My top 10 right now: 1) Paramore - After Laughter 2) The Maine - Lovely, Little, Lonely 3) Bleachers - Gone Now (ok it's not even out yet, but the 3 songs released already warrant it a spot) 4) Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. 5) Father John Misty - Pure Comedy 6) John Mayer - The Search For Everything 7) Run the Jewels - RTJ 3 (I know technically it came out in December, but I didn't have much of a chance to listen until this year) 8) The Menzingers - After the Party 9) Charly Bliss - Guppy 10) Gorillaz - Humanz, Perfume Genius - No Shape, Chris Stapleton - Songs From a Room, Vol.1 (these are all albums I've enjoyed, but I need to spend more time with to decide what I'd like best).
april-may updated here's my top albums right now 1. The Maine - Lovely Little Lonely 2. Paramore - After Laughter 3. MUNA - About U 4. Day Wave - The Days We Had 5. New Found Glory - Makes Me Sick 6. The Menzingers - After The Party 7. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. Still waiting on more releases.
Top 10 1. Wild Pink S/T 2. Ryan Adams "Prisoner" end of world edition 3. Sinai Vessel "Brokenlegged" 4. Pile "hairshirt of purpose" 5. Afghan Whigs "in spades" 6. John Moreland "big bad luv" 7. Toner "killing pace" 8. Eric Slick "Palisades" 9. David Bazan "Care" 10. Emperor X "Oversleepers International"
146. Nick Murphy - Missing Piece (2017) 147. Paramore - After Laughter (2017) 148. Grouplove - Little Mess (2017) 149. The Get Down, Pt. II (Original Soundtrack from the Netflix Original Series) (2017) 150. The Flaming Lips - Transmissions From the Satellite Heart (1993) 151. T-Pain & Lil Wayne - T-Wayne (2017) 152. Janet Jackson - janet. (1993) 153. Misterwives - Connect The Dots (2017)
1. Perfume Genius - No Shape 2. Cayetana - New Kind of Normal 3. Emperor X - Oversleepers International 4. Kendrick Lamar - Damn 5. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me 6. Slowdive - Slowdive 7. The Menzingers - After the Party 8. Jay Som - Everybody Works 9. Paramore - After Laughter 10. Desperate Journalist - Grow Up Though the top three are literally the only ones that couldn't potentially fall like 20 spots. This year is so fucking good and it's not halfway over. Like I'm already nearing difficulty making a top 50.
Honestly haven't heard 10 albums I love yet this year. Edit: Top albums for 2017 (NO ORDER) 1. Migos - Culture 2. Del Paxton - All Day, Every Day, All Night 3. Remo Drive - Greatest Hits 4. Cherry Glazerr - Apocalipstick 5. Oliver Houston - Whatever Works 6. Code Orange - Forever 7. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
154. Aerosmith - Get A Grip (1993) 155. Snoop Doggy Dog - Doggystle (1993) 156. Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly & James McAlister - Planetarium (2017) 157. Pearl Jam - Vs. (1993)
My running top 10 (no particular order - seriously, the first one is not my favorite... it's all mixed up): So This Is Suffering - Palace For The Pessimist A Will Away - Here Again Reward - Music For The End of the World He Is Legend - few. Sorority Noise - You're Not As ___ John Mayer - In Search of Everything Dryjacket - For Posterity Natalie Hemby - Puxico Nova Collectve - The Further Side Darkest Hour - Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora Super excited for: Chon - Homey Haim - Something To Tell You The Movielife - Cities In Search of a Heart Brand New - Yeah, right. Glassjaw - Sure buddy, whatever you say.
