Best Boris - Dear Kelela - Take Me Apart Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives Ryuichi Sakamoto - async Kabul Dreams - Megalomaniacs Zola Jesus - Okovi St. Vincent - Masseduction Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - The Vietnam War (Original Score) Good Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. Slowdive - Slowdive Linkin Park - One More Light LCD Soundsystem - american dream Gorillaz - Humanz Mac Demarco - This Old Dog Steven Wilson - To the Bone Thundercat - Drunk Jay-Z - 4:44 Nine Inch Nails - Add Violence Depeche Mode - Spirit Future - HNDRXX Chelsea Wolfe - HIss Spun Allison Crutchfield - Tourist in This Town Average The xx - I See You Alice Glass - Alice Glass Coldplay - Kaleidoscope NHK x Koyxen - Exit Entrance Bad Drake - More Life Anticipating Nine Inch Nails Pusha T (if that's happening) I admit that I typed "best albums 2017" into Google and am running down the list on Spotify. Never done something like this before. Just gonna pick an album and listen to it regardless of genre or the artist.
Then check out my 2 favorite albums of the year too, which you won't find on any best of list because they're fucking underrated! Connect the Dots by MisterWives (indie pop) Broken Machine by Nothing But Thieves (alternative rock)
Broken Machine is great. I'm grateful for knowing more music through both LPA and music reviews channels. I still have to listen to Connect The Dots, though. For some reason I can't listen to more than 4 new albums a day.
TIER 1 Angus & Julia Stone: "Snow" Astrid S: "Party's Over" EP Belly: "Mumble Rap" BROCKHAMPTON: "SATURATION II" Kelela: "Take Me Apart" Lastlings: "Verses" EP Linkin Park: "One More Light" Lorde: "Melodrama" Nine Inch Nails: "Add Violence" EP TIER 2 Flume: "Skin Companion EP II" Lana Del Rey: "Lust For Life" Wolf Alice: "Visions Of A Life" TIER 3 Halsey: "hopeless fountain kingdom" XXXTENTACION: "17"
THE BEST 1. Brand New- Science Fiction* 2. Neck Deep- The Peace and the Panic 3. Kendrick Lamar- DAMN^ | Up 2 Spots 4. Our Last Night- Selective Hearing | Down 1 Spot 5. Halsey- Hopeless Fountain Kingdom | Down 1 Spot 6. Ed Sheeran- Divide 7. Foo Fighters- Concrete and Gold* 8. Queens of The Stone Age- Villains 9. Lana Del Rey- Lust For Life 10. Manchester Orchestra- A Black Mile to the Surface* 11. The National- Sleep Well Beast* 12. Thomas Rhett- Life Changes* THE GREAT 13. CKY- The Phoenix 14. Royal Blood- How Did We Get So Dark? 15. Linkin Park- One More Light 16. THEY- Nu Religion: Hyena 17. Angels and Airwaves- We Don't Need to Whisper (Acoustic)* 17. The World Is a Beautiful Place and I Am Not Longer Afraid to Die- Always Foreign* 18. The Killers- Wonderful, Wonderful* 19. Harry Styles- Harry Styles 20. The Cool Kids- Special Edition Grand Master Deluxe* 21. Circa Survive- The Amulet* 22. Sampha- Process THE GOOD 23. SHINee- Five 24. Motionless in White- Graveyard Shift 25. Grayscale- Adornment 26. MisterWives- Connect the Dots 27. Incubus- 8 28. Steven Wilson- To The Bone* 29. Dropkick Murphys- 11 Short Stories of Pain and Glory* 30. Silverstein- Dead Reflection 31. Starset- Vessels 32. The XX- I See You 33. Brad Paisley- Love and War 34. Cpunterparts- You're Not You Anymore* 35. Andrew McMahon and the Wildernes- Zombies on Broadway 36. Bleachers- Gone Now* 37. Cloud Nothings- Life Without Sound 38. Daughter- Music From Before The Storm* 39. Mutemath- Play Dead* 40. WSTR- Red, Green, or Inbetween 41. Lady Antebellum- Heartbreak 42. Phoebe Bridgers- Strangers In the Alps* 43. Chin Up, Kid- Swing With Your Eyes Closed 44. Young Dolph- Bulletproof 45. Smile Empty Soul- Rarities 46. Eisley- I'm Only Dreaming 47. Enter Shikari- The Spark* 48. Free Throw- Bear Your Mind 49. McCafferty- Thanks. Sorry. Sure. 50. Have Mercy- Make the Best of It 51. Stone Sour- Hydrograd 52. The Early November- 15 Years 53. Mount Erie- A Crow Looked At Me* 54. BTS- You Never Walk Alone 55. Death From Above 1979- Outrage is Now!