List some of your favorite records that turn 20 this year

Although I guess everything I listed was something I got into within a few years of 1997.

TOP 5 (then and now):
Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
Blonde Redhead - Fake Can Be Just As Good
Autechre - Chiastic Slide
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Motorpsycho - Angels and Daemons at Play

Some other favorites not yet mentioned:
Eric's Trip - Long Day's Ride Till Tomorrow
Folk Implosion - Dare to Be Surprised
The Get Up Kids - Four Minute Mile
Hazel - Airiana EP
Helium - The Magic City
Knapsack - Day Three of My New Life
Lamb - S/T
Philip Glass - Kundun OST
Silkworm - Developer
Sonic Youth - SYR 1

Lamb's first LP came out in '96, didn't it!?

I love Autoditacter like 10 times more now than when i first heard it, definitely my favorite of theirs these days

current top 10 for 1997:

1. Pierre-Laurent Aimard - György Ligeti Edition 3: Works for Piano
2. Takács Quartet - Bela Bartok: The 6 String Quartets
3. Ground Zero - Consume Red
4. Bjork - Homogenic
5. Happy Family - Toscco
6. Christoph de Babalon - If You're Into It, I'm Out of It
7. Paul McCartney - Flaming Pie
8. Stereolab - Dots & Loops
9. Ø - Tulkinta
10. 5uus - Crisis in Clay

oh yeah I forgot abt that Christoph de Babalon record, good stuff!

Lamb's first LP came out in '96, didn't it!?

Yes, you're right. For some reason my mp3s were tagged with the US release date. I thought it was weird that nobody had mentioned the album yet.

The Book of Secrets by Loreena McKennitt is a guilty pleasure from 1997. This one is great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI_PMcFnZZw

stuff I listened to a lot back in '97:

OC- Jewelz
Camp Lo- Uptown Saturday Night
Latyrx- The Album
Organized Konfusion- The Equinox
Common- One Day It'll All Make Sense
Capone-n-Noreaga- The War Report

MOST OF THESE ARE UNBEARABLY TWEE

Plumtree - Predicts the Future
Rocketship - A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness
The Sun Sawed in ½ - Fizzy Lift
Terry Hall - Laugh
Gas - Zauberberg
Adventures in Stereo - the blue album
Takemura - Child & Magic
Long Fin Killie - Amelia
Takako Minekawa - Cloudy Cloud Calculator
Movietone - Day and Night
Lhasa - La llorona

Kylie - Impossible Princess

I dig that Long Fin Killie album but I came to it many years later.

Keyes - good call on that Latryx album

Rocketship - A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness

yes!!

My top 10 (compiled in 2005!) (bolded are so far unmentioned):
Sleater-Kinney, Dig Me Out
Bardo Pond, Lapsed
Labradford, Mi Media Naranja
autechre, Chiastic Slide
Mogwai, Ten Rapid
Portishead, Portishead
Dubstar, Goodbye (UK release)
Amon Tobin, Bricolage
Spiritualized, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
Sneaker Pimps, Becoming X

in the aeroplane over the sea, mezzanine, music has the right to children, aquemini & moon safari all turn 20 this year!

but more importantly, what are you favourite records of 1998?

22 Pistepirkko - Eleven
The Afghan Whigs - 1965
Arab Strap - Philophobia
Autechre - LP5
Blonde Redhead - In an Expression of the Inexpressible
Brandtson - Letterbox
The Cardigans - Gran Turismo
Death Cab for Cutie - Something About Airplanes
Gas - Zauberberg
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F♯A♯∞
I-F - Fucking Consumer
Jen Wood - No More Wading
Knapsack - This Conversation is Ending Starting Right Now
The Lapse - Betrayal!
Motorpsycho - Trust Us
Pedro the Lion - It's Hard to Find a Friend
Pole - 1
Scumbucket - Batuu
Shellac - Terraform
Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves
Sophia - The Infinite Circle
Stina Nordenstam - People Are Strange
Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels to Be Something On
The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Tortoise - TNT
Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
Unsane - Occupational Hazard
Unwound - Challenge for a Civilized Society
Urusei Yatsura - Slain By Urusei Yatsura
Zbigniew Preisner - Requiem for My Friend

Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Boo Radleys - Kingsize
Autechre - LP5
Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children

We are all very very old

We are all very very old

^ very otm

think beaucoup fish is 1999 but tbh it's the best album of every year

best fugazi, jay-z, pj harvey albums out that year

best fugazi

Yes! Just listened to End Hits again recently, so good.

xxp - Yes, you're right. I went by the tags in my media library, and this is from Wikipedia: "Due to delays, the packaging incorrectly lists 1998 as the release year."

