Best Album of 1998

Finally looks like an album I really like will win. Bon jouer mes Francophile amis! :)

On that note, I better keep it French-oriented by giving the silver medal to Manu Chao's Clandestino, with bronze going to Manau (no relation to Chao I don't think) and Panique Celtique, the album that delighted those long-hoping for a hybrid of Alan Stivell and MC Solaar to come along. Yes, 'breton-harp hip-hop' does exist. :D

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Originally Posted by stann

Transglobal Underground

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Some great imagery on that album. "Egyptian pharaohs fell from the sky, fell from the sky, and played the blues." :D

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Originally Posted by lucanhoop87

am a little bit surprised so many people voted for air, love that album though, perfect background music ;)

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For dinner parties? ;) I'm actually quite surprised Fatboy Slim is in the running. I never really took to it at all. Finding myself re-listening to albums from this poll and downloading ones I've somehow missed too....

The year of the Fatboy. YCALWB will, in years to come, be elevated to and spoken of in the company of records like Dark Side of the Moon, Electric Ladyland, White Album. Oh ...and I STILL don't like Praise You. Sounds like something Bobby feckin Gillespie would come up with.

Other favourites of mine from 1998 are Under the Great Western Freeway by Grandaddy, Four Lads who shook the Wirral by HMHB and Hellbilly Deluxe by Rob Zombie.

went for fatboy slim on the basis that there isn't an "other" option. Metallicas garage inc ablum would have been my no.1 choice with there version of whiskey in the jar being my favourite song on it.

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Originally Posted by Terry

went for fatboy slim on the basis that there isn't an "other" option. Metallicas garage inc ablum would have been my no.1 choice with there version of whiskey in the jar being my favourite song on it.

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One of my favourite LPs of the year as well Terry. I didn't list it as there's no "new" music as such on it. Great record all the same though.

Some one mentioned 98 being a bad year for the music due to the emergence of the Britneys and Christinas ...I think those high-gloss production pop acts had always been about in numbers but something almost sinister did happen in terms of their being touted by the so called alternative/legitimate/serious music press.

Robbie Williams, I remember in particular, had his entire career quite unscrupulously re-evaluated by the NMEs, MMs, Qs, HPs to portray him as a frustrated rebel -trapped in a the straightjacket of mainstream pop in TT but now emerging as some sort of Bowie-esque genius -redeemed and forgiven because he hung out with Oasis for a night.