Here we’re already, first day on a new year, yes it's already 2018. As always in December we get into the tedious task of listing our favourite albums of year!, you have seen them all now, a total summery can be read below. As always, it was really hard to make that final list, but hey “a man gotta do what a man gotta do”. I know I have exclude some, as far as I can see is that the box with Vinyls with unplayed records are more than half full, shame on me.
It’s also the time for me to do a little retrospective of this year for me and Tune Of The Day.
We reached 470 followers on Facebook, kinda cool but hey I wish it would be more, so hit like for gods sake. We have passed 4400 posts, that's a pretty much, but it's since the start in 2007 I guess it's pretty valid.
2017 have been a very good year work wise, a few longer projects have been done, a bunch of concerts, festivals, tours, travels, air ports, hotels, cars, buses, trains etc etc.
To many to be listed here, but the photo below will tell some at-least.
My aim for 2018 is to work less and charge more, well I guess that is wishful thinking, but that is something I would like to do. Mostly to be able to spend more time with the family that I mistreated for so long all these years with work. There is a few things that is already set for next year, something that I already is looking forward to.
Some thoughts about the Top 50 album list. First, it got reduced down from the Top 100 album list that we had last year, it was freakin' mastodont, big and very hard to set, try it your self and you will see that’s not an easy task to manage. 2017’s lineup is very strong in it's own. Many great releases, from long term successful bands to new discovery's on the musical map. Here are they in a nice lineup. 18 of them are Swedish :)
50. Tequila Mockingbyrd – Fight and Flight (AUS)
49. KSMB – Ond Saga (SWE)
48. Electric Wizard – Wizard Bloody Wizard (UK)
47. The Diamond Man Clan – Mediocre (SWE)
46. Inglorious – II (UK)
45. Mammoth Mammoth – Mount The Mountain (AUS)
44. Kingnomad – Mapping The Inner Void (SWE)
43. Black Star Riders – Heavy Fire (US)
42. Soen – Lykaia (SWE/US)
41. Leprous – Malina (NOR)
40. Accept – The Rise Of Chaos (GER/US)
39. Primitive Man – Caustic (US)
38. Ne Obliviscaris – Urn (AUS)
37. Royal Thunder – Wick (US)
36. Kreator – Gods Of Violence (GER)
35. Black Country Communion – BCCIV (UK/US)
34. Sorcerer – The Crowning Of The Fire King (SWE)
33. Jesper Binzer – Dying Is Easy (DEN)
32. Horisont – About Time (SWE)
31. Troubled Horse – Revolution on Repeat (SWE)
30. Transport League – Twist and Shout at the Devil (SWE)
29. Deep Purple – inFinite (UK)
28. Hällas – Excerpts From a Future Past (SWE)
27. Arch Enemy – Will To Power (SWE)
26. Mutoid Man – War Moans (US)
25. Thåström – Centralmassivet (SWE)
24. Pillorian – Obsidian Arc (US)
23. Foo Fighters – Concrete and Gold (US)
22. The Doomsday Kingdom - The Doomsday Kingdom (SWE)
21. Ruby the Hatchet – Planetary Space Child (US)
20. Satyricon – Deep Calleth Upon Deep (NOR)
19. Ajattara - Lupaus (FI)
18. Pallbearer – Heartless (US)
17. Radio Moscow – New Beginnings Radio Moscow (US)
16. Fit For An Autopsy - The Great Collapse (US)
15. Queens Of The Stone Age – Villains (US)
14. Robert Plant – Carry Fire (UK)
13. Night – Raft of the World (SWE)
12. Paradise Lost – Medusa (UK)
11. Avatarium – Hurricane and Halos (SWE)
10. Europe – Walk The Earth (SWE)
09. Grift – Arvet (SWE)
08. Enslaved – E (NOR)
07. Kadavar – Rough Times (GER)
06. Elder – Reflections Of A Floating World (US)
05. The Night Flight Orchestra – Amber Galactic (SWE)
04. Monolord – Rust (SWE)
03. Solstafir – Berdreyminn (ICE)
02. Mastodon – Emperor Of Sand(US)
01. Power Trip – Nightmare Logic (US)
Honourable mentions:
ALL THEM WITCHES, BELL WITCH, BELOW, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, BOOK WYRMS, CANNIBAL CORPSE, CHELSEA WOLFE, CIRCLE, CONVERGE, DEAD LORD, DOPELORD, DVNE, GOV’T MULE, GRETA VAN FLEET, JESS AND THE ANCIENT ONES, JORN, JUNIUS, KING GIZZARD & LIZARD WIZARD, KING WOMAN, LYKANTROPI, MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA, MARLYN MANSON, MOTHERSHIP, MYRKUR, PAGAN ALTAR, PERSEFONE, RYAN ADAMS, SPACESLUG, SPIDERGAWD, SPIRIT ADRIFT, THE OBSESSED, TOMBS, UFOMAMMUT, YOUNGBLOOD SUPERCULT, VAMPIRE, WITH THE DEAD, WOLFBRIGADE, WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM, ZEAL & ARDOR
Haha that was a long list of Honours…but these are good ones that never got enough attention or even got the chance to get played and still stands on high heels in the box on the floor and waits for the opportunity to be played, sorry guys.
