The Best Albums And Songs of 1998

nicolas · Post by **nicolas** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 7:02 pm

Episode 9: 1998

Please submit at least your favorite 5 songs and/or albums of the year 1998. Lists must be ranked. Only the top 15 songs/albums will be given points.

The deadline is midnight (Pacific Time) on the 31st of October. For the scoring, rules and other details check here.

15 albums/songs per year will advance, including at least 1 non anglophone album/song(the Nicolas/Henrik act). To be eligible to the second round, songs/albums must have a minimum of 2 votes. In case of a tie, a tie-breaker will be set up.

Please submit your list starting with #1 (no reverse order please) according to the following example

Artist - Album/Song

you can use 1), 1. or whatever separation character you like but what matters is not to reverse the song order and respect the artist - song order.

EPs and compilations are not allowed. The generally admitted reference for dates is Rate Your Music, unless proven otherwise.

Stephan · Post by **Stephan** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 9:09 pm

Albums:
1. New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
2. Fatboy Slim - You've Come A Long Way, Baby
3. Bob Dylan - Live 1966 - The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert
4. Neutral Milk Hotel - In An Aeroplane Over The Sea
5. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
6. OutKast - Aquemini
7. Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl
8. Elliott Smith - XO
9. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
10. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

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. New Radicals - Someday We'll Know
6. Goo Goo Dolls - Slide
7. Fatboy Slim - Rockafeller Skank
8. Massive Attack - Teardrop
9. Elliott Smith - Waltz #2
10. New Radicals - Mother We Just Can't Get Enough

Moonbeam · Post by **Moonbeam** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 9:24 pm

Voting early this time.

Albums:

1. Madonna - Ray of Light
2. Prince - Crystal Ball
3. OutKast - Aquemini
4. Moa - Universal
5. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
6. Busta Rhymes - E.L.E.

For the song list I present 2 versions - out including songs from Prince's 1998 outtake set Crystal Ball, and one without it. None of the songs were recorded in 1998, but they all saw their first official release then. Here are the details of recording dates.

Without songs from Crystal Ball:

1. Madonna - "Skin"
2. Madonna - "Ray of Light"
3. Aaliyah - "Are You That Somebody?"
4. Madonna - "Sky Fits Heaven"
5. Madonna - "The Power of Goodbye"
6. Prince - "The One"
7. Madonna - "Drowned World/Substitute for Love"
8. Madonna - "MER Girl"
9. Madonna - "Frozen"
10. Beastie Boys - "Intergalactic"
11. Madonna - "Has to Be"
12. Busta Rhymes - "Gimme Some Mo"
13. Prince - "Beautiful Strange"
14. Juvenile - "Back That Azz Up"
15. Jennifer Paige - "Crush"
16. Monifah - "Touch It"
17. Madonna - "Candy Perfume Girl"
18. Madonna - "Swim"
19. Prince - "Come On"
20. Lauryn Hill - "Ex-Factor"

With songs from Crystal Ball:

1. Prince - "Crystal Ball"
2. Madonna - "Skin"
3. Madonna - "Ray of Light"
4. Aaliyah - "Are You That Somebody?"
5. Madonna - "Sky Fits Heaven"
6. Madonna - "The Power of Goodbye"
7. Prince - "The One"
8. Madonna - "Drowned World/Substitute for Love"
9. Madonna - "MER Girl"
10. Madonna - "Frozen"
11. Prince - "Movie Star"
12. Prince - "Crucial"
13. Prince - "Calhoun Square"
14. Beastie Boys - "Intergalactic"
15. Prince - "Strays of the World"
16. Prince - "The Ride"
17. Madonna - "Has to Be"
18. Prince - "She Gave Her Angels"
19. Prince - "Days of Wild"
20. Prince - "What's My Name"
21. Prince - "Da Bang"
22. Prince - "Interactive"
23. Busta Rhymes - "Gimme Some Mo"
24. Prince - "Ripopgodazippa"
25. Prince - "Beautiful Strange"
26. Juvenile - "Back That Azz Up"
27. Jennifer Paige - "Crush"
28. Monifah - "Touch It"
29. Madonna - "Candy Perfume Girl"
30. Madonna - "Swim"
31. Prince - "Come On"
32. Lauryn Hill - "Ex-Factor"

John · Post by **John** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:58 pm

Albums:
1. Beck - Mutations
2. Elliott Smith - XO
3. Starflyer 59 - The Fashion Focus
4. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
5. Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels to Be Something On
6. Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine
7. Mason Jennings - Mason Jennings
8. Sean Lennon - Into the Sun
9. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
10. Cake - Prolonging the Magic
11. Stuart Davis - 16 Nudes
12. Mary Lou Lord - Got No Shadow
13. AIR - Moon Safari
14. System of a Down - System of a Down

Singles:
1. Elliott Smith- Waltz #2
2. Hole- Malibu
3. Neutral Milk Hotel- Holland, 1945
4. Beck- Nobody's Fault But My Own
5. REM- Daysleeper
6. Jay-Z- Hard Knock Life
7. Beastie Boys- Intergalactic
8. Air- Sexy boy
9. Semisonic- Closing Time
10. Harvey Danger- Flagpole Sitta
11. Air- Kelly Watch the Stars

Listyguy · Post by **Listyguy** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 11:34 pm

Do you have one list of all the songs and albums from 90-97 (I want to get a jump start on the listening for the final poll)? If not, I can just go back to the individual threads.

