![]() For slightly younger sorts (yes, I am jealous of your non-greyed hair and relatively pure livers), perhaps they will act as windows into a period of this listener’s musical education. I’ve no doubt that many a reader will scan these selections and feel memories of what they soundtracked flooding back. And while the choices below are not as fresh as they once were, they each retain potency a full 15 years on from their first release. Naturally my age plays a part, but nonetheless, some brilliant LPs were released in the year that Princess Diana died so that Rebecca Black could be born (though perhaps these events were unrelated). If nothing else, it’s a reminder to me that while most new music matters for a week, some from my own lifetime will sing its songs into future generations.īeing in 2012 makes the sounds of 1997 seem ever so old on ‘paper’ – yet the year, for me, is yet to be bettered in terms of life-impacting long-play releases. Given that I have to professionally wrap my head around roughly 1,267 new albums every week – or something like that – in my role as album reviews editor for BBC.co.uk, please do allow me this article of unashamed nostalgia (read: vanity).
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