What's new
Fantasy Football - Footballguys Forums

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

Best Album Released in 1997 (1 Viewer)

Best Album of 1997

  • Ben Folds Five- Whatever and Ever Amen

    Votes: 5 3.6%

  • BIG- Life after Death

    Votes: 9 6.5%

  • Bjork- Homgenic

    Votes: 1 0.7%

  • Bob Dylan- Time out of Mind

    Votes: 10 7.2%

  • Daft Punk- Homework

    Votes: 4 2.9%

  • Elliott Smith- Either Or

    Votes: 2 1.4%

  • Foo Fighters- The Colour and Shape

    Votes: 16 11.5%

  • Modest Mouse- The Lonesome Crowded West

    Votes: 3 2.2%

  • Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds- The Boatmans Call

    Votes: 1 0.7%

  • Pavement- Brighten the Corners

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Radiohead- OK Computer

    Votes: 56 40.3%

  • Spiritualized-Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space

    Votes: 1 0.7%

  • The Verve- Urban Hymns

    Votes: 7 5.0%

  • Third Eye Blind- Third Eye Blind

    Votes: 12 8.6%

  • Other

    Votes: 12 8.6%
  • Total voters
    139
Homogenic & OKComputer got this ol fart excited about music again for the 1st time in a while. Since i cant think of more than one record with a better 1st 4 songs (Feat's Dixie Chicken, maybe) than the former & since i'll always think of the post-grunge 90s as The Great Girl Era in tunes, i'll give my nod to the twinkly Vikette.

 
Damn good year for music; maybe the best of the 90s.

My absolute favorites:

Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine

Dream Theater - Falling into Infinity

Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray

Fleetwood Mac - The Dance (great live record and video)

The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are

Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape

Radiohead - OK Computer

U2 - Pop

 
'Ignoratio Elenchi said:
Who the hell is Elliott Smith

Someone give me something to listen to from him
Click to expand...
lol, he's the only guy who has ever challenged Radiohead as my favorite band/singer ever. He's most well known for the Good Will Hunting soundtrack, which featured songs from Either/Or. His song "Miss Misery" was nominated for an Oscar that year but lost to that Titanic debacle.

Mostly quiet, singer-songwriter type stuff. Probably not your speed. Here's

in Royal Tannenbaums when Richie tries to kill himself in the bathroom.
 
'Socrates11 said:
I like Radiohead but I don't understand the huge fanboy love they get. OK Computer was good and has arguably their best songs on it, but it has some filler too. Third Eye Blind doesn't have a bad song on it. Completely solid from start to finish.
Click to expand...
Around the time this album came out i had recently bought a very powerful Denon amp and some high end Paradigm speakers. I had a party at my house and played this album at one polnt. People moved from the kitchen to the living room by the stereo just to sit anx hear it. Cant recall that ever happening before or since. That album is one of the most creative ever produced. On a good stereo it blows your mind.
 
'JZilla said:
'Hov34 said:
Radiohead doesn't need my vote, so I voted Ben Folds.

OK Computer is only my 3rd favorite RH album anyway.
Click to expand...
I really really really dug that BFF album. Had never heard anything like it. I wore it out.I can't stand him at this point though. His solo stuff is awful and the BFF just sounds old and used up.
Click to expand...
I really like it a lot too. I was very surprised at that because I was still in a mostly punk with a little indie (mostly Pavement and Modest Mouse) musical breadth. It helped that the funnest song was a raucous eff you to the ex g/f song and the lead off song set the tone for most of the album. It ended up with a weird personal attachment from Brick as well as me and a girl stressed out on the old "I'm late" topic and somehow we ended up hearing Brick on the radio (this was years after the album though). My friends' jaws dropped when it came on in the car in our carpool days (they were Long Beach punkers). But I agree, other than this album (which I still enjoy), their stuff and his solo stuff is meh. A few songs here and there I like, and he's fun to watch perform even if I don't like the songs he's doing. He's got some good crowd rapport.

 
Count me in on not getting the Radiohead love. I tried, it failed. There's one song I kind of like on OKC, but I've never gone out of my way to listen to it. Haven't been able to get into any of their albums and I never had a friend that was into them enough to drag me through their work. I did however like Radiodread, a reggae reboot of the album, though it wasn't as good as their Dub Side of the Moon (which is scary how easily it lends itself to reggae).

