RLLMUK'S FAVOURITE ALBUMS OF 2016 - RESULTS!

[ngchol]

Thanks, as always, to everyone who took time to think about and post their list for this year. I'd have finished earlier, but the children wanted to see Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them again. This is the 12th year in a row of doing this, and it's been a great pleasure, with only a small number of list-formatting criminals and, shockingly, A NEG IN THE THREAD, which is merely a manifestation of the great anger and discontentment in society as a whole, and the incipient collapse of Western civilisation, and thus only to be expected. I'm really looking forward to catching up on some new music as I seem to have spent more time rebuying all my favourite albums on vinyl  listening to old stuff last year.


So, here are the results! A 1st place vote scored 10 points, 2nd place 9, down to 10th place scoring 1 point.

I've posted the whole list here - there were 273 albums voted for in all (294 last year, 237 the year before). If enough people want to query the results or look at the raw data, then I'll upload the spreadsheet.

I usually miss some near-duplicates or votes where someone got the artist and the title the wrong way round, so please feel free to point out any inconsistencies if it affects anything in the top 50.

Just for reference (I always look them up when I post the results), you can find results from previous years by using the albumsoftheyear tag.

 

 

Rank - Artist - Album [Total number of votes] [Total points]

1 - David Bowie - Blackstar [9]  [56] 

2 - Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool [9]  [51] 

3 - A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service  [6]  [48] 

4 - Pye Corner Audio - Stasis [5]  [31] 

5 - Solange - A Seat At The Table [5]  [30] 

6 - Frank Ocean - Blond [6]  [29] 

7 - Bat for Lashes - The Bride [3]  [27] 

8 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree [4]  [26] 

9 - Beyoncé - Lemonade [3]  [25] 

10 - Christine & The Queens - Chaleur Humaine [3]  [24] 

11 - Andy Stott - Too Many Voices [3]  [20] 

11 - Disasterpeace - Hyper Light Drifter OST [3]  [20] 

13 - Slaves - Take Control [2]  [19] 

14 - Thee Oh Sees - A Weird Exits [3]  [18] 

14 - Aphex Twin - Cheetah EP [3]  [18] 

16 - Plaid - The Digging Remedy [2]  [17] 

16 - Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition [2]  [17] 

18 - Dinosaur Jr. - Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not [2]  [15] 

18 - Suede - Night Thoughts [3]  [15] 

20 - De La Soul - And The Anonymous Nobody [2]  [14] 

20 - Against Me! - Shape Shift With Me [2]  [14] 

22 - CZARFACE - A Fistful Of Peril [2]  [13] 

22 - 65daysofstatic - No Man's Sky OST [2]  [13] 

24 - Kuedo - Slow Knife [2]  [12] 

24 - Childish Gambino - Awaken, My Love! [2]  [12] 

24 - Modern Baseball - Holy GhOST [2]  [12] 

24 - Gallant - Ology [2]  [12] 

24 - Anohni - Hopelessness [2]  [12] 

24 - Angel Olsen - My Woman [2]  [12] 

24 - Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Trance Frendz [2]  [12] 

31 - Clark - The Last Panthers [2]  [11] 

31 - Jóhann Jóhannsson - Orphée [2]  [11] 

31 - Junior Boys - Big Black Coat [2]  [11] 

31 - Miranda Lee Richards - Echoes Of The Dreamtime [2]  [11] 

35 - Love You to Death - Tegan & Sara [1]  [10] 

35 - Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You've Come To Expect [1]  [10] 

35 - Corey Feldman - Angelic 2 The Core [1]  [10] 

35 - Scott Sorry - When We Were Kings [1]  [10] 

35 - Mammal Hands - Floa [1]  [10] 

35 - Expo 70 - America Here And Now Sessions [1]  [10] 

35 - Maxwell - Blacksummers'Night [1]  [10] 

35 - Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas - Mariner [1]  [10] 

35 - Kero Kero Bonito - Bonito Generation [1]  [10] 

35 - Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch [2]  [10] 

35 - Classixx - Faraway Reach [1]  [10] 

