List some of your favorite records that turn 20 this year

this is a better year than i thought

Good records have no age because they existed since the beginning of time it was just a question of when someone got round to recording and releasing them

Glenn had a good year that year

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

they dont belong in the past though, belong in the present along with the sycamores and the oaks

Though she died 4 years ago, I am still haunted by her music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwHM3jHUpjI

Good lord, I never heard that she died.

earl brutus - your majesty .. we are here.
compulsion - the future is medium.
2 badcard - hustling ability.

My top ten for 1997:

1. Adrian Borland - 5:00 am
2. Radiohead - OK Computer
3. Bike - Take In The Sun
4. Gene - Drawn To The Deep End
5. China Drum - Self Made Maniac
6. Frank & Walters - The Grand Parade
7. Love Spit Love - Trysome Eatone
8. Prolapse - The Italian Flag
9. Luna - Pup Tent
10. Hugh Cornwell - Guilty

That was a really good year, I love all those albums still, though the Radiohead is a bit played out for me.

There is an internet rumour a teenage Zlatan played on this before signing for Malmo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uo6qMnIFTQ

Supa Dupa Fly

BAD TIMING - Jim O'Rourke
TYCHO MAGNETIC ANOMALY - The Azusa Plane
DOTS AND LOOPS - Stereolab
COME TO DADDY - Aphex Twin
EITHER/OR - Elliott Smith
DUDE RANCH - blink-182
WORK AND NON WORK - Broadcast
THE LONESOME CROWDED WEST - Modest Mouse
OK COMPUTER - Radiohead
FINAL FANTASY VII OST - Nobuo Uematsu

Acrimony - Tumuli Shroomaroom ,
Bardo Pond - Lapsed,
Blonde Redhead - Fake Can Be Just as Good
Blur – Blur
Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On,
Corrupted - Paso inferior ,
Daft Punk – Homework
Death In Vegas – Dead Elvis
Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics... ,
Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk ,
Entombed - To Ride, Shoot Straight And Speak The Truth
Enslaved - Eld,
Faith No More - Album Of The Year
Ghost - Temple Stone,
Grandaddy – Under The Western Freeway
Iron Monkey - Iron Monkey ,
Karma To Burn - S/t
Michael Head Introducing The Strands – The Magical World Of The Strands
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West,
Mogwai – Mogwai Young Team
Pavement - Brighten The Corners,
Portishead – Portishead,
Primal Scream – Vanishing Point
Radiohead – Ok Computer,
Robert Wyatt - Shleep
Skepticism - Lead and Aether ,
Spiritualized – Ladies And Gentleman We Are Floating In Space,
Squarepusher – Hard Normal Daddy,
Super Furry Animals – Radiator
Supergrass – In It For The Money
The American Analog Set - From Our Living Room to Yours ,
The Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole
The Verve – Urban Hymns,
Three Mile Pilot - Another Desert, Another Sea,
Today Is The Day - Temple Of The Morning Star
Ulver - Nattens madrigal: Aatte hymne til ulven i manden ,
Wu-Tang Clan – Wu-Tang Forever
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One

Bjork - Homogenic
Blur - Blur
Daft Punk - Homework
David Bowie - Earthling
Deftones - Around the Fur
Depeche Mode - Ultra
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech
Erasure - Cowboy
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Gary Numan - Exile
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Barafundle
Green Day - Nimrod
Hugh Cornwell - Guilty
James - Whiplash
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene 7-13
Laika - Sounds of the Satellites
Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lantern
Oasis - Be Here Now
Paul McCartney - Flaming Pie
Paul Weller - Heavy Soul
Pavement - Brighten the Corners
Portishead - Portishead
Primal Scream - Vanishing Point
Radiohead - OK Computer
Recoil - Unsound Methods
Roni Size/Reprazent - New Forms
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
Stereolab - Dots and Loops
Super Furry Animals - Radiator
Supergrass - In It For The Money
Teenage Fanclub - Songs From Northern Britain
The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
The Verve - Urban Hymns

re: McBoing-Boing's list -- 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...

Great year, no real order:

Larry Heard ‎– Dance 2000
Paul W. Teebrooke ‎– Connections
Alpha ‎– Come From Heaven
Sluts'n'Strings & 909 ‎– Carrera
Chris Brann ‎– Deep Fall
Stereolab ‎– Dots And Loops
Aquarhythms ‎– Greetings From Deepest America
Baby Ford ‎– Headphoneasy Rider
Björk ‎– Homogenic
Gemini ‎– In And Out Of Fog And Lights
Gemini ‎– In Neutral
The Timewriter ‎– Letters From The Jester
Christian Morgenstern ‎– Miscellaneous
Carl Craig ‎– More Songs About Food And Revolutionary Art
The Advent ‎– New Beginnings
Various ‎– Objets D'art III
Faze Action ‎– Plans & Designs
Speedy J ‎– Public Energy No.1
Moodymann ‎– Silentintroduction
Placid Angles ‎– The Cry
Morgan Geist ‎– The Driving Memoirs
Jaime Read ‎– The End Of The Beginning
Various ‎– The Lords Of Svek Vol. 2
Jeff Mills ‎– The Other Day (Axis Compilation)
Various ‎– The Seductive Sounds Of Teknotika
Gerd ‎– This Touch Is Greater Than Moods

Must have listened to each of these hundreds of times

cosign on Shleep and YLT

these stand out for me when I look through my physical copies:

Ø - Tulkinta
Nick Cave - Boatman's Call
Muslimgauze - Farouk Enjineer (the best noisy one IMO)
Geraldine Fibbers - Butch
Atari Teenage Riot - Burn Berlin Burn
Alvarius B. - S/T 2LP

Not already listed from 1997:

Bad Brains - The Omega Sessions
Buena Vista Social Club - st
Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
Cornelius - Fantasma
G. Love & Special Sauce - Yeah, It's That Easy
Lambchop - Thriller
Nick Cave - The Boatman's Call
Plaid - Not for Threes
Plug - Drum 'n' Bass for Papa
SMOG – Red Apple Falls
Ween - The Mollusk
Will Oldham - Joya
Windy & Carl - Antarctica: The Bliss Out, Vol. 2

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE-IQAKR3U8&index=2&list=PL5hZAMEzIDkHlmh2bucwhKC5NA3m88gEO

Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
Ulver - Nattens Madrigal
The Van Pelt - Sultans of Sentiment
GYBE - F#A#∞

Not mentioned so far

David Devant & His Spirit Wife - Work, Lovelife, Miscellaneous
David Holmes - Let's Get Killed
Dawn of the Replicants - One Head, Two Arms, Two Legs
Kenickie - At The Club
Minty - Open Wide
Quickspace - Supo Spot
Silver Sun - Silver Sun
Strangelove - Strangelove
The Delgados - Domestiques
The Yummy Fur - Kinky Cinema

Fantasma is 20! Jesus Christ!

Other favorites from '97: The Mollusk (absolutely classic), Chiastic Slide, Denki Groove's A, Motorpsycho's Angels & Daemons at Play, and Subterranea by IQ

Bardo Pond - Lapsed
Chiastic Slide

Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out

Bloody hell. Young Team is 20 yrs old. I wrote a prentious review of that at the time that contained passages about how I wished I was young again. I was 20.

Sp. Pretentious obv.

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!?