UK-INDIE ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 1997

1 RADIOHEAD OK Computer 160
2 VERVE Urban Hymns 136.5
3 KENICKIE At The Club 98.5
4 BLUR Blur 94
5 SPIRITUALIZED Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space 91.5
6 BELLE AND SEBASTIAN If You're Feeling Sinister 82
7 PAVEMENT Brighten The Corners 71
8 PRIMAL SCREAM Vanishing Point 60.5
9 CORNERSHOP When I Was Born For The 7th Time 57.5
10 MOGWAI Young Team 53
11 SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Radiator 47.5
12 PIXIES Death To The Pixies 45
13= SUPERGRASS In It For The Money 42
13= TEENAGE FANCLUB Songs From Northern Britain 42
15 STEREOLAB Dots And Loops 40
16 DAVID DEVANT AND HIS SPIRIT WIFE Work, Lovelife, Miscellaneous 37
17 CHEMICAL BROTHERS Dig Your Own Hole 35.5
18 LAIKA Sounds Of The Satellites 35
19 PORTISHEAD Portishead 33.5
20 SUEDE Sci-fi Lullabies 30
21 HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT Voyage To The Bottom Of The Road 29
22 CHARLATANS Tellin' Stories 27.5
23 STRANGELOVE Strangelove 26.5
24 PROLAPSE The Italian Flag 26
25 LONG FIN KILLIE Amelia 23.5
26 TINDERSTICKS Curtains 23
27= BENTLEY RHYTHM ACE Bentley Rhythm Ace 21.5
27= GENE Drawn To The Deep End 21.5
29 BIS New Transistor Heroes 21
30 ORB Orblivion 21
31= LINOLEUM Dissent 19.5
31= SILVER SUN Silver Sun 19.5
33 NICK CAVE The Boatman's Call 19
34= GALAXIE 500 Copenhagen 18
34= WAY OUT WEST Way Out West 18
36 DAFT PUNK Homework 17
37 SUBCIRCUS Carousel 16
38 OASIS Be Here Now 15.5
39= SUPERCHUNK Indoor Living 14.5
39= YO LA TENGO I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One 14.5
41= DIVINE COMEDY A Short Album About Love 14
41= SMOG Red Apple Falls 14
43= DAVID HOLMES Let's Get Killed 13.5
43= MY LIFE STORY The Golden Mile 13.5
43= SPACE MONKEYS The Daddy Of Them All 13.5
46 SLEATER KINNEY Dig Me Out 13
47= DAVID BOWIE Earthling 12.5
47= EDWYN COLLINS I'm Not Following You 12.5
49 BROADCAST Work And Non-work 11.5
50= ADVENTURES IN STEREO Adventures In Stereo 11
50= CARTER USM A World Without Dave 11
50= DUBSTAR Goodbye 11
50= GENEVA Further 11
50= GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI Barafundle 11
55 SARAH CRACKNELL Lipslide 10.5
56 CURE Galore 10
57 DEATH IN VEGAS Dead Elvis 9.5
58 WILCO Being There 9
59 CANDYSKINS Monday Morning Fever 8.5
60= BLACK GRAPE Stupid, Stupid, Stupid 8
60= MAGOO The Soateramic Sounds Of... 8
60= MOMUS Ping Pong 8
63= FOLK IMPLOSION Dare To Be Surprised 7
63= PASTELS Illumination 7
65= ERYKA BADU Baduizm 5
65= SCARFO Luxury Plane Crash 5
67 RONI SIZE/REPRAZENT New Forms 2



