Adam Rifkin's Top Singles of 1997

#1 Crush (from "Romeo and Juliet") - Garbage
(Can't You) Trip Like I Do - Filter w Crystal Method
2 Become 1 - Spice Girls
2Wicky - Hooverphonic
3AM - Matchbox 20
6 Underground - Sneaker Pimps
A Change - Sheryl Crow
A Long December - Counting Crows
A.D.I.D.A.S. - KoRn
Abuse Me - Silverchair
Ain't Nobody (from "BnB Do America") - LL Cool J
Ain't Talkin' Bout Dub - Apollo 440
All I Want - Offspring
All I Want - Susanna Hoffs
All for You - Sister Hazel
Alma Matters - Morrissey
Alright - Jamiroquai
Another 100 Years of Solitude - Concrete Blonde y Los Illegals
Around the World - Daft Punk
Automatic - Chris Whitley
Automatic - Less than Jake
Baby Talk - Cheap Trick
Barbie Girl - Aqua
Barely Breathing - Duncan Shiek
Barrel of a Gun - Depeche Mode
Baton Rouge - the Nixons
Battle of Who Could Care Less - Ben Folds Five
Been It - Cardigans
Beetlebum - Blur
Bicycle Song - Orbit
Bitch - Meredith Brooks
Bitter - Jill Sobule
Bittersweet Me - REM
Black Eye - Fluffy
Black Eyed Boy - Texas
Bleed Me - Metallica
Bleed On - Muzzle
Bleeders - Wallflowers
Blister in the Sun 2000 - Violent Femmes
Block Rockin' Beats - Chemical Brothers
Blow Up the Outside World - Soundgarden
Blue Collar Suicide - Refreshments
Bottle Rockets - the Cunninghams
Breathe - Prodigy
Breed - Lauren Christy
Building the Mystery - Sarah McLachlan
Burn This Bridge - Dambuilders
C U When You Get There - Coolio
Can't Get This Stuff No More - Van Halen
Carolina Blues - Blues Traveler
Casual Affair - Tonic
Change the Locks (from "She's the One") - Tom Petty
Cheapskate - Supergrass
Cherokee Boogie - BR5-49
Chick Magnet - MxPx
Climbing Up the Walls - Radiohead
Come Down - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Come on Eileen - Save Ferris
Come to California - Matthew Sweet
Congo - Genesis
Crash Into Me - Dave Matthews Band
Criminal - Fiona Apple
D'You Know What I Mean - Oasis
Da Da Da - Trio
Da Funk - Daft Punk
Daddy Can't Shoot - Ruth Ruth
Dammit - Blink 182
Daylight Fading - Counting Crows
Dead Man Walking - David Bowie
Desperately Wanting - Better than Ezra
Discotheque - U2
Doin' Time - Sublime
Don't Back Down - Queers
Don't Cry for Me Argentina - Madonna
Don't Go - Go Sailor
Don't Go Away - Oasis
Don't Let Go (from "Set It Off") - En Vogue
Don't Pick It Up - Offspring
Don't Speak - No Doubt
Don't Wanna Be Here - Cool for August
Dopeman - Less than Jake
Down Rodeo - Rage Against the Machine
Drawer - Summercamp
Dream - Forest for the Trees
Drop Dead Gorgeous (from "Scream") - Republica
Drowning in a Daydream - Corrosion of Conformity
Early to Bed - Morphine
Eddie Vedder - Local H
Electrolite - REM
Elegantly Wasted - INXS
Especially You - Smugglers
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Every Day is a Winding Road - Sheryl Crow
Everything to Everyone - Everclear
Excuse Me Mr. - No Doubt
Eye (from "Lost Highway") - Smashing Pumpkins
F.N.T. - Semisonic
Faded - Ben Harper
Falling in Love (is Hard on the Knees) - Aerosmith
Female of the Species - Space
Figure it Out - Caulfields
Fire Up the Shoesaw - Lionrock
Fire Water Burn - Bloodhound Gang
Firestarter - Prodigy
Fly - Sugar Ray
Foolish Games - Jewel
Four Leaf Clover - Abra Moore
Frank Sinatra - Cake
Freak - Silverchair
Freaks - Live
Fritz's Corner - Local H
Fun for Me - Moloko
Get Off My Back - Screeching Weasel
Get Out of this House - Shawn Colvin
Getaway - Jen Trynin
Gimme Some Love - Gina G
Gone - U2
Gone Away - Offspring
Graduate - Third Eye Blind
Grease Megamix - John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
Greedy Fly - Bush
Halo - Texas
Hard Charger (from "Private Parts") - Porno for Pyros
Hard to Make a Stand - Sheryl Crow
Hate You - Daredevils
Have You Seen Mary? - Sponge
Have You Seen Me Lately? - Counting Crows
Hell - Squirrel Nut Zippers
Hello - Poe
Hello Hello - Talk Show
Hitchin' a Ride - Green Day
Holding On - Utah Phillips and Ani DiFranco
Hole in My Soul - Aerosmith
Honey - Mariah Carey
House on Fire - Arkana
How Bizarre - OMC
How Do I Live - Trisha Yearwood
How's it Gonna Be - Third Eye Blind
Hurt by Love - Bodeans
Husband - Fluffy
Hypnotized - Notorious B.I.G.
