61 Frankie Cosmos: Next Best Thing
Category: 2016NE
62 Run the Jewels: RTJ3
I think it’s fair to say that I’ve never quite been swept up by the Runny Jews freight wagon
-3
Perhaps it’s because they’ve made a habit of releasing their albums late in the year, leaving me next to no time to properly consider them for the year end Necessary Evil. This logically titled (beautifully so +2) third effort came out on Christmas day 2016, which would render any selection in the 2016 list near impossible under normal circumstances
-4
Hmmmm, though it would qualify for the 2017 list under old rules though… and be one of the most listened to albums due to its early release…
-3
63 Mitski: Puberty 2
There’s nothing worse than when your love is badly timed
-1
No! I don’t mean the way you think! I think that kind of ‘badly timed love’ should be strongly dissuaded!
-4
64 Virginia Wings: Forward Constant Motion
Yes! Yes! Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees! Yesssssss!
+12
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65 Pusha T: King Push- Darkest Before the Dawn: The Prelude
Wow, that title’s really colon overload isn’t it?
Last weekend I went with my brother to the cinema to see the Terminator 2 3D re-release, because the only movies I care about are the ones I liked when I was a teenager and can equate it to a time when life’s relentless, ghastly struggle hadn’t yet destroyed all the optimism and vague concepts of pleasure that once trickled through my young veins, and I reject any new movies because they implicitly suggest younger people are getting enjoyment that is no longer available to me
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66 Skepta: Konnichiwa
Yeah, that feels a bit better, and no just because he’s now ahead of Radiohead
+4
67 The Coral: Distance Inbetween
68 Radiohead: Moon Shaped Pool (fine, I’ll do it PROPERLY…)
As you’ve no doubt noticed, Radiohead are not only one of my absolute favourite bands, and have genuine claim to being one of the greatest bands ever to have existed
+40
At last count, they have been responsible for four absolutely scientifically qualified and objectively registered stone cold, genital spasming genius albums, which is more than such feted luminaries as The Beatles, Pixies and Joy Division, and the nations of Russia, Paraguay and Ireland
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68 Radiohead: Moon Shaped Pool
69 Saba: Bucket List Project
‘Bucket lists’ are forever changing, as we rarely hold the same ambitions for major lengths of time
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If you asked me what was on my bucket list five years ago, I would have said I wanted to open my own English school in Xinjiang with the woman I loved. And maybe to quit drinking before it killed me
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