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)

The Untapped Resources Alternative top 100 of 2017

1          AFI     Snow Cats       144.16

2          THE XX         Say Something Loving           133.84

3          PORTUGAL, THE MAN      Rich Friends    129.3

4          THE BEACHES         Give It Up       127.8

5          SAINT MOTEL         Destroyer        123.03

6          JAPANDROIDS        Near To The Wild Heart Of Life        120.24

7          SLOWDIVE   Star Roving     119.4

8          PHANTOGRAM       Same Old Blues          118.72

9          KAISER CHIEFS      We Stay Together       118.6

10        LOWER THAN ATLANTIS Had Enough    118.24

11        RIDE  All I Want       117.8

12        DEPECHE MODE     Going Backwards       116.73

13        LORDE          Liability           116.24

14        THE HORRORS        Something To Remember Me By       115.68

15        DEMOB HAPPY       Dead Dreamers           115.4

16        SLOWDIVE   Sugar For The Pill       114.4

17        GLASS ANIMALS   Agnes  112.23

18        DREAMCAR Born To Lie     110.5

19        MISTERWIVES        Machine          107.36

20        ARTIFICIAL PLEASURE   I’ll Make It Worth Your While           107.1

21        CIGARETTES AFTER SEX K         106.5

22        PHOENIX      Ti Amo            106

23        GORILLAZ f/ D.R.A.M.       Andromeda     104.94

24        EVERYTHING EVERYTHING      Desire  102.8

25        EVERYTHING EVERYTHING      Can’t Do          101.64

26        GLASS ANIMALS   Pork Soda       99.12

27        ALT-J  Deadcrush       98.9

28        ROOSEVELT            Belong 98.8

29        BIFFY CLYRO         Friends And Enemies 98.6

30        COURTSHIP Sunroof           98.4

31        ARCADE FIRE         Creature Comfort        96.6

32        TREBLE         Ten Thousand Floors  96.2

33        DREAMCAR Kill For Candy            95.72

34        KASABIAN   Ill Ray (The King)       95.2

35        THE CHAIN GANG OF 1974          Slow    95

36        CIRCA WAVES        Wake Up         94.74

37        THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN  Amputation     93.87

38        GINGER SNAPS       Number Crunching     91

39        SUNDARA KARMA            Explore            90.9

40        THE ORWELLS        They Put A Body In The Bayou         90.3

41        TEMPLES      Strange Or Be Forgotten        90.24

42        DREAMCAR All Of The Dead Girls            89.8

43        CHROMATICS         Shadow           89.8

44        ALT-J  3WW   89.76

45        THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS        C-H-E-M-I-C-A-L      89.2

46        GROUPLOVE           Good Morning            88.64

47        SILVERSUN PICKUPS       Latchkey Kids            86.7

48        RUN THE JEWELS   Legend Has It 85.9

49        THE AMAZONS       Black Magic    85.8

50        EMILY HAINES & THE SOFT SKELETON         Fatal Gift        85.3

51        GOLDFRAPP            Systemagic      84.9

52        VHS COLLECTION The Longest Drive      83.9

53        TEMPLES      Certainty         83.76

54        THE XX         Dangerous       83.7

55        THE AMAZONS       Little Something         83.12

56        RAT BOY      Revolution      82.6

57        CIGARETTES AFTER SEX Apocalypse     81.2

58        PVRIS            What’s Wrong?           80.8

59        FOSTER THE PEOPLE        Pay The Man   80.2

60        ALVVAYS    In Undertow   80.04

61        DECADE       Turn Off Your TV      79.7

62        PARIS YOUTH FOUNDATION     Losing Your Love       79.4

63        PALE WAVES          There’s A Honey         78.7

64        MAXIMO PARK       Risk To Exist  78.66

65        THE NATIONAL      Guilty Party    78.2

66        GORILLAZ f/ JEHNNY BETH       We Got The Power     78.08

67        BANKS          Trainwreck      77.8

68        THE SHERLOCKS   Will You Be There?    76.9

69        COIN  I Don’t Wanna Dance 76.5

70        RAE MORRIS           Reborn            76.2

71        CAR SEAT HEADREST      Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales  75.9

72        WHITE LIES Hold Back Your Love            75.5

73        MALLORY KNOX   Giving It Up   75.1

74        TR/ST  Bicep   74.9

75        MALLORY KNOX   Citalopram (Better Off Without You)            74.6

76        RIDE  Charm Assault            74.25

77        BRITISH SEA POWER        Keep On Trying          74.2

78        RUN RIVER NORTH           29        73.9

79        YOUNG THE GIANT           Silvertongue    73.53

80        SLEIGH BELLS        I Can Only Stare         72.9

81        CLOUD NOTHINGS            Modern Act    72.5

82        CREEPER      Black Rain      71.9

83        PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING f/ TRACYANNE CAMPBELL Progress           71.9

84        CATFISH & THE BOTTLEMEN     Oxygen           70.4

85        THE ORWELLS        Black Francis  70.3

86        THE HORRORS        Machine          70.08

87        MOTHER MOTHER The Drugs       69.78

88        WOLF ALICE           Beautifully Unconventional    69.54

89        WOMPS         Darling            69.5

90        DECLAN MCKENNA          Humongous     68.94

91        BANKS          Crowded Places          68.3

92        MAXIMO PARK       Get High (No I Don’t)            67.84

93        GLASS ANIMALS   Youth  67.7

94        CIRCA WAVES        Fire That Burns           67.56

95        ALGIERS       The Underside Of Power        67.4

96        ATOMIC TOM          I’m Coming After You           67.4

97        BRITISH SEA POWER        Bad Bohemian            67.2

98        PORTUGAL, THE MAN      So Young        67

99        DAUGHTER  Burn It Down 66.7

100      TWIN WILD  Control            66.1