For the leaders of Tildes, please remember to grow slowly. Your initial policies will somewhat determine the demographic of your early members, and future policy will determine changes in the demographic until a larger demographic and your growing body of policies are in a tug-of-war for the direction of this undertaking.

This means if you act to appease, say, green martian chess players, the site will eventually attract more and push your growth that way. This applies to gamers, trolls, yammerheads(like me), or any class of people you care to name. I only say this because right now I sense a narrow demographic of current members.

Right now, you the leaders have a great amount of control over direction. My hope is for a wider demographic, while retaining a direction that discourages trolling, pedantry, and general instability. A daunting challenge. I respect your initiative and resolve in making a true non-commercial community, one that I hope points the way out of the advertising driven system of funding. Good luck and thank you again.

End of brown-nosing post. /s

                                                              Book Plot: Spoilers

The book opens by introducing the gunslinger, Roland Deschain, who is on a journey to find the Man in Black. As he ventures across the desert with his mule, he meets a farmer who goes by the name of Brown with his crow, Zoltan. The gunslinger begins to tell of the time he spent in the town of Tull. When Roland first comes to Tull, he missed the Man in Black possibly by a week. It is later revealed to Roland by the barmaid, Alice, that during his stay the Man in Black brought a dead weed eater by the name of Nort back to life. Roland makes Sylvia reveal to him that she is pregnant with the Man in Black's child (more importantly the child of the Crimson King). Roland uses his gun and rips the unborn monstrosity out of Sylvia. Outraged, Sylvia convinces the entire town of Tull that Roland is the spawn of the devil. Roland guns down the entire town of Tull: men, women, children, and even his lover, Alice. The story refocuses on Roland at the dwelling of Brown. Roland goes to sleep and wakes up to Brown telling him that his mule died of heat exhaustion and wonders if he can eat it. Roland leaves on foot to continue his pursuit of the Man in Black.

As his journey continues, Roland happens upon a way station and sees someone there in the distance. Roland believes this to be the Man in Black, but finds out it is a young boy by the name of Jake Chambers. Roland is near death when he arrives at the way station and Jake brings him jerky and water from an atomic slug water pump. Jake tells Roland that the Man in Black passed by a few days before. The way Jake talks reveals that he is not from Roland's world. Roland asks Jake about where he came from, but Jake cannot remember anything. Roland proceeds to hypnotize Jake and learn about where he came from.

Jake reveals to Roland that he is from New York and was on his way to school when a man dressed like a priest snuck up on him and pushed him into the street. Roland believes this man to be the Man in Black. Jake is then hit by a car and dies, but not before the priest approaches him and blesses him.

As they prepare to leave, Roland goes down to the cellar and encounters a demon speaking to him from a hole in the wall. After their palaver, Roland reaches into the hole and pulls out a jawbone. They then depart from the way station, and eventually make their way out of the desert into somewhat more welcoming lands. Roland awakes in the middle of the night to find Jake gone. Roland tracks down Jake and finds him about to be taken by the Oracle of the mountains. Roland uses the jawbone to lure the Oracle away from Jake. He then gives Jake the jawbone to concentrate on while he is gone and couples with the oracle himself in order to learn of his fate and path to the Dark Tower. Once Roland returns, Jake discards the jawbone. Come morning, they continue their trek to the mountains.

Along the trek Roland tells Jake a bit about his past. He tells of Hax, the cook, who was hanged for being an aid to the enemy. Hax was to poison the town of Farson/Taunton. Roland and his friend Cuthbert overhear the plot and alert their fathers of the traitor. Hax is hanged and the boys are allowed to watch with permission from their fathers.

Roland also reveals how he became a gunslinger at the age of 14. As he is walking home, his father's advisor Marten Broadcloak calls Roland to see his mother, Gabrielle, in Marten's bed covering her shame. Angry, Roland charges off to challenge Cort so he may receive his guns. He defeats Cort with the use of his hawk, David.

Roland and Jake soon come to the mountains and enter a series of tunnels under the mountains riding on a mine cart. On their journey, they are attacked by a group of Slow Mutants. Roland battles the Slow Mutants and they move along without the mine cart. They eventually come upon the exit from the tunnels. Jake trips and is left dangling from the tracks. As Roland tries to help him, the Man in Black appears and tells Roland that if he saves the boy then he will never catch him. Roland decides to let Jake fall; Jake knows this and spouts, "Go then. There are other worlds than these." Jake then falls to his death as Roland goes to talk with the Man in Black.

