The Alternative Year-end playlist includes the top 100 Untapped Resources of the year in addition to most of the current Top 25 for Dec. 25
The Beyond Radio Alternative Top 150 of 2017
Tracking year Dec.16-Nov. 17
Based on the monthly Alternative charts posted on the website
1 NOTHING BUT THIEVES Amsterdam
2 PORTUGAL, THE MAN Feel It Still
3 BLEACHERS Don’t Take The Money
4 BASTILLE Blame
5 THE XX On Hold
6 LORDE Perfect Places
7 DEPECHE MODE Where’s The Revolution?
8 LORDE Green Light
9 THE KILLERS The Man
10 COLD WAR KIDS Love Is Mystical
11 THE XX Say Something Loving
12 ALT-J In Cold Blood
13 ARCADE FIRE Everything Now
14 THE NATIONAL The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness
15 WOLF ALICE Don’t Delete The Kisses
16 ROYAL BLOOD Lights Out
17 KASABIAN You’re In Love With A Psycho
18 GOLDFRAPP Anymore
19 COIN Talk Too Much
20 RAG’N’BONE MAN Human
21 A TRIBE CALLED QUEST We The People
22 THE KILLERS Run For Cover
23 BECK Up All Night
24 SIR SLY High
25 PHOENIX J-Boy
26 BASTILLE Send Them Off!
27 HIGHLY SUSPECT My Name Is Human
28 DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 Freeze Me
29 YOUNG THE GIANT Silvertongue
30 ARCADE FIRE Creature Comfort
31 MUSE Dig Down
32 DREAMCAR Kill For Candy
33 TEMPLES Strange Or Be Forgotten
34 TWENTY ONE PILOTS HeavyDirtySoul
35 GROUPLOVE Good Morning
36 WEEZER Feels Like Summer
37 FOSTER THE PEOPLE Sit Next To Me
38 LCD SOUNDSYSTEM Call The Police
39 LANA DEL REY f/ THE WEEKND Lust For Life
40 MILKY CHANCE Cocoon
41 K.FLAY Blood In The Cut
42 PVRIS What’s Wrong?
43 JAPANDROIDS Near To The Wild Heart Of Life
44 BIFFY CLYRO Flammable
45 IMAGINE DRAGONS Believer
46 SLOWDIVE Star Roving
47 IMAGINE DRAGONS Whatever It Takes
48 MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA The Gold
49 THE HORRORS Something To Remember Me By
50 FOSTER THE PEOPLE Doing It For The Money
51 EMPIRE OF THE SUN High And Low
52 JOYWAVE It’s A Trip
53 MALLORY KNOX Citalopram (Better Off Without You)
54 AFI Snow Cats
55 INCUBUS Nimble Bastard
56 BLINK 182 She’s Out Of Her Mind
57 PHANTOGRAM Same Old Blues
58 EVERYTHING EVERYTHING Can’t Do
59 THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS Walk On Water
60 FOO FIGHTERS The Sky Is A Neighborhood
61 BRITISH SEA POWER Bad Bohemian
62 GLASS ANIMALS Pork Soda
63 THE XX I Dare You
64 CIRCA WAVES Wake Up
65 RISE AGAINST The Violence
66 NINE INCH NAILS Less Than
67 PARAMORE Hard Times
68 SPOON Hot Thoughts
69 LCD SOUNDSYSTEM Tonite
70 ALT-J 3WW
71 WALK THE MOON One Foot
72 LOWER THAN ATLANTIS Had Enough
73 FOO FIGHTERS Run
74 LORDE Liability
75 SILVERSUN PICKUPS Latchkey Kids
76 CAPITAL CITIES Vowels
77 THE AMAZONS Black Magic
78 RADIOHEAD I Promise
79 CAGE THE ELEPHANT Cold Cold Cold
80 ROYAL BLOOD I Only Lie When I Love You
81 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Go Robot
82 SAINT MOTEL Destroyer
83 THE 1975 Somebody Else
84 MISTERWIVES Machine
85 ALVVAYS In Undertow
86 PHOENIX Ti Amo
87 DEPECHE MODE Going Backwards
88 PORTUGAL, THE MAN Rich Friends
89 THE ORWELLS They Put A Body In The Bayou
90 THE NATIONAL Day I Die
91 THE BEACHES Give It Up
92 GLASS ANIMALS Agnes
93 COLD WAR KIDS f/ BISHOP BRIGGS So Tied Up
94 SPOON Can I Sit Next To You
95 STRUTS One Night Only
96 THE NAKED AND FAMOUS Higher
97 KAISER CHIEFS We Stay Together
98 RIDE All I Want
99 DREAMERS Sweet Disaster
100 GORILLAZ f/ D.R.A.M. Andromeda
101 MOTHER MOTHER The Drugs
102 WOLF ALICE Beautifully Unconventional
103 DEMOB HAPPY Dead Dreamers
104 DECLAN MCKENNA Humongous
105 QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE The Way You Used To Do
106 SLOWDIVE Sugar For The Pill
107 CIRCA WAVES Fire That Burns
108 ARKELLS Knocking At The Door
109 DREAMCAR Born To Lie
110 BISHOP BRIGGS Wild Horses
111 ARTIFICIAL PLEASURE I’ll Make It Worth Your While
112 CIGARETTES AFTER SEX K
113 NEW POLITICS One Of Us
114 TEMPLES Certainty
115 MISSIO Middle Fingers
116 THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN Amputation
117 THE AMAZONS Little Something
118 KINGS OF LEON Reverend
119 EVERYTHING EVERYTHING Desire
120 ST. VINCENT Los Ageless
121 GARBAGE No Horses
122 ALT-J Deadcrush
123 BANKS Gemini Feed
124 ROOSEVELT Belong
125 BIFFY CLYRO Friends And Enemies
126 COURTSHIP Sunroof
127 GORILLAZ f/ JEHNNY BETH We Got The Power
128 TREBLE Ten Thousand Floors
129 KASABIAN Ill Ray (The King)
130 THE CHAIN GANG OF 1974 Slow
131 IMAGINE DRAGONS Thunder
132 KASABIAN Bless This Acid House
133 LORDE Homemade Dynamite
134 MGMT Little Dark Age
135 ANDREW McMAHON IN THE WILDERNESS So Close
136 GINGER SNAPS Number Crunching
137 SUNDARA KARMA Explore
138 DREAMCAR All Of The Dead Girls
139 CHROMATICS Shadow
140 BOB MOSES Tearing Me Up
141 BECK Dear Life
142 THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS C-H-E-M-I-C-A-L
143 BLEACHERS I Miss Those Days
144 THE HORRORS Machine
145 MAXIMO PARK Risk To Exist
146 RUN THE JEWELS Legend Has It
147 EMILY HAINES & THE SOFT SKELETON Fatal Gift
148 COIN I Don’t Wanna Dance
149 GOLDFRAPP Systemagic
150 MAXIMO PARK Get High (No I Don’t)