Albums of the Year | 1997
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- After giving a brief overview of the year in music, Jason, Kramzer, and Joe each make their picks for the best albums of 1997 and discuss what they think makes them so great.
Best-Selling Album: Falling Into You by Celine Dion
Longest No. 1 Single: Candle in the Wind '97 by Elton John
Grammy - Album of the Year: Time Out of Mind by Bob Dylan
Grammy - Record of the Year: Sunny Came Home by Shawn Colvin
Grammy - Song of the Year: Sunny Came Home by Shawn Colvin
Groups Formed: Against Me!, The Avalanches, Blackmore's Night, Death Cab for Cutie, Destiny's Child, DeVotchKa, The Dilinger Escape Plan, Elbow, Flogging Molly, Interpol, The Libertines, New Found Glory, New Invisible Joy, New Radicals, Norma Jean, Phoenix, Pig Destroyer, Primer 55, Saves the Day, Soulfly, The White Stripes, Yellowcard, Ying Yang Twins
Groups Disbanded: Accept, Bonham, Cocteau Twins, Dinosaur Jr., Gin Blossoms, My Bloody Valentine, New Riders of the Purple Sage, The Power Station, Rainbow, Soundgarden, That Dog, Ugly Kid Joe, Urge Overkill, Whitesnake, Y&T
Musicians Who Died: Townes Van Zandt, Randy California, Harold Melvin, Laura Nyro, Jeff Buckley, Ronnie Lane, John Denver, Glen Buxton, Henry Vestine, Michael Hutchence, Michael Hedges, Kurt Winter, Nicolette Larson, Jimmy Rogers, Floyd Cramer
Top-Grossing Film: Titanic
TIME’s Person of The Year: Andrew Grove
Don't forget to comment below with your favorite albums of '97, and if you'd like, take a stab at guessing what our picks for 1998 will be.
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-Nick Cave & Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
-Ween - The Mollusk
-The Misfits - Static Age
-Bjork - Homogenic
-Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind
AOTY: Radiohead - OK Computer
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Oh wow, I can't believe I did not mention Ween album in my reply.
Top 50 Albums of 1997:
1. Ween - The Mollusk
2. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
3. Built to Spill - Perfect from Now On
4. Hot Water Music - Fuel for the Hate Game
5. Superchunk - Indoor Living
6. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
7. Stereolab - Dots and Loops
8. Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
9. The Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good
10. Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
11. Lifetime - Jersey’s Best Dancers
12. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space
13. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#
14. Tindersticks - Curtains
15. No Use for a Name - Making Friends
16. Teenage Fanclub - Songs from Northern Britain
17. Walt Mink - Colossus
18. Michael Head & the Strands - The Magical World of the Strands
19. Helium - The Magic City
20. Tobin Sprout - Moonflower Plastic
21. Snapcase - Progression Through Unlearning
22. Ulver - Nattens Madrigal
23. Smog - Red Apple Falls
24. Pavement - Brighten the Corners
25. Radiohead - OK Computer
26. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
27. Smoking Popes - Destination Failure
28. Half Japanese - Bone Head
29. Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
30. Bjork - Homogenic
31. Mad Caddies - Duck and Cover
32. Coalesce - Give Them Rope
33. Dwarves - Are Young and Good-Looking
34. My Dad Is Dead - Everyone Wants the Honey but Not the Sting
35. Chisel - Set You Free
36. Blur - Blur
37. Guided by Voices - Mag Earwhig!
38. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Boatman’s Call
39. The Mountain Goats - Full Force Galesburg
40. Samiam - You Are Freaking Me Out
41. The Dismemberment Plan - Is Terrified
42. Mineral - The Power of Failing
43. Smart Went Crazy - Con Art
44. Mogwai - Young Team
45. Lifter Puller - Half-Dead and Dynamite
46. Future Bible Heroes - Memories of Love
47. Discount - Half Fiction
48. Catherine Wheel - Adam and Eve
49. Negativland - Dispepsi
50. Redd Kross - Show World
1. The Verve - Urban Hymns
2. Oasis - Be Here Now
3. The Charlatans - Tellin Stories
4. Prodigy - Fat of the Land
5. Radiohead - OK Computer
You gotta be kidding me lmao
Ok computer is #1
Calm down Thom Yorke
@@gregjohnston7959 dude your literally talking about one if not the greatest album of all time
Thumbs up from me for having The Charlatans album in it. OK Computer number 1 though
I actually let out a cheers when Jason made 'Hand it Over' his number one! Great album, but very overlooked at the time. Saw them at the London Astoria on that tour and they were phenomenal from the opening chord of 'The Lung' to the end. A hot sweaty day and the venue more so, still with a mosh pit in those days... The closer you got to the stage, the more danger you were in! One of the best gigs I've ever seen... Saw them again about 5 years ago. The audience had got older, blokes in their 40s with bigger bellies than the first time round, nursing their pints and nodding along, no longer any moshing, but then again I suppose I was one of those blokes...
Great video guys cant wait for the next one!!
The mollusk and static age are essential for me
My favorite album, of 1997 is:
OK Computer by Radiohead - A gargantuan of a record .. and one that all others of it’s kind, must bow to. Easily, a contender for best of decade.
Other favorites:
Whatever and Ever Amen by Ben Folds Five
West by Mark Eitzel
Pup Tent by Luna
Resigned by Michael Penn
Breaking the Ethers by Tuatara
Homogenic by Björk
Ultra by Depeche Mode
Time Out of Mind by Bob Dylan
Secret Samadhi by Live
Life thru a Lens by Robbie Williams
Surfacing by Sarah McLachlan
Sixpence None the Richer by Sixpence None the Richer
All great lists! I’ll go back and listen to a few of your picks.