They meet in a golgotha and palaver. The Man in Black reads Roland's fate from Tarot cards. Roland's fate includes The Sailor, The Prisoner, The Lady of Shadows, death, life (which the Man in Black burns), and the Tower at the center of everything. The Man in Black tells Roland he is only a pawn for Roland's true enemy who now controls the Tower itself. The Man in Black tries to convince Roland to give up on his quest by creating a representation of the universe and showing him how insignificant he is. Roland refuses and is forced into sleep. When he awakens, ten years have passed and there is a skeleton next to him, which he believes to be the Man in Black. Roland departs from the Golgotha and sits at the edge of the Western Sea contemplating the next step in his quest for the Dark Tower.

I recently took up gardening. It's a lot more complicated and requires a lot more planning than I initially expected. So far I've found it to be rather meditative, sitting and pulling up weeds, watering and such. I'm still not sure whether it's a thing I am "good" at but it's exciting to see something you've planned and nurtured grow! Tell me what you all do for fun/relaxation or to challenge yourself outside of your work.

Disclaimer: I'm a novice and this is a half baked idea

Recap

The Caesar cipher is fairly straight forward as it just shifts letters along by a set amount. This means that it's quite easy to brute force. There's only 25 offsets, after all. Try to decode this to see what i mean:

Plqfh 3 foryhv ri jduolf, dqg frpelqh lq d vpdoo erzo zlwk pdbrqqdlvh, dqfkrylhv, 2 wdeohvsrrqv ri wkh Sduphvdq fkhhvh, Zrufhvwhuvkluh vdxfh, pxvwdug dqg ohprq mxlfh. Vhdvrq wr wdvwh zlwk vdow dqg eodfn shsshu. Uhiuljhudwh xqwlo uhdgb wr xvh. Khdw rlo lq d odujh iublqj sdq ryhu phglxp khdw. Fxw wkh uhpdlqlqj 3 foryhv ri jduolf lqwr txduwhuv, dqg dgg wr krw rlo. Frrn dqg vwlu xqwlo eurzq, dqg wkhq uhpryh jduolf iurp sdq. Dgg euhdg fxehv wr wkh krw rlo. Frrn, wxuqlqj iuhtxhqwob, xqwlo oljkwob eurzqhg. Uhpryh euhdg fxehv iurp rlo, dqg vhdvrq zlwk vdow dqg shsshu. Sodfh ohwwxfh lq d odujh erzo. Wrvv zlwk guhvvlqj, uhpdlqlqj Sduphvdq fkhhvh, dqg vhdvrqhg euhdg fxehv.
bonus points for a program that takes the above text and outputs the shift I used without any human input

My dumb idea (didn't work, my bad. They're in normal Caeser cipher now)

I like the simplicity of the shifting characters but having it always be in one direction, and always being the same offset makes it easy to notice the pattern and decode.

If we have the shift value determined by the length of the current word, and the direction of it dependent on if it's a vowel or a consonant.
a pirate is nothing without his ship becomes
b jolgnk kq gvmapgz ppmavbm elp odml so we still have a visibly Caesar-y cipher, but we'll know it's not a true Caesar cipher.
The offset changes for every word and then is applied based on each letter in the word. If it's a vowel, then the encoded value is shifted upwards but if not, it slides down.

For the purposes of the below tomfoolery; prime numbers are consonants and the rest are vowels.

A Valley Without Wind 1 and 2 Steam Key:
B qjsbuf jt opuijoh xjuipvu ijt tijq
FWR0H-GQM7B-5344H

Aces Wild: Manic Brawling Action:
C rktcvg ku pqvjkpi ykvjqwv jku ujkr
K5R0H-29NPM-A3OTE

Age of Empires Legacy Bundle:
D sludwh lv qrwklqj zlwkrxw klv vkls
69PQW-UY3H7-7SQWT

AI War + 4 DLC packs & Tidalis Steam Key:
E tmvexi mw rsxlmrk amxlsyx lmw wlmt
KO99D-73JZ2-XNIK3

AI War: Vengeance Steam Key:
F unwfyj nx stymnsl bnymtzy mnx xmnu
7M2I8-I99N9-6E9F2

