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[PassiveObserver]

Joining the other top album's topics already posted. Here's the top 50 from CoS:
http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/11/top-50-albums-of-2016/full-post/

Top 20:

Spoiler

01. Beyonce – Lemonade
02. Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book
03. David Bowie – ★
04. Frank Ocean – Blond
05. ANOHNI – Hopelessness
06. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
07. Angel Olsen – My Woman
08. Anderson .Paak – Malibu
09. Bon Iver – 22, A Million
10. Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
11. Mitski – Puberty 2
12. A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
13. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
14. Blood Orange – Freetown Sound
15. Schoolboy Q – Blank Face LP
16. Wilco – Schmilco
17. Tim Hecker – Love Streams
18. Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial
19. Solange – A Seat at the Table
20. Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein – Stranger Things (Volume 1 & 2)

Like it better than the lists from Time and Rolling Stone, but admittedly I've only listened to a few in the top 20. Most of the guitar stuff in the lower half of the rankings.

 

[Perfect Blue]

Great list but Chance The Rapper is too high yet again.

 

[see5harp]

Way better than the Time and Rolling Stone lists for me. Just a lot more varied, which I appreciate.

 

[overcast]

Coloring Book is such a laughably overrated album man.

 

[Gobias]

Great list but Chance The Rapper is too high yet again.

I was thinking it was weird he keeps showing up so high on all these lists. I enjoyed the album just fine for the most part, but I didn't think it was something that everybody all loved.

 

[Yado]

Coloring Book is such a laughably overrated album man.

I honestly don't get why it's making these lists. It's easily his weakest release.

 

[faridmon]

I didn't like any of the ones I have listened to in top 20 :/

Good to see Pinegrove, Japanese Breakfast, Weaves and Martha represented though.

 

[Crayons]

this is a lot better than the other list posted today

 

[Servbot24]

Haha, I wasn't going to say anything but I had been wondering why Chance kept showing up on these lists as well.

 

[Andrew Korenchkin]

Coloring Book is such a laughably overrated album man.

It's a 7/10 album at best.

 

[giga]

Cmd+f: Pablo.

Not found.

And all is right.

 

[FusedAtoms]

Good seeing Schoolboy up there

 

[smisk]

Fuck, I can't believe Sioux Falls, Rot Forever is on there! (#36). Probably my favorite album of this year but I've never heard anyone talk about it.

 

[allansm]

I didn't like Lemonade, it sounded too artificial and calculated to me, and Coloring Book is overrated, but I agree with most of the top 20.

I'm happy to see The Body, Nicolas Jaar, Japanese Breakfast and Tim Hecker on the list, they all released great albums that I feel haven't got the recognition they deserve yet.

 

[Mostmanlyman]

Fuck yeah the body got on that list

 

[Yado]

Also, yasss kween etc

 

[hughesta]

Coloring Book but no Pablo? Get the fuck outta here

 

[n00bsauce87]

I guess I'm in the minority, but he's sound is unique. Chance figured out how combine gospel and hiphop when you can hear it in the instrumentation (partly due to Donnie Trumpet) more so than artists like a Lecrae and their production. There isn't another artist like him. It's a refreshing sound in a world where we have Meek Mill, Drake, Young Thug, and etc.

At least in 2016, he felt like a breath of fresh air.

I'm shocked Kanye's TLOP didn't make the list.

Also shocked Solange was only at 19. I'd take Solange higher up the list and Frank Ocean lower. He doesn't deserve that 4 spot.

Anderson Paak was amazing too. But my wife banned it from the car. She said it was just too much cursing. But I still love the album. But she really did say she can't listen to it in the car.

 

[Perfect Blue]

Patiently waiting for Gorilla vs. Bear's list.

 

[olympia]

I don't understand how Stage Four didn't make it

E: nevermind, this is not stereogum oops

 

[TheCowboyPoet]

Wilco deserves to be #1, IMHO. But glad to see it in the top 20 regardless.

 

[K.Sabot]

I don't see the hype around Lemonade or Coloring Book.

Both were insufferably boring to me, Beyonce's Self Titled and Chance's Acid Rap mixtape were leagues more interesting and fun than their output this year.

 

[Corpsepyre]

40 Watt Sun - Wider Than the Sky. The only album worth putting at No.1, really.

 

[Lan Dong Mik]

40 Watt Sun - Wider Than the Sky. The only album worth putting at No.1, really.

I was literally just listening to this. so fucking good.

 

[Shake Appeal]

Man, did not know there is a Schoolboy Q record from this year. I am old and lazy.

 

[allansm]

40 Watt Sun - Wider Than the Sky. The only album worth putting at No.1, really.

It sounded so boring without the Doom metal... They are just another slowcore band now, while their previous album sounded really unique.

 

[Atom Heart Mother]

I don't think I'll ever get into rap. Feels so weird seeing best albums just keep being rap.. I just don't get it. I really enjoyed black star and Moon shaped pool though!

