Your Top 10 Albums of 2017?

buck502000

Oh, I forgot Harry Styles debut solo album.....

No Coder

No Coder said:

Here's mine -

1. Gang of Youths - Go Farther in Lightness

2. Middle Kids - Self Titled EP

3. Meg Mac - Low Blows

4. Tash Sultana - Notion EP

5. Tired Lion - Dumb Days

6. The Teskey Brothers - Half Mile Harvest

7. Bernard Fanning - Brutal Dawn

8. Cigarettes After Sex - Self Titled

9. Strangers - Mirrorland

10. Living Colour - Shade

HM : Fountaineer - Greater City, Greater Love, Arcade Fire -Everything Now, Vera Blue - Perennial

I completely forgot Greta Van Fleet - From the Fires. That would slot straight in at number 3

Kev - Coat and Keys

Some good albums listed here - do remastered rereleases count?
Tom Waits' Mule Variations and Real Gone are 2 of the best albums from every year!

whoanelly15

St. Vincent - Masseduction
Queens of the Stone Age - Villains
Moonrise Nation - Glamour Child
Pearl Jam - Let's Play Two
The Staves & yMusic - The Way is Read
Dan Auerbach - Waiting on a Song

I’ve listened to a million others, but these are the standouts to me in no particular order.

I wanted to like Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile- Lotta Sea Lice. I love Courtney. Project got her doing something different, but Kurt just isn’t my jam. There’s a good live show of those songs on YT with Janet Fucking Weiss on drums. I prefer that. 

HesCalledDyer

I don’t know that I’ve heard 10 new albums in the past 3 years combined in order to make a list. 

Tim Simmons

What?! That’s crazy

mulva9

1. Hiss Golden Messenger - Hallelujah Anyhow
2. Jason Isbell - The Nashville Sound
3. Feist - Pleasure
4. John Moreland - Big Bad Luv
5. Julien Baker - Turn Out The Lights
6. Leif Vollebekk - Twin Solitude
7. The Wooden Sky - Swimming in Strange Waters
8. The Barr Brothers - Queens of the Breakers
9. Rogue + Jaye - Pent Up
10. The Lone Bellow - Walk Into a Storm

HesCalledDyer

Tim Simmons said:

What?! That’s crazy

I know.  If it's not a band that's already established in my repertoire, I pretty much don't pay attention anymore.  I'm sure I'm missing some good music but, as I get older, the more I lack the desire to begin new muscial commitments.  90% of the artists being named in this thread, I've never even heard of nor am I sure how or why I should've heard of them.  And I find that a lot of the more mainstream & better known artists just don't do much for me these days.  I'm not saying I want everything to sound like the 90's, because that's certainly not the case... but I have become a bit stuck in my ways.

whoanelly15

HesCalledDyer said:

Tim Simmons said:

What?! That’s crazy

I know.  If it's not a band that's already established in my repertoire, I pretty much don't pay attention anymore.  I'm sure I'm missing some good music but, as I get older, the more I lack the desire to begin new muscial commitments.  90% of the artists being named in this thread, I've never even heard of nor am I sure how or why I should've heard of them.  And I find that a lot of the more mainstream & better known artists just don't do much for me these days.  I'm not saying I want everything to sound like the 90's, because that's certainly not the case... but I have become a bit stuck in my ways.

Having good local radio makes a huge difference. In Milwaukee, we’ve got 88.9 which is listener/donor supported. Tremendous diversity and a good mix of a few established hits (without constant repeats) and  new stuff / upcomers. That’s also the main place where I learn of new bands/artists in the MKE and Chicago area. I’m not at a point where I can go see bands on the weekends right now, so if I didn’t have that, I’d be lost. All other radio is pretty much pointless. 

HesCalledDyer

whoanelly15 said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Tim Simmons said:

What?! That’s crazy

I know.  If it's not a band that's already established in my repertoire, I pretty much don't pay attention anymore.  I'm sure I'm missing some good music but, as I get older, the more I lack the desire to begin new muscial commitments.  90% of the artists being named in this thread, I've never even heard of nor am I sure how or why I should've heard of them.  And I find that a lot of the more mainstream & better known artists just don't do much for me these days.  I'm not saying I want everything to sound like the 90's, because that's certainly not the case... but I have become a bit stuck in my ways.

Having good local radio makes a huge difference. In Milwaukee, we’ve got 88.9 which is listener/donor supported. Tremendous diversity and a good mix of a few established hits (without constant repeats) and  new stuff / upcomers. That’s also the main place where I learn of new bands/artists in the MKE and Chicago area. I’m not at a point where I can go see bands on the weekends right now, so if I didn’t have that, I’d be lost. All other radio is pretty much pointless. 

Yeah, local radio where I live sucks.  We have about 5 country stations, one dance/pop/top 40 station, and one rock station that is just NOW getting around to playing what I listened to when I was 15.  And the latter still plays all the same Journey/Boston/Zeppelin stuff they've been playing every hour 'round the clock since I was but a wee Dyer.

