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1999 in music.

Discussion in 'Music Forum' started by phaynes12, Jan 31, 2022.

  1. phaynes12

    https://expertfrowner.bandcamp.com/ Prestigious

    Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea won 1998. Let's see who wins 1999 and closes out the century.

    Billboard chart-topping albums of 1999:
    Garth Brooks - Double Live (cont. from 1998)
    DMX - Flesh of My Blood, Blood of My Blood (cont. from 1998)
    Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
    Silkk the Shocker - Made Man
    Foxy Brown - Chyna Doll
    TLC - FanMail
    Nas - I Am
    Ruff Ryders - Ryde or Die Vol. I
    Tim McGraw - A Place in the Sun
    Ricky Martin - Ricky Martin
    Backstreet Boys - Milennium
    Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
    Christina Aguilera - Christina Aguilera
    Dixie Chicks - Fly
    Eve - Ruff Ryders' First Lady
    Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
    Creed - Human Clay
    Santana - Supernatural
    Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
    Faith Hill - Breathe
    Korn - Issues
    Celine Dion - All the Way
    The Notorious B.I.G. - Born Again

    Billboard chart-topping singles of 1999:
    R. Kelly - I'm Your Angel (cont. from 1998)
    Brandy - Have You Ever (cont. from 1998)
    Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
    Monica - Angel of Mine (cont. from 1997)
    Cher - Believe (cont. from 1998)
    TLC - No Scrubs
    Ricky Martin - Livin la Vida Loca
    Jennifer Lopez - If You Had My Love
    Destiny's Child - Bills, Bills, Bills
    Will Smith - Wild WIld West
    Christina Aguilera - Genie in a Bottle
    Enrique Iglesias - Bailamos
    TLC - Unpretty
    Mariah Carey - Heartbreaker
    Santana - Smooth

    What are your top three albums for 1999? We will keep a running tally and eventually have some sort of bracket. For me it would be:
    1. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
    2. Wilco - Summerteeth
    3. Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret

    What are some of the forgotten gems from the year? What is overrated? What did you discover at a young age and what did you discover later?

    YEARS IN MUSIC • forum.chorus.fm
     
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  2. phaynes12

    https://expertfrowner.bandcamp.com/ Prestigious

    the remainder of the top 15:
    4. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
    5. Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
    6. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
    7. Pavement - Terror Twilight
    8. Superchunk - Come Pick Me Up
    9. Santana - Supernatural
    10. American Football - American Football
    11. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
    12. Third Eye Blind - Blue
    13. Neurosis - Times of Grace
    14. The Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About
    15. Foo Fighters - There is Nothing Left to Lose

    honorable mentions:
    Beck - Midnight Vultures
    Botch - We Are the Romans
    Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
    Chevelle - Point No. 1
    Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning
    Counting Crows - This Desert Life
    Creed - Human Clay
    The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
    Fountains of Wayne - Utopia Parkway
    Jason Falkner - Can You Still Feel?
    Jay Z - Vol. 3 Life and Times of S. Carter
    Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
    The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
    Matthew Sweet - In Reverse
    Mogwai - Come On Die Young
    Muse - Showbiz
    My Morning Jacket - The Tennessee Fire
    The Rentals - Seven More Minutes
    The Roots - Things Fall Apart
    Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
    Slipknot - Slipknot
    Smog - Knock Knock
    Songs: Ohia - Axxess & Ace
    Stone Temple Pilots - No. 4
    The White Stripes - The White Stripes

    stuff to check out:
    Dixie Chicks - Fly
    DMX - Flesh of My Blood, Blood of My Blood
    Dr. Dre - 2001
    Fiona Apple - When the Prawn
    GZA - Beneath the Surface
    MF Doom - Operation: Doomsday
    Mr. Bungle - California
    Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
    Nas - I Am
     
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  3. JM95

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    1999 does not get better than this track

     
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  4. Contender

    Goodness is Nowhere Supporter

    1. Slipknot - Slipknot
    2. Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
    3. The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency and I

    4. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
    5. Blink 192 - Enema of the State
    6. Rainer Maria - Look Now Look Again
    7. American Football- American Football
    8. Korn - Issues
    9. MF Doom - Operation Doomsday
    10. Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
     
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  5. SpyKi

    You must fix your heart Supporter

    1. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
    2. Opeth - Still Life
    3. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity

    HM: Hole - Live Through This, American Football - American Football
     
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  6. Craig Manning

    @FurtherFromSky Moderator

    A fucking dynamite year. I've got six albums that I really want to cram into the top 3, so there are going to be some tough cuts.
     
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  7. JRGComedy

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    Gonna be a basic Chorus bitch with my top 3 lol.