UK-INDIE SINGLES OF THE YEAR 1997

1 VERVE Bittersweet Symphony 116
2 BELLE AND SEBASTIAN Dog On Wheels 109
3 CORNERSHOP Brimful Of Asha 70
4 RADIOHEAD Paranoid Android 56.5
5 BLUR Song 2 56
6 PRIMAL SCREAM Kowalski 45.5
7 BELLE AND SEBASTIAN Lazy Line Painter Jane 44.5
8 VERVE The Drugs Don't Work 38.5
9 SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Hermann Loves Pauline 33.5
10 HELEN LOVE Does Your Heart Go Boom 32
11 BELLE AND SEBASTIAN 3, 6, 9 Seconds Of Light 30
12 CHEMICAL BROTHERS Block Rockin' Beats 29
13 RADIOHEAD Karma Police 28.5
14 SUPER FURRY ANIMALS The Man Don't Give A Fuck 27
15 DJ SHADOW High Noon 26.5
16 ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN Nothing Lasts Forever 25.5
17 CHEMICAL BROTHERS Private Psychedelic Reel 23
18 TINDERSTICKS Rented Rooms 22
19 BECK Deadweight 21.5
20 SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Demons 21
21= GENEVA Tranquiliser 18
21= WHITE TOWN Your Woman 18
23= BILLY BRAGG The Boy Done Good 17
23= CATATONIA I Am The Mob 17
23= GENE Fighting Fit 17
23= STRANGELOVE The Greatest Show On Earth 17
23= TEENAGE FANCLUB Ain't That Enough 17
28= BLACK GRAPE Get Higher 16.5
28= LAIKA Almost Sleeping 16.5
28= LINOLEUM On A Tuesday 16.5
31= DAFT PUNK Da Funk 15.5
31= PRIMAL SCREAM Star 15.5
31= VELOCETTE Get Yourself Together 15.5
34= PORTISHEAD Over 14.5
34= VERVE Lucky Man 14.5
36 URUSEI YATSURA Fake Fur 14
37 INTER Happy Ending 13.5
38 CHA CHA COHEN Spook On The High Lawn 13
39= BLUR Beetlebum 12
39= FATBOY SLIM Everybody Loves A Carnival 12
39= PAVEMENT Shady Lane 12
39= PLACEBO Nancy Boy 12
39= SUNDAYS Summertime 12
39= THE BIGGER THE GOD When Martin Met Martine 12
39= VARIOUS Work Is A 4 Letter Word EP 12
45= EMBRACE Fireworks EP 11.5
45= PIXIES Debaser 11.5
45= SLEEPER Romeo Me 11.5
49= DIVINE COMEDY Everybody Knows 11
49= DWEEB Scooby Doo 11
49= PROLAPSE Autocade 11
52 SUEDE Lazy 10.5
53= CHUMBAWAMBA Tubthumping 9
53= SPIRITUALIZED Electricity 9
55= BENTLEY RHYTHM ACE Midlander (There Can Be Only One...) 8
55= CAT POWER Nude As The News 8
57= EELS Novocaine For The Soul 7.5
57= PROPELLORHEADS On Her Majesty's Secret Service 7.5
57= SEAHORSES Love Is The Law 7.5
57= TREMBLING BLUE STARS The Rainbow 7.5
61 ASH A Life Less Ordinary 7
62 SUBCIRCUS 86'd 6
63 LO-FIDELITY ALL STARS Disco Machine Gun 2



Honourable Mentions
10-POINTERS Albums: NEKO CASE "The Virginian" Singles: AIR "Les Premiers Symptomes", DAVID DEVANT AND HIS SPIRIT WIFE "Ginger", DINOSAUR JR "Take A Run At The Sun", DWEEB "Oh Yeah Baby", FRANK AND WALTERS "Colours", HURRICANE #1 "Step Into My World", LOCHI "London Acid City", SUPERCHUNK "Watery Hands", VARIOUS "Minitel Rock Steady Vol. 1"
9-POINTERS Albums: DJ SHADOW "Camel Bobsled Race", FRANK AND WALTERS "The Grand Parade", JAMES "Whiplash", MONORCHID "Let Them Eat...", NEW BAD THINGS "Ennui Go", PHOTEK "Modus Operandi", PIANO MAGIC "Popular Mechanics", SPACEMAID "Supercool" Singles: ARAB STRAP "Hey! Fever", BABYBIRD "Goodnight", BENTLEY RHYTHM ACE "Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out", BLUR "MOR", DAVID DEVANT AND HIS SPIRIT WIFE "This Is For Real", KID LOCO "The Real Pop Porn Blue Sound", MAGOO "A-Z And Back Again", NOVAK "Rapunzel", OP8 & LISA GERMANO "Sand", SUEDE "Saturday Night"

8-POINTERS Albums: DELGADOS "BBC Sessions", ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN "Evergreen", PRODIGY "The Fat Of The Land", SUNDAYS "Static And Silence", UNUN "Super Shiny Dreams", VARIOUS "Nailed To The Stars", WILL OLDHAM "Joya" Singles: GOLDIE "Digital", HOOVERDAM "T-shirt '69", MAINSTREAM "Privilege EP", MONKEY MAFIA "15 Steps EP", NOUGHT "Cough Cap Kitty Cat", PERIOD PAINS "Who Do You Think You Are?", PROLAPSE "Killing The Bland", SPIRITUALIZED "I Think I'm In Love", YO LA TENGO "Sugarcube"

7-POINTERS Albums: BABYBIRD "Ugly Beautiful", BILL HICKS "Rant In E Minor", JONATHON FIRE*EATER "Wolf Songs For Lambs", MIGNIGHT OIL "20,000 Watt RSL", VARIOUS "It's Not Intelligent... And It's Not From Detroit...", VARIOUS "And The Rest Is History", WEDDING PRESENT "Saturnalia" Singles: FLUKE "Absurd", GENE "We Could Be Kings", HYBIRDS "Take You Down EP", JAGUAR "Coming Alive", MARILYN MANSON "The Beautiful People", MOGWAI "4 Satin", MONACO "Sweet Lips", MONORCHID "Distortion", PRODIGY "Smack My Bitch Up", SPARE SNARE "Strange And Silent Staircase", SPICE GIRLS "Spice Up Your Life", TEENAGE FANCLUB "Start Again"

