The Best Albums Of 1999

Top 50

1. The hot rock - SLEATER - KINNEY
2. Into the pink - VERBENA
3. The slow-motion world of Snowpony - SNOWPONY
4. One part lullaby - THE FOLK IMPLOSION
5. Cha Cha Cohen - CHA CHA COHEN
6. Do the collapse - GUIDED BY VOICES
7. The soft bulletin - THE FLAMING LIPS
8. The Marshall suite - THE FALL
9. Keep it like a secret - BUILT TO SPILL
10. Madonna - …AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD
11. Debt and departure - THOSE BASTARD SOULS
12. Terror twilight - PAVEMENT
13. The Sebadoh - SEBADOH
14. People people why are we fighting? - NUMBER ONE CUP
15. Le Tigre - LE TIGRE
16. Cobra and phases group play voltage in the milky night - STEREOLAB
17. Pick up - SOLEX
18. The ideal crash - DEUS
19. Save yourself - MAKE UP
20. Midnite vultures - BECK
21. The Contino sessions - DEATH IN VEGAS
22. Ghosts of dead aeroplanes - PROLAPSE
23. Electric honey - LUSCIOUS JACKSON
24. Black on both sides - MOS DEF
25. Beaucoup fish - UNDERWORLD
26. The days of our nights - LUNA
27. Jewels for Sophia - ROBYN HITCHCOCK
28. Destination 2000 - L.A.L.
29. The evil powers of rock 'n' roll - SUPERSUCKERS
30. King of the road - FU MANCHU
31. Nature creates freaks - CAY
32. Slap-happy - L7
33. There is nothing left to lose - FOO FIGHTERS
34. Beneath the surface - GZA/GENIUS
35. Surrender - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS
36. Bon chic bon genre - CAMPAG VELOCET
37. So…how's your girl? - HANDSOME BOY MODELING SCHOOL
38. Nigga please - OL' DIRTY BASTARD
39. Juxtapose - TRICKY
40. Works project LP - SCOTT 4
41. Come pick me up - SUPERCHUNK
42. Get skintight - THE DONNAS
43. Things that I discover - TINY TOO
44. Manual - APPLIANCE
45. Avant hard - ADD N TO (X)
46. Rhythm and stealth - LEFTFIELD
47. Things fall apart - THE ROOTS
48. I am … - NAS
49. Homesick - THE EXPERIMENTAL POP BAND
50. Maledictions - GRAND MAL

Also recommended:

The White Stripes - THE WHITE STRIPES, I see a darkness - BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLIE, Knock knock - SMOG, Sky motel - KRISTIN HERSH, I'll take care of you - MARK LANEGAN, Cheating at solitaire - MIKE NESS, To the center - NEBULA, Veterans of disorder - ROYAL TRUX, 13 - BLUR, Field studies - QUASI, New dawning time - GARDENER, 69 love songs - THE MAGNETIC FIELDS, When your heartstrings break - BEULAH, Acme-plus - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION, 2001 - DR. DRE, There 's a poison goin on… - PUBLIC ENEMY, The middle of nowhere - ORBITAL, 60 second wipeout - ATARI TEENAGE RIOT, Coping with the urban coyote - UNIDA, Seventh deadly sin - ICE T, Flesh of my flesh blood of my blood - DMX, Dead letter chorus - LLAMA FARMERS, Supergrass - SUPERGRASS, Rosaria - TIGER, Simple pleasure - TINDERSTICKS, Anima animus - THE CREATURES, Black milk - GALLON DRUNK, My midnight - STEVE WYNN, Up up up up up up - ANI DIFRANCO, Sounds from the Gulf stream - MARINE RESEARCH, Spanish dance troupe - GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI, Elephant shoe - ARAB STRAP, Black foliage volume 1 - THE OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL, The battle of Los Angeles - RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, The third meeting at the third counter - SATISFACT, Challenge for a civilized society - UNWOUND, Trail of stars - THE WALKABOUTS, Mule variations - TOM WAITS, Empty bottles, broken hearts - THE MURDER CITY DEVILS, Pistolero - FRANK BLACK AND THE CATHOLICS, Very emergency - THE PROMISE RING, Look now look again - RAINER MARIA, Free popcorn - LYNNFIELD PIONEERS, How to know the Butterflies of Love - THE BUTTERFLIES OF LOVE, Extended revelation - THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES, Young and full of the devil - MAGIC DIRT, New world record - POSTER CHILDREN, To the teeth - ANI DIFRANCO, Hello June fool - MADDER ROSE, The fidelity wars - HEFNER, Hope and Adams - WHEAT, Something to write home about - GET UP KIDS, Emergency & I - DISMEMBERMENT PLAN, Mission: control! - BURNING AIRLINES, No division - HOT WATER MUSIC, Sometimes I cry - TRICKY WOO, Summer teeth - WILCO, The fragile - NINE INCH NAILS, Californication - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, Play - MOBY, The Slim Shady LP - EMINEM, Spectrum - QUANNUM, As the world burns - ARSONISTS, Nastradamus - NAS, Immobilarity - CHEF RAEKWON, Amplified - Q-TIP, The master - RAKIM, No Limit Top Dogg - SNOOP DOGG, World party - GOODIE MOB, A prince among thieves - PRINCE PAUL, Brand new second hand - ROOTS MANUVA, Come on die young - MOGWAI, Slow riot for new zero Kanada - GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR!, Agaetis byrjun - SIGUR ROS, Eureka - JIM O' ROURKE, HMS fable - SHACK, Guerrilla - SURER FURRY ANIMALS, Us and us only - THE CHARLATANS, Head music - SUEDE, Golden greats - IAN BROWN, Chrominance decoder - APRIL MARCH, Pole 2 - POLE, Niun niggung - MOUSE ON MARS, The Beta Band - THE BETA BAND, Calling all cars on the Vegas strip - JUCIFER, Future pilot AKA Vs a galaxy of sound - FUTURE PILOT AKA, Kid marine - ROBERT POLLARD, Day one - SARAH DOUGHER, Catalog - DANIELLE HOWLE, Central reservation - BETH ORTON, When the pawn…- FIONA APPLE, Rehearsals for departure - DAMIEN JURADO, Scarnella - SCARNELLA, The cat and the cobra - LES SAVY FAV, 2 - THE BLACK HEART PROCESSION, Secret name - LOW, Flightsafety - SHANNON WRIGHT, Axxess & ace - SONGS: OHIA, Industrial silence - MADRUGADA, Teenage snuff film - ROWLAND S. HOWARD, The Tennessee fire - MY MORNING JACKET, Pizza deliverance - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, Mojave - WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY, Fight songs - OLD 97's, Apple Venus volume 1 - XTC, Rock art and the X-ray style - JOE STRUMMER & THE MESCALEROS, Operation: Doomsday - MF DOOM, Black Elvis / Lost in space - KOOL KEITH, Soundpieces: Da antidote - LOOTPACK, My vinyl weighs a ton - PEANUT BUTTER WOLF, Internal affairs - PHAROAHE MONCH, The cycle of days and seasons - HOOD, Futureworld - TRANS AM, Blank-wave arcade - THE FAINT, Pinback - PINBACK, The maggot - MELVINS, Vision creation newsun - BOREDOMS, Beastie Boys Anthology: The sounds of science - BEASTIE BOYS, Clinic - CLINIC, Stars of super 8 - THE WISDOM OF HARRY