Thread for all 2016 albums of the year lists

only even heard of 25 of those artists, finally I am old and out of touch (yells at cloud)

― sleeve

is there anybody outside, like, this board who has heard of more than 25 of those artists? not trying to be sarcastic here, i'm a little sheltered and maybe there are parties you can go to where people will say "Oh yeah, 'Boy' by Boyboy, I love that one!" without lying through their teeth.

for the record i listened to "boy" by boyboy and i did actually like it a lot, but i'll be fucked if i'm going to listen to 99 more bands playing at the walpurgisnacht rock festival in the illuminatus! trilogy.

A+ reference

Oh no not again. I've got dysentery from all these garbage music lists.

not nearly enough Weyes Blood on these lists, btw

OTM

yep

i cannot emphasise how good that record is

Double J http://doublej.net.au/news/features/the-50-best-albums-of-2016?WT.mc_id=Radio_Radio-DoubleJ--JJ.%7CFeatures.The50BestAlbumsOf2016_TWT%7CDoubleJ

50. Plutonic Lab – Deep Beneath the Noise
49. Bernard Fanning – Civil Dusk
48. Margo Price – Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
47. Common – Black America Again
46. Savages – Adore Life
45. Junior Boys – Big Black Coat
44. De La Soul – And The Anonymous Nobody
43. NO ZU – Afterlife
42. Descendents – Hypercaffium Spazzinate
41. Mark Pritchard – Under The Sun
40. Cass McCombs – Mangy Love
39. Melody Pool – Deep Dark Savage Heart
38. White Denim – Stiff
37. The Kills – Ash & Ice
36. Jim James – Eternally Even
35. Rosie Lowe – Control
34. Big Smoke – Time is Golden
33. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – EARS
32. Paul Dempsey – Strange Loop
31. Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression
30. Gawurra – Ratja Yaliyali
29. PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition Project
28. Agnes Obel – Citizen Of Glass
27. Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
26. Teeth & Tongue – Give Up On Your Health
25. Frank Ocean – Blonde
24. Jordie Lane & the Sleepers - Glassellland
23. Laura Mvula – The Dreaming Room
22. D.D. Dumbo – Utopia Defeated
21. Jordan Rakei – Cloak
20. Whitney – Light Upon The Lake
19. James Blake – The Colour in Anything
18. Solange – A Seat At The Table
17. The Peep Tempel – Joy
16. Kate Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos
15. A Tribe Called Quest – We got it from Here...Thank You 4 Your service
14. Julia Jacklin – Don’t Let The Kids Win
13. Michael Kiwanuka – Love & Hate
12. Olympia – Self Talk
11. Beyoncé – Lemonade
10. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
9. Bon Iver – 22, A Million
8. Angel Olsen – My Woman
7. Ngaiire – Blastoma
6. The Avalanches – Wildflower
5. Anohni – Hopelessness
4. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity
3. The Drones – Feelin Kinda Free
2. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
1. David Bowie – Blackstar

I went one by one on the gvb list since I have nothing to do and I knew 47 of those songs and have 23 of those songs ( almost a perfect half)on my own personal top 100. So I can vouch for 23% of that list as being awesome. Never heard of boy by boyboy.

From the top 10 I'll vouch for Whitney, ATCQ, Radiohead and Maggie Rogers. But the only song that makes me grunt in there is Jessy Lanza.

Grunt in disgust like an angry boar

Idolator: http://www.idolator.com/featured/best-albums-2016-beyonce-solange-frank-ocean-rihanna-kanye-west-bruno-mars

1. Beyonce, Lemonade
2. Solange, A Seat At The Table
3. Kanye West, The Life Of Pablo
4. Rihanna, Anti
5. Shura, Nothing’s Real
6. The 1975, I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It
7. Bruno Mars, 24K Magic
8. Frank Ocean, Blonde
9. Kristin Kontrol, X-Communicate
10. Ariana Grande, Dangerous Woman

not nearly enough Weyes Blood on these lists, btw

― alpine static, Wednesday, December 7, 2016 2:31 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Probably on the basis that it was released too close to the election.

Cos it is great, I mean

has everybody already forgotten about that Avalanches album? It's only on 2 lists here...

Really surprised the Maxwell album ended up being relatively underrated.

not sure i even saw a decent review of the maxwell

brad nelson is def ilx tastemaker of teh year

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 19:07 Bookmark

last few for certi. 2016 ceremony is cancelled though

Metal Hammer
http://teamrock.com/feature/2016-11-30/the-50-best-metal-albums-of-2016

Paywalled?

seems to be. anyone a member there? f'n'b?

