1998 in music.

Radiohead's seminal alt-rock masterpiece OK Computer won 1997. Let's see who wins 1998.

Billboard chart-topping albums of 1998:
Garth Brooks - Sevens (cont. from 1997)
Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (cont. from 1997)
Soundtrack - Titanic (cont. from 1997)
Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
Garth Brooks - The Limited Series
DMX - It's Dark and Hell is Hot
Soundtrack - City of Angels
Master P - MP Da Last Don
Soundtrack - Armageddon
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Snoop Dogg - Da Game is to Be Told Not to Be Sold
Korn - Follow the Leader
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Marilyn Manson - Mechanic Animals
Jay Z - Vol. 2 ... Hard Knock Life
Alanis Morissette - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
Garth Brooks - Double Live

Billboard chart-topping singles of 1998:
Elton John - Something About the Way You Look Tonight (cont. from 1997)
Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply (cont. from 1997)
Janet Jackson - Together Again (cont. from 1997)
Usher - Nice & Slow
Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On
Will Smith - Gettin Jiggy wit It (cont. from 1997)
K-Ci and Jojo - All My Life (cont. from 1997)
Next - Too Close
Mariah Carey - My All
Brady and Monica - Boy is Mine
Aerosmith - I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
Monica - The First Night
Barenaked Ladies - One Week
Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop
Divine - Lately
R. Kelly - I'm Your Angel

What are your top three albums for 1998? We will keep a running tally and eventually have some sort of bracket. For me it would be:
1. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
2. Elliott Smith - XO
3. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

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?

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rest of the top 10:
4. Outkast - Aquemini
5. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
6. Silver Jews - American Water
7. Jay Z - Vol. 2 ... Hard Knock Life
8. Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap
9. Braid - Frame and Canvas
10. Pearl Jam - Yield

honorable mentions:
A Tribe Called Quest - The Love Movement
At the Drive-in - In/Casino/Out
Beck - Mutations
Billy Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid Avenue
Black Star - Black Star
Bright Eyes - Letting Off the Happiness
Cave In - Until Your Heart Stops
Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
Death Cab for Cutie - Something About Airplanes
Eve 6 - Eve 6
Far - Water & Solutions
Fuel - Sunburn
Fugazi - End Hits
Gomez - Bring It On
Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up the Girl
Hole - Celebrity Skin
Hum - Downward is Heavenward
Jeff Buckley - Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
Jerry Cantrell - Boggy Depot
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Pedro the Lion - It’s Hard to Find a Friend
Pulp - This is Hardcore
Queens of the Stone Age - Queen of the Stone Age
R.E.M. - Up
Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine
Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves
Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider
Spoon - A Series of Sneaks
Sunny Day Real Estate - How it Feels to Be Something On
System of a Down - System of a Down
Tortoise - TNT
Unwound - Challenge for a Civilized Society

stuff to check out:
Air - Moon Safari
Alanis Morissette - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Cat Power - Moon Pix
DMX - It’s Dark and Hell is Hot
Dredg - Leitmotif
Goodie Mob - Still Standing
Jurassic 5 - Jurassic 5
Korn - Follow the Leader
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Master P - MP da Last Don
Mercury Rev - Deserter’s Songs
Public Enemy - He Got Game
Rancid - Life Won’t Wait
Snoop Dogg - Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told
Vince Gill - The Key

 

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2. Nightwish - Oceanborn
3. Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is probably my favourite album of the 90's.

 

More votes for radio rock bands incoming.

 

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2. Elliott Smith - XO
3. Bright Eyes - Letting Off the Happiness

 

1. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducatuon
2. Black Star - Mos Def & Talid Kweli
2. Outkast - Aquemini


Black Star was the album that really started my love for hip hop and getting in to stuff on my own and not just relying on bet and my brother.

 

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
3. Refused - The Shape of Punk To Come

 

Such mixed feelings on NMH in the year 2022. Aeroplane is a pretty wonderful record, full of great lyrics and interesting music but it's aged pretty poorly for me. Very small amount of NMH songs I ever want to listen to anymore. I don't think it's as simple as myth = good, and then they came back and the myth was gone and now it's clear they were never that good, but I think it's a little bit overrated AND 20 years later it feels like it influenced a lot of music I don't care for. Rambling but I am already bummed it's gonna win.

 

I bought my first ever CD in 1998, aged six year old:

England got knocked out on penalties in the quarter finals of the world cup that year, and I cried when David Beckham got sent off.

 

Well said and agreed. I liked this album a lot more in ~2006ish.

