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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1998.
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12 Impossible Princess
Impossible Princess

Impossible Princess is the sixth album by Australian Pop music singer Kylie Minogue. It was released by Deconstruction Records on 23 March 1998 in the United Kingdom to mixed reviews....
 
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
 
Australia
13 All Fall Down Against All Authority
Against All Authority

Against All Authority is an American rock music rock band, formed in Florida in 1992. Playing in the ska punk style, their business practice follows a stringent DIY ethic....
 
Naked Baby Photos
Naked Baby Photos

Naked Baby Photos is a compilation album comprising of outtake material from recordings of Ben Folds Five's first two studio albums and live performances....
 
Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds Five

Ben Folds Five was an alternative rock trio formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, North Carolina. The group comprised Ben Folds on vocals, piano, and principal songwriting; Robert Sledge played Bass guitar and provided backing vocals; and Darren Jessee played Drum kit, sang backing vocals and co-wrote some of the songs....
 
Compilation
The Troubleshooters
The Troubleshooters (album)

The Troubleshooters is the third album from Los Angeles latino group Funkdoobiest. This is first album without member Tomahawk Funk after he left the group to help raise his son....
 
Funkdoobiest
Funkdoobiest

Funkdoobiest is a Latin rap group from Los Angeles, California. The original members are Son Doobie , a Puerto Rican people rapper, and DJ Ralph M , a Chicano DJ, and Tomahawk Funk of the Lakota people nation....
 
Money, Power & Respect
Money, Power & Respect

Money, Power & Respect is the debut album released by D-Block. It was released on January 13, 1998 through Bad Boy Records and featured production from The Hitmen , Dame Grease and Swizz Beatz....
 
The Lox
D-block

The d-block of the periodic table consists of those periodic table groups that contain elements in which, in the atomic ground state, the highest-energy electron is in a d-atomic orbital....
 
Yodel the Cowboy Way
Yodel the Cowboy Way

Yodel the Cowboy Way is a studio recording released by the Western music band Riders in the Sky on January 13 1998. It is available as a single CD....
 
Riders in the Sky
Riders in the Sky

Riders In The Sky is a Western swing and comedy group which began performing in 1977; their style also appeals to children, and they are sometimes considered a children's music....
 
Challenge for a Civilized Society
Challenge for a Civilized Society

Challenge For A Civilized Society was the sixth album by Unwound. It was recorded in August 1997 at John and Stu's in Seattle, Washington....
 
Unwound
Unwound

Unwound was a U.S. rock band based in Tumwater/Olympia, Washington. Formed in 1991, the band, originally known as Giant Henry, consisted of Justin Trosper , Vern Rumsey , and Brandt Sandeno , who was replaced in 1992 by Sara Lund....
 
20 Moon Safari
Moon Safari

Moon Safari is the first full-length studio album by the France band Air , released in 1998. The album is considered a classic of the Chill out genre....
 
Air
Air (band)

Air is a France music duo, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Beno?t Dunckel. The name AIR is a backronym for which translates to Love, Imagination, Dream....
 
US
Viva la Ska Revolution
Viva la Ska Revolution

Viva la Ska Revolution is a compilation album by Bad Manners, released in 1998....
 
Bad Manners
Bad Manners

Bad Manners are an England Second Wave ska revival musical ensemble. They quickly became the novelty favourites of the fad through their bald, enormous-bodied frontman's silly on-stage antics, earning early exposure through their Top of The Pops TV exploits and an appearance in the live film documentary, Dance Craze....
 
Compilation
My Secret Passion
My Secret Passion

My Secret Passion is an album by Michael Bolton. Accompaniment is by the Philharmonia Orchestra under the direction of Steven Mercurio. The album includes a duet with Ren?e Fleming....
 
Michael Bolton
Michael Bolton

Michael Bolton , is an United States singer-songwriter and a former heavy metal music singer, best known for his soft rock ballads and tenor vocals....
 
Petitioning the Empty Sky
Petitioning the Empty Sky

Petitioning the Empty Sky is the second full length release by Massachusetts band Converge . It was originally released on Ferret Records, but was soon after re-released by Equal Vision Records when the band changed labels....
 
Converge
Converge (band)

Converge is a four-piece band from Salem, Massachusetts, Massachusetts. Playing a blend of hardcore punk and extreme metal since 1990, Converge has helped to define many of the rudiments of the metalcore genre....
 
Loaded Deck
Loaded Deck

Loaded Deck was a greatest hits compilation of Ace Frehley's solo career released in 1997. It was released after the widespread Kiss reunion tour presumably to capitalize on the success....
 
Ace Frehley
Ace Frehley

Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley is an United States guitarist best known as an original member and lead guitarist for the rock music band Kiss . He took on the persona of 'Space Ace' when the band adopted costumes and theatrics....
 
Greatest Hits
24 Ce que je sais
Ce que je sais

Ce que je sais is a 1998 album recorded by France singer Johnny Hallyday. It was released on January 24, 1998, and achieved success in France and Belgium , where, however, it failed to top the charts, being blocked by the soundtrack album of The Titanic....
 
Johnny Hallyday
Johnny Hallyday

Johnny Hallyday is a France singer and actor. An icon in the French language-speaking world since the beginning of his career, he is considered by some to be the French superior of Elvis Presley....
 
27 Wide Open Spaces
Wide Open Spaces

Wide Open Spaces is the Grammy-nominated fourth album by United States country music band the Dixie Chicks, released in 1998 . It was their first record with new lead vocalist Natalie Maines, and became their breakthrough commercial success....
 
Dixie Chicks
Dixie Chicks

The Dixie Chicks are a country music group, comprising three women; Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, and Emily Robison. Together, they have sold over 36 million albums as of March 2009....
 
American Teenage Rock 'n' Roll Machine
American Teenage Rock 'n' Roll Machine

American Teenage Rock 'n' Roll Machine is the second studio album by United States rock band band The Donnas, released in 1998 on Lookout!....
 
The Donnas
The Donnas

The Donnas are an United States all-women band hard rock rock band from Palo Alto, California. They draw inspiration from The Ramones, AC/DC, and Kiss ....
 
Do or Die Dropkick Murphys
Dropkick Murphys

Dropkick Murphys are an United States Celtic punk band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States. First playing together in the basement of a friend's barbershop, they blended traditional Music of Ireland, folk rock, and hardcore punk....
 
29 The Truth Prince


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3 Yield
Yield (album)

Yield is the fifth studio album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, released on February 3, 1998 through Epic Records. Following a short tour for its previous album, No Code , Pearl Jam went into the studio in 1997 to record its follow-up....
 
Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam is an American rock music band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder , Jeff Ament , Stone Gossard , and Mike McCready ....
 
10 Facing the Animal
Facing the Animal

Facing the Animal is an album released in 1997 by guitarist Yngwie J. Malmsteen.The album features one of the veteran drummer Cozy Powell's last performances before his death in 1998....
 
Yngwie Malmsteen
Vuelve
Vuelve

Vuelve is the fourth album by the Puerto Rico singer Ricky Martin. Released by Sony on February 10, 1998 , it has been credited for worldwide sales of over 8,000,000 copies....
 
Ricky Martin
Ricky Martin

Enrique Mart?n Morales , better known by his stage name Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rico pop singer who rose to fame, first as a member of the Latin American music boy band Menudo , then as a solo artist since 1991....
 
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is the second studio album by United States indie rock band Neutral Milk Hotel. The album was released in February 1998 in the United States on Merge Records and in May 1998 in the United Kingdom on Blue Rose Records....
 
Neutral Milk Hotel
Neutral Milk Hotel

Neutral Milk Hotel was an United States Independent music rock music Band noted for its experimental sound and eclectic instrumentation. The band originally consisted primarily of principle songwriter Jeff Mangum , later adding members Jeremy Barnes , Scott Spillane , and Julian Koster after the release of studio album On Avery Island....
 
US
Terraform Shellac
Shellac (band)

Shellac is an American noise rock group composed of Steve Albini , Bob Weston and Todd Trainer . Although they have been classified as noise rock and math rock, they describe themselves as a "Minimalist music rock trio."...
 
17 Str8 Outta Northcote
Str8 Outta Northcote

Str8 Outta Northcote is the second full-length album from Australian grindcore band Blood Duster, its title being a parody of the NWA album Straight Outta Compton....
 
Blood Duster
Blood Duster

Blood Duster is a extreme metal/stoner rock band from Melbourne, Australia. Their name comes from the song "Blood Duster" by John Zorn, from the 1989 album Naked City ....
 
Destiny's Child
Destiny's Child (album)

Destiny's Child is the eponymous debut album of contemporary R&B group Destiny's Child, released by Columbia Records in 1998. It featured the singles "No, No, No " and "With Me" and won Best R&B/Soul Album of the Year at the Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards, but due to both singles having a remix as well as having an original version , al...
 
Destiny's Child
Destiny's Child

Destiny's Child was an contemporary R&B and pop music girl group comprising lead singer Beyonc? Knowles alongside Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams ....
 
US
The Big Knockover
The Big Knockover

The Big Knockover is the Sweden punk rock group No Fun At All's third album, released on July 13, 1997.All music by Mikael Danielsson except track 1, which was co-written by Jimmie Olsson....
 
No Fun At All
No Fun At All

No Fun At All is a Sweden punk rock band. The band formed in the summer of 1991 in Skinnskatteberg. The group initially consisted of Mikael Danielsson , Henrik Sunvisson and Jimmy Olsson ....
 
US
Attack of The Planet Smashers
Attack of The Planet Smashers

Attack of The Planet Smashers is the second full-length release from The Planet Smashers. This is the first of three collaborations between the Planet Smashers and producer Chris Murray ....
 
The Planet Smashers
The Planet Smashers

The Planet Smashers are a ska punk band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Since their formation in 1994, they have been a staple of the Montreal music scene....
 
24 For a Lifetime
For a Lifetime

For a Lifetime is a piano-based instrumental album by Jonathan Cain released in 1998. As explained in the liner notes, Cain's composition was inspired by the weddings of eight couples including the song "A Day to Remember" which is dedicated to his fellow Journey band mate Neal Schon....
 
Jonathan Cain
Jonathan Cain

Jonathan Cain is an United States musician, most known for his Keyboard instrument and songwriting roles in the rock music Band Journey ....
 
Inferno - Last in Live
Inferno - Last in Live

Inferno - Last in Live is a live album released by the Heavy metal music band Dio. It was recorded on their Angry Machines tour in 1997/98....
 
Dio Live
Stoners Reeking Havoc Kottonmouth Kings
Kottonmouth Kings

Kottonmouth Kings is an American Hip hop music and rap rock group from Orange County, California, California. Kottonmouth Kings officially formed in 1994, and describe themselves as "Psychedelic rock Hip hop music punk rock"....
 
EP
Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon
Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon

Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon is the third official compilation album of John Lennon's solo career, coming after 1975's Shaved Fish and 1982's The John Lennon Collection....
 
John Lennon
John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
 
US, Compilation
Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
Formulas Fatal to the Flesh

Formulas Fatal to the Flesh is the fifth full-length studio album by death metal band Morbid Angel. The title of this album is a Bible reference: it contains the letter "F" - the 6th letter of the alphabet - capitalised three times, which refers to the Number of the Beast, 666....
 
Morbid Angel
Morbid Angel

Morbid Angel is an United States death metal band based in Tampa, Florida. They, along with Death , Possessed , Obituary , Massacre , Deicide , Cannibal Corpse, and a handful of others were crucial in the development of the death metal genre and its standards, separating it from the thrash metal genre completely....
 
My Homies
My Homies

My Homies is a double-disc album by Houston Hip hop music artist Scarface . Scarface steps to the side and gives the spotlight to a number of different artists, leaving only two solo songs on the 30-song album....
 
Scarface
Scarface (rapper)

Brad Jordan, better known by his stage name Scarface, is an United States rapper originally known for his work as a member of The Geto Boys....
 
SYR3: Invito Al Cielo
SYR3: Invito Al Cielo

SYR3: Invito Al Cielo is an EP by Sonic Youth. It was the third in a series of experimental releases put out on the band's own Sonic Youth Recordings label, leading up to the release of their 1998 record A Thousand Leaves....
 
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American rock music rock band formed in New York City in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Mark Ibold and Steve Shelley ....
 
EP
Train
Train (album)

Train is Train first album, released in 1998. The album was self-produced for $25,000 and three singles from the album were released. The album was recorded at Bates Brothers Recording in Birmingham Alabama....
 
Train
Train (band)

Train is a Grammy Award-winning rock music band formed in San Francisco, California. To date, three of their albums have peaked in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 and have sold a total of over 4 million albums in the US....
 
The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski is a 1998 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film written and directed by Coen brothers. Jeff Bridges stars as Jeffrey Lebowski, an unemployed Los Angeles, California slacker and avid bowling, who refers to himself as "the Dude"....
 
Various Artists Soundtrack
25 Bustin' + Dronin'
Bustin' + Dronin'

Bustin' + Dronin is a remix compilation/live album by the band Blur . It was originally only released in Japan but was also released in limited quantities in the UK and the USA....
 
Blur
Blur (band)

Blur are an English alternative rock band who formed in London in 1989. The four members of the band are singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree....
 
Remix and live album


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3 Ray of Light
Ray of Light

Ray of Light is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Madonna , released on March 3, 1998 by Maverick Records. The RIAA certified it RIAA certification on March 16, 2000, recognizing four million shipments in the United States, making it her fifth best-selling recording there....
 
Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
 
US
Crystal Planet
Crystal Planet

Crystal Planet is a 1998 instrumental rock album from guitarist Joe Satriani. It is likened to his classic 1989 release Flying in a Blue Dream in terms of sonics and songwriting, and features his first recorded use of a 7-string guitar on the track "Ceremony"....
 
Joe Satriani
Joe Satriani

Joseph "Satch" Satriani is an United States multiple nominated Grammy Award multi-instrumentalist, best known as an instrumental rock guitarist....
 
Elmopalooza
Elmopalooza

Elmopalooza is a Sesame Street special that aired on American Broadcasting Company on February 20, 1998....
 
Various Artists Soundtrack
9 Tin Planet
Tin Planet

Tin Planet is the second album from Liverpool-based Britpop group Space . It was released on March 9, 1998 and peaked at #3 in the UK charts, two places higher than their debut album Spiders ....
 
Space
10 The Collection
The Collection (Bad Manners album)

The Collection is a compilation album by Bad Manners, released in the US in 1998....
 
Bad Manners
Bad Manners

Bad Manners are an England Second Wave ska revival musical ensemble. They quickly became the novelty favourites of the fad through their bald, enormous-bodied frontman's silly on-stage antics, earning early exposure through their Top of The Pops TV exploits and an appearance in the live film documentary, Dance Craze....
 
Compilation
Pilgrim Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
 
All the Pain Money Can Buy
All the Pain Money Can Buy

All the Pain Money Can Buy was the second album by United States pop-rock band Fastball released on March 10, 1998 on Hollywood Records. The album includes the hit singles "The Way " , "Fire Escape" , and "Out of My Head" ....
 
Fastball
Fastball (band)

Fastball is an United States rock band that formed in Austin, Texas in the 1990s. The band originally called themselves "Magneto U.S.A." but changed their name after signing with Hollywood Records....
 
Liquid Tension Experiment
Liquid Tension Experiment (album)

Liquid Tension Experiment was released in 1998 in music by Liquid Tension Experiment through Magna Carta. The group is formed by John Petrucci , Mike Portnoy , Tony Levin , and Jordan Rudess ....
 
Liquid Tension Experiment
Liquid Tension Experiment

Liquid Tension Experiment is an instrumental rock progressive rock/progressive metal Supergroup , founded by Dream Theater's drummer Mike Portnoy in 1997....
 
Snake Bite Love
Snake Bite Love

Snake Bite Love is the fourteenth album by the British Heavy metal music band Mot?rhead. It was released on March 10, 1998 and was distributed by BMG....
 
Motörhead
Motörhead

Mot?rhead are a British hard rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy, who has remained the sole constant member. Usually a power trio, Mot?rhead had particular success in the early 1980s with several successful singles in the UK Singles Chart....
 
Jimmy Ray
Jimmy Ray (album)

Jimmy Ray is the eponymous debut and only album from British-pop artist, Jimmy Ray. He wrote or co-wrote every song on the album. It debuted at #112 on The Billboard 200, and also reached #2 on the Heatseekers Chart....
 
Jimmy Ray
Jimmy Ray

Jimmy Ray is a pop music-rock and roll artist who was born and raised in London, England. In press interviews and promotional materials he cited his influence by the music of Elvis Presley and other Rock 'n' Roll stars such as Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran and Tommy Steele....
 
Pure Frosting
Pure Frosting

Pure Frosting is a compilation album by The Presidents of the United States of America . It was released on March 10, 1998.It was, at the time, the band's last album, as they had broken up in 1998....
 
The Presidents of the United States of America Compilation
Becoming Remixed
Becoming Remixed

Becoming Remixed is an album by the trip-hop group Sneaker Pimps. It was released on March 10, 1998. It is a limited edition remix album of their previous effort, Becoming X....
 
Sneaker Pimps
Sneaker Pimps

Sneaker Pimps are a United Kingdom Trip-hop band formed in Hartlepool, England in 1995, although the official IAMX website quotes the official year of foundation as 1989....
 
Remix
13 A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T
A.k.a. I-D-I-O-T

A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T is an Extended play by Sweden band The Hives, released in 1998.The song "A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T" was first released on The Hives' debut album, Barely Legal , as the second track....
 
The Hives
The Hives

The Hives are a Swedish rock band that first garnered attention in the early 2000s as a prominent group of the Garage rock#Revival, playing garage punk....
 
EP
16 Big Calm
Big Calm

Big Calm is the second music album by Morcheeba. One of their more popular albums, Big Calm comprises 12 tracks. ?The Music That We Hear,? which is found on special-edition versions of the album is actually a reworking of another song from Morcheeba's first album, Who Can You Trust, along with the song itself being retitled instead o...
 
Morcheeba
Morcheeba

Morcheeba are a United Kingdom musical ensemble that mixes influences from trip hop, rock music, rhythm and blues and pop music. Their most popular albums include debut Who Can You Trust? and Big Calm....
 
17 Retaliation, Revenge & Get Back
Retaliation, Revenge & Get Back

Retaliation, Revenge and Get Back is the debut solo album by Daz Dillinger. He was one of the last artists on Death Row Records after its collapse in 1996, after the death of 2Pac....
 
Daz Dillinger
Daz Dillinger

Delmar Drew Arnaud , better known by his stage name Daz Dillinger is an United States hip hop production and rapper mostly known for his membership in the rap duo Tha Dogg Pound, with Kurupt, and his work with Death Row Records....
 
Hazleton
Hazleton EP

Hazleton by Fuel was released in 1998 in music. The EP was sold at some 1997 shows....
 
Fuel
Fuel (band)

Fuel is an American Rock music Musical ensemble formed by guitarist/songwriter Carl Bell and bassist Jeff Abercrombie in 1989. Originally known as Small the Joy, they changed the group's name to Fuel sometime in 1994....
 
EP
Van Halen III
Van Halen III

Van Halen III is the eleventh studio album by United States hard rock band Van Halen, released in 1998 in music. It is the only Van Halen album to feature Gary Cherone on lead vocals, and is commonly said to be Van Halen's most unpopular album....
 
Van Halen
Van Halen

Van Halen is a hard rock band formed in in 1972. They enjoyed success from the release of their Van Halen in 1978. As of 2007 Van Halen has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide and have had the most number one hits on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart....
 
19 It's Dark and Hell Is Hot
It's Dark and Hell Is Hot

It's Dark and Hell Is Hot is the debut album of rapping DMX , released May 19, 1998 on Def Jam subsidiary Ruff Ryders Records. The album featured four singles with music videos, "Get at Me Dog", "Stop Being Greedy", "How's It Goin' Down" and the "Ruff Ryders Anthem"....
 
DMX
DMX (rapper)

Earl Simmons , better known by his stage name DMX, is an United States entertainer, who rose to fame in the late 1990s. His stage name stands for Dark Man X, the name he used when he first started rapping in 1990....
 
23 Virtual XI
Virtual XI

'Virtual XI' is the 11th studio album by United Kingdom Heavy metal music band Iron Maiden. The album was released on March 23, 1998. It was the second and final Iron Maiden album recorded with vocalist Blaze Bayley....
 
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden are an English Heavy metal music band from Leyton, East London, England, formed in 1975. The band is led by founder, bassist and songwriter Steve Harris ....
 
Impossible Princess
Impossible Princess

Impossible Princess is the sixth album by Australian Pop music singer Kylie Minogue. It was released by Deconstruction Records on 23 March 1998 in the United Kingdom to mixed reviews....
 
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
 
UK
Twilight in Olympus
Twilight in Olympus

Twilight in Olympus is the fourth studio album by progressive metal band Symphony X, which was released in 1998. It features eight tracks, two of which have become classics: Smoke and Mirrors and Through the Looking Glass, the latter an epic based on Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
 
Symphony X
Symphony X

Symphony X is an American progressive metal band founded in New Jersey in 1994 by guitarist Michael Romeo. Their 1997 album The Divine Wings of Tragedy and their 2000 release V-The New Mythology Suite have given the band considerable attention within the progressive metal community....
 
24 Happy? Jann Arden
Jann Arden

Jann Arden is an acclaimed and award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter. She was born and raised near Calgary, in Springbank, Alberta, and she attended Springbank Community High School....
 
US; released in Canada in '97
Colma
Colma (album)

Colma is Buckethead's fourth studio album, released March 24 1998, by CyberOctave records. The album was recorded for Buckethead's mother as she was ill with colon cancer and he wanted to make an album she would enjoy listening to while recovering....
 
Buckethead
Buckethead

Brian Patrick Carroll, better known as Buckethead, is an American musician and songwriter. He has released 25 solo albums and performed on over 50 more....
 
The Pillage
The Pillage

The Pillage is the first solo record of rapper Cappadonna. It was released on March 24, 1998 by Razor Sharp/Epic Street on Compact disc, vinyl record and tape cassette....
 
