1999 in music. • Page 6

Those are the two I have on vinyl and I play them both a fair amount. I like Ganging up on the Sun a lot too. They kind of lost me on their last few, though.

 

Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
blink-182 - Enema of the State
American Football - ST
The Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About
The Hippos - Heads are Gonna Roll
Lit - A Place in the Sun
Jimmie’s Chicken Shack - Bring Your Own Stereo

 

I've listened to all their recent stuff and it's all nice enough, but more as just like... upbeat background music. Two big standout tracks for me though:

 

I like Easy Wonderful. That was the last one I got very jazzed about. The most recent one was…odd.

 

Jimmie’s Chicken Shack’s album Bring Your Own Stereo has got to be one of the most underrated albums of 1999. I still blast “Silence Again” and “Fill in the Blank” pretty regularly.

I feel like a lot of people here would be into it.

 

@bradsonemanband #5 on my list, great album

 

01. Rakim - The Master
02. Will Smith - Willennium
03. Ja Rule – Venni Vetti Vecci
04. Mos Def - Black On Both Sides
05. Method Man & Redman - Blackout!
06. Mariah Carey - Rainbow
07. GZA/Genius - Beneath The Surface
08. Inspectah Deck - Uncontrolled Substance
09. Dr. Dre – 2001
10. MF DOOM - Operation Doomsday

More:

The Roots - Things Fall Apart
Jay Z - Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter
Donell Jones - Where I Wanna Be
Brian McKnight - Back at One

I also like a couple of pop punk and emo albums from this year, but you can find those on plenty of other lists I would assume.

 

Guster is another band I need to check out more stuff by .... I know probably 5-6 songs and really like them all. They were on Live From Daryl's House probably ~10 years ago now and I remember really enjoying that episode. The guys seem to have a great sense of humor as well.

Didn't even look to see which album this song was from but it's a great song. Another one of those that you hear a lot in grocery stores and might not even know who sang it.

 

That’s from Ganging up on the Sun, which is probably my third favorite Guster record. Great song.

 

Yo, I sold merch for them at Harpers Ferry in Boston in 2009. Nicest band ever and really fun to see live!

 

Okay so I'll revisit that one in.... '06.

I'm just 4 songs into Lost and Gone Forever and really really impressed. This band is so up my alley. Great song arrangements, hooks everywhere, beautiful harmonies. AND I knew "Barrel of a Gun" - prob from another grocery store lmao.

 

Been a while since I listened to these guys, and never really knew if they were big nationwide, or just regionally. They're from Annapolis, MD so the rock stations I grew up listening to out of Baltimore and South-Central PA area played "High", "Dropping Anchor", and "Do Right" CONSTANTLY. Those are all really fun songs - need to revisit some of their full-lengths.

 

this thread makes me feel wicked old. I was 15 in 1999.

Pretty sure My top 2 albums that year were Limp Bizkit and Backstreet boys

 

You love to see it! At this point, I consider 'feeling old' as it relates to music/nostalgia a pretty good thing. Lol

 

I think overall the album is a little overrated, but some of those beats on 2001 will never sound old, which is pretty incredible tbh

 

I absolutely love it

 

Great list and write-ups as usual. Gonna be checking out the Matthew Good Band one for sure, I really liked what I heard from the album you mentioned a few weeks ago.

This is spot on again for 311. Soundsystem is still a go-to summer day album for me - so fun to blast while driving with the windows down too. Everyone will know this one as "the one with Come Original" - but some fantastic deep cuts in here that they still dust off live here and there: "Sever", "Mindspin", "Life's Not A Race", "Livin & Rockin"....

 

First time I saw 311 was driving up to Hartford, CT for a radio festival. They headlined with Everclear playing 2nd to last and The Verve Pipe, Guster and Public Enemy also playing (ah, 1999). Soundsystem also contains one of my all time favorite 311 songs (Eons).

 

They were fairly big nationally (I think "Do Right" might have even dipped into TRL for a few days).

 

And of COURSE "Eons" - lol shame on me for leaving that one out when referencing the classic deep cuts.

 

I just stumbled on this on youtube this morning. They play BYOS all the way through.

 

My favorite song on Soundsystem is “Strong All Along”

 

Yes it has a load of good songs on it.

 

They were inexplicably popular among my high school classmates, so a lot of those songs were just everywhere in my life for years. I think by the time I actually listened to the full album, I’d already heard all but 2-3 songs.