Your own top 2017 albums & overall thoughts for 2017

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  • Posted: 12/29/2017 01:55
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So there's still a few more days but I have been having a great time. So far this year, 918 of the 2197 times I've listened to something, it has been a 2017 release, and 389 of 2197 were times I've listened to something released before this year that were new to me. This includes re-listening, of course, I didn't hear 918 releases from this year. But for my listening, around 41% of the time this year I was listening to a 2017 release, and if you include the other new to me things, 59% of my listening this year was spent listening to things I hadn't heard previous to this year.

I have heard around 260 2017 releases, and 162 things from before 2017 that I hadn't heard. For 110 2017 releases, I only gave them 1 listen. And for the ones I hadn't heard before, I only gave 1 listen to 82 of them. For the stuff from before 2017, I think there's a lot of them that I want to spend more time with but just didn't get around to. The 2017 ones are more likely to be ones where I went "oh yeah this is not my thing at all, goodbye"?

So I didn't really dwell on disappointments, I'm ok with taking the long way on some albums and not wasting much time on the ones that failed to connect with me. There were 51 things that were new to me (2017 and earlier) that I listened to 7 or more times, and those are the things that really gave the year it's character for me. These represent 25% of my listening this year and are the things I will remember for this year (things released previous to 2017 are in itallics)

Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts - 20 listens
Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage - 19 listens
Jaap Vink - Jaap Vink - 19 listens
Guerilla Toss - GT Ultra - 19 listens
Joshua Abrams - Simultonality - 16 listens
Taiwan Housing Project - Veblen Death Mask - 16 listens
Konrad Sprenger - Stack Music - 15 listens
Laurel Halo - Dust - 15 listens
Felicia Atkinson - Hand In Hand - 14 listens
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid - 14 listens
Julius Eastman - Joy Boy - 14 listens
Bud Powell - Jazz Giant - 13 listens
Jib Kidder - Pay 2 Play - 13 listens
Bordreuil / Rowden - Hollow - 13 listens
Kassel Jaeger - Aster - 13 listens
Krzysztof Penderecki - Kosmogonia - 12 listens
Oto Hiax - s/t - 12 listens
Keith Rowe/Michael Pisaro - 13 Thirteen - 12 listens
Pep Llopis - Poiemusia La Nau Dels Argonautes - 11 listens
Machine Girl - .​.​.​BECAUSE I'M YOUNG ARROGANT AND HATE EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR - 11 listens
Black To Comm - Alphabet 1968 - 10 listens
Jurg Frey - L'âme est sans retenue III - 10 listens

Hecker - A Script For Machine Synthesis - 10 listens
Cabo Boing - Blob On A Grid - 10 listens
USA/MEXICO - Laredo - 10 listens
Sote - Sacred Horror In Design - 10 listens
Jason Lescalleet - The Pilgrim - 9 listens
John Handy - Recorded Live At Monterey Jazz Festival - 9 listens

Aaron Dilloway - The Gag File - 9 listens
Nicole Mitchell - Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds - 9 listens
Graham Lambkin/Taku Unami - The Whistler - 9 listens
Gérard Lavender - The Public Image - 9 listens
Bellows - Strand - 9 listens
Palm - Shadow Expert - 9 listens
The Hydra - Studio Time - 9 listens
Galcher Lustwerk - Dark Bliss - 9 listens
M.E.S.H. - Hesaitix - 9 listens
Stakker - Eurotechno - 8 listens
Mesias Maiguashca - Oeldorf 8 - 8 listens

Kassel Jaeger & Jim O'Rourke - Wakes On Cerulean - 8 listens
Will Guthrie - People Pleaser - 8 listens
JC - HEAVY_LAYERS_0​.​5​.​wav - 8 listens
NYZ - FLD RCDR - 8 listens
Pharoah Sanders - Black Unity - 7 listens
Richard Horowitz - Eros In Arabia - 7 listens

Avey Tare - Eucalyptus - 7 listens
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Late Monoliths, 2011-2013 (Disc 1) - 7 listens
Berangere Maximin - Frozen Refrains - 7 listens
Olivia Block - Olivia Block - 7 listens
Bhob Rainey - From Null Lands Led, Starrily - 7 listens
Nadah El Shazly - Ahwar - 7 listens

Important note: I will listen to 13 Thirteen at least once more before the year is out so it can get to 13 listens because I think that's funny. And Jurg Frey - L'âme est sans retenue I is not on this list because it only has 4 listens but it is 6 hours long so it's one that I've spent a lot of time with.

And honestly there's a lot of the things I listened to less than that that made a big impression on me this year, like Arthur Blythe - Illusions. And some random things that I'd already spent plenty of time with, like Laurel Halo - Quarantine, that got 8 listens mostly in the first quarter of the year and it was a big part of the sound of that time for me, even if it already had been a big part of 2012. But yeah, I focused on what I loved while still taking time for chances, and I think I was rewarded greatly. Musically, I had the best time in 2017.

edit: I'm listening to Illusions again so that one sneaks in there now too with 7 listens.
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  • Posted: 12/29/2017 19:10
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My top 10

1.Body Count-Bloodlust
2.Alice Cooper-Paranormal
3.Asaf Avidan-The Study on Falling
4.The Cambodian Space Project-Spaced Out in Wonderland
5;The Creepshow-Death at My Door
6.Steel Panther-Lower the Bar
7.Mastodon-Emperor of Sand
8.Far From Alaska-Unlikely
9.Expander-Endless Computer
10.Ego Kill Talent-Ego Kill Talent

Overall, I heard very little this year that blew me away, but also very little that wasn't at least above average.
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Gotta chart for it, innit.
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Reassemblage by Visible Cloaks

This one is the only really notable release for me - it has inspired me to track down loads of great and sometimes hard to find electronic and ambient music from Japan in the 1980s.
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Very interesting album, I seem to lose sense of time a bit with this, being surprised each time I realize that a track has ended!
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SleepDealer wrote:

Reassemblage by Visible Cloaks

This one is the only really notable release for me - it has inspired me to track down loads of great and sometimes hard to find electronic and ambient music from Japan in the 1980s.


I checked out this one out a few weeks after it came out and was kind of shocked that no-one was talking about it. It's a phenomenal piece. Plus it's one of the ones that has made me constantly reconsider my own chart for this year.
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The Ooz by King Krule

I think for me personally this was one of the year's bigger surprises. I feel like Archy Marshall really etched out his own space here that none of his peers are close to tapping into. It's a tapestry that showcases the in-between of genres, emotions, characters and backdrops of where the narratives transpire. And it's quite a sizeable progression when compared to 2013's 6 Feet Beneath The Moon.
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  • Posted: 01/02/2018 10:28
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I still don't have a solid top 10 for the year, but I'll have it soon.
As for my overall thoughts about the year, it definitely does have nice depth and variety and some of my favourite artists releasing pretty solid albums. But I feel it doesn't have enough killer albums, and in that aspect it's much worse than 2016 for example. The only truly great album from this year is A Deeper Understanding.
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I never would've predicted the year going the way that it went for me musically. I never would've guessed that another deceased singer was going to find their way to me, but my late beautiful precious Steve Sanders of the Oak Ridge Boys did.

God bless you and his family always!!!

Holly

P.S. My other late beautiful precious has not been forgotten for the record. Earlier today I was listening to Billy Joe Royal and it was as awesome as it can be to hear him again. (Not meant to sound insulting...What do you say when its another deceased person that you are talking about?)
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01. Songs Of Experience by U2
02. Who Built The Moon by Noel Gallagher
03. Melodrama by Lorde
04. As You Were by Liam Gallagher
05. After Laughter by Paramore
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