Your favorite music from 2017

Here's the earlier thread that closed, by the way:
Best New Albums of 2017 *

As usual, you don't have to do a big list all at once. I just post stuff as I listen to it.

I also don't like to require that people stick to albums. Post singles if you like, EPs, compilations--whatever. Just limit it to stuff released in 2017.

 

Cory Wong and the Green Screen Band - self-titled

 

Bash and Pop -- "Anything Could Happen:"

 

Not many:

Bowie - No Plan
Overkill - The Grinding Wheel
John Mellencamp - Sad Clowns and Hillbillies
Cheap Trick - We´re all alright!
U2 - Songs of Experience

 

Dan Auerbach -- "Malibu Man:"

 

I must use the down time created by the kung flu to learn how to post links to music. In the meantime, 2017 gave me two albums that I rate as real all time favourites:

Andy Collins - Right Here, Right Now
Alan Doyle - A Week In The Warehouse

Andy bassist/occasional lead vocalist with The Storys, Swansea's and to the Eagles who released three excellent albums between 2004 and 2010. This is Andy's second solo record since the split, and, with the help of some of his erstwhile Storys band mates, he's created one of the best "Americana" singer songwriter albums ever to come out of the UK. Just wonderful!

Alan was one of the mainstays of Newfoundland folk legends Great Big Sea. A Week... is his third an best solo record. Tremendous songs &majestic playing throughout Folk, rock and pop all represented yet it feels like a coherent whole.

I would love everyone on the forum who enjoys singer-songwriter albums to give these two a listen!

 

Overkill - The Grinding Wheel
Wobbler - From Silence To Somewhere
Robert Plant - Carry Fire
Steven Wilson - To The Bone
The Magpie Salute - The Magpie Salute
Blackfield - V
Big Big Train - The Second Brightest Star
John Mellencamp - Sad Clowns and Hillbillies

 

Another surprising fine year of music that wasn't played on the radio anywhere I suspect. Some of these albums from the older artists rank amongst their very best ever!
Belle & Sebastian - How To Solve Our Human Problems
Buckingham & McVie - Buckingham McVie
Cat Stevens - The Laughing Apple
Chris Hillman - Bidin' My Time
Cotton Mather - Wild Kingdom
Dan Fogelberg - Live at Carnegie Hall, 1979
David Crosby - Sky Trails
Dougie MacLean - New Tomorrow
Gene Clark - The Lost Studio Sessions 1964 - 1982
Jethro Tull - The String Quartets
Martin Newell - Martin Newell’s Jumble Sale
Matthews Southern Comfort - Like a Radio
Mike Nesmith - Live at The BBC Paris Theatre, Dec 1975
Neil Finn - Out of Silence
Neil Young - Hitchhiker
Peter Bradley Adams - A Face Like Mine
Richard Hawley - Live at The Devil's ****
Stephen Stills & Judy Collins - Everybody Knows
The Beach Boys - 1967 Sunshine Tomorrow
The Church - Man Woman Life Death Infinity
Trent Severn - Portage

 

Pretty deep year for me. Lot of favorites:

1) Wolf Alice - Visions of a Life
2) Slowdive - Slowdive
3) Desperate Journalist - Grow Up
4) Robyn Hitchcock - Robyn Hitchcock
5) Spoon - Hot Thoughts
6) Queens of The Stone Age - Villians
7) Wolf Parade - Cry Cry Cry
8) Foo Fighters - Concrete and Gold
9) The National - Sleep Well Beast
10) Alvvays - Antisocialites
11) Arcade Fire - Everything Now
12) U2 - Songs of Experience
13) The Shins - Heartworms
14) Ride - Weather Diaries
15) Agent blå - Agent Blå
16) Royal Blood - How Did We Get So Dark
17) Alexandra Savior - Belladonna of Sadness
18) Real Estate - In Mind
19) The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
20) Nine Inch Nails - Add Violence

 

Cool opportunity to go back and revisit some of my 2017 favorites!

I'd start off by mentioning The Magnetic Fields' 50 Song Memoir - definitely one of the standouts for me from that year.

 

Lifesigns - Cardington
Wobbler - From Silence to Somewhere
Agusa - Agusa
Jack DeJohnette/Paul Medeski/John Scofield - Hudson
Bela Fleck - Juno Concerto
The Tangent - The Slow Rust of Forgotten Machinery
Steve Walsh - Black Butterfly
Vijay Iyer - Far From Over
Pat Martino - Formidable
The Blue Note All Stars - Our Point of View
Captives of the Wine Dark Sea
Peter Kater - Dancing on Water
Sons of Apollo - Psychotic Symphony
Deep Purple - InFinite
Nova Collective - The Further Side
Eloy - The Vision, The Sword, and the Pyre
Bill Frisell/Thomas Morgan - Small Time
Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau - Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau

 

Steve Walsh's Black Butterfly was a nice surprise.

 

Red
Gone
album released 10/27/2017

 

1. Hiss Golden Messenger - Hallelujah Anyhow
2. Lucinda Williams - This Sweet Old World
3. Peter Perrett - How The West Was Won

 

On Air/Rolling Stones
Hitchhiker/Neil Young
Cabbagetown/Delta Moon
Chills & Fever/Samantha Fish

 

Ringo Starr - Give More Love
Less Than Jake - Sound The Alarm
Various Artists - Steven Universe soundtrack vol. 1

 

The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
Alvvays - Antisocialites
The National - Sleep Well Beast
Slowdive - Slowdive
The Flaming Lips - Oczy Mlody
Spoon - Hot Thoughts
The Shins - Heartworms
Beck - Colors
Wolf Alice - Visions of a Life
The xx - I See You
Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds from Another Planet
The Killers - Wonderful Wonderful
Fastball - Step Into Light
Bjork - Utopia

 

Destroyer - "Cover From the Sun"

 

Overkill - The Grinding Wheel
Styx - The Mission
DragonForce - Reaching Into Infinity
John Mellencamp - Sad Clowns & Hillbillies
Grave Digger - Healed By Metal
Roger Waters - Is This The Life We Really Want?
Deep Purple - Infinite
Iced Earth - Incorruptible
U2 - Songs Of Experience
Cheap Trick - We're All Alright!
Alice Cooper - Paranormal
Greta Van Fleet - From The Fires (EP)
Jag Panzer - The Deviant Chord

Probably a few others I am forgetting (have to check my collection.)

 

Here Lies Man - s/t
Shilpa Ray - Door Girl
Jake Xerxes Fussell - What In The Natural World
Sheer Mag - Need To Feel Your Love
Sarah Shook & The Disarmers - Sidelong
Ghost Wolves - Texas Platinum

 

Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
Tyler, The Creator - Flower Boy
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Gumboot Soup
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up
Kamasi Washington - Harmony of Difference
David Crosby - Sky Trails
The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
Bjork - Utopia
Brockhampton - Saturation Trilogy
King Krule - The OOZ
Robert Plant - Carry Fire
Thee Oh Sees - Orc
Thundercat - Drunk

 

The Souljazz Orchestra - Under Burning Skies

 

Deep Purple - InFinite
David Crosby - Sky Trails
The Rolling Stones - On Air
Cheap Trick - We're All Alright!

 

Probably QOTSA, Villians.



I also enjoyed Electric Wizard's, Wizard Bloody Wizard a lot.

 

Zedd & Alessia Cara - Stay remixes single/EP