2016, een jaar met fijne platen

1. World's End Girlfriend - LAST WALTZ
2. A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service
3. Frank Ocean - Blonde
4. sedcairn archives - OOBYDOOB
5. Anderson .Paak - Malibu
6. Suuns - Hold/Still
7. Brihang - zolangmogelijk
8. Swans - The Glowing Man
9. Wire - Nocturnal Koreans
10. YG - Still Brazy

11. David Bowie - Blackstar
12. The Avalanches - Wildflower
13. Jan Swerts - Schaduwland
14. Moderat - III
15. Moddi - Unsongs
16. Kaytranada - 99.9%
17. Car Seat Headrest - Teens Of Denial
18. Atmosphere - Fishing Blues
19. Matt Elliott - The Calm Before
20. Agnes Obel - Citizen Of Glass

Qua voorspelling Cave op 3 (gezien het aantal 19's bij Radiohead hadden dat er veel meer) en in mijn eigen lijst op 10. Zeer fraaie plaat

1..The Rolling Stones - Blue & Lonesome
2.BABYMETAL - Metal Resistance
3.Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
4.A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
5.Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
6.Savages - Adore Life
7.Daniël Lohues - AOSEM
8.DIIV - Is the Is Are
9.Atmosphere - Fishing Blues
10.PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project
11.James - Girl at the End of the World
12.Cheap Trick - Bang, Zoom, Crazy... Hello
13.Sivert Høyem - Lioness
14.Suede - Night Thoughts
15.David Bowie - ★
16.Weezer - Weezer
17.Megadeth - Dystopia
18.Anton Walgrave - Where Oceans Meet
19.Vektor - Terminal Redux
20.Black Peaches - Get Down You Dirty Rascals

Zo en nu sport kijken.

Met kerstgroetjes voor de geweldige zaaf

2016
1. Matt Elliott - The Calm Before (2016)
2. Jan Swerts - Schaduwland (2016)
3. Sivert Høyem - Lioness (2016)
4. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial (2016)
5. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree (2016)
6. Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat to Earth (2016)
7. Get Well Soon - Love (2016)
8. Mono - Requiem for Hell (2016)
9. The Slow Show - Dream Darling (2016)
10. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker (2016)
11. The Radio Dept. - Running Out of Love (2016)
12. Daughter - Not to Disappear (2016)
13. Ed Harcourt - Furnaces (2016)
14. Lisa Hannigan - At Swim (2016)
15. The Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You've Come to Expect (2016)
16. The Veils - Total Depravity (2016)
17. Teleman - Brilliant Sanity (2016)
18. Teenage Fanclub - Here (2016)
19. Sophia - As We Make Our Way (2016)
20. Alcest - Kodama (2016)

Coverplaat van The Stones op 1? Jij durft

2016

01. Marillion - F​.​E​.​A​.​R.
02. James - Girl at the End of the World
03. David Bowie - ★
04. Pet Shop Boys - Super17
05. Archive - The False Foundation
06. Graham Nash - This Path Tonight
07. Black Mountain - IV
08. Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene 3
09. AURORA - All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend
10. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
11. The Slow Show - Dream Darling
12. Lee Abraham - The Seasons Turn
13. Deacon Blue - Believers
14. Yello - Toy
15. Madness - Can't Touch Us Now
16. Jean Michel Jarre - Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise
17. Kansas - The Prelude Implicit
18. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
19. Eefje de Visser - Nachtlicht
20. ABC - The Lexicon of Love II

Elders wordt het Kindeke Jezus in stelling gebracht.
Hier op mume doen we nog even aan Allerheiligen.

Ik doe mee:

1 David Bowie - ★
2. Arabrot - The Gospel
3. Cory Hanson - The Unborn Capitalist from Limbo
4. iTAL tEK - Hollowed
5. All Saints - Red Flag
6. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
7. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
8. Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Green Graves
9. Wire - Nocturnal Koreans
10. Death In Vegas - Transmission

11. Richmond Fontaine - You Can't Go Back If There's Nothing to Go Back To
12. Mitski - Puberty 2
13. Candelabrum - Necrothelepathy
14. Biosphere - Departed Glories
15. Gudrid Hansdottir - Painted Fire
16. Paul Simon - Stranger To Stranger
17. Angel Olsen - My Woman
18. Innercity Ensemble - III
19. Jambinai - A Hermitage
20. Space Echo / The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed

Iedereen zag de skelettenboom wel aankomen. De vier musketiers GrafGantz, dix, herman en Teunnis voorspelden 'm weer exact goed.

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138 Casartelli***** +19
135 EttaJamesBrown** +19
131 stardust_be* +19
131 Teunnis*** +20
130 jordidj1 +19
130 wibro** +19
130 motel matches* +19
127 herman** +20
116 dix**** +20
115 johan de witt** +19
114 Johnny Marr*** +19
113 chevy93** +19
111GrafGantz*** +20
109 Hacker* +19
70 vigil +19

Overschatte top-4. Gelukkig wel de beste van de vier bovenaan. Het zijn Jan Swerts, CSH en ATCQ die deze top-10 nog enigszins opfleuren.

Dit waren daadwerkelijk de beste platen.

Mijn album top-40 van 2016:

1. Beyoncé - Lemonade
2. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
3. Melanie De Biasio - Blackened Cities
3. Colin Stetson - Sorrow
4. Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner
5. Regina Spektor - Remember Us to Life
6. Flatbush Zombies - 3001: The Laced Odyssey
7. Jan Swerts - Schaduwland
9. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
10. Denzel Curry - Imperial
11. Shabaka and the Ancestors - Wisdom of Elders
12. Rihanna - ANTI
13. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3
14. James Holden & Camilo Tirado / Luke Abbott - Outdoor Museum of Fractals / 555Hz
15. Frank Ocean - Blonde
16. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
17. Eefje de Visser - Nachtlicht
18. Xiu Xiu - Plays the Music of Twin Peaks
19. Massive Attack - Ritual Spirit
20. Angel Olsen - My Woman

21. Eevil Stöö - Iso Vauva Jeesus
22. Ólafur Arnalds - Island Songs
23. Sofi Tukker - Soft Animals
24. Swans - The Glowing Man
25. Anderson .Paak - Malibu
26. Kero Kero Bonito - Bonito Generation
27. Pet Shop Boys - Super
28. Lucinda Williams - The Ghosts of Highway 20
29. Noname - Telefone
30. David Bowie - ★
31. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
32. Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos
33. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
34. Het Zesde Metaal - Calais
35. Jóhann Jóhannsson - Orphée
36. Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.
37. Deakin - Sleep Cycle
38. The Avalanches - Wildflower
39. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
40. Solange - A Seat at the Table

Terechte nummer 1. Een behoorlijk sterk muziekjaar ook.

1. David Bowie – ★
2. PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition
3. The Slow Show – Dream Darling
4. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
5. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
6. Weyes Blood – Front Row Seat to Earth
7. RY X – Dawn
8. ANOHNI - Hopelessness
9. Michael Kiwanuka – Love & Hate
10. Avishai Cohen – Into the Silence
11. Rodrigo Leão & Scott Matthew – Life Is Long
12. Suede – Night Thoughts
13. Eefje de Visser – Nachtlicht
14. Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
15. Crying Boys Cafe – The Keys Not the People
16. Nessi Gomes - Diamonds & Demons
17. Låpsley - Long Way Home
18. The Veils - Total Depravity
19. The Hidden Cameras - Home on Native Land
20. Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Getaway

Overigens zat ik er dus wel dicht bij met mijn voorspelling, met Eefje en Kiwanuka op 11 en 12. Eefje had ik veel te hoog en The Slow Show en ATCQ verrasten.