    1. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
    • I didn't get into this album until I went through a nasty breakup about a year ago. If loving this album is all I got out of it, it was still worth it.
    2. Blink-182 - Enema of the State
    • My favorite album as a kid and pretty undeniably one of the most important pop punk albums of all time.
    3. Fountains of Wayne - Utopia Parkway
    • This is another album I didn't get into until pretty recently. I've always liked a few of the rockers off it, but it wasn't until I started working from home that power pop gems like Troubled Times started making more sense to me.
    Honorable mentions:

    Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
    • My fav Rage album as a kid. It's a little same-y now, but still rocks hard.
    Bowling For Soup - Drunk Enough to Dance
    • Another great pop punk album. Honestly sorta underrated at this point. Surf Colorado is a gem and the front half is stacked.
    Marvelous 3 - Hey! Album
    • Phenomenal album that I had the fortune to discover after I already got into Butch Walker solo material.
    "Weird Al" Yankovic - Running With Scissors
    • One of his albums that has probably aged the worst, but it was my favorite as a kid and still has some all-timers. Your Horoscope For Today is as good of a ska tune as has been written.
    Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left to Lose
    • Most days this is my favorite Foo Fighters album, but it loses me a bit in the back half (like most of their albums). Stacked Actors through Aurora is an incredible run though.
     
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  8. soggytime

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    1. Dr. Dre -2001
    2. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
    3. blink-182 - Enema of the State


    ALSO
    Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
    Saves the Day - Through Being Cool
    Mos Def - Black On Both Sides
    MF DOOM - Operation: Doomsday
    Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
    Incubus - Make Yourself
    Built to Spill - Keep it Like A Secret
    Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
    American Football - American Football
    The Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About
    The Ataris - Blue Skies, Broken Hearts... Next 12 Exits
    DMX - ...And Then There Was X
    AFI - Black Sails in the Sunset
    Slipknot - Slipknot
    Lit - A Place in the Sun
     
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  9. phaynes12

    https://expertfrowner.bandcamp.com/ Prestigious

    seems like this is gonna be a JEW or Blink year, which is gonna bum me out big time lol
     
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  10. Jim

    Trusted Supporter

    1. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
    2. American football - American Football
    3. Wilco - Summerteeth
     
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  11. JRGComedy

    Trusted Supporter

    Haha it's Blink/JEW/Fall Out Boy from here on out, buddy
     
  12. SpyKi

    You must fix your heart Supporter

    It's probably going to be Clarity which is at 4 on your list so could be worse haha.

    Honestly I would have been surprised if Clarity didn't win with how popular it is on this site.
     
  13. JM95

    Trusted

    Has anyone come into this thread not expecting Clarity to win?
     
  14. Jim

    Trusted Supporter

    I figured Enema would win as soon as I saw it came out in 99
     
  15. JRGComedy

    Trusted Supporter

    I was too much of a lurker on Absolutepunk to actually rank my end of year albums and post them, so I'm excited for '08ish-'15
     
  16. phaynes12

    https://expertfrowner.bandcamp.com/ Prestigious

    it would be very surprising if it were any site other than this haha

    but i like the album so it’s fine. just a solid tier below the wilco and NIN albums for me, which are all-timers. also seems a bit odd blink and JEW albums would be so big but no other mention of built to spill’s best yet
     
  17. Surfwax

    bring on the major leagues

    This year is impossible but st is an easy 1 (plz don’t count it yet I’ve got a top 3 comin)
     
  18. Surfwax

    bring on the major leagues

    Clarity is the second best emo album this year btw
     
  19. OhTheWater

    Let it run Supporter

    1. American Football - American Football
    2. The Roots - Things Fall Apart
    3. Saves the Day - Through Being Cool

    Honorable:
    Built to Spill - Keep it Like a Secret
    Dr. Dre - 2001
    Third Eye Blind - Blue
    MF Doom - Operation Doomsday
    Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
    The Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About
    blink 182 - Enema
    Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
    TLC - Fanmail
    Lit - A Place in the Sun
    Eminem - Slim Shady LP
    Backstreet Boys - Millennium
    Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
    Sigur Ros - Ágætis byrjun
    Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
    Slipknot - Slipknot
    At the Drive In - Vaya
    Christina Aguilera - Christina Aguilera
    Method Man & Redman - Blackout!
    Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
    Foo Fighters - There is Nothing Left to Lose
    Q-Tip - Amplified
    Jay-Z - Vol. 3
     
  20. OhTheWater

    Let it run Supporter

    American Football far and away takes this for me. One of the more interesting years in terms of what got played on the radio. You have Britney, Christina, Backstreet Boys, Eminem, Dre, LFO, Korn, Santana, Limp Bizkit. Super eclectic popular music.
     
  21. williek311

    @wearthicksocks Prestigious

    1. MF DOOM - Operations Doomsday
    2. The Roots - Things Fall Apart
    3. Weakling - Dead as Dreams (self released in 1999 on cassette and cdr later to be issued on vinyl in 2000 but nobody else will mention this album so does it really matter plus I’ll probably forget next week.)

    just wanted to give a shout out to that weakling album. Other things I enjoy

    Windir - Arntor
    RATM - Battle for LA
    Slipknot - S/T
    BG - Chopper City in the Ghetto
    Sigur Ros - artybowbfiwhrvdkao
    Etc

     
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  22. Thrillcollinz

    Try to stay afloat

    1. American Football - American Football
    2. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
    3. Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret

    All three are 10/10s
     
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  23. phaynes12

    https://expertfrowner.bandcamp.com/ Prestigious

    this some black metal?
     
  24. williek311

    @wearthicksocks Prestigious

    Yes. American at that. This band formed in 98 recorded some demos, this album and the disbanded in 99. Never played a show.


    Also not nazis so that’s a plus.
     
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  25. phaynes12

    https://expertfrowner.bandcamp.com/ Prestigious

    that’s the way to do it. sick. i’ll check it out.