An ongoing ranking and rating of my favorite albums of 2017. Items in bold are part of my personal CD collection.
THE TOP TEN
1. Big Wreck ~ Grace Street (9.7)
2. One Desire ~ One Desire (9.5)
3. Tokyo Motor Fist ~ Tokyo Motor Fist (9.4)
4. The Night Flight Orchestra ~ Amber Galactic (9.4)
5. Greta Van Fleet ~ From The Fires (9.4)
6. Anathema ~ The Optimist (9.2)
7. Eclipse ~ Monumentum (9.1)
8. Jesper Binzer ~ Dying Is Easy (8.8)
9. Quinn Sullivan ~ Midnight Highway (8.7)
10. Don Barnes ~ Ride The Storm (8.7)
THE REST: ALPHABETICAL BY RATING
Inglorious ~ II (8.6)
Mike + The Mechanics ~ Let My Fly (8.6)
Art Of Anarchy ~ The Madness (8.6)
You Me At Six ~ Night People (8.3)
SteelHeart ~ Through Worlds Of Stardust (8.2)
Riverdogs ~ California (8.1)
Nickelback ~ Feed The Machine (8.1)
Thunder ~ Rip It Up (8.1)
Operation: Mindcrime ~ The New Reality (8.1)
Alice Cooper ~ Paranormal (8.1)
Mr. Big ~ Defying Gravity (8.0)
Acceptance ~ Colliding Be Design (8)
Bigfoot ~ Bigfoot (8)
Black Star Riders ~ Heavy Fire (8)
Dirty Thrills ~ Heavy Living (8)
Gun ~ Favourite Pleasures (8)
H.E.A.T ~ Into The Great Unknown (8)
Horisont ~ About Time (8)
Junkyard Drive ~ Sin & Tonic (8)
Pvris ~ All We Know Of Heaven … All We Need Of Hell (8)
Sons Of Apollo ~ Psychotic Symphony (8)
Styx ~ The Mission (8)
Theory Of A Deadman ~ Wake Up Call (8)
Threshold ~ Legends Of The Shires (8)
Vandenberg’s MoonKings ~ MKII (8)
The Wayward Sons ~ Ghosts Of Yet To Come (8)
Night Ranger ~ Don’t Let Up (7.8)
Paramore ~ After Laughter (7.8)
Blackfield ~ V (7.7)
Jono ~ Life (7.1)
10 Years ~ How To Live As Ghosts (7)
Anubis Gate ~ Covered In Black (7)
Babylon A.D. ~ Revelation Highway (7)
Black Country Communion ~ BCCIV (7)
Great White ~ Full Circle (7)
In This Moment ~ Ritual (7)
Warrant ~ Louder Harder Faster (7)
ZZ Ward ~ The Storm (7)
Ten ~ Gothica (6.9)
Voyager ~ Ghost Mile (6.9)
Secret Sphere ~ The Nature Of Time (6.5)
Revolution Saints ~ Light In The Dark (6.5)
Deep Purple ~ Infinite (6)
Europe ~ Walk The Earth (6)
Jeff Scott Soto ~ Retribution (6)
KXM ~ Scatterbrain (6)
Labÿrinth ~ Architecture Of A God (6)
Lynch Mob ~ The Brotherhood (6)
Santa Cruz ~ Bad Blood Rising (6)
Seether ~ Poison The Parish (6)
Crazy Lixx ~ Ruff Justice (5.9)
Sweet & Lynch ~ Unified (5.7)
Raintimes ~ Raintimes (5.4)
Adrenaline Mob ~ We The People (5)
Adrenaline Rush ~ Soul Survivor (5)
Bush ~ Black And White Rainbows (5)
Dream Evil ~ Six (5)
Elbow ~ Little Fictions (5)
House Of Lords ~ Saint Of The Lost Souls (5)
Jack Russell’s Great White ~ He Saw It Comin’ (5)
Mark Slaughter ~ Halfway There (5)
Accept ~ The Rise Of Chaos (4)
Avatrium ~ Hurricanes And Halos (4)
Battle Beast ~ Bringer Of Pain (4)
Beast In Black ~ Berserker (4)
DragonForce ~ Reaching Into Infinity (4)
The Ferrymen ~ The Ferrymen (4)
Stephen Pearcy ~ Smash (4)
All That Remains ~ Madness (3)
Quiet Riot ~ Road Rage (3)
CURRENTLY UNRATED
Adelitas Way ~ Notorious
AFI ~ AFI (The Blood Album)
Age Of Reflection ~ In The Heat Of The Night
Alestorm ~ No Grave But The Sea
All 4 1 ~ The World’s Best Hope
All Them Witches ~ Sleeping Through The War
All Time Low ~ Last Young Renegade
Alpha Tiger ~ Alpha Tiger
Annihilator ~ For The Demented
Asking Alexandria ~ Asking Alexandria
Cellar Darling ~ This Is The Sound
Cheap Trick ~ We’re All Alright!
