Coming up:

 

Acts to look forward to in 2017 (COMPLETE)

Top 75 Favourite Albums of 2017 (COMPLETE)

Favourite EP's of 2017 (5 or 10)

Favourite movies of 2017

Favourite Songs of 2017 (I'll try making one soon)

Favourite Music Videos of 2017 (plus a Best Animated Music Videos of 2017)

My 2016 TV

Something else...

Edited January 20, 20179 yr by DalekTurret32

Upcoming acts to look forward to in 2017:

 

Declan McKenna

The Big Moon

Rag 'n' Bone Man

Sundara Karma

Jorja Smith

Cabbage

Ray BLK

King Nun

The Communions

Anderson .Paak

Hidden Charms

Dua Lipa

Loyle Carner

Others that I forgot about

Om telolet om is the most irritating meme of the year for me :P

Om telolet om is the most irritating meme of the year for me :P

 

LOL, inserted that in cause I couldn't think of a decent caption. :P

My Top 75 albums chart is starting now!

 

Rules:

 

No EP's! They have a list of their own!

The list will focus on studio albums

Compilation albums will not count towards the list. (sorry Kendrick Lamar's untitled unmastered)

This will count for studio albums

Studio albums released before 2016 that have recently been given a bonus edition release do not count (no CHVRCHES - Every Open Eye extended or Roots Manuva - Blood deluxe)

Various Artists albums will not count (so no NOW! That's What I Call Music or Clubland albums)

This list consists of albums I have listened to that I like. It's my opinion, not a fact. If you see my list missing an album or seeing an album that you disagree with, don't leave angry comments.

 

 

 

2016 albums I need to catch up on

 

Soft Hair - Soft Hair

Eric Clapton - I Still Do

Ward Thomas - Cartwheels

Panic! At The Disco - Death Of A Bachelor

Shearwater - Jet Plane And Oxbow

Death Grips - Bottomless Pit

Let's Eat Grandma - I Gemini

Tegan And Sara - Love You To Death

Common - Black America Again

White Lies - Friends

Julia Jacklin - Don't Let The Kids Win

Haley Bonar - Impossible Dream

Deap Valley - Femijism

Wretch 32 - Growing Over Life

Bruno Mars - 24K Magic

Olly Murs - 24 HRS

Chairlift - Moth

deadmau5 - W:/2016ALBUM/

Goat - Requiem

Palace - So Long Forever

Dusky - Outer

The Courteeners - Mapping The Rendzvous

Madness - Can't Touch Us Now

D. Dumbo - Utopia Defeated

Sleigh Bells - Jessica Rabbit

Alicia Keys - HERE

TOY - Clear Shot

Michael Buble - Nobody But Me

Solange - A Seat In The Table

Simian Mobile Disco - Welcome To Sideways

Sting - 57th and 9th

Kaiser Chiefs - Stay Together

Seasick Steve - Keepin' The Horse Between Me and the Ground

Feeder - All Bright Electric

Merchandise - A Corpse Wired For Sound

Billie Marten - Writings Of Blues And Yellow

MIA - AIM

Zomby - Ultra

Izzy Bizu - A Moment Of Madness

Moose Blood - Blush

HONNE - Warm On A Cold Night

Snoop Dogg - Coolaid

Thee Oh Sees - A Weird Exit

Bear's Den - Red Earth And Pouring Rain

Fat White Family - Songs For Our Mothers

Lion Babe - Begin

Oscar - Cut And Paste

Yak - Alas Salvation

Gregory Porter - Take Me To The Alley

Tom Chaplin - The Wave

Cassius - Ibifornia

Giggs - Landlord

Miles Davis & Robert Glasper - Everything's Beautiful (don't know if this is a compilation album or not, but I still might listen to it sometime as I loved Kind Of Blue)

 

Lots :/

 

 

 

 

Where was I?

 

Oh yes, the list!

 

Before we start the list, here are some...