Alan Wake Collector's Edition Steam Key:
G voxgzk oy tuznotm coznuaz noy ynov
6ZNJ5-BIVFN-6ZSDZ

Alan Wake's American Nightmare Steam Key:
H wpyhal pz uvaopun dpaovba opz zopw
7RERD-4ACYN-TCDQ2

Amnesia: Dark Descent Steam Key:
I xqzibm qa vwbpqvo eqbpwcb pqa apqx
VGEO8-OU48X-MU7BL

Anachronox:
J yrajcn rb wxcqrwp frcqxdc qrb bqry
3589L-YGF9V-NKGW0

Anodyne:
K zsbkdo sc xydrsxq gsdryed rsc crsz
9HW7H-7Z73Z-6302D

Anomaly Defenders:
L atclep td yzestyr hteszfe std dsta
ICPIB-M63TI-9Y96V

Anomaly Korea:
M budmfq ue zaftuzs iuftagf tue etub
QMPZ2-JUK8B-JRK3V

Anomaly Korea:
N cvengr vf abguvat jvgubhg uvf fuvc
30R9T-C02AA-7DQLG

Anomaly Warzone Earth:
O dwfohs wg bchvwbu kwhvcih vwg gvwd
38UM9-Z26PH-Q4VAU

Anomaly Warzone Earth Mobile Campaign:
P exgpit xh cdiwxcv lxiwdji wxh hwxe
54TYN-AU26Q-5AGGY

Aquaria Steam key:
Q fyhqju yi dejxydw myjxekj xyi ixyf
3853A-YSB4J-6243A

Awesomenauts:
R gzirkv zj efkyzex nzkyflk yzj jyzg
DH9T5-BWOQC-KB6TB

Awesomenauts:
S hajslw ak fglzafy oalzgml zak kzah
RNRJ0-CPT4O-S9UHE

Awesomenauts Cluck Costume:
T ibktmx bl ghmabgz pbmahnm abl labi
VOWWW-QTR3Q-EAS9J

These are encoded using a Caeser shift. The line under the title is a fixed phrase (a pirate is nothing without his ship) for aid in the bonus points

I can post my code if it turns out to be unsolvable (like a bug https://trinket.io/python/dabf2b61f9), but if not; I can also keep going from letters A to Y (sans U) over the weeks with my humble bundle reserves (plaintext or not). I've had these keys for far too long and I'm never going to actually use them, but I also noticed a surge of keys being donated here so figured I might as well change it up.

Have fun

The point of this thread is to post your code for solving the task. Other will comment with feedback and new ideas. Post what language (and version, if relevant) your code is written in.
Have fun!

Task description

Your task is to make a caesar cipher that takes a word and an integer as arguments.
An article explaining what the cipher does.

Input description

A word followed by a space and an integer.

Output description

The ciphered word.

Sample onput

A 1
Caesar 5
Tildes 25

Sample output

B
Hfjxfw
Shkcdr

Bonus 1

Make the cipher work backwards.

Sample input

B 1
Hfjxfw 5
Shkcdr 25

Sample output

A
Caesar
Tildes

Bonus 2

Make the cipher handle special characters.

Sample onput

A_ 1
Cae?sar 5
Til!des 25

Sample output

B
Hfj?xfw
Shk!cdr

This is a very hard puzzle. There is a solution that guarantees 100% chance of escape.

You and your friend are incarcerated. Your jailer offers a challenge. If you complete the challenge you are both free to go. Otherwise you are condemned to die. Here are the rules:

-The jailer will take you into a private cell. In the cell will be a chessboard and a jar containing 64 coins.

-The jailer will take the coins, one-by-one, and place a coin on each square on the board. He will place the coins randomly on the board. Some coins will be heads, and some tails (or maybe they will be all heads, or all tails; you have no idea. It's all at the jailer's whim. He may elect to look and choose to make a pattern himself, he may toss them placing them the way they land, he might look at them as he places them, he might not …). If you attempt to interfere with the placing of the coins, it is instant death for you. If you attempt to coerce, suggest, or persuade the jailer in any way, instant death. All you can do it watch.

-Once all the coins have been laid out, the jailer will point to one of the squares on the board and say: “This one!” He is indicating the magic square. This square is the key to your freedom.

-The jailer will then allow you to turn over one coin on the board. Just one. A single coin, but it can be any coin, you have full choice. If the coin you select is a head, it will flip to a tail. If it is a tail it will flip to a head. This is the only change you are allowed to make to the jailers initial layout.

