Ooh I've never heard that Helmet album
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 00:42 (four years ago) link
it's pretty good but just, at the time anyway, seen as not as great as the previous 3.
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 00:43 (four years ago) link
mike you think 97 was a stepdown from 96?
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 00:48 (four years ago) link
Hard to say. Lots of great stuff from that year. That's a strong list there. Music press was getting very tabloidy around then so I didn't get to hear about the more underground stuff so found myself retreating into the canon and dance at the time.
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 00:56 (four years ago) link
ok padding these lists out some more
v/a - the conet projectthe chrysanthemums - the baby's headdrexciya - the questduran duran - medazzalandfelix lajko - lajko felix es zenekarav/a - linen sampler 1997 ver 1.0gary lucas - evangelineground zero - plays standardsgeraldine fibbers - butchgwal - verlustmeldunggyorgy ligeti - edition 5: mechanical musicharpy - do not eathedningarna - hippjokkjimi tenor - intervisionjunior kimbrough - most things haven't worked outlos fabulosos cadillacs - fabulosos calaveramichael head and the strands - magical world of the strandsorko tha sycotik alien - s/tsensational - loaded with powersurgeon - basictonalvocabularythat dog. - retreat from the suntoenut - two in the pinataween - the molluskthe williams fairey brass band - acid brassx-legged sally and the smith quartet - bereft of a blissful union
didn't think the list would be so long! lot of stuff on here i really really like, too. as for my vote, easy enough - "shleep", robert wyatt's prozac album. it's a really important record to me.
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 00:56 (four years ago) link
oh the strands record was on the other list! ok nvm that one
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link
Shleep is brilliant.
Quite a lot of mike's picks were on my list too and I filled the rest out. I suspect he would like quite a lot across the 2 lists and the bubbling under
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 01:10 (four years ago) link
duran duran - medazzaland
A workmate was actually telling me about this and said it was this amazing amalgamation of rock & electronica. I think its release got shelved in UK/Ireland so its pretty hard to get a copy of it here. Maybe its on Spotify now.
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 01:16 (four years ago) link
This was the first year I started buying CD's. Bought copies of Cornelius & Sleater-Kinney (based on a Rolling Stone review iirc) that year on CD
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 01:19 (four years ago) link
one of these
Erykah Badu - BaduizmSleater Kinney - Dig me outYo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 01:28 (four years ago) link
velvet rope
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 02:13 (four years ago) link
― The World According To.... (Michael B)
better than i was expecting from warren cuccurullo-era duran duran, i'll say that
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 02:14 (four years ago) link
Bjork, Autechre or Wyatt are kinda reflexive choices, though I'm not sure I've even heard two of those in the last 5 years. I probably listened to Dots & Loops more than anything else at the time. That OP8 record was quite good too, from memory. I guess this is a long way of saying that I should shut up and relisten to stuff.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 05:08 (four years ago) link
Lots of my favourites here, but Homogenic is my favourite album of the 90s so that.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 05:14 (four years ago) link
i hope shleep wins this, great tunes and atmosphere.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 05:17 (four years ago) link
Royal Trux - Sweet Sixteen^^actual winner of all contests
― 60... 90... 120 Minute IPA (morrisp), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 05:50 (four years ago) link
Oh good, you included Levitate! That is my answer
― imago, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 10:17 (four years ago) link
Fuck the war on clichés, OK Computer is the album that has influenced my relationship with music the most over the past 20+ years.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 10:24 (four years ago) link
Yo La Tengo, just happened to listen to it in the car a few days ago. Carl Craig, Cornelius, Daft Punk, Elliot Smith, and Jim O'Rourke not far behind.
― willem, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 11:09 (four years ago) link
― imago, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 10:17 (fifty minutes ago)
94-97 Fall is pretty weak imo but they started to get good again around here. Actually, I never liked "Levitate" until lately and I re-listened to it and it sounds so much better now. I love "The Marshall Suite" too.
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 11:13 (four years ago) link
I'm going with Chemical Brothers. I still reckon its their best.
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 11:14 (four years ago) link
I think 1997 was one of the best years for albums ever, for me personally. Could vote for 10 records here. Special mention for O'Rourke, Elliott Smith, Stereolab, Cornelius and Spiritualized. But in a death match between Daft Punk and Mogwai the heart ultimate favours the latter. #teamyoungteam
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 11:27 (four years ago) link
Voted for Daft Punk, just ahead of Erykah Badu and Mogwai. A pretty weak year imho.
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 12:20 (four years ago) link
Homogenic without a doubt, although I didn't get around to buying it until early in 1998. In actual 1997 I got into Orbital but also liked the Chemical Brothers, Portishead and Daft Punk albums a lot (plus Death in Vegas from the other list), also spent a lot of time trying to convince myself that Fat of the Land wasn't a disappointment. Oh and a friend lent me Wu-Tang Forever, that was my introduction to them and has held up really well.
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 12:23 (four years ago) link
From my corner, terrible form loading Bjork, Erykah and Janet all onto one of these polls.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 12:50 (four years ago) link
I think 1997 was one of the best years for albums ever, for me personally.
Same. Partly for generational reasons, I suppose.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 12:51 (four years ago) link
Absolutely. It's looking at these lists that make me realise how extremely open I was to music at the time (17 years old). Daft Punk and GYBE are just two albums that opened the door to whole genres I hadn't before that time. That sort of branching out in all directions wouldn't happen at such a level ever again. (black metal, drone, jazz and classical were still some years away from me at the time)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 13:06 (four years ago) link
I was 20 at the time. Only 3 years in the difference from LBI but enough to make me a bit more cynical
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 13:12 (four years ago) link
Whereas I was 24/25, and consider this a weak year. It's between Blur, Pavement and Cornershop for me. Think I'll vote the latter as that's the one I feel like playing now (and I haven't felt that way about Blur or Pavement for years).