Blackstar
Mezzanine
MHTRTC
Three EPs
Jurassic 5
Hello Nasty
Music Sounds Better With You

Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Peter Hammill – This
Mark Hollis – s/t
Godspeed You Black Emperor! – F♯A♯∞
Current 93 – Soft Black Stars
Cowboy Junkies – Miles From Our Home
The Tragically Hip – Phantom Power
Mercury Rev – Deserter's Songs
Gillian Welch – Hell Among the Yearlings

xxxp love how it approaches falling apart at times; my dumb take is it's their jazz record

Top Ten 1998:
Cat Power - Moon Pix
Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
Silver Jews - American Water
Nada Surf - The Proximity Effect
Stina Nordenstam - People Are Strange
Arab Strap - Philophobia
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Beck - Mutations
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
22 Pistepirkko - Eleven

Jeeze.
Cat Power - Moon Pix
Bedhead - Transaction de Novo
Sonic Youth - Silver Sessions
P J Harvey - Is This Desire?
and of course LP5, MHTRTC, Mezzanine.
Some real touchstones there. And the first year of my marriage.

Not many 1998 albums that I consider classic...
Maybe Moon Safari for personal memories.
Mezzanine, This is Hardcore and Hard Knock Life could be included too.
And Celebrity Skin (but I only got to like it much later).

The Friend I Once had by Club 8
Glee by Bran Van 3000
The Boy with the Arab Strap by Belle and Sebastian
Peloton by The Delgados
Music Has the Right to Children by Boards of Canada
RAFI's Revenge by Asian Dub Foundation
Good Humour by Saint Etienne
England Made Me by Black Box Recorder
Ray of Light by Madonna
Steal This Album by The Coup

er, Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

richard buckner - since
dj quik - rhythm-al-ism
death - the sound of perseverence

Some good stuff mentioned already. Some additions:

Ed Rush & Optical, 'Wormhole'
J Majik, 'Slow Motion'
Gas, 'Zauberberg'
Stars of the Lid, 'Per Aspera Ad Astra'
The Azusa Plane, 'America Is Dreaming of Universal String Theory'

Time Machines - Time Machines
Rapoon - The Fires Of The Borderlands
Lull - Moments
James Plotkin / Mark Spybey - A Peripheral Blur
The Aeolian String Ensemble - Lassithi / Elysium
Thomas Köner - Kaamos
Ambre - Enclave
Steven R. Smith - Autumn Is The End
Squarepusher - Music Is Rotted One Note

Plastikman - Consumed
ISAN - Beautronics
Common Factor - Dreams Of Elsewhere
Dave Angel - 39 Flavours Of Tech Funk

love how it approaches falling apart at times; my dumb take is it's their jazz record

― lowercase (eric), Wednesday, February 7, 2018 10:42 AM (one hour ago)

no thats how i look at it too

Yeah that definitely makes sense to me.

...Baby One More Time

Taking a quick glance through '98 releases here...

My top five:
Royal Trux - Accelerator
Spinanes - Arches and Aisles
Sugar Plant - Happy
Tortoise - TNT
800 Cherries - Romantico

And the rest:
Cat Power - Moon Pix
Fantastic Plastic Machine - Luxury
Gastr Del Sol - Camoufleur
Mahogany - The Dream of a Modern Day
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Mouse on Mars - Glam
Pullman - Turnstyles & Junkpiles
Retsin - Sweet Luck of Amaryllis
Solex - vs. the Hitmeister
Spoon - A Series of Sneaks
Zeek Sheck - Good Luck Suckers

Yes, Solex!

And the mention of Wormhole reminded me of Photek's Form & Function.

Ah yes, good mention. 1998 was about the last year dnb/jungle was good.

Gah, and TNT. And Hollis. And Camoufleur. Quite a year.

Hello Nasty is 20! God damn

Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Cake - Prolonging the Magic
Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby
They Might be Giants - Severe Tire Damage

Not necessarily my favorite albums of the year (though Hello Nasty still sounds great and is probably my favorite of theirs), but I bought all these as a 12 year old and have probably played each one a hundred times.

Also have to shout out "Tunak Tunak Tun" here, the first "viral" video I was ever made aware of, also 20 this year.

1998 was about the last year dnb/jungle was good.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, February 7, 2018 7:33 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thank you for reminding me to include Goldie - Saturnz Return

And yes, I'm serious. Seriously.

Ha. Never got why that one was panned the way it was tbh.

Me neither! And if you're looking for some real challops, I might prefer it to Timeless.

Easy now ;) Timeless is a stone cold classic imo, but SR is not that far behind.

A few people haven't mentioned yet

Juvenile - 400 Degreez
Big Pun - Capital Punishment
Boredoms - Super Ae
Calexico - The Black Light
Pulp - This is Hardcore (someone mentioned it as 'maybe classic,' so here's me mentioning it as 'definitely classic')

Muzik magazine's best albums of 1998:

