The Best Albums Of 1997

Top 50

1. The magic city - HELIUM
2. The Italian flag - PROLAPSE
3. Too many days without thinking - SWELL
4. Brighten the corners - PAVEMENT
5. Dig me out - SLEATER-KINNEY
6. Levitate - THE FALL
7. Urban hymns - THE VERVE
8. The Dandy Warhols come own - THE DANDY WARHOLS
9. Butch - THE GERALDINE FIBBERS
10. Wu-Tang forever - WU-TANG CLAN
11. The fat of the land - PRODIGY
12. I can hear the heart beating as one - YO LA TENGO
13. Perfect from now on - BUILT TO SPILL
14. Lower yourself - THE NEW CHRISTS
15. The beauty process: Triple platinum - L7
16. When I was born for the 7th time - CORNERSHOP
17. Songs from Northern Britain - TEENAGE FANCLUB
18. Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space - SPIRITUALIZED
19. The lonesome crowded west - MODEST MOUSE
20. Souls for sale - VERBENA
21. Eight arms to hold you - VERUCA SALT
22. Show world - REDD KROSS
23. Be here now - OASIS
24. The colour and the shape - FOO FIGHTERS
25. Dig your own hole - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS
26. Dissent - LINOLEUM
27. What would the community think - CATPOWER
28. Love songs for underdogs - TANYA DONELLY
29. Dare to be surprised - THE FOLK IMPLOSION
30. Indoor living - SUPERCHUNK
31. Cheer up! - PLEXI
32. Rock collection - POND
33. Sweetness and light - STEVE WYNN
34. Hand it over - DINOSAUR JR.
35. The 18th letter - RAKIM
36. Dots and loops - STEREOLAB
37. Blur - BLUR
38. In it for the money - SUPERGRASS
39. Tiger - SUPERETTE
40. Low estate - SIXTEEN HORSEPOWER
41. Fake can be just as good - BLONDE REDHEAD
42. Everyone wants the honey but not the sting - MY DAD IS DEAD
43. Under the western freeway - GRANDADDY
44. Mag earwhig! - GUIDED BY VOICES
45. Aftertaste - HELMET
46. Come in and burn - ROLLINS BAND
47. 1212 - BARBARA MANNING
48. Portishead - PORTISHEAD
49. Vanishing point - PRIMAL SCREAM
50. Con art - SMART WENT CRAZY

