Hindsight is 20/20: Pazz & Jop 1997

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Let's see how things held up after ten years...

The 1997 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll

Albums

 1. Bob Dylan: Time Out of Mind (Columbia)

 2. Radiohead: OK Computer (Capitol)

 3. Cornershop: When I Was Born for the 7th Time (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.)

 4. Sleater-Kinney: Dig Me Out (Kill Rock Stars)

 5. Yo La Tengo: I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (Matador)

 6. Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott: Supa Dupa Fly (The Gold Mind, Inc./EastWest)

 7. Erykah Badu: Baduizm (Universal)

 8. Belle and Sebastian: If You're Feeling Sinister (The Enclave)

 9. Bjork: Homogenic (Elektra)

10. Pavement: Brighten the Corners (Matador)

11. Steve Earle: El Corazon (Warner Bros.)

12. The Chemical Brothers: Dig Your Own Hole (Astralwerks)

13. The Notorious B.I.G.: Life After Death (Bad Boy)

14. Portishead: Portishead (Go! Beat/London)

15. Roni Size/Reprazent: New Forms (Talkin' Loud/Mercury)

16. Wyclef Jean: Wyclef Jean Presents the Carnival Featuring Refugee All-Stars (Ruffhouse/Columbia)

17. Spiritualized: Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (Arista)

18. The Verve: Urban Hymns (Virgin)

19. Beth Orton: Trailer Park (Heavenly)

20. Elliott Smith: Either/Or (Kill Rock Stars)

21. Buena Vista Social Club: Buena Vista Social Club (World Circuit)

22. The Geraldine Fibbers: Butch (Virgin)

23. Whiskeytown: Strangers Almanac (Outpost)

24. Janet Jackson: The Velvet Rope (Virgin)

25. Richard Buckner: Devotion + Doubt (MCA)

26. Wu-Tang Clan: Wu-Tang Forever (Loud)

27. Ben Folds Five: Whatever and Ever Amen (550 Music)

28. Stereolab: Dots and Loops (Elektra)

29. Prodigy: The Fat of the Land (Maverick/Warner Bros.)

    Patti Smith: Peace and Noise (Arista)

31. U2: Pop (Island)

32. Built To Spill: Perfect From Now On (Warner Bros.)

33. Ron Sexsmith: Other Songs (Interscope)

34. John Fogerty: Blue Moon Swamp (Warner Bros.)

35. Fiona Apple: Tidal (Work)

    Daft Punk: Homework (Virgin)

37. Supergrass: In It for the Money (Capitol)

38. Blur: Blur (Virgin)

39. The Jayhawks: Sound of Lies (American) 

40. Primal Scream: Vanishing Point (Reprise)

Singles

1. Hanson: "MMMBop" (Mercury)

2. Chumbawamba: "Tubthumping" (Republic/Universal)

3. The Verve: "Bitter Sweet Symphony" (Virgin) 

4. Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott: "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" (The Gold Mind, Inc./EastWest)

5. Blur: "Song 2" (Virgin)

6. Cornershop: "Brimful of Asha" (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.)

7. The Chemical Brothers: "Block Rockin' Beats" (Astralwerks)

8. Erykah Badu: "On and On" (Universal)

   Smash Mouth: "Walkin' on the Sun" (Interscope)

10. The Notorious B.I.G. (Featuring Puff Daddy and Mase): "Mo Money Mo Problems" (Bad Boy)

11. Fiona Apple: "Criminal" (Work)

12. The Notorious B.I.G.: "Hypnotize" (Bad Boy) 

13. OMC: "How Bizarre" (Mercury) 

    White Town: "Your Woman" (Virgin??Chrysalis??) 

