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strangledeggs · 10 months

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The Best Albums Of 2017

(A note that extends to all of these lists which I will attach to the top of each: if you want to see a full review of any specific album on this list, or are wondering why a particular album did or didn’t make the top 10, or are wondering why an album you like from the year in question isn’t on this list at all, send me an ask about it and I’ll try and respond!)

The Top 10

DAMN by Kendrick Lamar

Brick Body Kids Still Daydream by Open Mike Eagle

Describes Things As They Are by Beauty Pill

Antisocialites by Alvvays

A Crow Looked At Me by Mount Eerie

4:44 by Jay-Z

Oversleepers International by Emperor X

who told you to think??!!?!?!?! by milo

Talk Tight by Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

Sleep Well Beast by The National

The Rest

Whiteout Conditions by The New Pornographers

Out In The Storm by Waxahatchee

Playboi Carti by Playboi Carti

Triple Fat Lice by Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman

The Underside Of Power by Algiers

République Amazone by Les Amazones d’Afrique

Resolution by The Perceptionists

The Official Body by Shopping

Drool by Nnamdi Ogbonnaya

Fin by SYD

Harry Styles by Harry Styles

Laila’s Wisdom by Rapsody

Life Will See You Now by Jens Lekman

Life Without Sound by Cloud Nothings

American Teen by Khalid

Dakhla Sahara Session by Cheveu And Group Doueh

Big Fish Theory by Vince Staples

1992 Deluxe by Princess Nokia

Veins by Homeboy Sandman

A somewhat weak year, if my (still-forming) shortlists for the years to follow are any indication – only 29 albums made the cut here. Some of the top 10 were surefire picks: “DAMN”, though not my favourite Kendrick (which remains To Pimp A Butterfly), has grown on me a lot to the point that I now see it as one of the year’s greatest achievements – a surprisingly coherent collection of solid-to-excellent songs with only the loosest of threads connecting them all in some kind of “concept”; “Antisocialites” is a beautifully-produced nonstop hook-fest of an indie rock album; “Describes Things As They Are” deserves a special mention for bringing one of the year’s most unique sounds to the table, even as it traces its clear influences back to artists as diverse as The Dismemberment Plan and Arto Lindsay (great “Prize” cover in there). Others I had to think harder on, and I switched out “Sleep Well Beast” for “Whiteout Conditions” at the last minute here, my main justification being that on revisiting each, it seemed to me that The National had never sounded better than on their moody, murmuring 2017 album, while The New Pornographers, despite delivering another worthy entry to their now-formidable discography, had.

In retrospect, this was an interesting year for hip-hop (though when isn’t it these days?) beyond “DAMN”: it marks the breakthrough success of Open Mike Eagle, the triumphant return of Jay-Z (but hold the antisemitism next time, OK?), the introduction of the chaotic Playboi Carti and the album that might stand as Princess Nokia’s most definitive statement so far. It also saw the final entry of Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman’s enjoyable “Lice” trilogy of EPs, a fascinating experimental effort by Nnamdi that still stands as one of the most distinct-sounding (if not necessarily consistent) hip-hop albums I’ve heard in recent memory, and the first albums by Rapsody and Vince Staples to truly impress me.

Though it might be hard to say exactly when “poptimism” broke critical establishment mainstream at this point (and I’ll probably write more on that later), this year also strikes me as notable for not including a whole lot of representative entries that would appeal to that crowd’s sensibilities – at least not on my list, meaning I didn’t see many capital-P Pop albums worth mentioning here. That being said, the top 40 stuff gets a couple victories here in the form of the two depressive-leaning albums by Harry Styles and Khalid (Khalid’s is the better one, if you’re curious).

Speaking of depressive (though the word actually feels inadequate to describe this one), “A Crow Looked At Me” gets a last word in here for being the most anomalous album on this list – I didn’t think I’d even like it until I tried it, upon which I found less of an album than a powerful, personal meditation on death and loss that somehow achieved poetry by constantly trying to avoid it. After listening to it the first time, I thought I’d never want to hear anything like it again – that is until I heard its follow-up from the next year.

