I am actually making a first half list for my own sanity, as the last 
few years have found me scrambling between Thanksgiving and Christmas to 
catch up on things I missed and give purchases enough spins to make a 
"best of" meritorious. Despite my ridiculous level of purchases since 
childhood, I always miss something the year of...sometimes as egregious 
as Matthew Sweet's GIRLFRIEND (which I was a few months late on) or THE 
SET UP by the Boss Martians, which is still the best Elvis Costello 
record Declan never made. (Seriously - "Oh Angela" could have Pete 
Thomas lamenting "why don't I remember that session?"). Both lists are 
on my all time keeper lists.

So hopefully, prefaced by a "Stalled Post To Audities" reply, I'll have 
that here by mid-July.

In the meantime, quick lists of favorite cuts and albums from 2017, 
where my favorite single BY FAR was "Fuck You, Brain" by Ginger 
Wildheart and Ryan Hamilton. (Both notoriously suffer from clinical 
depression, and all funds raised by that single are directed to a 
foundation to assist people with that issue. Noble, yet astounding ear 
candy.) The video on YouTube is as entertaining as the song itself 
(links below).

Listen/Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiZERq_gY4s

Listen/Purchase: https://roundrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fuck-you-brain

My list(s) are not simply power pop - in fact a strong dollop of 
folk/country/Americana permeates it - but worthy stuff regardless. 
Seriously - when Cheap Trick, Cotton Mather, Todd Rundgren, Richard X 
Heyman, Matthew Sweet, The Darkness, Terry Anderson and Neil Young all 
miss the cut, that's a good year for music.

Singles:

1    Ryan Hamilton and Ginger Wildheart /  Fuck You Brain
2    Will Hoge  /  Thoughts and Prayers
3    Jesse Malin /  Meet Me at the End of the World
4    The Dahlmans with Andy Shernoff  / Forever My Baby
5    Samantha Fish  /  I'll Come Running Back
6    Todd Snider  /  Shattered
7    Mitch Ryder  /  A Little Too Heavy For Me
8    Bash & Pop  /  Never Wanted To Know
9    Liam Gallagher  /  Wall of Glass
10    Steve Conte  /  Gimme Gimme Rockaway

Albums:
1    Shinyribs /   I Got Your Medicine
2    Chuck Prophet  /  Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins
3    John Moreland  /  Big Bad Luv
4    Will Hoge  /  Anchors
5    Ray Davies  /  Americana
6    Little Steven    Soulfire
7    J Roddy Walston and the Business  /  Destroyers of the Soft Life
8    The On and Ons /   Welcome Aboard
9    Soraia  /  Dead Reckoning
10    CJ Ramone  /  American Beauty
11    Aimee Mann /   Mental Illness
12    Dan Baird and Homemade Sin  /  Rollercoaster
13    Low Cut Connie  /  Dirty Pictures, Volume 1
14    Role Models  /  Dance Moves
15    Bash & Pop /   Anything Can Happen
16    Honest John Plain  /  Acoustic Menopause
17    King Leg  /  Meet King Leg
18    Flamin' Groovies  /  Fantastic Plastic
19    Blitzen Trapper  /  Wild and Reckless
20    JD McPherson  /  Undivided Heart and Soul
21    Dan Baird   / So Low
22    Sharks  /  Rulers of the Deep
23    Stereophonics  /  Scream Above the Sounds
24    Whitney Rose  /  Rule 62
25    Justine and the Unclean  /  Get Unclean

cheers
b