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This is the ninth part of the best albums and songs of the 1990s poll, which is described here.
You are welcome to list and discuss your favorite albums and/or songs of 1998 in this thread. List(s) need to be posted before the end of September to be included in the calculation of the combined top 10 albums and top 10 songs of 1998. You can include both albums and songs listed at Acclaimed Music and your personal favourites.
Songs are sometimes released a year before it appears on an album and the release date can differ between countries. Please have a look at the 1998 album and song lists before voting, as album and song listed under 1998 at Acclaimed Music will only be counted in the forum poll if they are included in this month's ballots.
Please include at least 5 albums/songs. The scoring system is as follows for both albums and songs.
1. 50
2. 40
3. 35
4. 30
5. 25
6. 20
7. 18
8. 16
9. 14
10. 12
11. 10
12. 9
13. 8
14. 7
15. 6
16. 5
17. 4
18. 3
19. 2
20. 1
Songs:
1. Air – Le Femme d’Argent
2. DMX - Bring Your Whole Crew
3. Massive Attack – Karmacoma (live Albert Hall)
4. Mark Lanegan – Stay
5. Massive Attack – Angel
6. Silver Jews - The Wild Kindness
7. Boards Of Cabada – Roygivb
8. Catatonia – My Selfish Gene
9. Silver Jews – Night Society
10. Mercury Rev – Goddess On A Highway
11. Jay-Z – Hard Knock Life
12. Elliott Smith – Waltz #2
13. Mercury Rev - Opus No. 5
14. Air – Kelly Watch The Stars
15. Boards Of Canada – Aquarious
16. Queens Of The Stone Age - Avon
17. Jeff Buckley – Opened Once
18. Tristania – My Lost Lenore
19. Belle & Sebastian - Chickfactor
20. Propellerheads – On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Albums:
1 ) Pernice Brothers - Overcome by Happiness
2 ) Handsome Family - Through the Trees
3 ) Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
4 ) Mojave 3 - Out of Tune
5 ) Plastikman - Consumed
6 ) The Delgados - Peloton
7 ) Autechre - LP5
8 ) Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
9 ) Elliot Smith - XO
10 ) Tortoise - TNT
11 ) Billy Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid Ave
12 ) Gastr Del Sol - Camoufleur
13 ) Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap
14 ) Divine Comedy - Fin De Siecle
15 ) Saint Etienne - Good Humour
16 ) The Mavericks - Trampoline
17 ) Lyle Lovett - Step Inside This House
18 ) Plastikman - Artifakts
19 ) High Llamas - Cold and Bouncy
20 ) Prince - The Truth
Songs:
1 ) Pernice Brothers - Wherein Obscurely
2 ) Lucinda Williams - Lake Charles
3 ) Handsome Family - The Giant of Illinois
4 ) Lucinda Williams - I Lost It
5 ) Lucinda Williams - Jackson
6 ) Pernice Brothers - Wait to Stop
7 ) Pernice Brothers - Dimmest Star
8 ) Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely
9 ) Handsome Family - My Ghost
10 ) Mojave 3 - To Whom Should I Write
11 ) Elliot Smith - Waltz #1
12 ) The Delgados - Everything Goes Around the Water
13 ) Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
14 ) Fastball - The Way
15 ) Tortoise - four day interval
16 ) Autechre - Rae
17 ) Pulp - Like a Friend
18 ) Gastr Del Sol - Blues Subtitled No Sense of Wonder
19 ) Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap
20 ) Saint Etienne - The Bad Photographer
ALBUMS
1. The Beta Band - The Three EPs
2. ICU - Chotto Matte A Moment! --- (has anyone heard of this, by the way?)
3. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
4. Air - Moon Safari
5. Beck - Mutations
6. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
7. Godspeed You Black Emperor - F#@# Infinity
8. Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
9. Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way Baby
10. Melt Banana - Charlie
11. Pearl Jam - Yield
12. Garbage - Version 2.0
Been waiting for this one :-) Gull Power!!!!!
1) Liz Phair -Whitechocolatespaceegg
2) Mercury Rev -Deserter's Songs
3) PJ Harvey -Is This Desire?
4) Billy Bragg and Wilco -Mermaid Avenue
5) Madonna -Ray of Light
6) Garbage -Version 2.0
7) Tori Amos -From the Choir Girl Hotel
8) Belle and Sebastian -the Boy with the Arab Strap
9) Hole -Celebrity Skin
10)Gomez - Bring it On
11)Fat Boy Slim -You've Come a Long Way Baby
12)Marlyn Manson -Mechanical Aminals
13)Massive Attack- Mezzanine
14)Pulp -This is Hardcore
15)Placebo- I'm Nothing Without You
16)Beastie Boys -Hello Nasty
ALBUMS:
1) Outkast – Aquemini
2) Elliott Smith – XO
3) Big Punisher – Capital Punishment
4) Black Star – Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
5) UNKLE – Psyence Fiction
6) Wagon Christ – Tally Ho!
7) Jay-Z – Vol. 2 … Hard Knock Life
8) Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
9) Gang Starr – Moment of Truth
10) Hieroglyphics – 3rd Eye Vision
SONGS:
1) Elliott Smith – Waltz #1
2) Black Star – Definition
3) Outkast feat. Cee-Lo and Erykah Badu – Liberation
4) Elliott Smith – Waltz #2
5) Outkast – Rosa Parks
6) Outkast feat. Raekwon – Skew It On the Bar-B
7) UNKLE feat. Kool G Rap – Guns Blazin’ (Drums of Death Pt. 1)
8) Jay-Z – Nigga What, Nigga Who
9) Outkast – Da Art of Storytellin’ Pt. 2
10) Elliott Smith – Sweet Adeline
11) Black Star feat. Common – Respiration
12) Wake-Up Show All-Stars – The Anthem
13) Elliott Smith - Pitselah
14) Outkast – Chonkyfire
15) UNKLE feat. Richard Ashcroft – Lonely Souls
16) Plaid – Rakimou
17) Hieroglyphics – You Never Knew
18) Gangstarr – You Know My Steez
19) Wagon Christ – Tally Ho!
20) Big Punisher – Dream Shatterer
Albums:
1. Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
2. Death - The Sounds of Perseverance
3. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
4. Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
5. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
6. Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
7. Meshuggah - Chaosphere
8. System of a Down - System of a Down
9. Fear Factory - Obsolete
10. Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
11. Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby
12. Nasum - Inhale/Exhale
13. Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet
14. Trans-Siberian Orchestra - The Christmas Attic
15. X Japan - Art of Life Live
16. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
17. Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
18. Boris - Amplifier Worship
19. Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
20. Stabbing Westward - Darkest Days
Got some personal disappointment with the 97 outcome, but that's democracy.