Rule, Britannia
1. Blur - Blur
2. Paul McCartney - Flaming Pie
3. Supergrass - In it for the $$
4. Radiohead - OK Computer
5. Super Furry Animals - Radiator
Good music year for me. The end of Britpop unfortunately. Ron Sexsmith might have made the list. I was still a few years away from hearing of him and his albums all run together for me into one big melodic stew. I'm more or less with Joe on Radiohead. I like the Bends the best and OKC a bit less. I recorded an album for my band Psychogenic Fugue that year then moved to New York City to attend recording school at the Institute of audio research. It was an exciting time.
Some great stuff at the top.
1. Time Out Of Mind-Bob Dylan
2. The Boatman's Call-Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3. OK Computer-Radiohead
4. Feelin' Kind Of Lucky-Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys
5. The Healing Game-Van Morrison
6. El Corazon-Steve Earle
7. Too Far To Care-Old 97's
8. So Much For The Afterglow-Everclear
9. Evergreen-Echo & The Bunnymen
10. Drag-k.d. lang
1 - Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
2 - Bjork - Homogenic
3 - Enslaved - Eld
4 - The Verve - Urban Hymns
5 - Dinosaur Jr. - Hand It Over
6 - Bruce Dickinson - Accident Of Birth
7 - Radiohead - OK Computer
8 - Overkill - From The Underground And Below
9 - Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
10 - Skyclad - The Answer Machine
All 3 guys showed no love for Björk 😢 oh well.. best album that year.
@@yedgim8172 I love that album, my favorite is probably Post.
Great year for electronica!
Daft Punk - Homework
Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever...
Depeche Mode - Ultra
KMFDM - Symbols
Portishead - s/t
The Prodigy - Fat of the Land
Faith No More - Album of the Year
Starting to get pretty thin for me depth-wise, but plenty strong at the top.
5) OK Computer- Radiohead
4) Strangers Almanac- Whiskeytown
3) Time Out Of Mind- Bob Dylan
2) Straightaways- Son Volt
1) Too Far To Care- Old '97's
My favorite album for 1997 was John Fogerty's "Blue Moon Swamp". Absolutely fantastic album which also won the Grammy for Best Rock Album!
1 Blue Moon Swamp - John Fogerty
2 Straight on Til Morning - Blues Traveller
3 OK Computer - Radiohead
4 Time Out Of Mind - Bob Dylan
5 Surfacing - Sara McLachlan
6 Destination Anywhere - Jon Bon Jovi
7 Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind
8 Flaming Pie - Paul McCartney
9 Tremolo - Blue Rodeo
10 Clumsy - Our Lady Peace
Holy cow, that Fogerty album actually is good. I'm not convinced it's better than OK Computer, though.
Nice list!
1 - The Verve - Urban Hymns
2 - Radiohead - OK Computer
3 - Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space
4 - Super Furry Animals - Radiator
5 - The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Honourable Mentions (I don’t usually do these, but I love the following...)
1 - Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lantern
2 - The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
3 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman’s Call
4 - Supergrass - In It for the Money
5 - Yo la Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
1997:
Cotton Mather- Kontiki
Teenage Fanclub- Songs from Northern Britain
Orange Humble Band- Assorted Creams
Nick Heyward- The Apple Bed
Redd Kross- Show World
Elliott Smith- Either/Or
Icecream Hands- Memory Lane Traffic Jam
Merrymakers- Bubblegun
Matthew Sweet- Blue Sky on Mars
Material Issue- Telecomando Americano
15) Lovesongs for Underdogs - Tanya Donelly
14) Ultra - Depeche Mode
13) Egyptology - World Party
12) Bridges to Babylon - The Rolling Stones
11) The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters
10) The Boatman's Call - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
09) Album of the Year - Faith No More
08) Like Swimming - Morphine
07) The Brown Album - Primus
06) Evergreen - Echo & the Bunnymen
05) Earthling - David Bowie
04) Portishead - Portishead
03) Pop - U2
02) Homogenic - Bjork
01) OK Computer - Radiohead
Homogenic is brilliant, cutting-edge trip hop and I tried to fit it into the top spot but the greatness of OK Computer and its rightful place as album of the year just cannot be denied.
I try to listen to a fair amount of different albums for each year when I do these lists in an attempt to make sure I didn't miss anything good, but I can't say my choices are the result of a comprehensive evaluation of everything that's out there. I think that would be a near impossible task for most people, even the Listography guys, in part because there are no doubt a lot of obscure, hard to find releases which might be great. But I haven't even heard everything that made the Listography 1997 top five lists. And I love jazz but I know nothing about jazz albums released this year. So much damn music. Still, it's fun to rank the albums I am familiar with. Cheers mates, and happy New Year!
You make a good point that it's not really possible to be comprehensive when making these lists because there are just too many albums. But at least in the attempt to be comprehensive I'm learning a heck of a lot about music... and I'm loving it.
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 Me too
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 Agree with Rich and you. Tough to be comprenhensive but learning a lot with the exercise. Enjoying this. Not only the videos and making my lists, but checking out as well the lists of other followers of the channel
Ok Computer is the best album of the last 30 years. Just stunning in every aspect. It should have been the soundtrack to Blade Runner, same atmosphere. Trouble In The Henhouse is vastly underrated and second best in this year for me. It’s the best Tragically Hip album by a long shot
BTW, Richard Ashcroft is now getting royalties for Bittersweet Symphony after a deal was struck in 2019. My list is:
1. THAT Radiohead album.
2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call.
3. Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind.
