most of these are marginal AF:
The Necks - Piano Bass DrumsPiano Magic - Bliss Out Vol. 13: A Trick of the SeaTom Zé - Fabrication Defect: Com defeito de fabricaçãoAlain Bashung - Fantaisie MilitaireLouis Philippe - AzureEsthero - Breath From AnotherTarnation - MiradorCheri Knight - The Northeast KingdomMark Lanegan - Scraps at Midnight
― how to diss a peer completely (unregistered), Monday, 12 February 2018 21:54 (six years ago) link
Ah yes the Neutral Milk Hotel love has always been baffling for me too but this is a pitchfork list. No way that one wouldn’t make it in the top 10 they were the publication hyping that album the most 20 years ago and gave it a 10 score which is very rare coming from them. If anything I’m surprised it’s not their #1 album.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 12 February 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
the neutral milk hotel album connected well with teenage angst in the same way as microphones - the glow pt 2. whether i have much use for it now...hard to say
― kolakube (Ross), Monday, 12 February 2018 22:54 (six years ago) link
Music Sounds Better With You is grade-a nightmare fuel for me
Aw, nothing but warm memories for me. I heard it at Nordstrom last week, made my night!
― geoffreyess, Monday, 12 February 2018 22:56 (six years ago) link
Scrawl - Nature FilmImperial Teen - What Is Not To Love
In 1998 I was a grumpy pre-teen who felt Spacehog and Possum Dixon had been slighted by year-end listmakers. Feeling much more benign this time around.
― geoffreyess, Monday, 12 February 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link
Interesting that the Pitchfork list has the same top 3 as Spin's '98 list. Some things never change.
― geoffreyess, Monday, 12 February 2018 23:08 (six years ago) link
Neutral Milk Hotel connected with me when a teenager, but it still does. The love for it isn't baffling, as Moka says, it's completely viable. No album like that one out there. I double dare you to find one that's like it, whether you dig it or not.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 12 February 2018 23:08 (six years ago) link
I meant personally baffling as I have a strong dislike for it but obviously it’s a great and influential album for many people. I wont argue with thar... I just can’t connect with it at all...
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 12 February 2018 23:11 (six years ago) link
Claro!
Without judging I am curious why you'd have a "strong dislike" for it though. Is it because of the music, or the myth?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 12 February 2018 23:35 (six years ago) link
actually think LBI is OTM
― kolakube (Ross), Monday, 12 February 2018 23:43 (six years ago) link
It’s the music... I don’t like how it’s produced, but then again I do love some lo-fi productions, so I guess it’s Jeff’s voice which I find grating.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 12 February 2018 23:47 (six years ago) link
And then again i like some similar sounding vocalists in indie... I don’t know what it is tbh... everytime I try to analyze why I don’t like it I end up giving up and quitting halfway through. Friends whoe music taste I respect have been hyping that album for 20 years and it does nothing for me. I do like the incorporation of horns in some songs though...
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 12 February 2018 23:51 (six years ago) link
well you like what you like, all good
― kolakube (Ross), Monday, 12 February 2018 23:54 (six years ago) link
Piano Magic - Bliss Out Vol. 13: A Trick of the SeaTarnation - Mirador
both albums by friends...hard to believe it's been 20 years.
― akm, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 00:38 (six years ago) link
I’ve tried so hard to get that Lauryn Hill album and asides a couple of songs I find it a drag to listen to. Almost every song feels like it’s way longer than it should be there’s too many filler between songs and the chorus just get repeated over and over and over again until it’s madness.
I remember being really underwhelmed with it at the time, but also thinking that it was something wrong with me, as everybody seemed to just gush endlessly over it.
Two decades later and I can hardly remember anything from it. Looking at the tracklisting would probably remind me of some of the choruses, but yeah: can't say I ever really "got" that album. It seemed very MOR to me at the time. Which was absolutely a turn off.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link
xp Stardust held my #1 favorite song of 1998 for a while. I played it to death and it would probably no longer place top 20.
Today #1 would be either "Erase/Rewind" or "Crush."
