Excerpts from The ’98 yearbook
Rewinding and revisiting the year’s highs and lows
By Jackie McCarthy
Seattle Weekly, 24-30 December 1998
Records
The 1998 Mix Tape:
- “Simple Man,” Josh Wink (featuring the Interpreters), Herehear
- “Naxalite,” Asian Dub Foundation, Rafi’s Revenge
- “Object Unknown,” DJ Spooky (featuring Kool Keith), Riddim Warfare
- “World That I Know,” Esthero & Goodie Mob, Slam original soundtrack
- “St. Lucy’s Gate,” Snowpony, The Slow-Motion World of
- “Jeanne,” Air (featuring Françoise Hardy), Sexy Boy (CD single)
- “Jennifer,” Q-Burns Abstract Message, Feng Shui
- “Waltz #2,” Elliott Smith, XO
- “I Never Want to See You Again,” Quasi, Featuring “Birds”
- “Metal School,” Spoon, A Series of Sneaks
- “Nobody’s Fault But My Own,” Beck,
Mutations - “Rabbit in Your Headlights,” U.N.K.L.E., Psyence Fiction
- “I Love Hip-Hop,” DJ Cam, The Beat
Assassinated - “Madina Passage,” John Forté, Poly Sci
- “Politics of the Sneaker Pimps,”
Public Enemy, He Got Game original soundtrack - “Cumbia de Los Muertes,” Ozomatli, Ozomatli
- “Omerta/The Vampire Lanois,” Afghan Whigs, 1965
- “8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain,” Jim Carroll, Mercury Rising [Pools of Mercury]
Live
Biggest Seattle coup: Getting to hear Jim Carroll sing with a band–which he only did in New York and at the Crocodile
Miscellany
Don’t call it a comeback: Burt Bacharach, Bauhaus, Jim Carroll, Public Enemy, Mark Lanegan, Everlast, Vanilla Ice–who didn’t come back this year?
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