Best CDs of 1998

1. 16 Horsepower "Low Estate"
2. Superdrag "Head Trip In Every Key"
3. Harvey Danger "Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?"
4. Semisonic "Feeling Strangely Fine"
5. The Waterboys "The Live Adventures of the Waterboys"
6. Placebo "Without You I'm Nothing"
7. Uncle Bonsai "Doug"
8. XTC "Transistor Blast"
9. Reejers "Erased"
9. Meryn Cadell "6 Blocks"
Billy Bragg & Wilco "Mermaid Avenue"
Fluke "Risotto"
Soundtrack "Pi"
pH10 "Recone Helmut Vs. Clark Ov Saturn"
Bob Mould "The Last Dog and Pony Show"
Pistel "Pistel"
Soul Coughing "El Oso"
Mono Puff "It's Fun To Steal"
Polara "Formless/ Functional" (EP)
Liz Phair "whitechocolatespaceegg"
Cordelia's Dad "Spine"
Oysterband "Deep Dark Ocean"
They Might Be Giants "Severe Tire Damage"

Best CD Reissues of 1998

1. The Waterboys "The Live Adventures of the Waterboys"
XTC "Transistor Blast"
NRBQ "Tapdancin' Bats: The Anniversary Edition"
Boiled in Lead "Alloy3"

Worst CDs of 1998

1. Information Society "Don't Be Afraid"
2. The Fixx "Elemental"
3. Tori Amos "Songs From the Choirgirl Hotel"
4. Alanis Morrisette "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie"
5. R.E.M. "Up"
Barenaked Ladies "Stunt" (regular version)
Jonatha Brooke "10 Cent Wings"
Paul Simon "The Capeman"
Eve 6 "Eve 6"

Best CD Cover of 1998

1. Shantel "Higher Than the Funk"
Gravity Kills "Perversion"
Firewater "The Ponzi Scheme"
Dropkick Murphys "Do Or Die"

Worst CD Cover of 1998

1. Information Society "Don't Be Afraid"
Aphex Twin "Come To Daddy"
Bruce Hornsby "Spirit Trail"
Almost every rap CD in 1998
R.E.M. "Up"

Best Movies of 1998

1. Pi
2. The Opposite of Sex
3. Dark City
4. Cube
5. Dangerous Beauty
6. Julian Po
7. Two Girls and a Guy
8. The Sweet Hereafter
9. The Tango Lesson
10. Shakespeare In Love/ Elizabeth (tie)
Palmetto
Babe: Pig In the City
Living Out Loud
Pecker
The Mask of Zorro
The Impostors
Saving Private Ryan
Snake Eyes
Stepmom
Cousin Bette
Swept From the Sea
The Spanish Prisoner
The X-Files: Fight the Future
Pleasantville
Out Of Sight
The Negotiator
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Big Lebowski
The Object of My Affection
Small Soldiers
Simon Birch
Sliding Doors
Stepmom
Amistad
Wilde
What Dreams May Come
Soldier
Nil By Mouth
Deep Impact
City of Angels
One True Thing
Alien Resurrection
The Man in the Iron Mask
Krippendorf's Tribe
Les Miserables
The Horse Whisperer

Worst Movies of 1998

1. Beloved
2. The Apostle
3. Armaggedon
4. Mercury Rising
5. Jackie Brown
6. The Peacemaker
7. Mrs. Dalloway
8. A Life Less Ordinary
9. Spawn
10. You've Got Mail
Dancing At Lughnasa
Little Voice

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