![]() Honestly, though, I could’ve easily done a Top 100, considering I listened to over 500 albums this year. ![]() With so much worthy material this year, and the overall hellish absurdity we’ve experienced as citizens of Earth, I’ve decided to go with the randomly selected and insignificant number 69 for this year’s list. But, I’m doing things a bit differently this time around. For those years, I unveiled my favorite records on social media, one post at a time, for 50 awesome records. In 2014, I was singing the praises of Run the Jewels’ amazing second album, and last year it was Death Grips’ double-sided “reunion” record The Powers That B. ![]() In 2012, it was Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s brilliant comeback album Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!, and 2013 saw me giving the title to Danny Brown’s retrospectively underwhelming Old. I have been doing this since I was a youngling back in 2011, when 14-year-old me decided that Foo Fighters’ Wasting Light was the best record that year. But, recently, musical publications have seen fit to arrange the year’s finest musical accomplishments in a hierarchical list format. Best declarations of independence of 1776, best presidential assassinations of 1963, you get the idea. RDR Music Director’s 69 Favorite Albums of 2016 (Plus Honorable Mentions!!!)įor as long as human beings have arbitrarily measured the Earth’s rotations around the Sun, there have been year-end lists.
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