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Last exit to Garageland - GARAGELAND, So much for the afterglow - EVERCLEAR, Retreat from the sun - THAT DOG, Sounds of the satellites - LAIKA, Dead Elvis - DEATH IN VEGAS, Wolf songs for lambs - JONATHAN FIRE*EATER, No way - RUN ON, Curtains - TINDERSTICKS, West - MARK EITZEL, The boatman’s call - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, Gone - BEASTS OF BOURBON, Nighttown - THE WALKABOUTS, OK computer - RADIOHEAD, I got next - KRS ONE, At the club - KENICKIE, Let the body hang - MORNING GLORIES, Sweet sixteen - ROYAL TRUX, Made from technetium - MAN OR ASTRO-MAN?, In place of real insight - KARATE, RTFM - POSTER CHILDREN, Tragic magic - MADDER ROSE, Please do not disturb - JULIANA HATFIELD, Eighth - ELEVENTH DREAM DAY, Must ’ve been high - SUPERSUCKERS, Handsome - HANDSOME, Save your face - FELINE, Speed crash burn - HARD CANDY, Magic Dirt - MAGIC DIRT, Memory comes back - RAINING PLEASURE, Red apple falls - SMOG, Joya - WILL OLDHAM, Thriller - LAMBCHOP, Slush - OP8, The lateness of the hour - ERIC MATTHEWS, Apartment life - IVY, Tremble under boom lights - JONATHAN FIRE*EATER, Sound verité - MAKE UP, The Murder City Devils - THE MURDER CITY DEVILS, 3/5 - LES SAVY FAV, Barely legal - THE HIVES, Heavy soul - PAUL WELLER, Zaireeka - THE FLAMING LIPS, Either/Or - ELLIOTT SMITH, R&B transmogrification - QUASI, Full blown possession - THE GRIFTERS, Luxury plane crash - SCARFO, Shapes - POLVO, Smoke follows beauty - LEAVING TRAINS, Hold your tongue - CLAW HAMMER, The action is go - FU MANCHU, Sentimental education - FREE KITTEN, The smaller the grape, the sweeter the wine - TINY LIGHTS, Wrecked by lions - NUMBER ONE CUP, Being there - WILCO, Stranger's almanac - WHISKEYTOWN, Another desert, another sea - THREE MILE PILOT, Give it back! - THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, Pup tent - LUNA, Evergreen - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN, Mirador - TARNATION, The Virginian - NEKO CASE & HER BOYFRIENDS, The mysterious tale of how I shouted wrong-eyed Jesus! - JIM WHITE, In your bright ray - GRANT MCLENNAN, Handsome western states - BEULAH, When the red king comes - ELF POWER, Nothing feels good - THE PROMISE RING, Downward is heavenward - HUM, Four minute mile - THE GET UP KIDS, The Dismemberment Plan is terrified - THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN, A brilliant mistake - TSUNAMI, Dust bunnies - BETTIE SERVEERT, Illumination - THE PASTELS, Radiator - SUPER FURRY ANIMALS, Mogwai young team - MOGWAI, If you are feeling sinister - BELLE & SEBASTIAN, Homogenic - BJORK, New forms - RONI SIZE / REPRAZENT, Modus operandi - PHOTEK, Funcrusher plus - COMPANY FLOW, Sex style - KOOL KEITH, Future development - DEL THA FUNKEE HOMOSAPIEN, The pick, the sickle and the shovel - GRAVEDIGGAZ, The untouchable - SCARFACE, In my lifetime, Vol. 1 - JAY-Z, Life after death - NOTORIOUS B.I.G., Supa dupa fly - MISSY ELLIOTT, Ghetto D - MASTER P, Overcast! - ATMOSPHERE, Homework - DAFT PUNK, Autoditacker - MOUSE ON MARS, Burn, Berlin, burn! - ATARI TEENAGE RIOT, Chiastic slide - AUTECHRE, Ghost - THE THIRD EYE FOUNDATION, The fawn - THE SEA AND CAKE, Surrender to the night - TRANS AM, Salaryman - SALARYMAN, Fantasma - CORNELIUS, The new transistor heroes - BIS, Bentley Rhythm Ace - BENTLEY RYTHM ACE, Glee - BRAN VAN 3000, Let’s get killed - DAVID HOLMES, Tellin’ stories - THE CHARLATANS, Stupid, stupid, stupid - BLACK GRAPE, Good feeling - TRAVIS, Bagsy me - THE WANNADIES, The magical world of the Strands - MICHAEL HEAD / THE STRANDS, Shleep - ROBERT WYATT, Barafundle - GORKY’S ZYGOTIC MYNCI, Amelia - LONG FIN KILLIE, Like swimming - MORPHINE, Violent demise - BODY COUNT, Big beat from Badsville - THE CRAMPS, Pure chewing satisfaction - LARD, Contemplating the engine room - MIKE WATT, New mansions in sound - FASTBACKS, Do a two sable - DANIELLE HOWLE & THE TANTRUMS, Helioself - PAPAS FRITAS, Star city - PELL MELL, I never asked for light - LULLABY FOR THE WORKING CLASS, Home turf - GOLD BLADE, Learn to hypnotize - POTHEAD, Shihad - SHIHAD, Angels and daemons at play - MOTORPSYCHO, Lapsed - BARDO POND, F♯A♯∞ [1995-1997] - GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR, The fruit that ate itself - MODEST MOUSE, My body, the hand grenade - HOLE, Supo spot - QUICKSPACE, Living in clip - ANI DIFRANCO