Best of 1999: Alpha and Omega
Submitted by Nathaniel on Thu, 01/20/2005 - 04:26
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- 01 Roots: Things Fall Apart
- 02 Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs
- 03 Missy Elliot: Da Real World
- 04 Flaming Lips: Soft Bulletin
- 05 Richie Hawtin: Decks, FX and 909
- 06 Jim O'Rourke: Eureka
- 07 Lootpack: Soundpieces: Da Antidote!
- 08 Breakbeat Era: Ultra Obscene
- 09 dEUS: Ideal Crash
- 10 Wilco: Summerteeth
- 11 Prince Paul: A Prince Among Thieves
- 12 Mos Def: Black On Both Sides
- 13 Archer Prewitt: White Sky
- 14 Underworld: Beaucoup Fish
- 15 Dismemberment Plan: Emergency & I
- 16 June Panic: Glory Hole
- 17 Ol' Dirty Bastard: N**** Please
- 18 Elf Power: A Dream in Sound
- 19 Pole: 1
- 20 Pavmement: Terror Twilight
- 21 Handsome Boy Modelling School: So...How's Your Girl?
- 22 Bonnie "Prince" Billy: I See A Darkness
- 23 Weakerthans: Fallow
- 24 Mary J. Blige: Mary
- 25 Smalls: My Dear Little Angie
- 26 Angels of Light: New Mother
- 27 Gentle Waves: The Green Fields of Foreverland
- 28 VA/Tom Cora: Hallelujah, Anyway - Remembering Tom Cora
- 29 Roots Manuva: Brand New Second Hand
- 30 Built to Spill: Keep It Like A Secret
I think, for me, Things Fall Apart has to be one of, in not the, best albums of the 90s. In fact, ablums one through four would probably rank among my favorite albums, period. Which makes 99 a good year for music.
NB: I wanted to include David Holmes' This Film's Crap, Let's Slash the Sheets here, but it was first released on Go! Discs in 95, although it wasn't released in NA until 1999.