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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Typically when I listen to highly rated electronic (using that as a very general umbrella term) albums from each year I go in not expecting to enjoy them much. I've long struggled getting into the genre but recently have been starting to enjoy a few different types of electronic music; notably Boards of Canada and The Ape of Naples have really been impressing me. This one was no different, but I got a lot out of it. It's a very menacing album that nonetheless starts off with this weird carnival intro but quickly gets pretty terrifying and insane. There are some almost danceable parts but even they're so warped that it would feel weird to dance to them. RYM labels this as "post-industrial" which is also what they tag Ape of Naples as so I might have found a new subgenre to explore. [First added to this chart: 07/12/2017]
Typically when I listen to highly rated electronic (using that as a very general umbrella term) albums from each year I go in not expecting to enjoy them much. I've long struggled getting into the genre but recently have been starting to enjoy a few different types of electronic music; notably Boards of Canada and The Ape of Naples have really been impressing me. This one was no different, but I got a lot out of it. It's a very menacing album that nonetheless starts off with this weird carnival intro but quickly gets pretty terrifying and insane. There are some almost danceable parts but even they're so warped that it would feel weird to dance to them. RYM labels this as "post-industrial" which is also what they tag Ape of Naples as so I might have found a new subgenre to explore. [First added to this chart: 07/12/2017]
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80/100
When Slide and Heatstroke came out I started asking myself whether I was actually getting excited for a Calvin Harris album. The answer was yes, and it delivered on everything I hoped it would be. Tons of fun, nothing groundbreaking but better than your average pop album. Also just the right lenght, not like those DJ Khaled albums that have been trying to do this before. [First added to this chart: 07/15/2017]
When Slide and Heatstroke came out I started asking myself whether I was actually getting excited for a Calvin Harris album. The answer was yes, and it delivered on everything I hoped it would be. Tons of fun, nothing groundbreaking but better than your average pop album. Also just the right lenght, not like those DJ Khaled albums that have been trying to do this before. [First added to this chart: 07/15/2017]
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I usually can't stand formless electronic albums like this with made up genre names like wonky and fuzzbass and doobop and klumtramtz and disassembled trance but this hits all of my buttons.
I usually can't stand formless electronic albums like this with made up genre names like wonky and fuzzbass and doobop and klumtramtz and disassembled trance but this hits all of my buttons.
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75/100
I'm not a perfect music listener - sorry to disappoint. One of my biggest flaws is that I tend to hold follow-ups of really good albums to the standard of that album, meaning that if it either 1) isn't as good or 2) goes in a new direction I tend to write it off. See my review of Big Fish Theory for proof of number 2. For proof of number 1, look to this album.
Get to Heaven was a masterpiece, the type of album that will eventually be on my overall chart and will be hard to take off. A Fever Dream is not as good; it has fewer danceable punching-the-sky moments and a couple songs that could be called "clunkers." But it also has Night of the Long Knives, a tremendous critique of xenophobia with the sarcastic "shame about your neighborhood" chorus. It has Desire, with an absolutely heart-stopping chorus. It has the plaintive closer White Whale, and it has Good Shot, Good Soldier and the most cathartic moment on the album - the chorus of "If I'm wrong then strike me down, with a bolt from the heeeeeaveeens." And the idiosyncratic art pop is still there backing everything up. Man I regret sleeping on this. [First added to this chart: 08/30/2017]
I'm not a perfect music listener - sorry to disappoint. One of my biggest flaws is that I tend to hold follow-ups of really good albums to the standard of that album, meaning that if it either 1) isn't as good or 2) goes in a new direction I tend to write it off. See my review of Big Fish Theory for proof of number 2. For proof of number 1, look to this album.
Get to Heaven was a masterpiece, the type of album that will eventually be on my overall chart and will be hard to take off. A Fever Dream is not as good; it has fewer danceable punching-the-sky moments and a couple songs that could be called "clunkers." But it also has Night of the Long Knives, a tremendous critique of xenophobia with the sarcastic "shame about your neighborhood" chorus. It has Desire, with an absolutely heart-stopping chorus. It has the plaintive closer White Whale, and it has Good Shot, Good Soldier and the most cathartic moment on the album - the chorus of "If I'm wrong then strike me down, with a bolt from the heeeeeaveeens." And the idiosyncratic art pop is still there backing everything up. Man I regret sleeping on this. [First added to this chart: 08/30/2017]
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70/100
I'm starting to figure out what electronic (using that term very loosely) music I like. What I really like are vocal samples, which this album has a bunch of. Lots of tribal sounds and fun textures. I still can't talk about this kind of music outside of my enjoyment of it but I enjoyed this one. [First added to this chart: 12/03/2017]
I'm starting to figure out what electronic (using that term very loosely) music I like. What I really like are vocal samples, which this album has a bunch of. Lots of tribal sounds and fun textures. I still can't talk about this kind of music outside of my enjoyment of it but I enjoyed this one. [First added to this chart: 12/03/2017]
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65/100
I really enjoyed Skepta's album from last year but that comes with the unfortunate side effect that I'm going to compare every grime album I ever hear to it. Stormzy has a great ear for rhymes but I can't help but feel that he doesn't have much to say.
