The Best Albums Of 1998

Top 50

1. Celebrity skin - HOLE
2. 1965 - THE AFGHAN WHIGS
3. Freak*on*ica - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
4. Powertrip - MONSTER MAGNET
5. Acme - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
6. Hello nasty - BEASTIE BOYS
7. Is this desire? - P.J. HARVEY
8. Deserter’s songs - MERCURY REV
9. In the aeroplane over the sea - NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL
10. A thousand leaves - SONIC YOUTH
11. Whitechocolatespaceegg - LIZ PHAIR
12. Little plastic castle - ANI DIFRANCO
13. Munki - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
14. RFTC - ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT
15. Come clean - CURVE
16. Without you I’m nothing - PLACEBO
17. The things we make - SIX BY SEVEN
18. Tomorrow hit today - MUDHONEY
19. End hits - FUGAZI
20. Yield - PEARL JAM
21. Queens Of The Stone Age - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
22. Introducing Cadallaca - CADALLACA
23. Hope is important - IDLEWILD
24. Peloton - THE DELGADOS
25. Bed - JULIANA HATFIELD
26. The rebels not in - THE HALO BENDERS
27. Kingsize - THE BOO RADLEYS
28. For all the beautiful people - SWELL
29. Aquemini - OUTKAST
30. Mezzanine - MASSIVE ATTACK
31. How to operate with a blown mind - LO-FIDELITY ALLSTARS
32. Recorded in state LP - SCOTT 4
33. American water - SILVER JEWS
34. XO - ELLIOTT SMITH
35. Psyence fiction - UNKLE
36. Nature film - SCRAWL
37. The last dog and pony show - BOB MOULD
38. Blue - THE JESUS LIZARD
39. Slain by - URUSEI YATSURA
40. Moment of truth - GANG STARR
41. He got game - PUBLIC ENEMY
42. Cypress Hill IV - CYPRESS HILL
43. Version 2.0 - GARBAGE
44. Up - R.E.M.
45. Moon pix - CAT POWER
46. Strung out in heaven - THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE
47. Accelerator - ROYAL TRUX
48. Featuring ‘birds’ - QUASI
49. Solex vs. the Hitmeister - SOLEX
50. The miseducation of Lauryn Hill - LAURYN HILL

