Bob Dylan Tops Another List

After the stellar year he's had, it's not surprising that Bob Dylan topped the Los Angeles Times' Consensus Top 10 for 1997.

Dylan's album, Time Out Of Mind, which has already gone gold, ranked No. 1 in the newspaper's 17th annual poll. The top 10 albums were selected by a group of pop music writers who regularly contribute to the Times.

Rounding out the Top 10: Radiohead -- OK Computer (No. 2), The Verve -- Urban Hymns (No. 3), Sleater-Kinney -- Dig Me Out (No. 4), Erykah Badu -- Baduizm (No. 5), The Geraldine Fibbers -- Butch (No. 6), Cornershop -- When I Was Born For The 7th Time (No. 7), Portishead -- Portishead (No. 8), U2 -- Pop (No. 9) and a tie between Bjork -- Homogenic and Steve Earle -- El Corazón (No. 10).

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“Is It True”

Brenda Lee | 1964

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."

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