4. Mogwai - Mogwai Young Team.
5. Pavement - Brighten the Corners.
"THAT Radiohead album" 😆
My choices of this year may be a good example of the diversity in music in the 90s and how you could find brilliant albums from all over the spectrum if you did not isolate yourself in the ruts of just one genre or the mainstream. I never thought I would ever list something like a bluegrass album, right along some quasi-punk or hard rock and a winner that might be called progressive in the sense I use the term.
HM - Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind, Pavement - Brighten the Corners, Lynyrd Skynyrd - Twenty, Stiff Little Fingers - Tinderbox, Alison Krauss & Union Station - So Long So Wrong
5. Freedy Johnston - Never Home (He had Danny Kortchmar and Graham Maby to provide the musical backing for his songs that were as good as the ones from his previous albums.)
4. Love Spit Love - Trysome Eeatsome (The Psychedelic Furs had gone into hiatus and Richard Butler has released one album with this new band already that had painfully avoided to sound like his old band. This time he admitted his past and added it to the new virtues and the result was fabulous. His songs are as catchy as ever before.)
3. Wayne Kramer - Citizen Wayne (The meeting of two generations of Detroit rock, former MC5 guitarists is joined by Don Was. "Revolution In Apt. 29" sums up 30 years from 67 to 97.)
2. Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out (The new girl drummer pushes Carrie and Corin to the next level, their vocal and guitar interplay is even more intense than on the previous releases. A female power trio at its best - so far.)
1. Robert Wyatt - Shleep (Many progressive bands of that year went back to recreate the 70s but Wyatt came the opposite way. He added the 20plus years since Soft Machine Thirds or Rock Bottom to his experience and moved on. Brian Eno produced and collaborators like Phil Manzanera, Philip Catherine, Paul Weller or Evan Parker left their mark. A wonderful album that offers new perspectives on each listening.)
Shleep is such a great record. My favorite Wyatt release,like it even better than Rock Bottom . So overlooked.
@@painless465 I have another highlight involving Wyatt for my 2000 list, a collaboration with an old friend he had worked with already in 1975...no further spoiler but maybe you know it already.
@@roxannewalsh You certainly have a knack for finding quality albums off the beaten path. That Robert Wyatt is a pretty unique sounding album. Very dense. I listened to it 3 times and I felt like I'd barely even heard it once. I also enjoyed the Wayne Kramer record a lot. That might be even better than last one of his you nominated. Cheers!
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 Those are albums that still stick with me 20+ years later, of course back in the year I also listened to e.g. Foo Fighters, Portishead, Blur, Supergrass, Ween and a hundred more that wore thin over time. Freedy Johnson and Bob Dylan were not on my list in 97 itself, they grew with each listening.
BIG 5
1. Homogenic by Björk
2. Under the Western Freeway by Grandaddy
3. Homework by Daft Punk
4. Portishead by Portishead
5. Hand it Over by Dinosaur Jr.
And den...
6. OK Computer
7. The Mollusk by Ween
8. Perfect From Now On by Built to Spill
9. Around the Fur by Deftones
10. Mogwai Young Team
Fabulous year. A few master works and a bunch of excellent records :
1. Homogenic. Bjork
2. OK Computer. Radiohead
3. The Boatman's Call. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
4. Portishead. Portishead
5. I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One. Yo la Tengo
6. Time Out of Mind. Bob Dylan
7. Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space. Spiritualized.
8. Either /Or. Elliott Smith
9. Curtains. Tindersticks
10. Baduizm. Erikah Badu
11. Brighten the Corners. Pavement
12. Red Apple Falls. Smog
13. Whatever and Ever Amen. Ben Folds Five
14. El Corazón. Steve Earle
15. Joya. Will Oldham
16. Perfect From Now On. Built to Spill
17. Strangers Almanac. Whiskeytown
18. Barafundle. Girky's Zygotic Mynci
19. A Short Album About Love. The Divine Comedy
20. A Derby Spiritual. Drunk
21. Peace and Noise. Patti Smith
I almost gave the top spot to Homogenic but OK Computer won out.
@@179rich that was a tough choice, both are fantastic. I finally went for Bjork because it's an album I go back to more often. Checked out your list yesterday, as usual some similarities.
HM: Flaming Pie - Paul McCartney; Lie To Me - Jonny Lang; Nimrod - Green Day; Little Head - John Hiatt; Falling into Infinity - Dream Theater
5 - The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters
4 - Blue Moon Swamp - John Fogerty
3 - The Healing Game - Van Morrison
2 - Ok Computer - Radiohead
1 - Time Out of Mind - Bob Dylan
You guys are doing great work, love your videos and some of your choices. The year 1997 was last year I kept up with modern music since I started buying music in the early 80's. Rock was dead, Think the last Rock album I bought was Tonic's Lemon Parade After that went on a search, we didn't have any online sources in those days, .... and started collecting Blue Note 50th Anniversary Cd's at local Barns and Noble. That was about two years or so before the Ken Burns Jazz series started. ... anyways I'm digressing ... Great Videos !!!
Supergrass - In It For the Money
Redd Kross - Show World
Paul McCartney - Flaming Pie
Matthew Sweet - Blue Sky On Mars
The Muffs - Happy Birthday to Me
1. Radiohead: OK Computer
2. Creed: My own Prison
3. Foo Fighters: Colour and Shape
4. Deftones: Around the Fur
5. Shania Twain: Come on Over
Babybird - Ugly Beautiful (released in the US in '97 and is superior to the UK version)
Blur - Blur
Supergrass - In It For The Money
Radiohead - OK Computer
#1 The Divine Comedy - A Short Album About Love
1997 was truly one of my favourite music years ever.