* 56. Gardenside- Gardenside THE OKAY 57. As It Is- Okay 58. Miss May I- Shadows Inside 59. Rise Against- Wolves 60. Kodak Black- Painting Pictures* 61. Seaway- Vacation* 62. Nothing But Thieves- Broken Machine* 63. Rancid- Trouble Maker 64. Flume- Skin Compilation 2 65. John Mayer- The Search For Everything Part 1 [Still need to listen to full album] 66. Bea Miller- Chapter 1/2: Blue/Red 67. Born of Osiris- The Eternal Reign 68. Less Than Jake- Sound the Alarm THE TRASH 59. Lil Uzi Vert- Luv is Rage 2* 60. LCD Soundsystem- American Dream* 61. Sleeping With Sirens-Gossip* 62. Imagine Dragons- Evolve 63. The Chainsmokers- Memories.... Do Not Open 64. Seether- Poison The Parish BOLD= NEW ADDITION Anticipating/Still Need to Listen To: The All-American Rejects- LP5 | TBD Avril Lavigne- LP6 (Hoping anyway) | TBA Chief Keef- Two Zero One Seven | Out Chris Brown- Heartbreak on a Full Moon | October 31 CHVRCHES- LP3 (Hoping anyway) | TBA Deep Purple- InFinite | Out Dire Fire- Dire Fire | Out Dreamcar- Dreamcar | Out From First To Last- LP6 | TBA Hundreth- RARE | Out James Blunt- The Afterlove | Out Kelsea Balerini- Unapologetically | Nov 3 Knuckle Puck- Shapeshifter | Out Kygo- LP2 | TBD LANY- LANY | Out Maddie and Tae- LP2 | TBD MGMT- Little Dark Age | TBD Niall Horan- LP1 | Out The Offspring- LP10 | TBA Passion Pit- Tremendous Sea of Love | Out A Perfect Circle- LP4 | TBD Phoenix- Ti Amo | Out Saint Asonia- LP2 | TBD Sam Smith- LP2 | TBA Schoolboy Q- LP5 | TBA Sorority Noise- You're Not As_____As You Think | Out 30 Seconds to Mars- LP5 | TBD Songs of the year: https://open.spotify.com/user/123591090/playlist/2yzOTkmqepOHTSfhFAoh2S
T O P 1 0 U N R A N K E D BRAND NEW | SCIENCE FICTION FOO FIGHTERS | CONCRETE AND GOLD KENDRICK LAMAR | DAMN. LIGHTS | SKIN&EARTH LINKIN PARK | ONE MORE LIGHT NINE INCH NAILS | ADD VIOLENCE PARAMORE | AFTER LAUGHTER PVRIS | ALL WE KNOW OF HEAVEN, ALL WE NEED OF HELL QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE | VILLAINS STARSET | VESSELS H O N O R A B L E M E N T I O N S DEATH FROM ABOVE | OUTRAGE! IS NOW HARRY STYLES | HARRY STYLES MASTODON | EMPEROR OF SAND TERA MELOS | TRASH GENERATOR Q U E U E D A N T I C I P A T I N G ALESSANDRO CORTINI | AVANTI LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM AND CHRISTINA MCVIE | LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM/CHRISTINA MCVIE
THE BEST Brockhampton - "Saturation" Brockhampton - "Saturation II" Caligula's Horse - "In Contact" The Contortionist - "Clairvoyant" Father John Misty - "Pure Comedy" Fleet Foxes - "Crack-Up" Linkin Park - "One More Light" Sons of Apollo - "Psychotic Symphony" * THE GREAT Coldplay - "Kaleidoscope" Kamasi Washington - "Harmony of Difference" * Kendrick Lamar - "DAMN" Leprous - "Malina" Ne Obliviscaris - "Urn" * Pallbearer - "Heartless" Paramore - "After Laughter" Persefone - "Aathma" Chris Stapleton - "From A Room: Volume 1" Ulver - "The Assassination of Julius Caeser" Steven Wilson - "To the Bone" The War on Drugs - "A Deeper Understanding" THE GOOD Arcade Fire - "Everything Now" Fen - "Winter" Foo Fighters - "Concrete and Gold" * Harry Styles - "Harry Styles" Mastodon - "Emperor of Sand" Wintersun - "The Forest Seasons" THE OKAY / DISAPPOINTING Dave Kerzner - "Static" * Thundercat - "Drunk" ANTICIPATING Algiers - "The Underside of Power" Gorillaz - "Humanz" Nine Inch Nails - "Add Violence" * = Ranking Change / New Addition