35 - Crying - Beyond The Fleeting Gales [1]  [10] 

35 - Car Seat Headrest - Teens Of Denial [1]  [10] 

35 - Coral - Distance Inbetween [1]  [10] 

35 - Anthrax - For All Kings [1]  [10] 

35 - Daughter - Not To Disappear [1]  [10] 

35 - Death Angel - The Evil Divide [1]  [10] 

35 - Bon Iver - 22, A Million  [1]  [10] 

35 - Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo [1]  [10] 

35 - Mark Pritchard - Under The Sun [1]  [10] 

35 - Iggy Pop - POST Pop Depression [2]  [10] 

35 - Damien Jurado - Visions Of Us On The Land [1]  [10] 

35 - Sumac - What One Becomes [1]  [10] 

35 - Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us [1]  [10] 

35 - Various Artists - Imaginational Anthem Vol.8: The Private Press [1]  [10] 

35 - Moon Wiring Club - When A New Trick Comes Out I Do An Old One [1]  [10] 

35 - Lone - Levitate [4]  [10] 

35 - The Avalanches - Wildflower [1]  [10] 

35 - Jeff Rosenstock - Worry [1]  [10] 

35 - Turin Brakes - LOST Property [1]  [10] 

65 - Jessy Lanza - Oh No [1]  [9] 

65 - Phurpa - Rituals Of Bon [1]  [9] 

65 - Caverns Of Anti Matter - Void Beats Invocation Trex  [1]  [9] 

65 - Elza Soares - A Mulher Do Fim Do Mundo [1]  [9] 

65 - Fuzzy Hell - Hex Songs [1]  [9] 

65 - DIIV - Is The Is Are [1]  [9] 

65 - Drake - Views [1]  [9] 

65 - Breakbot - Still Waters [1]  [9] 

65 - Mind Enterprises - Idealist [1]  [9] 

65 - Badbadnotgood - Iv [1]  [9] 

65 - Off With Their Heads - Won't Be Missed [1]  [9] 

65 - Charles Bradley - Changes [1]  [9] 

65 - Ocean Wisdom - Chaos 93 [1]  [9] 

65 - Black Queen - Fever Daydream [1]  [9] 

65 - Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - Until The Hunter [1]  [9] 

65 - Sarah Davachi - Dominions [1]  [9] 

65 - Yann Tiersen - Eusa [2]  [9] 

65 - On Desire - Drowners [1]  [9] 

65 - Underworld - Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future  [1]  [9] 

65 - Bury Tomorrow - Earthbound [1]  [9] 

65 - Green Day - Revolution Radio [1]  [9] 

65 - Hotelier - Goodness [1]  [9] 

65 - Emmy the Great - Second Love [1]  [9] 

65 - Tinashe - Nightride  [1]  [9] 

65 - Moon Wiring Club - Exit Pantomime Control [1]  [9] 

65 - Nap Eyes - Thought Rock Fish Scale [1]  [9] 

65 - Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate [2]  [9] 

92 - Oathbreaker - Rheia [1]  [8] 

92 - Besnard lakes - A Coliseum Complex Museum [1]  [8] 

92 - Vanishing Twin - Choose Your Own Adventure [1]  [8] 

92 - King Blues - Off With Their Heads [1]  [8] 

92 - Deftones - Gore [1]  [8] 

92 - Lady Gaga - Joanne [1]  [8] 

92 - Run The Jewels - Rtj3 [1]  [8] 

92 - PUP - The Dream Is Over [1]  [8] 

92 - Conjurer - I [1]  [8] 

92 - Du-Rites - J-Zone And Pablo Martin Are The Du-Rites [1]  [8] 

92 - Judas Priest - Battle Cry [1]  [8] 

92 - Slow Club - One Day All Of This Won't Matter Any More [1]  [8] 

92 - Whitney - Light Upon The Lake [1]  [8] 

92 - Nxworries - Yes Lawd! [1]  [8] 

92 - NoFX - First Ditch Effort [1]  [8] 

92 - DJ Shadow - The Mountain Will Fall [2]  [8] 

92 - Africaine 808 - Basar [1]  [8] 

