The Best Rock Albums of 1999

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(Compiled by Mauro Bondoni based on my ratings)
  1. Black Heart Procession: 2 (Touch & Go) (8)
  2. Heather Duby: Post To Wire (Subpop) (8)
  3. Hash Jar Tempo: Under Glass (Drunken Fish) (8)
  4. Papa M: Live From A Shark Cage (Drag City) (8)
  5. Yume Bitsu: Yume Bitsu (Ba Da Bing) (8)
  6. Sigur Ros: Agaetis Byrjun (Fat Cat) (7.5)
  7. 5ive Style: Miniature Portraits (SubPop) (7.5)
  8. Acid Mother Temple: Pataphysical Freak Out Mu (PSF) (7.5)
  9. Red Stars Theory: Life In A Bubble Can Be Beautiful (Touch & Go) (7.5)
  10. Willard Grant Conspiracy: Mojave (Slow River) (7.5)
  11. Cerberus Shoal: Homb (Temporary Residence) (7.5)
  12. Calla: Calla (Sub Rosa, 1999) (7.5)
  13. Old Time Relijun: Utereus And Fire (K) (7.5)
  14. Beta Band: The Three EPs (Astralwerks) (7.5)
  15. Kevin Keller: Pendulum (Lektronik) (7.5)
  16. Brendan Perry: Eye Of The Hunter (4AD) (7.5)
  17. Cyrille Verdeaux: Kundalini Opera (Clearlight) (7)
  18. Cul De Sac: Crashes To Light (Thirsty Ear) (7)
  19. Salamander: Red Mantra (Camera Obscura) (7)
  20. Datac'hi: 10110101 (Caipirinha) (7)
  21. Botch: We Are The Romans (Hydra Head) (7)
  22. Atman: Tradition (Drunken Fish) (7)
  23. Gardener: New Dawning Time (SubPop) (7)
  24. Bob Drake: Animal Medallion Carpet (ReR) (7)
  25. Andrea Parker: Kiss My Arp (Mo Wax) (7)
  26. Necks: Hanging Gardens (1999) (7)
  27. Alog: Red Shift Swing (Rune Grammofon) (7)
  28. Tarentel: From Bone To Satellite (Temporary Residence) (7)
  29. Ani DiFranco: To the Teeth (Righteous Babe) (7)
  30. Adrian Crowley: A Strange Kind (Ba Da Bing) (7)
  31. Bablicon: In a Different City (Misra) (7)
  32. Solex: Pick Up (Matador) (7)
  33. Dean Roberts: All Cracked Medias (Mille Plateaux) (7)
  34. Madder Rose: Hello June Fool (Thirsty Ear) (7)
  35. Add N To (X): Avant Hard (Mute) (7)
  36. Faultline: Closer Colder (Leaf) (7)
  37. Tristeza: Spine And Sensory (Makoto) (7)
  38. Scanner: Lauwarm Instrumentals (Sulphur) (7)
  39. Atomic Bitchwax: Atomic Bitchwax (Mia) (7)
  40. Cinematic Orchestra: Motion (Ninja) (7)
  41. Fly Pan Am: Fly Pan Am (Constellation) (7)
  42. Tara Jane O'Neil: Peregrine (Quartersticks) (7)
  43. Primordial Undermind: Universe I've Got (Camera Obscura) (7)
  44. Olivia Tremor Control: Black Foliage (Flydaddy) (7)
  45. Eminem: The Slim Shady (Universal) (7)
  46. Hat Trio: Memory Is An Elephant (Angel) (7)
  47. Roy Montgomery: True (Kranky) (7)
  48. U.S. Maple: Talker (Drag City) (7)
  49. Lilys: Zero Population Growth (Darla) (7)
  50. Low: Secret Name (Kranky) (7)
  51. Dylan Group: More Adventures In Lying Down (Bubble Core) (7)
  52. Nine Inch Nail: Fragile (Interscope) (7)
  53. Dredg: Leitmotif (Universal) (7)
  54. Slipknot: Slipknot (Roadrunner) (7)
  55. Vandermark 5: Simpatico (Atavistic) (7)
  56. Innerzone Orchestra: Programmed (Astralwerks) (7)
  57. Spring Heel Jack: Treader (Tugboat) (7)
  58. Doldrums: Desk Trickery (Kranky) (7)
  59. Laub: Unter anderen Bedingungen als Liebe (Kitty-Yo) (7)
  60. Vladimir Delay: Ele (Sigma) (7)
  61. Wilco: Summer Teeth (Reprise) (7)
  62. Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile (Nothing) (7)
  63. Jackie-O Motherfucker: Fig. 5 (Road Cone) (7)
  64. Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs (Merge) (7)
  65. Mike Ladd: Welcome to the Afterfuture (1999) (7)
  66. Rob Swift: The Ablist (1999) (7)
  67. Natacha Atlas: Gedida (Beggars Banquet) (7)
  68. Death Cab For Cutie: Something About Airplanes (Barsuk) (7)
  69. Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Maander (Payola) (7)
  70. Company Flow: Little Johnny From The Hospital (Rawkus) (7)
  71. Der Blutharsch: The Pleasures Received In Pain (World Serpent) (7)
  72. Arcana: Dark Ages Of Reason (Cold Meat Industry) (7)
  73. Howie B: Snatch (Island) (7)
  74. Simon Joyner: The Lousy Dance (Truckstop) (7)
  75. Prince Paul: A Prince Among Thieves (1999) (7)
  76. Maybe Monday: Saturn's Finger (Buzz) (7)
  77. Dismemberment Plan: Emergency and I (DeSoto) (7)
  78. Rollerball: Einaugige Kirsche (Road Cone) (7)
  79. Coil: Astral Disaster (World Serpent) (7)

