After 2001 sneaks into the top 10 with 8.1, at a time when a lot of us are busy doing our retrospective for this year, HGWTY asks you to stretch back a mere half-decade further and think about the music of 2017.
A reminder of the premise of the thread
After a number of days of posting and reminiscing, we’ll be rating the music of the year out of ten, based on the albums, singles, gigs, whatever that stand out for you that year, and voting for our favourite nominated albums and songs.
Everyone can nominate one album and one song from the year which will then be collated into side-polls two days before the thread closes - please make it clear when you post a nomination for the poll (as opposed to just posting clips or lists of songs and albums you like, which are very welcome).
Leaderboard
|Rank|Year|Rating|Top Album|Top Song|
Rank | Year | Rating | Top Album | Top Song |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1991 | 8.98 | Slint - Spiderland | Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy |
2 | 1997 | 8.6 | Radiohead - OK Computer | The Beta Band - Dry The Rain |
3 | 1967 | 8.48 | Love - Forever Changes | Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Some Velvet Morning |
4 | 1977 | 8.41 | Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express | Donna Summer - I Feel Love |
5 | 1992 | 8.29 | Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted | Pulp - Babies |
5 | 2013 | 8.29 | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Jubilee Street |
7 | 2019 | 8.14 | Self Esteem - Compliments Please | Big Thief - Not |
8 | 1975 | 8.13 | Neil Young - Tonight’s the Night / Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks | Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Cortez the Killer |
8 | 2007 | 8.13 | LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver / Radiohead - In Rainbows | LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends / M.I.A. - Paper Planes |
10 | 2004 | 8.1 | Madvillain - Madvillainy / Arcade Fire - Funeral | The Walkmen - The Rat |
10 | 2001 | 8.1 | The Strokes - Is This It | Roots Manuva - Witness (1 Hope) / Mogwai - My Father My King |
12 | 1981 | 8.06 | The Cure - Faith | New Order - Ceremony |
13 | 1982 | 7.76 | The Cure - Pornography / Kate Bush - The Dreaming | Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding / The Associates - Party Fears Two |
14 | 2014 | 7.69 | FKA Twigs - LP1 | FKA Twigs - Two Weeks |
15 | 2010 | 7.66 | Kanye West - MBDTF / Joanna Newsom - Have One One Me / Beach House - Teen Dream | Robyn - Dancing On My Own |
16 | 1970 | 7.61 | Neil Young - After the Goldrush | Curtis Mayfield - Move on Up |
17 | 1990 | 7.47 | Sonic Youth - Goo | The Cure - Pictures of You |
17 | 1976 | 7.47 | David Bowie - Station to Station | Bob Dylan - Hurricane |
19 | 1986 | 7.42 | Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring | New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle |
20 | 2005 | 7.39 | Sufjan Stevens - Illinois | Amerie - 1 Thing |
21 | 1965 | 7.38 | The Beatles - Rubber Soul | Frank Wilson - Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) |
22 | 1999 | 7.3 | Mogwai - Come On Die Young | Björk - All Is Full Of Love |
23 | 2009 | 7.1 | Fever Ray - Fever Ray | Animal Collective - My Girls |
24 | 1974 | 6.95 | Neil Young - On The Beach | Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - The Bottle |
25 | 1985 | 6.53 | Tom Waits - Rain Dogs | Prince and the Revolution - Raspberry Beret |
26 | 1962 | 6 | Howlin’ Wolf - Howlin’ Wolf | Dick Dale - Misirlou |
27 | 1961 | 5.16 | John Coltrane - My Favourite Things | Roy Orbison - Crying |
2017 was the year Donald Trump was sworn in as 45th president of the USA, the UK saw multiple terror attacks including the MEN Arena bomb and attacks at Westminster Bridge, London Bridge and Finsbury park, a fire at Grenfell Tower killed 72 people, and the metoo movement took off following high-profile allegations of abuse against Harvey Weinstein (who was convicted the following year).
We said goodbye to Sirs Roger Moore, Bruce Forsyth and John Hurt, Mary-Tyler Moore, Adam West, Keith Chegwin, Martin McGuinness, Charles Manson, Jana Novotna, Ugo Ehiogu, Graham Taylor, Tom Petty, Glen Campbell, Chris Cornell, Chuck Berry, Tara-Palmer Tomkinson and Hugh Hefner.
How good was the music?
You have until 20th December to nominate one album and one song which will then go into a poll along with a number rating poll for year overall out of 10, which will close a few days later.
Some lists for inspiration:
The 2017 Forum Album of the Year RESULTS
Best Albums of 2017 : Best Ever Albums
https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2017/
The best albums of 2017: the full list | Music | The Guardian
The 50 Best Albums Of 2017 : NPR
The 50 Best Albums of 2017 | Pitchfork
100 Greatest Albums of 2017
Drowned in Sound's Favourite Albums of 2017 / In Depth // Drowned In Sound
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/ratings/6-highest-rated/2017/1
https://www.nme.com/list/nmes-albums-of-the-year-2017-2161481
2017's Best Albums · Feature ⟋ RA
Top 20 Jazz Albums of 2017 | Jazzwise
The 100 Best Songs of 2017 | Pitchfork
2017's Best Tracks · Feature ⟋ RA
100 Greatest Songs From 2017
Best Songs of the Year 2017
Nominations will be tallied here as the week goes on:
Album Nominations
Song Nominations