Music Gourmets Presents 60 Years of Great Music - 2000

[Zeeba Neighba]

Our Great Music Series survived Y2K and is at a new era, the 2000s. Will the music be as "great" as before? Let's see!

Welcome to the next year in our "Great Music" series - 2000

Here's the rules:

Each Friday (typically) we'll introduce a new year from 1957 through 2016. Each member selects an album released in that year with a few lines (or more) on why you picked it/enjoy it. Your selection does not have to be the most important release or the most admired release of that year (though it certainly can be), simply an album that grabs you and that you really love.

However, once an album is selected by a member, you must choose a different album.

Together we will compile quite the canon of "Great Music" and, who knows, maybe inspire each other to check out some new artists (or to revisit old forgotten classics).

This week - the albums of 2000

 

[axolotl]

Let's hear it for Tamagotchis, finger boards, and charity wristbands.

https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2000

All might have died out before Y2K, and humans were supposed to follow suit, at least if you believed the predictions.

 

[patrikc325]

North Mississippi Allstars - Shake Hands with Shorty

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica



The Floydian touches on the album are great, as well as the WYWH nod on the album cover.

 

[axolotl]

The Microphones ~ It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water



It seems that every reiteration of the MGP60YoGM Y2K, I pick the same damned thing. Honestly, I don't know why. There are some times that I like other albums from this year more, but they'll go to honorable mentions, if not selected by somebody else.

To wit, this was my first introduction to Phil Elverum / The Microphones / Mount Eerie, and it is still the sunniest and brightest (in a good way) album that I own, in its lo-fi indie noise rock psych folk way.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Outkast - Stankonia

Two hip hop albums in a row from the Zeeb?! Great album - up there on list of greatest hip hop albums
Some good ones left behind - love Mass Romantic but the New Pornographers and O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack too

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

I know there's a few more picks out there for 2000
Get yer posts in today

 

[Worm]

Thomas Newman - American Beauty




I like most of Newman's film scores, but this one stands out.

 

[Postalboy]

Many choices this year! I'll go with Eels- Daisies of the Galaxy

 

[axolotl]

^ An excellent choice.

 

[LeslieC]

Mooney Suzuki - People Get Ready

 

[Mattafett]

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

It's heavy AF, and sounds real good loud. 2 important requirements.

 

[lpfreak1170]

Shelby Lynne - I Am Shelby Lynne

 

[Ojai Sam]

The Avalanches - Since I Left You

I owe this one 100% to MusicGourmets, the first but far from the last year I can say that.

Pitchfork sez:

Given the fact that Since I Left You, the debut album from Aussie party animals the Avalanches, contains over 900 individual samples, it's pretty incredible that this thing got released in the first place. The fact that they sample everything from long-forgotten R&B; records to golf instructionals to Madonna's "Holiday" makes it even more impressive. But what really makes this album brilliant is not as much the volume or quality of the samples used as the way that they're employed. The Avalanches have managed to build a totally unique context for all these sounds, while still allowing each to retain its own distinct flavor. As a result, Since I Left You sounds like nothing else.

 

[Old Uncle Toe]

Calexico - Hot Rail



I love this band for their weird swings back and forth between mariachi and quiet, somber, Hispanic-tinged Americana. This early album is a bit of an oddity, as some tracks are pretty much B-reel background music. But the tracks between those oddballs are very nice.

 

[JazzyRandy]

Joshua Redman - Beyond