Other favourites from this year are Teenage Fanclub, Asian Dub Foundation's RAFI, Future Bible Heroes' Memories of Love, Uptown Saturday Night by Camp Lo and Vegas by The Crystal Method.
― dorsalstop, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 13:21 (four years ago) link
I think that Autechre album has held up really well. I know Amber and Tri Rep are generally the early Autechre picks but Chiastic is when I started to really hear the groove in their music. I still prefer their recent stuff but Chiastic is the one early album that I'd say matches up with anything.
Amusingly, the Chems album still sounds pretty great today while the Daft Punk one seems dated and flat (probably an unpopular opinion, I'm sure). I would've expected the opposite. That Squarepusher one feels really trebly and a bit hyperactive now - absolutely loved this one in college but it doesn't really sound great now. Still might be his best.
Still gonna go for Cornelius - one of those rare albums that essentially puts an end to an entire genre. I still smile every time I hear it.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link
Yeah, Fantasma is wonderful
― imago, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
I only listened to the Cornelius album for the first time last year! Was familiar with the name, but never checked it out. What a great album indeed, bought it immediately
― willem, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
Yeah it's great.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
I bought it then because Toby Amies regularly played 'Star Fruit Surf Rider' on Alternative Nation iirc.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
120 minutes was better
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
Don't know if 120m was better, I sure watched it a lot more than AN. Oh heck, 120 minutes gave me Thin White Rope, it wás better!
― willem, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
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!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link
I love that Req album!toss up between erykah, verve, and the wu
― brimstead, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
bad timing
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
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.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
This year was the peak of Mogwai seeming interesting.
― Today he dances jazz, but tomorrow he will sell his homeland (seandalai), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
I think Bad Timing for me too
― Dan S, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
went for Spiritualized which was my fave album of 97 at the time
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 23:15 (four years ago) link
did anyone else get into older music at this time like a few people have said already on the thread?
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 15 August 2019 13:34 (four years ago) link
I was just getting started. It's my year 1.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 15 August 2019 13:36 (four years ago) link
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 WarmingsLevitateSpaceageOOIOO s/tNow the Road of KnivesDissolve - Third Album from the SunLapsedAcid Mothers s/tHelium - The Magic CityThe FawnPorter Ricks s/tThe Velvet RopeThe Mystical Path of the Number Eighty-SixGround-Zero - Consume RedHovercraft - AkathisiaSweet SixteenAround the FurOK Computer
― the cretin hits the cast (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:22 (four years ago) link
spacerock george
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 16 August 2019 09:13 (four years ago) link
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.
― Thank You (Fattekin Mice Elf Control Again) (Noel Emits), Friday, 16 August 2019 09:38 (four years ago) link
I love Da Trux but "sweet sixteen" is probably their weakest effort tbh
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Friday, 16 August 2019 09:44 (four years ago) link
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'
― help yourself to another slice of apple ... crumble (Willl), Friday, 16 August 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
xp How could you love Da Trux and hold this opinion?!! It is their tour de force, peak of their career!
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Friday, 16 August 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
That would be "cats & dogs"
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Friday, 16 August 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
That's the early "snap into the focus"; the beginning of their "can do no wrong" stretch...
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Friday, 16 August 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
'David Holmes – Lets Get Killed'
should have been on the bubbling under list.
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
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
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Friday, 16 August 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
i must admit he's not somebody i have thought of in at least 15 years.
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 16 August 2019 21:54 (four years ago) link
lj picking the fall over mansun? controversial
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 16 August 2019 21:55 (four years ago) link
always knew lj was frontin'
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Saturday, 17 August 2019 13:36 (four years ago) link
I would assume LJ would pick The Fall over pretty much anything else, no?
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Saturday, 17 August 2019 13:50 (four years ago) link
Levitate has been time travel classic for decades now
― the cretin hits the cast (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 18 August 2019 08:13 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
i sense 90s weariness
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 13:07 (four years ago) link
You know what my list is missing? The Moray Eels Eat the Space Needle
― the cretin hits the cast (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
15 votes? that's a lot
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 00:00 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
― the cretin hits the cast (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, August 20, 2019 2:35 PM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Agreed!!
― Evan, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 02:43 (four years ago) link
ILM sure loves The Bjork
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 06:57 (four years ago) link
Also loves relegating Radiohead to the second tier.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 07:00 (four years ago) link
yeah that Space Needle album is sick
― imago, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 07:39 (four years ago) link
Man there's no way I didn't vote for Levitate
― the cretin hits the cast (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 09:59 (four years ago) link
👀
― imago, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 10:01 (four years ago) link
0 votes for Hard Normal Daddy is a surprise but I guess it doesn't sound like the future of jazz anymore
― frogbs, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 13:02 (four years ago) link
0 votes for Cornershop is also surprising but I guess its very much of its time too
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 13:33 (four years ago) link
I would have voted for Hard Normal Daddy if Bjork, Radiohead, and the Chems weren't options
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
Best Album on OUR Favourite Albums of......1998 Part One
Best Album on OUR Favourite Albums of......1998 Part Two
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
― dorsalstop, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
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.
― kraudive, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link
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?
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 21:46 (four years ago) link
Good results.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 22 August 2019 01:28 (four years ago) link