Wednesday, January 3, 2001

McQ's Favorite Albums Of 1998


Highest Recommends

Strong Recommends
4. Powertrip - Monster Magnet
5. Moon Safari - Air
6. Deserter's Songs - Mercury Rev
7. Aquemini - Outkast
8. You've Come A Long Way, Baby - Fatboy Slim
9. Good Morning Spider - Sparklehorse
10. Electro-Shock Blues - Eels
11. This Is Hardcore - Pulp
12. Live 1966 "The Royal Albert Hall Concert" - Bob Dylan
13. Mezzanine - Massive Attack
14, Pack Up The Cats - Local H
15. The Shape Of Punk To Come - Refused
16. Mark Hollis - s/t
17. Ray of Light - Madonna
18. Music Has The Right To Children - Boards Of Canada
19. The Three E.P's - The Beta Band
20. whitechocolatespaceegg - Liz Hair
21. American Water - Silver Jews
22. Devil Without A Cause - Kid Rock
23. Celebrity Skin - Hole

Solid Recommends
25. 1965 - The Afghan Whigs
26. The Boy With The Arab Strap - Belle And Sebastian
27. White Ladder - David Gray
28. Decksanddrumsandrockandroll - The Propellerheads
29. From The Choir Girl Hotel - Tori Amos
30. TNT - Tortoise
31. Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star - Black Star
32. System Of A Down - s/t
33. Psyence Fiction - UNKLE
34. Without You I'm Nothing - Placebo
35. Fantasie Militaire - Alain Bashung
36. Clandestino - Manu Chao
37. Moment Of Truth - Gang Starr
38.Consumed - Plastikman
39. Adore - Smashing Pumpkins
40. Queens Of The Stone Age
41. This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours - Manic Street Preachers
42. XO - Elliott Smith
43. Mermaid Avenue - Billy Bragg And Wilco
44. Apocalypse Dudes - Turbonegro
45. Around The House - Herbert
46. Is This Desire - PJ Harvey


Mild Recommends
47. Hello Nasty - Beastie Boys
48. ACME - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
49. A Series Of Sneaks - Spoon
50. Rufus Wainwright - s/t
51. Version 2.0 - Garbage
52. Mutations - Beck
53. Moon Pix - Cat Power
54. The Black Light - Calexico
55. Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk - Jeff Buckley
56. Painted From Memory - Elvis Costello With Burt Bacharach
57. Bring It On - Gomez
58. A Thousand Leaves - Sonic Youth
59. Up - REM
60. Yield - Pearl Jam

1998 Albums Of Critical Note I've Heard Enough To Recommend But Not To Assess In Full (though biggest favs of this bunch bolded)

100% Columbian - Fun Lovin' Criminals
Accelerator - Royal Trux
Big Calm - Morcheeba
Camoufleur - Gastr Del Sol
Depths - Windy & Carl
Dig My Mood - Nick Lowe
Diwan - Rachid Taha
End Hits - Fugazi
England Made Me - Black Box Recorder
First Floor - Theo Parrish
Follow The Leader - Korn
F#A#Infinity - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Glam - Mouse On Mars
Hell Among The Yearlings - Gillian Welch
How It Feels To Be Something On - Sunny Day Real Estate
In An Expression Of The Inexpressible - Blonde Redhead
International Velvet - Catatonia
Letting Off The Happiness - Bright Eyes
LP5 - Autechre
Mechanical Animals - Marilyn Manson
Navy Blues - Sloan
Northern Sulphuric Soul - Rae & Christian
Ocean Songs - Dirty Three
OK - Talvin Singh
Permutation - Amon Tobin
Philophobia - Arab Strap
Push The Button - Money Mark
Rafi's Revenge - Asian Dub Foundation
Something About Airplanes - Death Cab For Cutie
Super AE - Boredoms
Swans Are Dead: Live '95 - '97
The K & D Sessions - Kruder And Dorfmeister
Wide Open Spaces - Dixie Chicks
You Guys Kill Me - The Third Eye Foundation




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