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71 unusual facts about 1999 in music


1989–1999

1989–1999 is a compilation album released by New York alternative metal band Life of Agony in 1999 through Roadrunner Records (see 1999 in music).

21st Circuitry

In 1999, 21st Circuitry shut its doors and its remaining stock was purchased by Metropolis Records.

A Little Bit of Mambo

A Little Bit of Mambo is the debut album by Lou Bega released in 1999 (see 1999 in music).

Alt Nation

The only 1990s song remaining on Alt Nation's playlist is Stellar by Incubus, from their 1999 album Make Yourself.

Barking Hoop Recordings

Barking Hoop Recordings is an independent record label founded by percussionist/composer Kevin Norton in 1999.

Bellefire

They first formed in 1999 (see 1999 in music), backstage at an audition for a boy-girl band in which Louis Walsh was a judge.

Best of the Specials

Best of the Specials is a compilation album by The Specials, released in 1999 (see 1999 in music).

Best of Wildside

Best of Wildside is a New Zealand compilation album featuring artists under the record label, Wildside Records, released in 1999.

Better Looking Records

Founded in 1999, Paul Fischer, who DJ'd at KXLU college radio station in Los Angeles and worked at crank! Records, partnered with Dave Brown who ran Holiday Matinee Publicity and Muddle fanzine.

Black Top Records

After releasing well over 100 albums, the label folded in 1999.

Bob Hund

1999 – Guldägget (The Golden Egg) for "Best Packaging" on Jag rear ut min själ!

Brokedown Palace: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Brokedown Palace: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album for the film Brokedown Palace, released by Island Records on August 10, 1999 (see 1999 in music).

China Dolls

The duo has released several albums since their formation in 1999 and performed at the Asia 2000 Music Festival.

CISS-FM

As of 2011, the station has eliminated the majority of its pre-1999 playlist and sticks towards a more 2000s-now direction.

Classics in the Key of G

It was released by Arista Records on June 28, 1999, and reached number 1 on the Contemporary Jazz Albums chart, number 13 on the Internet Albums chart, number 17 on the Billboard 200 and number 27 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

Colin James and the Little Big Band II

Colin James and the Little Big Band II is a swing-jive album by Canadian musician Colin James, released in 1999 (see 1999 in music).

Dance Pool

In the late 90's it was merged with the Sony Music subsidiaries Epidrome and Adrenalin in 1999 to form the label Dance Division.

Danny O'Donoghue

Danny O'Donoghue was originally a member of a late 1990s band called Mytown with friend (and now also band member of The Script) Mark Sheehan, after being signed to Universal Records in 1999.

Dessine-moi un mouton

"Dessine-moi un mouton" (English: "Draw Me a Sheep") is a 1999 song recorded by French singer-songwriter Mylène Farmer, first in a studio version, then in a live version during her 1999 concert Mylenium Tour.

Divinity Destroyed

Divinity Destroyed was a progressive metal band, formed in 1999 and based in central New Jersey.

Double Zero Records

Double Zero Records is a record label from Algonquin, Illinois formed in 1999.

Downhill City

It was released in 1999 and contains the original soundtrack for the motion picture Downhill City by the Finnish director Hannu Salonen.

Erstwhile Records

Erstwhile was founded by Jon Abbey in 1999, whose personality and tastes are closely identified with the label.

Everlasting Night

It was released as a single in the first quarter of 1999 in Australia and reached number 42 on the singles chart, largely helped by the fact that the song was the official theme of the 1999 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

Every Day Is a New Day

Every Day is a New Day is a studio album by American singer Diana Ross, released in 1999 on the Motown label.

Every Tuesday Sometimes Sunday

Every Tuesday Sometimes Sunday is the name of the 1999 album by Australian singer/songwriter Bernie Hayes.

Faster Harder Scooter

It was released in August 1999 as the lead single from the 1999 album Back to the Heavyweight Jam.

For My Pain...

The idea of For My Pain... started in 1999, when Altti Veteläinen (bass) and Petri Sankala (drums), both from Eternal Tears of Sorrow, wanted to start a new project.

I Am Jesus

The songs were mostly written & arranged by bassist/vocalist Efthimis Karadimas, with the exception of four songs, which were co-written with guitarist Mike Galiatsos, who ironically exited the band during the time of their last album, 1999's Diva Futura.

III Records

iii Records is a Japanese record label founded in 1999 and dedicated to issuing music from jazz to classical with focus on avant-garde and experimental directions.

In Search of Sunrise

In Search of Sunrise is the first compilation album in the In Search of Sunrise series mixed by Dutch trance producer and DJ Tiësto, released on November 22, 1999 in the Netherlands (see 1999 in music).

Indi Script Records

Indi Script Records is an independent record label founded in 1999 by Mateus Kotok, a singer, songwriter, composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and painter born in Ogden, Utah, in 1971.

Iszoloscope

Iszoloscope was created in 1999, when Yann Faussurier and François Bénard met while working at a radio station as DJs.

Jam Room

It was released in 1999 (see 1999 in music) on the band's own label, and contained 12 tracks in that limited release.

Kate Wolf

Her songs have since been recorded by artists such as Nanci Griffith and Emmylou Harris (whose recording of "Love Still Remains" was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1999).

Lifer

The band formed under the name Strangers with Candy in early 1999 and is most notable for winning MTV's Ultimate Cover Band contest, where they performed their own version of a-ha's hit song "Take On Me." They released a 7 song EP titled No Need in late March 2000.