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In mass mind - MAKE-UP, Scraps at midnight - MARK LANEGAN, A series of sneaks - SPOON, #1 USA - L.A.L., ...And you will know us by the trail of dead - AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD, Adore - THE SMASHING PUMPKINS, Angels with dirty faces - TRICKY, Big calm - MORCHEEBA, Tical 2000: Judgement day - METHOD MAN, Frank Black and the Catholics - FRANK BLACK AND THE CATHOLICS, I become small and go - CREEPER LAGOON, Let them eat pussy - NASHVILLE PUSSY, At rope’s end - NEW BOMB TURKS, Feeling you up - TRULY, Precious falling - QUICKSPACE, Nu-clear sounds - ASH, International velvet - CATATONIA, Good morning spider - SPARKLEHORSE, Empty bottles broken hearts - MURDER CITY DEVILS, The bed is in the ocean - KARATE, Smitten - BUFFALO TOM, Lotion - LOTION, Gently down the stream - COME, In an expression of the inexpressible - BLONDE REDHEAD, Terraform - SHELLAC, How it feels to be something on - SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE, Push me again - P.W. LONG WITH REELFOOT, Semi-detached - THERAPY?, Out of your mind - DUB NARCOTIC SOUND SYSTEM, Asylum - SENSER, Graceless - LK, One head, two arms, two legs - DAWN OF THE REPLICANTS, Strange angels - KRISTIN HERSH, The first spilled drink of the evening - THE GREAT CRUSADES, Space heater - REVEREND HORTON HEAT, Tongue - PENELOPE HOUSTON, Terrible things happen - THE AISLERS SET, Mary Lou Lord / Got no shadow - MARY LOU LORD, Mermaid avenue - BILLY BRAGG AND WILCO, Good funeral weather - GRANFALOON BUS, Va va voom - CINERAMA, Messenger in the camp - SEAFOOD, Captain - IDLEWILD, Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star - BLACK STAR, War and peace Vol.1 - ICE CUBE, MP Da Last Don - MASTER P, Can-I-Bus - CANIBUS, American teenage rock 'n' roll machine - THE DONNAS, Two cents plus tax - VERSUS, The flat black chronicles - MERCY RULE, David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights - DAVID KILGOUR AND THE HEAVY EIGHTS, Breaking God's heart - HEFNER, Overcome by happiness - PERNICE BROTHERS, England made me - BLACK BOX RECORDER, Jurassic 5 - JURASSIC 5, It's dark and hell is hot - DMX, You 've come a long way, baby - FATBOY SLIM, Mutations - BECK, Making bones - RED SNAPPER, A grand love story - KID LOCO, Moon safari - AIR, Like weather - LEILA, This is hardcore - PULP, Electro-shock blues - EELS, Car wheels on a gravel road - LUCINDA WILLIAMS, There's something going on - BABYBIRD, The boy with the Arab Strap - BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, Philophobia - ARAB STRAP, Music has the right to children - BOARDS OF CANADA, Open transport - MDK, Riddim warfare - DJ SPOOKY, Live at the Royal Albert Hall - SPIRITUALIZED, Bright side - JOHN EASDALE, Waved out - ROBERT POLLARD, The black light - CALEXICO, Letting off the happiness - BRIGHT EYES, The proximity effect - NADA SURF, You guys kill me - THE THIRD EYE FOUNDATION, Silur - TARWATER, Appearance and the park - KREIDLER, Turning into small - ALL NATURAL LEMON & LIME FLAVORS, Extended revelation - THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES, 1 - THE BLACK HEART PROCESSION, TNT - TORTOISE, The Ponzi scheme - FIREWATER, All clues lead to Meagan's bed - THE GREEN PAJAMAS, White trash heroes - ARCHERS OF LOAF, Mink rat or rabbit - THE DETROIT COBRAS, What another man spills - LAMBCHOP, Flying low - WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY, As above so below - BARRY ADAMSON, Bring it on - GOMEZ, Six - MANSUN, The good will out - EMBRACE, Peasant musik - KENT 3, Hellbilly deluxe - ROB ZOMBIE, Mechanical animals - MARILYN MANSON, Interference - CUBANATE, Permutation - AMON TOBIN, Saturnz return - GOLDIE, RZA as Bobby Digital in stereo - THE RZA, The pillage - CAPPADONNA, Heavy mental - KILLA PRIEST, The love movement - A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, Soul survivor - PETE ROCK, Rafi's revenge - ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION, Flight paths - PARADISE MOTEL, Caught in a trap and I can't back out 'cause I love you too much, baby - MARK EITZEL, Jubilee - GRANT LEE BUFFALO, Pleasure farm - PLAN 9, Visual Audio Sensory Theater - VAST, What makes it go? - KOMEDA, Sounds from the Thievery hi-fi - THIEVERY CORPORATION, On the wires of our nerves - ADD N TO (X), Ocean songs - DIRTY THREE, Navy blues - SLOAN, In/Casino/Out - AT THE DRIVE-IN, The shape of punk to come - REFUSED, Charlie - MELT BANANA, Sorry in pig minor - COWS, Swans are dead - SWANS, Trust us - MOTORPSYCHO, Steal this album - THE COUP, Music is rotted one note - SQUAREPUSHER, Shrink - THE NOTWIST, What burns never returns - DON CABALLERO, It's hard to find a friend - PEDRO THE LION, Through the trees - THE HANDSOME FAMILY, The salesman and Bernadette - VIC CHESNUTT, Gangstabilly - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, When my blue moon turns red again - BASSHOLES, Black black - CHOKEBORE, The storms of early summer: Semantics of song - CURSIVE, Orange rhyming dictionary - JETS TO BRAZIL, The masterplan - OASIS, Aluminum tunes - STEREOLAB, The three EPs - THE BETA BAND, Storefront Hitchcock - ROBYN HITCHCOCK