15. Spice Girls: "Wannabe" (Virgin)

16. Janet Jackson: "Got Til It's Gone" (Virgin)

    Prodigy: "Firestarter" (Virgin)

    Puff Daddy: "It's All About the Benjamins" (Bad Boy)

19. The Cardigans: "Lovefool" (Mercury)

20. Yo La Tengo: "Autumn Sweater" (Matador) 

21. Busta Rhymes: "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See" (Elektra) 

22. Timbaland and Magoo: "Up Jumps Da' Boogie" (Blackground/Atlantic) 

23. Shawn Colvin: "Sunny Came Home" (Columbia) 

    Sugar Ray: "Fly" (Atlantic) 

25. Daft Punk: "Around the World" (Virgin)

    Daft Punk: "Da Funk" (Virgin)

Reissues

1. Anthology of American Folk Music (Smithsonian Folkways) 

2. Lee "Scratch" Perry: Arkology (Island Jamaica) 

3. Ray Charles: Genius and Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection (Rhino) 

4. Beg, Scream and Shout: The Big Ol' Box of '60s Soul (Rhino) 

5. Charles Mingus: Passions of a Man: The Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961 (Rhino/Atlantic Jazz Collection) 

6. The Beach Boys: The Pet Sounds Sessions (Capitol) 

7. John Coltrane: The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings (Impulse!) 

   The Philly Sound: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff & the Story of Brotherly Love (Epic Associated/Legacy) 

9. Al Green: Anthology (The Right Stuff/Hi) 

10. Dusty Springfield: The Dusty Springfield Anthology (Mercury Chronicles)

― NYCNative, Saturday, 28 April 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

This remains one of the more respectable lists.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 28 April 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

― NYCNative, Saturday, 28 April 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

Rate Your Music has a more fluid chart - i.e. it changes as new people rate albums, even old ones - so their list is not locked into the specific time that was 2007 so it is a good barometer (if you take into account the copious amounts of metal RYM seems to list)...

1 Radiohead OK Computer
2 Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
3 Elliott Smith Either/Or
4 Bill Hicks Rant in E-Minor
5 The Misfits Static Age [1978]
6 Godspeed You! Black Emperor F#A# [1995-1997]
7 Bill Hicks Arizona Bay
8 Bill Hicks Relentless
9 In the Woods... Omnio
10 Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VII
11 Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West
12 Strapping Young Lad City
13 Björk Homogenic
14 Devin Townsend Ocean Machine - Biomech
15 Built to Spill Perfect From Now On
16 Biosphere Substrata
17 Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
18 Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club
19 Arcturus La Masquerade Infernale
20 Ween The Mollusk
21 Ani Difranco Living in Clip
22 King Crimson The Night Watch
23 The Flaming Lips Zaireeka
24 Porcupine Tree Coma Divine: Recorded Live in Rome
25 Company Flow Funcrusher Plus
26 Bob Dylan Time Out of Mind
27 Mogwai Young Team
28 Joe Hisaishi Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke) [OST]
29 Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
30 Super Furry Animals Radiator
31 Sleater-Kinney Dig Me Out
32 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Boatman's Call
33 The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death
34 Ulver Nattens Madrigal
35 Loreena McKennitt The Book of Secrets
36 Dave Matthews Band Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95
37 Raison d'Être In Sadness, Silence and Solitude
38 Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy
39 Labradford Mi Media Naranja
40 Gorky's Zygotic Mynci Barafundle

― NYCNative, Saturday, 28 April 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

Ban NYC Native

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 28 April 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

I hate Bill Hicks.

― filthy dylan, Saturday, 28 April 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

But if he was around today man he'd totally show Bushamerikkka what for

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 28 April 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

god that p&j list is dull

― gershy, Saturday, 28 April 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

It feels like it's missing some singles...and Tubthumping is too high.

― Tape Store, Saturday, 28 April 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

And my school had this "Stop the Bop" fundraiser where they'd blare "MMMBop" in the Commons, and people would have to donate money to stop the song. Everyone was complaining, and I was like "WTF?!?!? This song is a great!"

― Tape Store, Saturday, 28 April 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think I've heardMMMbop since 1997. I'm hoping my original instinct to have nothing to do with that shit still holds true.

[i] Prodigy: "Firestarter" (Virgin)

Puff Daddy: "It's All About the Benjamins" (Bad Boy)

19. The Cardigans: "Lovefool" (Mercury)[/]

This section is some of the best songs ever.

― The Reverend, Saturday, 28 April 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

Damn U bbcode!

