2017 Mid-Year Album Lists Thread • Page 9

Definitely did not expect to see this name on Chorus ever haha

 

Not a bad country album ;)

 

Settling on this for now

1. Tigers Jaw – spin

2. Dryjacket – For Posterity

3. The Smith Street Band - More Scared of You Than You Are Of Me

4. Paramore – After Laughter

5. A Will Away – Here Again

6. Oso Oso – The Yunahon Mixtape

7. Mystery Weekend – Surprise

8. Rise Against – Wolves

9. Creeper – Eternity, In Your Arms

10. The Menzingers – After the Party

 

Back when he was making like popish-folkish music we were always hanging out because of Mike, he was always the life of the party around here hahaha. It's awesome to hear he's doing successful with country because I know that's what he always wanted to do, I need to listen to his stuff.

 

That's such a weird way to say it "he was always the life of the party" makes it sound like I'm eulogizing him

 

ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Dirty Projectors — “Dirty Projectors”

Oso Oso — “The Yunahon Mixtape”
Emperor X — “Oversleepers International”
Mac Demarco — “This Old Dog”
The Menzingers — “After The Party”
Creeper — “Eternity, In Your Arms”
The Afghan Whigs — “In Spades”
Converge — “Jane Live”
Sampha — “Process”
Forest Swords — “Compassion”

HONORABLE MENTIONS
Jay Som — “Everybody Works”
Sorority Noise — “You're Not As ______ As You Think”
Father John Misty — “Pure Comedy”
Mount Eerie — “A Crow Looked At Me”
Thundercat — “Drunk”

 

Random list of stuff I've enjoyed so far from this year in no particular order with random thoughts in parenthesis:

• Incendiary - "Thousand Mile Stare" (Best metallic hxc I've heard in a LONG WHILE)
• Full of Hell - "Trumpeting Ecstasy" (Their best album yet?)
• The Menzingers - "After the Party" (Return to form after Rented World)
• Concealed Blade - "LP" (The sample at the beginning of the album sets the tone for this entire thing. An absolute barnburner)
• Captain, We're Sinking - "The King of No Man" (It's grown on me a bit, but it's still a disappointment overall. Looking back there's no way they could have topped TFIC)
• Mouse on the Keys - "Out of Body" (Best background noise release of the year so far, IMO)
• football, etc. - "Corner" (Everything about this album works for me for some reason...)
• Charly Bliss - "Guppy" (So pissed I missed them when they came through the city earlier this year. I'm surprised I enjoyed this as much as I did)
• Memoriam - "For The Fallen" (Bolt Thrower-lite. If they had a second guitarist to help with their low-end, this would probably be my favorite metal album of the year so far)
• Darkest Hour - "The Godless Prophets and Migrant Flora" (Best Darkest Hour album since Deliver Us)
• Cryptic Void - "Into the Desert Temple" (GRINDCORE!)
• Converge - "Jane Live" (This makes me so sad that I wasn't album to be at Roadburn last year - this live release sounds incredible)
• Looking for an Answer - "Dios Carne" (SPANISH GRINDCORE!)
• Power Trip - "Nightmare Logic" (Riffs for days)
• Necrot - "Blood Offerings" (Old-school death metal with the a nice punk tinge. Stoked to see them live next month)
• Cloud Rat/Moloch split LP (One of the best active grind bands on one side and an awesome sludge discovery on the other)
• Cloud Rat/Disrotted split LP (Primarily including this for Cloud Rat's contribution. It's an 18 minute long grind epic that just works so, so well.
• Pallbearer - "Heartless" (Still below Sorrow and Extinction, but better than Foundations of Burden. Regardless, their discography continues to get better).
• Khemmis/Spirit Adrift split 7" (Doom metal covers of old folk standards. Need I say more?)
• Sheer Mag - "Compilation LP" (Probably cheating since it's a compilation LP, but this was how I discovered them. So excited for the full-length next month)

I'm probably missing a few things since this is off the top of my head, but it's been a good year for music so far.

 

we ranked our top 20 and did points in reverse, 11 lists, here's our top 25 (which i like a ton)

Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. 131
Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory 112
The Menzingers - After The Party 110
Oso Oso - The Yunahon Mixtape 97
Paramore - After Laughter 94
Bleachers - Gone Now 89
Emperor X - Oversleepers International 88
Japandroids - Near The Wild Heart Of Life 78
Lorde - Melodrama 62
MisterWives - Connect The Dots 58
Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound 56
Sampha - Process 55
Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa 52
Charly Bliss - Guppy 48
MUNA - About U 42
Slowdive - Slowdive 40
Tigers Jaw - Spin 38
Perfume Genius - No Shape 34
Vagabon - Infinite Worlds 34
(Sandy) Alex G - Rocket 32
Los Campesinos - Sick Scenes 32
Diet Cig - Swear I'm Good At This 31
Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up 31
Cende - #1 Hit Single 26
Jay Som - Everybody Works 26

 

No arca means you didn't ask me which means how esteemed are those people really?

 

Don't get why people like MisterWives at all.

 

it's just like me and grug and erik and company not that esteemed

 

It's a genuinely uplifting album in the year 2017 that is very catchy and features an extremely talented lead singer

 

The thing abt this is that u and I are too esteemed it seems

 

i still don't think i've gotten a full listen to arca in yet it's not the easiest listen

doesn't take down its quality but i know at least for my own ranking listenability is a huge part of it, i know everyone ranks things in different ways

 

I am... not esteemed.

 

we know that

 

But for what it's worth Misterwives was my mid year #3 which explains why it's so high on that list. ha

 

Don't get why people like FTank at all

 

i was so bummed to see that

 

People sure are defensive about that album, haha.

 

it's okay, i was bummed to see the menzingers album so high on the list too

 

Yikes.

 

Also Casey neglects to mention The xx was also tied for 24th on that list because he's a huge piece of shit revisionist historian.

 

the only ppl on the website with the correct 1 and 2 even if ours are flipped from each other

 

i posted the top 25 rows on the excel sheet
fuck you