Cappadonna
Cappadonna

Darryl Hill, best known by his stage name Cappadonna, is an United States rapper, friend of the Wu-Tang Clan. He has appeared on many of their albums, as well as having a successful solo career....
 
Keasbey Nights
Keasbey Nights

Keasbey Nights is the debut album by the East Brunswick Township, New Jersey ska punk band Catch 22 , released on March 24, 1998 by Victory Records....
 
Catch 22
Catch 22 (band)

Catch 22 is a ska punk band from East Brunswick, New Jersey.The band was formed by guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Tomas Kalnoky and drummer Chris Greer who recruited trumpeter Kevin Gunther, who was working in a local record store....
 
The Devil You Know Econoline Crush
Econoline Crush

Econoline Crush is a band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada formed in 1992. Originally formed in Seattle, they eventually moved back to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada....
 
US
Media
Media (album)

Media is the first studio album by New Wave music revivalists, The Faint. It was released on March 24, 1998. A clear style change can be seen after this album's release, moving from a more Post-hardcore influenced style to New Wave music....
 
The Faint
The Faint

The Faint is a dance-punk/new wave music band. Formed in Omaha, Nebraska, the band consists of Todd Fink, Jacob Thiele, Dapose, Joel Petersen and Clark Baechle....
 
Greatest Hits Live
Greatest Hits Live (Journey album)

Greatest Hits Live is a Compact Disc released by the rock band Journey in 1998. It is a compilation of live performances spanning from 1981 to 1983 featuring former singer Steve Perry ....
 
Journey
Journey (band)

Journey is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble formed in San Francisco, California, California in 1973. The band has gone through several phases since its inception by former members of Santana ....
 
Live
*NSYNC
*NSYNC (album)

*NSYNC is the 1998 self-titled debut album by the boy band 'N Sync, released in the United States on March 24, 1998. At first, album sales were mediocre until *NSYNC's 1998 Summer Disney Concert....
 
'N Sync
'N Sync

N Sync was an American pop music group. The group's launch to fame was financed by the boy band mogul Lou Pearlman. Since 1995, 'N Sync has sold over 56 million records worldwide....
 
US
Space Heater
Space Heater (album)

Space Heater is the fifth album by Reverend Horton Heat, released by Interscope Records in March 1998. It music charted on the Billboard 200, reaching number 187....
 
Reverend Horton Heat
Feeling Strangely Fine
Feeling Strangely Fine

Feeling Strangely Fine is the follow up by Semisonic to 1996's Great Divide recorded at Seedy Underbelly Studio, Minneapolis, Minnesota....
 
Semisonic
Semisonic

Semisonic is an alternative rock Band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota in 1995 . The band consists of three members: Dan Wilson , John Munson , and Jacob Slichter ....
 
Guilty 'til Proved Innocent!
Guilty 'til Proved Innocent!

Guilty 'til Proved Innocent! is an album by The Specials, released in 1998 . It is the first studio album of new songs by the group since 1984....
 
The Specials
The Specials

The Specials are an England 2 Tone ska revival Musical ensemble formed in 1977 in Coventry. They have had Chart-topper in the United Kingdom, and their music is featured in film and television soundtracks....
 
26 The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds is a compilation album from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It was released in 1998, following The Boatman's Call ....
 
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian Rock music band with multinational personnel, fronted by Nick Cave....
 
Compilation
31 Night Versions: The Essential Duran Duran
Night Versions: The Essential Duran Duran

Night Versions: The Essential Duran Duran is a compilation album of remixes by Duran Duran. From the very beginning of their career, the band had dubbed the extended dance remixes of their songs "night versions", as they were intended for play in nightclubs....
 
Duran Duran
Duran Duran

Duran Duran are an English music group from Birmingham, United Kingdom. They were one of the most commercially successful of the 1980s bands and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States....
 
Remix
Sunburn
Sunburn (album)

Sunburn is the debut/first full-length album by the band Fuel released in 1998. The songs "Shimmer", "Jesus or a Gun", and "Bittersweet" were released as singles....
 
Fuel
Fuel (band)

Fuel is an American Rock music Musical ensemble formed by guitarist/songwriter Carl Bell and bassist Jeff Abercrombie in 1989. Originally known as Small the Joy, they changed the group's name to Fuel sometime in 1994....
 
Moment of Truth Gang Starr
Gang Starr

Gang Starr was an influential East Coast hip hop group that consisted of Guru and DJ Premier. The group was known mainly for their unique style, which combines elements of New York swing jazz and hip hop music....
 
12 Bar Blues
12 Bar Blues (album)

12 Bar Blues is the debut solo album from Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland. Its sound and style differs greatly from his band's releases....
 
Scott Weiland
Scott Weiland

Not to be confused with Scott WeingerScott Weiland is an United States musician, lyricist, and vocalist, most notably known for his work with Grammy Award-winning United States rock band Stone Temple Pilots , and also for his five-year career with Supergroup Velvet Revolver....
 
In the Line of Fire
In the Line of Fire (album)

In the Line of Fire is a debut album by Hussein Fatal in 1998.Track listingAlbum Chart Positions...
 
Hussein Fatal
Hussein Fatal

Hussein Fatal is an American gangsta rap artist....
 


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King Biscuit Flower Hour: Bachman-Turner Overdrive

King Biscuit: Bachman-Turner Overdrive recorded live in Chicago, March 8, 1974 ...
  Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Bachman-Turner Overdrive is a Canadian rock group from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that enjoyed a string of hit albums and singles in the 1970s, selling over 7 million albums just in that decade....
  Live Thrills
Thrills (album)

Thrills is an album created by Andrew Bird. It was released on April 7, 1998 on the Rykodisc label. It is the first Andrew Bird album released with Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire....
  Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird

Andrew Bird is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He was born in Chicago and currently splits his time between Chicago and a farm near the town of Elizabeth, Illinois in northwest Illinois....
  Boggy Depot
Boggy Depot

Boggy Depot is the debut album solo album by Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell. It was released on April 7, 1998 through Columbia Records....
  Jerry Cantrell
Jerry Cantrell

Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with the Alternative metal band Alice in Chains, as guitarist and co-lyricist....
  Elemental
Elemental (The Fixx album)

Elemental is the seventh studio album by Great Britain new wave music band The Fixx, released in 1998....
  The Fixx
The Fixx

The Fixx are an England New Wave music band. They are one of the few bands to have enjoyed significant success outside their country of origin, notably in the United States and Canada, yet remain almost unknown in their home land....
  Still Standing
Still Standing (album)

Still Standing is the second studio album from the Dirty South, Dungeon Family-affiliated hip hop music quartet Goodie Mob. All of the original members are still together for this album....
  Goodie Mob
Goodie Mob

Goodie Mob is a hip hop music act based in Atlanta, Georgia. Members Cee-Lo , Khujo , T-Mo , and Big Gipp make up the group, which has been functioning since 1995....
  Lacuna Coil
Lacuna Coil (EP)

Lacuna Coil is an Extended play by the Italy rock music band Lacuna Coil, released on April 7, 1998, by Century Media....
  Lacuna Coil
Lacuna Coil

Lacuna Coil is an Italy gothic metal band from Milan, Italy, formed in 1994. Formerly known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal, the band was inspired by the combination of Gothic aesthetics imagery and music, and the members have been known, musically, for composing midtempo songs consisting of guitar lines overlaid with prominent key...
  EP www.pitchshifter.com
Www.pitchshifter.com

www.pitchshifter.com is an album by the United Kingdom industrial music band Pitchshifter , released in 1998. It was their first major label album, and was sonically a departure from previous albums with a more cleaner sounding production as well as lacking crunchy metal-laden riffs; the album also has more traditional song structures, a...
  Pitchshifter
Pitchshifter (band)

Pitchshifter are a British heavy metal music / industrial metal band from Nottingham.Originally known as Pitch Shifter, the band was started by Johnny A....
  The Wake of Magellan
The Wake of Magellan

The Wake of Magellan is a concept album by Savatage and is based on two real life events. The first, the Maersk Dubai incident, occurred less than a year before this album was released when the captain of a freighter threw three Romanian stowaways overboard in the middle of the Atlantic....
  Savatage
Savatage

Savatage is a progressive metal band founded by the brothers Jon Oliva and Criss Oliva in 1978 at Astro Skate in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Although they were known mainly as a progressive metal band, their origins could be attributed to classic Heavy metal music, as expressed by their debut album, Sirens ....
  Darkest Days
Darkest Days

Darkest Days is the third album released on Columbia Records by industrial rock band Stabbing Westward. The album was recorded in Los Angeles in 1997 and released in April 1998....
  Stabbing Westward
Stabbing Westward

Stabbing Westward was an American industrial rock and alternative rock band. They formed in 1985 in Chicago, Illinois and began recording in the 1990s....
  Crossroads and Illusions
Crossroads and Illusions

Crossroads & Illusions is a 5 song CD Extended play/3 song 7" vinyl Extended play by the punk music band, Strung Out with Fat Wreck Chords. The album was released on April 7, 1998 as a pre release for eager fans who were waiting for the full length version, Twisted by Design....
  Strung Out
Strung Out

Strung Out is a punk music band from Simi Valley, California, United States formed in 1992. They are known mainly for their musical style, which fuses aspects of punk rock and Heavy metal music to form their primary sound....
  EP Battle Hymns
Battle Hymns (Suicide Machines album)

Battle Hymns is the second album by the Detroit, Michigan punk rock band The Suicide Machines, released in 1998 by Hollywood Records. It was the band's last album with drummer Derek Grant, who left the group the following year....
  The Suicide Machines
The Suicide Machines

The Suicide Machines were an United States punk rock band formed in March 1991 in Detroit, Michigan and disbanded in May of 2006. During the course of their career the band released six full-length albums on the labels Hollywood Records and Side One Dummy Records....
 12 Light Fuse, Get Away
Light Fuse, Get Away

Light Fuse, Get Away is the first live album released by the Athens, GA based band Widespread Panic. It was first released by Capricorn Records on April 12, 1998....
  Widespread Panic
Widespread Panic

Widespread Panic is an United States band from Athens, Georgia. The current lineup includes guitarist/singer John Bell , bassist Dave Schools, drummer Todd Nance, percussionist Domingo "Sunny" Ortiz, keyboardist John Hermann, and guitarist Jimmy Herring....
  Live14 When Forever Comes Crashing
When Forever Comes Crashing

When Forever Comes Crashing is an album by Massachusetts, USA, band Converge . Originally released in 1998, the album was re-issued in 2005 with a bonus track and bonus enhanced material ....
  Converge
Converge (band)

Converge is a four-piece band from Salem, Massachusetts, Massachusetts. Playing a blend of hardcore punk and extreme metal since 1990, Converge has helped to define many of the rudiments of the metalcore genre....
 20 Music Has the Right to Children
Music Has the Right to Children

Music Has the Right to Children is the debut album of the Scotland electronic music duo Boards of Canada. It was published by Warp Records on April 20, 1998 in Europe and August 20 in the United States....
  Boards of Canada
Boards of Canada

Boards of Canada are a Scotland electronic music duo consisting of brothers Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin Sandison . They are signed with Warp Records and have released several works on that label with little advertising and few interviews, while also having an elusive and obscure back-catalogue of releases on their self-run Music70 labe...
  Europe21 Stigmata
Stigmata (album)

Stigmata is the second album by Sweden melodic death metal band Arch Enemy. The album was Arch Enemy's first to see worldwide release, in Europe and North America on Century Media Records, and in Japan again on Toy's Factory records....
  Arch Enemy Gallery of Suicide
Gallery of Suicide

Gallery of Suicide is the sixth album by American death metal band Cannibal Corpse. It was released in 1998 through Metal Blade Records. The cover art, done as usual by Vince Locke, is an image of a redheaded woman inflicting various wounds on herself, surrounded by people who have also mutilated themselves but are seemingly dead....
  Cannibal Corpse
Cannibal Corpse

Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band, formed in Buffalo, New York in 1988. The band has released eleven studio albums, one boxed set, and one live album....
  Faith
Faith (Faith Hill album)

Faith is the third album by country music artist Faith Hill, released in 1998. Due to the success of the single "This Kiss" in Australia and the UK, the album was released under the title Love Will Always Win, featuring the title track, new versions of Piece of My Heart and Let Me Let Go, as well as It Matters To Me ....
  Faith Hill
Faith Hill

Faith Hill is an United States country music singer. She is known both for her commercial success and her marriage to fellow country star Tim McGraw....
  Mýa
Mýa (album)

M?a is the self-titled debut studio album by United States singer M?a, released by Interscope Records on April 22, 1998 in the United States....
  Mýa
Mya

Mya may refer to:* M?a, an American R&B/pop singer and actress* Midwest Young Artists, a comprehensive youth music program* Mya , a Italian Tv channel...
  Dead
Dead (album)

Dead is a live album by United States death metal band Obituary . The title is a comical reference to its being a "live" album....
  Obituary
Obituary (band)

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  Live Walking Into Clarksdale
Walking into Clarksdale

Walking into Clarksdale is a studio album by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, both formerly of England rock band Led Zeppelin. It was released by Atlantic Records on 21 April 1998....
  Jimmy Page
Jimmy Page

James Patrick Page Order of the British Empire is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he co-founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin....
 and Robert Plant
Robert Plant

Robert Anthony Plant Order of the British Empire , is an England Rock and Roll singer and songwriter, famous for his membership in the former rock band Led Zeppelin as the lead vocalist, as well as for his successful solo career....
  Hey You, I Love Your Soul
Hey You, I Love Your Soul

Hey You, I Love Your Soul is the second full-length album from Christian rock band Skillet . It was released in 1998 as an enhanced CD from Forefront Records and Ardent Records....
  Skillet
Skillet (band)

Skillet is an American christian rock band, formed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1996. The band consists of John Cooper , Korey Cooper , Ben Kasica , and Jen Ledger ....
  Soulfly
Soulfly (album)

Soulfly is the first Long play by Heavy metal music band Soulfly released in 1998 in music through Roadrunner Records.The record was released in memory of Max's murdered stepson....
  Soulfly
Soulfly

Soulfly is a Heavy metal music band formed in 1997 in Arizona. Soulfly is led by former Sepultura guitarist and frontman Max Cavalera, who formed the band after he left the influential Brazilian group in 1997....
 24 Better Than Raw
Better Than Raw

Better Than Raw is the eighth studio album by Germany power metal band Helloween, released in 1998. The album contains two singles, which are "I Can " and "Hey Lord!"....
  Helloween
Helloween

Helloween are a Germany power metal/speed metal band founded in the mid 1980s by members of Iron Fist and Powerfool. The band is known as one of the pioneering power metal bands, being part of the German Heavy metal music/speed/power metal scene that included Accept, Running Wild , Blind Guardian, Grave Digger , Sinner , and Rage ....
 27 Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Nightfall in Middle-Earth

Nightfall in Middle-Earth is a concept album by Blind Guardian, released in 1998. It is also Blind Guardian's sixth studio album.The album is based upon J....
  Blind Guardian
Blind Guardian

Blind Guardian is a Germany heavy metal music band formed in the mid-1980s in Krefeld, West Germany. The band is often credited as one of the seminal and most influential bands in power metal and speed metal subgenres, being part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene that included Helloween, Running Wild , Accept, Grave Digger , Sinne...
  Mezzanine
Mezzanine (album)

Mezzanine is the third studio album by England trip hop group Massive Attack, released on April 27, 1998. It was produced by Neil Davidge along with the group....
  Massive Attack
Massive Attack

Massive Attack are a United Kingdom trip hop group, founded in 1988 by Robert Del Naja, Daddy G, and Andrew Vowles in Bristol, England. The trio were together prior to the formation of this band, as part of The Wild Bunch ....
 28 Capital Punishment
Capital Punishment (album)

Capital Punishment is the Grammy Nominated debut album by rapper Big Pun, recorded in 1998. The title both of this album and his follow up, Yeeeah Baby proved to be prophetic As Pun passed away In 2000, just before the release of this latter....
  Big Pun
Big Pun

Christopher Rios , better known as Big Punisher or Big Pun, was a Puerto Ricans in the United States-United States rapping who emerged from the underground rap scene in The Bronx in the late 1990s....
  Before These Crowded Streets
Before These Crowded Streets

Before These Crowded Streets is the third studio album by Dave Matthews Band, released on April 28, 1998. It is the last album by the group to be produced by longtime producer Steve Lillywhite and their first album recorded at Record Plant Studios in Sausalito, California....
  Dave Matthews Band
Dave Matthews Band

Dave Matthews Band is an United States rock music band formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, Virginia in 1991. Founding members include singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bass guitar Stefan Lessard, violinist Boyd Tinsley, and drum kit Carter Beauford....
  Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka

Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka is the debut studio album by American death metal band Nile . The album was released on April 28, 1998 through Relapse Records....
  Nile
Nile (band)

Nile is an American death metal band from Greenville, South Carolina, South Carolina, formed in 1993. Their music and lyrics are inspired by Ancient Egyptian mysticism, history, religion, art, and stories by H....
  Ça Va
Ça Va

?a Va is an album by Germany/United Kingdom avant-pop group Slapp Happy, recorded in London in 1997. Slapp Happy had reunited to make this album and they played all the instruments themselves....
  Slapp Happy
Slapp Happy

Slapp Happy was a Germany/England avant-pop group consisting of Anthony Moore , Peter Blegvad and Dagmar Krause . They formed in Germany in 1972, moved to England in 1974 where they merged with Henry Cow, but the merger ended soon afterwards and Slapp Happy split up....
  Navy Blues
Navy Blues

Navy Blues was the fourth album by Canada rock band Sloan . Released on Murderecords in 1998, it was a little heavier than their previous albums, showing an influence from 1970s rock mixed with their usual catchy, melodic, The Beatles-esque sound....
  Sloan
Sloan (band)

Sloan is an indie pop quartet from Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia....
  Canada Visual Audio Sensory Theater
Visual Audio Sensory Theater

Visual Audio Sensory Theater is the debut album by the band VAST. It was released on April 28, 1998. The album mixed samples of Benedictine monks of the Abbey of Saint-Maur and Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir, with an 18-piece orchestra, guitars and electronics....
  VAST
VAST

VAST is an United States alternative rock band based in Austin, Texas. The acronym VAST stands for Visual Audio Sensory Theater and is the main creation of singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jon Crosby....
 

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Vovin

Vovin is an album released by the symphonic metal band Therion . It is their bestselling album, selling over 125,000 copies ....
  Therion
Therion (band)

Therion is a Swedish Heavy metal music band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987. The word "therion" comes from the Greek language therion , meaning "Beast," i.e., that of the Christianity Book of Revelation....
 4 Mass Nerder
Mass Nerder

Mass Nerder is the seventh album by pop punk band All . It was released on Epitaph Records in 1998....
  ALL
ALL (band)

All is an American punk band from Fort Collins, Colorado, formed by Descendents members Bill Stevenson , Karl Alvarez, and Stephen Egerton ....
  From the Choirgirl Hotel
From the Choirgirl Hotel

From the Choirgirl Hotel is the fourth studio album by United States singer and songwriter Tori Amos. A departure from her previous albums, it was much more lavishly produced and a very radio-friendly project featuring a full Rock and roll band sound ....
  Tori Amos
Tori Amos

Tori Amos is a pianist and singer-songwriter of dual United Kingdom and United States citizenship. She is married to England sound engineer Mark Hawley, with whom she has one child, Natashya "Tash" L?rien Hawley, born on September 5, 2000....
  Cruelty and the Beast
Cruelty and the Beast

Cruelty and the Beast is the third studio album by England extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. It is a concept album based on the legend of the Hungarian "blood countess" Elizabeth B?thory....
  Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth

Cradle of Filth are an extreme metal band from Suffolk, England, formed in 1991. They have been embraced and disowned with equal fervour by various metal communities, and their particular subgenre has provoked a Cradle of Filth#Genre....
  Sittin' on Top of the World
Sittin' on Top of the World (album)

Sittin' on Top of the World is the fourth album by American country singer LeAnn Rimes, released in the United States on May 5, 1998, by Curb Records....
  LeAnn Rimes
LeAnn Rimes

Margaret LeAnn Rimes is an American country music singer, songwriter, and actress, who records under the name LeAnn Rimes. She is best known for her rich vocals similar to legendary country music singer Patsy Cline,...
  A Series of Sneaks
A Series of Sneaks

A Series of Sneaks is the second album released by the band Spoon . It was released in 1998 by Elektra Records, then re-released with The Agony of Laffitte CD single tracks added on in 2002 by Merge Records....
  Spoon
Spoon (band)

Spoon is an United States indie rock band from Austin, Texas. The band is led by Britt Daniel ; Jim Eno ; Rob Pope and Eric Harvey ....
 5 Capital Punishment
Capital punishment

Capital punishment, the death penalty or execution, is the killing of a person by procedural law for Punishment#Retribution and Punishment#Incapacitation....
  Big Pun
Big Pun

Christopher Rios , better known as Big Punisher or Big Pun, was a Puerto Ricans in the United States-United States rapping who emerged from the underground rap scene in The Bronx in the late 1990s....
  Twisted by Design
Twisted by Design

Twisted by Design is Strung Out third album with Fat Wreck Chords. The album was released on May 5, 1998. The album was the last with former bassist Jim Cherry, who later died of a heart problem....
  Strung Out
Strung Out

Strung Out is a punk music band from Simi Valley, California, United States formed in 1992. They are known mainly for their musical style, which fuses aspects of punk rock and Heavy metal music to form their primary sound....
  Lyricist Lounge, Volume One
Lyricist Lounge, Volume One

Lyricist Lounge, Volume One is the first installment of Rawkus Records Lyricist Lounge album series, based on the Lyricist Lounge showcases in New York....
  Various Artists Compilation10 Heavy Mental
Heavy Mental

Heavy Mental is the debut album of United States rapper Killah Priest, an associate of hip hop music group Wu-Tang Clan and a member of the group Sunz of Man....
  Killah Priest
Killah Priest

Walter Reed, better known as Killah Priest or simply Priest , is an United States rapping and affiliate of the hip hop culture group Wu-Tang Clan....
 12 Version 2.0
Version 2.0

Version 2.0 is the second album by alternative rock group Garbage . It was released in worldwide in May 1998 and was the follow up to the band's Music recording sales certification debut album Garbage ....
  Garbage
Garbage (band)