In het jaar van de overledenen een heerlijk eerbetoon aan Jannes van der Wal.

1. Adrian Younge Presents Venice Dawn - Something About April II
2. Daughter - Not to Disappear
3. The Slow Show - Dream Darling
4. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
5. Cosmonauts - A-OK!
6. David Bowie - ★
7. ‪Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree‬
8. ‪Sophia - As We Make Our Way‬
9. Dan Stuart with Twin Tones - Marlowe's Revenge
10. ‪Dinosaur Jr. - Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not‬
11. ‪Bauer - Eyes Fully Open‬
12. ‪Tindersticks - The Waiting Room‬
13. ‪The Veils - Total Depravity ‬
14. ‪The Tragically Hip - Man Machine Poem‬
15. Bettie Serveert - Damaged Good
16. Xiu Xiu - Plays the Music of Twin Peaks
17. Meindert Talma - Jannes van der Wal
18. ‪Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial‬
19. ‪Shearwater - Jet Plane and Oxbow‬
20. Suede - Night Thoughts

Nice work, Zaaf!

Mooi jaar. 0 overeenkomsten met de top 25 hier.

2016:
1. Roy Montgomery - R M H Q: Headquarters
2. Radian - On Dark Silent Off
3. The Dead C - Trouble
4. Moor Mother - Fetish Bones
5. Sex Swing - Sex Swing
6. Battle Trance - Blade of Love
7. Xylouris White - Black Peak
8. Mary Halvorson Octet - Away with You
9. Bitori - Legend of Funaná
10. Rangda - The Heretic's Bargain

11. Bitchin Bajas / Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties
12. Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked for Death
13. Mai Mai Mai - ϕ
14. Wrekmeister Harmonies - Light Falls
15. The Body & Full of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache
16. Radar Men from the Moon - Subversive II: Splendour of the Wicked
17. Matmos - Ultimate Care II
18. Kiran Leonard - Grapefruit
19. Heimat - Heimat
20. Mothers - When You Walk a Long Distance You Are Tired

21. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Pretty Years
22. Elysia Crampton - Demon City
23. Death in Vegas - Transmission
24. Laraaji & Sun Araw - Professional Sunflow
25. Death Grips - Bottomless Pit
26. Khun Narin Electric Phin Band - II
27. DM Stith - Pigeonheart
28. Charles Rumback & Ryley Walker - Cannots
29. Holy Esque - At Hope's Ravine
30. Don't DJ - Musique Acephale

zaaf blijft ook naar het einde van de competitie toe in topvorm

Mijn 2016:

1. Marillion - F​.​E​.​A​.​R.
2. The Tragically Hip - Man Machine Poem
3. Big Big Train - Folklore
4. t - Epistrophobia
5. David Bowie - ★
6. Höstsonaten - Symphony N. 1: Cupid & Psyche
7. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
8. iamthemorning - Lighthouse
9. Fates Warning - Theories of Flight
10. Lazuli - Nos Âmes Saoules
11. Insomnium - Winter's Gate
12. Het Zesde Metaal - Calais
13. Anima Mundi - I Me Myself
14. Motorpsycho - Here Be Monsters
15. DeWolff - Roux-Ga-Roux
16. De La Soul - And the Anonymous Nobody
17. Deftones - Gore
18. FOES - The Summit Lies Skyward
19. Damian Wilson & Adam Wakeman - Weir Keeper's Tale
20. Karmakanic - Dot

Edit; 'per ongeluk' een erg internationaal lijstje geworden met 13 verschillende nationaliteiten;
Verenigd Koninkrijk, Canada, Duitsland, Italië, Verenigde Staten, Rusland, Frankrijk, Finland, België, Cuba, Noorwegen, Nederland en Zweden zijn vertegenwoordigd. ?

