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4) Although we didn't have room for Smash Mouth's 1997 album Fush Yu Mang, we do heartily endorse it. Feel free to leave an angry comment if we didn't include your favorite record, though. 3) This is not an exhaustive list of every great album released in 1997. ones) previously appeared in our list of the best double albums since 1987. 2) Two of these blurbs (the Wu- Tang and Notorious B.I.G.

Death to the Pixies is very good, but you won't find that here.

With all that in mind, we've rounded up the 23 best albums of 1997 for your nostalgic enjoyment.Ī few quick notes before we begin: 1) No compilations or live albums. And, of course, it was around the boy band and teen pop craze kicked into gear with the original release of NSYNC's first album and the startling rise of the Spice Girls. It was the year Britpop died with the release of Oasis's overhyped slog Be Here Now. It was the year Daft Punk and Björk, among others, helped define the direction electronica and dance music would head in the next decade. It was the year Radiohead forecast and defined twenty-first century anxiety on OK Computer. Though 1991 was probably more pivotal (grunge, etc), 1997 was almost certainly the best music year of the '90s-maybe one of the best ever.ġ997 sounded like the future. Remarkable, career-defining albums seemed to land at a lightning pace. There was something in the water in 1997. Twenty years ago this week, Radiohead dropped OK Computer (it had been out for a month already in Japan), Spiritualized released Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, The Verve released 'Bitter Sweet Symphony'-and that's just mid-June.

Looking back on the music of 1997 is like looking back on the Age of Enlightenment.

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