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1999
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin (Warner Bros.) 12%  12%  [ 6 ]
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (Merge) 6%  6%  [ 3 ]
Built to Spill - Keep it Like a Secret (Warner Bros.) 19%  19%  [ 10 ]
Wilco - Summerteeth (Warner Bros.) 37%  37%  [ 19 ]
Tom Waits - Mule Variations (Anti/Epitaph) 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
The Roots - Things Fall Apart (MCA) 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Dismemberment Plan - Emergency and I (DeSoto) 2%  2%  [ 1 ]
Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider (Capitol) 4%  4%  [ 2 ]
Jim O'Rourke - Eureka (Drag City) 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Other - Please Specify 21%  21%  [ 11 ]
Total votes : 52
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Back to the future again for one of the most recent years. The omissions are too many to name, as they are with many of the polls in the final ten years. Still, there are plenty of good candidates to choose from. I'm gonna go with Keep it Like a Secret by a hair over The Soft Bulletin.

The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
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Though more conventional in concept and scope than Zaireeka, The Soft Bulletin clearly reflects its predecessor's expansive sonic palette. Its multidimensional sound is positively celestial, a shape-shifting pastiche of blissful melodies, heavenly harmonies, and orchestral flourishes; but for all its headphone-friendly innovations, the music is still amazingly accessible, never sacrificing popcraft in the name of radical experimentation. But what's most remarkable about The Soft Bulletin is its humanity -- these are Wayne Coyne's most personal and deeply felt songs, as well as the warmest and most giving. No longer hiding behind surreal vignettes about Jesus, zoo animals, and outer space, Coyne pours his heart and soul into each one of these tracks, poignantly exploring love, loss, and the fate of all mankind; highlights like "The Spiderbite Song" and "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate" are so nakedly emotional and transcendently spiritual that it's impossible not to be moved by their beauty.


The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
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As the sprawling magnitude of its cheeky title suggests, 69 Love Songs is Stephin Merritt's most ambitious as well as most fully realized work to date, a three-disc epic of classically chiseled pop songs that explore both the promise and pitfalls of modern romance through the jaundiced eye of an irredeemable misanthrope. A true A-to-Z catalog of touchingly bittersweet love songs that runs the gamut from tender ballads to pithy folk tunes to bluesy vamps, the sheer scope of the record allows all of Merritt's musical personas to converge -- the regular use of guest vocalists recalls his work as the 6ths, the romantic fatalism suggests the Gothic Archies project, and the stately melodies evoke the Future Bible Heroes. The whole is much greater than the sum of its parts, however -- for all of Merritt's scathing wit and icy detachment, there's a depth and sensitivity to these songs largely absent from his past work, and each one of these 69 tracks approaches l'amour from refreshing angles, galvanizing the love song form with rare sophistication and elegance.


Built to Spill - Keep it Like a Secret
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Perhaps realizing that their time on a major label was likely limited, Built to Spill made a gutsy choice for Keep It Like a Secret, their second album for Warner Brothers. They embraced the sounds of a big studio and focused their sound without sacrificing their fractured indie rock aesthetic. In a sense, this is Built to Spill's pop album: every song is direct and clean, without the long, cerebral jamming that characterized their earlier albums. That's not to say that the album is compromised -- the songwriting may be streamlined, but Doug Martsch now packs all of his twists, turns, and detours into dense, three-minute blasts.


Wilco - Summerteeth
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If Summer Teeth has a precedent, it's peak-era Band; the album not only possesses a similar pastoral sensibility, but like Robbie Robertson and company before them, Wilco seems directly connected to a kind of American musical consciousness, not only rejuvenating our collective creative mythology, but adding new chapters to the legend with each successive record.


Tom Waits - Mule Variations
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Waits is still writing terrific songs and matching them with wildly evocative productions; furthermore, it's his lightest record in years -- it's actually fun to listen to, even with a murder ballad here and a psycho blues there.


The Roots - Things Fall Apart
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One of the cornerstone albums of alternative rap's second wave, Things Fall Apart was the point where the Roots' tremendous potential finally coalesced into a structured album that maintained its focus from top to bottom. If the group sacrifices a little of the unpredictability of its jam sessions, the resulting consistency more than makes up for it, since the record flows from track to track so effortlessly.


