Pink Matter Posted December 21, 2017 Posted December 21, 2017 (edited) 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 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 ). -Highlight what I felt was good across various genres. Schedule: Spoiler 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. 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
Pink Matter Posted December 21, 2017 Author Posted December 21, 2017 (edited) 2016 Recap: Best Albums Spoiler 1) Anderson .Paak|Malibu2) Gallant|Ology3) Esperanza Spalding|Emily's D+Evolution4) Flume|Skin5) Mitski|Puberty 26) Xenia Rubinos|Black Terry Cat7) Corinne Bailey Rae|The Heart Speaks in Whispers8) Frank Ocean|Blonde9) Glass Animals|How To Be A Human Being10) Phantogram|Three 2016 Recap: Best Songs Spoiler 1) Mitski|Crack Baby2) David Bowie|Lazarus3) Kanye West|Ultralight Beam (feat. Chance The Rapper, The Dream, and Kelly Price)4) Frank Ocean|White Ferrari5) Tinashe|Ghetto Boy6) Anderson .Paak|The Season/Carry Me7) Solange Knowles|F.U.B.U. (feat. The Dream and BJ The Chicago Kid)8) Glass Animals|Season 2 Episode 39) Kaytranada|You're The One (feat. Syd)10) Rihanna|Love on the Brain Best Singles Spoiler 1) Toro y Moi|Girl Like You 2) The War on Drugs|Pain 3) Gorillaz|Andromeda (feat. D.R.A.M.) 4) Sampha|Reverse Faults 5) Sheer Mag|Need to Feel Your Love 6) Yellow Days|That Easy 7) Susanne Sundfør|Undercover 8) Frank Ocean|Chanel 9) Big K.R.I.T.|Big Bank (feat. T.I.) 10) Tyler, The Creator|911/Mr. Lonely (feat. Frank Ocean and Steve Lacy) 11) Kelela|Blue Light 12) Cherry Glazerr|Nuclear Bomb 13) Perfume Genius|Slip Away 14) Earl St. Clair|Bad Love15) 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 91) Laura Marling|Wild Fire92) The National|The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness93) Cigarettes After Sex|Apocalpyse94) Washed Out|Get Lost95) Selena Gomez|Fetish (feat. Gucci Mane)96) DJ Khaled|Wild Thoughts (feat. Rihanna and Bryson Tiller)97) Shy Girls|Say You Will98) Paramore|Fake Happy99) Goldfrapp|Systemagic100) Charli XCX|Boys Best EPs Spoiler 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 Spoiler 1) Lana Del Rey|Love 2) Kelela|LMK 3) Kendrick Lamar|LOYALTY. (feat. Rihanna) 4) Perfume Genius|Slip Away 5) Ibeyi|Deathless (feat. Kamasi Washington) 6) Beck|Up All Night 7) Dua Lipa|New Rules 8) Tyler, The Creator|Who Dat Boy (feat. A$AP Rocky) 9) Lorde|Green Light 10) Aminé|Spice Girl 11) Alex Cameron|Stranger's Kiss (with Angel Olson) 12) Kali Uchis|Tyrant (feat. Jorja Smith) 13) Gorillaz|Saturn Barz (feat. Popcaan) 14) Jorja Smith|Teenage Fantasy15) Charli XCX|Boys 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 Spoiler 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) jesse rutherford|& (Alt. R&B, Electropop) Jaden Smith|SYRE (Pop Rap) Wolf Alice|Visions of a Life (Indie Rock, Dream Pop, Alt. Rock) Goldlink|At What Cost (Hip-Hop) Cut Copy|Haiku From Zero (Electropop) Chelsea Wolfe|Hiss Spun (Gothic Rock) Joywave|Content (Indietronica, Indie Rock) Daley|The Spectrum (Blue- Eyed Soul, Neo-Soul) Jessie Ware|Glasshouse (Pop-Soul, R&B) Hoops|Routines (Jangle Pop, Indie Pop) Queens of the Stone Age|Villains (Alt. Rock) Vic Mensa|The Autobiography (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 Spoiler 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 Stuff20) 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
SLIME Posted December 21, 2017 Posted December 21, 2017 Was dead ass one second from hitting that quote asking where your thread was Hype already can't wait
Pink Matter Posted December 21, 2017 Author Posted 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.
theblackestday Posted December 21, 2017 Posted December 21, 2017 (edited) Yesss finally 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
ultraviolence.xx Posted December 21, 2017 Posted December 21, 2017 13 minutes ago, Kang. said: Was dead ass one second from hitting that quote asking where your thread was also dame
Pink Matter Posted December 21, 2017 Author Posted 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
Pink Matter Posted December 21, 2017 Author Posted December 21, 2017 Me while everyone else was getting on with their Best Of's
Pacaveli Posted December 21, 2017 Posted December 21, 2017 I've already arrived and I'm waiting for it.wav.
Pink Matter Posted December 21, 2017 Author Posted 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.
Pink Matter Posted December 21, 2017 Author Posted December 21, 2017 2016 recap: Albums: Quote 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: Quote 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.
Pink Matter Posted December 21, 2017 Author Posted December 21, 2017 If you want to check out more of my 2016 list, click here.
Pink Matter Posted December 21, 2017 Author Posted December 21, 2017 (edited) Top 100 Singles Singles 100-91 100) Charli XCX|Boys 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 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 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 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) 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) 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 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 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 Love the electronic undertones in the production. A great song that's also lyrically relevant as well. 91) Laura Marling|Wild Fire 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
Pink Matter Posted December 21, 2017 Author Posted December 21, 2017 (edited) Sorry that took so long Gonna add links to the songs in a bit. But so far: 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 95) Selena Gomez|Fetish (feat. Gucci Mane) 96) DJ Khaled|Wild Thoughts (feat. Rihanna and Bryson Tiller) 97) Shy Girls|Say You Will 98) Paramore|Fake Happy 99) Goldfrapp|Systemagic 100) Charli XCX|Boys Edited December 21, 2017 by Pink Matter
Tom Vercetti Posted December 21, 2017 Posted December 21, 2017 Better late than never. Nice song choices so far. Quote 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
World Eater Posted December 21, 2017 Posted December 21, 2017 Came here for talent and am not disappointed
Mark Rih Posted December 21, 2017 Posted December 21, 2017 WT and Fetish, 2 of my most played songs of the year
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