Year-End Lists

Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2017, as aired on The Needle Drop

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

1. Pure Comedy
   Father John Misty
2. SATURATION II
   BROCKHAMPTON
3. A Crow Looked at Me
   Mount Eerie
4. 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time
   Big K.R.I.T.
5. Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood
   Sun Kil Moon
6. Mouth Moods
   Neil Cicierega
7. Bravado
   Kirin J Callinan
8. Los Ángeles
   Rosalía
9. The Underside of Power
   Algiers
10. No Shape
    Perfume Genius
11. Thin Black Duke
    Oxbow
12. Forced Witness
    Alex Cameron
13. Forget
    Xiu Xiu
14. Flower Boy
    Tyler, The Creator
15. Neō Wax Bloom
    Iglooghost
16. Ctrl
    SZA
17. Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
    Open Mike Eagle
18. Soul of a Woman
    Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
19. Peasant
    Richard Dawson
20. Orc
    Oh Sees
21. Goths
    The Mountain Goats
22. 4:44
    JAY-Z
23. Known Unknowns
    Billy Woods
24. Written at Night
    Uncommon Nasa
25. Caustic
    Primitive Man
26. Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often
    Quelle Chris
27. GT Ultra
    Guerilla Toss
28. Flying Microtonal Banana
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
29. Uyai
    Ibibio Sound Machine
30. 1992
    Princess Nokia
31. Brutalism
    Idles
32. Dedicated To Bobby Jameson
    Ariel Pink
33. Relatives in Descent
    Protomartyr
34. Godfather
    Wiley
35. Antisocialites
    Alvvays
36. Crack-Up
    Fleet Foxes
37. ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$
    Joey Bada$$
38. Forever
    Code Orange
39. Pleasure
    Feist
40. Laila’s Wisdom
    Rapsody
41. Take Me Apart
    Kelela
42. Run the Jewels 3
    Run the Jewels
43. Reflections of a Floating World
    Elder
44. The Dusk In Us
    Converge
45. DAMN.
    Kendrick Lamar
46. Process
    Sampha
47. Heartless
    Pallbearer
48. Wrong One to Fuck With
    Dying Fetus
49. Outrage! Is Now
    Death from Above
50. First Opus
    Sinjin Hawke