― The Reverend, Saturday, 28 April 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

The greatest year for singles since 1981. Witness (in order of greatness):

B-Rock & The Bizz: "My Baby Daddy" (LaFace 1997)
Cornershop: "Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook remix)" (Wiija 1997)
Stretch 'n' Vern present "Maddog": "Get Up! Go Insane!" (Grandslam 1997)
Chumbawamba: "Tubthumping" (Republic/Universal 1997)
The Notorious B.I.G.: "Mo Money Mo Problems (Bad Boy 1997)
Belle and Sebastian: "Lazy Line Painter Jane" (Jeepster 1997)
OMC: "How Bizarre" (Mercury 1997)
Hanson: "MMMBop" (Mercury 1997)
Puff Daddy featuring Faith Evans and 112: "I'll Be Missing You" (Bad Boy 1997)
Red Rat: "Dwayne" (Opera House 1997)
Somethin' For The People: "My Love Is The Shhh!" (Warner Bros. 1997)
Aqua: "Barbie Girl" (MCA 1997)
Spice Girls: "Wannabe" (Virgin 1997)
House Heroes: "Magic Orgasm (Funk Mix)" (Twisted 1997)
Aquarius: "Find The Groove" (Submarine 1997)
Sneaker Pimps: “Spin Spin Sugar (Armand’s Dark Garage Mix)” (Virgin 1997)
She Moves: "Breaking All The Rules" (Geffen 1997)

The P&J list touched on enough of those plus more great ones for me to think it holds up pretty well.

But the best album of 1997 is missing - Shania Twain: Come On Over

― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 29 April 2007 01:30 (eighteen years ago)

The greatest year for singles since 1981

That's a joke, right?

― Tape Store, Sunday, 29 April 2007 01:49 (eighteen years ago)

What, the 1981 or the 1997?

― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 29 April 2007 02:47 (eighteen years ago)

1997

― Tape Store, Sunday, 29 April 2007 02:53 (eighteen years ago)

(and since it appears that the answer is 'no,' I recommend 2002-2004...probably some from the 1990s, too, but those years are still in my mind)

― Tape Store, Sunday, 29 April 2007 02:56 (eighteen years ago)

'02 is kinda meh. '04 is good. '03 is the best year for singles in the past decade, easy.

― The Reverend, Sunday, 29 April 2007 03:09 (eighteen years ago)

As a whole, 2002 is somewhat weak, but it's high points were great:
1 Missy Elliott "Work It" Elektra 212
4 The Hives "Hate to Say I Told You So" Sire/Burning Heart/Epitaph 98
6 The White Stripes "Fell In Love With A Girl" V2 72
7 Kylie Minogue "Can't Get You Out of My Head" Capitol 58
9 Rapture "House of Jealous Lovers" DFA 54
10 Tweet "Oops (Oh My)" Elektra 53
12 Clipse "Grindin'" Star Trak 50
13 The Flaming Lips "Do You Realize??" Warner Bros. 43
15 Avril Lavigne "Complicated" Arista 29
LCD Soundsystem "Losing My Edge" DFA 29
32 Scarface "On My Block" Def Jam South 20
33 Justin Timberlake "Like I Love You" Jive 19

― Tape Store, Sunday, 29 April 2007 03:15 (eighteen years ago)

it's = its

― Tape Store, Sunday, 29 April 2007 03:15 (eighteen years ago)

1997

Right, not a joke. But every year has great singles. 1997 just had more of them.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 29 April 2007 03:17 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, that list is a perfectly good case for 2002,

― The Reverend, Sunday, 29 April 2007 03:44 (eighteen years ago)

I still trip on the fact that songs like "MMMBop," "Tubthumping," and "Walkin' on the Sun" were the subject of critical consensus at one point.

― Alex in Baltimore, Sunday, 29 April 2007 03:56 (eighteen years ago)

I must be weird, cause 1999 was my favorite singles year in the last decade.

― Eric H., Sunday, 29 April 2007 03:59 (eighteen years ago)

Yup, 2003 is a monster year for singles. "In Da Club, "Hey Ya" and "Crazy in Love." 2004 ain't bad either -- "Take Me Out," "Jesus Walks," "Since U Been Gone," "Float On."

1999 also my fave year for both singles and albums EVER.

