In 1998, I was at the zenith of my career as a hack rock journalist, cranking out fluff pieces on crap bands for rollingstone.com. In honor of that sad, sad time in music history, and because I'm in dire need of a procrastination tool, I give you this Rhapsody playlist:

1998 was a banner year for "alternative" - NOT!:

1. Closing Time - Semisonic
2. Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind
3. Fly - Sugar Ray
4. Flagpole Sitta (Edited) - Harvey Danger
5. One Week - Bare Naked Ladies
6. Sex And Candy - Marcy Playground
7. 3 a.m. - Matchbox Twenty
8. If You Could Only See - Tonic
9. Inside Out - Eve 6
10. The Freshmen - The Verve Pipe
11. The Way - Fastball"