Thursday, December 21, 2017

Top 10 Albums of 2017 Part 4

Happy holidays/Merry Christmas/Happy Chaunukah/Happy Yule/Happy Kwanzaa/Happy New Year/etc.! By now I imagine you guys know the drill with this. I'm taking the last week that I will be posting this year to list what I feel were the 10 best albums to come out this year. 2017 had some pretty good stuff released, so I'm looking forward to posting two of them a day till the end of the week after which I will be taking the rest of the year off to enjoy the holidays. These albums will not be listed in any particular order because as I've said in the past, it's a pain trying to place all of them. All that aside, let's continue!




7. Buckingham-McVie, by Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie

When keyboardist/singer Christine McVie came back into the fold of Fleetwood Mac a few years back it was a warmly welcomed return from not just the fans, but from the band itself. Over time McVie and guitarist/singer Lindsey Buckingham realized that they still have an incredible amount of musical chemistry with one another and decided to do a record together, which they simply titled Buckingham-McVie.

They got Fleetwood Mac bassist John McVie and drummer Mick Fleetwood to be their rhythm section on this record, essentially turning it into a Fleetwood Mac sans Stevie Nicks album. Quite frankly, I think that was an improvement. There are some familiar Fleetwood Mac musical nuances in some of the songs, but for the most part it's a whole different beast. It's got a lot of fun, catchy pop rock songs that fit in plenty well with what gets released today but in a much better way.







8. Paranormal, by Alice Cooper

The founder and king of shock rock put out his 27th studio album, Paranormal this year. Cooper collaborated not only with his long time producer and friend Bob Ezrin on this album, but with his original band on two of the tracks on it as well as two more that are bonus tracks on the deluxe edition of the album. It's always nice when the Coops brings back his old band into the fold because it's like they never stopped playing together.

Most of the album is Cooper's more recent heavy metal oriented sound that he has focused on since the mid-late 80's, but when the original band is playing you feel like it's 1972 all over again. It has that same energy, rush, and groove. Personally I was hoping for a full album of material with the old band, but this is still cool.

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