Top 100 Music Albums of 2017 by 
babyBlueSedan 
Alright, 2017. As always, here are the rules for my post-2013 year charts:
1. Everything I listen to this year will be added here, regardless of whether it's amazing or awful. If I listen to over 100 albums I'll throw out some albums I didn't have much of an opinion on (not necessarily the lowest rated ones).
2. Every album will have a comment. Comments early in the year will be longer and well thought out, and as the year goes on they'll get lazier and some of them will just say "good". It's inevitable.
3. Anything with a final rating of 70 or higher will be added to my collection. I'll list the number of "keepers" in this description. Anything with a 65 comes recommended but in the end was too inconsistent or bland for me. 60s are meh and anything under that I wouldn't really recommend.
33 keepers so far this year.
- Chart updated: 02/20/2020 01:45
- (Created: 01/29/2017 02:41).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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55/100
I'l have to make a new rule to not bother with albums tagged as dream pop. Some of these songs just go nowhere. Others are alright though. [First added to this chart: 07/12/2017]
I'l have to make a new rule to not bother with albums tagged as dream pop. Some of these songs just go nowhere. Others are alright though. [First added to this chart: 07/12/2017]
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55/100
I almost gave Marling this year's "this is an album" review, a dismissive review I give at least once a year to an album that left no impression on me. But Marling deserves better than that. This is a very well crafted album that I unfortunately do not enjoy at all.
Marling has the same problem as another female folk artist on this list (currently one spot below but that seems unlikely to stay the same) in that while her voice is quite nice it doesn't have any sense of purpose. It make me feel nothing. Give me a monotone drawl like Liz Phair or Courtney Barnett, or a fierce shriek like Francis Quinlan, but don't give me this wonder bread "technically proficient" stuff. It just bores me. Some of the lyrics try way to hard to be poetic too which makes her voice seem all the more manufactured.
Musically this is pretty packed with strings and instruments which has never really worked for me as far as folk goes. Everything is composed well but it just feels kind of bloated to me. [First added to this chart: 07/12/2017]
I almost gave Marling this year's "this is an album" review, a dismissive review I give at least once a year to an album that left no impression on me. But Marling deserves better than that. This is a very well crafted album that I unfortunately do not enjoy at all.
Marling has the same problem as another female folk artist on this list (currently one spot below but that seems unlikely to stay the same) in that while her voice is quite nice it doesn't have any sense of purpose. It make me feel nothing. Give me a monotone drawl like Liz Phair or Courtney Barnett, or a fierce shriek like Francis Quinlan, but don't give me this wonder bread "technically proficient" stuff. It just bores me. Some of the lyrics try way to hard to be poetic too which makes her voice seem all the more manufactured.
Musically this is pretty packed with strings and instruments which has never really worked for me as far as folk goes. Everything is composed well but it just feels kind of bloated to me. [First added to this chart: 07/12/2017]
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50/100
I liked their other album like I said, but this one was pretty much Nonagon Infinity again in that it was just the same thing stretched over a full album. Literally all of the Altered Beast songs are the same, which doesn't make for interesting. It makes for boring.
Also, I know you've been waiting for this. The answer to the band in my collection with the worst name: The World Is a Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid to Die. Only by a hair though. [First added to this chart: 07/15/2017]
I liked their other album like I said, but this one was pretty much Nonagon Infinity again in that it was just the same thing stretched over a full album. Literally all of the Altered Beast songs are the same, which doesn't make for interesting. It makes for boring.
Also, I know you've been waiting for this. The answer to the band in my collection with the worst name: The World Is a Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid to Die. Only by a hair though. [First added to this chart: 07/15/2017]
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I love the National because, at least for their last four albums, you know exactly what you're getting from their music. All of their songs are based on the same sound in a way that is pretty comforting, like finding a Taco Bell and knowing it will taste just like every other Taco Bell you've been too. The songs are not complex musically but each one has a little something that sets it apart. The lyrics are not essential enough for you to need to pay attention to get the music - the somber tone of the songs is usually all you need. But if you do listen to the lyrics, the songs are given more life and have just a little more meaning. They're one of the few bands I love because they don't change much - their sound is so well honed that they don't need to change it to continue to get results.