Dismemberment Plan - Emergency and I
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The band's third full album is a firecracker, showing their at once passionate and sly approach to music -- take in everything, put it back out, and give it its own particular sheen and spin -- is in no danger of letting up. Knowing fans of the quartet have spoken on how it's clear that the bandmembers listen to everything from old soul to hip-hop and techno and back again, and there's no argument here based on the evidence of this disc.


Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider
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Recorded after singer/songwriter Mark Linkous' accidental, near-fatal drug reaction and subsequent 12-week stay in London's St. Mary's Hospital, Good Morning Spider dwells in the gray areas between dreaming and waking, sickness and health, and living and dying. The album takes these grey areas and makes a world out of them, blending classic songwriting with an experimental sound that borrows from hi-fi and lo-fi. It's a natural progression from their debut, Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot, which introduced Sparklehorse's refreshing mix of classic songwriting and sonic experimentation. Good Morning Spider adds bubbling synths, ambient electronics, horns and drum loops to the mix, giving songs like "Painbirds" an unclassifiable -- but distinctively Sparklehorse -- blend of darkness and childlike innocence. From driving, punky songs like "Pig" and "Cruel Sun," to frail, winding ballads such as "Saint Mary" and "Come On In," to the experimental pop of "Ghost of His Smile" and "Sunshine," the album encompasses a rainbow of sounds and emotions but never loses focus.


Jim O'Rourke - Eureka
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It's a good bet to expect the unexpected with Jim O'Rourke -- no matter which hat he's wearing (solo artist, bandmate, producer, remixer, etc.), each of the endlessly prolific projects that bears his name takes on a shape and identity all its own while retaining the originality and ingenuity that have become the hallmarks of his singular body of work. Eureka is perhaps his most stunning and surprising detour yet, a full-blown excursion into lush, melodic pop; granted, there's something inherently perverse about the very notion of O'Rourke and Chicago underground cronies like trombonist Jeb Bishop and cornetist Rob Mazurek tackling such classicist stuff, but instead the album is short on irony and long on affection -- in fact, its most subversive dimension is its very real mainstream appeal.
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Summerteeth for me. A lot of it has to do with how much I like the actual album, but also the personal events for me in 1999.
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Summerteeth.
It's simply the finest moment from a very fine band.

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Summerteeth for me as well.

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I'm going with Keep It Like a Secret just barely beating Summerteeth.

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of the list, I picked Sparklehorse.

but im sure theyre are at least 75 release I liked more, but werent listed and Im too lazy to do research on my own. thanks

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I voted Keep It Like a Secret too. Summerteeth was close, and I love moments of the Soft Bulletin, but it bores me after a while.

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Summerteeth by a hair over built to spill. Both just damn, damn good.

3rd is Soft Bulletin. "Well they, flyyyy in the air, as you coooomb your hair..." =goosebumps.

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Summerteeth for me. A lot of it has to do with how much I like the actual album, but also the personal events for me in 1999.


The album that made dudes like Bloor take my tastes in music seriously.

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almost chose "2001" by dr. dre

voted for "summerteeth", but was surprised to find i only have a copy, and a poor one at that! (128/160) silly me. this needs to be remedied.

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this is a collection of albums i like but don't love from bands i love.
i'm going to find out what rap album was awesome from that year, and probably vote for it.

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1999 for me:

1. Silver Jews - American Water
2. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
3. Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
4. U.S. Maple - Talker
5. Tom Waits - Mule Variations

I like those Sparklehorse and Wilco albums a lot, but not as much as I used to.

other notables:
Mr. Bungle - California
Plaid - Rest Proof Clockwork
Fantomas - s/t
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One omission that I feel deserves mention...
Self - Gizmodgery

It would not have gotten my vote, but is still a damn fine album.

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I want to see a list of more releases from this year.

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One omission that I feel deserves mention...
Self - Gizmodgery

It would not have gotten my vote, but is still a damn fine album.


Yep. And not even his best album, but the version of What A Fool Believes... on toy instruments?! Oh man is that good.

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south pacific Wrote:
I want to see a list of more releases from this year.


