1998 in music. • Page 5

Now I really want to hear this.

 

There are some honorable mentions that I left out which some people may big:

R.E.M - Up
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
Eve 6 - Eve 6
Beck - Mutations
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
Jerry Cantrell - Boggy Depot
Spoon - A Series Of Snakes

 

Ditto I can't Unhear that now. Love me some Truckers.

 

the buffalo tom album that j mascis produced rules. but idk what year that is.

 

The Waterboy!

 

1. Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up the Girl
2. Lenny Kravitz - 5
3. Chamberlain - The Moon, My Saddle

Others I love:
Talib Kweli and Mos Def - Black Star
Sheryl Crow - The Globe Sessions
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Elliott Smith - XO
The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Pearl Jam - Yield
Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Shawn Mullins - Soul's Core
WIllie Nelson - Teatro
Knapsack - This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now
Prince - The Truth
Metallica - Garage, Inc.

Good ones:
New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed, Too
Marvelous 3 - Hey! Album
Seal - Human Being
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Air - Moon Safari
Grant Lee Buffalo - Jubilee
Outkast - Aquimeni
Vince Gill - The Key
Aretha Franklin - A Rose Is Still a Rose
Alanis Morissette - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
Garth Brooks - Double Live
Finger Eleven - Tip
Far - Water and Solutions
Fuel - Sunburn
John Mellencamp - John Mellencamp
Madonna - Ray of Light
At the Drive-In - In/Casino/Out
David Gray - White Ladder
Dredg - Lietmotif
Maxwell - Embrya
Eve 6 - Eve 6
Jay-Z - Vol. 2...Hard Knock Life
Imogen Heap - I Megaphone
Various Artists - Legacy: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours
Various Artists - City of Angels Soundtrack
New Power Soul (Prince) - New Power Soul

Not a fan:
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
DMX - It's Dark and Hell Is Hot

Would be #1 easily if I counted it:
Bruce Springsteen - Tracks
Prince - Crystal Ball

Targets for listening:
Braid - Frame and Canvas
Catch-22 - Keasbey Nights
Marc Cohn - Burning the Daze
Cold - Cold
Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: The Royal Albert Hall Concert
Everlast - Whitey Ford Sings the Blues
Hootie and the Blowfish - Musical Chairs
John Butler - John Butler
Natalie Merchant - Ophelia
Radiohead - Airbag/How Am I Driving? EP
John Rouse - Dressed Up Like Nebraska
John Scofield - A-Go-Go
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Billy Bragg - Mermaid Avenue
Manu Chao - Clandestino
Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby
Hole - Celebrity Skin
Korn - Follow the Leader
Kid Rock - Devil Without a Cause
Mercury Rev - Deserter's Song
Pulp - This Is Hardcore
Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
Salvin Singh - OK
System of a Down - System of a Down
Turbonegro - Apocalypse Dudes
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Juvenile - 400 Degreez
Shakira - Donde Estan Los Ladrones
Garbage - Version 2.0
Bruce Hornsby - Spirit Trail
Sinead Lohan - No Mermaid
Belle and Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap
Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach - Painted from Memory
Cat Power - Moon Pix
Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces
Whitney Houston - My Love Is Your Love
Silver Jews - American Water
Cave In - Until Your Heart Stops
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
The Offspring - Americana
Fastball – All the Pain Money Can Buy
Orgy - Candyass
Eric Clapton - Pilgrim

 

Fuck that. They have at least 3. Really more like 5.

Honestly, Something Like Human is the better record. They fell off pretty fast after the first two though, imo.

One of the greatest singles in the history of pop music and a pretty good album, to boot. Not sure why it's so overlooked.

The debut is solid, but they got better with every record. It's All in Your Head is a lost classic of the era.

 

There have now been several posts mentioning a Kid Rock album. Is that a rap Kid Rock or a country Kid Rock album? Or is there a third Kid Rock? I could look it up, but this is more fun.

 

I have a honourable mention, because it is a compilation, not an album: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Greatest Hits. It's the first thing I owned by them when I was just getting into music, so I am nostalgic, but it's worth a listen even if you know the actual albums, because it has several several really great remixes etc. on there.

 

Yes! And also, the Disney Channel Original Movie classics, Brink and Johnny Tsunami.

 

More rap Kid rock.

 

1. xo
2. car wheels on a gravel road
3. the miseducation of lauryn hill/aquameni (pls don't make me choose between them)

 

Oh man see I totally missed knapsacks album. I love that album. Also good to see you agree that refused sucks.

 

Haven't heard of this band... RIYL ?

 

Listening to the Black Star album right now and this is so good. Super into everything about it so far.

 

added the Air and Jurassic 5 albums to my MWE list

 

Jurassic 5 just be making some happy ass music.

you cannot listen to concrete schoolyard and bob your head and smile.

 

AllMusic says Sunny Day, but that feels wrong to me. They find somewhat of a mix of emo, alt-country and indie rock. It's just great writing.

 

You should also listen to this one then

 

I plan on it when the 1999 thread comes around, haha. Can't be skipping ahead!

That one has actually been on my list to try for a while, I'd never even heard of the Black Star album.

 

Right on, everything you mentioned sounds great to me. Will report back!

 

I listened to Music Has the Right to Children by Boards of Canada, which based on the reputation, I was expecting to enjoy quite a bit more than I did. It's ambient, experimental electronic stuff, with little bits of hip-hop beats, and perhaps I just wasn't in the right mood, but I found it a very long 1hr and 10 minutes, with nothing sticking, or grabbing me. I can imagine this is influential, but for a first listen, this felt really long and mostly uninteresting to me, which is a big shame.

 

I tried it and pretty much had the same reaction. I'm not the biggest fan of ambient/instrumental music in general though so I'm probably not the best person to judge it.

 

I think there's an element of Boards of Canada that's kind of just really sweet background/mood music, so it's definitely not something I imagine is immediately appealing to everyone. I'd also say that The Campfire Headphase is probably a better intro point - it's the same deal as MHTRTC for sure, but is a little happier sounding overall.

I'd visit/revisit these two songs, and if it doesn't appeal to you then I think they're a fair skip:

 

I have little patience for that genre usually but Chromakey Dreamcoat is one of the greatest songs of all time