Emperor. Easily
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
Substrata has not aged one day. So that’s my pick
― the article don, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
I recommended that one to Mike as I was surprised he didn't know it.
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 23:16 (four years ago) link
I've listened to it since. Its pretty good but I dont know what elevates it over countless other competently decent ambient albums.
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 23:30 (four years ago) link
I thought it was one of the best
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 23:51 (four years ago) link
Village Voice - Pazz & Jop Lists
Albums - 1997
1. Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind Columbia2. Radiohead - Ok Computer Capitol3. Cornershop - When I Was Born For The 7th Time Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.4. Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out Kill Rock Stars5. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One Matador6. Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly The Gold Mind, Inc./Eastwest7. Erykah Badu - Baduizm Universal8. Belle And Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister The Enclave9. Bjork - Homogenic Elektra10. Pavement - Brighten The Corners Matador11. Steve Earle - El Corazon Warner Bros.12. The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death Bad Boy13. Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole Astralwerks14. Portishead - Portishead Go! Beat/London15. Roni Size/Reprazent - New Forms Talkin' Loud/Mercury16. Wyclef Jean Featuring Refugee Allstars - Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival Featuring Refugee Allstars Ruffhouse/Columbia17. Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space Arista18. The Verve - Urban Hymns Virgin19. Beth Orton - Trailer Park Heavenly20. Elliott Smith - Either/Or Kill Rock Stars21. Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club World Circuit22. Geraldine Fibbers - Butch Virgin23. Whiskey Town Strangers - Almanac Outpost24. Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope Virgin25. Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever Loud26. Richard Buckner - Devotion + Doubt Mca27. Ben Folds Five - Whatever And Ever Amen 550 Music28. Stereolab - Dots And Loops Elektra29. Patti Smith - Peace And Noise Arista30. Prodigy -The Fat Of The Land Maverick/Warner Bros.31. U2 - Pop Island32. Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On Warner Bros.33. Ron Sexsmith - Other Songs Interscope34. John Fogerty - Blue Moon Swamp Warner Bros.35. Fiona Apple - Tidal Work36. Daft Punk - Homework Virgin37. Supergrass - In It For The Money Capitol38. Blur - Blur Virgin39. Jayhawks - Sound Of Lies American40. Primal Scream - Vanishing Point Reprise
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 15 August 2019 13:35 (four years ago) link
Bad year IMO
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Thursday, 15 August 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link
did you like anything from this year?
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 15 August 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link
I stand by my list and think 97 was good. Sure, I had to dig a bit more and didn't hear some albums til much later, but I admit that I was wrong in the actual year to think it was a bad year.
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 15 August 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
And I'm hoping to convince Mike too!(he's checking out my list album by album)
I mean I guess its not a terrible year but theres such a noticeable drop in quality from the richness of 91-95
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Thursday, 15 August 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
Y'er all OLD!
― pomenitul, Thursday, 15 August 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
No shit!
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Thursday, 15 August 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
It’s all been downhill since ‘74.
― o. nate, Thursday, 15 August 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
I don't really care for anything in this poll or the Pazz & Jop list (and I bought or heard a lot, thought not all, of it). The Daft Punk singles were obv. great, but I could never hang w/"Homework" as an entire album.
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Thursday, 15 August 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
(I like the Pavement album, but even that is my least fave of theirs!)
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Thursday, 15 August 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
Brighten The Corners is great. I saw them on that tour
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 16 August 2019 09:14 (four years ago) link
I saw them on that tour too, Bristol Anson Rooms
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Friday, 16 August 2019 09:16 (four years ago) link
Did they open with 'Grounded' and play 'Summer Babe'? they did at Glasgow Garage
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 16 August 2019 09:28 (four years ago) link
now that I can't remember, I probably din't know their catalogue well enough back then either. I remember it was a fun show in a not particularly great venue.
