Albums:

1. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
2. Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
3. The Beta Band - The Beta Band
4. Basement Jaxx - Remedy
5. Beck - Midnite Vultures
6. Moby - Play
7. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
8. Wilco - Summerteeth
9. Self - Breakfast With Girls
10. Olo - Olorized Album
11. Bonnie Prince Billy - I See a Darkness
12. Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
13. Stone Temple Pilots - No. 4

1. Cobra & Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night ~ Stereolab
2. Christina Aguilera ~ Christina Aguilera
3. Sam Prekop ~ Sam Prekop
4. The Writing's on the Wall ~ Destiny's Child
5. Snowbug ~ The High Llamas
6. Black on Both Sides ~ Mos Def
7. Things Fall Apart ~ The Roots
8. Operation Doomsday ~ MF Doom
9. Soundpieces: Da Antidote ~ Lootpack
10. The Soft Bulletin ~ The Flaming Lips

TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 1999

1) UNDERWORLD Beaucoup fish
2) THE MAGNETIC FIELDS 69 love songs
3) ORBITAL The middle of nowhere
4) BOREDOMS Vision creation newsum
5) BLUR 13
6) SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Guerilla
7) THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS Surrender
8) THE FALL The Marshall suite
9) SIGUR ROS Agaetis bjyrun
10) AGALLOCH Pale mantle


TOP 25 SONGS OF 1999

1) APHEX TWIN Windowlicker
2) THE FALL Touch sensitive
3) SASHA Xpander
4) UNDERWORLD Jumbo
5) PRIMAL SCREAM Swastika eyes
6) LEFTFIELD. BAMBAATAA Afrika Shox
7) THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS Let forever be
8) UNDERWORLD Kittens
9) THE MAGNETIC FIELDS I don't believe in the sun
10) BLUR Coffee and TV

11) THE MAGNETIC FIELDS Sweet lovin' man
12) UNDERWORLD Shudder / King of Snake
13) THE MAGNETIC FIELDS Yeah oh yeah
14) UNDERWORLD Cups
15) ORBITAL Nothing left
16) SIGUR ROS Sven-f-englar
17) THE MAGNETIC FIELDS kiss me like you mean it
18) THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS Hey boy hey girl
19) THE MAGNETIC FIELDS Crazy for you but not that crazy
20) THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS Music: Response
21) SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Nothern lites
22) THE MAGNETIC FIELDS I think I need a new heart
23) THE MAGNETIC FIELDS A chicken with it's head cut of
24) THE MAGNETIC FIELDS I don't want to get over you
25) MR OIZO Flat beat

Aww, it's sad that this is my last 90s poll entry. It was so much fun, and I was introduced to some music I have to catch up on. I never got into Manic Street Preachers but I have to dig up more of their stuff.

SONGS

1. The Beta Band - It's Not Too Beautiful
2. The Flaming Lips - A Spoonful Weighs a Ton
3. Beck - Nicotine & Gravy
4. The Flaming Lips - The Spiderbite Song
5. The Beta Band - Round The Bend
6. Dismemberment Plan - You Are Invited
7. The Beta Band - The Hard One
8. Olo - 011
9. Olo - Future Fone
10. Blur - Coffee and TV
11. The Flaming Lips - Waitin' For a Superman
12. The Flaming Lips - Race For the Prize
13. Beck - Sexx Laws
14. Dismemberment Plan - Memory Machine
15. Wilco - Shot In the Arm
16. Dismemberment Plan - Back and Forth
17. Moby - Porcelain
18. Dismemberment Plan - Spider In the Snow
19. Nine Inch Nails - No You Don't
20. Magnetic Fields - Yeah Oh Yeah
20.

I do hope we'll do the same with the 00s (even if they are not done)
and then back to the beginning ?

Agree with you, Nicolas. We must continue with the polls. But, why not wait for the 00s until the decade is finished? We can do the 80s during 2008, the 70s during 2009 and then the 00s during 2010 (if we are still alive...). Just an opinion.

Albums
1) Dido - No Angel (That's right! I said it!)
2) Rage Against The Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
3) Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
4) The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
5) Travis - The Man Who
6) Basement Jaxx - Remedy
7) Beth Orton - Central Reservation
8) Cafe Tacuba - Reves/Yosoy
9) The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
10) Wilco - Summerteeth
11) The Roots - Things Fall Apart
12) Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
13) Moby - Play
14) Dr. Dre - 2001
15) Pavement - Terror Twilight
16) Dixie Chicks - Fly
17) Ely Guerra - Lotofire
18) Beck - Midnite Vultures
19) David Gray - White Ladder
20) Mos Def - Black On Both Sides

Songs
1) Rage Against The Machine - Guerrilla Radio
2) Travis - Writing To Reach You
3) Eminem - My Name Is
4) Ricky Martin - Livin’ La Vida Loca
5) The Flaming Lips - Race For The Prize
6) Destiny's Child - Say My Name
7) The Magnetic Fields - All My Little Words
8) Basement Jaxx - Red Alert
9) Britney Spears - …Baby One More Time
10) Badly Drawn Boy - Once Around The Block
11) Kelis - Caught Out There
12) Blur - Coffee & TV
13) TLC - No Scrubs
14) Ol Dirty Bastard ft. Kelis - Got Your Money
15) Dr. Dre ft. Eminem - Forgot About Dre
16) Blur - Tender
17) Santana ft. Rob Thomas - Smooth
18) Cafe Tacuba - La Locomotora
19) Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way
20) Eminem - Role Model

Albums

1. GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI: Spanish Dance Troupe
2. MADNESS: Wonderful
3. THE MAGNETIC FIELDS: 69 Love Songs
4. SHIVAREE: I Oughtta Give You a Shot in the Head for Making Me Live in This Dump
5. TINDERSTICKS: Simple Pleasures
6. SUPER FURRY ANIMALS: Guerrilla
7. THE HIGH LLAMAS: Snowbug
8. SIGUR ROS: Agætys Birjum
9. JIM O'ROURKE: Eureka
10. VAN MORRISON: Back on Top
11. BETH ORTON: Central Reservation
12. THE FLAMING LIPS: The Soft Bulletin
13. MY MORNING JACKET: The Tennessee Fire
14. THE INNOCENCE MISSION: Birds of my Neighbourhood
15. SAINT ETIENNE: The Misadventures of Saint Etienne
16. THE SHERMANS: In Technicolor
17. LUNA : The Days of Our Nights
18. SMOG : Knock Knock
19. TOM WAITS: Mule Variations
20. RICHARD THOMPSON: Mock Tudor


Songs

1. MADNESS: Johnny the Horse
2. GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI: Desolation Blues
3. GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI: Spanish Dance Troupe
4. GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI: Faraway Eyes
5. THE MAGNETIC FIELDS: All My Little Words
6. MADNESS: Lovestruck
7. THE MAGNETIC FIELDS: I don’t Believe in the Sun
8. GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI: Poodle Rockin’
9. THE FLAMING LIPS: Race for the Prize
10. THE MAGNETIC FIELDS: The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure
11. THE MAGNETIC FIELDS: A Chicken with It’s Head Cut Off
12. MADNESS: The Communicator
13. BETH ORTON: Stolen Car
14. JIM O'ROURKE: Prelude to 110 or 220-Woman
15. SHIVAREE: Goodnight Moon
16. SIGUR ROS: Starálfur
17. MY MORNING JACKET: Heartbreakin Man
18. SHIVAREE: Daring Lousy Guy
19. VAN MORRISON: High Summer
20. SUPER FURRY ANIMALS: The Teacher


My favourite Spanish albums of 1999:

1. UNDERSHAKERS: Perfidia
2. CHUCHO: Tejido de felicidad
3. LOS ENEMIGOS: Nada
4. MERCROMINA: Canciones de andar por casa
5. FANGORIA: Una temporada en el infierno
6. PAULINE EN LA PLAYA: Nada como el hogar
7. LA BUENA VIDA: Panorama
8. EMAK BAKIA: Jane
9. JR.: 127
10. PATRULLERO MANCUSO: Bodegón musical

And my favourite compilation of the year:

NEIL DIAMOND: The Ultimate Collection

... and one more thing: I'm agree (again) with Honorio. I think is the best option.

