Billboard #1 Albums of 1998

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DMX > L-Boogie > Jigga > else

Vol 2 is my least favorite of Jay's first few albums and I still might have to vote for it here

should have included "asian girl in hard rock tee" as an option, tbh

well that was easy.

da game is to be sold is a dope album fyi

Hello Nasty

It's Dark and Hell Is Hot - DMX
MP Da Last Don - Master P
Hello Nasty - Beastie Boys
Da Game Is to Be Sold Not to Be Told - Snoop Dogg
Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life - Jay-Z

id bang out 2 dis

A gross list. Hello Nasty by default.

Yeesh, you said it man. HN, just barely over HKL.

btw, what is Trey from Phish doing on the 1998 team?

lols

Christ. Let's see, at least Sevens has "Two Pina Coladas" on it. (Those other two Garth albums only existed to run up his SoundScan numbers.)

Horrible. Gotta go with Marilyn Manson, as "Mechanical Animals" was kind of nice (as opposed to his horrible debut). But this was a really, really weak year. Worst albums year so far.

wow.

Does everyone hate "Miseducation" now?

that would place 2nd or 3rd for me.

xpost - I thought it was severely overhyped at the time, tho I've actually warmed to it over the years - as of right now, it would also be my 3rd choice.

Is it that we are not far enough away for ironic/nostalgic reappraisal, so that the trends of the day are just far enough away to seem perfectly stale, or was the popular music of the late-90s really as bleak as recent polls would suggest? I recall thinking things were bad at the time, but, then again, I wasn't listening closely to popular music at the time - if it wasn't GYBE, Autechre, or something similarly alienating (not that there's anything wrong with that), it was pretty far from my radar, most likely.

there's bad stuff here but also three of my favourite albums (lauryn/dmx/jay-z) which i can't really choose between (prob lauryn, though).

vol 2 over DMX

also I am loving the images with these polls and admit that I would have had crushes on pretty much all the women at the time

Is it that we are not far enough away for ironic/nostalgic reappraisal, so that the trends of the day are just far enough away to seem perfectly stale, or was the popular music of the late-90s really as bleak as recent polls would suggest?

For the US, the late 90s were very much the beginning of the end. Nothing but boring hard rock and even worse R&B and hip-hop. Britan is somewhat better, but was also in sort of a post-Britpop-pre-Coldplay/Travis blind alley by 1998.

:)

:-|

"preach on preach on preach on preach on, preacher"

Or, as Love & Rockets would say: "rap on, brother, rap on"

When everything feels like the movies
Yeah you BREATHE just to know you're ALIVE

voted Lauryn, but this list isn't as bad as the comments make it sound.

1998 for me

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so that the trends of the day are just far enough away to seem perfectly stale

Yeah, I think 10 years is about the correct distance for music to seem this, lately.

"How's It Goin' Down" is a song by American rapper DMX and the instrumental is produced by PK. This is one of the slower tracks on It's Dark and Hell Is Hot and it's simply a "chick-flick" song. The song is about DMX meeting a girl and eventually carrying on an affair with her. This leads to the girl's current boyfriend attacking a man he believes is DMX. Eventually, by the song's end, DMX decides that carrying on the relationship would be wrong and tells the girl she should go back to her boyfriend.
The music video for the song basically depicts the lyrics and features cameos by Eve, Ja Rule and Irv Gotti.

mic-check,mic-mic-check,mic-check,mic-mic-mic-check,mic-check, mic-mic-check...

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I don't think I've ever even listened to Vol 2 all the way through and I still have to vote for it cuz the 90s were so goddamned shitty for the charts

Ha! I soooooooooo voted for The Limited Series which I suppose is kinda cheating but then again not since it apparently reached #1 (!)! I still have it too perched right above my copy of Sevens (though I did get rid of that live double 'tude sweet).

manson

haven't heard any of these all the way through so i'm not voting but "it's dark and hell is hot" definitely wins best title

only one of these albums has "can i get a..."

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haha

who's the fucker who voted for Dave Matthews? Show yourself.

he's banned right now, i think

Mechanical Animals - Marilyn Manson 10

*rubs eyes*

Mechanical Animals - Marilyn Manson 10

Mechanical Animals - Marilyn Manson 10

*rubs eyes*

Mechanical Animals - Marilyn Manson 10

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Mechanical Animals - Marilyn Manson 10

*rubs eyes*

Mechanical Animals - Marilyn Manson 10

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who's the fucker who voted for Dave Matthews? Show yourself.

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he's banned right now, i think

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i voted for hello nasty, little man - Billboard #1 Albums of 1998 - and have never heard that dave album

You waste. You little man.

"Named after the telephone greeting at publicity company Nasty Little Man, Hello Nasty was the Beastie Boys’ stellar follow-up to Ill Communication."

fyi

i know what you meant. you waste.

yes, yes you did