And this the last few albums of 1994 I listened to:
- Korn by Korn (nr 53 on the overall BEA top chart of 1994): This album is all about hate and self-loathing which finds its absolute quintessence in the final long track where Jonathan Davis is actually howling between all the cursing and shouting. To me this music is really on the verge of pathetic and lacking good songs so not really my taste.
- Blowout Comb by Digable Planets (nr 54): really nothing for me.
- Stranger Than Fiction by Bad Religion (nr 55): there's not a bad song on this album but there isn't an outstanding one either. All in all this is really mainstream punk so I won't include it in my personal top chart.
- Cracked Rear View by Hootie & The Blowfish (nr 56): this music is too FM for me and without highlights.
And this ends the listening session of 1994 (all albums with a BEA overall rank better than 2500. This year certainly has a fair share of classic albums and some albums in my personal top chart of the year might be completely unknown to most of you.
Through this listening session I have discovered a number of new additions for my top chart but all in all not many.
And this is the final list with at the start the overall BEA rank and after that the BEA rank of the year and the evolution of the album in my personal top chart before and after.
BEA Rank Title By Band BEA YearRank - My Rank before To My Rank after
2014 Bakesale By Sebadoh 57 - 1 To 1
1907 Troublegum By Therapy? 56 - 2 To 2
6128 File Under Easy Listening By Sugar 150 - 5 To 3
165 Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain By Pavement 10 - 3 To 4
25134 Tjitchischtsiy (Sudek) By Souls 518 - 4 To 5
23774 Hot Boxing By Magnapop 494 - 6 To 6
5647 No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded By Jimmy Page and Robert Plant 140 - 7 To 7
544 Live Through This By Hole 19 - 8 To 8
21485 Rifferama By Thrum 454 - 12 To 9
7577 Without A Sound By Dinosaur Jr. 178 - 9 To 10
1745 Worst Case Scenario By dEUS 52 - 10 To 11
1008 Monster By R.E.M. 34 - 14 To 12
77 Weezer (The Blue Album) By Weezer 3 - 27 To 13
14877 Carnival of Light By Ride 328 - 13 To 14
42970 Nova Mob By Nova Mob 834 - 19 To 15
7849 Brutal Youth By Elvis Costello 187 - 11 To 16
3149 Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star By Sonic Youth 80 - 15 To 17
1573 Teenager Of The Year By Frank Black 48 - 20 To 18
29265 Acid Eaters By Ramones 591 - 22 To 19
153 Dookie By Green Day 8 - 23 To 20
3540 Stoned & Dethroned By The Jesus And Mary Chain 91 - 24 To 21
45809 Dildo Warheads By Dildo Warheads 874 - 25 To 22
5988 24 Hour Revenge Therapy By Jawbreaker 147 - 30 To 23
46667 Living Room By Cell 893 - 16 To 24
9592 Now I'm A Cowboy By The Auteurs 219 - 21 To 25
42 Grace By Jeff Buckley 1 - 26 To 26
2814 Sleeps With Angels By Neil Young And Crazy Horse 73 - 28 To 27
624 Let Love In By Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds 22 - 42 To 28
2400 Yank Crime By Drive Like Jehu 62 - 18 To 29
4475 Twice Removed By Sloan 118 - 33 To 30
6072 American Thighs By Veruca Salt 149 - 29 To 31
8976 If I Were A Carpenter By Various Artists 210 - To listen To 32
45036 The Stars Are Insane By Versus 861 - 35 To 33
51520 Powerstrip By The Nomads 978 - 36 To 34
52077 Behind The Door I Keep The Universe By The Dentists 989 - 37 To 35
36040 Character Assassination By Ed Kuepper 732 - 49 To 36
76 Definitely Maybe By Oasis 2 - 39 To 37
371 Vitalogy By Pearl Jam 16 - 17 To 38
1267 Second Coming By The Stone Roses 41 - To listen To 39