May update! May Adornment - Grayscale++ in ter a li a - At the Drive In* DIVISI - A Lot Like Birds++ After Laughter - Paramore+++ Young at the Bend - Born Without Bones++ Dreamcar - DREAMCAR+ California (Deluxe) - blink-182++ You're Welcome - Wavves+ Spin - Tigers Jaw+++ Something More! - WATERS++ Teenage Emotions - Lil Yachty++ Droptopwop - Gucci Mane++ Vision - Pet Symmetry+++ Running Top Ten (as of 5/26/17) 1. After the Party - The Menzingers 2. Spin - Tigers Jaw 3. After Laughter - Paramore 4. Makes Me Sick - New Found Glory 5. Lovely Little Lonely - The Maine 6. You're Not As _____ As You Think - Sorority Noise 7. More Scared of You Than You Are of Me - The Smith Street Band 8. DAMN. - Kendrick Lamar 9. The Epilogue EP - Day At The Fair 10. Near to the Wild Heart of Life - Japandroids
wupdate time: 35. (Sandy) Alex G - Rocket / Bedroom pop / +++ 36. The Music Tapes - The Orbiting Human Circus EP / Like if Daniel Johnston made a Disney movie / +++ 37. Kendrick Lamar - Damn / Hip hop / ++ 38. battery stanley - Throwing Your Voice / Bedroom pop / +++ 39. by the end of summer - Laughing e.p. / Emo i guess/ +++ (this is like snowing but with engrish lyrics, very fun) 40. Otoboke Beaver - Love Is Short EP / kawaii punk / ++ 41. Paramore - After Laughter / Indie rock new wave or something / ++ -------------------------------------------------------------- ten favorites so far: top 5 alphabetically (Sandy) Alex G - Rocket Baby Zionov - The Mango Data by the end of summer - Laughing EP Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me The Music Tapes - The Orbiting Human Circus EP 6-10 alphabetically insignificant other - candid hour with sim Joy Again - EP matthew lee cothran - judas hung himself in america Pinegrove - Elsewhere summerbruise - bummer vacation
April & May Kendrick Lamar - Damn ++ Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (Live) ++ Wavves - You're Welcome ++ Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up + The Smith Street Band - More Scared Of You Than You Are Of Me ++ The Flatliners - Inviting Light + Mac DeMarco - This Old Dog + Tigers Jaw - spin +++ Free Throw - Bear Your Mind ++ Adult Mom - Soft Spots + Pet Symmetry - Vision +++ Sufjan Stevens, et al - Planetarium +++
158. Clean Cut Kid - Felt (2017) 159. The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (1993) 160. Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up (2017) 161. Pet Symmetry - Vision (2017)
254. Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R 255. Emperor X - Oversleepers International 256. Minor Threat - Out of Step 257. All Dogs - Kicking Every Day 258. Tricot - And 259. Tricot - The 260. Tricot - 3 261. Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance 262. Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside 263. A$AP Rocky - At.Long.Last.A$AP 264. Blueprint - Respect the Architect 265. Blueprint - Vigilante Genesis 266. Wye Oak - Civilian 267. Crooked Still - Shaken by a Low Sound 268. Crooked Still - Friends of Fall 269. Matchbox Twenty - Yourself and Someone Like You 270. Counting Crows - August and Everything After 271. Kyla La Grange - Ashes 272. Hockey Dad - Boronia 273. Blink-182 - Blink-182 274. Ogre You Asshole - Homely 275. The Mountain Goats - Goths 276. The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour 277. Volcano, I'm Still Excited!! - Volcano, I'm Still Excited!! 278. Fake Problems - Real Ghosts Caught on Tape 279. Best Coast - Crazy for You 280. Cayetana - New Kind of Normal 281. Collapse Under the Empire - Sacrifice & Isolation 282. Perfume Genius - No Shape 283. Paramore - After Laughter 284. Slowdive - Slowdive 285. Captain, We're Sinking - The Future is Cancelled 286. Football, Etc. - Corner 287. Aye Nako - Silver Haze 288. Aphant - Another Other 289. Tigers Jaw - Spin 290. Fiver - Audible Songs From Rockwood 291. Terror Pigeon - Live It Up Before You Die It Up! 292. Blank Pigeon - Blank Pigeon 293. Vulgar Pigeon - Burning Episode 294. Indie Pigeon - A Sine of Love 295. Future Pigeon - Golden State of Dub The fact that this month was so damn good on new releases held me back on everything else. Every single one of those new albums is in regular rotation for me.
May: 48. Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy + 49. Perfume Genius - No Shape ++ 50. At the Drive-In - in•ter a•li•a + 51. Slowdive - Slowdive + 52. Wavves - You're Welcome + 53. Paramore - After Laughter ++ 54. Girlpool - Powerplant + 55. The Mountain Goats - Goths + 56. Harry Styles - Harry Styles + 57. Tigers Jaw - Spin ++ 58. Adult Mom - Soft Spots + 59. (Sandy) Alex G - Rocket + 60. Ostraca - Last ++ 61. football, etc. - Corner +
162. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders (1993) 163. Major Lazer - Know No Better (2017) 164. Bleachers - Gone Now (2017) 165. The Lulls In Traffic - Rabbit In The Snare (2017) 166. Allie X - CollXtion II: Unsolved (2017)
167. All Time Low - Last Young Renegade (2017) 168. Allie X - CollXtion II (2017) 169. Danny L Harle - 1UL (2017) 170. Dreamcar - Dreamcar (2017) 171. Halsey - Hopeless Fountain Kingdom (2017) 172. Amber Coffman - City of No Reply (2017) 173. alt-J - Relaxer (2017) 174. Dispatch - America, Location 12 (2017) 175. Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa (2017) 176. The Dirty Dishes - The Dirty Dishes (2017) 177. Freddie Gibbs - You Only Live 2wice (2017) 178. Land of Talk - Life After Youth (2017)
May 53. POLKADOT STINGRAY - dai seigi ++ 54. DYGL - say goodbye to memory den + June 55. BAND-MAID - just bring it ++ 56. Especia - Wizard ++ 57. Kari Band - Kari Ongen - Demo ++ 58. tricot - 3 ++ 59. Marika Hackman - I'm not your man ++
With the habit of listening music i live, i think it will be really tough for me to ever build a list.