I'm a huge hypocrite because I hate Real Estate for all the same reasons. [First added to this chart: 03/24/2017]
I love the National because, at least for their last four albums, you know exactly what you're getting from their music. All of their songs are based on the same sound in a way that is pretty comforting, like finding a Taco Bell and knowing it will taste just like every other Taco Bell you've been too. The songs are not complex musically but each one has a little something that sets it apart. The lyrics are not essential enough for you to need to pay attention to get the music - the somber tone of the songs is usually all you need. But if you do listen to the lyrics, the songs are given more life and have just a little more meaning. They're one of the few bands I love because they don't change much - their sound is so well honed that they don't need to change it to continue to get results.
I'm a huge hypocrite because I hate Real Estate for all the same reasons. [First added to this chart: 03/24/2017]
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45/100
Prawn's Kingfisher was a revelation when I heard it, a great combo of pop punk and midwest emo with some really striking lyrics. For this one they've veered straight into 2000s pop punk and the overall experience suffers from it. Without slower songs that let the music breath, it feels too fast and repetitive. [First added to this chart: 10/26/2017]
Prawn's Kingfisher was a revelation when I heard it, a great combo of pop punk and midwest emo with some really striking lyrics. For this one they've veered straight into 2000s pop punk and the overall experience suffers from it. Without slower songs that let the music breath, it feels too fast and repetitive. [First added to this chart: 10/26/2017]
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45/100
I wanted some good stoner rock and instead I got grateful dead mixed with 2010s Mastodon. Too bluesy for my tastes. [First added to this chart: 10/26/2017]
I wanted some good stoner rock and instead I got grateful dead mixed with 2010s Mastodon. Too bluesy for my tastes. [First added to this chart: 10/26/2017]
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40/100
I won't complain about this album too much because I know a lot of people are finding a lot to connect to in it and I don't think those feelings are misplaced. It's a very personal album. But I don't find it compelling, and it seems to wallow a little too much without searching for solutions to the problems it addresses. Or their causes, really. Compared to my AOTY, Stranger in the Alps, I find that it lacks anything to draw the listener in if they're not already on board with Baker's style of lyrics. While it's personal in that it reflects deeply on Baker's pscyhe, it's impersonal in that it doesn't give the listener much to grab onto or connect to. I wish it had more direct lyrics and less general thoughts.
Musically it's really bland and all the songs sound the same. [First added to this chart: 12/09/2017]
I won't complain about this album too much because I know a lot of people are finding a lot to connect to in it and I don't think those feelings are misplaced. It's a very personal album. But I don't find it compelling, and it seems to wallow a little too much without searching for solutions to the problems it addresses. Or their causes, really. Compared to my AOTY, Stranger in the Alps, I find that it lacks anything to draw the listener in if they're not already on board with Baker's style of lyrics. While it's personal in that it reflects deeply on Baker's pscyhe, it's impersonal in that it doesn't give the listener much to grab onto or connect to. I wish it had more direct lyrics and less general thoughts.
Musically it's really bland and all the songs sound the same. [First added to this chart: 12/09/2017]
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35/100
I always tend to go off on the first sub-50 rating of the year so I'll try to keep this civil, but goodness this is a boring album. Chamber folk/pop is not my genre anyway so perhaps I shouldn't complain too much but there's usually at least one song on these kinds of albums that makes me want to come back and listen again. But absolutely nothing here caught my ear - it's all incredibly bland and if there's a lyrical theme of wintery depression I missed it because I wasn't paying close enough attention. And her voice has that quality where she's a really good singer but apparently it can't express any human emotions.