# The Magnetic Fields * 69 Love Songs (Merge)
# The Flaming Lips * The Soft Bulletin (WB)
# Arto Lindsay * Prize (Righteous Babe)
# Clinton [Cornershop] * Disco & The Half Way To Discontent (Hut)
# The Dismemberment Plan * Emergency & I (De Soto)
# Café Tacuba * Reves/Yosoy (WB)
# Beck * Midnite Vultures (DGC)
# Tom Waits * Mule Variations (Epitaph)
# Built To Spill * Keep It Like A Secret (WB)
# Natacha Atlas * Gedida (Beggars Banquet)
# Moby * Play (V2)
# Handsome Boy Modeling School [Prince Paul & The Automator)] * So...How's Your Girl? (Tommy Boy)
# Nitin Sawhney * Beyond Skin (Outcaste)
# Home * XIV (Arena Rock)
# The White Stripes (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
# Le Tigre (Mr. Lady)
# Wilco * Summer Teeth (Reprise)
# Sparklehorse * Good Morning Spider (Capitol)
# I Am Spoonbender * Sender/Receiver (Gold Standard)
# Mestre Ambrosio * Fua Na Casa De Cabral
# Godspeed You Black Emperor! * Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada EP (Kranky)
# The Roots * Things Fall Apart (MCA)
# Jim O'Rourke * Eureka (Drag City)
# The Black Heart Procession * 2 (Touch & Go)
# Sonic Youth * Goodbye 20th Century (Smells Like)
# Mouse On Mars * Niun Niggung (Domino/Thrill Jockey)
# Ben Christophers * My Beautiful Demon (V2)
# Death In Vegas * The Contino Sessions (Time Bomb)
# Ibrahim Ferrer * Buena Vista Social Club Presents (World Circuit/Nonesuch)
# Khaled * Kenza (Barclay)
# Those Bastard Souls * Debt & Departure (V2)
# Sam Prekop (Thrill Jockey)
# Gorky's Zygotic Mynci * Spanish Dance Troupe (Mantra/Beggars Banquet)
# Super Furry Animals * Guerrilla (Flydaddy)
# Mos Def * Black On Both Sides (Rawkus)
# Goodie Mob * World Party (LaFace)
# Lenine * Na Pressao (BMG Brasil)
# Soul Center (W.v.B.)
# Lali Puna * Tridecoder (Darla)
# Mr. Scruff * Keep It Unreal (Ninja Tune)
# Prince Paul * A Prince Among Thieves (Tommy Boy)
# Matmos * The West (Deluxe/Vague Terrain)
# Tantalus * Another Failed Attempt (Fading Fantasy Failing)
# Ali Farka Toure * Niafunke (Hannibal)
# Tom Ze * Postmodern Platos: Remixes (Luaka Bop)
# David Sylvian * Dead Bees on a Cake (Virgin)
# Fabulosos Cadillacs * La Marcha Del Golazo Solitario (BMG Latin)
# Vinicius Cantuaria * Tucuma (Verve)
# Joe Pernice * Shappaquiddick Skyline (Sub Pop)
# Ely Guerra * Lotofire (Higher Octave)
# Stereolab * Cobra and Phases Group Play "Voltage" in the Milky Night
# The Beta Band * The Three EPs (Astralwerks) (Elektra)
# Burning Airlines * Mission Control (Desoto)
# Number One Cup * People, People, Why Are We Fighting? (Flydaddy)
# Latin Playboys * Dose (WB)
# Cul De Sac * Crashes to Light, Minutes to Its Fall (Thirsty Ear)
# Royal Trux * Veterans of Disorder (Drag City)
# The Angels Of Light * New Mother (Young God)
# Olivia Tremor Control * Black Foliage Volume One (Flydaddy)
# Caetano Veloso * Livro (Nonesuch)
# Four Tet * Dialogue (Output)
# Electric Company * Omakase (Vinyl)
# Opeth * Still Life (Peaceville/Snapper)
# Jon Spencer Blues Explosion * Xtra Acme USA (Matador)
# Archer Prewitt * White Sky (Carrot Top)
# The Aluminum Group * Pedals (Minty Fresh)
# Neurosis * Times Of Grace (Relapse)
# Tony Allen * Black Voices (Comet)
# Freakwater * End Time (Thrill Jockey)
# Cesaria Evora * Cafe Atlantico (BMG)
# dj Cheb i Sabbah * Shri Durga (Six Degrees)
# Today Is The Day * In The Eyes Of God (Relapse)
# Arab Strap * Elephant Shoe (Go Beat)
# Low * Secret Name (Kranky)
# Everything But The Girl * Temperamental (Atlantic)
# Carlinhos Brown * Omelete Man (Metro Blue)
# Buddy Miller * Cruel Moon (Hightone)
# Rizwan-Muazam Qawwali Group * Sacrifice To Love (Real World)
# Wheat * Hope And Adams (Sugar Free)
# Lamb * Fear of Fours (Mercury/Island)
# Fantomas (Ipecac)
# Kalyanji V. & Anandji V. Shah, Automator & DJ Shadow * Bombay The Hard Way: Guns, Cars And Sitars (Motel)
# Cibo Matto * Stereotype A (WB)
# The Daktaris * Soul Explosion (Desco)
# Lungfish * The Unanimous Hour (Dischord)
# Rainer Maria * Look Now Look Again (Polyvinyl)
# Joi * One and One Is One (Real World/Astralwerks)
# Femi Kuti * Shoki Shoki (Talkin' Loud)
# Basement Jaxx * Remedy (Astralwerks)
# Badmarsh & Shri * Dancing Drums (Outcaste)
# Mr. Bungle * California (WB)
# Hamell On Trial * The Chord Is Mightier Than The Sword (Polygram)
# Sunny Day Real Estate * Live (Sub Pop)
# Beth Orton * Central Reservation (Arista)
# Kelly Willis * What I Deserve (Rykodisc)
# Willard Grant Conspiracy * Mojave (Slow River)
# Labradford * E Luxo So (Kranky)
# Les Rhythmes Digitales * Darkdancer (Astralwerks)
# The Faint * Blank-Wave Arcade (Saddle Creek)
# The Chemical Brothers * Surrender (Astralwerks)
# Shannon Wright * Flightsafety (Quarterstick)
# Solex * Pick Up (Matador)
# Quasi * Field Studies (Up)
# Fountains Of Wayne * Utopia Parkway (Atlantic)
# Velvet Crush * Free Expression (Bobsled)
# Spain * She Haunts My Dreams (Restless)
# Ember Swift * Permanent Marker (Few'll Ignite Sound)
# Julie Miller * Broken Things (Hightone)
# Randy Newman * Bad Love (Dreamworks)
# Breakbeat Era [Roni Size] * Ultra-Obscene (XL/A&M)
# Elf Power * A Dream In Sound (Arena Rock)
# Ani DiFranco * To The Teeth (Righteous Babe)
# Solarized * Neanderthal Speedway (Man's Ruin)
# Jessica Bailiff [& Low] * Hour of the Trace (Kranky)
# Gomez * Liquid Skin (Hut/Virgin)
# Sloan * Between The Bridges (murderrecords)
# Mark Lanegan * I'll Take Care Of You (Sub Pop)
# Bonnie Prince Billie (Will Oldham) * I See A Darkness (Palace)
# Deus * The Ideal Crash (Polygram)
# The Lonesome Organist * Cavalcade (Thrill Jockey)
# Andrea Parker * Kiss My Arp (Mo'Wax/Beggars Banquet)
# Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma * Sampradaya (Real World)
# The Apples In Stereo * Her Wallpaper Reverie (spinART)
# Cheikh Lo * Bambay Gueej (World Circuit)
# Damien Jurado * Rehearsals For Departure (Sub Pop)
# The Roots * Come Alive (MCA)
# Luna * The Days of Our Nights (Beggars Banquet)
# Various * Return of the Grievous Angel: Tribute to Gram Parsons (Almo)
# Matthew Sweet * In Reverse (Volcano)
# Blur * 13 (Virgin)
# Afro Cuban All Stars * Distinto, Diferente (World Circuit)
# Bis * Social Dancing (Capitol)
# Luscious Jackson * Electric Honey (Grand Royal)
# Sloan * 4 Nights At the Palais Royale (murderecords)
# Ol' Dirty Bastard * Nigga Please (Elektra)
# Low * Christmas EP (Kranky)
# Bobby Conn * Llovessonngs EP (Thrill Jockey)
# The Creatures * Anima Animus (Instinct)
# Kool Keith (Dr. Doom) * First Come, First Served (Funky Ass Records)
# Trans Am * Futureworld (Thrill Jockey)
# Brokeback * Field Recordings From The Cook County Water Table (Thrill Jockey)
# Los Lobos * This Time (Hollywood)
# Joe Henry * Fuse (Mammoth)
# Banco de Gaia * The Magical Sounds of (Six Degrees)
# Black Tape for a Blue Girl * As One Aflame Laid Bare by Desire (Projekt)
# Innerzone Orchestra * Programmed (Astralwerks)
# Pavement * Terror Twilight (Matador)
# Bardo Pond * Set And Setting (Matador)
# DMX Krew * We Are DMX (Rephlex)
# Atari Teenage Riot * 60 Second Wipeout (Elektra)
# Dr. Isreal * Inna City Presure (Mutant Sound System)
# Shakti * Remember Shakti (PolyGram)
# Guided By Voices * Do The Collapse (TVT)
# Verbena * Into The Pink (Capitol)
# Kool Keith * Black Elvis/Lost in Space (Ruffhouse/Columbia)
# Peanut Butter Wolf * My Vinyl Weighs A Ton (Studio K7)
# Sleater-Kinney * The Hot Rock (Kill Rock Stars)
# The Chamber Strings * Gospel Morning (Bobsled)
# Tricky * Juxtapose (Island)
# Mandy Barnett * I've Got a Right to Cry (Sire)
# Mansun * Six (Epic)
# Of Montreal Presents The Gay Parade (Bar/None)
# Howie B * Snatch (Palm Pictures)
# Sly & Robbie