01.07

2018

Here Are Our Individual DJs’ Best Of 2017 Lists

V89 may be magic, but our year-end Top 50 chart isn’t.  It’s an aggregate of individual ballots submitted by our DJs, wherein they list their Top 10 albums and up to twenty other albums they enjoyed. These are then weighted and used to create the station’s Top 50. For the fourth year now, DJs have been given the option to have their Top 10 posted here on our website, and this year, they have the additional opportunity to include non-rotation favorites they couldn’t vote for. You’ll find these below, along with some insight into how our Best of 2017 Chart came to be and a look at the diverse music tastes of our DJs.

To see the full chart for 2017, head here.

Hannah W.:

  1. The Drums – Abysmal Thoughts
  2. Ariel Pink – Dedicated to Bobby Jameson
  3. V/A – C88
  4. Happyness – Write In
  5. Alex Cameron – Forced Witness
  6. Midnight Sister – Saturn over Sunset
  7. John Maus – Screen Memories
  8. Joel Gion – s/t
  9. Juana Molina – Halo
  10. Chain and the Gang – The Best of Crime Rock

Reid F.:

  1. Hoops – Tapes #13
  2. Nick Hakim – Green Twins
  3. Beach Fossils – Somersault
  4. Washed Out – Mr. Mellow
  5. Hazel English – Just Give in/Never Going Home
  6. Japanese Breakfast – Soft Sounds from Another Planet
  7. Zavala – Fantasmas
  8. Big Their – Capacity
  9. King Krule – The Ooz
  10. Bottin – I Have What I Gave

David S.:

  1. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard & Mild High Club – Tales of New Brunswick East
  2. (Sandy) Alex G – Rocket
  3. Loose Tooth – Big Day
  4. Alvvays – Antisocialites
  5. Vince Staples – Big Fish Theory
  6. Thundercat – Drunk
  7. Bonobo – Migration
  8. King Krule – The Ooz
  9. Ariel Pink – Dedicated to Bobby Jameson
  10. Blanck Mass – World Eater

Maggie S.:

  1. Vince Staples – Big Fish Theory
  2. Alex G – Rocket
  3. Arca – s/t
  4. Japanese Breakfast – Soft Sounds from Another Planet
  5. Hundred Waters – Communicating
  6. Blanck Mass – World Eater
  7. Julien Baker – Turn Out the Lights
  8. Yves Tumor – Experiencing the Deposit of Faith
  9. Mount Kimbie – Love What Survives
  10. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard & Mild High Club – Tales of New Brunswick East

Lauren D.:

  1. White Reaper – The World’s Best American Band
  2. Jim James – Tribute to 2
  3. Smoke Mountain – s/t
  4. Como Mamas – Move Upstairs
  5. The Zombies – Odessey & Oracle
  6. Ryuichi Sakamoto – async
  7. Midnight Sister – Saturn over Sunset
  8. Sarah Morrison – Janus
  9. Kamasi Washington – Harmony of Difference
  10. Kelela – Take Me Apart

Nicolette A.:

  1. Kamasi Washington – Harmony of a Difference
  2. King Krule – The Ooz
  3. St. Vincent – Masseduction
  4. Thundercat – Drunk
  5. Tyler the Creator – Flower Boy
  6. Lorde – Melodrama
  7. Beck – Colors
  8. Alvvays – Antisocialites
  9. Alex Cameron – Forced Witness
  10. Sylvan Esso – What Now

Lisa B.:

  1. Ride – Weather Diaries
  2. Slowdive – s/t
  3. Cherry Glazerr – Apocalipstick
  4. Benjamin Booker – Witness
  5. Ibibio Sound Machine – Uyai
  6. The National – Sleep Well Beast
  7. Makthaverskan – III
  8. Don Bryant – Don’t Give Up on Love
  9. Priests – Nothing Feels Natural
  10. The Horrors – V

John Michael F.:

  1. Faking Jazz – Quick Goodnight
  2. Sylvan Esso – What Now
  3. sir Was – Digging a Tunnel
  4. Jimmy Whoo – Motel Music Pt. II
  5. Vince Staples – Big Fish Theory
  6. Portugal. The Man – Woodstock
  7. Washed Out – Mr. Mellow
  8. Real Estate – In Mind
  9. Zavala – Fantasmas

Rory K.:

  1. Big Theif – Capacity
  2. Grizzly Bear – Painted Ruins
  3. Spoon – Hot Thoughts
  4. Priests – Nothing Feels Natural
  5. Father John Misty – Pure Comedy 
  6. Fleet Foxes – Crack-Up
  7. Cherry Glazerr – Apocalipstick
  8. Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile – Lotta Sea Lice
  9. Alvvays – Anticocialites
  10. Sylvan Esso – What now

Rachel A.:

  1. Ryuichi Sakamoto – async
  2. Laurel Halo – Dust
  3. Lee Gamble – Mnestic Pressure
  4. M.E.S.H. – Hesaitix
  5. Yves Tumor – Experiencing the Deposit of Faith
  6. Kelela – Take Me Apart
  7. V/A – Mono No Aware
  8. Floating Points – Mojave Desert
  9. Boris – Dear
  10. Thundercat – Drunk

Alex O.:

  1. Kitty – Miami Garden Club
  2. Dirty Projectors – s/t
  3. Vince Staples – Big Fish Theory
  4. Miracle Swill – Capitalism Is Dope
  5. King Krule – The Ooz
  6. Björk – Utopia
  7. Blanck Mass – World Eater
  8. Ibibio Sound Machine – Uyai
  9. Sneaks – It’s a Myth
  10. Ryuichi Sakamoto – async

Bri P.:

  1. Violents & Monica Martin – Awake and Pretty Much Sober
  2. Marika Hackman – I’m Not Your Man
  3. Sylvan Esso – What Now
  4. Guerilla Toss – GT Ultra
  5. Thundercat – Drunk
  6. Priests – Nothing Feels Natural
  7. Nai Palm – Needle Paw
  8. The Drums – Abysmal Thoughts
  9. Ibibio Sound Machine – Uyai
  10. Miracle Swill – Capitalism Is Dope

Gio C.:

  1. The Drums – Abysmal Thoughts
  2. Washed Out – Mr. Mellow
  3. Grizzly Bear – Painted Ruins
  4. King Krule – The Ooz
  5. Arca – s/t
  6. Homeshake – Fresh Air
  7. Mount Kimbie – Love What Survives
  8. Björk – Utopia
  9. Nosaj Thing – Parallels
  10. Beach Fossils – Somersault

Jack S.:

  1. Mount Eerie – A Crow Looked at Me
  2. King Krule – The Ooz
  3. Marika Hackman – I’m Not Your Man
  4. Japanese Breakfast – Soft Sounds from Another Planet
  5. Big Thief – Capacity
  6. Bedouine – s/t
  7. Father John Misty – Pure Comedy
  8. Priests – Nothing Feels Natural
  9. Richard Dawson – Peasant