POX 1998 ALBUMS

feels like a p amazing yr 4 music

air - moon safari
black star - s/t
boards of canada - music has the right to children
destroyer - city of daughters
massive attack - mezzanine
monica - the boy is mine
morcheeba - big calm
outkast - aquemini
sunny day real estate - how it feels to be something on
windy & carl - depths

belle & sebastian - boy with the arab strap
david behrman - wave train
high llamas - cold & bouncy
elvis costello & burt bacharach - painted from memory
the necks - the boys ost
peter blegvad - hangman's hill
rufus wainwright - s/t
slapp happy - ca va
tom ze - fabrication defect

that's only 9 but that's enough

Nomeansno - Dance of the Headless Bourgeoisie
The Pillbugs
The Twinkeyz - Aliens in Our Midst: The Complete Recordings
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Add N to X - On The Wires Of Our Nerves
Chemical Brothers - Brothers Gonna Work It Out
OutKast - Aquemini
Albert Ayler - Live in Greenwich Village: The Complete Impulse Recordings
Bob Dylan - Live 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert
Big Brother & The Holding Company - Live at Winterland '68

madonna - ray of light
nmh - in the aeroplane...
refused - shape of punk to come
pulp - this is hardcore
fatboy slim - you've come a long way, baby
massive attack - mezzanine
alanis morissette - supposed former infatuation junkie
dave matthews band - before these crowded streets
lauryn hill - the miseducation of

1997 much, much better imo

Arto Lindsay - Noon Chill
PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
Asian Dub Foundation - Rafi's Revenge
Cornelius - Fantasma
Beck - Mutations
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Acme
Pram - North Pole Radio Station
Queens Of the Stone Age
Amon Tobin - Permutation
Otto - Samba Pra Burro

Queens Of The Stone Age - s/t
The Cardigans - Gran Turismo
Sloan - Navy Blues
Beck - Mutations
Pulp - This Is Hardcore
DJ Shadow - Preemptive Strike
RZA - RZA As Bobby Digital In Stereo
Mortician - Zombie Apocalypse
Air - Moon Safari
Nada Surf - The Proximity Effect

Two of my very favorite albums came out in 98:

Duster - Stratosphere
12 Rods - Split Personalities

I also really like:

Calexico - Black Light

Can't think of any others yet but wanted to share those.

Fuck I bet that JSBX alb is good.. I'm way better at '98 singles.

Oh shit I forgot

BOREDOMS - SUPER ROOTS 7!!!

I'm weirdly averse to the music of the 90s in general, but some I was listening to at the time (though maybe not all as albums) that I still like are:

Elivs Crespo - Suavamente
Victor Manuelle - Ironias
Celia Cruz - Mi Vida Es Cantar
Eddie Palmieri - El Rumbero del Piano

I can't think of any others, though I should probably remind myself of what that Alanis Morisette album I only heard for the first time last year sounded like. I'm also tempted to include the Lauryn Hill, but it's been years since I've listened to it, and I'm not sure how much I like it.

wouldve thought someone wld go for american waters...

idk theres some p great stuff released this year imo

based on the dates on them in my music library so i'm assuming they're all tagged right:

mouse on mars - glam
mansun - six
beck - mutations
dirty three - ocean songs
silver jews - american water
autechre - lp5
sparklehorse - good morning spider
tortoise - tnt
wagon christ - tally ho!
gang starr - moment of truth

will smith - gettin jiggy with it
britney spears - baby one more time
marcy playground - sex & candy
beastie boys - intergalactic
dmx - ruff ryders anthem
aqua - lollipop
natalie imbruglia - torn
fat boy slim - rockefeller skank
third eye blind - jumper
barenaked ladies - one week

tori amos - from the choirgirl hotel
lauryn hill - the miseducation of lauryn hill
pj harvey - is this desire?
hole - celebrity skin
massive attack - mezzanine
brandy - never say never
jay-z - vol 2...hard knock life
outkast - aquemini
madonna - ray of light
morcheeba - big calm

the first four albums there are four of my favourite albums ever and it's astonishing to me that all four came out in the same year - i can't think of another year that's had so many albums that made such a huge impact on me. maybe 2001.

elliott smith - xo
neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea
mark hollis - mark hollis
refused - the shape of punk to come
swans - swans are dead
opeth - my arms, your hearse
cat power - moon pix
dirty three - ocean songs
alain bashung - fantaisie militaire
boredoms - super ae

not lookin at anoyne else's lists here

the afghan whigs - 1965
tori amos - choirgirl hotel
sir richard bishop - salvador kali
dj quik - rhythm-al-ism
pj harvey - is this desire?
jay-z - vol 2
low - one more reason to forget
outkast - aquemini
spiritualized - royal albert hall 1997
s/t - kompilation [kranky records]

tori amos - from the choirgirl hotel
lauryn hill - the miseducation of lauryn hill
pj harvey - is this desire?
hole - celebrity skin
massive attack - mezzanine
brandy - never say never
jay-z - vol 2...hard knock life
outkast - aquemini
madonna - ray of light
morcheeba - big calm

lex's list is awesome, yay overlap... massive attack & madonna would be in my top 15, too

s/t - kompilation [kranky records]

should be v/a, not s/t, whatever

i would replace the morcheeba album with dmx's it's dark and hell is hot btw

from the choirgirl hotel def in running for my fav album ever

2 Lone Swordsmen - Stay Down
Chaka Khan - Come 2 My House
Derrick May - Innovator
Big Punisher - Capital Punishment
The Irresistible Force - It's Tomorrow Already
4 Hero - Two Pages
Outkast - Aquemini
Pole - 1
The Coup - Steal This Album
Madonna - Ray of Light
Hell - Munich Machine

I've looked up about 5 things for this thread and they were all from 1997 (3 of them) or 1999 (2 of them)

so Stevie D probably otm with 1997 being better (though there are plenty of good things listed here already)

Air: Moon Safari
Eels: Electro-Shock Blues
Belle & Sebastian: The Boy With The Arab Strap
Beck: Mutations
Saint Etienne: Good Humor
Stereo Total: Juke-box Alarm
Delgados: Peloton
Komeda: What Makes It Go
Black Box Recorder: England Made Me
Fatboy Slim: You've Come a Long Way Baby

Actually srsly I've looked up at least 10 more things since my last post and they were 2/3 1997 and 1/3 1999 too. Anyone feel like a 1997 POX thread?

So, so far my list is:
Don Caballero - What Burns Never Returns
Quickspace - Precious Falling
Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
maybe Pele - Teaching The History Of Teaching Geography too, I was a teenage math-rock bore
Cornelius - Fantasma if it counts (Japanese release 1997, Matador release 1998)

Tortoise - 'TNT'

Hadn't fully appreciated the massive emotional connection I have with this record until seeing them live for the first time at Primavera last year. Reminds me of some of the best times and my best buds. Underrated.

Always associate Hello Nasty with 1998 for some reason.

Earl Brutus-Tonight You Are The Special One
Mercury Rev-Deserter's Songs
Plush-More You Becomes You
Outkast-Aquemini
Mansun-Six
Pulp-This Is Hardcore
Black Star-S/T
Kenickie-Get In
Mark Hollis-S/T
Air-Moon Safari

Black Box Recorder: England Made Me

lord i haven't listened to this in years. might dig it out when i get home.

1. Air
2. Lauryn Hill
3. Olivia Tremor Control
4. Neutral Milk Hotel
5. Cat Power

"Black Box Recorder: England Made Me

lord i haven't listened to this in years. might dig it out when i get home.

― lex pretend, 2011. február 18. 12:43"

I did it last year, still seems great, still the best BBR album.

relevant thread: best rap album of 1998

beta band - 3 eps

+ some others

not a huge album guy

here's my POX of favorites that haven't been mentioned yet:

Firewater - The Ponzi Scheme
Sixteen Horsepower - Low Estate
Busta Rhymes - E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front
La Lengua Asesina - Hotel Opera
System Of A Down - System Of A Down
Pearl Jam - Yield
Los Amigos Invisibles - The New Sound Of The Venezuelan Gozadera
Scarnella - Scarnella
8Ball - Lost
Buffalo Daughter - New Rock

one pick, my fave from the 1990's, period:
Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

Refused - The Shape of Punk To Come
Mos Def & Talib Kweli - Black Star
Air - Moon Safari
Outkast - Aquemini
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Pulp - This is Hardcore
Eels - Electro-Shock Blus
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Don Caballero - What Burns Never Returns
Boris - Amplifier Worship

(Actually can't stand by any of those four albums as albums, even the Palmieri, which is pretty sub-par EP. Some good songs, but the total albums are spotty, except maybe the Elvis Crespo which I don't currently have a copy of.)

The Boo Radleys - Kingsize

everything else (from very little searching):

Spoon - A Series of Sneaks
Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider
Silver Jews - American Water
Gomez - Bring It On
The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
The Beta Band - The Three EP's
Pulp - This Is Hardcore
Air - Moon Safari
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Shit, forgot about The Three EPs, of course that was the best album from this year.

