Someone chopped off all my fingers and toes, and as an English teacher I can't count any other way, so I've merely grouped my top fave fab gear records for 2000 into a series of chunks, as outlined below (within "chunks" there's no particular order): TOPPEST: Radiohead Kid A Aimee Mann Bachelor No. 2 The Rock*a*Teens Sweet Bird of Youth The Loud Family Attractive Nuisance Damon and Naomi with Ghost (s/t) Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump NEXT TOPPER: Tris McCall If One of These Bottles Should Happen to Fall: Jersey Songs Sixteen Deluxe Vision Take Me, Make Me, Never Forsake Me Elliott Smith Figure 8 STILL TOP: The Apples in Stereo The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone The Jupiter Affect Instructions for the Two Ways of Becoming Alice The Starlight Mints The Dream that Stuff Was Made Of AND PLUS ALSO: Modest Mouse The Moon and Antarctica, Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out, Anton Barbeau 17th Century Fuzzbox Blues, Bright Eyes Fevers and Mirrors, The Go-Betweens The Friends of Rachel Worth, Godspeed You Black Emperor! Lift Yr. Skinny Fists like Antennae to Heaven, Optiganally Yours Presents: Exclusively Talentmaker!, Self Gizmodgery, Stew Guest Host, The Sugarplastic Resin, Verbow White Out, Early Day Miners Placer Found, Darling The Floating World, The Solipsistics Jesus of the Apes HONORABLE MENTION: Franklin Bruno Kiss without Makeup, The Helio Sequence Com Plex, L'Altra Music of a Sinking Occasion (actually, yes, it *does* work well with The Floating World), The Maggies Cryptic Valentine, Olo Still Life with Peripheral Grey, The Sixths Hyacinths and Thistles, Smart Brown Handbag Just Like Driving Backwards WORTH FURTHER INVESTIGATION: Shawn Lee Monkey Boy, The Lovelies Hot One, Wolf Colonel Vikings of Mint, Joe, Marc's Brother Around the Year with Joe, Marc's Brother I don't count compilations, live albums, or EPs, but here are a few EPs worth hearing: Macha Loved Bedhead / Bedhead Loved Macha (s/t), Sixteen Deluxe The Moonman Is Blue, Stereolab The First of the Microbe Hunters, The Sunshine Fix The Future History of a Sunshine Fix, Rian Murphy and Will Oldham All Most Heaven If I didn't list your favorite title, it's either because I haven't heard it or because I, personally, wish to slight you. Also, it might suck. |