92 - Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage [1]  [8] 

92 - Royal Republic - Weekend Man [1]  [8] 

92 - Tindersticks - The Waiting Room [1]  [8] 

92 - Frankie Cosmos - Next Thing [1]  [8] 

92 - Ihsahn - Arktis [1]  [8] 

92 - Aidan Moffat - Where You're Meant To Be [1]  [8] 

92 - Wytch Hazel - Prelude [1]  [8] 

92 - Julius Eastman - Femenine [1]  [8] 

92 - Trad, Gras och Stenar - Trad, Gras Och Stenar (Box Set, Reissue) [1]  [8] 

92 - Metallica - Hardwired... To Self-Destruct [2]  [8] 

92 - Goat - Requiem [1]  [8] 

92 - GoGo Penguin - Man Made Object [1]  [8] 

121 - Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Green Graves [1]  [7] 

121 - Converge - You Fail Me Redux [1]  [7] 

121 - KING - We Are King [1]  [7] 

121 - Regina Spektor - Remember Us To Life [1]  [7] 

121 - Weezer - The White Album [2]  [7] 

121 - Steve Gunn - Eyes On The Lines [1]  [7] 

121 - Heron Oblivion - Heron Oblivion [1]  [7] 

121 - Against the current - In Our Bones [1]  [7] 

121 - Hey! Hello! - Hey! Hello! Too! [1]  [7] 

121 - Equiknoxx - Bird Sound Power [2]  [7] 

121 - Future of the Left - The Peace & Truce Of Future Of The Left [1]  [7] 

121 - Shearwater - Jet Plane And Oxbow [1]  [7] 

121 - Venetian Snares - Traditional Synthesizer Music [1]  [7] 

121 - Datach'i - System [1]  [7] 

121 - Amenra - Alive [1]  [7] 

121 - J-Zone - Fish 'N Grits [1]  [7] 

121 - Lil Ugly Mane - Oblivion Access [1]  [7] 

121 - Bullion - Loop The Loop [1]  [7] 

121 - Ataris - October In This Railroad Earth [1]  [7] 

121 - Swans - The Glowing Man [1]  [7] 

121 - Parquet Courts - Human Performance [1]  [7] 

121 - Deerhoof - The Magic [1]  [7] 

121 - Filthy Six - More Filth [1]  [7] 

121 - Heavy - The Hurt And The Merciless [1]  [7] 

145 - Acid Arab - Musique De France [1]  [6] 

145 - Anchoress - Confessions Of A Romance Novelist [1]  [6] 

145 - midnight - Endless Summer [1]  [6] 

145 - Zeal and Ardor - Devil Is Fine [1]  [6] 

145 - Tenniscoats - Music Exists (Disc 3) [1]  [6] 

145 - Austin Wintory - Abzu [1]  [6] 

145 - Israel Nash - Silver Season [1]  [6] 

145 - Aleksi Perälä - The Colundi Sequence - Volume 1 [1]  [6] 

145 - Mr.Fingers - Outer Acid EP [1]  [6] 

145 - Roy Montgomery - Rmhq [1]  [6] 

145 - Kevin Devine - Instigator [1]  [6] 

145 - Divine Comedy - Foreverland [1]  [6] 

145 - Creeper - The Stranger [1]  [6] 

145 - Skyzoo - The Easy Truth [1]  [6] 

145 - Mick Gordon - Doom OST [1]  [6] 

145 - Gerogerigegege - The Gerogerigegege [1]  [6] 

145 - Metronomy - Summer 08 [1]  [6] 

145 - PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project  [1]  [6] 

145 - Tycho - Epoch [1]  [6] 

145 - Prins Thomas - Principe Del Norte [1]  [6] 

145 - Noisia - Outer Edges [1]  [6] 

145 - Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker [2]  [6] 

145 - Wave Pictures - Bamboo Diner In The Rain [1]  [6] 

145 - Explosions in the Sky - The Wilderness [1]  [6] 

169 - Korn - The Serenity Of Suffering [1]  [5] 

169 - Descendents - Hypercaffium Spazzinate [1]  [5] 

