50 favorites, 1996-1999

Based on a scroll through my iTunes. My People’s List is made up largely of the 2000s list I made for Rawkblog and really struggled over, so the below records are in no order and chosen hastily. I’ve bolded my very, very favorites — if I had to pick, Winter Pageant, then the Costello/Bacharach record. Really. 

Beck - Odelay

Belle & Sebastian - If You’re Feeling Sinister

Belle & Sebastian - Push Barman To Open Old Wounds (’90s EPs collection - released in ’00s)

Dave Matthews Band - Crash

Go Sailor - s/t

Guided by Voices - Under the Bushes, Under the Stars

Heatmiser - Mic CIty Sons

Lullaby for the Working Class - Blanket Warm

The Softies - s/t

The Softies - Winter Pageant 

Weezer - Pinkerton

Wilco - Being There

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery OST

Ben Folds Five - Whatever & Ever Amen

Ben Folds Five - The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner

Elliott Smith - Either/Or

Radiohead - OK Computer

Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing

Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind

Tindersticks - Curtains

Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac

Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One

Beck - Mutations

Cat Power - Moon PIx

Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach - Painted From Memory

Hole - Celebrity Skin

Hootie & The Blowfish - Musical Chairs

Mercury Rev - Deserter’s Songs

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea

Pedro The Lion - It’s Hard to Find a Friend

Quasi - Featuring Birds

Silver Jews - American Water

Aimee Mann - Magnolia/Bachelor No. 2

Beth Orton - Central Reservation

Blinker the Star - August Everywhere

Bonnie Prince Billy - I See A Darkness

Counting Crows - This Desert Life

Dave Matthews Band - Live at Luther College

The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I

Fiona Apple - When The Pawn

The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin

For Stars - For Stars

Hefner - The Fidelity Wars

Harvey Williams - California

Luna - The Days of Our Nights

Nicolai Dunger - This Cloud Is Learning

Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage: Animation Music

Owsley - Owsley

Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun (I included this on my 2ks list) 

Wilco - Summerteeth

(Bonus: Dave Matthews Band’s unreleased/leaked The Lillywhite Sessions, maybe that first Fastball album and one of the Barenaked Ladies records; probably Sublime’s 40oz to Freedom; definitely Moby’s Play, I loved that shit.)

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