Best Album on OUR Favourite Albums of......1997 PART ONE

(I like the Pavement album, but even that is my least fave of theirs!)

Brighten The Corners is great. I saw them on that tour

I saw them on that tour too, Bristol Anson Rooms

Did they open with 'Grounded' and play 'Summer Babe'? they did at Glasgow Garage

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.

was a cracking gig I saw, played pretty much everything i wanted

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.

I saw them that year in Boston, with Shudder To Think opening.

Remember Pardon My French, by “Fuck”? This was the year that you’d buy albums like that, and be all... uhhhhhhh

I dont remember them

It was a Hyped Matador Release

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.

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

I remember a band called Quintron. No relation?

Unless that band was a New Orleans organist, no...

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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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.

Bluetones and Catatonia were when I parted ways with trusting the nme and MM

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?

oh and travis appeared in 97 didn't they?

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

I do love "slight return" by Bluetones tbh

Symposium, Reef, 3 colours red, stereophonics

Im sure all these bands appeared on TFI Friday at least once

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.

I have a soft spot for a few Space singles too. They were like the UK versh of Cake!

I hated Cake too, lol.

When did fun lovin criminals get popular here?

'96-'97

next question is obviously WHY????????

I think Pulp Fiction had something to do with it...

Ah yes, the bowling shirt aesthetic of the late 90s

the what?

Spin End Of Year Lists 1997

1. Cornershop - When I Was Born For The 7th Time
2. Radiohead - OK Computer
3. Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
4. Björk - Homogenic
5. Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind
6. Portishead - Portishead
7. The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death
8. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
9. Missy "Misdemeanour" Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly
10. The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
11. Pavement - Brighten The Corners
12. Erykah Badu - Baduizm
13. Roni Size/Reprazent - New Forms
14. Various Artists - Return Of The D.J. Vol.II
15. Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope
16. Daft Punk - Homework
17. Geraldine Fibbers - Butch
18. Belle And Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
19. Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever
20. Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land

wait how did you get through the late 90s and not notice/deal with the bowling shirt aesthetic, it was literally everywhere

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.

Wasn't he the guy from Ride?

My eye went right to this:

Readers' Picks Albums

1. U2 - Achtung Baby
2. Pearl Jam - Ten
3. R.E.M. - Achtung Baby

my favorite R.E.M. album

Guitarist was from Ride, not the singer

xp

thanks to mods for deleting my post.

Made sure I paste it correctly thistime!

Rolling Stone 1997 Critics

Albums

1. Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind
2. Radiohead - OK Computer
3. Pavement - Brighten The Corners
4. Cornershop - When I Was Born For The 7th Time
5. Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
6. Missy Misdemeanor Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly
7. The Verve - Urban Hymns
8. Björk - Homogenic
9. The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
10. Beth Orton - Trailer Park

Singles

1. The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
2. Hanson - Mmmbop
3. The Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats
4. Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
5. Missy Misdemeanor Elliott - The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)

Readers' Picks Albums

1. Oasis - Be Here Now
2. Radiohead - OK Computer
3. Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land

Singles

1. Fiona Apple - Criminal
2. Blur - Song 2
3. Radiohead - Paranoid Android

Surprised at the readers albums picks

10. Beth Orton - Trailer Park

I forgot about this one. I used to dug it at the time

I used to like that Bentley Rhythm Ace album but fairly sure I've not listened to it once in the last 21 years. (see also Propellerheads)

I didn't like big beat much

write in for young team.

imagine no even including this seminal scottish album recorded in fucking hamilton ffs

young team is in the other poll

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

I'll still stand by that Bentley Rhythm Ace album, its good fun. Their FSUK mix from '98 is brilliant too.

oof, am a dafty.

:)

you are from Bothwell tbf ;)

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, August 16, 2019 11:13 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Hell yeah, would definitely be my vote if it was on the list.