Live – På ren svenska

Live – På ren svenska is the second live album, and the fourteenth album overall, by the Swedish hard rock band Jerusalem, released in 1999.

Live from a Shark Cage

Live from a Shark Cage is the first album by Papa M, the third such pseudonym used by David Pajo (after 'M' and 'Aerial M'), released in 1999 on the Chicago-based Drag City label (see 1999 in music).

Live from Amsterdam

Live From Amsterdam is a live album release by Big L in 1999.

Lonely Grill

Lonely Grill is the third album released by American country group Lonestar, released in the United States on June 1, 1999 by BNA Records.

Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions

Two singles were taken from it: "True Friends" and "Playing with Fire," both of which charted in the U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, the former peaking at #27, in 1999, and the latter only reaching #37, in 2000.

Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions is the debut album by American blues-rock artist Shannon Curfman, released in 1999, for Arista Records.

Lucilectric

Lucilectric would go on to record two more albums and eventually separated in 1999.

Mokum Records

They have released about 100 single and EP vinyl records between 1993 and 1999.

My Baby Just Cares for Me

George Michael arranged and recorded a version of “My Baby Just Cares for Me” for his 1999 album Songs from the Last Century.

Nahoo 3 – Notes from the Republic

Nahoo 3 – Notes from the Republic is the third album by Scottish musician Paul Mounsey released in 1999 (See 1999 in music).

Night of the Living Drag Queens

It was originally released on Uncle God Damn Records in 1998, and was later re-released on Century Media Records in collaboration with People Like You Records in 1999 as a Digi-Pack.

Nikko Patrelakis

In 1999 he co-wrote "Voice" with Paul McCartney that was presented by Heather Mills for the support of the people with kinetic disabilities.

Pretty Fly for a Rabbi

It is a parody of "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)" by The Offspring, and it was released from the 1999 album Running with Scissors.

Psychonaut Records

Psychonaut Records is an independent record label founded in 1999 by Dutch rock band The Gathering.

Rikos Records

Rikos Records was founded in 1999 by the producers Janne Granberg (DJ CMOS) and Heikki Halme (DJ KKP).

Rock and Roll Is Dead

Following its release, other artists have released songs of similar titles criticizing the demise of specific musical genres led by reckless artists, namely Marilyn Manson's 1999 "Rock Is Dead" and Nas' 2006 album and single Hip Hop Is Dead.

Rocketcrash

It was recorded and released in 500 copies under the band's own label, Tea Pot Records in 1999.

Santorin

Santorin is a German Drum 'n' Bass record label founded in 1999, and is dedicated to the more 'soulful' side of the genre, as described by label founder Simon Jarosch.

Silas Records

It was eventually absorbed into MCA in 1999, after Silas left his post at UMG to take a position at LaFace Records.

So Pure

While it was released in Japan during the spring of 1999 as the second single, it was released internationally as the album's third single on June 14, 1999 (see 1999 in music), and it is uptempo and reminiscent in sound to the dance pop music Morissette recorded before her third album Jagged Little Pill (1995).

Spinefarm Records

In 1999, a sub-label titled Spikefarm Records was started by Sami Tenetz from Thy Serpent.

The '90s Suck and So Do You

The '90s Suck and So Do You is an album by punk band Angry Samoans released in 1999 (see 1999 in music).

The Beat Club, Bremen

The Beat Club, Bremen is a live album by the band King Crimson, released through the King Crimson Collectors' Club in February 1999 (see 1999 in music).

The Best of Mantronix 1985–1999

The album featured not only tracks from all five Mantronix albums, but two tracks from Kurtis Mantronik's solo album, 1999s I Sing the Body Electro.

The Day I Went Mad

The Day I Went Mad is the sixth solo album by English rock singer Graham Bonnet, originally released in 1999.

The Dolphin's Cry

Recorded = At the Site, Village Recorder, A&M Studios and the Plant, 1999

The Kristet Utseende

The band managed to complete several tours and to release three full length records and an EP-record before they split up after a final farewell gig on the Hultsfred Festival in 1999.

The Place You're In

This is his first album in five years, the last was 1999's Live On.

The Real Deal: Greatest Hits Volume 2

The Real Deal: Greatest Hits, Volume 2 is a compilation album of material by Stevie Ray Vaughan in 1999 (see 1999 in music).

The Very Best of 1989–1998

The Very Best of 1989–1998 is an international compilation album by popular Greek artist Eleftheria Arvanitaki that was released in 1999 by Verve Records under the EmArcy label in many markets around the world.

Traylude

Tracy Atkins, known by her stage name Traylude, is a British emcee who worked with now London-based DJs-producers Kurtis Mantronik (1998 album I Sing the Body Electro) and the Beat Buchaz (1999 single/EP "One Time, Feels Fine").

Truck Records

The festival and label were started (in 1998 and 1999 respectively) by the Bennett family, two of whom have formed the band The Dreaming, and were members of Goldrush.

Up Up Up Up Up Up

Up Up Up Up Up Up is the ninth album by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, released in 1999 on Righteous Babe Records (see 1999 in music).

Walking Off the Buzz

Walking Off the Buzz is the third studio album by the American alternative rock band Blessid Union of Souls, released on April 27, 1999 (see 1999 in music) on V2 Records.

When Incubus Attacks Volume 1

1999 - Make Yourself ("Pardon Me" (Acoustic), "Stellar" (Acoustic), "Make Yourself" (Acoustic) & "Pardon Me" (Live))