List some of your favorite records that turn 20 this year

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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lol I did think of that but the brain geniouses of RYM have it as 2001.

1999 is the best ever year for That Sort Of Thing then, which makes it classic obviously

I'll make an exception against my hatred for the threads for this one convergence of the forces of good

Looking forward to more in-thread exegeses of your hatred for threads of this nature.

Anyway, I wager Trux and US Maple own '99 for me.

Jim O'Rourke's Eureka came out 20 years ago today. 🤤🐇

Hooray! Best memories of ambling about the foothills during springtime, listening to Eureka

Talker is another top ten album for me

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

they did one in 2006! but it was mostly DVD-audio or 5.1 surround.

The Promise Ring - Very Emergency

a few personal favs:

Backstreet Boys – Millennium
Britney Spears – ...Baby One More Time
Shania Twain – Come on Over
'N Sync – *NSYNC
Ricky Martin – Ricky Martin
Christina Aguilera – Christina Aguilera
Santana – Supernatural
TLC – FanMail
Kid Rock – Devil Without a Cause
Eminem – The Slim Shady LP

those are all good ones esby

also "medallion animal carpet" by bob drake

Those are certainly the most 1999 records.

Albums I like from 1999

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
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
Supersuckers - The Evil Powers of Rock 'n' Roll
VNV Nation - Empires
Tom Waits - Mule Variations

It was a strange year for me personally which possibly explains this strange list.

Come on Over is so 1999 it was released in 1997.

Tbh, the Dismemberment Plan's Emergency and I and Pan Sonic's A might be the only 1999 albums that stand out in my mind very strongly, although that Neurosis album was good iirc.

1999 is my favorite singles year ever. perhaps the most formative year for my taste while growing up? idk

ok here are some 1999 records i like today

ace - mawa sekai
add n to (x) - avant hard
amy x neuberg and men - sports! chips! booty!
bauer - on the move
bob drake - medallion animal carpet
cranium - speed metal sentence
daisuke tobari - guitar
deadwood forest - mellodramatic
dyzack - the rat dance refizz
french tv - the violence of amateurs
the herbie nichols project - dr. cyclops' dream
houndog - s/t
john potter - in darkness let me dwell
krang - roes
mr. bungle - california
neina - formed verse
nels cline & gregg bendian - interstellar space revisited
oidupaa vladimir oiun - divine music from a jail
the olivia tremor control - black foliage
ornatos violeta - o monstro precise de amigos
pharaohe monch - internal affairs
the solarflares - psychedelic tantrum
sore plexus - haptephobic
tom waits - the mule variations
ultrasound - everything picture
wilco - summerteeth

esby list has a 60% overlap with the billboard year-end albums chart top 10, w/ the first five being in the same order

i had a lot of those big blockbuster albums at the time b/c ppl, including my family apparently, scooped up overpriced cd's like it was nothing back then (+ many segments of the industry were trying to train white consumers especially to stop purchasing singles), but honestly i didn't like listening to any of them as full albums. i discovered napster the following year and rarely bothered to get cd's for quite a while after that.

actually now that i look at that list again i'm pretty sure i had every single one of those

imo-underappreciated pop singles from 1999 that i'm still fond of (no one needs to be reminded that "i want it that way", "say my name" et al were good songs):

blink-182 "what's my age again?"
christina aguilera "what a girl wants"
orgy "blue monday"
beth orton "central reservation"
korn "freak on a leash"
jessica simpson "i wanna love you forever"
kelis "caught out there"
donell jones "u know what's up"
mariah carey "heartbreaker"
monica "angel of mine"
brandy "almost doesn't count"
britney spears "sometimes"
juvenile "ha"
goo goo dolls "black balloon"
jordan knight "give it to you"
tlc "unpretty"
filter "take a picture"
sugar ray "someday"
nsync/gloria estefan "music of my heart"
jennifer lopez "waiting for tonight"
basement jaxx "rendez-vu"
santana "put your lights on"
nsync "i drive myself crazy"
eminem "guilty conscience"
lfo "summer girls"
matchbox 20 "back 2 good"
whitney houston "heartbreak hotel"
ginuwine "so anxious"
112 "anywhere"
mandy moore "candy"
702 "where my girls at?"
enrique iglesias "bailamos"
fastball "out of my head"
madonna "beautiful stranger"
montell jordan "get it on tonite"
faith hill "breathe"
garbage "special"
dixie chicks "ready to run"
ricky martin "she's all i ever had"
amber "sexual (li da di)"

