Best Albums of 1999
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"Probably the purest form of music ever conceived. Brilliant orchestral compositions and very tasteful choices made by the drummer. Even language is reinvented for the sole purpose of its aesthetic impact, rid of all lexical baggage." Reply
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SquishypuffDave | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 8
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1999
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"As I wrote in my notes for this album in my chart, this is one of the most optimistically depressing albums I've heard. The theme throughout is that when things aren't going so well it should enforce how great the times gone by were, since they provide a reference point for the current times bein..." Reply
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babyBlueSedan | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 10
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"They stand at an interchange do the peppers, a junction where all forms of music meet. Sure there’s funk and punk, rap and metal. But there’s also surf and soul, grunge and blues. What makes them great is the ability to blend these sounds, to twist them into something that is always The chilli pe..." Reply
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"The Long Season, already, is a unique and brilliant piece, and then they went and did that live version, and I am just speechless. Its otherworldly. just 41 minutes of pure excellence. Being the last song on the last album, recorded weeks before the death of the lead singer, when you add all that..." Reply
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Vatsal | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 7
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"Jon Brion is a genius. Every time I listen to this I find a new sound that I never heard before, subtly poking its head out from under the multi-layered production. Still surprises me after all these years. Amazing." Reply
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joannajewsom | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 5
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"Of all Blur albums, this one has always stood above the rest for me. Coxon's guitar playing on 13 is some of my favorite ever recorded. He generates in intense level of emotion to compliment Albarn's melancholia. Over the years 1992 has overtaken me as possibly Blur's finest moment." Reply
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meccalecca | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 5
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"I've remarked elsewhere about my UAW bias, but how this album and PFNO aren't universally recognized as two of the greatest guitar rock albums of all time is so far beyond me. It has to be a conspiracy. I can still remember hearing Carry the Zero live the first time, long before the album was rel..." Reply
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"I liked both A.M. and Being There back in the nineties, but it was Summerteeth that first led me to think that Wilco was something greater than a diminished, and warmed over, incarnation of the great Uncle Tupelo, the band that spawned them. Having replaced multi-instrumentalist Max Johnston with..." Reply
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buzzdainer | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 6
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"I suppose you could argue it's generic indie pop, although even that statement doesn't really hold true if you listen to the whole thing, as there are multiple styles and genres on it. But you think the songs are generic? I beg to differ. Stephen Merritt, as a songwriter, is anything but generic." Reply
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Mr. Shankly | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 10
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"Ayyyyy! I finally GOT it! This album has seemed so dumb for me to me for so long. Dry, repetitive, bland, you name a criticism that has been stated below and I have had that opinion. But after just coming back to it again and again periodically, it finaly clicked, as all good albums do. There is ..." Reply
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JulianR | Helpful? (Log in to vote) · 8
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Total albums: 1,000. Page 1 of 100
Best Albums of 1999 composition
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| Various Artists | 9 | 1% | |
| Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band | 3 | 0% | |
| Elvis Presley | 3 | 0% | |
| Built To Spill | 2 | 0% | |
| 植松伸夫 [Nobuo Uematsu] | 2 | 0% | |
| ムック [Mucc] | 2 | 0% | |
| Michael Schenker | 2 | 0% | |
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444 | 44% | |
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201 | 20% | |
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39 | 4% | |
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34 | 3% | |
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33 | 3% | |
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29 | 3% | |
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23 | 2% | |
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Best Albums of 1999 chart changes
| Biggest climbers Biggest climbers in top 100 since last month |
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Up 12 from 90th to 78th |
Up 5 from 105th to 100th |
Up 5 from 60th to 55th |
| Biggest fallers Biggest fallers in top 100 since last month |
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Down 6 from 70th to 76th |
Down 3 from 88th to 91st |
Down 2 from 45th to 47th |
| New entries New entries in top 100 since last month |
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Up 5 from 105th to 100th |
| Leavers Leavers from top 100 since last month |
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Down 1 from 100th to 101st |
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