Garbage is an USA rock music group formed in Madison, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, in 1994. The band consists of Scotland vocalist Shirley Manson and American musicians Duke Erikson, Steve Marker and Butch Vig, and has counted worldwide album sales of over 14 million units....
  3 Car Garage
3 Car Garage

3 Car Garage is the fifth album by United States pop rock group Hanson . It consists of material from their MMMBop album minus 3 tracks....
  Hanson
Hanson (band)

Hanson is an American pop rock Band formed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma by brothers Isaac Hanson, Taylor Hanson, and Zac Hanson. They are best known for the 1997 hit song "MMMBop" from their major label debut album Middle of Nowhere that earned three Grammy nominations....
  Compilation 5
5 (Lenny Kravitz album)

5 is the fifth studio album by United States rock musician Lenny Kravitz, released on May 12, 1998 by Virgin Records America.The album contained hits such as "Fly Away," and "I Belong To You", which helped Kravitz to expand his success in Europe....
  Lenny Kravitz
Lenny Kravitz

Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz is a popular United States singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and arrangement whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock music, soul music, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic rock, traditional music and ballad ....
  A Thousand Leaves
A Thousand Leaves

A Thousand Leaves is the twelfth album by Sonic Youth. It was the group's first major album to be recorded in their private Manhattan studio, dubbed Echo Canyon....
  Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American rock music rock band formed in New York City in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Mark Ibold and Steve Shelley ....
  Traces of My Lipstick
Traces of My Lipstick

Traces of My Lipstick is the third album by American R&B band , Xscape . The album was released in the United States on May 12, 1998 under the So So Def label....
  Xscape
Xscape (band)

Xscape is a female United States Contemporary R&B quartet that had a string of hit songs during the early and mid 1990s. The original lineup of the group consisted of sisters LaTocha Scott and Tamika Scott , along with Kandi Burruss , and Tameka Cottle ....
 15 No Substance
No Substance

No Substance is the tenth full-length album by the punk rock band Bad Religion. It was the band's third release on Atlantic Records, and their second studio album since guitarist Brett Gurewitz's departure....
  Bad Religion
Bad Religion

Bad Religion is an United States punk band, founded in Southern California in 1980 by Jay Bentley , Greg Graffin , Brett Gurewitz and Jay Ziskrout ....
 18 Knights of the Cross
Knights of the Cross (album)

Knights of the Cross is an album by German heavy metal band Grave Digger released in 1998. It is a concept album about the rise and fall of the Knights Templar and the early crusades ....
  Grave Digger
Grave Digger (band)

Grave Digger are a Germany Heavy metal music/power metal band formed in 1980. They were part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene to emerge in the early to mid 1980s, along with bands such as Helloween, Running Wild , Accept, Sinner , and Rage ....
 19 The Black Light
The Black Light

The Black Light is the second studio album of Tucson, Arizona Indie rock band Calexico. It was released May 19, 1998 on Quarterstick Records....
  Calexico
Calexico

Calexico is a Tucson, Arizona-based Rock music band. The band's two main members, Joey Burns and John Convertino, first played together in Los Angeles as part of the group Giant Sand....
  How I Feel
How I Feel

How I Feel is the third studio album by Canadian country music artist Terri Clark. Released in 1998 on Mercury Records, the album produced the singles "Now That I Found You", "You're Easy on the Eyes", "Everytime I Cry", and "Unsung Hero"....
  Terri Clark
Terri Clark

Terri Lynn Sauson , known professionally as Terri Clark, is a Canadian country music artist who has had success in both Canada and the United States....
  Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits (DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince album)

Greatest Hits is the first compilation album by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince. The album includes several of their biggest hits including "Girls Ain't Nothing but Trouble", "Parents Just Don't Understand", and "Summertime "....
  DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince

DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince is a hip hop music group that was popular in the 1980s and 1990s. The vocalist, Will Smith , met DJ Jazzy Jeff while trying to make a name for himself in West Philadelphia's local hip hop scene....
  Greatest Hits Always Never the Same
Always Never the Same

Always Never the Same is the 13th studio album, and 18th overall, by United States rock music band Kansas , released in 1998 .This album is a unique studio recording, as it consists of mostly covers of the band's previous work, re-recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra....
  Kansas
Kansas (band)

Kansas is an United States progressive rock band which became a popular arena rock group in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind"....
  Ophelia
Ophelia (album)

Ophelia is the title of a 1998 album, film, and song by Natalie Merchant. As evidenced in the pictures in the booklet that comes with the album, Merchant seems to see Shakespeare's Ophelia as a figure encompassing many important feminine archetypes....
  Natalie Merchant
Natalie Merchant

Natalie Anne O'Shea Merchant is a professional musician. She joined the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs in 1981 and left it to begin her solo career in 1993....
  Bach to the Future
Bach to the Future

Album by Safri Duo, a percussion duo from Denmark. It contains works by various contemporary composers, among others Steve Reich, Per N?rg?rd and Jacob ter Veldhuis....
  Safri Duo
Safri Duo

Safri Duo is a Denmark percussion instrument duo composed of Uffe Savery and Morten Friis . Initially classically oriented, by 1999 they were discovered by a label executive working on classical music....
  Smokefest Underground
Smokefest Underground

Smokefest Underground is an album released by Snoop Dogg in 1998 in music. It was recorded with several labelmates and released after Snoop Dogg has left Death Row, so it has no label endorsement....
  Snoop Doggy Dogg Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright (album)

Rufus Wainwright is the self-titled debut album of Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright. It was released May 19, 1998 on DreamWorks Records....
  Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright

Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is a Grammy-nominated, Canadian-American singer-songwriter. He has recorded five albums of original music, several extended play, and numerous tracks included on Compilation album and film soundtracks....
  Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest
Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest

Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest is the third full length album released by metalcore band Zao on Solid State Records/Tooth & Nail Records. It was the first album to feature vocalist Dan Weyandt after the departure of Shawn Jonas along with new bassists/guitarists, Russ Cogdell and Brett Detar....
  Zao 20 Steelbath Suicide
Steelbath Suicide

Steelbath Suicide is the 1998 debut full-length studio album from the melodic death metal band Soilwork. The original release has two Japanese bonus tracks, "Disintegrated Skies" and "Burn ," a Deep Purple Cover version....
  Soilwork
Soilwork

Soilwork is a Sweden melodic death metal band from Helsingborg. They are currently signed to Nuclear Blast. Formed in late 1995, originally under the name Inferior Breed, the band changed their name in late 1996 to Soilwork ....
 25 Angels with Dirty Faces
Angels With Dirty Faces (Tricky album)

Angels with Dirty Faces is the fourth album of Bristol, England rapper/music producer Tricky, released in 1998."Broken Homes" features England singer/songwriter PJ Harvey....
  Tricky
Tricky

Tricky is an England musician. As a producer and a musician, he is noted for a dark, rich and layered sound and a whispering sprechgesang lyrical style....
 26 Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation
Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation

Time Capsule: Songs For a Future Generation is a greatest hits album released by The B-52's in 1998. The album presents sixteen of their Single releases and fan-favorite album tracks in chronolgical order, with the addition of two newly-recorded songs exclusive to this collection....
  The B-52's
The B-52's

The B-52's originated as a New Wave music rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, United States, in 1976. The band's name comes from a particular Beehive hairdo resembling the nose cone of the B-52 Stratofortress of the same name....
  Greatest Hits Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk

Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk, is a collection of polished studio tracks and four-track demos recorded by Jeff Buckley. Being unsatisfied with material recorded in the summer of 1996 and early in 1997, Buckley worked on many demos to reach the sound he was hoping to achieve....
  Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley

Jeffrey Scott Buckley , raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician....
  Don't Sweat the Technics
Don't Sweat the Technics

Don't Sweat the Technics is the debut album by the Electronic music artist Kid 606....
  Kid 606 Navy Blues
Navy Blues

Navy Blues was the fourth album by Canada rock band Sloan . Released on Murderecords in 1998, it was a little heavier than their previous albums, showing an influence from 1970s rock mixed with their usual catchy, melodic, The Beatles-esque sound....
  Sloan
Sloan (band)

Sloan is an indie pop quartet from Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia....
  US

le class="wikitable" width="100%">DayAlbumArtistNotes1 Let It Ride
Let it Ride (album)

Let It Ride is the third studio album by the United Kingdom band Shed Seven, released in 1998. The album spawned 4 hit singles for the band with Chasing Rainbows, She Left Me On Friday, The Heroes and Devil In Your Shoes all placing in the Top 40 of the UK Charts....
  Shed Seven
Shed Seven

Shed Seven are an England indie rock band from York and were one of the groups that contributed to the Britpop music scene that evolved during the 1990s, yet never received the degree of mainstream success achieved by bands such as Oasis and Blur ....
 2 Cold
Cold (album)

Cold is the debut album by American alternative metal band Cold . It preceded the band's breakthrough success into the mainstream hard rock scene....
  Cold
Cold (band)

Cold is an American rock music band, formed in 1996 in Jacksonville, Florida. With the release of their debut Cold , in 1998, the band quickly became known for its pain-filled lyrics and vocalist Scooter Ward's distinctive voice....
  Abandon
Abandon (album)

Abandon is an album by Deep Purple released in 1998.The album title is actually a pun from Ian Gillan - "A Band On" - and the album was followed by the "A Band On Tour"....
  Deep Purple
Deep Purple

Deep Purple are an English Rock music band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of Heavy metal music and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorize themselves as any one genre....
  Gloria!
Gloria!

gloria! is the eighth studio album released by United States singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan, released in 1998 by Epic Records ....
  Gloria Estefan
Gloria Estefan

Gloria Estefan is a Grammy Award-winning American singer and songwriter. She is in the top 100 of best selling music artists with over 90 million albums sold worldwide, with 26.5 million in the United States alone....
  Rant And Roar
Rant and Roar

Rant and Roar is an album by Great Big Sea. Released in 1998 only to the USA, it is a compilation of some of the tracks from Up and Play also by Great Big Sea....
  Great Big Sea
Great Big Sea

Great Big Sea is a Canada folk-rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, best known for performing energetic rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs including sea shanty, which draw from the island's 500-year-old Irish, English, and French heritage....
  Compilation BBC Sessions The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience

The Jimi Hendrix Experience was an English/American rock music band that formed in London in 1966. Originally comprising American vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Jimi Hendrix, bassist and backing vocalist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, the band was active until 1969, in which time they released three successful studio albums....
  Compilation Munki
Munki

Munki is the final studio album released by The Jesus and Mary Chain. After leaving Blanco y Negro, the Reid brothers signed to Sub Pop in the U.S....
  The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Jesus and Mary Chain

The Jesus and Mary Chain are a Scottish alternative rock band formed in East Kilbride in 1983. The band revolves around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim Reid and William Reid ....
  MP Da Last Don
MP Da Last Don

MP Da Last Don is a multi-platinum album by Master P. It debuted at number-one on the Billboard Top 200 charts selling almost 110,000 copies in the first week....
  Master P
Master P

Percy Miller , formerly known as Master P, is an American entertainer and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of P. Miller Enterprises, an entertainment and financial Conglomerate and Better Black TV....
  Shut 'Em Down
Shut 'Em Down

Shut 'Em Down is the third album from hardcore hip hop group Onyx . The album marked the group's highest debut on the Billboard 200 at #10....
  Onyx
Onyx (band)

Onyx is a Hip hop music group from New York City. Originally formed in 1988 by Fredro Starr, Sonsee, the late Marlon Fletcher, the group later added Sticky Fingaz, Starr's cousin, in 1991, managed by Diamond Cut Entertainment's Milton Lynch....
  RFTC
RFTC

RFTC is an album by the San Diego, California rock music band Rocket from the Crypt, released in 1998 by Interscope Records. It was the band's second major-label release....
  Rocket from the Crypt
Rocket from the Crypt

Rocket from the Crypt was an American rock music band led by John Reis, formed in 1990 in San Diego, California and disbanded in 2005. Of Reis' many musical endeavors, Rocket from the Crypt were the most successful and most internationally recognized....
  Adore The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins

The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. While the group has gone through several lineup changes, The Smashing Pumpkins consisted of Billy Corgan , James Iha , D'arcy Wretzky , and Jimmy Chamberlin for most of the band's recording career....
 8 The Good Will Out
The Good Will Out

The Good Will Out is the debut album by England Rock music Musical ensemble Embrace , first released in 1998 .The album achieved critical acclaim as well as success in terms of sales, going gold on its first day of release, becoming one of the fastest-ever-selling debut albums by a British artist, and going on to sell over 500,000 copie...
  Embrace
Embrace (UK band)

Embrace are an England rock band from Brighouse and Bradford in West Yorkshire. To date they have released five studio albums, one Single album and one b-sides compilation....
  UK9 Never Say Never
Never Say Never (album)

Never Say Never is the second studio album by United States singer Brandy Norwood, released by Atlantic Records on June 8, 1998 in Europe and on June 9, 1998 in North America....
  Brandy
Brandy (entertainer)

Brandy Rayana Norwood , known professionally as Brandy, is an American contemporary R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, fashion model, actress, television personality, and film producer....
  Left of Cool
Left of Cool

Left of Cool was the fifth studio album released by B?la Fleck and the Flecktones, released in 1998. It is the first album to feature Jeff Coffin, who joined the band to replace Howard Levy....
  Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones

B?la Fleck and the Flecktones is a multi-Grammy winning, primarily instrumental group from the USA, that draws equally on bluegrass music, jazz fusion and jazz, sometimes dubbed "blu-bop." The band formed in 1988, initially to perform once on the PBS series Lonesome Pine Specials....
  Premonition
Premonition (John Fogerty album)

Premonition is a 1998 is a live CD and DVD by John Fogerty. He performs both songs by his earlier band, Creedence Clearwater Revival, as well as songs composed during his period as a solo artist....
  John Fogerty
John Fogerty

John Cameron Fogerty is an United States Rock music singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for his time with the swamp rock/roots rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival....
  Live F?A?8
F?a?8

F?A?8 is the debut album of the Canada post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor . It was released twice, first in 1997 by Constellation Records and then again in 1998 by Kranky Records....
  Godspeed You Black Emperor! re-issue Look My Way Madball
Madball

Madball is a New York-based band that originated in the late 1980s, as a side-project of Agnostic Front ....
  Payton's Place
Payton's Place

Payton's Place is a jazz album released in 1998 by trumpet player Nicholas Payton....
  Nicholas Payton
Nicholas Payton

Nicholas Payton is a Neo-bop jazz trumpet player from New Orleans, Louisiana.The son of double bass and sousaphone Walter Payton , he took up the trumpet at the age of four and by the time he was nine he was playing in the Young Tuxedo Brass Band alongside his father....
  Diabolus in Musica
Diabolus in Musica

Diabolus in Musica is the seventh studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer. Released on June 9, 1998, it is the second studio album to feature drummer Paul Bostaph....
  Slayer
Slayer

Slayer is an American thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California, formed in 1981. The band was founded by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King....
  The Devil's Bris
The Devil's Bris

The Devil's Bris is the debut album by the dark cabaret/darkwave artist Voltaire , released in 1998 . It was released in 1998 by Projekt Records....
  Voltaire
Voltaire (musician)

Voltaire , is a Cuban-American musician popular in the Goth subculture. He takes his stage name from the pen name of the famous French Enlightenment writer Voltaire....
 15 Try Whistling This
Try Whistling This

Try Whistling This is the debut solo album released in 1998 by New Zealand singer/songwriter Neil Finn. The Japanese version of the album has a bonus track called "Tokyo", which also appears on the UK release of the single Sinner....
  Neil Finn
Neil Finn

Neil Mullane Finn, Order of British Empire is a singer and songwriter and one of New Zealand's foremost popular musicians. He is the frontman for Crowded House and previously for Split Enz....
  Solo debut Vertical Man
Vertical Man

Vertical Man is Ringo Starr's eleventh studio album, issued in 1998. The release represents Starr's attempt at a comeback following the enormous success of The Beatles Anthology project....
  Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr

Richard Starkey Order of the British Empire , better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an England musician, singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the drummer for The Beatles....
 16 Aaron Carter
Aaron Carter (album)

Aaron Carter is the self-titled debut album of Aaron Carter, brother of Backstreet Boys Nick Carter . It was originally released in December 1997 in Europe and re-released the next year with a new song and a remix, as well as being released in the United States....
  Aaron Carter
Aaron Carter

Aaron Carter is an American singer. He is the younger brother of singer Nick Carter , from the boy band Backstreet Boys. He came to fame as a pop music and hip hop music singer in the late-1990s, establishing himself as a star among preteen and teenage audiences during the early-2000s....
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January

DayAlbumArtistNotes
12 Impossible Princess
Impossible Princess

Impossible Princess is the sixth album by Australian Pop music singer Kylie Minogue. It was released by Deconstruction Records on 23 March 1998 in the United Kingdom to mixed reviews....
 
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
 
Australia
13 All Fall Down Against All Authority
Against All Authority

Against All Authority is an American rock music rock band, formed in Florida in 1992. Playing in the ska punk style, their business practice follows a stringent DIY ethic....
 
Naked Baby Photos
Naked Baby Photos

Naked Baby Photos is a compilation album comprising of outtake material from recordings of Ben Folds Five's first two studio albums and live performances....
 
Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds Five

Ben Folds Five was an alternative rock trio formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, North Carolina. The group comprised Ben Folds on vocals, piano, and principal songwriting; Robert Sledge played Bass guitar and provided backing vocals; and Darren Jessee played Drum kit, sang backing vocals and co-wrote some of the songs....
 
Compilation
The Troubleshooters
The Troubleshooters (album)

The Troubleshooters is the third album from Los Angeles latino group Funkdoobiest. This is first album without member Tomahawk Funk after he left the group to help raise his son....
 
Funkdoobiest
Funkdoobiest

Funkdoobiest is a Latin rap group from Los Angeles, California. The original members are Son Doobie , a Puerto Rican people rapper, and DJ Ralph M , a Chicano DJ, and Tomahawk Funk of the Lakota people nation....
 
Money, Power & Respect
Money, Power & Respect

Money, Power & Respect is the debut album released by D-Block. It was released on January 13, 1998 through Bad Boy Records and featured production from The Hitmen , Dame Grease and Swizz Beatz....
 
The Lox
D-block

The d-block of the periodic table consists of those periodic table groups that contain elements in which, in the atomic ground state, the highest-energy electron is in a d-atomic orbital....
 
Yodel the Cowboy Way
Yodel the Cowboy Way

Yodel the Cowboy Way is a studio recording released by the Western music band Riders in the Sky on January 13 1998. It is available as a single CD....
 
Riders in the Sky
Riders in the Sky

Riders In The Sky is a Western swing and comedy group which began performing in 1977; their style also appeals to children, and they are sometimes considered a children's music....
 
Challenge for a Civilized Society
Challenge for a Civilized Society

Challenge For A Civilized Society was the sixth album by Unwound. It was recorded in August 1997 at John and Stu's in Seattle, Washington....
 
Unwound
Unwound

Unwound was a U.S. rock band based in Tumwater/Olympia, Washington. Formed in 1991, the band, originally known as Giant Henry, consisted of Justin Trosper , Vern Rumsey , and Brandt Sandeno , who was replaced in 1992 by Sara Lund....
 
20 Moon Safari
Moon Safari

Moon Safari is the first full-length studio album by the France band Air , released in 1998. The album is considered a classic of the Chill out genre....
 
Air
Air (band)

Air is a France music duo, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Beno?t Dunckel. The name AIR is a backronym for which translates to Love, Imagination, Dream....
 
US
Viva la Ska Revolution
Viva la Ska Revolution

Viva la Ska Revolution is a compilation album by Bad Manners, released in 1998....
 
Bad Manners
Bad Manners

Bad Manners are an England Second Wave ska revival musical ensemble. They quickly became the novelty favourites of the fad through their bald, enormous-bodied frontman's silly on-stage antics, earning early exposure through their Top of The Pops TV exploits and an appearance in the live film documentary, Dance Craze....
 
Compilation
My Secret Passion
My Secret Passion

My Secret Passion is an album by Michael Bolton. Accompaniment is by the Philharmonia Orchestra under the direction of Steven Mercurio. The album includes a duet with Ren?e Fleming....
 
Michael Bolton
Michael Bolton

Michael Bolton , is an United States singer-songwriter and a former heavy metal music singer, best known for his soft rock ballads and tenor vocals....
 
Petitioning the Empty Sky
Petitioning the Empty Sky

Petitioning the Empty Sky is the second full length release by Massachusetts band Converge . It was originally released on Ferret Records, but was soon after re-released by Equal Vision Records when the band changed labels....
 
Converge
Converge (band)

Converge is a four-piece band from Salem, Massachusetts, Massachusetts. Playing a blend of hardcore punk and extreme metal since 1990, Converge has helped to define many of the rudiments of the metalcore genre....
 
Loaded Deck
Loaded Deck

Loaded Deck was a greatest hits compilation of Ace Frehley's solo career released in 1997. It was released after the widespread Kiss reunion tour presumably to capitalize on the success....
 
Ace Frehley
Ace Frehley

Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley is an United States guitarist best known as an original member and lead guitarist for the rock music band Kiss . He took on the persona of 'Space Ace' when the band adopted costumes and theatrics....
 
Greatest Hits
24 Ce que je sais
Ce que je sais

Ce que je sais is a 1998 album recorded by France singer Johnny Hallyday. It was released on January 24, 1998, and achieved success in France and Belgium , where, however, it failed to top the charts, being blocked by the soundtrack album of The Titanic....
 
Johnny Hallyday
Johnny Hallyday

Johnny Hallyday is a France singer and actor. An icon in the French language-speaking world since the beginning of his career, he is considered by some to be the French superior of Elvis Presley....
 
27 Wide Open Spaces
Wide Open Spaces

Wide Open Spaces is the Grammy-nominated fourth album by United States country music band the Dixie Chicks, released in 1998 . It was their first record with new lead vocalist Natalie Maines, and became their breakthrough commercial success....
 
