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CasanovaZelos
11/29/17 1:52:00 PM
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Now that we're reaching the end, figured it was worth making a topic about.

Here are all the albums I have given an 8.0 or higher; note that the top two are literally a single space apart in my all-time rank, so my #1 still isn't really set. There's still a few big releases I need to check out; SZA seems to be getting a lot of talk on end of year lists.

1. St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION (9.7)
2. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream (9.7)
3. The xx - I See You (9.4)
4. Fever Ray - Plunge (9.0)
5. Perfume Genius - No Shape (9.0)
6. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding (8.9)
7. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. (8.9)
8. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory (8.8)
9. Lorde - Melodrama (8.8)
10. Thundercat - Drunk (8.8)
11. Sampha - Process (8.7)
12. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me (8.7)
13. Arca - Arca (8.7)
14. The Horrors - V (8.7)
15. Jlin - Black Origami (8.6)
16. The National - Sleep Well Beast (8.6)
17. Laurel Halo - Dust (8.5)
18. Brand New - Science Fiction (8.2)
19. Slowdive - Slowdive (8.2)
20. Jens Lekman - Life Will See You Now (8.2)
21. Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Navigator (8.2)
22. Mogwai - Every Country's Sun (8.1)
23. Algiers - The Underside of Power (8.1)
24. Father John Misty - Pure Comedy (8.1)
25. Laura Marling - Semper Femina (8.1)
26. The Magnetic Fields - 50 Song Memoir (8.0)
27. Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins (8.0)
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Menji
11/29/17 1:54:10 PM
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Oh Fever Ray put out a new album??
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FFDragon
11/29/17 1:56:14 PM
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science fiction for sure
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Bane_Of_Despair
11/29/17 1:59:20 PM
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My top is something like (not a decisive order yet)

Kendrick Lamar - DAMN
Lorde - Melodrama
Paramore - After Laughter
Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
Code Orange - Forever
Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
He Is Legend - few
St Vincent - MASSEDUCTION

There's a bunch more I have to think about
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NBIceman
11/29/17 2:01:21 PM
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I haven't been keeping track well enough for a full list but this is my top 3.

The Contortionist - Clairvoyant
Caligula's Horse - In Contact
Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface

Won't be surprised if the new Diablo Swing Orchestra bumps off Black Mile next month, though.
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kateee
11/29/17 2:03:53 PM
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SZA - CTRL

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Johnbobb
11/29/17 2:08:05 PM
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Gorillaz - Humanz

Didn't really listen to a whole lot this year but that was the big one for me
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CasanovaZelos
11/29/17 2:11:07 PM
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Menji posted...
Oh Fever Ray put out a new album??


