1999 – my year in music
What could be more ridiculous than trying to rank the thousands of singles and albums you’ve bought and heard over a lifetime? Here we go …
I ranked these albums and singles in December 2024 as I didn’t do it at the time.
| Top albums of 1999 | ||
| 1 | Blur | 13 |
| 2 | A | A vs Monkey Kong |
| 3 | Supergrass | Supergrass |
| 4 | Clint Boon Experience | The Compact Guide to Pop Music and Space Travel |
| 5 | Madness | Wonderful |
| 6 | Frank and Walters | Beauty Becomes More Than Life |
| 7 | Catatonia | Equally Cursed And Blessed |
| 8 | Saint Etienne | Places to Visit |
| 9 | XTC | Apple Venus Volume I |
| 10 | Muse | Showbiz |
| 11 | Lance Gambit Trio | Cocktail 2000 |
| 12 | Travis | The Man Who |
| 13 | Shack | HMS Fable |
| 14 | Maus | Í Þessi Sekúndubrot Sem Ég Flýt |
| 15 | Cuba | Leap Of Faith |
| 16 | Marillion | Marillion.com |
The albums I played to death:
| These aren’t necessarily the same as my favourite albums now, but the ones I remember buying on release and playing over and over and over again. | ||
| 15/03/99 | Blur | 13 |
| 09/09/99 | A | A vs Monkey Kong |
| 13/09/99 | Clint Boon Experience | The Compact Guide to Pop Music and Space Travel |
| 01/11/99 | Madness | Wonderful |
| Top tracks of 1999 | ||
| 1 | Hefner | The Hymn For The Cigarettes |
| 2 | Coldplay | Brothers and Sisters |
| 3 | A | Monkey Kong |
| 4 | Frank and Walters | Plenty Times |
| 5 | 3 Colours Red | Beautiful Day |
| 6 | Madness | Drip Fed Fred |
| 7 | JJ72 | October Swimmer |
| 8 | Super Furry Animals | Northern Lites |
| 9 | Beck | Sexx Laws |
| 10 | Velocette | Bitterscene |
| 11 | Pavement | Carrot Rope |
| 12 | Supergrass | Moving |
| 13 | Tal Bachman | She's So High |
| 14 | Saint Etienne | Artieripp |
| 15 | Bis | Eurodisco |
| 16 | Suede | Electricity |
| 17 | Shed Seven | Disco Down |
| 18 | Alex Lloyd | Lucky Star |
| 19 | Elastica | How He Wrote Elastica Man |
| 20 | Annie Christian | The Other Way |
| 21 | Laptop | I'm So Happy You Failed |
| 22 | Blur | Coffee & TV |
| 23 | Pavement | Harness Your Hopes |
| 24 | Supergrass | Mary |
| 25 | Clint Boon Experience | White No Sugar |
| 26 | dEUS | Instant Street |
| 27 | All Seeing I | 1st Man in Space |
| 28 | Gay Dad | To Earth With Love |
| 29 | Luscious Jackson | Ladyfingers |
| 30 | Straw | The Aeroplane Song |
| 31 | Abdoujaparov | Maria's Umbrella |
| 32 | Wannadies | Yeah |
| 33 | Andreas Johnson | Glorious |
| 34 | Fiona Apple | Fast As You Can |
| 35 | Angelica | Why Did You Let My Kitten Die |
| 36 | Supergrass | Pumping On Your Stereo |
| 37 | Bis | Action And Drama |
| 38 | Semisonic | Closing Time |
| 39 | Catatonia | Dead From The Waist Down |
| 40 | Sound 5 | Ala Kaboo |
| 41 | Clint Boon Experience | You Can't Keep A Good Man Down |
| 42 | A | Summer On The Underground |
| 43 | Apollo 440 | Stop The Rock |
| 44 | Brian | Turn Your Lights On |
| 45 | Clint Boon Experience | The Cool People Know Who The Cool People Are |
| 46 | Blur | Bugman |
| 47 | Llama Farmers | Get The Keys And Go |
| 48 | Super Furry Animals | Do Or Die |
| 49 | Emiliana Torrini | Unemployed in Summertime |
| 50 | Suede | Can't Get Enough |
| 51 | Blur | Tender |
| 52 | Madness | Lovestruck |
| 53 | Manic Street Preachers | Tsunami |
| 54 | Gorky's Zygotic Mynci | Poodle Rockin' |
| 55 | Ooberman | Shorley Wall |
| 56 | Jim's Super Stereoworld | Could U B The 1 I Waited 4 |
| 57 | Beth Orton | Central Reservation |
| 58 | Muse | Muscle Museum |
| 59 | Texas | In Our Lifetime |
| 60 | My Vitriol | Always Your Way |
| 61 | Fatboy Slim | Praise You |
| 62 | Travis | Why Does it Always Rain on Me |
| 63 | Madness | Johnny The Horse |
| 64 | Gorky's Zygotic Mynci | Spanish Dance Troupe |
| 65 | XTC | I'd Like That |
| 66 | Super Furry Animals | Fire in My Heart |
| 67 | Clint Boon Experience | Comet Theme Number One |
| 68 | Fatboy Slim | Right Here, Right Now |
| 69 | James | Just Like Fred Astaire |
| 70 | Gomez | We Haven't Turned Around |
| 71 | Frente | Bizarre Love Triangle |
| 72 | Len | Steal My Sunshine |
| 73 | Foo Fighters | Learn To Fly |
| 74 | Limp Bizkit | Break Stuff |
| 75 | Sigur Rós | Svefn G Englar |
| 76 | Soulwax | Too Many DJ's |
| 77 | Chemical Brothers | Let Forever Be |
| 78 | Embrace | Hooligan |
| 79 | Dover | Cherry Lee |
| 80 | Limp Bizkit | Nookie |
| 81 | Baz Luhrmann | Everybody's Free (to Wear Sunscreen) |
| 82 | Ben And Jason | Air Guitar |
| My favourite cover versions of 1999 | ||
| 1 | Frente | Bizarre Love Triangle |
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- The amazing paper drop …
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- Barcelona v Getafe
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- My day out at Nene Park
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- XFM’s “greatest” 100 songs ever
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- RIP Nick Sanderson
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- Sultans of Ping FC – 2006 interview
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- The Others – 2005 interview
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- Abdoujaparov – 1999 interview
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