The Best Albums of 2023 So Far!
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🗓️ 14 July 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The year 2023 is more than halfway over, and there has already been a plethora of exciting, inspired and relevant new releases. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot share their favorite albums of 2023 so far.
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Featured Songs:
Boygenius, "Not Strong Enough," the record, Interscope, 2023
The Beatles, "With A Little Help From My Friends," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 1967
Wesley Joseph, "COLD SUMMER," GLOW, Secretly Canadian, 2023
Avalon Emerson, "Sandrail Silhouette," & The Charm, Another Dove, 2023
Tombstones In Their Eyes, "Life," Sea of Sorrow, Kitten Robot, 2023
Margo Price, "Lydia," Strays, Loma Vista, 2023
Margo Price, "Been To The Mountain," Strays, Loma Vista, 2023
Durand Jones, "I Want You," Wait Til I Get Over, Dead Oceans, 2023
Bully, "Days Move Slow," Lucky for You, Sub Pop, 2023
Kelela, "Happy Ending," Raven, Warp, 2023
Louise Post, "Don't Give Up," Sleepwalker, El Camino, 2023
Wednesday, "Quarry," Rat Saw God, Dead Oceans, 2023
Jason Isbell, "Save The World," Weathervanes, Southeastern, 2023
Billy Woods and Kenny Segal, "Soundcheck (feat. Quelle Chris)," Maps, Backwoodz, 2023
Bill Withers, "Use Me (Live)," Bill Withers Live at Carnegie Hall, Sussex, 1973
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| 0:00.0 | Hey sound opinions listeners, if you support us on Patreon, you get to listen to our podcast |
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| 0:09.6 | You're listening to Sound opinions and this week we are sharing our favorite albums of 2023 |
| 0:38.9 | so far. I'm Jim D. Rigatis and I'm Greg Cutt. Let's jump in. Let us do that Greg. The mid-year |
| 0:47.3 | favorites are almost as important as the year end favorites. A lot of music coming out and people |
| 0:52.1 | are busy and they might have missed some of this and they shouldn't have. Exactly right. I'm sure |
| 0:57.2 | there's everybody's going to have a list after the show with their own opinions and we would love |
| 1:02.0 | to hear them both via voicemail or posting on our social media. We appreciate all the input from |
| 1:08.2 | our listeners as well. You know it should be pointed out Jim. We've got our top 10 lists which by |
| 1:13.5 | the way the complete list will complete list because we're starting at number 6. We're not going |
| 1:17.9 | to get a chance to go through all of them. You and I both have probably 20 or 30 albums at least |
| 1:24.5 | that we're in consideration for this top 10. It's fluid. This may not be the same list we have at |
| 1:29.5 | the end of the year for now. These are records that are really resonating with us the most but it |
| 1:35.0 | is by no means our way of saying. Oh yeah man there's no other records that are better than |
| 1:40.5 | these. We know what we're talking about. We are merely you know listing the records that we |
| 1:47.5 | are there are our favorites. It might have come out the first week of January or we're still |
| 1:51.3 | excited. We're more excited than ever to go back and listen to it again. So I'm not concerned |
| 1:55.7 | about whether or not everybody else agrees or disagrees. These are my favorites and I hope |
| 2:00.5 | you like them too. I'm going to start with my number 6 record. We're going to go back from |
| 2:05.0 | 6 to 1 in this show in terms of highlighting the releases. A record by Wesley Joseph that I |
| 2:13.1 | highlighted on the show earlier in the year that I really holds up. I went back and listened to all |
| 2:19.8 | of these records just to make sure hey do I still really like these things that I thought I did |
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