Year-End Lists

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2023 Music

Dazed: The 20 Best Albums of 2023

30 December 2023

Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd - Lana Del Rey

Dazed: The 20 Best Albums of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021]

  1. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey
  2. Raven
    Kelela
  3. Softscars
    yeule
  4. With A Hammer
    yaeji
  5. the record
    boygenius
  6. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
    Caroline Polachek
  7. SOS
    SZA
  8. Something to Give Each Other
    Troye Sivan
  9. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
    Mitski
  10. Fountain Baby
    Amaarae
  11. A Grisaille Wedding
    Rainy Miller x Space Afrika
  12. Guts
    Olivia Rodrigo
  13. Sundial
    Noname
  14. homeless n***a pop music
    Jim Legxacy
  15. Fluid Meditations
    DJ Gigola
  16. Pure Music
    Strange Ranger
  17. Javelin
    Sufjan Stevens
  18. 10,000 gecs
    100 gecs
  19. Famous Last Words
    CASISDEAD
  20. Good Lies
    Overmono
2023 Podcasts

Vulture Podcast Survey: The Best Podcasts of 2023

30 December 2023

Search Engine

Vulture Podcast Survey: The Best Podcasts of 2023, as published by New York Magazine, a poll of "a few hundred people across the podcast field — producers, hosts, independent creators, executives, agents, engineers, and so on"

[see also 2022 • 2021]

  1. Search Engine
  2. The Retrievals
  3. You Didn't See Nothin
  4. Ghost Story
  5. The Ezra Klein Show
  6. Hang Up
  7. This American Life and What Next: "The Call"
  8. Classy with Jonathan Menjivar
  9. The Town with Matthew Belloni
  10. Weight For It
  11. The 13th Step
  12. You Must Remember This: Erotic 90s
  13. Bandsplain
  14. The Big Dig
  15. Knowledge Fight

Special Repeats

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Other Interesting Picks

2023 Movies

Paste: Jesse Hassenger: The Best Movies of 2023

28 December 2023

Asteroid City - Wes Anderson

Jesse Hassenger: The Best Movies of 2023, as published by Paste Magazine

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014]

  1. Asteroid City
    Wes Anderson
  2. Killers of the Flower Moon
    Martin Scorsese
  3. The Killer
    David Fincher
  4. Past Lives
    Celine Song
  5. May December
    Todd Haynes
  6. Barbie
    Greta Gerwig
  7. Oppenheimer
    Christopher Nolan
  8. John Wick: Chapter 4
    Chad Stahelski
  9. Showing Up
    Kelly Reichardt
  10. Priscilla
    Sofia Coppola
2023 Movies

Paste: Jacob Oller: The Best Movies of 2023

28 December 2023

Killers of the Flower Moon - Martin Scorsese

Jacob Oller: The Best Movies of 2023, as published by Paste Magazine

[see also 2022 • 2017 • 2016]

  1. Killers of the Flower Moon
    Martin Scorsese
  2. The Boy and the Heron
    Hayao Miyazaki
  3. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
    Daniel Goldhaber
  4. Past Lives
    Celine Song
  5. Asteroid City
    Wes Anderson
  6. Passages
    Ira Sachs
  7. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
    Raven Jackson
  8. The Taste of Things
    Trần Anh Hùng
  9. May December
    Todd Haynes
  10. Kokomo City
    D. Smith
2023 Movies

Barack Obama: Favorite Movies of 2023

28 December 2023

Rustin - George C. Wolfe

Barack Obama: Favorite Movies of 2023, as posted to Instagram, noting that "I'm biased since these [first three] were produced by Higher Ground, but these are in fact three of the best films I saw this year"

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

Produced by Higher Ground

Other Favorite Movies

2023 Movies

Good Morning America: Peter Travers: The 10 Best Movies of 2023

28 December 2023

Oppenheimer - Christopher Nolan

Peter Travers: The 10 Best Movies of 2023, as aired on ABC News’s Good Morning America

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

  1. Killers of the Flower Moon
    Martin Scorsese
  2. Oppenheimer
    Christopher Nolan
  3. Past Lives
    Celine Song
  4. Poor Things
    Yorgos Lanthimos
  5. Anatomy of a Fall
    Justine Triet
  6. American Fiction
    Cord Jefferson
  7. Maestro
    Bradley Cooper
  8. The Zone of Interest
    Jonathan Glazer
  9. The Holdovers
    Alexander Payne
  10. May December
    Todd Haynes
  11. Barbie
    Greta Gerwig
2023 Music

