My Top 25 Albums of 2017

25. Margo Price - All American Made
24. Mountain Goats - Goths
23. Laura Marling - Semper Femina
22. Lorde - Melodrama
21. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
20. Thundercat - Drunk
19. White Reaper - World's Best American Band
18. Wolf Parade - Cry, Cry, Cry
17. Grandaddy - Last Place
16. Hurray for Riff Raff - Navigator
15. Sheer Mag - Need to Feel Your Love
14. Moses Sumney - Aromanticism
13. Strand of Oaks - Hard Love
12. Big K.R.I.T. - 4eva is a Mighty Long Time
11. Sylvan Esso - What Now
10. The New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions
9. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
8. The National - Sleep Well Beast
7. War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
6. Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
5. Spoon - Hot Thoughts
4. Rolling Blackouts CF - The French Press
3. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
2. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
1. St. Vincent - Masseducation

Thanks

Omissions for me would be Sampha, SZA, and Jamila Woods, but I'm not listening to as many genres as you. I love the Sumney record and DAMN. I haven't been able to get into A Deeper Understanding, because I'd always rather listen to Lost in the Dream.

Thanks.

I've heard of 3 of these, and I'm a millennial.

tigerswood said:

I've heard of 3 of these, and I'm a millennial.

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I've actually listened to 5 of them, which tells me Townie is now into dad rock.

Reputation?

if you don't add japanese breakfast to this list you gonna catch these hands

Top song of 2017 from Thor

I clapped my hands it was so fucking brilliant

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OtzJtp-EM

I think I've heard of 7-8 of those and actually heard none of the listed albums. Do like St. Vincent though. Dallas girl.

RedSoxFaithful said:

if you don't add japanese breakfast to this list you gonna catch these hands

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Hasnt been in any top 50 lists i've seen yet.

Two bands who released albums in 2016 that deserve your attention, especially live, are The Record Company and Joseph. If their albums came out in 2017, they'd both be high on this list but I didn't discover them til this summer.

p good list

new gb is super underrated

TownieDeac said:

Two bands who released albums in 2016 that deserve your attention, especially live, are The Record Company and Joseph. If their albums came out in 2017, they'd both be high on this list but I didn't discover them til this summer.

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No Julien Baker or Big Thief? The KRIT record would be a lot higher on my list, but I like yours a lot.

yeah, big thief's album was so good

surprised by the lack of TYLER, too

How do you type while masturbating yourself?

Natalia Lafourcade

y’all need to get out more

Grabs Turds Bare said:

How do you type while masturbating yourself?

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Talk to text whilst banging yer ma

notable omissions, most from americana genre: **my top 6
john moreland big bad luv**
jason isbell nashville sound**
waterboys out of all this blue**
sarah shook sidelong
neil young the hitchhiker (yes its from 76 but released this year)**
matthew ryan hustle up starlings
john mellencamp sad clowns
craig finn we all want the same things**
chris stapleton from A room vol 1
ryan adams Prisoner **

Thanks for the rec on Rolling Blackouts CF btw. Really enjoying that.

I like your list, Townie.

My favorites would probably be:

XX, I See You
Sylvan Esso, What Now?
New Pornographers, Whiteout Conditions
Broken Social Scene, Hug of Thunder
St. Vincent, Masseduction
Spoon, Hot Thoughts
Beach Fossils, Somersault
Rostam, Half-Light
Grizzly Bear, Painted Ruins

Kind of an interesting music year where a lot of my favorite bands put out albums that I didn't NOT like, but I just didn't like or hook into as much as their previous work, so their albums would go on a list of music I liked in 2017, but compared to their previous work I don't feel super passionate about these albums and maybe feel a tad disappointed by that:

Fleet Foxes, Crack-Up
Feist, Pleasure
Father John Misty, Pure Comedy
The National, Sleep Well Beast
War on Drugs, A Deeper Understanding
Future Islands, The Far Field
Real Estate, In Mind
Tennis, Your Conditionally

Fleet Foxes, The National, and War on Drugs in particular to me just feel kind of long and it's hard to make it through the whole album. Real Estate's album is very forgettable to me.

As always, there are also a bunch of albums that I heard stuff from and liked, but haven't listened to enough to feel good about putting on my favorites list, so I reserve the right to come back and post 3 years from now that the LCD Soundsystem or Destroyer record was definitely my favorite album of 2017.

if anybody was wondering what exactly dad rock was...