Album of The Year - Endgame

1. Ryan Adams - Prisoner
2. NIИ - Add Violence
3. The National - Sleep Well Beast
4. Aimee Mann - Mental Illness
5. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN
6. Japandroids - Near The Wild Heart Of Life
7. Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile To The Surface
8. The Cranberries - Something Else
9. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana
10. Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
 
1. Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up
2. Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die
3. Armand Hammer - Rome
4. Moses Sumney - Aromanticism
5. Open Mike Eagle - Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
6. Chris Stapleton - From A Room Vol. 1
7. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
8. Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper
9. Jay-Z - 4:44
10. Kendrick Lamar - Damn

Really great year for music - I didn't think the album as a whole was spectacular, but Algiers' The Underside Of Power was EASILY the best song of the year to me. It's a shame the rest of the album didn't quite live up to it
 
2017
1. Sparks - Hippopotamus
2. Gang of Youths - Go Farther in Lightness
3. Spoon - Hot Thoughts
4. Old 97's - Graveyard Whistling
5. Oh Sees - Orc
6. Kane Strang - Two Hearts and No Brain
7. Wolf Parade - Cry Cry Cry
8. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
9. Grandaddy - Last Place
10. Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound

HM
Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
Juliana Hatfield - Pussycat
Kevin Morby – City Music
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard x 5
Lo Tom - Lo Tom
Aimee Mann - Mental Illness
The National - Sleep Well Beast
The New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions
Protomartyr – Relatives in Descent
Ride - Weather Diaries
Rips - Rips
Ty Segall - Ty Segall
Slowdive - Slowdive
Waxahatchee - Out in the Storm
Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology
White Reaper - The World's Best American Band
 
My Top 10 Albums of 2017:
  1. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
  2. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - Soul of a Woman
  3. Lorde - Melodrama
  4. Joey Bada$$ - ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$
  5. St. Vincent - Masseduction
  6. Kelela - Take Me Apart
  7. Harry Styles - s/t
  8. Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound
  9. Jay-Z - 4:44
  10. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
  11. SZA - CTRL
 
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2017.

After listening to 30-something albums, I have settled on this Top 10. I’m not certain about the Lorde/Kesha placement, but whatever. No kidding, this might have been harder than the 1975 year.

1. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN
2. SZA - Ctrl
3. Lorde - Melodrama
4. Kesha - Rainbow
5. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
6. Four Tet - New Energy
7. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound
8. Kamasi Washington - Harmony of Difference
9. Gorillaz - Humanz
10. The xx - I see you
 
EDIT : This was intended for the 2020 thread. [My Bad, Please ignore.]

For now, as of today, here is the list:

1. And You Will Know Us By The Trial of Dead - X: The Goddess Void and Other Stories
2. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
3. Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters
4. Andrew Jackson Jihad - Good Luck Everybody
5. The Beautiful Mistake - You are not broken, I am
6. Dogleg - Melee
7. Hamilton Leithauser - The Loves of Your Life
8. Pinegrove - Marigold
9. Milk Teeth - S/T
10. Hayley Willams - Petals For Armor
 
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Alright, time to get some pop onto the list:

1. Nicole Atkins - Goodnight Rhonda Lee
2. Kesha - Rainbow
3. Taylor Swift - Reputation
4. Lorde - Melodrama
5. Valerie June - The Order of Time
6. Ethan Gruska - Slowmotionary
7. Lilly Hiatt - Trinity Lane
8. Odesza - A Moment Apart
9. Beth Ditto - Fake Sugar
10. Gabriel Garzon Montano - Jardin
 
2017
  1. Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness
  2. The National - Sleep Well Beast
  3. Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex
  4. Jens Lekman - Life Will See You Now
  5. Alvvays - Antisocialites
  6. Molly Burch - Please Be Mine
  7. Gang of Youths - Go Farther in Lightness
  8. Hoops - Routines
  9. Waxahatchee - Out in the Storm
  10. Slowdive - Slowdive
 
1. The National - Sleep Well Beast
2. Richard Edwards - Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset
3. Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent
4. Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
5. Queens of the Stone Age - Villains
6. Bonobo - Migration
7. Run the Jewels - RTJ3
8. Bodies of Water - Spear in the City
9. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN
10. Cigarettes After Sex -Cigarettes After Sex

a few edits and additions, but pretty close to my at-the-time list
 
My Top 2017 Albums

Strand of Oaks - Hard Love
Sinkane - Life & Livin It
Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Navigator (@Teeeee - surprised this didn't make your list!)
Willie Nelson - God's Problem Child
Colter Wall - S/T
Bedouine - S/T
Cameron Graves - Planetary Prince
Nicole Atkins - Say Goodnight Rhonda Lee
Aldous Harding - Party
John Moreland - Big Bad Luv
Bonobo - Migration
Fleet Foxes - Crack Up
Lukas Nelson & the Promise of the Real - S/T
Margo Price - All American Made
Daniel Luppi and Parquet Courts - Milano
 
cbl said:
1. The National - Sleep Well Beast
2. Richard Edwards - Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset
3. Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent
4. Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
5. Queens of the Stone Age - Villains
6. Bonobo - Migration
7. Run the Jewels - RTJ3
8. Bodies of Water - Spear in the City
9. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN
10. Cigarettes After Sex -Cigarettes After Sex

a few edits and additions, but pretty close to my at-the-time list
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I had RTJ3 as a 2016 release....that would absolutely make my list if we agree its 2017

Also I'm going to have to rethink my list, leaving Protomartyr off is a problem.
 
2017:
Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
Aimee Mann - Mental Illness
Charly Bliss - Guppy
Lilly Hiatt - Trinity Lane
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound
Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
Big Theif - Capacity
Nicole Atkins - Goodnight Rhonda Lee
Lorde - Melodrama
 
wokeupnew said:
😱😱😱😱

I did not get into this album until last year, so it’s a glaring omission on my list. I had went with exactly what I had as my top albums at the end of 2017. I’ll probably keep it bow it is but this would make it somewhere
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I was also late to the Pheobe parade and didnt get into Stranger til last year.
 
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