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Post by loveless on Aug 4, 2023 11:35:42 GMT
1999 was a great year for music, and I'm waiting to see if anyone else goes obvious before I post. Hmmm....it's on ME if I'm missing something obvious, but...most of my gimmes from that year (Madonna and TLC tracks aside, which I did love very much at the time) got hung up on the technicality of having stealthily crept out into the world during 1998. I'd KILL for having some of those tracks eligible.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Aug 4, 2023 12:05:21 GMT
Funnily enough 2000 is much better, I have a number of choices for that year. Arguably 1999 is the worst year for post-war 20th century music.
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Post by fearlessfreap on Aug 4, 2023 12:13:05 GMT
1999 It's getting very near the end for me. 99 was the year Millenials took over from Gen X as the target audience and pop became king. It was all Brittney and Xtina, NSync and Backstreet Boys.
Basement Jaxx - Red Alert
I liked the earliest Rolling Stones albums more before I heard the originals of their covers. This song takes it's bassline from a B-side from an obscure US funk group, Locksmith, who I never heard of at the time, and I was a pretty big fan of that sort of music in 1980. Once I heard it, Red Alert fell a bit in my estimation, but we're now grading on a curve.
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Post by rayge on Aug 4, 2023 12:14:23 GMT
(Hope Ray chimes in with a track from Deserter's Songs).. I probably will, yeah, but I'm well behind - haven't done Empire State yet.
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Post by DarknessFish on Aug 4, 2023 12:49:17 GMT
1999 was a great year for music, and I'm waiting to see if anyone else goes obvious before I post. Hmmm....it's on ME if I'm missing something obvious, but...most of my gimmes from that year (Madonna and TLC tracks aside, which I did love very much at the time) got hung up on the technicality of having stealthily crept out into the world during 1998. I'd KILL for having some of those tracks eligible. I feel like I should have a committee meeting with Dayo before posting, because I'd expect the band/album to be obvious to him, anyway. Wasn't actually big in 1999, took some time for them to hit the mainstream.
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Post by DayoRemix on Aug 4, 2023 12:57:12 GMT
Hmmm....it's on ME if I'm missing something obvious, but...most of my gimmes from that year (Madonna and TLC tracks aside, which I did love very much at the time) got hung up on the technicality of having stealthily crept out into the world during 1998. I'd KILL for having some of those tracks eligible. I feel like I should have a committee meeting with Dayo before posting, because I'd expect the band/album to be obvious to him, anyway. Wasn't actually big in 1999, took some time for them to hit the mainstream. Not understanding the shit talk about 1999..Anyway, you may have Atari Teenage Riot (I'm assuming that's our "Obvious" overlap, though Crescent, Coil and Sigur Ros have offerings..) edit: Just remembered "Windowlicker" is also this year..US Maple and Bonnie Prince Billy as well
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Post by rayge on Aug 4, 2023 13:34:22 GMT
Well, 1999 may have been crap generally, but fortunately it birthed what I think of as the best track ever recorded by anyone outside Goldstar Studios. Ten Canadian outsiders and a tape-recorder full of found sounds - helicopters overhead, a ranting paranoid prophet of the American End Times - nail the late 20th Century to the wall.
Godpseed You! Black Emperor - BBF-3
It's more a suite than a song, but the disparate pieces hangs together beautifully and make narrative sense. It's an essentially visual piece of sonic art, the sense of gathering tension, violent release, desolate aftermath. The last six minutes are just marvelous, a gloriously emotional bloodbath: listening to it now, the tears are streaming down my face. I don't intend to have a funeral, but were I to do so, those six minutes would do for me to go out on.
I saw them play twice in Bristol on both sides of the turn of the century - the first time in a pub, the second in a church - and this was the highlight both times, with the build to that extraordinary climax and its seven-note hammer of a riff drawn out to absurd levels of tension and volume, five seated guitarists bent over their instruments conjuring the sound of 100 mandolins, along with a miked-up cello and violin - wild Furies unleashed in the dark and confined space...transcendental, really.
For me, at any rate
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Post by davey on Aug 4, 2023 14:06:58 GMT
1999
Definitely not a great year. I suppose something from this record ought to be here though…
Come Back From San Francisco - Magnetic Fields
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Post by DarknessFish on Aug 4, 2023 17:49:07 GMT
Sigurd Ros - Olsen Olsen
OK, I'll play, since most people seem to have been in a coma in 1999. One of the absolute classics of the era. I could've picked almost any track from the album, but I love the pastoral, folky air of this one, along with the kind of anthemic, climactic build of the track.
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Post by loveless on Aug 7, 2023 12:13:39 GMT
1999
I've surprised myself with my pick for 1999. It's not some world beating, era defining, slice of the pre-millenial ether, and yet...there's something melancholy, resigned, moody, and maybe a little sad about it that I'm eternally drawn to.
The vague, expansive, Pink Floyd strumming in the intro, the sustaining melody...there's something captured there that I find very "almost resolved".
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Aug 8, 2023 12:45:50 GMT
^ There's a hint of Dogs in there
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Aug 8, 2023 12:48:47 GMT
I really like its sudden shifts from melancholy to uplifting. It's the kind of thing that's surprisingly hard to pull off.
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Post by riggers on Aug 8, 2023 13:22:26 GMT
1999 Ol' Dirty Bastard feat. Kelis-"Got Your Money"
I missed the first Wu-Tang album initially, but as a result of Neil Kulkarni's OTT review of the second, I wound up getting that one first. It's a bit patchy to say the least, but I was on board. I still haven't navigated the myriad of affiliated releases by the numerous members, but ODB's playing out of the Staggerlee myth round this time seemed genuinely exciting and this is a great pop record.
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Post by osgood on Aug 8, 2023 13:29:36 GMT
I really like its sudden shifts from melancholy to uplifting. It's the kind of thing that's surprisingly hard to pull off. Not only that, I find the transition from verse to chorus risky but well managed, and then the move back to verse unexpectedly natural, it is a fuckin' well constructed tune.
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Post by DayoRemix on Aug 8, 2023 17:00:53 GMT
1999
"Too dead for me" Atari Teenage Riot
With fishy nicely taking Sigur Ros off the board, it came down to this, the twisted electronic r&B of "Windowlicker" (Aphex Twin), the haunted whispers of Piano Magic and LeTigre..Went with this blast of crazed, anarchic energy, that blew the doors off everything, including the band..
Plenty more great stuff from this year. Quite deep if one wants to dig a little..
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