Top 48 Music Albums of 1999 by Repo

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'99:a Vox Pop
aka Music To Watch The World Burn To

“Ususally people are pretty much in agreement with what I’m saying.” -BBF!!!

It was before 9/11. Before COVID. Before the Trump Years when America split into two. Somehow GY!BE felt what was coming. Knew what was in store. How else to explain the symphonic dystopian masterpiece of an EP that is Slow Riot For New Zerø Kanada. It’s mournful. Full of grief. Its despondent weight numbly sinking into a pool of water. Gazing up and witnessing the fracturing of something big. The American Dream sinking into its depths. But first, it burns. Anti-hero man from the streets Blaze Baily gleefully cheering the flames on as he spits out “Things are just gonna get worse and keep on getting worse." And brother, how I wish I could disagree. SRFNZK picked up on the splintering of trust in our society. In one another. That the bond of being fellow citizens, fellow humans was slipping away. We’re all on our own now. And I honestly don’t know how we find the way to see things as one again. But I do know one thing. GS!BE with our man on the street BBF!!! comes the closest to articulating how I feel right now.

The Verdict. One of those albums that changes what you think is even possible for rock music. It’s massive and sweeping and pulls you along on its darkened current of melodious mournful misery. If there’s better music for watching the world slowly burn to I don’t know it.

And guess what! That poem by “Blaze Baily” is actually the lyrics from a pretty decent Iron Maiden single "Virus" from the beginnings of the Blaze Bayley era. And it's pretty good!

So were GY!BE just trolling us?! Does it matter? Probably not. Not to me. Not to my feelings. SRFNZK & BBF!!! hits a nerve any way you slice it.

The Rating: Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil
[First added to this chart: 10/15/2019]
Year of Release:
1999
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2,237
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'99:b All In His Head

"I had just moved out from my mom’s basically — living on the couch of a friend — when we did Still Life. I was piss poor, really. Didn’t have a future… whatever future I had looked bleak..." - Mikael Åkerfeldt

The Setting: It’s kind of unbelievable. Coming upon this tale and this band all these years later. How could a band this talented, this far ahead of their peers be on the brink of financial ruin. Their visionary stuck between living with his Mom and couch surfing. Not the best odds for one’s romantic prospects to say the least.

The Listen: Maybe it’s better this way. Maybe my kids never would have been born if I had know about this band, this album way back in 1999. Because this is some life changing shit. Rule breaking shit. Especially for the Death Metal scene. I mean this isn't even Death Metal anymore. Not by a long shot. It's sweeping, romantic, melancholic & melodic Alice In Chains meets Mercyful Fate Prog Metal with no real precedent. How did this even happen?!

Let's have Mikael himself explain it...

"I didn’t have much hope then, to be honest, so I figured we’d go all in. I was so immersed in the whole prog rock scene and collecting records at the time we did Still Life, so I figured “let’s go all in” and make this record, see what happens. If it doesn’t, then, take off."

That's what it took. The willingness to block everything else out and just be open to your own inner voice. The willingness not just to be good. To be accepted. But to be great. THAT is what catapulted Opeth to the next level.

The Verdict: What can I say. I haven’t quite discovered a “new” band in eons that could compete with the metal bands of my youth for that special place in my heart. Until this. There is just sooo much going on - Alice In Chains vocal style & ambience, Mercyful Fate plotting, intricately picked & subtle jazz fusion-y riffs. Patience. Riffs. Variety. Repeat. And to think that all this stuff was just floating in Mikal Akaerfelt head as he pined on his roommates couch for his own personal Melissa.

The Rating: Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil
[First added to this chart: 04/01/2024]
Year of Release:
1999
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925
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[First added to this chart: 10/15/2019]
Year of Release:
1999
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3,906
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Indie rock
HOF#1
[First added to this chart: 10/15/2019]
Year of Release:
1999
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4,152
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[First added to this chart: 03/07/2022]
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1999
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17,249
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[First added to this chart: 03/07/2022]
Year of Release:
1999
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1,099
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[First added to this chart: 03/07/2022]
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1999
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362
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Indie Rock
HOF
[First added to this chart: 10/29/2019]
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1999
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4,154
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Power Pop
Great!
[First added to this chart: 06/02/2022]
Year of Release:
1999
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48
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Indie rock
Great
[First added to this chart: 10/15/2019]
Year of Release:
1999
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4,339
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Total albums: 48. Page 1 of 5

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Top 48 Music Albums of 1999 composition

Artist Albums %


Lilys 2 4%
Sigur Rós 1 2%
Blur 1 2%
Shannon Wright 1 2%
Papa M 1 2%
Jim O'Rourke 1 2%
Beck 1 2%
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Country Albums %


United States 34 71%
United Kingdom 9 19%
Iceland 2 4%
Mixed Nationality 1 2%
Sweden 1 2%
Canada 1 2%

Top 48 Music Albums of 1999 chart changes

Biggest climbers
Climber Up 26 from 38th to 12th
Euphoria Morning
by Chris Cornell
Climber Up 26 from 35th to 9th
In Reverse
by Matthew Sweet
Biggest fallers
Faller Down 2 from 11th to 13th
A Dream In Sound
by Elf Power
Faller Down 2 from 12th to 14th
Central Reservation
by Beth Orton
Faller Down 2 from 13th to 15th
The Contino Sessions
by Death In Vegas

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