Today I’m continuing my series for “three great albums” for each year beginning in 2007 and working backwards (I’m planning on keeping at this until I reach 1964.) I’m at 1997 today and this is a year I’ve been looking forward to as I think it’s my personal favorite year for music for the last [...]

When choosing my favorite Ween album I usually go back and forth between 1997′s The Mollusk and 2000′s White Pepper. I think these are the albums where they most hit the spot where they really making great music which was still weird but wasn’t taken over by the weirdness and the “jokes” like some of [...]

John Denver died on October 12th of 1997 at the age of 53. He was born as Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. on December 31, 1943 in Roswell, New Mexico. Denver was at his peak commercially during the mid 1970s when he had two #1 albums and four #1 singles in the United States. “Take Me [...]

The Verve’s Urban Hymns reached #1 on the UK album charts on October 11, 1997. It knocked Oasis’ Be Here Now off the top spot and remained at #1 all the way through November 14. It went back to #1 for two more weeks starting on January 3, 1998 and then went back to the [...]

Radiohead’s landmark album OK Computer was released 11 years ago today on July 1, 1997. Last year I included videos of live performances of every song on the album (except for “Fitter Happier” of course.) This year I’ll include the official music videos for the three songs that had one made: “Paranoid Android” “Karma Police” [...]

A little ways back I did story on three of my favorite albums from 1998. But 1998 was never a year that really stood out for me (Despite In the Aeroplane over the Sea which is one of my favorite albums), the year before on the other hand is almost certainly my favorite year of [...]