Rock Evolution – The History of Rock & Roll - 1998 - (page 271)

It Started With A Miss said:
In a strange twist of fate this year saw the release of the debut album by this duo of Scottish brothers.
Their new album comes out Friday 13 years after their last.

I appreciate this is going to be Marmite to some but it's an important Electronic album liked by many.

From the album Music Has The Right To Children

Boards Of Canada - Happy Cycling
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That's a great album that and o ly had it on a couple of weeks ago. I love how "innocent" it sounds and also how psychedelic it is - it still sounds new to this day!

As I said about Fatboy Slim, it's hard to describe how these sounds sounded when they first came out - it was groundbreaking stuff. For those of us who lived through the 90s we were lucky to have all this amazing music around us!
 
1998 was a pretty good years for albums and one spectacular box set.

Neil Finn - “Sinner” from the Try Whistling This album.

Sheryl Crow - “Riverwide” from The Globe Sessions album.

Beck - “Bottle of Blues” from the Mutations album.

Bruce Springsteen also released his first Tracks box set, which included a number of throwaways that shows just how deep his songwriting banks are.

Bruce Springsteen - “Roulette”
 
GoatersLeftShin said:
When I first heard this song it was another that I couldn't tell if it was a joke or not. It sounded so completely different to anything else that year.

I bought the album as it was on offer and CD singles were still relatively pricey back then. What a great purchase, it's one of my all time favourites albums - Moon Safari by Air.

We saw them play this in Piece Hall over in Halifax a couple of hot summers ago and it was incredible.

I could nominate the album but I'll nominate ...

Air - Sexy Boy
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Love that Air album.
 
1998 not a great year for new releases for me and 4 of my picks have already been chosen.

Classic track still played today although the lyrics were always misunderstood

Semisonic ‘CLOSING TIME’

The album that firmly put Lucinda Williams on my favourite female songwriters of all time and this featured such luminaries as Steve Earle,Emmylou Harris, Roy Bittan and Buddy Miller.

‘Car Wheels On a Gravel Road’ RIGHT ON TIME’

I was still very into Alt Country Bands and I still play this track today

Farmer Not So John ‘PAPER THIN’

I was never a big Lyle Lovett Fan but when I heard a few tracks from his
Covers album ‘Step Inside This House’ a tribute to Texan songwriters,
I went out and bought it, his reinterpretations of songs by Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt and others are excellent.

I love ‘BEARS’ by Steven Fromholz in particular and had to add to this playlist ,as last week whilst walking my dogs round our community I had my first meeting with a Florida Black bear! Fortunately my two Beagles were as stunned as I was and didn’t bark a word, so we were able to walk past it peacefully.
 
Mancitydoogle said:
1998 not a great year for new releases for me and 4 of my picks have already been chosen.

Classic track still played today although the lyrics were always misunderstood

Semisonic ‘CLOSING TIME’

The album that firmly put Lucinda Williams on my favourite female songwriters of all time and this featured such luminaries as Steve Earle,Emmylou Harris, Roy Bittan and Buddy Miller.

‘Car Wheels On a Gravel Road’ RIGHT ON TIME’

I was still very into Alt Country Bands and I still play this track today

Farmer Not So John ‘PAPER THIN’

I was never a big Lyle Lovett Fan but when I heard a few tracks from his
Covers album ‘Step Inside This House’ a tribute to Texan songwriters,
I went out and bought it, his reinterpretations of songs by Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt and others are excellent.

I love ‘BEARS’ by Steven Fromholz in particular and had to add to this playlist ,as last week whilst walking my dogs round our community I had my first meeting with a Florida Black bear! Fortunately my two Beagles were as stunned as I was and didn’t bark a word, so we were able to walk past it peacefully.
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Sheesh meeting bears must be scary. You gave me a challenge with the last two songs. Farmer Not So John has 128 monthly listens on Spotify. Steven Fromholz has 30! And I can't see the song you nominated
 
OB1 said:
Oasis: Aquiesce
Fat Boy Slim: Right Here, Right Now. Someone had to.
Hole: Celebrity Skin
Metallica: Tuesday’s Gone
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I remember when Acquiesce came out nobody I knew knew how to say it or what it meant. I do try and drop it into conversation every now and then to sound smarter
 
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mrbelfry said:
Sheesh meeting bears must be scary. You gave me a challenge with the last two songs. Farmer Not So John has 128 monthly listens on Spotify. Steven Fromholz has 30! And I can't see the song you nominated
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mrbelfry said:
Sheesh meeting bears must be scary. You gave me a challenge with the last two songs. Farmer Not So John has 128 monthly listens on Spotify. Steven Fromholz has 30! And I can't see the song you nominated
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It was a bit surreal but strangely I wasn’t scared just hoped my dogs didn’t bark.
PAPERTHIN by Farmer Not So John from their album Receiver definitely shows on my Spotify but maybe I’m on US version.
BEARS is the cover version by Lyle Lovett
 
Mancitydoogle said:
It was a bit surreal but strangely I wasn’t scared just hoped my dogs didn’t bark.
PAPERTHIN by Farmer Not So John from their album Receiver definitely shows on my Spotify but maybe I’m on US version.
BEARS is the cover version by Lyle Lovett
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Ah sorry I must have misread your post. I did find the FNSJ track and have now added the Lyle Lovett one. Thanks for clarifying
 
A going concern from the early eighties it took until the early nineties for the band to get noticed with the His N Hers album before they were thrust into the limelight with the Glastonbury headliner slot,Common People and Different Class.

Jarvis wiggled his arse in front of Jacko at The Brits got arrested and was represented by Bob Mortimer in the police station.
Then the comedown,hangover,stress of becoming one of the biggest bands in the country.
Original member Russell Senior left not liking the spotlight and Jarvis was tasked with writing a follow up.
Drinking heavily by all accounts he came up with one of his best set of songs.
For me their best album so I would like the album version of the albums title track.

Pulp - This Is Hardcore

Just a note if anyone wants to have a look at where he was at this point watch the Jools Holland YouTube click of this song. He's all over the place
 
Before my last pick I'm going to put up some notables I considered.
Elliot Smith,Belle and Sebastian,Jurassic 5,Unkle,Mansun and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

But I'm going for one of the biggest and a big influence on many female artists that came afterwards including Adele,Beyonce et al.

She had found big fame through The Fugees but after her debut album she faded away from public view and had some tough times away from music due to the stress of it all.
It's all on Wikipedia if anyone wants to have a read.

From The Miseducation of ....

Lauryn Hill - Everything Is Everything
 
I was contemplating something from The Miseducation Of but I'll take this as a sign to offer up something a bit..ahem.. different.

I don't think Diamanda Galas has had a mention yet on this thread and at one level that's understandable. Intensely committed avant garde artist or mad as cheese shrieker? Well that's in the eye of the beholder but I think she's the kind of artist everyone should go and see once to make their own mind up.

Though this track is off a live album it's still a poor facsimile of seeing her live. At one level it's almost uncomfortably intense but at another quite moving. Given that at times vocally she ends up in the kind of dog training range that makes Renee Fleming sound like Leonard Cohen it really isn't my go to, but I've always wished I'd seen her more. If you want to get a good sense of how hardcore it gets listen to her version of Thrill Is Gone off this album, I'm going for something more sedate but still the kind of take on Holland Dozier Holland you're unlikely to hear elsewhere.

Diamanda Galas - My World Is Empty Without You
 
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