Best Albums of 1997
Explore the best albums of 1997, based on over 2 million album rankings across 60,000 charts
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"Look. I really like this album. I think it's great. But I don't think it is the greatest album ever or even the greatest Radiohead album ever. It is great though." Reply
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mdbaxter | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +16 votes (16 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1997
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"A wonderful record that defines her music career. She has a genre of her own." Reply
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1997
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"I would love this record to get into the top 100 eventually. It certainly deserves it." Reply
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9999 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (5 helpful | 1 unhelpful)
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"On this album, Isaac Brock manages to sound more pissed off than any punk or metal singer could ever dream of. He's sick of seeing patches of forest being destroyed to build yet another subdivision, sick of seeing Walmart after Walmart putting mom and pop stores out of business, sick of all the p..." Reply
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"Fun fact: The story behind the album title is that the first side starts in the key of F#, and the second side stars in the key of A#, with the infinite loop at the end... F♯A♯∞!" Reply
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koner1 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +18 votes (18 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1997
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"Yeah, sometimes I really wish this album would sound like Squarepusher or Aphex Twin on one of their genre defying (unlistenable) pursuits. If only the music world was full of alien chants and rhythms, we really wouldn't be able to judge anything based on past experience, instead just take a batt..." Reply
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1997
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"Inside the core of this album is a sense of hopeful optimism that inspires me to be a better person" Reply
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1997
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"I love this album, to call it a one-track album ? Have any of you people listened to it ? Bitter Sweet Symphony,Sonnet,The Rolling People, The Drugs don't work which is about his father dying of cancer and the drugs could not help him. Catching The Butterfly, Neon Wilderness, Space And Time, Weep..." Reply
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"I remember when Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds toured this album. Theyopened with Into My Arms and Cave had a terrible time with the first line "I don' t believe in an interventionist god" it took him 4 or 5 gos to get through it and ages to complete the song. Had seen him live a number of times but..." Reply
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Best Albums of 1997 composition
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| Various Artists | 18 | 2% | |
| David Bowie | 3 | 0% | |
| Delirious? | 3 | 0% | |
| Mogwai | 3 | 0% | |
| Grateful Dead | 3 | 0% | |
| Jimi Hendrix | 3 | 0% | |
| Squarepusher | 3 | 0% | |
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437 | 44% | |
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219 | 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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Best Albums of 1997 chart changes
| Biggest climbers Biggest climbers in top 100 since last month |
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Up 65 from 159th to 94th |
Up 5 from 92nd to 87th |
Up 3 from 93rd to 90th |
| Biggest fallers Biggest fallers in top 100 since last month |
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Down 14 from 79th to 93rd |
Down 7 from 85th to 92nd |
Down 5 from 61st to 66th |
| New entries New entries in top 100 since last month |
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Up 65 from 159th to 94th |
| Leavers Leavers from top 100 since last month |
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Down 53 from 53rd to - |
