Party Like It's Nine Years Ago

All Music Guide's critics share lists of their favorite albums from 1999. They're some of my favorites, too -- although I suspect that the list I would have made in 1999 would be a lot different, and definitely more embarasssing.

1. Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
2. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
3. Smog - Knock Knock
4. Dismemberment Plan - Emergency and I
5. Wilco - Summerteeth
6. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See A Darkness
7. Jim O'Rourke - Eureka
8. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
9. Pavement - Terror Twilight
10. The White Stripes - The White Stripes

Given how white 1-10 are, it's ironic that my #11 is Mos Def's Black on Both Sides.