Top 50 Albums of 2016
I’ll be completely honest, #11-50 are numbered a little arbitrarily. It’s more of a Top 10 + 40 more albums I liked from 2016. Basically it’s just a list of 50 good albums that came out in the past year. Of course there was a lot more than this, but here were some of my favorites. Enjoy my varied tastes.
10. Guttermouth: Got It Made / New Car Smell
9. Billy Talent: Afraid of Heights
8. Hail the Sun: Culture Scars
7. Dog Party: Til You’re Mine
6. Sleep On It: Lost Along the Way
5. SWMRS: Drive North
4. Taking Back Sunday: Tidal Wave
3. St. Ranger: Leaves LA / Take/Leave
2. Blink 182: California
1. Green Day: Revolution Radio
11. Bayside: Vacancy
12. Against Me!: Shape Shift With Me
13. The Living End: Shift
14. The Descendents: Hypercaffium Spazzinate
15. Waterparks: Cluster / Double Dare
16. The Interrupters: Say It Out Loud
17. letlive.: If I’m the Devil
18. A Day to Remember: Bad Vibrations
19. NOFX: First Ditch Effort
20. Jimmy Eat World: Integrity Blues
21. Thank You Scientist: Stranger Heads Prevail
22. The Dear Hunter: Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional
23. Pixies: Head Carrier
24. Weezer: White Album
25. Bouncing Souls: Simplicity
26. PUP: The Dream Is Over
27. With Confidence: Better Weather
28. Megosh: Apostasy
29. Issues: Headspace
30. Saosin: Along the Shadow
31. Third Eye Blind: We Are Drugs
32. Yellowcard: self-titled
33. The Summer Set: Stories for Monday
34. Sianvar: Stay Lost
35. Dirty Heads: self-titled
36. Burn it Up: Toys
37. Panic! at the Disco: Death of a Bachelor
38. Joyce Manor: Cody
39. Pierce the Veil: Misadventures
40. Amarionette: Repeating History
41. Dayshell: Nexus
42. Two Tongues: Two
43. Demon in Me: Here’s Your Way Out
44. Can’t Swim: Death Deserves a Name
45. The Flatliners: Nerves
46. A Loss for Words: Crises
47. Failing Street: Don’t Worry About the Weather
48. Sum 41: 13 Voices
49. Good Charlotte: Youth Authority
50. Simple Plan: Taking One for the Team
And then I have my four honorary mentions, which didn’t feel right including with the rest of the list simply because they aren’t new enough. These are live albums, demo albums, reimagined albums, and albums that do all of the above.
- The Matches: Precomposer
- I the Mighty: Oil in Water
- Coheed and Cambria: The Color Before the Sun Deconstructed
- The Used: Live & Acoustic at the Palace
Fifty-four albums is a bit ridiculous to make a playlist from, so this isn’t nearly all of them. But it’s enough.
