Best Alternative Rock Albums of 1997


01
Radiohead
OK Computer

4.56
9178 votes
02
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
F♯ A♯ ∞

4.49
3946 votes
03
Elliott Smith
Either/Or

4.47
4856 votes
04
Modest Mouse
The Lonesome Crowded West

4.39
7023 votes
05
Guniw Tools
Other Goose

4.32
22 votes
06
Built to Spill
Perfect from Now On

4.31
3090 votes
07
Third Eye Blind
Third Eye Blind

4.3
2826 votes
08
Weezer
The Good Life

4.29
66 votes
09
Fishmans
Uchuu Nippon Setagaya

4.23
180 votes
10
Plastic Tree
Hide and Seek

4.22
36 votes
11
Spiritualized
Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space

4.2
763 votes
12
Yo La Tengo
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One

4.19
1989 votes
13
Ween
The Mollusk

4.19
756 votes
14
Mineral
The Power of Failing

4.15
1262 votes
15
The Refreshments
The Bottle and Fresh Horses

4.14
14 votes
16
The Gathering
Nighttime Birds

4.14
333 votes
17
Stereolab
Dots and Loops

4.13
291 votes
18
Mogwai
Young Team

4.11
1338 votes
19
The Walkabouts
Nighttown

4.11
14 votes
20
Belle and Sebastian
3.. 6.. 9 Seconds Of Light

4.11
138 votes
21
Belle and Sebastian
Lazy Line Painter Jane

4.1
150 votes
22
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Give It Back

4.1
188 votes
23
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
The Boatman's Call

4.09
623 votes
24
Sleater-Kinney
Dig Me Out

4.08
323 votes
25
Shiner
Lula Divinia

4.08
150 votes
26
Deftones
Around the Fur

4.07
4109 votes
27
Ben Folds Five
Whatever and Ever, Amen

4.07
660 votes
28
Stereolab
Miss Modular

4.07
15 votes
29
Handsome
Handsome

4.06
78 votes
30
The Verve
Urban Hymns

4.06
772 votes
31
Foo Fighters
The Colour and the Shape

4.06
5860 votes
32
Incubus (USA-CA)
S.C.I.E.N.C.E.

4.06
2065 votes
33
Belle and Sebastian
Dog on Wheels

4.05
153 votes
34
.O.rang
Herd of Instinct

4.04
54 votes
35
The Wrens
Abbott 1135

4.04
24 votes
36
Human Waste Project
E-lux

4.04
14 votes
37
12 Rods
Gay?

4.02
168 votes
38
Tindersticks
Curtains

4.02
75 votes
39
Big Wreck
In Loving Memory Of...

4.02
60 votes
40
Jim O'Rourke
Bad Timing

4
61 votes
41
Afterhours
Hai paura del buio?

4
42 votes
42
Love, Claire
Love, Claire

4
36 votes
43
Strictly Ballroom
Hide Here Forever

4
28 votes
44
Swell
Too Many Days Without Thinking

4
20 votes
45
The Get Up Kids
Woodson

4
15 votes
46
Gene
Drawn To The Deep End

4
14 votes
47
The Muffs
Happy Birthday To Me

4
13 votes
48
Mansun
Attack of the Grey Lantern

3.98
90 votes
49
The Mountain Goats
Full Force Galesburg

3.98
330 votes
50
Knapsack
Day Three Of My New Life

3.98
99 votes
51
Three Mile Pilot
Another Desert, Another Sea

3.97
38 votes
52
Regurgitator
Unit

3.97
72 votes
53
The Get Up Kids
Four Minute Mile

3.96
382 votes
54
Jimmie's Chicken Shack
Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope

3.96
49 votes
55
The Pillows
Please Mr. Lostman

3.96
70 votes
56
The Jazz June
They Love Those Who Make the Music

3.96
34 votes
57
Labradford
Mi Media Naranja

3.95
106 votes
58
Hooverphonic
A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular

3.95
83 votes
59
Gorgoroth
Under the Sign of Hell

3.94
394 votes
60
Antarctica
23:03

3.94
16 votes
61
Smog
Red Apple Falls

3.94
258 votes
62
Whiskeytown
Stranger's Almanac

3.94
62 votes
63
Kerbdog
On The Turn

3.93
56 votes
64
Hash Jar Tempo
Well Oiled

3.93
34 votes
65
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Barafundle

3.92
26 votes
66
Hungry Ghosts
Hungry Ghosts

3.92
25 votes
67
Storm and Stress
Storm and Stress

3.92
43 votes
68
Molotov
¿Dónde Jugarán las Niñas?

