50 Best Albums of 2017

[MusicLover7]

Taylor Swift clapped back, Kendrick Lamar went back to basics, Lorde threw a high-concept party and more

Music was full of fury, confusion and resistance in our first post-election year. Albums came with titles like American Dream (LCD Soundsystem), American Teen (Khalid) and All American Made (Margo Price). And indeed, artists did get explicitly political, from Randy Newman to Jason Isbell to Jay-Z. But music in 2017 was also about a more slippery sense of self, as genre lines fall away and artists searched for identity and purpose in weird times. Some of the year's best classic rock came from pop stars like Kesha and Harry Styles; some of the year's most acclaimed pop statements came via glossier sounds from alterna-rock icons like Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters, St. Vincent and Grizzly Bear. SZA melded emo self-evaluation with the sounds of modern R&B, Chris Stapleton joined classic soul to contemporary country, Jlin added experimental cutting-edge textures to Chicago dance music, Valerie June explored decades of American music and Drake pulled sounds and collaborators from all across the world. Here's the best of a tumultuous year.

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[BeatlesFan3287]

Good God...does that Lamar guy pay off critics to love his albums? Just a typical foul mouthed rapper, yet every year, his albums top these lists.

[MusicLover7]

50 Best Songs of 2017

Cardi B's money moves, Harry Styles' classic rock breakout, the record-breaking "Despacito" and more

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