Favorite Music in 2017

FAVORITE NON-2017 ALBUMS
(30) Technique - New Order (Factory, 1989)
(29) Beneath the Rhythm and Sound - The Ocean Blue (Sire, 1993)
(28) My Aim is True - Elvis Costello (Stiff, 1977)
(27) Helioself - Papas Fritas (Minty Fresh, 1997)
(26) Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney (Kill Rock Stars, 1997)
(25) Leaves Turn Inside You - Unwound (Kill Rock Stars, 2001)
(24) Eat Your Paisley! - The Dead Milkmen (Restless, 1986)
(23) Your Blues - Destroyer (Merge, 2004)
(22) From a Basement on the Hill - Elliott Smith (Anti-, 2004)
(21) A Ghost is Born - Wilco (Nonesuch, 2004)
(20) Echo & the Bunnymen - Echo & the Bunnymen (WEA / Sire, 1987)
(19) Under the Bushes Under the Stars - Guided by Voices (Matador, 1996)
(18) Jawbox - Jawbox (Atlantic / TAG, 1996)
(17) The Guilty Office - The Bats (Arch Hill, 2008)
(16) Give 'em Enough Rope - The Clash (CBS / Epic, 1978)
(15) Thirteen - Teenage Fanclub (Geffen / Creation, 1993)
(14) Lust for Life - Iggy Pop (RCA, 1977)
(13) Field Music - Field Music (Memphis Industries, 2005)
(12) Life's Rich Pageant - R.E.M. (IRS, 1986)
(11) Winning Hearts - The Inbreds (Murder, 1998)
(10) The Dirt of Luck - Helium (Matador, 1995)
(9) Good Morning Spider - Sparklehorse (Capitol, 1998)
(8) Raise - Swervedriver (Creation, 1991)
(7) On the Mouth - Superchunk (Merge, 1993)
(6) And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out - Yo La Tengo (Matador, 2000)
(5) It's a Shame About Ray - The Lemonheads (Atlantic, 1992)
(4) The Velvet Undergound & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve, 1967)
(3) They Might be Giants - They Might be Giants (Bar/None, 1986)
(2) Bossanova - Pixies (Elektra / 4AD, 1990)
(1) The Argument - Fugazi (Dischord, 2001)



2017 HONORABLE MENTIONS
In Spades - The Afghan Whigs (Sub Pop)
Not Even Happiness - Julie Byrne (Ba Da Bing! / Basin Rock)
I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone - Chastity Belt (Hardly Art)
Generation Parasite - Copneconic (Save Your Generation)
The Far Field - Future Islands (4AD)
Imaginary Enemies - Hiccup (Father/Daughter)
Near to the Wild Heart of Life - Japandroids (Anti-)
Life After Youth - Land of Talk (Saddle Creek)
Sorry is Gone - Jessica Lea Mayfield (ATO)
Strange Peace - Metz (Sub Pop)
Play the Songs You Like - Radiator Hospital (Salinas)
GN - Ratboys (Topshelf)
Precious Art - Rozwell Kid (Side One Dummy)
Heartworms - The Shins (Columbia)
Light Information - Chad VanGaalen (Sub Pop)

2017 FAVORITE EPs & 7"s
(10) Lifestyle Editor EP - Will Yates (Don't Look About)
(9) Rattled and Strange b/w Long Time 7" - NE-HI (Grand Jury)
(8) No Plan EP - David Bowie (Columbia / Sony)
(7) 3 O'Clock EP - Blonde Redhead (Ponderosa)
(6) Shirk Life EP - Good Boy (Barely Dressed)
(5) Business as Usual EP - Prayer Breakfast (Flannelgraph)
(4) Cockfighters EP - Chavez (Matador)
(3) Is the Meat That Fell Out EP - Stove (Exploding in Sound)
(2) Winnie b/w Burn Blue 7" - Flasher (Sister Polygon)
(1) Traumatic 7" - Young Guv (Slumberland)

