12/31/98: POP STOPS — Best of 1998
12/24/98:
Jewel — Spirit
Jude — No One Is Really Beautiful
Various Artists — I Wanna Be Kate: Songs of Kate Bush
Various Artists — Prince of Egypt Soundtracks
Angelique Kidjo — Oremi
Rasputina — How We Quit The Forest
12/17/98:
Celine Dion — These Are Special Times
Kenny Loggins — December
Shawn Colvin — Holiday Songs and Lullabyes
Babyface — Christmas With Babyface
Vince Vance & The Valiants — All I Want For Christmas Is You
PLUS: Instrumental holiday albums from Windham Hill and a "Party Box" from Rhino Records
12/10/98:
Trans-Siberian Orchestra — The Christmas Attic
Various Artists — Merry Axemas, Volume 2
Cyndi Lauper — Merry Christmas...Have A Nice Life
Donny Osmond — Christmas At Home
NSYNC — Home For Christmas
12/03/98:
Alanis Morissette — Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
John Mellencamp — John Mellencamp
Fear of Pop (Ben Folds) — Volume I
11/26/98:
Better Than Ezra — How Does Your Garden Grow?
Neil Diamond — The Movie Album: As Time Goes By
Dee Carstensen — The Map
Maarja — First In Line
Plus, new live and singles collections from "South Park," Meatloaf, OMD, Skid Row, Michael Crawford, Oasis, Pearl Jam and Rush.
11/19/98:
Throwing Muses — In A Doghouse
PLUS: Hit collections from U2, Mariah Carey and George Michael and live albums from The Rolling Stones and Aerosmith. Original Master Recording CD re-releases of classic albums from Don McLean, Don Henley, Moody Blues, James Taylor and Saturday Night Fever.
11/12/98:
Wild Orchid — Oxygen
Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach — Painted From Memory
PLUS: new hits sets from Motley Crue, Men At Work, Jimi Hendrix and the soundtracks to Pleasantville and Sabrina the Teenage Witch discs.
11/05/98:
Rhino Box Sets: Ray Charles, Burt Bacharach, Randy Newman, Gang of Four
PLUS: new Chicken Soup for the Soul and Best of Schoolhouse Rocks discs.
10/29/98:
Various Artists — Halloween Hootenany
Rob Zombie — Hellbilly Deluxe
Various Artists — Halloween Party Mix
PLUS: albums from Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, and collections from Extreme Championship Wrestling and the new Bride of Chucky movie.
10/22/98:
Lyle Lovett — Step Inside This House
Henry Rollins — Think Tank
Hole — Celebrity Skin
Phil Collins — ...Hits
George Martin — In My Life
Candye Kane — Swango
10/15/98:
The Jets — Then & Now
PLUS: Soundtracks — A Night At The Roxbury and rereleases to The Big Chill and Footloose, and Collections — Greatest Love Songs, Greatest Rock, VH-1's Divas Live and Julio Iglesias.
10/08/98:
Various Artists — For The Masses (Depeche Mode Tribute)
PLUS: the soundtrack to Dead Man On Campus, the Nuggets '60s box set and collections featuring Patti LaBelle, KC & The Sunshine Band, Motown artists.
10/01/98:
Dan Bern — Work
Elliott Smith — XO
9/24/98:
Dead Girls and Other Stories — Full of Life
Shawn Mullins — Soul's Core
Eagle-Eye Cherry — Desireless
9/17/98:
Ruth Ruth — Are You My Friend?
Dag — Apartment #635
Mediaeval Baebes — Salva Nos
PLUS: albums from Men at Work, Patty Smyth, Jerry Vale and The Best of Anime.
9/10/98:
The Murmurs — Blender
Emmett Swimming — Big Night Without You
9/3/98:
Tommy Shaw — 7 Deadly Zens
Heart — Greatest Hits
The Knack — Zoom
8/27/98:
Emm Gryner — Public
Various Artists — The Avengers: The Album
8/20/98:
Anggun — Snow on the Sahara
Kansas — Live in Chicago
PLUS: albums from Creedence Clearwater Revisited, Schoolhouse Rocks and a breast cancer awareness duets album.