Dixie Chicks
Dixie Chicks

The Dixie Chicks are a country music group, comprising three women; Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, and Emily Robison. Together, they have sold over 36 million albums as of March 2009....
 
American Teenage Rock 'n' Roll Machine
American Teenage Rock 'n' Roll Machine

American Teenage Rock 'n' Roll Machine is the second studio album by United States rock band band The Donnas, released in 1998 on Lookout!....
 
The Donnas
The Donnas

The Donnas are an United States all-women band hard rock rock band from Palo Alto, California. They draw inspiration from The Ramones, AC/DC, and Kiss ....
 
Do or Die Dropkick Murphys
Dropkick Murphys

Dropkick Murphys are an United States Celtic punk band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States. First playing together in the basement of a friend's barbershop, they blended traditional Music of Ireland, folk rock, and hardcore punk....
 
29 The Truth Prince


February

DayAlbumArtistNotes
3 Yield
Yield (album)

Yield is the fifth studio album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, released on February 3, 1998 through Epic Records. Following a short tour for its previous album, No Code , Pearl Jam went into the studio in 1997 to record its follow-up....
 
Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam is an American rock music band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder , Jeff Ament , Stone Gossard , and Mike McCready ....
 
10 Facing the Animal
Facing the Animal

Facing the Animal is an album released in 1997 by guitarist Yngwie J. Malmsteen.The album features one of the veteran drummer Cozy Powell's last performances before his death in 1998....
 
Yngwie Malmsteen
Vuelve
Vuelve

Vuelve is the fourth album by the Puerto Rico singer Ricky Martin. Released by Sony on February 10, 1998 , it has been credited for worldwide sales of over 8,000,000 copies....
 
Ricky Martin
Ricky Martin

Enrique Mart?n Morales , better known by his stage name Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rico pop singer who rose to fame, first as a member of the Latin American music boy band Menudo , then as a solo artist since 1991....
 
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is the second studio album by United States indie rock band Neutral Milk Hotel. The album was released in February 1998 in the United States on Merge Records and in May 1998 in the United Kingdom on Blue Rose Records....
 
Neutral Milk Hotel
Neutral Milk Hotel

Neutral Milk Hotel was an United States Independent music rock music Band noted for its experimental sound and eclectic instrumentation. The band originally consisted primarily of principle songwriter Jeff Mangum , later adding members Jeremy Barnes , Scott Spillane , and Julian Koster after the release of studio album On Avery Island....
 
US
Terraform Shellac
Shellac (band)

Shellac is an American noise rock group composed of Steve Albini , Bob Weston and Todd Trainer . Although they have been classified as noise rock and math rock, they describe themselves as a "Minimalist music rock trio."...
 
17 Str8 Outta Northcote
Str8 Outta Northcote

Str8 Outta Northcote is the second full-length album from Australian grindcore band Blood Duster, its title being a parody of the NWA album Straight Outta Compton....
 
Blood Duster
Blood Duster

Blood Duster is a extreme metal/stoner rock band from Melbourne, Australia. Their name comes from the song "Blood Duster" by John Zorn, from the 1989 album Naked City ....
 
Destiny's Child
Destiny's Child (album)

Destiny's Child is the eponymous debut album of contemporary R&B group Destiny's Child, released by Columbia Records in 1998. It featured the singles "No, No, No " and "With Me" and won Best R&B/Soul Album of the Year at the Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards, but due to both singles having a remix as well as having an original version , al...
 
Destiny's Child
Destiny's Child

Destiny's Child was an contemporary R&B and pop music girl group comprising lead singer Beyonc? Knowles alongside Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams ....
 
US
The Big Knockover
The Big Knockover

The Big Knockover is the Sweden punk rock group No Fun At All's third album, released on July 13, 1997.All music by Mikael Danielsson except track 1, which was co-written by Jimmie Olsson....
 
No Fun At All
No Fun At All

No Fun At All is a Sweden punk rock band. The band formed in the summer of 1991 in Skinnskatteberg. The group initially consisted of Mikael Danielsson , Henrik Sunvisson and Jimmy Olsson ....
 
US
Attack of The Planet Smashers
Attack of The Planet Smashers

Attack of The Planet Smashers is the second full-length release from The Planet Smashers. This is the first of three collaborations between the Planet Smashers and producer Chris Murray ....
 
The Planet Smashers
The Planet Smashers

The Planet Smashers are a ska punk band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Since their formation in 1994, they have been a staple of the Montreal music scene....
 
24 For a Lifetime
For a Lifetime

For a Lifetime is a piano-based instrumental album by Jonathan Cain released in 1998. As explained in the liner notes, Cain's composition was inspired by the weddings of eight couples including the song "A Day to Remember" which is dedicated to his fellow Journey band mate Neal Schon....
 
Jonathan Cain
Jonathan Cain

Jonathan Cain is an United States musician, most known for his Keyboard instrument and songwriting roles in the rock music Band Journey ....
 
Inferno - Last in Live
Inferno - Last in Live

Inferno - Last in Live is a live album released by the Heavy metal music band Dio. It was recorded on their Angry Machines tour in 1997/98....
 
Dio Live
Stoners Reeking Havoc Kottonmouth Kings
Kottonmouth Kings

Kottonmouth Kings is an American Hip hop music and rap rock group from Orange County, California, California. Kottonmouth Kings officially formed in 1994, and describe themselves as "Psychedelic rock Hip hop music punk rock"....
 
EP
Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon
Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon

Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon is the third official compilation album of John Lennon's solo career, coming after 1975's Shaved Fish and 1982's The John Lennon Collection....
 
John Lennon
John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
 
US, Compilation
Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
Formulas Fatal to the Flesh

Formulas Fatal to the Flesh is the fifth full-length studio album by death metal band Morbid Angel. The title of this album is a Bible reference: it contains the letter "F" - the 6th letter of the alphabet - capitalised three times, which refers to the Number of the Beast, 666....
 
Morbid Angel
Morbid Angel

Morbid Angel is an United States death metal band based in Tampa, Florida. They, along with Death , Possessed , Obituary , Massacre , Deicide , Cannibal Corpse, and a handful of others were crucial in the development of the death metal genre and its standards, separating it from the thrash metal genre completely....
 
My Homies
My Homies

My Homies is a double-disc album by Houston Hip hop music artist Scarface . Scarface steps to the side and gives the spotlight to a number of different artists, leaving only two solo songs on the 30-song album....
 
Scarface
Scarface (rapper)

Brad Jordan, better known by his stage name Scarface, is an United States rapper originally known for his work as a member of The Geto Boys....
 
SYR3: Invito Al Cielo
SYR3: Invito Al Cielo

SYR3: Invito Al Cielo is an EP by Sonic Youth. It was the third in a series of experimental releases put out on the band's own Sonic Youth Recordings label, leading up to the release of their 1998 record A Thousand Leaves....
 
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American rock music rock band formed in New York City in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Mark Ibold and Steve Shelley ....
 
EP
Train
Train (album)

Train is Train first album, released in 1998. The album was self-produced for $25,000 and three singles from the album were released. The album was recorded at Bates Brothers Recording in Birmingham Alabama....
 
Train
Train (band)

Train is a Grammy Award-winning rock music band formed in San Francisco, California. To date, three of their albums have peaked in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 and have sold a total of over 4 million albums in the US....
 
The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski is a 1998 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film written and directed by Coen brothers. Jeff Bridges stars as Jeffrey Lebowski, an unemployed Los Angeles, California slacker and avid bowling, who refers to himself as "the Dude"....
 
Various Artists Soundtrack
25 Bustin' + Dronin'
Bustin' + Dronin'

Bustin' + Dronin is a remix compilation/live album by the band Blur . It was originally only released in Japan but was also released in limited quantities in the UK and the USA....
 
Blur
Blur (band)

Blur are an English alternative rock band who formed in London in 1989. The four members of the band are singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree....
 
Remix and live album


March

DayAlbumArtistNotes
3 Ray of Light
Ray of Light

Ray of Light is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Madonna , released on March 3, 1998 by Maverick Records. The RIAA certified it RIAA certification on March 16, 2000, recognizing four million shipments in the United States, making it her fifth best-selling recording there....
 
Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
 
US
Crystal Planet
Crystal Planet

Crystal Planet is a 1998 instrumental rock album from guitarist Joe Satriani. It is likened to his classic 1989 release Flying in a Blue Dream in terms of sonics and songwriting, and features his first recorded use of a 7-string guitar on the track "Ceremony"....
 
Joe Satriani
Joe Satriani

Joseph "Satch" Satriani is an United States multiple nominated Grammy Award multi-instrumentalist, best known as an instrumental rock guitarist....
 
Elmopalooza
Elmopalooza

Elmopalooza is a Sesame Street special that aired on American Broadcasting Company on February 20, 1998....
 
Various Artists Soundtrack
9 Tin Planet
Tin Planet

Tin Planet is the second album from Liverpool-based Britpop group Space . It was released on March 9, 1998 and peaked at #3 in the UK charts, two places higher than their debut album Spiders ....
 
Space
10 The Collection
The Collection (Bad Manners album)

The Collection is a compilation album by Bad Manners, released in the US in 1998....
 
Bad Manners
Bad Manners

Bad Manners are an England Second Wave ska revival musical ensemble. They quickly became the novelty favourites of the fad through their bald, enormous-bodied frontman's silly on-stage antics, earning early exposure through their Top of The Pops TV exploits and an appearance in the live film documentary, Dance Craze....
 
Compilation
Pilgrim Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
 
All the Pain Money Can Buy
All the Pain Money Can Buy

All the Pain Money Can Buy was the second album by United States pop-rock band Fastball released on March 10, 1998 on Hollywood Records. The album includes the hit singles "The Way " , "Fire Escape" , and "Out of My Head" ....
 
Fastball
Fastball (band)

Fastball is an United States rock band that formed in Austin, Texas in the 1990s. The band originally called themselves "Magneto U.S.A." but changed their name after signing with Hollywood Records....
 
Liquid Tension Experiment
Liquid Tension Experiment (album)

Liquid Tension Experiment was released in 1998 in music by Liquid Tension Experiment through Magna Carta. The group is formed by John Petrucci , Mike Portnoy , Tony Levin , and Jordan Rudess ....
 
Liquid Tension Experiment
Liquid Tension Experiment

Liquid Tension Experiment is an instrumental rock progressive rock/progressive metal Supergroup , founded by Dream Theater's drummer Mike Portnoy in 1997....
 
Snake Bite Love
Snake Bite Love

Snake Bite Love is the fourteenth album by the British Heavy metal music band Mot?rhead. It was released on March 10, 1998 and was distributed by BMG....
 
Motörhead
Motörhead

Mot?rhead are a British hard rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy, who has remained the sole constant member. Usually a power trio, Mot?rhead had particular success in the early 1980s with several successful singles in the UK Singles Chart....
 
Jimmy Ray
Jimmy Ray (album)

Jimmy Ray is the eponymous debut and only album from British-pop artist, Jimmy Ray. He wrote or co-wrote every song on the album. It debuted at #112 on The Billboard 200, and also reached #2 on the Heatseekers Chart....
 
Jimmy Ray
Jimmy Ray

Jimmy Ray is a pop music-rock and roll artist who was born and raised in London, England. In press interviews and promotional materials he cited his influence by the music of Elvis Presley and other Rock 'n' Roll stars such as Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran and Tommy Steele....
 
Pure Frosting
Pure Frosting

Pure Frosting is a compilation album by The Presidents of the United States of America . It was released on March 10, 1998.It was, at the time, the band's last album, as they had broken up in 1998....
 
The Presidents of the United States of America Compilation
Becoming Remixed
Becoming Remixed

Becoming Remixed is an album by the trip-hop group Sneaker Pimps. It was released on March 10, 1998. It is a limited edition remix album of their previous effort, Becoming X....
 
Sneaker Pimps
Sneaker Pimps

Sneaker Pimps are a United Kingdom Trip-hop band formed in Hartlepool, England in 1995, although the official IAMX website quotes the official year of foundation as 1989....
 
Remix
13 A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T
A.k.a. I-D-I-O-T

A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T is an Extended play by Sweden band The Hives, released in 1998.The song "A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T" was first released on The Hives' debut album, Barely Legal , as the second track....
 
The Hives
The Hives

The Hives are a Swedish rock band that first garnered attention in the early 2000s as a prominent group of the Garage rock#Revival, playing garage punk....
 
EP
16 Big Calm
Big Calm

Big Calm is the second music album by Morcheeba. One of their more popular albums, Big Calm comprises 12 tracks. ?The Music That We Hear,? which is found on special-edition versions of the album is actually a reworking of another song from Morcheeba's first album, Who Can You Trust, along with the song itself being retitled instead o...
 
Morcheeba
Morcheeba

Morcheeba are a United Kingdom musical ensemble that mixes influences from trip hop, rock music, rhythm and blues and pop music. Their most popular albums include debut Who Can You Trust? and Big Calm....
 
17 Retaliation, Revenge & Get Back
Retaliation, Revenge & Get Back

Retaliation, Revenge and Get Back is the debut solo album by Daz Dillinger. He was one of the last artists on Death Row Records after its collapse in 1996, after the death of 2Pac....
 
Daz Dillinger
Daz Dillinger

Delmar Drew Arnaud , better known by his stage name Daz Dillinger is an United States hip hop production and rapper mostly known for his membership in the rap duo Tha Dogg Pound, with Kurupt, and his work with Death Row Records....
 
Hazleton
Hazleton EP

Hazleton by Fuel was released in 1998 in music. The EP was sold at some 1997 shows....
 
Fuel
Fuel (band)

Fuel is an American Rock music Musical ensemble formed by guitarist/songwriter Carl Bell and bassist Jeff Abercrombie in 1989. Originally known as Small the Joy, they changed the group's name to Fuel sometime in 1994....
 
EP
Van Halen III
Van Halen III

Van Halen III is the eleventh studio album by United States hard rock band Van Halen, released in 1998 in music. It is the only Van Halen album to feature Gary Cherone on lead vocals, and is commonly said to be Van Halen's most unpopular album....
 
Van Halen
Van Halen

Van Halen is a hard rock band formed in in 1972. They enjoyed success from the release of their Van Halen in 1978. As of 2007 Van Halen has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide and have had the most number one hits on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart....
 
19 It's Dark and Hell Is Hot
It's Dark and Hell Is Hot

It's Dark and Hell Is Hot is the debut album of rapping DMX , released May 19, 1998 on Def Jam subsidiary Ruff Ryders Records. The album featured four singles with music videos, "Get at Me Dog", "Stop Being Greedy", "How's It Goin' Down" and the "Ruff Ryders Anthem"....
 
DMX
DMX (rapper)

Earl Simmons , better known by his stage name DMX, is an United States entertainer, who rose to fame in the late 1990s. His stage name stands for Dark Man X, the name he used when he first started rapping in 1990....
 
23 Virtual XI
Virtual XI

'Virtual XI' is the 11th studio album by United Kingdom Heavy metal music band Iron Maiden. The album was released on March 23, 1998. It was the second and final Iron Maiden album recorded with vocalist Blaze Bayley....
 
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden are an English Heavy metal music band from Leyton, East London, England, formed in 1975. The band is led by founder, bassist and songwriter Steve Harris ....
 
Impossible Princess
Impossible Princess

Impossible Princess is the sixth album by Australian Pop music singer Kylie Minogue. It was released by Deconstruction Records on 23 March 1998 in the United Kingdom to mixed reviews....
 
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
 
UK
Twilight in Olympus
Twilight in Olympus

Twilight in Olympus is the fourth studio album by progressive metal band Symphony X, which was released in 1998. It features eight tracks, two of which have become classics: Smoke and Mirrors and Through the Looking Glass, the latter an epic based on Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
 
Symphony X
Symphony X

Symphony X is an American progressive metal band founded in New Jersey in 1994 by guitarist Michael Romeo. Their 1997 album The Divine Wings of Tragedy and their 2000 release V-The New Mythology Suite have given the band considerable attention within the progressive metal community....
 
24 Happy? Jann Arden
Jann Arden

Jann Arden is an acclaimed and award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter. She was born and raised near Calgary, in Springbank, Alberta, and she attended Springbank Community High School....
 
US; released in Canada in '97
Colma
Colma (album)

Colma is Buckethead's fourth studio album, released March 24 1998, by CyberOctave records. The album was recorded for Buckethead's mother as she was ill with colon cancer and he wanted to make an album she would enjoy listening to while recovering....
 
Buckethead
Buckethead

Brian Patrick Carroll, better known as Buckethead, is an American musician and songwriter. He has released 25 solo albums and performed on over 50 more....
 
The Pillage
The Pillage

The Pillage is the first solo record of rapper Cappadonna. It was released on March 24, 1998 by Razor Sharp/Epic Street on Compact disc, vinyl record and tape cassette....
 
Cappadonna
Cappadonna

Darryl Hill, best known by his stage name Cappadonna, is an United States rapper, friend of the Wu-Tang Clan. He has appeared on many of their albums, as well as having a successful solo career....
 
Keasbey Nights
Keasbey Nights

Keasbey Nights is the debut album by the East Brunswick Township, New Jersey ska punk band Catch 22 , released on March 24, 1998 by Victory Records....
 
Catch 22
Catch 22 (band)

Catch 22 is a ska punk band from East Brunswick, New Jersey.The band was formed by guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Tomas Kalnoky and drummer Chris Greer who recruited trumpeter Kevin Gunther, who was working in a local record store....
 
The Devil You Know Econoline Crush
Econoline Crush

Econoline Crush is a band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada formed in 1992. Originally formed in Seattle, they eventually moved back to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada....
 
US
Media
Media (album)

Media is the first studio album by New Wave music revivalists, The Faint. It was released on March 24, 1998. A clear style change can be seen after this album's release, moving from a more Post-hardcore influenced style to New Wave music....
 
The Faint
The Faint

The Faint is a dance-punk/new wave music band. Formed in Omaha, Nebraska, the band consists of Todd Fink, Jacob Thiele, Dapose, Joel Petersen and Clark Baechle....
 
Greatest Hits Live
Greatest Hits Live (Journey album)

Greatest Hits Live is a Compact Disc released by the rock band Journey in 1998. It is a compilation of live performances spanning from 1981 to 1983 featuring former singer Steve Perry ....
 
Journey
Journey (band)

Journey is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble formed in San Francisco, California, California in 1973. The band has gone through several phases since its inception by former members of Santana ....
 
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*NSYNC
*NSYNC (album)

*NSYNC is the 1998 self-titled debut album by the boy band 'N Sync, released in the United States on March 24, 1998. At first, album sales were mediocre until *NSYNC's 1998 Summer Disney Concert....
 
'N Sync
'N Sync

N Sync was an American pop music group. The group's launch to fame was financed by the boy band mogul Lou Pearlman. Since 1995, 'N Sync has sold over 56 million records worldwide....
 
US
Space Heater
Space Heater (album)

Space Heater is the fifth album by Reverend Horton Heat, released by Interscope Records in March 1998. It music charted on the Billboard 200, reaching number 187....
 
Reverend Horton Heat
Feeling Strangely Fine
Feeling Strangely Fine

Feeling Strangely Fine is the follow up by Semisonic to 1996's Great Divide recorded at Seedy Underbelly Studio, Minneapolis, Minnesota....
 
Semisonic
Semisonic

Semisonic is an alternative rock Band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota in 1995 . The band consists of three members: Dan Wilson , John Munson , and Jacob Slichter ....
 
Guilty 'til Proved Innocent!
Guilty 'til Proved Innocent!

Guilty 'til Proved Innocent! is an album by The Specials, released in 1998 . It is the first studio album of new songs by the group since 1984....
 
The Specials
The Specials

The Specials are an England 2 Tone ska revival Musical ensemble formed in 1977 in Coventry. They have had Chart-topper in the United Kingdom, and their music is featured in film and television soundtracks....
 
26 The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds is a compilation album from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It was released in 1998, following The Boatman's Call ....
 
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian Rock music band with multinational personnel, fronted by Nick Cave....
 
Compilation
31 Night Versions: The Essential Duran Duran
Night Versions: The Essential Duran Duran

Night Versions: The Essential Duran Duran is a compilation album of remixes by Duran Duran. From the very beginning of their career, the band had dubbed the extended dance remixes of their songs "night versions", as they were intended for play in nightclubs....
 
Duran Duran
Duran Duran

Duran Duran are an English music group from Birmingham, United Kingdom. They were one of the most commercially successful of the 1980s bands and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States....
 
Remix
Sunburn
Sunburn (album)

Sunburn is the debut/first full-length album by the band Fuel released in 1998. The songs "Shimmer", "Jesus or a Gun", and "Bittersweet" were released as singles....
 
Fuel
Fuel (band)

Fuel is an American Rock music Musical ensemble formed by guitarist/songwriter Carl Bell and bassist Jeff Abercrombie in 1989. Originally known as Small the Joy, they changed the group's name to Fuel sometime in 1994....
 
Moment of Truth Gang Starr
Gang Starr

Gang Starr was an influential East Coast hip hop group that consisted of Guru and DJ Premier. The group was known mainly for their unique style, which combines elements of New York swing jazz and hip hop music....
 
12 Bar Blues
12 Bar Blues (album)

12 Bar Blues is the debut solo album from Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland. Its sound and style differs greatly from his band's releases....
 
Scott Weiland
Scott Weiland

Not to be confused with Scott WeingerScott Weiland is an United States musician, lyricist, and vocalist, most notably known for his work with Grammy Award-winning United States rock band Stone Temple Pilots , and also for his five-year career with Supergroup Velvet Revolver....
 
In the Line of Fire
In the Line of Fire (album)

In the Line of Fire is a debut album by Hussein Fatal in 1998.Track listingAlbum Chart Positions...
 
Hussein Fatal
Hussein Fatal

Hussein Fatal is an American gangsta rap artist....
 


April

DayAlbumArtistNotes
6 Now That's What I Call Music! 39 (UK series) Various Artists Compilation
7 King Biscuit Flower Hour: Bachman-Turner Overdrive
King Biscuit Flower Hour: Bachman-Turner Overdrive

King Biscuit: Bachman-Turner Overdrive recorded live in Chicago, March 8, 1974 ...
 
Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Bachman-Turner Overdrive is a Canadian rock group from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that enjoyed a string of hit albums and singles in the 1970s, selling over 7 million albums just in that decade....
 
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Thrills
Thrills (album)

Thrills is an album created by Andrew Bird. It was released on April 7, 1998 on the Rykodisc label. It is the first Andrew Bird album released with Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire....
 
Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird

Andrew Bird is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He was born in Chicago and currently splits his time between Chicago and a farm near the town of Elizabeth, Illinois in northwest Illinois....
 
Boggy Depot
Boggy Depot

Boggy Depot is the debut album solo album by Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell. It was released on April 7, 1998 through Columbia Records....
 
Jerry Cantrell
Jerry Cantrell

Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with the Alternative metal band Alice in Chains, as guitarist and co-lyricist....
 
Elemental
Elemental (The Fixx album)

Elemental is the seventh studio album by Great Britain new wave music band The Fixx, released in 1998....
 
The Fixx
The Fixx

The Fixx are an England New Wave music band. They are one of the few bands to have enjoyed significant success outside their country of origin, notably in the United States and Canada, yet remain almost unknown in their home land....
 
Still Standing
Still Standing (album)

Still Standing is the second studio album from the Dirty South, Dungeon Family-affiliated hip hop music quartet Goodie Mob. All of the original members are still together for this album....
 
Goodie Mob
Goodie Mob

Goodie Mob is a hip hop music act based in Atlanta, Georgia. Members Cee-Lo , Khujo , T-Mo , and Big Gipp make up the group, which has been functioning since 1995....
 
Lacuna Coil
Lacuna Coil (EP)

Lacuna Coil is an Extended play by the Italy rock music band Lacuna Coil, released on April 7, 1998, by Century Media....
 
Lacuna Coil
Lacuna Coil

Lacuna Coil is an Italy gothic metal band from Milan, Italy, formed in 1994. Formerly known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal, the band was inspired by the combination of Gothic aesthetics imagery and music, and the members have been known, musically, for composing midtempo songs consisting of guitar lines overlaid with prominent key...
 
EP
www.pitchshifter.com
Www.pitchshifter.com

www.pitchshifter.com is an album by the United Kingdom industrial music band Pitchshifter , released in 1998. It was their first major label album, and was sonically a departure from previous albums with a more cleaner sounding production as well as lacking crunchy metal-laden riffs; the album also has more traditional song structures, a...
 
Pitchshifter
Pitchshifter (band)

Pitchshifter are a British heavy metal music / industrial metal band from Nottingham.Originally known as Pitch Shifter, the band was started by Johnny A....
 
The Wake of Magellan
The Wake of Magellan

The Wake of Magellan is a concept album by Savatage and is based on two real life events. The first, the Maersk Dubai incident, occurred less than a year before this album was released when the captain of a freighter threw three Romanian stowaways overboard in the middle of the Atlantic....
 
Savatage
Savatage

Savatage is a progressive metal band founded by the brothers Jon Oliva and Criss Oliva in 1978 at Astro Skate in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Although they were known mainly as a progressive metal band, their origins could be attributed to classic Heavy metal music, as expressed by their debut album, Sirens ....
 
Darkest Days
Darkest Days

Darkest Days is the third album released on Columbia Records by industrial rock band Stabbing Westward. The album was recorded in Los Angeles in 1997 and released in April 1998....
 
Stabbing Westward
Stabbing Westward

Stabbing Westward was an American industrial rock and alternative rock band. They formed in 1985 in Chicago, Illinois and began recording in the 1990s....
 
Crossroads and Illusions
Crossroads and Illusions

Crossroads & Illusions is a 5 song CD Extended play/3 song 7" vinyl Extended play by the punk music band, Strung Out with Fat Wreck Chords. The album was released on April 7, 1998 as a pre release for eager fans who were waiting for the full length version, Twisted by Design....
 
Strung Out
Strung Out

Strung Out is a punk music band from Simi Valley, California, United States formed in 1992. They are known mainly for their musical style, which fuses aspects of punk rock and Heavy metal music to form their primary sound....
 
EP
Battle Hymns
Battle Hymns (Suicide Machines album)

Battle Hymns is the second album by the Detroit, Michigan punk rock band The Suicide Machines, released in 1998 by Hollywood Records. It was the band's last album with drummer Derek Grant, who left the group the following year....
 
The Suicide Machines
The Suicide Machines

The Suicide Machines were an United States punk rock band formed in March 1991 in Detroit, Michigan and disbanded in May of 2006. During the course of their career the band released six full-length albums on the labels Hollywood Records and Side One Dummy Records....
 
12 Light Fuse, Get Away
Light Fuse, Get Away

Light Fuse, Get Away is the first live album released by the Athens, GA based band Widespread Panic. It was first released by Capricorn Records on April 12, 1998....
 
Widespread Panic
Widespread Panic

Widespread Panic is an United States band from Athens, Georgia. The current lineup includes guitarist/singer John Bell , bassist Dave Schools, drummer Todd Nance, percussionist Domingo "Sunny" Ortiz, keyboardist John Hermann, and guitarist Jimmy Herring....
 
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14 When Forever Comes Crashing
When Forever Comes Crashing

When Forever Comes Crashing is an album by Massachusetts, USA, band Converge . Originally released in 1998, the album was re-issued in 2005 with a bonus track and bonus enhanced material ....
 
Converge
Converge (band)

Converge is a four-piece band from Salem, Massachusetts, Massachusetts. Playing a blend of hardcore punk and extreme metal since 1990, Converge has helped to define many of the rudiments of the metalcore genre....
 
20 Music Has the Right to Children
Music Has the Right to Children

Music Has the Right to Children is the debut album of the Scotland electronic music duo Boards of Canada. It was published by Warp Records on April 20, 1998 in Europe and August 20 in the United States....
 
Boards of Canada
Boards of Canada

Boards of Canada are a Scotland electronic music duo consisting of brothers Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin Sandison . They are signed with Warp Records and have released several works on that label with little advertising and few interviews, while also having an elusive and obscure back-catalogue of releases on their self-run Music70 labe...
 
Europe
21 Stigmata
Stigmata (album)

Stigmata is the second album by Sweden melodic death metal band Arch Enemy. The album was Arch Enemy's first to see worldwide release, in Europe and North America on Century Media Records, and in Japan again on Toy's Factory records....
 
Arch Enemy
Gallery of Suicide
Gallery of Suicide

Gallery of Suicide is the sixth album by American death metal band Cannibal Corpse. It was released in 1998 through Metal Blade Records. The cover art, done as usual by Vince Locke, is an image of a redheaded woman inflicting various wounds on herself, surrounded by people who have also mutilated themselves but are seemingly dead....
 
Cannibal Corpse
Cannibal Corpse

Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band, formed in Buffalo, New York in 1988. The band has released eleven studio albums, one boxed set, and one live album....
 
Faith
Faith (Faith Hill album)

Faith is the third album by country music artist Faith Hill, released in 1998. Due to the success of the single "This Kiss" in Australia and the UK, the album was released under the title Love Will Always Win, featuring the title track, new versions of Piece of My Heart and Let Me Let Go, as well as It Matters To Me ....
 
Faith Hill
Faith Hill

Faith Hill is an United States country music singer. She is known both for her commercial success and her marriage to fellow country star Tim McGraw....
 
Mýa
Mýa (album)

M?a is the self-titled debut studio album by United States singer M?a, released by Interscope Records on April 22, 1998 in the United States....
 
Mýa
Mya

Mya may refer to:* M?a, an American R&B/pop singer and actress* Midwest Young Artists, a comprehensive youth music program* Mya , a Italian Tv channel...
 
Dead
Dead (album)

Dead is a live album by United States death metal band Obituary . The title is a comical reference to its being a "live" album....
 
Obituary
Obituary (band)

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Walking Into Clarksdale
Walking into Clarksdale

Walking into Clarksdale is a studio album by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, both formerly of England rock band Led Zeppelin. It was released by Atlantic Records on 21 April 1998....
 
Jimmy Page
Jimmy Page

James Patrick Page Order of the British Empire is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he co-founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin....
 and Robert Plant
Robert Plant

Robert Anthony Plant Order of the British Empire , is an England Rock and Roll singer and songwriter, famous for his membership in the former rock band Led Zeppelin as the lead vocalist, as well as for his successful solo career....
 
Hey You, I Love Your Soul
Hey You, I Love Your Soul

Hey You, I Love Your Soul is the second full-length album from Christian rock band Skillet . It was released in 1998 as an enhanced CD from Forefront Records and Ardent Records....
 
Skillet
Skillet (band)

Skillet is an American christian rock band, formed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1996. The band consists of John Cooper , Korey Cooper , Ben Kasica , and Jen Ledger ....
 
Soulfly
Soulfly (album)

Soulfly is the first Long play by Heavy metal music band Soulfly released in 1998 in music through Roadrunner Records.The record was released in memory of Max's murdered stepson....
 
Soulfly
Soulfly

Soulfly is a Heavy metal music band formed in 1997 in Arizona. Soulfly is led by former Sepultura guitarist and frontman Max Cavalera, who formed the band after he left the influential Brazilian group in 1997....
 
24 Better Than Raw
Better Than Raw

Better Than Raw is the eighth studio album by Germany power metal band Helloween, released in 1998. The album contains two singles, which are "I Can " and "Hey Lord!"....
 
Helloween
Helloween

Helloween are a Germany power metal/speed metal band founded in the mid 1980s by members of Iron Fist and Powerfool. The band is known as one of the pioneering power metal bands, being part of the German Heavy metal music/speed/power metal scene that included Accept, Running Wild , Blind Guardian, Grave Digger , Sinner , and Rage ....
 
27 Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Nightfall in Middle-Earth

Nightfall in Middle-Earth is a concept album by Blind Guardian, released in 1998. It is also Blind Guardian's sixth studio album.The album is based upon J....
 
Blind Guardian
Blind Guardian

Blind Guardian is a Germany heavy metal music band formed in the mid-1980s in Krefeld, West Germany. The band is often credited as one of the seminal and most influential bands in power metal and speed metal subgenres, being part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene that included Helloween, Running Wild , Accept, Grave Digger , Sinne...
 
Mezzanine
Mezzanine (album)

Mezzanine is the third studio album by England trip hop group Massive Attack, released on April 27, 1998. It was produced by Neil Davidge along with the group....
 
Massive Attack
Massive Attack

Massive Attack are a United Kingdom trip hop group, founded in 1988 by Robert Del Naja, Daddy G, and Andrew Vowles in Bristol, England. The trio were together prior to the formation of this band, as part of The Wild Bunch ....
 
28 Capital Punishment
Capital Punishment (album)

Capital Punishment is the Grammy Nominated debut album by rapper Big Pun, recorded in 1998. The title both of this album and his follow up, Yeeeah Baby proved to be prophetic As Pun passed away In 2000, just before the release of this latter....
 
Big Pun
Big Pun

Christopher Rios , better known as Big Punisher or Big Pun, was a Puerto Ricans in the United States-United States rapping who emerged from the underground rap scene in The Bronx in the late 1990s....
 
Before These Crowded Streets
Before These Crowded Streets

Before These Crowded Streets is the third studio album by Dave Matthews Band, released on April 28, 1998. It is the last album by the group to be produced by longtime producer Steve Lillywhite and their first album recorded at Record Plant Studios in Sausalito, California....
 
Dave Matthews Band
Dave Matthews Band

Dave Matthews Band is an United States rock music band formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, Virginia in 1991. Founding members include singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bass guitar Stefan Lessard, violinist Boyd Tinsley, and drum kit Carter Beauford....
 
Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka

Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka is the debut studio album by American death metal band Nile . The album was released on April 28, 1998 through Relapse Records....
 
Nile
Nile (band)

Nile is an American death metal band from Greenville, South Carolina, South Carolina, formed in 1993. Their music and lyrics are inspired by Ancient Egyptian mysticism, history, religion, art, and stories by H....
 
Ça Va
Ça Va

?a Va is an album by Germany/United Kingdom avant-pop group Slapp Happy, recorded in London in 1997. Slapp Happy had reunited to make this album and they played all the instruments themselves....
 
Slapp Happy
Slapp Happy

Slapp Happy was a Germany/England avant-pop group consisting of Anthony Moore , Peter Blegvad and Dagmar Krause . They formed in Germany in 1972, moved to England in 1974 where they merged with Henry Cow, but the merger ended soon afterwards and Slapp Happy split up....
 
Navy Blues
Navy Blues

Navy Blues was the fourth album by Canada rock band Sloan . Released on Murderecords in 1998, it was a little heavier than their previous albums, showing an influence from 1970s rock mixed with their usual catchy, melodic, The Beatles-esque sound....
 
Sloan
Sloan (band)

Sloan is an indie pop quartet from Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia....
 
Canada
Visual Audio Sensory Theater
Visual Audio Sensory Theater

Visual Audio Sensory Theater is the debut album by the band VAST. It was released on April 28, 1998. The album mixed samples of Benedictine monks of the Abbey of Saint-Maur and Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir, with an 18-piece orchestra, guitars and electronics....
 
VAST
VAST

VAST is an United States alternative rock band based in Austin, Texas. The acronym VAST stands for Visual Audio Sensory Theater and is the main creation of singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jon Crosby....
 


May

DayAlbumArtistNotes
4 Vovin
Vovin

Vovin is an album released by the symphonic metal band Therion . It is their bestselling album, selling over 125,000 copies ....
 
Therion
Therion (band)

Therion is a Swedish Heavy metal music band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987. The word "therion" comes from the Greek language therion , meaning "Beast," i.e., that of the Christianity Book of Revelation....
 
4 Mass Nerder
Mass Nerder

Mass Nerder is the seventh album by pop punk band All . It was released on Epitaph Records in 1998....
 
ALL
ALL (band)

All is an American punk band from Fort Collins, Colorado, formed by Descendents members Bill Stevenson , Karl Alvarez, and Stephen Egerton ....
 
From the Choirgirl Hotel
From the Choirgirl Hotel

From the Choirgirl Hotel is the fourth studio album by United States singer and songwriter Tori Amos. A departure from her previous albums, it was much more lavishly produced and a very radio-friendly project featuring a full Rock and roll band sound ....
 
Tori Amos
Tori Amos

Tori Amos is a pianist and singer-songwriter of dual United Kingdom and United States citizenship. She is married to England sound engineer Mark Hawley, with whom she has one child, Natashya "Tash" L?rien Hawley, born on September 5, 2000....
 
Cruelty and the Beast
Cruelty and the Beast

Cruelty and the Beast is the third studio album by England extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. It is a concept album based on the legend of the Hungarian "blood countess" Elizabeth B?thory....
 
Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth

Cradle of Filth are an extreme metal band from Suffolk, England, formed in 1991. They have been embraced and disowned with equal fervour by various metal communities, and their particular subgenre has provoked a Cradle of Filth#Genre....
 
Sittin' on Top of the World
Sittin' on Top of the World (album)

Sittin' on Top of the World is the fourth album by American country singer LeAnn Rimes, released in the United States on May 5, 1998, by Curb Records....
 
LeAnn Rimes
LeAnn Rimes

Margaret LeAnn Rimes is an American country music singer, songwriter, and actress, who records under the name LeAnn Rimes. She is best known for her rich vocals similar to legendary country music singer Patsy Cline,...
 
A Series of Sneaks
A Series of Sneaks

A Series of Sneaks is the second album released by the band Spoon . It was released in 1998 by Elektra Records, then re-released with The Agony of Laffitte CD single tracks added on in 2002 by Merge Records....
 
Spoon
Spoon (band)

Spoon is an United States indie rock band from Austin, Texas. The band is led by Britt Daniel ; Jim Eno ; Rob Pope and Eric Harvey ....
 
5 Capital Punishment
Capital punishment

Capital punishment, the death penalty or execution, is the killing of a person by procedural law for Punishment#Retribution and Punishment#Incapacitation....
 
Big Pun
Big Pun

Christopher Rios , better known as Big Punisher or Big Pun, was a Puerto Ricans in the United States-United States rapping who emerged from the underground rap scene in The Bronx in the late 1990s....
 
Twisted by Design
Twisted by Design

Twisted by Design is Strung Out third album with Fat Wreck Chords. The album was released on May 5, 1998. The album was the last with former bassist Jim Cherry, who later died of a heart problem....
 
Strung Out
Strung Out

Strung Out is a punk music band from Simi Valley, California, United States formed in 1992. They are known mainly for their musical style, which fuses aspects of punk rock and Heavy metal music to form their primary sound....
 
Lyricist Lounge, Volume One
Lyricist Lounge, Volume One

Lyricist Lounge, Volume One is the first installment of Rawkus Records Lyricist Lounge album series, based on the Lyricist Lounge showcases in New York....
 
Various Artists Compilation
10 Heavy Mental
Heavy Mental

Heavy Mental is the debut album of United States rapper Killah Priest, an associate of hip hop music group Wu-Tang Clan and a member of the group Sunz of Man....
 
Killah Priest
Killah Priest

Walter Reed, better known as Killah Priest or simply Priest , is an United States rapping and affiliate of the hip hop culture group Wu-Tang Clan....
 
12 Version 2.0
Version 2.0

Version 2.0 is the second album by alternative rock group Garbage . It was released in worldwide in May 1998 and was the follow up to the band's Music recording sales certification debut album Garbage ....
 
Garbage
Garbage (band)

Garbage is an USA rock music group formed in Madison, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, in 1994. The band consists of Scotland vocalist Shirley Manson and American musicians Duke Erikson, Steve Marker and Butch Vig, and has counted worldwide album sales of over 14 million units....
 
3 Car Garage
3 Car Garage

3 Car Garage is the fifth album by United States pop rock group Hanson . It consists of material from their MMMBop album minus 3 tracks....
 
Hanson
Hanson (band)

Hanson is an American pop rock Band formed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma by brothers Isaac Hanson, Taylor Hanson, and Zac Hanson. They are best known for the 1997 hit song "MMMBop" from their major label debut album Middle of Nowhere that earned three Grammy nominations....
 
Compilation
5
5 (Lenny Kravitz album)

5 is the fifth studio album by United States rock musician Lenny Kravitz, released on May 12, 1998 by Virgin Records America.The album contained hits such as "Fly Away," and "I Belong To You", which helped Kravitz to expand his success in Europe....
 
Lenny Kravitz
Lenny Kravitz

Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz is a popular United States singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and arrangement whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock music, soul music, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic rock, traditional music and ballad ....
 
A Thousand Leaves
A Thousand Leaves

A Thousand Leaves is the twelfth album by Sonic Youth. It was the group's first major album to be recorded in their private Manhattan studio, dubbed Echo Canyon....
 
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American rock music rock band formed in New York City in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Mark Ibold and Steve Shelley ....
 
Traces of My Lipstick
Traces of My Lipstick

Traces of My Lipstick is the third album by American R&B band , Xscape . The album was released in the United States on May 12, 1998 under the So So Def label....
 
Xscape
Xscape (band)

Xscape is a female United States Contemporary R&B quartet that had a string of hit songs during the early and mid 1990s. The original lineup of the group consisted of sisters LaTocha Scott and Tamika Scott , along with Kandi Burruss , and Tameka Cottle ....
 
15 No Substance
No Substance

No Substance is the tenth full-length album by the punk rock band Bad Religion. It was the band's third release on Atlantic Records, and their second studio album since guitarist Brett Gurewitz's departure....
 
Bad Religion
Bad Religion

Bad Religion is an United States punk band, founded in Southern California in 1980 by Jay Bentley , Greg Graffin , Brett Gurewitz and Jay Ziskrout ....
 
18 Knights of the Cross
Knights of the Cross (album)

Knights of the Cross is an album by German heavy metal band Grave Digger released in 1998. It is a concept album about the rise and fall of the Knights Templar and the early crusades ....
 
Grave Digger
Grave Digger (band)

Grave Digger are a Germany Heavy metal music/power metal band formed in 1980. They were part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene to emerge in the early to mid 1980s, along with bands such as Helloween, Running Wild , Accept, Sinner , and Rage ....
 
19 The Black Light
The Black Light

The Black Light is the second studio album of Tucson, Arizona Indie rock band Calexico. It was released May 19, 1998 on Quarterstick Records....
 
Calexico
Calexico

Calexico is a Tucson, Arizona-based Rock music band. The band's two main members, Joey Burns and John Convertino, first played together in Los Angeles as part of the group Giant Sand....
 
How I Feel
How I Feel

How I Feel is the third studio album by Canadian country music artist Terri Clark. Released in 1998 on Mercury Records, the album produced the singles "Now That I Found You", "You're Easy on the Eyes", "Everytime I Cry", and "Unsung Hero"....
 
Terri Clark
Terri Clark

Terri Lynn Sauson , known professionally as Terri Clark, is a Canadian country music artist who has had success in both Canada and the United States....
 
Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits (DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince album)

Greatest Hits is the first compilation album by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince. The album includes several of their biggest hits including "Girls Ain't Nothing but Trouble", "Parents Just Don't Understand", and "Summertime "....
 
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince

DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince is a hip hop music group that was popular in the 1980s and 1990s. The vocalist, Will Smith , met DJ Jazzy Jeff while trying to make a name for himself in West Philadelphia's local hip hop scene....
 
Greatest Hits
Always Never the Same
Always Never the Same

Always Never the Same is the 13th studio album, and 18th overall, by United States rock music band Kansas , released in 1998 .This album is a unique studio recording, as it consists of mostly covers of the band's previous work, re-recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra....
 
Kansas
Kansas (band)

Kansas is an United States progressive rock band which became a popular arena rock group in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind"....
 
Ophelia
Ophelia (album)

Ophelia is the title of a 1998 album, film, and song by Natalie Merchant. As evidenced in the pictures in the booklet that comes with the album, Merchant seems to see Shakespeare's Ophelia as a figure encompassing many important feminine archetypes....
 
Natalie Merchant
Natalie Merchant

Natalie Anne O'Shea Merchant is a professional musician. She joined the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs in 1981 and left it to begin her solo career in 1993....
 
Bach to the Future
Bach to the Future

Album by Safri Duo, a percussion duo from Denmark. It contains works by various contemporary composers, among others Steve Reich, Per N?rg?rd and Jacob ter Veldhuis....
 
