Damn how could I forgot music is rotted - good call
― kolakube (Ross), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
Urban Tribe - The Collapse of Modern Culture was a discovery of mine last year. love it.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
Vrresto by Ruins as well, damn that's a fun one to revisit
― frogbs, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
Thought of a really good one:
Duster - Stratosphere
― Evan, Friday, 16 February 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
AlbumsLucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel RoadBeastie Boys - Hello NastyThe Music In My Head [among other comps including the B-52s' Time Capsule]Sonic Youth - A Thousand LeavesBilly Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid AvenueMarc Ribot y Los Cubanos PostizosOutkast - Aquemini
TracksThey Might Be Giants - "Doctor Worm"Lyle Lovett - "Bears" Jay-Z - "Can I Get A..."Belle and Sebastian - "The Boy With the Arab Strap"Dixie Chicks - "There's Your Trouble" and "Wide Open Spaces"
― Moo Vaughn, Friday, 16 February 2018 23:34 (six years ago) link
My favorite Swervedriver album, 99th Dream was released in 98
― brimstead, Friday, 16 February 2018 23:56 (six years ago) link
Oh shit Vontel- Vision of a Dream came out 20 years ago
― President Keyes, Sunday, 18 February 2018 03:42 (six years ago) link
http://thequietus.com/articles/24053-madonna-ray-of-light-review-anniversary
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 19 February 2018 11:48 (six years ago) link
Surrender by the Chemical Brothers. I think this was the first album I ever bought right on release. I woke up early to bike down to the shop so I could get in at 8 AM, just in case they sold out. At the time they were taking a lot of heat for abandoning Big Beat, but man, I loved it.
Middle of Nowhere by Orbital. The trumpets on the first track blew my mind. Never even considered that an "electronica" band would do something like that. In retrospect it's clear that the Hartnolls were running low on ideas but gave it everything they had for one last great LP. Like Brett Favre's 40-year old season with Minnesota. Nice
Beacoup Fish by Underworld. Still a classic. "Jumbo" was like, the defining song of my teenage years.
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 February 2019 15:48 (five years ago) link
69 Love Songs
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
^^
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
Here's my best of 1999 at the time, will rep for all these albums today:1. White Rose Transmission - 700 Miles Of Desert 2. Tim Keegan & Departure Lounge - Out Of Here 3. Annie Christian - Twilight 4. Robyn Hitchcock - Jewels For Sohpia 5. The Stereo Bus - Brand New 6. Frank & Walters - Beauty Becomes More Than Life 7. Stan Ridgway - Anatomy 8. The Mutton Birds - Rain, Steam & Speed 9. Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs box set 10. Wilco - Summerteeth
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:18 (five years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Basement_Jaxx_-_Remedy_album_cover.jpeg/220px-Basement_Jaxx_-_Remedy_album_cover.jpeg
― . (Michael B), Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:23 (five years ago) link
xp any list containing Out of Here means I have to check out all the records (and I only know the Wilco and Magnetic Fields).
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:26 (five years ago) link
B.G. - Chopper City In The GhettoWu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang ForeverThe Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk At Cubist Castle
― brimstead, Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:32 (five years ago) link
Cheers, Chinaski!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:48 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
Waitaminute, so did Wu-Tang Forever. What's up??
hum. apparently 99 wasn't a good music year for me... apart from Dre's 2001, I can't really think of any album I still love/find classic...
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 22 February 2019 10:18 (five years ago) link
Beaucoup FishBlack on Both SidesÁgætis ByrjunThe Soft BulletinMidnite VulturesGuerillaI See A Darkness
― groovypanda, Friday, 22 February 2019 10:18 (five years ago) link
Oh, and Carboot Soul
― groovypanda, Friday, 22 February 2019 10:20 (five years ago) link
I'd be up for an expanded edition of the Soft Bulletin. My favourite Lips album.
― Duke, Friday, 22 February 2019 10:35 (five years ago) link
Pinback - This Is a Pinback CD
and then
Blur - 13Tue-Loup - La Belle InutileWilco - Summerteeth
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 22 February 2019 10:46 (five years ago) link
'99 was a slump in light of its before and after. I've since revised my opinion somewhat:
Manes - Under ein blodraud maaneMr. Bungle - CaliforniaPan Sonic - APaysage d'hiver - Paysage d'hiverStars of the Lid - Avec laudenumTaake - Nattestid ser porten vid…Tenhi - KauanToumani Diabaté & Ballaké Sissiko - New Ancient StringsUnderworld - Beaucoup Fish
(Who am I kidding, I was listening to Enema of the State on repeat at the time.)