VS Howie B * Drum 'N Bass: Stripped to the Bone (Palm Pictures)
# Roy Montgomery/Chris Heaphy * True (Kranky)
# Dwindle * Days Away (Guilt Ridden Pop)
# June Of 44 * Anahata (Quarterstick)
# Rachel's * Selenography (Quarterstick)
# Chuck E. Weiss * Extremely Cool (Slow River/Rykodisc)
# Orbital * The Middle Of Nowhere (London)
# Smog * Knock Knock (Drag City)
# Prodigy Presents * The Dirtchamber Sessions Vol. 1 (remix album) (Beggars Banquet)
# Red Hot Chili Peppers * Californication (WB)
# Mick Turner * Marlan Rosa (Drag City)
# John McEntire * Reach The Rock (Hefty)
# Philosopher's Stone * Apparatus (Kranky)
# The London Suede * Head Music (Nude/Columbia)
# Electric Wizard * Come My Fanatics (The Music Cartel)
# Enslaved * Blodhemn (Osmose)
# Mogwai * Come On Die Young (Matador)
# Add N to X * Avant Hard (Mute)
# Alabama Thunder Pussy * River City Revival (Man's Ruin)
# Fu Manchu * Eatin' Dust (Man's Ruin)
# Orange Goblin * Frequencies From Planet Ten (The Music Cartel)
# Chris Cornell * Euphoria Morning (A&M/Interscope)
# Make Up * Save Yourself (K)
# The Get Up Kids * Red Letter Day/Woodson EPs (Doghouse)
# Rage Against The Machine * The Battle Of Los Angeles (Epic)
# Pavement * Major Leagues EP (Matador)
# In Flames * Colony (Nuclear Blast)
# Nebula/Lowrider EP (Meteorcity)
# The Selecter * Performs the Trojan Songbook (Reeiver)
# Man...Or Astroman? * EEVIAC: Operational Index & Reference Guide... (Touch and Go)
# Poster Children * New World Record (SpinART)
# Angie Stone * Black Diamond (Arista)
# Stereo Total * Juke-Box-Alarm (Bobsled)
# Mike Ness * Under The Influences (Time Bomb)
# Voodoo Glow Skulls * Exitos al Carbon (Grito!)
# Arch Enemy * Burning Bridges (Century Media)
# The Atomic Bitchwax (Tee Pee)
# Gus Gus * This Is Normal (4AD/WB)
# Cool Breeze * East Points Greatest Hit (UNI/Interscope)
# Missy Elliott * Da Real World (EastWest)
# Mary J. Blige * Mary (MCA)
# Mike Ness * Cheating at Solitaire (Time Bomb)
# Goldfinger * Darrin's Coconut Ass EP (Mojo)
# Macy Gray * On How Life Is (Sony/Epic)
# Jason Falkner * Can You Still Feel? (Elektra)
# Waco Brothers * Wacoworld (Bloodshot)
# The Donnas * Get Skintight (Lookout)
# Melky Sedeck * Sister & Brother (MCA)
# Bows * Blush (Beggars Banquet)
# The Muffs * Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow (Honest Don's/Fat Wreck Chords)
# Squarepusher * Budakhan Mindphone EP (Warp)
# XTC * Apple Venus (TVT)
# Katharine Whalen * & Her Jazz Squad (Mammoth)
# The Living End (Reprise)
# Various * Burning London: The Clash Tribute (Epic)
# The Rentals * Seven More Minutes (Maverick/Reprise)
# oRSo (Perishable)
# Arcwelder * Everest (Touch & Go)
# Nightmares on Wax * Carboot Soul (Matador)
# The Dirty Dozen Brass Band * Buck Jump (Mammoth)
# M People * Testify (Epic)
# Shannon Moore * LTD (FMA)
# Carlos Santana * Mumbo Jumbo (Arista)
# Out In Worship * Sterilized (Perishable)
# Drumhead (Perishable)
# Echo & The Bunnymen * What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? (London)
# Cesar Rosas * Soul Disguise (Rykodisc)
# David Bowie * hours... (Virgon)
# Huun-Huur-Tu * Where Young Grass Grows (Shanachie)
# Elastica * 6 Track EP (Deceptive)
# Ani DiFranco * Up Up Up Up Up Up (Righteous Babe)
# Nine Inch Nails * The Fragile (Nothing)
# The Beta Band (Astralwerks)
# Therefore * Krohm (Inlet)
# Jamiroquai * Synkronized (WORK Group)
# Pete Krebs & the Gossamer Wings * Sweet Ona Rose (Cavity Search)
# Tori Amos * to venus and back (Atlantic)
# Fiona Apple * When the Pawn... (Epic)
# Filter * Title Of Album (Reprise)
# Ministry * Dark Side of the Spoon (WB)
# Penelope Houston * Tongue (Reprise)
# Paul Westerberg * Suicaine Gratifaction (Capitol)
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Went with 69 Love Songs, but that's a great year.