I Am I Feel - Alicia's Attic
I Choose - Offspring
I Don't Care - Cowards
I Don't Want to - Toni Braxton
I Don't Want to Wait - Paula Cole
I Live - Jason Falkner
I Miss You - Bjork
I Need - Meredith Brooks
I Want You - Savage Garden
I Want to Be There When You Come - Echo and Bunnymen
I Will Survive - Cake
I'll Be Missing You - Puff Daddy with Faith Evans
I'm Insane - Star 69
I'm a Dick - Muffs
I'm the One - Descendents
If You Could Only See - Tonic
In or Out - Ani DiFranco
Insinuation - Folk Implosion
It's Alright It's OK - Leah Androne
It's Enough - Sleater-Kinney
It's No Good - Depeche Mode
It's Up to You - Hi-Fives
Jackass - Beck
Janelle Janelle - Queers
Jenny Says - Cowboy Mouth
Johnny Quest Thinks We're Sellouts - Less than Jake
Just Another Day - John Mellencamp
Karma Police - Radiohead
Kicking Things - Baby Chaos
King Nothing - Metallica
King of New York - Fun Lovin' Criminals
Lady Picture Show - Stone Temple Pilots
Lakini's Juice - Live
Last Cup of Sorrow - Faith No More
Last Night on Earth - U2
Lazy Eye - Goo Goo Dolls
Leave the Biker - Fountains of Wayne
Let Down - Radiohead
Lift Your Head Up High (and Blow Your Brains Out) - Bloodhound Gang
Liquid - Jars of Clay
Little Pink Stars - Radish
Little Wonder - David Bowie
Local God (from "Romeo and Juliet") - Everclear
Long Day - Matchbox 20
Long Last - Better than Ezra
Long Long Time - Love Spit Love
Losers - Cardigans
Losing a Whole Year - Third Eye Blind
Lost Again - Dance Hall Crashers
Love Left Us Strangers - Space Needle
Love Liquid... - Super Deluxe
Love Rollercoaster (from "BnB Do America") - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Lovefool (from "Romeo and Juliet") - Cardigans
Lucky - Seven Mary Three
M.O.R. - Blur
MMMBop - Hanson
Make Up Your Mind - Seven Mary Three
Mama - Spice Girls
Man That You Fear - Marilyn Manson
Mann's Chinese - naked
Maple Tree - Sherri Jackson
Mary Ann - Squirtgun
Maybe - Connells
Medicine (Baby Come Back) - Orbit
Men in Black - Will Smith
Midnight in a Perfect World - DJ Shadow
Milk - Garbage
Mo Money, Mo Problems - Notorious B.I.G. featuring Puff Daddy
Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters
More Than This - 10,000 Maniacs
Most Precarious - Blues Traveler
Mouth - Merril Bainbridge
My Blood - Protein
My Dog - Blinker the Star
My Town - Buck-o-Nine
Naked Eye - Luscious Jackson
Neighbourhood - Space
Nervous in the Alley - Smash Mouth
Never Say Never - that dog.
