2017 as a whole
 

With only 30 days left in the year, how would you rate 2017 as a whole music wise?

It's starting to shape up towards the end of the year but up until about June or July I was really disappointed with the output. I still don't think it's going to top 2016.

Not been a great year. Only three or four releases I really looked forward to.

Wiley album
Stormzy album
Boomiverse (which I wasn't aware of until it came out)
Prince EP

Sorry about the lack of a Beatloads release man. I know I let you down.

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Pachu.../best-of-2017/

My list of good releases from this year, around 10-15 five star releases on there.

Three Gizzards records tho tbf

You've actually included and rated your own albums.

I wouldn't release them if I didn't think they were great.

I don't know what "Perfecto" would actually be,
but I've had an overwhelming amount of great
music to listen to - in dozens of genres - this year.
Lots of which I hi-lite in plug after I'm able to get
around to this huge stack of goodies.

i gave a 4/5 thinking this was referring to my opinions on the year in my life.

Pretty good, although I feel like a lot of the stuff I have yet to catch up to is where the real treasures lie buried.

I've got 11 pretty good albums from this year. Ranging from allright if a bit disappointing to excellent.

The list of 2017 albums that I'm interested in, but have yet to get around to so far counts 48 albums, so...

I'll usually have a better overview of a year in music halfway through the next.
In the end, every year turns out to be a great year in music if you look long enough. That's my honest experience and belief.

It takes a long time to unpack these years with so much being released. 2016 was incredible but I’m barely touching on it. 2017 is still a whirlwind.

I found one song in 2017 that was totally the cat's pajamas and that's all I could ever ask for.
The Symposium - Tony Stark - Audiotree Live

My list of albums that I'm interested in from 2016 is still 22 albums long, so yeah, takes forever to get through one year. Several years, probably, so it's impossible. A very nice problem to have: Too much good music.

I'll give 2017 a 4/5 so far, just because I expect to have missed most of the best stuff so far.

Oh, I misunderstood the purpose of this thread. I thought it was in the Lounge and we were rating 2017 as a whole year--personally, politically, socially. So I gave it a 2.

Musically, it was like a 4.

Musically a 4.5. The year was a solid 4, much better than 2016. We all know how exhausting and shitty 2016 was.

As a year it's been close to 5/5 for me personally.

Music has been the same as usual, though I have probably tracked what I listened to and liked a lot less this year. Many albums that I loved got completely lost because I just queue stuff up and forget which album was which.

2017/5

It's been pretty damn good, a lot of really good releases this year and I thought last year was good too. This year's been better IMO, a lot of albums I was hyped on and that didn't disappoint, and some that were better than I thought they'd be.

Not at all..... I could really say some stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!

was 2017 personally good for you?

2017 is a 4/5 to me. Like most people, I do not think it tops 2016. While the previous year may have taken some of the best musicians ever from us, it also gave us some stellar music.
This year also saw the release of some great material, like Morrissey and LCD Soundsystem´s new albums. Also, mainstream artists like Taylor Swift and Katy Perry released some decent music. Perry, for example, released the best thing she´s done since her 2008/9 debut.
Big radio hits were alright this year, like Sheeran´s Shape of You, Lamar´s DNA. and HUMBLE. and this new pop girl called Camila Cabello with her Havana song. I predict she, along with Dua Lipa and Halsey, will become the "pop girls" of the early 2020´s.
I´ll list some of my favorite records of 2017 so far:
. Low in High School by Morrissey
. Colors by Beck
. Brothers of Destruction EP by The Lemon Twigs
. Dedicated to Bobby Jameson by Ariel Pink
. american dream by LCD Soundsystem
. Abysmal Thoughts by The Drums
. Woodstock by Portugal. The Man
. DAMN. by Kendrick Lamar
. No Plan EP by David Bowie