Playlist
  1. Andrea Parker: Clutching At Straws
  2. Calla: Custom Car Crash
  3. Sleepyhead: Song For The Pied Piper
  4. Low: Days Of Salvation
  5. Nine Inch Nail: We're In This Together
  6. Wilco: Can't Stand It
  7. Rainer Maria: Rise
  8. Ani DiFranco: To the Teeth
  9. Adrian Crowley: Slow Fuse
  10. Unida: Black Woman
  11. Fiona Apple: Paper Bag
  12. Nebula: Freedom
  13. Steve Wynn: Mandy Breakdown
  14. XTC: Easter Theatre
  15. Slipknot: Surfacing
  16. Human Drama: The Truth About Gina
  17. Tin Hat Trio: Waltz Of The Skyscraper
Extended tracks
  1. Pelt: Empty Bell Ringing In The Sky (VHF, 1999)
  2. Sigur Ros: Svefn-g-englar
  3. Yume Bitsu: The Frigid Body
  4. Fly Pan Am: L'Espace Au Sol
  5. Tarentel: Ursa Minor Ursa Major
  6. Cerberus Shoal: Omphalos
  7. Lilys: The Escape
  8. Dylan Group: And You Thought The Cowboy Always Won
  9. Primordial Undermind: Dervish
  10. Willard Grant Conspiracy: The Visitor
  11. Tristeza: When We Glow
  12. Rollerball: Stone Cold Rhythm
  13. Pan Sonic: Voima
  14. Heather Duby: Halo Sky
  15. Kevin Keller: Arc Of The Pendulum
  16. Electric Company: Surgical Past
  17. Tarentel: Carl Sagan
  18. Vladimir Delay: Kohde
  19. JImmy Eat World: Goodbye Sky Harbor
  20. M'lumbo: The Secret Of Fear
  21. Out Of Worship: Sterilized
  22. Steve Wynn: 500 Girl Mornings
  23. Type O Negative: World Coming Down
  24. Cinematic Orchestra: Night Of The Iguana

