The Music 2017 Writers' Poll: Steve Bell

Album of the year

1. TV Haze — Scrap Museum
2. The Stevens — Good
3. Bed Wettin' Bad Boys — Rot
4. Ben Salter — Back Yourself
5. RVG — A Quality Of Mercy
6. Terry — Remember Terry
7. A Savage — Thawing Dawn
8. Paul Kelly — Life Is Fine
9. Jason Isbell — The Nashville Sound
10. Jeremy Neale — Getting The Team Back Together

Song of the year

1. Wireheads — Indian Pacific Express
2. Cable Ties — Say What You Mean
3. Ron Gallo — Young Lady, You're Scaring Me
4. Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile — Blue Cheese
5. Hurray For The Riff Raff — Living In The City

Artist of the year

1. Midnight Oil
2. TV Haze
3. Thigh Master
4. RVG
5. Paul Kelly

International Performance Of the year 

1. Carseat Headrest
2. Bruce Springsteen
3. Parquet Courts
4. Teenage Fanclub
5. The Courtneys

Australian Performance of the year

1. Midnight Oil
2. Radio Birdman
3. RVG
4. The Ocean Party
5. Paul Kelly

Top TV Show

1. Stranger Things
2. Rick & Morty
3. Disjointed

Top Movie

1. Blade Runner 2049
2. It
3. Uncertain

Highlight Of The Year 

Taking the Brisbane Lines to their inaugural Community Cup victory as playing coach, the 'yes' vote getting up in every state, getting to put out Spiral Stairs' album on St Kilda coloured vinyl (young me would think my job here on Earth is done), an incredible spree of great Aussie underground albums being released all throughout the year — the album poll this year was stupidly hard.

Prediction For 2018

People everywhere will be outraged by increasingly trivial things and voice said outrage vociferously on social media and the internet until it all just becomes noise and folks start to step back and realise that they're wasting the only time they're gifted on Earth and start enjoying life and living it to the full. Sorry, that last bit will never happen, we'll just get inane amounts of increasingly ludicrous (and usually self-serving) outrage...