Acclaimed Music Top 50 Albums from 2016 poll

I don't think I screwed up, nice.

ILM got the winner extremely right this year

Skeleton Tree ended up my surprise favourite at the time - still the only album by him I really care for - but I'd find it difficult not going for Blackstar

30 The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
36 KING - We Are KING
41 Maxwell - blackSUMMERS'night

one of these, idk which

Tribe or Spalding

Jeffery is Young Thug's creative peak

Such a killer year. Blackstar an easy pick. Some great records I didn’t see - Vektor Terminal Redux, ulcerate- shrines of paralysis, Astronoid - Air, Inter Arma - paradise gallows, Moon tooth - Chromaparagon, Rob Crow’s Gloomy place

Huerco S

Crying

the 1975 for me

Crying

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oh jeez yeah this one too

wow, that's a really great year. The opening seconds of that Oranssi Pazuzu album were like nothing i'd heard before.

Black Star

KING, Shura and Solange are the three I go back to the most. Crying, Britney, The Avalanches, Mitski, Maxwell and Rihanna all still sound great too. Strong year.

yeah this year rocks. Blackstar I actually think is Bowie's best album. the King Gizzard one rocks. Underworld's surprisingly strong. The Avalanches comeback I actually liked more than the first album. but nah the KING album still feels like pure magic I gotta side with that

Yeah, it’s KING

Blackstar is an incredible thing, so it has to be that but the Tribe album is fantastic also.

Blackstar my pick, but also

Beyoncé - LemonadeA Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service

Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker

Anderson .Paak - Malibu

PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project

Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth

Miranda Lambert - The Weight of These Wings

(of the ones I remember best)

And if I had to cut back further, to a Top Five, would be Bowie, Tribe, Cohen, Harvey, Lambert.

I really, really don't understand what people hear in that Tribe album, and I say that as someone who was around when they broke out and loved their first three albums. For me this is Bowie in a walk — his first great album in 35 years, and then gone? Amazing.

tribe was back after over a decade with an album that stands up to their best work. plus, phife passed

King, Maxwell or Noname.

Am I going mad? Can't see anything called Crying on the list!

Fuxache, ignore me (Beyond the Fleeting Gales innit).

don’t necessarily think jeffery is thug’s best front-to-back release anymore, but gonna vote for him in recognition of his period of excellence around this time

Is 8 years enough time for nostalgia? I think I just felt it. Emily's D+Evolution is so awesome.

Voting for the second best Parquet Courts album. (This year's not as good as 2015.)

I went with Tribe.

wildflower

Another glaring omission is Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman. Not to mention Weyes Blood, The Radio Dept., Suede and even that B-side collection by Carly Rae Jepsen.

I'm going to play that Crying album as I have never even heard of them before.

Love seeing some old faces in these threads. Hi!

We lost both David Bowie and Prince this year, still hard to believe they happened so close to each other. I thought we lost Tom Petty this year too but it was Leonard Cohen. I played this album today and it's so moving, such a profound piece of work.

George Michael at Christmas too, during what is still probably the worst my depression has ever been. Not a good time.

one of these

3 Beyoncé - Lemonade
8 A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
25 Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth
30 The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
41 Maxwell - blackSUMMERS'night
43 Miranda Lambert - The Weight of These Wings

genuinely difficult choice.

I was talking about - You Want It Darker above in case that wasn't clear.

I did get a chance to hear Crying and was shocked that the lead singer is female, don't know why that surprised me so much. It was fine and would probably grow on me if I listened to it a few more times.

This was difficult but in the end I went for A Moon Shaped Pool to give Radiohead some love in this thread.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Late vote for untitled unmastered., which I think is up there with the great outtakes/odds'n'ends collections.

It’s certainly the Kendrick LP I like best.

wanted to give Lemonade the vote but "Daddy Lessons" has always been a massive low point on what is practically a perfect album.

voted for huerco s, for those of you who have never is a delightful summertime ambient record

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Hell of a Top 4.

I voted the 1975 in the end

i see the Grammy voters that felt slighted trying to correct matters.

I didn't get around to this thread before now but for me it's The 1975 followed by some mixture of David Bowie, Young Thug, Maxwell, KING, Miranda Lambert and maybe Rihanna.

Lots of other great albums here though, including the surprisingly strong Britney album.

maxwell, kendrick, noname, and pj...

...lost to f'kn king for my vote!

...and they lost to a literal king!!

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100% agree, the best things that happen on this board, tho they are becoming fewer and far between.

POO polls are unique as you can only pick one. Leads to interesting results even if it's a bunch of lurkers.

For example

Top 5:

David Bowie - ★ [Blackstar]
KING - We Are KING
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Huerco S. - For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
Young Thug - JEFFERY