Next year, next chance:
1. Beastie Boys - Hello nasty
2. Belle & Sebastian - Boy with the Arab strap
3. Placebo - Without you I'm nothing
4. Gang Starr - Moment of truth
5. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach - Painted from memory
6. Karate - Bed is in the ocean
7. Jeff Buckley - Sketches for: My sweetheart the drunk
8. Gomez - Bring it on
9. Jack - Jazz age
10. Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
11. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
12. Air - Moon safari
13. Autechre - Autechre
14. Oliver Mtukudzi - Tuku music
15. Sonic Youth - Thousand leaves
16. Madonna - Ray of light
17. Kruder & Dorfmeister - K & D sessions
18. Pearl Jam - Yield
19. Lucinda Williams - Car wheels on a gravel road
20. Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
SONGS
1. Beck - Nobody's Fault But My Own
2. Beta Band - Needles in My Eyes
3. Beta Band - Inner Meet Me
4. Smashing Pumpkins - For Martha
5. ICU - Whistle
6. Air - New Star In the Sky (Chanson Pour Solal)
7. Neutral Milk Hotel - King of Carrot Flowers Part 2
8. Air - Kelly Watch the Stars
9. Fatboy Slim - Praise You
10. Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely
11. Boards of Canada - Aquarius
12. Neutral Milk Hotel - Ghost
13. ICU - Aluet
14. Massive Attack - Teardrop
15. Beta Band - It's Over
16. Jay-Z - Hard Knock Life
17. Beta Band - She's The One
18. Air - Remember
19. Beck - Canceled Check
20. Boards of Canada - Open the Light
Albums
1. Elliott Smith- XO
2. Beck- Mutations
3. Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
4. Starflyer 59- The Fashion Focus
5. Beastie Boys- Hello Nasty
6. Mason Jennings- Mason Jennings
7. Sunny Day Real Estate- How It Feels To Be Something On
8. Jay-Z- Vol 2. Hard Knock Life
9. Garbage- Version 2.0
10. Marilyn Manson- Mechanical Animals
11.Semisonic- Feeling Strangely Fine
12. Air- Moon Safari
13. System of a Down- ST
14. Cornelius- Fantasma
15. Garbage- Version 2.0
Songs
1. Elliott Smith- Waltz #2
2. Neutral Milk Hotel- King of Carrot Flowers Part 1
3. Starflyer 59- We're the Ordinary
4. Dandy Warhols- Not if You Were...
5. Beck- We Live Again
6. Beastie Boys- Body Movin
7. Elliott Smith- Independence Day
8. Hole- Malibu
9. Mason Jennings- California
10. Starflyer 59- Fell In Love at 22
11. SDRE- How It Feels To Be Something On
12. SOAD- Sugar
13. Beck- Lazy Flies
14. Air- Sexy Boy
15. Belle and Sebastian- It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career
16. Jay Z- Can I Get A...
17. NMH- Holland 1945
18. Outkast- Rosa Parks
19. Beastie Boys- Intergalactic
20. Beck- Nobodys Fault But My Own
21. Elliott Smith- Tomorrow, Tomorrow
22. Fatboy Slim- Praise You
23. Marilyn Manson- I Don't Like the Drugs
24. Semisonic- Made To Last
25. Starflyer 59- I Drive A Lot
Albums:
1. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
2. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
3. Korn - Follow the Leader
4. Hole - Celebrity Skin
5. System of a Down - System of a Down
6. Fear Factory - Obsolete
7. Soulfly - Soulfly
8. Xzibit - 40 Days & 40 Nightz
Songs:
1. Elliott Smith - Waltz #2
2. Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
3. Air - Sexy Boy
4. Massive Attack - Teardrop
5. Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
6. Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank
7. Fatboy Slim - Praise You
8. Pulp - This Is Hardcore
9. Mercury Rev - Goddess on a Hiway
10. OutKast - Rosa Parks
11. Madonna - Frozen
12. Hole - Celebrity Skin
13. The Dandy Warhols - Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth
14. Madonna - Ray of Light
15. Stardust - Music Sounds Better with You
16. The Cardigans - My Favourite Game
17. Placebo - Pure Morning
18. Jay-Z - Hard Knock Life
19. Big Punisher Featuring Joe - Still Not a Player
20. Beck - Nobody's Fault But My Own
Whoops, just realized that Garbage got in there twice on mine. I type out all the albums and cut and paste so I must not have deleted it. You can replace that with Talib Kweli/Mos Def- Black Star or just disregard it. Sorry!
Albums
1) Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
2) Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces
3) Garbage - Version 2.0
4) Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
5) Massive Attack - Mezzanine
6) OutKast - Aquemini
7) Shakira - Donde Estan Los Ladrones?
8) Julieta Venegas - Aqui
9) Los Amigos Invisibles - The New Sound of the Venezuelan Gozadera
10) Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
11) Neutral Milk Hotel - In An Aeroplane Over The Sea
12) Air - Moon Safari
13) Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
14) Tortoise - TNT
15) Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
16) Elliott Smith - XO
17) Fatboy Slim - You've Come A Long Way Baby
18) Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
19) KoRn - Follow The Leader
20) Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
Songs
1) Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing)
2) Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me
3) Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces
4) Los Amigos Invisibles - El Disco Anal
5) Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
6) Aaliyah - Are You That Somebody?
7) Elliott Smith - Waltz #2 (XO)
8) Massive Attack - Teardrop
9) Semisonic - Closing Time
10) Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Go Daddy-O
11) Beck - Tropicalia
12) Shakira - Si Te Vas
13) KoRn - Freak On A Leash
14) Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
15) Air - Le Femme D'Argent
16) Madonna - Ray Of Light
17) Tortoise - TNT
18) OutKast - Rosa Parks
19) Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank
20) Hole - Celebrity Skin
Albums:
1 Jeff Buckley - Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk
2 Bob Dylan - Live 1966
3 Elliott Smith - XO
4 Massive Attack - Mezzanine
5 R.E.M. - Up
Albums
1. LIZ PHAIR: Whitechocolatespaceegg
2. GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI: Gorky 5
3. MOJAVE 3: Out of Tune
4. ELLIOT SMITH: XO
5. THE HIGH LLAMAS: Cold and Bouncy
6. BELLE & SEBASTIAN: The Boy with the Arab Strap
7. CONTINENTAL DRIFTERS: Vermillion
8. BRIAN WILSON: Imagination
9. VAN MORRISON: The Philosoper´s Stone (The Unreleased Tapes 1971-1988)
10. MERCURY REV: Deserter’s Songs
11. ELVIS COSTELLO & BART BACHARACH: Painted from Memory
12. AIR: Moon Safari
13. MANU CHAO: Clandestino
14. R.E.M.: Up
15. JONI MITCHELL: Taming the Tiger
16. EELS: Electro-Shock Blues
17. TOM FREUND: North American Long Weekend
18. RAY DAVIES: The Storyteller
19. JONATHAN RICHMAN: I'm So Confused
20. LUCINDA WILLIAMS: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Songs
1. LIZ PHAIR: Polyester Bride
2. VAN MORRISON: Street Theory
3. MERCURY REV: Endlessly
4. LIZ PHAIR: Johnny Feelgood
5. CONTINENTAL DRIFTERS: Rain Song
6. ELVIS COSTELLO & BART BACHARACH: Toledo
7. THE HIGH LLAMAS: Showstop Hip Hop
8. LIZ PHAIR: Big Tall Man
9. GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI: Tsunami
10. MANU CHAO: Bongo Bong
11. CONTINENTAL DRIFTERS: Way of the World
12. MOJAVE 3: Who Do You Love
13. BELLE & SEBASTIAN: It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career
14. MERCURY REV: Holes
15. THE HIGH LLAMAS: Over the River
16. BELLE & SEBASTIAN: Sleep the Clock Around
17. GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI: Hush the War
18. ELLIOT SMITH: Baby Britain
19. MOJAVE 3: Some Kinda Angel
20. ELLIOT SMITH: Bled White
My favourite Spanish albums of the year:
1. NOSOTRÄSH: Nadie hablará de.... Nosoträsh
2. LE MANS: Aquí vivía yo
3. EL NIÑO GUSANO: El escarabajo más grande de Europa
4. UNDERSHAKERS: Vudú
5. MIGALA: Así duele un verano
6. MATERIA GRIS: Para pensar
7. ANTI: Anti
8. LOS PLANETAS: Una semana en el motor de un autobús
9. PURR: #1
10. SR. CHINARRO: Nosequé-Nosecuantos
And my favourite compilation of the year: MADNESS: The Heavy Hevy Hits
I never realised what a great year 1998 was
Songs:
1. Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
2. New Radicals - You Get What You Give
3. Fatboy Slim - Praise You
4. Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
5. Massive Attack - Teardrop
6. Madonna - Frozen
7. Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank
8. Aerosmith - I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing
9. Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing)
10. The Offspring - Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)
Albums:
1. Bob Dylan - Live 1966 - The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert (I assumed we weren't allowed to pick songs from this album :P)
