20 Year Vintage: Millennial Anxiety and Abstract Dynamics in 1997

Over at the vintage blogs, I've highlighted a number of songs from releases, singles, EPs, scores, et al. that came through 10/20/30/40/50/60 years ago.   For the purpose of these lists, each artist will only appear once on each list


Here are 50 near-perfect individual tracks from 1997

1. Aphex Twin - "Flim"
2. Herbert & Dani Siciliano - "Going Round"
3. Missy Elliot - "Hit em Wit Da Hee"
4. Radiohead - "Paranoid Android"
5. Fabulous Baker Boys - "Oh Boy (Ramsey and Fen Mix)"
6. Hum - "Comin' Home"
7. Carl Craig - "Butterfly"
8. Stereolab - "Miss Modular"
9. The Beta Band - "Dry the Rain"
10. Busta Rhymes - "Dangerous"
11. Portishead - "All Mine"
12. Crustation - "Purple (A Tribe Called Quest Edit)"
13. Sonic Youth - "Sunday"
14. Timbaland and Magoo - "Feel It"
15. The Verve - "Bittersweet Symphony"
16. Company Flow - "Population Control"
17. David Bowie - "Dead Man Walking"
18. Groove Chronicles - "Stone Cold"
19. Total feat Missy Elliot - "What About Us"
20. Erykah Badu - "Appletree"
21. Panacea - "Stormbringer"
22. Wildchild - "Renegade Master (Fatboy Slim Old Skool Mix)"
23. The Chemical Brothers - "Block Rockin' Beats"
24. Foo Fighters - "Everlong"
25. Dem2 - "Destiny"
26. Boymerang - "Soul Beat Runna"
27. The Crystal Method - "Busy Child"
28. Cornelius - "Star Fruits Surf Rider"
29. Fluke - "Absurd (Headrillaz mix)"
30. Active Minds - "Hobson's Choice (Tune for Da Girl Dem Mix)"
31. Elliot Smith - "Between the Bars"
32. Source Direct - "Black Domina"
33. N-Tyce - "Telefunkin (First Steps Mix)"
34. Deftones - "Be Quiet and Drive"
35. Luke Slater - "Purely"
36. Wu-Tang Clan - "Forever"
37. Broadcast - "Living Room"
38. Basement Jaxx - "Set Yo Body Free"
39. Labradford - "P"
40. William S. Burroughs - "What Keeps Mankind Alive"
41. 4Hero - "Loveless"
42. Lenny Dee - "Forgotten Moments"
43. White Town - "Your Woman"
44. W.I.R. - "Sexy and Rich (Janet)"
45. Mogwai - "Mogwai Fear Satan"
46. Can - "Vitamin C (UNKLE mix)"
47. I-F - "Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass"
48. KP& Envyi - "Swing My Way"
49. Beck  - "Deadweight"
50. LL Cool J ft Method Man,et al - "1234"


Here are the 50 best Compact Discs and Vinyls of 1997, a year that tried to forge the futurism of the early decade into a palatable pop and listening music platform


1. Portishead - Portishead
2. Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy
3. Radiohead - OK Computer
4. Missy Elliot - Supa Dupa Fly
5. Carl Craig - More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art
6. Yo La Tengo - I Can Heart the Heart Beating As One
7. Broadcast - Work and Non Work
8. Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
9. Erykah Badu - Baduism
10. Locust  - Morning Light
11. The Beta Band - Championship Versions
12. Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever
13. Bjork - Homogenic
14. Luke Slater - Freek Funk
15. Mouse on Mars - Audiotacker
16. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen, We're Floating in Space
17. Busta Rhymes - When Disaster Strikes
18. Spectrum - Forever Alien
19. Elliot Smith - Either/Or
20. Boymerang - Balance of the Force
21. Stereolab - Dots and Loops
22. Timbaland and Magoo - Welcome to Our World
23. Voodoo Child - The End of Everything
24. Labradford - Mi Media Naranja
25. Cornelius - Fantasma
26. David Bowie - Earthling
27. Squarepusher - Big Loada
28. Windy and Carl - Antartica: Bliss Out v.2
29. Bis - New Transistor Heroes
30. Roni Size & Reprazent - New Forms
31. Godflesh - Love and Hate in Dub
32. Plaid - Not for Threes
33. The Crystal Method - Vegas
34. The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
35. The Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good
36. Fennesz - Hotel Paral.el
37. Dead Voices on Air vs Not Breathing - A Fire at the Bronx Zoo
38. Hot Boys - Get It How U Live!
39. GAS - Zauberberg
40. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F♯ A♯ ∞
41. 4Hero - Earth Pioneers
42. Slum Village - Fan-Tas-Tick Vol 1
43. Mu-Ziq - Lunatic Harness
44. Deftones - Around the Fur
45. The Bug - Tapping the Conversation
46. Daft Punk - Homework
47. Puff Daddy and the Family - No Way Out
48. Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope
49. Tosca - Opera
50. Quasi - R&B Transmogrification