bump.
I finally got around to composing a 1997 Albums Release Date Calendar and Rankings List in my blog.
https://allmediareviews.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-year-1997-albums-calendar-and.htmlAnd here's my list of ranked albums. Many albums in the calendar are not ranked as I have been doing in this series per I don't really know those albums well enough to rank them, but I still know them/know of them/know the artist's other work and have looked at how rateyourmusic.com users rate it among that artist's whole catalog, etc.
1. Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray
2. Soundscape - Discovery
3. Pain of Salvation - Entropia
4. Dream Theater - Falling into Infinity
5. Savatage - The Wake of Magellan
6. Pat Metheny - Imaginary Day
7. Royal Hunt - Paradox
8. Marillion - This Strange Engine
9. Magellan - Test of Wills
10. Big Wreck - In Loving Memory Of...
11. Enchant - Time Lost
12. Angra - Holy Live
13. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F♯A♯∞ (1995-1997)
14. Ocean Machine - Biomech
15. Eternity X - The Edge
16. Conditioned Response - Pavlov's Dogs
17. The Tea Party - Transmission
18. Mew - A Triumph for Man
19. The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are
20. Galactic Cowboys - The Horse that Bud Bought
21. Yes - Keys to Ascension 2
22. Live - Secret Samadhi
23. dredg - Orph [EP]
24. Faith No More - Album of the Year
25. MagellanMusic - A Strange Traffic of Dreams
26. Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
27. The Quiet Room - Introspect
28. Tiles - Fence the Clear
29. IQ - Subterranea
30. Queensryche - Hear in the Now Frontier
When I get around to making 1996, I'll pass it along as well; which makes me curious to see others lists from many of the years I've done and have still yet to do.
Here's a Master list of all the years I've done so far from 1965-present