-You will then be lead out of the room. If you attempt to leave other messages behind, or clues for your friend … yes, you guessed it, instant death!

-The jailer will then bring your friend into the room.

-Your friend will look at the board (no touching allowed), then examine the board of coins and decide which location he thinks is the magic square.

-He gets one chance only (no feedback). Based on the configuration of the coins he will point to one square and say: “This one!”

-If he guesses correctly, you are both pardoned, and instantly set free. If he guesses incorrectly, you are both executed.

-The jailer explains all these rules, to both you and your friend, beforehand and then gives you time to confer with each other to devise a strategy for which coin to flip.

What is your strategy? How do you escape?

Original source and answer: http://datagenetics.com/blog/december12014/index.html

On the heels of President Trump pulling out of talks with North Korea over nuclear disarmament in the Korean peninsula, the United States' pending withdrawal from the Paris agreement (coming soon! ... the day after the next presidential election), and the United States' unilateral withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement, combined with ongoing Russian and Iranian leadership in resolving the Syrian civil war and Chinese leadership in talks with North Korea, we seem to be heading toward an ambiguous point in international geopolitics.

So this question is simple and nasty: Is the United States on its way to losing its status as the unquestioned dominant world power in the international order?

If it is on its way off the top of the food chain, who will challenge it? Are we returning to a cold war-style era or are the lines shifting and different? If the United States is not on its way to losing its dominant status, how might it maintain its footing in a world that seems increasingly disillusioned with it?

I love drawing and painting. But sometimes I am attacked by inertia or my self confidence deserts me. Or sometimes I want to scribble without worrying about the end result. Thus, SPEEDPAINT.

You grab whatever materials are around and race to get as much done as possible. I use a one hour time limit. You can copy a reference or make it up from your head. Technique is helpful but not required. This is a digital speed paint from a photo. I think I did it in mspaint. This is construction paper and crayola crayon.

If we occasionally had a thread for a speed art challenge, would anyone be interested? Not to compete against each other, but compete against yourself and show support for others willing to try.

(0) Background

This is coming off a discussion in today's thread on forming new groups around whether or not to add a group for politics. I expressed there that, given my moderator experience on /r/ChangeMyView and /r/NeutralPolitics, I opposed making such a group given how Tildes currently stands.

(1) Political discussion is nearly always garbage.

I don't think anyone needs reminding of this, but political discussion almost uniformly fails to achieve anything positive in almost any social media platform. Your uncle's facebook rants? Garbage. Political sniping on Twitter? Garbage. The endless repetitive point scoring and outrage fest on most political subreddits? Garbage.

So, we have to ask, why is this content garbage?

(2) People want to be heard, but nobody wants to hear.

I do not think political discussion is garbage because of bad faith trolling. That certainly exists and does not help, but usually it's not hard to ID the trolls, and excepting egregious stuff like doxxing or threats, to ignore obvious bad faith absurdity.

The much bigger issue is that what people want to do is to be heard and validated in their political views. This is not merely that they want to proselytize or to win converts, but that they're seeking validation and a sense of rightness or righteousness in their statements.

This desire is toxic to a neutral forum, because invariably on any divisive issue, you will not merely be heard and validated, but will be challenged and denigrated. Indeed, often the challenges and denigrations themselves are the same performance in reverse. Members of each team trying to dunk on the other and earn validation for how hard they owned the other side.

(3) To overcome this, a successful political forum must have a purpose other than mere commentary.

On /r/ChangeMyView and /r/NeutralPolitics, we have been able to build forums which have large amounts of productive and non-hostile political discussion. The key to this is that neither forum allows for being heard, or general discussion, as its reason for being.

On /r/ChangeMyView we limit posts to views people genuinely hold, and are open to changing (CMV rule B). This requires that OPs cannot come to troll or soapbox. It is by far the most frequently used rule of ours in terms of removing submissions, almost always on the soapboxing side.

On /r/NeutralPolitics, we limit posts to neutrally framed questions about political subjects, which can be answered with facts. By doing this, we narrow the scope of discussion away from soliciting feelings (which is an invitation to people posting just to be heard) and towards bringing forth factual information, where people might learn something.

I don't know what purpose a political forum on Tildes might have, but to succeed it must have a clear purpose, and that purpose must be one which excludes people posting merely to be heard.

