Top 100 Music Albums of 1997
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desh79 
The year I turned 18, but alas, failed to come of age. I still haven't really grown up, come to think of it.
- Chart updated: 12/22/2023 12:45
- (Created: 01/02/2017 17:05).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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FF7 (or, as I prefer to call it, the Citizen Kane of video games) is an old game by now, but to me, the - by contemporary standards - primitive graphics and glitchy MIDI sounds are what make up part of the game's charm. The soundtrack is one of the greatest works of the 20th century if you ask me, but that's probably just me.
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Now here's a work that is more universally acclaimed as one of the all-time greatest, and rightly so. So much has been written about its prophetic qualities, how it more or less foresaw the algorhythm-driven digital hellscape we all inhabit these days, and much more eloquently than I ever could hope to, that I will spare you any more pseudophilosophical ramblings thereof.
I will, however, add this: for a 17-year old who had spent the previous two years in Britpop narcolepsy, this was an utter revelation. Rock and electronic music can actually mix? Whaaaa? [First added to this chart: 05/17/2017]
I will, however, add this: for a 17-year old who had spent the previous two years in Britpop narcolepsy, this was an utter revelation. Rock and electronic music can actually mix? Whaaaa? [First added to this chart: 05/17/2017]
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1997
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Yes, the title track draws from Pachelbel's Canon in D Major, but so does basically every piece of music that's halfway good or decent. As someone who underwent his first major painful teenage separation when this came out, I salute this album, and then some.
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1997
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Another side effect of the Oasis/Britpop hype was The Verve becoming, for a short while and in the UK at least, absolutely massive. Walking into a McDonald's in Cambridge, and hearing "Sonnet" playing on the loudspeakers, was the moment I realised that the kind of music I liked to listen to had finally crossed over into the mainstream proper, which was nice while it lasted.
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1997
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An album I only discovered relatively late (roundabout 2004, the same time I first came upon the immortal Lift Your Skinny Fists), and I definitely regret that my 18-year old self didn't listen to this.
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1997
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Music that immediately sparks flashbacks to nightly Tomb Raider 2 and Resident Evil sessions, I salute you.
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1997
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Miyazaki-Hisaishi is as fine a director/composer pairing you're likely to encounter in all of cinema (and, yes, that includes Leone/Morricone and Hitchcock/Herrmann). Mononoke-Hime - at the time the biggest film EVER in Japan, lest we forget - is Miyazaki's magnum opus, and ultimately Hisaishi's as well.
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Not in the top 200 for the year? Not even close to the top 100? Oh man. This was one of the highlights of the Britpop era! Tomorrow, Waltzing Along and She's a Star (the latter a top ten hit, no less) are some of the best songs in James's repertoire. I wonder if the cover - which, diplomatically put, is a matter of taste - may have something to do with its low ranking.
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Firmly established Bjork as one of the definitive artists of the decade. And isn't the Michel Gondry-directed video to Bachelorette absolutely incredible?
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1997
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Experience was their "Rave acts can make albums too!"-album. Jilted Generation was the "Rave acts can be political and sorta kinda make concept albums!"-album. This? It's the "Let's cross the Atlantic and MAKE LOADSAMONEY"-album. In a way it should have been the final Prodigy album, but alas. A genuinely good album in parts (Breathe, Mindfields, Narayan are superb tracks) but already hints that there won't be very much of interest coming in the future, as it unfortunately proved to be.
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1997
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Top 100 Music Albums of 1997 composition
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| Primal Scream | 2 | 2% | |
| Smog | 1 | 1% | |
| Sigur Rós | 1 | 1% | |
| Super Furry Animals | 1 | 1% | |
| Buena Vista Social Club | 1 | 1% | |
| Amon Tobin | 1 | 1% | |
| The Corrs | 1 | 1% | |
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45 | 45% | |
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28 | 28% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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