John · Post by **John** » Tue Oct 02, 2012 12:36 am

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=81

Greg · Post by **Greg** » Tue Oct 02, 2012 7:19 pm

Albums

1. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
2. Jeff Buckley - Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
3. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach - Painted from Memory
4. Patty Griffin - Flaming Red
5. Pulp - This is Hardcore
6. Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue
7. Gang Starr - Moment of Truth
8. Hole - Celebrity Skin
9. John Scofield - A Go Go
10. Robbie Robertson - Contact from the Underworld of Redboy
11. Madonna - Ray of Light
12. New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
13. Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider
14. The Afghan Whigs - 1965
15. Josh Rouse - Dressed Up Like Nebraska

16. Elliott Smith - XO
17. Big Pun - Capital Punishment
18. Dr. Israel - Inna City Pressure
19. Wagon Christ - Tally Ho!
20. UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
21. Maryam Mursal - The Journey
22. PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
23. Emmylou Harris - Spyboy
24. The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
25. Bob Mould - The Last Dog and Pony Show
26. Cappadonna - The Pillage
27. RZA - RZA as Bobby Digital in Stereo
28. The Coup - Steal This Album
29. Nick Lowe - Dig My Mood
30. Belle and Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap
31. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
32. AIR - Moon Safari
33. Lyle Lovett - Step Inside This House
34. Sheryl Crow - The Globe Sessions
35. Beck - Mutations
36. R.E.M. - Up
37. Neil Finn - Try Whistling This
38. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
39. Pernice Brothers - Overcome by Happiness
40. Olu Dara - In the World: From Natchez to New York
41. OutKast - Aquemini
42. Lambchop - What Another Man Spills
43. Liz Phair - Whitechocolatespaceegg
44. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
45. Tortoise - TNT
46. Dirty Three - Ocean Songs
47. Monster Magnet - Powertrip
48. Rachid Taha - Diwan
49. John Zorn - The Circle Maker
50. Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves
51. Money Mark - Push the Button
52. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
53. Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age
54. Garbage - Version 2.0
55. Drive-By Truckers - Gangstabilly
56. Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star
57. Mouse on Mars - Glam
58. Calexico - The Black Light
59. Saint Etienne - Good Humor
60. Willie Nelson - Teatro
61. Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
62. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Flying Low
63. Ian Dury - Mr. Love Pants
64. Gillian Welch - Hell Among the Yearlings
65. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
66. Underground Resistance - Interstellar Fugitives
67. Pearl Jam - Yield
68. Mark Lanegan - Scraps at Midnight
69. DMX - It's Dark and Hell is Hot
70. Death - The Sound of Perseverance
71. Manu Chao - Clandestino
72. Silver Jews - American Water
73. The Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces
74. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
75. Herbert - Around the House

Post by **Henrik** » Tue Oct 02, 2012 7:57 pm

I want to know if people are going to vote for "Bongo Bong" or "Je ne t'aime plus"? The first one slide over into the other with the same rhythm and Manu Chao's signature bouncy high note. I think we should agree on one of them, or consider them as one song.

Possible #1 for me.

Post by **Henrik** » Tue Oct 02, 2012 8:06 pm

My lists as they look right now. I will post the final lists later.

Code: Select all

Albums
1 (11) Manu Chao - Clandestino
2 (2) Massive Attack - Mezzanine
3 (3) Madonna - Ray of Light
4 (1) Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
5 (4) Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
6 (5) Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
7 (6) Beck - Mutations
8 (13) Air - Moon Safari
9 (-) John Zorn - The Circle Maker
10 (8) Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
11 (12) bob hund - Jag rear ut min själ, allt ska bort!
12 (9) Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach - Painted from Memory
13 (16) Belle and Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap
14 (10) Pulp - This Is Hardcore
15 (14) OutKast - Aquemini

Out, but still good:
(7) Bob Dylan - Live 1966
(15) The Cardigans - Gran Turismo


Songs
1 (1) Pulp - This Is Hardcore
2 (-) Manu Chao - Bongo Bong / Je ne t'aime plus
3 (-) Manu Chao - Mentira
4 (13) Massive Attack - Teardrop
5 (3) Mercury Rev - Holes
6 (-) Boards of Canada - Aquarius
7 (-) Refused - New Noise
8 (5) bob hund - Nu är det väl revolution på gång?
9 (16) Madonna - Ray of Light
10 (-) Boards of Canada - Roygbiv
11 (-) Cat Power - Cross Bones Style
12 (2) Beck - Nobody's Fault But My Own
13 (15) Neutral Milk Hotel - King of Carrot Flowers, Part I
14 (11) Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
15 (7) Massive Attack - Angel

Out, but still good:
(4) Beastie Boys - Song for Junior
(6) Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely
(8) Pulp - Dishes
(9) Massive Attack - Man Next Door
(10) The Beta Band - Push It Out
(12) Air - All I Need
(14) Madonna - Drowned World/Substitute for Love

Gillingham · Post by **Gillingham** » Tue Oct 02, 2012 9:08 pm

01. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
02. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
03. Autechre - LP5
04. Portishead - Roseland NYC Live
05. Elliott Smith - XO
06. Air - Moon Safari
07. Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
08. Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby
09. Hooverphonic - Blue Wonder Power Milk
10. Manu Chao - Clandestino
11. R.E.M. - Up
12. Counting Crows - Across a Wire: Live in New York City
13. David Gray - White Ladder
14. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
15. Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age

Great year, especially for electronic music.

