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Post by fearlessfreap on Jul 30, 2023 13:01:22 GMT
Alliyah - Are You That Somebody The whole “dirty south” schtick aged quicker than Dorian Gray after he destroyed his painting and Timbaland was nowhere near as great as people were saying 25 years ago, but this was the last massive chart hit I liked. It came from one of a long line of shitty Eddie Murphy movies that seemed to come out weekly at the time. It’s a cute song, but can’t compare to the 50’s - 80’s. Popular music was going downhill at exponential speed.
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Post by davey on Jul 31, 2023 4:26:32 GMT
1998
If Elliot Smith is off the board, gotta go here…
Toledo - Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach
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Post by DarknessFish on Jul 31, 2023 8:43:56 GMT
<Something that's not Neutral Milk Hotel>
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jul 31, 2023 9:26:37 GMT
1998
This year is something of a blur to me. I remember loving Beck's Mutations and I had a lot of time for the Beastie Boys Intergalactic which I thought was huge fun but then I remembered this was released in 1998 so I went with this instead. I was not a huge fan of the album I have to say and it's been funny watching it achieve some kind of classic cult status in indie circles but there was definitely something to it and I've always found the title track oddly moving and beautiful in its simplicity. The chords and strum pattern is beginners stuff but that's not a slight here and combined with a moving melody it gave the song a classic obviousness that made it sounds like one of those songs that had somehow always existed, as if Jeff Magnum had just plucked it from the air. Thankfully lyrically it eschews some of the obliqueness of the other songs and instead reaches for something more direct and universal. A song that celebrates the beauty and ephemerality of youth but which also strongly suggests death and rebirth in a way that feels triumphant and celebratory. Heightened wonderfully by the carnivalesque quality of the production that gives the song an almost euphoric, childlike quality of impish irreverence.
"Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all"
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Post by DayoRemix on Jul 31, 2023 9:27:27 GMT
Come on...
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Post by DarknessFish on Jul 31, 2023 9:47:12 GMT
Ok, I'll pick something else.
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Post by DarknessFish on Jul 31, 2023 10:39:25 GMT
1998
The Charm Pops - Gravity's Supple Truss (Window)
Well, I tried to go big with NMH, but then Dougie picked something from the same album, so I'm going so obscure it's a band without even a cult following. Radial Spangle under another name, and I've already posted "Big Ol' World Without You" enough times recently, so I'll go for the magnificently monikered Gravity's Supple Truss instead. I really don't know Alan Laird came up with such glorious nonsense for lyrics, each line sounds heartfelt and poetic, yet the words are clearly vaguely stitched together ramblings. Love the telephone voice in the background on the choppy guitar lines, too. Should've been bigger than Pavement, Sonic Youth, etc combined.
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Post by osgood on Jul 31, 2023 10:55:19 GMT
1998
Looking at the list of 1998 releases I find a lot I did like, or maybe I was just paying attention. Some of them have already been covered, and I'm glad to see Elliot Smith, Bacharach/Costello and Neutral Milk Hotel picked. There were also some great albums by Lucinda Williams, Mercury Rev and the already mentioned Beck's Mutations (his finest album if you ask me).
I'll go for something different, a track from Eels' Electro-Shock Blues, an album that made a big impact on yours truly, even if I thought (and still think) that it could have improved with some editting. In any case there were some fantastic tracks included, such as
Eels - Hospital Food
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Post by riggers on Aug 1, 2023 19:32:36 GMT
1998 Beck -"We Live Again"
This was a pretty big album for me at the time and I still enjoy the best bits of it. I'm not much of a fan of wacky, disco Beck, but stuff like this album and 'Sea Change' hit the spot for me. This one in particular I think is beautiful, somewhere between a dreamy 50's ballad and Disney movie song.
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Post by osgood on Aug 1, 2023 20:10:57 GMT
1998Beck -"We Live Again" This was pretty big album for me at the time and I still enjoy the best bits of it. I'm not much of a fan of wacky, disco Beck, but stuff like this album and 'Sea Change' hit the spot for me. This one in particular I think is beautiful, somewhere between a dreamy 50's ballad and Disney movie song. That is exactly the track I would have chosen from this record, with honourable mentions to O Maria, Tropicalia and Bottle of Blues.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Aug 4, 2023 0:05:22 GMT
1999 This is a bit of a landmark year for me in that it's the first year where I'm genuinely struggling to find something to pick. I don't think I'd got out of touch yet, it was just a very quiet year and a bit of harbinger of things to come in that respect. A few nice things, but nothing very new or distinctive. Still I've gone for one of the year's sassiest pop hits. I don't love it, but it's at least memorable and defines its times in a way music was beginning to struggle to do.
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Post by DayoRemix on Aug 4, 2023 1:15:23 GMT
1998
"Who do you love?" Mojave 3
Had my usual ton, but the album with this track sits pretty high on my yearly list..Bumped my Fugazi pick to 2001..Almost went Belle & Sebastian or Mercury Rev (Hope Ray chimes in with a track from Deserter's Songs)..
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Aug 4, 2023 10:22:18 GMT
Was anything happening in 1999? I honestly can hardly recall anything.
1999
I bought this and it's definitely one of Madge's last really good moments. Some nice touches and she still looks like the Queen of the Pop in the video.
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Post by DarknessFish on Aug 4, 2023 10:31:15 GMT
1999 was a great year for music, and I'm waiting to see if anyone else goes obvious before I post.
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Post by osgood on Aug 4, 2023 11:03:38 GMT
1999
The Flaming Lips - A Spoonful Weighs a Ton
Not many fave albums from that year, but this definitely is.
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