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My Top 20 from the last truly great music year yet:

1. OK Computer – Radiohead
2. Radiator – Super Furry Animals
3. It Doesn’t Matter Anymore – Supernaturals
4. Andromeda Heights – Prefab Sprout
5. Ultra – Depeche Mode
6. Isola – Kent
7. Barafundle – Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci
8. Trampolines – Trampolines
9. Snowboy – Morten Abel
10. Vive La Difference – Eggstone
11. Stay Free – Brainpool
12. In It For The Money – Supergrass
13. Life Thru a Lens – Robbie Williams
14. Songs From Northern Britain – Teenage Fanclub
15. Homogenic – Björk
16. Sound Of Lies – Jayhawks
17. C60 – This Perfect Day
18. This Strange Engine – Marillion
19. Blur – Blur
20. Be Here Now – Oasis

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 9 March 2003 23:20 (twenty-three years ago)

do you still like be here now, geir?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 10 March 2003 00:14 (twenty-three years ago)

who cares

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 10 March 2003 00:57 (twenty-three years ago)

do you still like be here now, geir?

Only part of it. I still consider it a better album than "Definitely Maybe" though.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 10 March 2003 01:28 (twenty-three years ago)

i never heard of any of these, you made this shit up

― duane, Monday, 10 March 2003 02:57 (twenty-three years ago)

there's no Hanson, Period Pains or Helen Love. geir was clearly living in a parallel dimension 1997.

― Wyndham Earl, Monday, 10 March 2003 07:26 (twenty-three years ago)

there's no Hanson, Period Pains or Helen Love. geir was clearly living in a parallel dimension 1997.

I was living in a parallel dimension called Europe. :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 10 March 2003 11:41 (twenty-three years ago)

''i never heard of any of these, you made this shit up''

hahaha!!!! he might as well have.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 10 March 2003 11:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyway, whoever hasn't heard of "OK Computer" must have been living in a parallel universe. Either that, or he was 10 years old in 1997. :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 10 March 2003 11:59 (twenty-three years ago)

''Anyway, whoever hasn't heard of "OK Computer" must have been living in a parallel universe.''

New zealand in parallel universe shockah!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 10 March 2003 12:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Why is Be Here Now a better album than Definitely Maybe?

My research indicates that unless heard in a kebab shop at 3 in the morning after far too much beer Be Here Now is tuneless bilge. It is still tuneless bilge at 3am in a kebab shop but somehow seems to suit the ambience i.e. inebriated, greasy and stodgy and generally not something you could want in your right mind - but that’s just me.

Barafundle on the other hand is great.

― tigerclawskank, Monday, 10 March 2003 13:03 (twenty-three years ago)

1997 was a wonderful year for me but this makes it seem fucking rubbish.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 10 March 2003 13:07 (twenty-three years ago)

a lot of the entries on Geir's lists seem really tokenistic e.g. 'Be Here Now' at number 20 of all places just smacks of a 'courtesy inclusion' - if it had been a top 50 then 'Be Here Now' would probably have been lower down. i sometimes do this with my own charts to be honest but try not to.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 10 March 2003 14:53 (twenty-three years ago)

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