― pomenitul, Friday, 22 February 2019 10:51 (five years ago) link
Peter Hammill – The Fall of the House of Usher (Deconstructed & Rebuilt)Tindersticks – Simple PleasureLow – Secret NameMagnetic Fields – 69 Love SongsTim Keegan & Departure Lounge – Out of HereBonnie Prince Billy – I See A DarknessGodspeed You! Black Emperor – Slow Riot for New Zerø KanadaDido – No AngelRichard Thompson – Mock Tudor
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Friday, 22 February 2019 10:52 (five years ago) link
(!) les rythmes digitales - darkdancer
― nxd, Friday, 22 February 2019 10:53 (five years ago) link
the white stripes - s/tle tigre - s/tflaming lips - the soft bulletin
― nicky lo-fi, Friday, 22 February 2019 12:29 (five years ago) link
The Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk At Cubist CastleThis came out earlier, I owned it in college(?)― yuh yuh (morrisp), Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:53 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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You're right - Black Foliage was '99 though
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 22 February 2019 12:36 (five years ago) link
I wasn't aware of any of them at the time but these really hold up, with the top 3 somewhat connected:
Cardiacs - GunsThe Monsoon Bassoon - I Dig Your VoodooShrubbies - Memphis in TexasGSYBE! - Slow Riot for New Zero KanadaNeurosis - Times of GraceJune of 44 - Anahata
― like him hate us? Sure you are. Its in the cool aid. (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 22 February 2019 12:44 (five years ago) link
Almost forgetting my taste for daft 'avant-garde' metal somehow I'm also find of:
Dodheimsgard - 666 InternationalMaudlin of the Well - My Fruit Psychobells...
― like him hate us? Sure you are. Its in the cool aid. (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 22 February 2019 12:48 (five years ago) link
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 FoliageJimmy Eat World - ClarityBuilt to Spill - Keep It Like a SecretThe Flaming Lips - The Soft BulletinJay-Z - Vol. 3Juno - This Is the Way It Goes and Goes and GoesKelis - KaleidoscopeHood - The Cycle of Days and SeasonsAmerican Football - s/tSleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 22 February 2019 12:52 (five years ago) link
I hate these threads, but you forgot Spratleys Japs - Pony
xpost
― imago, Friday, 22 February 2019 12:52 (five years ago) link
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
― like him hate us? Sure you are. Its in the cool aid. (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 22 February 2019 13:05 (five years ago) link
I'll make an exception against my hatred for the threads for this one convergence of the forces of good
― imago, Friday, 22 February 2019 13:09 (five years ago) link
Looking forward to more in-thread exegeses of your hatred for threads of this nature.
― St. Boniface, patron saint of boner faces (Old Lunch), Friday, 22 February 2019 13:47 (five years ago) link
Anyway, I wager Trux and US Maple own '99 for me.
― St. Boniface, patron saint of boner faces (Old Lunch), Friday, 22 February 2019 13:52 (five years ago) link
Jim O'Rourke's Eureka came out 20 years ago today. 🤤🐇
― flappy bird, Monday, 25 February 2019 19:50 (five years ago) link
Hooray! Best memories of ambling about the foothills during springtime, listening to Eureka
Talker is another top ten album for me
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 25 February 2019 20:02 (five years ago) link
they did one in 2006! but it was mostly DVD-audio or 5.1 surround.
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Monday, 25 February 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
The Promise Ring - Very Emergency
― alpine static, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 00:50 (five years ago) link
a few personal favs:
Backstreet Boys – MillenniumBritney Spears – ...Baby One More TimeShania Twain – Come on Over'N Sync – *NSYNCRicky Martin – Ricky MartinChristina Aguilera – Christina AguileraSantana – SupernaturalTLC – FanMailKid Rock – Devil Without a CauseEminem – The Slim Shady LP
― if this is a simulation.. i gotta say, it's a pretty good simulation! (esby), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 01:01 (five years ago) link
those are all good ones esby
also "medallion animal carpet" by bob drake
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 01:36 (five years ago) link
Those are certainly the most 1999 records.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 01:54 (five years ago) link
Albums I like from 1999
Agalloch - Pale FolkloreAngelcorpse - The InexorableCibo Matto - Stereo Type AJohnny Dowd - Pictures From Life's Other SideNeil Hamburger - Left for Dead in MalaysiaKool Keith - Black Elvis / Lost in SpaceLacuna Coil - In a ReverieMF DOOM - Operation: DoomsdayMoby - PlayMr. Bungle - CaliforniaNeurosis - Times of GraceNine Inch Nails - The FragileSupersuckers - The Evil Powers of Rock 'n' RollVNV Nation - EmpiresTom Waits - Mule Variations
It was a strange year for me personally which possibly explains this strange list.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 02:14 (five years ago) link
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.
― oh, shut up and listen, will you? (Sund4r), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 03:31 (five years ago) link
1999 is my favorite singles year ever. perhaps the most formative year for my taste while growing up? idk
― dyl, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 03:49 (five years ago) link
ok here are some 1999 records i like today
ace - mawa sekaiadd n to (x) - avant hardamy x neuberg and men - sports! chips! booty!bauer - on the movebob drake - medallion animal carpetcranium - speed metal sentencedaisuke tobari - guitardeadwood forest - mellodramaticdyzack - the rat dance refizzfrench tv - the violence of amateursthe herbie nichols project - dr. cyclops' dreamhoundog - s/tjohn potter - in darkness let me dwellkrang - roesmr. bungle - californianeina - formed versenels cline & gregg bendian - interstellar space revisitedoidupaa vladimir oiun - divine music from a jailthe olivia tremor control - black foliageornatos violeta - o monstro precise de amigospharaohe monch - internal affairsthe solarflares - psychedelic tantrumsore plexus - haptephobictom waits - the mule variationsultrasound - everything picturewilco - summerteeth
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 04:01 (five years ago) link
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.
― dyl, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 04:29 (five years ago) link
actually now that i look at that list again i'm pretty sure i had every single one of those
― dyl, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 04:33 (five years ago) link