Fugazi - End Hits
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Autechre - LP5
Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels To Be Something On
Outkast - Aquemini
Air - Moon Safari
Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Silver Jews - American Water
Burger/Ink - Las Vegas
Karate - The Bed Is In The Ocean

Burger/Ink - Las Vegas

This came out in 1996, no?

Matador released it in the U.S. in 1998

Ah yeah I was going by RYM who have it listed as 1998.

Somewhat surprised nobody's mentioned A Thousand Leaves yet; that was probably my favorite album that year. Lots and lots of good stuff (How it Feels, Aquemini, first QOTSA, first System, Adore, Yield, Aeroplane) anyways...

ATL was definitely one of my favorite albums of the year in '98, but it's just a lesser late period SY album for me now.

lo-fidelity allstars - how to operate with a blown mind
beastie boys - hello nasty
massive attack - mezzanine
air - moon safari
luke slater - freek funk
fila brazillia - power clown
unkle - psyence fiction
deep dish - junk science
rae & christian - northern sulphuric soul
leila - like weather

+ many comps (bukem's earth 3, ninja tune funkungfusion, we are reasonable people, super discount, shadow's pre-emptive strike...)

car wheels on a gravel road - YES

mercury rev - deserters songs
beta band - 3 eps
wy-tang - forever
yo la tengo - i can hear the heart beating as one
biggie - life after death
will oldham - joya
kool keith - sex style
royal trux - sweet sixteen
missy elliott - supa dupa fly
neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea

only counting stuff I fucked w/ at the time:

Shellac
Beastie Boys
GYBE
Silver Jews
Third Eye Foundation
Massive Attack
QOTSA
Sonic Youth
Flying Saucer Attack
Sleep ('Jerusalem' if that counts)

haha realized my list is mostly comprised of artists im v fond ofs lesser albums

Some of my favorite albums at the time which I haven't listened to in years..

Propellerheads - Decksanddrumsandrockandroll
Local h - pack up the cats
The interpreters - back in the ussa
Gomez - bring it on
Beastie boys - hello nasty
Unkle - psyence fiction
Portishead live album
120 minutes live comp
Lauryn hill
B&S
Velvet goldmine sntk
Godzilla sntk
Chef aid south park comp (not as embarrassing as it could've been)
X files the movie sntk

And the main reason I ever considered listening to the last 2 was because I was obsessed with ween at the time

And sadly, I did enjoy 2 skinnee j's for a brief period

realized my list is mostly comprised of artists im v fond ofs lesser albums

also mostly 1997 albums

Korn - Follow The Leader
Limp Bizkit - 3 Dollah Bill Y'all
Kid Rock - Devil Without A Cause
Metallica - Garage Inc
The Offspring - Americana
Godsmack - s/t
Everlast - Whitey Ford Sings The Blues
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
Sublime - Second-Hand Smoke
Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets

Brandy - Never Say Never
Rae & Christian - Northen Sulphuric Soul
Mos Def & Talib Kweli - Black Star
4 Hero: Two Pages
Amon Tobin - Permutation
Outkast - Aquemini
Herbert - Around The House
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
RZA - Bobby Digital In Stereo
Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K & D Sessions

limiting myself to ones that haven't been mentioned yet:

Mark Lanegan - Scraps at Midnight
Caustic Resin - The Medicine Is All Gone
Louis Philippe - Azure
The Pastels - Illuminati
Pole - 1
Stina Nordenstam - People Are Strange
Pinetop Seven - Rigging the Toplights
Roddy Frame - The North Star
Cheri Knight - The Northeast Kingdom
Chris & Carla - Swinger 500

7 of these are by acts that released stronger albums either a few years earlier or a few years later. I could come up with a lot more for 1997, but that's a different thread.

bah, Tuomas beat me to the Pole album. sub in Aislers Set - Terrible Things Happen

Alphabetical order

Eivind Aarset - Électronique Noire
Sir Richard Bishop - Salvador Kali
Chroma Key - Dead Air For Radios
Mark Eitzel - Caught In a Trap...
Gastr del Sol - Camoufleur
Peter Hammill - This
Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
Morte Macabre - Symphonic Holocaust
The Notwist - Shrink
Pluramon - Render Bandits

Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come
Far - Water And Solutions
Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels To Be Something On
Motorpsycho - Trust Us
Idlewild - Hope Is Important
Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves
At The Drive-In - In/Casino/Out
The Posies - Success
Meshuggah - Chaosphere
Garbage - Version 2.0

Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K & D Sessions

Oh, I totally forgot about this! K&D Sessions was probably the album that me and my friends listened to the most in 1998... But I lost my copy at some point, and I haven't heard it in years. I wonder if it has aged well? Downtempo/digidub/blunted beats definitely was the soundtrack of the late 90s for me, alongside electro and Wu-Tang.

