List some of your favorite records that turn 20 this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HH-SyqBJs4

15

Air - Moon Safari
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
Portishead - Roseland, NYC live
Autechre - LP5
boredoms - super ae
Neutral Milk hotel - in an aeroplane over the sea
massive attack - mezzanine
boards of canada - music has the right to children
eels - electro shock blues
pj harvey - is this desire
tori amos - from the choirgirl hotel
amon tobin - permutation
dirty three - ocean songs
sparklehorse - good morning spider
beck - mutations

Albums I Liked from 1998

Angelcorpse - Exterminate
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Dälek - Negro Necro Nekros
Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
Johnny Dowd - Wrong Side of Memphis
Firewater - The Ponzi Scheme
Lacuna Coil - Lacuna Coil
Melt-Banana - "Charlie"
Metallica - Garage Inc.
Monster Magnet - Powertrip
Nashville Pussy - Let Them Eat Pussy
New Bomb Turks - At Rope's End
Nile - Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
Liz Phair - Whitechocolatespaceegg
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Shellac - Terraform
System of a Down - System of a Down
Theatre of Tragedy - Aégis
Turbonegro - Apocalypse Dudes

Also downloading mp3 with dialup was a joke. We’d wait for like 3 hours or more to download and listen to this obscure AFX track only to discover it was fake.

Ha! Remember being in some Audiogalaxy groups that shared DJ mixes and you'd have to leave your computer on overnight for them to download

good times

The intentional omission of In The Aeroplane... from my list isn't revisionist reactivity, btw. Love the first album and any number of other Elephant Six releases, but I saw them perform that material (in like late '97/early '98) before I ever heard the album and the recorded versions are weak tea in comparison. Mangum was channeling some shit.

I was trying to describe dial-up to the ten-year-old I tutor and it makes no sense to him whatsoever. TBF, it doesn't make much sense to me now, either.

Oh, the fights with my parents over the phone bill. Trying to download a GBV song that took 45 minutes, only for my brother to pick up the phone downstairs when it was nearly in, ruining the download. Good times.

friends and family telling me they could never get through to me on the phone because it was constantly engaged

I don't think I knew what an mp3 was until at least 2000. I remember uploading some tunes I'd been working on to my Angelfire site and only being able to do 30 second snippet previews as it was all in WAV

While we're drifting away from the thread mandate: I remember being so impressed in the mid-80s by a file that we had for our Commodore 64 which played a fifteen-second, extremely low-quality snippet of 'Rock Me Amadeus'. Felt like I was living in a sci-fi novel.

10 obscure/underrated indie rock favorites from 1998:

The Glands - Double Thriller
Myracle Brah - Life on Planet Eartsnop
Quasi - Featuring "Birds"
Black Box Recorder - England Made Me
Rancid - Life Won't Wait
Silkworm - Blueblood
Sarge - The Glass Intact
The Pernice Brothers - Overcome By Happiness
Drive-By Truckers - Gangstabilly
Grant Lee Buffalo - Jubilee

I loved when Napster had to block certain names upon request so everyone had to figure out "alternate" artist names to share stuff under (I don't think there was a centralized forum to do this, you just had to guess). I still have MP3s by "Imenim", "They Might B Gaints", and "9 Inch Nials"

Will rep for Grant Lee Buffalo's entire output.

wow, time is merciless.

cat power
mercury rev
lauryn hill
at the drive-in
beastie boys
royal trux
r.l. burnside
third eye foundation
neutral milk hotel
boards of canada
air
black star
juniour kimbrough
lucinda williams
make up
jon spencer blues explosion

i stil pull all these out at least once a year every year

roy montgomery, and now the rain sounds like life is falling down through it
BoC, MhTrTc
pj harvey, is this desire?!
plastikman, consumed
burger/ink, las vegas knights
theo parrish, first floor
tarwater, silur
monorchid, who put out the fire
horace andy, mr. bassie

sorry

burger/ink, las vegas GOLDEN knights

fucked up my joek

Oh Cat Power! I bought Moon Pix two years later but she was my spirit animal that year.

98 was my favorite year for rap releases.

Spinanes - Arches & Aisles

Great disc, gotta give it a fresh spin.

Jennifer Paige "Crush"
Britney Spears "Baby One More Time"
Aaliyah "Are You That Somebody"

Get ready to cash in on your thinkpieces.

Will rep for Grant Lee Buffalo's entire output.

Used to listen to the album that had The Hook on it a lot but don't think I've heard any of the others.

i remember Xmas of '98 and smoking decent weed for the first time and listening to Mezzanine - "inertia creeps" in particular

i was just listening to the mark hollis the other day and thinking that it's been 20 years since he's released anything

here's some of my favorite '98s (as always my tags could be wrong):

accordion tribe - s/t
all natural lemon and lime flavors - turning into small
balcony - 777
bob dylan - live 1966
elaine radigue - trilogie de la mort
g-da-man - "stack yo greens"
gastr del sol - camofleur
gorky's zygotic mynci - gorky 5
hiroki kikuta - soukaigi
kirinji - paperdriversmusic
koji kondo - ocarina of time
komeda - what makes it go?
mark hollis - s/t
oranger - circle gets the square
plush - more you becomes you
salt city orchestra - pagan thing
thinking plague - in extremis
tortoise - tnt
"v/a" - chill out vol. 2 - voyages into trance and ambient

what a strange year

i was listening to a lot of man or astroman? around this time but i don't know that they released anything in '98! was that the year of the clone tours?

While we're drifting away from the thread mandate: I remember being so impressed in the mid-80s by a file that we had for our Commodore 64 which played a fifteen-second, extremely low-quality snippet of 'Rock Me Amadeus'. Felt like I was living in a sci-fi novel.