 

Honorable mentions

 

Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered (As much as I love this album, the rules regarding the exclusion of compilation albums sadly put this off the list)

Jeff Buckley - You And I (like untitled unmastered, as much as I love this album, the rules regarding the exclusion of compilation albums sadly put this off the list)

And the ones that just missed out on the Top 75:

 

Primal Scream - Chaosmosis

Kygo - Cloud Nine

Boxed In - Melt

Wild Beasts - Boy King

The Lemon Twigs - Do Hollywood

Emeli Sande - Long Live The Angels

Catfish And The Bottlemen - The Ride

Hooton Tennis Club - Big Box Of Chocolates

Paul Simon - Stranger To Stranger

Biffy Clyro - Ellipsis

Holy F**k - Congrats

Kings Of Leon - WALLS

Jagwar Ma - Every Now And Then

M83 - Junk

NAO - For All We Know

Wilco - Schmilco

 

 

 

75-51 will be done on a different reply

"I guess the neighbours think I'm sellin' dope"

"Tell me the truth, it will hurt less I guess"

"We light 'em up like the sideshow"

"I'm only human can't you see. I made I made a mistake"

 

 

75-51

75. J Cole - 4 Your Eyez Only (Best Tracks: Change, Neighbours & Immortal)

74. Shura- Nothing's Real (Best Tracks: What's It Gonna Be, Touch, 2Shy & White Light)

73. The Kills - Ash & Ice (Best Tracks: Doing It To Death, Heart Of A Dog, Siberian Nights & Impossible Tracks)

72. The Weeknd - Starboy (Best Tracks: False Alarm, Starboy, I Feel It Coming, Party Monster & Secrets)

71. Two Door Cinema Club - Gameshow (Best Tracks: Bad Decisions, Are We Ready (Wreck) & Gameshow)

70. Lapsley - Long Way Home (Best Tracks: Hurt Me, Falling Short & Love Is Blind)

69. DJ Shadow - The Mountain Will Fall (Best Tracks: Nobody Speak, The Sideshow & Ghost Town)

68. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity (Best Tracks: Big Fig Wasp, Gamma Knife & Invisible Face)

67. King Creosote - Astronaut Meets Appleman (Best Tracks: Wake Up To This, Surface & Love Life)

66. Lauru Mvula - The Dreaming Room (Best Tracks: Phenomenal Woman & Overcome)

65. The Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You've Come To Expect (Best Tracks: Bad Habits & Aviation)

64. Illum Sphere - Glass (Best Tracks: Fall Into Water, Fuel The Fire & Thousand Yard Stare)

63. Underworld - Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future (Best Tracks: I Exhale & If Rah)

62. Christine And The Queens - Chaleur Humaine (Best Tracks: Tilted, iT & Saint Claude)

61. Teleman - Brilliant Sanity (Best Tracks: Dusseldorf, Glory Hallelujah & Tangerine)

60. Agnes Obel - Citizen Of Glass (Best Tracks: Golden Green, It's Happening Again & Stretch Your Eyes)

59. Honeyblood - Babes Never Die (Best Tracks: Ready For The Magic, Sea Hearts & Walking At Midnight)

58. Nicolas Jaar - Sirens (Best Tracks: No, The Governor & Three Sides Of Nazareth)

57. Warpaint - Heads Up (Best Tracks: New Song, So Good & The Stall)

56. Flume - Skin (Best Tracks: Never Be Like You & Say It)

55. Brian Eno - The Ship (Best Tracks: The Ship & Fickle Sun (iii) I'm Set Free)

54. Romare - Love Songs Part 2 (Best Tracks: All Night, Who Loves You, Come Close To Me & LUV)

53. NxWorries - Yes Lawd! (Best Tracks: Suede, Get Bigger/Do U Luv & Scared Money) [Fun Fact: "Can't Stop" has a Rick And Morty sample at the end] [On a side note: one of the two members Anderson .Paak has an album that's coming up later on the list]

52. The Coral - Distance Inbetween (Best Tracks: Chasing The Tail Of A Dream, Holy Revelation, Miss Fortune, Million Eyes & Distance Inbetween)