Chuck Berry ~ Chuck
The Contortionist ~ Clairvoyant
The Cranberries ~ Something Else
Cyhra ~ Letters To Myself
Danko Jones ~ Wild Cat
Danzig ~ Black Laden Crown
The Dark Element ~ The Dark Element
The Darkness ~ Pinewood Smile
Degreed ~ Degreed
The Delta Saints ~ Monte Vista
Fiction Syxx ~ Tall Dark Secrets
Foo Fighters ~ Concrete And Gold
Fozzy ~ Judas
Galactic Cowboys ~ Long Way Back To The Moon
Harem Scarem ~ United
Heaven & Earth ~ Hard To Kill
Hey Violet ~ From The Outside
Hinder ~ The Reign
Iced Earth ~ Incorruptible
Imagine Dragons ~ Evolve
Incubus ~ 8
John Mayer ~ The Search For Everything
Jonny Lang ~ Signs
Jorn ~ Life On Death Road
Kadavar ~ Rough Times
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band ~ Lay It On Down
L.A. Guns ~ The Missing Peace
Linkin Park ~ One More Light
Lionheart ~ Second Nature
Living Colour ~ Shade
Manilla Road ~ To Kill A King
Masterplan ~ PumpKings
Metalite ~ Heroes In Time
Mike Tramp ~ Maybe Tomorrow
Mutemath ~ Play Dead
The New Roses ~ One More For The Road
One Bad Son ~ Made In The Name Of Rock N Roll
One OK Rock ~ Ambitions
Overkill ~ The Grinding Wheel
Phantom V ~ Play To Win
Pink Cream 69 ~ Headstrong
Place Vendome ~ Close To The Sun
Pride Of Lions ~ Fearless
Pyramaze ~ Contingent
Radiation Romeos ~ Radiation Romeos
Rage ~ Seasons Of The Black
Red ~ Gone
Rex Brown ~ Smoke On This…
Richie Kotzen ~ Salting Earth
Ronnie Montrose ~ 10×10
Royal Blood ~ How Did We Get So Dark?
Savoy Brown ~ Witchy Feelin’
Shakra ~ Snakes & Ladders
Sheryl Crow ~ Be Myself
Simo ~ Rise & Shine
Snakecharmer ~ Second Skin
Soen ~ Lykaia
Starset ~ Vessels
Steel Panther ~ Lower The Bar
StoneSour ~ Hydrograd
Stormburst ~ Raised On Rock
Strand Of Oaks ~ Hard Love
U2 ~ Songs Of Experience
UFO ~ The Salentino Cuts
Unleash The Archers ~ Apex
Unruly Child ~ Can’t Go Home
The War On Drugs ~ A Deeper Understand
Warrior Soul ~ Back On The Lash
Wind Rose ~ Stonehymn
The Winery Dogs ~ Dog Years EP [EP]
[Last updated: 2020.12.28]
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