ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2000
compiled from the critics' choices in the following publications: Uncut, Q, Select, Mojo, Melody Maker and the NME
1
XTRMNTR
Primal Scream
2
Kid A
Radiohead
3
The Marshall Mathers LP
Enimem
4
Nixon
Lambchop
5
Lost Souls
Doves
6
The Hour of Bewilderbeast
Badly Drawn Boy
7
Rated R
Queens of the Stone Age
8
The Sophtware Slump
Grandaddy
9
Kaleidoscope
Kelis
10
Parachutes
Coldplay
11
The Facts of Life
Black Box Recorder
12
The Great Eastern
The Delgados
13
69 Love Songs
The Magnetic Fields
14
Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
The Dandy Warhols
15
And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
Yo La Tango
16
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
PJ Harvey
17
Red Dirt Girl
Emmylou Harris
18=
Relationship of Command
At The Drive-In
18=
Levez Vos Skinny Fists Comme Antennae to Heaven
Godspeed You Black Emperor
20
Music
Madonna
21
JJ72
JJ72
22
Howdy!
Teenage Fanclub
23
American III: Solitary Man
Johnny Cash
24
Little Black Numbers
Kathryn Williams
25
Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars
Fatboy Slim
26
Heartbreaker
Ryan Adams
27
Stankonia
Outkast
28
Figure 8
Elliott Smith
29
Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant
Belle & Sebastian
30
Madonna
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
NOTES:
Something of a surprise victory for Primal Scream here. Quite a nice album, but hardly the defining record of the year, you'd have thought. On the other hand, it wasn't much of a year.
Bubbling just under the top 30 were Smog, Sigur Ros, Eels (again) and Paul Simon. But the most surprising underachievers were Richard Ashcroft, whose debut album Alone With Everybody only made #39, Super Furry Animals and Oasis - Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants finally wore out the critics' patience and was placed at #36.
Elastica, David Holmes, The Jayhawks and Jeff Buckley were amongst former favourites failing to make the top 40 (though the latter at least had the excuse of being long dead).
