Beste Alben des Jahres 1998

1. Spock' s Beard – The kindness of strangers
2. Manic Street Preachers – This is my truth, tell me yours
3. Ayreon – Into the electric castle
4. Pulp – This is hardcore
5. Madonna – Ray of light
6. Mercury Rev – Deserter' s songs
7. Air – Moon safari
8. Calexico – The black light
9. REM – Up
10. Smashing Pumpkins – Adore

11. Lucinda Williams – Car wheels on a gravel road
12. Garbage – Version 2.0
13. Chris + Carla – Swinger 500
14. Billy Bragg + Wilco – Mermaid Avenue
15. The Beta Band – The 3 E.P.'s
16. Belle and Sebastian – The Boy with the Arab strap
17. David Gray – White ladder
18. Massive Attack – Mezzanine
19. Beck – Mutations
20. Lauryn Hill – The miseducation of Lauryn Hill

1.billy bragg & wilco – mermaid avenues
2.b.b. king – blues on the bayou
3. keb´mo´- slow down
4.rem – up
5.wilco – summerteeth
6.das dritte ohr – negerküsse
7.dave matthews band – before these crowded streets
8.continental drifters – vermilion
9.big in iowa – twisted
10. black crowes – by your side

da fällt die Beschränkung auf zehn Platten schwer:

1. Manic Street Preachers – This is my Truth, Tell Me Yours
2. David Gray – White Ladder
3. Lucinda Williams – Carwheels on a Gravel Road
4. Ani Di Franco – Little Plastic Castle
5. John Hiatt – Walk On
6. The Hollowbodies – Viva le Dregs
7. The Divine Comedy – Fin De Siecle
8. Elvis Costello/Burt Bacharach – Painted from Memory
9. Semisonic – Feeling Strangely Fine
10. Garbage – Version 2.0

Worth the While:

Barenaked Ladies -Stunt
Nits – Alankomaat
Elliott Smith – X/O
Heather Nova – Siren
Superdrag – Headtrip in Every Key
Marc Cohn – Burning the Daze
PJ Harvey Is this Desire?
New Radicals Maybe you’ve been brainwashed, too
The Afghan Whigs 1965

Sterne galore 98:

5 Sterne
01 Black Box Recorder ∙ England Made Me
02 Elvis Costello ∙ Painted From Memory
03 Massive Attack∙ Mezzanine
04 Pulp ∙ This Is Hardcore
05 Duffy ∙ I Love My Friends
06 Belle & Sebastian ∙ The Boy With The Arab Strap
07 Mark Hollis ∙ dto.

4½ Sterne
08 Midnight Choir ∙ Amsterdam Stranded
09 Elliott Smith ∙ XO
10 UNKLE ∙ Psyence Fiction
11 Cinerama ∙ Va Va Voom
12 Air ∙ Moon Safari
13 Smashing Pumpkins ∙ Adore
14 Lucinda Williams ∙ Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
15 Embrace ∙ The Good Will Out
16 Eels ∙ Electro-Shock Blues

4 Sterne
17 Natalie Merchant ∙ Ophelia
18 Billy Bragg & Wilco ∙ Mermaid Avenue
19 Lauryn Hill ∙ The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
20 Mercury Rev ∙ Deserter’s Song
21 Placebo ∙ Without You I’m Nothing
22 Fink ∙ Loch in der Welt
23 Madonna ∙ Ray Of Light
24 Cracker ∙ Gentleman’s Blues
25 Rialto ∙ dto.

1. Sha`Chao Mouse – Photo-Syntheziser*
2. Dub Squad – Enemy? or Friend!? *
3. Enemy Squad – United State of…mind
4. Moloko – I am Not a Doctor
5. Amen – Sunglow

Weitete Hochkaräter (Alphabetisch)!!!

A1 People – Quality Rolls
Barry Adamson – As below so below
Baby Fox – Dum Dum Baby
Hamilton Bohannon – Footstompin`Music
BOOM BOOM Satellitites – Out Loud
Brand Nubian – Foundation
The Coup – Steal this Album!
Digital Underground – Who got the Gravy?
Dobie – Sound of one Hand Clapping
Fantastic Plastic Machine – “
God Lives Underwater – Life in the So- called Age
H-Bomb – Narcissism
Higsons – it`s a wonderful Life
Hi-Tek – Down thru Ya Eardrum straight to Ya!
Ice – Bad Bloom
Jurassic 5 – LP
L`Trimm – Grab It!
Massive Attack – Mezzanine
Meat Beat Manifesto – Actual Sounds + Voices
Mood – Doom
Mother Superior – Mothership Movement
New Power Generation – New Power Soul
Stina Nordenstam – Peaople are Strange
Outcast – Aquemini
Pablo`s Eya – All she wants grows Blue
Plastikman – Artifakts
Random Factor – Too Fast in the Future
Romanto and out of the Drum – Agent Style
Satisfact – Third Meeting and the Third Counter
Taja Sevelle – Toys of Vanity
Tarwater – Silur
Tricky – Angels with Dirty Faces
Verkocht – Beloe Zakk
wagon Christ – Tally Ho!
Wamdue Project – Programm Yourself!
Yellow Note – We`re not the Beatles

* Wieder stellen zwei japanische Combos (einmal Trip-Hop und DnB) alles weitere in den Schatten, obwohl 1998 meiner Meinung nach einer der Besten Jahrgänge der 90er waren!

Absolute Beginner – Bambule
Black Star – Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star
Four-Hero – Two Pages
Fünf Sterne Deluxe – Sillium
Gang Starr – Moment Of Truth
Godspeed You Black Emperor! – f#a#∞
Motorpsycho – Trust Us
Notwist – Shrink
Outkast – Aquemini
Plastikman – Consumed
Pulp – This Is Hardcore
Rae Et Christian – Northern Sulphoric Soul
Rhythm And Sound – Showcase
Stella – Extralife
A Tribe Called Quest – The Love Movement

01. Cowboy Junkies – Miles From Our Home *****
02. Williams, Lucinda – Car Wheels On A Gravel Road *****
03. Zelmani, Sophie – Precious Burden *****
04. Nova, Heather – Siren ****
05. Difranco, Ani – Little Plastic Castle ****
06. Rush – Different Stages ****
07. Crow, Sheryl – The Globe Sessions ****
08. Pidgeon, Rebecca – Four Marys ****
09. Morrison, Van – The Philosopher’s Stone ****
10. Platypus – When Pus Comes To Shove ****
11. Page / Plant – Walking Into Clarksdale *** 1/2
12. Merchant, Natalie – Ophelia *** 1/2
13. Eels – Electro-Shock Blues *** 1/2
14. Dr. John – Anutha Zone *** 1/2
15. Block, Rory – Confessions Of A Blues Singer *** 1/2
16. Griffith, Nanci – Other Voices Too (A Trip Back To Bountiful) *** 1/2
17. Blue Öyster Cult – Heaven Forbid ***
18. Morissette, Alanis – Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie ***
19. Houston, Penelope – Cut You ***
20. Hazeldine – Orphans ***

Gruss,
ZUFO

1998
01.) „The Black Light“ – Calexico
02.) „…and the Catholics“ – Frank Black
03.) „Clandestino“ – Manu Chao
04.) „Walking into Clarksdale“ – Page & Plant
05.) „Chris + Carla – Swinger 500
06.) „Up“ – R.E.M.
07.) „ACME“ – Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
08.) „Premonition“ – John Fogerty
09.) „Mark Hollis“ – Mark Hollis
10.) „Adore“ – Smashing Pumpkins