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1999 NME Albums

Flaming Lips


1. The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
2. Shack – HMS Fable
3. Super Furry Animals – Guerrilla
4. Death In Vegas – The Contino Sessions
5. Beck – Midnite Vultures
6. Campag Velocet – Bon Chic Bon Genre
7. Pavement – Terror Twilight
8. Mogwai – Come One Die Young
9. The Folk Implosion – One Part Lullaby
10. Smog – Knock Knock
11. Basement Jaxx – Remedy
12. Underworld – Beaucoup Fish
13. Godspeed You Black Emperor! – Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
14. Make Up – Save Yourself
15. Eminem – The Slim Shady LP
16. Jim O’rourke – Eureka
17. Ol’ Dirty Bastard – N***A Please
18. Bonnie Prince Billy – I See Darkness
19. Blur – 13
20. The Charlatans – Us And Us Only
21. Tindersicks – Simple Pleasure
22. Low – Secret Name
23. Add N To X – Avant Hard
24. Leftfield – Rhythm And Stealth
25. TLC – Fanclub
26. Low – Christmas
27. Royal Trux – Veterans Of Disorder
28. Love As Laughter – Distination 2000
29. The All Seeing I – Pickled Eggs & Sherbet
30. Ian Brown – Golden Greats
31. Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Spanish Dance Troupe
32. Sizzla – Royal Son Of Ethiopia
33. Mouse On Mars – Niun Niggung
34. The Chemical Bruthers – Surrender
35. Pole – Pole 2
36. The Beta Band – The Beta Band
37. Roots Manuva – Brand New Second Hand
38. U-Ziq – Royal Astronomy
39. Kevin Rowland – My Beauty
40. Travis – The Man Who
41. Future Pilot AKA – Future Pilot AKA VS. A Galaxy Of Sounds
42. Stereolab – Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night
43. Sebadoh – The Sebadoh
44. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead – Madonna
45. The Auteures – How I Learned To Love The Bootboys
46. Damien Jurado – Rehearsals For The Departure
47. Rage Againsed The Machine – The Battle Of Los Angeles
48. Clinton – Disco And The Halfway To Discontent
49. Papa M – Live From A Shark Cage
50. Missy Elliott – Da Real World

NME Singles Of 1999



1. Aphex Twin – Windowlicker
2. TLC – No Scrubs
3. Super Furry Animals – Northern Lites
4. The Flaming Lips – Race For The Prize
5. Eminem – My Name Is
6. Mogwai – EP
7. Fatboy Slim – Praise You
8. Primal Scream – Swastika Eyes
9. Beck - Sex Laws
10. Madonna – Beautiful Stranger
11. Death In Vegas – Dirge
12. Campag Velocet – To Lose La Treck
13. Sigur Ros – Svefn-G-Englar
14. Blur – Tender
15. Shack – Comedy
16. Travis – Writing To Reach You
17. Sebodoh – Flame
18. Monster Magnet – Space Lord
19. New Radicles – You Get What You Give
20. Supergrass – Pumping On Your Stereo
21. Basement Jaxx – Rendez-Vu
22. The Flaming Lips – Waiting For Superman
23. Blur – Coffee + TV
24. The Chemical Brothers – Hey Boy Hey Girl
25. Badly Drawn Boy – It Came From The Ground
26. Gay Dad – To Earth With Love
27. Mercury Rev – Goddess On A Hiway
28. Moloko – Sing It Back
29. Pavement – Carrot Rope
30. Smog – Cold Blooded Old Times
31. Underworled – King Of Snake
32. Buckcherry – Lit Up
33. Ol’ Dirty Bastard – Got Your Money
34. Shack – Natalie’s Party
35. Super Furry Animals – Fire In My Heart
36. The Fall – Touch Sensitive
37. U-Ziq – The Fear
38. Underworld – Jumbo
39. Armend Van Helden – U Don’t Know Me
40. The All Seeing I – Walk Like A Panther
41. Pavement – Major League
42. Puff Daddy – Pe2000
43. Mr Oizo – Flat Beat
44. Hole – Malibu
45. Low – Immune
46. Zan Lyons – Suicide
47. The Charlatans – Forever
48. Mercury Rev – Opus 40
49. Roots Manuva – Juggle Tings Proper
50. The Micronauts – The Jag

