http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists ... 17-w511763

There are 2 in my to be played one of these days pile: Lorde & Keesha. No idea if I'll like either.

How many threads like this do we need?

Just make one thread for all of Rolling Stone's lists, call it "Fake Music News" and be done with it.

No Greta Van Fleet?

Not surprised.

I can vouch for the quality of the new albums by Beck & Liam Gallagher.

I think I speak for the majority when I say there is zero surprise that you are unfamiliar with most of that list.

This is probably the first time in 10 years that I own an album on their year-end list. The Robert Plant disc, which isn't a bad album but is a completely mediocre album (and I'm not a Zep fanatic that dislikes everything Plant does now...I liked the last record). Almost kind of ashamed that my tastes have declined to the point where 2% of it aligns with Rolling Stone's opinion. I may need to take a shower now.

No no no! It needs to be bitched about in MULTIPLE threads!!!!

I will say that the most recent Foo Fighters and Queens of the Stone Age albums have slipped beneath my radar,
and this post reminded me to check them out.

Get off my lawn!

I own (or will own once the new U2 is released) 20 of the 50 on this list. Given that I don't like rap at all and don't like country much, I think that's pretty good. BTW, I'm 52 so you can't use your age as an excuse. Yo, Jimbo, what's your count here?

I am not as hip to current music as Jimbo or Todd, but I have several. There are a few old guys on the list too — Dylan, Allman, et al.

Geff hates thread limits.

The site is almost as bad as the content, and always causes my browser to crash, so in case there are others in the same boat, here's the list in handy text form, sans geegaws and gimcracks:

Rolling Stone’s Top 50 Albums of 2017
50. Code Orange – Forever
49. Foo Fighters – Concrete and Gold
48. Chronixx – Chronology
47. Low Cut Connie – Dirty Pictures (Part 1)
46. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings – Soul of a Woman
45. Tracy Bonham – Modern Burdens
44. The New Pornographers – Whiteout Conditions
43. Various Artists – Celebrate Ornette
42. Beck – Colors
41. Gregg Allman – Southern Blood
40. Grizzly Bear – Painted Ruins
39. Japanese Breakfast – Soft Sounds From Another Planet
38. Residente – Residente
37. Liam Gallagher – As You Were
37. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Who Built the Moon?
36. Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie – Lindsey Buckingham / Christine McVie
35. Bob Dylan – Triplicate
34. Open Mike Eagle – Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
33. Vijay Iyer Sextet – Far From Over
32. Robert Plant – Carry Fire
31. Songhoy Blues – Résistance
30. Chris Stapleton – From A Room: Volume 1
29. Jay Som – Everybody Works
28. Vince Staples – Big Fish Theory
27. Drake – More Life
26. Lana Del Rey – Lust for Life
25. Paramore – After Laughter
24. Valerie June – The Order of Time
23. Jlin – Black Origami
22. Sheer Mag – Need to Feel Your Love
21. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit – The Nashville Sound
20. SZA – CTRL
19. Father John Misty – Pure Comedy
18. St. Vincent – MASSEDUCTION
17. Harry Styles – Harry Styles
16. Margo Price – All American Made
15. Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile – Lotta Sea Lice
14. Waxahatchee – Out in the Storm
13. Randy Newman – Dark Matter
12. Jay-Z – 4:44
11. The National – Sleep Well Beast
10. Sam Smith – The Thrill of It All
9. Migos – Culture
8. Queens of the Stone Age – Villains
7. Taylor Swift – reputation
6. Khalid – American Teen
5. LCD Soundsystem – American Dream
4. Kesha – Rainbow
3. U2 – Songs of Experience
2. Lorde – Melodrama
1. Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.

19 right now, 20 when I pick up the new U2. Tied with Todd.

I'm 1 for 50.......I have the Courtney Barnett/Kurt Vile album, and like it a lot.

I'll get the Bob Dylan eventually, since I have most of his other albums.

16 when I pick up U2.

I have the Buckingham/McVie (it's good), I've heard and considered the Gregg Allman, and I've considered the Foo Fighters.

Somehow, I'm not disappointed to be out of sync w/RS.

Once U2 arrives on Friday, I will own four of these (Buckingham-McVie, Plant and Sam Smith complete my set). I have heard two others (Beck and Taylor Swift) and heard of, but not listened to, 15 more. This makes the RS list about 10X more relevant to me than today's Grammy nominations.

I got that one for my mom. I agree. it's good.

Not that the list really means anything, but I think the Mavis Staples album is a glaring omission.

I am shut out - 0

I have 4 if you include the upcoming U2 album (I get a free copy). Highly recommend the Lindsay Buckingham/ Christie McVie (its truly really really good) and the Beck Colors albums. Beck at #42 is a mistake, should be way lower, another brilliant album by him that I cannot take off the turntable. Check out the title track or the song Dreams!

If I had a say Steven Wilson's newest album To The Bone would make the list.


For those that have a lot of these albums, which ones are so intriguing? And do you play them a lot? Nothing on the list screams must own for me.