Pick of the Year: 1998

‘From 1942 to 1998 I threw a rock ‘n’ roll party on my last birthday’ – Johnny Cash

1998

Dad’s ‘Pick of the Year’ tapes were always a firm family favourite where he would make a compilation cassette of his favourite songs form that year. He stopped in 1992 however, when music got a bit too modern for him. It’s something over the years I’ve tried to carry on, and did for a while but, no one listens to CDs anymore and they don’t have the same impact as mp3 playlists. I’ve often thought about restarting it all from 1982 on my blog though just so I have somewhere to put them all for prosperity sake.

The first rule of POTY is DON’T TALK ABOUT PICK OF THE YEAR, sorry, that’s the illegal underground fight club i’m part of.

The first rule of POTY is that you can only pick songs that charted in the top 75 in the UK. The second rule of POTY is that you can only pick enough songs that would fit onto an old C120 cassette (between 30-40 tracks). The final rule, one which I’ve imposed myself, is that you must include that year’s Christmas number 1 (highlighted in green)

  1. The Mavericks – Dance The Night Away
  2. All Saints – Bootie Call
  3. 5ive – Everybody Get Up
  4. Tin Tin Out – Here’s Where The Story Ends
  5. Jennifer Paige – Crush
  6. Usher – You Make Me Wanna
  7. Kci & JoJo – All My Life
  8. Billie – Because We Want To
  9. Spice Girls – Viva Forever
  10. Lauryn Hill – Doo Wop (That Thing)
  11. Sheryl Crow – My Favourite Mistake
  12. Pras Michel – Ghetto Superstar
  13. Brandy & Monica – The Boy Is Mine
  14. Run DMC vs Jason Nevins – It’s Like That
  15. Madonna – Ray of Light
  16. Billie Myers – Kiss The Rain
  17. Puff Daddy – Come With Me
  18. Cornershop – Brimful of Asha
  19. B*Witched – C’est La Vie
  20. Melanie B – I Want You Back
  21. R Kelly – Home Alone
  22. Natalie Imbruglia – Big Mistake
  23. All Saints – Lady Marmalade
  24. Eagle Eye Cherry – Save Tonight
  25. Spice Girls – Goodbye
  26. Verve – Sonnet
  27. Will Smith – Gettin Jiggy Wit It
  28. Savage Garden – Truly Madly Deeply
  29. Hanson – Weird
  30. 5ive – Got the Feelin
  31. Wyclef Jean – Gone til November
  32. Bamboo – Bamboogie
  33. Busta Rhymes – Turn it Up
  34. Stardust – Music Sounds Better
  35. Robbie Williams – No Regrets
  36. Fatboy Slim – The Rockafeller Skank
  37. Fastball – The Way
  38. Backstreet Boys – All I Have to Give
  39. Air – Sexy Boy
  40. Imani Coppola – Legend of a Cowgirl
  41. N-Tyce – Telefunkin
  42. Matchbox 20 – Push
  43. Garbage – Push It
  44. Hinda Hicks – You Think You Own Me
  45. Next – Too Close
  46. Beastie Boys – Intergalactic
  47. TQ – Westside

 

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