― Jiminy Krokus, Sunday, 29 April 2007 04:00 (eighteen years ago)

"MMM Bop" deserved the hype. Wonderful pop song.

― Jiminy Krokus, Sunday, 29 April 2007 04:01 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, '99 was great, too. And I really don't remember "Walkin' On the Sun" being good...I guess it's about time I revisit it.

― Tape Store, Sunday, 29 April 2007 04:04 (eighteen years ago)

10. The Notorious B.I.G. (Featuring Puff Daddy and Mase): "Mo Money Mo Problems" (Bad Boy)

i love this song. i was DJing high school proms in 1997/1998 and this was the fucking anthem.

― g®▲Ðұ, Sunday, 29 April 2007 04:07 (eighteen years ago)

xpost OTM! That's one of my favorite singles ever.

― Tape Store, Sunday, 29 April 2007 04:10 (eighteen years ago)

confession:

i would choose listening to it over the diana ross source.

― g®▲Ðұ, Sunday, 29 April 2007 04:11 (eighteen years ago)

Interesting that five of the top 10 singles and (if I'm counting correctly) 16 of the top 40 albums are British--I don't recall there being a whole lot of discussion about this at the time, and I'm not even sure there should've been--it's kind of a disparate batch of artists, it probably doesn't add up to a "movement" or anything (some of this stuff falls outside of what people thought of as Brit-pop, I suppose)--but I'm curious how that statistic would stack up against other years.

Surprised also how little of an impact hip-hop had on the singles chart: only four in the top 20, two of them by Notorious B.I.G. And yet, maybe I shouldn't be so surprised, given that there isn't a single hip-hop song on that list that I personally cared about at the time (I screwed up on the Missy Elliott song, which finally reached me years later; I think I might like "Hypnotize," but I think I've only heard it three times). I can't recall what other hip-hop singles came out that year that I might've liked better (I'd be really surprised if I didn't have any hip-hop in my own top 10).

A bunch of those '90s songs (that's the genre for White Town, Chumbawumba, etc.--"90s") sounded great to me at the time, but it's probably been close to 10 years since I've heard at least some of them. I have a feeling I'd still like most of them, but I can't say I've put them to the test. "Mmm-bop" I like more now than I did then, however. (At the time I think I wrote it off as "critically-acceptable teen-pop" and there's a grain of truth to that, but that's not their--or the song's--fault, and it sounded good last time I heard it.)

― sw00ds, Sunday, 29 April 2007 04:57 (eighteen years ago)

At the time I think I wrote it off as "critically-acceptable teen-pop"

I shouldn't have put that in quotes, because I'm positive that's not exactly what I said or how I said it (I would've referred to it as "bubblegum" rather than teen-pop)--but that's the tenor of my dumb thinking about it at the time.

― sw00ds, Sunday, 29 April 2007 05:01 (eighteen years ago)

I'd say it's the pop songs on that list that, for the most part, I couldn't be bothered with at the time. The hip-hop (or close enough) candidates in that top 25 alone were (and I guess still are) what I listened to in '97:

4. Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott: "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" (The Gold Mind, Inc./EastWest)
8. Erykah Badu: "On and On" (Universal)
10. The Notorious B.I.G. (Featuring Puff Daddy and Mase): "Mo Money Mo Problems" (Bad Boy)
16. Janet Jackson: "Got Til It's Gone" (Virgin)
21. Busta Rhymes: "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See" (Elektra)
22. Timbaland and Magoo: "Up Jumps Da' Boogie" (Blackground/Atlantic)

Add Underworld to that list and you have my dorm room soundtrack.

― Eric H., Sunday, 29 April 2007 05:07 (eighteen years ago)

8. Erykah Badu: "On and On" (Universal)
16. Janet Jackson: "Got Til It's Gone" (Virgin)

Both of these are ok, but what a weak showing for r&b... Now I know why I was so excited by that second Destiny's Child album (I mean, aside from the fact that it was a great record).

― sw00ds, Sunday, 29 April 2007 05:08 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I forgot about "Ladies Night (Not Tonight)"!

― Eric H., Sunday, 29 April 2007 05:21 (eighteen years ago)

Strange that "No Diggety" didn't do better.

