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2000 – my year in music

What could be more ridiculous than trying to rank the thousands of singles and albums you’ve bought and heard over a lifetime? Here we go …

I ranked my singles of the year at end of 1991 and 1997, and then 2000 and every year since. I only started ranking albums in 2008. So I’ve also included the original 2000 singles list, but the first two charts are a December 2024 re-ranking of my favourite singles and albums of the year.

	Top albums of 2000

1	Younger Younger 28s	Soap
2	Bellatrix	It's All True
3	Frank and Walters	Glass
4	Coldplay	Parachutes
5	Lemon Jelly	lemonjelly.ky
6	Radiohead	Kid A
7	My Life Story	Joined Up Talking
8	Elastica	The Menace
9	Bis	Music For A Stranger World
10	XTC	Wasp Star: Apple Venus Volume II
11	Melys	Kamikaze
12	Señor Coconut Y Su Conjunto	El Baile Aleman
13	Shampoo	Absolute Shampoo
14	Idlewild	100 Broken Windows
15	Нож Для Frau Muller	Мечты - Третий Сорт

The albums I played to death:

These aren’t necessarily the same as my favourite albums now, but the ones I remember buying on release and playing over and over and over again.

07/02/00	My Life Story	Joined Up Talking
21/03/00	Younger Younger 28s	Soap
19/06/00	Bis	Music For A Stranger World
10/07/00	Coldplay	Parachutes
02/10/00	Frank and Walters	Glass
02/10/00	Radiohead	Kid A
23/10/00	Lemon Jelly	lemonjelly.ky

	Top tracks of 2000

1	Bellatrix	Sweet Surrender
2	Coldplay	Shiver
3	Melys	Baby Tornado
4	Angelica	Take Me I'm Your Disease
5	Frank and Walters	Looking For America
6	Bellatrix	Jediwannabe
7	My Life Story	If You Can't Live Without Me Then Why Aren't You Dead Yet?
8	MJ Hibbett and the Validators	Hey Hey 16K
9	Animalhouse	Small
10	Mint Royale feat Lauren Laverne	Don't Falter
11	Avalanches	Frontier Psychiatrist
12	Finley Quaye	When I Burn Off Into The Distance
13	Mansfield	The New Pollution
14	Super Furry Animals	Ysbeidiau Heulog
15	Rage Against The Machine	Renegades of Funk
16	Mark B & Blade	Ya Don't See The Signs
17	Hives	Hate To Say I Told You So
18	Younger Younger 28s	Next Big Thing
19	Coldplay	Spies
20	P J Harvey	Good Fortune
21	Tea Party	Walking Wounded
22	Frank and Walters	Underground
23	Idlewild	Little Discourage
24	Cousteau	The Last Good Day Of The Year
25	Dandy Warhols	Bohemian Like You
26	Vast	Free
27	Kirsty Maccoll	In These Shoes
28	Tahiti 80	Yellow Butterfly
29	co.uk	Sick Of You
30	Graham Coxon	That's When I Reach For My Revolver
31	Younger Younger 28s	We're Going Out
32	Bellatrix	The Girl With The Sparkling Eyes
33	Manic Street Preachers	The Masses Against The Classes
34	Badly Drawn Boy	Disillusion
35	Wannadies	Yeah
36	King Adora	The Law
37	JJ72	Oxygen
38	54-40	Casual Viewin'
39	Animalhouse	Ready To Receive
40	Younger Younger 28s	Julie
41	Our Lady Peace	One Man Army
42	Idlewild	Roseability
43	My Life Story	There's Nothing For Nobody And Everybody Wants To Be Someone
44	Badly Drawn Boy	Once Around The Block
45	Foo Fighters	Breakout
46	Papa Roach	Last Resort
47	King Adora	Smoulder
48	Regular Fries	Africa Take Me Back
49	Raissa	How Long Do I Get
50	XTC	I'm the Man Who Murdered Love
51	Animalhouse	Animal
52	Tsar	Silver Shifter
53	Moloko	The Time Is Now
54	Sleater-Kinney	You're No Rock N' Roll Fun
55	Idlewild	These Wooden Ideas
56	Lauren Laverne	I Fell Out of a Tree
57	U2	Beautiful Day
58	Belle and Sebastian	Legal Man
59	Chris T-T	Dreaming Of Injured Popstars
60	Bis	Beats At The Office
61	Placebo	Taste in Men
62	Asian Dub Foundation	Real Great Britain
63	David Devant And His Spirit Wife	Space Daddy
64	At The Drive-In	One Armed Scissor
65	Cicely Satellites	It's A Joy
66	Doves	Catch The Sun
67	Lemon Jelly	The Staunton Lick
68	Last Man Standing	Shotgun Mouth
69	Bis	How Can We Be Strange
70	Blur	Music is My Radar
71	3 Porn Stars	Rockit Fuel
72	Offspring	Original Prankster
73	Radiohead	Idioteque
74	Broadcast	Where Youth And Laughter Go
75	Нож Для Frau Muller	Лучшая Девушка В СCCP
76	Papa Roach	Between Angels And Insects
77	Eels	Mr E's Beautiful Blues
78	Younger Younger 28s	In Between Days
79	Señor Coconut Y Su Conjunto	Tour De France
80	Le Hammond Inferno	Easy Leasing Superstar
81	Queens of the Stone Age	The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret
82	Daphne & Celeste	Ooh Stick You
83	Emm Gryner	Yellow
84	Asian Dub Foundation	New Way New Life
85	Eminem	Stan
86	[spunge]	Ego
87	Alcazar	Crying at The Discotheque
88	All Saints	Pure Shores

	Original chart - top tracks of 2000

1	Coldplay	Shiver
2	Foo Fighters	Breakout
3	Madness	Drip Fed Fred
4	King Adora	The Law
5	Offspring	Original Prankster
6	Idlewild	Roseability
7	Kirsty MacColl	In These Shoes?
8	Soulwax	Too Many DJs
9	Finlay Quaye	When I Burn Off
10	Lauren Laverne	I Fell Out Of A Tree
11	Animalhouse	Small
12	Eminem	Stan
13	Badly Drawn Boy	Disillusion
14	P J Harvey	Good Fortune
15	King Adora	Smoulder
16	Mint Royale	Don't Falter
17	Tahiti 80	Yellow Butterfly
18	Sing Sing	Feels Like Summer
19	Eels	Mr E's Beautiful Blues
20	My Life Story	Walk Don't Walk
21	U2	Beautiful Day
22	Tea Party	Walking Wounded
23	At The Drive In	One Armed Scissor
24	Bellatrix	Jediwannabe
25	Moloko	The Time Is Now
26	Raissa	How Long Do I Get
27	REM	The Great Beyond
28	Wannadies	Yeah
29	Spiller	If This Ain't Love
30	Dandy Warhols	Bohemian Like You
31	Our Lady Peace	One Man Army
32	My Vitriol	Cemented Shoes
33	Sigur Ros	Sven-G-Englar
34	Super Furry Animals	Ysbeidiau Heulog
35	Len	Steal My Sunshine
36	Manic Street Preachers	Masses Against The Classes
37	Air	Playground Love
38	Eels	Flyswatter
39	Barenaked Ladies	Pinch Me
40	Le Hammond Inferno	Easy Leasing Superstar

	My favourite cover versions of 2000

1	Mansfield	The New Pollution
2	Rage Against The Machine	Renegades of Funk
3	Graham Coxon	That's When I Reach For My Revolver
4	Younger Younger 28s	In Between Days
5	Señor Coconut Y Su Conjunto	Tour De France
6	Emm Gryner	Yellow

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