Safri Duo
Safri Duo

Safri Duo is a Denmark percussion instrument duo composed of Uffe Savery and Morten Friis . Initially classically oriented, by 1999 they were discovered by a label executive working on classical music....
 
Smokefest Underground
Smokefest Underground

Smokefest Underground is an album released by Snoop Dogg in 1998 in music. It was recorded with several labelmates and released after Snoop Dogg has left Death Row, so it has no label endorsement....
 
Snoop Doggy Dogg
Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright (album)

Rufus Wainwright is the self-titled debut album of Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright. It was released May 19, 1998 on DreamWorks Records....
 
Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright

Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is a Grammy-nominated, Canadian-American singer-songwriter. He has recorded five albums of original music, several extended play, and numerous tracks included on Compilation album and film soundtracks....
 
Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest
Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest

Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest is the third full length album released by metalcore band Zao on Solid State Records/Tooth & Nail Records. It was the first album to feature vocalist Dan Weyandt after the departure of Shawn Jonas along with new bassists/guitarists, Russ Cogdell and Brett Detar....
 
Zao
20 Steelbath Suicide
Steelbath Suicide

Steelbath Suicide is the 1998 debut full-length studio album from the melodic death metal band Soilwork. The original release has two Japanese bonus tracks, "Disintegrated Skies" and "Burn ," a Deep Purple Cover version....
 
Soilwork
Soilwork

Soilwork is a Sweden melodic death metal band from Helsingborg. They are currently signed to Nuclear Blast. Formed in late 1995, originally under the name Inferior Breed, the band changed their name in late 1996 to Soilwork ....
 
25 Angels with Dirty Faces
Angels With Dirty Faces (Tricky album)

Angels with Dirty Faces is the fourth album of Bristol, England rapper/music producer Tricky, released in 1998."Broken Homes" features England singer/songwriter PJ Harvey....
 
Tricky
Tricky

Tricky is an England musician. As a producer and a musician, he is noted for a dark, rich and layered sound and a whispering sprechgesang lyrical style....
 
26 Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation
Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation

Time Capsule: Songs For a Future Generation is a greatest hits album released by The B-52's in 1998. The album presents sixteen of their Single releases and fan-favorite album tracks in chronolgical order, with the addition of two newly-recorded songs exclusive to this collection....
 
The B-52's
The B-52's

The B-52's originated as a New Wave music rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, United States, in 1976. The band's name comes from a particular Beehive hairdo resembling the nose cone of the B-52 Stratofortress of the same name....
 
Greatest Hits
Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk

Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk, is a collection of polished studio tracks and four-track demos recorded by Jeff Buckley. Being unsatisfied with material recorded in the summer of 1996 and early in 1997, Buckley worked on many demos to reach the sound he was hoping to achieve....
 
Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley

Jeffrey Scott Buckley , raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician....
 
Don't Sweat the Technics
Don't Sweat the Technics

Don't Sweat the Technics is the debut album by the Electronic music artist Kid 606....
 
Kid 606
Navy Blues
Navy Blues

Navy Blues was the fourth album by Canada rock band Sloan . Released on Murderecords in 1998, it was a little heavier than their previous albums, showing an influence from 1970s rock mixed with their usual catchy, melodic, The Beatles-esque sound....
 
Sloan
Sloan (band)

Sloan is an indie pop quartet from Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia....
 
US


June

DayAlbumArtistNotes
1 Let It Ride
Let it Ride (album)

Let It Ride is the third studio album by the United Kingdom band Shed Seven, released in 1998. The album spawned 4 hit singles for the band with Chasing Rainbows, She Left Me On Friday, The Heroes and Devil In Your Shoes all placing in the Top 40 of the UK Charts....
 
Shed Seven
Shed Seven

Shed Seven are an England indie rock band from York and were one of the groups that contributed to the Britpop music scene that evolved during the 1990s, yet never received the degree of mainstream success achieved by bands such as Oasis and Blur ....
 
2 Cold
Cold (album)

Cold is the debut album by American alternative metal band Cold . It preceded the band's breakthrough success into the mainstream hard rock scene....
 
Cold
Cold (band)

Cold is an American rock music band, formed in 1996 in Jacksonville, Florida. With the release of their debut Cold , in 1998, the band quickly became known for its pain-filled lyrics and vocalist Scooter Ward's distinctive voice....
 
Abandon
Abandon (album)

Abandon is an album by Deep Purple released in 1998.The album title is actually a pun from Ian Gillan - "A Band On" - and the album was followed by the "A Band On Tour"....
 
Deep Purple
Deep Purple

Deep Purple are an English Rock music band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of Heavy metal music and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorize themselves as any one genre....
 
Gloria!
Gloria!

gloria! is the eighth studio album released by United States singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan, released in 1998 by Epic Records ....
 
Gloria Estefan
Gloria Estefan

Gloria Estefan is a Grammy Award-winning American singer and songwriter. She is in the top 100 of best selling music artists with over 90 million albums sold worldwide, with 26.5 million in the United States alone....
 
Rant And Roar
Rant and Roar

Rant and Roar is an album by Great Big Sea. Released in 1998 only to the USA, it is a compilation of some of the tracks from Up and Play also by Great Big Sea....
 
Great Big Sea
Great Big Sea

Great Big Sea is a Canada folk-rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, best known for performing energetic rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs including sea shanty, which draw from the island's 500-year-old Irish, English, and French heritage....
 
Compilation
BBC Sessions The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience

The Jimi Hendrix Experience was an English/American rock music band that formed in London in 1966. Originally comprising American vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Jimi Hendrix, bassist and backing vocalist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, the band was active until 1969, in which time they released three successful studio albums....
 
Compilation
Munki
Munki

Munki is the final studio album released by The Jesus and Mary Chain. After leaving Blanco y Negro, the Reid brothers signed to Sub Pop in the U.S....
 
The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Jesus and Mary Chain

The Jesus and Mary Chain are a Scottish alternative rock band formed in East Kilbride in 1983. The band revolves around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim Reid and William Reid ....
 
MP Da Last Don
MP Da Last Don

MP Da Last Don is a multi-platinum album by Master P. It debuted at number-one on the Billboard Top 200 charts selling almost 110,000 copies in the first week....
 
Master P
Master P

Percy Miller , formerly known as Master P, is an American entertainer and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of P. Miller Enterprises, an entertainment and financial Conglomerate and Better Black TV....
 
Shut 'Em Down
Shut 'Em Down

Shut 'Em Down is the third album from hardcore hip hop group Onyx . The album marked the group's highest debut on the Billboard 200 at #10....
 
Onyx
Onyx (band)

Onyx is a Hip hop music group from New York City. Originally formed in 1988 by Fredro Starr, Sonsee, the late Marlon Fletcher, the group later added Sticky Fingaz, Starr's cousin, in 1991, managed by Diamond Cut Entertainment's Milton Lynch....
 
RFTC
RFTC

RFTC is an album by the San Diego, California rock music band Rocket from the Crypt, released in 1998 by Interscope Records. It was the band's second major-label release....
 
Rocket from the Crypt
Rocket from the Crypt

Rocket from the Crypt was an American rock music band led by John Reis, formed in 1990 in San Diego, California and disbanded in 2005. Of Reis' many musical endeavors, Rocket from the Crypt were the most successful and most internationally recognized....
 
Adore The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins

The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. While the group has gone through several lineup changes, The Smashing Pumpkins consisted of Billy Corgan , James Iha , D'arcy Wretzky , and Jimmy Chamberlin for most of the band's recording career....
 
8 The Good Will Out
The Good Will Out

The Good Will Out is the debut album by England Rock music Musical ensemble Embrace , first released in 1998 .The album achieved critical acclaim as well as success in terms of sales, going gold on its first day of release, becoming one of the fastest-ever-selling debut albums by a British artist, and going on to sell over 500,000 copie...
 
Embrace
Embrace (UK band)

Embrace are an England rock band from Brighouse and Bradford in West Yorkshire. To date they have released five studio albums, one Single album and one b-sides compilation....
 
UK
9 Never Say Never
Never Say Never (album)

Never Say Never is the second studio album by United States singer Brandy Norwood, released by Atlantic Records on June 8, 1998 in Europe and on June 9, 1998 in North America....
 
Brandy
Brandy (entertainer)

Brandy Rayana Norwood , known professionally as Brandy, is an American contemporary R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, fashion model, actress, television personality, and film producer....
 
Left of Cool
Left of Cool

Left of Cool was the fifth studio album released by B?la Fleck and the Flecktones, released in 1998. It is the first album to feature Jeff Coffin, who joined the band to replace Howard Levy....
 
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones

B?la Fleck and the Flecktones is a multi-Grammy winning, primarily instrumental group from the USA, that draws equally on bluegrass music, jazz fusion and jazz, sometimes dubbed "blu-bop." The band formed in 1988, initially to perform once on the PBS series Lonesome Pine Specials....
 
Premonition
Premonition (John Fogerty album)

Premonition is a 1998 is a live CD and DVD by John Fogerty. He performs both songs by his earlier band, Creedence Clearwater Revival, as well as songs composed during his period as a solo artist....
 
John Fogerty
John Fogerty

John Cameron Fogerty is an United States Rock music singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for his time with the swamp rock/roots rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival....
 
Live
F?A?8
F?a?8

F?A?8 is the debut album of the Canada post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor . It was released twice, first in 1997 by Constellation Records and then again in 1998 by Kranky Records....
 
Godspeed You Black Emperor! re-issue
Look My Way Madball
Madball

Madball is a New York-based band that originated in the late 1980s, as a side-project of Agnostic Front ....
 
Payton's Place
Payton's Place

Payton's Place is a jazz album released in 1998 by trumpet player Nicholas Payton....
 
Nicholas Payton
Nicholas Payton

Nicholas Payton is a Neo-bop jazz trumpet player from New Orleans, Louisiana.The son of double bass and sousaphone Walter Payton , he took up the trumpet at the age of four and by the time he was nine he was playing in the Young Tuxedo Brass Band alongside his father....
 
Diabolus in Musica
Diabolus in Musica

Diabolus in Musica is the seventh studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer. Released on June 9, 1998, it is the second studio album to feature drummer Paul Bostaph....
 
Slayer
Slayer

Slayer is an American thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California, formed in 1981. The band was founded by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King....
 
The Devil's Bris
The Devil's Bris

The Devil's Bris is the debut album by the dark cabaret/darkwave artist Voltaire , released in 1998 . It was released in 1998 by Projekt Records....
 
Voltaire
Voltaire (musician)

Voltaire , is a Cuban-American musician popular in the Goth subculture. He takes his stage name from the pen name of the famous French Enlightenment writer Voltaire....
 
15 Try Whistling This
Try Whistling This

Try Whistling This is the debut solo album released in 1998 by New Zealand singer/songwriter Neil Finn. The Japanese version of the album has a bonus track called "Tokyo", which also appears on the UK release of the single Sinner....
 
Neil Finn
Neil Finn

Neil Mullane Finn, Order of British Empire is a singer and songwriter and one of New Zealand's foremost popular musicians. He is the frontman for Crowded House and previously for Split Enz....
 
Solo debut
Vertical Man
Vertical Man

Vertical Man is Ringo Starr's eleventh studio album, issued in 1998. The release represents Starr's attempt at a comeback following the enormous success of The Beatles Anthology project....
 
Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr

Richard Starkey Order of the British Empire , better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an England musician, singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the drummer for The Beatles....
 
16 Aaron Carter
Aaron Carter (album)

Aaron Carter is the self-titled debut album of Aaron Carter, brother of Backstreet Boys Nick Carter . It was originally released in December 1997 in Europe and re-released the next year with a new song and a remix, as well as being released in the United States....
 
Aaron Carter
Aaron Carter

Aaron Carter is an American singer. He is the younger brother of singer Nick Carter , from the boy band Backstreet Boys. He came to fame as a pop music and hip hop music singer in the late-1990s, establishing himself as a star among preteen and teenage audiences during the early-2000s....
 
US; released in Europe Dec. '97
Powertrip
Powertrip

Powertrip is a studio album by Monster Magnet, released on June 16, 1998. The album was a big success for the band, which launched them into the mainstream due largely to the hit single, "Space Lord"....
 
Monster Magnet
Monster Magnet

Monster Magnet is an United States hard rock band. Hailing from Red Bank, New Jersey, New Jersey, the group was founded by Dave Wyndorf , John McBain , Tom Diello , and Tim Cronin ....
 
The Philosopher's Stone
The Philosopher's Stone (album)

For the Harry Potter book, see Harry Potter and the Philosopher's StoneThe Philosopher's Stone is a compilation album by Northern Ireland singer-songwriter Van Morrison released in 1998 ....
 
Van Morrison
Van Morrison

George Ivan Morrison Order of the British Empire is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician since the late 1950s....
 
Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo
Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo

Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo is the fourth studio album released by the United States Christian punk band MxPx in 1998. The album title was taken from a letter that a fan had written to the band, complaining that the band was changing, and, "Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo"....
 
MxPx
MxPx

MxPx is a pop punk band that officially formed in Bremerton, Washington, Washington, United States as teenagers. The band has recorded eight studio albums, four Extended play, four compilation albums, a live album, a VHS tape, a DVD and released 20 singles....
 
Look What You Did to Me
Look What You Did to Me

Look What You Did to Me is the debut album by Z-Ro....
 
Z-Ro
Z-Ro

Joseph W. McVey, better known by his stage name Z-Ro, is an United States rapper. He has built a reputation as a Southern hip hop, though this has not developed into widespread popularity outside of the southern United States....
 
22 Alternative 4
Alternative 4 (album)

Alternative 4 is an album by the United Kingdom Rock music band Anathema . It was released on June 22 1998 through Peaceville Records. Unlike previous Anathema albums, Alternative 4 is sung with clean vocals....
 
Anathema
Anathema (band)

Anathema are an England band from the city of Liverpool, which, together with Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride, helped to develop the Death/Doom sound, a subgenre of doom metal....
 
5ive
5ive (album)

5ive is the debut album by England boy band group Five , released in 1998 , selling over 3 million copies worldwide including over 1 million copies in the United States alone....
 
Five
Five (band)

Five is a British 5-member pop group put together in 1997 by the same team that formed the Spice Girls. Signed by Simon Cowell, they enjoyed fair success worldwide, but particularly in the UK, parts of Europe, Russia, parts of Asia, Brazil, Israel, Australia, New Zealand and USA....
 
UK
Genesis Archive 1967-75
Genesis Archive 1967-75

Genesis Archive 1967-75 is a 1998 boxed set by veteran progressive rock band Genesis .This retrospective set covers the band's classic years when Peter Gabriel was lead singer....
 
Genesis
Genesis (band)

Genesis are an English rock music band formed in 1967. With approximately 150 million albums sold worldwide, Genesis are among the top 30 List of best-selling music artists....
 
Box Set
Bootlegged in Japan
Bootlegged in Japan

Bootlegged in Japan is a live album from the 5 August 1996 concert at the Liquid Rooms, Tokyo, Japan by Napalm Death. It was recorded as a bootleg and after the band received the recording, they found it was good enough to release it as an actual and official live album....
 
Napalm Death
Napalm Death

Napalm Death are an English death metal band from Birmingham, formed in 1981. They are noted for being the first band to play the style known as grindcore....
 
Live
23 Mermaid Avenue
Mermaid Avenue

Mermaid Avenue is a 1998 album of previously unheard lyrics written by United States folk music singer Woody Guthrie, put to music written and performed by United Kingdom singer Billy Bragg and the American band Wilco....
 
Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg

Stephen William Bragg , better known as Billy Bragg, is an England musician who blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs....
 and Wilco
Wilco

Wilco is an American Rock music band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar's departure....
 
CPR CPR
CPR (band)

CPR or Crosby, Pevar & Raymond is a rock/jazz band that consists of members David Crosby , session guitarist Jeff Pevar, and pianist James Raymond , Crosby's son....
 
Midwestern Songs of the Americas
Midwestern Songs of the Americas

Midwestern Songs of the Americas is an album released by the punk rock band Dillinger Four.Track listing# "O.K. F.M. D.O.A." ? 3:10...
 
Dillinger Four
Dillinger Four

Dillinger Four is an United States punk rock band formed in 1994 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota. They have released four full-length studio albums....
 
Time
Time (Lionel Richie album)

Time is Lionel Richie's fifth studio album, which was released on June 23 1998....
 
Lionel Richie
Lionel Richie

Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. is an Academy Award and Grammy award-winning United States singer, songwriter, record producer who has sold more than 100 million records....
 
Stand by Your Van
Stand by Your Van

Stand by Your Van is a live album by the band Sublime . Tracks 1-11 were recorded live at Kommotion, San Francisco, on 9th of September, 1994....
 
Sublime
Sublime (band)

Sublime is an American ska-punk band that originated in Long Beach, California. Founded in 1988, Sublime consisted of Bradley Nowell , Bud Gaugh and Eric Wilson ....
 
Live
Occupational Hazard
Occupational Hazard

Occupational Hazard is the fourth studio album by noise rock band Unsane, released on June 23, 1998 under Relapse Records. The song "Committed" is featured on the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater soundtrack....
 
Unsane
Unsane

Unsane is a New York City rock music trio, formed in 1988.They are generally classified as noise rock, but their music also touches on elements of hardcore punk and heavy metal music....
 
Hitler Bad, Vandals Good
Hitler Bad, Vandals Good

Hitler Bad, Vandals Good is the seventh studio album by the southern California punk rock band The Vandals, released in 1998 by Nitro Records....
 
The Vandals
The Vandals

The Vandals are an United States rock music rock band established in 1980 in Huntington Beach, California. Forming as part of the List of musicians in the second wave of punk music of American punk rock, the band has released ten full-length studio albums and two live albums and have toured the world extensively, including performances on the...
 
30 Something's Gotta Give
Something's Gotta Give (Agnostic Front album)

Something's Gotta Give is the fifth full-length studio album from New York hardcore band, Agnostic Front. It was released in June, 1998 on Epitaph Records and follows 1995's Raw Unleashed compilation album....
 
Agnostic Front
Agnostic Front

Agnostic Front is an American hardcore punk band that formed in New York City in 1980. The band began playing hardcore punk similar to bands like Black Flag and Negative Approach, and were thrust to the forefront of the burgeoning New York hardcore scene in the mid-1980s with their widely regarded 1984 in music classic Victim in Pain bef...
 
Behind the Front
Behind the Front

Behind the Front is the debut album by the Black Eyed Peas, released in 1998 in music....
 
Black Eyed Peas
Static
Static (Bleach album)

Static is the second full-length album by the Christian rock band Bleach . It was released in 1998 under Forefront Records....
 
Bleach
Bleach (band)

Bleach was a Nashville, Tennessee-based Christian rock band that formed at Kentucky Christian University, in Grayson, Kentucky. Formed in 1995, Bleach originally went by the name Muffin....
 
Carry On
Carry On (Crosby, Stills & Nash album)

Carry On is a Crosby, Stills & Nash import album released on June 30, 1998 on the WEA International label. With two discs and 36 tracks, it is a shorter version of the CSN ....
 
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young)

Crosby, Stills & Nash are a folk rock/rock and roll Supergroup made up of David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, also known as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young when joined by occasional fourth member Neil Young....
 
Comin' Atcha!
Comin' Atcha!

Comin' Atcha is the debut album from British girlgroup Cleopatra , Released June 30, 1998 by Warner Music Group which had 3 top 5 hits "Cleopatra's Theme", "Life Ain't Easy" and "I Want You Back" and 1 top 30 Touch Of Love....
 
Cleopatra
Cleopatra (band)

Cleopatra are a music recording sales certification selling, BRIT Awards and MOBO Awards nominationed Contemporary R&B/pop music girl group from the United Kingdom whose members are sisters Cleo Higgins, Yonah, and Zainam Higgins....
 
Live at the Jazz Cafe
Live At The Jazz Café

Live at the Jazz Caf? is a live album released in 1998 by ProjeKct One, a side project of King Crimson. Live at the Jazz Caf? was released as part of the 1999 box set The ProjeKcts....
 
D'Angelo
D'Angelo

Michael D'Angelo Archer , better known by his stage name D'Angelo, is a Grammy Award winning United Statessoul music singing, pianist, guitarist, songwriter, and record producer....
 
Live
El Niño
El Niño (album)

El Ni?o is the first album by hip hop Supergroup Def Squad. The three Def Squad members, Redman, Erick Sermon and Keith Murray , released this album to positive critical and commercial feedback ....
 
Def Squad
Def Squad

Def Squad is a Hip hop music Supergroup consisting of Erick Sermon, Redman & Keith Murray . Jamal Phillips is considered an honorary member of the Def Squad....
 
808:88:98
808:88:98

808:88:98 is a greatest hits compilation by 808 State....
 
808 State
808 State

808 State are an English electronic music outfit formed in 1988 in Manchester, taking their name from the Roland TR-808 drum machine and the "state of mind" shared by the members....
 
Greatest Hits
The Best Of
The Best Of (James album)

The Best Of is the first of four compilation album by England band James .Track listing# "Come Home "# "Sit Down"# "She's a Star"...
 
James
James (band)

James are an England Rock music band from Manchester. They formed in 1981 and were active throughout the 80s, but most successful during the 90s....
 
Compilation
Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra
Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra

Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra is an album released in 1998 by Yngwie J. Malmsteen on Spitfire Records. It was his first attempt at a classical concerto suite featuring electric guitar solos....
 
Yngwie Malmsteen
Ruthless for Life
Ruthless for Life

Ruthless for Life is MC Ren's fourth solo album. It's also his first album working with a new producer. The album includes many well known guest artists, including Snoop Doggy Dogg, Ice Cube, Eightball & MJG and RBX....
 
MC Ren
MC Ren

Lorenzo Jerald Patterson , better known by his stage name MC Ren, is a rapper who formed part of the group N.W.A....
 
Step Up to the Microphone
Step Up to the Microphone

Step Up to the Microphone is the seventh studio album by Contemporary Christian Music pop rock band Newsboys, released in 1998 in music. It was the Newsboys first album following the departure of lead singer John James in 1997, as well as their first release on a major label, the EMI-owned Sparrow Records....
 
