Sacred Cows slaughtered in 2023…

Bands that put out records this year that have not made this list:

 

Royal Blood

(all 3 of their previous records made my List).

 

Bombay Bicycle Club

(all 4 of their previous records made my List, including a #1 album in 2011).

 

Queens of the Stone Age

(all 5 of their previous records released since I started doing these lists in 2000 made my List, including a #1 album in 2002).

 

Baroness

(I only discovered them in 2016, so they have clocked up only 1 previous List entry, but all 5 albums in their back catalogue would make my List for their respective years if I was rewriting them now).

 

Foo Fighters

(all 7 of their previous records released since I started doing these lists in 2000 made my List).

 

Amplifier

(all 6 of their previous records made this List, including a #1 album in 2004 – an album that I still consider one of the greatest records ever made).