THE BEST Foo Fighters - Concrete and Gold Broilers - [sic!] Marteria - Roswell Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage The Good Gorillaz - Humanz Linkin Park - One More Light Anti-Flag - American Fall Rise Against - Wolves Die Toten Hosen - Laune der Natur Kraftklub - Keine Nacht für Niemand Dragonforce - Reaching Into Infinity Wintersun - The Forest Seasons The Okay Prophets Of Rage - Selftitled Papa Roach - Crooked Teeth The Disappointing Sondaschule - Schere, Stein, Papier
In no order Linkin Park - One More Light Foo Fighters - Concrete and Gold Shredders - Dangerous Jumps Trivium - The Sin and the Sentence One OK Rock - Ambitions Ninja Sex Party - Under The Covers Volume 2 Stone Sour - Hydrograd P.O.S - Chill, Dummy
1. A Deeper Understanding by The War on Drugs 2. Lotta Sea Lice by Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile 3. Still Striving by A$AP Ferg 4. Hiss Spun by Chelsea Wolfe 5. Okovi by Zola Jesus 6. in•ter a•li•a by At the Drive-In 7. Droptopwop by Gucci Mane 8. Losing by Bully 9. Grateful by DJ Khaled 10. Add Violence EP by Nine Inch Nails Just missing the cut, but might move up in the next month or so (but probably not) is Antisocialites by Alvvways and The Saga Continues by Wu-Tang Clan
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My final ranking (maybe?). also I decided to split albums and EPs because I listened to too much EPs Albums: 1- MisterWives - Connect the Dots: 10/10 2- Nothing But Thieves - Broken Machine: 10/10 3- Linkin Park - One More Light: 9/10 4- Starset - Vessels: 9/10 5- PVRIS - All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell: 9/10 6- Tove Lo - Blue Lips: 9/10* 7- LIGHTS - Skin & Earth: 9/10 8- Vérité - Somewhere in Between: 9/10 9- Blue Hawaii - Tenderness: 8.5/10* 10- Allie X - CollXtion II: 8.5/10 11- The xx - I See You: 8/10 12- Sabrina Claudio - About Time: 7.5/10* 13- Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa: 7.5/10 14- Silverstein - Dead Reflection: 7/10 15- Oh Wonder - Ultralife: 6.5/10 16- Imagine Dragons - Evolve: 6.5/10 17- Halsey - Hopeless Fountain Kingdom: 6.5/10 18- Royal Blood - How Did We Get So Dark?: 6.5/10* 19- Blackbear - digital druglord: 6/10 20- Zara Larsson - So Good: 5.5/10 21- Dayseeker - Dreaming is Sinking /// Walking is Rising: 5/10 22- Katy Perry - Witness: 5/10 23- Asking Alexandria - Asking Alexandria: 4.5/10* EPs: 1- Luna Shadows - Youth: 10/10* 2- Astrid S - Party's Over: 9/10 3- Fickle Friends - Glue: 9/10 4- Sigrid - Don't Kill My Vibe: 8.5/10* 5- Billie Eilish - dont smile at me: 8.5/10 6- machineheart - Cruel World: 8.5/10 7- Maggie Rogers - Now That the Light is Fading: 8.5/10 8- Sabrina Claudio - Confidently Lost: 8.5/10 9- Charlotte Cardin - Main Girl: 8/10* 10- Echosmith - Inside a Dream: 7.5/10* 11- Bishop Briggs - Bishop Briggs: 7/10 12- Transviolet - Kaleidoscopes: 7/10 13- Línger - Tuple: 7/10 14- Flume - Skin Companion II: 7/10* 15- Theia - Theia: 6.5/10 16- Ralph - Ralph: 6.5/10* 17- Marlene - Sweet: 6.5/10* 18- Julia Michaels - Nervous System: 5/10 Best songs of 2017 * new
