Built To Spill was my #2 choice after Wilco.

Everyone's just copying me.

After considering Pavement, Stereolab and Beck, I'm still going with Wilco. It's a damn fine album, not my favourite, but still great.

summerteeth
i still like in reverse (matthew sweet) but it doesn't stand up to wilco.

Absolutely nothing from 1999 blows my skirt up. I'm abstaining.

peter bruntnell : normal for bridgwater
jim o'rourke : eureka
sparklehorse : good morning spider
joe henry : fuse
xtc : apple venus
freedy johnston : blue days, black nights
damien jurado : rehearsals for departure

Oops, Silver Jews was '98. Guess my "other" vote was for Bonnie Prince Billy.

I voted for 69 Love Songs and by the way, nobody has mentioned "Running With Scissors" by Weird Al Yankovic.

Dusty Chalk endorses the following albums:

# Church * Box of Birds
# The Magnetic Fields * 69 Love Songs (Merge)
# Tom Waits * Mule Variations (Epitaph)
# Moby * Play (V2)
# Godspeed You Black Emperor! * Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada EP (Kranky)
# The Black Heart Procession * 2 (Touch & Go)
# Mouse On Mars * Niun Niggung (Domino/Thrill Jockey)
# Death In Vegas * The Contino Sessions (Time Bomb)
# Lali Puna * Tridecoder (Darla)
# David Sylvian * Dead Bees on a Cake (Virgin)
# Stereolab * Cobra and Phases Group Play "Voltage" in the Milky Night
# The Beta Band * The Three EPs (Astralwerks) (Elektra)
# Opeth * Still Life (Peaceville/Snapper)
# Neurosis * Times Of Grace (Relapse)
# Lamb * Fear of Fours (Mercury/Island)
# Basement Jaxx * Remedy (Astralwerks)
# Mr. Bungle * California (WB)
# Labradford * E Luxo So (Kranky)
# The Faint * Blank-Wave Arcade (Saddle Creek)
# Blur * 13 (Virgin)
# Trans Am * Futureworld (Thrill Jockey)
# Black Tape for a Blue Girl * As One Aflame Laid Bare by Desire (Projekt)
# Tricky * Juxtapose (Island)
# Howie B * Snatch (Palm Pictures)
# Sly & Robbie VS Howie B * Drum 'N Bass: Stripped to the Bone (Palm Pictures)
# Rachel's * Selenography (Quarterstick)
# Orbital * The Middle Of Nowhere (London)
# The London Suede * Head Music (Nude/Columbia)
# Mogwai * Come On Die Young (Matador)
# In Flames * Colony (Nuclear Blast)
# Gus Gus * This Is Normal (4AD/WB)
# David Bowie * hours... (Virgon)
# Nine Inch Nails * The Fragile (Nothing)
# The Beta Band (Astralwerks)
# Tori Amos * to venus and back (Atlantic)
# Fiona Apple * When the Pawn... (Epic)

Offhand, The Fragile, Fear of Fours, When the Pawn..., Venus and Back, BHP's 2, Slow Riot..., and Selenography are some of my favourites that I still listen to frequently. Probably The Fragile.

I really like all of the above. These ones not so much (but they're still worth a mention):

Aimee Mann Magnolia (OST)
Beulah When Your Heartstrings Break
Richard Thompson Mock Tudor
David Gray White Ladder
Ben Folds Five Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner

Summerteeth might be my fave Wilco album, but I've gotta vote for other. IMO Macy Gray ruled that year, with Moby not too far behind.

there ya go...

NIN, MOgwai, and Fiona all would have blown away any choice in the poll for me.

From that list, Soft Bulletin. Then, Eureka.

The below list is also snazzy.

I think I'm going to go with Basement Jaxx's "Remedy".

Built to Spill

I'm changing my no vote to Beulah.

sadly, this was during my "dark period," so I have nothing to contribute here.

Easy choice for me---The Soft Bulletin.

Wilco is probably a distant 2nd.

i'm too lazy to find a rap album, i'll go with summerteeth.

i love the songs on the album, but think it's production is terrible and hard to listen to.

i'm going with other and i choose: beck- midnite vultures. fuck all the hate on that album, i love it. built to spill and the roots are runners up.

and these:


those albums i cherish... all classics in the electronica/dance era so those hold dear to me.

Wow, I've only heard like 5 albums from 1999. It was either a really crappy year or had a bad taste back then.

That was '99?

As it goes -

01. Fountains of Wayne - Utopia Parkway

Fiona Apple - When The Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like A King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win The Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand And Remember That Depth Is The Greatest Of Heights And If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where To Land And If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right

This would be a Top 5 for me as well.

I guess the Flaming Lips is ok, but i'd prob go with Godspeed's EP or ODB's Nigga Please. 1999 really sucked though i guess.

Travis – The Man Who

Though I really don’t like them anymore.