2000 My Top Albums By Clark Benson  [84 more lists]

NOTE: this is my list "as it stood" at the end of the year - time has updated my opinions since then and I will probably at some point publish a "revised" list (in retrospect, there are like 12-15 killer records that came out this year, and that is why you'll see ratings that appear out of order. Here's my intro, such as it was, in January 2001:

2000. Well, in looking back on this year the main thing that came to mind as far as music goes is, thank god it at least wasn't quite as grim as the year before. Hopefully 1999 was the "bottoming out" year as far as shitty albums. Not that 2000 was a great or even good year by any means.
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Decent amount of damn good records this year, but very few truly timeless/amazing ones - in fact, out of this whole list probably only Grandaddy would I put in the "all time classics" category. Still, there were at least 15 more really strong records. Also, a lot of great records came out right at the end of the year (badly drawn boy, coldplay, rage, twilight singers, u2, pj harvey, etc) and i'm sure i'll feel differently about them with further listens.

so here's my Top 25 of 2000, at least as it stands at years-end: