2017 end of the year lists

"Even the Prof Sphere list looks pretty boring"

"Hilarious self-own"

woah, look what happens if you rearrange the radio x list:

Gorillaz - Humanz
Arcade Fire - Everything Now
Stereophonics - Scream Above The Sounds

Circa Waves - Different Creatures
Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains
Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains
Morrissey - Low In High School
Beck - Colors
Elbow - Little Fictions
Stereophonics - Scream Above The Sounds

The Independent's Album of the Year:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/best-albums-2017-loyle-carner-lorde-kendrick-lamar-taylor-swift-stormzy-j-hus-lists-a8071516.html

1) Loyle Carner  - Yesterday’s Gone  
2) Lorde - Melodrama
3) Rapsody - Laila's Wisdom
4) Perfume Genius - No Shape
5) SZA - Ctrl
6) Ghostpoet - Dark Days + Canapes
7) Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
8) Syd - Fin
9) Jessie Ware - Glasshouse
10) Trampolene - Swansea to Hornsey
11) J Hus - Common Sense
12) King Krule - The OoZ
13) Stormzy - Gang Signs and Prayer
14) St Vincent - MASSEDUCTION
15) Jay Z - 4: 44
16) Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
17) Queens of the Stone Age - Villains
18) Sampha - Process
19) Taylor Swift - reputation
20) Bonobo - Migration
21) Lana Del Rey - Lust For Life
22) The National - Sleep Well Beast
23) Brent Cobb - Shine On Rainy Day
24) Charlotte Gainsbourg - Rest
25) Thundercat - Drunk
26) Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex
27) Bleachers - Gone Now
28) The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
29) The xx - I See You
30) Alexandra Saviour - Belladonna of Sadness

lol xp

Loudwire 25 Best Metal Albums of 2017

http://loudwire.com/25-best-metal-albums-2017/

Get Ready To Rock! - The Website for Classic, Metal & Progressive Rock
http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2017/11/the-best-of-2017-top-albums-top-live-acts-the-reviewers-choice/

Top Albums

1 CATS IN SPACE Scarecrow
2 JUDIE TZUKE Peace Has Broken Out
3 HAREM SCAREM United
4 COCO MONTOYA Hard Truth
5 BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION IV
6 KING KING Exile & Grace
7 BLACK STAR RIDERS Heavy Fire
8 GRAHAM BONNET BAND Live Here Comes The Night
9 THEA GILMORE The Counterweight
10 THE MAGPIE SALUTE S/T

Top Live Acts

1 BLACK STAR RIDERS
2 ALICE COOPER
3 MARILLION
4 PANIC ROOM
5 KISS
6 ELIZA NEALS & THE NARCOTICS
7 BLACK SABBATH
8 THE MAGPIE SALUTE
9 FAIRPORT CONVENTION

i've never heard of any of the bands in that albums list therefore it is the best list so far.

it has a band named CATS IN SPACE so i agree

they will all turn out to be thuddingly retrograde hard-rock dirge-peddlers fyi

i don't know why they only managed to name 9 live acts btw, have a horrible feeling the tenth act passed on and had to be withdrawn from the list

for more clues, check out their live acts list

also lol haha yes

Independent list first one that makes some sense

yeah it always has been a publication for bourgie dullards

Girlpool conspicuously missing from all these lists

Come on lj, it's the most progressive list on here by far.

it just kinda looks like the other ones reshuffled

that thundercat record is awful

agreed about the thundercat record, was really looking forward to it after that awesome EP he dropped in 2015

I like "Show You the Way" but was never able to get into the record as a whole

(though of course I'd like it better without the winky vocalist intros)

flappy bird w/ a good point, re: Girlpool's absence

Oh don't worry there's 400 more lists yet to come.

lots more chances for Lorde to come in at #2

I had no idea there was a new Satyricon. Also pumped that the Elder LP is showing up in some of these.

Is the Lorde album even any good? I've not bothered with it yet

it's very good

(and I didn't care for the first much at all)

Is the Lorde album even any good? I've not bothered with it yet

― imago, Monday, November 27, 2017 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

asking this question in a thread highlighting various lists where it's come in at #1. At bear minimum it's probably worth a bother.

it's not really my thing and i still think it's p impressive

Lorde album is great

It is. Even though it's not among my faves, it's worth one breath as opposed to a thousand TayTay thinkpieces imo.

Not much into the whole Lorde album, but Green Light is one my tracks of the year

The Ryan Adams record is actually really good, too. Best since Love is Hell. #burningmyreponepostatatime

yeah it rules

anyone who has the portugal the man album on their list is a cop

sorry, rules are rules

Lots of the Lorde album is way better than Green Light, which I've come round to a bit, but still doesn't feel like the song matches up to the scale of the production.

