Almost voted for Godspeed though I think that particular album's kind of dull. Luckily I saw Mark Hollis. Would have voted for Six if it was there though in hindsight it's overproduced to fuck.
― Hamsters of Misfortune (ultros ultros-ghali), Thursday, 20 August 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
"CAAAAAAATCHING SIIIIIGNAAAAAAAAALS THAT SOOOOOOUND IN THEEEEEEEE DAAAAAAAAARK!"
*nails-on-chalkboard.gif*
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Thursday, 20 August 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
oi, barafundle is not britpop you slanderous wretch
― feargal czukay (NickB), Thursday, 20 August 2015 15:47 (nine years ago) link
Looking at my iPod there is a ton of strong 1998 rock records not here:
Sonic Youth - A Thousand LeavesMyracle Brah - Life On Planet EartsnopLiz Phair - whitechocolatespaceeggSarge - The Glass IntactThe Glands - Double ThrillerRancid - Life Won't WaitQuasi - Featuring "Birds"Pearl Jam - YieldLocal H - Pack Up The CatsNada Surf - The Proximity EffectJohnny Cash - American 2Drive-By Truckers - GangstabillyCadallaca - Introducing CadallacaBlack Box Recorder - England Made Me
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 20 August 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
oi, barafundle is not britpop you slanderous wretch― feargal czukay (NickB), Thursday, August 20, 2015 3:47 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― feargal czukay (NickB), Thursday, August 20, 2015 3:47 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
OTM, and neither are the three that came before it!
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Thursday, 20 August 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
oi, barafundle is not britpop you slanderous wretch― feargal czukay (NickB), Thursday, August 20, 2015 4:47 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― feargal czukay (NickB), Thursday, August 20, 2015 4:47 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^ I'm actually really surprised by imago's take on this. Have you heard these albums? They're totally in your wheelhouse. Bwyd Time isn't exactly a million steps removed from a sort of folkier version of Cardiacs
― Stop counting smart one. (dog latin), Thursday, 20 August 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link
manu chao's "clandestino" is superb, one of my favorite albums ever and is very important to me, too bad though that he never did anything else even close to the same universe as that one though. it has my vote.
aquemini is outstanding, my favorite outkast album
miseducation is amazing
i'm not really a belle and sebastian fan but "arab strap" is their best album imo
i don't really care about NMH, i enjoyed that album in college a lot but i don't have much use for it anymorei like BoC but i think are totally overrated in general, i had all their albums but eventually sold off every one except that "in a beautiful place" EP. they are great at ambiance and mood but their beats are corny and wack imo
that dylan bootleg series is all-time but i don't think it really counts as a "1998" album
― marcos, Thursday, 20 August 2015 15:57 (nine years ago) link
QOTSA and all associated acts are the most boring garbage to me
― marcos, Thursday, 20 August 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link
is that the godspeed with "dead flag blues"? if so that is a good album
― marcos, Thursday, 20 August 2015 15:59 (nine years ago) link
Wait, there's a person who thinks End Hits is the best Fugazi album?
me
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 20 August 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link
I've sort of skim-listened both Bwyd Time and Barafundle - they've both got cool moments but it doesn't quite come together until later for me - perhaps I should give both albums another go.
Trust you all to take the corniest thing off my amazing list and make a big deal out of it. Pfah!
― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Thursday, 20 August 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link
That Air album came out of nowhere and was massive that year. I'm sure I dismissed it at the time for being "coffee table music" or "yuppie sex music". I like it now though. That Massive Attack album might be their best. I remember smoking weed for the first time around Xmas 98 and I listened to 'Risingson' and I felt like I was sinking to the bottom of the ocean. I'll go for 'Deserters Songs" tho. It lacks the wildness the made early MR so great but it's a beautiful album for various different reasons.
― tayto fan (Michael B), Thursday, 20 August 2015 16:12 (nine years ago) link
I've sort of skim-listened both Bwyd Time and Barafundle - they've both got cool moments but it doesn't quite come together until later for me - perhaps I should give both albums another go.― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Thursday, August 20, 2015 4:10 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Thursday, August 20, 2015 4:10 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
You should give Patio and Tatay a go.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Thursday, 20 August 2015 16:19 (nine years ago) link
I think I'm in the minority here but I think 10,000hz the legend is Air's best album. so proggy compared to moon safari, which is a nice chill record but also sounds a bit 'brie' in places
― Stop counting smart one. (dog latin), Thursday, 20 August 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
I'm with you on that one tbf
― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Thursday, 20 August 2015 16:30 (nine years ago) link
10,000hz Legend is great. I like a lot of Moon Safari but have never fully connected with it. I looooooove Premiers Symptômes, though.
― Do you have or use horses? (Old Lunch), Thursday, 20 August 2015 17:50 (nine years ago) link
Talkie Walkie is the only Air album I ever have any desire to hear.
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Thursday, 20 August 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
aw, it's nice enough but it's only got like 2 or 3 songs i'd call classics (cherry blossom girl is *extremely* classic, though, i'll grant, alpha beta gaga great too)
btw heads up, i've looked at the '99 list and hoo boy i'm gonna have a list of like not exaggerating 30+ albums i'd genuinely prefer to virtually all of them. get stoked ilm
― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Thursday, 20 August 2015 19:35 (nine years ago) link
I mean, compared to '99, this year's list is really, really solid & a good selection that represents its year well. Might even vote in this one! But yeah, '99 is a year of genuinely insane riches - I won't be doing any list of my own choices from 2000 onwards because it just felt like music exploded in 1999 and after that there was too much to keep track of, or something
― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Thursday, 20 August 2015 19:46 (nine years ago) link
Since Rhythm-al-ism isn't on the list I'll go w Aquemini.
