Folks, another year is in the books. Not a moment too soon if you ask me (I realize you did not ask me). I sincerely hope your 2017 was better than mine. If it wasn't, that's no good, but I hope you at least spent as much time listening to absolutely killer records as I did.
Not a lot of great things happened in 2017, but a ton of great music came out. So much so that I didn't even come close to keeping up with all of it. There was great national stuff, great international stuff, and, most importantly, a staggering amount of quality music coming out of Minnesota. Without any further buildup, here's Flatbasset Radio's 50 Most Played Albums Of 2017.
(Note #1: As always, one "play" equals one song. For example, the new Mozzer album has 12 songs on it, so each time I listen to it front to back it counts as twelve "plays." As usual, all stats come from my Last.FM page. Give it a follow if you really want to stay up on what's getting the most plays.)
(Note
#2: This is a list of "Most Played" albums, not "Best" albums. If I
made that list it wouldn't look dramatically different, but it wouldn't
be the same either. Not really a relevant note, just didn't want anybody
to feel bad.)
Alright, here's how it went.
01. Medium Zach - Beatstory (143 plays)
02. V/A - The Greatest Of All-Time #2 (141 plays)
03. Tyte Jeff - Lutheran Teens (125 plays)
04. Witch Watch - Wandering & Wondering (120 plays)
05. P.O.S - Chill, Dummy (117 plays)
06. Allan Kingdom - Lines (115 plays)
07. The Miami Dolphins - Water Your Waiting For (113 plays)
08. Bash & Pop - Anything Can Happen (109 plays)
09. Suzie - Chardonnay (108 plays)
10. The Bolt Weevils - Long Way Home (107 plays)
11. Hippo Campus - Landmark (106 plays)
12. Shredders - Dangerous Jumps (101 plays)
13. The Chinchees - The Chinchees (101 plays)
14. Good Doom - New Shapes For You (98 plays)
15. Morrissey - Low In High School (96 plays)
16. Strange Relations - Editorial You (92 plays)
17. Craig Finn - We All Want The Same Things (92 plays)
18. Extraterrestrials - Extraterrestrials (92 plays)
19. Stanley - Stanley (91 plays)
20. The Awful Truth - Glisten (90 plays)
21. Falls - Torn Between Comas (90 plays)
22. Blaha - 499-456 (88 plays)
23. Jeremy Ylvisaker (85 plays)
24. Suzie - Deluxe (83 plays)
25. Porno Wolves - Renegades (83 plays)
26. The Cribs - 24-7 Rock Star Shit (82 plays)
27. Mux Mool - Implied Lines (Deluxe) (81 plays)
28. Murder Shoes - Fall (80 plays)
29. Loud Sun - Sea Graves (80 plays)
30. Rupert Angeleyes & Joey Joey Michaels - Rupert Angeleyes & Joey Joey Michaels (80 plays)
31. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Mirror Traffic (78 plays)
32. Fragile Canyons - Adapting To The Cosmos (77 plays)
33. Yeah Wings - Tomorrow Will Be Better (75 plays)
34. Metasota - It's Just Rap (74 plays)
35. Prince - Prince (74 plays)
36. StoLyette - Summer (74 plays)
37. Narco States - Temples Into Tombs (74 plays)
38. Frances Gumm - My Sweet Demise (71 plays)
39. Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of Bewilderbeast (70 plays)
40. Remo Drive - Greatest Hits (70 plays)
41. Cool Pollution - From Kosmos With Love (69 plays)
42. Deleter - Meaningless Chants (69 plays)
43. Frank Ocean - Endless (67 plays)
44. Cheap Fantasy - Life Of Glass (67 plays)
45. Chance York & Big Cats - Highest Self (66 plays)
46. Free Truman - It's Whatever (66 plays)
47. Double Grave - New Year's Daydream (66 plays)
48. Sebadoh - Bakesale (64 plays)
49. Minnie/Bluntz - Gone Plutonium (64 plays)
50. Brilliant Beast - Jelly (64 plays)
There you have it, folks. Another year in the books. Stay tuned for more shows in 2018.
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