The Wonder Years : 1999

1. The White Stripes - Stop Breaking Down
2. The Flaming Lips - Waitin' for a Superman
3. Super Furry Animals - The Door to This House Remains Open
4. dEUS - Put the Freaks Up Front
5. Porcupine Tree - Piano Lessons
6. The Loch Ness Mouse - Judy
7. The Magnetic Fields - All My Little Words
8. Pavement - Carrot Rope
9. Beck - Sexx Laws
10. Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
11. Death in Vegas - Aisha
12. The Auteurs - The Rubettes
13. Jim O'Rourke - Something Big
14. Wilco - I'm Always In Love
15. XTC - I'd Like That
16. Songs Ohia - How to Be Perfect Men
17. Smog - Teenage Spaceship
18. Damien Jurado - Ohio
19. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness

The big films in 1999 included American Pie, Fight Club, The Green Mile, The Matrix and American Beauty. Star Wars Episode 1 also blasted onto our screens, to a lukewarm response.

Y2K scare, computers are predicted to crash at the end of the year. They didn't.

Nelson Mandela steps down as President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki takes over.

Students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, storm Columbine High School in Littleton , CO, killing twelve other students and a teacher, then themselves.

We said goodbye to singers Dusty Springfield, Mel Torme, Guy Mitchell, Curtis Mayfield and Doug Sahm. Entertainer Rod Hull, Football manager Sir Alf Ramsey, Actor Oliver Reed, Film Director Stanley Kubrick, Comedian Ernie Wise and Baseball star Joe Dimaggio.

1999