2. Fatboy Slim - You've Come A Long Way, Baby
3. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
4. Madonna - Ray Of Light
5. Air - Moon Safari
6. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
7. Pulp - This Is Hardcore
8. Neutral Milk Hotel - In An Aeroplane Over The Sea
9. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
10. Elliot Smith - XO
25. Maryam Mursal - The Journey
24. Cappadonna - The Pillage
23. Bob Mould - The Last Dog and Pony Show
22. Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
21. Big Punisher - Capital Punishment
20. Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K & D Sessions
19. UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
18. Emmylou Harris - Spyboy
17. Josh Rouse - Dressed Up Like Nebraska
16. PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
15. Wagon Christ - Tally Ho!
14. Elliott Smith - XO
13. Madonna - Ray of Light
12. Dr. Israel - Inna City Pressure
11. Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue
10. Pulp - This is Hardcore
9. Hole - Celebrity Skin
8. Robbie Robertson - Contact from the Underworld of Redboy
7. Gang Starr - Moment of Truth
6. Afghan Whigs - 1965
5. The New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
4. Patty Griffin - Flaming Red
3. Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach - Painted from Memory
2. Jeff Buckley - Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
1. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 1998
1) MASSIVE ATTACK Mezzanine
2) BOARDS OF CANADA Music has the right to children
3) PORTISHEAD Roseland, NYC live
4) GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR! F#A#Infinity
5) PULP This is hardcore
6) TORTOISE TNT
7) AIR Moon safari
8) UNKLE Psyence fiction
9) MADONNA Ray of light
10) SONIC YOUTH A thousand leaves
TOP 25 SONGS OF 1998
1) MASSIVE ATTACK Teardrop
2) BEASTIE BOYS Intergalactic
3) PULP This is hardcore
4) STARDUST The music sounds better with you
5) AIR Sexy boy
6) HOLE Celebrity skin
7) SONIC YOUTH Sunday
8) NEW RADICALS You get what you give
9) ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION Buzzin'
10) MADONNA Drowned world / Substitute for love
11) UNKLE Rabbit in your headlights
12) BUSTA RHYMES Turn it up / Fire it up
13) SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Ice hockey hair
14) AIR La femme d'argent
15) FATBOY SLIM Right here, right now
16) BEASTIE BOYS Body movin'
17) AIR Kelly watch the stars
18) MADONNA Sky fits Heaven
19) EELS last stop: This town
20) FATBOY SLIM Praise you
21) AIR All I need
22) HOLE Awful
23) R.E.M. At my most beautiful
24) GARBAGE I think I'm paranoid
25) CARDIGANS My favourite game
Heck, I might as well give Bob Mould some points.
Could you add Bob Mould's Last Dog and Pony Show to the end of my list.
I also really like the song from that album First Drag of the Day, but I can be happy with it at my #21 without getting any points.
Albums:
1) Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
2) Massive Attack - Mezzanine
3) Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
4) Pulp - This is Hardcore
5) Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
6) Belle & Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap
7) Air - Moon Safari
8) Saint Etienne - Good Humor
9) Rufus Wainwright - s/t
10) UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
11) Pizzicato 5 - International Playboy and Playgirl
12) Mark Hollis - s/t
13) Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Bear Children
14) The Beta Band - The Three EPs
15) David Gray - White Ladder
Songs:
1) Stardust - The Music Sounds Better with You
2) Saint Etienne - The Bad Photographer
3) Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing)
4) Pulp - Party Hard
5) Fatboy Slim - The Rockefeller Skank
6) Mercury Rev - Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp
7) Air - Sexy Boy
8) Air - Kelly Watch the Stars
9) Moloko - Sing it Back (album version)
10) Massive Attack - Teardrop
11) Pulp - A Little Soul
12) Madonna - Ray of Light
13) Robbie Williams - Millennium
14) Manic Street Preachers - Tsunami
15) UNKLE - Rabbit in Your Headlights
16) The Cardigans - Erase Rewind
17) Belle & Sebastian - This is Just a Modern Rock Song
18) Aaliyah - Are You That Somebody?
19) Lauryn Hill - The Ex-Factor
20) Lucinda Williams - Drunken Angel
Just albuns:
01 - blind guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
02 - Tristania - Widow's Weeds
03 - Amon Amarth - Once Sent from the Golden Hall
04 - Death - The Sound of Perseverance
05 - Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
06 - symphony x - Twilight in Olympus
07 - Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
08 - Nile - Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
09 - Pain Of Salvation - One Hour by the Concrete Lake
10 - Catamenia - Halls of Frozen North
11 - Nightwish - Oceanborn
12 - arch enemy - Stigmata
13 - Vintersorg - Till Fjälls
14 - behemoth - Pandemonic Incantations
15 - Solitude Aeturnus - Adagio
16 - rhapsody - Symphony of Enchanted Lands
17 - iced earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
18 - Narnia - Awakening
19 - Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment
20 - angra - Fireworks
21 - Desaster - Hellfire's Dominion
22 - Cryptopsy - Whisper Supremacy
23 - katatoina-Discouraged Ones
24 - carpathian forest - Black Shining Leather
25 - therion - Vovin
26 - hammerfall - Legacy of Kings
27 - skinless - Progression Towards Evil
28 - evergrey - The Dark Discovery
29 - Necrophagia - Holocausto de la morte
30 - stratovarius - Destiny
31 - kataklysm - Victims of this Fallen World
32 - Meshuggah - Chaosphere
33 - Bal-Sagoth - Battle Magic
Albums:
1. Pulp – This Is Hardcore
2. Air – Moon Safari
3. Outkast – Aquemini
4. Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
5. Beck – Mutations
6. Boards Of Canada – Music Has The Right To Children
7. Mark Hollis – Mark Hollis
8. Queens Of The Stone Age – Queens Of The Stone Age
9. Sonic Youth – A Thousand Leaves
10. Mercury Rev – Deserters Songs
11. Lambchop – What Another Man Spills
12. Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
13. Gang Starr – Moment Of Truth
14. Jackie Leven – Night Lilies
15. DJ Hell – Munich Machine
16. Eels – Electro-Shock Blues
17. Autechre – LP5
18. Refused – The Shape Of Punk To Come
19. New Radicals – Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too
20. Squarepusher – Music Is A Rotted One Note
21. Massive Attack - Mezzaine
22. Black Star – Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
23. Spiritualized – Live At Royal Albert Hall
24. Hieroglyphics – 3rd Eye Vision
25. DJ Krush – Kakusei
26. Meshuggah – Chaosphere
27. Whiskeytown – Stranger’s Almanac
28. Beastie Boys – Hello Nasty
29. Tortoise - TNT
30. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – F#A#00
Songs:
1. Pulp – This Is Hardcore
2. New Radicals – You Get What You Give
3. Massive Attack - Teardrop
4. Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You
5. Lauryn Hill – Doo Wop (That Thing)
6. The Coup – Me And Jesus The Pimp In A ’79 Grenada Last Night
7. Brand Nubian – Don’t Let It Go To Your Head
8. Brian Wilson – Your Imagination
9. Madonna – Drowned World/Substitute For Love
10. DJ Hell – This Is For You
11. Beck – Nobody’s Fault But My Own
12. Air – All I Need
13. REM - Daysleeper
14. UNKLE feat. Thom Yorke – Rabbit In Your Headlights
15. Beck – We Live Again
16. Pernice Brothers – Overcome By Happiness
17. Jurassic 5 – Concrete Schoolyard
18. Jackie Leven – Universal Blue
19. Cat Power – Cross Bones Style
20. Beastie Boys – Intergalactic
21. Moloko – Sing It Back
22. Black Star – Definition
23. Clutch – The Dragonfly
24. Pras – Ghetto Superstar
25. Monster Magnet – See You In Hell
26. Lewis Taylor & Charleen Anderson – 18 With A Bullet
27. Elliott Smith – Independence Day
28. Crowbar – Planets Collide
29. Sonic Youth – Sunday
30. The Detroit Cobras – Cha Cha Twist
ALBUMS:
1. LAURYN HILL “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” (#45 in my all-time list)
2. MERCURY REV “Deserter’s Songs” (#82)
3. MANU CHAO “Clandestino”
4. AIR “Moon Safari”
5. LOS PLANETAS “Una semana en el motor de un autobús”
6. PULP “This Is Hardcore”
7. ELVIS COSTELLO with BURT BACHARACH “Painted from Memory”
8. ELLIOTT SMITH “XO”
9. BOB DYLAN “The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4 – The ‘Royal Albert Hall’ Concert”
10. LUCINDA WILLIAMS “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road”
11. PASCAL COMELADE “L’argot du bruit”
12. MASSIVE ATTACK “Mezzanine”
13. NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”
14. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT “Rufus Wainwright”
