Albums
of the year
2017
Another interesting year in music, and a really exciting one for me personally, with long-time favorites returning and reuniting, and still managing to make my tops of the year. Last year I mentioned that 2017 was shaping up to be a great year, and it turned out to be true (musically at least), so let's explore why that turned out to be true! PLUS - check out the playlist here, for a highlight from each of this year's albums. And as usual, these are in no particular order.
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Tim Heidecker
Too Dumb for Suicide


I do have to say this album was not nearly as funny as I had hoped. Maybe that is the purpose - that with this situation we find ourselves in - even though we may try to cope with it by lightening things up with humor - it's really not very funny? Perhaps, and that could go along with Mr Heidecker's bizarre, surreal sense of humor. But still, I was hoping to be in fits of laughter here, and this record didn't deliver for me. But maybe it does others! For me what makes it to this list ... well I guess it's more a symbolic tribute, that this album can and does exist in the first place is in itself what makes it so good. I'm sure there are other great Trump parody albums out there now or in the works (having an updated version of the 60s LP from Vaughan Meader, "The First Family," would be very fitting these days), but this one really struck me with it's title. That is one brutal title, and even though the image is not graphic per se, it's nearly disturbing in its brutality. It is downright cruel. But that's the point; this is cruel to one person. His cruelty effects millions. WORST AMERICAN EVER.
Label
Jagjaguwar
Released
8 November 2017
Running time
36:00
Tracklist
Trump Tower
Imperial Bathroom
Richard Spencer
For Chan
Mar a Lago
Trump's Private Pilot
MAGA
Wilbur Ross
Cooked Chinese Chicken
Trump Talkin' Nukes
Sentencing Day