Listyguy · Post by **Listyguy** » Tue Oct 02, 2012 9:56 pm

John wrote:viewtopic.php?f=2&t=81

That's perfect. Thanks!

Greg · Post by **Greg** » Tue Oct 02, 2012 10:00 pm

Songs

1. Hole - Malibu
2. Patty Griffin - Christina
3. Sparklehorse - Maria's Little Elbows
4. Lucinda Williams - Right in Time
5. Jeff Buckley - Morning Theft
6. Big Pun - I'm Not a Player
7. New Radicals - You Get What You Give
8. Belle and Sebastian - The Rollercoaster Ride
9. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach - In the Darkest Place
10. Gang Starr - Moment of Truth
11. Pulp - Dishes
12. Mercury Rev - Holes
13. Billy Bragg & Wilco - She Came Along to Me
14. Cappadonna - Black Boy
15. Josh Rouse - Late Night Conversation

16. Sheryl Crow - My Favorite Mistake
17. Elliott Smith - Baby Britain
18. Neil Finn - Addicted
19. Nick Lowe - What Lack of Love Has Done
20. Willard Grant Conspiracy - It Doesn't Matter
21. Beck - Static
22. Death - Painkiller
23. Dr. Israel - Life in the Ghetto
24. Emmylou Harris - Where Will I Be
25. Maryam Mursal - Somali Udiida Ceb
26. UNKLE - Bloodstain
27. RZA - Domestic Violence
28. Robbie Robertson - In the Blood
29. Silver Jews - The Wild Kindness
30. Bob Mould - Moving Trucks
31. Sonic Youth - Wild Flower Soul
32. Black Star - Astronomy (8th Light)
33. Lambchop - The Saturday Option
34. Wagon Christ - Piano Playa Hata
35. Pernice Brothers - Monkey Suit
36. John Scofield - A Go Go
37. Opeth - Demon of the Fall
38. Underground Resistance - Maroon
39. Garbage - Special
40. Ian Dury - Bed 'O' Roses No. 9
41. PJ Harvey - The Garden
42. John Zorn - Hazor
43. OutKast - Slump
44. Mark Hollis - Watershed
45. The Coup - What the Po-Po's Hate
46. Mouse on Mars - Glim
47. Dirty Three - Sea Above, Sky Below
48. Boards of Canada - Roygbiv
49. The Smashing Pumpkins - Perfect
50. R.E.M. - Daysleeper

Jirin · Post by **Jirin** » Wed Oct 03, 2012 12:23 am

1. Beck - Mutations
2. Outkast - Aquemini
3. Boredoms - Super AE
4. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
5. Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
6. Godspeed You Black Emperor - F#A# Infinity
7. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
8. Elliot Smith - XO
9. Liz Phair - Whitechocolatespaceegg
10. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
11. Madonna - Ray Of Light
12. Belle and Sebastian - The Boy Wiht The Arab Strap
13. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
14. Air - Moon Safari
15. REM - Up

Michel · Post by **Michel** » Wed Oct 03, 2012 12:03 pm

Albums :

1. Tarwater - Silur
2. Alain Bashung - Fantaisie militaire
3. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
4. PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
5. Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
6. Gomez - Bring It On
7. Orly - Matériau
8. Pascal Comelade - L'argot du bruit
9. Elliott Smith - XO
10. Hole - Celebrity Skin
11. Portishead - Roseland NYC Live
12. Scott 4 - Recorded in State LP
13. Amadou & Mariam - Sou ni tilé
14. Morcheeba - Big Calm
15. Holden - L'arrière-monde

Richard Galliano & Michel Portal - Blow Up
Propellerheads - Decksandrumsandrockandroll
Statics - 20ème siècle
Arab Strap - Philophobia
Beck - Mutations
Soul Coughing - El Oso
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
Money Mark - Push the Button
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Acme
Calexico - The Black Light
Cat Power - Moon Pix
Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby
Swell - For All the Beautiful People
Tricky - Angels With Dirty Faces

Petri · Post by **Petri** » Wed Oct 03, 2012 5:36 pm

Albums
1. Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
2. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
3. PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
4. Karkkiautomaatti - Suudelmilla
5. Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap
6. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
7. Antony & The Johnsons - s/t
8. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
9. Garbage - Version 2.0
10. The Afghan Whigs - 1965
11. AIR - Moon Safari
12. Elliott Smith - XO
13. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
14. Madonna - Ray of Light
15. Boredoms - Super æ
16. Gomez - Bring It On
17. Catatonia - International Velvet
18. R.E.M. - Up
19. The Cardigans - Gran Turismo
20. Tortoise - TNT
21. Pulp - This Is Hardcore
22. Saint Etienne - Good Humor
23. CMX - Vainajala
24. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - s/t
25. The Delgados - Peloton
26. 22-Pistepirkko - Eleven
27. UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
28. Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider
29. Jonna Tervomaa - s/t
30. Larry & The Lefthanded - Quantum Rider

Favorite year of the decade in albums for me. Not because of few masterpieces but because tens of albums I love. Top 6 could be basically be in any order and gap between #1 and #20 (or #25) is minimal).
If F♯A♯∞ is eligible again (I noticed Jirin voted for it) it's my #7.

