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10 of 2000 - alphabetical by artist
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man
Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl
PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories
From The Sea
Radiohead - Kid A
Paul Simon - You're The One
Patti Smith - Gung Ho
Travis - The Man Who
U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
Neil Young - Silver & Gold
Remasters, Reisssues & Whatever
The Monkees - Headquarters Sessions
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band & Imagine
remasters
Nilsson - Import catalog remasters
The Clash - Catalog remasters
Hot Burritos! The Flying Burrito Brothers
Anthology 1969-72
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Marah
ñ Kids in Philly Reissues
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- Jimi Hendrix ñ The Jimi Hendrix Experience |
| Keeper of all things LEE at LakinLand -- Lee |
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RYAN ADAMS Heartbreaker [Bloodshot] BEST REISSUES |
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 BradNew Releases (alphabetical order) Heartbreaker - Ryan Adams Kids In Philly - Marah Life'll Kill Ya - Warren Zevon Live At The Fillmore February 1969 - The Byrds Mermaid Avenue Vol. II - Billy Bragg and Wilco Red Dirt Girl - Emmylou Harris Road Rocks Vol.1 - Neil Young, Friends and Relatives Silver And Gold - Neil Young Souvenirs - John Prine Transcendental Blues - Steve Earle Reissues 1. The Best of Broadside 1962-1988 2. El Cancionero: Mas Y Mas - Los Lobos 3. Hot Burritos: The Anthology - The Flying Burrito Brothers 4. Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music, Volume Four 5. Music From Big Pink, The Band, Stage Fright, Cahoots |
 Adam
Just thought I'd offer up my top 20 list of 2000 and tops of other shiznit too. let's begin: 20- Roni Size and Reprezent - In the Mode Didn't really hear all of it, but liked what I heard. Techno and drum & bass may not be dead (or only heard in television commercials by corporations trying to be "hip") after all. 19- Day One - Ordinary Man Sometimes people in England have a hard time deciding whether they want to be sensitive folkies, seductive lady killers, or beat junkies on the cutting edge. Day One picked all three. 18- Fatboy Slim - Halfway Between the Gutters and the Stars At least he knew that people were getting sick of the Rockefeller Skank before he was totally written off. Where the hell else are you going to hear Jim Morrison and trippy acid music (oh yeah, any Doors album). Good choice! 17- Beck - Midnite Vultures With the knowledge and soul to appeal to all genres, Beck is the real Bob Dylan of my generation (fuck Wyclef!). Please don't let him change his name to a symbol. [repeat while praying to God, really hard] 16- U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind Everybody is saying they're finally making good music again, but I kind of dug Pop for what it was worth. [no, not joking] 15- Charlatans UK - Charlatans UK Little known in my neck of the woods, but this is a grand rock and roll record from the most consistent rock band since R.E.M.. 14- Sade - Lover's Rock Finally a new record to bone to. And taking title from a Clash song is pretty damn cool too! 13- Radiohead - Kid A Feeling uncomfortable listening to a record hasn't been this nice since Bitch's Brew or Pink Moon. 12- Dilated Peoples - The Platform Hip hop revivalists who still know how to flex their arms. I bet Guru (formerly of Gangstarr) wishes he still was this innovative. 11- David Gray - The White Ladder If Dave Matthews used a sampler and knew how to write songs about actual personal subjects, he just might be this cool too. 10- Macy Gray - On How Life Is If Marvin Gaye's Dad weren't crazy, Marvin might sound like this today (I could only hope) 9- Common - Like Water for Chocolate No one in hip hop has ever expressed such a wide range of emotions so clearly, and with such good grammar. What if James Brown and Joni Mitchell had a son, the visual of the act of them grinding is funnier than, well, anything. 8- Ugly Duckling - Journey to Anywhere Call me a purist, but hip hop always feels better to me when it sounds like it came from New York around the turn of the 90's. 7- Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out Mix Tom Waits storytelling with Velvet Underground sound textures, shake and enjoy. 6- Oasis - Standing on the Shoulder of Giants Laugh all you want, but this is rock and roll, not that over hyped Limp Korn krap. Refreshing in a time in which rock needs a good kick in the balls and a Beatles/Zeppelin refresher course for the third time in 10 years. Don't worry Oasis will still be around when rock needs another savior. 5- Badly Drawn Boy - Hour of the Bewilderbeast Grow on you album of the year. Full of great alt-folk-rock pleasures. Imagine Beck and Elliot Smith covering Nick Drake and Neil Young Also apparently great for Gap commercials. 4- Coldplay - Parachutes Influences building into a masterpiece. Beatles+Nick Drake+Jeff Buckley+Radiohead+ Travis=Coldplay (need any scrap paper) 3- Belle & Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant The quietist and most under appreciated album in a year plagued by noise. But that's exactly the way they want it. Happy to be a refuge harbor to the peace of loneliness. 2- Jurassic 5 - Quality Control The four basic elements of hip hop all covered with masterful precision. MC+DJ+Breaking+ Graffiti=Real, old school, the way it fucking should be, make Bambatta and the Sugar Hill Gang proud, HIP-HOP! Damn it! 1- Travis - The Man Who Speaking the truth about loneliness and simply needing the compassion of another person never stayed in my cd player so long. The catchiest songs all year. The seeds planted with the first listen slowly expand in your head to fill every little corner that still thought that nobody writes 'em like they used to. Bonified classic. Amen. Aahhhhh, that felt good. |
THE BEST OF 2000