3.92
51 votes
69
Piebald
When Life Hands You Lemons

3.92
84 votes
70
Starflyer 59
Americana

3.91
116 votes
71
Pavement
Brighten the Corners

3.91
1782 votes
72
The Promise Ring
Nothing Feels Good

3.91
433 votes
73
Beth Orton
Trailer Park

3.89
36 votes
74
Laddio Bolocko
Strange Warmings of Laddio Bolocko

3.89
27 votes
75
The Smashing Pumpkins
The End Is the Beginning Is the End

3.89
45 votes
76
Flake Music
When You Land Here, It's Time To Return

3.88
50 votes
77
June of 44
The Anatomy of Sharks

3.88
25 votes
78
The Autumns
The Angel Pool

3.88
24 votes
79
Beulah
Handsome Western States

3.87
117 votes
80
Ornatos Violeta
Cão!

3.87
19 votes
81
Pizzicato Five
Happy End of the World

3.87
19 votes
82
Our Lady Peace
Clumsy

3.87
678 votes
83
Low
Songs for a Dead Pilot

3.86
54 votes
84
Christie Front Drive
Stereo

3.86
111 votes
85
Shipping News
Save Everything

3.86
92 votes
86
Matthew Good Band
Underdogs

3.85
372 votes
87
Valium Aggelein
Dweller On the Threshold

3.85
30 votes
88
The Offspring
Ixnay on the Hombre

3.84
1284 votes
89
Something For Kate
Elsewhere for 8 Minutes

3.83
54 votes
90
Stavesacre
Absolutes

3.83
18 votes
91
The Dismemberment Plan
The Dismemberment Plan Is Terrified

3.83
308 votes
92
G. Love and Special Sauce
Yeah, It's That Easy

3.82
14 votes
93
No Knife
Hit Man Dreams

3.82
25 votes
94
Number Girl
School Girl Bye Bye

3.82
41 votes
95
Grey Daze
No Sun Today

3.81
80 votes
96
The Pastels
Illumination

3.81
16 votes
97
Kent
Isola

3.81
69 votes
98
Pedro the Lion
Whole

3.81
29 votes
99
The Sonora Pine
II

3.81
26 votes
100
Muse
Newton Abbot Demo

3.81
31 votes
101
The Smoking Popes
Destination Failure

3.81
18 votes
102
Everclear
So Much For The Afterglow

3.8
492 votes
103
Supergrass
In It for the Money

3.79
112 votes
104
Karate
In Place of Real Insight

3.79
41 votes
105
The Dandy Warhols
Come Down

3.79
170 votes
106
Sixpence None the Richer
Sixpence None the Richer

3.79
94 votes
107
Duster
Transmission, Flux

3.79
144 votes
108
The American Analog Set
From Our Living Room To Yours

3.78
69 votes
109
Quasi
R&B Transmogrification

3.78
18 votes
110
Pearl Jam
Given To Fly

3.78
18 votes
111
Guided by Voices
Mag Earwhig!

3.77
162 votes
112
Flying Saucer Attack
New Lands

3.77
30 votes
113
Days of the New
Days of the New

3.75
310 votes
114
Plumtree
Predicts the Future

3.74
58 votes
115
Feeder
Polythene

3.74
195 votes
116
Teenage Fanclub
Songs From Northern Britain

3.73
94 votes
117
Third Day
Conspiracy No.5

3.73
15 votes
118
The Sea And Cake
The Fawn

3.73
56 votes
119
that dog.
Retreat From the Sun

3.73
78 votes
120
Sister Hazel
Somewhere More Familiar

3.73
13 votes
121
Sonic Youth
SYR1: Anagrama

3.73
63 votes
122
O.A.R.
The Wanderer

3.73
35 votes
123
Blur
Blur

3.73
869 votes
124
311
Transistor

3.71
330 votes
125
blink-182
Dude Ranch

3.69
2300 votes
126
Guided by Voices
Tonics and Twisted Chasers

3.69
80 votes
127
Velour 100
Of Color Bright

3.69
16 votes
128
Harvey Danger
Where Have All The Merrymakers Gone?