Edit: New albums: 7. Antony & The Johnsons - s/t, 22. Saint Etienne - Good Humor, 30. Larry & The Lefthanded - Quantum Rider

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Wed Oct 03, 2012 8:01 pm

An excellent year for electronic music indeed. Refreshingly, for once it looks like our consensus list won't be dominated by indie rock.

Jackson · Post by **Jackson** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 3:04 pm

Does Beta Band - The Three E.P.'s count for the albums list this year? It would be my number 1 or 2.

For those looking for some more electronic music beyond the consensus favorites (obviously Air, Massive Attack, and Boards of Canada will make it), check out this Amon Tobin song. It's in both my and sonofsamiam's all-time top 100.

slick · Post by **slick** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 10:25 pm

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 1:01 am

Albums:

1. Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2. Air- Moon Safari
3. Massive Attack- Mezzanine
4. Mercury Rev- Deserter’s Songs
5. Fatboy Slim- You’ve Come a Long Way Baby
6. Lauryn Hill- The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
7. Lucinda Williams- Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
8. OutKast- Aquemini
9. Madonna- Ray of Light
10. Beck- Mutations

Songs:

1. Beastie Boys- Intergalactic
2. Fatboy Slim- The Rockafeller Skank
3. New Radicals- You Get What You Give
4. Stardust- Music Sounds Better With You
5. Madonna- Ray of Light
6. Lauryn Hill- Doo Wop (That Thing)
7. Neutral Milk Hotel- Holland, 1945
8. Fatboy Slim- Praise You
9. Air- Sexy Boy
10. Massive Attack- Teardrop
11. Placebo- Pure Morning
12. Mercury Rev- Holes
13. OutKast- Rosa Parks
14. Pulp- This Is Hardcore
15. UNKLE- Rabbit In Your Headlights

slick · Post by **slick** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 3:47 am

nicolas · Post by **nicolas** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 7:04 am

Moonbeam, which song list will you chose? I would take the second one, with songs from Crystal Ball, since they are totally eligible

Michel · Post by **Michel** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 5:03 pm

Songs :

1. PJ Harvey - The River
2. Hole - Dying
3. Alain Bashung - La nuit je mens
4. Alain Bashung - Samuel Hall
5. Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
6. The Beta Band - Inner Meet Me
7. The Beta Band - She's the One
8. Soul Coughing - Circles
9. Propellerheads - History Repeating
10. The Beta Band - Needles in My Eyes
11. PJ Harvey - A Perfect Day Elise
12. Tarwater - Watersample
13. Holden - La machine
14. Money Mark - Hand in Your Head
15. Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank

Statics - A quoi tu penses
Placebo - Pure Morning
Cat Power - Metal Heart
Cat Power - Cross Bones Style
Moby - Honey
Hole - Celebrity Skin
Mercury Rev - Goddess on a Hiway

Michel · Post by **Michel** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 5:04 pm

Jackson wrote:Does Beta Band - The Three E.P.'s count for the albums list this year? It would be my number 1 or 2.

It would be my number 1.

nicolas · Post by **nicolas** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 6:43 pm

"The 3 EP's" is always THE question in album polls. I'm sorry but it's not eligible. These are EP's put together not an original album.

nicolas · Post by **nicolas** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 6:47 pm

An excellent French song from 1998 : Alain Bashung's La Nuit je mens.

Rodneyontheblock · Post by **Rodneyontheblock** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 9:17 am

1. Liz Phair- whitechocolatespaceegg
2. Pulp- This is Hardcore
3. Mercury Rev- Deserter's Songs
4. PJ Harvey- Is This Desire?
5. Billy Bragg and Wilco- Mermaid Avenue
6. Belle and Sebastian- The Boy with the Arab Strap
7. Tori Amos- From the Choirgirl Hotel
8. Garbage- Version 2.0
9. Madonna- Ray of Light
10. Massive Attack- Mezzanine

Charlie Driggs · Post by **Charlie Driggs** » Mon Oct 08, 2012 10:48 pm

The songs of 1998

1 : Antony & The Johnsons : Cripple and the Starfish
2 : Tortoise : I Set My Face To The Hillside
3 : Saint Etienne : Lose That Girl
4 : OutKast : Rosa Parks
5 : Elliott Smith : Waltz #2
6 : Youngblood Brass Band : New Blood
7 : Blonde Redhead : Missile++
8 : The High Llamas : Lobby Bears
9 : Morcheeba : Big Calm
10 : Boards of Canada : Aquarius
11 : Neutral Milk Hotel : In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
12 : Boredoms : Super Going
13 : Amon Tobin : Nightlife
14 : Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra : Pit Bull
15 : Mercury Rev : Holes

