Jimmy Eat World's Clarity won 1999. Let's see who wins The Year 2000 and begins the millennium. What an all-timer! Billboard chart-topping albums of 2000: Celine Dion - All the Way (cont. from 1999) DMX - And Then There Was X (cont. from 1999) Jay Z - Vol. 3 ... Life and Times of S. Carter (cont. from 1999) Santana - Supernatural (cont. from 1999) D'Angelo - Voodoo NSYNC - No Strings Attached Britney Spears - Oops! I Did It Again Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP Various Artists - Now! Vol. 4 Nelly - Country Grammar LL Cool J - GOAT Madonna - Music Mystikal - Let's Get Ready Radiohead - Kid A Ja Rule - Rule 3:36 Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water Jay Z - The Dynasty: Roc La Familia R. Kelly - TP2 The Beatles - 1 Backstreet Boys - Black & Blue Billboard chart-topping singles of 2000: Santana - Smooth (cont. from 1999) Christina Aguilera - What a Girl Wants (cont. from 1999) Savage Garden - I Knew I Loved You (cont. from 1999) Mariah Carey - Thank God I Found You (cont. from 1999) Lonestar - Amazed (cont. from 1999) Destiny's Child - Say My Name (cont. from 1999) Santana - Maria Maria (cont. from 1999) Aaliyah - Try Again Enrique Iglesias - Be With You Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want (cont. from 1999) Matchbox 20 - Bent NSYNC - It's Gonna Be Me Sisqo - Incomplete Janet Jackson - Doesn't Really Matter Madonna - Music Christina Aguilera - Come On Over Baby (cont. from 1999) Creed - With Arms Wide Open (cont. from 1999) Destiny's Child - Independent Woman What are your top three albums for 2000? We will keep a running tally and eventually have some sort of bracket. For me it would be: 1. Outkast - Stankonia 2. Oasis - Standing on the Shoulder of Giants 3. Radiohead - Kid A What are some of the forgotten gems from the year? What is overrated? What did you discover at a young age and what did you discover later? YEARS IN MUSIC • forum.chorus.fm
remainder of the top 20: 4. Elliott Smith - Figure 8 5. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command 6. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica 7. The White Stripes - De Stijl 8. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump 9. Coldplay - Parachutes 10. The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving 11. U2 - All You That You Can't Leave Behind 12. Cave In - Jupiter 13. Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R 14. Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes 15. Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors 16. Deftones - White Pony 17. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory 18. Engine Down - To Bury Within the Sound 19. Pearl Jam - Binaural 20. Green Day - Warning honorable mentions: Belle & Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant Cursive - Domestica D’Angelo - Voodoo Dashboard Confessional - The Swiss Army Romance Electric Wizard - Dopethrone Explosions in the Sky - How Strange, Innocence Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven Green Day - Warning High on Fire - The Art of Self Defense The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight Isis - Celestial Jay Z - The Dynasty: Roc La Familia Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage Matchbox 20 - Mad Season Nelly - Country Grammar Pedro the Lion - Winners Never Quit A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms Richard Ashcroft - Alone With Everybody A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms The Smashing Pumpkins - Machina/The Machines of God Songs: Ohia - The Lioness Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers Sunny Day Real Estate - The Rising Tide Warren Zevon - Life’ll Kill Ya stuff to check out: Common - Like Water for Chocolate Del the Funky Homosapien - Both Sides of the Brain Dillinger Four - Versus God Erykah Badu - Mama’s Gun Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele The Jayhawks - Smile Jurassic 5 - Quality Control Lamb of God - New American Gospel Mystikal - Let’s Get Ready No Doubt - Return of Saturn PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One Tegan and Sara - This Business of Art Ween - White Pepper Wu Tang Clan - The W Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
1. Outkast - Stankonia 2. Radiohead - Kid A 3. Deftones - White Pony And to point out how insane this year is: Catch 22 - Alone in the Crowd Less Than Jake - Borders & Boundaries Del the Funkee Homosapien - Both Sides of the Brain Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence Elliot Smith - Figure 8 Eve 6 - Horrorscope Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory Matchbox Twenty - Mad Season Alkaline Trio - Maybe I'll Catch Fire New Found Glory - New Found Glory Coldplay - Parachutes Millencolin - Pennybridge Pioneers Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R Midtown - Save The World, Lose the Girl The Avalanches - Since I Left You Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele AFI - The Art of Drowning Big L - The Big Picture MxPx - The Ever Passing Moment Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica Dashboard Confessional - The Swiss Army Romance The Movielife - This Time Next Year Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent By Design Green Day - Warning Death Cab For Cutie - We Have The Facts And We're Voting Yes
1. Radiohead - Kid A 2. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 3. Coldplay - Parachutes HM: Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts, Shiina Ringo - Shouso Strip Surprised Parachutes beat out that Death Cab album for me but I listened to it earlier this year for the first time in a while and it's probably my favourite Coldplay album. Just lovely stuff.
1. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory 2. Coldplay - Parachutes 3. Deftones - White Pony 4. Dashboard Confessional - Swiss Army Romance 5. Smashing Pumpkins - Machina 6. Radiohead - Kid A 7. Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts 8. Oasis - Standing on the Shoulder of Giants 9. New Found Glory - New Found Glory 10. Outkast - Stankonia Holy shit what a year.
1. Alkaline Trio - Maybe I'll Catch Fire Top 3 Alk3 for me. Don't love all of Matt's songs and I think Radio is overrated, but Dan really finds his voice on this one. You've Got So Far To Go is one of my fav tracks of all time for some reason. 2. All - Problematic The (likely) final All album! Chad Price is one of my favorite vocalists because of his rasp, and the band puts in a solid final effort here. It's a bit more slight than previous All releases, but the lyrical content carries some homogenous songwriting. Carry You and Better Than That are bangers. 3. Green Day - Warning Chorus.fm: the only website on the internet that loves this album. But I do and I think it's because it is the first Green Day album I remember. Love the title track, Waiting, Macy's Day Parade, and Minority of course, but Church On Sunday is the sleeper hit for me here. 4. Bad Religion - The New America Almost through the dodgy Atlantic years! Some of BR's worst songs feature on this album and the production is very odd, but much like the All album, the lyrical content is new ground for BR, which is a feat for a band 20 years into their career. A Streetkid Named Desire is a terrible song title, but one of the only outright auto-biographical BR songs. 5. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory While Meteora was arguably more influential to me personally, I have to shout out where it all started. Kudos to Linkin Park for making aggressive music so catchy my parents let child me listen to a song with a bridge that was just "SHUT UP!" over and over. Honorable Mentions: At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command (A new discovery for me, got into them while reading Sellout.) Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R (Just jams) Pearl Jam - Binaural (The final classic Pearl Jam album) AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip (Underrated AC/DC album and one of my favorites. Title track is a banger.) The Offspring - Conspiracy of One (Meh, but was my favorite band for a long time.) Stuff by bands who all went on to make better albums: Good Charlotte - Good Charlotte Superdrag - In the Valley of Dying Stars Marvelous 3 - ReadySexGo! Relient K - Relient K Midtown - Save the World, Lose the Girl New Found Glory - New Found Glory Stuff I should listen to: Outkast - Stankonia Deftones - White Pony The Avalanches - Since I Left You Nelly Furtado - Whoa Nelly!
