Best Album on OUR Favourite Albums of......1998 Part One

No mention of Lauryn Hill in this thread so far, but I'd be surprised if she doesn't finish toward the top.

It's funny to see 'Mark Hollis' amongst this list, because most of it (even the good stuff) is painfully dated for me (the year I turned 18, the year I started breaking free of prioritizing 'now' as a criterion in listening to/valuing music). I think I first heard it the following year and it's been on of my most cherished albums since. But it just has no relationship with "late 90s" at all--completely timeless.

I love 'Music for 18 Musicians' but isn't it more like 1978 (on record anyway)?

despite the high standard still moon pix by a distance... might put on six later though, it's been quite a while and I know it will cheer me up

Love Super Ae and the Three EPs but nothing beats Accelerator!

Haha I feel like a lot of stuff kinda-sorta in my wheelhouse from this year has managed to evade my ears thus far; this is perhaps the most ilxor-y of my yearly lists

Aquemini
A Thousand Leaves
Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels To Be Something On
QOTSA s/t
DJ Quik - Rhythm-al-isms
Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
XO
Accelerator
Pearl Jam - Yield
Super Ae

mark hollis for me

Accidentally voted for Good Morning Spider & just realized I was confusing it with It's A Wonderful Life from 2001. I like Spider but wldnt put it in the top tier of this group. Oh well.

Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels To Be Something On

Oh this would get my write-in vote, one of my favourite records of all time.

mike replaced it with cat power at the last minute!

/Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels To Be Something On/

Oh this would get my write-in vote, one of my favourite records of all time.

mike only wants to do one poll for 99 so be prepared for a lot of your faves missing

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not really expecting Musick to Play in the Dark Vol 1 will be included for 99, but just want to say it's amazing

there's only going to be one poll so there's not going to be a lot of things not in it since ilm prefers to vote for the best known albums so more niche stuff gets booted

another vote for 'please include Coil'

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Finally got round to putting a 1998 top ten together and, well, this explains how bewildered I was at both of your lists - i guess I had a very different year (although I didn't hear my current #1 until a couple of years later): 1. Club 8 - The Friend I Once Had, 2. Bran Van 3000 - Glee, 3. Belle and Sebastian, 4. Delgados - Peloton, 5. Saint Etienne - Sound of Water, 6. Board of Canada, 7. Massive Attack, 8. Black Box Recorder, 9. Madonna, 10. His Name is Alive - Ft. Lake. Air, Cardigans, Beastie Boys bubbling under.

I should probably give that Cat Power a listen.

My list, if it matters.

I like your write-up, Alfred, agree about Thousand Leaves being one of "the strangest and most leisurely of Sonic Youth albums"

also really like how this poll came out