THE BEST 1. Brand New- Science Fiction 2. Kendrick Lamar- DAMN. | ^Up 1 Spot 3. Julien Baker- Turn Out the Lights* 4. Kygo- Kids In Love* 5. Lil Peep- Come Over When You're Sober* 6. Neck Deep- The Peace and the Panic 7. Our Last Night- Selective Hearing 8. Halsey- Hopeless Fountain Kingdom 9. Ed Sheeran- Divide 10. Foo Fighters- Concrete and Gold 11. Queens of The Stone Age- Villains 12. Lana Del Rey- Lust For Life 13. Manchester Orchestra- A Black Mile to the Surface 14. Lil Peep and Lil Tracy- Castles II* 15. Slushii- Out of Light* 16. Darius Rucker- When Was the Last Time* 17. 10 Years- How to Live (As Ghosts)* 18. The National- Sleep Well Beast 19. Thomas Rhett- Life Changes THE GREAT 20. CKY- The Phoenix 21. Royal Blood- How Did We Get So Dark? 22. Linkin Park- One More Light 23. THEY- Nu Religion: Hyena 24. Taylor Swift- Reputation* 25. Angels and Airwaves- We Don't Need to Whisper (Acoustic) 26. The World Is a Beautiful Place and I Am Not Longer Afraid to Die- Always Foreign 27. Knuckle Puck- Shapeshiffter* 28. The Killers- Wonderful, Wonderful 29. Harry Styles- Harry Styles 30. The Cool Kids- Special Edition Grand Master Deluxe 31. Kygo- Stargazzing* 32. Circa Survive- The Amulet 33. Sampha- Process THE GOOD 34. Chris Young- Losing Sleep* 35. SHINee- Five 36. Motionless in White- Graveyard Shift 37. Grayscale- Adornment 38. MisterWives- Connect the Dots 39. Incubus- 8 40. Big K.R.I.T.- 4eva is a Long Time* 41. Steven Wilson- To The Bone 42. Dropkick Murphys- 11 Short Stories of Pain and Glory 43. Silverstein- Dead Reflection 44. Starset- Vessels 45. The XX- I See You 46. Brad Paisley- Love and War 47. Cpunterparts- You're Not You Anymore 48. Andrew McMahon and the Wildernes- Zombies on Broadway 49. Bleachers- Gone Now 50. Cloud Nothings- Life Without Sound 51. Daughter- Music From Before The Storm 52. Mutemath- Play Dead 53. WSTR- Red, Green, or Inbetween 54. Kelsea Ballerini- Unapologetically* 55. Lady Antebellum- Heartbreak 56. Phoebe Bridgers- Strangers In the Alps 57. Chin Up, Kid- Swing With Your Eyes Closed 58. Young Dolph- Bulletproof 59. Smile Empty Soul- Rarities 60. Eisley- I'm Only Dreaming 61. Enter Shikari- The Spark 62. Sam Smith- The Thrill of It All* 63. Free Throw- Bear Your Mind 64. McCafferty- Thanks. Sorry. Sure. 65. Blake Shelton- Texacoma* 66. Wale- Smile* 67. Have Mercy- Make the Best of It 68. Stone Sour- Hydrograd 69. The Early November- 15 Years 70. Mount Erie- A Crow Looked At Me 71. BTS- You Never Walk Alone 72. Death From Above 1979- Outrage is Now! 73. Gardenside- Gardenside THE OKAY 74. As It Is- Okay 75. Miss May I- Shadows Inside 76. Rise Against- Wolves 77. Kodak Black- Painting Pictures 78. Seaway- Vacation 79. Nothing But Thieves- Broken Machine 80. Rancid- Trouble Maker 81. Flume- Skin Compilation 2 82. Chris Brown- Heartbreak on a Full Moon [First Half]* 83. John Mayer- The Search For Everything Part 1 [Still need to listen to full album] 84. Bea Miller- Chapter 1/2: Blue/Red 85. Born of Osiris- The Eternal Reign 86. Less Than Jake- Sound the Alarm THE TRASH 87. Lil Uzi Vert- Luv is Rage 2 88. Vince Staples- Big Fish Theory* 89. LCD Soundsystem- American Dream 90. Sleeping With Sirens-Gossip 91. Imagine Dragons- Evolve 92. The Chainsmokers- Memories.... Do Not Open 93. Seether- Poison The Parish THE UTTER GARBAGE 94. Lil Tracy- XOXO* 95. Migos- Culture* BOLD= NEW ADDITION Anticipating/Still Need to Listen To: Chief Keef- Two Zero One Seven | Out Deep Purple- InFinite | Out Dire Fire- Dire Fire | Out Dreamcar- Dreamcar | Out [Heard it once but don't remember what I listened to] Eminem- Revival | December 8th Hundreth- RARE | Out Jerrod Neimann- This Ride | Out LANY- LANY | Out Lee Brice- Lee Brice | Out Little Big Town- The Breaker | Out Miguel- War & Leisure | December 1st N.E.R.D.- No One Ever Really Dies | December 15th Niall Horan- LP1 | Out Passion Pit- Tremendous Sea of Love | Out Phoenix- Ti Amo | Out Pink- Beautiful Trauma | Out Sara Evans- Words | Out Sleigh Bells- Kid Kruschev | Out Sorority Noise- You're Not As_____As You Think | Out Songs of the year: https://open.spotify.com/user/123591090/playlist/2yzOTkmqepOHTSfhFAoh2S