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I almost voted other but couldn't decide my favorite other so I voted Soft Bulletin.

Other notables not included:

Timbalada "Pense Minha Cor"
Max de Castro "Samba Raro"
Lenine "Nao Pressao"
Caetano Veloso "Livro"
Beth Orton "Central Reservation"
Joe Henry "Fuse"
Mark Lanegan "I'll Take Care of You"
Damien Jurado "Rehearsals For Departure"
Willard Grant Conspiracy "Mojave"
Ibrahim Ferrer "Buena Vista Social Club Presents..."
My Morning Jacket "Tennessee Fire"
Songs: Ohia "Axxess and Ace"
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# Beck * Midnite Vultures (DGC)
# Mouse On Mars * Niun Niggung (Domino/Thrill Jockey)
# Super Furry Animals * Guerrilla (Flydaddy)
# Mr. Scruff * Keep It Unreal (Ninja Tune)
# Stereolab * Cobra and Phases Group Play "Voltage" in the Milky Night
# The Beta Band * The Three EPs (Astralwerks) (Elektra)
# The Angels Of Light * New Mother (Young God)
# Olivia Tremor Control * Black Foliage Volume One (Flydaddy)
# Low * Secret Name (Kranky)
# Kool Keith * Black Elvis/Lost in Space (Ruffhouse/Columbia)
# Smog * Knock Knock (Drag City)
# Squarepusher * Budakhan Mindphone EP (Warp)


These + the ones mentioned above = great year.

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Songs: Ohia "Axxess and Ace"
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hmm, i think it's a pretty weak year overall. my two favorites from 1999 are mr bungle's california and buena vista social club presents ibrahim ferrer. of the ones listed, i'd go with summerteeth. i just don't like voting for "other" in these.


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i also dug moby's "play" that year

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Someone needs to vote for Jim O'Rourke...that's a really good album.

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Man, I JUST DO NOT GET the love for that Wilco album.
Built To Spill for me.

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