What are your top 10 albums of 2017?

Yeah, this is a little early, but I think I am whittling down my top 10 of 2017, and I'm going to start posting them countdown-style (along with what I think is my favorite track).

(Don't have your top 10 decided yet? You can wait until Dec 31 to post. Don't like top 10 lists/threads? Happily move along to another thread that floats your fancy, and have a great day!!).

Also, anything that came out in 2017 qualifies, and that includes live / unreleased / reissued.

#10:

For my #10 pick, I am going with David Crosby's Sky Trails. For the second year in a row, Crosby has put out a very solid, very well-crafted solo LP that has again made my top 10.

 

We've all been listing them here in this 73 page thread.

Ok...I see now that you create this yearly.

Best New Albums of 2017 *

 

That's cool, I've posted there as well. This is for people's personal top 10.

 

Not sure I'm ready yet, must listen to 2 - 3 new albums every week but as of yet and no way can I put them in order, so:

Courtney Marie Andrews - Honest Life
Brent Cobb - Shine On Rainy Day, amazing live in Manchester
Laura Marling - Semper Femina
Margo Price - All American Made
Chris Stapleton - From A Room Vol.1
Otis Taylor - Fantasizing About Being Black

Perhaps I'll have four more I'm confident about by 31 December?

 

Forgot one Jake Xerxes Fussell - What In The Natural World, may be obscure so:

 

Don't have ten, but here are my favorites thus far:

New albums
Slowdive - Slowdive
Hippopotamus - Sparks
Make it Be - R. Stevie Moore & Jason Falkner
Visuals - Mew

Archival
Eidolon - Allan Holdsworth 2-CD career retrospective
Perfect Past: The Complete Doctors of Madness - all encompassing Doctors of Madness 3-CD box set

Looking forward to hearing:
Low in High School - Morrissey

 

Way too early, so maybe right now something like this, I'll just list the ones I've actually forked over lots of money for the vinyl, but lots of change to come ...

Top ten on the turntable:
Principe Valiente - Oceans
Jacaszek - Kwiaty
Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology
Protomartyr - Relatives In Descent
Melanie De Biasio - Lilies
All Them Witches - Sleeping Through the War
Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band - Adiós Señor Pussycat
Coldharbourstores - Wilderness
Aldous Harding - Party
Yazz Ahmed - La Saboteuse

Reissues I've been enjoying a lot:
Califone - Quicksand/Cradlesnakes (2-LP Deluxe)
T. Rex - Electric Warrior (Rocktober)
Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See (Capitol 75)
Luna - Penthouse (2017 RSD)

Most anticipated before end of year:
Virginia Wing/Xam Duo - Tomorrow's Gift

 

1. Courtney Marie Andrews - Honest Life*
2. Son Volt - Notes of Blue
3. John Mellencamp - Sad Clowns & Hillbillies
4. Trummors - Headlands
5. Neil Young - Hitchhiker
6. Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile - Lotta Sea Lice
7. Steve Earle - So You Wannabe an Outlaw
8. Marty Stuart - Way Out West
9. Dead Man Winter - Furnace
10. Chris Shiflett - West Coast Town

* released late '16 in the US early '17 UK

 

See my avatar for one of them.

I really liked Flaming Lips' Oczy Mlody

Anna Calvi's Live At Meltdown [Burberry EP was also V. Good]

Bowie's Cracked Actor

 

Oh and this, again bit more obscure?
Orchestra Baobab - Tribute To Ndiouga Dieng

 

Kurt Vile/ Courtney Barnett- Lotta Sea Life
The War on drugs- A Deeper Understanding
Ryan Adams- Prisoner
Bleachers- Gone Now
Father John Misty- Pure Comedy
Alt-J- Relaxer

That's pretty much all the ones I've liked so far.

 

The best albums of 2017 so far, ranked:

1. LIAM GALLAGHER – As You Were
2. FLORIST – If Blue Could Be Happyness
3. HAPPYNESS – Write In
4. RIDE – Weather Diaries
5. PAUL WELLER – A Kind Revolution
6. CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD – Barefoot In The Head
7. THE MAGPIE SALUTE – The Magpie Salute
8. CHRIS STAPLETON – From a Room: Volume 1
9. SLOWDIVE – Slowdive
10. THE WAR ON DRUGS – A Deeper Understanding

 

Recently, I've come to realize how good this album is.
Surely in my Top 10.

