2016 in Music: Revisited

This might come as a huge shock to people who have just started on the journey known as life, but some opinions have a tendency to change over time. In recent years, I've found that the world of music is where my takes go through the most constant transformations. The frequent shifts in my musical taste is why I like to go back and revisit the music of a given year to see what records have gained, lost and maintained their standing in my eyes. Here's how how I feel about the excellent musical year of 2016, just over six months after I initially posted my year-end recap.  

()=ranking in my 2016 year-end recap
(new)=a record I heard after I posted my year-end recap

EP's:

15.(15)Charli XCX-Vroom Vroom (2/5) (Favorite Track: "Trophy")

14.(14)Gucci Mane and Lil Uzi Vert-1017 vs. the World (2.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Secure the Bag")

13.(13)TWENTY88-TWENTY88 (3/5) (Favorite Track: "On the Way")

12.(11)Vic Mensa-There's Alot Going On (3/5) (Favorite Track: "Dynasty")
11.(12)Turnstile-Move Thru Me (3/5) (Favorite Track: "Move Thru Me")

10.(10)Carly Rae Jepsen-E.MO.TION Side B (3/5) (Favorite Track: "Higher")

9.(9)Lamb of God-The Duke (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Culling")

8.(8)Skeletonwitch-The Apothic Gloom (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Well of Despair")
7.(5)Gucci Mane & Future-Free Bricks 2 (Zone 6 Edition) (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Kinda Dope")

6.(6)Kiiara-lo kii savage (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Gold")
5.(7)2 Chainz-Hibachi for Lunch (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Good Drank")

4.(4)Michael Christmas-Baggy Eyes EP (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Intercontinental Champion")

3.(3)Vince Staples-Prima Donna (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Loco")

2.(2)Migos-3 Way EP (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Can't Go Out Sad")

1.(1)21 Savage and Metro Boomin-Savage Mode (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "No Advance")

LP's:
143.(135)J.Cole-4 Your Eyez Only (1.5/5) (Favorite Track: "For Whom the Bell Tolls")

142.(140)Future-Purple Reign (1.5/5) (Favorite Track: "All Right")

141.(139)Riff Raff & DJ Afterthought-Balloween (1.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Working Everyday")

140.(138)Rob Zombie-The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser (2/5) (Favorite Track: "Get Your Boots On! That's the End of Rock and Roll")

139.(137)Kodak Black-Lil B.I.G. Pac (2/5) (Favorite Track: "Vibin in This Bih")

138.(136)Thomas Giles-Velcro Kid (2/5) (Favorite Track: "Immersion Highway")

137.(134)Devin Townsend Project-Transcendence (2/5) (Favorite Track: "Failure")

136.(133)A$AP Ferg-Always Strive and Prosper (2/5) (Favorite Track: "New Level")

135.(132)Clams Casino-32 Levels (2.5/5) (Favorite Track: "All Nite")

134.(141)Lil Yachty-Lil Boat (2.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Minnesota (remix)")
133.(131)D.R.A.M.-Big Baby D.R.A.M. (2.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Broccoli")

132.(130)Blood Orange-Freetown Sound (2.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Hands Up")

131.(129)Sia-This is Acting (2.5/5) (Favorite Track: ""Bird Set Free")

130.(128)Textures-Phenotype (2.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Shaping a Single Grain of Sand")

129.(127)Lil Uzi Vert-The Perfect Luv Tape (2.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Of Course We Ghetto Flowers")

128.(126)Macklemore & Ryan Lewis-This Unruly Mess I've Made (2.5/5) (Favorite Track: ""Light Tunnels")

127.(125)letlive.-If I'm the Devil... (2.5/5) (Favorite Track: "A Weak Ago")

126.(124)Sum 41-13 Voices (2.5/5) (Favorite Track: "A Murder of Crows")

125.(123)Red Fang-Only Ghosts (2.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Shadows")

124.(121)Deftones-Gore (2.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Prayers/Triangles")

123.(120)Chance the Rapper-Coloring Book (2.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Juke Jam")

122.(119)Juicy J-#MustBeNice (2.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Trap")

121.(118)Regina Spektor-Remember Us to Life (2.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Small Bill$")

120.(117)Childish Gambino-Awaken, My Love! (2.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Zombies")

119.(116)Red Hot Chili Peppers-The Getaway (2.5/5) (Favorite Track: "The Getaway")
118.(122)Lady Gaga-Joanne (2.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Hey Girl")
117.(115)The Fall of Troy-OK (3/5) (Favorite Track: "401k")

116.(114)Wheeler Walker Jr.-Redneck Shit (3/5) (Favorite Track: "Eatin' Pussy/Kickin' Ass")

115.(113)Steve 'n' Seagulls-Brothers in Farms (3/5) (Favorite Track: "Aces High")

