Music Article

Best Music: 1999

Lou Bega, Blink-182 and Rushmore soundtrack among the year's best

Best Impersonation of a LatinoLou Bega

Best Proof That Rock Isn't Dead, Just Brain-DeadWoodstock 99

Worst Group NamesSystem of a Down; Sixpence None the Richer; Hezekiah Walker & the Love Fellowship Crusade Choir

Best Album to Introduce 14-Year-olds to the Delights of Porn and ScatologyBlink-182's Enema of the State

Worst Prerelease Album HypeJay-Z

Best Resurrected British Invasion Nugget''Making Time,'' by Creation, from the Rushmore soundtrack

Best Proof That God ExistsThe decline of Puff Daddy

Best Reason to Hail the Teen-Pop BoomIt killed talk of an electronica boom

Best Disappearing ActJesse Camp

Best Imitation of a MidgetKid Rock's Joe ''I am not a midget'' C.

Best Under-Hyped Neo-Soul DivaAngie Stone

Best Millenial Epic By a Bunch of UnknownsThe Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs

Best Candidates for 'Celebrity Deathmatch'TLC

Best Case For Resurrecting the Live AlbumThe Clash, From Here to Eternity: Live

Best Reason Not to Quit the Spice GirlsGeri Halliwell's Schizophonic

Originally posted Dec 24, 1999 Published in issue #518-519 Dec 24, 1999 Order article reprints

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