I just bought Kerrang on my ipad so gimme a few mins to subscribe the list

a+ post

Kerrang top 50

50 Electric Century - From The Night To Control
49 Alcest - Kodama
48 Vodun - Possession
47 Pup - The Dream Is Over
46 Descendents - Hypercaffum Spazzinate
45 Billy Talent - Afraid Of Heights
44 Black Peaks - Statues
43 Against The Current - In Our Bones
42 The Pretty Reckless - Who You Selling For
41 Swmrs - Drive North
40 With Confidence - Better Weather
39 Brian Fallon - Painkillers
38 Cane Hill - Smile
37 Bury Tomorrow - Earthbound
36 Sum 41 - 13 Voices
35 Russian Circles - Guidance
34 The Amity Affliction - This Could Be Heartbreak
33 Beach Slang - A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings
32 Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
31 Letlive - If I'm The Devil.
30 Weezer - (The White Album)
29 Waterparks - Double Dare
28 Alter Bridge - The Last Hero
27 Asking Alexandria - The Black
26 Lonely the Brave - Things Will Matter
25 Beartooth - Aggressive
24 A Day To Remember - Bad Vibrations
23 Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues
22 Hellions - Opera Oblivia
21 The Black Queen - Fever Daydream
20 Nails - You Will Never Be One Of Us
19 Milk Teeth - Vile Child
18 Muncie Girls - From Caplan to Belsize
17 The Dillinger Escape Plan
16 Biffy Cunto - Ellipsis
15 Gojira - Magma
14 Moose Blood - Blush
13 Blink-182 - California
12 Pierce The Veil - Misadventures
11 Every Time I Die
10 Twin Atlantic - GLA
9 BABYMETAL - Metal Resistance
8 Panic At The Disco - Death Of A Bachelor
7 Deftones - Gore
6 Against Me - Shape Shift With Me
5 Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage
4 Frank Iero And The Patience - Parachutes
3 Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
2 Metallica - Hardwired... To Self-Destruct
1 Green Day - Revolution Radio

haha stupid ipad autocorrect said subscribe instead of transcribe. well there it is anyway

dedicated to brad and maura obviously

The average age of the band members in that list much be creeping towards Mojo level. Does the Kerrrang! reader base just not have any cool young bands any more?

idk there's lots I haven't heard of on there but there are quite a few names I've rarely thought about in like a decade. I had no idea bands like Jimmy Eat World and Sum 41 were still going somehow.

and lol I don't think you can blame autocorrect for Biffy Cunto

no, that was quite deliberate :)

oh k3rr lol

the DEP album (their last) is p great tbf

"24 Albums That Made Albums Matter"

Gucci Mane, Everybody Looking

feel like fader ran out of rap records here

also "year of the album" narratives officially exhausting

The average age of the band members in that list much be creeping towards Mojo level. Does the Kerrrang! reader base just not have any cool young bands any more?

― Matt DC,

I imagine most of those bands we've not heard of are young emo bands

Car Bomb even better but not on the list, alas

thrilled to sift through that kerrang list

but Kerrang has always been really loyal to old heritage acts

the Kerrang list has a few good things on it, some real horrific stuff and the rest is bands I've never heard of as I havent read Kerrang in a decade bar the eoy albums issues.

Really surprised the Maxwell album ended up being relatively underrated.

― Chris L, Wednesday, December 7, 2016 4:25 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not sure i even saw a decent review of the maxwell

― r|t|c, Wednesday, December 7, 2016 5:00 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

record was very easy to write about without listening to it afaict

yeah i read alfred's rvw too

altho in fairness i think the max alb maybe does lack for some mystery quality that elicited the repeat compulsion of the one before... idgi cos whenever i listened i was riveted, senses overloaded, but after...

i thought so too for a while but lately i've been coming back to it a lot in the way i feel magnetized to the first. (though i still sorta don't know why the stuart matthewman tracks are there and they sorta give me a nightmare vision of a bloozy sade record)

yeah the matthewman trax are entirely it, i resent them v deeply. guess that they manage to effectively down the whole thing on their own is testament to the crystalline changeling construction of the rest, refinement to an near-imperceptible nanotech degree

without them it is prob the most truly futuristic soul record ever

That Idolator top 10 is my favourite list so far. I think it's the first list to feature Shura. Also the Bruno Mars and Kristin Kontrol records really deserve their places.

I had no idea Idolator still existed

I think we remember it each year when they put out an okay list

Happy the Muncie Girls record was given a nod in the Kerrang list.

just had a tipoff that all frank ocean placings and reviews were really for lil peep but advertisers changed them at the last second for woke clickbae