Loved Jilted Generation, and even though it’s a bit dated, Experience, but FOTL never grabbed me in the same way. Some of it bangs, some of it leaves me cold.
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Listened to this all the way through for the first time in aaaaaages last week. Still great.
Diesel Power is still my go to for testing a new pair of headphones.
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Think I was the right age for it - would have turned 14 that year so Firestarter and Breathe felt impossibly exciting. Very difficult to be objective when that nostalgia hits.
…although yeah, these days I’m probably more likely to reach for Jilted Generation
I was about the same age, and yes, those two songs were fresh as anything, can’t remember why some of the rest of the album fell flat for me. No Good was probably the first time i loved a dance music track. I remember being really confused at liking it so much, as it wasn’t a guitar band track! I guess it probably had that ‘first love’ type syndrome.
Think it definitely helped that FOTL was the dance record that guitar-music-is-the-only-real-music twats (like my 14 year old self) all agreed was great.
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Dig Your Own Hole also came out that year…
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In my rockist little bubble I probably wasn’t quite ready for it, took a little while longer to get the Chemical Brothers. As I listen to mostly electronic stuff these days, it’s weird to think back on how off-putting I found samplers and synths as a teen. Music fandom was a lot more tribal then though.
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might be reaching for something that wasn’t unusual, but i think there was a lot of ‘doing things big’ in music this year. maybe it was a high point for labels splashing cash…
were wu and biggie the first hip hop double albums?
all the guests/ musicians masters at work got in for nuyorican soul
orchestra and choir for spiritualized
oasis using a chopper
multi system flaming lips zaireeka
Nominate Album: bjork - homogenic
Nominate Song: laurent garnier - sweet mellow d
Sweet Mellow D - Laurent Garnier - YouTube
Been collating the nominations in the thread, below is what the poll would be looking like just now. There are a few people who have posted lists or multiple items without specifically calling out one nomination so if you haven’t done so you’ve got until Thursday to nominate, and I’ll post the album/track polls Thursday morning ahead of closing all the polls on Friday. I’ll make Spotify playlists with the nominations as far as they are available on the platform too.
Nominated Albums
Buena Vista Social Club
Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On
Spiritualised - Ladies and Geneltmen We Are Floating in Space
Dandy Warhols - Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth
SFA - Radiator
Supergrass - In It For The Money
Roni Size Reprazent - New Forms
Portishead-Portishead
Smart Went Crazy - Con Art
Strapping Young Lad - City
Squarepusher - Hard normal daddy
Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
David Holmes - Let’s Get Killed
Radiohead - Ok computer
Bjork - Homogenic
Plaid - Not For Threes
Elevator to Hell - Eerieconsiliation
Nominated Songs
Rammstein - Du Hast
Aqua - Barbie Girl
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
Beta Band - Dry The Rain (@Richie you nominated an EP so I’ve picked track 1 to make it a level playing field against the other nominated tracks - let me know if you want a different track off it)
Suede - Filmstar
Lamb - Gorecki
Missy Elliott - The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)
Van Pelt - The Good, the Bad and the Blind
Ween - Mutilated Lips
DJ Krust Warhead
Super Furry Animals - Hermann 
s Pauline
Grandaddy - A.M. 180
Primal Scream - Kowalski
Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy
Radiohead - Let Down
Wu-Tang Clan - Triumph
Blur - Beetlebum
Laurent Garnier - sweet mellow d
Luke Slater - Love
Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
Björk - Unravel
A few nominations that were duplicated, so if you want to submit a second option to add to the poll (you will be able to vote for up to three - or more if the list gets much larger - in both album and single polls).
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Either/Or on there too if you please 
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Oops, I stuck your album and song in the wrong way round. Have the Smith album and Warhols single noted.
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Hi,
Dry the Rain’s the one to go for - although any of them would do 
Surely we’re gonna have Biggie - Hypnotize on this?
Some strong albums not nominated yet:
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We certainly should do - I’ll take this as your nomination?
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Here’s a playlist from Music League where we had a songs from 1997 round earlier this year if anyone wants further inspiration:
If we were nominating more than one album I’d definitely pick Substrata.
Or one from the top row and 5 from anywhere else please, Carol 
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This is an album i’ve been meaning to listen to for a long time. Definitely gonna get round to listening to it at some point this week
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