Lonesome Crowded West blew me away though. I hadn't been this entranced by an album since Slanted and Enchanted and it's probably the most important album in bringing me out of my punk or die phase. I was really immersed in SoCal punk and really didn't listen to much else other than Sonic Youth, Pavement, Pixies or the Pogues to name a very few. LCW grabbed me by the neck and slapped me around and out of my territoriality and opened me up. Didn't hurt that Modest Mouse is from the coolest named city in the world, Issaquah, WA. Over the years as their new stuff came out and I dug into their old stuff, they've vaulted to #2 on my greatest bands list, passing punk legends and gods to rest firmly behind The Clash. Modest Mouse is also one of the few bands that has, imo, retained their ability to make great music despite their massive growth and increasingly more "produced" sound. Brock is a heavily underrated guitar master, song writer and performer.

For some reason I had a drop off from Pavement and never got into Wowee Zowee back then. Not sure why since their first two were daily staples for years.

 
I went Other though I was tempted to vote for Daft Punk. One of:

Baduizm - Erykah Badu

Dig Your Own Hole - Chemical Brothers

Fat Of The Land - Prodigy

Vegas - Crystal Method

 
Voted Foo Fighters, the Colour and the Shape is a really good album. I like Radiohead just fine, but don't really understand the "best band of all time" hype they get.

The other album I probably listened to the most from this year was Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing.

 
'commisholio said:
I like Radiohead just fine, but don't really understand the "best band of all time" hype they get.
Click to expand...
The other album I probably listened to the most from this year was Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing.
Click to expand...
I think we've identified the problem. :mellow:ETA: Should I point out that I'm just joking around, so I don't get the "dooshy radiohead fan" label?FTR I loved the Foo Fighters album too, was in heavy rotation back then.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
I realize that musical tastes can vary greatly but THIRD EYE BLIND?!! seriously, Third Eye Blind has more votes than Foo Fighters?!! THIRD EYE BLIND??!!!

I'm embarrassed for the FFA :thumbdown:

 
'Ignoratio Elenchi said:
'commisholio said:
I like Radiohead just fine, but don't really understand the "best band of all time" hype they get.
Click to expand...
The other album I probably listened to the most from this year was Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing.
Click to expand...
I think we've identified the problem. :mellow:ETA: Should I point out that I'm just joking around, so I don't get the "dooshy radiohead fan" label?FTR I loved the Foo Fighters album too, was in heavy rotation back then.
Click to expand...
:lmao: She has a lovely voice, what can I say.
 
'Socrates11 said:
I like Radiohead but I don't understand the huge fanboy love they get. OK Computer was good and has arguably their best songs on it, but it has some filler too. Third Eye Blind doesn't have a bad song on it. Completely solid from start to finish.
Click to expand...
I think the only filler is Fitter Happier. I would rather have some brilliance mixed with a filler song on an album over an album filled with 'solid' songs that probably sounds like 90% of the crap on the radio at the time. :shrug:
 
Last edited by a moderator:
'jomar said:
I realize that musical tastes can vary greatly but THIRD EYE BLIND?!! seriously, Third Eye Blind has more votes than Foo Fighters?!! THIRD EYE BLIND??!!! I'm embarrassed for the FFA :thumbdown:
Click to expand...
The people with good musical taste are picking Radiohead, leaving 3EB there for the rest
 
'Socrates11 said:
I like Radiohead but I don't understand the huge fanboy love they get. OK Computer was good and has arguably their best songs on it, but it has some filler too. Third Eye Blind doesn't have a bad song on it. Completely solid from start to finish.
Click to expand...
I wish you would step back from that ledge my friend
 
'NCCommish said:
'Eephus said:
'simey said:
'commisholio said:
She has a lovely voice, what can I say.
Click to expand...
I think she has a great voice. Surfacing is a good album.
Click to expand...
and she looooves puppies
Click to expand...
I can not watch those commercials.
Click to expand...
Agreed - but she's pretty hot in that commercial, so I can deal.Interesting background on that tune "Angel" from wiki:
"Angel" was one of the first songs written for Surfacing. McLachlan said that writing it was easy, "a real joyous occasion."[1] It was inspired by articles that she read in Rolling Stone about musicians turning to heroin to cope with the pressures of the music industry and subsequently overdosing.[1][2] She said that she identified with the feelings that might lead someone to use heroin: "I've been in that place where you're so ####ed up and you're so lost that you don't know who you are anymore, and you're miserableand here's this escape route. I've never done heroin, but I've done plenty of other things to escape."[1] She said that the song is about "trying not to take responsibility for other people's #### and trying to love yourself at the same time."[2]
Click to expand...
Doesn't sound too puppy-like to me. :mellow:
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Have to give a shout out to Live's Secret Samadhi, although I have to vote Whatever and Ever Amen over it anyway. Even though Live's one of my favorite bands, Ben Folds Five had a awesome album.