And I hate to be that guy, but the R&B tracks on this thing are terrible. Multiple reviews have said they're trying to make the album more commercial but they aren't even poppy songs. They're just really slick, SLOW songs that don't go anywhere and really mess up the flow. Even without them I'm not sure I would have given this a higher rating but I'm interested to hear what he does in the future. [First added to this chart: 07/12/2017]
I really enjoyed Skepta's album from last year but that comes with the unfortunate side effect that I'm going to compare every grime album I ever hear to it. Stormzy has a great ear for rhymes but I can't help but feel that he doesn't have much to say.
And I hate to be that guy, but the R&B tracks on this thing are terrible. Multiple reviews have said they're trying to make the album more commercial but they aren't even poppy songs. They're just really slick, SLOW songs that don't go anywhere and really mess up the flow. Even without them I'm not sure I would have given this a higher rating but I'm interested to hear what he does in the future. [First added to this chart: 07/12/2017]
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60/100
I don't remember much about the last album from these guys, but I gave it a 40 so I must not have like it much. I was going to ignore this one but some site that wasn't NME ranked it the best of the year so I thought what the hell. And this is more interesting than I expected - the first track is VERY reminiscent of Loveless of all things, and there are some other nods to shoegaze along the way as well (though more Slowdive than MBV throughout the rest of the album). But for the most part this is really stuck in the 90s and not super interesting - I don't remember how any of the songs go. [First added to this chart: 12/09/2017]
I don't remember much about the last album from these guys, but I gave it a 40 so I must not have like it much. I was going to ignore this one but some site that wasn't NME ranked it the best of the year so I thought what the hell. And this is more interesting than I expected - the first track is VERY reminiscent of Loveless of all things, and there are some other nods to shoegaze along the way as well (though more Slowdive than MBV throughout the rest of the album). But for the most part this is really stuck in the 90s and not super interesting - I don't remember how any of the songs go. [First added to this chart: 12/09/2017]
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If you want to see one of the comments I'm most proud of (and one of my most down voted comments) check out the one I left on The xx's debut album. Haha that album's terrible. I listened to this because I feel compelled to listen to anything given BNM because I'm an idiot. It's better than their debut, but so was Pol Pot's regime*. It still contains bored vocals and songs that just don't do anything.
*this is an exaggeration, but only by a little [First added to this chart: 03/20/2017]
If you want to see one of the comments I'm most proud of (and one of my most down voted comments) check out the one I left on The xx's debut album. Haha that album's terrible. I listened to this because I feel compelled to listen to anything given BNM because I'm an idiot. It's better than their debut, but so was Pol Pot's regime*. It still contains bored vocals and songs that just don't do anything.
*this is an exaggeration, but only by a little [First added to this chart: 03/20/2017]
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Never been a huge fan of the band, outside of Souvlaki, and I don't get this one at all. [First added to this chart: 07/15/2017]
Never been a huge fan of the band, outside of Souvlaki, and I don't get this one at all. [First added to this chart: 07/15/2017]
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I wasn't sure why I wasn't really enjoying this until about halfway through when I read a review comparing Sampha to James Blake and I realized why. Directionless instrumentals with a voice that's just trying to hard to add extra flourishes to the music.
Probably deserves a lower score but I'd like to avoid listening to it again. [First added to this chart: 03/24/2017]
I wasn't sure why I wasn't really enjoying this until about halfway through when I read a review comparing Sampha to James Blake and I realized why. Directionless instrumentals with a voice that's just trying to hard to add extra flourishes to the music.
Probably deserves a lower score but I'd like to avoid listening to it again. [First added to this chart: 03/24/2017]
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Top 100 Music Albums of 2017 composition
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| Brockhampton | 3 | 3% | |
| King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | 3 | 3% | |
| Ariel Pink | 1 | 1% | |
| EMA | 1 | 1% | |
| Wolf Alice | 1 | 1% | |
| Future & Young Thug | 1 | 1% | |
| G Perico | 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 |
| New entries |
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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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