What are your top 10 albums of 2017?

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  1. robw

    robw Forum Resident

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    The new Rock candy funk party album is awsome! First time vocals and I love it. The best this year so far.

     
  2. John Adam

    John Adam An Introvert In Paradise

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    It ain't over till it's over!
    I'm hoping to be surprised before the year end with something that blows me out of the water..........and back onto the island! :)
     
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  3. JohnT

    JohnT Senior Member

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    PA & FL gulf coast
    For now:

    Son Volt - Notes of Blue
    John Mellencamp - Sad Clowns & Hillbillies
    Marty Stuart - Way Out West
    Gregg Allman - Southern Blood
    Dion - Kickin' Child
    Jason Isbell - The Nashville Sound
    Chris Hillman = Bidin’ My Time
    Steve Winwood – Greatest Hits Live
     
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  4. Jama

    Jama Forum Resident

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    Yeah, I'm sure there were many, many critics who regretted releasing their 2016 list without Run The Jewels 3
     
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  5. DesertHermit

    DesertHermit Now an UrbanHermit

    New Releases
    Nikka & Strings, Underneath and In Between- Nikka Costa
    Masseduction- St Vincent
    Is This The Life We Really Want?- Roger Waters
    Fake Sugar- Beth Ditto
    Other- Alison Moyet
    DAMN.- Kendrick Lamar
    Pollinator- Blondie
    Carry Fire- Robert Plant

    I am hoping that upcoming new releases by Björk, Morrissey and U2 may help to round out my top ten as it stands at the moment but will wait until my Christmas break to update my list. I might also do a seperate top ten for reissues as there have been some good ones this year!
     
  6. Chrome_Head

    Chrome_Head Planetary Resident Thread Starter

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    #7

    Thurston Moore - Rock n Roll Consciousness


    Less than a decade after the dissolution of Sonic Youth, Moore turns out another very fine solo record with fuzzed-out guitars, beat-derived lyricism, and jammy songs that have a Velvets-y churn and often break out into bursts of noise. At five rather long tracks, this offering may seem a little scant (and I don't know why the early single "Cease Fire" wasn't included here), but there's still much to enjoy and get lost in on this record.

     
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  7. Alf.

    Alf. Forum Resident

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    Top five, in no particular order:

    Ghost Wolves - Texas Platinum
    Curtis Harding - Face The Fear
    Sarah Shook & The Disarmers - Sidelong
    Ron Gallo - Heavy Meta
    Childhood - Universal High

    Bubbling under:
    Strand Of Oaks - Hard Love
    GNOD - Just Say No........
     
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  8. Dave Gilmour's Cat

    Dave Gilmour's Cat Forum Resident

    This one is coming up a lot. Is it one of their better albums?
     
  9. eric777

    eric777 Astral Projectionist

    1. Kreator - Gods Of Violence
    2. L.A. Guns - The Missing Peace
    3. Rex Brown - Smoke On This
    4. Taylor Swift - Reputation
    5. Katy Perry - Witness

    Sorry but I couldn't find 10 that I liked.
     
  10. Bevok

    Bevok Forum Resident

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    1. Lorde - Melodrama
    2. Taylor Swift - Reputation
    3. Arcade Fire - Everything Now
    4. The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Deluxe Edition)
    5. Kesha - Rainbow
    6 The Killers - Wonderful Wonderful
    7 Julien Baker - Turn Out The Lights
    8 Liam Gallagher - As You Were
    9 Niall Horan - Flicker
    10 Jessie Ware - Glasshouse

    EP
    Kygo - Kid's In Love
    Kodaline - I Wouldn't Be
     
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  11. Chrome_Head

    Chrome_Head Planetary Resident Thread Starter

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    6: Boogarins / Lá Vem a Morte

    The Brazilian psych-rock band Boogarins was one of my favorite discoveries of 2015, when on a head full of mushrooms, I saw them open for the band Dungen out here. Their third full length, Lá Vem a Morte (which translates to"Here Comes Death"), picks up where 2015's Manual left off in many ways, but is far more cut-and-paste and experimental.

     
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  12. Togo

    Togo Same as it ever was

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    I get your take on this Chrome_Head, but could we possibly title this thread "Your Best Albums of 2017" rather than a Top 10 only and thus make it the definitive place to post our end of year lists? Just a thought and might save having several different threads. :cool: As we've seen already everyone tends to post different length lists. I'll be posting mine at the end of December...more to come yet including some big releases over the next 2 weeks at least.
     
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  13. Chrome_Head

    Chrome_Head Planetary Resident Thread Starter

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    People can post however many they want, but I would think it shouldn't be too hard to narrow things down to 10. Gotta be unsparing!
     
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  14. No Bull

    No Bull Forum Resident

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    Mojo, The Guardian, and Q give it 4 stars out of 5 and Allmusic gives Spirit 4 and half stars out of five... so it has gotten some stellar reviews...

    Some of the Depeche fanboys are not as wild about it though...
     
  15. No Bull

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    really like the instrumentation on this...
     
  16. inaptitude

    inaptitude Forum Resident

    1. King Krule - The Ooz. Easily the best album of the year in my mind. Still unpacking this thick, dense piece of work. Everything below is out of order. A surprising amount of hip hop!