790 There's Nothing Wrong With Love By Built To Spill 27 - 43 To 40
2869 Pisces Iscariot By The Smashing Pumpkins 74 - 13 To 41
338 Bee Thousand By Guided By Voices 14 - 31 To 42
801 Vauxhall & I By Morrissey 28 - To listen To 43
3730 Voodoo Lounge By The Rolling Stones 98 - 40 To 44
418 Throwing Copper By Live 17 - 41 To 45
148 Parklife By Blur 7 - 44 To 46
483 The Division Bell By Pink Floyd 18 - 47 To 47
1201 Roman Candle By Elliott Smith 40 - To listen To 48
3120 Whiskey For The Holy Ghost By Mark Lanegan 78 - 38 To 49
159 The Downward Spiral By Nine Inch Nails 9 - To listen To 50
1340 Sixteen Stone By Bush 44 - 48 To 51
3327 Hips And Makers By Kristin Hersh 87 - 34 To 52
956 I Could Live In Hope By Low 32 - To listen To 53
4310 For Your Own Special Sweetheart By Jawbox 112 - 46 To 54
43265 Life Model By The Blue Aeroplanes 840 - 53 To 55
1121 Welcome To Sky Valley By Kyuss 37 - 54 To 56
2610 Day For Night By The Tragically Hip 65 - 51 To 57
1286 His 'n' Hers By Pulp 42 - To listen To 58
4029 My Iron Lung By Radiohead 109 - 50 To 59
8622 Head Like A Rock By Ian McNabb 204 - 45 To 60
3672 Dulcinea By Toad The Wet Sprocket 96 - 52 To 61
3242 Amorica By The Black Crowes 83 - 54 To 62
1111 Geek The Girl By Lisa Germano 36 - To listen To 63
1390 Wildflowers By Tom Petty 45 - 56 To 64
80 Dummy By Portishead 4 - To listen To 65
617 Purple By Stone Temple Pilots 21 - Already listened To A No
923 No Need To Argue By The Cranberries 31 - Already listened To A No
2125 Split By Lush 59 - Already listened To A No
2337 Mighty Joe Moon By Grant Lee Buffalo 61 - Already listened To A No
85 Illmatic By Nas 5 - To listen To A No
183 Superunknown By Soundgarden 11 - To listen To A No
260 Ready To Die By The Notorious B.I.G. 12 - To listen To A No
281 The Holy Bible By Manic Street Preachers 13 - To listen To A No
352 Dog Man Star By Suede 15 - To listen To A No
582 Jar Of Flies By Alice In Chains 20 - To listen To A No
664 Ill Communication By Beastie Boys 23 - To listen To A No
696 Smash By The Offspring 24 - To listen To A No
767 Diary By Sunny Day Real Estate 25 - To listen To A No
784 Music for the Jilted Generation By The Prodigy 26 - To listen To A No
831 Protection By Massive Attack 29 - To listen To A No
868 Mellow Gold By Beck 30 - To listen To A No
973 Selected Ambient Works Volume II By Aphex Twin 33 - To listen To A No
1055 Re By Café Tacuba 35 - To listen To A No
1132 Under The Table And Dreaming By Dave Matthews Band 38 - To listen To A No
1155 Dubnobasswithmyheadman By Underworld 39 - To listen To A No
1315 Under The Pink By Tori Amos 43 - To listen To A No
1416 Awake By Dream Theater 46 - To listen To A No
1451 CrazySexyCool By TLC 47 - To listen To A No
1637 Blade Runner By Vangelis 49 - To listen To A No
1643 Chocolate And Cheese By Ween 50 - To listen To A No
2242 American Recordings By Johnny Cash 60 - Already listened To A No
112 MTV Unplugged In New York By Nirvana 6 - Already listened To Live excluded
3641 Pulp Fiction By Various Artists 94 - Already listened To Compilation excluded
1689 Hex By Bark Psychosis 51 - To listen To A No
1841 Korn By Korn 53 - To listen To A No
1848 Blowout Comb By Digable Planets 54 - To listen To A No
1887 Stranger Than Fiction By Bad Religion 55 - To listen To A No
2017 Cracked Rear View By Hootie & The Blowfish 58 - To listen To A No
Normally I skip 5 years but there are still a large bunch of albums of 1998 (and also ranked lower than 2500) I haven't listened to so I'll proceed with 1998.
