Achtung Baby!

she's got a smile like salvation

U2: Big Girls Are Best

" Do you believe in time travel? "

DONNIE DARKO
Release date: October 26, 2001

Some songs featured in the movie were substitutes for songs which the makers wanted but were denied the rights to. The dance performance was performed to "West End Girls" by the Pet Shop Boys, and Duran Duran's "Notorious" was re-dubbed in post-production. U2's "MLK" in the final scene is substituted with Gary Jules' cover of the Tears for Fears song "Mad World" instead.
+ Trivia

Its you that I adore

"Adore", Smashing Pumpkins, Original Release Date: June 2, 1998

I've always had a great liking for this album's perfectly sequenced trilogy of "Ava Adore", "Perfect" and "Daphne Descends".

+ Ava Adore (live in Brazil)
+ Perfect ( live acoustic)
+ Daphne Descends (live at the Guggenheim in Spain)

This has been Hardcore for a decade

PULP: "This Is Hardcore", released on March 31, 1998 in the U.S.
(yep, I'm a few months behind on this one)

"the sound of loneliness turned up to ten"
(Pulp - The Fear Live)

+ Pulp - This Is Hardcore (Live at Jools Holland '98)
+ Playing God - Pulp: This is Hardcore
+ EW Review: Cocker's voice variously recalls the playboy decadence of Bryan Ferry, the croaky deadpan of Leonard Cohen, or the high-strung edge of vintage David Bowie.
+ Wiki: "Like Different Class, the album is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die."

[ This Is Hardcore (end of the line mix) ]

"Is it a kind of weakness
to miss someone so much? 

My Sweetheart, the Drunk

Jeff Buckley, "Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk", Released May 26, 1998.

[ "I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (If We Wanted to Be)" ]

+ "Morning Theft" (live)
+ "The sky is a landfill" (live)
+ "Everybody Here Wants You" video
+ Salon: Sketches review
+ Morning Edition, May 29, 2007: Ten Years Gone, Jeff Buckley's Voice Lingers
+ "I Shall Be Released" Dylan cover

"I think I'm getting the fear."

Benicio Del Toro & Johnny Depp, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
Release Date: May 22nd 1998

Johnny Depp Soliloquy
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug-collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

+ The Rum Diary film is being made.
+ The only way to really own it: The Criterion Collection
+ Fear and Loathing in World 1-1
+ Also, Unreal came out on this same day.

"Frank never did like Rock and Roll"

May 14th, 1998. Ol' Blue Eyes passes away.

+Bono introducing Frank Sinatra at the Grammy Awards 1994

    Frank never did like Rock and Roll
    And he's not crazy about guys wearing earrings either
    But he doesn't hold it against me
    And anyway, the feeling is not mutual

    Rock and Roll people love Frank Sinatra because Frank has got what we want:
    swagger and attitude
    he's big on attitude
    Serious attitude, bad attitude
    Frank's the Chairman of the bad
    Rock and Roll plays at being tough but this guy, well, he's the boss
    The boss of bosses
    The man
    The big bang of pop
    I'm not gonna mess with him, are you?

+Bono & The Edge: TWO SHOTS OF HAPPY, ONE SHOT OF SAD
+Sinatra & Bono - I've got you under my skin

+ 10 years after Frank Sinatra's death, daughter Nancy helps keep the legend alive
+ This American Life: Sinatra

I thought you were Special ten years ago

Version 2.0  by Garbage, Released on May 12, 1998 in the U.S. This is my favorite Garbage album.

"Special" (brothers in rhythym) remix

+ "You Look So Fine" (live) - Epic!
+ "Push it" (live)
+ "Medication" (live)

Ten Years at the Choirgirl Hotel

Tori Amos: "FROM THE CHOIRGIRL HOTEL"
Released in the US on May 5, 1998.

Fact: This was the Tori tour I attended to the most. 3 shows: Austin, Dallas and Kansas City.

Some live performances...
+SPARK
+BLACK DOVE (JANUARY)
+Cruel
+RASPBERRY SWIRL
+Jackie's Strength
+IEEE
+Hotel
+Playboy Mommy
+Pandora's Aquarium
A live mp3...
+Liquid Diamonds

10 years away from a Ray of Light

Madonna: "Ray Of Light", Original Release Date: March 3, 1998.

+ Drowned World live
+ Frozen live
+ Ray of Light live
 

+ "The working title for this album was The Drowned World inspired by the novel by J.G. Ballard."