Acclaimed Music Top 30 Albums from 2000 poll

we are back and i hope we have fun with this.

didn't start off too well as the link didn't work.

The best album of 2000 is the self-titled album by The Glands. Rest in peace, Ross Shapiro.

From this list, Marshall Mathers.

Kid A

i have never heard of The Glands, if they are on Spotify i'm going to check it out.

thanks!

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Voodoo but like yo... where the fuck is Mama's Gun?

32 1901 Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun

i allude to it and i might continue this series next summer but that is a long ways away.

One of these:

Radiohead - Kid A
OutKast - Stankonia
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
D'Angelo - Voodoo
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
Common - Like Water for Chocolate

Leaning towards Common to be honest

New poll, new decade

does ILM want this to continue? it was a good four year run but if the board is no longer interested i don't see a reason to do the 2000's.

I vote to continue. I like these polls, particularly the singles ones, which always send me off nostalgically Spotifying.

Yeah good stuff! Lotsa cool albums here, kinda wanna vote supreme clientele but kid a is just massive

Think avalanches and voodoo will do well

The Moon & Antarctica. Kid A will walk with this. Relationship of Command hasn't aged well. Figure 8 isn't the best ES album.

2000 was a really, really good year. I went to a lot of gigs, had great fun, went a bit psychotic, and there were loads of fabulous albums.

I don't remember 2000 being a standout year myself. I was almost obtusely against the zeitgeist/mainstream by that point so a lot of these albums only arrived to my attention quite some time later.

There are so many good albums from 2000, but I did NOT think I'd see Håkan Hellström on here, and I have to vote for that. That's the sound of growing up in Scandinavia those years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7YNhic1o6U

För många ramlande flickor ramlar förbi
För många rammelsängar att ramla I

...

Och jag ramlade in på nåt diskotek
Och sen ramla jag ut, såvitt jag vet
Och jag ramla omkull och tog mig upp och sen
Ramla jag omkull igen

So many amazing lines on that album.

Kid A is kind of the no-brainer here for me, I used to love listening to it high.

After that, its Ghostface and Godspeed

I have loved all of the following at one time or another:

Radiohead
Outkast
Eminem
PJ Harvey
Primal Scream
D'Angelo
At The Drive-In
Yo La Tengo
Ghostface
Queens of the Stone Age
Badly Drawn Boy
Goldfrapp
Lambchop
Luomo
Common

Which is a pretty good return for a single year.

Kid A, Stankonia, or Relationship of Command.

Or Goldfrapp, lovely album.

Voting for Common, I love a lot of albums on this list, but I'm worried Common won't get any votes.

I am voting for Marshall Mathers, but I do still have a soft spot for Mass Romantic

the stanky one

I vote to keep going, don't get discouaged Bee. Voting for Lost Souls as I feel it won't get any love.

what an absolutely terrible selection of albums from this particular year

BURN / THE / CANON

Trying not to but more action today. I was just wondering if we were burnt-out.

BURN / THE / WITCH

hey but anyway I think we all agree that canons are tools of oppression, and these lists and rankings may seem weird and tokenistic, rockistic, all sorts of bad stuff - but those are all great albums! and we all know them since they're in the evil canon, so we can all vote and discuss, just for the fun of it

like that thread abt most scary/impressive/fascistic monuments - we can have fun voting and talking abt stuff we don't agree with?

anyway, these threads could also be used for discussing the canon if anyone finds that interesting (what's missing, which conservative aesthetic values are expressed, i dunno)

I was 29 in 2000, was going to say "I have heard none of these" but wait, Mass Romantic, one of my favorite records of all time! Remember hearing "My Slow Descent..." on the radio and almost having to stop the car, I was so bowled over, and it had been so long since a piece of pop pushed everything else aside so forcefully.

Don't really know what I was listening to in 2000? Kleenex Girl Wonder and Barcelona had great records that year. Oh and "Mermaid Avenue Vol. 2"

yeap, thanks niels. could not have said it better.

ghostface vs. luomo both of which i got into later, it's a little embarrassing what i liked at the time. i think i finally have no use for radiohead which is a relief tbh.

I look on this list, and honestly it looks pretty good. It's really not that I miss too much, but then I see U2, Coldplay, Doves, Deftones, Dandy Warhols, and yeah, there must be some worthy records missing.

LUOMO

avalanches... that's up there with "best first listens"

these lists and rankings may seem weird and tokenistic, rockistic, all sorts of bad stuff - but those are all great albums!

these aren't all great album but nice troll

I think I've listened to every record on this list except the last one

You NEED to hear the last one!

I saw this Badly Drawn Boy tour and wonder how this album holds up.

I guess "Mass Romantic", though it's more uneven than their later albums. Probably my favorite albums from 2000 are Immolation "Close to a World Below" and Peter Garland "The Days Run Away".

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Nothing on this list was/is/will be as enduring, influential and flat out brilliant as Kid A.

This poll was my latest incentive to give Voodoo yet another shot. I still don't get it.

Voted for Stankonia over Kid A and Mass Romantic.

i don't care about any of these

not great is it

gonna throw grandaddy a vote tho coz they are genuinely underrated on here

All That You Can Leave Behind!

also I will listen to Voodoo I guess

Wonder how much of Everything in this poll will be In Its Right Place!

Voodoo of the options available. Discordance Axis's The Inalienable Dreamless is probably my favourite of the year.

where the fuck is vision creation newsun

oh, 1999 apparently

i'm going w Luomo. such a lovely little world. the rest of these can suck it. actually i haven't heard that many of them and don't care that much. would actively avoid gybe. luomo is the only one of these i would gladly listen to right now though. kid a is bad.

i'm a hip hop rube but isn't supreme clientele one of the best ghostace records? why did people like eminem again? sorry

hmm maybe luomo is actaully bad. watch for more from me in this space soon.

People like Eminem because hooks, pop music, persona. Maybe race. I like Ghostface but he's not got hooks like Eminem.

I've heard like three of these. Voted for GYBE anyway.

for me, Moon & Antarctica vs. Lift Yr Skinny Fists vs. Mass Romantic is an impossible choice

in the end, i voted for the one i think is most clearly the band's peak

Voted for Stories From the City. Supreme Clientele and Kid A are my other favourites but I still like over half of these albums. Most glaring omission for me: Gas - Pop

Xtrmntr

Not my favourite year of the 00's, it has to be said. Of course, there was some good-to-great music as there was every year, but for some reason 2000 still felt like it had a bit of a '90s hangover about it. To me, it didn't feel like the 00's properly got started until about 2003 or thereabouts. 2003-2007 I remember as being particularly good years. 2002 and 2008 probably much less so.

i had a vague thought about vocalcity i wanted put down. it's sort of this beautifully conceived ad for the EU isn't it? and is in that sense a funny little time capsule. it's sooo gorgeous though...

Voted for The Avalanches. Ghostface Killah and D'angelo would complete my top three.

hmm maybe luomo is actaully bad

awful take

I voted for white pony anyway

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

did anyone else see Badly Drawn Boy answering questions about Bruce Springsteen on Mastermind last year?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV2TVhoxsN4

awful take

true, i listened to it again this afternoon and it sounds better than ever.

Never heard the luomo record, will have to check it out

Did Vocalcity get much/any EOY list love at the time?