2017 FAVORITE SONGS
(50) "Dream" - Slanted, from Prang Wince EP
(49) "Wait in the Car" - The Breeders
(48) "Pills" - St. Vincent, from Masseduction
(47) "Love Story" - Radiator Hospital, from Play the Songs You Like
(46) "Still Waking Up" - Tim Darcy, from Saturday Night
(45) "Old Heads" - Chad VanGaalen, from Light Information
(44) "My Old Man" - Mac DeMarco, from This Old Dog
(43) "Caught in a Lie" - Chastity Belt, from I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone
(42) "Make Music" - David Bazan, from Care
(41) "Loving" - Land of Talk, from Life After Youth
(40) "(How Could Anybody) Feel at Home" - Open Mike Eagle, from Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
(39) "Snitch Jacket" - Two Inch Astronaut, from Can You Please Not Help
(38) "Winnie" - Flasher, from Winnie b/w Burn Blue 7"
(37) "Way We Won't" - Grandaddy, from Last Place
(36) "Sorry is Gone" - Jessica Lea Mayfield, from Sorry is Gone
(35) "Bon Appetit" - Katy Perry feat. Migos, from Witness
(34) "Sleepwalker" - Julie Byrne, from Not Even Happiness
(33) "Traumatic" - Young Guv, from Traumatic 7"
(32) "Big Fish" - Vince Staples, from Big Fish Theory
(31) "Time to Live" - Ariel Pink, from Dedicated to Bobby Jameson
(30) "Land of the Free" - Joey Bada$$, from All-Amerikkkan Bada$$
(29) "Little Bubble" - Dirty Projectors, from Dirty Projectors
(28) "So Busted" - Culture Abuse
(27) "Friend Zone" - Thundercat, from Drunk
(26) "On Top" - Hoops, from Routines
(25) "Tinseltown Swimming in Blood" - Destroyer, from Ken
(24) "Silver" - Waxahatchee, from Out in the Storm
(23) "The World is Broken" - Brandon Can't Dance, from Graveyard of Good Times
(22) "Ricky (Caught Me Tryin')" - The Spirit of the Beehive, from Pleasure Suck
(21) "DQ" - Charly Bliss, from Guppy
(20) "How We Met, the Long Version" - Jens Lekman, from Life Will See You Now
(19) "Need to Feel Your Love" - Sheer Mag, from Need to Feel Your Love
(18) "Lovelife" - Phoenix, from Ti Amo
(17) "Plimsoll Punks" - Alvvays, from Antisocialites
(16) "Road Head" - Japanese Breakfast, from Soft Sounds From Another Planet
(15) "Frankie" - The Courtneys, from The Courtneys II
(14) "Provider" - Frank Ocean
(13) "Let It Go" - Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile, from Lotta Sea Lice
(12) "Windsor Hum" - Protomartyr, from Relatives in Descent
(11) "Take It" - Jay Som, from Everybody Works
(10) "Sometime/Someplace" - Cornelius, from Mellow Waves
(9) "Traveling Light" - Talib Kweli feat. Anderson .Paak, from Radio Silence
(8) "You're Like Me" - Ted Leo, from The Hanged Man
(7) "Sides" - Perfume Genius, from No Shape
(6) "Overboard" - Lo Tom, from Lo Tom
(5) "You Never Knew" - Haim, from Something to Tell You
(4) "What I Want" - Cende, from #1 Hit Single
(3) "Dum Surfer" - King Krule, from The Ooz
(2) "Up All Night" - The War on Drugs, from A Deeper Understanding
(1) "Christine" - Wazonek, from Whichever Way the Winds Are Blowing



2017 FAVORITE ALBUMS
(50) Silver Haze - Aye Nako (Don Giovanni)
(49) A Deeper Understanding - The War on Drugs (Atlantic)
(48) Soft Sounds From Another Planet - Japanese Breakfast (Dead Oceans)
(47) The Hanged Man - Ted Leo (SuperEgo)
(46) Mountain Moves - Deerhoof (Joyful Noise)
(45) Antisocialites - Alvvays (Polyvinyl / Transgressive)
(44) In Mind - Real Estate (Domino)
(43) Out in the Storm - Waxahatchee (Merge)
(42) Pussycat - Juliana Hatfield (American Laundromat)
(41) Can You Please Not Help - Two Inch Astronaut (Exploding in Sound)
(40) Forever or Never - Lake (Tapete)
(39) Dedicated to Bobby Jameson - Ariel Pink (Mexican Summer)
(38) Messes - Stef Chura (Urinal Cake)
(37) Jen Cloher - Jen Cloher (Milk!)
(36) Prisoner - Ryan Adams (Pax Am / Blue Note)
(35) Enjoy the Great Outdoors - Spencer Radcliffe & Everyone Else (Run for Cover)
(34) Nothing Feels Natural - Priests (Sister Polygon)
(33) Routines - Hoops (Fat Possum)
(32) DAMN. - Kendrick Lamar (Interscope / Top Dawg / Aftermath)
(31) Life Without Sound - Cloud Nothings (Carpark)
(30) Fight Fair - Dream Version (self-released)
(29) Haiku From Zero - Cut Copy (Astralwerks)
(28) All-Amerikkkan Bada$$ - Joey Bada$$ (Pro Era / Cinematic)
(27) Dumbness - Cherry (Lame-o)
(26) Ken - Destroyer (Merge)
(25) Pleasure Suck - The Spirit of the Beehive (Tiny Engines)
(24) The Iceberg - Oddisee (Mello)
(23) Music for the Age of Miracles - The Clientele (Merge)
(22) Something to Tell You - Haim (Columbia)
(21) Somersault - Beach Fossils (Bayonet)
(20) August by Cake - Guided by Voices (Rockathon)
(19) Rocket - (Sandy) Alex G (Domino)
(18) Need to Feel Your Love - Sheer Mag (Wilsuns)
(17) Losing - Bully (Sub Pop)
(16) Graveyard of Good Times - Brandon Can't Dance (Lucky Number)
(15) Relatives in Descent - Protomartyr (Domino)
(14) The Incessant - Meat Wave (Side One Dummy)
(13) Bonny Doon - Bonny Doon (Salinas)
(12) Powerplant - Girlpool (Anti-)
(11) Drunk - Thundercat (Brainfeeder)
(10) Lotta Sea Lice - Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile (Matador)
(9) Everybody Works - Jay Som (Polyvinyl)
(8) #1 Hit Single - Cende (Double Double Whammy)
(7) Offers - NE-HI (Grand Jury)
(6) Multi-task - Omni (Trouble in Mind)
(5) Guppy - Charly Bliss (Barsuk)
(4) The Courtneys II - The Courtneys (Flying Nun)
(3) Life Will See You Now - Jens Lekman (Secret Canadian)
(2) The Ooz - King Krule (True Panther / XL)
(1) Mellow Waves - Cornelius (Rostrum)