51. Car Seat Headrest - Teens Of Denial (Best Tracks: Destroyed By Hippie Powers, Vincent, Fill In The Blank, Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales & Not What I Needed)

"She had power over men"

"You keep your friends, I'll keep my friends. Have a party and go western"

"Every second and every hour, I miss you I miss you I miss you more"

"When I say it's not true but you know that's a lie. I sweat for the day, at night I cry"

"It's a mass grave. The dollar fifty-resting place on the north place. It's a rope I've gotta climb"

"Look at me, I'm just so look at me, I'm just so look at me, I'm just so groooovyyy!"

"If you want it, you can have it. If you need it, we can make it!"

"And she said that together we can take on the world! And she told me that I;d never find another girl like her!"

"Like Frank Sinatra b*tch, I do this s**t my way"

"I can take you out. I wanna drive around. With you with the windows down. And we can run all night"

 

 

 

50-26

50. Jamie T - Trick (Best Tracks: Power Over Men, Tescoland, Tinfoil Boy, Drone Strike & Solomon Eagle)

49. Blossoms - Blossoms (Best Tracks: Charlemagne, Blown Rose, At Most A Kiss, Getaway & Cut Me And I'll Bleed)

48. Metronomy - Summer 08 (Best Tracks: Old Skool, Night Owl, Hang Me Out To Dry, 16 Beat & Back Together)

47. Bastille - Wild World (Best Tracks: Good Grief, Send Them Off, Blame, Fake It, Snakes & Lethargy)

46. De La Soul - and the Anonymous Nobody (Best Tracks: Pain, Royalty Capes, Greyhounds & Here In After)

45. Kano - Made In The Manor (Best Tracks: 3 Wheel-Ups, T-Shirt Weather In The Manor & This Is England)

44. Spring King - Tell Me If You Like To (Best Tracks: Rectifier, City, The Summer, Who Are You, Detroit & Demons)

43. Steve Mason - Meet The Humans (Best Tracks: Alive, Planet Sizes, Another Day, Words In My Head & To A Door)

42. Conor Oberst - Ruminations (Best Tracks: Gossamer Thin, Tachycardia, Barbary Coast (Later) & Next Of Kin) [On a side note, that harmonica that plays throughout most of the album reminds me of Bob Dylan's 60's material]

41. James Blake - The Colour In Anything (Best Tracks: Radio Silence, I Need A Forest Fire, Timeless, Choose Me & I Hope My Life)

40. Pet Shop Boys - Super (Best Tracks: The Pop Kids, Say It To Me, twenty-something, Inner Sanctum, Happiness & Groovy)

39. ANOHNI - Hopelessness (Best Tracks: 4 Degrees, Why Did You Seperate Me From The Earth? & Drone Bomb Me)

38. C Duncan - The Midnight Sun (Best Tracks: Wanted To Want It Too, Other Side, Who Lost & On Course)

37. Skepta - Konnichiwa (Best Tracks: Shutdown, Man, That's Not Me, Konnichiwa & Corn On The Curb)

36. Lone - Levitate (Best Tracks: Alpha Wheel, Sleepwalkers, Triple Helix & Breeze Out)

35. Childish Gambino - "Awaken, My Love!" (Best Tracks: Redbone, Me And Your Mama & Boogieman)

34. Sunflower Bean - Human Ceremony (Best Tracks: Come On, Wall Watcher, Human Ceremony, Easier Said)

33. Viola Beach - Viola Beach (Best Tracks: Swings And Waterslides, Boys That Sing & Cherry Vimto)

32. Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression (Best Tracks: Gardenia, Break Into Your Heart, Sunday, Chocolate Drops & American Valhalla)

31. Angel Olsen - My Woman (Best Tracks: Shut Up Kiss Me, Give It Up & Not Gonna Kill You)

30. Justice - Woman (Best Tracks: Randy, Safe And Sound, Fire & Pleasure)

29. NZCA Lines - Infinite Summer (Best Tracks: Two Hearts, Persephone Dreams, Chemical Is Obvious, Dark Horizon & Jessica)