Never is a Promise - Fiona Apple
No Cheap Thrill - Suzanne Vega
No Face - Suicide Machines
Not Where It's At - Del Amitri
Not an Addict - K's Choice
Not if You Were the Last Junkie on Earth - Dandy Warhols
Off He Goes - Pearl Jam
Off the Wagon - L7
On Your Own - Blur
On the Way Out - Freedy Johnston
One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces - Ben Folds Five
One Headlight - Wallflowers
One Way Ticket (Because I Can) - LeAnn Rimes
Ooo Ahh... Just a Little Bit - Gina G
Outtasite (Outta Mind) - Wilco
Paranoid Android - Radiohead
Pictures - Goldfinger
Pink Triangle - Weezer
Place Your Hands - Reef
Pony - Ginuwine
Precious Declaration - Collective Soul
Prisoner - 311
Punka - Kenickie
Push - Matchbox 20
Put a Lid on It - Squirrel Nut Zippers
Radiation Vibe - Fountains of Wayne
Rags to Rags - eels
Rattlesnake - Live
Ray of Sunshine - Go Sailor
Ready or Not - Manbreak
Resignation Superman - Big Head Todd and the Monsters
Revolution - REM
Rhinosaur - Soundgarden
Rock Crown - Seven Mary Three
Sad Caper - Hootie and the Blowfish
Santeria - Sublime
Say Goodbye - Cheap Trick
Say What You Want - Texas
Say You'll Be There - Spice Girls
Scrape - Unsane
See the Sky Again - Edwin McCain
Sell Out - Reel Big Fish
Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind
Setting Sun - Chemical Brothers
Shake Hands with Beef - Primus
Shame on You - Indigo Girls
She Cries Your Name - Beth Orton
She Runs Away - Duncan Shiek
She's a Star - James
Shitlist - Suckerpunch
Shutterbug - Veruca Salt
Sick & Beautiful - Artificial Joy Club
Sign of the Times - Queensryche
Silent All these Years - Tori Amos
Silver Springs - Fleetwood Mac
Sink to the Bottom - Fountains of Wayne
Sleep to Dream - Fiona Apple
Snoop's Upside Ya Head - Snoop Doggy Dogg
Soap Disco - Kara's Flowers
Soft Serve - Soul Coughing
Someone Who's Cool - Odds
Song 2 - Blur
Sorry - Nerf Herder
Spin Spin Sugar - Sneaker Pimps
Sprang - Wynona Riders
Staring at the Sun - U2
Stay - 60 Foot Dolls
Stereo - Pavement
Stoned - Redd Kross
Stuck on You - Failure
Summertime - Sundays
Sunday Morning - No Doubt
Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin
Super Bon Bon - Soul Coughing
Superman's Dead - Our Lady Peace
Swallowed - Bush
Sweet Surrender - Sarah McLachlan
Tell it to the Kids - Bis
That's When I Reach for My Revolver - Moby
The Difference - Wallflowers
The Distance - Cake
The End is the Beginning is the End - Smashing Pumpkins
The Facts About Jimmy - Shawn Colvin
The Freshman - Verve Pipe
The Good Life - Weezer
The Great American Nightmare (from "Private Parts") - White Zombie
The Impression That I Get (from "Chasing Amy") - Mighty Mighty Bosstones
The Kids Go Crazy Tonight - Groovie Ghoulies
The Meaning of Life - Offspring
The New Pollution - Beck
The Perfect Drug (from "Lost Highway") - Nine Inch Nails
The Rascal King - Mighty Might Bosstones
The Rope - Hunk
The World Tonight - Paul McCartney
The World is New - Save Ferris
This Lonely Place - Goldfinger
To Live and Die in LA - Makaveli
To Make You Love Me More - Billy Joel
To You I Bestow (from "Romeo and Juliet") - Mundy
Together Forever in Love - Go Sailor
Touch, Peel, and Stand - Days of the New
Tourniquet - Marilyn Manson
Transformation - Polara
Transistor - 311
Trendy - Reel Big Fish
Trials - Cool for August
Tripping Billies - Dave Matthews Band
Trust - Megadeth
Try - Michael Penn
Tubthumping - Chumbawamba
Tumble in the Rough - Stone Temple Pilots
Turn my Head - Live
Un-break My Heart - Toni Braxton
Under Your Skin - Luscious Jackson
Useless - Depeche Mode
Van Halen - Nerf Herder
Villains - Verve Pipe
Virtual Insanity - Jamiroquai
Volcano - Presidents of the United States of America
Volcano Girls - Veruca Salt
Wake Up Bomb - REM
Walkin' on the Sun - Smash Mouth
Walking in a Hurricane - John Fogerty
Wannabe - Spice Girls
What Do You Want from Me? - Monaco
What If I - Pennywise
What They Do - the Roots
When I Get Old - Descendents
When My Ship Comes In - Jill Sobule
When You're Gone - Cranberries
When the Angels Sing - Social Distortion
Where Have All the Cowboys Gone - Paula Cole
Where You Get Love - Matthew Sweet
