Billboard #1 Albums From 1997

How many times must I pretend I'm not going to vote for Janet?

I'm not as fond of these albums as I'd have originally thought after rereading the list. I wanna say Life After Death, but can't say when was the last time I heard it -- or The Fat of the Land. Voted for The Velvet Rope, which then and now still sounds like the albums she was born to make.

LeAnn Rimes sure was A Big Deal for a while, no? Howard Stern too.

*like the album she was born to make.

pretty yucky list. 2nd-best wu album over 2nd-best biggie album.

Wu-Tang all the fuckin way

Albums I'd have voted for if Velvet Rope didn't hit #1 (which I actually don't even remember it doing; i thought it was something of a flop):

Life After Death - The Notorious B.I.G.
Share My World - Mary J. Blige
The Fat of the Land - The Prodigy
Butterfly - Mariah Carey

The Prodigy's a real easy choice for me. (I like Ma$e, too. And yeah, some of those other rap ones. Never really got into that Garth CD, oddly enough.)

B.I.G. will probably walk this one easy, and not without reason - for me it's between that and The Fat of the Land which isn't nearly as omg genius alert but I love it unreservedly, and still. Guilty confession, I dig Janet but it wasn't at all where I was at in '97 so I have never even heard the Velvet Rope.

I went with Fleetwood Mac, because I voted for No Doubt last time. I really didn't like popular music these years. I also wasn't really exposed to it in my daily life.

I guess it is nice that Rap, fake country, fake R&B and 70s retreads could all exist on the charts at the same time, but it all seems too big and glossy to me.

I almost want to vote for Pop just for the "boom-cha!"s at the end of "Discotheque".

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

J0hn, you should hear The Velvet Rope sometime; you'd like it, I think, a lot. (I voted for it.)

zero chance of me voting for anything but the dance here

I also voted for The Velvet Rope

I had totally forgotten that The Fat of the Land went to #1 in the States. Kinda o_O in retrospect. For me, this comes down to the Biggie vs. Wu battle of overstuffed double-LP sophomore albums (only technically in Wu's case, but whatever). Looking at these late-90's polls, its pretty impressive how many (gold)polished turds No Limit was able to sell to suburban teenagers.

"Velvet Rope". The last great Janet Jackson album.

JANET holy shit that is a great, great album

then biggie

i thought OK Computer was a #1 album in the US?

Kid A and In Rainbows are their only US #1's.

i forgot how out of control rap double CDs were back then, THREE of them on this list alone. still gotta vote for Big, though.

Damn. This was the year I started working at Sam Goody. Damn.

(shakes head. walks away.)

Biggie by a billion fucking miles.

wow I only own one of these, I guess that makes voting easier

"Kick In The Door" fits more into its first two lines than most of the albums here have combined.

Wu-Tang Forever - Wu-Tang Clan
No Way Out - Puff Daddy

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

fucking nerds

Four votes for The Dance?!

shoulda been 24

The Fat of the Land - The Prodigy 8

^^^someone better get 51'd for this

Fat of the Land is a dope album don't front

never even heard of Bob Carlisle

You've never felt butterfly kisses goin' down your spine?

ewww

5 for Pop? worst. u2. album. EVAH.

<3 Aerosmith, but the Nine Lives pick was a lol vote, rite?