LukinFan

HesCalledDyer said:

Tim Simmons said:

What?! That’s crazy

I know.  If it's not a band that's already established in my repertoire, I pretty much don't pay attention anymore.  I'm sure I'm missing some good music but, as I get older, the more I lack the desire to begin new muscial commitments.  90% of the artists being named in this thread, I've never even heard of nor am I sure how or why I should've heard of them.  And I find that a lot of the more mainstream & better known artists just don't do much for me these days.  I'm not saying I want everything to sound like the 90's, because that's certainly not the case... but I have become a bit stuck in my ways.

I like to take band suggestions from this forum, then check them out on YouTube. If I like them, then I'll get their album. Amazon usually makes some pretty good suggestions too. 

helplessdancer

no gov't mule fans here? 

CornishMan

LukinFan said:

I like to take band suggestions from this forum, then check them out on YouTube. If I like them, then I'll get their album. 

Agreed..... that's some good advice, and always a good place to start.  Pearl Jam and their fans have turned me on to so much great music over the years, that I would never have discovered otherwise.  Most people on here are going to be massive PJ fans obviously..... so there is always a decent chance that if the band likes some particular artist/album, or fellow fans do, there is a decent chance that I will too.

intodeep

I just wanted to add i did not include it in my list of albums because it is an EP but once again Kamasi Washington made beautiful music this year with his harmony of difference EP

KH71368

1. Arcade Fire - Everything Now

2. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory

3. Kendrick Lamar - Damn

4. Girlpool - Powerplant

5. Lorde - Melodrama

derbydave

1. Ghosts - Jeremy Enigk
2. Self Titled - The Magpie Salute
3. Sleep Well Beast - The National
4. VOIDS - Minus The Bear
5. Destroyers Of The Soft Life - J Roddy Walston & The Business
6. Beck - Colors
7. Hot Thoughts - Spoon
8. Together At Last - Jeff Tweedy
9. Villains - Queens Of The Stone Age
10. Let's Play Two - Pearl Jam

ozzykiller

In no particular order. 

The War On Drugs
Jade Jackson
Filthy Friends
Grandaddy
Lillie Mae
Mark Lanegan
Iron & Wine
Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts
Wolf Alice
Craig Finn

jjflash

Keep 'em comin' bump

Natashapearljamfan

1. Go farther in Lightness- Gang of Youths 

Remainder in no order ....
Villains - QOTSA
Sleep Well Beast- The National
Concrete and Gold - Foo Fighters
Forgetting the Future - British India
Everything Now - Arcade Fire
Middle Kids EP - Middle Kids
Let's Play Two - Pearl Jam
After hours, Close to Dawn - Kingswood

Pap

1) Pearl Jam - Let's Play Two
2) Starsailor - All This Life
3) Public Service Broadcasting - Every Valley
4) Filthy Friends - Invitation
5) Tuber - Out Of The Blue
6) Jack Johnson - All The Light Above It Too
7) Steve Earle - So You Wannabe An Outlaw
8) Billy Corgan - Ogilala
9) Sivert Hoyem - Live At Acropolis
10) Matt Cameron - Cavedweller
11) Barret Martin - The Singing Earth
12) Allison Crowe - Great Island Wonder
13) Natalie Merchant - Butterfly
14) Mark Lanegan - Gargoyle
15) The Waterboys - Out Of All This Blue
16) Foo Fighters - Concrete And Gold
17) Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains
18) The National - Sleep Well Beast

cloudsnmars

Righto..not that it matters 
1.Slowdive-Slowdive
2.War On Drugs- A Deeper Understanding
3.Octo Octa-Where Are We Going?
4:Phoebe Bridgers-Stranger In The Alps
5.Vince Staples-Big Fish Theory
6.Warhaus-Warhaus
7.The National-Sleep Well Beast
8.Charlotte Gainsbourg-Rest
9.Bicep-Bicep
10.Lord Echo-Harmonies ....Happy New Year Everyone....bring on the Euro tour!!!!!!! Whoop!

pledgeagrievance

1. Spoon - Hot Thoughts

2. Father John Misty - Pure Comedy 

3. Jim James - Tribute 2 

4. Fleet Foxes - Crack Up

5. Arcade Fire - Everything Now 

6. Beck - Colors

7. QOTSA - Villains 

8. Tinariwen - Elwan 

9. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding 

10. Strand of Oaks - Hard Love 

RoleModelsinBlood31

My top several:

1-jason isbell- the Nashville sound
2-Kamasi Washington- harmony of difference
3-Kendrick Lamar- damn
4- LCD soundsystem - American dream
5- elder- floating reflection

spoon/quotsa/war on drugs - all overrated albums but make the list anyway

No Coder

   Natashapearljamfan said:

1. Go farther in Lightness- Gang of Youths 

Remainder in no order ....
Villains - QOTSA
Sleep Well Beast- The National
Concrete and Gold - Foo Fighters
Forgetting the Future - British India
Everything Now - Arcade Fire
Middle Kids EP - Middle Kids
Let's Play Two - Pearl Jam
After hours, Close to Dawn - Kingswood

Great list, especially number 1

I just couldn't get into the new Foo album though