1. Drawn to the Deep End - Gene
2. The Golden Mile - My Life Story
3. OK Computer - Radiohead
4. Songs From Northern Britain - Teenage Fanclub
5. Further - Geneva
Ahhh... I need some HMs this year! Third Eye Blind by Third Eye Blind, Goodbye by Dubstar, Blur by Blur, A Short Album About Love by The Divine Comedy, Evergreen by Echo & the Bunnymen... 🥵
1. OK Computer - Radiohead
2. Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk - Emperor
3. Show World - Redd Kross
4. Sound Of Lies - Jayhawks
5. Time Out Of Mind - Bob Dylan
My picks for 1997:
1. OK Computer, Radiohead ruclips.net/video/yuZYQvvLXVY/видео.html
2. Urban Hymns, The Verve ruclips.net/video/GTp1QMUGCiE/видео.html
3. Coil, Toad the Wet Sprocket ruclips.net/video/-Qv1HQZ6SNo/видео.html
4. Ultra, Depeche Mode ruclips.net/video/OxUpJSGpCWM/видео.html
5. Third Eye Blind, self titled ruclips.net/video/5aTmfY_4nms/видео.html
Honorable mention:
Blur, Blur ruclips.net/video/SQrKCytWbj8/видео.html
Static and Silence, The Sundays ruclips.net/video/mxbEdpuk4-o/видео.html
Homework, Daft Punk ruclips.net/video/PwILkY9gRrc/видео.html
Be Here Now, Oasis ruclips.net/video/GjwRIjrC4io/видео.html
Pop, U2 ruclips.net/video/irHbORP3or0/видео.html
Whatever and Ever Amen, Ben Folds Five ruclips.net/video/jU6keLqnWQk/видео.html
Transistor, 311 ruclips.net/video/ymM3nP9I7c0/видео.html
The Apple Bed, Nick Heyward. ruclips.net/video/de5-532VDdg/видео.html
Pretty good year. Radiohead way ahead at No 1. Possibly the best album of the 90s.
1. OK Computer - Radiohead
2. Blur - Blur
3. Andromeda Heights - Prefab Sprout
4. Baduizm - Erykah Badu
5. Time Out Of Mind - Bob Dylan
6. Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club
7. When I Was Born For The 7th Time - Cornershop
8. In It For The Money - Supergrass
9. Urban Hymns - The Verve
10. Ultra - Depeche Mode
Bubbling under:
Songs from Northern Britain - Teenage Fanclub
Either/Or - Elliott Smith
Word Gets Around - Stereophonics
Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space - Spiritualized
Earthling - David Bowie
The Magical World of The Strands - The Strands
A Short Album About Love - Divine Comedy
Pop - U2
Heavy Soul - Paul Weller
Maladjusted - Morrissey
1. "Time Out Of Mind" by Bob Dylan
2. "Flaming Pie" by Paul McCartney
3. "The Colour and the Shape" by Foo Fighters
4. "Marching To Mars" by Sammy Hagar
5. "Marigold Sky" by Hall & Oates
Songs From Northern Britain might be my favourite Teenage Fanclub album and so it's my No. 1 for 1997, notwithstanding the excellent Supergrass, Spiritualized and Dylan albums
Honorable Mentions: Guided By Voices - Mag Earwhig!, Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out, Built To Spill - Perfect From On, Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind, Steve Earle - El Corazon
1. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
2. Old 97s - Too Far To Care
3. Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac
4. Teenage Fanclub - Songs From Northern Britain
5. Pavement - Brighten The Corners
My Top 5:
1. PARADISE LOST ´´One Second´´
2. RADIOHEAD ´´OK Computer´´
3. FAITH NO MORE ´´Album of the Year´´
4. RAMMSTEIN ´´Sensucht´´
5. MACHINE HEAD ´´The More Things Change´´
Greetings from Canary Islands
1. Devin Townsend- Ocean machine
2. Radiohead- OK Computer
3. B.I.G- Life after death
4. Strapping young lad- City
5. Bjork- Homogenic
1. Rollins band-Come in and burn
2. Helmet-Aftertaste
3. Paradise lost-One second
4. Deftones-Around the fur
5. Rammstein-Sehnsucht
1. Paranoid Andriod - Radiohead
2. Urban Hymns - The Verve
3. Time Out of Mind - Bob Dylan
4. The Velvet Rope - Janet Jackson
5. Nimrod - Green Day
These are songs and paranoid Android isn’t the best song off of ok computer
TVR as u should
Ladies and Gentleman... We Are Floating In Space. Easy #1 for me.
For me, that's the only album that came within shouting distance of knocking off OK Computer.
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 second that. Most other years Ladies and Gentlemen would win. Shame it came up against OK Computer.
And I third that. Matter of fact, if I was doing the lists, from here on out Spiritualized will pretty much be at #1 every year they release.
My top 5 have all been covered or mentioned by other comments :- Blur - Blur / OK Computer - Radiohead / Ladies & Gentlemen - Spiritualised / In it for the money - Supergrass / Time out of mind - Bob Dylan
Near misses, others released by my favourite artists in 1997 :- Paul McCartney - Flaming Pie / Verve - Urban Hymns/ U2 - Pop / Rolling Stones - Bridges to Babylon / James - Whiplash ( great singles , the rest not as good ) / Super Furry Animals - Radiator ( very Welsh, very different ), Charlatans - Tellin' Stories ( amazing comeback after Rob Collins' tragic death )
My top 5
5. Legendary Tales (Rhapsody)
4. Cryptic Writings (Megadeth)
3. Glory To The Brave (Hammerfall)
2. Visions (Stratovarius)
1. Flaming Pie (Paul McCartney)
1. Homogenic-Björk
2. The Mollusk-Ween
3. Baduism-Eryka Badu
4.Ok Computer-Radiohead
5. Third Eye Blind-Third Eye Blind
1997 has so many heavy hitters it’s insane, one of my fav years musically.
