The Best Albums of 2000

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Best of Rock Albums

    8/10
  1. Spring Heel Jack: Disappeared (Thirsty Ear)
  2. Dirty 3: Whatever You Love You Are (Touch & Go)
  3. Roy Montgomery: The Allegory of Hearing (Drunken Fish)
  4. Acid Mothers Temple: La Novia (Eclipse)
    7.5/10
  5. Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP (Columbia)
  6. Animal Collective: Spirit They're Gone Spirit They've Vanished (Animal)
  7. Godspeed You Black Emperor: Lift Your Skinny Fists (Kranky)
  8. Quasimoto: The Unseen
  9. Bohren & der Club of Gore: Sunset Mission (Wonder)
  10. Ulver: Perdition City (Jester)

  11. 7/10
  12. Pinetop Seven: Bringing Home The Last Great Strike (Truckstop)
  13. Shalabi Effect: Shalabi Effect (Alien 8)
  14. Comets On Fire: Comets on Fire (COF)
  15. Demolition Squad: Hit It (Psychotropic)
  16. Morphine: The Night (Dreamworks)
  17. Blectum From Blechdom: The Messy Jesse Fiesta (Deluxe)
  18. Steffen Basho-Junghans: Song of the Earth (Sublingual)
  19. Storm & Stress: Under Thunder And Fluorescent Light (Touch & Go)
  20. Annette Peacock: An Acrobat's Heart (ECM)
  21. For Carnation (Touch & Go)
  22. Alastair Galbraith: Cry (Emperor Jones)
  23. Mojave 3: Excuses For Travellers (4AD)
  24. Aesop Rock: Float (Mush)
  25. David Grubbs: The Spectrum Between (Drag City)
  26. Milk Cult: Project M-13 (0 To 1)
  27. Black Heart Procession: 3 (Touch & Go)
  28. Sin Ropas: Three Cherries (Perishable)
  29. Fontanelle: Fontanelle (Kranky)
  30. Pan American: 360 Business 360 Bypass (Kranky)
  31. Avalanches: Since I Left You (Modular)
  32. Maquiladora: White Sands (Lotushouse)
  33. Calexico: Hot Rail (Quarterstick)
  34. Susumu Yokota: Sakura (Skintone)
  35. Radian: TG11 (Rhiz)
  36. Delgados: The Great Eastern (Chemikal Underground)
  37. L'Altra: Music Of A Sinking Occasion (Aesthetics)
  38. Arab On Radar: Soak The Saddle (Skin Graft)
  39. The Danubians (Cuneiform)
  40. Bent Leg Fatima (File 13)
  41. Clinic: Internal Wrangler (Domino)
  42. Shivaree: I Oughtta Give You A Shot In The Head For Making Me Live In This Dump (Capitol)
  43. Arto Lindsay: Prize (Righteous Babe)
  44. Isis: Celestial (Escape Artist)
  45. Kid 606: Down With The Scene (Ipecac)
  46. P'taah: Compressed Light (Ubiquity)
  47. Electric Wizard: Dopethrone (MUsic Cartel)
  48. Doves: Lost Souls (Heavenly)
  49. Mum: Yesterday Was Dramatic Today Is Ok (Thule)
  50. Shipping News: Very Soon And In Pleasant Company (Quarterstick)
  51. Lou Reed: Ecstasy (Reprise)
  52. Sunn O))): Zero Zero Void (Rise Above)
  53. Otomo Yoshihide: Anode (Tzadik)
  54. Songs:Ohia: Ghost Tropic (Secrety Canadian)
  55. Mermen: The Amazing California Health And Happiness Road Show (Source)
  56. Jackie-O Motherfucker: Magick Fire Music (Ecstatic Peace)
  57. Cursive: Domestica (Saddle Creek)
  58. A Silver Mt Zion: He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms (Constellation)
  59. Datach'i: We Are Always Well Thank You (Caipirinha)
  60. Joan Of Arc: The Gap (Jade Tree)
  61. Aloha: That's Your Fire (Polyvinyl)
  62. Joseph Arthur: Come To Where I'm From (Virgin)
  63. Hives: Veni Vidi Vicious (Burning Heart)
  64. Ulan Bator: Ego Echo (Young God)
  65. Discordance Axis: The Inalienable Dreamless (Hydra Head)
  66. Bright Eyes: Fevers And Mirrors (Saddle Creek)
  67. Dysrhythmia: Contradiction (Self-released)
  68. Deftones: White Pony (Maverick)
  69. Liquid Mind: Unity (Chuck Wild)
  70. Steve Earle: Transcendental Blues (Artemis)
  71. Soulfly: Primitive (Roadrunner)
  72. Damien Jurado: Ghost Of David (Subpop)
  73. Ora: Amalgam (Edition)
  74. Rollerball: Bathing Music (Road Cone)
  75. Blackalicious: Nia (Mo'Wax)
  76. Ashera: Colour Glow (Cdaw)
  77. Emmylou Harris: Red Dirt Girl (Elektra)
  78. Max Tundra: Some Best Friend You Turned Out To Be (Domino)
  79. Immolation: Close to a World Below (Metal Blade)
  80. Absurd Minds: Deception (Scanner)
  81. Evanescence : Origin (Bigwig)

