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CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! Vocals and guitar on this track were performed by Bernard Sumner from New Order, with backing vocals by Bobby Gillespie from Primal Scream. The bassline is heavily inspired by "She Has a Way" by Bobby Orlando. The music video was directed by W.I.Z., and the cast includes actress Rosario Dawson and Michel Brown. It depicts a Mexican conflict between government and Zapatista Army of National Liberation, a revolutionary group that appeared during the 1990s. Then is revealed to be an advertisement for a fictional Coca-Cola-type beverage. The camera pans out to reveal it being displayed in an electronic shop, before the storefront is smashed in and the video ends with shaky night-time footage of violent urban riots, shot on handheld cameras. Read more here: bit.ly

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! This is the White Stripes cover (or reinterpretation) of a Delta blues song recorded by Robert Johnson in 1938 from the duos debut release.

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! This is about Mumia Abu-Jamal, a journalist and former black panther convicted of killing the Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in a 1981 altercation. Abu-Jamal, who was shot in the chest, was sentenced to death but the death sentence was overturned in 2001. www.songfacts.com

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! From the Britpop bands 6th album. The album is darker lyrically after lead singer Damon Albarns breakup with his longtime girlfriend Justine Frischmann, singer from Elastica.

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! This was the British bands 3rd album. Though the title of the song is "Pumping on Your Stereo," the band thought it funny to actually sing the word "humping" in place of "pumping," and this is how it is thus heard on the recording. In live performances, the band has sung "pumping" instead. Supergrass can be heard applauding themselves and whooping at the end of the recording, at the very end of this drummer Danny Goffey says, "Can we go home now?" bit.ly

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! Debut album from the British singer/songwriter.

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! Debut album. This was the lead single from that release. The song samples OutKast's 1994 song "Git Up, Git Out" and Nice & Smooth's 1989 song "Funky for You".

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! The track "Deceptacon" references Barry Mann's 1961 single "Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)" by asking "Who took the Bomp from the Bompalompalomp?". It denounces a decline in meaningful lyrics in rock music. Hanna expressed frustration that riot grrrl had been transformed into icons like the Spice Girls.

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! The initial tracks for 'Keep It Like a Secret' were recorded on Nov 1997 at Bear Creek studios in Woodinville, Washington by Phil Ek, with overdubs recorded on mid 1998 at Avast! Recording Co. in Seattle, Washington. Built to Spill embraced the sounds of a big studio and focused their sound without sacrificing their fractured indie rock aesthetic. bit.ly

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! Feelin' those 90's emo vibes? Debut album from the Illinois band.

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! The duo of Sacramento's Gift of Gab, teamed up with DJ and producer Chief Xcel! __ Check out all the tracks sampled in this song - Fugees, House of Pain, Bach, OutKast, The Pharcyde, Busta Rhymes, De La Soul & more! bit.ly

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! Debut album from Dan the Automator and Prince Paul. "Holy Calamity" features DJ Shadow and DJ Quest.

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! From his 7th studio album. This song samples both the 1981 track 'Home Computer' (by Kraftwerk) and the 1977 jazz-funk track 'Crab Apple' (by Idris Muhammad) www.beck.com

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! This was the last album to feature Darren Emerson, he left the band in 2001.

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! Debut album from the British duo. They were unsatisfied with the state of dance music, describing it as "linear" and "close-minded". "Most dance music is very shiny and so robotic," Simon Ratcliffe told Rolling Stone.

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! The album was produced by Missy Elliott, Kevin "She'kspere" Briggs, Rodney Jerkins, Kandi Burrass and Beyoncé Knowles among others.

We are all saddened to hear of the passing of Christine McVie today at the age of 79. She joined Fleetwood Mac in 1970. She went on to write (and co-write) some of the band’s most memorable songs, including the Rumours classics “Don’t Stop” and “You Make Loving Fun,” as well as “Hold Me,” “Little Lies,” “Everywhere,” and “Over My Head.” www.npr.org

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! Compared by many music critics to the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds because of its inclusion of harmonies and orchestrated sounds, The Soft Bulletin also featured greater use of synthesizers, drum machines, sound effects and more studio manipulation. After this album was released, Coyne stated that, "if someone was to ask me what instrument do I play, I would say the recording studio."

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! 2nd album from the San Francisco band. It was out of print for a while until being reprinted in 2003.

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! Produced by Ric Ocasek of The Cars!

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! This track comes from the second studio album from Grant Hart, formerly of the band Hüsker Dü. It was released in 1999, ten years after Hart's previous studio album, Intolerance (1989). The album was remastered and reissued by Hart’s Con d’Or label in 2014 with new album cover art. bit.ly

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! Ready for those Christmassy vibes? "Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk are telling tales of the winter with the sort of wry, tough pride that seems typical of the locals. There was an old woman, says Parker, who fell on an icy pavement a few weeks back and then had a small mountain of snow dumped on top of her by a passing snowplough. Some hours later a neighbour using a telescope – it’s unclear what kind of magical x-ray telescope – ascertained that someone was buried beneath this new snowdrift. Dug out, the woman proved relatively unscathed. “Just a little hypothermia, I think,” Parker notes, phlegmatically." www.uncut.co.uk

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! The title to the Icelandic bands 2nd album translates to "A Good Beginning". And it was, the album was a commercial and critical success.

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! The album focuses largely on the theme of nuclear weapons; Sawhney states in the booklet that the album "has a timespan that runs backwards", beginning at "Broken Skin" with the India-Pakistan nuclear situation and ending at "Beyond Skin" with Robert Oppenheimer quoting the Bhagavad Gita – "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds".

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! In an interview with The New York Times, Dr. Dre spoke about his motivation to record the album and how he felt that he had to prove himself to fans and media again after doubts arose over his production and rapping ability. These doubts came from the fact that he had not released a solo studio album since The Chronic (1992). He stated: For the last couple of years, there's been a lot of talk out on the streets about whether or not I can still hold my own, whether or not I'm still good at producing. That was the ultimate motivation for me. Magazines, word of mouth and rap tabloids were saying I didn't have it any more. What more do I need to do? How many platinum records have I made? O.K., here's the album – now what do you have to say?

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! Second major label release from the rapper. The album features production from Dr. Dre, the Bass Brothers, and Eminem.

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! From the trio's 3rd album. "No Scrubs" became TLC's third number-one single and eighth top 10 single on the US Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked for four consecutive weeks.

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! Probably one of the Canadian bands best known songs.

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1999 TODAY! From her 6th studio album. Lynne is the elder sister of artist Allison Moorer.