1. Ok Computer - Radiohead
2. Either/Or - Elliott Smith
3. The Boatman's Call - Bad Seeds
4. Either/Or - Elliott Smith
5. Time Out Of Mind - Dylan
uh...your number 2 and number 4 are the same.
4 should be homogenic - byork. Made a mistake while swapping them
of course OK Computer is no. 1. But after that:
Flaming Pie (McCartney's best album in the last 30 years), Homogenic (Bjork), Sunsets on Empire (Fish), Falling into infinity (Dream Theater), Let's talk about love (Celine Dion, yes Celine Dion)
My 25 Favorites of 1997...one obvious all-timer.
1. OK Computer-Radiohead (#6 in my Top 50 of the 90's)
2. Time Out of Mind-Bob Dylan (#17)
3. Strangers Almanac-Whiskeytown (#18)
4. Too Far To Care-Old 97’s (#22)
5. Straightaways-Son Volt
6. Sound of Lies-The Jayhawks
7. Urban Hymns-The Verve
8. Good Feeling-Travis
9. Bridges to Babylon-The Rolling Stones
10. Be Here Now-Oasis
11. I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One-Yo La Tengo
12. Word Gets Around-Stereophonics
13. Barrel Chested-Slobberbone
14. El Corazon-Steve Earle
15. The Dandy Warhols Come Down-The Dandy Warhols
16.Brighten the Corners-Pavement
17.Home Grown-Blue Mountain
18.Pop-U2
19.Vanishing Point-Primal Scream
20.Nimrod-Green Day
21.Let’s Face It-The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
22. In it For the Money-Supergrass
23.The Colour & the Shape-Foo Fighters
24.Dig Me Out-Sleater-Kinney
25. Blur
Just Missed:
•Must’ve Been High-Supersuckers
•Indoor Living-Superchunk
•Straight On Till Morning-Blues Traveller
•Elegantly Wasted-INXS
•Either/Or-Elliot Smith
•Dig Your Own Hole-The Chemical Brothers
1. Straightaways - Son Volt
2. The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters
3. El Corazon - Steve Earle
4. Stranger's Almanac - Whiskeytown
5. Give It Back! - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
6. The Dandy Warhols Come Down - The Dandy Warhols
7. Must've Been High - Supersuckers
8. Miles From - Richmond Fontaine
9. Reverb Deluxe - The Derailers
10. Surf-N-Burn - Blue Stingrays
11. s/t - Songs: Ohia
5. "The Brown Album" Primus
4. "Shleep" Robert Wyatt
3. "Unfolded Like Staircase" Discipline
2. "Stardust We Are" The Flower Kings
1. "OK Computer" Radiohead
Hey Kramzer! I listened to the Spiritualized album on your recommendation and it is good. Thanks man. I sampled them at a listening station back in the day and foolishly dismissed them.
Great, great album. It didn't top OK Computer for me but it came closer than anything else.
Good to hear!
1997 / Here are my favorites for that year / Mes favoris pour cette année sont :
1 : The Healing Game - VAN MORRISON .
2 : Box - SAM BROWN .
3 : Señor Blues - TAJ MAHAL .
4 : Bridges To Babylon - THE ROLLING STONES .
5 : The Beauty Process : Triple Platinum - L7 .
I always like to listen to Taj Mahal, even if I do not rank this specific release as high. He also enters my list in some other year.
Either/Or - Elliott Smith
Whatever and Ever Amen - Ben Folds Five
Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space - Spiritualized
The Mollusk - Ween
1. The Fawn - The Sea and Cake
1. OK Computer - Radiohead
2. Time Out Of Mind - Bob Dylan
3. I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One - Yo La Tengo
4. The Carnival - Wyclef Jean
5. Blur - Blur
6. Soft Effects - Spoon
7. In It For The Money - Supergrass
8. Baduizm - Erikah Badu
9. Spoke - Calexico
10. Tone Soul Revolution - The Apples In Stereo
11. Hand It Over - Dinosaur Jr.
12. Songs From The Capeman - Paul Simon
13. Songs From Northern Britain - Teenage Fanclub
14. Mag Earwig! - Guided By Voices
15. The Mollusk - Ween
16. Zareika - The Flaming Lips
17. Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club
18. The Virginian - Neko Case
19. Pup Tent - Luna
20. Tellin' Stories - The Charlatans
My wife's favorite is "Baduizm"; we listened to it daily during our 1998-99 engagement. It holds up really well!
🏆 OK Computer -Radiohead (to my ears it lives up to the hype... 10 of the 12 tracks are classics... if there's any criticism to be made of this album it's the same criticism that's to be made of Radiohead in general- there's a relative lack of hit singles)
RUNNERS-UP:
▪︎Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space -Spiritualized (ethereal and touching masterpiece)
▪︎Either/Or -Elliott Smith ("Between the Bars" might be my song of the decade)
▪︎I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One -Yo La Tengo (one of the best indie-rock albums ever made)
▪︎Surfacing -Sarah McLachlan (classic songwriting top-to-bottom)
JUST MISSED THE CUT:
▪︎The Mollusk -Ween
▪︎Dots and Loops -Stereolab
▪︎The Lonesome Crowded West -Modest Mouse
▪︎In It For the Money -Supergrass
▪︎F#A#♾ -Godspeed You! Black Emperor
▪︎Urban Hymns -The Verve
LIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR:
▪︎The Dance -Fleetwood Mac
Shoutouts to Paul McCartney, U2, Built to Spill, Ben Folds Five, Nick & the Seeds, Bob Dylan, Erykah Badu, Buena Vista Social Club, Sleater-Kinney, and Depeche Mode
First year that I have gone 100% British
1. OK Computer Radiohead An easy choice for number 1
2. Blur Blur
3 Tellin Stories The Charlatans
4 In it for the money Supergrass
5 Songsfrom Northern Britain Teenage Fanclub
My favourite non British albums were by Eliot Smith and Sleater-Kinney
Technically, Teenage Fanclub is Scottish, but I guess it's all the UK -Jason
@@TastesLikeMusic he said British. Scotland is in Britain
Great year for me! Very nearly had Supergrass a the top, but then remembered this is the year of my favourite Super Furry Animals album.
5. Mogwai-Young Team
4. My Life Story- The Golden Mile
3. Divine Comedy- Short Album About Love
2. Supergrass- In It For The Money
1. Super Furry Animals- Radiator
Honourable mentions:
- Ben Folds Five- Whatever and ever amen
- Radiohead- Ok Computer
-Gene - Drawn to the deep end
- Spiritualized- Ladies and Gentlemen
-Blur- Blur
I could never get into Urban Hymns no matter how many times I’ve tried over the years! Just leaves me cold.
Jason continues to win the 90's. Too Far To Care would win 1997 for me.
Great video! You just got a new sub! Keep up the great work guys👍🏻
Thanks!
5 Ocean Machine - Devin Townsend
4 Around The Fur - Deftones
3 Blur - Blur
2 Talk Show - Talk Show
1 OK Computer - Radiohead
my fav album has to be third eye blind’s self title debut it has no skips and blends the sound of alternative with rock very well.
Favorites:
Bob Dylan - Time out of Mind
Elliot Smith - Either/Or
Radiohead - OK Computer
Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind
1. Ok Computer - Radiohead
2. Ixnay On The Hombre - The Offspring
3. The Lonesome Crowded West - Modest Mouse
4. American Psycho - Misfits
5. Ultra - Depeche Mode
5. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
4. Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land
3. Blur - Blur
2. Stereolab - Dots and Looos
1. Radiohead - OK Computer
As a Dane I am quite offended that Aqua(Barbie girl)didn’t make the list.
I've had to do a top 8 this year because of the great representation of Australian music this year. 6 entries in my top 8.
8. Slightly Odway by Jebediah
7. Meet The Family by Frenzal Rhomb
6. Album Of The Year by Faith No More
5. We Have The Technology by Custard
4. Unit by Regurgitator
3. Guide To Better Living by Grinspoon
2. Chin Chin by Skunkhour
1. Sehnsucht by Rammstein
1. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
3. Latyrx - The Album
4. Jimmie's Chicken Shack - Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope
5. Ben Harper - The Will to Live
For me the spring of 1997 was a special musical time when I bought the following 4 albums on their release and loved them all:
'Brighten the Corners' Pavement
'Hand it Over' Dinosaur Jr
'Curtains' Tindersticks
'OK Computer' Radiohead
All great albums. Strangely, despite the universal aclaim of the last of these, it's the first three that have stayed in my affections more over the years. Sorry Kramzer!
1997-Tremendous year,maybe best of the decade;
1.I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One-Yo La Tengo
2.Shleep-Robert Wyatt
3.Time Out of Mind-Bob Dylan
4.Brighten the Corners-Pavement
5.El Corazon-Steve Earle
6.The Lonesome Crowded West-Modest Mouse
7.Ok Computer-Radiohead
8.Perfect From Now On-Built to Spill
9.The Boatman's Call-Nick cave & the Bad Seeds
10.Peace & Noise-Patti Smith
It's not the best of the decade, that's 1991, but I agree that it's a pretty strong year.
Cool list. We have many in common. I considered Shleep but not my favorite album by Wyatt. He will appear in my lists further down the road
I think 1997 was a great year. My favourite was Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One .
Other truly great albums:
Sleater Kinney - Dig Me Out
Radiohead - OK Computer
Pavement - Brighten The Corners
5. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
4. Ween - The Mollusk
3. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
2. Radiohead - O.K Computer
1. Bjork Homogenic
10. Ween - The Mollusk
9. Blur - Blur
8. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
7. The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
6. Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On
5. Mogwai - Young Team
4. Helium - The Magic City
3. Pavement - Brighten The Corners
2. Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lantern
1. Radiohead - OK Computer
The Verve : Urban Hymns
Bob Dylan : Time Out of Mind
Green Day : Nimrod
John Fogerty : Blue Moon Swamp
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds : The Boatman's Call
Cheers !
Ben Folds Five - Whatever & Ever Amen - Fuzz Bass for Sure
The Mollusk by Ween
Live Albums not Accepted here, mention anyways, Slip Stich & Pass by Phish, not a typical Phish live album & got me on board to be a big fan at the time
In high school I remember this jockey dude who loved reggae music and not much else. He would borrow my CD player sometimes and when he didn’t have one of his burned CDs full of reggae songs with him, he would listen to my copy of Ok Computer. I asked him once why he liked that one so much and he said “I don’t know. The songs are just good.”
If you ask me this is the quality that makes the all-time great albums stand out against the pack- the ability to cross barriers of culture/language/habit.
1. Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
2. Paul McCartney - Flaming Pie
3. Aerosmith - Nine Lives
4. Rolling Stones - Bridges to Babylon
5. John Fogerty - Blue Moon Swamp
HM
Creed - My Own Prison
Sammy Hagar - Marching to Mars
Metallica - Reload
Blues Traveler - Straight on Till Morning
Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Trouble Is
Shania Twain - Come on Over
Megadeath - Cryptic Writings
U2 - Pop
Johnny Lang - Lie to Me
Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Twenty
My favorite Foo Fighters album and also McCartney’s best solo album.
#1. Subrosa: Never Bet the Devil Your Head
#2. Radiohead: OK Computer
#3. Lisa Loeb: Firecracker
#4. Elliott Smith: Either/Or
#5. Veruca Salt: Eight Arms to Hold You
#6. Deftones: Around the Fur
#7. Tiamat: A Deeper Kind of Slumber
#8. Foo Fighters: The Colour and the Shape
#9. Janet Jackson: The Velvet Rope
#10. Sarah McLachlan: Surfacing
#11. Modest Mouse: The Lonesome Crowded West
#12. David Byrne: Feelings
#13. Incubus: S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
#14. Swell: Too Many Days Without Thinking
#15. Depeche Mode: Ultra
for 97, again the mollusk by ween is fantastic and deserves a mention. for 98, i at least hope one of you mentions in the aeroplane over the sea! imo its up there with okc in terms of iconicness
1 Blur, Blur
2 Echo and the Bunnymen, Evergreen
3 Swell, Too Many days without thinking
4 Eliott Smith, Either Or
5 Grandaddy, The western Freeway
6 Daft Punk, Homework
7 Nick Cave, The boatman's call
8 Teenage Fanclub, Songs from the nothern britain
Great to see that Echo get some love. Good stuff.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
Paul Weller - Heavy Soul
Stereolab - Dots and Loops
Steve Earle - El Corazon
1 Ladies and Gentlemen we are floating in space - Spiritualized
2 Radiator - Super Furry Animals
3 OK Computer - Radiohead
4. Either/Or - Elliott Smith
5 Blur - S/T
My favorite album of 1997:
1. Orlando - “Passive Soul”
A single excellent album for the entire year, but what a fantastic album with unfathomable depth and soul. A+
1) OK Computer - Radiohead
(possibly my favorite album of all time)
2) Urban Hymns - The Verve (Unlike Joe I like all of the songs)
3) In It for the Money - Supergrass (super underrated band)
4) Surfacing - Sarah McLachlan
5) Sehnsucht - Rammstein (not usually my type of music but it's great)
6) The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters
7) Homogenic - Björk
8) Word Gets Around - Stereophonics
9) Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind
10) Be Here Now - Oasis
It is fascinating to hear you guys break down the good and bad years from your perspective. I had anticipated '97 being a down your but found so much that I love.
But what do I know? I have never been able to love Ok Computer, I think Radiohead gets so much better going forward.
I totally understand if I am blocked from any further viewing.
No room for Pulp/Ed Kuepper/Bonnie 'Prince' Billy/The Sundays/Sleater-Kinney who all had LPS I liked a lot.
10 for 1997
Whatever & Ever Amen - Ben Folds Five
In It For The Money - Supergrass
Time Out Of Mind - Bob Dylan
Either/Or - Elliott Smith
I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One - Yo La Tengo
Mogwai Young Team - Mogwai
Blur - Blur
El Corazon - Steve Earle
Other Songs - Ron Sexsmith
Levitate - The Fall
1. time out of mind - bob dylan
2. the boatman's call - nick cave and the bad seeds
3. ok computer - radiohead
4. unit - regurgitator
5. portishead - portishead
Ah yes! Triple Js best days. Great list.
Amazing year after a disappointing 1996
1) OK Computer - Radiohead 5 (top 5 album of all time for me)
2) Urban Hymns - The Verve5 (A masterpiece that wins many years just not this one. Ashcroft writes some damn good songs.)
3) Surfacing - Sarah McLachlan5 (Better than I remembered)
4) In It for the Money - Supergrass 5 (Easily their best album - I completely missed it at the time)
5) Sehnsucht - Rammstein 5 (the only album remotely like this that listen to. But it's epic)
'Sehnsucht' is an outstanding album. I like Rammstein in general, but this album has no weak tracks. Some say the production is bad, but I think it adds to the experience of this album.
@@Sir_Eyeball Hmm. I never had an issue with the production.
@@frodofraggins Me too.
For me it's like this
1) Urban Hymns by The Verve
2) Ok Computer by Radiohead
3) Secret Samadhi by Live
Radiohead - OK Computer
Bjork - Homogenic
Deftones - Around The Fur
You Am I - Hourly Daily
Faith No More - Album of the Year
Same top 2 for me
1. Radiohead-OK Computer
2. Stereolab-Dots And Loops
3. Bob Dylan-Time Out Of Mind
4. Portishead-Portishead
5. Paul McCartney-Flaming Pie
6. Blur-Blur
7. Verve-Urban Hymns
8. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds-Boatman’s Call
9. Bjork-Homogenic
10. Daft Punk-Homework
5. Surfacing-Sarah McLachlan
4. Third Eye Blind-S/T
3. Time Out of Mind-Bob Dylan
2. Either/Or-Elliott Smith
1. OK Computer-Radiohead
With no doubt the best album of this year is The Lonesome Crowded West by Modest Mouse
5-Third Eye Blind
4-Whiskeytown-Strangers Almanac
3-Edwyn Collins-I'm Not Following You
2-The Verve-Urban Hymns
1-Neko Case & Her Boyfriends-The Virginian
This may be the last year where I would find it relatively easy to find at least 5 albums worthy of mention. The top 2 are contenders for my album of the decade. Still British dominated:
Honourable mentions
Blur - Blur
Barafundle - Gorky's Zygotic Monkey
Portishead - Portishead
Whatever and Ever Amen - Ben Folds Five
5 Attack of the Gray Lantern - Mansun
4 Radiator - Super Furry Animals
3 In it for the Money - Supergrass
2 OK Computer - Radiohead
1 Urban Hymns - The Verve
Very belatedly got round to posting that I now think I got the top 2 the wrong way around although it's still close
Cool picks again guys.Ok dok here we go...
