# Best Music of 2017 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 1, 2018, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-of-2017/807933 "2018-02-01T04:38:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-of-2017/807933/1 "2018-02-01T04:38:55Z")
As I did [last year](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=815121), I’m sharing my Apple Music playlist with my favorite songs of the past year. (I got to it a little later this year, but hey: the Grammys were just this week.) > **[Best of 2017 by Alan on Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/best-of-2017/pl.u-MY19c9WLxvG)** > > Playlist · 300 Songs Here are YouTube clips of the top two songs on the list, for those who don’t have Apple Music but want a taste: 1. [Waxahatchee - “Never Been Wrong”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDaccHBAGcM) On certain notes, lead singer Katie Crutchfield (who also writes the songs) sounds like Neko Case. But she’s got her own hard driving, wall-of-guitars sound. This whole album “Out in the Storm” is great. 2. [Father John Misty - “Ballad of the Dying Man”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVaafph6HSQ) All five of the Father John Misty songs on the overall playlist, taken from his album “Pure Comedy”, are awesome–but ultimately for my top pick I had to go with the one that features my favorite lyric of 2017 and maybe ever: > [@](#): > > Eventually the dying man takes his final breath > But first checks his news feed to see what he’s 'bout to miss I think I’d still like FJM if he sang in a language I don’t understand. But his lyrics really kick it up a notch. Another example, less cheeky but more moving, from the 13-minute song “Leaving LA”: > [@](#): > > My first memory of music’s from > The time at JCPenney’s with my mom > The watermelon candy I was choking on > Barbara screaming, “Someone help my son!” > I relive it most times the radio’s on > That “tell me lies, sweet little white lies” song > That’s when I first saw the comedy won’t stop for > Even little boys dying in department stores… So evocative. I’m glad someone apparently did ultimately help Barbara’s son! What music did you all get into last year? ---
**Author:** ![black\_rainbow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d26b3c/32.png) [@black\_rainbow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rainbow)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-of-2017/807933/2 "2018-02-03T23:19:20Z")
SZA is awesome. St. Vincent’s Masseduction is one of my faves. Lorde’s Melodrama I recently downloaded. I think it’s really good. And of course the new Bjork - Utopia. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2018, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-of-2017/807933/3 "2018-02-03T23:31:21Z")
Last month there was a thread about best albums of 2017. What I posted was : _Out In The Storm_ by Waxahatchee : [Silver](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBpMXuzHR3I) _A Crow Looked At Me_ by Mount Eerie:[Real Death](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGESP0iePmQ) _Pure Comedy_ by Father John Misty : [Leaving LA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfnXM_DmEzo) ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2018, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-of-2017/807933/4 "2018-02-03T23:54:15Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Last month there was a thread about best albums of 2017. What I posted was : > > _Out In The Storm_ by Waxahatchee : [Silver](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBpMXuzHR3I) > > _A Crow Looked At Me_ by Mount Eerie:[Real Death](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGESP0iePmQ) > > _Pure Comedy_ by Father John Misty : [Leaving LA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfnXM_DmEzo) Two of those are my top two albums of 2017. The other one, I have never even heard of. Hmmm… I wonder if I should maybe, just maybe, check that out? (Also, if you have Apple Music, you should check out my playlist.)