stereolab - cobra and phases play voltage in the milky night
jim o'rourke - halfway to a threeway ep
jim o'rourke - eureka
at the drive-in - vaya ep
built to spill - keep it like a secret
blink-182 - enema of the state
boredoms - vision creation newsun
limp bizkit - significant other
sleater-kinney - the hot rock
wilco - summerteeth
eiffel 65 - europop
aimee mann - magnolia

Yeah, this is probably one of my least favourite pop years ever. I like "What's My Age Again?", though.

dEUS 'The Ideal Crash' deserves a mention

Arvo Part - Alina
Brendan Perry - Eye Of The Hunter
D. Haines - Blither
David Sylvian - Dead Bees On A Cake
Hood - The Cycle Of Days and Seasons
Jim O'Rourke - Eureka
Rowland S Howard - Teenage Snuff Film
Tim Bowness & Samuel Smiles - World Of Bright Futures
Tram - Heavy Black Frame

Immortal - At the Heart of Winter

dEUS 'The Ideal Crash' deserves a mention

a number of 1999 listicles are out lately. i know this is total pedantry but producers of such #content need to try to adhere to consistent rules as to what actually counts as being from the year they are supposedly covering. one list includes "hard knock life", which was released AND at its peak of exposure in winter '98, while another lists "big pimpin'", which was released as a single and at peak exposure in spring 2000. (apparently its parent album being commercially available for a grand total of FOUR DAYS during 1999 qualifies it as a 1999 single.)

same with, like, "thong song" and "maria maria". hardly anyone was listening to either of those songs until 2000. i understand the eagerness to write about some of these songs but really, it's okay to wait one more year, no need to pretend these were in any way part of the '99 zeitgeist.

luckily Enema of the State came out smack dab in the middle of the year so let's pay respect to the true goats

My list of favorite stuff from 2000:
New Model Army - Eight
The The - Nakedself
Radiohead - Kid A
Doves - Lost Souls
Seafood - Surviving The Quiet
Unbelievable Truth - Sorrythankyou
Blue Aeroplanes - Cavaliers & Roundheads
Clinic - Internal Wrangler
The In Out - A Living Memorial In Deutschland
Shriekback - Naked Apes & Pond Life

Will rep for all of those today though Doves is a bit played out.

Tell me about this Radiohead album

2000 was a great year for reissues and compilations. In terms of new music from that year, a great thrash album which I only recently discovered is Hypnosia's Extreme Hatred.

Pitchfork’s contemporaneous Top 20 list. I was pretty plugged in that year, but don’t recall most of these: https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/5816-top-20-albums-of-2000/

... and Rolling Stone’s highest-rated albums of that year: https://www.albumoftheyear.org/ratings/35-rolling-stone-highest-rated/2000/1

Not a year in which I can claim any “favorites,” I think!

(Kind of shocked the Death Cab and New Pornos albums didn’t make the Pitchfork list... I guess Pfork’s tastes were more “niche indie” in that time?)

Wow, no sign of D'angelo's Voodoo on any of these lists so far. Broadcast's Noise Made By People either (although maybe that one is less surprising on Rolling Stone's list). Easily my two favourites of that year.

It seems almost too convenient for a year ending in “–0” to be a “transitional year,” but 2000 really does feel that way in retrospect.

Fwiw Pfork didn’t review Mass Romantic until March ‘01. It made their 2001 top ten

Ah, thx

Internal Wrangler by Clinic is still way up there for me

boredoms - vision creation newsun
d'angelo - voodoo
deftones - white pony
eminem - the marshall mathers lp
gas - pop
isolée - rest
otomo yoshihide - cathode
outkast - stankonia
luomo - vocalcity
pj harvey - stories from the city, stories from the sea
sade - lovers rock
smashing pumpkins - machina I & II
smog - dongs of sevotion