What Are Your Favorite Albums From 1998?

1. Air-Moon Safari
2. Barenaked Ladies-Stunt
3. Cake-Prolonging The Magic
4. System Of A Down-self titled
5. Local H-Pack Up The Cats
6. Goo Goo Dolls-Dizzy Up The Girl
7. Hole-Celebrity Skin
8. Golden Smog-Weird Tales
9. Fatboy Slim-You've Come A Long Way Baby
10. Massive Attack-Mezzanine

 

Now, it's Moon Safari, which I discovered later (circa 2003-4).

At the time, I was eating, sleeping and breathing ALL - Mass Nerder.

 

The Love Movement - A Tribe Called Quest
1965 - Afghan Whigs
Mutations - Beck
The Boy With the Arab Strap - Belle & Sebastian
Sketches for my Sweetheart the Drunk - Jeff Buckley
Electro-shock Blues - the Eels
The Good Will Out - Embrace
Bring It On - Gomez
Ophelia - Natalie Merchant
Big Calm - Morcheeba
Deserter’s Songs - Mercury Rev
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Yield - Pearl Jam
Story of a Ghost - Phish
Up - REM
XO - Elliott Smith
Good Morning Spider - Sparklehorse
A Series of Sneaks - Spoon
Head Trip in Every Key - Superdrag
Light Fuse, Get Away - Widespread Panic
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams
Imagination - Brian Wilson

 

In no real order:
REM - Up
Pearl Jam - Yield
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Hole - Celebrity Skin
Bryan Adams - On A Day Like Today
Madonna - Ray of Light
Lenny Kravitz - 5
Sloan -Navy Blues
The Tragically Hip - Phantom Power
Page & Plant - Walking Into Clarksdale
Jerry Cantrell - Boggy Depot
The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Sheryl Crow - The Globe Sessions
New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too

 

In alphabetical order:
1. Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
2. Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue
3. Fatboy Slim - You've Come A Long Way, Baby
4. Golden Smog - Weird Tales
5. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
6. Pearl Jam - Yield
7. R.E.M. - Up
8. Josh Rouse - Dressed Up Like Nebraska
9. Elliott Smith - XO
10. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

 

Ammonia - Eleventh Avenue
Gary Allan - It Would Be You
Jerry Cantrell - Boggy Depot
Elliott Smith - XO
Even - Come Again
The Fauves - Lazy Highways
Local H - Pack Up the Cats
Mudhoney - Tomorrow Hit Today
Sloan - Navy Blues
Snuff - Tweet Tweet My Lovely
Straw - Shoplifting
Versus - Two Cents Plus Tax
You Am I - #4 Record

 

Cat Power - Moon Pix

Beautifully haunting, like a ghost story told through music, though obviously fueled by troubled times. Gently hypnotic vocals that sometimes seem so fragile, yet possessing an underlying self assurance. Love the way she seamlessly weaves that line from "Amazing Grace" into her own "Metal Heart". Sounds like it was written for that song, especially when she delivers it with that dusky, forlorn voice...

I once was lost but now I'm found
Was blind but now I see you
How selfish of you
To believe in the meaning of all the bad dreaming

Perfect for a dark, rainy day, even has the sound of thunder high overhead during one of my favorites, "Say". The vinyl sounds great, and like a lot of Matador stuff from that mid 90s vintage, quite a bit better than the CD, which is HDCD with PE enabled, but the original vinyl does have a little more magic.

 

Air Moon Safari
Tori Amos From the Choirgirl Hotel
Belle and Sebastian The Boy with the Arab Strap
Eels Electro-Shock Blues
Embrace The Good Will Out
Hole Celebrity Skin
James Iha Let It Come Down
Pearl Jam Yield
Plush More You Becomes You
The Smashing Pumpkins Adore

 

another excellent year...

1: massive attack - mezzanine
2: mansun - six
3: lucinda williams - car wheels on a gravel road
4: beck - mutations
5: air - moon safari
6: mercury rev - deserter's songs
7: lauryn hill - the miseducation of...
8: elliott smith - xo
9: sunny day real estate - how it feels to be something on
10: cat power - moon pix
11: belle and sebastian - the boy with the arab strap
12: sandpit - on second thought
13: spoon - a series of sneaks
14: afghan whigs - 1965
15: billy bragg and wilco - mermaid avenue
16: eels - electro-shock blues
17: neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea
18: boards of canada - music has the right to children
19: fatboy slim - you've come a long way, baby
20: magic dirt - young and full of the devil

 

Tori Amos From The Choirgirl Hotel
Natalie Merchant Ophelia
Van Morrison The Philosopher's Stone
Belle & Sebastian The Boy With The Arab Strap
Original Soundtrack Rushmore
Original Soundtrack Hilary And Jackie
Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 Bob Dylan Live 1966 The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert
Bruce Springsteen Tracks
Eels Electro-Shock Blues
Air Moon Safari

 

Boards of Canada - music has the right to children
Massive attack - mezzanine
Air - moon safari
Madonna - ray of light
Ian Brown- unfinished monkey business

 

A great year, IMO.

