May 23, 201411 yr Author QSvkfy3ddrk 06/02/1999 Placebo - Every You, Every Me 2 Weeks While the wonderful Pure Morning and You Don't Care About Us failed to reach the top, Every You, Every Me at least manages two weeks. It's verse melody rises and falls, hook filled and angular. For many, the best Placebo song and a fair contender with possibly Pure Morning as a worthy competitor. Top 3s 06/02/1999 1 - Every You, Every Me - Placebo 2 - Greece 2000 - Three Drives On A Vinyl 3 - When I Grow Up - Garbage 13/02/1999 1 - Every You, Every Me - Placebo 2 - Greece 2000 - Three Drives On A Vinyl 3 - Six - Mansun
May 25, 201411 yr Author fVEJOyoEUEs 20/02/1999 UNKLE feat. Ian Brown - Be There 3 Weeks From the mid-90s onwards there seemed to be a lot more collaborations between indie/alternative singers and electronic bands. Ian Brown's work with UNKLE was amongst the best. Perhaps, it's something to with the sound of Stone Roses rhythm section. Be There is a reworking of an instrumental called Unreal from their Psyence Fiction album. Top 3s 20/02/1999 1 - Be There - UNKLE feat. Ian Brown 2 - Every You, Every Me - Placebo 3 - Greece 2000 - Three Drives On A Vinyl 27/02/1999 1 - Be There - UNKLE feat. Ian Brown 2 - Every You, Every Me - Placebo 3 - Back Together - Babybird 06/03/1999 1 - Be There - UNKLE feat. Ian Brown 2 - Every You, Every Me - Placebo 3 - Back Together - Babybird
May 25, 201411 yr Author xEp8yJPjedU 13/03/1999 Skunk Anansie - Charlie Big Potato 3 Weeks What a comeback. They could have come back with something easily digestible as they had tasted mainstream success with the singles of the previous album. Although, it's hardly the most tuneless piece of music ever it's certainly arrestingly taut. Top 3s 13/03/1999 1 - Charlie Big Potato - Skunk Anansie 2 - Be There - UNKLE feat. Ian Brown 3 - Every You, Every Me - Placebo 20/03/1999 1 - Charlie Big Potato - Skunk Anansie 2 - Be There - UNKLE feat. Ian Brown 3 - Writing to Reach You - Travis 27/03/1999 1 - Charlie Big Potato - Skunk Anansie 2 - Writing to Reach You - Travis 3 - Be There - UNKLE feat. Ian Brown
May 25, 201411 yr Author FATTzbm78cc 03/04/1999 Aphex Twin - Windowlicker 7 Weeks Here it is. A contender for the best ever date for single releases. Firstly, Windowlicker. It's a sound engineer's wet dream. From the very second it starts to the final high pitched squeal, everything is sculpted, contorted, filtered, treated. With a deceptively but thoroughly effective three note hook it almost totally relies on the genius of Richard D. James. And he is a genius. Sounds like nothing else. I love the submerged sounding organ and the buzz noise solo. ____________________________________ And kept at number 2 for a very long time is Out of the Blue by System F. Obviously, this is also genius. 15 years later and it still excites me like I'd only just discovered it yesterday. Perhaps because I never overplayed it. It's now my favourite trance track. ____________________________________ And the best number 3 of the decade - in this countdown and possibly in the official UK Top 40 - I can't think of a better one right now, is No Scrubs. The clarity of the production is wonderful, plus that rap. A serious contender for modern r'n'b best track, for me. Top 3s 03/04/1999 1 - Windowlicker - Aphex Twin 2 - Out of the Blue - System F 3 - No Scrubs - TLC 10/04/1999 1 - Windowlicker - Aphex Twin 2 - Out of the Blue - System F 3 - No Scrubs - TLC 17/04/1999 1 - Windowlicker - Aphex Twin 2 - Out of the Blue - System F 3 - No Scrubs - TLC 24/04/1999 1 - Windowlicker - Aphex Twin 2 - Out of the Blue - System F 3 - No Scrubs - TLC 01/05/1999 1 - Windowlicker - Aphex Twin 2 - Out of the Blue - System F 3 - No Scrubs - TLC 08/05/1999 1 - Windowlicker - Aphex Twin 2 - Out of the Blue - System F 3 - Right Here, Right Now - Fat Boy Slim 15/04/1999 1 - Windowlicker - Aphex Twin 2 - Out of the Blue - System F 3 - Carte Blanche - Veracocha Edited May 25, 201411 yr by AnthonyT
May 25, 201411 yr Well all three are pretty amazing. Can't really fault the ground breaking nature of Windowlicker and Out of the Blue and No Scrubs is such a wondeful creation. It's a valid opinion that it was a greate date for releases.
