Posted November 6, 20231 yr The premise is simple. We just discuss what we were listening to in 1998. What disappointed us. What surprised us. What we loved back then. What grew on us since. I've cobbled together a vague list of albums to start as talking points. Here goes Air -Moon SafariAutechre - LP5Beck - MutationsBell and Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab StrapBeta Band - 3 EpsBoards of Canada - Music Has the Right to ChildrenElliot Smith - XOEmbrace - The Good Will OutFatboy Slim - You've Come A Long Way BabyGarbage - Version 2.0Hole - Celebrity SkinLauren Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn HillMadonna - Ray of LightManic Street Preachers - This is My Truth Tell Me YoursMassive Attack - MezzanineMercury Rev - Deserter’s SongsNeutral Mik Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the SeaOutkast - AqueminiPJ Harvey - Is This Desire?Placebo - Without You I'm NothingPulp - This Is HardcoreREM - UpRoyal Trux - AcceleratorSmashing Pumpkins - AdoreSparklehorse - Good Morning SpiderTori Amos - From the Choirgirl HotelTortoise - TNT Edited June 29Jun 29 by Colm update
November 7, 20231 yr Author At the beginning of the year I had anticipated new albums by Tori, the Manics and Garbage and those three were the only albums that I purchsed on the day of release. This is My Truth was disappointing. The second half was ruined by a lot of weak songs - I certainly thought so at the time. I also remember not liking If You Tolerate This at all. It was a grower though. From the Choirgirl Hotel was rich and focussed, unlike Boys for Pele which was just wasn't up to the standard of the first 2 albums. I went to a pre-release playback of Version 2.0 and it felt lightweight and poppy compared to Garbage but I still bought it when it came out. It too was a grower and by mid-1999 it was among my favourite albums of the decade. I got The Good Will Out after loving Come Back to What You know and liked most of it. Best of the whole album was That's All Changed Forever. On regular rotation in 1998 were Frozen Brim Full of Asha Ian Brown's Corpses Lucid's I Can't Help Myselt Pure Morning Push It Tsunami Teardrop Sonnet Road Rage My Favourite Game Thank U
November 7, 20231 yr Interesting idea Colm - I won't get chance to contribute properly tonight but I'm tempted to revisit month by month and look at what I was listening to
November 7, 20231 yr Author I think i will do that too. Most of what I love that came out in 1998, I didn't hear until later. I got Mansun's Six after hearing Negative but didn't put the effort in. It wasn't until 2000 that I really started to like Six or Mezzanine. Edited November 7, 20231 yr by Colm
November 7, 20231 yr Author I kinda want to put more offert into Celebrity Skin and Music has the Rights...
November 9, 20231 yr Author All the new entries from January 1998 2 Pac - I Wonder If Heaven Got A Ghetto 7Th District Inc. - The Bottle Allure - All Cried Out Bamboo - Bamboogie Bernard Butler - Stay Boyzone With Alliage - Te Garder Pres De Moi Brand New Heavies - Shelter Bt - Flaming June Byron Stingily - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) Catatonia - Mulder And Scully Chumbawamba - Amnesia Clock - That'S The Way (I Like It) Convert - Nightbird David Holmes - Don'T Die Just Yet Destiny'S Child - No No No Dj Shadow - What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1) E-Male - We Are E-Male Eta - Casual Sub (Burning Spear) Faith No More - Ashes To Ashes Family Stand - Ghetto Heaven Foo Fighters - My Hero Garageland - Beelines To Heaven Goldie - Tempertemper Gravediggaz - The Night The Earth Cried Green Day - Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance) Heartists - Belo Horizonti Ian Brown - My Star Industry Standard - Volume 1 (What You Want What You Need) Insane Clown Posse - Halls Of Illusions Joe - Good Girls Juliet Roberts - So Good/Free Love 98 Kaleef - Sands Of Time Libido - Overthrown Lighthouse Family - High Little Louie & Marc Anthony - Ride On The Rhythm Midget - All Fall Down Morrissey - Satan Rejected My Soul Mudmen - Feels Real Mystica - Ever Rest Oasis - All Around The World Ott - The Story Of Love Peach - On My Own Pearl Jam - Given To Fly Peter Andre Ft Warren G - All Night All Right Queen - No-One But You/Tie Your Mother Down Radiohead - No Surprises Rialto - Untouchable Shimmon & Woolfson - Welcome To The Future S-J - I Feel Divine Smokin Beats Ft Lyn Eden - Dreams Snoop Doggy Dogg - Tha Doggfather Solid Harmonie - I'Ll Be There For You Somore Featuring Damon Trueitt - I Refuse (What You Want) Space - Avenging Angels Sugar Ray - Fly Ultra Nate - Free (The Mixes) Usher - You Make Me Wanna... Warren G Feat Sissel - Prince Igor Wildchild - Renegade Master 98 Edited November 9, 20231 yr by Colm
November 9, 20231 yr imo the Prince Igor sample was an underrated one. :wub: Need any producer (not you Casso / Nathan Dawe / slap house DJs) to interpolate this melody again.