Well, I had some fun doing this, its sad that this is the end

Albums:
1. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
2. Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
3. Opeth - Still Life
4. Neurosis - Times of Grace
5. Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
6. Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
7. Testament - The Gathering
8. In Flames - Colony
9. Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
10. Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges
11. The Dust Brothers - Fight Club
12. Polaris - Music from The Adventures of Pete & Pete
13. Hypocrisy - Hypocrisy
14. Sigh - Scenario IV: Dread Dreams
15. Moby - Play
16. Mr. Bungle - California
17. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
18. Various Artist - South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
19. Dr. Dre - 2001
20. Amorphis - Tuonela

Albums

1) Travis - The Man Who
2) The Magnetic Fields - The 69 Love Songs
3) XTC - Apple Venus vol.1
4) Moby - Play
5) Shack - HMS Fable
6) The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
7) Blur - 13
8) Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
9) Fiona Apple - When The Pawn
10) Bonnie Prince Billy - I See Darkness
11) Texas -The Hush
12) Macy Gray - On How Life Is
13) Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
14) Suede - Head Music
15) Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
16) Super Furry Animals - Guerilla
17) James - Millionaires
18) Supergrass - Supergrass
19) Gus Gus - This is Normal
20) Mogwai - Come On Die Young

Songs

1) Destiny's Child - Say My Name
2) Blur - No Distance Left to Run
3) Macy Gray - I Try
4) Shack - Lend Some Dough
5) Blur - Tender
6) Travis - Writing to Reach You
7) Moby - Porcelain
8) Basement Jaxx - Red Alert
9) The Roots F/ Erykah Badu - You Got Me
10) Primal Scream - Shoot Speed Kill Light
11) Suede - She's in Fashion
12) Super Furry Animals - Northern Lights
13) Gugs Gus - Ladyshave
14) Groove Armada - At the River
15) Supergrass - Moving
16) Artful Dodger - Re-rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta)
17) Pet Shop Boys - New York City Boy
18) Travis - Driftwood
19 James - We're Going to Miss You
20) Texas - In Our Lifetime

Whoops. Could you please replace Primal Scream - Shoot Speed Kill Light with Swastika Eyes

Nathaniel - isn't that Primal Scream record a '00 release?

I hate to get all nit-picky on you - I really like your list.

Damosuzuki, Xtrminator is a 2000 album, but Swastika Eyes was released as a single in 1999:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primal_Scream#Discography

01. Incubus Make yourself
02. Pavement Terror twilight
03. Jimmy Eat World Clarity
04. Sigur Rós Ágaetis byrjun
05. Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication
06. Missy (Misdemeanor) Elliott Da real world
07. Wilco Summerteeth
08. Gomez Liquid skin
09. Flaming Lips Soft bulletin
10. Built to Spill Keep it like a secret
11. Ben Folds Five Reinhold Messner
12. Macy Gray On how life is
13. Peace Orchestra Peace Orchestra
14. Public Enemy There's a poison goin' on
15. Francis Cabrel Hors-saison
16. Beck Midnite vultures
17. Los Lobos This time
18. Keola Beamer Kolonahe
19. Fiona Apple When the pawn
20. Roots Manuva Brand new 2nd hand
21. Fu Manchu King of the road
22. Creed Human clay
23. Live Distance to here
24. Richard Thompson Mock Tudor
25. Nikki Sudden Red brocade

Top-German: Element of Crime Psycho

Albums
1.Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
2.Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjum
3.Mogwai - Come on Die Young
4.Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
5.Ben Christophers - My Beautiful Demon
6.Catatonia - Equally Cursed And Blessed
7.dEUS - Ideal Crash
8.Moby - Play
9.Fiona Apple - When the Pawn
10.Travis - The Man Who
11.Basement Jaxx - Remedy
12.Ben Fold's Five - The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
13.Blur - 13
14.Meshell Ndegeocello - Bitter
15.Supergrass
16.The All Seeing I - Pickled Eggs & Sherbet
17.Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
18.Capitol K - Sounds of the Empire
19.Death in Vegas - The Contino Sessions
20.Gomez – Liquid Skin

Kind of surprised nobody had listed Of Montreal, Imperial Teen or Olivia Tremor Control...I was wondering if my Mp3 tags were wrong.

Albums:

1. Pavement- Terror Twilight
2. Guided By Voices- Do the Collapse
3. Bonnie Prince Billie- I See a Darkness
4. Magnetic Fields- 69 Love Songs
5. Skywave- Echodrone
6. Cibo Matto- Stereotype A
7. Beck- Midnite Vultures
8. Dr. Dre- 2001
9. Le Tigre- Le Tigre
10. Imperial Teen- What is Not To Love
11. Fiona Apple- When the Pawn...
12. Dixie Chicks- Fly
13. Eminem- Slim Shady LP
14. Looper- Up a Tree
15. Of Montreal- The Gay Parade
16. Built To Spill- Keep it Like a Secret
17. Apples in Stereo- Her Wallpaper Reverie
18. Rafe Against the Machine- Battle of LA
19. Olivia Tremor Control- Black Foliage...
20. Basement Jaxx- Remedy

Songs-

1. Dr. Dre- Next Episode
2. Guided By Voices- Surgical Focus
3. Eminem- My Name Is
4. Pavement- Spit on a Stranger
5. Cibo Matto- Flowers
6. Magnetic Fields- Yeah oh Yeah
7. Magnetic Fields- When My Boy Walks Down the Street
8. Imperial Teen- Yoo Hoo
9. Fiona Apple- Fast as You Can
10. Olivia Tremor Control- I Have Been Floated
11. Guided By Voices- Hold on Hope
12. Imperial Teen- Lipstick
13. Le Tigre- Deceptacon
14. Beck- Beautiful Way
15. Dr. Dre- Still DRE
16. Magnetic Fields- All My Little Words
17. Pavement- Major Leagues
18. Skywave- Got That Feeling
19. Dixie Chicks- Sin Wagon
20. Guided By Voices- Things I Will Keep
21. Basement Jaxx- Rendez-Vu
22. Apples in Stereo- Ruby
23. Pavement- You are a Light
24. Len- Steal My Sunshine
25. Rage- Testify
26. Skywave- All I Had
27. Of Montreal- Fun Loving Nun
28. Magnetic Fields- I Don't Believe in the Sun
29. Looper- Up a Tree Again
30. Beck- Mixed Bizness

Crap, I forgot about Bonnie Prince Billie on my songs list. Oh well, they would have been somewhere around the middle anyway so it probably won't make too much difference. It's more of an album to listen to in full.

Albums:

1) Blur - 13
2) Supergrass - Supergrass
3) Pavement - Terror twilight
4) Stereophonics - Performance and Cocktails
5) Blink 182 - Enema of the State

Songs:

1) Blur - Coffee + TV
2) Blur - Tender
3) Smash Mouth - All Star
4) Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly
5) Travis - Why Does It Always Rain on Me?
6) Santana Feat. Rob Thomas - Smooth
7) The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl

25. My Favorite - Love at Absolute Zero
24. Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham - Moments from this Theater
23. Kate Rusby - Sleepless
22. Peanut Butter Wolf - My Vinyl Weighs a Ton
21. Les Rythmes Digitales - Darkdancer
20. Shack - H.M.S. Fable
19. Beck - Midnite Vultures
18. Everything But the Girl - Temperamental
17. Blink-182 - Enema of the State
16. Ibrahim Ferrer - Buena Vista Social Club Presents...
15. Suede - Head Music
14. Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider
13. Fountains of Wayne - Utopia Parkway
12. Richard Thompson - Mock Tudor
11. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Rock Art and the X-Ray Style
10. Guided by Voices - Do the Collapse
9. Dr. Dooom - First Come, First Served
8. Joe Henry - Fuse
7. Tom Waits - Mule Variations
6. Dr. Dre - 2001
5. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
4. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
3. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
2. Wilco - summerteeth
1. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs

ALBUMS:

1) Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
2) Wilco – Summerteeth
3) MF Doom – Operation: Doomsday
4) Sigur Ros – Agaetis Bryjun
5) The Roots – Things Fall Apart
6) Mos Def – Black on Both Sides
7) Travis – The Man Who
8) Bonnie “Prince” Billy – I See a Darkness
9) Dr. Dre – 2001
10) Prince Paul – A Prince Among Thieves


SONGS:

1) MF Doom – Doomsday
2) Bonnie “Prince” Billy – I See a Darkness
3) Flaming Lips – A Spoonful Weighs a Ton
4) Flaming Lips – Race For the Prize
5) Sigur Ros – Svefn-G-Englar
6) MF Doom – Rhymes Life Dimes
7) The Roots feat. Erykah Badu and Eve – You Got Me
8) Flaming Lips – Waiting On a Superman
9) Wilco – My Darling
10) Jay-Z – It’s Hot (Some Like It Hot)
11) The Roots – Ain’t Sayin’ Nothin’ New
12) The Roots feat. Mos Def – Double Trouble
13) Bonnie “Prince” Billy – A Minor Place
14) Notorious B.I.G. feat. Eminem – Dead Wrong
15) MF Doom – Gas Drawls
16) Flaming Lips – Bugging
17) The Roots – Step Into the Realm
18) Dr. Dre feat. Kurupt and Nate Dogg – Xxplosive
19) The Roots – The Next Movement
20) Sigur Ros – Staralfur

Albums:

1. David Sylvian – Deed Bees On A Cake
2. VA – Soundbombing 2
3. MF DOOM – Operation: Doomsday
4. Wilco - Summerteeth
5. Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
6. Plone – For Beginner Piano
7. Scritti Politti – Anomie & Bonhomie
8. Euroboys – Long Day’s Flight ‘Till Tomorrow
9. Bonnie Prince Billy – I See A Darkness
10. The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin

11. Talk Talk – London 1986
12. Neurosis – Times Of Grace
13. Sleep – Jerusalem
14. Kelis - Kaleidoscope
15. Today Is The Day – In The Eyes Of God
16. Destiny’s Child – The Writing’s On The Wall
17. The Dillinger Escape Plan – Calculating Infinity
18. XTC – Apple Venus Vol. 1
19. Mr. Bungle – California
20. Matthew Sweet – In Reverse

21. Botch – We Are The Romans
22. Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun
23. Fountains Of Wayne – Utopia Parkway
24. The Roots – Things Fall Apart
25. Shelby Lynne – I Am Shelby Lynne
26. The Dismemberment Plan – Emergency And I
27. Built To Spill – Keep It Like A Secret
28. Pavement – Terror Twilight
29. Les Rythmes Digitales – Darkdancer
30. Dr. Dooom – First Come, First Served

31. Prince Paul – A Prince Among Thieves
32. Stereolab – Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night
33. Dr. Dre – 2001
34. Tom Waits – Mule Variations
35. Coalesce – 0:12 Revolution In Just Listening
36. Beck – Midnight Vultures
37. Jason Falkner – Can You Still Feel?
38. Melvins – The Maggot
39. Eminem – The Slim Shady LP
40. Basement Jaxx - Remedy

Songs:

1. Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
2. Magnetic Fields – I Don’t Want To Get Over You
3. Paul Westerberg – It’s A Wonderful Lie
4. Blur - Tender
5. Ultrasound – Stay Young
6. Cousteau – The Last Good Day Of The Year
7. Squarepusher – Iambic 5 Poetry
8. Bonnie Prince Billy – I See A Darkness
9. Blackalicious – Shallow Days
10. Euroboys – Deliverance

11. Aimee Mann – Wise Up
12. Emiliana Torrini – Unemployed In Summertime
13. The Beta Band – It’s Not Too Beautiful
14. Prince Paul – Steady Slobbin’
15. Eminem – Any Man
16. East River Pipe – Shiny Shiny Pimpmobile
17. Groove Armada – At The River
18. Medina Green – Crosstown Beef
19. Handsome Boy Modelling School feat. DJ Shadow – Holy Calamity (Bear Witness II)
20. Aesop Rock – 6b Panorama

21. Guided By Voices – Hold On Hope
22. Dr. Dooom – No Chorus
23. Ministry – Bad Blood
24. Ben Folds Five – Don’t Change Your Plans
25. The Faint – Worked Up So Sexual
26. Mr. Oizo – Flat Beat
27. ODB feat. Kelis – Got Your Money
28. Satyricon – Filthgrinder
29. Isotope 217 – Audio Champion
30. Foo Fighters – Learn To Fly

31. Frank Black & The Catholics – Western Star
32. The Hellacopters – The Devil Stole The Beat From The Lord
33. Handsome Boy Modelling School – The Truth
34. Nightmares On Wax – Les Nuits
35. Pharoahe Monch – Queens
36. Stone Temple Pilots – Sour Girl
37. Madonna – Beautiful Stranger
38. Cassius – Feeling For You
39. Filter – Take A Picture
40. Dr. Dre feat. Eminem – Forgot About Dre

A not-so-great year except for Spanish music, with 4 (great) albums in my list.

ALBUMS:

1. THE MAGNETIC FIELDS “69 Love Songs” (#22 in my all-time list)
2. ANDRÉS CALAMARO “Honestidad brutal”
3. THE FLAMING LIPS “The Soft Bulletin”
4. TOM WAITS “Mule Variations”
5. MOBY “Play”
6. WILCO “Summerteeth”
7. MACY GRAY “On How Life Is”
8. SHACK “H.M.S. Fable”
9. XTC “Apple Venus, Pt. 1”
10. SIGUR RÓS “Ágætis Byrjun”
11. BASEMENT JAXX “Remedy”
12. EMINEM “The Slim Shady LP”
13. BECK “Midnite Vultures”
14. BETH ORTON “Central Reservation”
15. GORKY’S ZYGOTIC MYNCI “Spanish Dance Troupe”
16. FANGORIA “Una temporada en el infierno”
17. CAFÉ TACUBA “Revés/YoSoy”
18. BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY “I See a Darkness”
19. CHUCHO “Tejido de felicidad”
20. JIM O’ROURKE “Eureka”
21. SUPER FURRY ANIMALS “Guerrilla”
22. FIONA APPLE “When the Pawn…”
23. LOW “Secret Name”
24. FERMIN MUGURUZA “Brigadistak Sound System”
25. dEUS “The Ideal Crash”


SONGS:

1. THE FLAMING LIPS “Waitin’ for a Superman (Peter Mokran Mix)” (#34 in my all-time list)
2. BASEMENT JAXX “Red Alert” (#189)
3. ANDRÉS CALAMARO “No son horas” (#240)
4. ELVIS COSTELLO “She”
5. THE FLAMING LIPS “Race for the Prize”
6. SIGUR RÓS “Starálfur”
7. WILCO “She’s a Jar”
8. MOBY “Porcelain”
9. PRIMAL SCREAM “Swastika Eyes (Jagz Kooner Mix)”
10. EMINEM “My Name Is”
11. BECK “Sexx Laws”
12. THE MAGNETIC FIELDS “No One Will Ever Love You”
13. THE WALKABOUTS “Drown”
14. TOM WAITS “Hold On”
15. MACY GRAY “I Try”
16. BLUR “Tender”
17. MOBY “Find My Baby”
18. CAFÉ TACUBA “La muerte chiquita”
19. BETH ORTON “Pass in Time”
20. TLC “No Scrubs”
21. ANDRÉS CALAMARO “El día de la mujer mundial”
22. MERCROMINA “Evolution”
23. FANGORIA “Cierra los ojos”
24. XTC “Your Dictionary”
25. GORKY’S ZYGOTIC MYNCI “Faraway Eyes”
26. BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY “I See a Darkness”
27. WILCO “A Shot in the Arm”
28. THE MAGNETIC FIELDS “I Think I Need a New Heart”
29. ANDRÉS CALAMARO “Te quiero igual”
30. BECK “Mixed Bizness”
31. THE ROOTS featuring ERIKAH BADU “You Got Me”
32. CHUCHO “Magic”
33. AIMEE MANN “Save Me”
34. SHACK “Comedy”
35. COUSTEAU “Last Good Day of the Year”
36. THE MAGNETIC FIELDS “I Don’t Believe in the Sun”
37. LA HABITACIÓN ROJA “Eurovisión”
38. THE FLAMING LIPS “Feeling Yourself Disintegrate”
39. SIGUR RÓS “Svefn-G-englar”
40. TOM WAITS “Big in Japan”
41. DOMINIQUE A. “Exit”
42. BASEMENT JAXX “Rendez-Vu”
43. PET SHOP BOYS “New York City Boy”
44. KELIS “Caught Out There”
45. SUPER FURRY ANIMALS “Northern Lites”
46. THE MAGNETIC FIELDS “I Can’ t Touch You Anymore”
47. TODD THIBAUD “Total Stranger”
48. LOW “Immune”
49. ANDRÉS CALAMARO “Son las nueve”
50. TOM WAITS “Picture in a Frame”