― Eric H., Sunday, 29 April 2007 05:23 (eighteen years ago)

1996

― Tape Store, Sunday, 29 April 2007 05:23 (eighteen years ago)

(#8, but it should have been higher)

― Tape Store, Sunday, 29 April 2007 05:24 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah... definitely should've been higher than Oasis.

― Eric H., Sunday, 29 April 2007 05:49 (eighteen years ago)

Some (but not all) good albums from 1997 (in order):

1997
Budgie – We Came, We Saw… (Pilot reissue)
Kiss – Greatest Kiss (Mercury reissue)
Black Oak Arkansas – Hot And Nasty And Other Hits (Flashback reissue)
Mindy McCready – If I Don’t Stay The Night (BNA)
Faithless – Reverence (Arista)
Michael Jackson – Blood On The Dancefloor: History In The Mix (Epic)
Girlschool – King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents (King Biscuit Flower Hour reissue)
Fat Boys – The Best Of: All Meat No Filler (Rhino reissue)
Everclear – So Much For The Afterglow (Capitol)
Toby Keith – Dream Walkin’ (Mercury)
Monks – Black Monk Time (Infinite Zero/American reissue)
C-Bank – Greatest Hits (Next Plateau reissue)
David Holmes – Let’s Get Killed (Go! Beat)
The Gathering – Nighttime Birds (Century Media)
The Brain Surgeons – Malpractice (Cellsum)
Junkie XL – Saturday Teenage Kick (Roadrunner)
Aqua – Aquarium (MCA)
Artificial Joy Club – Melt (Crunchy/Interscope)
Dropkick Murphys – Do Or Die (Hellcat)
The Dandy Warhols – Come Down (Capitol/Tim Kerr)
Cobra Verde – Egomania (Love Songs) (Scat)
Mark Morrison – Return Of The Mack (Atlantic)
MC Solaar – Paradisiaque (Island)
My Dying Bride – Like Gods Of The Sun (Mayhem/Fierce)
DJ Shadow – Preemptive Strike (Mo Wax/FFRR)
Kelly Marie – Feels Like I’m In Love: The Best Of (Success/Elap reissue)
In Flames – Whoracle (Nuclear Blast)
Los Van Van – Best Of (Milan Latino reissue)
Gina G – Fresh! (Warner Bros.)
A3 – Exile On Coldharbour Lane (Geffen/Elemental)
Fabienne Shine – No Mad Nomad (FB Music)
Missy Misdemeanor Elliott – Supa Dupa Fly (The Gold Mind/East West)
Cornershop – When I Was Born For The 7th Time (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.)
Dose One – Slow Death (The Permanent Cry) (Dose One)
Midnight Oil – 20,000 Watt R.S.L. (Columbia reissue)
The Dead Milkmen – Death Rides A Pale Cow: The Ultimate Collection (Restless reissue)
Tim McGraw – Everywhere (Curb)
Kim Richey – Bitter Sweet (Mercury)
The Elevator Drops – People Mover (Time Bomb Recordings)
Lila McCann – Lila (Asylum)
Days of the New – Days of the New (Outpost)

― xhuxk, Sunday, 29 April 2007 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

(Late-alphabet artists [after "N" or so] and all compilations haven't yet been tallied yet for that list, so there are likely many good ones missing.)

― xhuxk, Sunday, 29 April 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

The greatest year for singles since 1981. Witness (in order of greatness):

B-Rock & The Bizz: "My Baby Daddy" (LaFace 1997)
Cornershop: "Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook remix)" (Wiija 1997)
Stretch 'n' Vern present "Maddog": "Get Up! Go Insane!" (Grandslam 1997)
Chumbawamba: "Tubthumping" (Republic/Universal 1997)
The Notorious B.I.G.: "Mo Money Mo Problems (Bad Boy 1997)
Belle and Sebastian: "Lazy Line Painter Jane" (Jeepster 1997)
OMC: "How Bizarre" (Mercury 1997)
Hanson: "MMMBop" (Mercury 1997)
Puff Daddy featuring Faith Evans and 112: "I'll Be Missing You" (Bad Boy 1997)
Red Rat: "Dwayne" (Opera House 1997)
Somethin' For The People: "My Love Is The Shhh!" (Warner Bros. 1997)
Aqua: "Barbie Girl" (MCA 1997)
Spice Girls: "Wannabe" (Virgin 1997)
House Heroes: "Magic Orgasm (Funk Mix)" (Twisted 1997)
Aquarius: "Find The Groove" (Submarine 1997)
Sneaker Pimps: “Spin Spin Sugar (Armand’s Dark Garage Mix)” (Virgin 1997)
She Moves: "Breaking All The Rules" (Geffen 1997)

