2017 Mid-Year Album Lists Thread • Page 7

Why were you disappointed by Future?

 

Diminishing returns, way too many songs for how many were actually quality. Could whittle the two albums down into one solid 8-10 track album but as it stands it's just too much. Also mask off is one of the worst hooks I've ever heard but I'll save my rant for why "molly Percocet" repeated over and over is the dumbest shit in the world for another thread

 

I will agree that those Future albums are too much but between the two there's at least 3 of his best songs ever.

 

Fair enough, admittedly I haven't listened to either album much since the month of release, and was super caught up in the hype. There was definitely some fat to be trimmed though, mainly on the self-titled.

 

1. Uyama Hiroto - Freeform Jazz
2. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
3. Emperor X - Oversleepers International
4. DJ Okawari - Compass
5. Cayetana - New Kind of Normal
6. Wow I haven't listened to that much this year see y'all later

 

I'd probably move mine around a lot after listening to other albums more

 

good list

 

Ok this needs an update now:

1. Bleachers - Gone Now
2. Paramore - After Laughter
3. Lorde - Melodrama
4. The Maine - Lovely, Little Lonely
5. All Time Low - Last Young Renegade
6. Kendrick Lamar - Damn.
7. Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
8. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
9. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3
10. Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up
11. The Menzingers - After the Party
12. Portugal. the Man - Woodstock
13. Young Thug - Beautiful Thugger Girls
14. Charly Bliss - Guppy
15. John Mayer - the Search for Everything
16. The Mountain Goats - Goths

This 20 could easily be rounded out with Jason Isbell, Ratboys when it comes out on Friday, '68 (I still haven't listened to it all but I've heard a few songs and love them), and to be honest the Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie album. I'm just having too much trouble giving everything the proper time it deserves. I also expect Vince Staples and Fleet Foxes to move higher on this list, and probably Young Thug too.

Most anticipated right now: the Killers, Queens of the Stone Age, Lana Del Rey, Arcade Fire, Manchester Orchestra, Turnover, Fall Out Boy, Foo Fighters, and I still think we'll get a new one from the Front Bottoms this year.

 

How Creeper is not on more lists is beyond my comprehension

 

1.Creeper
2.Mastodon
3.The Menzingers
4.Chon
5.Code Orange
6.Slowdive
7.Can't Swim
8.Eighteen Visions
9.Hundredth
10.Dying Fetus

 

ATP might be my second fav Menzies record now. Seeing it live sealed that

 

Also true

 

My favourite albums of the year in no particular order:

Daydream - Enjoy Nothing
Head North - The Last Living Man Alive
Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes
Smidley - Smidley
Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes - Modern Ruin
The Rocketboys - Certain Circles
Tall Ships - Impressions
The Lulls In Traffic - Rabbit In The Snare
The Menzingers - After The Party
Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex
Sampha - Process
Jonwayne - Rap Album Two
Junior Astronomers - Body Language
The Flatliners - Inviting Light
Aviator - Loneliness Leaves The Light On For Me
Portugal. The Man - Woodstock
Sleepmakeswaves - Made of Breath Only

 

This Flats album needs more love.

 

1. The Maine - Lovely Little Lonely
2. The Menzingers - After the Party
3. Code Orange - Forever
4. Tigers Jaw - Spin
5. Lorde - Melodrama
6. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
7. Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstacy
8. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels III
9. Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life
10. 2 Chainz - Pretty Girls Like Trap Music
11. Gucci Mane / Metro Boomin - DropTopWop
12. COIN - How Will You Know If You Never Try?
13. The Orwells - Terrible Human Beings
14. Paramore - After Laughter
15. Harry Styles - S/T
16. Cupcakke - Queen Elizabitch
17. Future - S/T
18. Rozwell Kid - Precious Art
19. Lil Yachty - Teenage Emotions
20. Iron Reagan - Crossover Ministry

 

The Maine - Lovely, Little, Lonely
While She Sleeps - You Are We
Lorde - Melodrama
Bleachers - Gone Now
Lower Than Atlantis - Safe In Sound
All Time Low - Last Young Renegade
Our Last Night - Selective Hearing EP
Royal Blood - How Did We Get So Dark?
The White Noise - AM/PM
Acceptance - Colliding By Design
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Zombies on Broadway
Paramore - After Laughter
Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms.
New Found Glory - Makes Me Sick
Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 3
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
As It Is - Okay.
Grayscale - Adornement
The Menzingers - After The Party
Tigers Jaw - spin
Hundredth - Rare

 

Didn't feel like putting it in order but Vince and Lorde are definitely 1 and 2 right now.

Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
Lorde - Melodrama
Paramore - After Laughter
Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes
Charli XCX - Number 1 Angel
Perfume Genius - No Shape
SZA - CTRL
Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound
The xx - I See You
Tigers Jaw - spin
Future - HNDRXX
Bleachers - Gone Now
Code Orange - Forever
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
Young Thug - Beautiful Thugger Girls
Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy
Ostraca/Flesh Born - Faces of the Moving Year
Passion Pit - Tremendous Sea of Love
Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
Phoenix - Ti Amo

 

1. The Menzingers – After The Party

2. Head North – The Last Living Man Alive

3. Bleachers – Gone Now

4. A Will Away – Here Again

5. Acceptance

6. Day At The Fair – The Epilogue

7. The Maine – Lovely Little Lonely

8. John Mayer – The Search For Everything

9. Paramore – After Laughter

10. Cold War Kids – LA Divine

11. He Is Legend – few

12. Kendrick Lamar - Damn

 

1. The Menzingers - After The Party
2. Deaf Havana - All These Countless Nights
3. Sorority Noise - You're Not As ___ As You Think You Are
4. Tigers Jaw - Spin
5. Creeper - Eternity In Your Arms
6. Grayscale - Adornment
7. John Mayer - The Search For Everything
8. Charly Bliss - Guppy
9. Hundredth - Rare
10. Kendrick Lamar- DAMN.
11. New Found Glory - Makes Me Sick
12. The Maine - Lovely Little Lonely

Those are the only albums this year that have truly excited me. Everything else has been discovering old albums or discographies.

 

Beach Fossils
Lorde
Kendrick
Menzingers
Smith Street Band
Pissed Jeans
Trophy Eyes

New Killers single is a banger.

 

My top ten in order:

1. Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, James McAlister, and Nico Muhly - Planetarium
2. Tigers Jaw - Spin
3. Future - HENDRXX
4. Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life
5. Ryan Adams - Prisoner
6. Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes
7. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN
8. Harry Styles - Harry Styles
9. Arca - Arca
10. Young Thug - BEAUTIFUL THUGGER GIRLS

All these were great, but didn't make it into my top ten:

Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex
Dirty Projectors - Dirty Projectors
Football Inc. - Corner
The Menzingers - After the Party
The Maine - Lovely Little Lonely
Future - FUTURE
Perfume Genius - No Shape
Oso Oso - The Yunahon Mixtape
Souvenirs - Posture of Apology
Spoon - Hot Thoughts

 

I'm so close! I'll post my list on Saturday, I think.

 

Bleachers - Gone Now
Lorde - Melodrama
The Menzingers - After The Party
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Zombies on Broadway
Paramore - After Laughter
Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life
Ed Sheeran - Divide
Jason Isbell - The Nashville Sound

 

1. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound
2. Fleet Foxes - Crack Up
3. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
4. White Reaper - The World's Best American Band
5. Steve Earle and the Dukes - So You Wanna Be an Outlaw
6. Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life
7. Ryan Adams - Prisoner
8. Justin Townes Earle - Kids in the Street
9. Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
10. Pallbearer - Heartless

Most disappointing: Spoon - Hot Thoughts

Most overrated: Father John Misty - Pure Comedy

Most unintentionally aptly named: Father John Misty - Pure Comedy

Album I really really need to listen to: Slowdive - Slowdive

Most anticipated: Broken Social Scene - Hug of Thunder / The National - Sleep Well Beast

Best album of 2016, six months out: Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth (think I had it #2 behind Pinegrove last December)

 

So much I agree with in this post.