December Sweatdown 2K23

The December Sweatdown 2K23 is here, the best songs I’ve listened to in the past 12 months.

I do these Spotify Playlists every month and try to feature mostly new music. I’ve been doing it since April of 2018. I’m proud of the fact it’s one of the few consistent things I do every month. I might not work out as much as I’d like to. I might not write as much as I’d like to. But I absolutely do these playlists every month.

December is a big month for me as I get to look through my playlists and find the best songs I listened to for the year. I do have one rule: one song per band. There’s absolutely songs that would have made the list if I didn’t do this (Run Like Hell by Gunship, Eventually by Hotel Mira, Talk Anymore by Battle Tapes) and I also try to make sure everything is a song released in 2023 or close to 2023, even if it was something I listened to a lot (In 2023 I listened to a lot of The 1975 and even seen them live but I didn’t feel right to add them to the playlist. My Kink is Karma by Chappell Roan technically came out mid 2022 but I didn’t hear it until September and her album came out in 2023 so I felt it was fair. I Like (the idea of) You by Tessa Violet was a song I listened to a lot of in 2023 but I couldn’t justify it on a 2023 list. Feel it All The Time by Soccer Mommy is really a 2022 song but keeping that off would be dishonest to my 2023.)

There isn’t really a ranking to the list, but I would say the top 15 songs are absolutely my favourite songs of the year. I put them in bold to just make it clear those are my Top 15. Don’t take it as a hard list, anything can shift around. I Been Young by George Clanton was definitely my favourite song of the year. What’s been some of my other favourite songs of the year since I started doing these playlists?

Sweatdown Song of the Year 2018: Walking Away by St. Lucia
Sweatdown Song of the Year 2019: Ordinary Fools Pt. 2 by Chain Gang of 1974
Sweatdown Song of the Year 2020: Faith by Culture Wars
Sweatdown Song of the Year 2021: better with you (the world’s burning) by Chief
Sweatdown Song of the Year 2022: This Can’t Be Everything by Phantoms
Sweatdown Song of the Year 2023: I Been Young by George Clanton

As always you can find the playlist on Spotify. Be sure to follow all of the bands you enjoy listening to and add them to your like lists so they come up on your future Spotify plays. Many of these bands are barely struggling to get any money from Spotify, especially due to their new stupid rules, so every spin helps.

December Sweatdown 2K23 Features:

I Been Young by George Clanton
Perish the Thought by Battle Tapes
DooM Dance by Gunship, Carpenter Brut, and Gavin Rossdale
Dancing with the Moonlight by Hotel Mira
SexyBack by Trevor Something
Golden Days by Emi Grace
Hello by GROUPLOVE
Feel It All The Time by Soccer Mommy
Not Okay by Fickle Friends
Invisible Hand by †††
Boys by Social Order
Drift by 3TEETH
Nosebleeds by MisterWives
BLOOD AND SUGAR by BOYS LIKE GIRLS
Birthmark by Dizzy
smiley face by Sydney Sprague
Lucky by Brand New Friend
Keep My Mouth Out of Your Name by Early Internet
Backbone by MONOWHALES
My Kink Is Karma by Chappell Roan
Moment by Immortal Girlfriend
gen x boyfriend!! by girlhouse
Porn Star by DEVORA
Tell Me When It’s Too Late by Royal Blood
Falling Down The Stairs by Thomas Powers
Better Luck Next Time by Sundara Karma
Just So Fun by Mom Rock
My Fall by Chappaqua Wrestling
I Used To Be Fun by Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers
someone to love by Chief
Pacing Like a Lion by Color Palette
Gotta do Something by flor
All We Ever Do Is Talk by Del Water Gap
Desire by Cannons
Fighting Flames with Fire by Icarus
Highwire Days by Chain Gang of 1974
Cards are Down by Blue Stones
Shower Beer by The Beaches
Holes by Kanadia
Sunshine by Teenage Wrist
Crystalise by WOLFCLUB
Nosedive by Hatchie
Gonna be Good by Madeon
Coast to Coast by Me Not You
Too Much Weight by slo/tide, Sir Sly
Flash Flood by Ruby Waters
Caught Up by Great Northern
When You Stop by July Talk
Come on Heartache by The Menzingers
Never Grow Up by Said the Whale

Thank you for listening and reading and I’ll be back in 2024 with January Sweatdown 2K24!