A reader asked in the comments section of AllMusic Loves 2004, our previous feature listing our editors’ favorite releases from a given year, “What next? AllMusic Loves 2005!?!?” Yes, exactly. As we said when we looked back at 2000, we are covering each year of the decade until we reach the end. Having passed the midpoint, we grapple with a year highlighted album-wise by the apex of record-collector rock (LCD Soundsystem’s LCD Soundsystem), thrilling tongue-in-cheek meta-punk (Art Brut’s Bang Bang Rock & Roll), and politicized electro-rooted trunk rattlers (M.I.A.’s Arular). Just as significantly, 2005 featured one of the decade’s oddest smashes in Gwen Stefani’s “Hollaback Girl” and, in Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone,” a good old-fashioned anthem. In the case of the latter, guilt lies only in the souls of those who think of it as a mere guilty pleasure.

John Bush
M.I.A. - Arular
Danger Doom - The Mouse and the Mask
Broadcast - Tender Buttons
Deerhoof - The Runners Four
Quasimoto - The Further Adventures of Lord Quas
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Animal Collective - Feels
R. Kelly - Trapped in the Closet, Chapters 1-12
Kanye West - Late Registration
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
System of a Down - Mezmerize
Jens Lekman - Oh You’re So Silent Jens
Laura Veirs - Year of Meteors
Pernice Brothers - Discover a Lovelier You
Little Brother - The Minstrel Show
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Cold Roses
They Might Be Giants - Here Come the ABC’s
Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites
The Knife - Deep Cuts
Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic

Laura Veirs - “Galaxies”
The White Stripes - “My Doorbell”
Art Brut - “Formed a Band”
Kanye West - “Touch the Sky”
Annie - “Me Plus One”
Brendan Benson - “Cold Hands, Warm Heart”
Róisín Murphy - “Leaving the City”
Dwele - “Holla”
Ne-Yo - “So Sick”
Mylo - “In My Arms”
Vitalic - “No Fun”
Josh Rouse - “It’s the Nighttime”
Keren Ann - “Que N’ Ai-Je?”
Kanye West - “Gold Digger”
Boards of Canada - “Chromakey Dreamcoat”
The White Stripes - “Blue Orchid”
Sons and Daughters - “Red Receiver”
The Raconteurs - “Steady, As She Goes”
Jack Johnson - “Better Together”
Kenny Chesney - “Somewhere in the Sun”

Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Gorillaz - Demon Days
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Toby Keith - Honkytonk University
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang
Annie - Anniemal
Brad Paisley - Time Well Wasted
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
Robyn - Robyn
Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
Oasis - Don’t Believe the Truth
Goldfrapp - Supernature

Gwen Stefani - “Hollaback Girl”
Spoon - “Turn My Camera On”
Oasis - “Lyla”
Kelly Clarkson - “Since U Been Gone”
Toby Keith - “As Good as I Once Was”
The White Stripes - “My Doorbell”
Jay-Z - “99 Problems”
Miranda Lambert - “Kerosene”
Kaiser Chiefs - “I Predict a Riot”
Annie - “Chewing Gum”
Fall Out Boy - “Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down”
Madonna - “Hung Up”
Franz Ferdinand - “Do You Want To”
Kanye West - “Gold Digger”
Art Brut - “Emily Kane”

Matt Collar
Acid House Kings - Sing Along with Acid House Kings
Brendan Benson - The Alternative to Love
The Clientele - Strange Geometry
Dungen - Stadsvandringar
Field Music - Field Music
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
Giant Drag - Hearts and Unicorns
Goldrush - Ozona
Goodnight Monsters - The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
Eugene Kelly - Man Alive
Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
Maxïmo Park - A Certain Trigger
Sexsmith & Kerr - Destination Unknown
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Starling Electric - Clouded Staircase
Supergrass - Road to Rouen
Teenage Fanclub - Man-Made
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan

Greg Heaney
The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II
Suburban Kids with Biblical Names - #3
Jesu - Jesu
Slum Village - Slum Village
Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
White Shoes & the Couples Company - White Shoes & the Couples Company
High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings
The Decemberists - Picaresque
Earth - Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method
Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
Stephen Malkmus - Face the Truth
Autechre - Untilted
Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust
OK Go - Oh No
Pelican - The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
Dr. Dog - Easy Beat
Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers
Col. Knowledge & the Lickity-Splits - Fall in Love All Over Again With…
The Red Chord - Clients

David Jeffries
Anthony B. - Live on the Battlefield
Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
Beenie Man - Kingston to King of the Dancehall
Brazilian Girls - Brazilian Girls
Bun B - Trill
The Game - The Documentary
Lady Sovereign - Vertically Challenged
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II
Little Brother - The Minstrel Show
Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley - Welcome to Jamrock
M.I.A. - Arular
Platinum Pied Pipers - Triple P
Quasimoto - The Further Adventures of Lord Quas
The Relativez - Money Respect Money
Rhythm & Sound - See Mi Yah
Beanie Sigel - The B. Coming
Three 6 Mafia - Most Known Unknown
Kanye West - Late Registration
Z-Ro - Let the Truth Be Told

Andy Kellman
Matias Aguayo - Are You Really Lost
Mary J. Blige - The Breakthrough
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
Coloma - Dovetail
Common - Be
The Connection Machine - Painless
Richard Davis - Details
Dwele - Some Kinda…
Jan Jelinek - Kosmischer Pitch
Kelley Polar - Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens
Teairra Marí - Roc-A-Fella Records Presents Teairra Marí
M.I.A. - Arular
Mu - Out of Breach (Manchester’s Revenge)
Róisín Murphy - Ruby Blue
Tobi Neumann - Pass Your Bedtime
One Be Lo - S.O.N.O.G.R.A.M.
Platinum Pied Pipers - Triple P
Beanie Sigel - The B. Coming
Steve Spacek - Space Shift
Kanye West - Late Registration

Tori Alamaze - “Don’t Cha”
Amerie - “1 Thing”
Audision - “Vanish”
Yummy Bingham - “Come Get It”
Kelly Clarkson - “Since U Been Gone”
D5 - “Floatation Tank”
Raheem DeVaughn - “Guess Who Loves You More”
The Field - “Love vs. Distance”
Anthony Hamilton - “Georgie Parker”
Hieroglyphic Being - “Je Suis Musique”
Mike Jones - “Still Tippin’”
Mathew Jonson - “The Navigator and the Gateway”
NSI - “David Hassell”
T.I. - “ASAP”
Prins Thomas - “Goettsching”
Three 6 Mafia - “Stay Fly”
Usher - “Throwback”
Brooke Valentine - “Long as You Come Home”
Ying Yang Twins - “Wait (The Whisper Song)”
Young Jeezy - “Go Crazy”

Jason Lymangrover
Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
Blood on the Wall - Awesomer
Broadcast - Tender Buttons
Clor - Clor
Common - Be
Danger Doom - The Mouse and the Mask
Deerhoof - The Runners Four
Fantômas - Suspended Animation
Gorillaz - Demon Dayz
The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
Intelligence - Icky Baby
Isolée - We Are Monster
Japanther - Master of Pigeons
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
Maxïmo Park - A Certain Trigger
M.I.A. - Arular
Perceptionists - Black Dialogue
Serena Maneesh - Serena Maneesh
Torche - Torche

Bloc Party - “Like Eating Glass”
Edan - “I See Colors”
Fatlip - “Today’s Your Day (Whachagonedu?)”
The White Stripes - “My Doorbell”
Kanye West - “Celebration”
R. Kelly - “Trapped in the Closet (Ch. 1)”
Spoon - “I Turn My Camera On”
System of a Down - “BYOB”
Times New Viking - “We Got Rocket”
YMCK - “Magical 8bit Tour”

James Christopher Monger
The Darkness - One Way Ticket to Hell…And Back
Kaizers Orchestra - Maestro
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
Gorillaz - Demon Days
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Nickel Creek - Why Should the Fire Die?
Field Music - Field Music
High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Beck - Guero
Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs
Goldfrapp - Supernature
M. Ward - Transistor Radio
The Clientele - Strange Geometry
Julian Cope - Citizen Cain’d
Konono No. 1 - Congotronics
Patrick Wolf - Wind in the Wires
Alasdair Roberts - No Earthly Man

Judas Priest - “Judas Rising”
Mew - “The Zookeeper’s Boy”
Dropkick Murphys - “I’m Shipping Up to Boston”
Wolf Parade - “Shine a Light”
Kaiser Chiefs - “I Predict a Riot”
Crooked Fingers - “Twilight Creeps”
Constantines - “Draw Us Lines”
Leaves’ Eyes - “New Found Land”
The Real Tuesday Weld - “At the House of the Clerkenwell Kid”
Fiona Apple - “Extraordinary Machine”
The White Stripes - “My Doorbell”
Deerhoof - “Twin Killers”
British Sea Power - “Oh Larsen B”
The Long Winters - “The Commander Thinks Aloud”
Engineers - “Home”
Doves - “Some Cities”
a-ha - “Keeper of the Flame”
Pinetop Seven - “Born Among the Born Again”
Enya - “The River Sings”
Martha Wainwright - “Bloody Mother F***ing A**hole”

Heather Phares
A Frames - Black Forest
Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
Boduf Songs - Boduf Songs
Broadcast - Tender Buttons
Clor - Clor
Friends of Dean Martinez - Lost Horizon
Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control
Heikki - 2
Intelligence - Icky Baby
Kelley Polar - Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens
The Kills - No Wow
The Knife - Deep Cuts
Ladytron - Witching Hour
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
Maxïmo Park - A Certain Trigger
Out Hud - Let Us Never Speak of It Again
Robyn - Robyn
Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan

Tim Sendra
Acid House Kings - Sing Along with Acid House Kings
Annie - Anniemal
Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die
The Bats - At the National Grid
The Boy Least Likely To - The Best Party Ever
The Clientele - Strange Geometry
Comet Gain - City Fallen Leaves
Field Music - Field Music
Heikki - 2
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
The Lost Patrol Band - The Lost Patrol Band
Pernice Brothers - Discover a Lovelier You
Peter Bjorn and John - Falling Down
Josh Rouse - Nashville
Sambassadeur - Sambassadeur
Shout Out Louds - Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
Epic Soundtracks - Good Things
Rachel Stevens - Come and Get It
Tahiti 80 - Fosbury
White Shoes & the Couples Company - White Shoes & the Couples Company

Jason Thurston
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers
Elbow - Leaders of the Free World
Blackalicious - The Craft
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Crooked Fingers - Dignity and Shame
The National - Alligator
Shelby Lynne - Suit Yourself
John Prine - Fair & Square
Editors - The Back Room
Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Danger Doom - The Mouse and the Mask
Common - Be
Ani DiFranco - Knuckle Down
Aqueduct - I Sold Gold
Lou Barlow - Emoh
Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
My Morning Jacket - Z

The New Pornographers - “Sing Me Spanish Techno”
Spoon - “I Turn My Camera On”
Gorillaz - “Feel Good, Inc.”
Ben Folds - “Landed”
A Band of Bees - “Chicken Payback”
Bloc Party - “Helicopter”
LCD Soundsystem - “Daft Punk Is Playing at My House”
Doves - “Black and White Town”
Nada Surf - “Always Love”
Hot Hot Heat - “Middle of Nowhere”
Mike Doughty - “Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well”
Jim Jones - “Harlem”
Fountains of Wayne - “The Girl I Can’t Forget”
Crooked Fingers - “Call to Love”
Ivy - “Feel So Free”
The Soundtrack of Our Lives - “Midnight Children”
Longwave - “Fall on Every Whim”
M. Ward - “Four Hours in Washington”
Iron & Wine - “Woman King”
Kathleen Edwards - “In State”