Yep, she made the poor choice of doing a surprise drop while not having the name power of people like Kendrick or Beyonce...but it's really good!
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Menji
11/29/17 2:27:36 PM
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I'll listen tonight then! I thought she was done with music completely but I guess that was just the Knife.
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iiicon
11/29/17 2:32:19 PM
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1 | Actress | AZD
2 | Bjork | Utopia
3 | Julie & The Wrong Guys | S/T
4 | Kelela | Take Me Apart
5 | SZA | CTRL
6 | Fever Ray | Plunge
7 | Laurel Halo | Dust
8 | Ke$ha | Rainbow
9 | Vince Staples | Big Fish Theory
10 | Torres | Three Futures
11 | Forest Swords | Compassion
12 | Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton | Choir of the Mind
13 | The Magnetic Fields | 50 Song Memoir
14 | The National | Sleep Well Beast
15 | Kendrick Lamar | Damn
16 | GAS | Narkopop
17 | Liars | TFCF
18 | Susanne Sundfr | Music for People in Trouble
19 | Julie Byrne | Not Even Happiness
20 | Slowdive | Slowdive
21 | Shannon Lay | Living Water
22 | LCD Soundsystem | American Dream
23 | Arca | Arca
24 | Colleen | A flame my love, a frequency
25 | Ninos Du Brasil | Vida Eterna
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Bane_Of_Despair
11/29/17 2:35:02 PM
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This inspired me to actually go through and create a list of every single 2017 album I've listened to
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Steiner
11/29/17 2:35:52 PM
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i totally didn't expect this but trivium - the sin and the sentence
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CherryCokes
11/29/17 2:52:49 PM
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iiicon posted...
1 | Actress | AZD
2 | Bjork | Utopia
3 | Julie & The Wrong Guys | S/T
4 | Kelela | Take Me Apart
5 | SZA | CTRL
6 | Fever Ray | Plunge
7 | Laurel Halo | Dust
8 | Ke$ha | Rainbow
9 | Vince Staples | Big Fish Theory
10 | Torres | Three Futures
11 | Forest Swords | Compassion
12 | Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton | Choir of the Mind
13 | The Magnetic Fields | 50 Song Memoir
14 | The National | Sleep Well Beast
15 | Kendrick Lamar | Damn
16 | GAS | Narkopop
17 | Liars | TFCF
18 | Susanne Sundfr | Music for People in Trouble
19 | Julie Byrne | Not Even Happiness
20 | Slowdive | Slowdive
21 | Shannon Lay | Living Water
22 | LCD Soundsystem | American Dream
23 | Arca | Arca
24 | Colleen | A flame my love, a frequency
25 | Ninos Du Brasil | Vida Eterna


this list has changed a bunch in the last 2 weeks. I knew Bjork would get up there, but you did not even have Kelela on the last one you posted in Discord. Torres wasn't either. I would gather that The Magnetic Fields is also a recent climber/addition, too?
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Bane_Of_Despair
11/29/17 2:54:21 PM
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I approve of a Kelela addition
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jcgamer107
11/29/17 2:54:32 PM
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I can only recommend the EP "HUH!" by Minimall. I need to finish listening to Humanz.
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iiicon
11/29/17 3:01:03 PM
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CherryCokes posted...
this list has changed a bunch in the last 2 weeks. I knew Bjork would get up there, but you did not even have Kelela on the last one you posted in Discord. Torres wasn't either. I would gather that The Magnetic Fields is also a recent climber/addition, too?

i mean, i listened to 2 new albums in the last couple weeks, one of which just came out, so i don't think it's changed 'a bunch.' anything from dust to sleep well beast could easily change positions.

and we talked about magnetic fields in february!
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CherryCokes
11/29/17 3:18:52 PM
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iiicon posted...
CherryCokes posted...
this list has changed a bunch in the last 2 weeks. I knew Bjork would get up there, but you did not even have Kelela on the last one you posted in Discord. Torres wasn't either. I would gather that The Magnetic Fields is also a recent climber/addition, too?

i mean, i listened to 2 new albums in the last couple weeks, one of which just came out, so i don't think it's changed 'a bunch.' anything from dust to sleep well beast could easily change positions.

and we talked about magnetic fields in february!


Magnetic Fields was at the very least behind The National, since that was #10 on the last list you shared

30% of your top 10 is different now than it was 2 weeks ago

that's "statistically significant"
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CherryCokes
11/29/17 3:20:00 PM
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(also I barely remember February. It was a tumultuous time)
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Bane_Of_Despair
11/29/17 3:32:37 PM
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ok I put together roughly all of the albums I've listened to this year so far. I didn't count EP's or some mixtapes (Young Thug excluded because literally all he has out is mixtapes). I might have missed a few here and there when my last.fm scrobble disconnected randomly and I wouldn't notice for a bit of time. Still going through a lot of new albums too, there's a bunch of obvious ones I've missed this year.

