Best Album on OUR Favourite Albums of......1999!!

Of this list, Shack edging out American Football and The Dismemberment Plan. Write in vote for Wheat's Hope & Adams.

bubbling under list

...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Madonna
7Zuma7 - Deep Inside
Acid King - Busse Woods
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Pataphisical Freak Out MU!!
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Wild Gals a Go-Go
Appendix Out - Daylight Saving
arto lindsay - prize
Botch - We Are The Romans,
Bozart - Kurth
Brant Bjork - Jalamanta
Cave In - Beyond Hypothermia.
Cave In - Until Your Heart Stops,
Cavity - Supercollider ,
Circle - Andexelt
Colour Haze - Periscope
Cul de Sac - Crashes to Light, Minutes to Its Fall
Dark Star - Twenty Twenty Sound
Davis Redford Triad - Ewige Blumenkraft
Death In Vegas - The Contino Sessions
Fatso Jetson - Flames For All
Fatso Jetson - Toasted
Faust - Ravvivando
Fly Pan Am - Fly Pan Am
Four Tet - Dialogue
Fu Manchu - Eatin' Dust
Ghost - Snuffbox Immanence.
Grant Hart - Good News For Modern Man
Gravitar - You Must First Learn to Draw the Real
Guided By Voices - Do The Collapse
Hash Jar Temple - Under Glass
High Rise - Speed Free Sonic
Jackie-O Motherfucker - WOW
Jay-Z - vol. 3
June Of 44 - Anahata
Juno - This Is the Way It Goes and Goes and Goes
Karma To Burn - Wild Wonderful Purgatory
Labradford - E Luxo So
Le Tigre - Le Tigre
Low - Secret Name
Mainliner - Solid Stick Attack
Major Stars - Space/Time
Mark Lanegan - I'll Take Care Of You
MF Doom - operation doomsday
Mirza - Iron Compass Flux
Mogwai - Come On Die Young
Molasses - You'll Never Be Well No More
Mos Def - black on both sides
Mournful Congregation - Tears From a Grieving Heart
Neurosis - Times Of Grace,
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Noothgrush - Erode the Person ,
Nortt - Graven
Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage
Oneida - Enemy Hogs
Orbital - The Middle Of Nowhere
Orchid - Chaos Is Me
Pan Sonic - A
Pelt - Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky
Pharoahe Monch - Internal Affairs
Pinback - Pinback
Plaid - Rest Proof Clockwork
Pole - 2
Porn - Porn American Style
Rainer Maria - Look Now Look Again
Salaryman - Karoshi
Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun ,
Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock
Stereolab - Cobra and Phases Group Play "Voltage" in the Milky Night
The American Analog Set - Golden Band,
The Atomic Bitchwax - S/t
The Promise Ring - Very Emergency
The roots - things fall apart
The White Stripes - The White Stripes
Today Is The Day - In The Eyes Of God,
tom waits- mule variations
U.S. Maple - Talker
Up-Tight - Up-Tight
Wheat - Hope & Adams
Worship - Last Tape Before Doomsday
xtc - apple venus vol 1

Magnetic Fields over Wilco.

there is nothing exciting on that list. i think i'll go for summerteeth, never has wilco sounded so exuberantly pop, almost like the beatles. my real fave was "this is a pinback cd", what a gorgeous album about singing, harmonies and simplicity.

I know its rep has diminished in recent years, but sod it, this is Soft Bulletin and it isn’t even close, really. Especially if you can find the original version with the Mokran mixes of “Race for the Prize” and “Waiting for Superman” (which is one of the most beautiful songs ever!).

something to write home about

(actually: keep it like a secret or beaucoup fish, but i'm still voting for the get up kids)

Boredoms / Trans-Am / MoM / Godspeed were the ones I was listening to from the poll.

VCN probably. Has it dated well?

I listened to it recently and it still gave me chills - I don't think anyone's quite matched it in the last 20 years so that's why I'm gonna vote for it.

Lots of great electronic albums this year...Beacoup Fish, Surrender, Niun Niggung, Rest Proof Clockwork, Middle of Nowhere...couldn't really pick a favorite, though I hold a special place in my heart for Surrender because I bought that on the day of release and remember biking through town with a huge grin on my face while listening to it. They took a lot of backlash for that one but in retrospect they still managed to be ahead of the curve. Beacoup Fish still sounds nice, a little tied to its era (and if you follow UW live recordings you're probably sick of some of the tunes) but it does have "Jumbo" which is basically a perfect song. RPC and NN don't seem to have aged much. Particularly the Plaid album. They were really off on their own thing. As for Middle of Nowhere I still find it fascinating - one of the best 'writers block' albums, where they just sorta will themselves to another great album despite not having a whole lot of ideas.

69 Love Songs, all the way

d-plan, of the poll options.

The Ideal Crash, which has always been my favorite album of theirs by a fair distance.

Corrupted

69 Love Songs, all the way

Wilco

was a toss up between Pavement and Boredoms with dEUS as a close runner up

The best album of 1999 is missing: Missy Elliott's 'Da Real World'.

