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Tuesday, December 26, 2017

PaulySure's Top 51 Records of 2017 and Other Musical Obsessions

By PaulySure

Albums of 2017:

50. Depeche Mode, Spirit
49. All Them Witches, Sleeping Through the War
48. Pharmakon, Contact
47. Undergang, Misantropologi
46. Triumvir Foul, Spiritual Bloodshed
45. Necrot, Blood Offerings
44. Melvins, A Walk with Love & Death
43. Urchin, Cavalcade Past a Forebearing Ruin
42. Spirit Adrift, Curse of Conception
41. Bathsheba, Servus
40. Zola Jesus, Okovi
39. Petyr, Petyr
38. Mutoid Man, War Moans
37. Acephalix, Decreation
36. Nikki Lane, Highway Queen
35. Ex Eye, Ex Eye
34. Ruby the Hatchet, Planetary Space Child
33. The Black Angels, Death Song
32. Monarch!, Never Forever
31. Metz, Strange Peace
30. Ryan Adams, Prisoner
29. Ufomammut, 8
28. Electric Wizard, Wizard Bloody Wizard
27. Unearthly Trance, Stalking the Ghost
26. All Pigs Must Die, Hostage Animal
25. Chelsea Wolfe, Hiss Spun
24. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, Vol. 1
23. Queens of The Stone Age, Villains
22. The National, Sleep Well Beast
21. Iron Monkey, 9-13
20. Drab Majesty, The Demonstration
19. With the Dead, Love from With the Dead
18. Ulver, The Assassination of Julius Caesar
17. Pallbearer, Heartless
16. Run the Jewels, RTJ3
15. Primitive Man, Caustic
14. Forest Swords, Compassion
13. Morrissey, Low in High School
12. Spectral Voice, Eroded Corridors of Unbeing
11. Power Trip, Nightmare Logic
10. Grave Pleasures - Motherblood
9. Usnea, Portals into Futility
8. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Soul of a Woman
7. Wolves in the Throne Room, Thrice Woven
6. Here Lies Man, Here Lies Man
5. Monolord, Rust
4. Bell Witch, Mirror Reaper
3. Curtis Harding, Face Your Fear
2. Converge, The Dusk in Us
Tie for 1. Elder, Reflections of a Floating World 
      & Slowdive, Slowdive

Honorable mentions: Big|Brave, Ardor, Crystal Fairy, Crystal Fairy, Toke, (Orange), Dead Witches, Ouija, Big K.R.I.T., 4Eva Is a Mighty Long Time

Concerts of 2017: Psycho Las Vegas, Crucial Fest, Morrissey, X, Ride, Teenage Fanclub with Britta Phillips, Alcest, Graves at Sea, Guitar Wolf, Mutoid Man, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Dead Meadow, High On Fire, Oathbreaker with Cult Leader & Khemmis, The Black Angels, Chelsea Wolfe with Youth Code

Other obsessions of 2017: Pretty much all things Roky Erickson, Elder (obviously), Lynyrd Skynyrd’s (Pronounced ‘Lĕh-‘nérd ‘Skin-‘nérd), Jack Lee, Plastic Bertrand “Ca Plane Pour Moi,” Corrosion of Conformity, Deliverance, Weedeater, Jason the Dragon & God Luck and Good Speed, Psychedelic/Norman Whitfield-era The Temptations, Outkast “ATLiens,” Pet Shop Boys’s “It’s a Sin,” Type O Negative’s “Black No. 1,” YG’s “Fuck Donald Trump.”


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