As already stated I'm going back to 1998 because I haven't listened yet to all the albums in the overall BEA top 2500. The last album of this year I listened to was This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours by The Manic Street Preachers and this is the next one:
- Ocean Songs by Dirty Three (nr 30 on the overall BEA top chart of 1998): I had already heard about this band but I didn't know it and that seems to be a miss. This album is supposed to be different than the others but it is certainly an album that makes me want to discover the other albums as well. With its haunting interplay between violin, piano, guitar and soft drumming sounds this music is both very mesmerizing and very beautiful. Especially the two longer tracks build up to very nice endings and although the album is very long it never gets boring which is already a big feat because it is built upon repetition. Certainly an addition for my personal top chart of 1998.
- Mark Hollis by Mark Hollis (nr 34): I like the latter Talk Talk albums but this solo album of Mark Hollis is a bit too repetitive and introspective to really appeal.
- Hello Nasty by Beastie Boys (nr 36): I didn't like the Beasty Boys at the time and I still don't.
- You've Come A Long Way, Baby by Fatboy Slim (nr 37): also not my thing.
- Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk by Jeff Buckley (nr 38 ): I like Grace but I overlooked this album which was issued after his death because it was described as taking advantage of his death. But after listening to it I must admit I really like it. The second half with outtakes is maybe a bit too much but the first half is very good especially Nightmares by the Sea and New Year's Prayer.
- From The Choirgirl Hotel by Tori Amos (nr 39): I already said it: I don't like Tori Amos but also this album doesn't really strike enough chords to make me love it.
- Is This Desire? by P.J. Harvey (nr 40): There are tracks on this album which aren't too bad but overall it isn't of the same quality as other albums by PJ.
- Americana by The Offspring (nr 41): the hits are of course known by everybody and these as well as the rest of the album is a bit too juvenile for my taste.
- Clandestino by Manu Chao (nr 42): Manu Chao was the singer of Mano Negra and their 1989 album Puta's Fever which was mainly in French was very good. But this album (mainly in Spanish) is not good at all. It is very repetitive and I really have the impression that all the (many) tracks are the same song. This is a complete retreat from his former music.
The next album to listen to is Moon Pix by Cat Power.
And here is the first contribution of 2007 for the year 1998:
- Moon Pix by Cat Power (nr 45 on the overall BEA top chart of 1988): not bad but a bit too much all the same to me
- Dizzy Up The Girl by Goo Goo Dolls (nr 46): not really good
- Moment Of Truth by Gang Starr (nr 49): rap is not really my thing
- Big Calm by Morcheeba (nr 51): atmospheric but not really my thing
- Follow The Leader by Korn (nr 52): every song is another attempt by Jonathan Davis to reach the same growl as in the other songs. Another reason for nu-metal not being my favorite genre.
- Internationalist by Powderfinger (nr 54): I had never heard of this Australian band and after listening to the first tracks I was not convinced but after a while I began to like their songs. I'll put it in my top chart and maybe will be listen again to see if it stays there
- Nightfall In Middle-Earth by Blind Guardian (nr 55): exaggeration is the middle name of this middle earth combo and for me it's just too much.
The next album to listen to is Grand Turismo by the Cardigans.
And here is my final entry for 1998 albums with two remaining albums to discuss
- Gran Turismo by The Cardigans (nr 57 on the overall BEA top chart of 1998): the songs are not bad and they're doing their best to rock a bit more than in other albums but nevertheless not really my thing.
- Psyence Fiction by UNKLE
(nr 58 and the last album ranked better than 2500 in the overall BEA top chart): in fact what I like most about this album are the contributions by other artists like Thom Yorke on the gorgeous Rabbit in Your Headlights. The own songs are a lot less in quality.