(4) In addition to a purpose beyond being heard, a political forum must have extreme civility rules.

Both CMV and NP have extremely similar rules in this regard, and they are absolutely crucial to the success of the fora.

In general, any comment or post which in any way denigrates another user should be removed. This is an extremely broad civility rule that is well past what most subreddits do. Calling another user a liar, or accusing them of bad faith posting is banned on both CMV and NP for example, even when such accusations are true.

The prohibition on what even may be seen as justified rudeness is I think the key to a civility rule. It immediately removes from the moderation process any discretion around the substance of the politics, and makes it a neutral rule which can be applied evenly to all parties.

It is also necessary because nothing productive ever happens after bad faith is accused. Almost uniformly, once someone is rude, if there is a response back to them, the response will be rude in kind, usually more severely. People love to try to get the last word in, and a clear, objective rule banning "they started it" spats is also an important component. CMV's wiki has a really good overview of how we enforce this rule there.

(5) Conclusion/TL;DR

I don't know exactly what political content should exist on Tildes. I do know that a general politics group will not work, and that rather a politics channel should be focused on a discrete purpose other than just discussion.

I would almost certainly ban link posts from any politics group, since inherently they're going to act as just headlines for people to pontificate on, without guiding discussion towards a particular goal. I would also obviously enforce civility, and have much stricter moderation of it than I might on a non-politics forum.

Edited for formatting

Welcome to the /r/ListenToThis Best Of 2017!

Here there are no scores, no judgments, and no opinions - just obscure music shared by redditors, collected and arranged for you over the course of several months by our dedicated mod team. This list is meant to complement other best of lists on the internet, many of which are linked in the sticky comment below for further discovery.

Set #1 includes everything - the best of the best tracks and a corresponding all-inclusive album playlist.
The other sets are the same content, broken up into genre groups so you can listen according to your tastes. There is a sampler (1 track per album) and a full-album (every track from every album) playlist for each group. We’ve also included a listing of the albums by set in this post as not everything is available on Spotify, Tidal, etc. We tried to prefer an artist’s Bandcamp or Soundcloud, but if nothing else was available, you may see Youtube, Spotify, and iTunes links. The final count this year is 226 artists out of more than a thousand submissions.

What did we miss? Share your favorites in the comments… and happy listening..

-- the /r/ListenToThis hipster facista

Set 1 - The Full Smash

Best Tracks on Spotify & All Albums on Spotify

And, on the other services:

• Best Tracks on Tidal & All Albums on Tidal

• Best Tracks on Google

• Best Tracks on Deezer & All Albums on Deezer

• Best Tracks on Youtube

• Spotify profile with listing of all playlists

• Google music profile with listing of all playlists

• Youtube profile with listing of all playlists

Set 2 - Pop, Indie & Related

Spotify Sampler & Spotify Albums

Google Sampler & Google Albums

Deezer Sampler & Deezer Albums

Tidal Sampler & Tidal Albums

Youtube Sampler & Youtube Albums

Apple Music Sampler (thanks /u/suckitnewtabs)

• Kacey Johansing - The Hiding
• Walker Lukens - Tell It To The Judge
• MY BABY - Prehistoric Rhythm
• Phum Viphurit - Manchild
• Jonti - Tokorats
• Whitehorse - Panther In The Dollhouse
• HOTT MT - Au (Alternate Universe)
• Surf Dads - All Day Breakfast
• Skyway Man - Seen Comin' From A Mighty Eye
• Heaters - Matterhorn
• Girls Who Care - Light Sleeper
• SCALLER - Senses
• Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - High Visceral {Part 2}
• Elise Trouw - Unraveling
• Sunglasses Kid - Graduation
• Meatbodies - Alice
• The Marías - Superclean Vol. I
• Kelley Stoltz - Que Aura
• Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology
• Kelly Dance - Wild Grass
• Starcadian - Midnight Signals
• Caleb Hawley - Love, Drugs, & Decisions
• The Mysterons - Meandering

Set 3 - Progressive & Related

Spotify Sampler & Spotify Albums

Google Sampler & Google Albums

Deezer Sampler & Deezer Albums

Tidal Sampler & Tidal Albums

Apple Music Sampler (thanks /u/BlueRoseImmortal)

