#362 The Class of 1997: Metal Albums That Defined a Surreal Year

“How many people do you think go into a bar and say: ‘I’d like an Everclear on the rocks, please…’?”

Looking back, 1997 seems utterly surreal…

To put things in perspective, 1997 marked the debut of South Park on Comedy Central, the release of Radiohead’s breakthrough, third album, OK Computer, the beginning of the final season of Seinfeld, and (of course) the arrival of Metallica’s conclusion to The Loads with Reload.

Perhaps one of the most surreal (and tragic) parts of 1997 was the time a bunch of children in a band called Hanson went viral with a song called MMMBop while a lesser known, criminally underrated, and FAR SUPERIOR band (with an extremely similar sounding name, consisting of former members of Helmet & Quicksand) called Handsome released their one (and only) album, Handsome, earlier that same year.

Sometimes life is just too weird and utterly unfair…

It’s time to discover the power of “a better magical piece of paper” that is not a college degree and understand that whenever someone uses the term ‘dating’ that “we know exactly what they’re talking about”.

Find out who “stayed metal the whole time”, who was “chuggin’ the D”, and who wasn’t going to metal shows “unless it was Metallica” when you JOIN US as we go back in time almost 30 years with THE CLASS OF 1997.

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