In a rare case of me trying to understand others' opinions I will say that if you enjoy stark folk stuff you'll probably at least like this. [First added to this chart: 03/20/2017]
I always tend to go off on the first sub-50 rating of the year so I'll try to keep this civil, but goodness this is a boring album. Chamber folk/pop is not my genre anyway so perhaps I shouldn't complain too much but there's usually at least one song on these kinds of albums that makes me want to come back and listen again. But absolutely nothing here caught my ear - it's all incredibly bland and if there's a lyrical theme of wintery depression I missed it because I wasn't paying close enough attention. And her voice has that quality where she's a really good singer but apparently it can't express any human emotions.
In a rare case of me trying to understand others' opinions I will say that if you enjoy stark folk stuff you'll probably at least like this. [First added to this chart: 03/20/2017]
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35/100
This album is titled very appropriately. It just plods along like a bunch of slime and never does anything interesting. [First added to this chart: 12/03/2017]
This album is titled very appropriately. It just plods along like a bunch of slime and never does anything interesting. [First added to this chart: 12/03/2017]
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30/100
Pure morbid curiosity? I thought my average rating for this year was a little high so I listened to this.
To my surprise, I didn't hate the lyrics as much as I thought I would. I couldn't stand ILYH because of how self satisfied it was, and I figured with Tillman preaching about the evils of the world it would be even worse. I thought this mostly because of the early song Two Wildly Different Perspectives, which basically boils down to "people have difference viewpoints and don't try to see each others' sides". I thought the rest of the album would be this same type of pointing out the obvious. Which it is for the most part, but there are actually some poignant moments here. Leaving LA is a long, mostly worthless song but the end part about him choking on candy in a department store somehow felt meaningful. Maybe just because that bit felt like a post-Among the Leaves Kozelek song. I also like how the song ends on an unfinished thought, though if not for Fillmore Jive doing the same thing I'd think it was pointless and pretentious. The rest isn't worth writing about.
I also don't like Tillman's sugary, boring voice or the string/piano backing that makes every song feel the same. [First added to this chart: 10/26/2017]
Pure morbid curiosity? I thought my average rating for this year was a little high so I listened to this.
To my surprise, I didn't hate the lyrics as much as I thought I would. I couldn't stand ILYH because of how self satisfied it was, and I figured with Tillman preaching about the evils of the world it would be even worse. I thought this mostly because of the early song Two Wildly Different Perspectives, which basically boils down to "people have difference viewpoints and don't try to see each others' sides". I thought the rest of the album would be this same type of pointing out the obvious. Which it is for the most part, but there are actually some poignant moments here. Leaving LA is a long, mostly worthless song but the end part about him choking on candy in a department store somehow felt meaningful. Maybe just because that bit felt like a post-Among the Leaves Kozelek song. I also like how the song ends on an unfinished thought, though if not for Fillmore Jive doing the same thing I'd think it was pointless and pretentious. The rest isn't worth writing about.
I also don't like Tillman's sugary, boring voice or the string/piano backing that makes every song feel the same. [First added to this chart: 10/26/2017]
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Top 100 Music Albums of 2017 composition
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| King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | 3 | 3% | |
| Brockhampton | 3 | 3% | |
| tricot | 1 | 1% | |
| White Reaper | 1 | 1% | |
| Jay Som | 1 | 1% | |
| Young Thug | 1 | 1% | |
| Hurray For The Riff Raff | 1 | 1% | |
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72 | 72% | |
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12 | 12% | |
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Top 100 Music Albums of 2017 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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 Up 29 from 57th to 28thPolygondwanaland by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard |
| Up 9 from 27th to 18th Flying Microtonal Banana by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard |
| Up 5 from 22nd to 17th Big Fish Theory by Vince Staples |
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| Down 20 from 12th to 32nd American Dream by LCD Soundsystem |
| Down 17 from 16th to 33rd All-AmeriKKKan Bada$$ by Joey Bada$$ |
| Down 13 from 21st to 34th You Only Live 2wice by Freddie Gibbs |
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 Known Unknownsby Billy Woods |
| Neō Wax Bloom by Iglooghost |
| Red Burns by Standing On The Corner |
| Leavers |
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 Hangby Foxygen |
| Infinite Worlds by Vagabon |
| The Underside Of Power by Algiers |
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