2000 Music Review: MY2K -- Not Necessarily the Year in Pop
by Rob Brookman

Richard Ashcroft
Alone with Everybody

The Apples in Stereo
A Discovery of the World Inside the Moone

Ass Ponys
Some Stupid with a Flare Gun

The Beach Boys
Reissues

the Beautiful South
Painting it Red

Belle & Sebastian
Lazy Line Painter Jane

The Catherine Wheel
Wishville

Eric Clapton & B.B. King
Riding with the King

Coldplay
Parachutes

Death Cab for Cutie
We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes; The Forbidden Love EP

Elastica
The Menace

Frisbie
Subversive Sounds of Love

Future Bible Heroes
I'm Lonely (and I Love it)

Grandaddy
The Sophtware Slump

Groove Armada
Infinity

Merle Haggard
If I Could Only Fly

Handsome Family
In the Air

P.J. Harvey
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

Ida
Will You Find Me

Joe Jackson
Night and Day II

Jurassic 5
Quality Control

Fela Kuti
The Best of Fela Kuti

Laika
Good Looking Blues

Lambchop
Nixon

the Lisa Marr Experiment
4 a.m.

Los Lobos
Del Este de Los Angeles

Shelby Lynne
I Am Shelby Lynne

MC Paul Barman
It's Very Stimulating

Lois Maffeo + Brendan Canty
The Union Themes

Aimee Mann
Bachelor No. 2 - or the last remains of the dodo

Mekons
Journey to the End of the Night

Morphine
The Night

Youssou N'Dour
Joko (The Link)

Roy Nathanson
Fire at Keaton's Bar & Grill

Oasis
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants

Pearl Jam
Live in Praha, Czech Republic 6/14/2000

Radiohead
Kid A

Lou Reed
Ecstasy

Saint Etienne
Sound of Water

Shellac
1000 Hurts

Smashing Pumpkins
Machina/The Machines of God

Sonic Youth
NYC Ghosts & Flowers

Steely Dan
Two Against Nature

The The
NakedSelf

Travis
The Man Who

U2
All That You Can't Leave Behind

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Blues at Sunset

Versus
Hurrah

The Waco Brothers
Electric Waco Chair

XTC
Apple Venus vol. 2

Yo La Tengo
And Then Nothing Turned itself Inside Out

Warren Zevon
Life'll Kill Ya

Various Artists
The Million Dollar Hotel: Music from the Motion Picture

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