List some of your favorite records that turn 20 this year

Some 2017 Albums I Enjoy

Assück - Misery Index
Brutal Truth - Sounds of the Animal Kingdom
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
Deceased - Fearless Undead Machines
Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics...
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Immortal - Blizzard Beasts
Judas Priest - Jugulator
KARP - Self Titled LP
Orange Goblin - Frequencies From Planet Ten
Saxon - Unleash the Beast
Southern Culture on the Skids - Plastic Seat Sweat

T'wasn't a great year. I mean, a Foo Fighters album made the list.

Disclaimer: I worked for the label that did the Dickinson & Priest albums. Jugulator is likely a result of that (though I still love "Bullet Train") but I'll rep for the Bruce solo record.

The last great Pavement album, Robert Wyatt's best, some excellent work from the Ellery Eskelin/Andrea Parkins/Jim Black trio, then... I don't know, maybe the US Maple album?

A few more not mentioned so far:

The Apples in Stereo - Tone Soul Evolution
Bikeride - Here Comes the Summer!
The Hives- Barely Legal
k.d. lang - Drag
Low - Songs for a Dead Pilot
Papas Fritas - Helioself
Matthew Sweet - Blue Sky on Mars
Tindersticks - Curtains
Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac

Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Daft Punk - Homework
Smog - Red Apple Falls
Sea and Cake - The Fawn
Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
Will Oldham - Joya
Photek - Modus Operandi
Gravatar - Now the Road of Knives

selected faves, courtesy of my id3 tags, which may be wrong:

the conet project
cornelius - fantasma
gary lucas - evangeline
ground zero - plays standards
hedningarna - hippjokk
jimi tenor - intervision
los fabulosos cadillacs - fabulosos calavera
robert wyatt - shleep
surgeon - basictonalvocabulary
that dog. - retreat from the sun
toenut - two in the pinata

and ok, yeah, also ok computer and the mollusk

v/a - Deutscher Funk (Caipirinha Productions)

[Pluramon, Workshop, Beige, Mouse On Mars, Nonplace Urban Field, Pole, The Bionaut, Mao II, F.X. Randomiz, General Magic & Pita, Mono™ etc.]

Not sure how into it all I'd be now (some tracks remain classic) but it does represent a big part of 1997 for me.

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. s/t CD also epochal.

My faves, I don't think 1997 was an amazing year, it was ok but not more. The Robert Wyatt is still my #1.

Chris Cacavas - Anonymous
The Dandy Warhols - The Dandy Warhols Come Down
Depeche Mode - Ultra
Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind
Mark Eitzel - West
Rickie Lee Jones - Ghostyhead
OP8 - Slush
Primal Scream - Echo Dek
Swell - Too Many Days Without Thinking
Robert Wyatt - Shleep
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One

Top 10 for '97:

Bjork - Homogenic
Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death
Supergrass - In It for the Money
Radiohead - OK Computer
Guided by Voices - Mag Earwhig!
Karate - In Place of Real Insight
Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever
Jay-Z - In My Lifetime, Vol. 1
Foo Fighters - The Colour & the Shape
Stereolab - Dots and Loops

Definitely want to check out some stuff from mmmm's list - I like the ones I know on there.

Extra shout-out to Plug -- yet another nom de plume of the criminally underrated Luke Vibert...

This is a really good album and deserved a lot more interest than I recall it receiving...

The Plug album came out in 1996 in the UK. It did get a fair bit of attention in 'leftfield electronica' circles.

The US version bundled three preceding EPs and changed the main track listing.

Relatedly, Luke Slater's dope techno album Freek Funk came out 20 years ago this week.

My top 10 for 97

1. Bjork - Homogenic
2. Supergrass - In It For The Money
3. Kenickie - At The Club
4. Missy Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly
5. Stereolab - Dots & Loops
6. Billy Mackenzie - Beyond The Sun
7. SFA - Radiator
8. Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope
9. Erykah Badu - Badusim
10. Teenage Fanclub - Songs From Northern Britain

Loved Drum n Bass for Papa. Also Autoditaker (Mouse on Mars), Busy, Curious, Thirsty (Spring Heel Jack), Not For Threes (Plaid), among others. Banging year for electronic music.

In addition to the already-mentioned Primal Scream, Dandy Warhols, Spiritualized, Yo La Tengo, Frank & Walters, Sleater-Kinney, Death in Vegas, Teenage Fanclub -

Geneva - Further
Catherine Wheel - Adam and Eve

Doesn't really count but I'm sure I listened to Suede's Sci-Fi Lullabies more than any of the above that year.

I suspect I'm not the only one who was reading The Big Takeover in 1997? That China Drum album has been sitting in my "to sell" pile for 20 years. Maybe I'll give it one more chance...

Haha, guilty as charged! The Big Takeover was my main source for recommendations in the 90s - I occasionally look at a new issue but it's just not the same (my music consumption, that is, the magazine is still a great read).

Re: that self-titled Strangelove album mentioned by Camaraderie at Arms Length: it was a huge disappointment at the time, coming after two stellar albums (that get zero love around here). Now I think it's about half good but, still, the drugs were clearly in charge on that one.

Turrican - good call on Laika! They also need more love.

Oh crap, that Catherine Wheel album is from 97? Should've been on my list!

Dig Your Own Hole especially, I love that record. Recently had a coming home experience with it.

Dig Your Own Hole probably would have been my #1 at the time (I hadn't heard most of the things on my list back then). It is a great record.

In the spirit of my original underlying intention of this thread... are many of these considered your favorites still? Question to everyone.

