Axiomatic, thus excluded from consideration.

IT'S ALREADY IN THE CANON.

1999 was a brutal year that gave us:

Britney Spears debut
Rob Thomas and Santana
Backstreet Boys - I want it that way
Ricky Martin livin la vida loca
Cher - Believe



Now let's never speak of it again.

i'm sure crud & lame butkiss dropped some doo too.

1999 also gave us

Beth Orton - Central Reservation
Wilco - Summerteeth
Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock
Tom Waits - Mule Variations
Beck - Midnite Vultures
Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
Juno - This is the Way It Goes and Goes...
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
Macy Gray - On How Life Is

among others. One of the best years since '91.

Pavement - Terror Twilight
Frank Black - Pistolero

better than any album mentioned in this thread with the possible exception of Summer Teeth

edit: Forgot about Keep It Like A Secret--that too. (thx Sketch)

Joe Henry - Fuse
Damien Jurado - Rehearsals for Departure
Peter Bruntnell - Normal For Bridgwater
Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider
Freedy Johnston - Blue Days, Black Nights

So, exactly how is that in the canon and The Rentals isn't?

Without doing a little research, this would definitely be a good choice for me as well.
I don't own any of the albums listed in the poll and don't regret it.

There were a few good ones that year. I vote 'Other'.

What about:

Godspeed You Black Emperor: Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Beta Band: S/T or 3 EPS

pm me if you'd like a down-low ysi of 2001

This would get my vote as the great, underrated and non-canonized album of '99. At least I think it would. Haven't listened to it in several years.

well i could have namedropped jeff tweedy last night northampton, but let's just say i'm "just a fan" or that "we're just friends"

summerteeth and soft bulletin are the most obvious picks ever for 1999. come on people...

Which is exactly what this thread is not about.

What is this thread about? It makes no sense. The only two on the list NOT in the indie/rock/pop canon are Dr. Dre and Eminem. Shouldn't this thread be a discussion on country, hip hop, world, electronica, jazz, etc.?

I didn't create the thread, but it's easy enough to tell that it wasn't just for naming off everybody's favorite albums of 1999. It's "also-rans", right there in the thread title. Stuff that hasn't been recognized by the indie set.

So none of the albums in the poll are in the "indie/rock/pop canon" because they aren't widely acknowledged by publications, fans, snobs, etc. as being among the best of that year.

I guess I should have put two and two together to figure it out, but it's certainly not very clear. I read the poll (without reference to the thread title I guess) as stuff that wasn't indie/rock/pop (which is why The Soft Bulletin qualified in my mind).

Rentals and Eminem

A little surprising. I would have thought, with you being an international, that you'd have gotten Slim Shady LP, if nothing else by him. My recollection of the time seems to be that Em was better received abroad -- in Spain, England, Holland, etc. -- than in U.S. off his first record. Here, the Warped Tour kids of the time -- who have grown into the My Chemical Romance haters of today, even if they liked New Found Glory and the Ataris, at that age -- belittled Marshall and pelted his sets with water-bottles and invective.