Regarding albums, yes, I am still using the best tool for my records "Discogs", I just love it!! But hey, it's pretty dangerous surfing around, always end with a new purchased record. Even if my best friend "Discogs" is around, I still have bought a few records twice, bah! And this year I will not even look how much records that have entered my home during 2017. We keep it as a secret, I think that's the best way to do it as I know deep inside that I have burned my budget more than once already :) Ok, let's look on what's was best during 2017.
Best Swedish Metal - ARCH ENEMY – Will To Power
Best Swedish Death/Black - GRIFT – Arvet
Best Swedish Rock - THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA – Amber Galactic
Best Swedish Hard Rock - EUROPE - Walk the Earth
Best Swedish Stoner/Sludge/Heavy Rock - NIGHT – Raft of the World
Best Swedish Doom - MONOLORD - Rust
Best Metal Album - ENSLAVED – E
Best Death/Black/Core - FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY - The Great Collapse
Best Rock Album - KADAVAR – Rough Times
Best Hard Rock/Prog - MASTODON – Emperor Of Sand
Best Stoner/Sludge/Heavy Rock - ELDER - Reflections Of A Floating World
Best Doom - PALLBEARER - Heartless
Best Thrash Album - POWER TRIP - Nightmare Logic
Best Mixed Style Album - Robert Plant – Carry Fire
Best Tune - AVATARIUM - The Sky at the Bottom of the Sea
Best Protest Tune - "Unf--k the World” - PROPHETS OF RAGE
Best Cover Tune - ”Pärlor” - SKRAECKOEDLAN
Best Debut - PILLORIAN – Obsidian Arc
Best Suprice - FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY - The Great Collapse
Best Festival 2017 - Way Out West
Best Live Show - 2017 - GUN’S n' ROSES - Friends Arena
Best Cover Art - MONOLORD - Rust
Best Tour Poster - QUEEN OF THE STONE AGE - Copenhagen, Nov 14th, 2017.
Poster by Maxx242 at F4D Studios
Best Art - Hieronymus Röhrig
Best T-Shirt 2017 - GUNS N’ ROSES - tour t-shirt
Best Movie - 2017 - Star Wars - The Last Jedi
Best Whiskey - Carl Ila
Best Beer - Celia - Gluten Free Beer
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| 81,078 minutes with Spotify, that’s cool. That overruns the Vinyl spins a lot. But hey music is my life. |
Best Musical Blog/Site - Dust & Grooves
This Year's most active concert-goer: LG-Petrov (Same procedure as last year)
Best Musical Country 2017 - America
Best Female Vocal Performance: Mlny Parsonz - ROYAL THUNDER
Best Male Vocal Performance: Joey Tempest - EUROPE
Biggest Lost 2017 - Robert ”Strängen” Dahlqvist
Tune Of The Day wish you all a Happy New Year!! Today's tune will be released a bit later on today!