The Notwist - Shrink

Ah, this totally should have been on my list! I didn't pick this up until it was several months old but it must be among my most listened-to albums of the next year.

"Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K & D Sessions

Oh, I totally forgot about this! K&D Sessions was probably the album that me and my friends listened to the most in 1998... But I lost my copy at some point, and I haven't heard it in years. I wonder if it has aged well?"

No.

Ah, this totally should have been on my list! I didn't pick this up until it was several months old but it must be among my most listened-to albums of the next year.

Shrink had the misfortune of being issued on the Zero Hour label, which crapped out shortly after this release. Seems like it fell below the radar and stayed there despite all of the attention that Neon Golden attracted a few years later.

My list would have been even more uncool had Kid Rock made the cut (it was one of the last eliminated...)

Dälek - Negro Necro Nekros
Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
Johnny Dowd - Wrong Side of Memphis
Monster Magnet - Powertrip
Nile - Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
Liz Phair - Whitechocolatespaceegg
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
Shellac - Terraform
System of a Down - System of a Down
Turbonegro - Apocalypse Dudes

Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Bola - Soup
Cosmosis - Synergy
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F#A#∞
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Jeff Pearce - Daylight Slowly
Photek - Form and Function
Rachid Taha - Diwan
Edgard Varèse - The Complete Works (Riccardo Chailly, Royal Concertgbouw Orchestra, Asko Ensemble)
Various Artists - The Music of Islam (cheating here, its a 17 CD boxed set)

mezzanine
swans are dead
obscura
mark hollis
how to measure a planet?
super ae
is this desire?
how it feels to be something on
ray of light
discouraged ones
gently, down the stream
the infernal depths of hatred
negro necro nekros
turning into small
once sent from the golden hall
endless renovation
400 degreez
2000 fold

accelera deck - narcotic beats
curd duca - elevator
takako minekawa - cloudy cloud calculator
royal trux - accelerator
velocette - fourfold remedy
urban tribe - the collapse of modern culture
piano magic - a trick of the sea
belle & sebastian - boy with the arab strap

In alphabetical order...

Dälek - Negro Necro Nekros
Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
Melt-Banana - Charlie
Metallica - Garage Inc.
Nile - Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
Liz Phair - Whitechocolatespaceegg
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
System of a Down - System of a Down
Turbonegro - Apocalypse Dudes
Zeke - Kicked in the Teeth

My list would have been even more uncool had Kid Rock made the cut (it was one of the last eliminated...)

Dälek - Negro Necro Nekros
Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
Johnny Dowd - Wrong Side of Memphis
Monster Magnet - Powertrip
Nile - Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
Liz Phair - Whitechocolatespaceegg
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
Shellac - Terraform
System of a Down - System of a Down
Turbonegro - Apocalypse Dudes

Glad to see the mentions of Turbonegro, Motorpsycho and Caustic Resin. Not sure if there's a thread for Pitchfork's list. It's an interesting read. At least they have Is This Desire in the top 10. None of these made it though:

Arto Lindsay – Noon Chill
Queens Of the Stone Age – Queens Of The Stone Age
Motorpsycho – Trust Us
Tom Zé – Fabrication Defect
Godspeed You Black Emperor! – f#a#
Turbonegro – Apcocalypse Dudes
Caustic Resin – The Medicine Is All Gone
High Rise – Desperado
Solstice – New Dark Age
Cornelius – Fantasma

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-50-best-albums-of-1998/

We've been partying like it's 1998 in this thread

I have changed my top ten slightly at the end:

Cat Power - Moon Pix
Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
Silver Jews - American Water
Nada Surf - The Proximity Effect
Stina Nordenstam - People Are Strange
Arab Strap - Philophobia
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Beck - Mutations
Elliott Smith - XO
New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too

IN/CASINO/OUT - at the drive-in
ADORE - the smashing pumpkins
XO - elliott smith
MUSIC HAS THE RIGHT TO CHILDREN - boards of canada
AMERICA IS DREAMING OF UNIVERSAL STRING THEORY - the azusa plane
SUPER AE - boredoms
MOON PIX - cat power
A THOUSAND LEAVES - sonic youth
CAMOUFLEUR - gastr del sol
WHAT BURNS NEVER RETURNS - don caballero