16 : Morcheeba : The Sea
17 : Liquid Tension Experiment : Universal Mind
18 : Massive Attack : Angel
19 : Calexico : Frontera
20 : The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion : Talk About the Blues
21 : Thievery Corporation : Lebanese Blonde
22 : The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion : Magical Colors
23 : Los Miserables : El pueblo unido
24 : Mercury Rev : Goddess On A Hiway
25 : Eels : Last Stop: This Town
26 : Billy Bragg & Wilco : Way Over Yonder In The Minor
27 : Big Pun : Super Lyrical
28 : Imogen Heap : Rake it In
29 : Julie Ruin : Stay Monkey
30 : Silver Jews : Federal Dust
31 : Mercury Rev : Opus 40
32 : Skinny : Failure
33 : Sonic Youth : Sunday
34 : Dan Bern : Tiger Woods
35 : Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck : Ko Wone Mayo
36 : Barry Adamson : Jazz Devil
37 : OutKast : Aquemini
38 : Amadou & Mariam : Je pense a toi
39 : PJ Harvey : A Perfect Day Elise
40 : The Coup : Me and Jesus the Pimp In a 79 Grenada Last Night
41 : The Notwist : Moron
42 : Belle & Sebastian : The Boy With The Arab Strap
43 : Sparklehorse : Cruel Sun
44 : Tortoise : Jetty
45 : Public Enemy : He Got Game
46 : Stardust : Music Sounds Better With You
47 : The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion : Calvin
48 : The Magnetic Fields : I Don't Believe You
49 : Madonna : Ray Of Light
50 : Black Star : Re:Definition
51 : Dirty Three : Sirena
52 : Air : La femme d'argent
53 : OutKast : SpottieOttieDopaliscious
54 : Belle & Sebastian : Sleep The Clock Around
55 : IFA Wartburg : FDJ (Freie Deutsche Jugend)
56 : Beck : Tropicalia
57 : Beastie Boys : Intergalactic
58 : Grandaddy : A.M. 180
59 : The Roots : Don't See Us
60 : Junior Kimbrough : All Night Long
61 : Elliott Smith : Amity
62 : Black Star : Brown Skin Lady
63 : Gillian Welch : Caleb Meyer
64 : Little Rabbits : La Piscine
65 : Hole : Celebrity Skin
66 : Jessamine : Corrupted Endeavor
67 : Dirty Three : Distant Shore
68 : Silver Jews : Smith & Jones Forever
69 : Pulp : This Is Hardcore
70 : A Tribe Called Quest : Find A Way
71 : The Divine Comedy : Generation Sex
72 : Gang Starr : Moment Of Truth
73 : Tortoise : Ten-Day Interval
74 : Rage Against The Machine : No Shelter
75 : Mark Hollis : The Gift
76 : The Daktaris : Eltsuhg Ibal Lasiti
77 : The Roots : Adrenaline
78 : Hole : Malibu
79 : Tricky : Broken Homes
80 : RL Burnside : Come On In
81 : Mark Lanegan : Death Don't Have No Mercy
82 : Boards Of Canada : Roygbiv
83 : Sparklehorse : Painbirds
84 : Daniel Johnston : Dream Scream
85 : Issa Bagayogo : Gnangran (Atropolis Edit)
86 : Manic Street Preachers : If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
87 : Air : Kelly Watch The Stars
88 : Silver Jews : Send In the Clouds
89 : Calexico : Minas De Cobre (For Better Metal)
90 : Johnny Dowd : Murder
91 : Garbage : Push It
92 : Gomez : Bring It On
93 : The Lounge Lizards : Queen Reprise
94 : Lionrock : Rude Boy Rock
95 : OutKast : Skew It On The Bar-B
96 : Silver Jews : The Wild Kindness
97 : Belle & Sebastian : Is It Wicked Not To Care?
98 : Sheena Ringo : Koufukuron (Etsuraku-hen)
99 : Gang Starr : You Know My Steez
100 : Liz Phair : Polyester Bride

Petri · Post by **Petri** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 8:52 am

Charlie Driggs wrote:The songs of 1998

1 : Antony & The Johnsons : Cripple and the Starfish
3 : Saint Etienne : Lose That Girl

Thanks for reminding of these Charlie. I had totally forgotten that we decided that Antony & The Johnsons album is a 1998 release. nicolas please add that album to my #7 in albums (I'll edit my list after this post). Also I missed Good Humor when I checked AM and RYM charts. It's not a top 15 album for me but top 30 for sure.

nicolas · Post by **nicolas** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:14 pm

Godspeed You Black Emperor's F♯A&#9839 (these guys don't like simplicity) is from 1997 (see RYM)

Jirin tell me if you want to pick another album

nicolas · Post by **nicolas** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:32 pm

Petri, could you re-post an edited list (I would honestly prefer that) ? Thanks

sonofsamiam · Post by **sonofsamiam** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 7:22 pm

Petri · Post by **Petri** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 8:58 am

nicolas wrote:Petri, could you re-post an edited list (I would honestly prefer that) ? Thanks

I already edited my list (right after my previous post). Just copy/paste it again.

nicolas · Post by **nicolas** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:37 am

Oh sorry Petri i didn't see that !! I thought you'd repost your list and didn't even checked that you had used the edit function !

