097 1997

It’s only eleven years ago, but in many ways it seems like a lifetime. This week we are hauling ourselves back to the delightful musical corners of 1997. Now that sounds like fun does it not?!

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Playlist:

(00:00) The Wannadies - Hit

Tim from The face of today

(02:43) Blur - Song 2

JC from The Vinyl Villain

(05:53) Radiohead - Electioneering

Linda from Speed of dark

(09:52) Cornershop - Brimful of Asha (original version)

Crash from Pretending life is like a song

(15:01) Legendary Pink Dots - Destined to repeat

ZB from So the wind won’t blow it all away

(20:33) Stapleton - International departures

Ross from Just gimme indie rock

(24:23) Old 97’s - Melt snow

Greg from Broken Dial

(28:03) Matthew Sweet - Superbaby

Rick from Are you embarassed easily?

(31:52) Ween - Mutilated lips

Dweller from Child without an iPod

(36:35) Whiskeytown - 16 days

Natalie from Mini-obs

(41:19) Wheat - Summer

SiD from Too Much Rock

(47:47) Bob Dylan - Make you feel my love

Eiron from A Blog of No Importance

(53:19) Everclear - Sunflowers

Andy from Circles of Concrete

(57:21) The Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench

James from Appetite For Distraction

(01:03:03) Celine Dion - My heart will go on

The Man from S.L.I.M.E.

(01:04:30) Cornershop - Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook remix)

FiL and Gina from Pogoagogo

(01:09:12) Radiohead - Paranoid Android (live on Later)

Stuart

(01:15:56) Ben Folds Five - Evaporated

Marcy from Lost in your inbox

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What a brilliant opening.

For FiL’s benefit I would like to say that this “7″ is a seven and this “8″ is an eight, which might be useful in the sentence “Cornershop’s Brimfull of Asha came out in 1997 whilst the Norman Cook remix came out in 1998″. I know he works with numbers but I wonder if single digits might be a bit of a distant memory.

Um, are my eyes playing tricks on me. CELINE FREAKING DION?

Oh, OK, I heard it, so now it makes SENSE. Still, the man from S.L.I.M.E. is a bad, bad, man.

I think FiL is going to be equally upset (at the ticking off he got from Crash - partially my fault for agreeing to include both tracks … but let’s forget that part) and happy (for his ‘Celine Dion on the podcast’ trick to have worked on Natalie!)!

Tim….as Crash says, a truly fantastic start.

Sorry I had to come along and ruin it all by talking about love & happiness….I bet no-one else takes that angle…..oops.

James - it aint cos you’re a little baby that you had a stupendous time choosing a song from ‘97. It was a bit of a vintage year. The evidence is laid out before us.

And Stuart - I remember that particular show. You describe it perfectly. Its more than very very good…

PS. More Gina.

PPS. Marcy. That couldn’t have been easy. A gorgeous end. Thank You.

And here I was the only one who met his wife that year!

I should have said I THOUGHT I was the only one…

gosh !
my first choice was : “celine’s final breath” from hugh hopper/kramer’s “huge” ! but I abandoned the idea because I didn’t find the cd !

Crash/JC .. thanks, it’s one of my favourite 2mins and 20 seconds of true joy.

ZB … Arghhh .. If you find it please put it up on STW!

Yes, many of you seem to have met your future wives that year! Pretty cool. (and my childbirth was April 5, so the rest of 97 is pretty much a blur for me…)

Dearest Crash, I know it charted in 1998, but I could swear my CD single had a 1997 release date. As I’m currently sitting in a conference room in Vegas, I’ll need to check upon my return. But 97, 98, whatevah - linear time is overrated. And at least it, and Gina, saved y’all from Celine…

wow, some great songs i’d not heard before. where the hell was i? oh yeah, i was playing tetris!

p.s. thanks, j.c.

A quick look over at Wikipedia reveals the following:

“Brimful of Asha” (1997)
“Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)” (1997)

Further research over on the French Amazon website gives the release date as August 11, 1997.

All signs point to 1997. I motion the case be closed.

Tim> here you are, wish answered.

Crash .. would you like some custard with your humble pie?

ZB .. Merci!

I move that FiL just wrote that Wikipedia entry

lol!!