BEST COMPILATION: ELVIS COSTELLO “The Very Best of Elvis Costello”

Confessional albums are a thorny affair. Quoting Eduardo Guillot for Rockdelux: “Giving yourself in the desperate and spontaneous way that he gives himself in this record is similar to selling your body or killing someone: it could seem easy but not everyone can do it”. The Spanish-Argentinean singer-songwriter Andrés Calamaro travelled a long way till the release of his masterpiece “Honestidad brutal” (“Brutal Honesty”) in 1999, 37 songs recorded when the singer was 37-years old.
Calamaro began his career twenty years before, achieving his first success in 1981 as part of the pioneer Argentinean rock band Los Abuelos de la Nada. After three albums with the band and four solo albums, he left Argentina in the middle of the inflationist hell of the early 90s to start from scratch in Spain. He formed a band, Los Rodríguez, with ex-members of Tequila (a successful Spanish-Argentinean band), publishing 5 albums during the 90s to notable critical and public acclaim. After the disbanding of Los Rodríguez, Calamaro started again his solo career with the succesful “Alta suciedad” (“High Dirtiness”, 1997), but nobody was prepared for his 1999 double album. An album recorded between Madrid, Buenos Aires and New York during almost a long year and deeply marked by a painful breaking of a relationship. It’s an album full of excesses (just like The Magnetic Fields “69 Love Songs”, my other favourite album of that year). Of chemical and sentimental excess (numerous references to drugs and lost love filled the album), of musical and creativity excess (this time the 140 minutes length is justified, with almost no weak songs and nice stylish variety) and, of course, of honesty excess.
I’ve selected “No son horas” (“It’s No Time”), a song of disturbing beauty, with a ¾ rhythm rooted in South-American folk and a melody with some debts to traditional Argentinean song “Alfonsina y el mar” (later covered by Calamaro). Conveniently placed in the latter third of the album, it’s a song about the hope of recovery after the fall: “Don’t you feel sorry for me more than a second / cause I’m going to get up”.
Some quotes now. Juan Cervera for Rockdelux: “It’s an album with and about friends, cities, football, women, cocaine and love. A love that spreads on every note of the album.” Iván Adaime for AMG: “The album contains 37 songs selected from more of a thousand recorded during this period – a result of the split-up with his Spanish girlfriend, sleepless nights and plane travels. Most of the songs are about regret and lost-love panic”. And Andrés Calamaro itself: “To me it’s violent, even cruel, to listen an album like that one. So I don’t listen to it at all. There are some songs on it that I don’t even want to think about. I was probably crazy when I decided to release that album. I could have spared this to me. Next time I don’t want to be the main protagonist of my record”. Sadly. The next works of Calamaro didn’t come even close to this masterpiece, one of the best five Spanish albums ever in my opinion.


NO SON HORAS
Composer and performer: ANDRÉS CALAMARO
First release: 1999 (“Honestidad brutal” double album)
Length: 4’13”


Si te dicen que caí,
y es verdad, y es verdad,
no sientas ni un segundo más de lástima por mí
que me voy a levantar.
Y si te falta una imagen quiero que me recuerdes así,
con el viento en las velas.

Si te dicen que duermo de día,
es verdad, y es verdad,
no te olvides que soy grande porque tengo multitudes
que me esperan afuera.
Y si te faltó ternura, o la vida te hizo dura,
quiero que me perdones.

No tengo los pies en la tierra, me perdí la realidad,
me olvidé de los amigos, me olvidé de los demás,
reconozco haber perdido sintonía alguna vez
pero no te dejé de querer.
Sigo siendo un varón tierno que quiere seguir de pie,
pero te espero.

No son horas de reírse, no son horas de olvidar,
hiciste lo que quisiste, de verdad,
no sientas ni un segundo más de lástima por mí
que me voy a levantar.
Y si te falta una imagen quiero que me recuerdes así,
con el viento en las velas.
Y si te falta una imagen quiero que me recuerdes así,
con el viento en las velas.

Te dicen que duermo de día,
y es verdad, y es verdad,
no te olvides que soy grande porque tengo multitudes
que me esperan afuera.
Y si te faltó ternura, o la vida te hizo dura,
quiero que me perdones.

No tengo los pies en la tierra, me perdí la realidad,
me olvidé de los amigos, me olvidé de los demás,
reconozco haber perdido sintonía alguna vez
pero no te dejé de querer.
Sigo siendo un varón tierno que quiere seguir de pie,
pero te espero.

No son horas de reírse, no son horas de olvidar,
vos, hiciste lo que quisiste, de verdad,
no sientas ni un segundo más de lástima por mí
que me voy a levantar.
Y si te falta una imagen quiero que me recuerdes así,
con el viento en las velas.
Y si te falta una imagen quiero que me recuerdes así,
con el viento en las velas.

Y si te falta una imagen quiero que me recuerdes así,
con el viento en las velas.
Y si te falta una imagen quiero que me recuerdes así,
con el viento en las velas.


IT’S NO TIME

If they told you I fell down,
and it’s true, and it’s true,
don’t feel sorry for me more than a second
cause I’m going to get up.
And if you need an image please remember me like this,
with the wind in the sails.

If they told you I sleep at daytime,
it’s true, and it’s true,
don’t forget that I’m big cause there’s crowds
waiting for me outside.
And if you missed some tenderness, or life made you tough,
I want your forgiveness.

I’m not down to earth, I lost reality,
I forgot the friends, forgot the others,
I admit we’ve been out of tune sometimes
but never stopped loving you.
I’m still a tender male who wants to stand up
but I’ll wait for you.

It’s no time for laughing, no time for forgetting,
you did what you wanted, really,
don’t feel sorry for me more than a second
cause I’m going to get up.
And if you need an image please remember me like this,
with the wind in the sails.
And if you need an image please remember me like this,
with the wind in the sails.

They told you I sleep at daytime,
and it’s true, and it’s true,
don’t forget that I’m big cause there’s crowds
waiting for me outside.
And if you missed some tenderness, or life made you tough,
I want your forgiveness.

I’m not down to earth, I lost reality,
I forgot the friends, forgot the others,
I admit we’ve been out of tune sometimes
but never stopped loving you.
I’m still a tender male who wants to stand up
but I’ll wait for you.

It’s no time for laughing, no time for forgetting,
you, you did what you wanted, really,
don’t feel sorry for me more than a second
cause I’m going to get up.
And if you need an image please remember me like this,
with the wind in the sails.
And if you need an image please remember me like this,
with the wind in the sails.

And if you need an image please remember me like this,
with the wind in the sails.
And if you need an image please remember me like this,
with the wind in the sails.