15. BILLY BRAGG & WILCO “Mermaid Avenue”
16. BELLE & SEBASTIAN “The Boy with the Arab Strap”
17. MADONNA “Ray of Light”
18. CALEXICO “The Black Light”
19. EL NIÑO GUSANO “El escarabajo más grande de Europa”
20. MANIC STREET PREACHERS “This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours”
21. PJ HARVEY “Is This Desire?”
22. RACHID TAHA “Diwân”
23. CAT POWER “Moon Pix”
24. HERBERT “Around the House”
25. ARAB STRAP “Philophobia”
SONGS:
1. LOS PLANETAS “Segundo premio” (#87 in my all-time list)
2. LAURYN HILL “Ex-Factor” (#125)
3. MANIC STREET PREACHERS “The Everlasting” (#151)
4. MANU CHAO “Clandestino” (#159)
5. MERCURY REV “Goddess on a Hiway” (#170)
6. PASCAL COMELADE avec PJ HARVEY “Love Too Soon”
7. PULP “This Is Hardcore”
8. MASSIVE ATTACK “Teardrop”
9. MANIC STREET PREACHERS “If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next”
10. AIR “Sexy Boy”
11. BELLE & SEBASTIAN “Dirty Dream Number 2”
12. ELLIOTT SMITH “Waltz #2 (XO)”
13. MERCURY REV “Opus 40”
14. MADONNA “Frozen”
15. LAURYN HILL “Doo Wop (That Thing)”
16. GARBAGE “Special”
17. HOLE “Malibu”
18. BECK “Tropicalia”
19. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT “April Fools”
20. AIR “Ce matin là”
21. ELVIS COSTELLO with BURT BACHARACH “Toledo”
22. RACHID TAHA “Ya Rayah”
23. MANU CHAO “Desaparecido”
24. LUCINDA WILLIAMS “Drunken Angel”
25. STARDUST “Music Sounds Better With You”
26. MOLOKO “Sing It Back”
27. NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL “Oh Comely”
28. MASSIVE ATTACK “Angel”
29. LOS PLANETAS “La playa”
30. BILLY BRAGG & WILCO “Ingrid Bergman”
31. ELLIOTT SMITH “Sweet Adeline”
32. SEXY SADIE “Stay Behind Me”
33. THE CARDIGANS “Erase/Rewind”
34. PULP “Sylvia”
35. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT “In My Arms”
36. ELVIS COSTELLO with BURT BACHARACH “In the Darkest Place”
37. BELLE & SEBASTIAN “It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career”
38. LUCINDA WILLIAMS “Metal Firecracker”
39. BILLY BRAGG & WILCO “At My Window Sad and Lonely”
40. CALEXICO “Stray”
41. MANU CHAO “Lágrimas de oro”
42. SÓLO LOS SOLO “Somos Sólo los Solo”
43. OUTKAST “Rosa Parks”
44. LAURYN HILL “Everything Is Everything”
45. AIR “All I Need”
46. DEEP DISH & EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL “The Future of the Future (Stay Gold)”
47. PROPELLERHEADS featuring SHIRLEY BASSEY “History Repeating”
48. FATBOY SLIM “The Rockafeller Skank”
49. MARC RIBOT Y LOS CUBANOS POSTIZOS “Aurora en Pekín”
50. MERCURY REV “Tonite It Shows”
BEST COMPILATION: VARIOUS “The Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection” (#90 in my all-time list)
Los Planetas (“The Planets”) are the most important band coming from the 90s Spanish indie-rock scene. But while legions of bands sang in English and showed strong influences of Pixies, Sonic Youth or My Bloody Valentine in an often too obvious way, Los Planetas were a band with a more personal approach, with a sound of its own. A simple but effective sound based on a densely intertwined wall of guitars of Florent and J. (Television-style) on the front and the dreamy vocals of J. buried in the mix. The change of members in the band rhythm section in 1998 added an extra power to the overall sound, with the Scottish bass player Kieran Stephen and the terrific drummer Erik Jiménez (coming from Lagartija Nick and having shown his mastery in Enrique Morente’s masterpiece “Omega”).
After two previous successful albums (in Spanish indie standards) Los Planetas affronted ambitiously his third album, “Una semana en el motor de un autobús” (“A Week in the Motor of a Bus”), recording it at NYC (Zabriskie Point) with Kurt Ralske (Ultra Vivid Scene) on production. The album relied in a loose concept about a boy that immerses himself in a week of chemical excesses after a loving disappointment, realizing that the solution in inside him. The story worked quiet well but the individual songs also worked wonderfully without the story behind, reflecting quite imaginatively the drug effects (cocaine in “Cumpleaños total” “Total Birthday” or hallucinogens in “Toxicosmos”).
I’ve selected the album opener, “Segundo Premio” (“Second Prize”), Los Planetas speciality of the house, raw songs of hate à la “Idiot Wind”. This brilliant song is build around a powerful drum beat, the usual wall of guitars and an imaginative string arrangement, emerging from the noisy backing an angry vocal deliverance by J.
Joan Pons for Rockdelux: “J. turns difficult into easy: he finds the simplest way to explain the most complicated emotions. It’s almost impossible not to reflect yourself in lyrics that appeals directly to the feelings of a twenty-something generation that accumulates records, nightly experiences and loving misfortunes. A whole that makes this album an extraordinary assay about the abstinence, about the withdrawal symptoms: the anxiety of living without a lover, of living without drugs. Of living, summarizing, without the strong sensations that got lost after the adolescence”.
SEGUNDO PREMIO
Composer: J.
Performers: LOS PLANETAS
First release: 1998 (“Una semana en el motor de un autobús” album)
Length: 5’31”
Sentado esperando a que llames
rezando por que des una señal,
los días cada vez van más despacio
y solamente puedo esperar
que vengas a explicar que todo ha terminado,
que tengas que decir que no me quieres ver,
es imposible que hayas olvidado
lo que los dos podíamos hacer.
Y si esto que ha pasado
va a pasarnos otra vez,
y si todo ha sido en vano
no tienes que volver.