Where's the Love? - Hanson
Who Do You Think You Are? - Spice Girls
Why's Everybody Always Pickin' on Me? - Bloodhound Gang
Wide Open Space - Mansun
Willing to Wait - Sebadoh
Without Love - Donna Lewis
Wonder - Chalk Farm
World Before Columbus - Suzanne Vega
Wrong Way - Sublime
Ya Playin' Yaself - Neru the Damaja
You Make Me Remember - Leah Androne
You Must Love Me - Madonna
You Were Meant for Me - Jewel
You and the Mona Lisa - Shawn Colvin
Your Sister's Ass - Puzzle Gut
Your Woman - White Town

Top Albums of 1997

A Few Small Repairs - Shawn Colvin
And a Whole Lotta You! - Hi-Fives
Animal Rights - Moby
Another Sunny Afternoon - Squirtgun
BR5-49 - BR5-49
Bark Like a Dog - Screeching Weasel
Be Here Now - Oasis
Becoming X - Sneaker Pimps
Being There - Wilco
Betty Pickup - Muzzle
Black Eye - Fluffy
Blue Moon Swamp - John Fogerty
Blur - Blur
Blurring the Edges - Meredith Brooks
Brighten the Corners - Pavement
Bringing Down the Horse - Wallflowers
Calling All Stations - Genesis
Chasing Amy - Soundtrack
Coil - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Cryptic Writings - Megadeth
Dare to be Surprised - Folk Implosion
Dig Your Own Hole - Chemical Brothers
Dispepsi - Negativland
Duncan Shiek - Duncan Shiek
Earthling - David Bowie
Eight Arms to Hold You - Veruca Salt
Elegantly Wasted - INXS
Everything Sucks - Descendents
Evita - Soundtrack
Fashion Nugget - Cake
Fat of the Land - Prodigy
First Band on the Moon - Cardigans
Fountains of Wayne - Fountains of Wayne
Freakshow - Silverchair
Fresh! - Gina G
Full Circle - Pennywise
Fush Yu Mang - Smash Mouth
Go Sailor - Go Sailor
God's Foot - Juliana Hatfield
Greatest Hits Volume 3 - Billy Joel
Gun Shy Trigger Happy - Jen Trynin
Hangups - Goldfinger
Happy Birthday to Me - Muffs
Happy Town - Jill Sobule
Here in the Now Frontier - Queensryche
Hot - Squirrel Nut Zippers
Ixnay on the Hombre - Offspring
L - Caulfields
Lemon Parade - Tonic
Let's Face It - Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Let's Kill Saturday Night - 5 Chinese Bros.
Libido Speedway - Orbit
Life After Death - Notorious B.I.G.
Like Swimming - Morphine
Little Head - John Hiatt
Living in Clip - Ani DiFranco
Load - Metallica
Losing Streak - Less Than Jake
Lost Highway - Soundtrack
Mary Ann - Squirtgun
Material Issue - Material Issue
Men in Black - Soundtrack
Middle of Nowhere - Hanson
Mr. Happy Go Lucky - John Mellencamp
Nerf Herder - Nerf Herder
Never Home - Freedy Johnston
New Adventures in Hi Fi - REM
Nimrod - Green Day
Nine Lives - Aerosmith
Nine Objects of Desire - Suzanne Vega
No Code - Pearl Jam
No Way Out - Puff Daddy and the Family
Notwithstanding - Chalk Farm
OK Computer - Radiohead
Odelay! - Beck
One Fierce Beer Coaster - Bloodhound Gang
POP! - U2
Private Parts - Soundtrack
Razorblade Suitcase - Bush
Recovering the Satellites - Counting Crows
Resigned - Michael Penn
Restraining Bolt - Radish
Retreat from the Sun - that dog.
Rock Spectacle - Barenaked Ladies
Romeo and Juliet - Soundtrack
Save Ferris EP - Save Ferris
Secret Sumahdi - Live
Shaming of the Sun - Indigo Girls
Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow
Skinner - Us & Them
So Much for the Afterglow - Everclear
Somewhere More Familiar - Sister Hazel
Songbook Greatest Hits - Trisha Yearwood
Songs in the Key of Springfield - Simpsons
Spice - Spice Girls
Spiders - Space
Straight on Til Morning - Blues Traveler
Strangest Places - Abra Moore
Sublime - Sublime
Surfacing - Sarah McLachlan
The Art of War - Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
The Colour and the Sound - Foo Fighters
The Dance - Fleetwood Mac
The Fourth World - Kara's Flowers
The Saint - Soundtrack
Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind
This Fire - Paula Cole
Tidal - Fiona Apple
Tragic Kingdom - No Doubt
Traveling without Moving - Jamiroquai
Turn the Radio Off - Reel Big Fish
Ultra - Depeche Mode
Upsy Daisy Assortment - XTC
Veiled - Leah Androne
Whatever and Ever Amen - Ben Folds Five
White on Blonde - Texas
World Contact Day - Groovie Ghoulies
Yourself or Someone Like You - Matchbox 20

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