best of Pink Matter's 2017 Best Of | Update: Albums 10-1 | FINISHED!

December 21, 2017

Welcome to Pink Matter's 2017 Best Of

I'm so excited to finally get this thread up and running. I'm sure you all know how this goes. I'll be doing a ranking of some of my favorite songs and albums that were released this year (between 1/1/17 and 11/30/17).

I'll be posting my top 100 songs, top 15 videos (with 5 HMs), "top 10" EPs, and finally my top 50 albums (with 30 HMs). I will also be doing a small recap of my top 10 albums and songs from 2016 to start things off.

I quite enjoyed the music that was released this year. I thought this was a great year with lots of solid finds. Digging deeper past mainstream music and checking more indie acts allowed me to get more out of 2017 than I did in previous years. That being said, looking back on 2017, I don't believe there was one album that stood out from the rest of the pack as THE best album or song of the year. My top 5/10 for both lists are pretty interchangeable, which in my opinion shows there's been high quality music across the board. So I suppose it all works out :duck:

Goals for this Best Of:

-Expose users to new music they may not have heard of.

-Get users to reconsider their thoughts on albums/songs they didn't enjoy beforehand.

-Outdo my previous Best Of in terms of content (as well as popularity :fan: ).

-Highlight what I felt was good across various genres.

Schedule:

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This schedule may likely (definitely will) change since I'm planning on kikiing with my woes when I go home for the holidays and we have not planned on when we'll be meeting. :foxaylove2:

Plus I may speed my album rollout since I'll be going back to school on 1/8 and I don't want the two to conflict (or at least not so much).

~~12/21- 2016 Recap + Songs 100-91~~

~~12/22- Songs 90-81~~

~~12/23- Songs 80-71~~

~~12/24- Songs 70-61~~

~~12/25- Songs 60-51~~

~~12/26- Songs 50-31~~

~~12/29- Songs 30-16~~

~~12/30- Songs 15-1~~

~~1/1- EPs 10-1 + Videos 20-16 (HMs)~~

~~1/2- Videos 15-1~~

~~1/3- Album HMs~~

~~1/4- Albums 50-46~~

~~1/6- Albums 45-46~~

~~1/7- Albums 35-31~~

~~1/8- Albums 30-26~~

~~1/9- Albums 25-21~~

~~1/10- Albums 20-16~~

~~1/11- Albums 15-11~~

~~1/13- Albums 10-1~~

Edited January 13, 2018 by Pink Matter

December 21, 2017

2016 Recap: Best Albums

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2016 Recap: Best Songs

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Best Singles

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1) Toro y Moi|Girl Like You

2) The War on Drugs|Pain

3) Gorillaz|Andromeda (feat. D.R.A.M.)

12) Cherry Glazerr|Nuclear Bomb
13) Perfume Genius|Slip Away
14) Earl St. Clair|Bad Love
15) Vince Staples|Yeah Right (feat. KUČKA and Kendrick Lamar)

16) BROCKHAMPTON|JUNKY

17) Vic Mensa|OMG (feat. Pusha T and Pharrell Williams)

18) King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard|Billabong Valley

19) LCD Soundsystem|american dream

20) Kendrick Lamar|HUMBLE.

21) SZA|Love Galore (feat. Travis Scott)

22) Rose Elinor Dougall|All At Once

23) St. Vincent|Los Ageless

24) Harry Styles|Sign of the Times

25) Lana Del Rey|Love

26) Clap! Clap!|Ode to the Pleiades

27) Loreen|'71 Charger

28) Rina Sawayama|Tunnel Vision (feat. Shamir)

29) dvsn|Don't Choose

30) Gabriel Garzon-Montano|Crawl

31) Majid Jordan|Gave Your Love Away

32) Lorde|Green Light

33) Ronika|Late Night Radio (feat. Swisha)

34) Thundercat|Drink Dat (feat. Wiz Khalifa)

35) Lil' Uzi Vert|The Way Life Goes (feat. Oh Wonder)

36) Ibeyi|Deathless (feat. Kamasi Washington)

37) Father John Misty|Two Wildly Different Perspectives

38) Snoh Aalegra|Nothing Burns Like The Cold (feat. Vince Staples)

39) Joey Bada$$|TEMPTATION

40) Mali Music|Loved By You (feat. Jazmine Sullivan)

41) Foxygen|On Lankeshim

42) SOHN|Signal

43) SiR|Ooh Nah Nah (feat. Masego)

44) Syd|Bad Dream/No Looking Back

45) Calvin Harris|Cash Out (feat. ScHoolboy Q, PARTYNEXTDOOR, and D.R.A.M.)