May 25, 201411 yr Author Wf7zq58uSzY 22/05/1999 Veracocha - Carte Blanche In 1999 Ferry Corsten was on fire. He of System F (sort-of) fame would go on to collaborate on and remix some of the year's greatest moments. This is the second one. Of course it's a formula and while I usually can't abide formulae I didn't argue much when it made my head do strange things. 3 Weeks Top 3s 22/05/1999 1 - Carte Blanche - Veracocha 2 - Secretly - Skunk Anansie 3 - Opus 40 - Mercury Rev 29/05/1999 1 - Carte Blanche - Veracocha 2 - Secretly - Skunk Anansie 3 - Opus 40 - Mercury Rev 05/06/1999 1 - Carte Blanche - Veracocha 2 - Secretly - Skunk Anansie 3 - Driftwood - Travis
May 25, 201411 yr Author zzUdJ-5fscA 12/06/1999 Travis - Driftwood 1 Week Also, having one of their best years were Travis. One of the first post-OK Computer bands to take chiming, sensitive male guitar songs into the homes of millions of people. They'd be followed by Coldplay and Keane in the years to come. Fran Healy would protest that it wasn't Radiohead he was ripping off but that he and Thom Yorke were both copying Jeff Buckley. With Nigel Godritch producing the album it was hard to avoid comparisons. Driftwood is perhaps their best single for me. Top 3 12/06/1999 1 - Driftwood - Travis 2 - Carte Blanche - Carte Blanche 3 - Secretly - Skunk Anansie
May 26, 201411 yr Author tpKCqp9CALQ 19/06/1999 The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl 3 Weeks I think this is the only Chemical Brothers single I liked instantly. The rest of them I had to play more than once but this blew my mind on first listen. Less big-beat than the singles off their previous album and because it was released in 1999 it didn't even have to hit number 1 to be their biggest seller ever. You all know it so there's no point in me describing it. All dance top 3 for the first time since 1992 on the 26th June and 3rd July! Top 3s 19/06/1999 1 - Hey Boy Hey Girl - The Chemical Brothers 2 - Driftwood - Travis 3 - Nomansland (Lange Mix) - DJ Sakin and Friends 26/06/1999 1 - Hey Boy Hey Girl - The Chemical Brothers 2 - Saltwater - Chicane 3 - Nomansland (Lange Mix) - DJ Sakin and Friends 03/07/1999 1 - Hey Boy Hey Girl - The Chemical Brothers 2 - Saltwater - Chicane 3 - Nomansland (Lange Mix) - DJ Sakin and Friends Edited May 26, 201411 yr by AnthonyT
May 26, 201411 yr Author NEivFBrGESk 10/07/1999 Gouryella - Gouryella 2 Weeks Like Carte Blanche, Gouryella was a Ferry Corsten collaboration - this time with Tiesto. It's amazing and one of the best dance singles of the 90s - unfortunately always overshadowed by Out of the Blue for obvious reasons. Top 3s 10/07/1999 1 - Gouryella - Gouryella 2 - Coffee + TV - Blur 3 - Hey Boy Hey Girl - The Chemical Brothers 17/07/1999 1 - Gouryella - Gouryella 2 - Tsunami - Manic Street Preachers 3 - Closing Time - Semisonic
May 29, 201411 yr Author LPfQ9c6IpTA 24/07/1999 Manic Street Preachers - Tsunami 2 Weeks The instant highlight on This Is My Truth, they would leave it to be the fourth single. It would easily have fitted on Everything Must Go with its torrential strings and eurphoric "in-between, in-between, in-between, in-between" climax. I got very emotional when I saw them play it live in 1999. Top 3s 24/07/1999 1 - Tsunami - Manic Street Preachers 2 - Gouryella - Gouryella 3 - Nothing Left - Orbital 31/07/1999 1 - Tsunami - Manic Street Preachers 2 - Gouryella - Gouryella 3 - Nothing Left - Orbital Edited May 29, 201411 yr by AnthonyT
May 29, 201411 yr I saw Aphex Twin live at Bestival in 2008 - I don't really remember much of it ! It was past 1am and I had been up for almost 28 hours consecutively (went straight off a night shift to the festival). Anyway, "Windowlicker" is really good - that and "Carte Blanche". "Hey Boy Hey Girl" is great and all but that video embarrassed me as a child - it was clearly fine for MTV to show two skeletons having sex in a toilet at 2pm in the afternoon, but because of that I had to sit in the lounge watching it with MY MUM. At 13, quite a cringe moment and something I remember to this day. Still, a great track and Surrender was my first taste of the Chemical Brothers (first album of theirs I bought).
May 29, 201411 yr Author qYRaehFVp4w 08/08/1999 Orbital - Nothing Left The best track(s) on their 1999 album The Middle of Nowhere. They weren't shy of opera (apparently this is the plural of opus) and this is their last proper one coming in at over 16 minutes. 1 Week Top 3s 07/08/1999 1 - Nothing Left - Orbital 2 - Tsunami - Manic Street Preachers 3 - Gouryella - Gouryella
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