Year-End List (I may listen to other 2017 albums until Dec 31, so I can add a few more) Best Linkin Park - One More Light Linkin Park - One More Light Live Brand New - Science Fiction Zola Jesus - Okovi Nothing But Thieves - Broken Machine Shania Twain - Now Xandria - Theater of Dimensions Lorde - Melodrama Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun Good Björk - Utopia Paramore - After Laughter Nickelback - Feed The Machine Pvris - All We Know Of Heaven, All We Need Of Hell Steven Wilson - To The Bone Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa Evanescence - Synthesis Taylor Swift - Reputation Neck Deep - The Peace and The Panic Worst Harry Styles - Self-Titled Ed Sheeran - Divide Imagine Dragons - Evolve Epica - The Solace System EP Arch Enemy - Will To Power Eluveitie - Evocation II - Pantheon Coldplay - Kaleidoscope EP The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding Foo Fighters - Concrete And Gold Overlooked Albums Best The xx - I See You Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness Julien Baker - Turn Out The Lights Alvvays - Antisocialites Feist - Pleasure Good St Vincent - MASSEDUCTION Lady Antebellum - Heart Break Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains Wolf Alice - Visions Of A Life Worst Kendrick Lamar - DAMN Still Need To Listen To Eminem - Revival (probably not worth it and tediously long) SZA-CTRL The National - Sleep Well Beast Oxbow - Thin Black Duke Converge - The Dusk In Us Father John Misty - Pure Comedy Slowdive - Self-Titled Kesha - Rainbow Jay-Z - 4:44 EMA - Exile In The Outer Ring Ibeyi - Ash Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me Trivium - The Sin and The Sentence A lot of albums for 2 days, but still manageable with more than 5 hours listening per day I can give every album a mark if I have time, but that would mean it can albums can shift from good to best or vice versa.
So. I can't in good faith listen to Brand New's album anymore without thinking of what was revealed about Jesse, and feeling completely disgusted. Therefore I have to strike the band from my lists entirely. T O P 1 0 U N R A N K E D BJÖRK | UTOPIA FOO FIGHTERS | CONCRETE AND GOLD KENDRICK LAMAR | DAMN. LIGHTS | SKIN&EARTH LINKIN PARK | ONE MORE LIGHT NINE INCH NAILS | ADD VIOLENCE PARAMORE | AFTER LAUGHTER PVRIS | ALL WE KNOW OF HEAVEN, ALL WE NEED OF HELL QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE | VILLAINS STARSET | VESSELS H O N O R A B L E M E N T I O N S DEATH FROM ABOVE | OUTRAGE! IS NOW HARRY STYLES | HARRY STYLES MASTODON | EMPEROR OF SAND TERA MELOS | TRASH GENERATOR Q U E U E D A N T I C I P A T I N G ALESSANDRO CORTINI | AVANTI LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM AND CHRISTINA MCVIE | LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM/CHRISTINA MCVIE[/QUOTE] Good sir, have you accepted Kendrick Lamar as your lord and savior?
TIER 1 Angus & Julia Stone: "Snow" Astrid S: "Party's Over" EP Belly: "Mumble Rap" BROCKHAMPTON: "SATURATION II" Kelela: "Take Me Apart" Lastlings: "Verses" EP Linkin Park: "One More Light" Lorde: "Melodrama" Nine Inch Nails: "Add Violence" EP SZA: "Ctrl" TIER 2 Flume: "Skin Companion EP II" Lana Del Rey: "Lust For Life" Wolf Alice: "Visions Of A Life" This is the last update I'm giving for the year. I think I'm pretty much ready to put together a ranked list, probably just a top 5, so I'll be doing that soon I don't think that's really a fair way to judge whose music is "genuine" and whose isn't - hell, what does "genuine" even mean here? If you'd like a rap album with a bit of introspection, one that I might recommend is NF's "Perception"