November 10, 20231 yr All the new entries from January 1998 Green Day - Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance) Ian Brown - My Star Lighthouse Family - High Oasis - All Around The World Radiohead - No Surprises Wildchild - Renegade Master 98 My favourites of these with the absolute top of the pack being No Surprises. :wub: :wub:
November 10, 20231 yr imo the Prince Igor sample was an underrated one. :wub: Need any producer (not you Casso / Nathan Dawe / slap house DJs) to interpolate this melody again. Anastasia - Anastasia was released late in 1998 and it's amazing imo. It was sent in Club Bizarre 90's edition and finished at #2. 86TkQOsr5-k Back to topic, I remember listening/loving ones below: Bamboo - Bamboogie Bt - Flaming June Destiny'S Child - No No No Lighthouse Family - High Solid Harmonie - I'Ll Be There For You Ultra Nate - Free (The Mixes) Usher - You Make Me Wanna... Warren G Feat Sissel - Prince Igor
November 10, 20231 yr Peach - On My Own It's my favourite song from January, at least from UK releases. s7Jv4MVyXPg
November 10, 20231 yr Author Bt - Flaming June Destiny'S Child - No No No Dj Shadow - What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1) Green Day - Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance) Ian Brown - My Star Lighthouse Family - High Rialto - Untouchable Usher - You Make Me Wanna... These are my favourites from January but only Flaming June gets me in any way interested. I hated the Lighthouse Family up to this point but somehow I loved High. For a January release that peaked at number 4, it did well to make the end of year top 40. Edited November 10, 20231 yr by Colm
November 10, 20231 yr High is a joyful song, I really love it and will happily sing along if I hear it these days
November 10, 20231 yr 1998 is pivotal for me, one of my favourite years for music and the first time I started buying music myself and listening to the charts. I also feel it was kind of a pivotal moment in general, the last couple of years of the 1990s kind of feeling to me like a sort of relateable and familiar modern age but just before the boom of the internet, and when a lot of modern technologies, like Google, were established. People were using the internet here and there but it wasn't ubiquitous or part of daily life for most and was sort of a novelty (I remember lots of puns about emails at the time), mobile phones were getting smaller and becoming more prominently used, but were not everywhere. The makings of modern society were springing up and things were changing into something much more familiar to today than the early 90s. Anyway, this was my top 100 of the year, I appreciate many of these are very unfashionable but I was 10/11. The order would be quite strongly revised now but I still like all of these. 1. The Corrs - So Young - K-Klass Remix 2. Cher - Believe 3. Ace of Base - Life Is a Flower 4. Spice Girls - Viva Forever 5. B*Witched - To You I Belong 6. Energy 52 - Café Del Mar - Three 'n One Remix 7. Sash! feat Tina Cousins - Mysterious Times 8. Ace of Base - Always Have, Always Will 9. The Corrs - Dreams - Tee's Radio Mix 10. Sash! - La Primavera 11. Tin Tin Out feat Shelley Nelson - Here's Where The Story Ends 12. Boyzone - All That I Need 13. Savage Garden - To the Moon & Back 14. Madonna - The Power of Good-Bye 15. Honeyz - End Of The Line 16. Honeyz - Finally Found 17. Steps - Last Thing on My Mind 18. Steps - One for Sorrow 19. Meja - All 'Bout the Money 20. Aqua - Turn Back Time 21. B*Witched - C'est La Vie 22. Lutricia McNeal - Stranded 23. The Corrs - What Can I Do - Tin Tin Out Remix 24. The Goo Goo Dolls - Iris 25. Robyn - Show Me Love 26. LeAnn Rimes - How Do I Live 27. Madonna - Frozen 28. Jennifer Paige - Crush 29. Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply 30. E-17 - Each Time 31. Emilia - Big Big World 32. Boyzone - I Love The Way You Love Me 33. Céline Dion - My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme from "Titanic") 34. Aerosmith - I Don't Want to Miss a Thing - From "Armageddon" Soundtrack 35. Five - Until the Time Is Through 36. Robbie Williams - No Regrets 37. Boyzone - No Matter What 38. Steps - Heartbeat 39. Lutricia McNeal - Someone Loves You Honey 40. Karen Ramirez - Looking For Love 41. The Cardigans - My Favourite Game 42. 911 - More Than A Woman 43. Lighthouse Family - High 44. Des'ree - Life 45. Alanis Morissette - Thank U 46. Pras feat Ol' Dirty bast*rd & Mýa - Ghetto Supastar (That is What You Are) 47. Spice Girls - Goodbye 48. Sash! feat Shannon - Move Mania 49. Jill Johnson - Kärleken är 50. Bryan Adams feat Melanie C - When You're Gone 51. Faith Hill - This Kiss 52. Cleopatra - Life Ain't Easy 53. B*Witched - Rollercoaster 54. Sarah McLachlan - Adia 55. Spice Girls - Stop 56. Brandy & Monica - The Boy Is Mine 57. Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You 58. Madonna - Ray of Light 59. Aqua - Doctor Jones 60. The Beautiful South - Perfect 10 61. Imaani - Where Are You 62. Steps - Tragedy 63. K-Ci & JoJo - All My Life 64. Five - When the Lights Go Out 65. Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight 66. Alda - Girls Night Out 67. Shania Twain - You're Still The One 68. Massive Attack - Teardrop 69. Natalie Imbruglia - Big Mistake 70. All Saints - War of Nerves '98 71. Run–D.M.C. vs. Jason Nevins - It's Like That 72. Dana International - Diva 73. Dannii Minogue - Disremembrance 74. Whitney Houston & Mariah Carey - When You Believe 75. Catatonia - Road Rage 76. Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds - Three Lions '98 77. Alda - Real Good Time 78. Robyn - Do You Really Want Me (Show Respect) 79. Ace of Base - Cruel Summer 80. Savage Garden - I Want You '98 81. Paula Cole - I Don't Want to Wait 82. Sweetbox - Everything's Gonna Be Alright 83. Cornershop - Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix) 84. The Mavericks - Dance The Night Away 85. Will Smith - Miami 86. U2 - Sweetest Thing 87. Catatonia - Mulder and Scully 88. Kele Le Roc - Little Bit Of Lovin' 89. Mousse T vs Hot 'N' Juicy - Horny 90. Lovestation - Teardrops 91. Edsilia Rombley - Hemel & Aarde 92. Robbie Williams - Millennium 93. Alisha's Attic - The Incidentals 94. Robbie Williams - Let Me Entertain You 95. Bus Stop feat Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting 96. Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next 97. Aqua - My Oh My 98. Space feat Cerys Matthews - The Ballad Of Tom Jones 99. Vengaboys - Up & Down 100. All Saints - Under the Bridge Corrs' Talk On Corners was my favourite album, I appreciate it came out in 1997 but I wasn't aware of it then. Edited November 10, 20231 yr by gooddelta
November 30, 20231 yr I do a post on my blog at the end of each month looking at the music I was enjoying that month 25 years ago, so this year has all been about 1998. At the start of the year I only really listened to music that was part of the rave scene but part way through the year I opened up to other genres. When I say rave I mean all the music you'd get at raves which was mainly happy hardcore and drum & bass, but included genres like techno, trance and garage. The scene had become fragmented by 1998, for example there was a rave called Hysteria who previously had happy hardcore and drum & bass in the same arena but by 1998 you wouldn't even get them both at the same event, they alternated between happy hardcore and techno nights and drum & bass and garage nights. For me happy hardcore was getting too cheesy and too many vocals and drum & bass was getting too commercial even if the music was still decent. Dream Magazine which was just about the last rave magazine standing ceased to exist in early 1998. I'd previously resisted house music because it was too slow and what I considered to be club music rather than rave, but I was probably listening to house music more than anything else by the end of the year. Speed garage was still at its peak at the start of 1998 and I loved all that. One great garage tune was "Don't Stop" by Ruff Driverz who were Chris Brown who had previously been a happy hardcore producer called Eruption and Bradley Carter who previously engineered loads of happy hardcore tunes. By the end of the year garage had died down somewhat and trance was getting bigger. Ruff Driverz themselves moved on to trance with "Dreaming". Of course trance would get massive in 1999 and garage would come back in a big way at the turn of the century. There were some great records of the summer such as "I Can't Help Myself" by Lucid, "Needin U" by David Morales and "Keep On Dancin' (Let's Go)" by Perpetual Motion. Also sadly in the summer there were a few deaths in a short space of time with Tony De Vit, Stevie Hyper D, GE Real and MC Ruff. Away from dance music, I think 1998 was the first time I started listening to female artists, most notably Alisha's Attic and The Honeyz. "The Incidentals" was a good tune, but aside from that Alisha's Attic were past their best really. The Honeyz were in their prime and this was really the start of me getting into R&B music. We also had "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" by Sweetbox and "Relax" by Dee-Tah which are quite possibly the only 2 records by female rappers that I like.
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