Best random thing I've recently discovered off a list is Nadia Reid. Preservation is gorgeous, as is I Come Home to You.

i've particularly grown to admire "the louvre"

xp

lol at the name "Loyle"

i saw lorde's show on sunday and not that i wasn't already head over heels for the album but it's now cemented itself as a classic album for me

anyone who has the portugal the man album on their list is a cop

― maura, Monday, November 27, 2017 10:00 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Truth.

did Portugal. The Man have a crossover mainstream breakthrough this year? been seeing their name from a lot of people i didn't expect. feel like it's been ages since i listened to that stuff (circa survive, dredg, the sound of animals fighting)

did portugal. the man ever sound like circa survive. wait don't tell me

yeah, i live in the pac nw and the breakthrough of Portugal. The Man into the mainstream - which i didn't even know about until i saw them perform on the AMAs - is def the weirdest musical story of 2017, imo

flappy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feel_It_Still

xp don't they have the same singer?

i didn't realize portugal the man was a thing anyone cared about before their limp crossover hit this year

Lorde album is great, and Louvre has one of the years best lyrics in it: 'we're the greatest, they'll hang us in the Louvre / down the back, but who cares, still the Louvre'

xp don't they have the same singer?

― flappy bird, Monday, November 27, 2017 4:54 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no????????????

ohhh ok i just looked it up Anthony Green was also in Saosin (and Sound of Animals Fighting, which btw, first ep? amazing, still)

This might not qualify as an end of year list, because it's a mix, and also it picks up 2016 favorites. . . But it's as close as Musicophilia will ever get to an end-of-year list:

Various – ‘The Four Ethers‘
(2016-2017)

Part I: Spring/Life/Earth

01 [0:00:00] Moses Sumney – “Doomed” (Aromanticism, 2017)
02 [0:04:27] Four Tet – “Scientists” (New Energy, 2017)
03 [0:09:12] Ibeyi – “When Will I Learn” (Ash, 2017)
04 [0:12:12] Bjork – “Utopia” (Utopia, 2017)
05 [0:16:47] Mount Kimbie – “Audition” (Love What Survives, 2017)
06 [0:20:57] Thundercat – “A Fan’s Mail” (Drunk, 2017)
07 [0:23:27] Sampha – “Reverse Faults” (Process, 2017)
08 [0:27:34] Cornelius – “Dear Future Person” (Mellow Waves, 2017)

Part II: Summer/Warmth/Fire

09 [0:32:11] No Zu – “Spirit Beat” (Afterlife, 2016)
10 [0:36:40] Daphni – “Medellin” (Joli Mai, 2017)
11 [0:42:50] Anderson Paak – “The Bird” (Malibu, 2016)
12 [0:46:23] A Tribe Called Quest – “Whateva Will Be” (We Got It From Here. . ., 2016)
13 [0:49:16] !!! – “Our Love (U Can Get)” (Shake The Shudder, 2017)
14 [0:53:31] Golden Teacher – “Sauchiehall Withdrawal” (No LUscious Life, 2017)
15 [0:58:36] Fujiya & Miyagi – “Synthetic Symphonies” (Fujiya & Miyagi, 2017)

Part III: Autumn/Light/Air

16 [1:03:24] Frankie Rose – “Dancing Down The Hall” (Cage Tropical, 2017)
17 [1:08:45] Solange – “Don’t You Wait” (A Seat At the Table, 2016)
18 [1:12:51] Virginia Wing – “Grapefruit” (Forward Constant Motion, 2016)
19 [1:16:35] Black Marble – “A Million Billion Stars” (It’s Immaterial, 2016)
20 [1:19:46] Kendrick Lamar – “Feel” (Damn, 2017)
21 [1:23:17] David Bowie – “No Plan” (No Plan EP, 2017)
22 [1:26:52] Jane Weaver – “The Lightning Back” (Modern Kosmology, 2017)

Part IV: Winter/Sound/Water

23 [1:30:21] Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein – “Stranger Things (Extended)” (Stranger Things Vol. 2, 2016)
24 [1:35:18] Fever Ray – “Red Trails” (Plunge, 2017)
25 [1:39:59] Joana Guerra – “Carpideiras” (Cavalos Vapor, 2016)
26 [1:43:40] Andy Stott – “First Night” (Too Many Voices, 2016)
27 [1:48:33] Radiohead – “Daydreaming” (A Moon Shaped Pool, 2016)
28 [1:54:45] Slowdive – “Falling Ashes” (Slowdive, 2017)
29 [2:02:29] Arca – “Reverie” (Arca, 2017)
30 [2:05:34] Serpentwithfeet – “Redemption” (Blisters EP, 2016)

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