28. White Denim - Stiff (Best Tracks: Had 2 Know (Personal), Ha Ha Ha Ha (Yeah), Holda You (I'm Psycho) & Take It Easy (Ever After Lasting Love))

27. The Avalanches - Wildflower (Best Tracks: Subways, Colours, If I Was A Folkstar, Frankie Sinatra & Because I'm Me)

26. Whitney - Light Upon The Lake (Best Tracks: No Matter Where We Go, Golden Days, Polly & On My Own)

Edited January 8, 20179 yr by DalekTurret32

I really hope How To Be A Human Being by Glass Animals appears here, and the same for Wild World by Bastille :D

I really hope How To Be A Human Being by Glass Animals appears here, and the same for Wild World by Bastille :D

 

 

Wild World has already appeared!

As for HTBAHB... there is a high probability that it will appear later onthe list

 

"Hard rain falling on all the half-hearted. Half-formed, fast walking, half fury, half boredom."

"This is what you get when you mess with love"

"Dust is round the corner! SWEEP!"

"Here's the highway to death and destruction. South Capitol is its name"

"When we get hungry we eat the same f**kin' food! The ramen noodle! Your simple voodoo is so maniacal, we're liable to pull a juju."

"Sucking on a sour sweet, waiting for a train! Looking at the information, ready to complain!"

"Made 30 bands in 30 minutes. Before I count it, I done damn near spent it "

"I have lost my children. I have lost my love. I just sit in silence. Let the pictures soak out of televisions"

"I see her in every place I go. Sunday love is so cold.

 

 

 

25-11

 

25. Ultimate Painting - Dusk (Best Tracks: Bills, Monday Morning Somewhere Central, Who Is Your Next Target?, Lead The Way, I Can't Run Anymore)

24. Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos (Best Tracks: Don't Fall In, Ketamine For Breakfast, Europe Is Lost & Tunnel Vision)

23. Savages - Adore Life (Best Tracks: Surrender, Evil, The Answer, TIWYG, Sad Person & Adore)

22. Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 3 (Best Tracks: Talk To Me, Legend Has It, Thieves! (Screamed The Ghost) & Hey Kids (Bumaye))

21. Parquet Courts - Human Performance (Best Tracks: Berlin Got Blurry, Human Performance, Outside, Dust, Paraphrased)

20. PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project (Best Tracks: The Wheel, The Community Of Hope, The Orange Monkey, The Ministry Of Social Affairs & A Line In The Sand)

19. Anderson .Paak - Malibu (Best Tracks: Room In Here, Am I Wrong, Come Down, Without You, Celebrate & The Season/Carry Me)

18. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here, Thank You 4 Your Service (Best Tracks: We The People, Dis Generation, The Killing Season, Lost Somebody & Movin Backwards)

17. Bob Dylan - Fallen Angels (Best Tracks: Melancholy Mood, On A Little Street In Singapore, Young At Heart, Skylark & That Ole Black Magic)

16. Slaves - Take Control (Best Tracks: Spit It Out, Hypnotised, Take Control, Lies, Rich Man, Consumed Or Be Consumed & Cold Hard Floor)

15. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree (Best Tracks: Rings Of Saturn, Jesus Alone, Distant Sky & Skeleton Tree)

14. Kaytranada - 99.9% (Best Tracks: Drive Me Crazy, Together, Got It Good, Leave Me Alone & Lite Spots)

13. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition (Best Tracks: Pneumonia, Really Doe, Ain't It Funny, Dance In The Water, When It Rain, Tell Me What I Don't Know & Rolling Stone)

12. Daughter - Not To Disappear (Best Tracks: No Care, Doing The Right Thing, Numbers, How & Alone/With You)

11. Bat For Lashes - The Bride (Best Tracks: Sunday Love, Joe's Dream, In God's House, Honeymooning Alone, I Do & If I Knew)

