11. Woodstock (ACL 2022) - Brandi Carlile. She did this for her live concert and this was the best version I found

12. My Body ft Your Lips - The Beaches

13. Close to You - Sharon van Etten

14. Seduction - Rene Aubry. I'm assuming I heard this as a sountrack somewhere, possibly I'm Your Man?

15. All I've Ever Known - Hadestown. Still listening to it!

16. Sweet - Lana del Rey

17. My Love Mine All Mine - Mitski

18. Turnaround - Loma

19. Let No Man Steal Your Time - Anne Briggs. One of the best things I saw last year was Alias Grace. 

20. Lucky (Radiohead cover) - Jonathan Meiburg. Well - this one's on his patreon. 

21. This Road (the Dark Chamber) - Poe NEW POE NEW POE NEW POE. (There's a long version, too)

22. A House in Nebraska - Ethel Cain. I would normally have ended on the long new Poe, but given how much Ethel Cain I listened to this year, this felt like the right ending.