― I'm very active in the pegasus community (Old Lunch)

in the early '90s i did the bbs thing and somebody actually took the time to record, of all things, the spin doctors' "two princes" into their computer as 8khz voc (a voc was like a wav, this was way before mp3s) and uploaded it to a bbs. it was 3 megabytes, which even at 14.4 (that was "high speed" back in those days) was ridiculously huge. my entire hard drive was only 20 megabytes.

Spinanes - Arches & Aisles

Great disc, gotta give it a fresh spin.

― that's not my post, Friday, February 9, 2018 1:27 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Coincidentally, I'm currently giving it a fresh spin and can confirm that it is a great disc by a great band. I went to a Decemberists show once specifically because Rebecca Gates was opening for them (no one else seemed to care, sadly).

Jennifer Paige "Crush"
Britney Spears "Baby One More Time"
Aaliyah "Are You That Somebody"

Get ready to cash in on your thinkpieces.

― billstevejim

Ah when it comes to pop singles it was a great year too.

Wasn’t Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You relessed this year? I was obsessed with that one. Also that Jennifer Paige one was great.

https://pitchfork.com/news/announcing-pitchforks-50-best-albums-of-1998/

I hope #1 is Ocarina of Time or Something About Mary! Last season of Seinfeld is underrated as well.

Music Sounds Better With You is grade-a nightmare fuel for me, even hearing its name gives me an unpleasant feeling. Too many bad nights out in 98 and 99.

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-50-best-albums-of-1998/

1. OutKast - Aquemini
2. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
3. Elliott Smith - XO
4. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
5. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
6. Cat Power - Moon Pix
7. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
8. Air - Moon Safari
9. Boredoms - Super Ae
10. PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
11. Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap
12. Silver Jews - American Water
13. Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
14. Beck - Mutations
15. Pulp - This Is Hardcore
16. Gang Starr - Moment of Truth
17. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
18. Tortoise - TNT
19. Madonna - Ray of Light
20. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
21. Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
22. Autechre - LP5
23. Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider
24. Fugazi - End Hits
25. Hole - Celebrity Skin
26. Big Pun - Capital Punishment
27. Mercury Rev - Deserter’s Songs
28. Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves
29. Royal Trux - Accelerator
30. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come (A Chimerical Bombination in 12 Bursts)
31. Juvenile - 400 Degreez
32. Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels to Be Something On
33. DMX - It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot
34. Plastikman - Consumed
35. JAY-Z - Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life
36. Spoon - A Series of Sneaks
37. Death Cab for Cutie - Something About Airplanes
38. Gastr Del Sol - Camoufleur
39. A Tribe Called Quest - The Love Movement
40. The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
41. Jeff Buckley - Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
42. Mouse on Mars - Glam
43. Maxwell - Embrya
44. Theo Parrish - First Floor
45. GAS - Königsforst
46. Blonde Redhead - In an Expression of the Inexpressible
47. Bright Eyes - Letting Off the Happiness
48. RZA - Bobby Digital in Stereo
49. Windy & Carl - Depths
50. Devin the Dude - The Dude

konigsforst TOOOO LOW

98 was the best year for rap, i dont think that tribe album would crack my top 30 rap albums for that year and that Bobby Digital album is horrible wtf.

just for the helluvit, this would be a stab at my fav raps of 98

1. Rhythmalism
2. Aquemini
3. Mobstability
4. 400 Degreez
5. It's Dark and Hell Is Hot
6. Miseducation of LH
7. Moment of Truth
8. A S.W.A.T. Healin Ritual
9. Hard Knock Life 2
10. Capital Punishment
11. The Element of Surprise
12. Ghetto Fabulous
13. Still Standing
14. Retaliation, Revenge and Get Back
15. My Balls and My Word
16. Tical 2000
17. Devin The Dude
18. Lost
19. A Book Of Human Language
20. Stupid Doo Doo Dumb
21. Blackstar
22. My Homies
23. There's One in Every Family
24. Docs Da Name 2000
25. Big Tymers
26. Steal This Album
27. 40 Dayz & 40 Nights
28. Heavy Mental
29. Flesh of My Flesh (more of a 99 album?)
30. Look What You Did to Me
31. Sunz of Man
32. The Love Movement
33. Extinction Level Event
34. First Family For Life
35. 3rd Eye Vision
36. El Nino
37. The Pillage
38. Kuruption
39. NORE
40. The Shadiest One

I need to get Rhythmalism.

good list, was a really good year. Gotta revisit that Quik album and check out the Witchdoctor

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.

The Pitchfork list is surprisingly good, though the love for Lauryn Hill and Neutral Milk Hotel baffles me. Things which would be in my 50: Eels, St Etienne, G!YBE, Fatboy Slim, REM, John Martyn, Momus, Arab Strap and Deep Dish.

xp agreed about the filler between songs. funnily enough, aquemini has the same problem, making it hard to safely add those amazing songs to playlists

I'm saddened by the lack of New Radicals love, that album holds up.

Yes, it does.

it's got the music in it

most of these are marginal AF:

The Necks - Piano Bass Drums
Piano Magic - Bliss Out Vol. 13: A Trick of the Sea
Tom Zé - Fabrication Defect: Com defeito de fabricação
Alain Bashung - Fantaisie Militaire
Louis Philippe - Azure
Esthero - Breath From Another
Tarnation - Mirador
Cheri Knight - The Northeast Kingdom
Mark Lanegan - Scraps at Midnight

Ah yes the Neutral Milk Hotel love has always been baffling for me too but this is a pitchfork list. No way that one wouldn’t make it in the top 10 they were the publication hyping that album the most 20 years ago and gave it a 10 score which is very rare coming from them. If anything I’m surprised it’s not their #1 album.

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...