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― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 6 June 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

MAYBE THAT SECOND GRAVEDIGGAZ LP TOO

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 6 June 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)

1998 was such a shit year for music

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 6 June 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

there might have been some others I liked, but I forget what they were.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 6 June 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

my favorite records of 1998 were tortoise, tnt, and komeda, what makes it go?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 June 2005 07:16 (twenty years ago)

there were some others i listened to, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 June 2005 07:16 (twenty years ago)

maybe like beck and belle & sebastian and pj harvey and high llamas and aluminum group and gastr del sol.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 June 2005 07:18 (twenty years ago)

maybe

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 June 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

pussy galore - groovy hate fuck, sugarshit sharp, dial m for motherfucker
the trashwomen - spend the night with...
the ronettes - the best of
the stooges - funhouse
the velvet underground - peel slowly and see cds 3 & 4
frankie lymon & the teenagers - the very best of

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 6 June 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

i think if i revealed my 1998 listening choices, i'd get stoned.

― tehresa (tehresa), Monday, 6 June 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

my favorite album of 1998 right now is Cat Power. ME. CAT POWER. This annoys me to no end. I quest for better.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 6 June 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 6 June 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

autechre - LP5

― latebloomer: Pain Don't Hurt (latebloomer), Monday, 6 June 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

in 1998, i was listening to bad hardcore.

― ianianian (crablangoon), Monday, 6 June 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

oh also sonic youth, a thousand leaves

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 June 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

these are all albums from 1998 i liked in 1998.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 June 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

my actual favorite album of 1998 in 1998 was Hello Nasty. wtf some of the best songs on that are BALLADS, I was trippin'.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 6 June 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

and paleface. how could i forget! we listened to burn and rob every day until the house burned down and took the cassette with it.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 6 June 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

I recall 98 as being my "folk" year

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Monday, 6 June 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

paleface? on shimmy disc? thats a great song, if its the one im thinking of, circa 1990?

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 6 June 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

yup. rock 'n' roll made me not believe in god, etc.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 6 June 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Kent 3 Peasant Musick

― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

mostly i was listeng to the usual suburban teenager angsty shit (NIN, tool, deftones, kmfdm, metallica, nirvana, smashin punkpins) with a smattering of old punk (black flag, misfits, ramones, pistols, minor threat, dead kennedys, etc.)

― latebloomer: Pain Don't Hurt (latebloomer), Monday, 6 June 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

boards of canada, "music has the right to children"
autechre, "lp5"
cat power, "moon pix"
mercury rev, "deserter's songs"

prolly listened to those the most, trying to remember what else.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 6 June 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

1998 Tommy Boy's Perfect Beats compilations came out. I pretty much only listened to those, a Lime 12", a Chills compilation on repeat, The Left Bank, Belle and Sebastian and Scott Walker when I was drinking scotch. I was depressed in 1998.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 6 June 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

i listened to a lot of scott walker then, too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 6 June 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

he had the whole revival in the mid/late 90s when Tilt came out and he was on the cover of the Wire.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 6 June 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

I think 1998 was kind of a fallow year for me, music-listening-wise. I was kind of still caught in that transition zone between college, when I had access to a radio station library and lots of new music, and when I discovered how to find out about new music on the Internet. I was probably listening to: Liquid Swords, Brighten the Corners, Stereolab's Cobra Phases etc, Quasi Featuring Birds, Dr Octagon, Kletka Red, Ellery Eskelin, Nels Cline, DJ Shadow - some pretty decent stuff in there, I guess.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 6 June 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

Liquid Swords is gfreat

― Cool Hand Luuke (ex machina), Monday, 6 June 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

Yes, but it was not exactly that new by 1998. I think it usually took me longer to find out about stuff then.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 6 June 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

cobra and phases was 1999.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i remember getting a cdr of it that year pre-release.

listened to "liquid swords" a ton in '98.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

i can never remember what came out what year, only time frames. besides, who gives a fuck when something came out. it's the music that matters anyway, not when on the calendar.

― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

NO IT REALLY MATTERS WHAT THE PEOPLE WHO WRITE FOR THE VOICE THINK, jack.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

i think it matters when music came out. as something that defines culture and times, i think music has a powerful resonance that is certainly tied up with time. and when music is released and affects groups of people, and initiates other things, and other musics, i think thats not something that can be just dismissed

or, perhaps, its not something i can dismiss.

i think it might be because i dont think of music as timeless. completely the opposite in fact, i think of music as very indicative of time and place (though of course this can just as easily be your own time and place. though its great when they time/place of a music and of your own hearing it are the same, that feeling of being part of something in some way, can be quite exciting)

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 04:19 (twenty years ago)

which is why i guess it matters more, to me at least, when somnething was released, rather than recorded. that entry into public consciousness

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 04:20 (twenty years ago)

it's all just nostalgia unrelated to the music, the time consuming the sound and leave an effigy in it's place.

― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

is that the same for something current? or for something before you were born? i can sort of see this. i think its possible to have nostalgia for the present time, but i think thats quite a specific feeling, and one that wouldnt encompass all current releases. i guess stuff before you were born, or if you werent there, would be nostalgia-by-proxy

even so, i have a difficult time accepting this to be the base. im not really sure music is just music, or that anything is just anything, once it enters the social sphere. things like music are a social glue (both on the micro and macro level), and therefore define many things (which i guess is where your nostalgia comes in?), but music is also a shared cultural language. its very difficult not to hear the byrds andd not think of LA 1965. though of course, the idea of LA in 1965 is a seductive one. im not saying these thought are necessarily at the foreground, but its all cooked up in there somewhere.

i guess im not really one of those purity guys!

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

at one time music was social glue but Thomas Edison changed that, bifurcating it into both the interior and the exterior mutually existing at the same time. (i could care less about purity)

― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 04:56 (twenty years ago)

i think my top 3 was:

boredoms
lilys
don caballero

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 13 June 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

TILT is a hilarious record.

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Monday, 13 June 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

I think it helps to think about when music came out, but getting hung up on the actual individual years is really kind of weird when you think about it. Not any weirder than celebrating birthdays though.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

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