The band released a pair of compilation albums in 1998. The first, Retro , was a greatest hits compilation which included most of the singles released up until Xtort . The second, Agogo , was a collection of rarities and previously unreleased tracks, including a cover of U2 ‘s ”…
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When Thirty Seconds to Mars first started, Jared Leto did not allow his vocation as a Hollywood actor to be used in promotion of the band. By 1998, they performed gigs at small American venues and clubs. Their eponymous debut album had been in the works for a couple of…
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After a chance to think about their music and their direction, Super Furry Animals decided to record a new EP in early 1998 at Gorwel Owen’s house and released it in May. This was the Ice Hockey Hair EP, widely held as one of their finest moments (“ice hockey hair”…
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The Shamen continued recording into the late 1990s, releasing two additional LPs with an increasingly experimental bent. Their penultimate studio album, the instrumental Hempton Manor , followed an acrimonious split with their label One Little Indian . It is alleged to have been recorded in seven days to conclude the…
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Duran Duran were among the earliest bands to work on their own remixes . Before the days of digital synthesizer and easy audio sampling , they created multi-layered arrangements of their singles, sometimes recording entirely different extended performances of the songs in the studio. These “night versions” were generally available…
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For his second album, You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby (1998), Cook aimed to create a coherent album using “all the ideas that had been brewing and fermenting” in the big beat scene. He created three successful singles in one week: ” The Rockafeller Skank “, ” Praise You ”…
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In 1998, Suicide Commando released the album Construct-Destruct and its sister release, Reconstruction , which included the new club hits “Desire” and “Better Off Dead”.
In 1998, Cook’s remix of ” Renegade Master ” by Wildchild reached number three on the UK singles chart, and his remix of ” Brimful of Asha ” by Cornershop reached number one. Cook said the tracks represented a creative breakthrough: “That’s when I was like, I’ve nailed it now,…
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Following the breakup of Bikini Kill in 1998, Kathleen Hanna released a solo album under the pseudonym Julie Ruin and moved to New York, where she wanted to perform Julie Ruin songs live. Not wanting to perform the material alone, she recruited Johanna Fateman, whom Hanna had known since meeting…
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The group reconvened in 1998 at the suggestion of Rob Gretton, nearly five years since they had last seen each other. Sumner said, “We decided before we agreed to doing any gig, to have a meeting, and if anyone had any grudges to bear, to iron them out.” By the…
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