Songwriters
  1. Heather Duby: Post To Wire (Subpop)
  2. Brendan Perry: Eye Of The Hunter (4AD)
  3. Jessica Bailiff: Hour Of The Trace (Kranky)
  4. Adrian Crowley: A Strange Kind (Ba Da Bing)
  5. Wingtip Sloat: If Only For The Hatchery (VHF)
  6. Solex: Pick Up (Matador)
  7. Tara Jane O'Neil: Peregrine (Quartersticks)
  8. Sue Garner & Rick Brown: Still (Thrill Jockey)
  9. Tom Waits: Mule Variations (Epitaph)
  10. Crooked Fingers (Warm)
  11. Sam Prekop (Thrill Jockey)
  12. Paul Westerberg: Suicaine Gratifaction (Capitol)
  13. Diane Izzo: One (Sugar Free)

Industrial

Electronica
  1. Datac'hi: 10110101 (Caipirinha)
  2. Add N To (X): Avant Hard (Mute)
  3. Autechre: EP7 (Nothing)

Gothic
  1. Deine Lakaien: Return
  2. Switchblade Symphony: The Three Calamities

Heavy rock

Psychedelia
  1. Hash Jar Tempo: Under Glass (Drunken Fish)
  2. Yume Bitsu: Yume Bitsu (Ba Da Bing)
  3. Red Stars Theory: Life In A Bubble Can Be Beautiful (Touch & Go)
  4. Madder Rose: Hello June Fool (Thirsty Ear)
  5. Subarachnoid Space and Walking Timebombs: The Sleeping Sickness (E+J)

Instrumental
  1. Hash Jar Tempo: Under Glass (Drunken Fish)
  2. Cul De Sac: Crashes To Light (Thirsty Ear)
  3. 5ive Style: Miniature Portraits (SubPop)
  4. Tarentel: From Bone To Satellite (Temporary Residence)
  5. Lilys: Zero Population Growth (Darla)
  6. Dean Roberts: All Cracked Medias (Mille Plateaux)
  7. Papa M: Live From A Shark Cage (Drag City)
  8. Faultline: Closer Colder (Leaf)
  9. Lightwave: Cantus Umbrarum (Horizon)
  10. Tara Key & Rick Rizzo: Dark Edson Tiger (Thrill Jockey)
  11. Labradford: E Luxo So (Kranky)
  12. Scanner: Lauwarm Instrumentals (Sulphur)
  13. Jim O'Rourke: Eureka
  14. Chuck Vrtacek: Fifteen Mnemonic Devices (Odd Size)
  15. Roy Montgomery: True (Kranky)
  16. Spring Heel Jack: Treader (Tugboat)
  17. Mick Turner: Marlan Rosa (Drag City)

Progressive
  1. Cul De Sac: Crashes To Light (Thirsty Ear)
  2. Cerberus Shoal: Homb (Temporary Residence)
  3. Dylan Group: More Adventures In Lying Down (Bubble Core)

Punk/hardcore
  1. D Generation: Through The Darkness (Columbia)

Britain
  1. Gardener: New Dawning Time (SubPop)
  2. Comet Again: Tigertow Pictures (Kill Rock Stars)
  3. Spring Heel Jack: Treader (Tugboat)
  4. Add N To (X): Avant Hard (Mute)
  5. Scanner: Lauwarm Instrumentals (Sulphur)
  6. Faultline: Closer Colder (Leaf)
  7. Mogwai: Come On Die Young (Chemical Underground)
  8. Skunk Anansie: Post-Orgasmic Chill (Virgin)

Germany
  1. Lali Puna: Tricoder (Darla)
  2. Der Blutharsch: The Pleasures Received In Pain (World Serpent)
  3. Deine Lakaien: Return
  4. Faust: Ravvivando (Klangbad)
  5. Der Blutharsch: Der Sieg des Lichtes Ist des Lebens Heil (Ouroubouros)

Japan

Rest of Europe
  1. Atman: Tradition (Drunken Fish)

Australia
  1. Hash Jar Tempo: Under Glass (Drunken Fish)
  2. Brendan Perry: Eye Of The Hunter (4AD)
  3. Dean Roberts: All Cracked Medias (Mille Plateaux)
  4. Roy Montgomery: True (Kranky)
  5. Mick Turner: Marlan Rosa (Drag City)

Canada

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1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
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