NME Singles of the week 1999

• The All seeing I - Walk Like A Panther
• Four Tet - Misnomer
• Sebadoh - Flame
• The Jellys - Lemonade girl
• Idlewild - When I argue I see shapes
• M Organ - Miss Parker
• Whistler - Don't jump in front of my train
• Roots manuva - Juggle tings proper
• Blur - Tender
• Echo & the Bunneyman - Rust
• Cooler - Supersod
• Black Star - Respiration
• Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
• The Monsoon bassoon - The king of evil
• Suede - Electricity
• The Fall - Touch Sensitive
• Prolapse - Fob.Com
• Miss Mend - Living City Plan
• Super furry animals - Northern lites
• Underworld - Jumbo
• The wisdom of harry - Fragments of Harris
• The 3rd Eye Foundation - In Bristol With A Pistol (The Full 9mm)
• Baz Luhrmann presents - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
• Flaming Lips - Race for the prize
• Luscious Jackson - Ladyfingers
• The Wisdom Of Harry - Framents of Harris
• Chicks on Speed - Smash Metal
• Sepultura - Against
• u-Zig - The Fear
• Lolita Storm - Goodbye America
• Mary J Blige - All That I Can Say
• Puff Daddy - PE 2000
• Brothers in Sound - Barelyafterwake
• Spearmint - Sweeping The Nation
• Buckcherry - lit Up
• Moloko - Sing it back
• Depth Charge - Bounty Killer III (The eyes of Johnny Ringo)
• Murry The Hump - Thrown Like A Stone
• Snake River Conspiracy - Vulcan
• The Butterflys of Love - It's Different Now
• Beulah - Score from Augusta
• Smog - Cold Blooded Old Times
• Squarepusher/Richard Thomas - I Am Carnel (And I Know That You Approve)
• Primal Scream - Swastika Eyes
• DJ Scud Is Rude Boy - Jackboots And Birds
• Leftfield featuring Roots Manuva - Dusted
• Dakar & Grinser - Take Me Naked
• Ladytron - He took her to a movie
• Mazarin - Wheats
• Big Ben - Millennium Chimes

NME Pop Poll 1999

Best Ever Category

Best Ever Single..

1. Smells Like Teen Sprit – Nirvana
2. Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
3. Imagine – John Lennon
4. Wonderwall – Oasis
5. Strawberry Fields Forever – The Beatles
6. Fools Gold – Stone Roses
7. Unfinished Sympathy – Massive Attack
8. A Design For Life – Manic Street Preachers
9. This Charming Man – The Smiths
10. Paranoid Android – Radiohead

Best Album Ever..

1. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
2. Revolver - The Beatles
3. Nevermind – Nirvana
4. Sgt. Pepper – The Beatles
5. The White Album – The Beatles
6. The Bends – Radiohead
7. The Holy Bible – Manic Street Preachers
8. (What’s The Story) Morning Glory – Oasis
9. Never Mind The Bollocks – The Sex Pistols
10. Dog Man Star – Suede

Best Band Ever..

1. The Beatles
2. Nirvana
3. Radiohead
4. The Stone Roses
5. The Smiths
6. Oasis
7. Manic Street Preachers
8. Blur
9. The Velvet Underground
10. The Rolling Stones

For The Year 1999…

Best Band..

1. Blur
2. Super Furry Animals
3. Manic Street Preachers
4. Travis
5. Stereophonics
6. Mogwai
7. The Flaming Lips
8. Gomez
9. Shack
10. The Charlatans

Best Solo Artist

1. Beck
2. Robbie Williams
3. Ian Brown
4. Beth Orton
5. Macy Gray
6. Bernard Butler
7. Fatboy Slim
8. David Bowie
9. Moby
10. Badly Drawn Boy

Best Dance Act

1. The Chemical Brothers
2. Fatboy Slim
3. Basement Jaxx
4. Underworld
5. Death In Vegas
6. Leftfield
7. Moby
8. Faithless
9. Aphex Twin
10. Primal Scream

Best Single

1. Tender – Blur
2. Northern Lites – Super Furry Animals
3. Why Does It Always Rain On Me – Travis
4. Swastika Eyes – Primal Scream
5. Hey Boy Hey Girl – The Chemical Brothers
6. Coffee + TV – Blur
7. Race For The Prize – The Flaming Lips
8. Moving – Supergrass
9. Forever – The Charlatans
10. Ep – Mogwai

Best New Act

1. Muse
2. Basement Jaxx
3. Macy Gray
4. Gay Dad
5. Eminem
6. Britney Spears
7. Ooberman
8. Coldplay
9. Campag Velocet
10. Godspeed You Black Emperor

Best Album

1. The Soft Bulletin – The Flaming Lips
2. 13 – Blur
3. Guerrilla – Super Furry Animals
4. The Man Who – Travis
5. Performance And Cocktails – Stereophonics
6. HMS Fable – Shack
7. The Contino Sessions – Death In Vegas
8. Head Music – Suede
9. Come On Die Young – Mogwai
10. Surrender – Chemical Brothers