 

Some clues for my Top 10 Albums of 2016

 

 

2 of them are Oxford bands

2 of them are Sound Of winners (with one of them wining the Sound Of award this year)

4 of them got nominated for the Mercury Prize this year

2 of them tragically passed away this year

1 of them has songs that have numbers in all of their titles

 

 

UPDATE: More clues

 

 

10. This artist won the Sound of 2016 award

9. This band is recognisable for their logo showing lips sticking out a tongue. This album may only be rock n' roll, but I sure as heck liked it

8. Another Sound Of winner. I mentioned on some threads that I have seen him perform live in my record store.

7. One of their songs was covered by Birdy in 2011.

6. This poetic brilliance sadly passed away this year. One of his songs was used in Shrek, and another song by him was covered by Joe Cocker in 1999.

5. Oxford band. One song was in the Magic Mike XXL soundtrack, another song was used in an Apple ad in 2015, and another song was recently used in a Toyota ad.

4. Underrated electronic album that got nominated for the Mercury Prize this year.

3. R&B/Soul singer signed to Daptone records.

2. Another Oxford band. They got nominated for the Mercury Prize 5 times so far, but never won. Their 2000 album was released without promotion, and no singles were released from that album.

1. Another musician that passed away this year. A lot of this musician's 70's material have been released on 7" picture discs starting from 2012-onwards (with the recent one being released in Record Store Day 2016)

Edited January 8, 20179 yr by DalekTurret32

DalekTurret32's Favourite Albums of 2016

 

10. CLUE: "This artist won the Sound Of 2016 award"

 

JACK GARRATT - PHASE

"I feel too burn, I heal to hurt, Human after all"

 

Great production, highly satisfying electronic instrumentals and smooth vocals. I've been enjoying a lot of Sound Of winners material lately. Last year, Years & Years managed to land a spot on my favourite albums of 2015 with Communion. This year's Sound Of winner album is just as great as Communion. It's a shame his only UK Top 100 hit "Worry" flopped, despite making an appearance on NOW 93. :cry:

 

Best Tracks: Breathe Life, The Love You're Given, Far Cry, Chemical, Worry, Fire

 

 

 

 

 

9. CLUE: "This band is recognisable for their logo showing lips sticking out a tongue. This album may only be rock n' roll, but I sure as heck liked it."

 

THE ROLLING STONES - BLUE AND LONESOME

"I'm a dealin' man, still dealing, yeah. I'll go keep on dealing till I find myself a bed"

 

 

So! Rolling Stones managed to put out their first studio album in approximately a decade, and it sounds marvellous. The album takes its sound from the roots of blues and rock 'n' roll, and even has a couple of harmonicas thrown in ;) Reminds me of their 60's to 70's material. We have had lots of great comeback albums from the likes of The Avalanches and A Tribe Called Quest, but out of all of the long-awaited comeback albums released in 2016 that I have listened to, this one is my personal favourite. Good recommendation for people who are into blues, rock 'n' roll, and all that 60's/70's rock.

 

Best Tracks: Hate To See You Go, Ride 'Em On Down, Just Your Fool, Just Like I Treat You, All Of Your Love, I Gotta Go

 

 

DalekTurret32's Favourite Albums of 2016

 

 

8. CLUE: "Another Sound Of winner. I mentioned on some threads that I have seen him perform live in my record store."

 

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MICHAEL KIWANUKA - LOVE AND HATE

"I believe. She won't take me somewhere I'm not supposed to be. You can't steal the things that god has given me. No more pain and no more shame and misery."

 

 

Spiritual, dramatic and emotional. Kiwanuka sings brilliantly in this album and the lyrics are put together very well. The 4/4 clapping beat and the upbeat guitar phrases in Black Man In A White World give this album a spiritual and soulful feel, and Love And Hate is enough to pull my heartstrings. :heart:

 

 

Best Tracks: Love And Hate, Black Man In A White World, Rule The World, One More Night, Place I Belong

 

 

 

 

 

7. CLUE: "One of their songs was covered by Birdy in 2011."

 

 

BON IVER - 22, A MILLION

"Say nothing of my fable, no. What on earth is left to come?"

