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PoorMonger

(844 posts)
Thu Dec 7, 2017, 10:05 PM Dec 2017

2017 - Albums Of The Year

Waxahatchee - Out In The Storm

Jason Isbell ( and The 400 Unit) - Nashville Sound

Rural Alberta Advantage - The Wild

Spoon - Hot Thoughts

Sean Price - Imperious Rex

Beck - Colors

Iron & Wine - Beast Epic

The New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions

Old 97’s - Graveyard Whistling

Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Soul Of A Woman

Spiral Stairs - Doris and the Daggers

Langhorne Slim - Lost At Last Vol. 1

Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Lotta Sea Lice

Ryan Adams - Prisoner


An additional album that didn’t make my list / collection till this year because of it’s Christmas Day release last year is Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 3

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2017 - Albums Of The Year (Original Post) PoorMonger Dec 2017 OP
Just My List. PoorMonger Dec 2017 #1
A very different list - more time listening to jazz recently NRaleighLiberal Dec 2017 #2
I also loved Beck's "Colors". Great album. Dr Hobbitstein Dec 2017 #3

PoorMonger

(844 posts)
1. Just My List.
Thu Dec 7, 2017, 10:10 PM
Dec 2017

Would love to see some others share what they are listening to and what they really loved this year. I didn’t number anything figured that would take much longer.

NRaleighLiberal

(61,910 posts)
2. A very different list - more time listening to jazz recently
Thu Dec 7, 2017, 10:19 PM
Dec 2017

Alternative Rock

The National - Sleep Well Beast

Jazz

Avishai Cohen Quartet - Cross My Palms With Silver

Stephan Micus - Inland Sea

Bill Frisell - Small Town

December Avenue - Tomasz Stanko

Up and Coming- John Abercrombie

 

Dr Hobbitstein

(6,568 posts)
3. I also loved Beck's "Colors". Great album.
Thu Dec 7, 2017, 10:48 PM
Dec 2017

I also really dug

Foo Fighters - Concrete & Gold (so good I bought it on CD and vinyl)
Queens of the Stone Age - Villains
Jay Z - 4:44
Gorillaz - Humanz
Prophets of Rage - Prophets of Rage
The Flaming Lips - Oczy Mlody
At The Drive In - in•ter a•li•a
Nine Inch Nails - Add Violence
Primus - The Desaturating Seven
Marilyn Manson - Heaven Upside Down
Randy Newman - Dark Matter

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