Sean Westergaard
James Carter/Cyrus Chestnut/Ali Jackson/Reginald Veal - Gold Sounds
Club d’Elf - Live at Tonic New York, NY 5/26/04
Danny! - F.O.O.D.
Dr. Dog - Easy Beat
Dave Douglas & Keystone - Keystone
Fripp & Eno - The Equatorial Stars
Bill Frisell - East/West
Satoko Fujii Quartet - Angelona
Henry Kaiser/Wadada Leo Smith - Yo Miles!: Upriver
Korekyojinn - Isotope
The Kronos Quartet with Asha Bhosle - You’ve Stolen My Heart: Songs from R.D. Burman’s Bollywood
Mat Maneri - Pentagon
Snaildartha - Snaildartha: The Story of Jerry the Christmas Snail - A Soul Jazz Extravaganza
The Stars - Will
Odyssey the Band - Back in Time
Elliott Sharp - Quadrature: Solo Electroacoustic Guitar
Elliott Sharp - Commune
Masada - Sanhedrin: 1994-1997
Bar Kokhba Sextet - 50th Birthday Celebration, Vol. 11
John Zorn/Electric Masada - At the Mountains of Madness

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AllMusic Loves 2004

Once again, we take a short break from covering current releases by looking back at a year from this nearly-complete decade and compiling lists of our personal favorites. Five years on from 2004, it’s easy to forget what a good year it was for almost every kind of music. Some of the decade’s biggest indie-rock acts, including TV on the Radio, the Fiery Furnaces, the Arcade Fire and Deerhoof, asserted themselves with definitive albums. Madvillain, MF Doom, Diplo and Dizzee Rascal kept rap’s cutting edge sharp. The year’s finest electronic music spanned Annie, Junior Boys, Fennesz and Mouse on Mars, while pop ranged from Kelly Clarkson to the Scissor Sisters, and country ran the gamut from Big & Rich to Loretta Lynn. Last but not least, Green Day’s American Idiot summed up the year’s political tenor. There aren’t many overlapping picks on our lists, which only goes to show how strong and eclectic the year’s music was. If you’re posting a list of your own in the comments, try limiting yourself to 20 picks for albums and singles (like we had to) for an extra challenge!

John Bush
Electrelane - The Power Out
Nellie McKay - Get Away from Me
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Green Day - American Idiot
Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt
The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Big & Rich - Horse of a Different Color
Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands
Sondre Lerche - Two Way Monologue
Laura Veirs - Carbon Glacier
Madeleine Peyroux - Careless Love
A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder
Kanye West - The College Dropout
!!! - Louden Up Now
MF Doom - MM..Food?
Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell
Devendra Banhart - Niño Rojo
Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose

Kanye West - “Jesus Walks”
Annie - “Chewing Gum”
Scissor Sisters - “Laura”
MF Doom - “Kookies”
Green Day - “Jesus of Suburbia”
Laura Veirs - “Ether Sings”
Devendra Banhart - “The Body Breaks”
Animal Collective - “Leaf House”
Madeleine Peyroux - “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go”
Nellie McKay - “Baby Watch Your Back”
Tim McGraw - “Do You Want Fries with That”
The Hives - “Two-Timing Touch and Broken Bones”
Loretta Lynn - “Van Lear Rose”
Diplo - “Diplo Rhythm”
Franz Ferdinand - “Take Me Out”
A.C. Newman - “Drink to Me, Babe, Then”
Big & Rich - “Rollin’ (The Ballad of Big & Rich)”
Susanna & the Magical Orchestra - “Jolene”
Madvillain - “Money Folder”
Ryan Adams - “Anybody Wanna Take Me Home”
Dungen - “Festival”

Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Black Keys - Rubber Factory
Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
Green Day - American Idiot
Danger Mouse - The Grey Album
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Brian Wilson - SMiLE
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
The Libertines - The Libertines
Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters

Art Brut - “Formed a Band”
Franz Ferdinand - “Take Me Out”
Britney Spears - “Toxic”
Annie - “Chewing Gum”
Jay-Z - “99 Problems”
Black Keys - “10 AM Automatic”
Kaiser Chiefs - “I Predict a Riot”
Toby Keith - “I Love This”
BarScissor Sisters - “Take Your Mama”
Jet - “Are You Gonna Be My Girl?”
Modest Mouse - “Float On”
Prince - “Cinnamon Girl”

Greg Heaney
The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me
Floor - Floor
Cee-Lo - Cee-Lo Green… Is the Soul Machine
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Cult Of Luna - Salvation
Grizzly Bear - Horn Of Plenty
Hot Snakes - Audit In Progress
Isis - Panopticon
Jens Lekman - When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog
The Foreign Exchange - Connected
The Von Bondies - Pawn Shoppe Heart
Saturday Looks Good to Me - Every Night
Jonathan Richman - Not So Much to Be Loved As To Love
Mastodon - Leviathan
Pas/Cal - Oh Honey, We’re Ridiculous
NOMO - NOMO
Prince - Musicology
Pinback - Summer In Abbadon
Oneida - Secret Wars
Neurosis - The Eye Of Every Storm

Andy Kellman
Annie - Anniemal
Brooks - Red Tape
Claro Intelecto - Neurofibro
James T. Cotton - The Dancing Box
DKD - Future Rage
Thomas Fehlmann - Lowflow
Fennesz - Venice
Junior Boys - Last Exit
Michael Mayer - Speicher CD2
Moodymann - Black Mahogani
Teedra Moses - Complex Simplicity
154 - Strike
Pantha du Prince - Diamond Daze
Rahsaan Patterson - After Hours
The Rotating Assembly - Natural Aspirations
T.I. - Urban Legend
Triola - Triola im Fünftonraum
Ricardo Villalobos - Thé au Harem d’Archimède
Kanye West - The College Dropout
Wiley - Treddin’ on Thin Ice

Ashanti - “Rain on Me”
Ciara - “Goodies”
Crime Mob - “Knuck if You Buck”
DJ Koze - “Brutalga Square”
Fabolous - “Breathe”
Oliver Hacke - “8:20″
I:Cube - “Vacuum Jackers (Maurice Fulton Remix)”
Anders Ilar - “Treasure Gardens”
Mathew Jonson - “911, How Can I Help You?”
Justus Köhncke - “Timecode” (YouTube)
Monica - “Knock Knock” (YouTube)
Moonstarr - “Detriot” (YouTube)
Nas - “Thief’s Theme”
Platinum Pied Pipers - “I Got You”
Sa-Ra - “Glorious”
Shawnna - “R.P.M.”
Snoop Dogg - “Drop It Like It’s Hot”
Sébastien Tellier - “La Ritournelle”
Usher - “Yeah!”
Wighnomy Bros. - “Wurz + Blosse”

Andrew Leahey
Ryan Adams - Love is Hell
Neko Case - The Tigers Have Spoken
Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers - Americano
U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
Ambulance LTD - LP
The Shore - The Shore
Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt
Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
The Concretes - The Concretes
Jimmy Eat World - Futures
Air - Talkie Walkie
Brian Wilson - SMiLE
Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South
Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway

Jason Lymangrover
Air - Talkie Walkie
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Arial Pink - The Doldrums
Blonde Redhead - Misery is a Butterfly
Danger Mouse - The Grey Album
Deerhoof - Milk Man
Elbow - Cast of Thousands
Felix da Housecat - Devin Dazzle & the Neon Fever
The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
Floor - Floor
The Futureheads - The Futureheads
The Go! Team – Thunder, Lightning, Strike
The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me
Junior Boys - Last Exit
Madvillain - Madvillainy
MF Doom – MM..Food?
Mission of Burma - Onoffon
Oneida - Secret Wars
Ratatat - Ratatat
The Streets - A Grand Don’t Come for Free

Art Brut - “Formed a Band”
Bjork - “Who Is It (Carry My Joy on the Left, Carry My Pain on the Right)”
Chromeo - “Needy Girl”
Dungen - “Panda”
The Knife - “Heartbeats”
LCD Soundstystem - “Yeah”
M.I.A. - “Galang”
Murs - “Bad Man”
Pinback - “AFK”
Secret Machines - “First Wave Intact”

James Christopher Monger
The Divine Comedy - Absent Friends
Therion - Lemuria/Sirius B
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Shearwater - Winged Life
Tears For Fears - Everybody Loves A Happy Ending
Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
Brian Wilson - SMiLE
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Black Earth
Destroyer - Your Blues
Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder
Faun Fables - Family Album
Hidden Cameras - Mississauga Goddam
Timothy Monger - Summer Cherry Ghosts
Espers - Espers
The Delgados - Universal Audio
Robyn Hitchcock - Spooked
Lansing-Dreiden - The Incomplete Triangle
Frog Eyes - The Folded Palm
Gor Mkhitarian - Godfather Tom

Brazilian Girls - “Pussy”
The Real Tuesday Weld - “Bathtime In Clerkenwell”
Secret Machines - “Nowhere Again”
Dogs Die In Hot Cars - “Godhopping”
Papercuts - “Mockingbird”
Franz Ferdinand - “Take Me Out”
David Byrne - “Tiny Apocalypse”
Band of Bees - “Chicken Payback”
The Polyphonic Spree - “Two Thousand Places”
Sufjan Stevens - “All the Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands”
The Delays - “Wanderlust”
Joanna Newsom - “Sprout and the Bean”
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - “There She Goes My Beautiful World”
Man Inc. - “Blue Law Sunday”
The Gourds - “Turn In My Pocket”
The Futureheads - “Robot”
Papercuts - “Mockingbird”
Brother Danielson - “Things Against Stuff”
The 90 Day Men - “Even Time Ghost Can’t Stop Wagner”
Camper Van Beethoven - “51-7”

Heather Phares
Air - Talkie Walkie
Bjork - Medúlla
Blonde Redhead - Misery Is a Butterfly
Deerhoof - Milk Man
Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner
Electrelane - The Power Out
The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
The Futureheads - The Futureheads
The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
Liars - They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
Mouse on Mars - Radical Connector
A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
The Organ - Grab That Gun
Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
The Streets - A Grand Don’t Come for Free
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
The Walkmen - Bows + Arrows
Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind

Tim Sendra
Architecture in Helsinki - Fingers Crossed
The Brunettes – Mars Loves Venus
The Concretes – The Concretes
Jason Forrest – The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash
The Go! Team – Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Heavy Blinkers – The Night and I Are Still So Young
Hercules – In the Alleyway
The Legends – Up Against the Legends
Jens Lekman - When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog
Madvillian – Madvillany
MF Doom – MM..Food?
Saturday Looks Good to Me – Every Night
The Trash Can Sinatras – Weightlifting
Walker Kong – Transparent Life
Walking Concert – Run to Be Born

Jason Thurston
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Arcade Fire - Funeral
American Music Club - Love Songs for Patriots
Mission of Burma - OnOffOn
Sondre Lerche - Two Way Monologue
Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Ted Leo + the Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets
Dolorean - Violence in the Snowy Fields
Mary Chapin Carpenter - Between Here and Gone
Nas - Street’s Disciple
The Futureheads - The Futureheads
Talib Kweli - The Beautiful Struggle
Snoop Dogg - R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece
Kings of Convenience - Riot on an Empty Street
Atom and His Package - Hair: Debatable
Green Day - American Idiot
The Reputation - To Force a Fate
Earlimart - Treble & Tremble
William Shatner - Has Been
Arto Lindsay - Salt

Scissor Sisters - “Take Your Mama”
Modest Mouse - “Float On”
Eminem - “Mosh”
Trick Daddy - “Let’s Go”
Fabolous - “Breathe”
Franz Ferdinand - “Take Me Out”
The Streets - “Dry Your Eyes”
Loretta Lynn - “Portland Oregon”
Secret Machines - “Nowhere Again”
Dilated Peoples - “This Way”
Trash Can Sinatras - “Freetime”
Mos Def - “Sunshine”
The Roots - “I Don’t Care”
The Mountain Goats - “Mole”
Ludacris - “Child of the Night”
Jill Scott - “Golden”
Jimmy Eat World - “Pain”
De La Soul - “Shopping Bags (She Got from You)”
The Go! Team - “Junior Kickstart”
Interpol - “Narc”

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AllMusic Loves 2002
AllMusic Loves 2003

The Beatles always stood apart from their peers, a self-evident statement that sadly extended to the treatment of their catalog in the digital age. Where all their peers from the Byrds to the Who have had their catalogs remastered and reissued in deluxe editions, sometimes several times, the Beatles remained stuck in the early days of digital, their 14 albums plus Past Masters singles collection remaining untouched since 1987, despite the occasional upgrade and tweak on the 1993 Red & Blue Album reissues or the remix of the Yellow Submarine songtrack in 1999. Those 1987 releases were hardly without controversy, either: many fans were upset that the first four albums were presented in mono, not stereo, while others complained about the quality of the mono mastering; some were upset that Sgt. Pepper and The Beatles weren’t in mono, there were grumblings about George Martin’s new stereo mixes for Help! and Rubber Soul, then there were criticisms about harsh, brittle sound and shoddy packaging, where Magical Mystery Tour was stripped of its lengthy book and cover art was butchered.

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Once again, we take a short break from covering current releases by looking back at a year from this nearly-complete decade and compiling lists of our personal favorites. With 2000-2002 in the past, we turn to 2003, a year that provided the decade with some of its funnest (and/or funniest) and most memorable (for better or worse) singles. Kelis’ sexy and silly “Milkshake,” OutKast’s irresistibly peppy “Hey Ya!,” the Darkness’ unapologetically over-the-top “I Believe in a Thing Called Love,” and 50 Cent’s unapologetically simple-minded “In da Club” — featuring a total of three three-syllable words, all proper nouns — represent just a handful of them. Hundreds of albums and songs are highlighted, and while it is doubtful that 20 years of perspective will make 2003 seem much different from 2002 or 2004, at least in terms of recordings, there is no doubt that there was plenty to like and even love.

John Bush
Broadcast - Haha Sound
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Jay-Z - The Black Album
The Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird’s Bark
Josh Rouse - 1972
Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
The White Stripes - Elephant
Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
The Mood Elevator - Married Alive
Kenny Chesney - When the Sun Goes Down
Four Tet - Rounds
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
The Fire Theft - The Fire Theft
Joan of Arc - So Much Staying Alive and Lovelessness
Manitoba - Up in Flames
Cursive - The Ugly Organ
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Murs - The End of the Beginning
Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Master and Everyone

The Darkness - “I Believe in a Thing Called Love”
Jay-Z - “99 Problems”
Villalobos - “Easy Lee”
R. Kelly - “Ignition [Remix]”
Viktor Vaughn - “Lickupon”
Murs Feat. Humpty Hump & Shock G. - “Risky Business”
Mark Ronson f/ Rhymefest & Anthony Hamilton - “Bout to Get Ugly”
The Mood Elevator - “Anglophile”
Josh Rouse - “1972″
The White Stripes - “Seven Nation Army”
OutKast f/ Sleepy Brown & Jazze Pha - “Bowtie”
Dizzee Rascal - “Fix Up, Look Sharp”
808 State - “Flow Coma [AFX Remix]”
Cat Power - “Free”
Four Tet - “My Angel Rocks Back and Forth”
Kelis - “Milkshake”
Kenny Chesney - “There Goes My Life”
Lewis Taylor - “Stoned, Pt. 1″
OutKast - “Hey Ya!”
The Postal Service - “Such Great Heights”

Stephen Thomas Erlewine
The White Stripes - Elephant
OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
The Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird’s Bark
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
The Kills - Keep on Your Mean Side
The Black Keys - Thickfreakness
Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
The Strokes - Room on Fire
P!nk - Try This
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
The New Pornographers - Electric Version
Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
Cat Power - You Are Free
Toby Keith - Shock’n Y’All

Beyoncé - “Crazy in Love”
The White Stripes - “Seven Nation Army”
OutKast - “Hey Ya!”
P!nk - “Feel Good Time”
P!nk - “Trouble”
Supergrass - “Grace”
Alan Jackson - “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere”
Ween - “It’s Gonna Be a Long Night”
50 Cent - “In da Club”
Kelis - “Milkshake”
The Strokes - “12:51″
Jet - “Are You Gonna Be My Girl”
Kelly Clarkson - “Miss Independent”
Tracy Byrd - “Drinkin’ Bone”

Paula Carino
The Postal Service - Give Up
Lilium - Short Stories
Guided by Voices - Earthquake Glue
Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
Ted Leo/Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
Café Tacuba - Cuatro Caminos
Cat Power - You Are Free
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Streetcore
The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
The Kills - Keep on Your Mean Side
The Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird’s Bark
Frank Black and the Catholics - Show Me Your Tears
British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power
Buzzcocks - Buzzcocks
Original Soundtrack - Belleville Rendez-Vous
Francine - 28 Plastic Blue Versions of Endings Without You
Robyn Hitchcock - Luxor
Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance
Original Soundtrack - Lost in Translation
Lisa Gerrard - Whale Rider

Matt Collar
The Black Keys - Thickfreakness
British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
The Clientele - The Violet Hour
The Decemberists - Her Majesty
Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
Kings of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Manitoba - Up in Flames
Matthew Sweet - Kimi Ga Suki * Raifu
Mojave 3 - Spoon and Rafter
Movietone - The Sand and the Stars
The New Pornographers - Electric Version
Nick Curran & the Nitelifes - Doctor Velvet
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Richard Hawley - Lowedges
Sloan - Action Pact
Sufjan Stevens - Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State
Ted Leo/Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
Ted Leo/The Pharmacists - Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead
The Thrills - So Much for the City
The White Stripes - Elephant
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell

Greg Heaney
The Bad Plus - These Are the Vistas
Pelican - Australasia
Saturday Looks Good to Me - All Your Summer Songs
The Thermals - More Parts Per Million
Jaylib - Champion Sound
The Decemberists - Her Majesty
Electric Six - Fire
Murs - The End of the Beginning
NOMO - NOMO
Envy - A Dead Sinking Story
OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
Pas/Cal - The Handbag Memoirs
Ween - Quebec
The Strokes - Room on Fire
Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
The Black Keys - Thickfreakness
Jay-Z - The Black Album
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
The Twilight Singers - Blackberry Belle

David Jeffries
50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin’
Baby Bash - Tha Smokin’ Nephew
Blurt - The Best of Blurt, Vol. 1: The Fish Needs a Bike
Easy Star All-Stars - Dub Side of the Moon
Eminem - Straight from the Lab
The Fall - The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click)
Beres Hammond - Can’t Stop a Man: The Ultimate Collection
Mitch Hedberg - Mitch All Together
Jay-Z - The Black Album
Jaylib - Champion Sound
Junior Senior - D-D-Don’t Don’t Stop the Beat
R. Kelly - Chocolate Factory
Laibach - WAT
Murk - Murk
Original Soundtrack - Lost in Translation
OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Rhythm & Sound - W/The Artists
Spring Heel Jack - Live
Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
Wax Poetic - Nublu Sessions

Andy Kellman
Andrés - Andrés
Erykah Badu - Worldwide Underground
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
Daniel Bell - The Button Down Mind Strikes Back!
Broadcast - Haha Sound
Bugz in the Attic - Fabriclive.12
Coloma - Finery
Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner
Dwele - Subject
Freeway - Philadelphia Freeway
Anders Ilar - Everdom
Jay-Z - The Black Album
Kelis - Tasty
Lawrence - The Absence of Blight
Luomo - The Present Lover
Michael Mayer - Fabric 13
Mu - Afro Finger and Gel
David Sylvian - Blemish
Tobias Thomas - Smallville
Villalobos - Alcachofa

Audision - “First Contact”
David Banner - “Cadillac on 22’s” (YouTube)
Beyoncé - “Crazy in Love”
Konrad Black - “Busting Down the Door with a Shotgun”
The Bug - “Beats, Bombs, Bass, Weapons”
D Double E - “Birds in the Sky”
Richard Davis - “Bring Me Closer”
Matthew Dear - “Dog Days”
Dominik Eulberg - “Afraid of Seeing Stars” (YouTube audio)
Isolée - “Lost”
Walter Jones - “All God’s Children (Maurice Fulton Remix)”
Mathew Jonson - “Typerope”
Alicia Keys - “You Don’t Know My Name”
Mýa - “Fallen”
Pharrell - “Frontin’”
Thomas Scheiben & Geiger f/ Schad Privat - “Really Real”
702 - “I Still Love You”
Kaidi Tatham & Dego - “Got Me Puzzled”
T.I. - “24’s”
Kanye West - “Through the Wire”

Uncle Dave Lewis
David Holzman, piano - Stefan Wolpe: Compositions for Piano (1920-1952)
Valentin Silvestrov and others - Silvestrov: Leggerio, pesante
Speculum Musicae and others - The Music of Elliott Carter Volume IV
St. Lawrence String Quartet - Osvaldo Golijov: Yiddishbbuk
Reinbert de Leeuw and others - The Ligeti Project Volume 3
Zez Confrey and Artis Wodehouse - Piano Rolls and Solos
Juan Diego Flórez - Una furtiva lagrima
Col. Lowell Graham, USAF Heritage of America Band - Sousa
Jennifer Larmore - L’Étoile
Kymi Sinfoniette - Uuno Klami: Rhapsodie
Cecile Licad - Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Piano Music
James Sinclair, Northern Sinfonietta - Ives: Symphony No. 3
José de Eusebio and others - Albèniz: Henry Clifford
Chitose Okashiro - A Leaf: Beatles Piano Transcriptions
Southwest Chamber Music - Carlos Chávez: Complete Chamber Music Volume 1
David Russell - Aire Latino

Jason Lymangrover
Andrew W.K. - The Wolf
Aphex Twin - 26 Mixes for Cash
The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
Helium - The Magic City
Jay-Z - The Black Album
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
Manitoba - Up in Flames
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
The Marked Men - The Marked Men
Melt-Banana - Cell-Scape
Murs - The End of the Beginning
The New Pornographers - Electric Version
OutKast - Speakerboxx/The Love Below
Pepe Deluxe - Beatitude
Polysics - Neu
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
The Strokes - Room on Fire
The Wrens - The Meadowlands
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell

James Christopher Monger
Justin Sullivan - Navigating by the Stars
British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Streetcore
Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon
The Books - The Lemon of Pink
The Essex Green - The Long Goodbye
The New Pornographers - Electric Version
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Crooked Fingers - Red Devil Dawn
Muse - Absolution
Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
The Darkness - Permission to Land
Týr - Eric the Red
The Mattoid - Hello
The Hidden Cameras - The Smell of Our Own
Richard Hawley - Lowedges
Andrew Bird - Weather Systems
Sagor & Swing - Allt Hänger Samman
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
Windir - Likferd

OutKast - “Hey Ya!”
Patrick Herek - “Demonic Piano”
DeVotchKa - “Queen of the Surface Streets”
King Creosote - “Homeboy”
The Thrills - “Big Sur”
Dean & Britta - “Night Nurse”
Jane’s Addiction - “True Nature”
Stars - “Heart”
Rufus Wainwright - “Oh What a World”
Sun Kil Moon - “Glenn Tipton”
Stew - Love Like That”
The Fire Theft - “Chain”
The White Stripes - “Seven Nation Army”
Finishing School - “Destination Girl”
M. Ward - “Vincent O’Brien”
Alison Krauss - “The Scarlet Tide”
The Pernice Brothers - “Water Ban”
David Bowie - “Never Get Old”
Radiohead - “A Wolf at the Door”
M83 - “Run into Flowers”

Heather Phares
Adult. - Anxiety Always
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
Broadcast - Haha Sound
Calexico - Feast of Wire
Constantines - Shine a Light
Dead Meadow - Shivering King and Others
Deerhoof - Apple O’
The Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird’s Bark
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
Kelis - Tasty
The Kills - Keep on Your Mean Side
Matmos - The Civil War
Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Quintron - Are You Ready for an Organ Solo?
The Strokes - Room on Fire
TV on the Radio - Young Liars
The White Stripes - Elephant
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell

The All-American Rejects - “Swing, Swing”
Beyoncé - “Crazy in Love”
Broadcast - “Pendulum”
Kelly Clarkson - “Miss Independent”
Electric Six - “Danger! High Voltage”
The Fiery Furnaces - “Tropical Ice-Land” (YouTube)
50 Cent - “In da Club”
Goldfrapp - “Train”
Kelis - “Milkshake”
Kenna - “Freetime”
Pharrell - “Frontin’”
OutKast - “Hey Ya”
Quintron - “Place Unknown”
Radiohead - “There There”
Snoop Dogg - “Beautiful”
The Strokes - “12:51″
Justin Timberlake - “Rock Your Body”
TV on the Radio - “Staring at the Sun” (YouTube)
The White Stripes - “The Hardest Button to Button”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - “Maps”

Tim Sendra
Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder
The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
Junior Senior - D-D-Don’t Don’t Stop the Beat
Manitoba - Up in Flames
Saturday Looks Good to Me - All Your Summer Songs

Beyoncé - “Crazy in Love”
Club 8 - “Saturday Night Engine”
The Darkness - “I Believe in a Thing Called Love”
Joe Firstman - “Can’t Stop Loving You”
The Gay - “Opulent Canine”
Richard Hawley - “Darlin’”
Junior Senior - “Move Your Feet”
Killer Mike - “A.D.I.D.A.S.”
Jens Lekman - “Maple Leaves”
Ted Leo/Pharmacists - “Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone?”
The New Pornographers - “From Blown Speakers”
OutKast - “The Way You Move”
Pas/Cal - “The Handbag Memoirs”
Puffy AmiYumi - “Planet Tokyo”
The Raveonettes - “That Great Love Sound”
Snoop Dogg - “Beautiful”
Stars - “Romantic Comedy”
The Thrills - “One Horse Town”
Wayne Wonder - “No Letting Go”
Young and Sexy - “Herculean Bellboy”

Jason Thurston
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
OutKast - Speakerboxx/The Love Below
Kelis - Tasty
Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
The Stills - Logic Will Break Your Heart
Pernice Brothers - Yours, Mine & Ours
The Dandy Warhols - Welcome to the Monkey House
Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
Blur - Think Tank
Cat Power - You Are Free
Anthony Hamilton - Comin’ from Where I’m From
Ted Leo/Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
Beulah - Yoko
The Fire Theft - The Fire Theft
Buzzcocks - Buzzcocks
Richard Hawley - Lowedges
The Coral - The Coral
Dean Wareham & Britta Philips - L’Avventura

OutKast - “Hey Ya!”
The White Stripes - “7 Nation Army”
The Stars - “Elevator Love Letter”
Hot Hot Heat - “Bandages”
Mitch & Mickey - “A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow”
Kelis - “Milkshake”
Blur - “Out of Time”
Kathleen Edwards - “One More Song the Radio Won’t Like”
Sam Roberts - “Brother Down”
Nappy Roots - “Sick & Tired”
Warren Zevon - “Keep Me in Your Heart”
Brookville - “Walking in Moonlight”
Sense Field - “I Refuse”
Dizzee Rascal - “Fix Up, Look Sharp”
British Sea Power - “Carrion”
Liz Phair - “Why Can’t I?”
Christina Aguilera - “Beautiful”
Norah Jones - “Don’t Know Why”
Johnny Cash - “Hurt”
The Decemberists - “Billy Liar”

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2002 didn’t suffer from quite the case of multiple personalities that 2001 did, but the changing of the musical guard was almost as apparent. While vets like Beck, Jurassic 5, Sonic Youth, Spoon, the Flaming Lips, and Wilco turned in some of the best work of their careers (Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot tied for first place in our poll), and the teen-pop boom held strong with massive hits like Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful,” acts that would shape the sounds of the rest of the decade made themselves known. Interpol’s Turn on the Bright Lights — arguably 2002’s finest debut album — showed that the New York rock revival was still going strong, while the Libertines’ Up the Bracket found the U.K. responding in kind. Meanwhile, Devendra Banhart’s Oh Me Oh My, which arrived that fall, presaged the folk revival that became a major trend later in the decade. 2002 also had a bumper crop of great singles in all kinds of styles, ranging from “Beautiful” to Missy Elliott’s “Work It” to the White Stripes’ “Fell in Love with a Girl.” It’s only fitting, then, that this was also a great year for the mash-up: 2 Many DJ’s As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Pt. 2 felt like the perfect reflection of, and reaction to, 2002’s eclecticism.

John Bush
Devendra Banhart - Oh Me Oh My…
Roots Manuva - Dub Come Save Me
Beck - Sea Change
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
2 Many DJs - As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Pt. 2
Brendan Benson - Lapalco
The Raymond Scott Orchestrette - Pushbutton Parfait
Sparta - Wiretap Scars
Kenny Chesney - No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Missy Elliott - Under Construction
Badly Drawn Boy - About a Boy
Deerhoof - Reveille
Destroyer - This Night
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
Jurassic 5 - Power in Numbers
Steinski - Nothing to Fear: A Rough Mix
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Jazzanova - In Between
The Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Missy Elliott f/ Ludacris - “Gossip Folks”
Queens of the Stone Age - “No One Knows”
Roots Manuva - “Man Fi Cool”
The Streets - “The Irony of It All”
The Raymond Scott Orchestrette - “Little Miss Echo”
Devendra Banhart - “Michigan State”
Brendan Benson - “Life in the D”
Badly Drawn Boy - “Silent Sigh”
Beck - “The Golden Age”
Boards of Canada - “1969″
Kenny Chesney - “Young”
Broken Social Scene - “Lover’s Spit”
The Flaming Lips - “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pts. 1-2″
Jaheim f/ Tha Rayne - “Fabulous”
Jurassic 5 - “Break”
LCD Soundsystem - “Losing My Edge”
The Rapture - “House of Jealous Lovers”
Mum - “Green Grass of Tunnel”
Musiq - “Babygirl”
Ron Sexsmith - “These Days”

Stephen Thomas Erlewine
The Libertines - Up the Bracket
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Supergrass - Life on Other Planets
Beck - Sea Change
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
The Black Keys - The Big Come Up
Weezer - Maladroit
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Eminem - The Eminem Show
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Trey Anastasio - Trey Anastasio
Clinic - Walking with Thee
Paul Weller - Illumination
The Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone
Brendan Benson - Lapalco
Hot Hot Heat - Make Up the Breakdown
Sheryl Crow - C’mon C’mon
Norah Jones - Come Away with Me
George Harrison - Brainwashed

Kylie Minogue - “Can’t Get You Out of My Head”
Weezer - “Dope Nose”
Pulp - “Bad Cover Version”
No Doubt - “Hella Good”
Tracy Byrd - “Ten Rounds with Jose Cuervo”
Eminem - “Lose Yourself”
The Hives - “Hate to Say I Told You So”
Tweet - “Oops (Oh My)”
LCD Soundsystem - “Losing My Edge”
Electric Six - “Danger! High Voltage”
Clinic - “Walking with Thee”
The White Stripes - “Fell in Love with a Girl”
Queens of the Stone Age - “No One Knows”
Cornershop - “Lessons Learned from Rocky I to Rocky III”
Nirvana - “You Know You’re Right”
Vanessa Carlton - “A Thousand Miles”
Andrew WK - “Party Hard”
Kid Rock - “Picture”
Christina Aguilera - “Beautiful”
The Strokes - “Someday”
The White Stripes - “Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground”
Sheryl Crow - “Soak Up the Sun”
Remy Shand - “Take a Message”
Phantom Planet - “California”
Toby Keith - “Who’s Your Daddy”

Paula Carino
27 - Animal Life
Elk City - Hold Tight the Ropes
Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel
Guided by Voices - Universal Truths and Cycles
Imperial Teen - On
Jets to Brazil - Perfecting Loneliness
The Loud Family - From Ritual to Romance
Mia Doi Todd - The Golden State
Paul Hyde - The Big Book of Sad Songs, Vol. 1
Pretty Girls Make Graves - This Is Our Emergency
Richard Hawley - Late Night Final
The Soft Boys - Nextdoorland
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Tanya Donelly - Beautysleep
The Donnas - Spend the Night
The Figgs - Slow Charm
The Green Pajamas - Lust Never Sleeps
Twinemen - Twinemen
The Polyphonic Spree - The Beginning Stages Of…

Matt Collar
Beck - Sea Change
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Camera Obscura - Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi
Cody ChestnuTT - The Headphone Masterpiece
The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
Goldrush - Don’t Bring Me Down
Neil Halstead - Sleeping on Roads
Richard Hawley - Late Night Final
Norah Jones - Come Away with Me
The Libertines - Up the Bracket
Luna - Romantica
Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
Kylie Minogue - Fever
Pulp - We Love Life
The Roots - Phrenology
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Velvet Crush - Soft Sounds
The Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Greg Heaney
Mr. Lif - I Phantom
Ben Kweller - Sha Sha
Oneida - Each One Teach One
Beck - Sea Change
Slum Village - Trinity (Past, Present and Future)
Brendan Benson - Lapalco
Clinic - Walking with Thee
Mike Doughty - Smofe + Smang
Cee-Lo - Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections
Enon - High Society
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
High on Fire - Surrounded by Thieves
J Mascis + the Fog - Free So Free
Mastodon - Remission
The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
Isis - Oceanic
OK Go - OK Go
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow

David Jeffries
Agent K - Feed the Cat
El-P - Fantastic Damage
Missy Elliott - Under Construction
Fat Jon the Ample Soul Physician - Wave Motion
J-Zone - Pimps Don’t Pay Taxes
Kid606 - The Action Packed Mentallist Brings You the Fucking Jams
Talib Kweli - Quality
Madlib - Blunted in the Bomb Shelter Mix
Metro Area - Metro Area
Tom Middleton - The Sound of the Cosmos
Misty in Roots - Roots Controller
The Notwist - Neon Golden
John Peel - Fabriclive.07
Rjd2 - Dead Ringer
The Roots - Phrenology
Sandoz - Sandoz in Dub: Chant to Jah
Scion - Arrange and Process Basic Channel Tracks
Sean Paul - Dutty Rock
Steinski - Nothing to Fear: A Rough Mix
Various Artists - Select Cuts from Echo Beach

Andy Kellman
Aardvarck - Find the Cow
Alex Attias - The Selector Series, Vol. 1
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Brandy - Full Moon
Brooks - You, Me and Us
Clipse - Lord Willin’
Closer Musik - After Love
Carl Craig - The Workout
Dimension 5 - Alien Artform
Drexciya - Harnessed the Storm
Farben - Textstar
Thomas Fehlmann - Visions of Blah
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Lawrence - Lawrence
Michael Mayer - Immer
Metro Area - Metro Area
Recloose - Cardiology
Scion - Arrange and Process Basic Channel Tracks
Triple R - Friends
Tweet - Southern Hummingbird

Agent K - “Feed the Cat”
Amerie - “Why Don’t We Fall in Love”
Amp Dog Knight - “I’m Doing Fine”
Brooks - “Dripping in Gold”
Clipse - “Grindin’”
Closer Musik - “You Don’t Know Me”
Coloma - “Transparent”
Missy Elliott - “Work It”
Peven Everett - “I Can’t Believe I Loved Her”
4hero - “Hold It Down (Bugz in the Attic Mix)”
Freeway - “What We Do”
Talib Kweli - “Get By” (YouTube)
LCD Soundsystem - “Beat Connection”
Luomo - “Body Speaking”
Charles Manier - “Bang Bang Lover (Dance Mix)”
Ms. Dynamite - “Dy-Na-Mi-Tee” (YouTube)
Theo Parrish - “Solitary Flight” (YouTube audio)
The Rapture - “House of Jealous Lovers (Morgan Geist Version)”
Sugababes - “Freak Like Me”
Tweet - “Oops (Oh My)”

Jason Lymangrover
Beck - Sea Change
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Busdriver - Temporary Forever
Cody ChesnuTT - The Headphone Masterpiece
Cornelius - Point
Doves - The Last Broadcast
Hot Hot Heat - Make Up the Breakdown
Isis - Oceanic
The Libertines - Up the Bracket
Madlib - Blunted in the Bomb Shelter Mix
Mates of State - Our Constant Concern
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Sean Paul - Dutty Rock
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Max Tundra - Mastered by Guy at the Exchange
The Soft Boys - Nextdoorland
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Ween - Live at Stubb’s, 7/2000
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes

Ben Kweller - “Wasted and Ready”
Busta Rhymes - “Make It Clap”
Christina Aguilera - “Beautiful”
Clipse - “Grindin’”
The Distillers - “Seneca Falls”
Missy Elliott - “Work It”
Enon - “Natural Disasters”
The Flaming Lips - “Do You Realize??”
Justin Timberlake - “Cry Me a River”
LCD Soundsystem - “Losing My Edge”
MC Paul Barman - “Excuse You”
Nas - “Made You Look”
The Roots - “The Seed (2.0)”
Supergrass - “Grace”
Spoon - “Back to the Life”
Timo Maas - “Shifter”
The Libertines - “Horrorshow”
Wilco - “Radio Cure”
Wire - “The Art of Stopping”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - “Bang”

James Christopher Monger
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Stew - The Naked Dutch Painter and Other Songs
The Gourds - Cow Fish Fowl or Pig
David Bowie - Heathen
Agalloch - The Mantle
Baby Dee - Love’s Small Song
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Jim Roll - Inhabiting the Ball
Augie March - Strange Bird
Tribalistas - Tribalistas
Nina Nastasia - The Blackened Air
Stella Chiweshe - Talking Mbria: Spirits of Liberation
Dark Tranquility - Damage Done
Sinead O’Connor - Sean-Nós Nua
Howard Shore - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Michael Andrews - Donnie Darko
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Destroyer - This Night
Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons
Golden Shoulders - Let My Burden Be

The Delgados - “The Light Before We Land”
Sparks - “The Rhythm Thief”
The Black Heart Procession - “The Tropics of Love”
Paul Westerberg - “Mr. Rabbit”
Eminem - “White America”
Neko Case - Deep Red Bells”
Coldplay - “Politik”
Beck - “Little One”
Brendan Benson - “Tiny Spark”
The Flaming Lips - “Do You Realize??”
The Sights - “Don’t Want You Back”
The Negro Problem - “Is This the Single?”
Neil Cleary - “When All of Us Get Famous”
Ron Sexsmith - “Former Glory”
Shearwater - “Soon”
The Decemberists - “Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect”
The Streets - “Has It Come to This?”
Of Montreal - “Old People in the Cemetery”
Against Me! - “Pints of Guinness Make You Strong”
Johnny Cash - “Hurt”

Heather Phares
Add N to (X) - Loud Like Nature
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
Beck - Sea Change
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Clinic - Walking with Thee
Cornelius - Point
Deerhoof - Reveille
Enon - High Society
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Ladytron - Light & Magic
Laub - Filesharing
The Libertines - Up the Bracket
The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
The Organ - Sinking Hearts
Out Hud - S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D.
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
The Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone

Add N to (X) - “Take Me to Your Leader”
… And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - “Another Morning Stoner”
Clinic - “Walking with Thee” (YouTube)
Cooler Kids - “All Around The World”
Cornelius - “Smoke” (YouTube)
Missy Elliott - “Work It”
Eminem - “Lose Yourself”
50 Cent - “In da Club”
Interpol - “Obstacle 1″
Norah Jones - “Don’t Know Why”
Khia - “My Neck, My Back”
Nelly - “Hot in Herre”
No Doubt - “Hella Good”
Paul Oakenfold - “Starry Eyed Surprise”
Queens of the Stone Age - “No One Knows”
Pretty Girls Make Graves - “Speakers Push the Air”
Santana - “The Game of Love”
The Streets - “Let’s Push Things Forward” (YouTube)
Justin Timberlake - “Like I Love You”
The Walkmen - “We’ve Been Had”

Pemberton Roach
Audioslave - Audioslave
Blue Sandcastle - If You Only Knew…
Cadet - The Observatory
Clive Gregson - Comfort and Joy
David Cross - Shut Up, You Fucking Baby!
The Elms - Truth, Soul, Rock & Roll
Gov’t Mule - The Deep End, Vol. 2
James McMurtry - Saint Mary of the Woods
Jimi Hendrix - Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight
Johnny Cash - At Madison Square Garden
Los Lobos - Good Morning Aztlán
Matt Keating - Tilt a Whirl
Doña Oxford - Raw
Palomar - Palomar II
Paul Weller - Illumination
The Reverend Horton Heat - Lucky 7
Rush - Vapor Trails
Sixpence None the Richer - Divine Discontent
The Sound of Urchin - You Are the Best
Warren Zevon - My Ride’s Here

Avril Lavigne - “Complicated”
Blue Sandcastle - “Starting Gun”
Bruce Springsteen - “The Rising”
Cadet - “Nobody”
Chad Kroeger - “Hero”
The Elms - “Burn and Shine”
Jennifer Lopez - “Jenny from the Block”
John Mayer - “Your Body Is a Wonderland”
Kenny Chesney - “The Good Stuff”
Kid Rock - “Picture”
Moby - “We Are All Made of Stars”
Nelly - “Hot in Herre”
Norah Jones - “Don’t Know Why”
Palomar - “Knockout”
Paul Weller - “It’s Written in the Stars”
Randy Travis - “Three Wooden Crosses”
Rush - “One Little Victory”
Sheryl Crow - “Soak Up the Sun”
Toby Keith - “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue”
Vanessa Carlton - “A Thousand Miles”

Tim Sendra
2 Many DJ’s - As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Pt. 2
The Anniversary - Your Majesty
Bikeride - Morning Macumba
The Brunettes - Holding Hands, Feeding Ducks
Comet Gain - Realistes
Down MF - The Law of Diminishing Returns
Neil Halstead - Sleeping on Roads
Richard Hawley - Late Night Final
Heavy Blinkers - Better Weather
Madlib - Blunted in the Bomb Shelter Mix
Metro Area - Metro Area
PasCal - The Handbag Memoirs
Saturday Looks Good to Me - Love Will Find You
Sean Paul - Dutty Rock
Young and Sexy - Stand up for Your Mother

Jason Thurston
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Badly Drawn Boy - About a Boy
Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Sixpence None the Richer - Divine Discontent
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Jurassic 5 - Power in Numbers
Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel
The Get Up Kids - On a Wire
Solomon Burke - Don’t Give Up on Me
Cousteau - Sirena
Aimee Mann - Lost in Space
Nas - The Lost Tapes
Badly Drawn Boy - Have You Fed the Fish?
Ben Folds - Ben Folds Live
Ivy - Guest Room
David Cross - Shut Up, You Fucking Baby!
The Roots - Phrenology
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

The Hives - “Hate to Say I Told You So”
Badly Drawn Boy - “You Were Right”
Interpol - “Obstacle 1″
Sixpence None the Richer - “Breathe Your Name”
Eminem - “Without Me”
Jurassic 5 - “What’s Golden”
Cousteau - “Talkin’ to Myself”
The Flaming Lips - “Yoshimi vs. the Pink Robots, Pt. 1″
Ryan Adams - “Nuclear”
Clipse - “Young Boy”
The Promise Ring - “Become One Anything One Time”
Genius/GZA - “Fame”
Luna - “Renee Is Crying”
Our Lady Peace - “Innocent”
My Vitriol - “Always: My Way”
Matthew - “Everybody Down”
Pulp - “Trees”
Ash - “Shining Light”

Sean Westergaard
Tim Berne’s Science Friction - Science Friction
Jim Black & AlasNoAxis - Splay
The Books - Thought for Food
The Nels Cline Singers - Instrumentals
David Cross - Shut Up, You Fucking Baby!
The Fab Four - Christmas with the Fab Four: The Ultimate Tribute
Gomez - In Our Gun
Boris Grebenshikov - Terrarium
Jonas Hellborg/Shawn Lane/Jeff Sipe - Personae
The Claudia Quintet - The Claudia Quintet
Rick Holmstrom - Hydraulic Groove
Zony Mash - Live in Seattle
Mike Keneally - Wooden Smoke
The Meat Purveyors - All Relationships Are Doomed to Fail
Medeski, Martin & Wood - Uninvisible
The Residents - Demons Dance Alone
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Spaceways Inc. - Version Soul
Uncle Wiggly - Farfetchedness
Otomo Yoshihide New Jazz Quintet - ONJQ Live

Carly Wray
The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas
The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
The Notwist - Neon Golden
Neko Case - Blacklisted
Crooked Fingers - Reservoir Songs
Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle
Bad Religion - The Process of Belief
Andrew Bird - Fingerlings
The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Songs: Ohia - Didn’t It Rain
Nickel Creek - This Side

The Mountain Goats - “The Best Ever Death Metal Band Out of Denton”
The Mountain Goats - “First Few Desperate Hours”
Wilco - “Heavy Metal Drummer”
The Roots - “Break You Off”
Spoon - “The Way We Get By”
Crooked Fingers - “Sunday Morning Coming Down”
Iron & Wine - “Muddy Hymnal”
The Decemberists - “California One”
Frank Black and the Catholics - “California Bound”
Aimee Mann - “Invisible Ink”
Neko Case - “Things That Scare Me”

Previously
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AllMusic Loves 2001

Patterson Hood, the Drive-By Truckers

The sunburns have begun to heal. The ears have stopped ringing. But the memories of Bonnaroo 2009 — which saw nearly 80,000 people flocking to Tennessee for a weekend of live performances and varying weather patterns — don’t fade so easily.

This was my fourth time at the festival, and some things never change. There will always be mud. There will always be harsh, unrelenting heat. As the festival wraps up on Sunday evening, a combination of substance abuse and sleep deprivation will inevitably take their toll on Bonnaroo’s most adventurous attendees, resulting in a subdued atmosphere and a sea of passed-out bodies.

Bonnaroo is America’s premier festival, however, and no event earns that title without a steady stream of upgrades. This year introduced a number of new traditions: the presence of golf-cart taxi cabs, a renewed emphasis on environmental activism, and some flashy neon-looking signs (all of which sported the Back to the Future font) marking the festival’s three tents.

THURSDAY
The cab drivers paid their dues on Thursday afternoon, when short bursts of rain turned Bonnaroo into a muddy, Woodstock-worthy mess. Wheels churned in the dirt, sending mud and sludge onto every moving vehicle. Most of the cabbies remained in good spirits, though, particularly a young dreadlocked driver who had converted his cart into a pirate-themed taxi. A sign reading “Arrrr! Tips be good for curing me scurvy!” flapped in the wind as he barreled past us, while his lone passenger – a person clad in a green, full-body ninja suit – hooted at the pedestrians.

After setting up our camp in the rain, we headed into Centeroo to check out the first crop of bands. Janelle Monáe kicked things off in The Other Tent, but we bypassed her futuristic R&B in favor of the White Rabbits’ sweaty indie rock. The Rabbits took a percussive approach to their set, which featured two drummers and occasional percussion from singer/pianist Stephen Patterson. Meanwhile, songwriter Erin McCarley commanded the stage at the cozy Troo Music Lounge, where her band blew the soundboard’s power during their first song. Whoops.

We headed over to That Tent (if you think those names are confusing now, try puzzling things out after three days of Tennessee humidity) to catch the Low Anthem, whose debut album had been released two days prior. The musicians cooled things off with atmospheric folk songs and gorgeous harmonies, but the evening’s strongest vocals arrived during Chairlift’s set. Dressed like a high-school teen queen on her way to the Homecoming Dance, singer Caroline Polachek wailed like the opera-trained offspring of Bjork and Aimee Mann. The band even strutted their way through a cover of Snoop Dogg’s “Sexual Seduction,” although few audience members recognized the song in its slow, Depeche Mode-styled arrangement.

Passion Pit closed out the night as heavy rain soaked everything in its path. The canvas roof of This Tent provided shelter for the crowd, but our own tents weren’t so lucky, and we headed back to the campsite to move them beneath a tarp.

FRIDAY
Mud. So much mud.

As we walked toward Centeroo, making our way past the food booths and t-shirt stands that lined the road, we saw vendors laying straw in front of their makeshift storefronts. Some had resorted to bailing out the biggest mud puddles with a bucket. Few tricks worked, and even though the rain had stopped during the night, the ground squished all the way to the festival gates.

Inside, Kaki King busied herself with a mix of folk songs and guitar virtuosity. We left the gape jawed crowd behind in favor of catching the Animal Collective show, which attracted a larger crowd than most daytime concerts. The band played multiple tracks from their acclaimed Merriweather Post Pavillion, but the show seemed to lack the album’s rhythmic drive, an issue that may have been the soundman’s fault.

Up next were the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, whose impending presence caused a large portion of the crowd to stay in place during the set change. Karen O eventually took the stage in a multi-colored kimono and launched into her patented, charismatic antics: shrieking into the microphone, brandishing it like a sword, and momentarily swallowing it like a banana. Tuning problems forced the group to abandon “Maps” during the first verse, but Karen and Nick Zinner quickly brought out the acoustic guitars in order to do the song “Nashville style.” It was a tender moment in an otherwise raw, raucous set, and Karen’s vocals were gorgeous. Above our heads, some lucky patron watched the band’s encore from a hot air balloon.

Several hours later, the Beastie Boys brought Nas onstage for a performance of “Too Many Rappers,” a new track from the band’s forthcoming record. Meanwhile, David Byrne sported a tutu at the Which Stage, Phish jammed their way through the first of two headlining performances, Phoenix played a criminally short 45-minute set, and Girl Talk kept the party rolling until 4 a.m.

SATURDAY
For the second year in a row, the Drive-By Truckers braved the weekend’s hottest weather and soggiest humidity. Unlike last year, they were joined onstage by Booker T., who added flashes of organ to the Truckers’ songs while also promoting his own release, Potato Hole. The ensemble wrapped things up at 4:15 p.m., just in time for Govt. Mule to take the stage. I’ve never been a fan of Govt. Mule’s long winded improvisation, but you’ve gotta give it to Warren Haynes — the man may be the only jam band leader who can really, really sing.

Bryan Poole, Of Montreal

Indie pop flexed its cute little muscles that afternoon, when Jenny Lewis and Of Montreal performed on opposite stages. Joined by boyfriend Jonathan Rice, Jenny Lewis peppered her set with songs from Acid Tongue and dedicated “See Fernando” to a large, inflatable duck. Even so, her sprightly songs paled in comparison to Of Montreal’s sonic spectacle, which included crazy costumes (seriously — guitarist Bryan Poole looked like Dee Snider circa Stay Hungry), smashed guitars, fog machines, and oodles of off-kilter pop songs.

It was a hard act to follow, perhaps, but the Decemberists managed to keep the spirit going during their follow-up set. The Hazards of Love was recreated in all of its bombastic, operatic glory, and the band’s two guest vocalists — Shara Worden (who sounded like Ann Wilson) and Becky Stark (who looked like the Virgin Mary relocated to the “Lord of the Rings” movie set) — sang everybody else under the table.

Becky Stark, The Decemberists

The Mars Volta played an abbreviated set that evening, which would’ve been heartbreaking if we hadn’t already planned on decamping to the main stage to prepare for Bruce Springsteen. The Boss took the stage at 9 o’clock, flanked by his famed E Street Band and heralded by the cries of an immense audience. The show took awhile to gain momentum — only a small portion of the audience seemed to know Springsteen’s general catalog, and an even smaller portion managed to stomach the eight-minute cowpie known as “Outlaw Pete” — but the rocky start only fueled Springsteen’s fire. He launched himself into the crowd, snatched up all the handmade signs he could find, announced “It’s request time!” with all the zeal of a preacher at a tent revival, and began playing the band’s greatest hits. Best moments: Nils Lofgren’s solo during “Youngstown” (which ended with the guitarist spinning in circles on one foot), a truly standout performance of “Born to Run,” and a guest performance by 18-year old drummer Jay Weinberg, who replaced his Dad midway through the set and turned “Radio Nowhere” into the evening’s fastest, hardest-hitting number. In summary, Springsteen and company killed it.

We soldiered on into the late hours, catching NIN’s theatrical set (which, according to frontman Trent Reznor, was apparently the band’s final show in America ever) and watching Yeasayer amble through a blend of tribal indie rock and hippie psychdelia. MGMT closed out the evening with a surprisingly strong (and surprisingly crowded) show, culminating in a string of hits from Oracular Spectacular and a cover of ‘Til Tuesday’s “Voices Carry” with Caroline Polachek on lead vocals.

SUNDAY
We spent our last day immersing ourselves in hip-hop and country acts — considered strange bedfellows by much of the music-loving world, perhaps, but perfectly compatible companions inside the Bonnaroo gates. Erykah Badu took the stage in a Public Enemy shirt and a bowler hat while Neko Case watched from the wings, and Snoop Dogg played a wide swath of his own hits — as well as a cover of House of Pain’s “Jump Around” — during his subsequent set. Meanwhile, Merle Haggard sounded a bit tired while meandering through an afternoon performance, and Neko Case turned in the festival’s most technically proficient show, even if her siren vocals couldn’t quite make up for a lackluster stage presence. (And let’s not talk about her onstage duet with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. That was more painful than “Outlaw Pete.”)

After riding the festival’s very own Ferris wheel, we rolled up our tents as Phish closed out the festival with another headlining set, punctuated by Bruce Springsteen’s cameo on “Mustang Sally,” “Bobby Jean,” and “Glory Days.” Our exit from the festival grounds was quick, and we headed back to Ann Arbor during the early morning, dreaming about hot showers and flushable toilets. Bonnaroo is never an easy festival to attend — it’s too hot, too rainy, too exhausting for that — but it’s always been worth the trip.

Looking back, 2001 seems like one of the last years before pop music shattered into a million little niches. Despite the continuing fallout of Napster, there were still plenty of big, undeniable blockbusters: the Dave Matthews Band and Britney Spears sold 750,000 copies of their new albums within their first week of release, a situation that was the rule, not the exception. The teen-pop wave that Britney personified may have crested, but there were still plenty of great Top 40 singles that year, including two featuring Gwen Stefani in a supporting role remaking herself into a dance-pop diva. As it turned out, Gwen’s makeover pointed the way toward much of the mainstream pop of the decade, where the lines between R&B, pop, rock, and hip-hop blurred indistinguishably, but even with all this pop, Jay-Z’s Blueprint and a bumper crop of electronica — the latter highlighted by Daft Punk and Björk, along with Radiohead’s continuing forays into the form — rock & roll was the rallying cry of 2001, thanks to incendiary albums by the Strokes and the White Stripes, the two bands that spearheaded the garage-rock revival of the early 2000s. Joining the Strokes and Stripes was a reunited Weezer, the ascendancy of System of a Down and Drive-By Truckers and, on the somewhat softer side of things, the Shins, who offered a flashback to the golden age of jangle with their debut Oh, Inverted World.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine
The Strokes - Is This It
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
Stephen Malkmus - Stephen Malkmus
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Pulp - We Love Life
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Nick Lowe - The Convincer
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
P!nk - M!ssundaztood
Björk - Vespertine
Tenacious D - Tenacious D
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
Weezer - Weezer
Merle Haggard - Roots, Vol. 1

Eve f/ Gwen Stefani - “Let Me Blow Ya Mind”
The Strokes - “Last Nite”
The White Stripes - “Hotel Yorba”
No Doubt - “Hey Baby”
Weezer - “Hash Pipe”
P!nk - “Get the Party Started”
Gorillaz - “Clint Eastwood”
Blu Cantrell - “Hit Em Up Style”
Moby f/ Gwen Stefani - “Southside (Remix)”
Britney Spears - “I’m a Slave 4 U”
Daft Punk - “One More Time”
Jennifer Lopez f/ Ja Rule - “I’m Real”
The Shins - “New Slang”
The Strokes - “Hard to Explain”

John Bush
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
The Beta Band - Hot Shots II
The Dismemberment Plan - Change
Four Tet - Pause
As One - 21st Century Soul
4hero - Creating Patterns
7L & Esoteric - The Soul Purpose
System of a Down - Toxicity
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Dead Meadow - Dead Meadow
Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction
The Pernice Brothers - The World Won’t End
Elbow - Asleep in the Back
Ian Brown - Music of the Spheres
Mouse on Mars - Idiology
Ty - Awkward
New Order - Get Ready

Roots Manuva - “Witness (1 Hope)”
Jay-Z - “The Ruler’s Back”
Jay-Z - “Takeover”
Basement Jaxx - “Jus 1 Kiss”
Basement Jaxx - “Where’s Your Head At”
Metro Area - “Caught Up”
Aphex Twin - “Jynweythek Ylow”
Super Furry Animals - “(Drawing) Rings Around the World”
Ty - “Hercules”
The Dismemberment Plan - “Sentimental Man”
Brad Paisley - “Two Feet of Top Soil”
Robbie Williams f/ Jon Lovitz - “Well, Did You Evah”
Bob Dylan - “Mississippi”
Ian Brown - “F.E.A.R.”
Mouse on Mars - “Actionist Respoke”
Squarepusher - “My Red Hot Car”
System of a Down - “Prison Song”
The White Stripes - “Fell in Love with a Girl”
7L & Esoteric - “Verbal Assault”
4hero f/ Ursula Rucker - “Time”

Heather Phares
Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
Angelo Badalamenti - Mulholland Drive
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
Björk - Vespertine
Frank Black and the Catholics - Dog in the Sand
Daft Punk - Discovery
Erase Errata - Other Animals
KaitO - You’ve Seen Us… You Must Have Seen Us…
Ladytron - 604
Liars - They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
Stephen Malkmus - Stephen Malkmus
Matmos - A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure
The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2
Mouse on Mars - Idiology
Jim O’Rourke - Insignificance
Solex - Low Kick and Hard Bop
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
The Strokes - Is This It (UK)
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells

Aaliyah - “Rock the Boat”
Andrew W.K. - “Party Hard”
Basement Jaxx - “Romeo”
Crazy Town - “Butterfly”
Daft Punk - “Digital Love”
Rebekah Del Rio - “Llorando (Crying)” (YouTube)
Destiny’s Child - “Bootylicious”
Gorillaz - “Clint Eastwood”
Stephen Malkmus - “Discretion Grove” (YouTube)
Mouse on Mars - “Actionist Respoke”
OutKast - “The Whole World”
Britney Spears - “I’m a Slave 4 U”
Spoon - “Everything Hits at Once” (YouTube)
The Strokes - “Last Nite”
The White Stripes - “Fell in Love with a Girl”

Tim Sendra
AM/FM - Getting into Sinking
Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
Beachwood Sparks - Once We Were Trees
Birdie - Triple Echo
Call and Response - Call and Response (Kindercore)
The Chamber Strings - Month of Sundays
Cut Chemist & DJ Shadow - Product Placement
Daft Punk - Discovery
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci - How I Long to Feel That Summer in My Heart
Hefner - Dead Media
Hood - Cold House
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Ted Leo/Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance
Pernice Brothers - The World Won’t End
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
The Strokes - Is This It (UK)
The Telepathic Butterflies - Nine Songs
Tipsy - Uh-Oh!
Walker Kong - There Goes the Sun

Aaliyah - “More Than a Woman”
The American Analog Set - “Punk as Fuck”
Belle & Sebastian - “I’m Waking Up to Us”
The Bigger Lovers - “Forever Is Not So Long”
Champale - “Hard to Be Easy”
Daft Punk - “Digital Love”
Daft Punk - “One More Time”
Dungen - “Stadsvandringar”
Jimmy Eat World - “The Middle”
The Lilac Time - “Jeans + Summer”
The Lucksmiths - “The Great Dividing Range”
No Doubt - “Underneath It All”
Puffy AmiYumi - “Love So Pure”
Radio 4 - “Dance to the Underground”
The Sunshine Fix - “Age of the Sun”

Sean Westergaard
Tim Berne’s Hard Cell - The Shell Game
Frank Black and the Catholics - Dog in the Sand
Burnt Sugar - That Depends on What You Know: The Sirens Return/K
Chitlin’ Fooks - Chitlin’ Fooks
Cut Chemist & DJ Shadow - Product Placement
Gonervill - Gonervill
Granfaloon Bus - Exploded View
ICP Orchestra - Oh, My Dog
Ori Kaplan Percussion Ensemble - Gongol
Mike Keneally - Wooden Smoke/Wooden Smoke Asleep
Gary Lucas - The Edge of Heaven
Miriodor - Mekano
Mushroom - Foxy Music
Negativland - These Guys Are from England and Who Gives a Shit
Nicky Skopelitis & Raoul Björkenheim - Revelator
Tortoise - Standards
Kazutoki Umezu Kiki Band - Kiki
Steve Wynn - Here Come the Miracles
John Zorn - The Gift
Masada - Masada: Live at Tonic, 2001

Andrew Leahey
Ryan Adams - Gold
Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers - Real to Reel
Rufus Wainwright - Poses
Sparklehorse - It’s a Wonderful Life
Old 97’s - Satellite Rides
The Langley Schools Music Project - Innocence & Despair
Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Air - 10,000 Hz Legend
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Whiskeytown - Pneumonia
Ben Folds - Rockin’ the Suburbs
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Tenacious D - Tenacious D

Matt Collar
Astrobrite - Crush
Beachwood Sparks - Once We Were Trees
Björk - Vespertine
Nick Curran and the Nitelifes - Nitelife Boogie
Daft Punk - Discovery
Dungen - Dungen
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Ed Harcourt - Here Be Monsters
Richard Hawley - Late Night Final
Carly Hennessy - Ultimate High
Ted Leo/Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance
Kylie Minogue - Fever
New Order - Get Ready
Pernice Brothers - The World Won’t End
Pulp - We Love Life
Ron Sexsmith - Blue Boy
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Spiritualized - Let It Come Down
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells

Greg Heaney
Isis - Celestial
Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die
The Von Bondies - Lack of Communication
Fugazi - The Argument
Beulah - The Coast Is Never Clear
Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
Stephen Malkmus - Stephen Malkmus
The Strokes - Is This It
Tenacious D - Tenacious D
Godflesh - Hymns
They Might Be Giants - Mink Car
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Firewater - Psychopharmacology
Mogwai - Rock Action
Slayer - God Hates Us All
Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
The Dirtbombs - Ultraglide in Black
Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
Coverge - Jane Doe

Andrew W.K. - “It’s Time to Party”
Burning Airlines - “The Deluxe War Baby”
Sigh - “Dreamsphere (Return to the Chaos)”
Harkonen - “Grizz”
The Dirtbombs - “Ode to a Black Man”
Pig Destroyer - “Preacher Crawling”
Firewater - “Car Crash Collaborator”
Tool - “The Grudge”
Frodus - “Year of the Hex”
Sloan - “If It Feels Good Do It”
Stephen Malkmus - “Jo Jo’s Jacket”
Emperor - “The Tongue of Fire”
Clutch - “Careful with That Mic”
Of Montreal - “Peacock Parasols”
Silver Jews - “I Remember Me”
Godflesh - “Anthem” (YouTube audio)
Brian Jonestown Massacre - “Nevertheless”
Apes - “Mountain of Steel”
Isis - “Glisten” (YouTube audio)
Muse - “New Born”

David Jeffries
Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
The Anubian Lights - Naz Bar
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Detroit Grand Pubahs - Funk All Y’all
Dilated Peoples - Expansion Team
Beres Hammond - Music Is Life
Hood - Cold House
Jay Dee - Welcome 2 Detroit
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Khanate - Khanate
Killah Priest - Priesthood
Kirsty MacColl - Tropical Brainstorm
Damian “Junior Gong” Marley - Halfway Tree
Nortec Collective - The Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 1
Prince Jazzbo - Mr. Funny
Reynols/No Reynols - Reynols/No Reynols
Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By
U-Roy - Now
Andrew Weatherall - Hypercity

Jason Lymangrover
Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
Air - 10,000 Hz Legend
Daft Punk - Discovery
Detroit Grand Pubahs - Funk All Y’all
The Dismemberment Plan - Change
Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die
Fugazi - The Argument
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Ladytron - 604
Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
Pinback - Blue Screen Life
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Stephen Malkmus - Stephen Malkmus
System of a Down - Toxicity
Tenacious D - Tenacious D
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
The Strokes - Is this It
Tomahawk - Tomahawk
Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
Weezer - Weezer

Basement Jaxx - “Where’s Your Head At?” (YouTube)
Britney Spears - “I’m a Slave 4 U”
Elbow - “Any Day Now”
Guided by Voices - “Glad Girls”
Mogwai - “2 Rights Make 1 Wrong”
Prefuse 73 - “Life/Death”
R. Kelly - “Feelin’ on Yo Booty”
Spiritualized - “Don’t Just Do Something”
Stereolab - “Captain Easychord”
Tricky - “Diss Never (Dig Up We History)”

James Christopher Monger
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Global a Go-Go
Kaizers Orchestra - Ompa Til du Dør
Luke Haines - The Oliver Twist Manifesto
Original Soundtrack - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Guided by Voices - Isolation Drills
Baby Dee - Little Window
Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire - The Swimming Hour
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
Brian Dewan - The Operating Theater
Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
Original Soundtrack - Amélie
Therion - Secret of the Runes
Röyksopp - Melody A.M.
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci - How I Long to Feel That Summer in My Heart
Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
The Danielson Famile - Fetch the Compass Kids
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
The Langley Schools Music Project - Innocence & Despair

Isan - “Cathart”
Adam West - “C’mon and Bludgeon Me”
Nicolai Dunger - “Dr. Zhivago’s Train”
Tenacious D - “Explosivo”
Björk - “Hidden Place”
Hollenthon - “Y Draig Goch”
Hem - “Half Acre”
Air - “Radio #1″
Mercury Rev - “The Dark Is Rising”
Faun Fables - “Sleepwalker”
Rufus Wainwright - “Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk”
Ken Stringfellow - “Down Like Me”
Maggi, Pierce and E.J. - “Space”
Ron Sexsmith - “This Song”
Rodney Crowell - “Telephone Road”
The White Stripes - “We’re Going to Be Friends”
Radiohead - “I Might Be Wrong”
Destroyer - “Streethawk I”
Muse - “Bliss”
Super Furry Animals - “(Drawing) Rings Around the World”

Andy Kellman
Aaliyah - Aaliyah
Arab Strap - The Red Thread
As One - 21st Century Soul
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
Bilal - 1st Born Second
Bows - Cassidy
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
The Coup - Party Music
Dabrye - One/Three
The Detroit Escalator Co. - Black Buildings
Faith Evans - Faithfully
4hero - Creating Patterns
Herbert - Bodily Functions
Jay Dee - Welcome 2 Detroit
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Lali Puna - Scary World Theory
N.E.R.D. - In Search Of…
Spacek - Curvatia
Andrew Weatherall - Hypercity
Zip - Superlongevity