 

367 (In this album, Bon Iver go experimental.)

2032 (The use of the vocoder is layed out very well)

52 (the instrumentation is outstanding)

15 (and the production is divine)

0 (nothing left to say, but "great album")

10/10 (well done!)

 

Best Tracks: 8 (circle), 10 d E A T h b R E a s T ⚄ ⚄, 22 (OVER S∞∞N), 33 "GOD"", 666 ʇ, 00000 Million

 

Great to see Jack Garratt in your countdown! I loved Breathe Life & Worry but nothing else has come close unfortunately :(

Great to see Jack Garratt in your countdown! I loved Breathe Life & Worry but nothing else has come close unfortunately :(

 

Thanks for the reply! ;)

Breathe Life and Worry are both great tracks.

 

6. CLUE: "This poetic brilliance sadly passed away this year. One of his songs was used in Shrek, and another song by him was covered by Joe Cocker in 1999."

 

 

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LEONARD COHEN - YOU WANT IT DARKER

 

"Magnified, sanctified, be thy holy name. Vilified, crucified in the human frame. A million candles burning for help that never came"

The marvellous swansong of Cohen's discography. I really appreciate album's brilliant concept relating to death, religion and darkness, and the instrumentation and production are both spot on. And as for the title track on the beginning of the album, it's really haunting :cry:

 

Best Tracks: You Want It Darker, Treaty, It Seemed The Better Way, Travelling Light, Leaving The Table.

Fun Fact: Cohen's son Adam plays the classical guitar on this album.

 

 

 

 

 

5. CLUE: "Oxford band. One song was in the Magic Mike XXL soundtrack, another song was used in an Apple ad in 2015, and another song was recently used in a Toyota ad"

 

mdh hoped for this album to appear on this countdown in one of his replies on this EOY thread

...

...

...

Well, here it is!

 

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GLASS ANIMALS - HOW TO BE A HUMAN BEING

 

"Leftover breakfast, cereal for lunch. She's broken but she's fun. My girl eats mayonnaise from a jar while getting blazed"

 

Glass Animals return with their chilled out indie material in How To Be A Human Being and it's just as amazing as ZABA. From leftover breakfast to pineapples in their heads, Dave Bayley and Co. jump from one bright idea to another. 50 seconds into Life Itself and I'm already dancing :yahoo: . Oh, and by the way, I enjoyed the video game style music video to S2E3, and there is also a game based off that music video, but I can't played it. Tried to use it on my laptop, downloaded the game onto my iPod and tried to use it, alas neither worked, with the latter crashing just after the first company credits card thingy came in. :(

 

Best Tracks: Life Itself, Youth, Season 2 Episode 3, The Other Side Of Paradise, Cane Shuga, Pork Soda.

Awesome to see How To Be A Human Being end up in your top 5! It did the same for me, also. It's such a great album and introduced me to Glass Animals as a band, after a long while listening to ZABA and pre-ZABA music they've definitely cemented themselves as one of my favourite bands :wub:

Awesome to see How To Be A Human Being end up in your top 5! It did the same for me, also. It's such a great album and introduced me to Glass Animals as a band, after a long while listening to ZABA and pre-ZABA music they've definitely cemented themselves as one of my favourite bands :wub:

 

I'm glad to see your appreciation for this band. ;)

 

DalekTurret32's Favourite Albums Of 2016

 

 

4. CLUE: "Underrated electronic album that got nominated for the Mercury Prize this year."

 

 

THE COMET IS COMING - CHANNEL THE SPIRITS

 

 

"I found conflict to a bad place I wish I forgot, but I don't know much but it thinks I know I wish I forgot."

 

I haven't heard about this album until I heard it being announced in the Mercury Prize shortlist by Radio 6 Music DJ Lauren Laverne. After hearing this album on Spotify, I can say that it was admirable. The electronic instrumentals flow out really nicely and the production is absolutely fantastic. Probably my favourite electronic album of 2016. Oh, and that brass instrument in Space Carnival... ^_^ .

