You Should Hear This: 1997

bort · **Posted:** Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:20 pm

and on the pop punk front:

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:38 pm

I find this a pretty wretched year for music. So on top of Cornershop, Richard Buckner, and Ween I halfheartedly offer these:

Locally, that year held a handful of highpoints:

and the debut ep by Jungle It's So Fuck'n Great To Be Alive, which apparently is so obscure that if I want a cover pic I'll have to scan it myself.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:56 pm

I can't recall how I came across Bush album, but I played 'Synapse' off of it constantly.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:58 pm

Dots and Loops is probably my favorite Stereolab. (Either that of the Refried Ectoplasm comp.)

DumpJack · **Posted:** Mon Sep 19, 2011 7:00 pm

Drinky Wrote:

Dots and Loops is probably my favorite Stereolab. (Either that of the Refried Ectoplasm comp.)

Far and away mine as well.

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

A few more I like:

Johnny Dowd - the Wrong Side of Memphis
Matthew Ryan - May Day
Grant McLennan - In Your Bright Ray
Gene - Drawn to the Deep End
Archer Prewitt - In the Sun

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Mon Sep 19, 2011 7:16 pm

I've always been amazed that Royal Trux actually made that their cover "art".

paper · **Posted:** Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:15 pm

Sen Lil Luke LooGAR Wrote:

paper Wrote:

WuTang Forever was overall such a bust that in retrospect it might be what made me be less interested in rap in the ensuing years.

I take most things you say about rap with a grain of salt, but Forever definitely suffered from being a double album...if they took all the best tracks on that thing and make one lp, that thing is a classic.

Lrr · **Posted:** Mon Sep 19, 2011 10:47 pm

I should check out that Negativland one of these years.

Sketch · **Posted:** Tue Sep 20, 2011 5:40 am

+1 on Daft Punk, Built to Spill, Deftones, Foo Fighters, Pietasters

On my Listmania:

Stuff I enjoyed back in the day (and now when I revisit them):

PopTodd · **Posted:** Tue Sep 20, 2011 8:27 am

Wife and I got married that year... out of town. So I made a lot of mixtapes for all those roadtrips up to Northern Michigan and a lot of a lot of the stuff in this thread were well-represented.

duckyboy · **Posted:** Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:34 am

Great EP by this kiwi. Only thing he recorded (there's also a live EP though) before he killed himself.

a good album you can find used really cheap.

PopTodd · **Posted:** Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:30 am

The posthumous release from the great Chicago power pop band was kinda uneven, but still had some pretty amazing moments: "What If I Killed Your Boyfriend?" and "Very Good Thing" being just 2 of them.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Tue Sep 20, 2011 11:30 am

duckyboy Wrote:

I was going to post this and didn't think anyone else would. Near the top of my list for this year.

Rick Derris · **Posted:** Tue Sep 20, 2011 12:51 pm

1997: the year of Spice Girls and Third Eye Creedbox Twenty.

While there are some gems to be found I'm with Rads. Seems like a shitty year.

I was certainly all over that Yo La Tengo album along with Apples In Stereo, OK Computer, Luna, GBV, and that Sleater-Kinney.

I remember REALLY getting into REM's early catalog that year and becoming obsessed with finding REM landmarks in Athens. Lot of Replacements as well.

This was a staple as well:

PopTodd · **Posted:** Tue Sep 20, 2011 1:19 pm

Um, this was a pretty fucking great record:

Showed that the kids were not just a one-album wonder, but that they were actually maturing.. not just little snotnosed kids. The sound expanded and so did the hooks. A great followup to a great debut.

mcaputo · **Posted:** Tue Sep 20, 2011 1:37 pm

more from '97.........

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Tue Sep 20, 2011 1:41 pm

mcaputo Wrote:

Another one I would have posted and didn't expect to see. I don't think any of the John Fahey acolytes of recent years have made an album nearly this good.

mcaputo · **Posted:** Tue Sep 20, 2011 1:43 pm

Drinky Wrote:

mcaputo Wrote:

Another one I would have posted and didn't expect to see. I don't think any of the John Fahey acolytes of recent years have made an album nearly this good.

Agreed.
As much as I like Insignificance & Eureka, this is the one that gets the most spins.

Roach · **Joined:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 2:39 pm **Posts:** 955

Released by K Records in 1997 and heavily influenced by Sabbath & Melvins, this is just one relentless mind pound of a record. Black humour, blood curdling, stoner anthems, and of course Ding Dong! Fucking With Your Head.

Stone · **Joined:** Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:27 am **Posts:** 1562

I missed this thread first time through, I guess. I did like some of that punk/ska stuff from this year, and saw Mustard Plug play live many times in this time frame. I still listen to that Pietasters album from time to time.

I really like that Beulah album as well.

Here are a couple from that I year I like that haven't been mentioned (I don't think):

Not much to be said about this, just straight ahead, Irish-influenced punk rock with an attitude.

I guess you can call this the predecessor to The Shins, since it had the same members. Similar to The Shins in style, this album is nearly as good as Oh, Inverted World in my estimation and definitely showed the promise of the band.

shiv · **Posted:** Fri Dec 16, 2011 8:10 pm

Roach Wrote:

Released by K Records in 1997 and heavily influenced by Sabbath & Melvins, this is just one relentless mind pound of a record. Black humour, blood curdling, stoner anthems, and of course Ding Dong! Fucking With Your Head.

i'm gonna have to check this out.

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:04 pm

Prodigy || Fat of the Land

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:18 pm

Anyone see the stretching Steve Hyden's piece at Grantland about Semisonic & the status of "Closing Time" as the last gasp of collective experience?

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

paper Wrote:

I take most things you say about rap with a grain of salt, but Forever definitely suffered from being a double album...if they took all the best tracks on that thing and make one lp, that thing is a classic.

i think it's a nearly perfect album, if they released both as individual albums one year apart they'd both be hailed as classics.

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