Youtube Sampler & Youtube Albums

• Bent Knee - Land Animal
• Arch Echo - Arch Echo
• Arcane Roots - Melancholia Hymns
• Blumen - Mångata
• ichika - forn
• Chinese Football - Here Comes A New Challenger!!!
• Milco - Nerima
• I/O - Anyone, Anywhere
• Perihelion Ship - To Paint A Bird Of Fire
• Lör - In Forgotten Sleep
• Waclaw Zimpel, Kuba Ziolek - Zimpel/Ziolek
• The Physics House Band - Mercury Fountain
• Amplifier - Trippin' With Dr. Faustus
• Wobbler - From Silence To Somewhere
• Smalltape - The Ocean
• Pregnant Whale Pain - Blank
• Kettlespider - Kettlespider
• gP. - Destroy, So As To Build
• Dora The Destroyer - Dependent Secondary
• Glowbug - Fantasma Del Tropico
• O.R.k. - Soul Of An Octopus
• Aiming For Enrike - Las Napalmas
• Soup - Remedies
• Bader Nana - Devlover
• James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits
• Grün - Manyana

Set 4 - Hip-Hop, Trip-Hop & Instrumentals

Spotify Sampler & Spotify Albums

Google Sampler & Google Albums

Deezer Sampler & Deezer Albums

Tidal Sampler & Tidal Albums

Apple Music Sampler (thanks /u/firewire_9000)

Youtube Sampler & Youtube Albums

• Awon & Dephlow (prod. Phoniks) - Sleep Is The Cousin Of Death
• Otis Junior & Dr.Dundiff - Hemispheres
• Figub Brazlevic - 4x4 Palestine Jeep Beats
• Deca - The Way Through
• Sweeps - tomorrow
• mister T. - The Return Of The Classic
• Sidewalk Chalk - An Orchid Is Born
• Has-Lo - The Paul Tape
• TheColorGrey - REBELATION
• Hex One - Words Worth A Thousand Pictures
• mtbrd - Smoovies
• Sampa The Great - Birds And The BEE9
• Dirty Art Club - Basement Seance
• Vanilla - Moonlight
• ETOAS - End Times Of A Sunshine
• Insight The Truncator & Damu The Fudgemunk - Ears Hear Spears
• Damu The Fudgemunk - Vignettes
• Damu The Fudgemunk - The Reflecting Sea (Welcome to a New Philosophy)
• elijah who - gentle boy
• Declaime - Young Spirit
• Abstract Orchestra - Dilla
• Stik Figa - Central Standard Time
• Mykele Deville - Peace, Fam
• Uncommon Nasa - Written At Night
• Armand Hammer - ROME

Set 5 - Punk & Related

Spotify Sampler & Spotify Albums

Google Sampler & Google Albums

Deezer Sampler & Deezer Albums

Tidal Sampler & Tidal Albums

Youtube Sampler & Youtube Albums

• ISS - Endless Pussyfooting (bandcamp exclusive)
• Onsind - We Wilt, We Bloom (bandcamp exclusive)
• IDLES - Brutalism
• The Dopamines - Tales Of Interest
• SINGLE MOTHERS - Our Pleasure
• Milk Teeth - Go Away EP
• Charly Bliss - Guppy
• UV-TV - Glass
• Scarboro - Here Comes The Hangover
• Hard Girls - Floating Now
• Just Say Nay - Logistical Nightmares
• Perspective, a lovely hand to hold - What Not To Do
• football, etc. - Corner
• Silver Shadows - Cold Plastic
• The World - FIRST WORLD RECORD
• Parlor Walls - Opposites
• Agent blå - Agent blå
• Telethon - The Grand Spontanean
• Ganglions - Thirsty
• pigeon pit - treehouse
• Harley Poe - Lost And Losing It

Set 6 - Electronic & Related

Spotify Sampler & Spotify Albums

Google Sampler & Google Albums

Deezer Sampler & Deezer Albums

Tidal Sampler & Tidal Albums

Apple Music Sampler (thanks /u/firewire_9000)

Youtube Sampler & Youtube Albums

• Primate - Simulated Reality
• Fearofdark - Exit Plan
• Lav & Purl - A State Of Becoming
• Prequell - The Future Comes Before
• Hades Of Spades - Dysphoria
• Edamame - Bask
• JASSS - Weightless
• Nym - Lilac Chaser
• Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
• Laurence Guy - Saw You For The First Time
• Dysphemic - Zeus
• Sally Dige - Holding On
• Basement Freaks - Freedom
• Zoogma - A Future In Blue
• TIANCI - Too Alien For Earth
• Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Ambient Black Magic
• Octo Octa - Where Are We Going?
• Anomalie - Métropole