Newsboys
Newsboys

Newsboys is a Grammy Award-nominated Christian pop rock band . The band was formed in Australia in 1985 and has been one of the most popular and best-selling Christian music artists of the past two decades....
 
Major label debut
Live & Rare
Live & Rare

Live & Rare is a compilation of live and rare performances written and performed by Rage Against the Machine, released only in Japan in 1998....
 
Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine

Rage Against the Machine is an American Rock music band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1991. The band's lineup, unchanged since formation, consists of vocalist Zack de la Rocha, guitarist Tom Morello, bassist Tim Commerford, and drummer Brad Wilk....
 
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Life Won't Wait
Life Won't Wait

Life Won't Wait is the fourth album by the American punk rock band Rancid . It was released on June 30, 1998 on Epitaph Records and is the follow-up to the successful ...And Out Come the Wolves....
 
Rancid
Rancid (band)

Rancid is an American punk band formed in 1991 in Albany, California, by Matt Freeman and Tim Armstrong, both of whom previously played in ska punk group Operation Ivy ....
 
The Blue Cafe
The Blue Cafe

The Blue Cafe is a 1998 album by Chris Rea....
 
Chris Rea
Chris Rea

Christopher Anton Rea is a singer-songwriter from Middlesbrough, England, recognisable for his distinctive, raspy voice. Rea has sold over 30 million albums worldwide....
 
System of Down
System of a Down (album)

System of a Down is the eponymous debut album by System of a Down, first released in 1998. The album was certified gold certification by the RIAA on February 2, 2000....
 
System of a Down
System of a Down

System of a Down is an American rock music band, from Glendale, California, formed in 1994 . System of a Down consisted of Serj Tankian , Daron Malakian , Shavo Odadjian , and John Dolmayan , the band has released five albums since 1998....
 
Debut
Punk-O-Rama Vol. 3
Punk-O-Rama Vol. 3

Punk-O-Rama III is the third compilation album in the Punk-O-Rama series.This entry features two previously unreleased tracks, "We Threw Gasoline on the Fire and Now We Have Stumps for Arms and No Eyebrows" by NOFX and "Wake Up" by Pennywise ....
 
Various Artists Compilation


July

DayAlbumArtistNotes
7 Destroy What Destroys You
Destroy What Destroys You

Destroy What Destroys You is an album by Miami ska punk-punk rock band Against All Authority. The recording took place in May 1995, done only by the band without any affiliation to any label or studio....
 
Against All Authority
Against All Authority

Against All Authority is an American rock music rock band, formed in Florida in 1992. Playing in the ska punk style, their business practice follows a stringent DIY ethic....
 
Stunt
Stunt (album)

Stunt is the fifth full-length album and fourth studio album by Barenaked Ladies. By far their most successful album, it entered the US charts at #3 and sold over 4 million units by the end of its chart run....
 
Barenaked Ladies
Barenaked Ladies

Barenaked Ladies is a Juno Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated Canada alternative rock band. The band is composed of Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, Tyler Stewart, and formerly Andy Creeggan and Steven Page....
 
Something Wicked This Way Comes Iced Earth
Iced Earth

Iced Earth is an United States Heavy metal music band from Tampa, Florida, Florida that combines influences from thrash metal, power metal, progressive metal, opera, speed metal and New Wave of British Heavy Metal....
 
Burn Out
Burn Out

Burn Out is the second album by christian pop punk band Slick Shoes, released in 1998....
 
Slick Shoes
Slick Shoes

Slick Shoes is a pop punk band with Christian origins from Southern California. Their name comes from the hit 1985 movie, The Goonies, 'slick shoes' being one of the character Data's many gadgets....
 
Visions of Europe
Visions of Europe

Visions of Europe is a live album by the Finland power metal band Stratovarius. The album was recorded in Italy and Greece....
 
Stratovarius
Stratovarius

Stratovarius is a Finland power metal band that formed in 1983. Their material contains elements of power metal and symphonic metal....
 
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14 Flowers
Flowers (Ace of Base album)

Flowers is the third album by Swedish pop music group, Ace of Base. It was released on July 14, 1998 in Europe, Asia, and Africa, and August 10 in the United Kingdom....
 
Ace of Base
Ace of Base

Ace of Base is a Pop music band from Gothenburg, Sweden, comprising Ulf Ekberg and siblings Jonas Berggren and Jenny Berggren. They released their debut album in 1993 and went on to sell more than 30 million albums worldwide, topping the charts with hits such as "All That She Wants" and "The Sign"....
 
Hello Nasty
Hello Nasty

Hello Nasty is the fifth studio album by the Beastie Boys. It was released on July 14, 1998.The album sold 681,000 copies in its first week and debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 album sales chart....
 
Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys

Beastie Boys are an American hip hop music group from New York City consisting of Michael Diamond, Adam Yauch, and Adam Horovitz. Since around the time of the Hello Nasty album, the DJ for the group has been Mix Master Mike, who was first featured in the song "Three MC's and One DJ"....
 
Across a Wire: Live in New York City
Across a Wire: Live in New York City

Across a Wire: Live in New York City is the third album released by Counting Crows, released on July 14, 1998. It is a double-live album, featuring songs from their first two albums, August and Everything After and Recovering the Satellites ....
 
Counting Crows
Counting Crows

Counting Crows is a rock band originating from Berkeley, California. The group gained popularity in 1994 following the release of its debut album August and Everything After, which featured the hit single "Mr._Jones_"....
 
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The Chemical Wedding
The Chemical Wedding

The Chemical Wedding is a heavy metal music album released in 1998 by Bruce Dickinson in collaboration with guitarist/producer Roy Z. The album draws some inspiration from the works of William Blake - of whom some paintings are featured in the artwork, as well as both sung and spoken excerpts from Blake's prophetic works - although the n...
 
Bruce Dickinson
Bruce Dickinson

Paul Bruce Dickinson is an English singer, airline Aviator, radio show host, DJ, historian, Presenter#Television presenters, diver, Fencing, record producer, novelist, and songwriter best known as the vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden....
 
5ive
5ive (album)

5ive is the debut album by England boy band group Five , released in 1998 , selling over 3 million copies worldwide including over 1 million copies in the United States alone....
 
Five
Five (band)

Five is a British 5-member pop group put together in 1997 by the same team that formed the Spice Girls. Signed by Simon Cowell, they enjoyed fair success worldwide, but particularly in the UK, parts of Europe, Russia, parts of Asia, Brazil, Israel, Australia, New Zealand and USA....
 
US
The Boy Is Mine
The Boy Is Mine (album)

The Boy Is Mine is the second studio album by United States contemporary R&B/ singer Monica , released by Arista Records on July 14, 1998 in North America and Canada at the age of 17....
 
Monica
Monica (singer)

Monica Denise Arnold , professionally known as Monica, is an American contemporary R&B singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. She debuted in 1995 under the guidance of Rowdy Records head Dallas Austin and became the youngest recording act to ever have two consecutive chart-topping hits on the U.S....
 
N.O.R.E.
N.O.R.E. (album)

N.O.R.E. is N.O.R.E.'s debut solo album. It reached number 3 in the US Billboard chart , and has achieved Platinum status. N.O.R.E. said that this is his favorite album....
 
Noreaga
N.O.R.E.

Victor Santiago Jr., better known by his stage names Noreaga and N.O.R.E., is an United States rapper, and one half of the hip hop music duo Capone-n-Noreaga....
 
Pixies at the BBC Pixies Live
Great Big Western Howdy!
Great Big Western Howdy!

A Great Big Western Howdy! is a studio recording released by the Western music band Riders in the Sky on July 14 1998. It is available as a single CD....
 
Riders in the Sky
Riders in the Sky

Riders In The Sky is a Western swing and comedy group which began performing in 1977; their style also appeals to children, and they are sometimes considered a children's music....
 
Orange Ave.
Orange Ave.

For the band, see Orange Avenue 'Orange Ave.' is the fourth studio album by American post-grunge band Seven Mary Three. It was released on July 14, 1998 on Atlantic Records....
 
Seven Mary Three
Seven Mary Three

Seven Mary Three, occasionally abbreviated to 7M3, is an United States Rock music band. They have released seven studio albums and are best known for their hit single "Cumbersome," as well as "Water's Edge" and "Wait " among others....
 
Silver Session for Jason Knuth
Silver Session for Jason Knuth

Silver Session for Jason Knuth is a 1998 Extended play by Sonic Youth. Its eight tracks consist entirely of guitar audio feedback with occasional drum machine....
 
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American rock music rock band formed in New York City in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Mark Ibold and Steve Shelley ....
 
EP
Destiny
Destiny (Stratovarius album)

Destiny is an album by the Finland power metal band Stratovarius. It is one of the band's most progressive albums....
 
Stratovarius
Stratovarius

Stratovarius is a Finland power metal band that formed in 1983. Their material contains elements of power metal and symphonic metal....
 
Phantom Power
Phantom Power (The Tragically Hip album)

Phantom Power is the sixth full-length album by Canada rock and roll musical band The Tragically Hip. The album was released in 1998 in music....
 
The Tragically Hip
The Tragically Hip

The Tragically Hip is a Canada Rock music Musical ensemble from Kingston, Ontario, consisting of Gordon Downie , Paul Langlois , Rob Baker , Gord Sinclair and Johnny Fay ....
 
The Band Geek Mafia
The Band Geek Mafia

Band Geek Mafia is the Voodoo Glow Skulls fourth full-length album. It was released on July 14, 1998 on Epitaph Records. All songs were written by Voodoo Glow Skulls except "Stranded In The Jungle", written by James Johnson and Ernestine Smith....
 
Voodoo Glow Skulls
Voodoo Glow Skulls

Voodoo Glow Skulls are an American ska punk band formed in 1988 in Riverside, California by brothers Frank, Eddie and Jorge Casillas and their longtime friend Jerry O'Neill....
 
Where Your Road Leads
Where Your Road Leads

Where Your Road Leads is the eighth studio album by country music singer Trisha Yearwood.The album reached #3 on the Billboard country albums chart....
 
Trisha Yearwood
Trisha Yearwood

Patricia Lynn Yearwood, known professionally as Trisha Yearwood is an American country music artist, best known for her series of major hits throughout the 1990s decade and into the new millennium....
 
20 Good Morning Spider
Good Morning Spider

Good Morning Spider is a 1998 album by Sparklehorse....
 
Sparklehorse
Sparklehorse

Sparklehorse is a United States rock music group led by singer and multi-instrumentalist Mark Linkous, who records much of Sparklehorse's material in his home studio....
 
UK
21 Picnic Of Love
Picnic of Love

Picnic of Love is an album released by Anal Cunt on July 21, 1998.The album was released as a joke and a parody of love songs, as well as of the band itself....
 
Anal Cunt
Anal Cunt

Anal Cunt is an United States grindcore band, originating in Newton, Massachusetts. They have been categorized as grindcore, noisecore, and Hardcore punk....
 
Volume 8: The Threat Is Real
Volume 8: The Threat Is Real

Volume 8: The Threat is Real! is the eighth studio album by United States Heavy metal music band Anthrax . The album was released in July 1998 by Ignition Records....
 
Anthrax
Anthrax (band)

Anthrax is a New York City-based Heavy metal music band that released its first full-length album in 1984. The band was one of the most popular of the 1980s thrash metal scene and is notable for being the first to combine heavy metal with Hip hop music music....
 
Super Hits
Super Hits (Byrds album)

Super Hits is a budget hits compilation released by Columbia/Legacy in 1998. It contains the Byrds' biggest hits as well as a few fan favorites....
 
The Byrds
The Byrds

The Byrds were an American Rock music band. Formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964, The Byrds underwent several lineup changes, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member until the group's disbandment in 1973....
 
Compilation
Confessions of Fire
Confessions of Fire

Confessions Of Fire is the debut album from Harlem rapping Cam'ron. It was released in July 1998, on Untertainment. Its singles were "Horse and Carriage," featuring Mase, "3-5-7" and "Feels Good" featuring Usher Raymond....
 
Cam'ron
Cam'ron

Cameron Giles better known by his stage name Cam'ron, previously known as Killa Cam, is an American rapping and actor. He is the founder of the hip hop music group The Diplomats, commonly known as Dipset....
 
Life in 1472
Life in 1472

Life in 1472 is the debut album by American producer and rapper Jermaine Dupri, released by So So Def Recordings in the United States on July 21 1998 ....
 
Jermaine Dupri
Jermaine Dupri

Jermaine Dupri, also known as JD, , is an United States record producer, rapper and Grammy winning songwriter. He is also known as Bow Wow's mentor....
 
Scraps at Midnight
Scraps at Midnight

Scraps At Midnight is the third solo album by former Screaming Trees vocalist Mark Lanegan. It was produced by Mark Lanegan and longtime collaborator Mike Johnson....
 
Mark Lanegan
Mark Lanegan

Mark Lanegan in Ellensburg, Washington, Washington) is an United States Rock music musician and songwriter. Lanegan began his music career in the 1980s, forming the Grunge music group Screaming Trees with Gary Lee Conner, Van Conner and Mark Pickerel....
 
G-Funk Classics, Vols. 1 & 2 Nate Dogg
Nate Dogg

Nathaniel Dwayne Hale , better known by his stage name Nate Dogg, is a Grammy-nominated United States R&B/hip hop music artist and singer born in Long Beach, California....
 
23 The Tour Mary J. Blige
Mary J. Blige

Mary Jane Blige is a nine-time Grammy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American R&B music singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actor who has sold more than forty eight million albums worldwide....
 
Compilation
28 The Tour Mary J. Blige
Mary J. Blige

Mary Jane Blige is a nine-time Grammy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American R&B music singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actor who has sold more than forty eight million albums worldwide....
 
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Obsolete
Obsolete (album)

Obsolete is the third full-length album released by Fear Factory on July 28, 1998. The album drops the death metal style featured on Soul of a New Machine and Demanufacture....
 
Fear Factory
Fear Factory

Fear Factory is an American heavy metal music band. The band formed in 1989 and have released seven full-length albums and a number of singles and remixes....
 
Introducing the Minutemen
Introducing the Minutemen

Introducing the Minutemen is a retrospective and relatively comprehensive compilation of songs by influential punk rock/alternative rock trio The Minutemen , compiled by bassist and notable solo artist Mike Watt twelve years after the untimely demise of the band....
 
Minutemen
Minutemen (band)

The Minutemen were an United States punk rock band formed in San Pedro, California, California in 1980. Comprising guitarist D. Boon, bassist Mike Watt and drummer George Hurley, the Minutemen recorded four albums and eight extended play before Boon's unexpected death in December 1985....
 
Compilation


August

DayAlbumArtistNotes
3 Mixes
Mixes

Mixes a.k.a. Impossible Mixes is the a remix album by Australian pop music?dance music singer Kylie Minogue. It was released by Deconstruction Records on August 3 1998 in the United Kingdom....
 
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
 
Remix; UK only
Now That's What I Call Music! 40 (UK series) Various Artists Compilation
4 Godless Savage Garden
Godless Savage Garden

Godless Savage Garden is a compilation album by Norway melodic black metal band Dimmu Borgir. It was released in 1998 by Nuclear Blast and re-released on October 3, 2006 with 2 bonus tracks....
 
Dimmu Borgir
Dimmu Borgir

Dimmu Borgir is a Norwegian symphonic black metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 1993. "Dimmu Borgir" means "Dark Cities" or "Dark Fortresses" in Icelandic language and Old Norse....
 
Compilation
Siége Perilous
Siege Perilous (album)

Si?ge Perilous is the third full-length album released by heavy metal music band Kamelot. It was released on August 4, 1998 through Noise Records ....
 
Kamelot
Kamelot

Kamelot is an United States progressive metal band from Tampa, Florida. They incorporate many elements of symphonic metal and progressive metal into their music....
 
Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg

Cordozar Calvin Broadus, Jr. , better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg , is a Grammy Award-nominated American rapper, record producer, and actor....
 
10 The Sky Is Too High
The Sky is Too High

The Sky Is Too High was the first solo album by former Blur guitarist Graham Coxon. It was released in 1998 while he was still a member of Blur....
 
Graham Coxon
Graham Coxon

Graham Leslie Coxon is an England singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and Painting. He initially came to prominence as the guitarist, backing vocalist and occasional lead vocalist of rock band Blur ....
 
Impossible Remixes
Impossible Remixes

Impossible Remixes is a remix album by Australia pop music?dance music singer Kylie Minogue. It was released by Mushroom Records on August 10 1998 in Australia only....
 
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
 
Remix; Australia only
11 Endless Harmony Soundtrack
Endless Harmony Soundtrack

Endless Harmony Soundtrack is an anthology album of previously unheard material by The Beach Boys, originally released by Capitol Records in 1998....
 
The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are an American rock band. Formed in 1961, the group gained popularity for its close harmony and lyrics reflecting a California youth culture of cars and surfing....
 
Compilation
Royal Highness
Royal Highness (album)

Royal Highness is the first full-length Album released by Orange County, California, California, rappers Kottonmouth Kings. Rappers on this album are Saint Dog, D-Loc, and Daddy X....
 
Kottonmouth Kings
Kottonmouth Kings

Kottonmouth Kings is an American Hip hop music and rap rock group from Orange County, California, California. Kottonmouth Kings officially formed in 1994, and describe themselves as "Psychedelic rock Hip hop music punk rock"....
 
Duck and Cover Mad Caddies
Mad Caddies

The Mad Caddies are a third wave ska Music group from Solvang, California. The band formed in 1995 in music and has released five full-length albums, one live album, and two Extended play's....
 
Jennifer Paige
Jennifer Paige (album)

Jennifer Paige is the debut album by Jennifer Paige, released in 1998. It launched her only international chart topping single "Crush "....
 
Jennifer Paige
Jennifer Paige

Jennifer Paige is an United States singer-songwriter who rose to stardom in the early years of teen-pop spree and is best known for her 1998 pop hit "Crush "....
 
whitechocolatespaceegg
Whitechocolatespaceegg

whitechocolatespaceegg is the third studio album by United States singer-songwriter Liz Phair, released in 1998 . The album didn't fare much better than its predecessor, Whip-Smart, and peaked at #35....
 
Liz Phair
Liz Phair

Liz Phair is an United States singer-songwriter and guitarist.Phair began her career in the early 1990s by self-releasing lo-fi audio cassettes under the moniker Girly Sound, before signing with Matador Records and becoming one of the leading artists of the 1990s DIY punk ethic indie rock underground music....
 
Rhinoplasty Primus
Primus (band)

Primus is an United States Rock music band currently composed of singer and bass guitar Les Claypool, guitarist Larry LaLonde, and drummer Tim Alexander....
 
EP
Severe Tire Damage
Severe Tire Damage (album)

Severe Tire Damage is primarily a live album by They Might Be Giants, released in 1998 . It also features a few studio tracks, including a new single ....
 
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants is a Grammy Award-winning Music of the United States alternative rock band which began as a duo of John Flansburgh and John Linnell, and currently also includes Marty Beller, Dan Miller , and Danny Weinkauf....
 
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11 Re-wind
Re-wind

Re-wind is an remix double album by Vancouver industrial music band Front Line Assembly, released in 1998....
 
Front Line Assembly
Front Line Assembly

Front Line Assembly is a Canada electro-industrial bandformed in 1986 by Bill Leeb and Michael Balch after Leeb left Skinny Puppy....
 
Remix
18 In/Casino/Out
In/Casino/Out

In/Casino/Out is the second full-length LP by At the Drive-In, released in 1998. It was recorded as a live studio album, with the intention of better capturing the energy and sound of their live shows....
 
At the Drive-In
At the Drive-In

At the Drive-In was a seminal American rock band from El Paso, Texas, Texas, that was active from 1993 to 2001. They were known for their extremely energetic stage shows which hearkened back to the 1980s post-hardcore scene....
 
Quick
Stamina Daddy

Stamina Daddy is the debut album by Jamaican dancehall reggae artist Buju Banton, released in Jamaica only during 1992 . It was later repackaged as Quick....
 
Buju Banton
Buju Banton

Buju Banton is a Jamaican dancehall, ragga, and reggae musician. He has recorded pop music and Dance music songs, as well as songs dealing with politics topics....
 
Something About Airplanes
Something about Airplanes

Something About Airplanes is the debut studio album by indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, released August 18, 1998 on Barsuk Records.Early recordings of five songs from this album can be found on the You Can Play These Songs with Chords compilation....
 
Death Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie

Death Cab for Cutie is a Grammy nominated American indie rock band formed in Bellingham, Washington, Washington in 1997. The band consists of Benjamin Gibbard , Chris Walla , Nicholas Harmer and Jason McGerr ....
 
Devil Without a Cause
Devil Without a Cause

Devil Without a Cause is Kid Rock's breakthrough album and his fourth overall. It was released in 1998 by Atlantic Records and produced by Kid Rock with John Travis....
 
Kid Rock
Kid Rock

Robert James Ritchie , known by his stage name Kid Rock, is a rapper turned singer/songwriter with five Grammy nominations. He was born in Romeo, Michigan on January 17, 1971....
 
Follow The Leader
Follow the Leader (Korn album)

Follow the Leader is the third studio album by American nu metal band Korn, the album was released on August 18, 1998....
 
Korn
Korn

'Korn' is an American rock music band from Bakersfield, California, formed in 1993. The band's catalogue consists of nine consecutive debuts in the top ten of the Billboard 200, including a compilation album, Greatest Hits, Vol....
 
Postcards from Heaven
Postcards from Heaven

Postcards From Heaven was the second album released by United Kingdom duo Lighthouse Family in 1997 on Wildcard / Polydor Records. The album produced three Top 10 hits and two Top 30 hits ....
 
Lighthouse Family
Lighthouse Family

Lighthouse Family is a United Kingdom musical duo that rose to prominence in the mid-1990s and remained active until the early 2000s. Vocalist Tunde Baiyewu and keyboard player Paul Tucker formed the act in 1993 in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom after meeting at university....
 
US
My Arms, Your Hearse
My Arms, Your Hearse

My Arms, Your Hearse is Opeth's third album, released in 1998. This album marks a large stylistic change from their previous release, Morningrise, especially production-wise....
 
