Tim’s 1998 Top Ten

Great year for music.

Songs
1. Loro (Pinback) – One of the most beautiful pieces of music I’ve heard
2. Big Trucks (Pedro The Lion) – brilliant lyrics
3. Count Five Or Six (Cornelius) – Check out this live video from Yo Gabba Gabba!
4. Two-Headed Boy (Neutral Milk Hotel) – Amazing stamina!
5. Chaos of the Galaxy/Happy Man (Sparklehorse) – Mark Linkous at his kick-as best
6. Teardrop (Massive Attack) – featuring the incomparable Elizabeth Frazer (Cocteau Twins) on vocals – a rare great track from the largely boring Massive Attack.
7. No Sense (Cat Power) – from her strung-out and beautiful debut album
8. The Exhumation of Virginia Madison (Strung Out) – the late 90s saw the pinnacle of US pop/hardcore punk with Green Day et al – this one is bordering on thrash and math-rock
9. Dr Worm (They Might Be Giants) – Just one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard
10. Opus 40 (Mercury Rev) – Chorus chokes me up every time.

Notable omissions:
11. Kelly Watch The Stars (Air) – Great Video
12. I’m Gonna Fall (Ash) – mellow Teenage Fanclub tribute from these Irish punkers
13. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (Spacehog) – very pretty song despite the dodgy lolita fantasy

Albums
1. Fantasma (Cornelius)
2. Pinback (Pinback)
3. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (Neutral Milk Hotel)

4. Music Has The Right To Children (Boards Of Canada)
5. XO (Elliott Smith)
6. People Are Strange (Stina Nordenstam)

7. Moon Pix (Cat Power)

8. Tally Ho! (Wagon Christ)

9. The Broken Down Comforter Collection (Grandaddy)

10. Good Morning Spider (Sparklehorse)