Music: Best album of 2017

[God King Fudge]

My top 10:

Mutoid Man - War Moans
Wolves In The Throne Room - Thirce Woven
Pallbearer - Heartless
Deadlife - Bionic Chrysalis
Enslaved - E
Converge - The Dusk In Us
Woe - Hope Attrition
Dyscarnate - With All Their Might
Cannibal Corpse - Red Before Black
Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper

 

[WeThreeKings]

Taytay's album dropped last Friday but isn't on Spotify which is pretty frustrating

Yeah, it's atrocious.

The production on the whole thing is awful.

 

[Thucydides]

My top 10:

Mutoid Man - War Moans
Wolves In The Throne Room - Thirce Woven
Pallbearer - Heartless
Deadlife - Bionic Chrysalis
Enslaved - E
Converge - The Dusk In Us
Woe - Hope Attrition
Dyscarnate - With All Their Might
Cannibal Corpse - Red Before Black
Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper

Converge album rules .

 

[God King Fudge]

Converge album rules .

I've truthfully never been a big fan of Converge, but that album definitely stuck with me.

 

[plank]

My top 20 of 2017

1. Courtney Marie Andrews - Honest Life
2. Son Volt - Notes of Blue
3. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives -Way Out West
4. Trummors - Headlands
5. Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile - Lotta Sea Lice
6. Dead Man Winter - Furnace
7. Steve Earle & The Dukes - So You Wannabe an Outlaw
8. John Mellencamp ft/Carlene Carter - Sad Clowns and Hillbillies
9. Neil Young - Hitchhiker
10. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - The Nashville Sounds
11. Chris Shiflett - West Coast Town
12. Jake Xerxes Fussell - What in the Natural World
13. Mark Lanegan Band - Gargoyle
14. Margo Price - All American Made
15. Strand of Oaks - Hard Love
16. Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real - self titled
17. Chuck Prophet - Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins
18. Eilen Jewel - Down Hearted Blues
19. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
20. Angel Olsen - Phases

 

[John Price]

PVRIS, Paramore, The Killers and Lights arguably put out the best four albums of 2017. Paramore releasing the best album, followed by PVRIS, Lights, and The Killers.

The Killers - Rut
The Killers - Run For Cover
The Killers - Tyson Vs Douglas
The Killers - The Man
Lights - Skydiving
Lights - Savage
Lights - We Were Here
Lights - Kicks
Lights - Moonshine
Paramore - Hard Times
Paramore - Rose Colored Boy
Paramore - Told You so
Paramore - Forgiveness
Paramore - Fake Happy
Paramore - Caught In The MIddle
PVRIS - Half
PVRIS - Anyone Else
PVRIS - What's Wrong

 

[izlez]

track various publications year end lists

2017 Music Year End Lists - Album of The Year

So, everyone unanimously decided to exclude Brand New because pedophelia, right?

because, Brand New.... AINEC

 

[Peter Zezel]

That Lil Peep album Come Over When You're Sober really caught me by surprise. It's short, but I really like it. Very sad and disappointing he passed away. I would be very interested in where his career went.

 

[ghostnights]

My favourite 5 albums

Lorde- Melodrama
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Turnover- Good Nature
Phoebe Bridgars- Strangers in the alps
The War on Drugs - Deeper Understanding

 

[Kairi Zaide]

Yeah, it's atrocious.

The production on the whole thing is awful.

End Game is decent.

 

[Communal Blood]

The Chasm - A Conscious Creation from the Isolated Domain - Phase I
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Death of Lovers - The Acrobat
Sleepmakeswaves - Made of Breath Only
Integrity - Howling, for the Nightmare Shall Consume
Hundredth - Rare
Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy
Converge - The Dusk in Us
And So I Watch You from Afar - The Endless Shimmering
Death from Above - Outrage! Is Now

 

[WeThreeKings]

Bad start for the new Eminem album.

