Best Album on OUR Favourite Albums of......1997 Part Two

Ha! I adored AN at the time, taped every episode etc. Still have fond memories, particularly of the bands playing live in the studio (David Thomas, JSBX, Evil Superstars iirc?). But 120M was great too!

I love that Req album!

toss up between erykah, verve, and the wu

bad timing

Pavement or Robert Wyatt. This was the beginning of a few years where I didn’t listen to new releases very much but went to lots of jazz and avant-garde shows.

This year was the peak of Mogwai seeming interesting.

I think Bad Timing for me too

went for Spiritualized which was my fave album of 97 at the time

did anyone else get into older music at this time like a few people have said already on the thread?

I was just getting started. It's my year 1.

97 actually is one of my favourite years but there's a lot of overlap between my faves and the pollrunners' (but that won't stop me ^_^)

Strange Warmings
Levitate
Spaceage
OOIOO s/t
Now the Road of Knives
Dissolve - Third Album from the Sun
Lapsed
Acid Mothers s/t
Helium - The Magic City
The Fawn
Porter Ricks s/t
The Velvet Rope
The Mystical Path of the Number Eighty-Six
Ground-Zero - Consume Red
Hovercraft - Akathisia
Sweet Sixteen
Around the Fur
OK Computer

spacerock george

I did spend a lot of this year investigating krautrock it's true. It was revitalising to get steeped in the radical spirit for a while. Drum & bass was beginning to lose its way after that long period of exciting development you could hear from week to week.

I love Da Trux but "sweet sixteen" is probably their weakest effort tbh

I had to vote for New Forms as it barely left my walkman all year. My runners up = Radiohead, Daft Punk and Chems albums, honorable mention to the nowadays completely forgotten 'David Holmes – Lets Get Killed'

xp How could you love Da Trux and hold this opinion?!! It is their tour de force, peak of their career!

That would be "cats & dogs"

That's the early "snap into the focus"; the beginning of their "can do no wrong" stretch...

'David Holmes – Lets Get Killed'

should have been on the bubbling under list.

that's a great record, as is This Films Crap Lets Slash the Seats and Bow Down to the Exit Sign, and his Essential Mix is fantastic and all

i must admit he's not somebody i have thought of in at least 15 years.

lj picking the fall over mansun? controversial

always knew lj was frontin'

I would assume LJ would pick The Fall over pretty much anything else, no?

Levitate has been time travel classic for decades now

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i sense 90s weariness

spacerock george

You know what my list is missing? The Moray Eels Eat the Space Needle

15 votes? that's a lot

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You know what my list is missing? The Moray Eels Eat the Space Needle

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Agreed!!

ILM sure loves The Bjork

Also loves relegating Radiohead to the second tier.

yeah that Space Needle album is sick

Man there's no way I didn't vote for Levitate

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0 votes for Hard Normal Daddy is a surprise but I guess it doesn't sound like the future of jazz anymore

0 votes for Cornershop is also surprising but I guess its very much of its time too

I would have voted for Hard Normal Daddy if Bjork, Radiohead, and the Chems weren't options

Best Album on OUR Favourite Albums of......1998 Part One

Best Album on OUR Favourite Albums of......1998 Part Two

0 votes for Cornershop is also surprising but I guess its very much of its time too

Loved the Cornershop LP at the time. Apart from the tune with the Hazlewood / Sinatra vibe, I've not heard the thing in about a decade.

Particularly because I voted for it. This poll is bogus!

Noticed this on previous polls and one album I had voted for got zero votes so maybe a glitch in the system?

Good results.