Mirando las paredes de este cuarto,
rezando por que vengas otra vez,
y todo lo que habíamos hablado
es todo lo que vamos a perder.
Si nunca quise ser el único a tu lado,
si tuve miedo fue por que acabara así.
Y todo el tiempo que he desperdiciado
se vuelve de nuevo contra mí.
Y si esto te hace daño,
si te puedo hacer sufrir
ha servido para algo
al menos para mí.
SECOND PRIZE
Sitting, waiting for your call
praying for a sign from you,
days are getting slower
and the only thing I can do is waiting
for you to say that it’s all over
to say that you don’t want to see me anymore,
it’s impossible that you’ve forgotten
the things we could do together.
And if all the things that happened
are about to happen again,
and if all has been in vain
you don’t have to come back.
Looking at the walls of this room,
praying for your comeback,
and all the things we talked about
are the things we’re going to lose.
If I never wanted to be the only one by your side,
if I was afraid it was for ending like that.
And all the time I wasted
comes back against me.
And if this can hurt you,
if I can make you suffer,
this has been useful for something
at least for me.
Muchas gracias Honorio for these translations !
Great idea !
Henrik, I'd like to ask you : why not going on after november with our favorite albums of the 2000's (and why not, after 2007, going back to the sixties, let's say 1965 ?)
Merci beaucoup, Nicolas.
Ce mois j'ai inclus quatre albums français dans ma liste (Manu Chao, Air, Pascal Comelade et Rachid Taha). J'aime beaucoup la musique française.
Albums:
1. The Beta Band - The Three E.P.'s
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
3. R.E.M. - Up
4. Catatonia - International Velvet
5. Gomez - Bring It On
6. Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
7. Pulp - This Is Hardcore
8. The Supernaturals - A Tune A Day
9. Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
10. Big Punisher - Capital Punishment
11. Air - Moon Safari
12. Bright Eyes - Letting Off The Happiness
13. Fatboy Slim - You've Come A Long Way Baby
14. Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
15. Beck - Mutations
16. Ian Brown - Unfinished Monkey Business
17. Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
18. Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
19. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
20. Robbie Williams - I've Been Expecting You
Songs:
1. The Beta Band - "Dr. Baker"
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea"
3. Beck - "Nobody's Fault But My Own"
4. Catatonia - "Strange Glue"
5. The Supernaturals - "I Wasn't Built To Get Up"
6. Ian Brown - "Corpses"
7. Pulp - "The Fear"
8. The Bluetones - "If..."
9. R.E.M. - "Hope"
10. R.E.M. - "At My Most Beautiful"
11. Catatonia - "My Selfish Gene"
12. Pulp - "This Is Hardcore"
13. Gomez - "Get Miles"
14. Manic Street Preachers - "Born A Girl"
15. Placebo - "Pure Morning"
16. Marilyn Manson - "Dope Show"
17. Pulp - "Help The Aged"
18. Manic Street Preachers - "The Everlasting"
19. Manic Street Preachers - "You Stole The Sun From My Heart"
20. Catatonia - "Mulder & Skully"
P.S.:
Slight oversight; I'd like to substitute Gomez's "Get Miles" for the similarly titled "Get Myself Arrested", if possible. Not that I suppose it'll make any difference, being as I'm the only one to nominate either song.
Albums :
1 Elliott Smith - XO
2 Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
3 Massive Attack - Mezzanine
4 Refused - The shape of punk to come
5 System of a Down - System of a Down
Songs :
1 Elliott Smith - Waltz #2 (XO) (greatest song ever !)
2 Refused - New Noise
3 Beastie Boys - The negociation limerick file
4 Fatboy Slim - Right here, Right Now
5 Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
6 Massive Attack - Teardrop
7 Elliott Smith - Tomorrow, Tomorrow
8 Queens of the Stone Age - Avon
9 Jay Z - Hard Knock Life
10 Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank
1. Air - Moon Safari
2. Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap
3. Manu Chao - Clandestino
4. The Beta Band - The Three EPs
5. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
6. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
7. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
8. Elliot Smith - XO
9. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
10. Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright
1. Mercury rev - Goddess on a hiway
2. Pulp - This is hardcore
3. Elliot Smith - Waltz #2
4. Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
5. Manu Chao - Bongo Bong
6. Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me
7. Madonna - Ray Of Light
8. Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank
9. Massive Attack - Teardrop
10. Air - kelly watch the stars
11. Air - Sexy Boy
12. The Cardigans - My Favourite Game
13. Aaliyah - Are You That Somebody
14. Fatboy Slim - Praise You
15. Placebo - Pure Morning
16. Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop That Thing
17. Madonna - Frozen
18. Jay-Z - Hard Knock Life
19. Beck - Nobody's Fault But My Own
20. Catatonia - My Selfish Gene
ALBUMS
1. The Merrymakers - Bubblegun
2. Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright
3. The Boo Radleys - Kingsize
4. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
5. Elliott Smith - XO
6. Pulp - This Is Hardcore
7. The High Llamas - Cold and Bouncy
8. Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap
9. Pernice Brothers - Overcome by Happiness
10.Jude - No One Is Really Beautiful
11.Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
12.Jeff Buckley - Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
13.Air - Moon Safari
14.Barry Adamson - As Above, So Below
15.The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Strung Out in Heaven
16.Garbage - Version 2.0
17.Massive Attack - Mezzanine
18.Perry Blake - Perry Blake
19.The Detroit Cobras - Mink Rat or Rabbit
20.Wondermints - Bali
SONGS
1. The Boo Radleys - Monuments for a Dead Century
2. Pulp - This Is Hardcore
3. The Merrymakers - Monkey In The Middle
4. Rufus Wainwright - Foolish Love
5. Mercury Rev - The Funny Bird
6. The Boo Radleys - Blue Room in Archway
7 .Elliott Smith - Waltz #1
8. Jeff Buckley - Everybody Here Wants You
9. Rufus Wainwright - April Fools
10.The High Llamas - Glide Time
11.Mercury Rev - Goddess on a Hiway
12.The Merrymakers - Troubled Times
13.Mercury Rev - Holes
14.Belle and Sebastian - Sleep the Clock Around
15.The Merrymakers - April's Fool
16.Jude - Rick James
17.New Radicals - You Get What You Give
18.Garbage - Special
19.Elliott Smith - Waltz #2
20.The Dandy Warhols - Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth
ALBUMS
1. Neutral Milk Hotel, IN THE AEROPLANE OVER THE SEA
2. Mercury Rev, DESERTER’S SONGS
3. Elliott Smith, XO
4. Air, MOON SAFARI
5. Bob Dylan, LIVE 1966 – THE “ROYAL ALBERT HALL” CONCERT
6. Lucinda Williams, CAR WHEELS ON A GRAVEL ROAD
7. Beastie Boys, HELLO NASTY
8. Pulp, THIS IS HARDCORE
9. THE MISEDUCATION OF LAURYN HILL
10. Beck, MUTATIONS
SONGS
1. Neutral Milk Hotel, “Oh Comely”
2. Neutral Milk Hotel, “Two-Headed Boy (Part II)”
3. Neutral Milk Hotel, “The King of Carrot Flowers (Part I)”
4. Neutral Milk Hotel, “Holland 1945”
5. Neutral Milk Hotel, “Two-Headed Boy (Part I)”
6. Lucinda Williams, “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road”
7. Elliott Smith, “Waltz #2 (XO)”
8. Mercury Rev, “Opus 40”
9. Fatboy Slim, “Praise You”
10. Smashing Pumpkins, "For Martha"
Albums
1.Eels Electro Shock Blues
2.Massive Attack Mezzanine
3.P J Harvey Is This Desire?
