Sonique was not prepared for that wormhole she fell into Tragically, that record remains her only solo album release which is an absolute disgrace really. If we didn’t already know that Hill was one of the most talented cats around from her work with The Fugees, she took it to another level (more from them later) with the release of the supreme The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which featured this absolutely eternal jam. Tell you what, the aliens would be pretty impressed with this too. Put a log, on the fi-yah and give it a spin and marvel at its majesty. It does not need words to explain why this song is amazing, for words will not do it justice. If nothing else that was good had happened in 1998 - if the world had endured a mass famine ending in a giant nuclear war which wiped out all life on Earth - then when the aliens arrive many millennia from now, they would have searched through the wreckage, pieced together a timeline, put this song on the only stereo which still worked and declared that 1998 must have been the greatest year in the history of the human race, for it saw the general worldwide release of ‘Save Tonight’.
Sadly, Des Lynam’s ’ If’, which reached number 45 in December, just missed out on the cut.Ĭlick here to listen to the whole lot on Spotify 1. However, despite a lack of an overlying musical narrative, this didn’t mean that there weren’t some absolutely huge bangers bestowed upon us by the musical gods (and just be thankful nu-metal didn’t go fully mainstream until 1999).įeast your ears on these beauties, which were released as long ago now as Chic’s disco classic ‘Le Freak’ was back in 1998.
1998 which is now 20 BLOODY YEARS AGO, was a strange year in British music.īritpop was running on empty with Oasis lying low after the backlash to Be Here Now and Pulp moving on with the dark This is Hardcore. In pop, the Spice Girls were entering their final year before splitting with Christmas chart-topper ‘Goodbye’, while the dance scene offered up little new other than Fatboy Slim’s big beats.
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