Top 28 Music Albums of 1997
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Onater 
There's like 10 albums here that could easily be AOTY in any other year. The only reason The Lonesome Crowded West isn't here is because I've heard it described countless times as the perfect road trip album, and I've been waiting for a suitable road trip to listen to it.
My Top 10 songs of 1997:
10. Built To Spill - Velvet Waltz (Perfect From Now On)
9. Built To Spill - Untrustable/Part 2 (About Someone Else) (Perfect From Now On)
8. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For? (The Boatman's Call)
7. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms (The Boatman's Call)
6. Built To Spill - Randy Described Eternity (Perfect From Now On)
5. Radiohead - No Surprises (OK Computer)
4. Radiohead - Let Down (OK Computer)
3. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space)
2. Shiro Sagisu - Komm, süsser Tod (The End of Evangelion )
1. Belle & Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane (Lazy Line Painter Jane)
- Chart updated: 03/01/2020 01:45
- (Created: 01/09/2017 03:05).
- Chart size: 28 albums.
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"Where you gonna be? Where will you spend eternity? I'm gonna be perfect from now on. I'm gonna be perfect, starting now."
Favourite Tracks: Randy Described Eternity, Untrustable/Part 2 (About Someone Else), Velvet Waltz, I Would Hurt A Fly [First added to this chart: 05/07/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Randy Described Eternity, Untrustable/Part 2 (About Someone Else), Velvet Waltz, I Would Hurt A Fly [First added to this chart: 05/07/2017]
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1997
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5,994
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"One day, I am going to grow wings, a chemical reaction, hysterical and useless, hysterical and..."
I've listened to this album at least a hundred times, and I swear, it just gets better every time. Every single track from it has been my favourite at some point (yes, even Fitter Happier).
Favourite Tracks: Let Down, No Surprises, Exit Music (For A Film), Paranoid Android, Airbag, The Tourist [First added to this chart: 03/07/2017]
I've listened to this album at least a hundred times, and I swear, it just gets better every time. Every single track from it has been my favourite at some point (yes, even Fitter Happier).
Favourite Tracks: Let Down, No Surprises, Exit Music (For A Film), Paranoid Android, Airbag, The Tourist [First added to this chart: 03/07/2017]
Year of Release:
1997
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63,592
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"The skyline was beautiful on fire, all twisted metal stretching upwards, everything washed in a thin orange haze. I said kiss me, you're beautiful, these are truly the last days. You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream, or a fever."
The CD version is better than the Vinyl version listed on this site.
Favourite Tracks: The Dead Flag Blues (Intro), The Dead Flag Blues (Outro), The Cowboy, Dead Metheny, The Sad Mafioso [First added to this chart: 03/07/2017]
The CD version is better than the Vinyl version listed on this site.
Favourite Tracks: The Dead Flag Blues (Intro), The Dead Flag Blues (Outro), The Cowboy, Dead Metheny, The Sad Mafioso [First added to this chart: 03/07/2017]
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1997
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6,563
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"GET OFF MY ASS, YA WEE BITTY FUCK. IF I PULL OUT THE CLAYMORE, YER SHIT OUTTA LUCK."
Don't do drugs kids.
Favourite Tracks: She Wanted To Leave, Ocean Man, Mutilated Lips, The Mollusk, Waving My Dick In The Wind, The Blarney Stone [First added to this chart: 06/15/2017]
Don't do drugs kids.
Favourite Tracks: She Wanted To Leave, Ocean Man, Mutilated Lips, The Mollusk, Waving My Dick In The Wind, The Blarney Stone [First added to this chart: 06/15/2017]
Year of Release:
1997
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3,125
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"I would think about you all the time. Now it just feels weird that there you are."
Favourite Tracks: My Little Corner Of The World, Autumn Sweater, Sugarcube, Damage, Shadows, Deeper Into Movies, We're An American Band [First added to this chart: 06/15/2017]
Favourite Tracks: My Little Corner Of The World, Autumn Sweater, Sugarcube, Damage, Shadows, Deeper Into Movies, We're An American Band [First added to this chart: 06/15/2017]
Year of Release:
1997
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3,575
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"It all returns to nothing, it all comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down."
Favourite Tracks: Komm, süsser Tod, Jesus bleibet meine Freude, II Air, The Passage Of Emptiness, Expansion Of Blockade, Thanatos -If I Can't Be Yours-
Favourite Tracks: Komm, süsser Tod, Jesus bleibet meine Freude, II Air, The Passage Of Emptiness, Expansion Of Blockade, Thanatos -If I Can't Be Yours-
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"Drink up, baby, stay up all night, with the things you could do, you won't, but you might."
Favourite Tracks: Say Yes, Between The Bars, Angeles, Speed Trials, Alameda [First added to this chart: 04/28/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Say Yes, Between The Bars, Angeles, Speed Trials, Alameda [First added to this chart: 04/28/2017]
Year of Release:
1997
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10,380
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"Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built. Out of longing great wonders have been willed."
Favourite Tracks: Into My Arms, (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?, People Ain't No Good, Lime Tree Arbour [First added to this chart: 03/07/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Into My Arms, (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?, People Ain't No Good, Lime Tree Arbour [First added to this chart: 03/07/2017]
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1997
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4,153
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Favourite Tracks: A toda Cuba le gusta, Amor verdadero, Elube Changó, Habana del Este
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"El cariño que te tengo, no te lo puedo negar. Se me sale la babita, yo no lo puedo evitar."
Favourite Tracks: El cuarto de Tula, Chan Chan, Dos gardenias, Candela, Pueblo nuevo
Favourite Tracks: El cuarto de Tula, Chan Chan, Dos gardenias, Candela, Pueblo nuevo
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1997
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Top 28 Music Albums of 1997 composition
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| 鷺巣詩郎 [Shiro Sagisu] | 1 | 4% | |
| The California EAR Unit | 1 | 4% | |
| David Bowie | 1 | 4% | |
| Elliott Smith | 1 | 4% | |
| Mogwai | 1 | 4% | |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 1 | 4% | |
| Lhasa De Sela | 1 | 4% | |
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9 | 32% | |
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6 | 21% | |
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3 | 11% | |
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3 | 11% | |
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2 | 7% | |
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2 | 7% | |
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1 | 4% | |
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Top 28 Music Albums of 1997 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 1 from 4th to 3rd F♯ A♯ ∞ [F-Sharp, A-Sharp, Infinity] by Godspeed You! Black Emperor |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 7 from 16th to 23rd Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk by Emperor |
| Down 7 from 17th to 24th Substrata by Biosphere |
| Down 7 from 18th to 25th Dig Me Out by Sleater-Kinney |
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