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1998

Favorite films

Antz
The Big Lebowski
Dark City
Out of Sight
Run Lola Run
Rushmore
Saving Private Ryan
The Truman Show

Honorable mention

A Simple Plan
American History X
Can’t Hardly Wait
Great Expectations
Happiness
In the Company of Men
Ronin
Shakespeare in Love

All ages

A Bug’s Life
Antz

Guilty pleasures

Snake Eyes

Holiday

coming soon

Want to see, or feel like I should (see: Hunter Thompson)

Buffalo ‘66
The Celebration
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
The Last Days of Disco
The Newton Boys
The Opposite of Sex
Small Soldiers
The Thin Red Line
Velvet Goldmine
Zero Effect

Not worth the time, underwhelmed, or overrated

Very Bad Things

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ESSENTIAL MUSIC OF 1998

Albums

1. Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours

2. Mercury Rev - Deserter’s Songs

3. Nada Surf - The Proximity Effect

4. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Honorable mention

1. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

2. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Munki

The greatest songs of 1998

1. Believe - Cher

2. Birthday by The Jesus and Mary Chain

3. California Stars - Billy Bragg & Wilco

4. Child Psychology - Black Box Recorder

5. El Presidente - Drugstore featuring Thom Yorke

6. Endlessly - Mercury Rev

7. Firecracker - Nada Surf

8. Fizzy - The Jesus & Mary Chain

9. Fly Away - Lenny Kravitz

10. Ghost - Neutral Milk Hotel

11. Goddess on a Hiway - Mercury Rev

12. Heart & Shoulder - Heather Nova

13. I’m Sorry - Blink-182

14. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next - Manic Street Preachers

15. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

16. The King of Carrot Flowers, Pts. Two & Three - Neutral Milk Hotel

17. Life in Rain - Remy Zero

18. Little Honda - Yo La Tengo

19. Look At This Face - Handsome Boy Modeling School

20. Metaphysical - Handsome Boy Modeling School

21. Morning Theft - Jeff Buckley

22. Music Sounds Better With You - Stardust

23. Nightmares by the Sea - Jeff Buckley

24. Other People’s Lives - Modest Mouse

25. The Rockafeller Skank - Fatboy Slim

26. Rosa Parks - OutKast

27. Sea of Heartbreak - Johnny Cash

28. Sexy Boy - Air

29. Sleep the Clock Around - Belle and Sebastian

30. Tonight It Shows - Mercury Rev

31. You Stole the Sun From My Heart - Manic Street Preachers

32. Waltz #2 - Elliott Smith

    1998 PLAYLISTS BY MONTH

    January

    1. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next - Manic Street Preachers

    2. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

    3. Sleep the Clock Around - Belle and Sebastian

    4. Fizzy - The Jesus & Mary Chain

    February

    1. Heart & Shoulder - Heather Nova

    2. Music Sounds Better With You - Stardust

    3. Life in Rain - Remy Zero

    4. Morning Theft - Jeff Buckley

    5. Waltz #2 - Elliott Smith

    6. Tonight It Shows - Mercury Rev

    March

    1. Sea of Heartbreak - Johnny Cash

    2. California Stars - Billy Bragg & Wilco

    3. Metaphysical - Handsome Boy Modeling School

    April

    1. Holland, 1945 - Neutral Milk Hotel

    May

    1. Fly Away - Lenny Kravitz

    2. Believe - Cher

    3. Got You (Where I Want You) - the Flys

    4. Closing Time - Semisonic

    5. This Kiss - Faith Hill

    6. American Woman - Lenny Kravitz

    June

    1. I’m Sorry - Blink-182

    2. Intergalactic - Beastie Boys

    3. Look At This Face - Handsome Boy Modeling School

    4. Rosa Parks - OutKast

    5. The Rockafeller Skank - Fatboy Slim

    6. A

    July

    1. Firecracker - Nada Surf

    2. Little Honda - Yo La Tengo

    3. Other People’s Lives - Modest Mouse

    August

    1. You Stole the Sun From My Heart - Manic Street Preachers

    2. Ghost - Neutral Milk Hotel

    3. Sexy Boy - Air

    4. Goddess on a Hiway - Mercury Rev

    September

    1. Tsunami - Manic Street Preachers

    2. The King of Carrot Flowers, Pts. Two & Three - Neutral Milk Hotel

    3. Child Psychology - Black Box Recorder

    4. Birthday - Jesus & Mary Chain

    October

    1. The Everlasting - Manic Street Preachers

    November

    1. El Presidente - Drugstore featuring Thom Yorke

    2. Nightmares by the Sea - Jeff Buckley

    3. Is It Wicked Not to Care? - Belle and Sebastian

    4. Endlessly - Mercury Rev

    5. Teardrop - Massive Attack

    December

    1. Coming soon

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