1 - Control Denied - The Fragile Art Of Existence
2 - Children Of Bodom - Hatebreeder
3 - Opeth - Still Life
4 - Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
5 - Evergrey - Solitude Dominance Tragedy
6 - In Flames - Colony
7 - Tristania - Beyond the veil
8 - Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
9 - Black Label Society - Sonic Brew
10 - Dark Tranquillity - Projector
11 - Testament - The Gathering
12 - Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
13 - Amon Amarth - The Avenger
14 - Vintersorg - Ödemarkens Son
15 - Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges
16 - Type O Negative - World Coming Down
17 - Lacrimas Profundere - Memorandum
18 - katatonia - tonight's decision
19 - Thyrfing - Valdr Galga
20 - My dying bride - The Light at the End of the World

21 - Finntroll - Midnattens Widunder
22 - Burzum - Hliðskjálf
23 - Hypocrisy - hypocrisy
24 - Vision Divine - Vision Divine
25 - Sigh - Scenario IV: Dread Dreams
26 - Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 2
27 - Torture Squad - Asylum Of Shadows
28 - Hate Eternal - Conquering the Throne
29 - behemoth - satanica
30 - Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimensions
31 - Crematory - Act Seven
32 - Agalloch - Pale Folklore
33 - Immortal - At the Heart of Winter
34 - Gamma Ray - Powerplant
35 - Emperor - IX Equilibrium
36 - Nargaroth - Herbstleyd
37 - Dew-Scented - Ill-Natured
38 - Novembers Doom - Of Sculptured Ivy and Stone Flowers
39 - Necrophagist - Onset of Putrefaction
40 - lacrimosa - elodia
41 - Malignancy - Intrauterine Cannibalism
42 - Flesh Grinder - S.P.L.A.T.T.E.R.
43 - Sinergy - Beware the Heavens
44 - Amorphis - Tuonela
45 - aborted - The Purity of Perversion
46 - anathema - Judgement
47 - Internal Bleeding - Driven To Conquer

Albums:
1. Macy Gray - On How Life Is
2. Basement Jaxx - Remedy
3. Travis - The Man Who
4. The Chemical Brothers - Surrender
5. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
6. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
7. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
8. Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
9. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
10. Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
11. Beck - Midnite Vultures
12. Tom Waits - Mule Variations
13. Wilco - Summer Teeth
14. Blur - 13
15. Kelis - Kaleidoscope
16. Fiona Apple - When the Pawn...
17. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
18. The Roots - Things Fall Apart
19. Moby - Play
20. Shelby Lynne - I Am Shelby Lynne

Tracks:
1. Macy Gray - I Try
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue
3. Eminem - My Name Is
4. David Gray - Babylon
5. Britney Spears - One More Time
6. Santana feat. Rob Thomas - Smooth
7. Beck - Sexx Laws
8. Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg - Still D.R.E.
9. Madonna - Beautiful Stranger
10. TLC - No Scrubs
11. The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl
12. Travis - Why Does It Always Rain on Me
13. Basement Jaxx - Red Alert
14. Blur - Coffee + TV
15. Moloko - Sing It Back
16. Ol' Dirty Bastard feat. Kelis - Got Your Money
17. Kelis - Caught Out There
18. Destiny's Child - Say My Name
19. Badly Drawn Boy - Once around the Block
20. Len - Steal My Sunshine

Ah well, it's not like any of the songs that are not in the AM list will make it to the next round anyway, so use the list I posted please.

ALBUMS
1. The Magnetic Fields, 69 LOVE SONGS
2. The Flaming Lips, THE SOFT BULLETIN
3. Wilco, SUMMER TEETH
4. Beck, MIDNITE VULTURES
5. Moby, PLAY
6. Nine Inch Nails, THE FRAGILE
7. Eminem, THE SLIM SHADY LP
8. Pavement, TERROR TWILIGHT
9. Sigur Ros, AGAETIS BYRJUN
10. Bonnie “Prince” Billy, I SEE A DARKNESS

SONGS
1. The Magnetic Fields, “Papa Was a Rodeo”
2. The Magnetic Fields, “I Don’t Believe in the Sun”
3. The Magnetic Fields, “The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure”
4. The Flaming Lips, “A Spoonful Weighs a Ton”
5. Beck, “Sexx Laws”
6. Eminem, “My Name Is”
7. Moby, “Porcelain”
8. Bonnie “Prince” Billy, “I See a Darkness”
9. Wilco, “I’m Always in Love”
10. The Magnetic Fields, “Yeah! Oh Yeah!”

Albums 1999

1. The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
2. Comet Gain: Tigertown Pictures
3. My Favorite: Love At Absolute Zero
4. Moby: Play
5. The Chemical Brothers: Surrender
6. Bonnie “Prince” Billy: I See A Darkness
7. The Magnetic Fields: The Luckies Guy On The Lower East Side
8. Suede: Coming Up
9. Travis: The Man Who
10. Red Hot Chilli Peppers: Californication



Songs 1999

1. Bonnie “Prince” Billy: I See A Darkness
2. The Flaming Lips: Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
3. Comet Gain: When You Come Back I’ll Feel Like Jesus Coming Off The Cross
4. Backstreet Boys: I Want It That Way
5. My Favorite: Working Class Jacket
6. The Magnetic Fields: The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side
7. The Chemical Brothers: Hey Boy Hey Girl
8. Red Hot Chilli Peppers: Scar Tissue
9. The Magnetic Fields: Come Back From San Fransisco
10. Comet Gain: Record Collection
11. Comet Gain: Saturday Night Facts Of Life
12. Moby: Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
13. The Magnetic Fields: I Don’t Want To Get Over You
14. Primal Scream: Swastika Eyes
15. The Flaming Lips: Race For The Price
16. Suede: Everything Will Flow
17. Macy Gray: I Try
18. The Flaming Lips: The Shark That Bled
19. Red Hot Chilli Peppers: Californication
20. Suede: She’s In Fashion
21. Eurythmics: I Saved The World Today
22. Comet Gain: Jack Nance Rising
23. Blondie: Maria
24. Travis: Turn
25. Blur: Coffee And TV

Songs

1.Travis - Driftwood
2.Flaming Lips - Race for the Price
3.Sigur Ros - Staralfur
4.Flaming Lips - Spoonful Weights a Ton
5.Badly Drawn Boy - Once around the Block
6.Magnetic Fields - Papa Was a Rodeo
7.Kemopetrol - Child Is My Name
8.Death in Vegas - Dirge
9.Catatonia - Dead from the Waist down
10.Blur - Coffee + TV
11.Macy Gray - I Try
12.Nine Inch Nails - We Are in This Together Now
13.TLC - No Scrubs
14.Sigur Ros - Olsen Olsen
15.Supergrass - Mary
16.Suede - She's in Fashion
17.Aimee Mann - Save Me
18.Basement Jaxx - Red Alert
19.Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside
20.Leftfield feat. Africa Bambaata - Africa Shox

I guess I'm either not too versed in this year, or it wasn't the best one for music. I don't even consider myself an agaetis byrjun fan.

Albums
1 Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
2 Wilco - Summerteeth
3 Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
4 Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
5 Blur - 13
6 Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage
7 White Stripes - s/t
8 Mr. Bungle - California
9 Beck - Midnite Vultues
10 Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun

Songs
1 Blur - Coffee and TV
2 Flaming Lips - Race for the Prize
3 Magnetic Fields - Yeah! Oh Yeah!
4 Beck - Sexx Laws
5 Blur - Tender
6 Wilco - I'm Always In Love
7 Sigur Ros - Sven-G-Englar
8 Bloodhound Gang - Bad Touch
9 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Parallel Universe
10 Pavement - Spit on a Stranger

Albums
1. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
2. Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
4. Dr. Dre - 2001
5. Slipknot - Slipknot

Songs
1. Aphex Twin - Window Licker
2. Eminem - My Name Is
3. Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
4. The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl
5. Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat
6. Christina Aguilera - Genie in a Bottle
7. The Chemical Brothers - Out of Control
8. Azzido Da Bass - Dooms Night
9. Basement Jaxx - Red Alert
10. The Flaming Lips - Race for the Prize
11. Moloko - Sing It Back
12. TLC - No Scrubs
13. Eminem - Guilty Conscience
14. Len - Steal My Sunshine
15. Blur - Coffee + TV
16. Blur - Tender
17. Destiny's Child - Say My Name
18. Ol' Dirty Bastard Feat. Kelis - Got Your Money
19. Primal Scream - Swastika Eyes
20. The Roots Feat. Erykah Badu - You Got Me

Albums:

1. Moby - Play
2. Gomez - Liquid skin
3. dEUS - The ideal crash
4. Spain - She haunts my dreams
5. Tindersticks - Simple pleasure
6. Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
7. Smog - Knock knock
8. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
9. Death in Vegas - The contino sessions
10. Sleater-Kinney - The hot rock
11. Scott 4 - Works project
12. Holden - L'arrière-monde
13. Tricky - Juxtapose
14. Salaryman - Karoshi
15. Madrugada - Industrial Silence
16. Amadou & Mariam - Tje ni mousso
17. The Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume 1
18. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
19. Luscious Jackson - Electronic honey
20. Beth Orton - Central reservation


