Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bell. And I'm Brian. And what are we talking about today, Brian?

Our favorite albums of 2017.

What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.

We try to have the conversation around the music that fans do.

But this week is a special year-end episode in which we're going to talk about just the overall year in albums,

because that's how we like to look at music. And even though we said our favorite, this is really just Brian's favorite, because those familiar with the episodes we've done in years past,

where we did a Best of 2015, Best of 2016. It's Brian does a list because I, I don't know,

I just, I never listened to enough new music. I really tried this year too. Yeah, you did.

And there were, there were a couple that will, you know, you had mentioned a few that, that you

liked and things like that. So I don't know, we'll talk, we a few that, uh, that you liked and, and things like that.

So I don't know.

We'll talk a little bit about that.

And interestingly enough, between your list and some people looking at this episode may notice that it says part one.

We are going to do 10 episodes in this.

But next week, we're going to have another top 10 list for you from a familiar voice.

But we'll keep it a secret for now.

But when that voice joins us next week, that person is also going to do their own top

10 of 2017, which is very different than Brian's.

But both of those lists have some of my favorite albums of this

year on them so it worked out did we have any crossover I don't think we had any crossover zero crossover

between the two yeah so listen to next week for an entire another top 10 albums of 2017 this, we're doing Brian's top 10, and we were just listening to Taylor Swift at the top

there, but did Taylor Swift make your top 10 list, Brian?

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