Using my album formula, here are my favorite albums from 1998.

1.  Neutral Milk Hotel’s In The Aeroplane Over the Sea (Merge) – 9.856

2. Pele’s Teaching The History of Teaching Geography (Star Star Stereo) – 9.786

3.  Pedro the Lion’s It’s Hard to Find a Friend (Made in Mexico) – 9.683

4.  Clem Snide’s You Were a Diamond (Tractor Beam) – 9.651

5.  Gastr Del Sol’s Camoufleur (Drag City) – 9.467

6.  Songs: Ohia’s Impala (Secretly Canadian) – 9.427

7.   Jet’s to Brazil’s Orange Rhyming Dictionary (Jade Tree) – 9.349

8.  Silver Jews’ American Water (Drag City) – 9.300

9.  Split Lip Rayfield’s Self Titled (Bloodshot) – 9.138

10.  Bonnie Prince Billie’s Blue Lotus Feet (Domino) – 8.465