114.(112)Young Thug-I'm Up (3/5) (Favorite Track: "Fuck Cancer (Boosie)")
113.(new)The Hotelier-Goodness (3/5) (Favorite Track: "Goodness Pt.2")

112.(111)Jessy Lanza-Oh No (3/5) (Favorite Track: "Going Somewhere")

111.(110)Beartooth-Aggressive (3/5) (Favorite Track: "Hated")

110.(109)Volbeat-Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie (3/5) (Favorite Track: "The Gates of Babylon")

109.(108)Wormed-Krigshu (3/5) (Favorite Track: "Neomorph Mindkind")

108.(107)gates-Parallel Lives (3/5) (Favorite Track: "Empty Canvas")

107.(106)Solange-A Seat at the Table (3/5) (Favorite Track: "Weary")

106.(105)Nails-You Will Never Be One of Us (3/5) (Favorite Track: "Life is a Death Sentence")

105.(104)NxWorries-Yes Lawd! (3/5) (Favorite Track: "Starlite")

104.(102)Chevelle-The North Corridor (3/5) (Favorite Track: "Last Days")

103.(101)Beyonce-Lemonade (3/5) (Favorite Track: "6 Inch")

102.(100)Nick Jonas-Last Year Was Complicated (3/5) (Favorite Track: "Close")

101.(99)Mac Miller-The Divine Feminine (3/5) (Favorite Track: "Dang!")

100.(98)Carnifex-Slow Death (3/5) (Favorite Track: "Black Candles Burning")

99.(97)Hail the Sun-Culture Scars (3/5) (Favorite Track: "Entertainment Lies")

98.(94)Riff Raff-Peach Panther (3/5) (Favorite Track: "I Drive By")

97.(96)Whitechapel-Mark of the Blade (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Tremors")
96.(95)2 Chainz-Daniel Son; Necklace Don (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Get Out the Bed")
95.(93)Trophy Eyes-Chemical Miracle (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Heaven Sent")

94.(92)Megadeth-Dystopia (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Dystopia")

93.(91)Bury Tomorrow-Earthbound (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "The Burden")

92.(87)Plini-Handmade Cities (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Cascade")
91.(90)Despised Icon-Beast (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Drapeau Noir")
90.(88)Weezer-Weezer (The White Album) (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Endless Bummer")

89.(86)Aborted-Retrogore (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Coven of Ignorance")

88.(85)Fleshgod Apocalypse-King (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "And the Vulture Beholds")

87.(84)Rae Sremmurd-SremmLife 2 (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Start a Party")
86.(103)Lil Uzi Vert-Lil Uzi Vert vs. the World (3/5) (Favorite Track: "Hi Roller")

85.(89)Young Thug-Slime Season 3 (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "With Them")
84.(83)Invent, Animate-Stillworld (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Celestial Floods")

83.(79)Injury Reserve-Floss (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "All This Money")

82.(78)Dark Tranquility-Atoma (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Force of Hand")

81.(82)Architects-All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "The Empty Hourglass")
80.(77)Dave East-Kari Chanel (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Keisha")

79.(76)Wovenwar-Honor is Dead (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Compass")

78.(75)CZARFACE-A Fistful of Peril (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Czar Wars")

77.(74)Avenged Sevenfold-The Stage (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Sunny Disposition")

76.(73)A Tribe Called Quest-We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Conrad Tokyo")

75.(72)Gojira-Magma (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "The Shooting Star")

74.(71)Metallica-Hardwired... To Self Destruct (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Spit Out the Bone")

73.(70)The Zenith Passage-Solipsist (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Dreamsphere")

72.(69)Korn-Serenity of Suffering (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Die Yet Another Night")

71.(67)Ordinance-The Ides of March (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Bloodwine")

70.(80)Rihanna-ANTI (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Kiss It Better")

69.(new)Vader-The Empire (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Prayer to the God of War")
68.(66)Moon Tooth-Chromaparagon (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Igneous")
67.(65)Deviant Process-Paroxysm (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Persecution")
66.(64)Night Verses-Into the Vanishing Light (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Drift")

65.(68)Silent Planet-Everything Was Sound (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Understanding Love as Loss")
64.(59)Aesop Rock-The Impossible Kid (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Lotta Years")

63.(54)Kendrick Lamar-untitled unmastered. (3.5/5)(Favorite Track: "untitled 07|levitate")

62.(52)Animals as Leaders-The Madness of Many (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "The Glass Bridge")

61.(62)Anderson.Paak-Malibu (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "The Season/Carry Me")

60.(60)Drake-Views (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Weston Road Flows")
59.(81)Strugill Simpson-A Sailor's Guide to Earth (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "All Around You")