Songs:

1. Moby - Natural Blues
2. Rage against the machine - Testify
3. Aphew Twin - Window Licker
4. Holden - La Machine
5. Sebadoh - Flame
6. Madrugada - Higher
7. All Seeing I - Walk a panther
8. Moby - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
9. Shivaree - Goodnight Moon
10. Death in Vegas - Dirge
11. Tricky - Bombing Bastards
12. dEUS - Instant Street
13. Badly Drawn Boy - Once around the Block
14. Moby - Porcelain
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue
16. Tom Waits - Big in Japan
17. Sebadoh - Weird
18. Beck - Sexx Laws
19. Gomez - We Haven't Turned Around
20. Blur – Coffee And TV

1. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
2. Moby - Play
3. Sigur Rós - Agaetis Byrjun
4. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
5. Dido - No angel

01. The Flaming Lips - Waitin' for a Superman
02. The Flaming Lips - Race for the Prize
03. Moby - Why does my heart feel so bad
04. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue
05. Basement Jaxx - Red Alert
06. Sigur Ros - Svefn g Englar
07. Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
08. Eminem - My name is
09. Flaming lips - The Spark That Bled
10. The Beta Band - It's Not Too Beautiful
11. The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl
12. Travis - Why Does It Always Rain On Me
13. Blink 182 - Whats my age again
14. Kelis - Caught Out There
15. Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch
16. Madonna - Beautiful Stranger
17. Super Furry Animals - Northern Lites
18. Christina Aguilera - Genie In A Bottle
19. Wilco - A Shot in the Arm
20. Basement jaxx - Rendez vu

Albums
1. Moby - Play
2. Nitin Sawhney - Beyond Skin
3. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
4. Travis - The Man Who
5. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
6. Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
7. Beth Orton - Central Reservation
8. Basement Jaxx - Remedy
9. Low - Secret Name
10. Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
11. Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
12. De-Phazz - Godsdog
13. Macy Gray - On How Life Is
14. Smog - Knock Knock
15. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
16. The White Stripes - The White Stripes
17. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
18. Everything But the Girl - Temperamental
19. Blur - 13
20. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP

Songs
1. Thomas Newman - American Beauty
2. Sigur Ros - Flugufrelsarinn
3. Kelis - Caught Out There
4. Sigur Ros - Svefn-G-Englar
5. Eminem - My Name Is
6. Travis - Why Does It Always Rain On Me?
7. Magnetic Fields - I Can't Touch You Anymore
8. Magnetic Fields - No One Will Ever Love You
9. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
10. Moby - Run On
11. Thomas Newman - Dead Already
12. Basement Jaxx - Red Alert
13. Low - Two-Step
14. Moby - Inside
15. Moby - Find My Baby
16. Beth Orton - Stars All Seem to Weep
17. Nitin Sawhney - The Pilgrim
18. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Death to Everyone
19. TLC - No Scrubs
20. Underworld - Cups

Thomas Newman's soundtrack to "American Beauty" didn't appear in shops until January 2000, although the movie came out in 1999. However, I reckoned that I could include songs (as part of the movie) in this year's list. The album would have made #2 if it had been released one month earlier.

Albums:

1. Blur- 13
2. Sigur Ros- ágætis byrjun
3. Supergrass- Supergrass
4. Travis- The Man Who
5. Wilco- Summer Teeth
6. Flaming Lips- The Soft Bulletin
7. Dismemberment Plan- Emergency and I
8. Nine Inch Nails- The Fragile
9. Magnetic Fields- 69 Love Songs
10. Bonnie "Prince" Billy- I See a Darkness
11. Low- Secret Name
12. Sparklehorse- Good Morning Spider
13. Moby- Play
14. Chris Cornell- Euphoria Morning
15. …Trail of Dead- Madonna
16. Smog- Knock Knock
17. Beck- Midnight Vultures
18. Tom Waits- Mule Variations
19. Built to Spill- Keep It Like a Secret
20. XTC- Apple Venus 1

Songs:

1. Blur - Coffee and TV
2. Sigur Ros - Svefn g englar
3. Supergrass - Faraway
4. Travis - Why Does It Always Rain on Me
5. Wilco - We're Just Friends
6. Flaming Lips - Waiting For Superman
7. Dismemberment Plan - 8 1/2 Minutes
8. Nine Inch Nails - We're in This Together Now
9. Magnetic Fields - I Don't Believe in the Sun
10. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
11. Low - Two Step
12. Sparklehorse - Sick of Goodbyes
13. Moby - Porcelin
14. Chris Cornell - Can't Change Me
15. …Trail of Dead - A Perfect Teenhood
16. Smog - Hit the Ground Running
17. Beck - Sexx Laws
18. Sigur Ros - Staralfur
19. Blur - No Distance Left to Run
20. Blur - Tender
21. Our Lady Peace - One Man Army
22. Stone Temple Pilots - Sour Girl
23. Foo Fighters - Breakout
24. Eminem - My Name Is
25. Len - Steal My Sunshine
26. Travis - Writing to Reach You
27. Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly
28. Supergrass - Moving
29. Supergrass - Pumping On Your Stereo
30. REM - The Great Beyond
31. Nine Inch Nails - Into the Void
32. Filter - Take a Picture
33. Sigur Ros - Olsen olsen
34. Magnetic Fields - Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
35. Magnetic Fields - Sweet-Lovin' Man
36. Low - Missouri
37. Flaming Lips - Race for the Prize
38. Stone Temple Pilots - I Got You
39. Fatboy Slim - Praise You
40. Blur - Battle

Albums:

1. Blur - 13
2. Of Montreal - The Gay Parade
3. Fiona Apple - When The Pawn...
4. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
5. Muse - Showbiz
6. The Beta Band - The Beta Band
7. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
8. Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
9. Travis - The Man Who
10. Tom Waits - Mule Variations
11. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
12. Moby - Play
13. Beck - Midnight Vultures
14. Wilco - Summer Teeth
15. Super Furry Animals - Guerilla
16. Beth Orton - Central Reservation
17. Dr. Dre - 2001
18. David Bowie - 'Hours...'
19. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
20. Nobukazu Takemura - Scope

1. Death In Vegas - The Contino Sessions
2. Super Furry Animals - Guerilla
3. Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
4. Mogwai - Come On Die Young
5. Shelby Lynne - I Am Shelby Lynne
6. Smog - Knock Knock
7. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
8. Beck - Midnite Vultures
9. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See A Darkness
10. The Chemical Brothers - Surrender