Set 7 - Metal

Spotify Sampler & Spotify Albums

Google Sampler & Google Albums

Deezer Sampler & Deezer Albums

Tidal Sampler & Tidal Albums

Youtube Sampler & Youtube Albums

Apple Music Sampler (thanks /u/BlueRoseImmortal)

• Elder - Reflections Of A Floating World
• Dool - Here Now, There Then
• Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie
• Archspire - Relentless Mutation
• Below - Upon A Pale Horse
• Mesarthim - The Great Filter / Type III
• Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
• The Hirsch Effekt - ESKAPIST
• Zeal & Ardor - Devil Is Fine
• Satan's Hallow Band - Satan's Hallow
• Xanthochroid - Of Erthe and Axen Act II
• Unleash The Archers - Apex
• Walpyrgus - Walpyrgus Nights
• Violet Cold - Anomie
• Havukruunu - Kelle Surut Soi
• The Ruins Of Beverast - Exuvia
• Mutoid Man - War Moans
• Voyager - Ghost Mile
• In The Company Of Serpents - Ain-Soph Aur
• Worry - A Celebration Of Suffering

Set 8 - Jazz, Soul, Funk & Related

Spotify Sampler & Spotify Albums

Google Sampler & Google Albums

Deezer Sampler & Deezer Albums

Tidal Sampler & Tidal Albums

Apple Music Sampler (thanks /u/firewire_9000)

Youtube Sampler & Youtube Albums

• MonoNeon - A Place Called Fantasy
• Ill Considered - Ill Considered
• The Comet Is Coming - Death To The Planet
• The Heliocentrics - A World Of Masks
• Don Bryant - Don't Give Up On Love
• Five Alarm Funk - SWEAT
• Tony Allen - A Tribute To Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
• Wildflower - Wildflower
• Alfa Mist - Antiphon
• The Babe Rainbow - The Babe Rainbow
• Charnett Moffett - Music From Our Soul
• Nicole Mitchell - Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
• Orlando le Fleming & Romantic Funk - Romantic Funk
• Collocutor - The Search
• Soil & "PIMP" Sessions - Music from and Inspired by Hello Harinezumi
• Yazz Ahmed - La Saboteuse
• Binker & Moses – Journey To The Mountain Of Forever
• Nubya Garcia - Nubya's 5ive
• Jaimie Branch - Fly Or Die
• Melanie De Biasio - Lilies
• Richard Spaven - The Self
• Kalu & The Electric Joint - Time Undone
• Voodoo Visionary - Off The Ground
• Sr. Langosta - El Experimento Caribeño
• Ambrose Akinmusire - A Rift in Decorum: Live at the Village Vanguard
• Skinshape - Live & Love
• Braxton Cook - Somewhere In Between
• Mammal Hands - Shadow Work
• Chuck Johnson - Balsams
• Joey Defrancesco & The People - Project Freedom
• Superfluous Motor - Idiosyncrasies
• The Necks - Unfold
• Johnny Sketch & The Dirty Notes - Sketch
• Nate Smith - KINFOLK: Postcards From Everywhere
• Cameron Graves - Planetary Prince
• Jungle Fire - Jambu
• Baast - Bazzar