First two songs are not good.

 

[Mikeaveli]

The year's almost done so here's what I thought of every album I remember listening to this year. Mostly hip-hop.

9/10:
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me

8/10:
Jonwayne - Rap Album Two
Feist - Pleasure
Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
Remo Drive - Greatest Hits
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana
Quelle Chris - Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often
JAY-Z - 4:44
Oddisee - The Iceberg
Slowdive - Slowdive
Brand New - Science Fiction
Karriem Riggins - Headnod Suite

7/10:
Homeboy Sandman - Veins
Migos - Culture
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Murder of the Universe
Injury Reserve - Drive It Like It's Stolen
Onry Ozzborn - c v p ii d
Freddie Gibbs - You Only Live 2wice
Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman - Triple Fat Lice

6/10:
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
Death Grips - Steroids (Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber Megamix)
2 Chainz - Pretty Girls Like Trap Music
Raekwon - The Wild
Nyck Caution & Kirk Knight - Nyck@Knight
Big Boi - Boomiverse
Joey Bada$$ - All-Amerikkkan Bada$$
Gucci Mane & Metro Boomin' - DropTopWop
Sean Leon - I Think You've Gone Mad (Or the Sins of the Father)

5/10:
At the Drive-In - in•ter a•li•a
Masta Killa - Loyalty Is Royalty
Big Sean - I Decided.
G Herbo - Welcome to Fazoland 1.5
NAH - Aged
Cohenbeats - Daily Affirmations

4/10:
Lupe Fiasco - DROGAS Light
Royce da 5'9" - The Bar Exam 4
BROCKHAMPTON - SATURATION
Gorillaz - Humanz
Future - FUTURE

3/10:
Murs - Captain California
Eminem - Revival

2/10:
Lil Pump - Lil Pump
Drake - More Life
Lil Uzi Vert - Luv Is Rage 1.5
Future - HNDRXX
Young Thug - Beautiful Thugger Girls
XXXTENTACION - 17

1/10:
NAV & Metro Boomin' - Perfect Timing

 

[Bobo420]

My top 40:

1: Elder- Reflections of a Floating World
2: Pallbearer- Heartless
3: Converge- The Dusk in Us
4: Paradise Lost- Medusa
5: Tombs- The Grand Annihilation
6: Heretoir- The Circle
7: Red Scalp- Lost Ghosts
8: Kadavar- Rough Times
9: The Faceless- In Becoming a Ghost
10: Ex Eye- s/t
11: Enslaved- E
12: Krallice- Go Be Forgotten
13: Vallenfyre- Fear Those Who Fear Him
14: Pilorian- Obsidian Arc
15: Rebel Wizard- The Warning of One
16: Spirit Adrift- Curse of Conception
17: Replacire- Do Not Deviate
18: Decrepit Birth- Axis Mundi
19: Immolation- Atonement
20: Kairon; IRSE!- Ruination
21: Sannhet- So Numb
22: Unsane- Sterilize
23: Hark- Machinations
24: Mutoid Man- War Moans
25: Full of Hell- Tumpeting Ecstasy
26: With our Arms to the Sun- Orenda
27: Pyrrhon- What Passes for Survival
28: The Black Dahlia Murder- Nightbringers
29: Bell Witch- Mirror Reaper
30: The Lurking Fear- Out of the Voiceless Grave
31: Power Trip- Nightmare Logic, Daymare
32: Archspire- Relentless Mutation
33: Wormwitch- Strike Mortal Coil
34: Cannibal Corpse- Red Before Black
35: Integrity- Howling, for the Nightmare Shall Consume
36: Electric Wizard- Wizard Bloody Wizard
37: Propagandhi- Victory Lap
38: Suffocation- ...Of the Dark Light
39: Bison- You Are Not the Ocean You Are the Patient
40: Novembers Doom- Hamartia

 

[hototogisu]

My 60 favorite albums of the year:

New releases:
40. Migos - Culture
39. Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Stranger Things 2: A Netflix Original Series Soundtrack
38. Unsane - Sterilize
37. Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch - Blade Runner 2049: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
36. Ricardo Villalobos - Empirical House
35. Brockhampton - Saturation II
34. Fire-Toolz - Drip Mental
33. Clams Casino - Instrumental Mixtape 4
32. Yves Tumor - Experiencing the Deposit of Faith
31. Lil Yachty - Teenage Emotions
30. Thriftworks - The Feather and the Sword
29. Paul White & Danny Brown - Accelerator
28. Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi - This Dazzling, Genuine "Difference" Now Where Shall It Go?
27. Nazoranai - Beginning to Fall in Line Before Me, So Decorously, the Nature of All That Must Be Transformed
26. Crys Cole & Oren Ambarchi - Hotel Record
25. Wolf Eyes - No Hate
24. Konstrukt & Keiji Haino - A Philosophy Warping, Little by Little That Way Lies a Quagmire
23. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
22. Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent
21. Dasher - Sodium
20. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
19. David Greenberger, Glenn Jones & Chris Corsano - An Idea in Everything
18. Tzusing - 東方不敗
17. Laurel Dust - Halo
16. Lil B - Black Ken
15. Swans - Deliquescence
14. Aaron Dilloway - Switches
13. Oneohtrix Point Never - Good Time: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
12. Trouble - Snake Eyes b/w Mother's Gone
11. Lil Uzi Vert - Luv is Rage 2
10. Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper
9. King Krule - The Ooz
8. Circle - Terminal
7. Do Make Say Think - Stubborn Persistent Illusions
6. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
5. Ryuichi Sakamoto - Async
4. Oxbow - Thin Black Duke
3. Tyler, the Creator - Scum **** Flower Boy
2. The Bug vs. Earth - Concrete Desert
1. Slowdive - Slowdive

Archival & reissue:
10. Pandit Pran Nath - Palace Theatre: Paris 1972 - Volume II
9. Jun Fukamachi - Nicole ('86 Spring and Summer Collection - Instrumental Images)
8. Cluster - Konzerte 1972/1977
7. Alice Coltrane - World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
6. Bill Orcutt - Why Four Strings?
5. J.D. Emmanuel - Rain Forest Music
4. Hermeto Pascoal & Grupo Vice Versa - Viajando Com o Som: The Lost '76 Vice-Versa Studio Session
3. Roberto Musci - The Loa of Music (The Complete Sessions)
2. Jan Jelinek - Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records
1. Tradewinds - "Tradewind" the Wavesailing Film

Compilations:
10. Pop Makossa: The Invasive Dance Beat of Cameroon 1976-1984
9. Synthesize the Soul: Astro-Atlantic Hypnotica from the Cape Verde Islands 1973-1988
8. Diggin' in the Carts: A Collection of Pioneering Japanese Video Game Music
7. Sweet as Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes from the Horn of Africa
6. Miracle Steps: Music from the Fourth World (1983-2017)
5. Twin Peaks (Limited Event Series Original Soundtrack)
4. Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series)
3. The Gamelan of the Walking Warriors: Gamelan Beleganjur and the Music of the Ngaben Funerary Ritual in Bali
2. Abatwa (The Pygmy): Why Did We Stop Growing Tall?
1. The Photographs of Charles Duvelle: Disques OCORA and Collection PROPHET

 

[Peter Zezel]

There was a lot of music I missed looking at everyone’s lists. Great year for music.