Of those listed it's between Underworld and Magnetic Fields for me, with additional particular love for Orbital, Jay-Z, Kelis, Method Man/Redman and Low.

forgot about Secret Name

Beaucoup Fish is my favorite Underworld, it still sounds really good to me

Drexciya all day long

Bardo Pond

Soft Bulletin, edging out Leftfield.

MUSICK TO PLAY IN THE DARK

Voted for Vision Creation Newsun even though I always think of it as a '00s album thanks to its later UK release date. Total classic either way.

Would have gone for Olivia Tremor Control from the bubbling under list though.

Low's 'Secret Name' and Mos Def's 'Black on Both Sides' and Stereolab's 'Cobra and Phases...' are about the only albums from 1999 I'd miss if the year were deleted. None is on this list...

With only one poll it meant 50 albums had to be cut

Magnetic Fields over Wilco.

Exactly my perspective as well. The Fall's "Marshall Suite" is about 2/3's great, too.

Wow, Woodbine! Never saw that band ever mentioned before, I think.

This song in particular is lovely:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFXxVPtIPIQ

Still, voted for the Get Up Kids.

some faves on here, think ODB might win out for me tbh

A big fat :( for delegating Juno to the bubbling under list...

Beaucoup Fish is likely the album I listened to the most that year. Midnite Vultures second. I enjoyed the Soft Bulletin, but I remember not long after that getting (probably downloaded through Napster) Clouds Taste Metallic which basically became my favorite album for a while.

I listened to Vision Creation Newsun quite a bit also, but that must have gotten a North American release a year or two later, because I remember buying it as a new release later than 1999.

I am pretty sure this is the year I started just downloading a lot of stuff through Napster which means this was basically when I started really expanding my music taste. A very important year in that regard.

Of this list, Beaucoup Fish.

Pretty sure I ordered VCN (the Japanese issue) from Forced Exposure.

Not much on this list floats my boat. Sleep? Wilco? Lips? Bonnie? Or Keep It Like a Secret, which I have probably listened to more than any of the other albums here.

further to Coil, this was the year of Guns, Pony and Memphis In Texas, all of which would need no introduction in a better world

Came here to vote for the Magnetic Fields. Did not leave disappointed.

I think Jim O’Rourke’s Eureka is one of the really great albums on this list

also Mimiyo Tomozawa’s cover art for it is disturbing and beautiful, as is her art for 2001’s Insignificance

Bardo Pond

― the cretin hits the cast (Drugs A. Money)

High five, emphasis on the high.

1999 NME Albums

Flaming Lips

1. The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
2. Shack – HMS Fable
3. Super Furry Animals – Guerrilla
4. Death In Vegas – The Contino Sessions
5. Beck – Midnite Vultures
6. Campag Velocet – Bon Chic Bon Genre
7. Pavement – Terror Twilight
8. Mogwai – Come One Die Young
9. The Folk Implosion – One Part Lullaby
10. Smog – Knock Knock
11. Basement Jaxx – Remedy
12. Underworld – Beaucoup Fish
13. Godspeed You Black Emperor! – Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
14. Make Up – Save Yourself
15. Eminem – The Slim Shady LP
16. Jim O’rourke – Eureka
17. Ol’ Dirty Bastard – N***A Please
18. Bonnie Prince Billy – I See Darkness
19. Blur – 13
20. The Charlatans – Us And Us Only
21. Tindersicks – Simple Pleasure
22. Low – Secret Name
23. Add N To X – Avant Hard
24. Leftfield – Rhythm And Stealth
25. TLC – Fanclub
26. Low – Christmas
27. Royal Trux – Veterans Of Disorder
28. Love As Laughter – Destination 2000
29. The All Seeing I – Pickled Eggs & Sherbet
30. Ian Brown – Golden Greats
31. Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Spanish Dance Troupe
32. Sizzla – Royal Son Of Ethiopia
33. Mouse On Mars – Niun Niggung
34. The Chemical Bruthers – Surrender
35. Pole – Pole 2
36. The Beta Band – The Beta Band
37. Roots Manuva – Brand New Second Hand
38. U-Ziq – Royal Astronomy
39. Kevin Rowland – My Beauty
40. Travis – The Man Who
41. Future Pilot AKA – Future Pilot AKA VS. A Galaxy Of Sounds
42. Stereolab – Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night
43. Sebadoh – The Sebadoh
44. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead – Madonna
45. The Auteurs – How I Learned To Love The Bootboys
46. Damien Jurado – Rehearsals For The Departure
47. Rage Against The Machine – The Battle Of Los Angeles
48. Clinton – Disco And The Halfway To Discontent
49. Papa M – Live From A Shark Cage
50. Missy Elliott – Da Real World