4.Belle And Sebastian The Boy with the Arab Strab
5.Garbage Version 2.0
6.Air Moon Safari
7.Afghan Whigs 1965
8.Mercury Rev Deserter’s Songs
9.Elliott Smith XO
10.Catatonia International Velvet
11.REM Up
12.Pulp This Is Hardcore
13.Cardigans Gran Turismo
14.Madonna Ray of Light
15.Gomez Bring It On
16.Tortoise TNT
17.Delgados Peloton
18.Boards of Canada Music Has Right the Children
19.UNKLE Psyence Fiction
20....And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
1998 ALBUMS
01 CAT POWER Moon Pix
02 BOARDS OF CANADA Music Has the Right to Children
03 ARAB STRAP Philophobia
04 TORTOISE TNT
05 PLASTIKMAN Consumed
06 PULP This Is Hardcore
07 GANGER Hammock Style
08 MARK HOLLIS Mark Hollis
09 PJ HARVEY Is This Desire
10 SQUAREPUSHER Music Is Rotted One Note
11 BOREDOMS Super æ
12 THE NOTWIST Shrink
13 ELLIOTT SMITH XO
14 THE EX Starters Alternators
15 HERBERT Around the House
16 TOM ZE Com Defeito de Fabricação
17 AUTECHRE LP5
18 SPARKLEHORSE Good Morning Spider
19 THE BETA BAND The Three EPs
20 BEASTIE BOYS Hello Nasty
1998 SONGS
01 MANU CHAO Desaparecido
02 CAT POWER No Sense
03 PULP This Is Hardcore
04 BOARDS OF CANADA Telephasic Workshop
05 GANGER Cats, Dogs and Babies Jaws
06 PASCAL COMELADE & PJ HARVEY Love Too Soon
07 UNKLE Rabbit on Your Headlights
08 SONIC YOUTH Sunday
09 ARAB STRAP Soaps
10 BELLE AND SEBASTIAN Is It Wicked Not to Care?
11 BEASTIE BOYS 3 MCs & 1 DJ
12 ELLIOTT SMITH Waltz #2 (XO)
13 PJ HARVEY The River
14 TRICKY & PJ HARVEY Broken Homes
15 REM At My Most Beautiful
16 GRANDADDY AM 180
17 BOREDOMS Super You
18 TORI AMOS Spark
19 MANIC STREET PREACHERS If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next
20 BECK Tropicalia
Albums:
1) Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
2) Air - Moon Safari
3) Massive Attack - Mezzanine
4) Elliott Smith - XO
5) Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
6) Artenara - Artenara
7) Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
8) Sheryl Crow - The Globe Sessions
9) R.E.M. - Up
10) Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Songs:
1) Calexico - Gypsy's Curse
2) Elliott Smith - Waltz #2
3) Massive Attack - Teardrop
4) Lucinda Williams - Right In Time
5) Sheryl Crow - My Favorite Mistake
6) R.E.M. - At My Most Beautiful
7) Madonna - Ray Of Light
8) Air - All I Need
9) Fat Boy Slim - Praise You
10) Air - Kelly Watch The Stars
11) Alanis Morissette - Thank U
12) Eels - Last Stop This Town
13) Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing)
14) Calexico - Minas De Cobre (For Better Metal)
15) Elliott Smith - Baby Britain
16) Artenara - Arrorró Del Mar
17) Ilse DeLange - I'm Not So Tough
18) Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
19) PJ Harvey - A Perfect Day Elise
20) Moloko - Sing It Back
Albums :
1. The Beta Band - The 3 EP's
2. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
3. Eels - Electro-shock blues
4. Gomez - Bring it on
5. P.J.Harvey - Is this desire?
6. Elliott Smith - XO
7. Hole - Celebrity skin
8. Alain Bashung - Fantaisie militaire
9. Tarwater - Silur
10. Soul Coughing - El Oso
11. Orly - Materiau
12. Pascal Comelade - L'argot du bruit
13. Money Mark - Push the button
14. Amadou & Mariam - Sou ni tilé
15. Morcheeba - Big Calm
16. Placebo - Without you i'm nothing
17. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Acme
18. Scott 4 - Recorded in state L.P.
19. Arab Strap - Philophobia
20. Cat Power - Moon Pix
Songs :
1. The Beta Band - Needles in My Eyes
2. P.J.Harvey - The river
3. Propellerheads - History Repeating
4. The Beta Band - Inner Meet me
5. Hole - Dying
6. Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank
7. Beastie Boys - Negotiation Limerick File
8. The Beta Band - Dr. Baker
9. Money Mark - Hand in Your Head
10. Soul Coughing - Circles
11. Tarwater - Watersample
12. Gomez - Get Miles Away
13. The Dandy Warhols - Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth
14. Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
15. The Beta Band - It's Over
16. Beck - Nobody's Fault But My Own
17. Hole - Malibu
18. Elliott Smith – Waltz #2
19. Alain Bashung - Samuel Hall
20. Amadou & Mariam - Je pense à toi
SONGS:
1. California Stars - Billy Bragg & Wilco
2. Boys Better - Dandy Warhols
3. Say What You Want (remix) - Texas & Wu Tang Clan
4. Girls Like That - Custard
5. Intergalactic - Beastie Boys
6. Saint Joe on the School Bus - Marcy Playground
7. Rockafella Skank - Fatboy Slim
8. Waltz #2 - Elliott Smith
9. Angel - Massive Attack
10. Kelly Watch The Stars - Air
11. Cigarette's Will Kill You - Ben Lee
12. 78 Wobble Stone - Gomez
13. Special - Garbage
14. Do the Evolution - Pearl Jam
15. Shake Your Booty - Public Enemy
16. If You Tolerate This... - Manic Street Preachers
17. Doo Wop (That Thing) - Lauryn Hill
18. Everyday Should Be a Holiday - Dandy Warhols
19. Music Sounds Better With You - Stardust
20. Heavy Heart - You Am I
ALBUMS
1. Hello Nasty - Beastie Boys
2. Mezzanine - Massive Attack
3. You've Come A Long Way, Baby - Fatboy Slim
4. Decksanddrumsandrockandroll - Propellerheads
5. Psyence Fiction - UNKLE
6. Moon Safari - Air
7. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill
8. Mermaid Avenue - Billy Bragg & Wilco
9. 100% Columbian - Fun Lovin' Criminals
10. Version 2.0 - Garbage
Albums:
1. Air- Moon Safari
2. Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
3. Massive Attack- Mezzanine
4. REM- Up
5. The Beta Band- The Three E.P.'s
6. Boards of Canada- Music Has the Right to Children
7. Silver Jews- American Water
8. Smashing Pumpkins- Adore
9. Beck- Mutations
10. Elliot Smith- XO
11. Mercury Rev- Deserter's Songs
12. New Radicals- Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
13. Belle and Sebastian- The Boy With the Arab Strip
14. Pulp- This Is Hardcore
15. Pearl Jam- Yield
16. Boredoms- Super AE
17. Squarepusher- Music Has Rotted One Note
18. UNKLE- Psyence Fiction
19. Posies- Success
20. Tortoise- TNT
Songs:
