1997: 20th Anniversary Thread

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Poll: What's your favorite album of 1997?
OK Computer by Radiohead
40%
 40%  [13]
Lonesome Crowded West by Modest Mouse
6%
 6%  [2]
Homogenic by Bjork
3%
 3%  [1]
Either/Or by Elliott Smith
3%
 3%  [1]
Perfect From Now On by Built To Spill
3%
 3%  [1]
I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One by Yo La Tengo
0%
 0%  [0]
Boatman's Call by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
0%
 0%  [0]
F# A# Infinity by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
9%
 9%  [3]
Urban Hymns by The Verve
0%
 0%  [0]
The Color and The Shape by Foo Fighters
9%
 9%  [3]
The Fat of The Land by Prodigy
0%
 0%  [0]
Young Team by Mogwai
0%
 0%  [0]
Ladies & Gentleman, We Are Floating Space by Spiritualized
3%
 3%  [1]
Homework by Daft Punk
0%
 0%  [0]
Blur by Blur
0%
 0%  [0]
Time Out of Mind by Bob Dylan
3%
 3%  [1]
Other (Comment to Specify)
18%
 18%  [6]
Total Votes : 32

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  • Posted: 01/11/2017 03:30
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Since 1997 is turning 20 this year, I decided to create a poll to find out everybody's favorite album from the year in question. I should mention that - so far - this is my favorite year in music, so I'm partial.

I feel like "OK Computer" is going to kill this poll. Though I'm hopeful some of the other options have some gravitas and pull through with some votes.

Now I know I only put a few options here, so if your choice isn't on here I've delegated an "Other" option.

I'm looking really looking forward to how this all unfolds. Smile

(As for me. I'm going with Modest Mouse.)
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I love '97 for music. It's crazy that it's been 20 years. Imo, The Colour and the Shape was the best album from that year, and the best ever post-grunge album. Some of my other faves from that year are Nine Lives, Whatever and Ever Amen, SCIENCE, OK Computer, Freak Show, Nimrod, and of course Third Eye Blind's self-titled debut.
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autechre - chiastic slide, one of the very best entries in an amazing discography
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StreetSpirit wrote:
I love '97 for music. It's crazy that it's been 20 years.


First of all, I love your name (of course, OK Computer is on your list Laughing ).

Second, totally agree with you about The Color & The Shape.

Third & Finally, I know what you mean about the year. If I were to compile my favorite records of the 90s, 1997 would hold the most spots. I mean, just look at my top 10 for the year (below):

#1: Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
#2: Radiohead - OK Computer
#3: Built To Spill - Perfect From Now
#4: Bjork - Homogenic
#5: Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
#6: Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
#7: Elliott Smith - Either/Or
#8: Mogwai - Young Team
#9: Goodspeed You! Black Emperor - F# A# Infinity
#10: Spiritualized - Ladies & Gentleman, We Are Floating In Space

All of those are 10s, easy!
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Tap wrote:
autechre - chiastic slide, one of the very best entries in an amazing discography


Like Dig Me Out, Chiastic Slide was heavily considered for the poll but I felt it would've a little obscure to make the list and not just the other option.

As a record, it's just phenomenal.
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Ok Computer, Top 5 of All Time.
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Ok Computer, Top 5 of All Time.



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OP appears to have forgotten black people.

1. Suga Free - Street Gospel
2. Erykah Badu - Baduizm
3. The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death
4. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
5. Bjork - Homogenic
6. Sizzla - Black Woman & Child
7. Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope
8. Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics...
9. Spiritualized - Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space
10. Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever
11. Ronnie Size & Reprazent - New Forms
12. The Flaming Lips - Zaireeka
13. Jay-Z - In My Lifetime, Vol. 1
14. Moodymann - Silent Introduction
15. Organized Konfusion - The Equinox
16. Scarface - The Untouchable
17. Whiskeytown - Stranger's Almanac
18. Autechre - Chiastic Slide
19. Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
20. KRS-One - I Got Next
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'97 sits in my musical dark ages, the decade which runs roughly from the mid '90s to the mid '00s. '97 is a year in which I really struggle to find things to love--even in my top 40 for the year, there's not much that would find a place on any list outside that period.

My top 10 for the year goes like this:

Robben Ford -- Tiger Walk (jazz-rock)
Loreena McKennitt -- The Book of Secrets (new age-celtic)
Connie Dover -- If Ever I Return (celtic-american folk)
Fates Warning -- Pleasant Shade of Gray (progressive metal)
Dream Theater -- Falling into Infinity (progressive metal)
Mike Stern -- Give and Take (fusion)
Blackmore's Night -- Shadow of the Moon (renaissance rock)
Helmet -- Aftertaste (alternative metal)
David Arkenstone -- Spirit Wind (native american new age)
Godsmack -- Godsmack (alternative metal)
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