Ridiculous year 1. Radiohead - Kid A 2. Outkast - Stankonia 3. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica 4. The Avalanches - Since I Left You 5. Death Cab For Cutie - We Have The Facts
1. Deftones - White Pony 2. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory 3. Radiohead - Kid A ------------------------------- 4. Our Lady Peace - Spiritual Machines 5. Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R 6. Green Day - Warning 7. Coldplay - Parachutes 8. Oasis - Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants 9. Pearl Jam - Binaural 10. Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence 11. The Smashing Pumpkins - Machina/The Machines Of God 12. A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms 13. At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command 14. Outkast - Stankonia 15. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica 16. Matchbox Twenty - Mad Season 17. Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water 18. The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious 19. Good Charlotte - Good Charlotte 20. Fuel - Something Like Human Honorable Mention: AFI - The Art Of Drowning Alkaline Trio - Maybe I'll Catch Fire The Avalanches - Since I Left You Bad Religion - The New America Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue, Volume II Bloodhound Gang - Hooray For Boobies The Clarks - Let It Go Collective Soul - Blender The Cure - Bloodflowers Cursive - Cursive's Domestica The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia Death Cab For Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes Disturbed - The Sickness Doves - Lost Souls Eels - Daisies Of The Galaxy Elliott Smith - Figure 8 Everclear - Songs From An American Movie: Learning How To Smile Everclear - Songs From An American Movie: Good Time For A Bad Attitude Explosions In The Sky - How Strange, Innocence Flogging Molly - Swagger Fu Manchu - King Of The Road Godsmack - Awake Lifehouse - No Name Face Mudvayne - L.D. 50 MxPx - The Ever Passing Moment New Found Glory - New Found Glory No Doubt - Return Of Saturn The Offspring - Conspiracy Of One Papa Roach - Infest Phoenix - United Placebo - Black Market Music Rage Against The Machine - Renegades Rancid - Rancid (5) Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker The Sea And Cake - Oui The Smashing Pumpkins - Machina II/The Friends & Enemies Of Modern Music SR-71 - Now You See Inside Steely Dan - Two Against Nature Sum 41 - Half Hour Of Power Sunny Day Real Estate - The Rising Tide Superdrag - In the Valley of Dying Stars Switchfoot - Learning To Breathe Taproot - Gift 3 Doors Down - The Better Life U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind Ween - White Pepper The White Stripes - De Stijl Checking out in full for First Time: Belle & Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like A Peasant Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors Cave In - Jupiter Common - Like Water For Chocolate Dashboard Confessional - The Swiss Army Romance Engine Down - To Bury Within The Sound Eve 6 - Horrorscope Fatboy Slim - Halfway Between The Gutter and the Stars Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight Jurassic 5 - Quality Control Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage Kittie - Spit Millencolin - Pennybridge Pioneers Modest Mouse - Building Nothing Out of Something Orgy - Vapor Transmission Pedro The Lion - Winners Never Quit Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers Spoon - Love Ways EP The Weakerthans - Left And Leaving Wu Tang Clan - The W Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
1. Millencolin - Pennybridge Pioneers 2. Less than Jake - Borders and Boundries 3. Goldfinger - Stomping Ground 4. New Found Glory - New Found Glory 5. Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Pay Attention 6. Samian - Astray 7. Deftones - White Pony 8. ALL - Problematic 9. Aquabats - Myths, Legends 10. Junction 18 - This Vicious Cycle
1. The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving 2. Outkast - Stankonia 3. Dashboard Confessional - The Swiss Army Romance Good year
Deftones - White Pony Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Sunset Mission At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command White Pony's one of the greatest rock albums of all time and it's pretty much been my favourite record since I was a teenager. To this day, I find it hard to adequately describe it. Even in the Deftones back catalogue, it sounds unique; the production is a major part of it, feeling lush, warm, even a little futuristic, creating space for each aspect, yet not neutering the heaviness when it arrives. The drum sound on Digital Bath is still unbeatable. The scope of its influences, from metal to trip-hop, to ambient, to breakbeat, to new-wave, is apparent yet mostly not sounding like any of those artists or bands. The vocal performance across the record is front and centre - that you can draw a line between someone like H.R. from Bad Brains and Sade is because of Chino. And for a guy who's always been a pretty ambiguous, impressionistic lyricist, there's at times an unsettling extra dimension to this record lyrically in the push and pull of the narrator as either an antagonist or a victim. I could talk for a week about White Pony. I think I first heard Sunset Mission almost fifteen years ago and it's still the best background album, especially for night. A more perfect ambient-jazz noir record could not exist. Every track is great; sprawling, mesmeric, creepy, beautiful. No vocal could add anything to it. I really don't have an argument against Relationship Of Command being the best record of 2000, other than preference. So dynamic and so vital-sounding. No skips. It could easily sound sloppy too, with the way the guitars play off each other, and the abstract lyrics, but it comes together in a way that justifies use of the 'lightning in a bottle' cliche. There's no need to create a playlist to pump you up when an album like this exists. And, while there may be a few examples that match up to it, I don't know if there's actually a better opening trio of songs than Arcarsenal - Pattern Against User - One Armed Scissor. Honourable Mentions: Radiohead - Kid A Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence Isis - Celestial
All of this. It took me until probably 2003 to fully FULLY come around on White Pony and Deftones in general, I was a bit too young probably to appreciate all of the subtleties and nuance when I was 14ish. Around the Fur is awesome and all, but the level up that this band did on White Pony is astounding. Once "Digital Bath" clicked with me, it was all over. Truly one of the most gorgeous and crushing songs of all-time. Actually I don't typically try to choose favorite favorite songs, because it's just impossible.... but "Digital Bath" might just be it for me. I could listen to it 20 times a day and never get tired of it.
