thekidsgirl said:

you mean like "hurry up and get it over with" music?

1999 was a good year for music if you ask me. I was around 11 or 12 years old at the time and remember being totally into the whole teen pop craze with 'Nsync, BSB, Britney, etc. but I also remember loving artists like Sugar Ray, Lauryn Hill, TLC, Marc Anthony, Ricky Martin, Dixie Chicks, The Black Crowes, Jay-Z, Destiny's Child, Shania Twain, Blink 182,etc, etc. Overall an enjoyable year for music. Much better than today that's for sure.
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The actual year 1999 was a disappointment, a disgrace, and the total opposite of what a lot of us pictured the year to be like back when we were listening to Prince's "1999" album back in 1982. I was picturing the year 1999 to sound futuristic and funky like the "1999" album, Soul Sonic Force, or The Jonzun Crew on the funk side, and like Gary Numan and Devo on the pop/rock side. Instead, it was a year filled with stripped down slow to midtempo shit hop. Absolutely nothing like I pictured at all. And instead of wearing shiny satin suits with silver boots, people were wearing plain old jeans and caps. And we weren't even in flying cars yet or vacationing on other planets yet. Put some damn airplane engines in these cars and get them off the ground. Hell, we're in a new millenium.




Oh, how I wish I could forget it.
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That's the only thing I like from that year. Lots of great songs on that album.

This thread makes me ill. 1999 was the absolute nadir of popular music, in my book.

TonyVanDam said:

I got on board with some of the electro stuff (really loving the current stuff), and I really liked the French house scene, very refreshing (Stardust, Cassius, Daft Punk, Air...the obvious ones I guess) but the breakbeat stuff just never seemed to make for a good night on the dancefloor.

I thought the trance stuff at the time was superb, ideal for the 1:00 to 3:00 slot of the floor when you wanted those slow building epics that exploded after the drop, the obvious template for which being Energy 52's Cafe Del Mar that had a revival in '99. And it was nice to see some of the better dance songs of the time actually making a dent on the charts (ATB's 9pm), though some of my friends moaned that it should have remained an underground thing.....I guess they had a point because post millennium it all got way too commercial, crap like DJ Sammy, Scooter, Cascada. Where did it all go wrong!

DaveT said:

It went dead wrong when any would-be trance artist thought covering 80's classics were a good idea! Great idea for DJ Sammy but terrible idea for everyone else.

As for breakbeats, I'll be the first to admit that DJ Icey is very overrated. I've always preferred an old-school breakbeat artist like DJ Magic Mike, because he mixed breakbeats with Miami bass drum machine programming.

thekidsgirl said:

Although release in 1997, Virgin Records' own Pure Moods series were selling very well for the new age audience in 1999.

TonyVanDam said:

I'm slowly getting into breakbeat a bit more as the last two raves I went to had a breakbeat room and the stuff I heard there was really good. Still a bit of a novice at the mo though; can you recommend some good stuff? Must admit, I lost touch with the dance scene when it all went tits up around late 2001, but I decided to get back to it last year and I've found (at least in the south of the UK where I am) that its gone well underground again!

There was a lot of bad music that year, and I could already see the direction MTV and corporate radio were going to take that would necessitate the changes that have come in the last ten years regarding the industry and the use of the internet to distribute music.

BUT, there was a lot of music left to love. I bought these that year.

sextonseven said:

That was the year I was obsessed with Britney Spears

My eight year old self

just looked up my 1999 favorites list on RYM. not such a bad year, really. meaning my entire top 10 for that year is made up of things I thoroughly enjoy

Still sounds fantastic today...

GirlBrother said:

Moonbeam said:

You've gotta admit that it's catchy!

GirlBrother said:

It is, but see Number 61 on my list!

Britney, Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Lopez, Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, Carlos Santana, Mariah, Janet, what a year that was
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Moonbeam said:

I can't stand Sugar Ray too.