And this ends my journey in 1998, a year which was a bit of a mixed bag: some great albums and some good discoveries like The Living End but not the best year in music ever. This is the final verdict (with at the start the BEA overall rank and after that the BEA year rank and my rank before and after this listening session:
BEA overall Rank Title By Band BEA YearRank - My Rank before To My Rank after
427 XO By Elliott Smith 6 - 1 To 1
1070 Queens Of The Stone Age By Queens Of The Stone Age 28 - To listen To 2
37083 Success By The Posies 762 - 3 To 3
32508 Snake Bite Love By Motörhead 684 - 7 To 4
676 This Is Hardcore By Pulp 12 - To listen To 5
5540 Garage Inc. By Metallica 113 - 5 To 6
9973 Munki By The Jesus And Mary Chain 215 - 4 To 7
1907 Up By R.E.M. 48 - 2 To 8
2299 The Living End By The Living End 54 - To listen To 9
1309 Celebrity Skin By Hole 35 - 11 To 10
16889 Featuring 'Birds' By Quasi 355 - 12 To 11
17174 Teenage Hate/Fuck Elvis Here's The Reatards By Reatards 363 - 9 To 12
37193 Frank Black And The Catholics By Frank Black And The Catholics 765 - 10 To 13
43190 The Last Dog And Pony Show By Bob Mould 858 - 8 To 14
3609 A Thousand Leaves By Sonic Youth 74 - 6 To 15
1091 The Masterplan By Oasis 30 - To listen To 16
930 Mutations By Beck 22 - 15 To 17
5035 Cocoon Crash By K's Choice 99 - 16 To 18
1709 American Water By Silver Jews 44 - 17 To 19
39256 Semi-Detached By Therapy? 786 - 19 To 20
824 Yield By Pearl Jam 17 - To listen To 21
816 The Boy With The Arab Strap By Belle And Sebastian 16 - 22 To 22
1386 Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk By Jeff Buckley 38 - To listen To 23
10802 Trust Us By Motorpsycho 227 - 13 To 24
1079 Ocean Songs By Dirty Three 29 - To listen To 25
766 Without You I'm Nothing By Placebo 15 - 23 To 26
2203 Good Morning Spider By Sparklehorse 53 - 18 To 27
6638 Much Against Everyone's Advice By Soulwax 138 - 14 To 28
58473 Blue Sky, Maybe By Moxie 1155 - 24 To 29
23112 Scraps At Midnight By Mark Lanegan 486 - 20 To 30
2320 Internationalist By Powderfinger 55 - To listen To 31
49578 Above The Lisa Drugstore By Gore Slut 980 - 21 To 32
2994 1965 By The Afghan Whigs 66 - 27 To 33
648 The Shape Of Punk To Come By Refused 11 - 26 To 34
550 Deserter's Songs By Mercury Rev 10 - 25 To 35
492 Ray Of Light By Madonna 9 - 29 To 36
18 In The Aeroplane Over The Sea By Neutral Milk Hotel 1 - 28 To 37
474 Electro-Shock Blues By Eels 8 - 30 To 38
5410 Permutation By Amon Tobin 109 - 31 To 39
148 Mezzanine By Massive Attack 2 - To listen To A no
224 Moon Safari By Air 3 - To listen To A no
263 Music Has The Right To Children By Boards Of Canada 4 - To listen To A no
327 Aquemini By OutKast 5 - To listen To A no
437 The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill By Lauryn Hill 7 - To listen To A no
750 Car Wheels On A Gravel Road By Lucinda Williams 14 - To listen To A no
863 White Ladder By David Gray 18 - To listen To A No
926 Before These Crowded Streets By Dave Matthews Band 21 - To listen To A No
915 TNT By Tortoise 20 - To listen To A no
976 Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie By Alanis Morissette 23 - To listen To A no
1036 Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star By Black Star 25 - To listen To A no
1057 System Of A Down By System Of A Down 26 - To listen To A No
1058 Mechanical Animals By Marilyn Manson 27 - To listen To A No
1164 This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours By Manic Street Preachers 32 - To listen To A No
1267 Mark Hollis By Mark Hollis 34 - To listen To A No
1357 Hello Nasty By Beastie Boys 37 - To listen To A No
1343 You've Come A Long Way, Baby By Fatboy Slim 36 - To listen To A No