Oh ja, die zijn ook goed

2016, over de doden niets dan goeds

1. David Bowie - ★
2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
3. The Dead C - Trouble
4. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
5. Roy Montgomery - R M H Q: Headquarters
6. Wire - Nocturnal Koreans
7. ANOHNI - Hopelessness
8. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
9. Death in Vegas - Transmission
10. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
11. Roly Porter - Third Law
12. Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked for Death
13. Bitchin Bajas / Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties
14. Preoccupations - Preoccupations
15. Colin Stetson - Sorrow
16. Nicolaas Jaar- Sirens
17. Swans- The Glowing Man
18.Heron Oblivion - Heron Oblivion
19 Jan Swerts - Schaduwland
20. Wolvennest - WLVNNST

Maar check die runner up dan. Nuff said

Dit is mijn top-20 van 2016.

1. David Bowie - ★
2. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
3. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
4. The Slow Show - Dream Darling
5. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
6. Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat to Earth
7. Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
8. Van Morrison - ..It's Too Late to Stop Now...Volumes II, III & IV
9. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
10. Bat for Lashes - The Bride

11. Agnes Obel - Citizen of Glass
12. Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals - Call It What It Is
13. Teenage Fanclub - Here
14. Paul Simon - Stranger to Stranger
15. Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene 3
16. Marillion - F​.​E​.​A​.​R.
17. Bob Dylan - The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert!
18. Sophia - As We Make Our Way
19. Van Morrison - Keep Me Singing
20. Suede - Night Thoughts

Vergeten

BABYMETAL

Die top 4 zeg. Het jaar van de ouwe rukkers.

Mijn lijstje:

1. Moderat - III
2. The Jezabels - Synthia
3. Eefje de Visser - Nachtlicht
4. Suede - Night Thoughts
5. Daughter - Not to Disappear
6. Beau - That Thing Reality
7. Alcest - Kodama
8. NAO - For All We Know
9. Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts
10. Justin Hurwitz - La la Land
11. Fews - Means
12. Steven Wilson - 4 ½
13. Megadeth - Dystopia
14. Regina Spektor - Remember Us to Life
15. Xenia Rubinos - Black Terry Cat
16. Digitalism - Mirage
17. Solange - A Seat at the Table
18. Izzy Bizu - A Moment of Madness
19. AURORA - All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend
20. Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat to Earth

Bedankt, Zaaf. Met Weyes Blood en Solange toch nog twee platen die ik niet onmiddellijk in de top 25 verwacht had. Mijn top 3 blijft wel compleet miskend.

1. The Divine Comedy - Foreverland
2. Kandace Springs - Soul Eyes
3. GoGo Penguin - Man Made Object
4. Solange - A Seat at the Table [21]
5. Basia Bulat - Good Advice
6. CéU - Tropix
7. Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate [12]
8. Ina Forsman - Ina Forsman
9. Mor Karbasi - Ojos de Novia
10. Santana - Santana IV
11. Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat to Earth [14]
12. Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution
13. Foxes - All I Need
14. Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman
15. Gregory Porter - Take Me to the Alley
16. Anoushka Shankar - Land of Gold
17. Aziza Brahim - Abbar el Hamada
18. Nicolas Jaar - Sirens
19. Angel Olsen - My Woman
20. Lacey Sturm - Life Screams

10x VS
5x VK
1x Finland, Canada, Brazilië, Israel, Westelijke Sahara

Hier mijn Top 10 van 2016:

1. David Bowie - ★
2. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
3. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
4. Steve Jansen - Tender Extinction
5. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
6. Nicolas Jaar - Sirens
7. Car Seat Headrest - Teens Of Denial
8. Whitney - Light Upon The Lake
9. Daughter - Not To Disappear
10. Agnes Obel - Citizen Of Glass

zaaf, top weer. Dank!

Openen lukt niet bij mij. Anderen geen last van?

En zo gaat de wisselbeker naar Wageningen! Proficiat, Gretzieboy!