Set 9 - Afrobeat, World & Classical

Spotify Sampler & Spotify Albums

Google Sampler & Google Albums

Deezer Sampler & Deezer Albums

Tidal Sampler & Tidal Albums

Youtube Sampler & Youtube Albums

• Stinger - Hard Proof
• Luis Peixoto - Assimétrico
• Antibalas - Where The Gods Are In Peace
• The Seven Ups - Drinking Water
• The Scorpios - The Scorpios
• Ajate - Abrada
• Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet
• Danish String Quartet - Last Leaf
• Hear In Now - Not Living In Fear
• Tamikrest - Kidal
• Anouar Brahem - Blue Maqams
• Sebastião Antunes & Quadrilha - Singular
• Oumou Sangaré - Mogoya
• Ifriqiyya Electrique - Rûwâhîne
• ROSALÍA - Los Ángeles
• Songhoy Blues - Résistance
• Awa Poulo - Poulo Warali
• Jenna Moynihan & Mairi Chaimbeul - One Two
• Battle Of Santiago - La Migra
• Jeremy Danneman - Honey Wine
• Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band – Adiós Señor Pussycat
• Aldina Duarte - Quando Se Ama Loucamente
• Juniore - Ouh là là
• Isabella Bretz - Canções para Abreviar Distâncias
• Jenny Scheinman - Here On Earth
• Daymé Arocena - Cubafonía
• The Homesick - Youth Hunt
• Mondo Grosso - ???????????
• Blue Rose Code - The Water Of Leith
• Moses Hightower - Fjallaloft
• Litku Klemetti - Juna Kainuuseen
• Various Artists - Sweet As Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes from the Horn of Africa

Set 10 - Americana & Related

Spotify Sampler & Spotify Albums

Google Sampler & Google Albums

Deezer Sampler & Deezer Albums

Tidal Sampler & Tidal Albums

Apple Music Sampler (thanks /u/firewire_9000)

Youtube Sampler & Youtube Albums

• The Texas Gentlemen - TX Jelly
• Billy Strings - Turmoil & Tinfoil
• Kate Rhudy - Rock N' Roll Ain't For Me
• Norah Jane Struthers & The Party Line
• Courtney Marie Andrews - Honest Life
• Nicole Atkins - Goodnight Rhonda Lee
• Sherman Holmes - The Sherman Holmes Project: The Richmond Sessions
• Viper Central - The Spirit Of God And Madness
• Twisted Pine - Twisted Pine
• The Dawn Brothers - Stayin' Out Late
• Kitchen Dwellers - Ghost In The Bottle
• Bad Manion - Good Afternoon
• Trout Steak Revival - Spirit To The Sea
• The Trongone Band - Keys To The House
• The Railsplitters - Jump In
• My Terrible Friend - I Tried To Be Kind
• Sallie Ford - Soul Sick
• Lilly Hiatt - Trinity Lane
• EmiSunshine - Ragged Dreams
• Derek Hoke - Bring The Flood
• The Sons of the Palomino - Sons of the Palomino
• Thorpe Jenson - Odessa
• Pam Taylor - Steal Your Heart
• Samantha Fish - Belle of the West
• Jim Byrnes - Long Hot Summer Days
• Angaleena Presley - Wrangled
• Chuck Prophet - Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins
• Natalie Hemby - Puxico
• Marty Stuart - Way Out West
• Whiskey Shivers - Some Part Of Something
• Sarah Shook & The Disarmers - Sidelong
• Split Lip Rayfield - On My Way

Disclaimer: The Spotify playlists are the masters. They were auto-replicated to all of the other services, and there will be some missing albums on those services. The Youtube playlists may also get a bit wonky. Unfortunately, we don’t have the resources needed to fix every hiccup or keep track of what’s missing on every service. Apple music doesn’t provide an easy import mechanism either, though if someone wants to create Apple lists, we’ll link them here. Also, Google Music and Youtube simply can’t handle the All Albums playlist, so they are omitted.

Links to Other Best Of Lists

• NPR's Top 50 Albums
• NPR's Top 100 Songs
• AOTY's Master List for 2017
• Rate Your Music's Top Albums of 2017
• Metacritic's Best Albums of 2017
• Pitchfork's Best Albums of 2017
• Pitchfork's Best Songs of 2017
• The Quietus' Best Albums of 2017
• The A.V. Club’s 20 Best Albums of 2017
• Amoeba Music’s 50 Best Albums of 2017
• Wire’s Top Releases 2017
• Fact Mag’s Top 50 of 2017
• XLR8R's Best of 2017: Releases
• XLR8R's Best of 2017: Albums
• XLR8R's Best of 2017: Tracks
• Complex’s Top 50 Albums of 2017
• Spin’s 50 Best Albums of 2017
• Fader’s 101 Best Songs of 2017
• The Guardian’s Best Albums of 2017
• Bleeps Albums Of The Year For 2017
• TheNeedleDrop’s Top 50 Albums of 2017
• NOISEY’s 100 Best Albums of 2017
• BestEverAlbum’s Best Albums of 2017
• Sputnikmusic's Best Albums of 2017
• SputnikMusic's Staff Top50 of 2017
• Resident Advisor's Best Albums of 2017
• Resident Advisor's Staff Picks of 2017

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