6-POINTERS Albums: BILLY BRAGG "William Bloke", BILLY MCKENZIE "Beyond The Sun", BJORK "Homogenic", DELGADOS "Domestiques", JURASSIC 5 "Jurassic 5", ORANGE PEELS "Square", SONGS:OHIA "Songs:Ohia", SUMMER HITS "Beaches And Canyons", VARIOUS "Lost Highway", VARIOUS "Songs For The Jet Set" Singles: ANDREAS DORAU "Girls In Love", DUSTBALL "Egg Man Like Your Head", DWEEB "IOU Everything", EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN "NNNAAAMMM remixes", EMBRACE "All You Good Good People", FEEDER "High", FREDDIE FRESH "Barrio Grooves EP", JAMES "She's A Star", MAKEUP "Substance Abuse", MASSIVE ATTACK "Rising Sun", QUICKSPACE "The Precious Mountain", THE BIGGER THE GOD "If Everyone I Ever Loved Left Me", TINDERSTICKS "A Marriage Made In Heaven"

5-AND-A-HALF-POINTERS Albums: BEATNIK FILMSTARS "All Popstars Are Talentless Slags", DJ Q "Face The Music", DREAM CITY FILM CLUB "Dream City Film Club", GERALDINE FIBBERS "Butch", HOOTON 3 CAR "Monkey Mayor", MADDER ROSE "Tragic Magic", MANSUN "Attack Of The Grey Lantern", MILKY WIMPSHAKE "Bus Route To Your Heart", MONACO "Music For Pleasure", MONO "Formica Blues", PANSIES "Feel Easy", PENTHOUSE "Gutter Erotica", PIZZICATO 5 "Happy End Of The World", SALAD "Ice Cream", SHOESTRINGS "Wishing On Planes", SLEEPER "Pleased To Meet You", SNEAKER PIMPS "Becoming X", SUPERNATURALS "It Doesn't Matter Anymore", TRAVIS "Good Feeling", VARIOUS "Return Of The DJ Vol. 2", VARIOUS "Up From The Streets", WANNADIES "Bagsy Me", YUMMY FUR "Kinky Cinema" Singles: APHRODITE & MICKEY FINN "Badass", ARAB STRAP "The First Big Weekend", ARAB STRAP "The Girls Of Summer", BLACK STAR LINER "Rock Freak", BLUEBOY "Remember Me", BRASSY "Sure Thing", BROCCOLI "Neglect It", CANDYSKINS "Monday Morning", CHEMICAL BROTHERS "Electrobank", CROCODILE GOD "Mind The Cat", DAVID BOWIE "Seven Years In Tibet", DAVID HOLMES "Don't Die Just Yet", DAWN OF THE REPLICANTS "Radar Rays", DEPECHE MODE "It's No Good", DICK JOHNSON "Disposable Darling", DONKEY "The League Of Mature Jazz Friends", DREAM CITY FILM CLUB "Pissboy", DUBSTAR "No More Talk", ELECTRIC SOUND OF JOY "Total Turn", FALL "Inch", FATBOY SLIM "Everybody Needs A 303", FATBOY SLIM "Going Out Of My Head", FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE "Radiation Vibe", GUIDED BY VOICES "I Am A Tree", HELEN LOVE "Cardiff City Superstars", HURRICANE #1 "Just An Illusion", IDA "Maybelle", INTASTELLA "Skyscraper", J CHURCH "Nothing City", LAIKA "Breather", LAURIE JOHNSON "Theme From The Professionals", MADDER ROSE "Hung Up In You", MANSUN "Taxloss", MY LIFE STORY "Strumpet", NU YORICAN SOUL "Runaway", ORB "Toxygene", PET SHOP BOYS "Somewhere", PIERRE HENRY "Psyche Rock", POLYTHENE "Kill Techno", ROBERT WYATT "Free Will And Testament", SEX-O-MATIQUE "Thought It Was You", SILVER SUN "Lava", SMOG "Ex Con", SOURCE "You Got The Love", STEREOLAB "Miss Modular", SUEDE "Filmstar", SUPER "Tickets", TRAVIS "U16 Girls", VARIOUS "Turn On EP", WILCO "Outtasite", YUMMY FUR "Policeman"

