2017 end of the year lists

PopMatters' 70 Best Songs

I've never heard of Audioxide before but they have two Wolf Alice songs and a Queens of the Stone Age deep cut in their tracks list.

https://audioxide.com/articles/top-10-tracks-of-2017/

10. “Humble.” // Kendrick Lamar
9. “Popeye” // Quelle Chris
8. “Bosses Hang” // Godspeed You! Black Emperor
7. “Shapeshifter” // Richard Dawson
6. “Villains of Circumstance” // QOTSA
5. “Lush” // Four Tet
4. “Holy Books” // Death From Above
3. “Visions of a Life” // Wolf Alice
2. “Soothing” // Laura Marling
1. “Don’t Delete the Kisses” // Wolf Alice

that is chaotic

"Bosses Hang" is pretty glorious

Sleeve, finally someone else mentions The Feelies! I was revisiting and enjoying Occult Architecture Vol. 2 this week too.

I posted the whole list of my top 40 punk/post-punk/hardcore in the post-punk thread, but I'll mention here there's a lot of other bands besides the handful that are mentioned in the lists worth checking out:
http://fastnbulbous.com/lucky-17/#breakdown

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/12/12/the-best-bandcamp-albums-of-2017-80-61/

This is good, it makes me really want to hear the 8 albums on this that I'm unfamiliar with.

glad to see that quelle chris getting some love

yeah i love that quelle chris album

Top 10s from Textura - a lot to check out here in the experimental/new-music axis!
http://www.textura.org/archives/articles/2017top10s.htm

awesome, thanks

whoa mixmag list looks fun as hell

Wow, I bought a fair bit of contemporary classical and jazz this year but I haven't even heard most of the Textura lists. (Eric Hofbauer is my colleague and I saw him do Prehistoric Jazz live, which was really good. Listened to the Nicole Mitchell a couple of times but it didn't fully sink in.)

To those who've heard most of the stuff on these lists (assuming you exist): what's your average play count per album and how much 'older' music have you listened to this year?

You're right to add "assuming you exist." I doubt the person who has heard most of the music on all of these lists exists, even on this board.

Stereogum - The Best Jazz Albums Of 2017
https://www.stereogum.com/1975242/the-best-jazz-albums-of-2017/franchises/2017-in-review/

ht unperson

I doubt the person who has heard most of the music on all of these lists exists, even on this board.

― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Of course, of course. But maybe they exist within the confines of a given genre.

Is there a sound in jazz more instantly identifiable than Jane Ira Bloom's soprano saxophone?

I was always amazed at how in order to gain proper entrance to the jazz world you need to be able to recognize players by their sound, I think personally I might be able to pick out Miles Davis and Thelonius Monk, but that's about it... and I love jazz!

I like Bloom, but I hate that kind of hype-talk. I can tell a few players apart from the pack, but not super-reliably unless they're an incredibly individualistic stylist on the level of, say, Cecil Taylor, where there's absolutely no mistaking them for anyone else.

Happy with how nuts our electronic list turned out

https://t.co/1IcrGxHIab

LOVE the SW album, thanks for reminding me! I have it listed as 2016 but whatever

The Jane Ira Bloom album is glorious---unperson, whose column got me to check it out, is no soprano sax stan, to put it mildly---so if he likes it---!

LOVE the SW album, thanks for reminding me! I have it listed as 2016 but whatever

― sleeve, Wednesday, December 13, 2017 12:05 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah it rules

that lanark artefax ep is v appropriately placed

To those who've heard most of the stuff on these lists (assuming you exist): what's your average play count per album and how much 'older' music have you listened to this year?

"I suspect the lot of you are full of shit"

lol, i also listened to all the music GIVE ME MORE

wait until feb, I'm sure there'll be a new King Gizzard record

lol, try a week or so

The textura list is insane, feels from another planet. I don’t think I’ve even heard about any of the artists in there. I’ll need to do some heavy listening this week.

kerrang list (thanks kerr for providing me the scans)