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
1998...
Dirty Three - Ocean SongsPluramon - Render BanditsCoil - Moon's Milk EPsBeastie Boys - Hello NastyAeolian String Ensemble - Lassithi/ElysiumCat Power - Moon PixGhost - Snuffbox ImmanenceDonnas - S/TLiz Phair - whitechocolatespaceegg
― sleeve, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 21:20 (six years ago) link
Sherburne with an interesting looking list:
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/10-overlooked-electronic-albums-from-1998/
Concept - Concept 1:VRGescom - MiniDiscLeila - Like WeatherLithops - Uni UmitMannequin Lung - The Art of TravelMichael Mayer - NeuhouseBarbara Morgenstern - Vermona ET 6-11.8.7 - Quality RollsBjørn Torske - Nedi MyraUrban Tribe - The Collapse of Modern Culture
― willem, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:56 (six years ago) link
Boredoms - Super æBoredoms - Super Roots 7Incantation - Diabolical ConquestJun Chikuma - Bomberman HeroGorguts - ObscuraMelt-Banana - CharlieSquarepusher - Music Is Rotted One NoteGas - Zauberberg Ruins - SymphonicaHive - Devious MethodsGasp - Drome Triler of Puzzle Zoo PeopleJohn Zorn - the Circle Maker
Looking at the list, seems like a weird, but good, year. A lot of this stuff strikes me as both totally '98, and somewhat fresh, but wonder if that has to do w/the 20-year cycle thing
― Dominique, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 14:26 (six years ago) link
Damn how could I forgot music is rotted - good call
― kolakube (Ross), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
Urban Tribe - The Collapse of Modern Culture was a discovery of mine last year. love it.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
Vrresto by Ruins as well, damn that's a fun one to revisit
― frogbs, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
Thought of a really good one:
Duster - Stratosphere
― Evan, Friday, 16 February 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
AlbumsLucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel RoadBeastie Boys - Hello NastyThe Music In My Head [among other comps including the B-52s' Time Capsule]Sonic Youth - A Thousand LeavesBilly Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid AvenueMarc Ribot y Los Cubanos PostizosOutkast - Aquemini
TracksThey Might Be Giants - "Doctor Worm"Lyle Lovett - "Bears" Jay-Z - "Can I Get A..."Belle and Sebastian - "The Boy With the Arab Strap"Dixie Chicks - "There's Your Trouble" and "Wide Open Spaces"
― Moo Vaughn, Friday, 16 February 2018 23:34 (six years ago) link
My favorite Swervedriver album, 99th Dream was released in 98
― brimstead, Friday, 16 February 2018 23:56 (six years ago) link
Oh shit Vontel- Vision of a Dream came out 20 years ago
― President Keyes, Sunday, 18 February 2018 03:42 (six years ago) link
http://thequietus.com/articles/24053-madonna-ray-of-light-review-anniversary
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 19 February 2018 11:48 (six years ago) link
Surrender by the Chemical Brothers. I think this was the first album I ever bought right on release. I woke up early to bike down to the shop so I could get in at 8 AM, just in case they sold out. At the time they were taking a lot of heat for abandoning Big Beat, but man, I loved it.
Middle of Nowhere by Orbital. The trumpets on the first track blew my mind. Never even considered that an "electronica" band would do something like that. In retrospect it's clear that the Hartnolls were running low on ideas but gave it everything they had for one last great LP. Like Brett Favre's 40-year old season with Minnesota. Nice
Beacoup Fish by Underworld. Still a classic. "Jumbo" was like, the defining song of my teenage years.
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 February 2019 15:48 (five years ago) link
69 Love Songs
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
^^
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
Here's my best of 1999 at the time, will rep for all these albums today:1. White Rose Transmission - 700 Miles Of Desert 2. Tim Keegan & Departure Lounge - Out Of Here 3. Annie Christian - Twilight 4. Robyn Hitchcock - Jewels For Sohpia 5. The Stereo Bus - Brand New 6. Frank & Walters - Beauty Becomes More Than Life 7. Stan Ridgway - Anatomy 8. The Mutton Birds - Rain, Steam & Speed 9. Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs box set 10. Wilco - Summerteeth
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:18 (five years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Basement_Jaxx_-_Remedy_album_cover.jpeg/220px-Basement_Jaxx_-_Remedy_album_cover.jpeg
― . (Michael B), Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:23 (five years ago) link
xp any list containing Out of Here means I have to check out all the records (and I only know the Wilco and Magnetic Fields).
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:26 (five years ago) link
B.G. - Chopper City In The GhettoWu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang ForeverThe Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk At Cubist Castle
― brimstead, Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:32 (five years ago) link
Cheers, Chinaski!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:48 (five years ago) link
The Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk At Cubist Castle
This came out earlier, I owned it in college(?)
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:53 (five years ago) link
Waitaminute, so did Wu-Tang Forever. What's up??
hum. apparently 99 wasn't a good music year for me... apart from Dre's 2001, I can't really think of any album I still love/find classic...
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 22 February 2019 10:18 (five years ago) link
Beaucoup FishBlack on Both SidesÁgætis ByrjunThe Soft BulletinMidnite VulturesGuerillaI See A Darkness
― groovypanda, Friday, 22 February 2019 10:18 (five years ago) link
Oh, and Carboot Soul
― groovypanda, Friday, 22 February 2019 10:20 (five years ago) link
I'd be up for an expanded edition of the Soft Bulletin. My favourite Lips album.
― Duke, Friday, 22 February 2019 10:35 (five years ago) link
Pinback - This Is a Pinback CD
and then
Blur - 13Tue-Loup - La Belle InutileWilco - Summerteeth
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 22 February 2019 10:46 (five years ago) link
'99 was a slump in light of its before and after. I've since revised my opinion somewhat:
Manes - Under ein blodraud maaneMr. Bungle - CaliforniaPan Sonic - APaysage d'hiver - Paysage d'hiverStars of the Lid - Avec laudenumTaake - Nattestid ser porten vid…Tenhi - KauanToumani Diabaté & Ballaké Sissiko - New Ancient StringsUnderworld - Beaucoup Fish
(Who am I kidding, I was listening to Enema of the State on repeat at the time.)
― pomenitul, Friday, 22 February 2019 10:51 (five years ago) link
Peter Hammill – The Fall of the House of Usher (Deconstructed & Rebuilt)Tindersticks – Simple PleasureLow – Secret NameMagnetic Fields – 69 Love SongsTim Keegan & Departure Lounge – Out of HereBonnie Prince Billy – I See A DarknessGodspeed You! Black Emperor – Slow Riot for New Zerø KanadaDido – No AngelRichard Thompson – Mock Tudor
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Friday, 22 February 2019 10:52 (five years ago) link
(!) les rythmes digitales - darkdancer
― nxd, Friday, 22 February 2019 10:53 (five years ago) link
the white stripes - s/tle tigre - s/tflaming lips - the soft bulletin
― nicky lo-fi, Friday, 22 February 2019 12:29 (five years ago) link
The Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk At Cubist CastleThis came out earlier, I owned it in college(?)― yuh yuh (morrisp), Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:53 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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You're right - Black Foliage was '99 though
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 22 February 2019 12:36 (five years ago) link
I wasn't aware of any of them at the time but these really hold up, with the top 3 somewhat connected:
Cardiacs - GunsThe Monsoon Bassoon - I Dig Your VoodooShrubbies - Memphis in TexasGSYBE! - Slow Riot for New Zero KanadaNeurosis - Times of GraceJune of 44 - Anahata
― like him hate us? Sure you are. Its in the cool aid. (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 22 February 2019 12:44 (five years ago) link
Almost forgetting my taste for daft 'avant-garde' metal somehow I'm also find of:
Dodheimsgard - 666 InternationalMaudlin of the Well - My Fruit Psychobells...
― like him hate us? Sure you are. Its in the cool aid. (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 22 February 2019 12:48 (five years ago) link