1 - SUPER FURRY ANIMALS - RADIATOR.
2 - PORTISHEAD -PORTISHEAD.
3 - RADIOHEAD - OK COMPUTER.
4 - SQUAREPUSHER - HARD NORMAL DADDY.
5 - SUPERGRASS - IN IT FOR THE MONEY.
Some wonderful albums this year and coming close behind OK Computer for me would be Spiritualized, Mogwai, Portishead and Bjork
dots and loops by stereolab is an easy pick for me in 97
I'm constantly surprised by how much love you have for Canadian bands that I didn't think ever broke across the border: Our Lady Peace, I Mother Earth, TPOH, Sloan, The Northern Pikes... Joe, you mentioned spending some time in Canada around this time, and I think you all came up together in Pittsburgh, but did y'all have cool Canuck cousins sending you mixtapes from these parts? Or were you picking up signals from CFNY 102.1 on cool summer nights?
My 10+1:
1. Radiohead: OK Computer
2. Elliott Smith: Either / Or
3. Stereolab: Dots and Loops
4. Built To Spill: Perfect From Now On
5. Belle and Sebastian: If You're Feeling Sinister
6. Ween: The Mollusk
7. Daft Punk: Homework
8. Ben Folds Five: Whatever and Ever Amen
9. Cornershop: When I Was Born for the 7th Time
10. Pavement: Brighten the Corners
11. Blur: s/t
5. Everclear - So Much for the Afterglow 4. Cornershop - When I Was Born For the 7th Time 3. Morrissey - Maladjusted 2. Green Day - Nimrod 1. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
My top 5
1. "Dig Me Out" - Sleater-Kinney
T-2. "OK Computer" - Radiohead
T-2. "Ladies And Gentlemen, We're Floating In Space" - Spiritualized
4. "Gun Shy, Trigger Happy" - Jen Trynin (this is a classic album for anyone who hasn't heard it!)
5. "Mag Earwhig" - Guided By Voices
Honorable Mention: "Flaming Pie" - Paul McCartney, "Urban Hymns" - The Verve, "Time Out of Mind" - Bob Dylan; "F♯A♯∞" - Godspeed You Black Emperor...and an extra special shout-out to Neil Young's "Year Of The Horse," which is a fantastic live album - including my favorite live track of his "Barstool Blues"
I have a complicated relationship with Sleater-Kinney. Sometimes I will put on one of their albums and think "Sweet Jesus, this is some of the greatest sh*t I've ever heard!" Then other times I'll put them on and think, "Oh, dear, this is just awful, how does this band make a living?" Heh-heh.
Goes to show how subjective music is and how much it depends on your mood, state of mind, etc. as to whether you like something at the moment you hear it.
3 Daft Punk Homework
5 The Corrs Talk On Corners
4 The Verve Urban Hymns
2 Blur Blur
NUMBER ONE: RADIOHEAD OK COMPUTER
Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On
Radiohead - OK Computer
Pavement - Brighten The Corners
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
1 - Cotton Mather - Kontiki - a great one, heard it long before all the hype after Noel Gallagher promoted it - doesn't get more Beatlesque/Lennonesque than this...
2 - Radiohead - OK Computer - everyone knows the story...
3 - Chewy Marble - s/t - I have this one here for personal reasons... by the mid 90's I had become rather bored with most mainstream pop/rock output, and indie/alternative had become absorbed by most major labels, so I shifted attention to small power pop and garage rock catalogs... this little gem of California refreshing pop was played a lot throughout that year.
4 - Teenage Fanclub - Songs from Northern Britain - It's still one of my TFC favorites...
5 - The Negro Problem - Post Minstrel Syndrome - their best imho.
... and 10 great HM's
The Shazam - s/t
Redd Kross - Show World
Material Issue - Telecommando Americano
The Orange Humble Band - Assorted Creams
The Jayhawks - Sound of Lies
Tanya Donelly - Lovesongs for Underdogs
The Merrymakers - Bubblegun
World Party - Egyptology
The Tories - Wonderful Life
Blur - s/t
A lot of great albums on your top 5 and HMs list!
@@mcpop3005 Thanks.... I was expecting to see Cotton Mather on other lists... but to be honest my lists from '96 to about 2008 are somewhat biased towards power pop... it's what I was most listening to, then.
5. Trouble Is... - Kenny Wayne Shepherd
4. Unleash the Beast - Saxon
3. Accident of Birth - Bruce Dickinson
2. Payin' the Dues - The Hellacopters
1. When the Bough Breaks - Bill Ward
Prodigy- Fat of the Land
Green Day - Nimrod
Chemical Brothers- Dig your own hole
Megadeth- Cryptic Writings
Radiohead- Ok Computer. (Sorry everyone e). Lol
So Prodigy is your winner?
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 I believe so
@@keithmarus8554 Got it. Nice list!
That's a great list!
The Verve - Urban Hymns
Prefab Sprout - Anromeda Heights
Echo & The Bunnymen - Evergreen
John Fogerty - Blue Moon Swamp
Robbie Williams - Life Thru A Lens