46) The xx|Performance

47) Chaz Bundick Meets The Mattson 2|Start Stuff

48) Sabrina Claudio|Unravel Me

49) LION BABE|Hit The Ceiling

50) Alex Cameron|Candy May

51) Tennis|In The Morning I'll Be Better

52) Bruno Mars|That's What I Like

53) Migos|What The Price

54) Why?|George Washington

55) Fyfe|Belong (feat. Kimbra)

56) Mura Masa|1 Night (feat. Charli XCX)

57) Kali Uchis|Tyrant (feat. Jorja Smtih)

58) Benjamin Clementine|Phantom of Aleppoville

59) Oxbow|Cold & Well-Lit Place

60) Jhené Aiko|Psilocybin (Love In Full Effect) (feat. Dr. Chill)

61) Jorja Smith|Teenage Fantasy

62) Billie Eilish|idontwannabeyouanymore

63) Jens Lekman|What's That Perfume That You Wear?

64) THEY.|Africa

65) JMSN|Where Do U Go

66) Beck|Up All Night

67) Jessie Ware|Selfish Love

68) Sam Smith|Pray

69) Kehlani|Get Like

70) Joywave|Doubt

71) Dirty Projectors|Little Bubble

72) Fifth Harmony|Deliver

73) Slowdive|Sugar for the Pill

74) Miguel|Told You So

75) ZAYN|Dusk Till Dawn (feat. Sia)

76) Pond|Sweep Me Off My Feet

77) Daniel Caesar|Get You (feat. Kali Uchis)

78) Dua Lipa|Thinking 'Bout You

79) Swae Lee|Unforgettable (feat. French Montana)

80) Post Malone|Rockstar (feat. 21 Savage)

81) Aminé|Spice Girl

82) Princess Nokia|Kitana

83) Björk|the gate

84) Tove Lo|Disco ****

85) Anna Wise|Stackin' That Paper

86) Zara Larsson|So Good (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)

87) Niall Horan|Slow Hands

88) Dasher|We Know So

89) AlunaGeorge|Last Kiss

90) Khalid|Location

Best EPs

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1) Earl St. Clair|My Name Is Earl

2) Rina Sawayama|RINA

3) Billie Eilish|dont look at me

4) Syd|Always Never Home

5) SiR|Her Too

6) Tennis|We Can Die Happy

7) Kamasi Washington|Harmony of Difference

8) Steve Lacy|Steve Lacy's Demo

9) Sleigh Bells|Kid Kruschev

10) Nick Murphy|Missing Link

Best Videos

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16) Bruno Mars|That's What I Like

17) Chaz Bundick Meets The Mattson 2|Star Stuff

18) Tennis|I Miss That Feeling

19) Tinashe|Company

20) ZAYN|Dusk Till Dawn (feat. Sia)

Best Albums: Honorable Mentions

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Zola Jesus|Okovi (Art Pop)

Jhené Aiko|Trip (Alt. R&B)
Björk|Utopia (Art Pop, Glitch Pop)
Fyfe|The Space Between (Indie Pop)

Slowdive|s/t (Dream Pop, Shoegaze)
THEY.|Nu Religion: HYENA (Hip-Hop, Trap, Contemporary R&B)
Anna Wise|The Feminine Act II (Alt. R&B)
Willow Smith|The 1st (Chamber Pop)
Jens Lekman|Life Will See You Now (Indie Pop, Singer-Songwriter)
Jonwayne|Rap Album Two (Hip-Hop)
JMSN|Whatever Makes U Happy (Alt. R&B, Neo-Soul)
Feist|Pleasure (Indie Rock, Folk Rock, Singer-Songwriter)
Girlpool|Powerplant (Indie Pop)
Pond|The Weather (Synthpop, Psychedelic Pop)
Brother Ali|All The Beauty In This Whole Life (Hip-Hop)
Dasher|Sodium (Garage Punk, Noise Rock)
Kacy Hill|Like A Woman (Alt. R&B)
The National|Sleep Well Beast (Indie Rock)
Harry Styles|s/t (Pop Rock)
Fifth Harmony|s/t (Dance Pop, R&B)
Goldfrapp|Silver Eye (Art Pop, Electropop, Synthpop)
Benjamin Clementine|I Tell A Fly (Art Pop)
Dirty Projectors|s/t (Art Pop, Glitch Pop)
Shy Girls|Salt (Alt. R&B)
Snoop Dogg|Neva Left (West Coast Hip-Hop)

Dua Lipa|s/t (Electropop, R&B)Khalid|American Teen (Alt. R&B)
SOHN|Rennen (Art Pop, Alt. R&B)

Princess Nokia|1992 (Deluxe) (Trap Rap)

Syd|Fin (Alt. R&B)

Calvin Harris|Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1 (Dance Pop, Funk, Hip-Hop)

The xx|I See You (Indie Pop, Indietronica)

Joey Bada$$|ALL AMERIKKKAN BADA$$ (Hip-Hop)

BROCKHAMPTON|Saturation (Hip-Hop)

BROCKHAMPTON|Saturation 3 (Hip-Hop)

Charli XCX|Number 1 Angel (Electropop)

Charli XCX|Pop 2 (Electropop)

Best Albums

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1) Big K.R.I.T.|4eva Is A Mighty Long Time

2) Sampha|Process

3) The War on Drugs|A Deeper Understanding

4) Tyler, The Creator|Flower Boy

5) Perfume Genius|No Shape

6) Kelela|Take Me Apart

7) Kendrick Lamar|DAMN.

8) Sheer Mag|Need To Feel Your Love

9) Toro y Moi|Boo Boo

10) SZA|Ctrl

11) Lana Del Rey|Lust For Life

12) St. Vincent|MASSEDUCTION

13) Lorde|Melodrama

14) Rose Elinor Dougall|Stellular

15) Miguel|War & Leisure

16) BROCKHAMPTON|Saturation II

17) Vince Staples|Big Fish Theory

18) King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard|Flying Microtonal Banana

19) Chaz Bundick Meets The Mattson 2|Star Stuff
20) LCD Soundsystem|American Dream

21) Loreen|Ride

22) Clap! Clap!|A Thousand Skies

23) Gabriel Garzón-Montano|Jardín

24) Tennis|Yours Unconditionally

25) Majid Jordan|The Space Between

26) Alex Cameron|Forced Witness

27) Ibeyi|Ash

28) Blanck Mass|World Eater

29) Yellow Days|Is Everything Okay In Your World?

30) Cherry Glazerr|Apocalipstick

31) Beck|Colors

32) Priests|Nothing Feels Natural

33) Mali Music|The Transition of Mali

34) Sabrina Claudio|About Time

35) Terrace Martin Presents The Pollyseeds|Sounds of Crenshaw Vol. 1

36) Snoh Aalegra|FEELS

37) Charlotte Gainsbourg|Rest

38) Foxygen|Hang

39) Father John Misty|Pure Comedy

40) Ronika|Lose My Cool

41) Daniel Caesar|Freudian

42) dvsn|Morning After

43) Oxbow|Thin Black Duke

44) Thundercat|Drunk

45) Why?|Moh Lhean

46) Lil' Uzi Vert|Luv Is Rage 2

47) Aminé|Good For You

48) Mura Masa|s/t

49) Susanne Sundfør|Music For People In Trouble

50) Gorillaz|Humanz

Edited January 14, 2018 by Pink Matter

December 21, 2017

Was dead ass one second from hitting that quote asking where your thread was :chick1:

Hype already can't wait

December 21, 2017

3 minutes ago, Kang. said:

Was dead ass one second from hitting that quote asking where your thread was

Hype already can't wait

2 minutes ago, DangerousSwiftie said:

Ahh perched

Glad you guys are here. Gonna start in an hour or so. Maybe 30 mins. Depends on how long it takes me to format my lists.

December 21, 2017

Yesss finally :jonny: can't wait bb

16 minutes ago, Kang. said:

Was dead ass one second from hitting that quote asking where your thread was

Literally same

Edited December 21, 2017 by theblackestday

December 21, 2017

FINALLY :duck:

December 21, 2017

13 minutes ago, Kang. said:

Was dead ass one second from hitting that quote asking where your thread was

also dame :chick1:

December 21, 2017

2 minutes ago, theblackestday said:

Yesss finally can't wait bb

Literally dame

1 minute ago, ultraviolence.xx said:

FINALLY

Trust me I wanted to start this up days ago but I was studying for finals and didn't want to flop because of this

December 21, 2017

Me while everyone else was getting on with their Best Of's

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December 21, 2017

Ready for it.mp3

December 21, 2017

I'm glad you did one. Perched.

