Your 2017 Lists

Worried Man

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Music nerds love lists, don't we? How about your list of favorite new 2017 releases and your list of favorite finds (that you made this year) of releases from any prior year?

Mine:

Top several from 2017:

1. Kendrick Lamar ~ DAMN.
2. SZA ~ CTRL
3. King Krule ~ The OOZ
4. Lorde ~ Melodrama
5. Kelela ~ Take Me Apart
6. LCD Soundsystem ~ American Dream
7. Lana Del Rey ~ Lust for Life

Top several other finds:

1. Kendrick Lamar ~ To Pimp a Butterfly
2. Kalela ~ Hallucinogen
3. Billie Holiday ~ Lady Sings the Blues
4. Nas ~ Illmatic
5. Lana Del Rey ~ Born to Die & Paradise
6. D'angelo ~ Black Messiah
7. FKA Twigs ~ EP1
 
Not a list, just two so far this year.

Keb Mo/Just Like You and Keb Mo&Taj Mahal TajMo. I found both albums outstanding and I know Just Like You goes back to 1996 but it was new to me and impressed me very much. ;)
 
Top older things from the collection I've most enjoyed spinning this year:

Tame Impala ~ Currents
The Beatles white album (mono version)
Elvis Costello ~ My Aim is True & This Year's Model
The Cure ~ The Head on the Door
Neil Young ~ On the Beach
En Vogue ~ Best of

Short list of things new to me this year that I wish I'd discovered much earlier:

Bjork's Post
Kendrick Lamar's TPAB
Madonna's Ray of Light
 
Or... maybe not? [Cue disappointed face.]

Music nerds love lists, don't we? How about your list of favorite new 2017 releases and your list of favorite finds (that you made this year) of releases from any prior year?

Mine:

Top several from 2017:

1. Kendrick Lamar ~ DAMN.
2. SZA ~ CTRL
3. King Krule ~ The OOZ
4. Lorde ~ Melodrama
5. Kelela ~ Take Me Apart
6. LCD Soundsystem ~ American Dream
7. Lana Del Rey ~ Lust for Life

Top several other finds:

1. Kendrick Lamar ~ To Pimp a Butterfly
2. Kalela ~ Hallucinogen
3. Billie Holiday ~ Lady Sings the Blues
4. Nas ~ Illmatic
5. Lana Del Rey ~ Born to Die & Paradise
6. D'angelo ~ Black Messiah
7. FKA Twigs ~ EP1
 
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me gets my vote for album of the year.
Fever Ray - Plunge has gotten way more play just because it's not such a downer.
 
Here are a few i really enjoyed from 2017


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I am sure others are escaping me atm.
 
My favourite record of 2017:

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I think I discovered her through this forum and I couldn't be more grateful to whoever posted her. Amazing record by a very rare talent.

Also on the podium (the ladies have won 2017 imho):

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Also great:

All Pigs Must Die - Hostage Animal
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
Converge - The Dusk In Us
Enslaved - E
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Luciferian Towers
Johnny Flynn - Silion
Kreator - Gods Of Violence
Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand
Myrkur - Mareridt
Passenger - The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Rag'N'Bone Man - Human
Robert Plant - Carry Fire
Serafyn - Foam
Spoon - Hot Thoughts
Tom McRae - Ah, The World! Oh, The World!
White Buffalo - Darkest Darks, Lightest Lights

Favourite old records newly discovered:
Clifford Brown - Memorial Album
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping (Analogue Productions 45rpm)
Radiohead - Ok Computer OKNOTOK 1997-2017
Nine Inch Nails - Downward Spiral reissue

Biggest disappointment:
Prophets Of Rage - s/t
 
My two favorite albums of the year are new releases of old recordings: Bill Evans, Another Time: The Hilversum Concert, and Thelonious Monk, Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960.

For new recordings, favorites are Vijay Iyer Sextet, Far from Over; Cécile McLorin Salvant, Dreams and Daggers; Fred Hersch, Open Book; and Craig Taborn, Daylight Ghosts. It was a jazzy year for me.
 
Top 10 albums that came out in 2017 that I enjoyed (that I can think of off the top of my head):
1. Benjamin Clementine "I Tell a Fly"
2. Torres "Three Futures"
3. The Dove & The Wolf "I Don't Know What to Feel"
4. Sylvan Esso "What Now" (Even though the first time I listened to it, the first track gave me a small panic)
5. Kendrick Lamar "Damn"
6. Rhiannon Giddens "Freedom Highway"
7. Kid Koala feat Emiliana Torrini "Music to Draw to - Satellite"
8. Danimal/Bara Heiða "Danimal Says Hi/So Does Bara Heiða"
9. Baby Driver Soundtrack
10. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 Soundtrack

Good albums bought but not released in 2017:
1. Kid Koala "12 Bit Blues"
2. Kid Koala "Carpal Tunnel Syndrome"
3. Kid Koala "Some of My Best Friends are DJs"

Albums that disappointed me
1. Flogging Molly "Life is Good"
2. Gogol Bordello "Seekers and Finders"
 
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