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Portishead is ten years old now? Good lord.
What I always enjoyed about VNV Nation is that you could almos t hear the mouse clicking in Fruityloops.
I think it's so *cute* when you guys scrap.
Thank you. I said it in 1999 and I'll say it again, fuck VNV.
I eagerly await jwz mixtape FFF6.
suddenly i'm glad i don't rely on either of you for music recommendations :P. the chemical brothers and the crystal method? ugh! talk about music that hasn't held up well. i'll give you autechre, recoil, portishead and mistle thrush though. but really, there are good reasons i don't still listen to hanzel und gretyl or sister machine gun anymore.
I, too, will live a happier and more fruitful life if I never have to hear VNV or Apoptygma Bezerk ever again. But there's not really very much futurepop on ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) structurefall's list - Noisex, Wumpscut, and Numb (in particular) are much bigger on the screaming and the crunching then they are on the doof-doof.
![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/70524252/169583) | From: twiin
Mon, 31-Dec-2007 9:39 PM (UTC)
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More best-of-1997 as I remember it:
Hooverphonic - A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular
KMFDM - Symbols
Godflesh - Love and Hate in Dub
Laika - Sounds of the Satellites
The Orb - Orblivion
Lords of Acid - Voodoo-U
whatever that GYBE album was called
....and Numb - Blood Meridian, even though it's the first album on his list. Because it's just that good.
![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/31987592/337061) | From: prog
Mon, 31-Dec-2007 9:55 PM (UTC)
Underworld | (Link)
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Apropos of the distant future of 2007, I discovered Underworld this year, and find them to be excellent work/hacking music. I learned only yesterday that they published a new album this year, too - a nice surprise after my assumption that they were a 1990s-only act. I can recommend them to anyone who likes electronic music.
VNV will always have a place on my guilty-pleasure playlist, alas.
![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/58549939/7152329) | From: ammutbite
Mon, 31-Dec-2007 9:55 PM (UTC)
DV8 and Hose of usher...LOL | (Link)
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what a crack-up. that is what I was listening to back then.
both of your lists, however, showcase far too many albums by bands I like that are not their best effort.
I won't say specificallly which ones ...
unit 187 sucked but I still have a warm spot for that(something to be said for a great break-up song coming along when you are actually breaking up with someone).
![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/73180911/236883) | From: netik
Mon, 31-Dec-2007 10:36 PM (UTC)
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Funny, I think my musical tastes in 1997 were much, much closer to yours than eric's.
Fluke and Crystal Method were defining albums of that time for me
The C-Tec album, at the time had been playing in the clubs since 1995 or so, but only had a commercial release in 1997.
I remember having been passed a CD-R of the album a year or two before it's release. It was a rare commodity that DJs treasured.
Sleater-kinney - Dance Song '97 :)
yes!
low profile darkness! that record is fantastic.
glad to see these on there too:
Add N to (X) - Avant Hard
Not Breathing - Sangre Azul
Autechre - Chiastic Slide
Mono - Formica Blues
just from a quick glance in my itunes (providing it is correctly tagged), it'd say my best of 1997 would be:
Gridlock - The Synthetic Form
Panacea - Low Profile Darkness
P.A.L - m@rix
Radiohead - OK Computer
Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy
Atari Teenage Riot - Burn, Berlin, Burn !
Blur - Blur
Imminent Starvation - Human Dislocation
Synapscape - Rage
Autechre - Cichlisuite
these two don't really count because they're not really albums, but like a "best of" or "B-sides":
Jane's Addition - Kettle Whistle
Haujobb - From Homes To Planets
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/2038612/593343) | From: bluce
Tue, 1-Jan-2008 12:28 AM (UTC)
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I didn't know anyone had heard of Engorged with Blood besides me.
And I did only because I worked with Steve Kirk from 96-99.
Prodigy - Fat of the LAnd
July 1, 1997
I'd call that a far more solid an influential release than anything by Crystal Method.
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Tue, 1-Jan-2008 12:50 AM (UTC)
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If I'm not mistaken, Idiot Flesh "Fancy" came out in 97.
1997, you say? After the long dark years of grunge, it was the year that metal finally resurfaced. Bruce Dickinson's "Accident of birth" and Hammerfall's "Glory to the brave" were the light at the end of the tunnel, showing that there was life in the old dog yet...
From: darkengobot
Tue, 1-Jan-2008 5:48 AM (UTC)
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I was commenting just the other day about the Newsletter that Goes Out to Hipsters and Scenesters to keep us up on What's Hot in the Music Scene. Apparently my subscription Ran Out in 1997.
Everything since then has been Completely Fucking Foreign to me. I recognized these bands, at least. So if I can locate a working TARDIS, maybe I can be Cool Again.
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Tue, 1-Jan-2008 7:32 AM (UTC)
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Dig Your Own Hole is completely unbearable. I have an idea of what they were trying to do, and I want to think it's clever, but whenever I hear it coming out of a speaker I want to turn it the fuck off.
(Erm... and I haven't actually heard of C-Tec, let alone that album. But, yeah, right on with everything else.)
Among others:
Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X (Feb. 1997). Either that or Underworld's "Second Toughest In The Infants" was the first album I ever bought
Radiohead - OK Computer
Distance to Goa, Vol. 6: I suppose a comp disc doesn't entirely count but this is my favorite of the DtG collections
Edited at 2008-01-01 08:21 pm (UTC)
Add N to (X) doesn't get enough recognition.
Isn't Faith no More's Album of the Year from 1997?
My list would also include KMFDM's SYMBOLS and The Dandy Warhols Come Down. I listened to those a lot back then. | |