Songs

100 Baz Lurhmann Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
99 Blur Battle
98 Idlewild Little Discorage
97 Elastica with Mark E Smith How He Wrote Elastica Man
96 Wilco Via Chicago
95 Pavement You Are A Light
94 The Cuban Boys Cognoscenti Vs Intelligentsia
93 Alex Gopher The Child
92 The Foo Fighters Learn to Fly
91 The Chemical Brothers Hey Boy, Hey Girl
90 Leftfield / Roots Manuva Dusted
89 Hefner I Stole A Bride
88 The Divine Comedy The Pop Singer's Fear Of The Pollen Count
87 The Beta Band The hard one
86 Wilco Can't Stand It
85 Moby Porcelain
84 Eminem 97 Bonnie And Clyde
83 Suede She's in Fashion
82 Sasha Xpander
81 The Artful Dodger Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta)
80 Underworld Push Upstairs
79 Add N To X Metal Finger In My Body
78 Dismemberment Plan 8 1/2 Minutes
77 Sigur Ros Staralfur
76 Leftfield Phat Planet
75 Gorky's Zygotic Mynci Desolation Blues
74 Bonnie Prince Billy I See A Darkness
73 Guided by Voices Teenage FBI
72 TLC No Scrubs
71 R.E.M. The Great Beyond
70 The Flaming Lips Waitin' For Superman
69 The Backstreet Boys I want It That Way
68 The Pet Shop Boys New York City Boy
67 Beth Orton Stolen Car
66 Super Furry Animals Do Or Die
65 Shack Comedy
64 Mogwai Cody
63 The Flaming Lips Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
62 Supergrass Moving
61 JJ72 October Swimmer
60 Destiny's Child Say My Name
59 Madonna Beautiful Stranger
58 The Divine Comedy National Express
57 Death In Vegas Aisha
56 Pavement Carrot Rope
55 Longpigs Blue Skies
54 Shack Streets Of Kenny
53 Gomez Bring It On
52 The Fall Touch Sensitive
51 Wilco A Shot In The Arm
50 The Beta Band The Beta Band rap
49 Morgan Miss Parker
48 Catatonia Dead From The Waist Down
47 Len Steal My Sunshine
46 The Chemical Brothers Let Forever Be
45 Beck Debra
44 Aimee Mann Save Me
43 Super Furry Animals Fire In My Heart
42 Travis Writing To Reach You
41 Christina Aguilera Genie in a Bottle
40 Leftfield Afrika Shox
39 Mr. Oizo Flat Beat
38 Fiona Apple Fast As You Can
37 The Flaming Lips The Gash
36 Supergrass Mary
35 Basement Jaxx Rendez-Vu
34 Sigur Ros Svefn-G-Englar
33 Armand Van Helden U Don't Know Me
32 Macy Gray I Try
31 The Charlatans My Beautiful Friend
30 Underworld Jumbo
29 Ol' Dirty Bastard ft. Kelis Got Your Money
28 Dr. Dre and Eminem Forgot About Dre
27 Eminem My Name Is
26 The Flaming Lips Race For The Prize
25 Super Furry Animals Citizen's Band
24 Primal Scream Swastika Eyes
23 Blur Tender
22 The Magnetic Fields All My Little Words
21 Kelis Caught Out There
20 The Beta Band It's Not Too Beautiful
19 Gay Dad To Earth With Love
18 Gorky's Zygotic Mynci Spanish Dance Troupe
17 Blur Coffee and TV
16 Beck Sexx Laws
15 Super Furry Animals The Turning Tide
14 Aimee Mann Wise Up
13 Death In Vegas Dirge
12 Britney Spears Baby One More Time
11 The Chemical Brothers The Sunshine Underground
10 Hefner The Hymn For The Cigarettes
9 Moloko Sing It Back
8 Badly Drawn Boy Once Around The Block
7 Basement Jaxx Red Alert
6 All Seeing I Walk Like A Panther
5 Super Furry Animals Northern Lites
4 Blur Trimm Trabb
3 Shack Natalie's Party
2 Aphex Twin Window Licker
1 The Flaming Lips The Spark That Bled

Albums

1 Shack H.M.S. Fable
2 Super Furry Animals Guerilla
3 The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin
4 Basement Jaxx Remedy
5 Blur 13
6 Beck Midnite Vultures
7 The Chemical Brothers Surrender
8 Death in Vegas The Contino Sessions
9 Roots Manuva Brand New Second Hand
10 The Beta Band The Beta Band
11 Gorky's Zycotic Mynci Spanish Dance Troupe
12 Sigur Ros Agaetis Byrjun
13 Wilco Summer Teeth
14 Beth Orton Central Reservation
15 Underworld Beaucoup Fish
16 Supergrass Supergrass
17 Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs
18 Pavement Terror Twilight
19 Eminem The Slim Shady LP
20 Leftfield Rhythm and Stealth
21 Moby Play
22 Mogwai Come On Die Young
23 Ian Brown Golden Greats
24 The Charlatans Us and Us Only
25 Gomez Liquid Skin

01 Andrés Calamaro - Honestidad brutal
02 Basement Jaxx - Remedy
03 Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
04 Chucho - Tejido de felicidad
05 Astrud - Mi Fracaso Personal
06 Smog - Knock Knock
07 Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
08 The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
09 Beck - Midnite Vultures
10 Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
11 Tindersticks - Simple Pleasure
12 Mogwai - Come On Die Young
13 Death in Vegas - The Contino Sessions
14 Spain - She haunts my dreams
15 Gorky's Zygotic Minci - Spanish Dance Troupe
16 Moby - Play

01 Primal Scream - Swastika Eyes
02 Basement Jaxx - Red Alert
03 Armand Van Helden - U Don't Know Me
04 Andrés Calamaro - Son las nueve
05 Astrud - Bailando
06 Chucho -Magic
07 TLC - No Scrubs
08 Beck - Sexx Laws

ALBUMS
01 ALI FARKA TOURE Niafunke
02 BECK Midnite Vultures
03 THE FLAMING LIPS The Soft Bulletin
04 WILCO Summerteeth
05 BOREDOMS Vision Creation Newsun
06 ARAB STRAP Elephant Shoe
07 IBRAHIM FERRER Buena Vista Social Club Presets Ibrahim Ferrer
08 THE ROOTS Things Fall Apart
09 SMOG Knock Knock
10 TOM WAITS Mule Variations
11 SUPER_COLLIDER Head On
12 BONNIE PRINCE BILLY I See a Darkness
13 THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN Emergency & I
14 LOW Secret Name
15 JIM O'ROURKE Eureeka
16 FIONA APPLE When the Pawn
17 MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday
18 THE DUST BROTHERS Fight Club OST
19 BLUR 13
20 LE TIGRE Le Tigre


SONGS
01 APHEX TWIN Windowlicker
02 THE FLAMING LIPS Buggin'
03 ARAB STRAP Cherubs
04 EL OTRO YO No Me Importa Morir
05 TOM WAITS Big in Japan
06 PRIMAL SCREAM Swastika Eyes
07 SMOG Cold Blooded Old Times
08 BECK Debra
09 THE MAGNETIC FIELDS The Book of Love
10 BLUR Coffee & TV
11 JIM O'ROURKE Prelude to 110 or 220/Women of the World Unite
12 FIONA APPLE Fast as You Can
13 DEATH IN VEGAS Aisha
14 BONNIE PRINCE BILLY A Minor Place
15 LOW Starlife
16 ANDRES CALAMARO Te Quiero Igual
17 HEFNER Hymn for the Cigarrettes
18 ELLIOTT SMITH Because
19 THE ROOTS FEATURING ERIKAH BADU You Got Me
20 ARMAND VAN HELDEN U Don't Know Me

French artists win on both lists

Albums

Not a very good year, especially for rock (first rock album is nb 6)

1. Dick Annegarn - Adieu Verdure (excellent French songwriter)
2. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP (changed my mind about E)
3. Steve Earle - The Mountain (huge country album)
4. Eliades Ochoa - Sublime Illusion
5. Chemical Brothers - Surrender
6. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
7. Corey Harris - Greens from the garden
8. Wilco - Summer Teeth
9. Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
10. Tom Waits - The Mule Variations
11. Bonnie Prince Billy - I See A Darkness
12. Jan Garbarek - Rites
13. Beck - Midnite Vultures
14. The Roots - Things Fall Apart
15. The Herbaliser - Very Mercenary
16. Brad Mehldau - Art of the Trio 4 : Back At Vanguard
17.Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
18. M - Je Dis Aime
19. Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
20. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

Songs

1.Mr Oizo - Flat Beat
2.The Chemical Brothers - Out of control
3.Eminem - Guilty Conscience
4.Dick Annegarn - Que Toi
5.Eliades Ochoa - Teje Que Teje
6.Brad Mehldau - Exit Music (For A Film)
7.Eminem - Still don't give a fuck
8.The Herbaliser - Road Of Many Signs
9.The Roots - You Got Me
10.Flaming Lips - Race For The Prize
11.Beck - Sexx Laws
12.Dr Dre - Still D.R.E.
13.Tom Waits - What's He Building ?
14.Corey Harris - Pas Parlez
15.Sigur Ros - Ny Batteri
16.Steve Earle - Texas Eagle
17.Bonnie Prince Billy - I See A Darkness
18.Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue
19.M - Mama Sam
20.Death In Vegas - Aisha

forgot to say : most hated album of the year : Moby - Play

I've found ordering this list harder than most other years. Also, there are some 1999 albums I for whatever reason have never gotten around to that might rank highly if I had. For example, I've still not heard either of Brad Mehldau's 1999 albums, but given that he's recorded some of my favorite music, there's a good chance that they would bump a few of the following down a notch or two. Oh well, since only Nicolas has included Brad Mehldau in his list, my mentioning him or not wouldn't put him anywhere near the top 10, anyway.