Gotta be honest, I made this list a long time ago so it probably could use some re-arranging past the first few. Kid A obviously is way too low, Warning is probably too low, etc etc. Anyway, here it is: 1. Orgy - Vapor Transmission 2. Fatboy Slim - Halfway Between The Gutter and the Stars 3. Everclear - Songs from an American Movie Vol. One: Learning How to Smile 4. Eve 6 - Horrorscope 5. Matchbox Twenty - Mad Season 6. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory 7. Good Charlotte - Good Charlotte 8. Phoenix - United 9. The Offspring - Conspiracy of One 10. Mest - Wasting Time 11. Everclear - Songs from an American Movie Vol. Two: Good Time For A Bad Attitude 12. Green Day - Warning 13. Bowling For Soup - Let's Do It for Johnny!! 14. Sum 41 - Half Hour of Power 15. Nine Days - The Madding Crowd 16. Radiohead - Kid A 17. No Doubt - Return of Saturn 18. SR-71 - Now You See Inside 19. Midtown - Save the World, Lose the Girl 20. Marvelous 3 - ReadySexGo
2000 mix. Track 3 should be Marvelous 3 - Get Over, but I guess that album isnt on spotify so here we are...
I am going to have to look through my giant book of CDs to make my list as I was 16 and was buying albums once a week at Newbury Comics. Holy shit how was this 22 years ago!?!?!
Dammit forgot about all of these somehow! Edits made. I haven't heard the name SR-71 probably SINCE high school. And that Phoenix record has some great songs, I didn't know it existed until like 2010 though haha.
1. Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows 2. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven 3. Elliott Smith - Figure 8 Idelwild are a very underrated band, coming in just at the tail end of Brit-pop, but bringing a bit of a louder more aggressive sound to it, clearly indebted to punk music, as well as big anthemic arena rock stuff like U2. This is their second album, and finds them in the perfect middle ground between the scrappy stuff on their debut, and the more polished poppier stuff on their coming records. Well worth a listen if you don't know the name, one of my favourite bands. GYBE's big double album, 90 minutes long with just four tracks is one of my favourite post-rock albums. Not quite as bleak as their debut album, with songs following a more traditional post-rock route of slow build up to crescendo, but full of experimentation, and field recordings or samples. Each of the individual tracks are so long and so well constructed, that even if I don't have time for the whole record, I'll regularly just chuck on one track, and it'll work just as well. Figure 8 is the final Elliott Smith album, and just like those that preceded it, it's an astoundingly beautiful and simple collection of songs written with such disarming charm and ease, that it makes it look like the easiest thing in the world. Honourable mentions; Outkast - Stankonia: I don't listen to the whole thing very often, but I'm always listening to B.O.B, what a song that is. Green Day - Warning: Was the consensus "underrated" Green Day album, to the point where it truly can't be underrated anymore. Some of their best songwriting, with a bit of a broader pop-rock sound, losing some of the brash punk sound (though Minority is one of their best songs in that style). Millencolin - Pennybridge Pioneers: Like almost everyone, I found Millencolin through Tony Hawks and "No Cigar", which is an all time great melodic punk track, and threatens to overpower and outshine what is a very good record in it's own right, with one massive high point. Isis - Celestial: The now unfortunately named Isis' debut record, a fantastic bit of post-metal inventiveness, and they'd go from strength to strength in the coming years. Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors: A bit overwrought, and Conor hadn't quite worked out how best to use his (frequently wince inducing) voice, but there's some really great bits of emo-folky songwriting here. He'd go onto to do much better pretty quickly, but this is the earliest Bright Eyes record that's worth listening to, IMO. At The Drive In - Relationship of Command: A brilliantly loud and destructive album that perfectly blends the bands disparate influences into a thrilling mix. The fact that after they split, half the band made perfunctory and dull post-hardcore music as Sparta, and the other half made wild and completely messy, frequently indulgent prog music as The Mars Volta is very telling. Much better combined than apart.