List some of your favorite records that turn 20 this year

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

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!

Scrawl - Nature Film
Imperial 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.

Interesting that the Pitchfork list has the same top 3 as Spin's '98 list. Some things never change.

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.

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...

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?

actually think LBI is OTM

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.

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...

well you like what you like, all good

Piano Magic - Bliss Out Vol. 13: A Trick of the Sea
Tarnation - Mirador

both albums by friends...hard to believe it's been 20 years.

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.

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."

1998...

Dirty Three - Ocean Songs
Pluramon - Render Bandits
Coil - Moon's Milk EPs
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Aeolian String Ensemble - Lassithi/Elysium
Cat Power - Moon Pix
Ghost - Snuffbox Immanence
Donnas - S/T
Liz Phair - whitechocolatespaceegg

Sherburne with an interesting looking list:

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/10-overlooked-electronic-albums-from-1998/

Concept - Concept 1:VR
Gescom - MiniDisc
Leila - Like Weather
Lithops - Uni Umit
Mannequin Lung - The Art of Travel
Michael Mayer - Neuhouse
Barbara Morgenstern - Vermona ET 6-1
1.8.7 - Quality Rolls
Bjørn Torske - Nedi Myra
Urban Tribe - The Collapse of Modern Culture

Boredoms - Super æ
Boredoms - Super Roots 7
Incantation - Diabolical Conquest
Jun Chikuma - Bomberman Hero
Gorguts - Obscura
Melt-Banana - Charlie
Squarepusher - Music Is Rotted One Note
Gas - Zauberberg
Ruins - Symphonica
Hive - Devious Methods
Gasp - Drome Triler of Puzzle Zoo People
John 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

Damn how could I forgot music is rotted - good call

Urban Tribe - The Collapse of Modern Culture was a discovery of mine last year. love it.

Vrresto by Ruins as well, damn that's a fun one to revisit

Thought of a really good one:

Duster - Stratosphere

Albums
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
The Music In My Head [among other comps including the B-52s' Time Capsule]
Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves
Billy Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid Avenue
Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos
Outkast - Aquemini

Tracks
They 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"

My favorite Swervedriver album, 99th Dream was released in 98

Urban Tribe - The Collapse of Modern Culture was a discovery of mine last year. love it.

Oh shit Vontel- Vision of a Dream came out 20 years ago

http://thequietus.com/articles/24053-madonna-ray-of-light-review-anniversary

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.

69 Love Songs

^^

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

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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).

B.G. - Chopper City In The Ghetto
Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever
The Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk At Cubist Castle

Cheers, Chinaski!

The Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk At Cubist Castle

This came out earlier, I owned it in college(?)

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...

Beaucoup Fish
Black on Both Sides
Ágætis Byrjun
The Soft Bulletin
Midnite Vultures
Guerilla
I See A Darkness

Oh, and Carboot Soul

I'd be up for an expanded edition of the Soft Bulletin. My favourite Lips album.

Pinback - This Is a Pinback CD

and then

Blur - 13
Tue-Loup - La Belle Inutile
Wilco - Summerteeth

'99 was a slump in light of its before and after. I've since revised my opinion somewhat:

Manes - Under ein blodraud maane
Mr. Bungle - California
Pan Sonic - A
Paysage d'hiver - Paysage d'hiver
Stars of the Lid - Avec laudenum
Taake - Nattestid ser porten vid…
Tenhi - Kauan
Toumani Diabaté & Ballaké Sissiko - New Ancient Strings
Underworld - Beaucoup Fish

(Who am I kidding, I was listening to Enema of the State on repeat at the time.)

Peter Hammill – The Fall of the House of Usher (Deconstructed & Rebuilt)
Tindersticks – Simple Pleasure
Low – Secret Name
Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
Tim Keegan & Departure Lounge – Out of Here
Bonnie Prince Billy – I See A Darkness
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada
Dido – No Angel
Richard Thompson – Mock Tudor

(!) les rythmes digitales - darkdancer

the white stripes - s/t
le tigre - s/t
flaming lips - the soft bulletin

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 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You're right - Black Foliage was '99 though

I wasn't aware of any of them at the time but these really hold up, with the top 3 somewhat connected:

Cardiacs - Guns
The Monsoon Bassoon - I Dig Your Voodoo
Shrubbies - Memphis in Texas
GSYBE! - Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada
Neurosis - Times of Grace
June of 44 - Anahata

Almost forgetting my taste for daft 'avant-garde' metal somehow I'm also find of:

Dodheimsgard - 666 International
Maudlin of the Well - My Fruit Psychobells...

A retrospective top 10 (My favourite at the time would have been Mogwai's CODY, other than that I was mostly buying ultimately disappointing albums by my '90s favourites like Suede and the Chemical Brothers):

The Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Jay-Z - Vol. 3
Juno - This Is the Way It Goes and Goes and Goes
Kelis - Kaleidoscope
Hood - The Cycle of Days and Seasons
American Football - s/t
Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock

I hate these threads, but you forgot Spratleys Japs - Pony

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