1) Shelby Lynne - I Am Shelby Lynne (I think of this as a 2000 album, but I guess it was originally released in Great Britain in 1999, so here it is)
2) Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
3) Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
4) Pavement - Terror Twilight
5) Randy Newman - Bad Love
6) Diana Krall - When I Look in Your Eyes
7) Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
8) Moby - Play (almost exclusively for the country blues and gospel samples)
9) Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun (though this might be much lower if I understood Icelandic)
10) Wilco - Summerteeth
11) Tom Waits - Mule Variations
12) Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock
13) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
14) Dixie Chicks - Fly
15) White Stripes - White Stripes

Why?

I hear the little boy who has come up with a bunch of beautiful tunes, crossed with the grown-up musician who's been digging in the blues archive. Great stuff.

ALBUMS

1. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
2. Mr. Bungle - California
3. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
4. of Montreal - The Gay Parade
5. Wilco - Summerteeth
6. Linus of Hollywood - Your Favorite Record
7. Ben and Jason - Emoticons
8. Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
9. Fountains of Wayne - Utopia Parkway
10.Spearmint - A Week Away
11.Beck - Midnite Vultures
12.Travis - The Man Who
13.Archive - Take My Head
14.The Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume 1
15.Ron Sexsmith - Whereabouts
16.The White Stripes - The White Stripes
17.Super Furry Animals - Guerrilla
18.Gay Dad - Leisure Noise
19.Mellow - Another Mellow Winter
20.Death in Vegas - The Contino Sessions

SONGS

1. The Flaming Lips - Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
2. Brendan Perry - I Must Have Been Blind
3. Badly Drawn Boy - Once Around the Block
4. Linus of Hollywood - A Song
5. Mr. Bungle - Ars Moriendi
6. Beck - Sexx Laws
7. The Magnetic Fields - All My Little Words
8. Sigur Rós - Olsen Olsen
9. The Flaming Lips - Race for the Prize
10.Archive - Cloud in the Sky
11.Wilco - How to Fight Loneliness
12.Mr. Bungle - None of Them Knew They Were Robots
13.Super Furry Animals - Northern Lites
14.Supergrass - Moving
15.Ben & Jason - Air Guitar
16.Fountains of Wayne - Red Dragon Tattoo
17.Gay Dad - To Earth With Love
18.Travis - Writing to Reach You
19.Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Faraway Eyes
20.Spearmint - Sweeping the Nation

About Moby

What I don't like in his album is not the blues-oriented songs (they are good)
In fact I quite like Honey, Find my baby and Natural Blues.
It's just that the album is way too long, and there are so many fillers to my mind, useless tunes, soapy music.
Electro in general is not (apart from Portishead, Massive Attack, maybe Aphex Twin and other major artists) an album genre
Singles are great most of the time but some albums are filled with fillers
The Basement Jaxx album is a very good example of this.
For me, every song has to be good in an album. There's got to be cohesion.
The Flaming Lips album to me is a very good song (Race for the prize) surronded by lesser material

Nicolas, that's how I initially felt about "Play" too (I thought it was too long, I didn't hate it (far from it)).

But then, during a whole month or so, I woke up every morning to a reading from a book on the radio. And every morning a couple of the last songs from "Play" played in the background to the reading (most notably "Inside") and created a wonderful atmosphere. It's the best "wake-up calls" I've ever had, and since then "Play" is a huge favorite of mine.

I acknowledge the word "hate" might be excessive.
In fact I listened to the album only once this month (I listened to a lot of albums from 1999 but for some of them it was some discovery listenings.
I'm not very familiar with 90's music (i am more fond of oldies, and I realize that in 99 I listened to a lot of other musics : jazz, world, french singers, and it shows in my lists) and this poll is interesting for me because I discovered a lot of good stuff (Outkast, Eminem, Lucinda Williams, but also good indie records like The Magnetic Fields. i can't say I love this kind of music but I found it very funny and musical.

I just found that among the 1999 albums Play was the one who got one of the worst marks.
It is not the worst though because I managed to listened to it all the way through which was not the case for all of them.
So I'll try to give it another listen but the fact is I just erased all the album (except the 3 songs mentionned) from my computer (i had borrowed it in the library)

on emore thing : it is really interesting to read every list
In fact this is what I find the most interesting.
The final list will only consist of indie rock, which is the favorite genre here in this thread. The result will be consensual.
I just deeply regret there is not more variety in your choices.
What's intersting is wthe hidden and less known names that you see in these lists.
I really invite everybody here to listen to Brad Mehldau's version of Exit Music, especially Mike Kelly who quoted the pianist.
I guess you won't be disappointed

Nicolas, I wish I had sought out Brad Mehldau's 1999 albums. I know his version of Exit Music on his Art of the Trio Volume 3, and like very much his other versions of Radiohead songs (though my favorite piece by him of all is his version of Martha My Dear, from Day is Done; have you heard it?). Anyway, I'll take your recommendation and seek out his Back at the Vanguard version.

I think Acclaimed Music is a great resource--thank you Henrik for it!--but I do regret, once we get to the Beatles era, that jazz is poorly represented. That of course is largely because of a shift of critical attention to being almost solely focused on rock and related popular music. I'm fairly new to this site and this forum (I discovered it about a half a year ago), and perhaps there have been some discussions that I've missed on how to incorporate jazz publications' year-end lists and so on. And perhaps such lists would be incommensurable with the more mainstream, rock and hip hop focused lists. I don't know. But, though I'm quite sincerely a huge fan of this site--and I get the sense Nicolas is, too-- I do share some of Nicolas's concerns.

I'm hoping I'm not too late to post at this point.

ALBUMS:

1. The Roots - Things Fall Part
2. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
3. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
4. The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
5. Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
6. Blur - 13
7. Wilco - Summer Teeth
8. Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
9. Moby - Play
10. Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
11. David Gray - White Ladder (if it's considered '99)
12. Foo Fighters - There is Nothing Left to Lose
13. Rage Against the Machine - Battle of Los Angeles
14. Tom Waits - Mule Variations
15. Cafe Tacuba - Reves/Yo Soy (Unfortunately, an album I just discovered or it'd be much higher)

SONGS:
1. Wilco - A Shot In the Arm
2. Sigur Ros - Svefn-G-Englar
3. Blur - No Distance Left to Run
4. Built to Spill - Carry The Zero
5. Tom Waits - Hold On
6. Rage Against the Machine - Guerilla Radio
7. The Roots - Adreneline
8. The Flaming Lips - Race for the Prize
9. The Roots - The Next Movement
10. Magnetic Fields - I Think I Need A New Heart
11. Blur - Coffee and TV
12. Moby - Porcelain
13. Underworld - Shudder/King of Snake
14. Underworld - Cups
15. The Beta Band - Dry the Rain
16. The Dismemberment Plan - A Life of Possibilities
17. Foo Fighters - Ain't It The Life
18. The Roots - Act Two (Love Of My Life)
19. Wilco - Via Chicago
20. Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly

Here are the albums and songs from 1999 that will be included in the best of the 90s poll starting right after this!

Albums
1. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
2. Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
3. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
4. Wilco - Summerteeth
5. Moby - Play
6. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
7. Travis - The Man Who
8. Blur - 13
9. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
10. Beck - Midnite Vultures

Songs
1. The Flaming Lips - Race for the Prize
2. Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
3. Blur - Coffee and TV
4. Eminem - My Name Is
5. Basement Jaxx - Red Alert
6. Sigur Ros - Svefn-G-Englar
7. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
8. Beck - Sexx Laws
9. Primal Scream - Swastika Eyes
10. The Flaming Lips - Waitin' for a Superman

All votes can be found in this spreadsheet:

1999 Forum Poll

Gahh, I forgot about Don't Falter being on On The Ropes and being a '99. Missed a top ten vote from me there!

Good to see nothing from RHCP in either top ten.