894. Metallica - S&M

Release Date: 1999
Label: Elektra

Rating: 2/10

893. Eminem - The Slim Shady LP

Release Date: 1999
Label: Aftermath

Rating: 8/10

892. Le Tigre - Le Tigre

Release Date: 1999
Label: Mr Lady

Rating: 6/10

891. Les Rythmes Digitales - Darkdancer

Release Date: 1999
Label: Wall of Sound


Rating: 6/10

890. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin

Release Date: 1999
Label: Warner Bros

I have this.

Rating: 9/10

889. Moby - Play

Release Date: 1999
Label: Mute

'Play' was a massive success when it was released twenty years ago, with its clever use of samples taken from Alan Lomax field recordings. The songs are familiar even to those who (like me) didn't buy the album.

Rating: 9/10

888. Death in Vegas - The Contino Sessions

Release Date: 1999
Label: Concrete.

Unremarkable.

Rating: 5/10

887. Nitin Sawhney - Beyond Skin

Release Date: 1999
Label: Outcaste

This was an interesting album, with clever use of dialouge samples and references to nucleur wars, the tensions between Indian and Pakinstan etc. Better than I expected.

Rating: 7/10

886. Beth Orton - Central Reservation

Release Date: 1999
Label: Heavenly

I own Beth Orton's previous album, Trailer Park, but this is apparently the better of the two. Considering I've thought about getting rid of the one I've got, I guess it's no surprise that I wasn't particularly enamoured by this.

Rating: 6/10

885. Slipknot - Slipknot

Release Date: 1999
Label: Roadrunner

This was bad. Very bad.

Rating: 1/10

884. Travis - The Man Who

Release Date: 1999
Label: Independiente

This was the first album I ever bought.

Rating: 10/10

883. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs

Release Date: 1999
Label: Merge

I have this album.

Rating: 8/10

882. Incubus - Make Yourself

Release Date: 1999
Label: Epic

"I quite liked that 'Drive' song when I heard it twenty years ago, perhaps this album won't be so bad."
I was wrong, it was very bad.

Rating: 4/10

881. XTC - Apple Venus Volume 1

Release Date: 1999
Label: Idea

Unfortunately this wasn't available on Spotify.

880. Khaled - Kenza

Release Date: 1999
Label: Universal Records

This is another 'world music' album which seems to have been chosen to satisfy the commitee and not because of its quality. There must be better examples than this.

Rating: 4/10

879. Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children

Release Date: 1999
Label: Warp

I have this album already.

Rating: 8/10

878. Suba - Sao Paulo Confessions

Release Date: 1999
Label: Ziriguiboom

I honestly can't really remember much about this album. I've fallen so far behind on my reviews that I may as well just make them up and choose a random score as I go along. I can remember if I liked something enought to buy it, and this wasn't one of those occasions.

Rating: 6/10

877. Kid Rock - Devil Without A Cause

Release Date: 1998
Label: Atlantic

The line that confirmed my opinion of the album was something like, 'I don't tend to like big women/but somehow I always find myself in 'em'.

Rating: 2/10

876. Korn - Follow The Leader

Release Date: 1998
Label: Immortal

This was bad, but it wasn't as awful as I expected it to be. So it gets an extra mark just for pleasantly surprising me.

Rating: 5/10

875. Talvin Singh - OK

Release Date: 1998
Label: Island

This album was not OK.

Rating: 3/10