Best music of 2017
In 2017, the girlf and I have reconciled with the strong likelihood that I love music more than her. Having debated the point for almost three years, I think we’ve finally come to accept it. Then again, “first the worst”... goodness knows what my third love would be, with a hairy chest. Nevertheless, 2017 is the year I stopped buying CDs. My favourites, and smaller artists I feel an urge to support, I still did, but not in general nor particularly to check out new stuff. So vinyls and Spotify it has been, the first world double edged sword of the latter being saving money vs the “too many boxsets” style stress of listening to twice as much new music (over 170 new albums streamed vs the last few years’ c. 80-90 purchased CDs) and not being able to give it little of it more than a cursory spin or two. I have still managed to arbitrarily whittle it down to a top few (several), and in trying to come up with unifying themes I would say two things. One is that there has perhaps been a sens...