Tone Glow: Our Favorite Albums, 2023

28 December 2023

DJ E - Chuquimamani-Condori

Tone Glow: Our Favorite Albums, 2023 as voted by their writers and grouped by the number of votes each received

[see also 2022 • 2021]

Received Thirteen Votes

Received Eight Votes

Received Seven Votes

Received Three Votes

Received Two Votes

2023 Movies

Slate: Sam Adams: Top 10 Movies of 2023

26 December 2023

Passages - Ira Sachs

Sam Adams: Top 10 Movies of 2023, posted as part of the Slate Movie Club and ranked as follows

[see also 2022 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

2023 Music

Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2023

26 December 2023

The Window - Ratboys

Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2011]

  1. The Window
    Ratboys
  2. Javelin
    Sufjan Stevens
  3. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
    Caroline Polachek
  4. The Land, The Water, The Sky
    Black Belt Eagle Scout
  5. That! Feels Good!
    Jessie Ware
  6. everything is alive
    Slowdive
  7. the record
    boygenius
  8. The Waeve
    The Waeve
  9. Rat Saw God
    Wednesday
  10. Guts
    Olivia Rodrigo
  11. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
    Mitski
  12. Strange Disciple
    Nation of Language
  13. The Art of Forgetting
    Caroline Rose
  14. Follow the Cyborg
    Miss Grit
  15. Cousin
    Wilco
  16. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey
  17. Lucky for You
    Bully
  18. Sit Down for Dinner
    Blonde Redhead
  19. The Answer Is Always Yes
    Alex Lahey
  20. Blondshell
    Blondshell
  21. All of This Will End
    Indigo De Souza
  22. Pure Music
    Strange Ranger
  23. This Is Why
    Paramore
  24. Sucker
    IAN SWEET
  25. This Stupid World
    Yo La Tengo
  26. Time Ain't Accidental
    Jess Williamson
  27. Mercy
    John Cale
  28. Prestige
    Girl Ray
  29. Star Eaters Delight
    Lael Neale
  30. The Ballad of Darren
    Blur
  31. I/O
    Peter Gabriel
  32. Scaring the Hoes
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
  33. Pearlies
    Emma Anderson
  34. Fantasy
    M83
  35. Be Good The Crazy Boys
    Art Feynman
  36. Everyone's Crushed
    Water From Your Eyes
  37. Eye On The Bat
    Palehound
  38. Chaos For The Fly
    Grian Chatten
  39. Careful Of Your Keepers
    This Is the Kit
  40. Heavy Heavy
    Young Fathers
  41. Food for Worms
    Shame
  42. Everything Harmony
    The Lemon Twigs
  43. Echo the Diamond
    Margaret Glaspy
  44. Crazymad, for Me
    CMAT
  45. Hold
    Wild Nothing
  46. Maps
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
  47. Lahai
    Sampha
  48. Growing at the Edges
    Mutual Benefit
  49. A New Reality Mind
    Madeline Kenney
  50. 3D Country
    Geese
  51. Heaven Is a Junkyard
    Youth Lagoon
  52. I Inside the Old Year Dying
    PJ Harvey
  53. Water Made Us
    Jamila Woods
  54. Tomorrow's Fire
    Squirrel Flower
  55. Cartwheel
    Hotline TNT
  56. O Monolith
    Squid
  57. The Harmony Codex
    Steven Wilson
  58. Killjoy
    Coach Party
  59. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    Kara Jackson
  60. Hellmode
    Jeff Rosenstock
  61. Laugh Track
    The National
  62. Nothing Lasts Forever
    Teenage Fanclub
  63. Jenny from Thebes
    The Mountain Goats
  64. But Here We Are
    Foo Fighters
  65. End
    Explosions in the Sky
  66. I Don't Want You Anymore
    Cherry Glazerr
  67. Glorious Game
    El Michels Affair & Black Thought
  68. I Am Not There Anymore
    The Clientele
  69. Crying, Laughing, Waving, Smiling
    Slaughter Beach, Dog
  70. The Greater Wings
    Julie Byrne
  71. My Soft Machine
    Arlo Parks
  72. Versions Of Us
    Lanterns on the Lake
  73. Hard Light
    Drop Nineteens
  74. Late Developers
    Belle and Sebastian
  75. Formentera II
    Metric
  76. Once Upon A Time In Montréal
    Murray A. Lightburn
  77. Bless This Mess
    U.S. Girls
  78. Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
    Yves Tumor
  79. Gigi's Recovery
    The Murder Capital
  80. Big Picture
    Fenne Lily
  81. The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte
    Sparks
  82. Several Songs About Fire
    A. Savage
  83. Joy'All
    Jenny Lewis
  84. Life Is Infinite
    Wings of Desire
  85. Honey
    Samia
  86. I Don't Know
    bdrmm
  87. Chaos Magic
    Jaakko Eino Kalevi
  88. Norm
    Andy Shauf
  89. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    Anohni and the Johnsons
  90. Milk For Flowers
    H. Hawkline
  91. Euphoric Recall
    Braids
  92. I've Seen a Way
    Mandy, Indiana
  93. Barefoot On Diamond Road
    Amber Arcades
  94. End Of Everything
    Mega Bog
  95. Yard
    Slow Pulp
  96. I Thought I Was Better Than You
    Baxter Dury
  97. Tracey Denim
    Bar Italia
  98. Continue as a Guest
    The New Pornographers
  99. No Fixed Point In Space
    Modern Nature
  100. Diagnosis
    Sen Morimoto

