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Songs https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/ ... ks-of-2017

on the album source list but not the songs

"votes from more than 50 Guardian writers and critics, we’ve collated our top 100 tracks of the year in a single giant playlist...it’s been sequenced so that it runs smoothly from style to style, rather than in order of popularity. The actual top 10, ranked after we collated all of our critics’ votes, is below"

10. Paramore – Hard Times
9. Drake – Passionfruit
8. Stormzy – Big for Your Boots
7. The Horrors – Something to Remember Me By
6. Perfume Genius – Slip Away
5. Future – Mask Off
4. Selena Gomez – Bad Liar
3. Kendrick Lamar – HUMBLE.
2. Charli XCX – Boys
1. Lorde – Green Light

Don't know if you want/need the other 90 transcribed as an unranked 11-100?

JohnnyBGoode wrote:Don't know if you want/need the other 90 transcribed as an unranked 11-100?

Yes please, that would be very helpful.

I don't know why their previous songs lists weren't included. I'll make a thread for those later today.

Don't know if they've done one before. It'll be a while before I'd be able to get round to it. Hopefully someone else might do in the meantime ...

Algiers - The Underside of Power
Baxter Dury - Miami
Body Count - No Lives Matter
BROCKHAMPTON - SWEET
Broken Social Scene - Hug Of Thunder
Calvin Harris, Frank Ocean, Migos - Slide
Calvin Harris, Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry, Big Sean - Feels
Cardi B - Bodak Yellow
Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut To The Feeling
Cécile McLorin Salvant - My Man's Gone Now
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Deadly Valentine
Cigarettes After Sex - Apocalypse
Cloud Nothings - Internal World
Courtney Barnett, Kurt Vile - Over Everything
Dave, J HUS - Samantha
DJ Khaled, Rihanna, Bryson Tiller - Wild Thoughts
Dua Lipa - New Rules
Francesco Gabbani - Occidentali's Karma - Radio Edit
Frank Ocean - Biking (Solo)
Frank Ocean - Chanel
Frank Ocean - Lens
French Montana, Swae Lee - Unforgettable
Gabriel Garzón-Montano - Sour Mango
Harlem Spartans - Kent Nizzy
Hurray For The Riff Raff - Pa’lante
Ibibio Sound Machine - Give Me a Reason
IDLES - Mother
J HUS - Clartin
J HUS - Did You See
Jorja Smith, Preditah - On My Mind (Jorja Smith X Preditah)
Kamasi Washington - Truth
Kelela - LMK
Kendrick Lamar, U2 - XXX. FEAT. U2.
King Krule - Czech One
King Woman - Deny
King Woman - Hierophant
LCD Soundsystem - oh baby
Lil Uzi Vert - XO TOUR Llif3
Lisa Knapp, Graham Coxon - Searching For Lambs
Little Mix, Stormzy - Power (feat. Stormzy)
Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee, Justin Bieber - Despacito - Remix
Marika Hackman - Boyfriend
Mark Lanegan - Nocturne
Migos - Get Right Witcha
Migos, Gucci Mane - Slippery (feat. Gucci Mane)
MoStack - Let It Ring
Motorpsycho - Intrepid Explorer
Mount Kimbie, King Krule - Blue Train Lines
Mr Jukes, BJ The Chicago Kid - Angels / Your Love
Mr Jukes, Charles Bradley - Grant Green
Nabihah Iqbal - Zone 1 to 6000
Nadia Reid - Right on Time
Objekt - Theme from Q
Once and Future Band - Tell Me Those Are Tears of Joy
Oumou Sangaré, Tony Allen - Yere faga (feat. Tony Allen)
Powerdance - A Safe and Happy Place - Video Version
Quantic, Nidia Gongora - Que Me Duele?
Rhiannon Giddens - At the Purchaser's Option
Rina Sawayama - Alterlife
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sick Bug
Ruthven - Evil
Sampha - (No One Knows Me) Like the Piano
Seamus Fogarty - Van Gogh's Ear
Shame - Tasteless
Sheer Mag - Need to Feel Your Love
Sigrid - Don't Kill My Vibe
Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill
St. Vincent - Los Ageless
St. Vincent - New York
Steven Wilson - Permanating
Superorganism - Something For Your M.I.N.D.
SZA - Go Gina
SZA, Travis Scott - Love Galore
The Black Madonna - He Is the Voice I Hear
The National - The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness
The Orielles - Sugar Tastes Like Salt
The Rhythm Method - Something For The Weekend
The War On Drugs - Holding On
The War On Drugs - Thinking Of A Place
The xx - Say Something Loving
The Young'uns - Carriage 12
The Young'uns - Dark Water
This Is The Kit - Moonshine Freeze
Thundercat - Friend Zone
Todd Terje, Four Tet - Jungelknugen - Four Tet Remix
Tomasz Stanko New York Quartet - December Avenue
Tove Lo - disco tits
Tyler, The Creator, Frank Ocean, Steve Lacy - 911 / Mr. Lonely
Tyler, The Creator, Rex Orange County, Anna Of The North - Boredom
Wolf Alice - Don’t Delete The Kisses