 

[Corpsepyre]

It sounded so boring without the Doom metal... They are just another slowcore band now, while their previous album sounded really unique.

The sound's stripped down, yes, but even more melancholic and devastating (not sonic-ally) than before, and that grabbed me instantly. The fact that Patrick Walker is doing the vocals means it's not just another slowcore band. Not one bit. They transcended any categorization, and found the sound they wanted to nail with the first one. But that's just my opinion, and you're free to have yours, ofcourse.

 

[YaBish]

Seeing The Hotelier on this list warms my heart. I think I've came back to Goodness more than any other album this year.

 

[Red Blaster]

I don't think I'll ever get into rap. Feels so weird seeing best albums just keep being rap.. I just don't get it. I really enjoyed black star and Moon shaped pool though!

there's only three rap albums in the top 20

 

[allansm]

The sound's stripped down, yes, but even more melancholic and devastating (not sonic-ally) than before, and that grabbed me instantly. The fact that Patrick Walker is doing the vocals means it's not just another slowcore band. Not one bit. They transcended any categorization, and found the sound they wanted to nail with the first one. But that's just my opinion, and you're free to have yours, ofcourse.

Patrick Walker sings passion in a unique way, I agree. But I tend to give more weight to the instruments and the structure of the song than to the vocals and the lyrics, so with the changes in sound they lost their appeal to me.

 

[Bronx-Man]

Coloring Book made it while TLOP didn't? Not even Chance stans would say it's that good.

 

[Atom Heart Mother]

there's only three rap albums in the top 20

oops

 

[pokeystaples]

I guess I'm in the minority, but he's sound is unique. Chance figured out how combine gospel and hiphop when you can hear it in the instrumentation (partly due to Donnie Trumpet) more so than artists like a Lecrae and their production. There isn't another artist like him. It's a refreshing sound in a world where we have Meek Mill, Drake, Young Thug, and etc.

At least in 2016, he felt like a breath of fresh air.

Also shocked Solange was only at 19. I'd take Solange higher up the list and Frank Ocean lower. He doesn't deserve that 4 spot.

Agreed on alladat. Coloring Book has been the soundtrack to my "please let this be a good day" days since it dropped.

 

[see5harp]

If Coloring Book had kept up the pace in the second half of the album instead of closing with that dumb ass Kirk Franklin song I'd probably like it more.

 

[Gorillaz]

Chances sound right now of this gospel choir fused hip hop must be getting to these publications.

 

[Kayo Police]

I'll be the boyfriend in your wet dreams tonight
Noses on a rail, little virgin wears the white
You cut your hair but you used to live a blonded life
Wish I was there, wish we'd grown up on the same advice
And our time was right

My boy Frank Ocean.

 

[Killer Queen]

Coloring Book is such a laughably overrated album man.

Agreed.

 

[PurpleMoustache]

Yo what the fuck? Where's the new Avalanches album on this list? Best thing out this year and it doesn't even make top 50?

 

[CoolOff]

My boy Danny Brown getting shafted over for both Chunce and Schoolboy...

 

[Kusagari]

Chance is the most overrated rapper in the game.

Media trying to shove him down our throats tbh.

 

[NandoGip]

Chance album had too much Jesus shit. These magazines know that you got to make the list controversial to get attention.

Edit: I'm just glad hip hop and r&b is strong though. Solange shouldve been up higher, but I haven't heard some of the albums, so maybe they are better. Solange album def better than Chance though so who knows.

 

[Puck Beaverton]

Coloring Book is better than Pablo.

Fight me.

 

[Bronx-Man]

Yo what the fuck? Where's the new Avalanches album on this list? Best thing out this year and it doesn't even make top 50?

I had Wildflower on repeat all summer long.

Coloring Book is better than Pablo.

Fight me.

 

[chaislip3]

Yo what the fuck? Where's the new Avalanches album on this list? Best thing out this year and it doesn't even make top 50?

Yeah I'm disappointed in the lack of Wildflower on these lists

 

[Interframe]

Good to see Frank Ocean getting the recognition he deserves everywhere on these lists. Probably one of the most overlooked black artist to come out with new music this year.

 

[Kayo Police]

I noticed there were no Korean artists on the list.

 

[see5harp]

A lot of the rap songs on Wildflower sucked IMO (outside of the amazing Camp Lo opener that was like the perfect summer anthem for rolling down the street with your windows open.

 

[Bronx-Man]

A lot of the rap songs on Wildflower sucked IMO (outside of the amazing Camp Lo opener that was like the perfect summer anthem for rolling down the street with your windows open.

Live a Lifetime Love???

 

[Bersi]

I didn't like any of the ones I have listened to in top 20 :/

Good to see Pinegrove, Japanese Breakfast, Weaves and Martha represented though.

You have great taste.