58.(58)Anthrax-For All Kings (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Breathing Lightning")
57.(61)Gucci Mane-Everybody Looking (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Waybach")
56.(53)Norma Jean-Polar Similar (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "An Ocean of War")
55.(63)blink-182-California (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Kings of the Weekend")
54.(48)A Day to Remember-Bad Vibrations (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Paranoia")

53.(55)2 Chainz & Lil Wayne-Collegrove (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Bounce")
52.(47)Death Angel-The Evil Divide (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Father of Lies")

51.(44)Hatebreed-The Concrete Confessional (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Us Against Us")

50.(46)Isaiah Rashad-The Sun's Tirade (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Free Lunch")
49.(43)Descendants-Hypercaffium Spazzinate (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Shameless Halo")

48.(42)Hope for the Dying-Legacy (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Flame Forged")

47.(50)ScHoolboy Q-Blank Face LP (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Dope Dealer")

46.(49)Flatbush Zombies-3001: A Laced Odyssey (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "The Odyssey")

45.(51)Kanye West-The Life of Pablo (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "No More Parties in LA")

44.(57)Denzel Curry-Imperial (3.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Knotty Head")

43.(41)Abnormality-Mechanisms of Omniscience (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Synthetic Pathogenesis")

42.(40)Trap Them-Crown Feral (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Revival Spines")

41.(39)First Fragment-Dasein (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Mordetre Et Denaissance")

40.(37)Anciients-Voice of the Void (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Worshipper")

39.(38)Killswitch Engage-Incarnate (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Strength of the Mind")
38.(36)Painted in Exile-The Ordeal (4/5) (Favorite Track: "House of Cards")

37.(35)Kvelertak-Nattesferd (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Svartmese")

36.(34)Toothgrinder-Nocturnal Masquerade (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Diamonds for Gold")

35.(33)Gucci Mane-The Return of East Atlanta Santa (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Walk on Water")

34.(32)Serpentine Dominion-Serpentine Dominion (4/5) (Favorite Track: "The Vengeance in Me")

33.(31)YG-Still Brazy (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Twist My Fingaz")

32.(29)Gucci Mane-Woptober (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Wop")
31.(56)Young Thug-Jeffrey (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Harambe")

30.(30)Dance Gavin Dance-Mothership (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Chucky vs. the Giant Tortoise")
29.(45)Tove Lo-Lady Wood (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Don't Talk About It")
28.(28)Amon Amarth-Jomsviking (4/5) (Favorite Track: "On a Sea of Blood")

27.(27)Meshuggah-The Violent Sleep of Reason (4/5) (Favorite Track: "By the Ton")

26.(26)Polyphia-Renaissance (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Culture Shock")

25.(23)Thank You Scientist-Stranger Heads Prevail (4/5) (Favorite Track: "The Amateur Arsonist's Handbook")
24.(21)Testament-Brotherhood of the Snake (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Seven Seals") 

23.(22)After the Burial-Dig Deep (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Deluge")

22.(20)Future-EVOL (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Seven Rings")

21.(13)Black Crown Initiate-Selves We Cannot Forgive (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Again")

20.(25)The Weeknd-Starboy (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Secrets")

19.(24)Obscura-Akroasis (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Perpetual Infinity")

18.(16)Frank Ocean-Blonde (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Pink + White")

17.(19)Periphery-Periphery III: Select Level (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Flatline")

16.(18)Car Bomb-Meta (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Black Blood")

15.(15)Allegaeon-Proponent for Sentience (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Of Mind and Matrix")

14.(14)Travi$ Scott-Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Sweet Sweet")

13.(11)Migos-Y.R.N. 2 (Young Rich Niggas 2) (4/5) (Favorite Track: "WOA")

12.(10)Death Grips-Bottomless Pit (4/5) (Favorite Track: "BB Poison")

11.(9)Vale of Pnath-II (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Reaver")

10.(12)Every Time I Die-Low Teens (4/5) (Favorite Track: "The Coin Has a Say")

9.(17)Banks-The Altar (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Gemini Feed")

8.(7)Touche Amore-Stage Four (4/5) (Favorite Track: "New Halloween")

7.(8)Ariana Grande-Dangerous Woman (4/5) (Favorite Track: "Bad Decisions")

6.(6)Run the Jewels-RTJ3 (4.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Panther Like A Panther")

5.(5)Revocation-Great is Our Sin (4.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Crumbling Imperium")

4.(4)Entheos-The Infinite Nothing (4.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Perpetual Miscalculations")

3.(3)The Dillinger Escape Plan-Dissociation (4.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Honeysuckle")

2.(2)Danny Brown-Atrocity Exhibition (4.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Ain't It Funny")

1.(1)Fallujah-Dreamless (4.5/5) (Favorite Track: "Adrenaline")