The P&J list touched on enough of those plus more great ones for me to think it holds up pretty well.

But the best album of 1997 is missing - Shania Twain: Come On Over

-- Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 29 April 2007 01:30 (11 hours ago)

haha, you almost had me for a second there

― bernard snowy, Sunday, 29 April 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

Come On Over >>> OK Computer

― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 29 April 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

lol morelike "cum on ova" amirite?

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 29 April 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

Certainly Come On Over does more for the electric guitar (and parenthetical titles) than OK Computer.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 29 April 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

This is bizarro-world ILM. And Rate Your Music is full of retards.

― I eat cannibals, Sunday, 29 April 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51A3A47MNAL._AA240_.jpg

(That's a 1997 album I like, not a "clever and ironic" semi-random image.)

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 29 April 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

yeah 97 wasn't about being clever and ironic it was about being jiggy and tubthumping and listening to bad boys greatest hits as they happened.

― artdamages, Sunday, 29 April 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

Why hasn't Cornershop held up? It was the jam back then!

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 29 April 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

"brimful of asha" still holds up in my household

― artdamages, Sunday, 29 April 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

but then i also like this:http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51H7EF66Q8L._AA240_.jpg

― artdamages, Sunday, 29 April 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

i will be ready for the big beat/sampledelic/mm-bop revival

― artdamages, Sunday, 29 April 2007 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

that cornershop song is pretty alright but that album had a pretty quick turnaround from purchase to trade-in for me

― félix pié, Sunday, 29 April 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

If I had to cast a ballot for 1997 today:

Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out (20)
Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On (15)
Missy Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly (14)
Everclear - So Much For The Afterglow (10)
Hives - Barely Legal (9)
Jay-Z - In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 (8)
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments - Straight To Video (7)
Ben Folds Five - Whatever And Ever Amen (6)
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One (6)
Mountain Goats - Full Force Galesbourg (5)

Singles:
White Town - "Your Woman"
Hanson - "MMmBop"
Blur - "Song 2"
Foo Fighters - "Everlong"
Sugar Ray feat. Super Cat - "Fly"
Half Japanese - "Heaven Sent"
Dandy Warhols - "Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth"
Ma$e - "Feels So Good"
Pavement - "Stereo"
Pulsars - "Tunnel Song"

― da croupier, Sunday, 29 April 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

Yes '97 was a retardedly good year for singles. (Semi-Charmed Life, Everlong, Paranoid Android, Lovefool, One In A Million, Karma Police, Bittersweet Symphony, Come To Daddy, 6 Underground, Triumph, The Perfect Drug, Pony, .. thats all i can recall without help)

"MMMBop" is good. I just don't like listening to it.

― billstevejim, Sunday, 29 April 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

The atmosphere was pretty confusing in 1997.. it seemed mainstream could really go in any direction. I'm guessing this is the last time that might ever happen.

― billstevejim, Sunday, 29 April 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

Until the next time.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 29 April 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

The past is prologue.

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 29 April 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

anytime i listen to top 40 radio it sounds completly bonkers to me. maybe thats becaus ei only pop in every few months. i dunno.

― artdamages, Sunday, 29 April 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

Interesting.. it seems everytime i turn on top 40 radio or actually see a video on MTV, I end up saying "yup, that's exactly what i expected." Whereas in 1997, there were Squirrel Nut Zippers.

― billstevejim, Sunday, 29 April 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

Now all we need is someone to write a 1987 post.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 29 April 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

(and I have a copy of the Roni Size album in case someone wants it).

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 29 April 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

twelve years pass...

Well, this singles list sure is something.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 02:57 (six years ago)

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