Honorable Mentions

2023 Music

The Needle Drop: Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2023

24 December 2023

Hellmode - Jeff Rosenstock

Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2023, as posted on his YouTube channel, The Needle Drop

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

  1. Hellmode
    Jeff Rosenstock
  2. Scaring the Hoes
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
  3. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey
  4. Javelin
    Sufjan Stevens
  5. Maps
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
  6. Lahai
    Sampha
  7. The Lamb as Effigy
    Sprain
  8. 93696
    Liturgy
  9. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    Anohni and the Johnsons
  10. Everything Harmony
    The Lemon Twigs
  11. We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
    Armand Hammer
  12. Struggler
    Genesis Owusu
  13. Wallsocket
    underscores
  14. 3D Country
    Geese
  15. Fountain Baby
    Amaarae
  16. I Was Mature For My Age, But I Was Still a Child
    grouptherapy.
  17. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    Kara Jackson
  18. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
    Caroline Polachek
  19. 10,000 gecs
    100 gecs
  20. Hood Hottest Princess (Deluxe)
    Sexyy Red
  21. Space Heavy
    King Krule
  22. PetroDragonic Apocalypse
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
  23. Super Snõõper
    Snooper
  24. Oh Me Oh My
    Lonnie Holley
  25. Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
    McKinley Dixon
  26. Dogsbody
    Model/Actriz
  27. Guts
    Olivia Rodrigo
  28. This Is Why
    Paramore
  29. Girl with Fish
    Feeble Little Horse
  30. O Monolith
    Squid
  31. We're Still Here
    The Hirs Collective
  32. After the Magic
    Parannoul
  33. Zach Bryan
    Zach Bryan
  34. Heaven Knows
    PinkPantheress
  35. Saved!
    Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter
  36. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
    Mitski
  37. April Mixtape 3
    Snow Strippers
  38. 14K Figaro
    Wiki & Tony Seltzer
  39. BB/Ang3l
    Tinashe
  40. When we were that what wept for the sea
    Colin Stetson
  41. I've Got Me
    Joanna Sternberg
  42. The Enduring Spirit
    Tomb Mold
  43. Autopoiética
    Mon Laferte
  44. Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts
    Autopsy
  45. Burning Desire
    Mike
  46. Me Chama De Gato Que Eu Sou Sua
    Ana Frango Elétrico
  47. Glockoma 2
    Key Glock
  48. Ooh Rap I Ya
    George Clanton
  49. That! Feels Good!
    Jessie Ware
  50. Ways of Knowing
    Navy Blue

Top 15 EPs

  1. Let's Hope Heteros Fail, Learn and Retire
    Alice Longyu Gao
  2. going...going...GONE!
    Hemlocke Springs
  3. Knocknarea
    Maruja
  4. Scaring the Hoes: DLC Pack
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
  5. 4D Country
    Geese
  6. Insaint
    Haru Nemuri
  7. Scrapyard III
    Quadeca
  8. Scrapyard II
    Quadeca
  9. Scrapyard I
    Quadeca
  10. Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall
    Nia Archives
  11. Wykopki
    Franek Warzywa & Młody Budda
  12. Forever Means
    Angel Olsen
  13. Time-Lapse
    Yukika
  14. Brothers in Christ
    Chat Pile & Nerver
  15. Flying High
    The Alchemist
  16. i'm so lucky
    Spirit of the Beehive
  17. With Strings
    June McDoom

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