Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2017 • Page 8

They added me on MySpace back when they were Kill Your Ex (oof). Much better name now.

 

Single of the Year

Although Orphaned Skies comes pretty close.

 

After the Party is my number one but otherwise in no particular order:

The Menzingers - After the Party
Lorde - Melodrama
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3 (I know, I know. Still counting it)
Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface
Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound
Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile - Lotta Sea Lice
Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds from Another Planet
Queens of the Stone Age - Villains
Mogwai - Another Country's Sun
Fionn Regan - The Meetings of the Waters
Sorority Noise - You're Not as _____ as You Think
The Front Bottoms - Going Grey
Citizen - As You Please
St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION
Prawn - Run
Tigers Jaw - spin
Turnover - Good Nature
Slowdive - Slowdive
Palehound - A Place I'll Always Go

For some reason this year I feel like I listened to more albums than usual but I didn't listen to individual albums as much as I normally would. I finally got Spotify premium this year and my commute shortened so that might have a lot to do with it. Didn't include the Daughter record because it's a soundtrack but I spun that quite a bit. There are also quite a few like Not Even Happiness by Julie Byrne that I just recently got into. Might end up refining this list and ranking later on.

 

menzingers album was mid

 

hot take. OTIP is the only very good menz album, the others have moments but as a whole I don’t care for them

 

Bad take

 

is it that hot? haven't listened to the stinker in six months, probably

 

AOTY:

1. Lorde - Melodrama
2. Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
3. Gorillaz - Humanz
4. St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION
5. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
6. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Who Built the Moon?
7. Taylor Swift - Reputation
8. Ryan Adams - Prisoner
9. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
10. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
11. SZA - CTRL
12. Paramore - After Laughter
13. Liam Gallagher - As You Were
14. The xx - I See You
15. Billy Corgan - Ogilala

SOTY:

1. St. Vincent - New York
2. Camp Cope - Keep Growing
3. Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness
4. Gorillaz - Ascension
5. Haim - Want You Back
6. Lorde - Hard Feelings/Loveless
7. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Dead in the Water
8. Jay Z - Story of OJ
9. Kendrick Lamar - DNA
10. Japanese Breakfast - Road Head
11. Julien Baker - Funeral Pyre
12. Wolf Alice - Don't Delete the Kisses
13. Arcade Fire - Everything Now
14. Cardi B - Bodak Yellow
15. Taylor Swift - Dress

 

Long list is at about 140 right now of either things that will make it or things I like and want to reassess. I use this time of year less as "look at what I like" and more a chance to reflect and evaluate everything that has made some sort of impact over the past year. Once I add everything I've found or queued up over the past week, I will likely be at just under 200 albums in consideration, the jump shows just how useful looking at the lists of publications and people can be for diversifying my music intake

 

How could I forget A Place I'll Always Go by Palehound

 

Hm. Topster isn't around anymore. That sucks.

 

So glad to see thousand below on another list. Adore that album.

 

I’ve listened to so many more albums this year than any other year and there were so many great releases. Here is my list:

1. Caracara - summer megalith
2. Manchester orchestra - a black mile to the surface
3. Smith street band - more scared of you than you are of me
4. TWIABP - always foreign
5. Emperor x - oversleepers international
6. Sorority noise - you’re not as____as you think
7. Julien Baker - turn out the lights
8. Los Campensinos - sick scenes
9. Mount eerie - a crow looked at me
10. Prawn - run
11. Oso oso - the yunahon mixtape
12. Tiny blue ghost - growing pains
13. Gangs of youth - go farther in lightness
14. Us and only us - full flower
15. Phoebe Bridgers - stranger in the alps
16. Smidley - smidley
17. Brick and mortar - dropped again
18. Blis. - no one loves you
19. Racquet club - racquet club
20. Mineral girls - this is the last time every time
21. People like you - verse
22. Western daughter - drift away
23. Swordfish - Rodia
24. Wild pink - Wild pink
25. Sinai vessel - broken legged

Other albums I liked

Boy Rex - better vision
Cloud nothings - life without sound
Converge - the dusk in us
Cool American - infinite hiatus
Dead leaves -vultures
Hodera - first things first
Remo drive - greatest hits
Sandy Alex G - rocket
Tim kasher - no resolution
Captain we’re sinking - the king of no man
Glassjaw - material control
Color film - living arrangements
Watermedown - the same view with a new light
Gingerlys - gingerlys
Ratboys - GN
Vasudeva - no clearance


EPs

Mccafferty - thanks.sorry.sure
Minnow - expanded view of home
Out of service - what we bring with us
Listener - being empty, being filled I, II and III

 

I've been maintaining a playlist with songs from 2017 that stood out to me or whatever, without repeating artists (exlcuding guest spots). I cut it down to 50. It's probably not exactly the same as a Top 50 favorite tracks list but it's good enough.

Jay Z would be on there but you know, Tidal and shit.

 

My top songs of the year I guess:

1. Big Thief - Mythological Beauty
2. Choker - Moksha
3. Wild Ones - Invite Me In

 

I forgot about the Roc Marciano album

 

I'm currently struggling to do a top 25 or so as so many good albums have come out this year. Pretty sure this is my top 5 though:

1. Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms
2. G Perico - All Blue
3. The Menzingers - After The Party
4. Employed To Serve - The Warmth of a Dying Sun
5. Higher Power - Soul Structure

 

I still have WAY to much to listen to before I start putting this together. I hear a new contender like every other day as I catch up.

This message brought to you by Carly Pearce.

 

Carly is in my top 10. Love that record.

 

Just texted my girlfriend that I found this year's winner of the Morris/Musgraves Trophy.

 

And they actually let her get to number 1 on Country radio!

Favorite track?

 

This Gang Of Youths record may have just fucked up my whole list

 

Tier One

Converge - The Dusk in Us
Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface
The Smith Street Band - More Scared of You Than You Are of Me
The National - Sleep Well Beast
Arcane Roots - Melancholia Hymns
Pallbearer - Heartless
Anathema - The Optimist
Everything Everything - A Fever Dream
Wolf Parade - Cry Cry Cry
British Sea Power - Let the Dancers Inherit the Party
Vessels - The Great Distraction
HAWKING - Diverge
Looming - Seed
Sleepmakeswaves - Made of breath only
White Hills - Stop Mute Defeat

Tier Two

Spoon - Hot Thoughts
Sorority Noise - You're Not As _____ As You Think
Dialects - Because Your Path is Unlike Any Other
Cassels - Epithet
Employed to Serve - The Warmth of a Dying Sun
Prawn - Run
And So I Watch You From Afar - The Endless Shimmering
Perfume Genius - No Shape
Eyre Llew - ATELO
Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION
Meat Wave - The Incessant
Tidelines - S/T
Public Service Broadcasting - Every Valley
Worriers - Survival Pop

 

I'm trying to think of my favourite songs of the year but I can't concentrate because CUT TO THE FEELING keeps getting suck in my head

 

Always so hard for me to say on first listen but maybe "Doin' It Right" or "Colors"?

So damn good. Just listened yesterday. Like if Brian Fallon and The National collaborated to make an Bruce album but also got a bit into modern indie aesthetics.