― Spottie, Thursday, 20 August 2015 19:48 (nine years ago) link
PJ Harvery > Boards of Canada > Massive Attack > Air
― Let's go, FIFA! (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:28 (nine years ago) link
Erm....Harvery?
― Let's go, FIFA! (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link
harvey made you think harvester which made you think carvery imo
― you too could be called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:34 (nine years ago) link
For albums that made me reconsider what music could be, this poll is between Refused, Beck and GY!BE.
― Tom Violence, Thursday, 20 August 2015 22:32 (nine years ago) link
(Remember I was 16 at the time.)
this list needs more Green Pajamas
― alpine static, Friday, 21 August 2015 01:40 (nine years ago) link
and Push Kings
― alpine static, Friday, 21 August 2015 01:41 (nine years ago) link
oh shit, super ae was this year? would have voted for that in a heartbeat
― anti-hackers (mattresslessness), Friday, 21 August 2015 01:55 (nine years ago) link
have boredoms been represented in any of these polls? some days when i feel like they basically won the 90s
― anti-hackers (mattresslessness), Friday, 21 August 2015 01:56 (nine years ago) link
they will show up next year.
― Bee OK, Friday, 21 August 2015 04:28 (nine years ago) link
I'll be interested in the '99 poll cos in my head that's an extremely weak year.
― Stop counting smart one. (dog latin), Friday, 21 August 2015 07:49 (nine years ago) link
I was exaggerating when I said I'd have thirty '99 faves to prefer to the AM list. But there are about ten unbelievable highs which aren't even on the longlist
I'm going to probably vote in this one, validating everything that's wrong with ILM. But for what? Plenty suggests itself.
― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Friday, 21 August 2015 08:49 (nine years ago) link
Good shout on 6x7, imago.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 21 August 2015 08:55 (nine years ago) link
1999 is a funny one; looking at the AM list there are a handful I liked a lot at the time but don't revisit now (Flips, Sigur Ros, Death In Vegas, Kelis), some I passed over and have since rediscovered (Mos Def, Underworld, Low), a couple of weird outliers (Make-Up, Jim O'Rourke), and a few I still really, really like (SFA, Boredoms, D Plan, Orbital). I feel like there's quite a few things out of my peripheral vision though, that I can't quite recall, or which I don't associate with being from 1999.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 21 August 2015 09:23 (nine years ago) link
Bwyd Time and Barafundle are brilliant compared to Gorky5 - that album is patchy as heck.
OTM! And the singles around that time... there's a couple of collections ("20" and "Introducing") and they have p. similar tracklistings but are great
(my copy of "Introducing" mysteriously appears to end halfway through a track but perhaps it is supposed to?)
Anyway I guess I'm voting for BoC above TNT, 3 EPs, Aquemini. Might have voted for Zauberberg or the Notwist's "Shrink" (sort of my at-the-time pick, though I didn't hear it until '99) if present. Glad imago reminded me of Quickspace and Ganger. I suppose for me this was a year not of mindblowing revelations but a lot of understated signposts down interesting paths
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 21 August 2015 09:47 (nine years ago) link
TBF Gorky 5 redeems itself with 'Hush the Warmth' which is my favourite song by them and the song that got me into them.
― Stop counting smart one. (dog latin), Friday, 21 August 2015 10:07 (nine years ago) link
I know Smashing Pumpkins' Adore is divisive but if you whittled it down to like ten songs it's great. For Martha, Once Upon a Time, Blank Page are gems.
― LimbsKing, Friday, 21 August 2015 11:10 (nine years ago) link
it is good. like you say, could do with a trim around the ears but still got some great moments.
― yeast mode (dog latin), Friday, 21 August 2015 11:21 (nine years ago) link
Pulp over NMH/Elvis Costello/Outkast/Lauryn/Elliott Smith/R.E.M./etc.
― some dude, Friday, 21 August 2015 12:34 (nine years ago) link
NMH for me. I go through phases with this album, but it's sounding really great right now.
― jmm, Friday, 21 August 2015 13:20 (nine years ago) link
it's an album's album, whatever that means
― yeast mode (dog latin), Friday, 21 August 2015 13:45 (nine years ago) link
Voted for Lauryn Hill. I seem to love that record more and more as the years go by.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 21 August 2015 14:04 (nine years ago) link
Finalists:
OutkastHolePJ HarveyPulpBragg-Wilco
The Lucinda Williams and Lauryn Hill albums have to my ears the same number of dud songs. I like'em though.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 August 2015 14:17 (nine years ago) link
Mark Hollis
Ray of Light in 2nd place
Would vote for Super Roots 7 in a hot second over everything though.
Loved Gastr's Mirror Repair, Crookt Crackt or Fly, Upgrade & Afterlife and The Harp Factory on Lake Street but man I HATED Camofleur bitterly
Fuck an NMH
― Corn on the macabre (Jon not Jon), Friday, 21 August 2015 14:43 (nine years ago) link
Why does Cameron Diaz's hair stick up like that? 90s thing?
― andrew m., Friday, 21 August 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
That's the something about Mary. Her hair sticks up.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Friday, 21 August 2015 18:39 (nine years ago) link
Ummmmm, you should probably just watch the movie, andrew.
― Do you have or use horses? (Old Lunch), Friday, 21 August 2015 18:39 (nine years ago) link
I guess I get this, inasmuch as Camoufleur is occasionally pretty and tuneful? Which is not a dig on the earlier, noiser, more experimental and atonal stuff, which I also love.
― Do you have or use horses? (Old Lunch), Friday, 21 August 2015 18:41 (nine years ago) link
This is absolutely In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. This Is Hardcore and Mutations would be my next two.
― the future is now, Saturday, 22 August 2015 02:58 (nine years ago) link
BoC just over NMH
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 22 August 2015 03:01 (nine years ago) link