5-POINTERS Albums: BETH ORTON "Trailer Park", FLAMING STARS "Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia", LUKE SLATER "Freek Funk", MAKEUP "Sound Verite", OP8 "Slush", PLAID "Not For Threes", SHOP ASSISTANTS "Will Anything Happen", WHITLAMS "Eternal Nightcap" Singles: APPLIANCE "Organized Sound", ATHLETICO STRIP "Kisser", BRAN VAN 3000 "Drinking in LA", CURE "Wrong Number", DUBSTAR "Cathedral Park", GALA "Freed From Desire", JUBILEE ALLSTARS "Which Kind", LUKE SLATER "Freek Funk", NICK CAVE "Into My Arms", PORTISHEAD "Cowboys", TRACE & NICO "Amtrak", WHITE TOWN "Undressed"

4-AND-A-HALF-POINTERS Singles: SUPERGRASS "Richard III"

4-POINTERS Albums: APOLLO FOUR FORTY "Electro Glide In Blue", ATARI TEENAGE RIOT "The Future Of War", HELEN LOVE "Radio Hits Vol. 2", PAUL MCCARTNEY "Flaming Pie", SWELL "Too Many Days Without Thinking", WU-TANG CLAN "Wu-Tang Forever" Singles: GENE "Speak To Me Someone", GRASS-SHOW "1962", JUBILEE ALLSTARS "Keep On Chewin'", LUSCIOUS JACKSON "Naked Eye", PIZZICATO 5 "Mon Amour Tokyo", PROPELLORHEADS "Spybreak", RONI SIZE "Heroes", STEREOLAB/NURSE WITH WOUND "Simple Headphone Mind", SUMMERCAMP "Drawer", SWEENEY "Fish Face", VARIOUS "Braincakes EP"

3-POINTERS Albums: BAADER MEINHOF "Baader Meinhof", BUILT TO SPILL "Perfect From Now On", JONATHON FIRE*EATER "Tremble Under Boom Lights", JUNKIE XL "Saturday Night Teenage Kick", MANTARAY "The Reds And The Blues", POND "Rock Collection", SEA AND CAKE "The Fawn", SPICE GIRLS "SpiceWorld", SUMMERCAMP "Pure Juice", VARIOUS "Snakebite City 7" Singles: 4HERO "Earth Pioneers", BIS "Everybody Thinks That They're Going To Get Theirs", CARTER USM "A World Without Dave", DAVID DEVANT AND HIS SPIRIT WIFE "Lie Detector", FOIL "Reviver Gene", GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI "Young Girls And Happy Endings", LATIMER "Used Cars", MIDGET "Camouflage", NATURAL BORN CHILLERS "Rock The Funky Beat", SPEARMINT "Sweeping The Nation", SPIRITUALIZED "Come Together", SUPERGRASS "Late In The Day", SWELL "The Trip", THEAUDIENCE "I Got The Wherewithall"

2-POINTERS Albums: CHINA DRUM "Self Made Maniac", DELERIUM "Karma", DENIM "Novelty Rock", DINOSAUR JR "Hand It Over", ERIC MATTHEWS "Lateness Of The Hour", FATBOY SLIM "Better Living Through Chemistry", FLUKE "Risotto", FUCK "Pardon My French", WEDDING PRESENT "George Best" Singles: ADVENTURES IN STEREO "A Brand New Day", FRANK AND WALTERS "Indian Ocean", GENEVA "Into The Blue", LAMB "Gorecki", LONG FIN KILLIE "Lipstick", MANSUN "She Makes My Nose Bleed", RE:FLECTION ETERNAL "Fortified Live", RIALTO "Untouchable", SPEAKERSLUTS "Teenage Ice Cream Girl", SUPER FURRY ANIMALS "The International Language Of Screaming", ULTRASOUND "Same Band", VAGRANT "Time/Eastern Bliss"

1-POINTERS Albums: AERIAL M "Aerial M", CARL CRAIG "More Songs About Revolutionary Art And Food", ETIENNE D'CRECY "Super Discount", FLAMING STARS "Sell Your Soul", FOO FIGHTERS "The Colour And The Shape", GOLD BLADE "Home Turf", IVOR CUTLER "A Wet Handle", MADELEINE PEYROUX "Dreamland", POOKA "Spinning", THAT DOG "Retreat From The Sun", THE BIGGER THE GOD "Variety" Singles: BRUBAKER "The Big Wide Wonder", DEPECHE MODE "Useless", FATBOY SLIM "Santa Cruz", LAURENT GARNIER "Crispy Bacon", LUNA "Bobby Peru", MOGWAI "New Paths To Helicon", MOUSE ON MARS "Cache Couer Naif", RIALTO "5.19", TRAVIS "All I Wanna Do Is Rock", VERUCA SALT "Volcano Girls", VISION "Regardless"