1. Employed to Serve: The Warmth of a Dying Sun
2. Enter Shikari: The Spark
3. Code Orange: Forever
4. Mastodon: Emperor of Sand
5. Converge: The Dusk in Us
6. Foo Fighters: Concrete and Gold
7. Neck Deep: The Peace and the Panic
8. Rise Against: Wolves
9. The Menzingers: After the Party
10. PVRIS: All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell
11. Creeper: Eternity, in Your Arms
12. Can't Swim: Fail You Again
13. AFI: AFI (The Blood Album)
14. Pallbearer: Heartless
15. Higher Power: Soul Structure
16. Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes: Modern Ruin
17. Marilyn Manson: Heaven Upside Down
18. Chelsea Wolfe: Hiss Spun
19. The Bronx: The Bronx
20. Royal Blood: How Did We Get So Dark?
21. Queens of the Stone Age: Villains
22. Nothing But Thieves: Broken Machine
23. The Darkness: Pinewood Smile
24. Prophets of Rage: Prophets of Rage
25. Deaf Havana: All These Countless Nights
26. The Used: The Canyon
27. Glassjaw: Material Control
28. Power Trip: Nightmare Logic
29. Electric Wizard: Wizard Bloody Wizard
30. Lower Than Atlantis: Safe in Sound
31. Arcane Roots: Melancholia Hymns
32. Asking Alexandria: Asking Alexandria
33. While She Sleeps: You Are We
34. Knuckle Punk: Shapeshifter
35. Myrkur: Mareridt
36. Ohhms: The Fool
37. Papa Roach: Crooked Teeth
38. Stone Sour: Hydrograd
39. At the Drive-in: Interalia
40. HO99O9: United States of Horror
41. Linkin Park: One More Light
42. Manchester Orchestra: A Black Mile to the Surface
43. Thy Art is Murder: Dear Desolation
44. Paramore: After Laughter
45. ONE OK ROCK: Ambitions
46. You Me At Six: Night People
47. Grave Pleasures: Motherblood
48. All Time Low: Last Young Renegade
49. Stray from the Path: Only Death is Real
50. Royal Thunder: Wick

what a bizarre publication

i am listening to this arcane roots record i've never heard of and i think it might be right up simon's alley? mine as well tbh

I look forward to the bafflement that rummaging through these lists will inevitably generate.

Also… Papa Roach?

Dazed & Confused - The 20 best albums of 2017

http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/38392/1/the-20-best-albums-of-2017

Vinyl Factory: Our favourite DJs on the tracks that defined the dance floor in 2017

https://thevinylfactory.com/features/favourite-djs-tracks-defined-dance-floor-2017/

Dazed & Confused - The 20 best K-Pop songs of 2017

http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/38328/1/the-20-best-k-pop-songs-of-2017

Anneli Drecker (whose solo album appears on the Textura list) also appears on the excellent Justin Adams album, Ribbons (also from this year). I couldn't get into the solo Drecker album, but maybe I'll try again.

donald trump: new york born reality tv star who is often defended with "well he makes a lot of money, he must be good at something"; brash; self-inflating; revels in humiliating underlings; has an annoying voice
cardi b: new york born reality tv star who defends herself by crowing about her ability to make "money moves"; brash; self-inflating; revels in humiliating underlings ("I'm a boss, you a worker bitch/ I make bloody moves"); has an annoying voice

― maura, Monday, December 11, 2017 3:58 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can definitely see this.

My take on "Bodak" is that I understand why people gravitate to it but don't really enjoy it much.

i don't remember all the p&j singles winners but this definitely seems to be the year w/ the least obvious #1 in quite a while ... like Bodak Yellow is fine but it feels like it's topping these lists because there just isn't that much competition. (side note to this: I think 3 or 4 songs from DAMN are sort of cannibalizing each other w/r/t 'best songs' lists.)

To those who've heard most of the stuff on these lists (assuming you exist): what's your average play count per album and how much 'older' music have you listened to this year?

This is def not me but I've honestly been finding it hard enough to digest (and even remember) all the music I did get.

Another question kinda related to that: how many 2017 albums have people even heard so far this year? I assume that it's gonna be a lot for the professional critics here, but how about everyone else? I've only heard about 40 but I'm gonna plow my way through a whole bunch more before i dare try to make any lists

Non-critic/non-blogger/non-DJ here. I would say I've heard at least a 100, maybe up 150 or even 200. There are a lot of things I listen to once and then largely forget about.

Probably around 180 here, but that used to be higher. Now I have a real job so I have less time for music.

who cares how many you've heard, that's fucking absurd, peace

not about quantity, but quality..?

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-20-best-rap-albums-of-2017/

1. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
2. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
3. Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy
4. JAY-Z - 4:44
5. Migos - Culture
6. Future - HNDRXX
7. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3
8. Playboi Carti - Playboi Carti
9. Drake - More Life
10. Lil B - Black Ken
11. Open Mike Eagle - Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
12. Wiki - No Mountains in Manhattan
13. Chief Keef - Thot Breaker
14. Lil Uzi Vert - Luv Is Rage 2
15. MIKE - May God Bless Your Hustle
16. Kamaiyah - Before I Wake
17. 2 Chainz - Pretty Girls Like Trap Music
18. YoungBoy Never Broke Again - A.I. Youngboy
19. milo - who told you to think??!!?!?!?!
20. Rapsody - Laila’s Wisdom

I haven't heard any!

unless you count clips, in which case Ive heard 1, the album by Atree (and not just because its by a tree though it played into it a little bit I will concede)

I have only listened to TQD's "Baked Beans" on a loop all year

oh but i see where you're going with this, how did I know such a thing existed and it is because its by atree but it doesnt totally sit right with me. i think "a tree" is better than "atree" but 'atree' is better than 'Atree', that capitalization is all wrong this listening to albums business is a stressful endeavour and thats before you even get to whatever nonsense may lie within