8/13/98:
Culture Club — VH1 Storytellers/Greatest Moments
Bic Runga — Drive
Nanci Griffith — Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back To Bountiful)
Counting Crows — Across A Wire: Live In New York
8/6/98:
Various Artists — Small Soldiers Soundtrack
Various Artists — The Big 80's: The Big Movies
7/30/98:
Genesis — Archive: 1967-1975
Pixies — At The BBC
Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson — VH1 Storytellers
7/23/98:
K's Choice — Cocoon Crash
La Bouche — SOS
The Sugarcubes — A Collection
Daze — Super Heroes
7/16/98:
Linda Ronstadt — We Ran
Mitchell Froom — Dopamine
7/2/98:
The Bomboras — Head Shrinkin' Fun
The Ghastly Ones — A Haunting We Will Go-Go
Pure Sugar — Pure Sugar
Esthero — Breath From Another
The Spinanes — Arches & Aisles
Ronna — Day 14
6/25/98:
Stevie Nicks — The Enchanted Works of Stevie Nicks
Various Artists — Have a Nice Decade: The '70s Pop Culture Box
Soundtracks — The X-Files, Can't Hardly Wait
6/18/98:
Page & Plant — Walking Into Clarksville
Jeff Buckley — Sketches for My Sweetheart The Drunk
Emma Townshend — Winterland
Christopher Cross — Walking In Avalon
PLUS: albums from Deep Purple, Iron Maiden, WASP, Propellerheads, and more.
6/11/98:
Kansas — Always Never The Same
The Smashing Pumpkins — Adore
6/4/98:
Athenaeum — [Radiance]
Superdrag — Head Trip in Every Key
PLUS: soundtracks from Godzilla , Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas, and the early recordings of Hanson.
5/21/98:
Various Artists — Drew Carey Show Sountrack
Various Artists — Bespoke Songs, Lost Dogs, Detours & Rendezvous, Songs of Elvis Costello
Tuscadero — My Way Or The Highway
5/14/98:
Dollshead — Frozen Charlotte
Bottle Rockets — 24 Hours A Day
Kristin Hersh — Strange Angels
PLUS: CDs from Brother Cane, Komeda, and Ultrahorse.
5/7/98:
Tori Amos — From the Choirgirl Hotel
4/30/98:
Bad Examples — The Two-Meter Sessions
Ken Stringfellow — This Sounds Like Goodbye
PLUS: indie CDs from Ken Siegert, Jeff Shuck, and Infraction.
4/23/98:
Natalie Imbruglia — Left of the Middle
Love Nut — Baltimucho
Jimmy Ray — Jimmy Ray
4/16/98:
Fastball — All The Pain Money Can Buy
The Tuesdays — The Tuesdays
4/9/98:
The Specials — Guilty 'Til Proved Innocent
B-Tribe — Sensual Sensual
Deep Forest III — Comparsa
Journey — Greatest Hits Live
4/2/98:
Rebekah — Remember to Breathe
Jules Shear — Between Us
3/26/98:
Pat Dinizio — Songs and Sounds
PLUS: new collections from Ben Folds Five, NSYNC, RuPaul and the '70s.
3/19/98:
Madonna — Ray of Light
3/12/98:
Towa Tei — Sound Museum
Feeder — Polythene
Foam — Big Windshield
Fluorescein — High Contrast Comedown
3/5/98:
Gettin' Irish Early with Cherish The Ladies & Altan
Instrumental albums from Ray Lynch & more
Los Umbrellos — Flamenco Funk
2/26/98:
James Iha — Let It Come Down
Pearl Jam — Yield
2/19/98:
Grammy Awards — Pop Stops Picks
*Updated with Winners on 2/26/98!*
2/12/98:
Diana King — Think Like A Girl
Autour De Lucie — Immobile
Lisa Loeb — Firecracker
2/05/98:
Wild Strawberries — Quiver
1/29/98:
A3 — Exile on Coldharbour Lane
Scott McCarl — Play On
1/22/98:
Will Smith — Big Willie Style
Recoil — Unsound Methods
Robert Miles — 23am
1/15/98:
Peach Union — Audiopeach
Spice Girls — Spiceworld
The Bacon Brothers — Forosoco
1/08/98:
Loreena McKennitt — The Book of Secrets
The Aqua Velvets — Guitar Noir
Duran Duran — Medazzaland
1/01/98:
POP STOPS — Best of 1997
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