The Best Songs of 1999

Rolling Stone Music Now

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🗓️ 16 July 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Rob Sheffield joins Brittany Spanos and host Brian Hiatt to dip into his list of the 99 best songs of 1999, from Mandy Moore and ODB to the Chemical Brothers and Fiona Apple Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.
0:08.0	I'm in the studio with Brittany Spass, and we're going to be talking about Rob Sheffield's kind of mind-blowing list of the top 99 songs of 1999.
0:18.0	And to prove that as always we're doing this show live from the Serious XM studios.
0:22.7	Rob is not physically here yet.
0:24.3	He is checked in, but he wouldn't be here momentarily.
0:26.2	So just to add a little suspense to the situation.
0:29.2	But Brittany and I were both alive in 1999.
0:32.1	Yes.
0:32.4	Brittany barely. You look at it. I was both alive in 1999. Yes.
0:33.0	Brittany barely.
0:35.0	It might not be true.
0:36.0	How old would we?
0:37.0	Six going on seven.
0:38.0	Six going on seven.
0:39.0	Yeah.
0:40.0	Totally sentient human being at that point.
0:41.0	Yes.
0:42.0	I think 1999 was probably one of the first
0:44.1	really formative years of my music listening experience and I'm sure there's a lot of
0:48.2	touchstones of that experience on this list in addition to songs that you
0:51.7	definitely had never heard of at that time and
0:54.0	songs I didn't hear of at the time.
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