Top 89 Staff Picks: Bill DeVille, host
by Bill DeVille
December 01, 2017
Top 10 songs of 2017
1. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - "If We Were Vampires"
2. The War On Drugs - "Up All Night"
3. Portugal. The Man - "Feel It Still"
4. Mavis Staples - "If All I Was Was Black"
5. Beck - "Up All Night"
6. Ryan Adams - "To Be Without You"
7. Spoon - "Do I Have to Talk You Into It"
8. Margo Price - "A Little Pain"
9. Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile - "Over Everything"
10. JD McPherson - "Lucky Penny"
Honorable mentions
Hippo Campus - "Monsoon"
Hurray for the Riff Raff - "Living In the City"
Nikki Lane - "Jackpot"
Queens of the Stone Age - "Feet Don't Fail Me"
Ron Gallo - "Young Lady, You're Scaring Me"
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - "Matter of Time"
Sylvan Esso - "Kick Jump Twist"
Tinariwen - "Sastanàqqàm"
Valerie June - "Shakedown"
The Suburbs - "Hey Muse"
Low Cut Connie - "Revolution Rock n Roll"
Thomas Abban - "Symmetry & Black Tar"
Top 10 albums of 2017
1. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound
2. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
3. Margo Price - All American Made
4. Spoon - Hot Thoughts
5. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
6. Hurray For the Riff Raff - The Navigator
7. Robert Plant - Carry Fire
8. Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
9. Beck - Colors
10. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Soul of A Woman
The Current Hosts' and Staffers' Top 89 of 2017
Brett Baldwin • Bill DeVille • Jay Gabler • Jade • Cecilia Johnson • Lindsay Kimball • Mary Lucia • Jim McGuinn • Sean McPherson • Shelley Miller • Mike Novitzki • Brian Oake • Anna Reed • Jill Riley • Nate Ryan • Derrick Stevens • Andrea Swensson • Luke Taylor • Mark Wheat • Mac Wilson • Jesse Wiza