1400 From The Choirgirl Hotel By Tori Amos 40 - To listen To A No
1398 Is This Desire? By P.J. Harvey 39 - To listen To A No
1497 Americana By The Offspring 41 - To listen To A No
1575 Clandestino By Manu Chao 42 - To listen To A No
1711 Moon Pix By Cat Power 45 - To listen To A No
1749 Dizzy Up The Girl By Goo Goo Dolls 46 - To listen To A No
1920 Moment Of Truth By Gang Starr 49 - To listen To A No
1973 Big Calm By Morcheeba 51 - To listen To A No
2023 Follow The Leader By Korn 52 - To listen To A No
2353 Nightfall In Middle-Earth By Blind Guardian 56 - To listen To A No
2359 Gran Turismo By The Cardigans 57 - To listen To A No
2454 Psyence Fiction By UNKLE 58 - To listen To A No
And this is the list for the albums of 1999 to be covered: those in overall top rank 2500 or better (some of which i have already listened to) and the other albums also in my personal top chart (overall BEA top chart in the first row and after the BEA year rank and thereafter my current rank).
BEA Rank Title By Band BEA YearRank - My Rank before
66 AgAtis Byrjun By Sigur Ros 1 - Already Listened
84 The Soft Bulletin By The Flaming Lips 2 - Already Listened
133 Californication By Red Hot Chili Peppers 3 - 11
319 13 By Blur 4 - 30
344 69 Love Songs By The Magnetic Fields 5 - To listen
408 Emergency & I By The Dismemberment Plan 6 - To listen
409 Play By Moby 7 - Already Listened
429 The Battle Of Los Angeles By Rage Against The Machine 8 - To listen
443 Keep It Like A Secret By Built To Spill 9 - 4
447 Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory By Dream Theater 10 - To listen
448 Summerteeth By Wilco 11 - 15
458 The Slim Shady LP By Eminem 12 - To listen
484 The Fragile By Nine Inch Nails 13 - Already Listened
516 American Football By American Football 14 - To listen
527 Showbiz By Muse 15 - 16
533 Enema Of The State By Blink-182 16 - To listen
578 2001 By Dr. Dre 17 - To listen
636 I See A Darkness By Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 18 - 32
708 Mule Variations By Tom Waits 19 - Already listened
715 When The Pawn... By Fiona Apple 20 - To listen
832 Black On Both Sides By Mos Def 21 - To listen
837 Clarity By Jimmy Eat World 22 - To listen
842 Midnite Vultures By Beck 23 - Already listened
883 California By Mr. Bungle 24 - To listen
916 Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada By Godspeed You! Black Emperor 25 - To listen
990 Vision Creation Newsun By Boredoms 26 - To listen
1014 Make Yourself By Incubus 27 - To listen
1037 The Man Who By Travis 28 - 26
1098 There Is Nothing Left To Lose By Foo Fighters 29 - 9
1250 Things Fall Apart By The Roots 30 - To listen
1251 Stupid Dream By Porcupine Tree 31 - To listen
1306 Black Foliage: Animation Music Vol. 1 By The Olivia Tremor Control 32 - To listen
1381 The White Stripes By The White Stripes 33 - To listen
1485 Still Life By Opeth 34 - To listen
1544 Surrender By The Chemical Brothers 35 - To listen
1737 Operation Doomsday By MF Doom 36 - To listen
1784 The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner By Ben Folds Five 37 - To listen
1865 The Ideal Crash By dEUS 38 - 1
1929 No Angel By Dido 39 - To listen
2038 Apple Venus Volume 1 By XTC 40 - 19
2048 Judgement By Anathema 41 - To listen
2076 Slipknot By Slipknot 42 - To listen
2077 Terror Twilight By Pavement 43 - 8
2128 Come On Die Young By Mogwai 44 - Already Listened
2132 Performance And Cocktails By Stereophonics 45 - To listen
2302 S&M By Metallica 46 - To listen
2350 Supernatural By Santana 47 - To listen
2773 Liquid Skin By Gomez 51 - Already listened
3007 Supergrass By Supergrass 58 - 24
3656 Us And Us Only By The Charlatans 66 - 18
3915 When Your Heartstrings Break By Beulah 72 - 21