No transcription : spotify playlist + excel

arnaud wrote:No transcription : spotify playlist + excel

Thanks a bunch, Arnaud!

I am sure, this is the first song list from the Guardian.

arnaud wrote: Francesco Gabbani - Occidentali's Karma - Radio Edit

So happy to see this on a list! Proof positive that not all Eurovision songs are silly and superficial (wish they had a little room for Salvador Sobral as well, but whatever).

Federico wrote:I am sure, this is the first song list from the Guardian.

2016 EOY Song list :
https://www.theguardian.com/music/music ... by-rihanna

The first part of their 2017 top 50 album's list has been posted..:

The best albums of 2017: 50-31

31 Charlotte Gainsbourg – Rest
32 Four Tet – New Energy
33 Miguel – War & Leisure
34 Juana Molina – Halo
35 Nick Hakim – Green Twins
36 Rhiannon Giddens – Freedom Highway
37 Sparks – Hippopotamus
38 Baxter Dury – Prince of Tears
39 Cloud Nothings – Life Without Sound
40 Moses Sumney – Aromanticism
41 Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile – Lotta Sea Lice
42 Julie Byrne – Not Even Happiness
43 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – The Kid
44 The xx – I See You
45 Powerdance – The Lost Art of Getting Down
46 Les Amazones d’Afrique – République Amazone
47 Mount Eerie – A Crow Looked at Me
48 Vijay Iyer Sextet – Far from Over
49 Lisa Knapp – Till April Is Dead: A Garland of May
50 Trio Da Kali and Kronos Quartet – Ladilikan

Can we do these daily updates as reply posts instead of edits, so that the thread stays bumped near the top as a reminder that it's still in progress? Thanks!

Apologies. Some of the other forums I've frequented recently have been touchy about multi-posting. But if it's still ok here...

Today's update:

The best albums of 2017: 50-21

21 Cigarettes After Sex – Cigarettes After Sex
22 King Krule – The Ooz
23 Vince Staples – Big Fish Theory
24 Protomartyr – Relatives in Descent
25 The National – Sleep Well Beast
26 Paramore – After Laughter
27 Marika Hackman – I’m Not Your Man
28 Slowdive – Slowdive
29 Alvvays – Antisocialites
30 Girl Ray – Earl Grey

That's a great Top 10. I cannot say enough nice things about "Something To Remember By" by The Horrors. Such a fantastic song all around.

The best albums of 2017: 50-11

11 Jane Weaver – Modern Kosmology
12 Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life
13 Tyler, the Creator – Flower Boy
14 J Hus – Common Sense
15 The Horrors – V
16 Father John Misty – Pure Comedy
17 Drake – More Life
18 Stormzy – Gang Signs and Prayer
19 Laura Marling – Semper Femina
20 Sampha – Process

St. Vincent no.1 then?

Nah, it's going to be 'Wrong One to Fuck With' by Dying Fetus. I just feel that it's finally going to be their year...


...EDIT: You had one job Guardian! Well done JohnnyBGoode (and everyone else on the forum) who managed to correctly deduce the album in the Guardian's number one spot. It can now be confirmed as being...

Can we do these daily updates as reply posts instead of edits, so that the thread stays bumped near the top as a reminder that it's still in progress? Thanks!