I'm always in a hurry these (stressful and busy) days. But I'm living and it feels good

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nicolas · Post by **nicolas** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:46 am

1998 is a great French year with Air, Bashung, Yann Tiersen and Manu Chao (and many others like Zebda).

Michel · Post by **Michel** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:49 am

nicolas wrote:1998 is a great French year with Air, Bashung, Yann Tiersen and Manu Chao (and many others like Zebda)

and Orly, Pascal Comelade, Holden, Richard Galliano & Michel Portal, Statics

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 12:10 pm

nicolas · Post by **nicolas** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 1:47 pm

Michel wrote:
nicolas wrote:1998 is a great French year with Air, Bashung, Yann Tiersen and Manu Chao (and many others like Zebda)
and Orly, Pascal Comelade, Holden, Richard Galliano & Michel Portal, Statics

and Zidane, Deschamps, Barthez, Blanc, Djorkaeff, Lizarazu, etc...

Petri · Post by **Petri** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 1:54 pm

nicolas wrote: Oh sorry Petri i didn't see that !! I thought you'd repost your list and didn't even checked that you had used the edit function !

I'm always in a hurry these (stressful and busy) days. But I'm living and it feels good .

No worries. Thanks for re-adding my list. I really appreciate you for running this poll.

And I didn't mean to sound rude or so (my comment was just a bit straightforward and short).

nicolas · Post by **nicolas** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 5:32 pm

I never thought that you sounded rude.

stone37 · Post by **stone37** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 1:35 am

01/Air/You Make It Easy
02/New Radicals/You Get What You Give
03/R.E.M./At My Most Beautiful
04/Air/Remember
05/Aaliyah/Are You That Somebody?
06/Whitney Houston/My Love is Your Love
07/Elliott Smith/Waltz #2 (XO)
08/Lauryn Hill/Doo Wop (That Thing)
09/Fastball/The Way
10/Lauryn Hill/Ex-Factor

11/Sheryl Crow/My Favorite Mistake
12/Air/All I Need
13/Fastball/Out of My Head
14/Massive Attack/Teardrop
15/R.E.M./Daysleeper

16/Trisha Yearwood/There Goes My Baby
17/R.E.M./Suspicion
18/Busta Rhymes/Gimme Some More
19/Smashing Pumpkins/Ava Adore
20/Hole/Celebrity Skin

21/U2/The Sweetest Thing
22/DC Talk/My Friend (So Long)
23/Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach/Painted By Memory
24/Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach/God Give Me Strength
25/Air/Kelly Watch the Stars
26/Lucinda Williams/Drunken Angel
27/OutKast/Rosa Parks
28/Beastie Boys/Intergalactic
29/Barenaked Ladies/One Week
30/Hole/Malibu

31/George Michael/Outside
32/Jay Z f/Amil & Ja Rule/Can I Get A...
33/Air/Ce Martin La
34/Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach/What's Her Name Today
35/R.E.M./Parakeet
36/Air/Sexy Boy
37/Air/Le Femme D'Argent
38/Air/New Star in the Sky
39/The Minders/Hooray for Tuesday
40/The Cardigans/My Favourite Game

41/OutKast f/Slick Rick/Da Art of Storytellin'
42/Nova Menco/Back to San Francisco
43/Sugar Ray/Every Morning
44/Harvey Danger/Flagpole Sitta
45/Fatboy Slim/Praise You
46/Semisonic/Closing Time
47/Fatboy Slim/The Rockafeller Skank
48/Smashing Pumpkins/Perfect
49/Korn/Freak on a Leash
50/Lucinda Williams/Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

Romain · Post by **Romain** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 5:57 am

Albums :

1. Alain Bashung - Fantaisie militaire
2. Prince - Crystal Ball
3. Beck - Mutations
4. AIR - Moon Safari
5. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
6. The Divine Comedy - Fin de Siècle
7. Manu Chao - Clandestino
8. Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
9. Belle and Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap
10. Calexico - The Black Light
11. PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
12. Tortoise - TNT
13. Godspeed You Black Emperor - F#A# Infinity
14. Rachid Taha - Diwan
15. Elliott Smith - XO
16. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
17. Pulp - This is Hardcore
18. Gomez - Bring It On
19. UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
20. Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider
21. Queens Of The Stone Age - Queens Of The Stone Age
22. Hubert Felix Thiefaine - Le bonheur de la tentation
23. REM - Up
24. Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright

Harold · Post by **Harold** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 8:57 pm

ALBUMS
1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2. Elliott Smith - XO
3. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
4. Air - Moon Safari
5. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
6. Beck - Mutations
7. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
8. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
9. Pulp - This is Hardcore
10. The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore

SONGS
1. Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-Headed Boy Pt. Two
3. Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945
4. Elliott Smith - Sweet Adeline
5. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
6. The Smashing Pumpkins - For Martha
7. Neutral Milk Hotel - The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. One
8. Elliott Smith - Independence Day
9. Semisonic - Closing Time
10. Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-Headed Boy

musictoad · Post by **musictoad** » Fri Oct 19, 2012 4:12 am

Albums:

1. Massive Attack: Mezzanine
2. PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
3. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
4. R.E.M. - Up
5. Silver Jews - American Water
6. Boards of Canada - Music Has a Right to Children
7. Tortoise - TNT
8. Sunny Day Real Estate - How If Feels to Be Something On
9. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
10. Elliott Smith - XO
11. Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap
12. Fugazi - End Hits
13. Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
14. Autechre - LP5
15. The Afghan Whigs - 1965

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Fri Oct 19, 2012 1:57 pm

musictoad wrote: 9. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile

If I'm not mistaken, "The Fragile" is from 1999.

beefsupreme · Post by **beefsupreme** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 9:04 pm

MMMhmmm, it's one of those years...

Albums
[1] Queens of the stone age - Queens of the Stone Age
[2] Outkast - Aquemini
[3] Mos Def & Talib Kweli - Blackstar
[4] Royal Trux - Accelerator
[5] The Silver Jews - American Water
[6] RZA - Bobby Digital
[7] Boredoms - Super AE
[8] Tripping Daisy - Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb
[9] Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
[10] Mudhoney - Tomorrow Hit Today
[11] Pulp - This is Hardcore
[12] Goodie Mob - Still Standing
[13] Busta Rhymes - Extinction Level Event
[14] The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Acme
[15] Spoon - A series of Sneaks

Songs
[1] The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Talk About The Blues
[2] Outkast - Rosa Parks
[3] Outkast - Spottieottiedopalicious
[4] Super Furry Animals - Ice Hockey Hair
[5] Hole - Malibu
[6] Mos Def & Talib Kweli - Definition
[7] Beck - Tropicalia
[8] Goodie Mob - Black Ice
[9] Royal Trux - I'm Ready
[10] DMX - Ruff Ryders Anthem
[11] Pulp - This is Hardcore
[12] Queens of the Stone Age - Avon
[13] RZA feat. Method Man - N.Y.C. Everything
[14] Boredoms - Super Going
[15] Air - La Femme D'argent

Romain · Post by **Romain** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:13 am

Songs :

1. Alain Bashung - La nuit je mens
2. Prince - Crystal Ball
3. Air - Sexy Boy
4. Mercury Rev - Holes
5. Beck - Nobody's Fault But My Own
6. The Divine Comedy - National Express
7. Calexico - The Black Light
8. Beck - Cold Brains
9. Rachid Taha - Diwan
10. Pulp - This Is Hardcore
11. Massive Attack - Teardrop
12. Elliott Smith - Waltz #2
13. Eels - Cancer for the cure
14. Manu Chao - Clandestino
15. U.n.k.l.e - Rabbit In Your Headlights

musictoad · Post by **musictoad** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:49 pm

Nick wrote:
musictoad wrote: 9. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile

If I'm not mistaken, "The Fragile" is from 1999.

Oops, my mistake.

New list below:

1. Massive Attack: Mezzanine
2. PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
3. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
4. Silver Jews - American Water
5. Boards of Canada - Music Has a Right to Children
6. Tortoise - TNT
7. Sunny Day Real Estate - How If Feels to Be Something On
8. R.E.M. - Up
9. Elliott Smith - XO
10. Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap
11. Fugazi - End Hits
12. Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
13. Autechre - LP5
14. The Afghan Whigs - 1965
15. Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves

Henry · Post by **Henry** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 4:07 am