Actually I didn't really think about it from my perspective in 1997. It's hard for me to remember what I was listening to at the time that was from the same year. I do remember that I got really into the Jurassic 5 EP, and now I don't care for it much. OTOH Jay-Z In My Lifetime wasn't something I cared about much at the time and now I'd call it a favorite.

Also I didn't get into Smog or Oldham until a year or two later, but Dig Your Own Hole was definitely one of my most played albums that year and I still love it.

I also listed records that i still listen to.

xps yeah I still totally dig the ones I posted

Although I guess everything I listed was something I got into within a few years of 1997.

TOP 5 (then and now):
Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
Blonde Redhead - Fake Can Be Just As Good
Autechre - Chiastic Slide
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Motorpsycho - Angels and Daemons at Play

Some other favorites not yet mentioned:
Eric's Trip - Long Day's Ride Till Tomorrow
Folk Implosion - Dare to Be Surprised
The Get Up Kids - Four Minute Mile
Hazel - Airiana EP
Helium - The Magic City
Knapsack - Day Three of My New Life
Lamb - S/T
Philip Glass - Kundun OST
Silkworm - Developer
Sonic Youth - SYR 1

Lamb's first LP came out in '96, didn't it!?

I love Autoditacter like 10 times more now than when i first heard it, definitely my favorite of theirs these days

current top 10 for 1997:

1. Pierre-Laurent Aimard - György Ligeti Edition 3: Works for Piano
2. Takács Quartet - Bela Bartok: The 6 String Quartets
3. Ground Zero - Consume Red
4. Bjork - Homogenic
5. Happy Family - Toscco
6. Christoph de Babalon - If You're Into It, I'm Out of It
7. Paul McCartney - Flaming Pie
8. Stereolab - Dots & Loops
9. Ø - Tulkinta
10. 5uus - Crisis in Clay

oh yeah I forgot abt that Christoph de Babalon record, good stuff!

Lamb's first LP came out in '96, didn't it!?

Yes, you're right. For some reason my mp3s were tagged with the US release date. I thought it was weird that nobody had mentioned the album yet.

The Book of Secrets by Loreena McKennitt is a guilty pleasure from 1997. This one is great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI_PMcFnZZw

stuff I listened to a lot back in '97:

OC- Jewelz
Camp Lo- Uptown Saturday Night
Latyrx- The Album
Organized Konfusion- The Equinox
Common- One Day It'll All Make Sense
Capone-n-Noreaga- The War Report

MOST OF THESE ARE UNBEARABLY TWEE

Plumtree - Predicts the Future
Rocketship - A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness
The Sun Sawed in ½ - Fizzy Lift
Terry Hall - Laugh
Gas - Zauberberg
Adventures in Stereo - the blue album
Takemura - Child & Magic
Long Fin Killie - Amelia
Takako Minekawa - Cloudy Cloud Calculator
Movietone - Day and Night
Lhasa - La llorona

Kylie - Impossible Princess

I dig that Long Fin Killie album but I came to it many years later.

Keyes - good call on that Latryx album

Rocketship - A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness

yes!!

My top 10 (compiled in 2005!) (bolded are so far unmentioned):
Sleater-Kinney, Dig Me Out
Bardo Pond, Lapsed
Labradford, Mi Media Naranja
autechre, Chiastic Slide
Mogwai, Ten Rapid
Portishead, Portishead
Dubstar, Goodbye (UK release)
Amon Tobin, Bricolage
Spiritualized, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
Sneaker Pimps, Becoming X

in the aeroplane over the sea, mezzanine, music has the right to children, aquemini & moon safari all turn 20 this year!

but more importantly, what are you favourite records of 1998?

22 Pistepirkko - Eleven
The Afghan Whigs - 1965
Arab Strap - Philophobia
Autechre - LP5
Blonde Redhead - In an Expression of the Inexpressible
Brandtson - Letterbox
The Cardigans - Gran Turismo
Death Cab for Cutie - Something About Airplanes
Gas - Zauberberg
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F♯A♯∞
I-F - Fucking Consumer
Jen Wood - No More Wading
Knapsack - This Conversation is Ending Starting Right Now
The Lapse - Betrayal!
Motorpsycho - Trust Us
Pedro the Lion - It's Hard to Find a Friend
Pole - 1
Scumbucket - Batuu
Shellac - Terraform
Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves
Sophia - The Infinite Circle
Stina Nordenstam - People Are Strange
Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels to Be Something On
The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Tortoise - TNT
Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
Unsane - Occupational Hazard
Unwound - Challenge for a Civilized Society
Urusei Yatsura - Slain By Urusei Yatsura
Zbigniew Preisner - Requiem for My Friend

Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Boo Radleys - Kingsize
Autechre - LP5
Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children

We are all very very old

We are all very very old

^ very otm

think beaucoup fish is 1999 but tbh it's the best album of every year

best fugazi, jay-z, pj harvey albums out that year

best fugazi

Yes! Just listened to End Hits again recently, so good.

xxp - Yes, you're right. I went by the tags in my media library, and this is from Wikipedia: "Due to delays, the packaging incorrectly lists 1998 as the release year."

Blackstar
Mezzanine
MHTRTC
Three EPs
Jurassic 5
Hello Nasty
Music Sounds Better With You

Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Peter Hammill – This
Mark Hollis – s/t
Godspeed You Black Emperor! – F♯A♯∞
Current 93 – Soft Black Stars
Cowboy Junkies – Miles From Our Home
The Tragically Hip – Phantom Power
Mercury Rev – Deserter's Songs
Gillian Welch – Hell Among the Yearlings