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Friday, 16 August 2019 09:34 (four years ago) link
was a cracking gig I saw, played pretty much everything i wanted
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 16 August 2019 12:48 (four years ago) link
I saw them for the last time in '97. (Apparently this was the setlist, which I seem to recall was pleasant if relatively sedate.) I saw them every time they toured here, starting in 1993, but I haven't come close to voting for Pavement in any of these polls. Maybe I'm just trying to distance myself from high school me.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 16 August 2019 13:16 (four years ago) link
I saw them that year in Boston, with Shudder To Think opening.
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Friday, 16 August 2019 14:24 (four years ago) link
Remember Pardon My French, by “Fuck”? This was the year that you’d buy albums like that, and be all... uhhhhhhh
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Friday, 16 August 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
I dont remember them
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
It was a Hyped Matador Release
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
I think I was wary of hype by then, but I honestly do not remember anything about them in the UK press or the infrequent US mags I bought on import.
Spin & Rolling Stone was sold in every wh smiths in every provincial town in the UK but I never bought them. They were always in cellophane to stop you reading them too.
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:13 (four years ago) link
Gonna mention it here as I'm playing the fuck out to it today and it's from 1997...the Oblivians album Play Nine Songs With Mr Quintron. A little ripper. Hellfire and booze, gospel and guitars, sounding like it was recorded on a bootleg in 1958 if they'd discovered punk by then
― imago, Friday, 16 August 2019 15:13 (four years ago) link
I remember a band called Quintron. No relation?
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
Unless that band was a New Orleans organist, no...
― imago, Friday, 16 August 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
while we are on the subject of terrible late 90s indie, these cunts are where me and UK indie parted ways
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― The World According To.... (Michael B), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
hah, I remember liking i think their 1st single but everything else was rotten, especially that song that The Sun used in adverts. The singer was a real mouthy twat that you can find in most Scottish pubs.
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link
Bluetones and Catatonia were when I parted ways with trusting the nme and MM
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:26 (four years ago) link
There was some decent britpop singles and a handful of good albums but when I hear a lot of stuff from back then I wonder how the fuck people liked them. Babybird? Ocean Colour Scene? Divine Comedy? Space?
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
oh and travis appeared in 97 didn't they?
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:30 (four years ago) link
and the kerrang britrock of the era was even worse, Symposium, Reef, 3 colours red, stereophonics and I'm pretty sure 97 was when the nu metal bands started getting real hype
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
I do love "slight return" by Bluetones tbh
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
Symposium, Reef, 3 colours red, stereophonics
Im sure all these bands appeared on TFI Friday at least once
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
I have a soft spot for Catatonia. Also likely ilx-unpopular, but the Grand Parade by the Frank and Walters is a great record from 1997 that I stil l listen to.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Friday, 16 August 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
I have a soft spot for a few Space singles too. They were like the UK versh of Cake!
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:50 (four years ago) link
I hated Cake too, lol.
When did fun lovin criminals get popular here?
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
'96-'97
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Friday, 16 August 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link
next question is obviously WHY????????
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
I think Pulp Fiction had something to do with it...
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
Ah yes, the bowling shirt aesthetic of the late 90s
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Friday, 16 August 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
the what?
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 16 August 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
Spin End Of Year Lists 1997
1. Cornershop - When I Was Born For The 7th Time2. Radiohead - OK Computer3. Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out4. Björk - Homogenic5. Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind6. Portishead - Portishead7. The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death8. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One9. Missy "Misdemeanour" Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly10. The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole11. Pavement - Brighten The Corners12. Erykah Badu - Baduizm13. Roni Size/Reprazent - New Forms14. Various Artists - Return Of The D.J. Vol.II15. Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope16. Daft Punk - Homework17. Geraldine Fibbers - Butch18. Belle And Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister19. Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever20. Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 16 August 2019 19:12 (four years ago) link
wait how did you get through the late 90s and not notice/deal with the bowling shirt aesthetic, it was literally everywhere
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 16 August 2019 19:14 (four years ago) link
Wasn't he the guy from Ride?
― the cretin hits the cast (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 16 August 2019 19:14 (four years ago) link
My eye went right to this:
Readers' Picks Albums
1. U2 - Achtung Baby2. Pearl Jam - Ten3. R.E.M. - Achtung Baby
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Friday, 16 August 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link