Album of The Year - Endgame

1. American Football - American Football
2. Eminem - Slim Shady LP
3. TLC - Fan Mail
4. Blink-182 - Enema of the State
5. The Roots - Things Fall Apart
6. Mos Def - Black On Both Sides
7. Moby - Play
8. Incubus - Make Yourself
9. Bouncing Souls - Hopeless Romantic
10. AFI - Black Sails in the Sunset

Some of these might not be objectively the best or what I’d necessarily go for now, but I listened to them so much at the time, I couldn’t leave them off
 
come on, 1999 wasn't bad at all.
look at this
1- Beck - Midnite Vultures
2- Death in Vegas - Contino Sessions
3- Supergrass - Supergrass
4- Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
5- Chemical Brothers - Surrender
6- Blur - 13
7- Sigur Ros - Aegetis Byrjun
8- Macy Gray - On How life is
9- Suede - Head Music
10- Moby - Play
 
whatwhatsaywhat said:
Wasn’t Clarity out in 98?

Off the top of my head, immediate stand outs would be flips’ Soft Bulletin, Fiona Apple’s When the Pawn, Sigur Ros’ Aegitis Byrjun, wilco’s Summerteeth, and d-plan’s The Emergency & I

From an Oztrayan perspective, bluebottle kiss’ Patient, and second records from Not From There and possibly Pnau (although did Sambanova came out in 98 too?)
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I see February '99 for Clarity.
 
1. Fiona Apple - When The Pawn...
2. Blur - 13
3. Pavement - Terror Twilight
4. Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock
5. Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
6. Magnolia: Music From the Motion Picture
7. The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
8. Joel Plaskett - In Need Of Medical Attention
9. Sloan - Between the Bridges
10. Stone Temple Pilots - Nº4
 
  1. The Cinematic Orchestra - Motion
  2. Piano Magic - Low Birth Weight
  3. DOOM - Operation Doomsday
  4. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
  5. Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
  6. Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
  7. Cul de Sac - Crashes to Light, Minutes to Its Fall
  8. Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
  9. The Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One
  10. Cerberus Shoal - Homb
 
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  1. Sigur Ros - Ágætis byrjun
  2. Magnetic Fields- 69 Love Songs
  3. Fiona Apple - When the Pawn
  4. Boredoms- Vision Creation Newsun
  5. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
  6. American Football- American Football
  7. The Roots - Things Fall Apart
  8. Dr. Dre - 2001
  9. Bonny Prince Billy - I See A Darkness
  10. Handsome Boy Modeling School- So.... Hows Your Girl
 
Woob_woob said:
I had a real tough time keeping mine at 10. I think it was a sneaky really strong year, even if the mainstream was a bunch of crap.
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I think as with all things it depends what you are into tbh. For a, mainly, rock/indie fan on this side of the ocean it kinda fell in a 3 year lull between britpop imploding and the garage rock scene and it lacked the sort of magic one off scene defying albums that 1998 and 2000 had in abundance.

I think for context I was 16 and ended up falling into nu-metal around then too...
 
1999

holy fuck this year is stacked

  1. Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
  2. Stars of the Lid - Avec Laudenum
  3. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
  4. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
  5. American Football - American Football
  6. Built to Spill - Keep it Like a Secret
  7. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Slow Riot For New Zerø Kanada (the best pound for pound GY!BE Release IMO)
  8. The Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About
  9. of Montreal - The Gay Parade
  10. Blur - 13
Honorable Mentions:
  • Beck - Midnite Vultures
  • Pavement - Terror Twilight
  • Mogwai - Come On Die Young
  • Wilco - Summerteeth
  • Guster - Lost and Gone Forever
  • Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
  • The Apples in Stereo - Her Wallpaper Reverie
 
supahypeag said:
Yeah, a Korn album came out that year. I seem to recall not liking Issues as much as I did Follow the Leader, though, so I kept it off my nostalgia-list
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It was also the year Limp Bizkit broke big. Lots of meat heads at the festivals that summer. Alt-rock had been coasting for a bit and I don't remember much of what was playing on the radio catching my ears. There were a bunch of great psychedelic pop that was released, mostly associated to Elephant 6, as @wokeupnew pointed out.
 
Okay, I'm just going to go for it:
  1. Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage: Animation Music
  2. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
  3. Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
  4. Built to Spill - Keep it Like a Secret
  5. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
  6. Beck - Midnite Vultures
  7. Wilco - Summerteeth
  8. ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Madonna
  9. Moby - Play
  10. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP

Not included, but not forgotten:
  • The Faint - Blank Wave Arcade
  • The Roots - Things Fall Apart
  • Blur - 13
  • Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock
  • American Football - American Football
 
I had so many other good albums to leave off, great year!

Top 10 1999
1. Fiona Apple - When The Pawn…
2. Jim O’Rourke - Eureka
3. Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
4. Cibo Matto - Stereo Type A
5. Kelis - Kaleidoscope
6. Pavement - Terror Twilight
7. Beck - Midnite Vultures
8. TLC - Fanmail
9. Wilco - Summerteeth
10. The Roots - Things Fall Apart

HMs:
Ben Folds Five - The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner
Gomez - Liquid Skin
Pet Shop Boys - Nightlife
Spain - She Haunts My Dreams
Travis - The Man Who
 
1. Fiona Apple-When the Pawn...
2. Mos Def-Black On Both Sides
3. Wilco-Summerteeth
4. Dr. Dre-Chronic 2001
5. Flaming Lips-The Soft Bulletin
6. The Roots-Things Fall Apart
7. Eminem-Slim Shady LP
8. Magnetic Fields-69 Love Songs
9. Travis-The Man Who
10. Sigur Ros-Agaetis Byrjun

Hms....still love these even if they don't get much play anymore

Incubus-Make Yourself
Red Hot Chili Peppers-Californicatiom
 
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