1998 in music

Events

July 11th: Coil-parade techno with Berlin
August: with the festival Woodstock '98 , the organizers want to republish the success of Woodstock '93 , but the festival is wasted by the overflows of violence.

Principal albums of the year

Let' S Talk About Coils - Céline Dion
The Party Album - Vengaboys
Donde estan los ladrones? - Shakira
Titanic (soundtrack) - James Horner
Ray Off Light - Madonna
Helvetissä one syntisen taivas - Ajattara
Engine - American Music Club
Enquiry Symphony , - Apocalyptica
Stigmata - Arch Enemy
Hillside Album - Arnold
Naked-Clear Sounds - Ash
Time Capsules - The B-52' S, Compilation 1979-1992
Stunt - Barenaked Ladies
Meeting - Black Sabbath
Nightfall in Middle-Earth - Blind Guardian
Races off has Thousand Camels - BoA
Head Shrinkin' Fun - The Bomboras
Kingsize - The Boo Radleys
Mermaid Avenue - Billy Bragg & Wilco
Smitten - Buffalo Tom
French - Buzzcocks
Somewhere in the City - John Fixes
Even My Sure Things Fall Through - Calexico
Waulkroots - Capercaillie
Sideral Torment - Carcariass
Full Service One Waiting - Peter Case
Clandestino - Manu Chao
Uneasy Listening - Chumbawamba
Tubthumper - Chumbawamba
Greatest Hits - Sam Cooke - Sam Cooke, Compilation 1957-1963
Give Yourself has Hand - Crash Test Dummies
Dada - Dada
Symphonic Screams - The Dandys
The Singles 86-98 - Depeche Mode
Spacey And Shakin' - Peter Droge
Twistin' In The Wind - Joe Ely
Out Of The Dark - Falco
All The Pain Money Can Buy - Fastball
Five Easy Parts - Five Easy Parts
Premonition - John Fogerty
Version 2.0 - Garbage
Weird Bruise - Golden Smog
Bring It One - Gomez
Jubilee - Grant Lee Buffalo
Summer Wine - Hazeldine, EP
Digging You Up - Hazeldine
Get Down - The Hi-Fives
Wu-Wei - Hint
To hoist - Howe
The Hybirds - The Hybirds
Hope Is Important - Idlewild
What Is Not To Love - Imperial Teen
Cracking Up - The Jesus and Mary Chain
Independant Intavenshan: The Island Anthology - Linton Kwesi Johnson
King Off The Delta Blues - Robert Johnson, republication CD
Acme - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Follow The Leader - KoRn
5 - Lenny Kravitz
This World Is Not My Home - Lone Justice, compilation
Yew You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next - Manic Street Preachers
Best Off Mano Negra - Mano Negra
Trampoline - The Mavericks
John Mellencamp - John Mellencamp
Ophelia - Natalie Merchant
The Last Dog And Pony Show - Bob Mould
Soul' S Core - Shawn Mullins
Street Trash - The New York Frauds, album recorded Live in 1973
One Trip/One Noise - Black Desire
Americana - Offspring
Not Yew It Pleases Me - Graham Parker & The Rumors, Live recording of 1976-1977
New Sheets - Possum Dixon
Bubbling Up - The Primitives
Dial “Me For Motherfucker - Pussy Galore
Up - R.E.M.
Fundamental - Bonnie Raitt
Space Heater - The Reverend Horton Heat
Fiction Lovesong, Fast Machines - The Discs
Concert Classics - Roxy Music (live)
Calling Dr. Strong - RRAF
The Gaelic Collection - Runrig
Have Sei You Es… - Santamaria
To select Live - To select
Feeling Strangely Fine - Semisonic
Between Custom - Jules Shear
Happy Hour - Shonen Knife
Neo Wave - Silver Sun
Sweater Me Up… … Drag Me Down - Silverjet
Navy Blues - Sloan
Virgin Stripes - Slowpoke
Beauty And Sadness - The Smithereens, EP
Candy From has Stranger - Soul Asylum
1 Douar - Alan Stivell
Songs From The Pipe - The Surfers
System off has Down - System off has Down
In has Dog House - The Throwing Muses
The Very Best Off Toots & The Maytals - Toots and the Maytals
The Best Off U2 1980-1990 - U2
500 Miles - Gene Vincent, compilation
Beautiful Diseases - Tom Waits
Almost Young stag - Unbelievable Truth
Faithless Street - Whiskeytown
One Hot July - Tony Joe White
Imagination - Brian Wilson
Made in Coils - Zazie
The Real One - 2 Live Crew
Little Joe - 2 Live Crew
Playing My Game - Lene Marlin
Toto XX - Toto

Success of the year in France

Beautiful - BO Notre-Dame
the tribe of Dana - Manau
To sing for those which are far from on their premises - Laam
Your invitation - Louise Attaque
My heart will go one - Céline Dion
Yakalelo - Nomads
Brother Louie 'republication) - Modern Talking
You' Re my heart (republication) - Modern Talking
Copa of Vida - Ricky Martin
I will survives - Hermes House Band
Where I' m Headed - Lene Marlin
Together again - Janet Jackson
Frozen - Madonna
Simarik - Tarkan
Mambo Jambo - John Scatman
Clandestino - Manu Chao

Births

the French group Lazuli
the Portuguese group Santamaria

Principal deaths

February 6th: Falco, Austrian singer - Carl Wilson, guitarist of the American rock group The Beach Boys
April 5th: Cozy Powell - Whitesnake, Rainbow, Black Sabbath
November 12th: Kenny Kirkland - Wynton Marsalis,
May 2nd: Hide Japan Hideto Matsumoto, singer and guitarist.

Rewards

Grammy Award S (the United States)

February 25th: Bob Dylan receives three Grammy awards for Time Out Of My Mind

Price Juno (Canada)

Price Felix (Quebec)

List of the prizes winner of the Felix prices in 1998

Brit Awards (the United Kingdom)

Victories of the music (France)

Artiste interprets male year: Florent Pagny
Artiste interprets female year: Zazie
Revelation of the Year: Lara Fabian
Album of the year: the School of the microphone of money of IAM
Album of traditional musics or musics of the world of the year: Finisterres of daN Ar Braz and the Heritage of the Celts
Album of electronic musics, groove, dance of the year: 30 of Laurent Garnier
Album of original music of cinema or television of the year: '' the English Patient '' of Gabriel Yared
Song of the year: the Man in a hurry of Black Desire (author/type-setter: Bertrand Cantat/Black Desire - arranger: Andy Baker)
Concert of the year: Sol in if with the Casino of Paris
Video clip of the year: To know to like Florent Pagny (realizer: Sylvain Shepherdess)

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