jmunney’s Favorite Music of 2023

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It’s tricky to fall in love with new songs when I don’t drive as much as I used to and therefore don’t listen to the radio as much as I used to either. But somehow, a dozen or so songs still manage to annually bubble their way up to a very special place in my heart.

Albums, meanwhile, typically have a better chance of making an impression on me nowadays, as I tend to sit and listen to them straight through on a popular music streaming service while taking care of business.

With all that mind, here’s the new music that made the biggest impression on me in 2023:

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Entertainment To-Do List: Week of 6/16/23

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Shh! It’s a SECRET Invasion (CREDIT: Marvel Studios)

Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.

Movies
Asteroid City (Theaters)
The Blackening (Theaters)
Elemental (Theaters)
The Flash (Theaters)

TV
The Righteous Gemstones Season 3 Premiere (June 18 on HBO)
Secret Invasion Series Premiere (June 21 on Disney+) – More Marvel

Music
-Django Django, Off Planet
-King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation
-Bettye LaVette, LaVette!
-Queens of the Stone Age, In Times New Roman…
-Sigur Rós, Átta
-Yusuf/Cat Stevens, King of a Land

Billboard Hot Rock Songs – Week of October 7, 2017

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Each week, I check out the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart, and then I rearrange the top 25 based on my estimation of their quality. I used to rank all 25, now I just rank the cream of the crop.

Original Version
1. Imagine Dragons – “Believer”
2. Portugal. The Man – “Feel It Still”
3. Imagine Dragons – “Thunder”
4. The Revivalists – “Wish I Knew You”
5. Fall Out Boy – “The Last of the Real Ones”
6. Linkin Park – “One More Light”
7. U2 – “You’re the Best Thing About Me”
8. Theory of a Deadman – “Rx”
9. Thirty Seconds to Mars – “Walk on Water”
10. Zach Williams – “Old Church Choir”
11. Foo Fighters – “The Sky is a Neighborhood”
12. Lord Huron – “The Night We Met”
13. The Killers – “The Man”
14. NEEDTOBREATHE – “Hard Love”
15. Blonde Redhead – “For the Damaged Coda”
16. Foo Fighters – “Run”
17. Judah & the Lion – “Suit and Jacket”
18. The Lumineers – “Angela”
19. Vance Joy – “Lay it on Me”
20. Imagine Dragons – “Whatever It Takes”
21. Queens of the Stone Age – “The Way You Used to Do”
22. Weezer – “Feels Like Summer”
23. Beck – “Up All Night”
24. Highly Suspect – “Little One”
25. My Silent Bravery – “Got It Going On”

Jmunney’s Revision
1. The Way You Used to Do
2. Feel It Still
3. Run
4. The Man
5. For the Damaged Coda
6. The Sky is a Neighborhood
7. Up All Night
8. Little One
9. You’re the Best Thing About Me
10. Hard Love
11. Feels Like Summer
12. Lay It On Me