3.69
226 votes
129
The Divine Comedy
A Short Album About Love

3.69
27 votes
130
Old 97s
Too Far to Care

3.68
19 votes
131
The Charlatans (UK)
Tellin' Stories

3.68
66 votes
132
The Van Pelt
Sultans of Sentiment

3.68
90 votes
133
The Weakerthans
Fallow

3.68
334 votes
134
Blonde Redhead
Fake Can Be Just As Good

3.66
91 votes
135
Grinspoon
Guide to Better Living

3.66
48 votes
136
John Frusciante
Estrus

3.65
39 votes
137
Cornershop
When I Was Born For The 7th Time

3.65
34 votes
138
System of a Down
Demo Tape 3

3.64
14 votes
139
Jars Of Clay
Much Afraid

3.64
57 votes
140
of Montreal
Cherry Peel

3.63
138 votes
141
Green Day
Nimrod

3.63
2340 votes
142
Letters to Cleo
Go!

3.63
16 votes
143
Vlad Tepes
La Morte Lune

3.63
16 votes
144
Brad
Interiors

3.62
25 votes
145
Ivy
Apartment Life

3.62
34 votes
146
Faith No More
Album of the Year

3.61
1098 votes
147
Grey Daze
Wake Me

3.61
44 votes
148
Brainiac
Electro-Shock for President

3.61
31 votes
149
Catherine Wheel
Adam and Eve

3.61
84 votes
150
Guano Apes
Proud Like A God

3.6
120 votes
151
Mogwai
4 Satin

3.6
42 votes
152
Samiam
You Are Freaking Me Out

3.59
37 votes
153
Rainer Maria
Past Worn Searching

3.59
29 votes
154
Thought Industry
Black Umbrella

3.58
28 votes
155
Fuck
Pardon My French

3.57
14 votes
156
Helium
The Magic City

3.57
44 votes
157
Judas Iscariot
Of Great Eternity

3.55
28 votes
158
Radiohead
No Surprises/Running From Demons

3.55
75 votes
159
Kyuss/Queens of the Stone Age
Split

3.55
19 votes
160
Les Savy Fav
3/5

3.55
20 votes
161
Spoon
Soft Effects EP

3.55
42 votes
162
AFI
Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes

3.54
525 votes
163
Superchunk
Indoor Living

3.54
24 votes
164
Aerial M
Aerial M

3.54
84 votes
165
Marcy Playground
Marcy Playground

3.53
300 votes
166
Urgehal
Arma Christi

3.53
17 votes
167
Morphine
Like Swimming

3.52
162 votes
168
Tocotronic
Es ist egal, aber

3.5
54 votes
169
Long Fin Killie
Amelia

3.5
18 votes
170
Live
Secret Samadhi

3.49
340 votes
171
Joan of Arc
A Portable Model Of

3.49
116 votes
172
The Offspring
Club Me

3.48
25 votes
173
Audio Adrenaline
Some Kind of Zombie

3.47
16 votes
174
Modest Mouse
The Fruit That Ate Itself

3.47
786 votes
175
Ocean Colour Scene
Marchin' Already

3.45
22 votes
176
Kara's Flowers
The Fourth World

3.45
30 votes
177
Arab on Radar
Queen Hygiene II

3.44
40 votes
178
Idlewild
Captain

3.43
44 votes
179
Nuno Bettencourt
Schizophonic

3.43
14 votes
180
Mew
A Triumph for Man

3.42
304 votes
181
Matthew Good Band
Raygun

3.42
72 votes
182
Primus
The Brown Album

3.41
609 votes
183
Prefab Sprout
Andromeda Heights

3.41
30 votes
184
The Sundays
Static and Silence

3.41
72 votes
185
Toad The Wet Sprocket
Coil

3.4
25 votes
186
Quorthon
Purity Of Essence

3.4
15 votes
187
The Fucking Champs
III

3.39
14 votes
188
Travis
Good Feeling

3.39
59 votes
189
Son Volt
Straightaways

3.38
13 votes
190
Elf Power
When The Red King Comes

3.38
24 votes
191
L7
The Beauty Process: Triple Platinum

3.37
52 votes
192
Sonic Youth
SYR2: Slaapkamers Met Slagroom

3.36
44 votes
193
Bis
The New Transistor Heroes

3.36
18 votes
194
The Apples in Stereo
Tone Soul Evolution

3.34
34 votes
195
Veruca Salt
Eight Arms to Hold You

3.33
114 votes
196
James
Whiplash

3.31
16 votes
197
Caroline's Spine
Monsoon

3.31
21 votes
198
Treble Charger
Maybe It's Me

3.31
13 votes
199
Switchfoot
Legend of Chin

3.3
117 votes
200
John Frusciante
Smile from the Streets You Hold

3.3
214 votes



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