Best Album(s) of 1997

So it doesn't get too far off track:

Roni Size/Reprazent - Newforms
Photek - Modus Operandi
The American Analog Set - From Our Livingroom To Yours
The Herbalizer - Blow Your Headphones

Yours?
autechre - chiastic slide
radiohead - ok computer
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space
1. Radiohead: OK Computer
2. Hum: Downward Is Heavenward
3. Modest Mouse: The Lonesome Crowded West
4. Dandy Warhols: The Dandy Warhols Come Down
5. The Dismemberment Plan: The Dismemberment Plan Is Terrified
6. Prodigy: Fat Of The Land
7. Cornershop: When I Was Born For The Seventh Time
8. Blur: Blur
9. Spiritualized: Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
10. Foo Fighters: The Colour And The Shape
1: yo la tengo - i can hear the heart beating as one
2: radiohead - ok computer
3: belle & sebastian - 3.. 6.. 9 seconds of light
4: portishead - portishead
5: the apples in stereo - tone sole revolution
6: ben folds five - whatever and ever amen
7: daft punk - homework
8: thievery corporation - songs from the thievery hi-fi
9: the sea and cake - the fawn
10: whiskeytown - stranger's almanac
11: roni size/reprazant - new forms
12: superchunk - indoor living
13: belle & sebastian - dog on wheels
14: morrissey - maladjusted
15: bjork - homogenic
16: the chemical brothers - dig your own hole
17: bettie serveert - dust bunnies
18: bob dylan - time out of mind
19: the notorious b.i.g. - life after death
20: belle & sebastian - lazy line painter jane
21: deftones - around the fur
22: beulah - handsome western states
23: guster - goldfly
24: built to spill - perfect from now on
25: blur - blur

honorable mention:

blink-182 - dude ranch
the sundays - static and silence
kid loco - a grand love story
oh, i left cornershop and modest mouse off of there … they'd go in the top 15 somewheres …
The Verve - Urban Hymns.
Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
oh, i left cornershop and modest mouse off of there … they'd go in the top 15 somewheres …
I don't remember Daft Punk being that year, but I definitely overlooked Portishead's disk.
Brighten the Corners/Pavement and Being There/Wilco are both pretty good.
Wilco's Being There came out in 1996.


Originally posted by JohnnyBaconbitz:
Brighten the Corners/Pavement and Being There/Wilco are both pretty good.
1. sleater-kinney - dig me out
2. modest mouse - lonesome crowded west
3. ben folds five - whatever and ever amen
4. radiohead - okc
5. built to spill - perfect from now on
Sleater-Kinney and Foo Fighters. Shit, didn't realize "The Colour and The Shape" was 1997…I didn't get it until '99. Then, I got it!
Originally posted by [username edited by p.c. moderator]:
Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
oh, i left cornershop and modest mouse off of there … they'd go in the top 15 somewheres …
I don't remember Daft Punk being that year, but I definitely overlooked Portishead's disk.
January 20
Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
January 20
Hmm… OK. I went with the year on the back of the CD, and it said 1996, which is probably when it was recorded, copyrighted, etc, etc.

Daft Punk is definitely in my top 10.
i dont have my itunes accessable, but i second modest mouse and built to spill, still 2 of my favorite albums ever.
flaming lips- zaireeka.
elf power- when the red king comes
Originally posted by [username edited by p.c. moderator]:
I definitely overlooked Portishead's disk.
Ditto.

An old Rolling Stone issue had Grohl and others pick favorites for this year. Bjork topped all lists.

Hoya are those your personal faves or are you in journalistic mode? ;) (Never can figure out if these lists are to be personal or rated picks)

Anyhow, I go the personal route. Otherwise, I'd go on for hours. Some of mine have been mentioned: Verve, Portishead, Foo, Whiskeytown, Radiohead, Pavement, Sundays…
(Not best, but I listened for a few weeks: Blink, BFF)

Toad The Wet Sprocket - Coil
Elliot Smith - Either/Or
Teenage Fanclub - Songs From Northern Britain
Echo & the Bunnymen - Evergreen
The Devlins - Waiting
Offspring - Ixnay on the Hombre
INXS - Elegantly Wasted
Silverchair - Freak Show
Originally posted by Bags:
Sleater-Kinney and Foo Fighters. Shit, didn't realize "The Colour and The Shape" was 1997…I didn't get it until '99. Then, I got it!
I had "Everlong" on a mix tape. :p Good driving song.
Great call on Elliot and Teenage Fanclub. One of the greatest regrets of my concert going life was not going to see Elliot perform at Field Day in 2004. Then he decided to end it. What a waste.

BTW if you're looking for a talented Elliot Smith protegee, check out Andrew Morgan. "Misadventures in Radiology" is an awesome disc. Legend has it that he recorded most of it while crashing on Elliot's couch, so the connection is there. Hoping he hits DC at some point soon.
Originally posted by frenchpiece:
One of the greatest regrets of my concert going life was not going to see Elliot perform at Field Day in 2004. Then he decided to end it. What a waste.
Ditto. He turned up headlining the second stage during Blur, right?