Songs
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  1. Spring Heel Jack: Wolfing
  2. Clinic: Return of Evil Bill
  3. Mojave 3: In Love With A View
  4. Pinetop Seven: And The Dog Longed To Be A Horse
  5. Comets On Fire: The Way Down
  6. Emmylou Harris: Bang the Drum Slowly
  7. Clinic: Second Foot Stomp
  8. Tom Waits: Starving In The Belly Of A Whale
  9. Mandible Chatter: The Dust Blows Back
  10. 6ths: Just Like A Movie Star
  11. Modest Mouse: The Stars Are Projectors
  12. 6ths: You You You You You
  13. Looper: Money Hair
  14. Willard Grant Conspiracy: Christmas In Nevada
  15. Smog: Dress Sexy At My Funeral
  16. Blonde Redhead: This Is Not
  17. Cash Audio: Who Killed The Blues
  18. 6ths: The Dead Only Quickly Decay
  19. Venetian Snares: Fire Is The Devil
  20. Volapuk: Valse Chinoise
  21. Hannah Marcus: Darling How Are You
  22. Minus 5: Lies Of The Living Dead
  23. Mojave 3: Got My Sunshine
  24. Queens Of The Stone Age: Feel Good Hit Of The Summer
  25. Radiohead: The National Anthem
  26. Murder City Devils: I'll Come Running
  27. Clinic: The Second Line
  28. Vue Vue: Girl
  29. Gluecifer: Get The Horn
  30. Lambchop: The Petrified Florist
  31. Bright Eyes: The Calender Hung Itself
  32. Sin Ropas: Redtooth
  33. Boss Hog: Itchy & Scratchy
  34. Datach'i: Uma is Dead
  35. Add N To (X): Plug Me In
  36. Eat Static: Mondo A Go-Go
  37. Calexico: Ballad Of Cable Hogue
  38. Minus 5: The Little Black Egg
  39. Damon & Naomi: The New World
  40. Black Heart Procession: Waterfront
  41. Everclear: Learning How To Smile
  42. Amon Tobin: Chocolate Lovely
  43. Converge: Homewrecker
  44. David Thomas: Clouds Of You
  45. Rollerball: DJ Tecate
  46. Lambchop: The Butcher Boy
  47. Panamerican: Code
  48. Bright Eyes: Something Vague
  49. Add N To (X): Brothel Charge
  50. Cursive: Shallow Means Deep Ends
  51. Willard Grant Conspiracy: Christmas In Nevada
  52. Sixteen Horsepower: Clogger
  53. Avalanches: Frontier Psychiatrist
  54. Skull Control: Mater Dolores
  55. Zeke: Let's Get Drugs
  56. Marilyn Manson: The Fight Song
  57. New Pornographers: The Slow Descent Into Alcoholism
  58. Lenny Kravitz: Again
  59. Goldfrapp: Lovely Head
  60. Joseph Arthur: Exhausted
  61. Marilyn Manson: The Death Song
  62. Max Tundra: Ink Me
  63. U2: Beautiful Day
  64. Madlib: Come on Feet
  65. La Celestina
  66. Absurd Minds: Deception
  67. Edan: You Suck
  68. B. Fleischmann: Chad F the Tick and Sax Mix