Kendrick Lamar - DAMN
Lorde - Melodrama
Paramore - After Laughter
Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
Code Orange - Forever
Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
He Is Legend - few
St Vincent - MASSEDUCTION
Crystal Fairy - Crystal Fairy
Acceptance - Colliding by Design
Ed Sheeran - Divide
The Mezingers - After the Party
Northlane - Mesmer
Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms
Joey Bada$$ - All-Amerikkkan Bada$$
Queens of the Stone Age - Villains
While She Sleeps - You Are We
Eighteen Visions - XVIII
All Time Low - Last Young Renegade
The Birthday Massacre - Under Your Spell
SZA - CTRL
Rise Against - Wolves
Sikth - The Future in Whose Eyes?
CKY - The Phoenix
AFI - The Blood Album
Royal Blood - How Did We Get So Dark?
Big Boi - Boomiverse
Young Thug - Beautiful Thugger Girls
Bleachers - Gone Now
Fleet Foxes - Crack Up
Kesha - Rainbow
TLC - TLC
Lana Del Rey - Lust for Life
Fran Carter & the Rattlesnakes - Modern Ruin
Circa Survive - The Amulet
Enter Shikari - The Spark
Gorillaz - Humanz
Sleeping With Sirens - Gossip
The Killers - Wonderful Wonderful
'68 - Two Parts Viper
Marilyn Manson - Heaven Upside Down
Quicksand - Interiors
Walk the Moon - What If Nothing
Kelela - Take Me Apart
The Ongoing Concept - Places
Brand New - Science Fiction
Trivium - The Sin and the Sentence
36 Crazyfists - Lanterns
Converge - The Dusk In Us
Evanescence - Synthesis
Ice Nine Kills - Safe is Just a Shadow
Bjork - Utopia
Jaden Smith - Syre
Foo Fighters - Concrete and Gold
Chronixx - Chronology
Low Cut Connie - Dirty Pictures (Part 1)
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Soul of a Woman
Tracy Bonham - Modern Burdens
Taylor Swift - reputation
The Used - The Canyon
Jay Z - 4:44
Youth in Revolt - The Broken
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Giggsalot
11/29/17 3:44:55 PM
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I've found this to be a pretty poor year, honestly. lots of good stuff, precious little truly great.
still lots to hear, but here's a hastily thrown together top 25:

1. lorde - melodrama
2. big k.r.i.t. - 4eva is a mighty long time
3. arca - arca
4. sufjan stevens - carrie and lowell live
5. richard dawson - peasant
6. kendrick lamar - damn
7. the ruins of beverast - exuvia
8. susanne sundfor - music for people in trouble
9. bell witch - mirror reaper
10. tyler the creator - flower boy
11. algiers - the underside of power
12. oxbow - thin black duke
13. everything everything - a fever dream
14. the national - sleep well beast
15. vince staples - big fish theory
16. blanck mass - world eater
17. slowdive - slowdive
18. angles 9 - disappeared behind the sun
19. brockhampton - saturation II
20. flotation toy warning - the machine that made us
21. freddie gibbs - you only live twice
22. jonwayne - rap album two
23. young thug - beautiful thugger girls
24. torres - three futures
25. king krule - the ooz
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iiicon
11/29/17 3:50:41 PM
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Giggsalot posted...
I've found this to be a pretty poor year, honestly

Giggsalot posted...
4. sufjan stevens

well there's your problem
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iiicon
11/29/17 3:56:31 PM
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and honestly while it's been kind of a down year for the music I spend the most time listening to (pop, rap, techno, although this year has been great for mixes) and most of the albums I've loved I first listened to after September, there's never been a point where I've lacked something new and interesting to hear
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Giggsalot
11/29/17 4:02:42 PM
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oh man, age of adz burned you bad, huh?

sufjan's always been all about the arrangements for me. he's not my favourite songwriter in the world, and i found the original carrie and lowell record good but kind of weirdly anaemic, but the arrangements on that new live album are incredible. i think it's his best record ever by quite a distance, and if I didn't feel weird about it being a live album I might have it even higher. if you haven't heard it, you should give it a shot!
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Giggsalot
11/29/17 4:05:23 PM
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also please tell me you've heard the new k.r.i.t!