1. DAMN. - Kendrick Lamar
2. A Deeper Understanding - The War on Drugs
3. Hug of Thunder - BSS
4. Come Over When You’re Sober Pt.1 - Lil Peep
5. A Crow Lookes at Me - Mount Eerie
6. American Dream - LCD Soundsystem
7. King Krule - The Ooz
8. Pleasure - Feist
9. Everything Now - Arcade Fire
10. Deer Tick Vol. 1 - Deer Tick

 

[plank]

My top 20 of 2017

1. Courtney Marie Andrews - Honest Life
2. Son Volt - Notes of Blue
3. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives -Way Out West
4. Trummors - Headlands
5. Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile - Lotta Sea Lice
6. Dead Man Winter - Furnace
7. Steve Earle & The Dukes - So You Wannabe an Outlaw
8. John Mellencamp ft/Carlene Carter - Sad Clowns and Hillbillies
9. Neil Young - Hitchhiker
10. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - The Nashville Sounds
11. Chris Shiflett - West Coast Town
12. Jake Xerxes Fussell - What in the Natural World
13. Mark Lanegan Band - Gargoyle
14. Margo Price - All American Made
15. Strand of Oaks - Hard Love
16. Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real - self titled
17. Chuck Prophet - Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins
18. Eilen Jewel - Down Hearted Blues
19. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
20. Angel Olsen - Phases

Adjusted 6 months later with 5 new albums.

1. Courtney Marie Andrews - Honest Life
2. Son Volt - Notes of Blue
3. Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile - Lotta Sea Lice
4. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives -Way Out West
5. Trummors - Headlands
6. Dead Man Winter - Furnace
7. Steve Earle & The Dukes - So You Wannabe an Outlaw
8. John Mellencamp ft/Carlene Carter - Sad Clowns and Hillbillies
9. Mapache - self titled
10. Neil Young - Hitchhiker
11. JD McPherson - Undivided Heart & Soul
12. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - The Nashville Sounds
13. Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real - self titled
14. Jake Xerxes Fussell - What in the Natural World
15. Chris Shiflett - West Coast Town
16. Mark Lanegan Band - Gargoyle
17. Margo Price - All American Made
18. Kacy & Clayton - Siren's Song
19. Cage the Elephant - Unpeeled
20. Strand of Oaks - Hard Love
21. Chuck Prophet - Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins
22. Eilen Jewel - Down Hearted Blues
23. John Moreland - Big Bad Luv
24. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
25. Angel Olsen - Phases

 

[izlez]

So, just to make sure we're all on the same page...

we all agree that Brand New - Science Fiction is the greatest popular-rock album of all time, but we're pretending it doesn't exist due to the allegations, but at the same time giving each other a wink and a nudge?


ok, good.
Wink-wink, nudge-nudge

 

[Tapu Coco]

My list so far-

1. Alvvays - Antisocialites

2. Slowdive - s/t
3. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
4. Real Estate - In Mind
5. Beach Fossils - Somersault
6. Mac Demarco - This Old Dog
7. Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up
8. The Drums - Abysmal Thoughts (haven't listened to this one as much)

There's a few others I may need to check out (xx, Kurt Vile/Courtney Barnett, Ride), plus I'm heavily anticipating Julien Baker and Melody's Echo Chamber (as long as she recovers from her accident). Sprained Ankle has been on heavy rotation lately.

2018 is looking to be relatively promising too - Vampire Weekend, Purity Ring, My Bloody Valentine (!)

Final 2017 list

1. Alvvays - Antisocialites
2. Slowdive - Slowdive
3. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
4. Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
5. Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up
6. Beach Fossils - Somersault
7. Real Estate - In Mind
8. Mac Demarco - This Old Dog
9. The Drums - Abysmal Thoughts

Also interested in The Ooz and Lotta Sea Lice but never got around to them - I'd expect the former to fall after Real Estate and the latter after Mac.

 

[Thucydides]

I keep coming back to that Alvvays record . So catchy and good. all this time I just thought whoever was on that record all the time here last year just had a big crush on the singer .

 

[Thucydides]

I just discovered this album today , missing it completely a couple years ago .

Twain - Rare feeling

Americana road trip kind of record, perfect for long fall drives .

Heres the full album .