1998 - the ups, the downs and the dunno's

YES

Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, and
Immature Scientist Vacationist League's Pleasure Map.
Zinedine Zidane and the rest of the multi-ethnical French football team winning the World Cup.
Heather Nova and Yo La Tengo live in Oslo.
The Belgian movie La Promesse (by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne), the Spanish ditto Tierra (by Julio Medem) plus The Big Lebowski (by Joel Coen).
Bad quality vinyl pressings.
Luis Hernandez, Sunday Oliseh, Salas/Samorano.
Seeing Erik Bye perform live for the first time in my life.
Anyone sending Germany out of the World Cup is fine by me, even if it was the Croatians that had to do it.
Records from Richard Davies, Belle And Sebastian, Cinerama and Mercury Rev.
Norway - Brazil 2-1!!
White Russian.
Nearly all of the Elephant 6 empire, including Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control and Music Tapes live at the So What! Club.
More bands using saw in their music.

NO

Italy - Norway 1-0
The new Tortoise album.
Lars Trier's The Idiots.
Roberto Carlos, Oliver Bierhof and Ronaldo.
Jeff Buckley's Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk.
Norwegian cinema.
No real beer places in Oslo.
People talking during concerts.
Kjetil Rekdal.
Remixes.

???

Air's Moon Safari.
Good Will Hunting (by Gus Van Sant) and The Sweet Hereafter (by Atom Egoyan).
Kraftwerk at the Roskilde festival.
Pere Ubu's Pennsylvania.

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