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comedybingbong · 1 year

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#comedy bang bang #scott aukerman #paul f. tompkins #best of 2017

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escuelahairstudio · 2 years

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Ed Sheeran and Beyonce's 'Perfect' Is Surging On Midweek U.K. Chart

Ed Sheeran and Beyonce’s ‘Perfect’ Is Surging On Midweek U.K. Chart

On her way she met a copy. The copy warned the Little Blind Text, that where it came from it would have been rewritten a thousand times and everything that was left from its origin would be the word “and” and the Little Blind Text should turn around and return to its own, safe country. A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy…

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#Best of 2017 #Grammys 2018 #Indie Label #Most Streamed 2017 #Pop #Top Chart 100

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allelitewrestlings · 2 months

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#adam page #hangman page #hangman adam page #wrestlingedit #aewedit #rohedit #pre aew #roh #event: best in the world 2017 #ours: gifs #maker: s #*

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cubesoda · 10 months

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one Older!DTK Trio Doodle Dump Ultra Mega Supreme™ coming right up, sir!! Liz laments the loss of her status as Tallest (out of the three)

also Crona’s there

#death the kid #liz thompson #patty thompson #crona gorgon #older!death the kid #older!liz thompson #older!patty thompson #older!crona gorgon #soul eater fanart #soul eater #sodadraws #I made up the designs for older Liz and Patty years ago so they’re not the best ;-;#omg crona cameo everybody say hiii cronaaa #fun fact the second one’s a redraw from 2017

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holly-mckenzie · 3 months

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Matthew Patrick Quinn as Hades & Lana Gordon as Persephone

HADESTOWN created by Anaïs Mitchell & Rachel Chavkin

#broadwayedit #musicaltheatreedit #musicalgifs #hadestownedit #hadestown #hadestown the musical #hadestown broadway #hades #matthew patrick quinn #lana gordon #mine #they are the best hades and persephone... amber who? patrick where?#I don't make the rules friends #what I would do to see them in the 2017 interaction of the musical

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endreal · 1 year

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I think smartphones-as-computing-platform have peaked (and maybe already jumped the shark?) for any practical purposes. There are only 3 things smartphones need from here on out: better battery life, more storage/user expandable storage, and better ergonomics

#Like. my hands are NOT small but I still struggle to use a flagship of any brand with just one hand #Back in 2017 i could reliably make great curveball throws in Pokémon Go with a Starbucks in my other hand #Now the multi-year creep of screen widths and angles has meant that I play best of I can use my second hand as a stabiliser #Also when did 'charge your phone at the end of a day of heavy use' turn into 'top up your battery around 3pm almost daily'?#I wouldn't say no to a more user-friendly pro mode phone camera either but that's a secondary priority #(I just want to be able to take good pictures of the moon)

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dizzybevvie · 2 months

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no bc when Richie realises (but is in denial) that eddies dead and he slumps over into a hug and just sobs into him, and hes being dragged away from the body and screaming, its not even totally about Eddie. obviously he cares a fucking LOT about Eddie, he was in love with him etc etc, but ppl forget he also hasnt been able to process Stan's death either. he lost his best friend and the man he loved in less than a week.

#thinking soooo hard abt richie and stan frienship. they were BEST friends :((((#clown movie #it 2019 #it 2017 #it by stephen king #it chapter two #it chapter 2 #it chapter ii #it chapter one #richie tozier #reddie #stozier #< platonic 2 me but interpret it how u want #stanley uris #stan uris #eddie kaspbrak #beverly says stuff

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whatthefuckisasweep · 1 year

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A follow up to my Stan and Eddie napping together drawing : )

@stanstanthebirdman inspired the idea of eddie fussing over stan's bandages and i kinda ran with it and made it an eddie and stan comfort moment :' )

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odetokeons · 1 year

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i love the tough, grumpy, intimidating, big guy and the small, but incredibly powerful and badass kid they reluctantly adopted cinematic universe

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wacky-nameless-inventor-24 · 5 months

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This came to me like a vision

#No idea if it’s been done before but it’s the best thing I’ve ever drawn #dewey duck #ducktales #ducktales 2017 #dt17 #duckverse #wacky's art

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disney-mystical-au · 3 months

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Duck doodles +Oswald (because they’re rotting my brain rn)

#my art #art #disney #mystical au #ducktales #ducktales 2017 #topolino #donald duck #oswald the lucky rabbit #gladstone gander #fethry duck #della duck #webby vanderquack #yeah I tried my best with them

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escuelahairstudio · 2 years

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Justin Bleber Posts Tribute to His Bro: 'Relationships Are Worth Fighting For'

Justin Bleber Posts Tribute to His Bro: ‘Relationships Are Worth Fighting For’

On her way she met a copy. The copy warned the Little Blind Text, that where it came from it would have been rewritten a thousand times and everything that was left from its origin would be the word “and” and the Little Blind Text should turn around and return to its own, safe country. A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy…