Assuming the Artful Dodger here is not a late in the game hit from the 70s power pop band.
haha no, this was a UK garage track featuring Craig David
― its subtle brume (DJP), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:23 (eight years ago) link
this was a pretty important year in music for me
these are the ones i am familiar with, im sure i know the others but i can't think of them off the top of my head. i hope yall dont mind some personal reminiscences from me:
Eminem - My Name Is - eh, this is okay i guess, i never got the appeal of eminem, there was a brief period when i listened to the MM album a lot and dug it but eventually grew to kind of hate him, he is so unlikeable
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker - amazing song, easily #1 here, i listened to this ALL the time, smoked hella weed to this tune w/ a very good friend driving around suburbs of cleveland, we had this on-again/off-again physical relationship throught high school that we didn't tell anyone about, we'd drive around together on the way to a party or at the end of the night and listen to a lot of aphex twin, basement jaxx, other popular late 90s electronic musoc, it is so closely tied to a very specific period in my life in high school and my relationship w/ this dude
TLC - No Scrubs - idk why but i didn't like this at the time but it is a classic
The Flaming Lips - Race for the Prize - very good song, i came to this a little late, maybe in 2003 or something
Ol' Dirty Bastard feat. Kelis - Got Your Money - good song, classic late 90s tune, i feel like this and ghetto superstar were always in the background during this time in my life
Destiny's Child - Say My Name - i was close friends w/ some v cool positive girls who LOVED this tune so much, they knew every word, would listen on repeat, it is undeniable, such a great tune
Jay-Z - Big Pimpin' - i'm mostly tired of this now because boston's hot 97 plays it way too much but it's pretty good, timbaland's production was amazing at the time
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness - i didn't listen to this song or album until a few years ago, pretty much perfect, easily oldham's most powerful song
Sigur Rós - Svefn-G-Englar - i don't have any time for this band anymore and havent in many years but i remember loving this and thinking it was v beautiful
Le Tigre - Deceptacon - i liked this at first a lot but in college i hung out w/ a lot of leftist anarchist(ish) activist kids and they played this song like 10 times at EVERY SINGLE party and i grew to really hate it. a few years ago i went to my old college roommate's 30th birthday party and it was playing and i was like really dude you are still listening to this stupid ass song, idk it is a fun song but just so annoying to me now bc of the associations w/ those activist kids
Armand Van Helden - U Don't Know Me - SO SO good, classic 90s house tune, 2 future 4 u was a v important album for me in high school, i v strongly associate it with that same relationship i had w/ the dude who i mentioned re windowlicker, he was the main person i listened to house music w/ and he had a good pipeline of music since his older brother lived in san francisco and new york in the 90s and went dancing a lot. van helden eventually went to shit but thos album was great and this song along w/ "flowerz" are the highlights
Basement Jaxx - Rendez-Vu - same thing as the van helden tune, i think of getting stoned w/ this dude driving around and anticipating sex w/ him later on
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue - this song kind of sucks but i kind of have a mild soft spot for the sad-ass RHCP tunes like this, under the bridge, and soul to squeeze, idk why, they are a terrible band
Santana feat. Rob Thomas - Smooth - straight garbage obv although my entire family -- my parents and 4 siblings and my toddler nephew at the time all went to go see santana either right before or after he blew up again w/ rob thomas and that was a good experience. fuck this song and rob thomas forever though
Blink-182 - What's My Age Again? - another prob bad song that i have some affection for, decent pop punk song i guess that i have positive associations w/ because of some good folks i was friends with who loved this band
Dr. Dre feat. Eminem - Forgot About Dre - eh idk i don't have a lot of enthusiuasm for dre or eminem, too many experience of wannabe hard-ass white dudes i knew who were total dicks who loved this tune and blasted it at their lame ass parties
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication - trash i guess
Moby - Porcelain - beautiful song, easily the best tune off of play, i loved this album v much, everytyhing is wrong is the better moby album but great tune. i grew up in the suburbs of cleveland but around 1999 i started spending more time downtown w/ my older siblings and their friends and one of the first times i heard this song was driving around downtown with them and some of their friends in one of the first "new wave" volkswagen bugs and i felt very "future" lmao for a teenager
Travis - Why Does It Always Rain on Me - lol i remember liking the travis album while i was waiting for new radiohead (spin magazine explicitly named this as something to ease the wait for new radiohead after ok computer) but this such a complete garbage piece of music, fuck this band
― marcos, Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:36 (eight years ago) link
Have to admit that I've never heard of these:
Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat
I have a hunch that this will au your contraire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmsbP13xu6k
― Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:39 (eight years ago) link
Have to admit that I've never heard of these:Mr. Oizo - Flat BeatThe Artful Dodger - Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta)Console - 14 Zero ZeroAzzido Da Bass - Dooms NightAssuming the Artful Dodger here is not a late in the game hit from the 70s power pop band.― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:20 (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Mr. Oizo - Flat BeatThe Artful Dodger - Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta)Console - 14 Zero ZeroAzzido Da Bass - Dooms Night
― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:20 (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Other than Console (no idea what this is either) these were all ubiquitous int he UK. How anyone can not be familiar with Re-Rewind is amazing to me.
― posted with permission by (dog latin), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:42 (eight years ago) link
well for one, I think cryptosicko is in Canada
― its subtle brume (DJP), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:43 (eight years ago) link
Oizo was also ubiquitous in a bunch of Levi's ads in (at least) the States.
― Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:44 (eight years ago) link
I never really hated Eminem. I liked 'My Name Is' and like marcos, I listened to the MM album a bit but now he just seems a part of a maelstrom of over-entitled pre-9/11 US door-slamming music that just got too big and bloated for its own good.
― posted with permission by (dog latin), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link
haha very much so
― marcos, Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:46 (eight years ago) link
also: floor sweeping bell-bottom jeans, wallet chains and ridiculously overlong belts and people in black band Ts dancing to nu-metal like they'd been kicked in the crotch (even the girls!)
― posted with permission by (dog latin), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:47 (eight years ago) link
I must have spent most of 1999 discovering all the acts on Warp Records (Autechre, Aphex) and listening to all those classic rock/pop albums people that age check out (London Calling, Pet Sounds) and also a bunch of metal compilations my friends back home made me. also, I didn't admit it at the time cos I was a 'cool' 'alt' kid who stood at the back of the club rolling his eyes and not talking to anyone, but I had a fair bit of time for Destiny's Child and TLC.
― posted with permission by (dog latin), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:52 (eight years ago) link
Dude, I had almost your exact '99 in like '98, minus the metal comps.
― Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:54 (eight years ago) link
If Ny Batteri had been the Sigur Ros pick. I'd have gone for that. I didn't listen to them past the first album but they felt like such a unique and special band when they first broke, like something from outer space and unlike any other music from before.
― posted with permission by (dog latin), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:55 (eight years ago) link
Love this tune - I think I was 13 when I bought Play, hearing this immediately takes me back to those days, my paper route, Goldeneye 64, Pokemon cards, uncertainty about growing up, etc. I think "Jumbo" by Underworld would be a better choice but it's not on here
― frogbs, Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:56 (eight years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/12654612_10205469229390985_3886713803089120157_n.jpg?oh=4bd724e644bc6c15e9735a35c7b582c0&oe=5731E2B8&__gda__=1461982845_19d79cdb6cde3db3c372a9a5e8251149
― posted with permission by (dog latin), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:59 (eight years ago) link
fucking "my name is"? good god
for me it's "i want it that way" or "caught out there"
― dyl, Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:01 (eight years ago) link
"beautiful stranger" is v great too
― dyl, Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
Nnnjyustlaktheeyoshun
― Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
Yup, Canadian boy here, and the radio here was all BSB, Eminem, Limp Bizkit and all that shit at the time.
Also surprised that "Steal My Sunshine" isn't here. One of the few pop singles I liked from that year, along with Blondie's "Maria" (this may have been late '98?) and Tal Bachman's "She's So High."
― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko), Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link
all three of those were in pazz and jop's top 40 that year
― dyl, Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:13 (eight years ago) link
Play was such a weird phenomenon. it's v pretty but Moby is such an obvious hack. though I will still rep for these:http://www.discogs.com/Moby-Go-Remixes/release/6290276http://www.discogs.com/Moby-Ambient/master/2667
― example (crüt), Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:14 (eight years ago) link
I don't know why I always incorrectly think Joshua Kadison was a thing around '99. His soul-demolishing AC blandness just seems to fit in better a few years later, I guess.
― Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:16 (eight years ago) link
I will rep hard for Moby's Ambient. I have a sweet playlist of that and all of the other ambient cuts sprinkled throughout his discography. It's what he does/did best imo.
― Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:17 (eight years ago) link
There was that article in Select (or NME) at the time where the writer tried to go a whole week without hearing any song from Play out in the wild. He lasted about a day and a half I think?
― posted with permission by (dog latin), Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:18 (eight years ago) link
Steal My Sunshine, Drinkin In LA (UK hit in 99) and Get What You Give, make up a triumvirate of nice 1999 jams I didn't mind too much that summer.
― posted with permission by (dog latin), Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:21 (eight years ago) link
dEUS have the best Blur song on this list
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:28 (eight years ago) link
"What's My Age Again?" is an absolute classic, a ridiculously brilliant pop song, from one of the best albums of all time.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link
holy fuck i came here to post the exact same me as dog latin posted an hour ago
my good man are you a fellow smoothie
― Worth Taking from Little Kid (Will M.), Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:59 (eight years ago) link
meme* not "me"
I'd forgotten how awesome Deceptacon is
― paolo, Thursday, 4 February 2016 18:26 (eight years ago) link
'Deceptacon' remix also super hot.
― If This Town Is Just An Asshole Then Let Me Take A Bite (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 February 2016 18:37 (eight years ago) link
There's a few pretty good ones here, but this is ODB by far. I think this list is missing most of the great mainstream pop songs released during the year, and I'm surprised there's nothing from "69 Love Songs", though I guess that's not really a singles album.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 4 February 2016 18:41 (eight years ago) link
"The Book of Love" seems to have become something of a standard, so yeah, it's absence is a bit glaring.
― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko), Thursday, 4 February 2016 18:47 (eight years ago) link
Voted for Big Pimpin
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Thursday, 4 February 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link
great year. voting for "once around the block," one of my all -time favorites.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 5 February 2016 09:24 (eight years ago) link
It kinda annoys me when some of these posts seem to judge the entire year of music based on acclaimedmusic's top 40 singles.
― billstevejim, Friday, 5 February 2016 09:39 (eight years ago) link
Coffee + TV is the exact opposite of "fucking horrible."
it's my gun-to-head favourite blur song i think. i like how backgrounded coxon's vocals are.
― posted with permission by (dog latin), Friday, 5 February 2016 11:23 (eight years ago) link
Great stuff:
1 342 Eminem - My Name Is2 398 Aphex Twin - Windowlicker3 485 TLC - No Scrubs4 626 The Flaming Lips - Race for the Prize7 971 Ol' Dirty Bastard feat. Kelis - Got Your Money8 1167 Destiny's Child - Say My Name9 1259 Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat10 1265 Jay-Z - Big Pimpin'11 1348 Basement Jaxx - Red Alert14 1504 Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness16 1611 Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg - Still D.R.E.17 1693 Le Tigre - Deceptacon18 1714 Madonna - Beautiful Stranger26 2347 Macy Gray - I Try28 2359 Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way29 2360 The Artful Dodger - Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta)31 2585 Blink-182 - What's My Age Again?38 2891 Mos Def - Ms. Fat Booty
Madonna, Blink and Dre stand out - voting Madonna.
― niels, Friday, 5 February 2016 12:38 (eight years ago) link
Fair enough, though I really do remember 1999 being an awful year for pop music, and this list contains a few (though by no means all) of the reasons why.
― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko), Friday, 5 February 2016 13:09 (eight years ago) link
I really do remember 1999 being an awful year for pop music
same
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_That's_What_I_Call_Music!_3_%28U.S._series%29https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_That's_What_I_Call_Music!_4_%28U.S._series%29
― example (crüt), Friday, 5 February 2016 13:18 (eight years ago) link
i really really dislike beautiful stranger for some reason.
― posted with permission by (dog latin), Friday, 5 February 2016 13:23 (eight years ago) link
Are Blink 182 popular on ILM? Curious.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 5 February 2016 13:23 (eight years ago) link
Oh man, I had forgot about fucking "Hey Leonardo."
― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko), Friday, 5 February 2016 13:23 (eight years ago) link
I never got what was so great about "Beautiful Stranger" either. A throwaway soundtrack cut that has somehow been elevated to classic status--hell, it came in at #20 in our Madonna poll!
― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko), Friday, 5 February 2016 13:25 (eight years ago) link
FTR, I'm not crazy about this list and agree that '99 was a pretty miserable year for pop music, but there's plenty of other stuff I love from that year (just taking a look real quick, there are some wonderful albums by Basement Jaxx, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Cibo Matto (I know I'm in the minority on that one), Fiona Apple, Jim O'Rourke, Lamb, Mr. Bungle, Olivia Tremor Control, Royal Trux, Sleater-Kinney, Solex, Takako Minekawa, and US Maple). I think I was mostly obsessed with Elephant 6 and GBV in '99, neither of which was hugely represented that year.
― maybe my clam is just more toxic (Old Lunch), Friday, 5 February 2016 13:26 (eight years ago) link
xp i'm trying to think of the 60s song it alludes to. Is it Light My Fire? Wiki says it's a Love song, but I'm not sure.
― posted with permission by (dog latin), Friday, 5 February 2016 13:27 (eight years ago) link
'She Comes In Colors'. Someone mentioned it upthread.
― maybe my clam is just more toxic (Old Lunch), Friday, 5 February 2016 13:29 (eight years ago) link
It always did seem like more an allusion or accident than the rip-off some have suggested.
99 could not in any way be described as a miserable year for pop music. This list only like 20 classics.
― abcfsk, Friday, 5 February 2016 13:41 (eight years ago) link
^^^^
but then if you were paying *any attention whatsoever* to blur in the middle of this golden age of pop, r&b and rap, maybe you would think it was shit
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Friday, 5 February 2016 13:45 (eight years ago) link
around these parts "Deceptacon" is only known through Tiga's DJ-Kicks CD
― Sharkie, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 15:22 (eight years ago) link
It's a jam, I can't deny
― lute bro (brimstead), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 18:27 (eight years ago) link
(Decepticon)
ILX forgot about Forgot About Dre
― Worth Taking from Little Kid (Will M.), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 18:50 (eight years ago) link
I love the production/sound of that sigur ros album but the vocals... Not so much. Wish they would spend more time rocking out.
― lute bro (brimstead), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 18:52 (eight years ago) link
It's a good album. The second half is gorgeous. Never cared for anything that came after.
― posted with permission by (dog latin), Thursday, 11 February 2016 11:53 (eight years ago) link
This is the first track I ever heard by them, and I was always disappointed they never really rocked out as much as this on their other songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VeSIK4NnDc
― posted with permission by (dog latin), Thursday, 11 February 2016 11:55 (eight years ago) link