Songs

1 / Barenaked Ladies One Week
2 / New Radicals You Get What You Give
3 / Goo Goo Dolls Slide
4 / Barenaked Ladies Alcohol
5 / Barenaked Ladies It's All Been Done
6 / Elliott Smith Waltz #2
7 / Cher Believe
8 / Semisonic Closing Time
9 / New Radicals Someday We'll Know
10 / Hole Celebrity Skin
11 / OutKast Spottieottoedopaliscious
12 / Mercury Rev Goddess on a Hiway
13 / Madonna Frozen
14 / Mercury Rev Holes
15 / Harvey Danger Flagpole Sitta
16 / The Cardigans My Favourite Game
17 / Lauryn Hill Ex-Factor
18 / Hole Malibu
19 / Manic Street Preachers The Everlasting
20 / Goo Goo Dolls Iris
21 / Air Kelly Watch the Stars
22 / David Gray Babylon
23 / Aretha Franklin A Rose Is Still A Rose
24 / Elliott Smith Bottle Up and Explode
25 / Elliott Smith Bled White
26 / Elliott Smith Independence Day
27 / Elliott Smith Baby Britain
28 / Smashing Pumpkins Shame
29 / R.E.M. At My Most Beautiful
30 / Page & Plant Please Read the Letter
31 / New Radicals Gotta Stay High
32 / New Radicals In Need of a Miracle
33 / Metallica Stone Cold Crazy
34 / Metallica Breadfan
35 / Metallica Am I Evil?
36 / Metallica Astronomy
37 / Metallica Mercyful Fate
38 / Natalie Merchant My Skin
39 / Madonna Little Star
40 / Madonna To Have and Not to Hold
41 / Eagle Eye Cherry Save Tonight
42 / Cowboy Junkies The Summer of Discontent
43 / Calexico Minas De Cobre (For Better Metal)
44 / Brother Cane Come Alive Again
45 / Maire Brennan Gra De
46 / Belle and Sebastian Sleep Around the Clock
47 / Barenaked Ladies Call and Answer
48 / Barenaked Ladies Leave
49 / Madonna Ray of Light
50 / Lauryn Hill Doo Wop (That Thing)
51 / Massive Attack Teardrop
52 / Fatboy Slim Praise You
53 / Manic Street Preachers If You Tolerate This Your Children Will be Next
54 / Brandy and Monica The Boy Is Mine
55 / Isolee Beau Mot Plage
56 / Super Furry Animals Ice Hockey Hair
57 / Cat Power Cross Bones Style
58 / Whitney Houston It's Not Right But It's Okay
59 / Korn Freak on a Leash
60 / Belle and Sebastian The Boy with the Arab Strap
61 / Catatonia Road Rage
62 / Beck Nobody's Fault But My Own
63 / Air All I Need
64 / Jeff Buckley Everybody Here Wants You
65 / Boards of Canada Roygbiv
66 / Dixie Chicks Wide Open Spaces
67 / Beck Tropicalia
68 / Doves The Cedar Room
69 / R.E.M. Daysleeper
70 / Aerosmith I Don't Want To Miss A Thing
71 / George Strait That's the Breaks
72 / George Strait Why Not Now
73 / George Strait True
74 / George Strait I Just Want to Dance With You
75 / Elliott Smith I Didn't Understand
76 / Elliott Smith A Question Mark
77 / Elliott Smith Waltz #1
78 / Elliott Smith Tomorrow Tomorrow
79 / Elliott Smith Sweet Adeline
80 / Smashing Pumpkins Behold! The Night Mare
81 / Smashing Pumpkins Once Upon a Time
82 / Smashing Pumpkins To Sheila
83 / Sinergy Warriors
84 / Sinergy Relay Breakdown
85 / Sinergy Legacy
86 / R.E.M. Diminished
87 / Pearl Jam All Those Yesterdays
88 / Pearl Jam In Hiding
89 / Pearl Jam Wish List
90 / Page & Plant Burning Up
91 / New Radicals Flowers
92 / New Radicals Technicolor
93 / New Radicals Jehovah Made This Whole Joint For You
94 / New Radicals I Hope I Didn't Just Give Away The Ending
95 / Alanis Morissette Thank U
96 / Metallica Stone Dead Forever
97 / Metallica Damage Case
98 / Metallica Die Die My Darling
99 / Natalie Merchant When They Ring The Golden Bells
100 / Natalie Merchant The Living
101 / Natalie Merchant King of May
102 / Natalie Merchant Break Your Heart
103 / Natalie Merchant Kind & Generous
104 / Natalie Merchant Life Is Sweet
105 / Madonna Mer Girl
106 / Madonna The Power of Goodbye
107 / Madonna Sky Fits Heaven
108 / Jewel Life Uncommon
109 / Jewel Innocence Maintained
110 / Jewel Down So Long
111 / Lauryn Hill Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
112 / Lauryn Hill Final Hour
113 / Garbage Special
114 / Garbage You Look So Fine
115 / Fastball Out of My Head
116 / Eagle Eye Cherry Desireless
117 / Sheryl Crow Members Only
118 / Cowboy Junkies Someone Out There
119 / Cowboy Junkies Hollow As A Bone
120 / Cowboy Junkies New Dawn Coming
121 / Calexico Frontera
122 / Calexico Sprawl
123 / Calexico Over Your Shoulder
124 / Brother Cane I Lie In the Bed I Make
125 / Brother Cane Wishpool
126 / Maire Brennan Doon Well
127 / Maire Brennan Our World
128 / Maire Brennan Song of David
129 / Maire Brennan Heal This Land
130 / Maire Brennan Na Paisti
131 / Maire Brennan Perfect Time
132 / Maire Brennan The Big Rock
133 / Billy Bragg & Wilco Birds and Ships
134 / Belle and Sebastian Seymour Stein
135 / Belle and Sebastian A Summer Wasting
136 / Beck Static
137 / Beck Sing It Again
138 / Beck O Maria
139 / Beck Bottle of Blues
140 / Beck Deeo Melodies
141 / Barenaked Ladies Never Is Enough
142 / Barenaked Ladies I'll Be That Girl

Henry · Post by **Henry** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 4:09 am

Albums

1 / New Radicals Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
2 / Barenaked Ladies Stunt
3 / Elliott Smith XO
4 / Metallica Garage Inc.
5 / Natalie Merchant Ophelia
6 / Madonna Ray of Light
7 / Belle and Sebastian The Boy with the Arab Strap
8 / The Smashing Pumpkins Adore
9 / Beck Mutations
10 / Maire Brennan Perfect Time
11 / Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
12 / R.E.M. Up
13 / Cowboy Junkies Miles From Our Home
14 / Calexico The Black Light

nicolas · Post by **nicolas** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 6:38 pm

Now that I've passed the first part of my exam successfully

, I have some vacation so I guess I'll compile the results in time.