Your favorite albums of 1999

Hmm, I seem to recall purchasing If You're Feeling Sinister in November 1996

I don't know the Westerburg, clemenza, but that's a good list regardless.

Close enough to the studio version that I'll post this. I think it's the best song he's done since leaving the Replacements:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOl8VKHDjcM

True, but five years on from that, what do people think? Have any new favourites emerged?

i forgot to tweet Drexciya's 'Neptune's Lair' at u last week. technically a new favourite for me as i didn't hear it until a few years later.

surprised at no mention of Plone 'For Beginner Piano' too (not a big fave of mine tho, apart from the first track).

I'm a huge fan of that album fwiw.

Lots here I need to get into still like Blur, Fiona Apple, Wilco, Trans Am etc, but here is a working list of my favourites (in no partic order):

Acid Mothers Temple - Pataphysical Freakout Mu
Bardo Pond - Set and Setting
Hash Jar Tempo - Under Glass
Yume Bitsu - s/t
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
OOIOO - Feather Float
Clinic - 3 EPs
MF Doom - Operation Doomsday
Elliott Smith - XO
RHCP - Californication (admittedly last 2 are the only ones I wz actually listening to in '99)

Not a shit year at all imo...

Here's one: Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Spanish Dance Troupe. Not their very best effort, but still nice enough

Ep7 by autechre too. Some great idm stuff

I remember 99 as a year when a few of my favourite bands really disappointed me, Suede, Supergrass, The Charlatans and Stereolab come to mind.

I'd list these as my favourite now.

Magnetic Fields-69 Love Songs
The Flaming Lips-Soft Bulletin
David Sylvian-Dead Bees on a Cake
Super Furry Animals-Guerilla
Underworld-Beaucoup Fish
Tindersticks-Simple Pleasure
ODB-Nigga Please
Kelis-Kaleidoscope
Ultrasound-Everything Picture
Mos def-Black on Both Sides

Most of these I didn't buy until a few years later, Magnetic Fields and Kelis didn't actually come out here until the following year.

I need to hear that Kelis album too...

XTRMNTR, much as I love it, didn't hit shops until early January 2000. I remember it very well.

i swear we did a thread one time that was like "top five albums of every year since..." and i have been going insane trying to find it because i want to see my '99 list.

XP: Really? Ah well.

I was also listening to ODB and Mos Def a lot. I still love ODB.

I bought a lot of new release albums in '99, probably more than in any other year, and have nothing but warm nostalgic thoughts for it as a Year In Music. That said, my list is somewhat different now, I suppose.

Gas - Königsforst
Lightning Bolt - s/t
The Monsoon Bassoon - I Dig Your Voodoo
Trans Am - Futureworld
Bardo Pond - Set and Setting
Cardiacs - Guns
Stars of the Lid - Avec Laudenum
Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
Enon - Believo!
Mr Bungle - California

The only one of these I'm fairly sure would've made it at the time is Underworld and maybe the Trans Am, which would've been joined by Clinic, Built To Spill and Papa M. I probably still like those last 3 but haven't put them on in forever. Of the rest, I got round to several a year late in 2000, but the Gas and Lightning Bolt I didn't hear until much later.

(Where "much later" is probably 2002 or 2003, which in my head are much closer to now than to 2000. Ah, aging...)

agalloch - pale folklore
the angels of light - new mother
jessica bailiff - hour of the trace
charalambides - houston
dr. dooom - first come, first served
fennesz - plus 47 degrees...
ghost - snuffbox immanence
ghost - tune in, turn on, free tibet
jandek - the beginning
labradford - e luxo so
low - secret name
neurosis - times of grace
nurse with wound - an awkward pause
piano magic - low birth weight
scritti politti - anomie and bonhomie
sleep - jerusalem

^ all totally AWESOME, none mentioned in our recent thread revival that i can recall. Drugs A Money's list is v great also

The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
Ginuwine - 100% Ginuwine
Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
Destiny’s Child - The Writing’s On The Wall
Superchunk - Come Pick Me Up
Eightball And MJG – In Our Lifetime
Jay-Z - The Life And Times Of S. Carter, Vol. 3
Joan Of Arc - Live In Chicago, 1999
Missy Elliott - Da Real World
Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock
Method Man And Redman - Blackout!
Beatnuts - A Musical Massacre
Tom Waits - The Mule Variations
Mark De Gli Antoni - Horse Tricks
DMX - ...And Then There Was X
Beck - Midnite Vultures
Sloan - Between The Bridges
Nels Cline/Gregg Bendian - Interstellar Space Revisited: The Music Of John Coltrane

I rank the top tens, though.

What a year... I was working at VH1 and had a TV over my desk, so heard most of those songs 1,000 times.

So much of that list drawing a blank. Total?

Things I like:

Agalloch - Pale Folklore
Angelcorpse - The Inexorable
Cibo Matto - Stereo Type A
Johnny Dowd - Pictures From Life's Other Side
Neil Hamburger - Left for Dead in Malaysia
Immortal - At the Heart of Winter
Kool Keith - Black Elvis / Lost in Space
Lacuna Coil - In a Reverie
MF DOOM - Operation: Doomsday
Moby - Play
Mr. Bungle - California
Neurosis - Times of Grace
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Scharpling and Wurster - Rock, Rot & Rule
Sleep - Jerusalem
Supersuckers - The Evil Powers of Rock 'n' Roll
VNV Nation - Empires
Tom Waits - Mule Variations

jimmy eat world: clarity
fiona apple: when the pawn...
built to spill: keep it like a secret
meshell ndegeocello: bitter
drexciya: neptune's lair
summoning: stronghold
orbital: the middle of nowhere
underworld: beaucoup fish
missy elliott: da real world
everything but the girl: tempermental
tori amos: to venus and back
saves the day: through being cool
smog: knock knock
mr. bungle: california
tlc: fanmail
the get up kids: something to write home about
rainer maria: look now, look again
shiina ringo: muzai moratorium
wilco: summerteeth
silverchair: neon ballroom
hot water music: no division
van morrison: back on top
randy newman: bad love
blink-182: enema of the state

this is just from scanning my itunes library. great year

oh and 100 percent ginuwine!