1. Air - Remember
2. UNKLE - Rabbit In Your Headlights
3. REM - At My Most Beautiful
4. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
5. Pearl Jam - In Hiding
6. Massive Attack - Teardrop
7. Smashing Pumpkins - Blank Page
8. Pulp - Help the Aged
9. Beck - Nobody's Fault But My Own
10. Air - Sexy Boy
11. Elliot Smith - Independence Day
12. Madonna - The Power of Goodbye
13. New Radicals - You Get What You Give
14. The Beta Band - Dr. Baker
15. Air - Kelly Watch the Stars
16. Drugstore - El President
17. Mono - Life In Mono
18. Pearl Jam - Faithfull
19. REM - Daysleeper
20. Silver Jews - Send In The Clouds
21. Smashing Pumpkins - For Martha
22. Pulp - The Fear
23. Garbage - Special
24. Belle and Sebastian - It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career
25. Elliot Smith - Sweet Adeline
26. Madonna - Ray of Light
27. Massive Attack - Man Next Door
28. Mercury Rev - Tonite It Shows
29. Smashing Pumpkins - To Shelia
30. Neutral Milk Hotel - King Of Carrot Flowers, Pts. Two And Three
31. Local H - Lucky Time
32. Beck - Static
33. Boards of Canada - Olson
34. Boredoms - Super Going
35. Cher - Believe
36. Dandy Warhols - Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth
37. Pearl Jam - Brain of J.
38. Posies - Every Bitter Drop
39. REM - Walk Unafraid
40. The Beta Band - Needles In My Eyes
41. The Flys - Got You (Were I Want You)
42. The Cardigans - My Favorite Game
43. Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
44. Korn - Freak on a Leash
45. Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy
46. Moby - Honey
47. Posies - Fall Apart With Me
48. Silver Jews - Smith And Jones Forever
49. UNKLE - Lonely Soul
50. Vast - Touched
not a very good year this...
Albums:
1. Air - Moon Safari
2. Jeff Buckley - Sketches
3. Marylin Manson - Mechanical Animals
4. Lauryn Hill - Miseducation
5. David Gray - White Ladder
6. Fatboy Slim - You've come a long way, baby
Songs:
1. Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop
2. Jeff Buckley - You and I
3. Air - New Star in the Sky
4. Marylin Manson - Beautiful People
5. Hole - Celebrity Skin
6. Air - Kelly Watch the Stars
7. Stardust - Music sounds better
8. Fatboy Slim - Praise You
9. Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
10. Jeff Buckley - Everybody Here Wants You
11. Lauryn Hill - Everything is Everything
12. Moby - Honey
13. Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
14. Manic Street Preachers - If you tolerate...
15. David Gray - Please Forgive Me
16. George Michael - Outside
17. David Gray - Babylon
18. Madonna - Ray of Light
19. Air - Sexy Boy
20. Jeff Buckley - Yard of Blonde Girls
A great year for music...
ALBUMS
1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
2. Jeff Buckley - Sketches (for My Sweetheart the Drunk)
3. New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
4. Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
5. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
6. Pearl Jam - Yield
7. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
8. Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
9. Lauryn Hill - Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
10. Gomez - Bring It On
SONGS
1. New Radicals - You Get What You Give
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely
3. Smashing Pumpkins - For Martha
4. Jeff Buckley - Everybody Here Wants You
5. Massive Attack - Teardrop
6. Jeff Buckley - Opened Once
7. Neutral Milk Hotel - Ghost
8. Smashing Pumpkins - Ava Adore
9. Radiohead - How I Made My Millions
10. Jeff Buckley - Morning Theft
Songs
1.Pulp This Is Hardcore
2.Massive Attack Teardrop
3.Mercury Rev Tonight It Shows
4.Afghan Whigs 66
5.UNKLE Rabbit in Your Headlines
6.Garbage Special
7.Fatboy Slim Praise You
8.Catatonia Strange Glue
9.Manic If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
10.Elliott Smith Waltz #1
11.New Radicals You Get What You Give
12.Air All I Want
13.Belle And Sebastian Sleep Clock Around
14.REM Daysleeper
15.Delgados Everything Goes Around The Water
16.Tori Amos Sparks
17.Gomez 78 Stone Wobble
18.Massive Attack Angel
19.Placebo Pure Morning
20.Hole Malibu
Albums:
1. Lucinda Williams-Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
2. Lauryn Hill-the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
3. Air-Moon Safari
4. Mercury Rev-Deserter’s Songs
5. Bob Dylan-Live 1966
6. Boards of Canada-Music Has the Right to Children
7. Massive Attack-Mezzanine
8. Neutral Milk Hotel-In the Aeroplane over the Sea
9. Outkast-Aquemini
10. The Beta Band-The Three E.P.’s
11. Elliot Smith-XO
12. Goo Goo Dolls-Dizzy Up the Girl
13. Fatboy Slim-You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
14. Madonna-Ray of Light
15. David Grey-White Ladder
16. R.E.M.-Up
17. Dixie Chicks-Wide Open Spaces
18. The Smashing Pumpkins-Adore
19. Beck-Mutations
20. Kid Rock-Devil without a Cause
Songs to follow...possibly...
Albums
1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
3. Madonna - Ray of Light
4. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
5. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
6. Beck - Mutations
7. Bob Dylan - Live 1966
8. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
9. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach - Painted from Memory
10. Pulp - This Is Hardcore
11. Manu Chao - Clandestino
12. bob hund - Jag rear ut min själ, allt ska bort!
13. Air - Moon Safari
14. OutKast - Aquemini
15. The Cardigans - Gran Turismo
16. Belle and Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap
17. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
18. The Beta Band - The Three EPs
19. Elliott Smith - XO
20. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Songs
1. Pulp - This Is Hardcore
2. Beck - Nobody's Fault But My Own
3. Mercury Rev - Holes
4. Beastie Boys - Song for Junior
5. bob hund - Nu är det väl revolution på gång?
6. Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely
7. Massive Attack - Angel
8. Pulp - Dishes
9. Massive Attack - Man Next Door
10. The Beta Band - Push It Out
11. Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
12. Air - All I Need
13. Massive Attack - Teardrop
14. Madonna - Drowned World/Substitute for Love
15. Neutral Milk Hotel - King of Carrot Flowers, Part I
16. Madonna - Ray of Light
17. The Cardigans - Erase Rewind
18. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach - Such Unlikely Lovers
19. OutKast - Rosa Parks
20. Brandy and Monica - The Boy Is Mine
1. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
2. Pulp - This Is Hardcore
3. Air - Moon Safari
4. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
5. Beck - Mutations
6. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
7. Elliott Smith - XO
8. Calexico - The Black Light
9. Gomez - Bring It On
10. Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours
Albums:
1) Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach - Painted from Memory
2) Liz Phair - Whitechocolatespaceegg
3) Elliott Smith – XO
4) Billy Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid Ave
5) Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
6) Brad Mehldau - Art of the Trio Vol. 3 Songs
7) Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
8) Kid Rock - Devil without a Cause
9) Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
10) Bob Dylan - Live 1966
11) OutKast - Aquemini
12) Massive Attack - Mezzanine
13) Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces
Albums
1. Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright
2. Beck - Mutations
3. Outkast - Aquemini
4. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
5. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
6. Lucinda Williams -Car Wheels on a gravel Road
7. Manu Chao - Clandestino
8. Talvin Singh - OK
9. Bob Dylan - The Royal Albert Hall Concert
10. Elliott Smith - XO
11. Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
12. David Gray - White Ladder
13. Air - Moon Safari
14. Brad Mehldau - Songs
15. Mathieu Boogaerts - Super
16. Alvin Youngblood Hart - Territory
17. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
18. Freakwater - Springtime
19. The Divine Comedy - Fin de Siècle
20. Alain Bashung - Fantaisie militaire
Songs
1. Manu Chao - Desaparecido
2. Alain Bashung - La Nuit je mens
3. Rufus Wainwright- Imaginary Love
4. Manu Chao - Clandestino
5. Beck - Cold Brains
6. Elliott Smith - Waltz 2
7. Talvin Singh -Traveller
8. Rufus Wainwright -Danny Boy
9. Rufus Wainwright - April Fools
10. Talvin Singh - Butterfly
11. Manu Chao - Bongo Bong
12. Mathieu Boogaerts - Super
13. Beck - We Live Again
14. Mercury Rev -Holes
15. Outkast - Rosa Park
16. Elliott Smith - Waltz 1
17. Mercury Rev - Goddess on a Hiway
18. Neutral Milk Hotel In the aeroplane
19. Beck - Tropicalia
20. Fatboy Slim - Gangster tripping
I'm sorry, I'm always leaving something out. If it's too late to amend my list, I'll understand, but if not, I'd like to add The Boy with the Arab Strap to my list, at #11. My list now is:
Albums:
1) Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach - Painted from Memory
2) Liz Phair - Whitechocolatespaceegg
3) Elliott Smith – XO
4) Billy Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid Ave
5) Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
6) Brad Mehldau - Art of the Trio Vol. 3 Songs
7) Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
8) Kid Rock - Devil without a Cause
9) Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
10) Bob Dylan - Live 1966
11) Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap
12) OutKast - Aquemini
13) Massive Attack - Mezzanine
14) Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces
I'm sorry as well, meant to finish last night but Raidohead announcement threw me. Give me an hour if you can, if not don't worry Thanks,
SONGS
75 Solomon Bites The Worm The Bluetones
74 My Favourite Game The Cardigans
73 Darklands Primal Scream
72 Xmas Steps Mogwai
71 Being A Girl Mansun
70 Can I Get A... Jay-Z
69 Only The Strongest Will Survive Hurricane #1
68 Tijuana Lady Gomez
67 Thirty Six Twenty Five Four Tet
66 England Made Me Black Box Recorder
65 Telephasic Workshop Boards of Canada
64 A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed TheAuidence
63 Stay Young Ultrasound
62 She's The One The Beta Band
61 Millenium Robbie Williams
60 A Little Soul Pulp
59 The Bartender and The Thief Sterophonics
58 In The Aeroplane Over The Sea Neutral Milk Hotel
57 Inertia Creeps Massive Attack
56 A Perfect Day Elise PJ Harvey
55 Let’s Get Together Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
54 Cement Mixer Clinic
53 This Is Just a Modern Rock Song Belle & Sebastian
52 Powder Blue Elbow
51 Road Rage Catatonia
50 Inner Meet Me The Beta Band
49 Rosa Parks Outkast
48 Endlessly Mercury Rev
47 Last Stop: This Town Eels
46 Tropicala Beck
45 Celebrity Skin Hole
44 El President Drugstore Ft. Thom Yorke
43 Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth The Dandy Warhols
42 Daysleeper R.E.M.
41 Ghetto Superstar That Is What You Are Pras Michel featuring Ol' Dirty B******d introducing Mya
40 Holland, 1945 Neutral Milk Hotel
39 Ray of Light Madonna
38 Come Back To What You Know Embrace
37 The Boy Is Mine Brandy and Monica
36 Drinking In L.A. Bran Vann 3000
35 The Boy With The Arab Strap Belle & Sebastian
34 Free Satpal Ram Asian Dub Foundation
33 Smokin' Super Furry Animals
32 You Only Get What You Give New Radicals
31 At My Most Beautiful R.E.M.
30 I Am The Mob Catatonia
29 Aquarius Boards of Canada
28 Holes Mercury Rev
27 The Fear Pulp
26 All I Need Air
25 Nobody's Fault But My Own Beck
24 Rabbit In Your Headlights UNKLE Ft. Thom Yorke
23 Palo Alto Radiohead
22 Doo Wop (That Thing) Lauren Hill
21 Flagpole Sitta Harvey Danger
20 The Rockafella Skank Fatboy Slim
19 L'Femme D'Argent Air
18 Whippin' Piccadily Gomez
17 Cocaine Socialism Pulp
16 Angel Massive Attack
15 Like A Friend Pulp
14 Dr. Baker The Beta Band
13 Child Psychology Black Box Recorder
12 Roygbiv Boards of Canada
11 The Cedar Room Doves
10 Intergalactic The Beastie Boys
9 If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next Manic Street Preachers
8 Teardrop Massive Attack
7 Sexy Boy Air
6 Pull The Wires From The Wall The Delgados
5 This Is Hardcore Pulp
4 Music Sounds Better With You Stardust
3 SpottieOttieDopalicious Outkast
2 Goddess On A Hi-Way Mercury Rev
1 Ice Hockey Hair Super Furry Animals
ALBUMS
1 Deserter's Songs Mercury Rev
2 Moon Safari Air
3 Mezzanine Massive Attack
4 This Is Hardcore Pulp
5 Music Has The Right To Children Boards of Canada
6 Aquemini OutKast
7 Bring It On Gomez
8 Is This Desire? PJ Harvey
9 In The Aeroplane Over The Sea Neutral Milk Hotel
10 You've Come a Long Way, Baby Fatboy Slim
11 Six Mansun
12 Ray Of Light Madonna
13 Good Morning Spider Sparklehorse
14 Electro Shock Blues Eels
15 International Velvet Catatonia
16 England Made Me Black Box Recorder
17 Psyance Fiction UNKLE
18 Version 2.0 Garbage
19 Hello Nasty The Beastie Boys
20 XO Elliot Smith
1)New Radicals - You Get What You Give
2)Placebo - Pure Morning
3)Hole - Malibu
4)Offspring - Preety Fly (For a White Guy)
5)Pulp - This is Hardcore
6)Shania Twain - You're Still the One
7)R.E.M. - Daysleeper
8)Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach - Toledo
9)California Stars - Billy Bragg & Wilco
10)UNKLE - Rabbit in your headlights
11)Ian Brown - Corpses
...and here are the albums and songs from 1998 that will be included in the best of the 90s poll in November:
Albums
1. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
2. Air - Moon Safari
3. Elliott Smith - XO
4. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Under the Sea
5. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
6. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
7. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of...
8. Pulp - This Is Hardcore
9. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
10. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Songs
1. Pulp - This Is Hardcore
2. Massive Attack - Teardrop
3. Elliott Smith - Waltz #2
4. Stardust - Music Sounds Better with You
5. New Radicals - You Get What You Give
6. Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing)
7. Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
8. Beck - Nobody's Fault But My Own
9. Mercury Rev - Goddess on a Highway
10. Air - Sexy Boy
For the first time, an AM no. 1 song didn't make the top 10. Fatboy Slim's "The Rockafeller Skank" reached place 13, only 7 points behind "Sexy Boy". In addition, "Praise You" was no. 12, only 2 points outside the top 10, so Norman Cook had no luck at all.
All votes can be found in this spreadsheet:
1998 Forum Poll
The big surprise to me in this round is that #3 ranking for Elliot Smith. I'm really please to see so many people know and like that album as much as I do. It was certainly a well-reviewed and generally admired album at the time, but I never would have guessed it was going to be rated so highly here. I guess it's what you'd call a sleeper record.
No way.. the best live album of all time didn't make it? Shame.
i'm happy too that Elliott Smith made it, especially because I underrated him a bit (I listened to it in my car this summer on a rainy day and an unknown country road in the Southwest of France with my wife and daughter speaking around me, which didn't help
No Beta Band
I'm happy, and a little surprised, to see all the love for "This is Hardcore" - both the song and the album. Some of the best and darkest music released in the 90s. Even Scott Walker was floored.
All the votes for "You get what you give" also surprised me. An alternative pop gem if there ever was one.