Extended compositions
  1. Acid Mothers Temple: La Novia
  2. Steve Roach: Cave Dwellers
  3. Dirty 3: I Offered It Up To The Stars
  4. Otomo Yoshihide: Anode
  5. MIMEO: Electric Table
  6. Nobukazu Takemura: Souvenir In Chicago
  7. Cheer-Accident: Trading Balloons
  8. Storm & Stress: Meet Me In The Place...
  9. Species Being: Track 4
  10. Acid Mothers Temple: Acid Heart Mother
  11. A Silver Mt Zion: Lonely As The Sound of Lying On The Ground
  12. Mojave 3: My Life In Art
  13. Six Organs of Admittance: Journey Through Sankuan Pass
  14. Tarentel: Searching for Things
  15. Steven Smith: Tableland
  16. Gravitar: Rocket To Dearborn
  17. For Carnation: Tales
  18. Takemura: Souvenir In Chicago
  19. Angel In Heavy Syrup: Voyage
  20. Joan Of Arc: Your Impersonation
  21. Maquiladora: Bueno Mis Amigos
  22. Arovane: The Storm
  23. Laika: Widows' Weed
  24. A Silver Mt Zion: Blown-Out Joy
  25. Animal Collective: Alvin Row
  26. Michael Hall: I Wish I Was A Mole
  27. Primal Scream: Swastika Eyes
  28. Sun City Girls: Rotation Flotation
  29. Troum: Mirrored In You (Dedicated To Martyn Bates)
  30. Ulver: Hallways of Always
  31. Caspar Brotzmann: Indians
  32. Nile: The Dream Of Ur
  33. Dysrhythmia: Earthquake
  34. Grandaddy: He's Simple
  35. Electric Wizard: Weird Tales
  36. Circle: Stimulance
  37. Vladislav Delay: Huone
  38. MIMEO: Electric Table
  39. Early Day Miners: In These Hills
  40. Gas: Pop 7
  41. Immolation: Close to a World Below
  42. Ayreon: Dawn Of A Million Souls
  43. Moodymann: The Thief That Stole My Sad Days
  44. Bohren & der Club of Gore: Nightwolf
  45. Evanescence: Eternal
  46. Porcupine Tree : Russia On Ice
  47. Jackie-O Motherfucker: The Cage

Best of Jazz 2000

    8/10
  1. Spring Heel Jack: Disappeared
    7.5/10
  2. Marty Ehrlich: Malinke's Dance
    7/10
  3. Guillermo Gregorio: Faktura
  4. Joe Maneri: Going To Church
  5. Myra Melford: Dance Beyond the Color
  6. Andrew Hill: Dusk
  7. Dave Douglas: El Trilogy
  8. Nels Cline: Destroy All Nels Cline
  9. Free Radicals: Our Lady of Eternal Sunny Delights
  10. Splattercell: OAH
  11. New Orchestra: Inscape
  12. Steve Turre: In The Spur of the Moment
  13. Joshua Redman: Passage of Time
  14. David Murray: Octect Plays
  15. Bill Frisell: Ghost Town
  16. 33.3: Plays Music
  17. George Lewis: Endless Shout
  18. William Parker: Painter's Spring
  19. Bill Dixon: Papyrus
  20. David Berkman: Communication Theory
  21. Greg Osby: The Invisible Hand
  22. Bobo Stenson: Trio Serenity
  23. Acoustic Alchemy: The Beautiful Game
  24. Leo Smith: Golden Quartet
  25. Clark Terry: One on One
  26. Sonny Rollins: This Is What I Do

Best-sellers
  1. N Sync: No Strings Attached (10 millions)
  2. Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP (8 millions)
  3. Britney Spears: Oops (8 millions)
  4. Creed: Human Clay (6.5 millions)
  5. Santana: Supernatural (6 millions)
  6. Nelly: Country Grammar (5 millions)
  7. Beatles: 1 (5 millions)
  8. Backstreet Boys: Black & Blue (4 millions)


2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Best of the 1960's Best of the 1970's Best of the 1980's Best of the 1990's Best of the 2000's