6888 You Come And Go Like A Pop Song By The Bicycle Thief 127 - 29
7362 The Tennessee Fire By My Morning Jacket 137 - Partly listened
9690 Kaleidoscope By Kelis 200 - Already listened
9916 Come Pick Me Up By Superchunk 208 - 27
10315 Utopia Parkway By Fountains Of Wayne 223 - 12
13743 Leisure Noise By Gay Dad 316 - 25
13966 In Reverse By Matthew Sweet 321 - 10
16570 Dance The Devil... By The Frames 374 - 17
18343 One Part Lullaby By The Folk Implosion 429 - 22
22130 The Sebadoh By Sebadoh 517 - 3
22378 Pistolero By Frank Black And The Catholics 526 - 13
22577 My Midnight By Steve Wynn 534 - 2
23014 Do The Collapse By Guided By Voices 550 - 5
23119 What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? By Echo & The Bunnymen 556 - 7
29259 New Parade By The Sheila Divine 704 - 6
36802 Suicaine Gratifaction By Paul Westerberg 857 - 14
42915 Good News For The Modern Man By Grant Hart 1012 - 20
50503 Little Things Of Venom By Arid 1177 - 31
54108 Dead Letter Chorus By Llama Farmers 1240 - 23
61865 Suicide Pact - You First By Therapy? 1428 - 28
And these are the first albums of 1999 I have already listened to:
- 69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields (nr 5 in the overall BEA top chart of 1999): this album is massive. The voice of and also some of the music makes me think a bit of Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy. I actually enjoyed listening to the 69 tracks on this very long album but I'm not sure if I will listen to the complete album again but I did include some ten songs in my playlists. So overall a very good album.
- Emergency & I by The Dismemberment Plan (nr 6): Some of the tracks on this album are not bad but overall not completely satisfying for me.
- The Battle Of Los Angeles by Rage Against The Machine (nr 8 ): RATM are really not my thing.
The next album to listen to is an album by the Dream Theater (Metropolis, Pt2).
My second contribution for albums of 1999 I listened to:
- Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory by Dream Theater (nr 10 on the overall BEA top chart of 1999): again some progrock and this is maybe the best one from what I already heard by this band: sometimes enjoyable guitar playing and especially The Spirit Carries On where they try to sound like Pink Floyd are not bad but overall again too much noodling.
- American Football (2016) by American Football (nr 14): this album makes me think a bit of Sun Kil Moon but not as good. Honestly and For Sure are not bad but overall not enough highlights to make this an enjoyable album
- Enema Of The State by Blink-182 (nr 16): this album is a bit too juvenile for this guy
- 2001 by Dr. Dre (nr 17): another rap album I don't like, sorry.
The next album to listen to is When the Pawn... by Fiona Apple.
The next albums I listened to from 1999 were:
- When The Pawn... by Fiona Apple (nr 20 in the overall BEA top chart of 1999): To be honest I expected more of this album but all in all it doesn't have enough variety to keep things interesting.
- Clarity by Jimmy Eat World (nr 21): and this album I liked better than I thought; there are a few good tracks on this album like Lucky Denver Mint.
- Black On Both Sides by Mos Def (nr 22): not my thing
- California by Mr. Bungle (nr 24): I didn't like this album at all.
- Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada by Godspeed You! Black Emperor (nr 25): again the same trick by GY!BE but a good one: only a few tracks in which the music builds down to a thunderstorm. I quite liked weathering it.
- Vision Creation Newsun by Boredoms (nr 26): strange album with lots of tribal rhythms and I must say I liked it.
