"29 #Strafford APTS" is absolutely goddamn incredible. "8 (circle)" is my favorite off the album but "Strafford" is close behind.

When that choir kicks in, holy shit.

I think post-election a lot of people feel the same way. We were lied to. We were told that everything would be okay, and it wasn't, and the people who were supposed to make sure it would be okay failed us.

I think a lot of hip-hop critics (particularly white ones who are afraid of seeming out-of-touch) fetishize the past, and are more likely to praise rappers who don't push too many boundaries.

Which nicely sums up the year. While Donald Trump reinvigorated neo-nazis, the mainstream left fell in love with its own reflection.

Oh, Jesus. Do we really have to do the "my generation is better than your generation" thing?

Seriously. It's crazy to think that, in the leadup to its release, people were worried about them falling off creatively. It's easily in their top 5 best albums.

As I posted in the comments of other best-of article:

I think they'd dig up problematic things he'd done or said in the past to try to shame his fans and call the Grammys racist for giving him an award instead of Beyonce, and because most of them don't actually like most music in the first place his legendary status wouldn't stop them.

And it didn't help that the way they talked around it was absolutely insufferable. Google "white people Lemonade" and you get a series of dead-serious, deeply pathetic thinkpieces nervously asking whether you're allowed to have an opinion about the album if you're not its target demographic.

Part of me is glad it didn't go up against Lemonade for album of the year, because the result would have been five thousand Beyonce fans declaring Bowie the worst musician ever and taking to the internet to inform everyone and their mother of this, and I just don't have the energy to constantly argue with them about…

I don't think so. Blackstar introduced him to a new generation, so I wouldn't be shocked if a lot of younger fans see it as his best.

Yeah, this is my main irritation with the over-the-top Lemonade praise. Nobody ever talks about whether the music is good. It "broke barriers" or "it's empowering," or it's full of "revolutionary self-love." I rarely hear "the music is really, really good."

I like Chance, but not as much as I'm "supposed" to.

There are some good songs, but Yeezus is one of my favorite albums of the last decade, and The Life of Pablo's sheer dropoff in quality is disheartening.

I liked the White Album, but it pales in comparison to EWBAITE in my opinion. White is clearly a bunch of character songs (with the exception of Do You Wanna Get High), while part of what made EWBAITE so compelling is that it was a return to the Blue/Pinkerton-era autobiographical lyrics. There isn't really anything…

AMSP is one of Radiohead's best works, for sure. "Identikit," "Present Tense," and "Burn the Witch" are mind-bogglingly good.

I thought it was perfect - no other album could have ended with it. Thom Yorke wrote that song shortly after his relationship with his wife began, and he put it on the first album released after their breakup.

I have wonderful memories of hearing that song right after it dropped and just laughing from sheer happiness at how fucking good it was.

Radiohead - "Identikit"