MUSIC REALLY WAS BETTER WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER: The AV Club looks back at 1997. Man, did that ever take me back. I remember OK Computer, Dig Me Out, ...Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, Urban Hymns, Dig Your Own Hole, The Color and the Shape; I've come to appreciate the 1997 enteries by Cornershop, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Pavement, Portishead, Erykah Badu, Belle and Sebastian, and Yo La Tengo.
Any year from the mid-90s can probably give '97 a run--earlier than that and you hit the sweet spot between britpop and grunge. After that, well, boy bands, rap-metal and, ugh, Britney... Yes, things were much better back when I was a whippersnap.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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