1999--your top ten picks

[GulDukat]

Can't believe 1999 was 20 years ago...

10. Beck- Midnight Vultures
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers- Californication
8. Tori Amos- To Venus and Back
7. Creed- Human Clay (shut up, I like this album).
6. David Bowie- Hours
5. Frank Sinatra- Sinatra '57 in Concert
4. Rage Against The Machine- The Battle of Los Angeles
3. Stone Temple Pilots- No.4
2. Chris Cornell-Euphoria Morning
1. Nine Inch Nails--The Fragile

[BRoswell]

Ágætis byrjun - Sigur Ros
Come On Die Young - Mogwai
Fight Club OST - The Dust Brothers
Secret Name - Low
Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada EP - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Surrender - The Chemical Brothers
The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails
The White Stripes - The White Stripes
Volume 5 & 6 - The Desert Sessions
Windowlicker - Aphex Twin

[Helpmeiaminhell (is now in hell)]

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Mr Bungle - California
Beck - Midnite Vultures
Fantomas - S/T
Sebadoh - The Sebadoh
Pavement - Terror Twilight
Mobb Deep Murda Muzik


Everything else was mostly rap metal shit and sucked

[GulDukat]

Everything else was mostly rap metal shit and suckedI want to say that was like--1998 to 2003-ish? Then the emo shit happened, which was maybe worse.

[Helpmeiaminhell (is now in hell)]

yeah 98 was the big explosion. 1999 and 2000 it was at its peak then it slowly drifted away until its death knell around 03....the soundcloud mumble rap shit going on today makes me long for the days of Fred Durst

[Exocet]

It felt better at the time but looking back it's one of the worst music years ever retrospectively. The Fragile still towers above anything else for me that year.
Windowlicker by Aphex Twin was an EP? Does that count?.

It was the best year ever for cinema though 1999 is legendary for that so that sort of made up the culture vacuum

[r_z]

Mos Def - Black On Both Sides

Lootpack - Soundpieces: Da Antidote

Tricky - Juxtapose

Four Tet - Dialogue

The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I

Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile

Method Man & Redman - Blackout!

Public Enemy - There's A Poison Going On

RZA - Ghost Dog Soundtrack

[Archive_Reports]

In no order:

Korn - Issues
Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
NIN - The Fragile
Zao - Liberate ex Infernis
Slipknot - Slipknot
Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
Method Man & Redman - Blackout!
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory

[PhoenixML]

Do I have 10 albums from 1999 in my library? Let's see:

NIN - The Fragile
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Our Lady Peace - Happiness is not a fish that you can catch
Travis - The Man Who
Korn - Issues
Silverchair - Neon Ballroom

Great year.

[botley]

NIN The Fragile DUH

Dr. Dre 2001 Inescapable, undeniable

Squarepusher Budakhan Mindphone This rips

Hedwig & The Angry Inch Original cast recording. Right in the feels

Nightmares on Wax Carboot Soul Soooo smelllllo

Handsome Boy Modeling School So... How's Your Girl? Hahah yeah this still makes me giggle

King Crimson Déjà Vrooom Awesome use of fledgling DVD tech, terrific performances

Blur 13 Arty rock that still tugs the heart-strings

Sigur Rós Ágætis Byrjun Ditto

Macy Gray On How Life Is Another inescapable monster, dig that Pink Floyd sample on "Caligula"

[SchwarzerAbt]

Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile
The Magnetic Field: 69 Love Songs
Thåström: Det är ni som e dom konstigt, det är jag som e normal

Three of my all time favorite albums released in that year. Not much else of higher value though...

Edit: Rage Againt the Machine's Battle of Los Angeles is worth mentioning at least.

[roolfdriht]

How are these all 20 years old??

I was surprised that I didn't struggle too hard to come up with 10 albums (in addition to The Fragile) that I'm still quite fond of, even if some of them are far from being stone-cold classics.

VNV Nation - Empires
Underworld - Beacoup Fish
Pet Shop Boys - Nightlife
Orbital - The Middle of Nowhere
KMFDM - Adios
Front Line Assembly - Implode
GusGus - This Is Normal
Pig - Genuine American Monster
Snog - Third Mall from the Sun

Guilty pleasure award: Filter - Title of Record

[sonic_discord]

What I was actually listening to most in 1999:
Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile
Eminem – The Slim Shady LP
Rage Against the Machine – The Battle of Los Angeles
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Echo
The Matrix Soundtrack
Stone Temple Pilots – No. 4
Metallica – S&M
Korn – Issues
Limp Bizkit – Significant Other (I know, but at the time it was popular)
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication
Blink-182 - Enema of The State
Adam Sandler – Stand and Judy’s Kid (It's mostly skits, but I played it a lot)

Albums from 1999 that I didn't get into until a year or two later:
Dr. Dre – 2001
Sublime – Greatest Hits
Collective Soul – Dosage
Alice in Chains – Nothing Safe: Best of the Box
Marilyn Manson – The Last Tour on Earth

[Deepvoid]

In no particular order

NIN - The Fragile
Slipknot - Slipknot
Blink-182 - Enema of The State
Limp Bizkit - Significant Others
Machine Head - The Burning Red
Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip
Filter - Title Of Record
Muse - Showbizz
Incubus - Make Yourself
Korn - Issues

[GulDukat]

Fuck, forgot about Title of Record, great album.