Your Top 10 Albums of 2017?

LukinFan · December 2017

intodeep said:

I need to listen to that hiss golden messenger album too. I wish my job was to listen to music.

I used to work at a used CD/vinyl shop throughout college and then weekends after I started teaching. It was great! I could listen to anything I wanted, and I made sure to play at PJ bootleg on every shift. Too bad the pay wasn't better.

Thoughts_Arrive · December 2017

Not enough love for DAMN?

Tim Simmons · December 2017

I’m not surprised an album like that isn’t well received here. I’m just happy it’s overwhelmingly AOTY from everywhere else.

Tim Simmons · December 2017

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/summary/2017/

Thoughts_Arrive · December 2017

Tim Simmons said:

I’m not surprised an album like that isn’t well received here.

Why? I've seen positive posts about Kendrick here before.

Tim Simmons · December 2017

Oh, it’s no doubt some people here like him. There’s a big thread. I just think a majority of the board is stuck in the 90s or the modern alternative rock sound with roots from that era. So I’m not surprised modern hip hop isn’t resonating. If people realized how punk as fuck Kendrick is...

Thoughts_Arrive · December 2017

Tim Simmons said:

Oh, it’s no doubt some people here like him. There’s a big thread. I just think a majority of the board is stuck in the 90s or the modern alternative rock sound with roots from that era. So I’m not surprised modern hip hop isn’t resonating. If people realized how punk as fuck Kendrick is...

Ah, fair enough.
I love DAMN.

Tim Simmons · December 2017

It’s so fucking great.

DC29940 · December 2017

I always do 25, so there they are:

25. The Artisanals "Literally Anywhere EP"
24. St. Vincent "Masseduction"
23. The Flaming Lips "Oczy Mlody"
22. Big Wreck "Grace Street"
21. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds "Who Built the Moon?"
20. Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton "Choir of the Mind"
19. David Bazan "Care"
18. Derek Webb "Fingers Crossed"
17. Matt Cameron "Cavedweller"
16. Starsailor "All This Life"
15. The War on Drugs "A Deeper Understanding"
14. MuteMath "Play Dead"
13. The Killers "Wonderful Wonderful"
12. Ryan Adams "Prisoner"
11. U2 "Songs of Experience"
10. Queens of the Stone Age "Villians"
9. Foo Fighters "Concrete & Gold"
8. The National "Sleep Well Beast"
7. Arcade Fire "Everything Now"
6. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit "The Nashville Sound"
5. Cold War Kids "LA Divine"
4. Beck "Colors"
3. John Mark McMillan "Mercury & Lightning"
2. Spoon "Hot Thoughts"
1. Phoebe Bridgers "Stranger in the Alps"

No Coder · December 2017

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

buck502000 · December 2017

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

No Coder · December 2017

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 · December 2017

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 · December 2017

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 · December 2017

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 · December 2017

What?! That’s crazy

mulva9 · December 2017

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 · December 2017

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 · December 2017

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 · December 2017

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.

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