Drumroll, please... Your Big Ones of 2017: The Results
What’s made DIY readers’ collective 2017, you ask? Here we go…
We’ve been telling you all about our 2017 highlights throughout December, from Charli XCX’s world-beating ‘Boys’ vid to Paramore’s killer ‘After Laughter’ era via a literal tonne of Glass Animals’ pineapples.
Catch up with The DIY List 2017 here:
Don’t Call it a Comeback
The ‘I Was There’ Live Moments of the Year
Errr, Say That Again Mate?
Sound the Horns, it’s an Absolute Banger
Most Notable First Steps of the Year
Political Moments That Gave us Hope
The Times we Left an Important Part of our Brains Somewhere in a Field
Now it’s over to you - we’ve been asking for your Big Ones - and here’s what you had to say…
YOUR BIG ALBUM OF 2017 IS…
1. Wolf Alice - ‘Visions of a Life’
2. IDLES - ‘Brutalism’
3. Lorde - ‘Melodrama’
4. St. Vincent - ‘MASSEDUCTION’
5. Inheaven - ‘Inheaven’
6. The xx - ‘I See You’
7. The Big Moon - ‘Love In The 4th Dimension’
8. Kendrick Lamar - ‘DAMN.’
9. Superfood - ‘Bambino’
10. LCD Soundsystem - ‘American Dream’
YOUR BIG BAND OF 2017 IS…
1. Idles
2. Inheaven
3. The Big Moon
4. Wolf Alice
5. Superfood
YOUR BIG SONG OF 2017 IS…
1. The Big Moon - ‘Bonfire’
2. Pale Waves - ‘There’s A Honey’
3. Lorde - ‘Green Light’
4. Marika Hackman - ‘Boyfriend’
5. Wolf Alice - ‘Don’t Delete The Kisses’
YOUR BIG VIDEO OF 2017 IS…
1. Charli XCX - ‘Boys’
2. Kendrick Lamar - ‘HUMBLE.’
3. St Vincent - ‘New York’
4. The Killers - ‘The Man’
5. The Big Moon - ‘Sucker’
YOUR BIG FESTIVAL OF 2017 IS…
YOUR BIG NEWCOMER OF 2017 IS
1. Pale Waves
2. Sigrid
3. King Nun
4. Anteros
5. Superorganism
YOUR BIG MOMENT OF 2017 IS…
1. Jeremy Corbyn at Glastonbury
2. One Love Manchester
3. Noel Gallagher’s scissor player
4. Wolf Alice’s secret Reading & Leeds sets
5. Radiohead’s Glastonbury headline set
YOUR BIG LEGEND OF 2017 IS…
1. St Vincent
2. Liam Gallagher
3. Jeremy Corbyn
4. Chloe Little (Inheaven)
5. James Murphy
Photos: Emma Swann / DIY
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