 

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
3. At the Drive In - In/Casino/Out

Honorable:
Outkast - Aquemini
Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
Alkaline Trio - Goddamnit
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Korn - Follow the Leader
Gang Starr - Moment of Truth
Black Star - S/T
Elliott Smith - XO
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up the Girl
NSYNC - NSYNC
The Offspring - Americana
Saves the Day - Can't Slow Down
Jay Z - Vol 2

 

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1. Mineral - EndSerenading
2. Korn - Follow the Leader
3. DMX - It's Dark and Hell is Hot

4. Bright Eyes - Letting Off the Happiness
5. Braid - Frame & Canvas
6. Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
7. Converge - When Forever Comes Crashing
8. The Chicks - Wide Open Spaces
9. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
10. Hole - Celebrity Skin

 

Just curious - do you completely not rate Adore ? I can understand not Top 10, but shocked to not even see it mentioned.

 

I had this on cassette too! Not sure I'm ready to listen to Three Lions again after the heartbreak this summer though.

 

1. Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
2. Pearl Jam - Yield
3. Gang Starr - Moment of Truth

Not including Aquemini was very difficult.

 

I’m not ready to vote yet because I’m agonizing over what to put 3rd but I am ready to say that the following is perhaps the song of the year:

 

Harrisburg, PA's own Fuel!

I remember our local rock station just being ALL OVER this song in the summer of '98. Their first two albums are both still very enjoyable.

 

I’ve always thought this was one of the funniest album covers of all time.

 

1. Pearl Jam - Yield
2. The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
3. System Of A Down - System Of A Down
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4. Beck - Mutations
5. Scott Weiland - 12 Bar Blues
6. Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl
7. The Offspring - Americana
8. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
9. Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels To Be Something On
10. Nada Surf - The Proximity Effect
11. Fuel - Sunburn
12. Barenaked Ladies - Stunt
13. Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
14. Queens Of The Stone Age - Queens Of The Stone Age
15. Garbage - Version 2.0
16. Clutch - The Elephant Riders
17. Stabbing Westward - Darkest Days
18. Superdrag - Head Trip In Every Key
19. R.E.M. - Up
20. Fastball - All The Pain Money Can Buy

Honorable Mention:
Air - Moon Safari
Alkaline Trio - Godamnit
At The Drive-In - In / Casino / Out
Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
Better Than Ezra - How Does Your Garden Grow?
Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue
Cake - Prolonging The Magic
Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
Death Cab For Cutie - Something About Airplanes
Elliott Smith - XO
Eve 6 - Eve 6
Everlast - Whitey Ford Sings The Blues
Fatboy Slim - You've Come A Long Way Baby
Fugazi - End Hits
Godsmack - Godsmack
Hole - Celebrity Skin
Hum - Downward Is Heavenward
Kid Rock - Devil Without A Cause
Korn - Follow The Leader
Lenny Kravitz - 5
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Metallica - Garage, Inc.
Monster Magnet - Powertrip
MxPx - Slowly Going The Way Of The Buffalo
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Orgy - Candyass
Outkast - Aquemini
Pedro The Lion - It's Hard To Find A Friend
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
Pulp - This Is Hardcore
Rancid - Life Won't Wait
Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine
Soul Coughing - El Oso
Spoon - A Series Of Sneaks

Listening to in full for the First Time:
Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Braid - Frame and Canvas
Bright Eyes - Letting Off The Happiness
Cave In - Until Your Heart Stops
Dredg - Leitmotif
Far - Water & Solutions
Gomez - Bring It On
Jay-Z - Vol.2... Hard Knock Life
Jerry Cantrell - Boggy Depot
Jurassic 5 - J5
Local H - Pack Up The Cats
Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
Mineral - EndSerenading
Saves The Day - Can't Slow Down
Silver Jews - American Water
Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves
A Tribe Called Quest - The Love Movement

 

Can't think about this one too long or my head'll explode, so here's a quick top 10:

01. Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
02. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
03. Brandy - Never Say Never
04. Tatyana Ali - Kiss The Sky
05. Pete Rock – Soul Survivor
06. Fat Joe - Don Cartagena
07. Keith Sweat - Still In The Game
08. Big Pun - Capital Punishment
09. Jay-Z - Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life
10. Brand Nubian - Foundation

Some others I love(d):

112 - Room 112
Gang Starr - Moment Of Truth
Montell Jordan - Let's Ride
DMX – It’s Dark And Hell Is Hot
Beastie Boys – Hello Nasty
The Coup – Steal This Album
Juvenile – 400 Degreez
Public Enemy – He Got Game
The Lox – Money, Power & Respect
Black Eyed Peas - Behind The Front
R. Kelly - R.

 

1. Hum - Downward is Heavenward
2. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
3. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

 

it's fine. i don't go back to it outside of a few songs very often