2017 Favorite Non-Music Things (Beer & TV)

20 FAVORITE BEERS OF 2017
(19-20) Lots of Dots / Crumple (IPA / Double IPA, 7% / 8%) - HOMES Brewery (Ann Arbor, MI)
(18) Arabicadabra (Coffee Milk Stout, 5.5%) - Bell's Brewery, Inc. (Kalamazoo, MI)
(17) Bourbon Barrel Barleywine (BBA Barleywine, 14.3%) - Central Waters Brewing Co. (Amherst, WI)
(16) On Fleek (Imperial Stout, 13%) - Stillwater Artisanal Ales (Baltimore, MD)
(15) Triple Barrel Big Bad Baptist (BBA Imperial Coffee Stout, 11.4%) - Epic Brewing Co. (Salt Lake City, UT)
(14) The Nightman Leaveth (Rye Whiskey BA Imperial Milk Stout, 11%) - Odd Side Ales (Grand Haven, MI)
(13) The Path of the Angel (BBA Imperial Brown Ale, 11.4%) - Clown Shoes (Ipswich, MA)
(11-12) Pure Powerplant / Momo (IPA / Pale Ale, 6.5% / 5.8%) - Brew Gentlemen (Braddock, PA)
(10) Rye Whiskey Mean Vanilla Bean (Rye Whiskey BA Imperial Stout, 15%) - Drafting Table Brewing Co. (Wixom, MI)
(9) Dragon's Milk Reserve: Brewer's Select (BBA Imperial Stout, 12%) - New Holland Brewing Co. (Holland, MI)
(8) Dosvidanya (Imperial Stout, 12.5%) - DESTIHL Brewery (Normal, IL)
(7) Oak-Aged Vanilla World Wide Stout (Imperial Stout, 16%) - Dogfish Head Craft Brewery (Milton, DE)
(6) Greenstone (Pale Ale, 5.5%) - Old Nation Brewing Co. (Williamston, MI)
(5) Canadian Breakfast Stout (BBA Imperial Coffee Stout, 11.7%) - Founders Brewing Co. (Grand Rapids, MI)
(4) Lou (Double IPA, 8%) - Brew Gentlemen (Braddock, PA)
(3) Dragon's Milk Reserve: Triple Mash (BBA Imperial Stout, 17%) - New Holland Brewing Co. (Holland, MI)
(2) Born Yesterday 2017 (Pale Ale, 7.2%) - Lagunitas Brewing Co. (Petaluma, CA)
(1) Bourbon Barrel Aged Expedition Stout 2017 (BBA Imperial Stout, 12.8%) - Bell's Brewery, Inc. (Kalamazoo, MI)

2017 TV SHOW HONORABLE MENTIONS
Baskets (Season 2) - FX
Broad City (Season 4) - Comedy Central
The Chris Gethard Show (Season 3) - TruTV
Crashing (Season 1) - HBO
Curb Your Enthusiasm (Season 9) - HBO
The Last Man on Earth (Season 3) - Fox
New Girl (Season 6) - Fox
Silicon Valley (Season 4) - HBO
Tim & Eric's Bedtime Stories (Season 3) - Adult Swim
Transparent (Season 4) - Amazon

25 FAVORITE TV SHOWS OF 2017
(25) The Americans (Season 5) - FX
(24) Mindhunter (Season 1) - Netflix
(23) Love (Season 2) - Netflix
(22) Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Season 3) - Netflix
(21) Game of Thrones (Season 7) - HBO
(20) American Vandal (Season 1) - Netflix
(19) Fargo (Season 3) - FX
(18) Review (Season 3) - Comedy Central
(17) Better Call Saul (Season 3) - AMC
(16) Insecure (Season 2) - HBO
(15) G.L.O.W. (Season 1) - Netflix
(14) The Deuce (Season 1) - HBO
(13) Stranger Things (Season 2) - HBO
(12) Ozark (Season 1) - Netflix
(11) Lady Dynamite (Season 2) - Netflix
(10) Mr. Robot (Season 3) - USA
(9) Dark (Season 1) - Netflix
(8) Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later - Netflix
(7) Master of None (Season 2) - Netflix
(6) The Leftovers (Season 3) - HBO
(5) Nathan for You (Season 4) - Comedy Central
(4) Vice Principals (Season 2) - HBO
(3) The Young Pope - HBO
(2) Big Little Lies (Season 1) - HBO
(1) Twin Peaks: The Return - Showtime