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158 Casartelli****** +20
155 EttaJamesBrown** +20
151 stardust_be** +20
151 Teunnis**** +20
150 motel matches** +20
149 jordidj1 +19
149 wibro** +19
147 herman*** +20
136 dix***** +20
135 johan de witt*** +20
133 Johnny Marr*** +19
133 chevy93*** +20
131 GrafGantz**** +20
128 Hacker* +19
90 vigil* +20

Bedankt weer voor de moeite, zaaf.. Dit was mijn lijst:

1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
2. ANOHNI – Hopelessness
3. Jan Swerts – Schaduwland
4. ScHoolboy Q – Blank Face LP
5. Moderat – III
6. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
7. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
8. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
9. Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner
10. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3

11. Deftones - Gore
12. Swans - The Glowing Man
13. Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.
14. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
15. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
16. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
17. Moderat - Live
18. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
19. Oathbreaker - Rheia
20. PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project

21. Amenra - Alive
22. Anderson .Paak - Malibu
23. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
24. David Bowie - ★
25. Het Zesde Metaal - Calais
26. Neurosis - Fires Within Fires
27. Touché Amoré - Stage Four
28. Explosions in the Sky - The Wilderness
29. Gojira - Magma
30. DIIV - Is the Is Are

31. Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika
32. Frank Ocean - Blonde
33. Burial - Young Death / Nightmarket
34. Sumerlands - Sumerlands
35. The Avalanches - Wildflower

Dank Jeffrey. Voorspellingen voor 2017 kunnen naar mij toe, voordat zaafieboy het eerste album bekend maakt.

Dit was mijn lijstje. Bowie's laatste is voor mij de beste plaat van de afgelopen 5 jaar. Twee jaar geleden rond kerst en oud en nieuw niets anders gedraaid, begin januari naar de expo in Groningen gegaan en een paar dagen later was ie ineens dood. Zal het nooit meer vergeten. Ook bizar dat het alweer zowat 2 jaar geleden is.

1. David Bowie - ★ (2016)
2. PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project (2016)
3. TaxiWars - Fever (2016)
4. Rats on Rafts & De Kift - Rats on Rafts & De Kift (2016)
5. DIIV - Is the Is Are (2016)
6. Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression (2016)
7. Jessy Lanza - Oh No (2016)
8. Motorpsycho - Here Be Monsters (2016)
9. The Avalanches - Wildflower (2016)
10. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)
11. Amber Arcades - Fading Lines (2016)
12. Leon Vynehall - Rojus (2016)
13. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker (2016)
14. Nicolas Jaar - Sirens (2016)
15. The Rolling Stones - Blue & Lonesome (2016)
16. Konono N°1 meets Batida - Konono N°1 meets Batida (2016)
17. Oliver Coates - Upstepping (2016)
18. Pantha du Prince - The Triad (2016)
19. Marie Davidson - Adieux Au Dancefloor (2016)
20. Wild Nothing - Life of Pause (2016)

Nog meer cadeautjes van de zaafman! Dank daarvoor.

2016:

1. Jan Swerts - Schaduwland (2016)
2. Amber Arcades - Fading Lines (2016)
3. Eefje de Visser - Nachtlicht (2016)
4. Daughter - Not to Disappear (2016)
5. Aafke Romeijn - Je Doet Je Best Maar (2016)
6. Amanda Bergman - Docks (2016)
7. Regina Spektor - Remember Us to Life (2016)
8. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)
9. Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat to Earth (2016)
10. Federico Albanese - The Blue Hour (2016)

11. Roosevelt - Roosevelt (2016)
12. Keaton Henson - Kindly Now (2016)
13. Jessy Lanza - Oh No (2016)
14. Moderat - III (2016)
15. Black Oak - Equinox (2016)
16. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service (2016)
17. Yumi Zouma - Yoncalla (2016)
18. Angel Olsen - My Woman (2016)
19. Nicolas Jaar - Sirens (2016)
20. Ry X - Dawn (2016)

Ik vind het knap van mezelf, alweer geen ster deze ronde ?