1. Air: Moon Safari
2. Beastie Boys: Hello Nasty
3. The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
4. Jurassic 5 EP
5. Deep Dish: Junk Science
6. Leila: Like Weather
7. Fatboy Slim: You've Come A Long Way, Baby
8. Danny Tengalia: Tourism
9. Propellorheads: Decksanddrumsandrockandroll
10. Maxwell: Embrya
11. Beta Band: Three EPs
12. Rae & Christian: Northen Sulphuric Soul
13. Black Eyed Peas: Behind The Front
14. Faithless: Sunday 8 PM
15. Sizzla: Black Woman & Child
16. Vegas Soul: Pure
17. Groove Armada: Northern Star
18. Herbert: Around The House
19. Boards Of Canada: Music Has The Right To Children
20. Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
21. Freestylers: We Rock Hard
22. Massive Attack: Mezzanine
23. Red Snapper: Making Bones
24. Morcheeba: Dead Calm
25. House Of 909: The Children We Were
26. Unkle: Psyence Fiction
27. Swayzak: Snowboarding In Argentina
28. Grooverider: Mysteries Of Funk
29. Lo Fidelity Allstars: How To Operate With A Blown Mind
30. Ed Rush & Optical: Wormhole
31. Asian Dub Foundation: Rafi's Revenge
32. Beck: Mutations
33. A Man Called Adam: Duende
34. 4 Hero: Two Pages
35. Envoy: Where There's Life
36. Fila Brazilla: Power Clown
37. John B: Visions
38. Rza Starring As Bobby Digital
39. Monkey Mafia: Shoot The Boss
40. Ian Pooley: Meridian
41. The Aloof: Seeking Pleasure
42. Total: Kima Keisha & Pam
43. Method Man: Tical 2000: Judgment Day
44. Justice: Viewpoints
45. Skinny: Weekend
46. 16b: Sounds From Another Room
47. Jeff Mills: Purpose Maker Compilation
48. Wamdue Project: Program Yourself
49. Thievery Corporation: Sounds From The Thievery Hi-Fi
50. Waiwan: Distraction
51. Common Ground
52. Mercury Rev: Deserter's Songs
53. E Dancer: Heavenly
54. Derrick May: Innovator
55. Terry Callier: Timepiece
56. Lionrock: City Delirious
57. Money Mark: Push The Button
58. Tortoise: Tnt
59. King Britt/Sylk 130: When The Funk Hits The Fan
60. The Wiseguys: The Antidote
61. Plantastik: Wak'd
62. Black Jazz Chronicles: Future Ju Ju
63. Deejay Punk-Roc: Chicken Eye
64. R. Kelly: R
65. Gang Starr: Moment Of Truth
66. Jephte Guillaume: Voyage Of Dreams
67. Terry Callier: First Light
68. James Ruskin: Further Design
69. Donna Dee: Spellbound
70. Plastikman: Artifacts B.C.
71. Jori Hulkonnen: The Spirits Inside Me
72. Beverly Knight: Prodigal Sista
73. Madonna: Ray Of Light
74. Baby Mammoth: Another Day At The Orifice
75. Klute: Casual Bodies

And NME's:

1. Mercury Rev – Deserters Songs
2. Beastie Boys – Hello Nasty
3. Beck – Mutations
4. Air – Moon Safari
5. Massive Attack – Mezzanine
6. Elliott Smith – Either Or
7. Pulp – This Is Hardcore
8. Royal Trux – Accelerator
9. Jurassic 5 – Jurassic 5
10. Leila – Like Weather
11. Sparklehorse – Good Morning Spider
12. Embrace – The Good Will Out
13. Six By Seven – The Things We Make
14. Babybird – There’s Something Going On
15. Belle & Sebastian – The Boy With The Arab Strap
16. Boards Of Canada – Music Has The Right To Children
17. Arab Strap – Philophobia
18. Quasi – Featuring Birds
19. The Afghan Whigs – 1965
20. Fatboy Slim – You’ve Come A Long Way Baby
21. Lo-Fidelity Allstars – How To Operate With A Blown Mind
22. Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
23. Idlewild – Hope Is Important
24. Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
25. Placebo – Without You I’m Nothing
26. R.E.M. – Up
27. Madonna – Ray Of Light
28. Spritualized - Live At The Royal Albert Hall
29. Bob Dylan – Live 1966:The Royal Albert Hall Concert
30. Catatonia – International Velvet
31. Black Box Recorder – England Made Me
32. Elliott Smith – Xo
33. Quickspace – Precious Falling
34. Jeff Buckley – Sketches (For My Sweetheart The Drunk)
35. Hole – Celebrity Skin
36. Kid Loco – A Grand Love Story
37. The Third Eye Foundation – You Guys Kill Me
38. Unkle – Psyence Fiction
39. The Boo Radleys – Kingsize
40. Sonic Youth – A Thousand Leaves
41. Tarwater – Silur
42. Ash – Nu-Clear Sounds
43. Mkd – Open Transport
44. Goodspeed You Black Emperor – F#A#00
45. Garbage – Version 2
46. Fugazi – End Hits
47. Hefner – Breaking Gods Heart
48. Gomez – Bring It On
49. Mansun – Six
50. Robbie Williams – I’ve Been Expecting You

Oh, yeah, that Money Mark album is good stuff. And I really like the posthumous Jeff Buckley release but I guess I don't think of it as an 'album' per se.

Just realizing ITT that I still haven't heard Hello Nasty in its entirety over the course of twenty years.