169 - Blixaboy - Humanoid X [1]  [5] 

169 - Colleen Green - Infinity Cat EP [1]  [5] 

169 - Mr. Oizo - All Wet [1]  [5] 

169 - Kvelertak - Nattesferd [1]  [5] 

169 - Surgeon - From Farthest Known Objects [1]  [5] 

169 - Jones - New Skin [1]  [5] 

169 - Radio Dept. - Running Out Of Love [1]  [5] 

169 - Munk - The Bolero Bunuel EP [1]  [5] 

169 - Sun Araw and Laraaji - Professional Sunflow [1]  [5] 

169 - Savages - Adore Life  [1]  [5] 

169 - Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book [1]  [5] 

169 - Amnesia Scanner - As [1]  [5] 

169 - NZCA Lines - Infinite Summer [1]  [5] 

169 - Aleksi Perälä - Unknown [1]  [5] 

169 - Four Tet - Randoms [1]  [5] 

169 - Bossk - Audio Noir [1]  [5] 

169 - Isaiah Rashad - The Sun's Tirade [1]  [5] 

169 - Soggy - Soggy  [1]  [5] 

169 - Bibio - A Mineral Love [1]  [5] 

169 - Lindsey Sterling - Brave Enough [1]  [5] 

169 - Head And The Heart - Signs Of Light [1]  [5] 

169 - Monolake - Vlsi [1]  [5] 

169 - Petrol Girls - Some Thing [1]  [5] 

169 - Dillon - Live At Haus Der Berliner Festspiele [1]  [5] 

195 - COCAINEJESUS - We're Worried About You [1]  [4] 

195 - Eluvium - False Readings On [2]  [4] 

195 - μ-Ziq - Ry30 Trax [1]  [4] 

195 - Hollow Earth - Dead Planet [1]  [4] 

195 - Bayside - Vacancy [1]  [4] 

195 - ASDA - The Abyss [1]  [4] 

195 - Nerf Herder - Rockingham [1]  [4] 

195 - Chi Factory - The Bamboo Recordings [1]  [4] 

195 - Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos [1]  [4] 

195 - AJJ - The Bible 2 [1]  [4] 

195 - Man Made - Tv Broke My Brain [1]  [4] 

195 - Upbeats - De-Evolution Ii EP [1]  [4] 

195 - A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Iris [1]  [4] 

195 - James Blake - The Colour In Anything [1]  [4] 

195 - Ramin Djwadi - Westworld [1]  [4] 

195 - Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation [1]  [4] 

195 - Alcest - Kodama [1]  [4] 

195 - Gadget - The Great Destroyer [1]  [4] 

195 - Lindstrom - Windings EP [1]  [4] 

195 - Bad Cop, Bad Cop - Not Sorry [1]  [4] 

195 - Ka - Honor Killed The Samurai [1]  [4] 

195 - Anna Homler and Steve Moshier - Breadwoman & Other Tales [1]  [4] 

217 - Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Stranger Things OST [1]  [3] 

217 - MIA - Aim [1]  [3] 

217 - Amitty - Affliction [1]  [3] 

217 - Car Bomb - Meta [1]  [3] 

217 - NewMoon - Space [1]  [3] 

217 - Various Artists - The Microcosm: Visionary Music Of Continental Europe 1970 - 1986 [1]  [3] 

217 - Soutaiseiriron - New World [1]  [3] 

217 - Megadeth - Dystopia [1]  [3] 

217 - Death in Vegas  - Transmission [1]  [3] 

217 - Pixies Head - Carrier [1]  [3] 

217 - 2814 - Rain Temple [1]  [3] 

217 - John Legend - Darkness And Light [1]  [3] 

217 - Black Marble - It's Immaterial [1]  [3] 

217 - Mogwai - Atomic [1]  [3] 

217 - Warpaint - Heads Up  [1]  [3] 

217 - Bruno Mars - 24K Magic [1]  [3] 

217 - Melt Yourself Down - Last Evenings On Earth [1]  [3] 

