Nobody ever suspects AltaVista and Lycos…

Oh please, they were farm-raised Muppets.

Finally, Kraftwerk is victorious.

Eastwatchbound & Down

"Because you sound like a mature, responsible person who wouldn't want an unpaid credit card bill to spoil all his hopes and dreams for the future- dreams such as home ownership, boat ownership and event attendance."

Chumbawumba "Tubthumpthing" followed by The Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony" on the local Alt Rock radio station. Probably those two songs represent the weird mix that was 1997 for me.

It was also probably the last year for about five or six years that a lot of good UK music was getting attention in the States and made any sort of impact too.

Don't look back in anger Liam…that Blur was undoubtedly the much better band of that era.

The funny thing is that people will reference "hipsters" and bring up things that became part of mainstream culture well over a decade ago(black rimmed glasses, indie rock, etc). At this point for many people it's just a catch-all-phrase for young(ish) liberals who live in big cities or college towns..

Thanks Obama.

They spent too much time noodling around though.

And don't forget Milli Vanilli, Michael
Bolton, Nelson, and the hair metal power ballads that were so popular in that period also.

I'd rather see Eckhart's mustache from Sully get it's own series—the premise is it has to solve crimes committed by other famous mustaches.

Great way to bring it all back to 1997 Week!

Oh I remember it to, I used to stop there visiting family in Northern California, we'd always buy toy planes in the shop.

How I Met Your So Young It's Kind Of Awkward Stepmother

They're from Vacaville? Maybe living so close to the Nut Tree really impacted them…

If you look at the critics lists for top albums of 1997 or any list of records from that year that became influential later on—1997 is actually a pretty great musical year. I mean Daft Punk, Radiohead, Modest Mouse, Built to Spill, Spirtualized, Company Flow, Yo La Tengo, Roni Size, Bjork, The Chemical Brothers,…

They were on the margins of it after a while, but their early style did influence a lot of Nu Metal and they toured with a lot of those bands. They did outgrow and transcend that genre pretty quickly, but they started with the rap-metal formula before expanding into more interesting directions.

Deftones, System of a Down, and…I dunno that might be it.