it had been years since i had looked forward to a project of his, but his new one is legit "magnum opus" territory. it's ambitious, cohesive, sonically gorgeous and more lyrically insightful than ever. surprise of the year for me.
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Snake5555555555
11/29/17 4:06:48 PM
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My top 10 for this year

1. The Orwells - Terrible Human Beings
2. Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
3. Brand New - Science Fiction
4. Fit for an Autopsy - The Great Collapse
5. Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven
6. Rancid - Trouble Maker
7. Dropkick Murphys - 11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory
8. Paramore - After Laughter
9. Kendrick Lamar - Damn
10. Taylor Swift - Reputation
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CherryCokes
11/29/17 4:08:38 PM
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am I the only one who really loves The Dusk In Us
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Giggsalot
11/29/17 4:10:53 PM
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CherryCokes posted...
am I the only one who really loves The Dusk In Us

I've only listened to it twice, so I didn't feel qualified to rank it. but unsurprisingly it seems really good! will almost certainly land in my top 20 when all is said and done, maybe higher.
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ExThaNemesis
11/29/17 4:18:42 PM
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Damn
Science Fiction
Wonderful Wonderful
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Bane_Of_Despair
11/29/17 4:19:00 PM
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Yea I'm not nearly ready to have an officially ranking yet and I love The Dusk In Us, that could make top 10 for me
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CasanovaZelos
11/29/17 4:19:05 PM
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I don't get how people can hate Age of Adz...
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LOLIAmAnAlt
11/29/17 4:20:26 PM
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Eisley - I'm only Dreaming

Good album right there.
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Bane_Of_Despair
11/29/17 4:21:16 PM
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yea I'm already finding albums I forgot I had listened to, list shall be ongoing
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Dragonair
11/29/17 5:09:10 PM
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here are 10 albums I enjoyed this year

sampha - process
the national - sleep well beast
fleet foxes - crack-up
idles - brutalism
vince staples - big fish theory
protomartyr - relatives in descent
grizzly bear - painted ruins
thundercat - drunk
lcd soundsystem - american dream
the horrors - v

good year. If I wasn't lazy I could make an actual list of like 30 albums that are all very good, but these are probably in the upper part of that anyway (maybe?)

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Seginustemple
11/29/17 6:18:15 PM
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Vulfpeck - Mr. Finish Line
Thundercat - Drunk
Rapsody - Laila's Wisdom
Organ Freeman - Respect My Art
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard with Mild High Club - Sketches of New Brunswick East
Frankie Reyes - Boleros, Valses, y Mas
Oddisee - The Iceberg
PJ Morton - Gumbo
Everything Everything - A Fever Dream
Erin and the Wildfire - Thirst

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thundersheep
11/29/17 6:34:16 PM
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Still putting the list together since I want to do a bunch of writing on them, but my top 25 features a bunch of stuff already mentioned a bunch here... and the Manchester Orchestra album, seriously in love with that.
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MysticBrohan
11/29/17 6:58:14 PM
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top 5 in some order:

Alex Cameron - Forced Witness
Joey Bada$$ - All Amerikkkan Bada$$
The Killers - Wonderful Wonderful
Big K.R.I.T. - 4eva Is A Mighty Long Time
BROCKHAMPTON - SATURATION II
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colliding
11/29/17 6:58:43 PM
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slowdive
converge
the national
alex cameron
jens lekman
ariel pink
sheer mag
weed
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CasanovaZelos
11/30/17 8:48:00 AM
#38:


I've added Wolf Alice's Vision of a Life at #25, between Pure Comedy and Semper Femina. Moses Sumney's Aromanticism fell right outside my 8+ range.
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Bane_Of_Despair
11/30/17 9:03:49 AM
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I got around to listening to Beck's album, man that's a super fun album. Really enjoyed it.
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ZeroSignal620
11/30/17 12:44:26 PM
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Trivium - The Sin and the Sentence
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