1. Tortoise - TNT
2. Thinking Plague - In Extremis
3. Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves
4. Fugazi - End Hits
5. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
6. Gastr Del Sol - Camofleur
7. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
8. Beck - Mutations
9. Outkast - Aquemini
10. Elliott Smith - XO
11. Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue
12. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
13. Deus Ex Machina - Equilibrismo da Insofferenza
14. Calexico - The Black Light
15. Lambchop - What Another Man Spills
16. Dalek - Negro Necro Nekros
17. Air- Moon Safari
18. Junior Brown - Long Walk Back
19. Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap
20. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children

 

In the Aeroplane over the sea is my all time favorite album. I really love Spoon’s Series of Sneaks too. Great year for indie rock. Did lonesome crowded west and keep it like a secret come out in 98?

 

Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Gomez - Bring It On

Can't think of any more.

 

1997 and 1999, respectively.

 

Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal To The Flesh
Katatonia - Discouraged Ones
Slayer - Diabolus In Musica
Alabama Thunderpussy - Rise Again
Madonna - Ray Of Light

 

Only these:

The Brian Setzer Orchestra - Dirty Boogie
Robbie Robertson - Contact From The Underworld Of Redboy
Prince - Crystal Ball
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - BBC Sessions

 

If you were to ask me I would have said 1998 was a bad year....but

David Lee Roth - DLR
Slayer Diabolus In Musica
Joni Mitchell Taming The Tiger
Chris Stills - 100 Year Thing
Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright
Hole - Celebrity Skin
Willie Nelson - Teatro
Bonnie Raitt - Fundimental
Natalie Merchant - Ophelia
Sheryl Crow - The Globe Sessions
Kiss Psycho Circus
Marillion - Radiation
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
The Band - Jubilation
CSNY - Carry On (Box Set)

 

in objective order:

1. Royal Trux - Accelerator
2. The Beta Band - The Three E.P.'s
3. Swell - For All the Beautiful People
4. PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
5. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
6. Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves
7. Arab Strap - Philophobia
8. OutKast - Aquemini
9. Manu Chao - Clandestino
10. Rhythm & Sound - Showcase

11. Boredoms - Super æ
12. Fugazi - End Hits
13. Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
14. Dirty Three - Ocean Songs
15. Pulp - This Is Hardcore
16. DJ Shadow - Preemptive Strike
17. Gang Starr - Moment of Truth
18. Fun Lovin' Criminals -100% Colombian
19. Air - Moon Safari
20. Plush - More You Becomes You

 

Oasis - The Masterplan
UFO - Walk on Water
Pulp - This is Hardcore
Beck - Mutations

 

Peter Hammill - This

Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis

Gov't Mule - Dose

Lou Reed - Perfect Night: Live in London

Slapp Happy - Ça Va

Belle & Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap

Soul Coughing - El Oso

 

Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Thinking Plague - In Extremis
Bruford Levin Upper Extremities - B.L.U.E.
Nathan Mahl - The Clever Use of Shadows
Suns of Arqa - Suns of Arqa meet the Gayan Uttejak Orchestra
John Scofield - A Go Go
Hedningarna - Karelia Visa
Nightwish - Oceanborn
Monster Magnet ‎– Powertrip
Deus Ex Machina - Equilibrismo da Insofferenza
Tortoise - TNT
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Gov't Mule - Dose
Slapp Happy - Ça Va
Robert Rich - Seven Veils
Morte Macabre - Symphonic Holocaust
Mushroom - Hydrogen Jukebox

 

Iron Maiden - Virtual XI
Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Beck - Mutations
Sloan - Navy Blue

 

Ringo Starr - Vertical Man
Less Than Jake - Hello Rockview

 

Without even looking up exactly what else in my collection came out in 1998, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road and Mermaid Avenue come immediately to mind. They're two of my favorites of the entire decade. (Incidentally, I was at a record shop today and the secondhand CD bin had four copies of Car Wheels...I'm still wondering how it is that brilliant album found its way into that many collections where it wasn't appreciated!)