The end of 2017 is coming fast and end of year lists are starting to appear. Resident in Brighton is my favourite shop and here’s their list, which always interesting and expensive!
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The end of 2017 is coming fast and end of year lists are starting to appear. Resident in Brighton is my favourite shop and here’s their list, which always interesting and expensive!
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ip33 says
And here’s their Annual for a more in depth read
http://www.resident-music.com/annual
And Piccadilly in Manchester have one as well
https://www.piccadillyrecords.com/counter/feature.php?feature=852
deramdaze says
I really should focus on a few 2017 reissues over the next month. I’ve four or five in mind.
As of today, I have bought the grand total of one, “Sgt. Pepper’s,” not a wide-ranging straw poll admittedly, but (slight) testimony to the idea that if you actually put product on a store shelf it might get purchased.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
I was in Resident a couple of weekends back – it remains one of the great record shops. As I was thumbing through the racks I eavesdropped a couple of youngish blokes ( mid-thirties?). I listened for at least three minutes without understanding a word they said about artists I had never heard of. My kind of place.
Kaisfatdad says
Another big thumbs up for Resident. A wonderful shop.
But where other than Brighton could it prosper? Down there on the south coast they live in their own universe which is like a sketch from Portlandia. My friend who lives in Hove is often out at gigs and I have never heard of any of the artists.
The Great Escape sounds like a rather wonderful festival: a Sussex answer to South by South West.
SteveT says
I have 19 of their top 100 and I can vouch for all old them except the Thurston Moore which is a bit meh and LCD Sound System which is good but certainly not the best thing released this year. Interestingly Uncut and Mojo also rated it the best.
bungliemutt says
Here’s the Uncut top 75 list. I have 9 of them, as opposed to 7 of the Resident list. H’mmm.
http://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/795-uncuts-75-best-albums-of-2017/
Paul Wad says
I’m pretty consistent with 21 of the Resident list, 22 of Piccadilly Records’ ones and 19 of Uncut. I always find Uncut’s list full of the same artists of previous years. There are certain bands that could issue a cover of Metal Machine Music and still make it into the Uncut top 75.
There are loads of my favourite albums of the year that don’t pop up in any of those lists, but you’d think that hip hop and grime didn’t exist if you go by those ones, particularly Uncut’s. Brother Ali’s All The Beauty In This Whole Life, MC Eiht’s Which Way Iz West, Binary Star’s Waterworld 3, Gucci Mane’s Mr Davis, Wiley’s Godfather all nowhere to be seen. But at least Ghostpoet got a look in. And I was really pleased to see Gary Numan on one of the lists. My album of the year is a choice between Numan, Brother Ali and Lorde I think, with Kendrick Lamar and Ghostpoet close behind.
Mike_H says
Out of Uncut’s Top 75, these are the ones appearing on their “Best Of 2017” CD.
Hurray For The Riff Raff
Juana Molina
LCD Soundsystem
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society
The Weather Station
St Vincent
Ty Segall
Joan Shelley
Father John Misty
Chuck Johnson
Slowdive
Richard Dawson
Gas
The War On Drugs
Julie Byrne
Mike_H says
Coverdisc on the latest Mojo is entitled “2017 The Best Of The Year”.
1. The War On Drugs – Pain
2. Songhoy Blues – Bamako
3. Paul Weller – Satellite Kid
4. Ghostpoet – Immigrant Boogie
5. Sparks – Unaware
6. Nadia Reid – Right On Time
7. Hurray For The Riff Raff – Hungry Ghost
8. Peter Perrett – An Epic Story
9. This Is The Kit – Hotter Colder
10. Endless Boogie – Back In ’74
11. Alice Coltrane – Er Ra
12. Julie Byrne – Natural Blue
13. Lal & Mike Waterson – Shady Lady
14. Richard Dawson – Ogre
15. Oumou Sangaré – Yere Faga
I thought it got off to a really good start and tailed off towards the middle. Nadia Reid left no impression and Hurray For The Riff Raff was where I began to think “this is a bit of a duffer”. I didn’t rate the singer’s voice and the song itself wasn’t all that either. Peter Perrett’s track didn’t put me back on track and my attention wandered for a bit, so This Is The Kit made no lasting impression. Can’t remember it. Endless Boogie’s track got to me by it’s sheer persistence and it’s sneery nihilism, then there was Alice Coltrane’s track, which was simply magnificent. Julie Byrne’s track was pretty good and Lal & Mike’s track was an old fave it was really good to hear. My attention drifted again with Richard Dawson’s track and Oumou Sangaré’s track was nice but a bit “generic african”.
I wonder what’ll be on Uncut’s Best Of 2017 Coverdisc..
Tiggerlion says
If you are impressed by that Alice Coltrane track, why not buy the album it’s from – World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda. Luka Bop have compiled the best from her legendary ashram recordings from the eighties and nineties. They are largely chants backed by strings and recorded onto cassette, only a hundred or so copies made at a time. They are beautiful. The musical equivalent of human levitation.
ip33 says
I can confirm the above is the truth and nothing but the truth.
fatima Xberg says
Yes it is. And I still have the original “Turya Sings” cassette, ordered (together with a book of English translations) for 12.50 $ from The Avatar Book Institute in Thousand Oaks, California.
minibreakfast says
I can only think of two new albums I’ve bought this year, both pop bangers: Steps and The Disappointment Choir.
All my beard music comes from car boot sales.
Sewer Robot says
Bob will be ..er.. disappoint. He spent a lot of time growing that beard.
duco01 says
It’s nice to see Midori Takada’s “Through The Looking Glass” holding down the coveted No.8 spot in the Piccadilly Records Top 10 Reissues/Collections list.
For anyone who’s a fan of 1980s Japanese ambient, it’s an absolute treat.
Take it away, Midori….
retropath2 says
This is true, very Steve Reich, I thought.
Tiggerlion says
The NME’s is here
http://www.nme.com/list/nmes-albums-of-the-year-2017-2161481/
Moose the Mooche says
The NME are still doing that? I thought it was now “These sonic cathedrals of sound are brought to you in association with the good people at NukeWhite Toothpaste” and all that.
pencilsqueezer says
Elitist list making cockwombles.
Moose the Mooche says
ATS!
Sewer Robot says
It’s a testament to how prematurely these mags ejaculate their lists that Mojo have put A Tribe Called Quest’s album (which was already in the shops back when we were all sure Trump was going to lose) in this year’s top 5
Moose the Mooche says
Are Quest Mojo’s idea of a modern, edgy band?
(PS. their first single came out in…. 1989)