Melody Maker End Of Year Critic Lists - 1999

Albums

1. Suede – Head Music
2. Blur – 13
3. Super Furry Animals – Guerrilla
4. The Charlatans – Us And Us Only
5. Travis – The Man Who
6. The Chemical Brothers – Surrender
7. Supergrass – Supergrass
8. Macy Gray – On How Life Is
9. Tlc – Fanmail
10. Eminem – The Slim Shady Lp
11. Foo Fighters – There Is Nothing Left To Lose
12. Basement Jaxx – Remedy
13. Gay Dad – Leasurenoise
14. Gomez – Liquid Skin
15. Catatonia – Equally Cursed And Blessed
16. The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
17. A – Monkey Konk
18. Stereophonics – Performance And Cocktails
19. Les Rythmes Digitales – Darkdancer
20. Tindersticks – Simple Pleasure
21. The Longpigs – Mobile Home
22. The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
23. Ultrasound – Everything Picture
24. Feeder – Yesterday Went Too Soon
25. Missy Elliott – Da Real World
26. Orbital – The Middle Of Nowhere
27. Ian Brown – Golden Greats
28. Death In Vegas – The Contino Sessions
29. Groove Armada – Vertigo
30. The Beta Band – The Beta Band
31. Pet Shop Boys – Night Life
32. Underworld – Beaucoup Fish
33. Pavement – Terror Twilight
34. Limp Bizkit – Significant – Other
35. Doberman – The Manic Treehouse
36. Arsonists – As The World Burns
37. Cay – Nature Creates Freaks
38. Kevin Rowland – My Beauty
39. Merz – Merz
40. Fountain Of Wayne – Utopia Parkway
41. Gus Gus – This Is Normal
42. Wilco – Summerteeth
43. Royal Trux – Veterans Of Disorder
44. Astrid – Strange Weather Lately
45. The Folk Implosion – One Part Lullaby
46. 3 Colours Red – Revolt
47. Dot Allison – Afterglow
48. The All Seeing Eye – Pickled Eggs And Sherbet
49. Mos Def – Black On Both Sides
50. Beck – Midnite Vultures

Hmm, nothing in the main list that I flat-out love right now. It could be Drexciya if I just listened to that album more.

how about the bubbling under list? I somehow forgot to have love as laughter on either list

Campag Velocet, blimey!

Sleep probably

MM list is petty bad

Spin End Of Year Lists 1999

Albums

1. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
2. Rage Against The Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
3. Moby - Play
4. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs, Vol. 1, 2 & 3
5. Prince Paul - A Prince Among Thieves
5. Handsome Boy Modeling School - So…How's Your Girl?
6. Basement Jaxx - Remedy
7. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
8. Goodie Mob - World Party
9. Beck - Midnite Vultures
10. Fiona Apple - When the Pawn…
11. Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
12. The Chemical Brothers - Surrender
13. Ol' Dirty Bastard - N***a Please
14. Ibrahim Ferrer - Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer
15. Mary J. Blige - Mary
16. The Promise Ring - Very Emergency
16. Rainer Maria - Look Now Look Again
17. Wilco - Summer Teeth
18. Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock
19. Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions
20. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP

I think Jim O’Rourke’s Eureka is one of the really great albums on this list

Yes, very much agree, recently had an epiphany with this record.

Time for some vintage Pfork:

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/5815-top-10-albums-of-1999/

1. The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency and I
2. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
3. Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
4. The Beta Band - The Three EPs
5. Beck - Midnite Vultures
6. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
7. Tom Waits - Mule Variations
8. Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
9. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada EP
10. Blur - 13

Oh God, I remember that Spin issue. This was my peak NIN phase.

https://i.etsystatic.com/20128214/r/il/47d965/1937434012/il_794xN.1937434012_p7ui.jpg

ffs i forgot that basement jaxx album. a big fave of mine back in '99

25. TLC – Fanclub

Hee hee

I really should give the fragile a listen. I remember being a bit disappointed in it at the time and the CD hasn't left the shelf

Im glad we're not doing the 00s now, mike

*warms up on the touchline*

LJ it's not going to be limited nominations eoy style is it?

list has two glaring omissions for me: jay-z’s volume 3 and missy’s da real world

of the options, built to spill, flaming lips, or dismemberment plan

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

xp I guess it will be one of those three

ended up voting for Eureka, but I really love Beaucoup Fish

Voted for the Dismemberment Plan. Had a lot of good memories of listening to that one that year and seeing them live.

BOREDOMS

Revisionist top 10 (never made an EOY list at the time): 1. Magnetic Fields, 2. Len - You Can't Stop the Bum Rush, 3. Tindersticks - Simple Pleasure, 4. Auteurs - How I Learned to Love the Bootboys, 5. Lali Puna -Tridecoder, 6. Groove Armada - Vertigo, 7. Leftfield, 8. Figurine - Transport + Communication = Love, 9. Chemical Brothers, 10. Kelis.

Bubbling under: Bis, TLC and EBTG.

last few hours and its the end of an era

I'd vote for Drexciya, Trans Am, Smog or O'Rourke if it weren't for Boredoms, the alpha and omega of all eras.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Nice

at least we finished with just over 100 votes..

and no, we aren't polling the top 2 of each poll (i think)