Trixie's Top 100 Favorite Albums, As of Jan. 2023

A chart and brief explanation.

Someone asked recently if I could make another Top 100 favorite albums chart, as it has been a few years since my last one, and so I have obliged. This was maybe easier than it’s been before, as I don’t listen to as many whole albums anymore and have boiled down a lot of albums I used to listen to just their most essential songs. Now I am much more into conceptual playlists and individual tracks, and I have to imagine making a top 100/200 songs list would be a way more interesting and harrowing experience (tempting, though).

The actual content of this list hasn’t evolved all that much, although the order has changed dramatically over the years. At the top is the stuff I am still excited to return to and blown away by when I do, while a lot of stuff at the bottom is more so nostalgic than something I would be likely to fall in love with hearing it newly today. A few things that were lower on the list or orbiting it from the outside, like Blue Sky Noise and Decemberunderground have also gotten way higher on the list, while plenty of other albums from artists I love have slid off of it.

The latest addition is Ada Rook’s UGLY DEATH NO REDEMPTION ANGEL CURSE I LOVE YOU, and I have also placed Illusory Walls by The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, albeit somewhat low. Older albums that made it on for the first time are The Grey Race by Bad Religion and, yes, The Sickness by Disturbed, which is as close as I can get to a guilty pleasure (but I feel no guilt). I’m not sure I had Dookie listed either, but that and Machine by Static X and The Sickness are all definite nostalgia picks that might not survive if more albums I love get made. All in all, I’m kind of disappointed how few new releases I felt compelled to add, but again, I am less of an albums person now, so it’s not like I haven’t enjoyed tons of new music—just been more selective about listening to it.