Our Favorite Albums Of 1999

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

With Wilco’s 'Summerteeth' reissue coming later this month to (belatedly) celebrate its twentieth anniversary, Steven and Ian are looking back to 1999. While it might not have necessarily been a more innocent time, it was certainly a simpler time where teen pop and nu-metal ruled the radio waves and alternative rock was starting to become plain old indie rock.

For the new episode of Indiecast, Steven and Ian revisited some of their five favorite albums from the era to determine what still holds up today. While Hyden’s top five albums walks that line between alt-rock and indie rock with albums like 'Summerteeth' and Nine Inch Nails’ 'The Fragile,' Cohen was more focused on the emo rock scene, remembering albums from Jimmy Eat World and American Football.

In this week’s Recommendation Corner, Cohen the new album from Philadelphia band The Goalie’s Anxiety At The Penalty Kick. Hyden, on the other hand, is still looking to the past to sing the praises of Foxygen’s 2013 album 'We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic.'

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprocks' Indie Mix tape.
0:12.6	Hello everyone and welcome to Indycast.
0:14.8	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:17.4	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:19.8	In this episode, we're going to be talking about
0:21.3	our favorite albums of 1999. My name is Stephen Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host,
0:28.6	Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? I just hope that people recognize, like, I want to call what we're
0:35.0	doing on this episode like heroic.
0:44.0	Like we are the we are the heroes right now because I actually watched this documentary called 537 votes, a great documentarian Billy Corbin who did cocaine cowboys, I believe, and
0:50.1	screwball.
0:51.1	And it talked about the 2000 election and how that took like 35 days or longer to
0:57.9	resolve. And I just tried to wonder, it's like, because I've been, I don't know if I've been on
1:03.6	Twitter like constantly in the past couple of days. And I thought to myself, like, how did I get
1:08.6	through like 2000? And I guess the answer was,
1:12.7	A, heavy alcohol usage, and B, just like caring about, like, bullshit. Like, I voted already.
1:20.0	I really could use a distraction, like a Rolling Stone list right now. Like, and all, like, I
1:26.3	noticed that, like, the past couple of years, like music
1:28.7	publications or the music industry kind of shuts down a little bit more around election day.
1:33.4	Like, I need non-political content right now. I had already voted. Right. Like, I, I would love to see
1:41.9	a dumb list of some sort right now.
1:45.3	And I don't want to say what we're doing is dumb,
1:48.0	but I think what we're doing is reading the national mood
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