A total blur: share your favourite albums of 1997

1997 was a yr of many influential album releases. We’d wish to know more concerning the ones which have made an enduring impression on you 20 years on

Friday 10 February marks 20 years since Blur released their self-titled fifth album. At the time it was thought-about a deliberate try and distance themselves from mid-90s Britpop and as an alternative lean more in the direction of lo-fi and various rock. Its first single, Beetlebum, was the band’s second No 1 and together with Track 2, kicked off the new path brilliantly – the one thing that stood between it and profitable an NME award for greatest album the following yr was Radiohead’s OK Pc.

To coincide with its 20th anniversary, we’d wish to know what different albums from 1997 have made an enduring impression on you. Have been you one of many Blur followers that immediately took to the band’s new path? Or do you assume Oasis acquired the higher of them once more with Be Right here Now, later that yr? Has Mansun’s debut Attack of the Grey Lantern stood the check of time? Does OK Pc actually blow every thing else out of the water? Speaking of water, have been you one of many 14 million who bought Aqua’s debut?