 
Daft Punk is the sleeper here.

In terms of influence on music of the next decade I challenge you to find a more influential album.

 
Last edited by a moderator:
'Socrates11 said:
Third Eye Blind doesn't have a bad song on it. Completely solid from start to finish.
Click to expand...
:goodposting: Probably one of my favorite albums of all time. Once a listener disregards the "doo doo doo" factor of Semi Charmed Life, they'll find that the album has brilliant lyrics. "God of Wine" and "Motorcycle Drive By" are the standouts IMO.
 
Great year. Had to go with OK Computer, but I'm glad that Fat of the Land was mentioned a few times. Wore that one out too. Love the Verve and Spiritualized albums too, and might have voted for them in a different poll.

Most of my favorites were covered in previous posts. El Floppy is on point with G!YBE and Buena Vista Social Club.

 
1. The Colour and Shape

2. Third Eye Blind

3. OK Computer

4. Life After Death

5. Whatever and Ever Amen

6. Urban Hymns

Also, I know everyone bashes Creed, but I liked My Own Prison. Other albums not so much, but I thought that one was pretty good. :shrug:

 
'Just Win Baby said:
1. The Colour and Shape2. Third Eye Blind3. OK Computer4. Life After Death5. Whatever and Ever Amen6. Urban HymnsAlso, I know everyone bashes Creed, but I liked My Own Prison. Other albums not so much, but I thought that one was pretty good. :shrug:
Click to expand...
I wouldn't put it up with the best albums of 1997 but My Own Prison is a good album. Listen to it objectively without thinking about the garbage they put out after that and you'd enjoy it. It wasn't until after they got popular that Stapp became preachy and the music got overproduced and terrible.
 
This is easy. Spiritualized-Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space. And best tour of the year? Radiohead/Spiritualized, a tour on which Spiritualized played one-off show during the Radio City run at Windows on the World at the top of the north tower of the WTC, billed "The Highest Show Ever Played."

My list of these listed would go:

# Spiritualized-Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space

# Radiohead- OK Computer

# Bob Dylan- Time out of Mind

# Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds- The Boatmans Call

# Bjork- Homgenic

# Pavement- Brighten the Corners

# Elliott Smith- Either Or

# Foo Fighters- The Colour and Shape

# Modest Mouse- The Lonesome Crowded West

# The Verve- Urban Hymns

And I haven't heard the others. It was a pretty good year. I know there are others that were great, but I don't feel like looking.

 
'wikkidpissah said:
Homogenic & OKComputer got this ol fart excited about music again for the 1st time in a while. Since i cant think of more than one record with a better 1st 4 songs (Feat's Dixie Chicken, maybe) than the former & since i'll always think of the post-grunge 90s as The Great Girl Era in tunes, i'll give my nod to the twinkly Vikette.
Click to expand...
My first listen to that record had me in love with her at whiplash speed. Much it her stuff requires repeated listens, but the first time I heard it, on headphones mind you, when she rises to the climax in the Hunter with the "I thought I could organize freedom, how Scandinavian of me" line, my monocle popped out. Replayed it a few times before ever making it to Joga.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
'Apple Jack said:
This is easy. Spiritualized-Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space. And best tour of the year? Radiohead/Spiritualized, a tour on which Spiritualized played one-off show during the Radio City run at Windows on the World at the top of the north tower of the WTC, billed "The Highest Show Ever Played." My list of these listed would go:# Spiritualized-Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space# Radiohead- OK Computer# Bob Dylan- Time out of Mind# Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds- The Boatmans Call# Bjork- Homgenic# Pavement- Brighten the Corners# Elliott Smith- Either Or# Foo Fighters- The Colour and Shape# Modest Mouse- The Lonesome Crowded West# The Verve- Urban HymnsAnd I haven't heard the others. It was a pretty good year. I know there are others that were great, but I don't feel like looking.
Click to expand...
Thanks for making sure it got a vote. :thumbup:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 1 (members: 0, guests: 1)
Back
Top