 

 

Best Tracks: Space Carnival, New Age, Journey Through The Asteroid Belt, Deep Within The Engine Deck, Nano, Lightyears

 

 

 

 

3. CLUE: "R&B/Soul singer signed to Daptone records."

 

 

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CHARLES BRADLEY - CHANGES

 

"If you ain't gonna do me right, I might just do you in. Ain't it a sin"

This album contains some of the best modern R&B/soul music I have heard. I have seen a comment by someone describing him as a "James Brown impersonator" somewhere on the internet (I forgot which site). Yes, the music reminds me of old-time soul artists as James Brown, Sam & Dave and Wilson Pickett. Ain't It A Sin is just such a funky track with its fast-paced guitar phrases and the drums beating on bars 2 and 4, and his cover of Black Sabbath's Changes is a really genial song. The album's retro-soul style gives me the ability to picture the songs from this album as 7-inches with the soul labels on them while being put in generic label sleeves.

 

Best Tracks: Ain't It A Sin, You Think I Don't Know (But I Know), Changes, Good To Be Back Home, Change For The World

 

 

 

Now we make it into the Top 2. This is the point where we're close to getting to my number one favourite album of the year. We are looking forward to this moment.

2 will be revealed later on in the countdown. But while we wait, let's look at the remaining clues again.

 

 

2. Another Oxford band. They got nominated for the Mercury Prize 5 times so far, but never won. Their 2000 album was released without promotion, and no singles were released from that album.

1. Another musician that passed away this year. A lot of this musician's 70's material have been released on 7" picture discs starting from 2012-onwards (with the recent one being released in Record Store Day 2016)

 

 

 

 

DalekTurret32's Favourite Albums of 2016

 

 

2. CLUE: "Another Oxford band. They got nominated for the Mercury Prize 5 times so far, but never won. Their 2000 album was released without promotion, and no singles were released from that album.".

 

 

 

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RADIOHEAD - A MOON SHAPED POOL

"Dreamers. They never learn, they never learn. Beyond, beyond the point of no return, of no return"

 

I remember the day when I got this album at the time it got put onto physical media format. I bought it on gatefold CD and also managed to pick up a AMSP art print along with a booklet telling you "How To Make Your Own A Moon Shaped Pool Artwork In 66 Easy Steps" (Should've said How To Make Your Own AMSP Artwork In 15 Steps. LOL JK, I'm good with the booklet's title). I even managed to get a 7" of Burn The Witch three months after getting the album.

Onto the album!

The use of the electronic beats in most of the tracks is laid out very well and the production is very fluent. The violin phrases throughout Burn The Witch are amazing, and so is the music video to the song, which may as well land a spot on my Top 10 Music Videos of 2016 list (Wikipedia have noticed the nods to Camberwick Green and The Wicker Man [original 1973 version, not the 2006 remake where Nicholas Cage is yelling "NOT THE BEES!"] in the video). Daydreaming has an excellent music video directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (known for directing such films as Boogie Nights, Magnolia and There Will Be Blood), and the song sounds really melancholy (sounds like it should be used in a drama film.) And I love the sound of that beat through the first minute and a half of Tinker Tailor Soldier Sky Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Thief (reminds me of downtempo).

Plus it was quite mind-blowing to find out that some of those tracks were written by the band a long time ago:

 

The closing track True Love Waits dates to 1995, at least (The same year The Bends was released). This song also appeared on the I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings album from 2001.

Burn The Witch dates to 2000 (The same year Kid A was released). The lyrics of the song appeared on Radiohead's website at some point in 2007.

Present Tense dates to 2008 (1 year after In Rainbows was released).

 

 

Best Tracks: Burn The Witch, Daydreaming, Decks Dark, Present Tense, Identikit, Ful Stop

Edited January 12, 20179 yr by DalekTurret32