Comin'atcha straight from the top of 1999....

Actually, there was a lot of great music releases in '99... this certainly wasn't some of it, but I heard it in passing and felt a little nostalgic.

Of course there was a lot of BAD music released in '99 too. Never mind Sturgeons law, '99 saw the debuts of Britney Spears, Westlife, Christina Aguilera (who, to be fair, is actually a great singer... she just choses to sing crap), Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Lopez, Lil Wayne, Linkin Park, and Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit actually hitting the charts (they debuted in '97, but didnt chart til '99 with their cover of "Faith"), plus "Mambo no 5", "livin la vida loca", Mobys "play", and the Will Smith album "Willenium"...

Oh and Dusty SPringfield, Al Hirt, Rick Danko, and Curtis Mayfield all died.

Yeah...

It was the year napster went mainstream, for good and ill.

But, it WAS a really great year for underground hip-hop, and for metal (Black LAbel Society, DragonForce and Avenged Sevenfold not the least of which); so I can't complain too much.

To erase the memory of the crap finnish electrodance hiphop I opened with, how about my favorite cut from what is generally considered the best album of the year, Santanas "Supernatural":