- Make Yourself by Incubus (nr 27): for me bad nu-metal
- Stupid Dream by Porcupine Tree (nr 30): and this one completely took me by surprise: this is a fantastic album which both takes its inspiration from Pink Floyd and Radiohead and the music just sounds great: it's not so dense as other progrock and the album just breathes space and good vibes: this one will be already high in my personal top chart and might even be a grower
- Things Fall Apart by The Roots (nr 31): again not my thing
- Black Foliage: Animation Music Vol. 1 by The Olivia Tremor Control (nr 32): this is a very Beatle-esque album with lots of psychedelica which is sometimes going into the wrong direction but the highlights are many and very good.
- The White Stripes by The White Stripes (nr 33): the fact that the band only contains two people is one of the reason that I'm not a big fan of the band although they've got their highlights which are not in this album but overall it's not bad so I will put it anyway in my overall top chart of 1999
- Still Life by Opeth (nr 34): this music is a bit too swollen for me.
The next album to listen to is Surrender by the Chemical Brothers.
These are the last albums of 1999 I have listened to:
- Surrender by The Chemical Brothers (nr 34 on the overall BEAEA top chart of 1999): There some good tracks on this album like Let Forever Be but overall not good enough
- Operation Doomsday by MF Doom (nr 36): totally not my thing
- The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner by Ben Folds Five (nr 37): this is a real hidden gem I'm sad I haven't discovered it early. Especially Don't Change Your Plans is a wonderful song.
- No Angel by Dido (nr 39) not bad but couldn't hold my attention for a whole album
- Judgement by Anathema (nr 41): this album was better than I thought and especially the harder tracks like Pitiless and the title track are very good
- Performance And Cocktails by Stereophonics nr 44): I already listened to a number of albums of this band and the more I listen to them the more all the tracks seem to be the same. It's not their worst album but I'm a bit bored by their sound as a whole.
- Slipknot by Slipknot (nr 45): also a bit the same all-over and not really inventive nu-metal like rock
- Teenage Snuff Film by Rowland S. Howard (nr 47): this album has increased in rank fast so it has come into my listening scope and I'm not sorry about that. This is a great album about lost love but packaged in very nice guitarscapes (just listen to the great guitar shredding Sleep Alone) with the singing and lyrics somewhere in the league of the harrowing Nick Cave and Ed Kuepper.
- Supernatural by Santana (nr 48 and with an overall rank of 2349 the lowest ranked album higher than 2500): I love the earlier Santana and I always though this album to be some kind of a sell-out but overall the songs, except for some horrible ones, still make the guitar sing the old way. However after a bit of doubt I nevertheless decided not to include this album in my personal top chart.
And this concludes my journey through the year 1999. Overall this was not a bad year in rock music but my personal top chart albums are not in the overall top 2500. Nevertheless I discovered some very nice albums of which some I had even never heard of: Porcupine Tree and The Magnetic Fields were among the pleasant surprises and also that big climber by Rowland S Howard to which I'm finishing listening to at this moment is incredibly good and in the best Australian tradition.