217 - Stephen O'Malley - Fuck Fundamentalist Pigs [1]  [3] 

217 - Justice - Woman [1]  [3] 

217 - μ-Ziq - Aberystwyth Marine [1]  [3] 

217 - GAIKA - Security [1]  [3] 

238 - DMA's - Hills End [1]  [2] 

238 - Upbeats - De-Evolution I EP [1]  [2] 

238 - A Day To Remember - Bad Vibrations [1]  [2] 

238 - Luke Haines - Smash The System [1]  [2] 

238 - The Invisible - Patience [1]  [2] 

238 - Blink 182 - California [1]  [2] 

238 - Ulrich Schnauss - No Further Ahead Than Today [1]  [2] 

238 - Black Spirituals - Black Treatment [1]  [2] 

238 - Demdike Stare - Wonderland [1]  [2] 

238 - Landing - Complekt [1]  [2] 

238 - Mitski - Puberty 2 [1]  [2] 

238 - Rihanna - Anti [1]  [2] 

238 - Nat Birchall - Creation [1]  [2] 

238 - Gojira - Magma [1]  [2] 

238 - Marconi Union - GhOST Stations [1]  [2] 

238 - Gold Panda - Good Luck And Do Your Best [1]  [2] 

238 - Afghan Whigs - Black Love [1]  [2] 

238 - Case/Lang/Viers - Case/Lang/Viers [1]  [2] 

256 - Teenage Fanclub - Here [1]  [1] 

256 - HMS Morris - Interior Design [1]  [1] 

256 - Kendrick Lamar - Untitled Unmastered [1]  [1] 

256 - Dan Lissvik - Midnight [1]  [1] 

256 - Joyce Manor - Cody [1]  [1] 

256 - Okkervil River - Away [1]  [1] 

256 - Devin Townsend - Transcendence [1]  [1] 

256 - Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks [1]  [1] 

256 - Various Artists - Touched 3 [1]  [1] 

256 - Altered Hours - In Heat, Not Sorry [1]  [1] 

256 - Death Grips - Bottomless Pit [1]  [1] 

256 - Franco Tonani - Confluenze (Reissue) [1]  [1] 

256 - Role Models - Forest Lawn [1]  [1] 

256 - Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene 3 [1]  [1] 

256 - Saul Williams - Martyrloserking [1]  [1] 

256 - Kills - Ash & Ice [1]  [1] 

256 - Nathan Bowles - Whole & Cloven [1]  [1] 

256 - Illenium - Ashes [1]  [1] 

[cubik]

A big thanks to @ngchol for compiling this, looks like Spotify will be getting some stick over the next few days

[cerseis eyebrows]

[futureshock]

When rllmuk became Q.

[Tetchy]

Thank to ngchol for compiling this again!

[ngchol]

8 hours ago, cerseis eyebrows said:

 

...you forgot to vote?

[Sardan]

Hoe many entries were there?  I am surprised at how disparate the results are. 

[Fierce Poodle]

9 hours ago, futureshock said:

When rllmuk became Q.

Not obscure enough for you? 

[Darren]

I forgot to vote again - must do better this year.

 

A couple of errors I've spotted:

 

35 - Love You to Death - Tegan & Sara [1]  [10] should be

35 - Tegan & Sara - Love You to Death [1]  [10] 

 

and

 

217 - Pixies Head - Carrier [1]  [3] should be

217 - Pixies - Head Carrier [1]  [3] 

[ngchol]

10 hours ago, futureshock said:

When rllmuk became Q.

 

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/698-q-magazines-50-best-albums-of-2016/

 

Quite a common criticism, but unfounded beyond a superficial level. There are many in common in the top 10 and Q's top 50 - however, the reason I continue to do this is the great diversity in the list, and you're practically guaranteed to find something truly excellent and previously unknown to you in the albums ranked between 11 and 50.

 

If you look at our 11-20, only one of those albums feature in Q's top 50. Sorry to point this out, but if we look at your top 10, on the other hand, 3 of those albums are in Q's list....

 

[wullie]

Cheers for doing this @ngchol, I love an end of year best of list.

