1. Frank Ocean – Blond

2. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool

3. David Bowie – Blackstar

4. Sturgill Simpson – Sailor’s Guide

5. A Tribe Called Quest – We Got it from Here

6. Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial

7. Bon Iver – 22, A Million

8. Kanye West – Life of Pablo

9. Anderson .paak – Malibu

10. Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition

Helluva year for music. My daughter was born this year so I can’t say it’s been a completely shitty year…but yeah, what a shit year.

The Bruno Mars album has like twice as many good songs despite having half as many actual songs.

Breaking: Iggy Pop is still cool as fuck.

Also fuck the 1975

Car Seat Headrest falling out of the Top 10 is also a goddamn shame.

Also, decent list. Nice to see the ‘Gum righted their wrong and put Blackstar in the top 5, where it belongs. But taking Radiohead out is questionable. And I still think Lemonade is the most overrated album of the year. It’s a good album with some great songs — but # 1 good? Nuh uh.

Kind of in this vein but not a direct reply: Who’da thunk in 2011 that, 5 years later, Bruno Mars and the Weeknd would go (basically) head to head, and Bruno would come out on top in terms of quality?

Princess Beatrice has got to know, it’s gonna take more than a quick sword swipe to get The Ring from a hobbit.

“We heard it” -Stereogum

“We were too busy listening to the 1975” – Stereogum

I agree that Solange had a great album and a few others, but no, this has been a terrible year for music. Pretty much the last ten years has been shit.

Listen you dumb and deaf Cersei. I’m not telling black music is bad as you can tell and read. I’m telling this “trendy” crap in the top 10 it is completely rubbish. Don’t need to try to create a nazi image of me.

Enjoy your sounds my friend. One day you will learn.

So, you can’t handle an opinion? Maybe you think a guy (Ocean) pressing one key in a vocoder synth is very avant-garde but guess what, it is TOTAL rubbish.

Dear Stereogum editors:

All this black music tribute is because Obama is leaving? Don’t get me wrong, I like Berry, Tosh, Simone and many others but this, come on. Worst top 10 ever.

As an Australian, I can assure everyone that our political leaders are as depressingly disappointing as anywhere else in the world. So much so we’ve have resorted to waterboarding for kicks…