This is the final list of 1999 with first the overall BEA rank and then the BEA year rank and my personal rank before and after this listening session:
BEA Rank Title By Band BEA YearRank - My Rank before To My Rank after
1835 The Ideal Crash By dEUS 38 - 1 To 1
23421 My Midnight By Steve Wynn 551 - 2 To 2
23870 The Sebadoh By Sebadoh 564 - 3 To 3
446 Keep It Like A Secret By Built To Spill 9 - 4 To 4
26253 Do The Collapse By Guided By Voices 622 - 5 To 5
32803 New Parade By The Sheila Divine 764 - 6 To 6
23463 What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? By Echo & The Bunnymen 555 - 7 To 7
2086 Terror Twilight By Pavement 42 - 8 To 8
1249 Stupid Dream By Porcupine Tree 31 - To listen To 9
1044 There Is Nothing Left To Lose By Foo Fighters 29 - 9 To 10
2317 Teenage Snuff Film By Rowland S. Howard 47 - To listen To 11
14234 In Reverse By Matthew Sweet 328 - 10 To 12
344 69 Love Songs By The Magnetic Fields 5 - To listen To 13
134 Californication By Red Hot Chili Peppers 3 - 11 To 14
10629 Utopia Parkway By Fountains Of Wayne 226 - 12 To 15
23124 Pistolero By Frank Black And The Catholics 537 - 13 To 16
39500 Suicaine Gratifaction By Paul Westerberg 896 - 14 To 17
449 Summerteeth By Wilco 11 - 15 To 18
531 Showbiz By Muse 15 - 16 To 19
17138 Dance The Devil... By The Frames 397 - 17 To 20
3605 Us And Us Only By The Charlatans 65 - 18 To 21
2051 Apple Venus Volume 1 By XTC 40 - 19 To 22
42915 Good News For The Modern Man By Grant Hart 1012 - 20 To 23
914 Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada By Godspeed You! Black Emperor 25 - To listen To 24
1786 The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner By Ben Folds Five 37 - To listen To 25
1291 Black Foliage: Animation Music Vol. 1 By The Olivia Tremor Control 32 - To listen To 26
3905 When Your Heartstrings Break By Beulah 70 - 21 To 27
18966 One Part Lullaby By The Folk Implosion 444 - 22 To 28
54108 Dead Letter Chorus By Llama Farmers 1240 - 23 To 29
3021 Supergrass By Supergrass 58 - 24 To 30
14021 Leisure Noise By Gay Dad 321 - 25 To 31
1377 The White Stripes By The White Stripes 33 - To listen To 32
812 Clarity By Jimmy Eat World 21 - To listen To 33
2058 Judgement By Anathema 41 - To listen To 34
1040 The Man Who By Travis 28 - 26 To 35
9980 Come Pick Me Up By Superchunk 208 - 27 To 36
61865 Suicide Pact - You First By Therapy? 1428 - 28 To 37
6929 You Come And Go Like A Pop Song By The Bicycle Thief 126 - 29 To 38
322 13 By Blur 4 - 30 To 39
50503 Little Things Of Venom By Arid 1177 - 31 To 40
627 I See A Darkness By Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 18 - 32 To 41
411 Emergency & I By The Dismemberment Plan 7 - To listen To A No
435 The Battle Of Los Angeles By Rage Against The Machine 8 - To listen To A No
447 Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory By Dream Theater 10 - To listen To A No
466 The Slim Shady LP By Eminem 12 - To listen To A No
518 American Football By American Football 14 - To listen To A No
536 Enema Of The State By Blink-182 16 - To listen To A No
579 2001 By Dr. Dre 17 - To listen To A No
725 When The Pawn... By Fiona Apple 20 - To listen To A No
851 Black On Both Sides By Mos Def 23 - To listen To A No
887 California By Mr. Bungle 24 - To listen To a no
1003 Vision Creation Newsun By Boredoms 26 - To listen To a no
1014 Make Yourself By Incubus 27 - To listen To A No
1241 Things Fall Apart By The Roots 30 - To listen To a no
1550 Still Life By Opeth 35 - To listen To A No
1547 Surrender By The Chemical Brothers 34 - To listen To A No
1736 Operation Doomsday By MF Doom 36 - To listen To A No
1943 No Angel By Dido 39 - To listen To A No
2275 Slipknot By Slipknot 45 - To listen To A No
2138 Performance And Cocktails By Stereophonics 44 - To listen To A No
2349 Supernatural By Santana 48 - To listen To A No
I already had a listening session on 2003 but I still have a number of albums to listen to.
RoundTheBendI miss the comfort in being sadProfile Ground Control
Thx Seth: sometimes it's a bit too much because there's so many albums I don't like (I think it's clear by now that now that I don't like rap/hip hop so I don't know why I bother) but then I discover some fantastic albums and it makes it all worth again. It also gives me the opportunity to revamp my personal year charts.
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