December 21, 2017

I've already arrived and I'm waiting for it.wav.

December 21, 2017

Perched

December 21, 2017

Here for new music :celestial3:

December 21, 2017

@Kang. @DangerousSwiftie @theblackestday @ultraviolence.xx @Eeveelution @Same Ol' Mistakes @Pacaveli @Love Drought @Maddox

I'm going to start my countdown shortly. In the meantime, I'm going to post my 2016 recap just to start things off.

December 21, 2017

2016 recap:

Albums:

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1) Anderson Paak | Malibu
2) Gallant | Ology
3) Esperanza Spalding | Emily's D+Evolution
4) Flume | Skin
5) Mitski | Puberty 2
6) Xenia Rubinos | Black Terry Cat
7) Corinne Bailey Rae | The Heart Speaks in Whispers
8) Frank Ocean | Blonde
9) Glass Animals | How To Be A Human Being
10) Phantogram | Three

Singles:

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1) Mitski | Crack Baby
2) David Bowie | Lazarus
3) Kanye West | Ultralight Beam (feat. Chance The Rapper, The Dream, and Kelly Price)
4) Frank Ocean | White Ferrari
5) Tinashe | Ghetto Boy
6) Anderson .Paak | The Season/Carry Me
7) Solange Knowles | F.U.B.U. (feat. The Dream and BJ The Chicago Kid)
8) Glass Animals | Season 2 Episode 3
9) Kaytranada | You're The One (feat. Syd)
10) Rihanna | Love on the Brain

*Disclaimer: I didn't rank my singles last year so my opinion of what it may have been last year is probably different to what I have it as now.

December 21, 2017

If you want to check out more of my 2016 list, click here.

December 21, 2017

Talent, talent and talent :clap3:

December 21, 2017

malibu :clap3: ultralight beam :clap3: esperanza :clap3:

December 21, 2017

1) Mitski | Crack Baby

Talent WON. :clap3:

December 21, 2017

Top 100 Singles

Singles 100-91

100) Charli XCX|Boys

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A cute lil electropop song. The song by itself is alright, but the video truly brings it to life and makes it more enjoyable to listen to.

99) Goldfrapp|Systemagic

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Being my first introduction (well Anymore technically was), I didn't know what to expect. But this track was one of the nicer synthpop songs I got the chance to listen to this year. Great production on here.

98) Paramore|Fake Happy

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An overall solid track. I didn't spend a lot of time with this album but this was highlight. Love the production change part way into the song and really like how Hayley shows the emotional/sad feeling of being "fake happy".

97) Shy Girls|Say You Will

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A smooth alt-R&B track. Nice production and I think the vocals match well with it too.

96) DJ Khaled|Wild Thoughts (feat. Rihanna and Bryson Tiller)

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A cute Maria Maria rehash. I know most people hate it, but I actually love it because of the sample. Rihanna also is the best part of the song so there's that.

95) Selena Gomez|Fetish (feat. Gucci Mane)

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I don't use Selena much but this was one of my guilty pleasures this year. A nice lil urban pop bop with a surprise Gucci Mane feature. Poor Bad Liar.

94) Washed Out|Get Lost

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A vibe. This song came out at the right time and was one of my go to summer songs. Nothing like a nice standard chillwave track.

93) Cigarettes After Sex|Apocalypse

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Lowkey, I thought the singer was a girl when I first played this. A very dreamy and calming dream pop tune.

92) The National|The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness

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Love the electronic undertones in the production. A great song that's also lyrically relevant as well.

91) Laura Marling|Wild Fire

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I don't normally enjoy folk/country-ish tunes but this was one of my favorite singles earlier in the year. I haven't played it that often since the album dropped but it's a solid tune nonetheless.

Edited December 21, 2017 by Pink Matter

December 21, 2017

Sorry that took so long Gonna add links to the songs in a bit. But so far:

Edited December 21, 2017 by Pink Matter

December 21, 2017

Better late than never. Nice song choices so far.

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91) Laura Marling|Wild Fire
92) The National|The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness
93) Cigarettes After Sex|Apocalpyse
94) Washed Out|Get Lost
99) Goldfrapp|Systemagic

:clap3:

December 21, 2017

Came here for talent and am not disappointed

December 21, 2017

WT and Fetish, 2 of my most played songs of the year :clap3:

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