Top 28 Music Albums of 1997 by 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)

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Favourite Tracks: Brakhage, Miss Modular, The Flower Called Nowhere, Refractions in the Plastic Pulse
Year of Release:
1997
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"So please put your sweet hand in mine, and float in space and drift in time."

Favourite Tracks: Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space, Cop Shoot Cop, Broken Heart, Cool Waves, Come Together
[First added to this chart: 03/23/2017]
Year of Release:
1997
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7,228
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Favourite Tracks: Cumbanchero, Tumbao, Mandinga
Year of Release:
1997
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Rank Score:
144
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"Look for me by the moonlight, watch for me by the moonlight, I'll come to thee by the moonlight, though hell should bar the way."

Favourite Tracks: The Mummers' Dance, Marco Polo, The Highwayman
[First added to this chart: 02/29/2020]
Year of Release:
1997
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305
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15. (10) Down5
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"I'm a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl. You're the bird on the brim, hypnotized by the whirl."

Favourite Tracks: Bachelorette, Jòga, Hunter, All Is Full Of Love
[First added to this chart: 03/07/2017]
Year of Release:
1997
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13,880
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"I wear my shadows where they're harder to see but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me that I'm traveling toward light. I guess something you sang made me remember that. I guess I'm saying, thanks for that."

Favourite Tracks: Night Train, Pacing The Cage, Get Up Jonah, Birmingham Shadows, The Charity Of Night, The Mines of Mozambique, Strange Waters
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Year of Release:
1996*
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78
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[First added to this chart: 02/29/2020]
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1997
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134
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"Cause this music can put a human being in a trance like state and deprive it for the sneaking feeling of existing."

Favourite Tracks: Mogwai Fear Satan, Yes! I Am A Long Way From Home, R U Still In 2 It, Like Herod
[First added to this chart: 06/10/2017]
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1997
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1,878
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Favourite Tracks: De cara a la pared, La celestina, El desierto
Year of Release:
1997
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161
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20. (14) Down6
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"So don't resist, we shall exist until the day, until the day I die."

Favourite Tracks: All Mine, Cowboys, Humming
[First added to this chart: 03/17/2019]
Year of Release:
1997
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1,774
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Top 28 Music Albums of 1997 composition

Artist Albums %


Squarepusher 1 4%
Stereolab 1 4%
µ-Ziq 1 4%
Built To Spill 1 4%
Spiritualized 1 4%
Emperor 1 4%
Radiohead 1 4%
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Country Albums %


United Kingdom 9 32%
United States 6 21%
Canada 3 11%
Cuba 3 11%
Norway 2 7%
Mixed Nationality 2 7%
Iceland 1 4%
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Soundtrack? Albums %
No 27 96%
Yes 1 4%

Top 28 Music Albums of 1997 chart changes

Biggest climbers
Climber Up 1 from 4th to 3rd
F♯ A♯ ∞ (LP Version)
by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Biggest fallers
Faller Down 7 from 16th to 23rd
Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
by Emperor
Faller Down 7 from 17th to 24th
Substrata
by Biosphere
Faller Down 7 from 18th to 25th
Dig Me Out
by Sleater-Kinney

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