[MrPogo]

Basically everyone's naming all sorts of random stuff - with everything from 35 down only being nominated by one person a piece - so it's not really surprising that relatively mainstream releases are making up the  top spots (a quick poll shows no one else in my office has even heard of seven of the top ten, with only Bowie, Radiohead and Beyoncé penetrating that far).

 

Edit: someone's remembered that actually they do vaguely know of Nick Cave!

[Camel]

"all sorts of random stuff" = albums from 2016 that they enjoyed. 

[MrPogo]

Thanks for the clarification.

[futureshock]

3 hours ago, Fierce Poodle said:

Not obscure enough for you? 

 

Too many people liking that dreadful Radiohead album.

[englishbob]

22 minutes ago, futureshock said:

 

Too many people liking that dreadful Radiohead album.

 

Pop over to Pitchfork. They rate the dreadful Kayne West album over the Radiohead one in the 2016 best-of list

[futureshock]

1 hour ago, englishbob said:

 

Pop over to Pitchfork. They rate the dreadful Kayne West album over the Radiohead one in the 2016 best-of list

 

[Made of Ghosts]

CHRIST YOU LOT. How about that Bowie album though. Good innit.

[wev]

Basically everyone's naming all sorts of random stuff - with everything from 35 down only being nominated by one person a piece - so it's not really surprising that relatively mainstream releases are making up the  top spots (a quick poll shows no one else in my office has even heard of seven of the top ten, with only Bowie, Radiohead and Beyoncé penetrating that far).
 
Edit: someone's remembered that actually they do vaguely know of Nick Cave!

I was surprised by how few contributions there were tbh

[cerseis eyebrows]

Well it's nice to see the Knowles' sisters make the top ten. 

 

Regarding the top and polls in general . .  I dunno. It's like the press have a collective aneurysm whenever a legend passes. No disrespect to Bowie at all, but I just can't buy the idea that some dead blokes dead record is more vital or significant than everything else put out this year.

[englishbob]

It was a great album before he died. 

[Camel]

1 hour ago, cerseis eyebrows said:

more vital or significant

 

Is this the new 'relevant'?

[Stanley]

I'm glad that mainstream stuff gets voted for, shows people genuinely voted for the records they enjoyed.

[Stanley]

I think we should have a separate list of no 35 as it's everyone's favourite record that only got one vote. I'll be listening to all those.

[Made of Ghosts]

Actually I would've voted for the Bon Iver album if I'd got to like it in time.

[Made of Ghosts]

2 hours ago, cerseis eyebrows said:

Well it's nice to see the Knowles' sisters make the top ten. 

 

Regarding the top and polls in general . .  I dunno. It's like the press have a collective aneurysm whenever a legend passes. No disrespect to Bowie at all, but I just can't buy the idea that some dead blokes dead record is more vital or significant than everything else put out this year.

 

More vital or significant than that lass out of Destiny's Child, or that lass out of Destiny's Child's sister, or that lot that did Creep?

 

I mean, crumbs, David Bowie is a bit more than "some dead bloke".

[Stanley]

He knows that he's just trying to.be edgy and controversial. 

 

Fact is no one else could have turned their own death into art as Bowie did, and considering the shockwave of deaths that followed throughout the year, all starting with Bowie, I'd say he's still pretty fucking relevant, or vital.

[ngchol]

On 03/01/2017 at 12:40, MrPogo said:

Basically everyone's naming all sorts of random stuff - with everything from 35 down only being nominated by one person a piece

 

 

No, that's not right - there are multiple votes all the way down to 195 - Eluvium - False Readings On [2]  [4] 

[Stanley]

Oh yeah 

[BlackHoodedCrow]

I started to compile one song from each album onto a playlist on Groove Music. However, even before I make it out of the top ten (I'm looking at you, Beyoncé!), there's albums that don't exist in Microsoft's catalog. Damn you TIDAL and your exclusive music deals!

 

If anyone feels brave enough to start compiling a Spotify or TIDAL playlist of a similar ilk, that would be great. Then we can run it through Soundiiz to convert it to all the possible music streaming platforms.