    Kendrick Lamaar - Damn
    Tyler the Creator - Flower Boy
    Vince Staple - Big Fish Theory
    LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
    Jay-Z - 4:44
    Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Lotta Sea Lice
    The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
    Brockhampton - Saturation II
    Daniele Luppi/Parquet Courts - MILANO
     
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  17. Justin Bairamian

    Justin Bairamian Forum Resident

    An odd year for albums - no real standout. A lot of albums with a few really strong tracks but few that I'd pick as coherently brilliant. But - off brief - here are 20 that had some real gems on them:
    Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
    LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
    Margo Price - All American Made
    Bob Dylan - Triplicate
    The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
    Bedouine - Bedouine
    Jay-Z - 4:44
    Tyler, The Creator - Flower Boy
    SZA - Control
    Iron & Wine - Beast Epic
    Moses Sumney - Aromanticism
    Seamus Fogerty - The Curious Hand
    Real Estate - In Mind
    Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Lotta Sea Lice
    Randy Newman - Dark Matter
    Kamasi Washington - Harmony of Difference
    Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band - Adios Señor Pussycat
    Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up
    Thundercat - Drunk
    Flo Morrissey & Matthew E White - Gentlewoman, Ruby Man
     
  18. No Bull

    No Bull Forum Resident

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    Wow loving the clip you posted... this track sounds like the Cure and Depeche, with a small slice of Bowie thrown in.... great great stuff... thanks for posting...
     
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  19. No Bull

    No Bull Forum Resident

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    Love when the guitar really kicks in about midway through this track.

    Great thread. Thanks for starting it.
     
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  20. Tsomi

    Tsomi Forum Resident

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    Spirit has the same electronic blues-y feeling as Delta Machine, with a more minimalist production. Less immediate melodies, a bit more abstract. I like this new approach in their production, because they almost did 10 years with the same guy (= the 3 previous albums), so that's a bit of fresh air.

    (Spirit is a bit surprising as well in that it's back to political songs — they had stopped this in the mid 80s... But they're extremely dull political lyricists in my opinion, so well... zero depth but way less pretentious than Bono, though!)

    I think Martin Gore's songwriting has been really complacent for the latest 15 years, though (so, here's the sloppy Personal Jesus soundalike — Where's the Revolution/Soothe My Soul/Fragile Tension/Miles Away, here's the boring and bad Gore solo song, often around the middle — Eternal/Spacewalker, and here are a couple of regular technopop songs with zero surprise, quota stuff for the fans who want so much to hear the same song on every album, always towards the end — So Much Love/Soft Touch/Lilian).

    Fortunately, Dave Gahan also writes his own songs nowadays and he's really becoming good, with a different, surprising sound/songwriting (Nothing's Impossible, Should Be Higher, Cover Me, No More, the way he chose to sing on Angel...) and Gore still manages to write some innovative songs once in a while (Alone, Goodbye, The Worst Crime...), so there's still something to be found, yeah. But I wish Gore would accept a 50/50 album with Gahan... Gore needs more "concurrency" to work around some of his songwriting laziness, IMO.

    tl;dr: Take the best tracks from Delta Machine and Spirit, and you'll get a very good 8/10 album. Lots of filler, otherwise.
     
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  21. Dave Gilmour's Cat

    Dave Gilmour's Cat Forum Resident

    Thanks. I'm going to have to get this. Appreciate the comments.
     
  22. notesofachord

    notesofachord Riding down the river in an old canoe

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    It sounds like they've had a lot of domesticated Impalas named Kevin on their turntable.

    :thumbsup:
     
  23. slipkid

    slipkid Senior Member

    Jury still way out for me since I have around 20-30 new unheard CDs sitting in a box to get to that I bought this year (which I probably won't have time to listen to until 2019 or beyond at this rate), but so far I would have to say these ten (in no particular order):

    Electric Guitars - Rock & Roll Radio
    KXM - Scatterbrain
    Nick Johnson - Remarkably Human
    Black Star Riders - Heavy Fire
    Deep Purple - Infinite
    Inglorious II
    Snakecharmer - Second Skin
    Mr. Big - Defying Gravity
    Hair of the Dog - The Siren's Song
    Ronnie Montrose - 10x10

    I don't like to include live releases in with studio creations but if I was considering live albums in with those above then these two would be competing for a spot in my top 10 as well and probably be knocking some off the list above:
    Michael Schenker - SchenkerFest Live
    Bad Company - Live at Red Rocks

    Note that I think that some of those above are from 2016 but I did not hear them until this year so I count them with my faves of this year.

    Also note, the hands down the most disappointing album that I bought in 2017 is by one of my favorite bands, UFO. An album of (to me) just epically godawful cover songs called The Salentino Cuts. It far outdoes another disappointment for me of Europe's new album (Walk the Earth).
     
  24. pinkrudy

    pinkrudy Senior Member

    David Gilmour live pompeii
    flaming lips ozcy mlodly
    Frances - things ive never said (new artist)
    miley cyrus -younger now (lol i am a miley fan now)
     
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  25. Chrome_Head

    Chrome_Head Planetary Resident Thread Starter

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    I can hear a glint of Tame Impala in that track (was just thinking that this morning), but Boogarins are far different as a band.
     
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