To be honest I’m busy trying to convince myself is better than the version FiL played and it’s a struggle.

Don’t take this the wrong way, but is James no longer a Dork? If it’s true, good for you! I like the new look and commitment!

oh, no. i’m still a dork. wayyyy dorky. but i feel that i’ve solidfied that reputation enough that i can have a site that doesn’t advertise it! haha, thanks greg!

marcy - thanks for helping in my “play the entirety of whatever and ever amen” agenda. evaporated is such a great song. the 1,2 punch of missing the war and evaporated is a devestatingly beautiful end to a fantastic album.

andy - was that track sped up the same way that the track was on the bird CP?

crash and fil - maybe the single came out in canada in 1997 and the UK in 1998? when, oh when, will the fighting stop!!

great show everyone.

OK, i’ve taken a look at the wiki page and it seems like the cd was released in 1997, but the remix became a hit in 1998 and was #1 on the UK chart in Feb 1998. everyone’s right!

Ok, i swear i read the preceding proceedings before throwing in my two cents, but upon reading them again, i realize that my second comment is almost verbatim what fil said up there a ways…let’s hear it for needlessly taking up blogspace!

for some reason I though the colour and the shape was 1996. d’oh.

Wow, 2 radiohead songs. I was probably listening to oasis in 1997, so luck I wasn’t involved…

Wait, Mogwai Young Team was 1997. Damn. IF we do 1998, I can legitimately choose ‘Perfect Day Elise’ by PJ Harvey, ’cause I remember hearing it on the radio.

I don’t care what year the remix is from, if the original is from 1997, then the remix fits into the 97 theme. I’m in the “preferring the remix” corner, but I never heard the song until I heard it on the podcast. (Was it a hit in the US and I was too busy with a baby and with alt.country to notice. I didn’t watch MTV much in that time period, except for Beavis & Butthead.)

Mucho appreciated hearting Matthew Sweet and Old 97’s this time. And Ben Folds is THE MAN.

Nat - I remember them playing it on DC101. But I don’t remember whether it was the remix or the original. I’ve heard the originial much more in recent years, though, because my roommate had the CD. I have a feeling it was the remix. I like them both!

Tim - Ur n mi head and moving frm side to side - stop!

What a killer CP. Great tracks and intros, espcially from Gina the Celinehund. LOTS of great music here, despite the ups and downs of 1997.

Both versions are good. But then again, given the tune has more than passing resemblance to ‘Roadrunner’ that’s hardly a surprise…

James, I lived in a vast radio wasteland back then (north FLorida,) and this was before streaming radio was common. We had about 5 country stations, two “rock” stations that played only Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc, and the usual Top 40 crapola. There wasn’t even a college station close by, so I had a hard time staying current!

Do you know how thankful I am for the net and the blossoming of music blogs, etc. (And I was a Napster user very early on. I know, shame on me, but I found so much new music there!)

Even the book I read the dates in is now telling me that I’m wrong. It looks like I picked the week to quit sniffing glue / qualuudes / lsd … …

Aww, gee, so much fuss and bother over one silly digit. But we still all love each other, right??

Personally I think both the remix and the original are fabulous. I love the structure and lyrics of the original, and Norman Cook’s flourishes and fripperies make me dance like a demented chicken.

And thank you all for your kind words about my Dearest Gina. FYI, she really does bark like that when you say “Celine Dion.” She also runs around the house, looking for the Canadian warbler, hackles raised…

hugs x

Gosh, who’d of thought that Cornershop would cause such a debate, ha !! I order everyone to listen to the track ‘Born Disco, Died Heavy Metal’ by cornershop…i love it…it come out in 1994 agghhhh

Everyone met their wives that year, how cool !!! Nice one !!! Good shiat !!!

Dearest Ross, you are SOOOOOO spot on! I second that order!! “Used to like the Bee Gees, now I’m into the Purple.” AWFUCKINRIIIIIIGHT!!!

Ahem, sorry, got that out of my system.

Well, I met my wife-to-be in 1990. There’s a real dramatic story there, which may get told one day. Or maybe not.

Great podcast. I have two burning musically memories from 1997… (1) hearing “Heart Cooks Brain” by Modest Mouse for the first time, and (2) being assaulted by the hype of surrounding electronica.

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