 

Enjoyed coming up with this list but it was so tough to make! I made my own additional rule that I had to actually own a physical copy on vinyl as well. So here it is...my favorite albums released or reissued in '17 (original release year in parentheses):

10 Aerosmith - Get A Grip................................ (1993)
9 The Def Leppard - EP.................................... (1979)
8 Winterhawk – Revival................................... (1982)
7 The Music Machine – Turn On...................... (1966)
6 Gregg Allman – Southern Blood
5 David Gilmour – Live In Pompeii
4 Sasquatch – Maneuvers
3 Killswitch Engage – Alive or Just Breathing (2002)
2 Hopesfall – The Satellite Years..................... (2003)
1 Power Trip – Nightmare Logic

 

This is surprisingly good as well; it sounds like it's better than what brother Noel is about to release, but we'll see.

Didn't see this one coming, Liam!

 

In no particular order:

The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains
Pond - The Weather
The Flaming Lips- Oczy Mlody
Accept - The Rise Of Chaos
Depeche Mode - Spirit
Oxbow - Thin Black Duke
The National - Sleep Well Beast
Mors Principium Est - Embers Of A Dying World
Roger Waters - Is This The Life We Really Want?

 

At this time, as i don't have decided yet i put 12:
Gregg Allman - Southern Bloods
Samantha Fish - Chills & Fever (and i'mm waiting to hear new album Belle of the West)

Now not in order
Walter Trout - We're All in This Together
Ruthie Foster - Joy Comes Back
Don Bryant - Don't Give Up On Love
Chris Stapleton - From a Room Vol.1 (waiting Vol.2)
Little Steven - Soulfire

Other three to choose from this 5
Otis Taylor - Fantasizing About Being B lack
Rag N Bone Man - Human
North Mississippi Allstars - Prayer for Peace
Van Morrison - Roll with the Punchies
Gov't Mule - Revolution Come... Revolution Go..

Already bought but not yet heard (artist that i really enjoy)
Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Lay It Down

Live Album
Joe Bonamassa - Live at Carnegie Hall

Bye
Paolo

 

Goldfrapp - Silver Eye
Juana Molina - Halo
Grandaddy - Last Place
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile - Deviations 1
Depeche Mode - Spirit

 

Right now:
New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions
Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness
Slowdive - Slowdive
Johnny Jewel - Windswept
Afghan Whigs - In Spades
Jeremy Enigk - Ghosts
NIN - Add Violence EP
Wolf Alice - Vision of a Life
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Lottasealice
Angelo Badalamenti/David Lynch/Etc - Twin Peaks (Limited Event Series Score)

Reissues/Comps:
Savage Young Du
Lydia Loveless - Boy Crazy and Single(s)
the Replacements - For Sale Live
Angel Olson - Phases (b-sides, etc)

 

And also the deluxe version of:

 

Draft Resister by Steppenwolf.
Give Peace A Chance - John Lennon
Zor and Zam - The Monkees

 

After this I've only one more left to choose, I'll start your best 20 thread soon, anyway, Son Volt - Notes Of Blue

 

#9:

For my #9 pick, I'm going with Queens Of The Stone Age's Villains.

Nearly 20 years on, the band keep finding a way to make their sound fresh and exciting. Every QOTSA release is worth hearing, and Villains is no exception. Probably would have been higher on my list if not for some really remarkable releases this year.

This is one of the best rock tracks of the year as well:

 

Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile "Lotta Sea Lice"
Beach Fossils "Somersault"
Dan Auerbach "Waiting on Song"
Sallie Ford "Soul Sick"
Eilen Jewell "Down Hearted Blues"
Valerie June "The Order of Time"
Spoon "Hot Thoughts"
Sunsquabi "Deluxe"

 

Alvvays - Antisocialites
alt-J - Relaxer
Elbow - Little Fictions
Bonobo - Migration
Run The Jewels - RTJ3
Minus the Bear - VOIDS
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN
Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
Ariel Pink - Dedicated to Bobby Johnson
Fleet Foxes - Crack Up

Honorable mentions (so far) : The New Pornographers, The National, PVRIS, Ninet, The XX, Grizzly Bear, Soccer Mommy, Eisley, Collocutor, Lupe Fiasco, Cloud Nothings, Shy Boyz, Rostam