Best Albums of 1997
Listed below are the best albums of 1997 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 59,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 2 hours ago).
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"I like music from the 90s that doesn't remind me of junior high. Fortunately I didn't know this existed then so it's free from those attachments." Reply
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ProfessorSquid | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"The Swedish version of The Bends by Radiohead in a way. Just remember to listen to the swedish version of this album even though you don't understand Swedish. Trust me, it sounds so much better." Reply
"What a cool concept. Each album works on it own, and there are 14 different combinations of discs to listen together before you try all four. What an ambitious project. Playing all 4 together actually works. Try it. Get 3 other music nerds, grab some portable players, sit in a room and time out t..." [+] Reply
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junodog4 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +12 votes (12 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"What I'm most impressed with on this is that many electronic albums have a repetitive base upon which they build... I never felt that way with this - the dynamics and unique beats/samples, etc. were seemingly so effortlessly mixed together, yet were masterful." Reply
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"Good album. Best 10 songs average is 86,2/100 and the album can get good 85/100. Besides good and very good songs are also some slight below-average songs included. However I like Offspring anyway. Best song is "Gone away" 95/100, closely followed by "Me & my old lady" and "Amazed" both 90/100 an..." [+] Reply
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"This is my all time favourite album, no doubt. The material removed from the original version holds some fantastic gems. Coltrane was still inside his beliefs on some kind of order, at least as a mirror of the prevailing chaos. His music being the five percent spirit against ninety-five percent d..." [+] Reply
"Ethereal, hypnotic, sometimes meandering, sometimes frustrating, often beautiful. Be-In and Good Morning are gorgeous and dreamy. Cool as Kim Deal, Holiday and Last Junkie are poppy bangers. On the other hand, Minnesoter and I Love You stop the album dead in its tracks- and the fact that they're ..." [+] Reply
"Musically 'smoother' and more refined, but equally as experimental and original as their debut 'Silver Apples Of The Moon', Laika create a form of "organic" electronica that is, for example, more authentic sounding than the music produced by one of their contemporaries, the overrated Moby. Overal..." [+] Reply
""Secret Samadhi" has a heavy spiritual and abstract quality to it. "throwing copper" had angst and anger and claws. Samadhi brings shiva, brahma and vishnu along in his ruminations, Americanized of course. It's still alternative rock. The first song i heard (in live form) was "freaks". ("Will you..." [+] Reply
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paladisiac | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"If you could have just one Loreena McKennitt album, this should probably be it. It shows her in all her strengths including singing, composing and musical scholarship. It has some diversity and is a pleasure to listen to throughout." Reply
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Best Albums of 1997 composition
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| Various Artists | 18 | 2% | |
| Grateful Dead | 3 | 0% | |
| Mogwai | 3 | 0% | |
| Squarepusher | 3 | 0% | |
| David Bowie | 3 | 0% | |
| Delirious? | 3 | 0% | |
| R.L. Burnside | 2 | 0% | |
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435 | 44% | |
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220 | 22% | |
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38 | 4% | |
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34 | 3% | |
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33 | 3% | |
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22 | 2% | |
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