Opeth
Opeth

Opeth is a Swedish heavy metal music band founded in Stockholm, in 1990. While the band has been through several personnel changes, singer, guitarist, and songwriter Mikael ?kerfeldt has remained Opeth's driving force since joining shortly after its inception....
 
Candyass
Candyass

Candyass is the debut album of the Rock music band Orgy . It was released on August 18, 1998.Track listing# "Social Enemies" ? 4:05...
 
Orgy
Orgy (band)

Orgy is a Rock music band from Los Angeles, California. Orgy describes their music as "death pop"....
 
Phoenix Rising
Phoenix Rising (Temptations album)

Phoenix Rising is a 1998 album by The Temptations for the Motown label, featuring the debut of new Temptations Barrington "Bo" Henderson, Terry Weeks, and Harry McGilberry....
 
The Temptations
The Temptations

The Temptations are an American vocal group that achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, funk , disco, soul music, and adult contemporary music....
 
Aégis
Aegis

"Aegis" is a large collar or cape worn in ancient times to display the protection provided by a high religious authority or, it is the holder of a protective shield signifying the same, such as a bag-like garment that contained a shield....
 
Theatre of Tragedy
Theatre of Tragedy

Theatre of Tragedy is a Norway band from Stavanger, originally assembled in 1992 and best known for their earlier albums, which provided a great deal of influence to the gothic metal genre....
 
20 Music Has the Right to Children
Music Has the Right to Children

Music Has the Right to Children is the debut album of the Scotland electronic music duo Boards of Canada. It was published by Warp Records on April 20, 1998 in Europe and August 20 in the United States....
 
Boards of Canada
Boards of Canada

Boards of Canada are a Scotland electronic music duo consisting of brothers Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin Sandison . They are signed with Warp Records and have released several works on that label with little advertising and few interviews, while also having an elusive and obscure back-catalogue of releases on their self-run Music70 labe...
 
US
22 I Am Not a Doctor
I Am Not a Doctor

I Am Not a Doctor is the second album from the electronica/dance music duo Moloko, released in 1998. Upon release the album received critical praise, although it was not a big seller....
 
Moloko
Moloko

Moloko were an Ireland/England electronica/pop music duo consisting of R?is?n Murphy from Wicklow, Republic of Ireland and Mark Brydon, from Sunderland, England....
 
25 Kiss the Sky
Kiss the Sky (album)

Kiss the Sky is the debut album from Tatyana Ali. It debuted at #108 and peaked at #47 in 1998. It produced three Top 45 mainstream hits and was certified Gold in early 1999....
 
Tatyana Ali
Tatyana Ali

Tatyana Marisol Ali is an American actress and R&B singer, best known for her role as List of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air characters#Ashley Banks in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air....
 
Holding This Moment
Holding This Moment

Holding This Moment is a collection of Bane early 7" releases with songs about straight edge and the hardcore punk scene....
 
Bane
Bane (band)

Bane, a hardcore punk band, began as a side project between Aaron Dalbec and Damon Bellardo. Aaron approached Matt Firestone to sing and they played under the moniker of Gateway for a few shows, before Firestone departed ways to focus on other projects....
 
Compilation
How Does Your Garden Grow?
How Does Your Garden Grow?

How Does Your Garden Grow? is Better Than Ezra's third album and their second with drummer Travis Aaron McNabb. It was released on August 25,1998 by Elektra Records....
 
Better Than Ezra
Better Than Ezra

Better Than Ezra is an United States of America alternative rock trio based in New Orleans, Louisiana....
 
Black Star
Black Star (album)

Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star is an album-length collaboration of rapper Talib Kweli and Mos Def. The album was released on August 26, 1998, to critical acclaim....
 
Black Star
Black Star (hip hop group)

Black Star is a rap group formed by MCs Mos Def and Talib Kweli. Affiliated with the group is DJ Hi-Tek, who formed producer/MC duo Reflection Eternal with Kweli for the album Train of Thought and produced a portion of Black Star ....
 
Gentleman's Blues
Gentleman's Blues

Gentleman's Blues is Cracker 's fourth album, released in 1998. It would be their final album for Virgin Records.Cracker frontman David Lowery said that the album's name arose when guitarist Johnny Hickman heard him playing a tune on the piano and observed that it sounded like an old Southern gentleman trying to play the blues....
 
Cracker
Cracker (band)

Cracker is an United States alternative rock band featuring Johnny Hickman and Camper Van Beethoven singer and guitarist David Lowery.They are best known for the hit songs "Low," "Eurotrash Girl," "Get Off This" and "Teen Angst "....
 
Use Your Illusion
Use Your Illusion

Use Your Illusion is a Guns N' Roses compilation album that is mixed from the Use Your Illusion I & Use Your Illusion II albums , and has only been released in the United States....
 
Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses

Guns N' Roses is an American Rock music band, formed in Los Angeles, California, California in 1985. The band, led by frontman and co-founder Axl Rose, has gone through numerous line-up changes and controversies since their formation....
 
Compilation
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is the debut solo album studio album by Lauryn Hill. Released August 25, 1998, the album swept the Grammy Awards in 1999, being nominated for 10 and winning five....
 
Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Noel Hill is a Grammy Award-winning American singer, rapper, musician, songwriter, record producer, and film actress. Early in her career, she established her reputation in the hip-hop world as the lone female member of The Fugees....
 
Back to Titanic
Back to Titanic

Back to Titanic is the second soundtrack album released for the Titanic , which contains a mixture of previously unreleased recordings and newly-recorded performances of the songs in the film....
 
James Horner
James Horner

James Roy Horner is an United States composer of orchestral and film music. He is noted for the integration of choral and electronic elements in many of his film scores, and for frequent use of Celtic music....
 
Soundtrack
Slow Down
Slow Down (album)

Slow Down is the third studio album by blues artist Keb' Mo' released in August 1998. In 1999, Slow Down won Keb' Mo' his second Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album....
 
Keb' Mo'
Keb' Mo'

Keb' Mo is an American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter....
 
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours is the fifth album by Wales band Manic Street Preachers. It was released in September 1998 on Epic Records, and in the United States the following year, on Virgin Records....
 
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers

Manic Street Preachers are an alternative rock band from Blackwood, Wales, formed in 1986. Often referred to as the Manics, they are James Dean Bradfield , Nicky Wire and Sean Moore ....
 
Brazil
Brazil (album)

Brazil is a live album by Australian band Men at Work, released in 1998. . This album was recorded at a live show in Brazil, hence the title....
 
Men at Work
Men at Work

Men at Work were an Australian reggae-influenced rock music band which achieved international success in the 1980s. They are the only Australian artists to have a #1 album and single simultaneously in the United States ....
 
Live
The Last Dog and Pony Show
The Last Dog and Pony Show

The Last Dog and Pony Show was the fourth solo album by former H?sker D? and Sugar vocalist Bob Mould. He wrote all 12 tracks on the album....
 
Bob Mould
Bob Mould

Bob Mould is an United States musician, principally known for his work as guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for alternative rock bands H?sker D? in the 1980s and Sugar in the 1990s....
 
Boogaloo
Boogaloo (album)

This 1998 release would be the last studio album by the Scotland rock band Nazareth until The Newz was released in February 2008.It was the last studio-recording to feature Darrell Sweet , drummer and founder member of the band....
 
Nazareth
Nazareth (band)

Nazareth are a Scottish rock music band that had several hard rock chart-topper in the mid 1970s, including the Felice and Boudleaux Bryant songwriter ballad, "Love Hurts."...
 
UK
Villa Elaine
Villa Elaine

Villa Elaine is a 1998 album by Remy Zero, and was produced for Geffen Records. After recording the album, Radiohead, who the band had toured with previously, added Remy Zero to their OK Computer tour....
 
Remy Zero
Remy Zero

Remy Zero was a Birmingham, Alabama-based alternative rock band made up of Cinjun Tate , Shelby Tate , Gregory Slay , Cedric Lemoyne , and Jeffrey Cain ....
 
US
XO
XO (album)

XO is the name of the fourth album recorded by United States singer-songwriter Elliott Smith. Smith's first work on a major label, it was released by DreamWorks Records on August 25, 1998....
 
Elliott Smith
Elliott Smith

Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, Oregon, where he first gained popularity....
 
The Three Pyramids Club
The Three Pyramids Club

The Three Pyramids Club is the second solo album by a United Kingdom singer Graham McPherson known from Two Tone band Madness . It was released in 1998 ....
 
Suggs
Suggs (singer)

Graham McPherson , better known as Suggs, is an England singing, actor, former radio station Disc jockey, television celebrity, and most famous as the frontman of the band Madness ....
 
40 Dayz & 40 Nightz
40 Dayz & 40 Nightz

40 Dayz & 40 Nightz is rapper Xzibit's second album, which was released on August 25, 1998. It is often considered Xzibit's greatest album. The album has sold 588,090 copies....
 
Xzibit
Xzibit

Alvin Nathaniel Joiner , better known by his stage name Xzibit , is an United States Rapping, actor, and Celebrity. He is also known for hosting MTV's Pimp My Ride....
 
Hellbilly Deluxe
Hellbilly Deluxe

Hellbilly Deluxe is the debut solo album by the former White Zombie singer Rob Zombie, released on August 25, 1998 in music. The album's title is pun the Dwight Yoakam album Hillbilly Deluxe ....
 
Rob Zombie
Rob Zombie

Robert Bartleh Cummings , better known by his stage name, Rob Zombie, is an American musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer....
 
27 Gorky 5
Gorky 5

Gorky 5 is the fifth album by Wales band Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, released on 27 August, 1998. It was their last album for Mercury Records and features the singles 'Let's Get Together ' and 'Sweet Johnny'....
 
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci were a Wales Alternative rock band, formed in Carmarthen, west Wales in 1991. They sang songs in both Welsh language and English language....
 
27 Fin de Siècle
Fin de Siècle (album)

Fin de Si?cle is the sixth album by The Divine Comedy , released in 1998....
 
The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy (band)

The Divine Comedy are a pop music from Northern Ireland fronted by Neil Hannon....
 
Songs for Polarbears
Songs for Polarbears

Songs for Polarbears is the debut album by the indie rock group Snow Patrol, released on August 31 1998. All lyrics were written by Gary Lightbody, and all music composed by Gary Lightbody, Mark McClelland and Jonny Quinn....
 
Snow Patrol
Snow Patrol

Snow Patrol are an Ireland alternative rock band which formed in Dundee, Scotland. They are based in Glasgow and are signed to Polydor Records....
 
UK


September

DayAlbumArtistNotes
1 Cruel Summer
Cruel Summer (Ace of Base album)

Cruel Summer is the third album by Swedish pop music group, Ace of Base. When Flowers saw the sale of three million copies after its release in Europe, Asia and Africa on July 14, 1998, Arista Records decided to release their own version of the album in the US and Japan, titled Cruel Summer....
 
Ace of Base
Ace of Base

Ace of Base is a Pop music band from Gothenburg, Sweden, comprising Ulf Ekberg and siblings Jonas Berggren and Jenny Berggren. They released their debut album in 1993 and went on to sell more than 30 million albums worldwide, topping the charts with hits such as "All That She Wants" and "The Sign"....
 
US
Don Cartagena
Don Cartagena

Don Cartagena is the third album by Fat Joe, and his first for Atlantic Records. This is Fat Joe's first album to feature a substantial amount of cameos, some of which include Nas, Big Pun, Jadakiss, Raekwon, Terror Squad, Sean Combs, and Layzie Bone....
 
Fat Joe
Fat Joe

Joseph Cartagena , better known by his stage name Fat Joe, is an United States rapper. He is of Puerto Rican people and Cuban people descent and is signed to Imperial Records....
 
The Imperial
The Imperial (album)

The Imperial was the debut album of East coast hip hop hip hop music group Flipmode Squad. Flipmode Squad was very similar to The Firm formed by Nas, which was active at the same time as Flipmode released their album....
 
Flipmode Squad
Flipmode Squad

The Flipmode Squad is a production crew and musical group, founded and fronted by rapper Busta Rhymes. The first Flipmode album debuted in 1998 in music with "The Imperial ", and Rampage and Rah Digga went on to record solo efforts....
 
Swingin' Stampede
Swingin' Stampede

Swingin' Stampede is the cover version debut album of hot jazz/western swing group The Hot Club of Cowtown....
 
Hot Club of Cowtown
Kuruption!
Kuruption!

Kuruption! is the debut solo album by Kurupt. It is a double album, one of the first in debut solo rap history, and was released on Antra Records, a label formed after Kurupt left Death Row Records....
 
Kurupt
Kurupt

Kurupt is an United States rapping and former Executive Vice President of Death Row Records. He is a member of the rap group Tha Dogg Pound, and is mostly known for his work with Death Row Records....
 
Pack Up the Cats
Pack Up the Cats

Pack Up the Cats is an album by the alternative rock band Local H. It was released on September 1, 1998, on Island Records. The album seemed that it had a chance at being successful, especially with its catchy single "All the Kids Are Right", but this changed when Polygram, the parent label of Island, merged with Universal Music, causing...
 
Local H
Local H

Local H is an American Rock music band, formed by Scott Lucas and Joe Daniels in Zion, Illinois in 1987. Local H's 1996 album, As Good as Dead is a certified gold record and includes the top 10 hit "Bound for the Floor"....
 
7 The Boy with the Arab Strap
The Boy with the Arab Strap

The Boy with the Arab Strap is the third album from the Scotland band Belle & Sebastian, and has been called their best album. The instrumental of the title track "The Boy with the Arab Strap" was later used as the theme tune for the television show Teachers ....
 
Belle & Sebastian
Belle & Sebastian

Belle and Sebastian are an indie pop band formed in Glasgow, Scotland in January 1996. They are one of the best-known Scottish bands and are one of the most celebrated groups of the 1990s in music....
 
Six
Six (album)

Six was the second album by England rock and roll band Mansun.Six was released in the US on April 20, 1999, but with an alternative running order, different artwork, and the re-recorded single version of the title track....
 
Mansun
Mansun

Mansun were an England indie band formed in Chester in 1995. The band comprised vocalist/rhythm guitarist Paul Draper , bassist Stove King, lead guitarist/backing vocalist Dominic Chad, and drummer Andie Rathbone....
 
UK
Internationalist
Internationalist (album)

Internationalist is the third studio album by Australian alternative rock rock band, Powderfinger. The album was released on 7 September 1998 and was often labelled Powderfinger's most adventurous work, with greater experimentation than in previous works....
 
Powderfinger
Powderfinger

Powderfinger is an Australian rock band. The band formed in Brisbane in 1989, and since 1992 their line-up has consisted of vocalist Bernard Fanning, guitarists Darren Middleton and Ian Haug, bassist John Collins , and drummer Jon Coghill....
 
8 In an Expression of the Inexpressible
In an Expression of the Inexpressible

In an Expression of the Inexpressible is the fourth studio album by Blonde Redhead, released in 1998....
 
Blonde Redhead
Blonde Redhead

Blonde Redhead is an United States rock music trio comprising Kazu Makino and twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace. The band takes its name from the song with the same title by DNA , a no wave band from New York....
 
Can-I-Bus Canibus
Canibus

Germaine Williams, better known by his stage name Canibus, is an United States rapper. He is a part of Supergroup The HRSMN along with: Killah Priest, Ras Kass, and Kurupt....
 
Who Got the Gravy?
Who Got The Gravy?

Who Got The Gravy? is the sixth album from rap group, Digital Underground. Despite having no singles, it reached #91 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts....
 
Digital Underground
Digital Underground

Digital Underground is an Alternative hip hop group from Oakland, California....
 
S'il suffisait d'aimer
S'il suffisait d'aimer

S'il suffisait d'aimer is an album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, released on September 7, 1998. It's her 19th French album and 24th in total....
 
Celine Dion
Celine Dion

C?line Marie Claudette Dion Order of Canada National Order of Quebec is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actor. Born to a large, impoverished family, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband Ren? Ang?lil mortgaged his home to finance her first record....
 
Canada
Whitey Ford Sings the Blues
Whitey Ford Sings the Blues

Whitey Ford Sings the Blues is the second solo album by singer-songwriter-emcee Everlast , and the first one following his departure from House of Pain....
 
Everlast
Celebrity Skin
Celebrity Skin

Celebrity Skin is Hole 's fourth and final album, released worldwide on September 7, 1998, and a day later in the United States.The songs were written by the band, some with the help of Billy Corgan; Courtney Love penned all of the lyrics....
 
Hole
Hole (band)

Hole was an American alternative rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1989 and disbanded in 2002. The band was fronted by vocalist/rhythm guitarist Courtney Love, who co-founded Hole with lead guitarist Eric Erlandson when he responded to an ad she placed in the punk zine Flipside ....
 
Tin Cans & Car Tires
Tin Cans & Car Tires

Tin Cans and Car Tires is moe.'s second release with 550 Music; their first was 1996's No Doy. It was released on September 8, 1998 and featured the bands new drummer, Vinnie Amico, who had taken over the position from Chris Mazur in 1996....
 
moe.
Moe.

moe. is an American jam band, formed at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York in 1990. The band members are: Rob Derhak , Al Schnier , Chuck Garvey , Vinnie Amico , and Jim Loughlin ....
 
Good Humor
Good Humor (album)

Good Humor is an album by Saint Etienne released in 1998.The album was a departure for the group. "Tiger Bay", their previous album, added many acoustic and orchestral elements but was still part of the synth-pop and dance genres....
 
Saint Etienne
Saint Etienne (band)

Saint Etienne are an England indie dance act, fronted by Sarah Cracknell . Former music journalism Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs are the other regular members of the band....
 
9 Frank Black and the Catholics
Frank Black and the Catholics (album)

Frank Black and the Catholics was the eponymous debut album from Frank Black and the Catholics. The backing group on this album performed on Black's previous album, The Cult of Ray, but the group name was first adopted on this release....
 
Frank Black and the Catholics
Who Dares Wins
Who Dares Wins (album)

Who Dares Wins is a compilation of various rare Bolt Thrower tracks from Extended plays and other sources: Tracks 1-4 are from the Cenotaph EP, tracks 5-8 are from the Spearhead EP and the tracks 9 and 10 are from the same session as "...For Victory", previously released on "Rareache" and the Japanese version of ...For Victory....
 
Bolt Thrower Compilation
14 Step One
Step One

Step One is the debut by pop music band Steps . It was released in the UK and Europe on September 14, 1998. It charted at #2 upon its release....
 
Steps
Mystery Disc
Mystery Disc

Mystery Disc is a compilation album by Frank Zappa. It was released on CD in 1998, compiling tracks that were originally released on two separate vinyl records and included in the mail order Old Masters box sets, which were released in three volumes between 1985 and 1987....
 
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....
 
Compilation
15 Sound of Perseverance Death
Death (band)

Death was an influential American death metal band founded in 1983 by guitarist and vocalist Chuck Schuldiner, considered a "pioneering death metal vocalist/guitarist"....
 
Musical Chairs Hootie & the Blowfish
Hootie & the Blowfish

Hootie & the Blowfish is an American Rock music band that enjoyed widespread popularity in the second half of the 1990s. It was originally formed in 1986 at the University of South Carolina by Darius Rucker, Dean Felber, Jim Sonefeld, and Mark Bryan....
 
Wasted L.A. Guns
L.A. Guns

L.A. Guns is an American rock band whose music is frequently associated with the L.A. glam metal scene which grew up around the Sunset Strip in the 1980s, in particular the sleaze rock subgenre....
 
EP
Mechanical Animals
Mechanical Animals

Mechanical Animals is Marilyn Manson 's third full-length album, released on September 15, 1998. It was the #1 selling album on its first week of release, the first of Marilyn Manson's career....
 
Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson (band)

Marilyn Manson is an American rock music band founded in the city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Advocates of nonconformity and iconoclasm, often utilizing controversial imagery and lyrical content, it is difficult to categorize the band, however, as each album thus far has had a distinct and individual sound, and the band and frontman endeavor...
 
Bathhouse Betty
Bathhouse Betty

Bathhouse Betty is the ninth studio album by the American singer Bette Midler, released in 1998. Bathhouse Betty was Midler's debut album for Warner Bros....
 
Bette Midler
Bette Midler

Bette Midler is an American singing, actress and comedienne, also known as The Divine Miss M. During her career, she has won four Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a Tony Awards, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards....
 
The Christmas Attic
The Christmas Attic

The Christmas Attic is the second album of Christmas carols by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. This CD takes familiar carols and adds to them the Rock and Roll touch that the Trans-Siberian Orchestra is known for....
 
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Trans-Siberian Orchestra is a Rock music orchestra founded by Paul O'Neill , Robert Kinkel, and Jon Oliva in 1996. The band's musical style incorporates progressive rock, symphonic metal, and heavy metal music, with influences from classical music....
 
Christmas
18 Luxury
Luxury (album)

'Luxury' is the second album from Tomoyuki Tanaka . It is the follow-up to his 1997 The Fantastic Plastic Machine . Luxury is a continuation of his previous work in Shibuya-kei, though in some tracks there are indications of a shift towards house music and '70s Philadelphia soul music, a path he would explore more in his next album, ...
 
Fantastic Plastic Machine
21 Electro-Shock Blues
Electro-Shock Blues

Electro-Shock Blues is the second album by the band Eels , released in 1998. Although not as commercially successful as some of their other records, the album is considered Eels's magnum opus by most critics and fans....
 
Eels
Eels (band)

Eels is an American Rock music band formed by singer/songwriter Mark Oliver Everett, better known as A Man Called E, Mr. E, or simply E....
 
UK
22 Inquisition Symphony Apocalyptica
Apocalyptica

Apocalyptica is a Finland Cello rock band, composed of classically trained cellists and, since 2005, a drummer. Three of the cellists are graduates of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland....
 
Ultimate Christmas
Ultimate Christmas

Ultimate Christmas is a 1998 seasonal compilation of music by The Beach Boys released on Capitol Records. It rounds up all of the tracks from 1964's The Beach Boys' Christmas Album, including alternate versions of its lead single, "Little Saint Nick", while also including the extremely rare 1974 holiday single, "Child of Winter "....
 
The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are an American rock band. Formed in 1961, the group gained popularity for its close harmony and lyrics reflecting