Aaliyah - “Rock the Boat” (YouTube)
Afronaught - “Transcend Me”
Archigram - “In Flight (Raw Club Mix)”
Stephane Attias - “Distant Planet”
Basement Jaxx - “Romeo” (YouTube)
Blaze - “How Deep Is Your Love”
Daft Punk - “Face to Face”
Missy Elliott - “Get Ur Freak On”
Morgan Geist - “24K”
Ginuwine - “Differences”
Green Velvet - “La La Land” (YouTube)
Maxwell - “Lifetime”
Metro Area - “Miura”
Kylie Minogue - “Can’t Get You Out of My Head”
Moodymann - “J.A.N.”
Phantom Ghost - “Perfect Lovers (Unperfect Love Mix)”
Playgroup - “Number One (Black Strobe Instrumental)”
Sticky f/ Ms. Dynamite - “Booo!”
Super-A-Loof - “Covetous”
Transllusion - “Dimensional Glide”

Previously
AllMusic Loves 1968
AllMusic Loves 1974
AllMusic Loves 1977
AllMusic Loves 1980
AllMusic Loves 1984
AllMusic Loves 1987
AllMusic Loves 1988
AllMusic Loves 1993
AllMusic Loves 1999
AllMusic Loves 2000

With nine years covered in our AllMusic Loves series, hitting the current decade was only a matter of time. We start here with the first year, naturally, and we’ll knock out the rest and reach the end before the next decade begins. Prince rang in the year 2000 with “1999,” vowing he would never play it again (cough); Smashing Pumpkins closed it out by bidding farewell (cough, hack, wheeze). In between, pivotal albums were released by established artists like Radiohead and OutKast. Britney Spears and Eminem proved not to be flashes in the pan by producing commercially and creatively successful second albums. The underground provided some exceptional one-shots from Life Without Buildings and the Avalanches. At the year’s end, you were no doubt celebrating the triumph of having Your Hard Drive named Spin magazine’s Album of the Year, even if you did not own one filled with a thousand awesome and incorrectly-tagged MP3s encoded at 128 kbps.

John Bush
Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
Quasimoto - The Unseen
Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
Ian Brown - Golden Greats
Gonzales - The Entertainist
Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Chappaquiddick Skyline - Chappaquiddick Skyline
Luomo - Vocal City
I-f - Mixed Up in the Hague, Vol. 1
Zed Bias - Sound of the Pirates
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
Saint Etienne - Sound of Water
Doctor Rockit - Indoor Fireworks
Broadcast - The Noise Made by People
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Photek - Solaris
Wu-Tang Clan - The W

Jurassic 5 - “Quality Control”
Jurassic 5 - “Twelve”
Goldfrapp - “Pilots”
Quasimoto - “Microphone Mathematics”
OutKast - “So Fresh, So Clean”
Destiny’s Child - “Independent Women, Pt. 1″
Britney Spears - “Oops!…I Did It Again”
Brad Paisley - “Me Neither”
Badly Drawn Boy - “Fall in a River”
Ian Brown - “Set My Baby Free”
Chappaquiddick Skyline - “Everyone Else Is Evolving”
Life Without Buildings - “Young Offenders”
Wu-Tang Clan - “Careful (Click, Click)”
The New Pornographers - “Mass Romantic”
Saint Etienne - “Downey, CA”
Boards of Canada - “In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country”

Stephen Thomas Erlewine
White Stripes - De Stijl
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Green Day - Warning
Steely Dan - Two Against Nature
Super Furry Animals - Mwng
Ween - White Pepper
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
Neko Case - Furnace Room Lullaby
Aimee Mann - Bachelor No. 2
Peaches - Teaches of Peaches
Elastica - The Menace
Shelby Lynne - I Am Shelby Lynne
OutKast - Stankonia
Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
Paul Simon - You’re the One
Supergrass - Supergrass
Radiohead - Kid A
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Merle Haggard - If I Could Only Fly
Paul Weller - Heliocentric

Supergrass - “Pumping on Your Stereo”
Madonna - “Don’t Tell Me”
Stone Temple Pilots - “Sour Girl”
Oasis - “Go Let It Out”
Bob Dylan - “Things Have Changed”
Britney Spears - “Oops! I Did It Again”
White Stripes - “Hello Operator”
Green Day - “Minority”
OutKast - “B.O.B.”
Eminem - “The Real Slim Shady”
Destiny’s Child - “Say My Name”
Queens of the Stone Age - “Feel Good Hit of the Summer”
Bloodhound Gang - “The Bad Touch”
No Doubt - “Ex-Girlfriend”
P!nk - “There You Go”

Heather Phares
Add N To (X) - Add Insult to Injury
Björk - Selmasongs
Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
Broadcast - The Noise Made by People
Chicks on Speed - Will Save Us All!
Clinic - Internal Wrangler
Elastica - The Menace
The For Carnation - The For Carnation
Friends of Dean Martinez - A Place in the Sun
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
The Microphones - It Was Hot We Stayed in the Water
Mirah - You Think It’s Like This But Really It’s Like This
Optiganally Yours - Optiganally Yours Presents: Exclusively Talentmaker
Peaches - The Teaches of Peaches
Pram - The Museum of Imaginary Animals
Queens of the Stone Age - R
Smog - Dongs of Sevotion
The White Stripes - De Stijl
Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out

Aaliyah - “Try Again”
Air - “Playground Love”
Daft Punk - “One More Time”
Eminem - “Stan”
Green Velvet - “Answering Machine”
Jurassic 5 - “Improvise”
Madonna - “Music”
Moby - “South Side”
OutKast - “Ms. Jackson”
Radiohead - “Everything in Its Right Place”

Matt Collar
Teenage Fanclub - Howdy!
Nick Curran - Fixin’ Your Head
Phoenix - United
Marc Teamaker - Ping!
OutKast - Stankonia
Broadcast - The Noise Made by People
D’Angelo - Voodoo
Movietone - Blossom Filled Streets
Radiohead - Kid A
Madonna - Music
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
Shelby Lynne - I Am
Elastica - The Menace
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Mojave 3 - Excuses for Travelers
The Sea and Cake - Oui
Jim Roll - Lunette
Aimee Mann - Bachelor No. 2
The White Stripes - De Stijl
Oasis - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

David Jeffries
Horace Andy - Living in the Flood
Beenie Man - Art and Life
Zed Bias - Sound of the Pirates
Big Moe - City of Syrup
Common - Like Water for Chocolate
Culture - Payday
Dead Prez - Let’s Get Free
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
D.I.T.C. - D.I.T.C.
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
Green Velvet - Green Velvet
Moodymann - Forevernevermore
OutKast - Stankonia
Prodigy - H.N.I.C.
Radiohead - Kid A
Slum Village - Fantastic, Vol. 2
Armand Van Helden - Killing Puritans
Nicole Willis - Soul Makeover
Various Artists - Feel Like Jumping: The Best of Studio One Women

Andy Kellman
Arovane - Tides
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Erykah Badu - Mama’s Gun
Daniel Bell - The Button Down Mind of Daniel Bell
Zed Bias - Sound of the Pirates
Broadcast - The Noise Made by People
D’Angelo - Voodoo
Gas - Pop
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
Gramm - Personal Rock
Herbert - Letsallmakemistakes
Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
Luomo - Vocal City
Moodymann - Forevernevermore
OutKast - Stankonia
Theo Parrish - Parallel Dimensions
Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
Radiohead - Kid A
Tobias Thomas - Für Dich
Susumu Yokota - Sakura

Aaliyah - “Try Again”
Annie - “The Greatest Hit”
Black Box Recorder - “The Art of Driving”
Boards of Canada - “Amo Bishop Roden”
Philippe Cam - “Karine”
Cannibal Ox - “Iron Galaxy”
Closer Musik - “One Two Three (No Gravity)”
Herbert - “Leave Me Now”
Gustavo Lamas - “Jovenes”
Losoul - “You Can Do”
M. Mayer - “Amanda”
Memphis Bleek - “Is That Your Chick? (The Lost Verses)”
Metro Area - “The Art of Hot” (YouTube audio)
M.O.P. - “Ante Up”
MRI - “To Be Honest”
Newworldaquarium - “Trespassers”
Photek - “Mine to Give” (YouTube)
Recloose - “Can’t Take It”
Jill Scott - “Slowly Surely”
Spacek - “Eve”

Andrew Leahey
Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers - Honky Tonk Union
Neko Case & Her Boyfriends - Furnace Room Lullaby
U2 - All That You Can’t Leave Behind
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Air - The Virgin Suicides
D’Angelo - Voodoo
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
The Masticators - Masticate!
Neal Casal - Anytime Tomorrow
The Juliana Theory - Emotion Is Dead

Jason Lymangrover
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
Broadcast - The Noise Made by People
Clinic - Internal Wrangler
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
Erykah Badu - Mama’s Gun
ESG - A South Bronx Story
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
OutKast - Stankonia
Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
Quasimoto - The Unseen
Radiohead - Kid A
Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
Slum Village - Fantastic, Vol. 2
Thingy - To the Innocent
Ween - White Pepper
The White Stripes - De Stijl

Beck - “Mixed Bizness”
Boards of Canada - “In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country”
Björk - “New World”
Blackalicious - “A to G”
D’Angelo - “How Does It Feel?”
Detroit Grand Pubahs - “Sandwiches” (YouTube)
Doves - “Rise”
Elliott Smith - “Everything Means Nothing to Me”
Eminem - “I Am”
Enon - “Rubber Car”
The Hives - “I Hate to Say I Told You So”
Jurassic 5 - “Quality Control”
Ladytron - “Playgirl”
The Sea and Cake - “Afternoon Speaker”
Roni Size/Reprazent - “Ghetto Celebrity”
Sean Paul - “Infiltrate”
Shaggy - “It Wasn’t Me”
Sisqo - “Thong Song”
Takako Minekawa - “Sleeping Bag”
Yo La Tengo - “Cherry Chapstick”

James Christopher Monger
Stew - Guest Host
XTC - Wasp Star (Apple Venus, Pt. 2)
Virginia Rodrigues - Nos
The Gourds - Bolsa de Agua
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
Jim Roll - Lunette
Brian Lillie & the Squirrel Mountain Orchestra - Good Luck Fire Chief
Air - The Virgin Suicides
Pinetop Seven - Bringing Home the Last Great Strike
Black Box Recorder - The Facts of Life
Radiohead - Kid A
Michael Penn - MP4: Days Since a Lost Time Accident
The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
Bad Livers - Blood & Mood
Clocker Redbury & Dusty Slosinger - Slosinger/Redbury
Ween - White Pepper
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci - The Blue Trees
Bill Frisell - Ghost Town
The Gathering - If_Then_Else
Augie March - Sunset Studies

Björk - “Cvalda”
Thomas Newman - “Dead Already”
Belle & Sebastian - “Legal Man”
Warren Zevon - “I Was in the House When the House Burned Down”
Marah - “Faraway You”
a-ha - “Mary Ellen Makes the Moment Count”
The Aislers Set - “The Way to Market Station”
16 Horsepower - “Clogger”
Eliott Smith - “Color Bars”
The Handsome Family - “Don’t Be Scared”
Sunny Day Real Estate - “The Rising Tide”
Rachid Taha - “Qalantiqa”
The Hives - “Main Offender”
Robyn Hitchcock - “Viva! Sea-Tac”
Jayhawks - “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me”
Neko Case & Her Boyfriends - “Furnace Room Lullaby”
Enya - “Lazy Days”
The White Stripes - “You’re Pretty Good Looking (For a Girl)”
Iron Maiden - “The Wicker Man”
The Ghettobillies - “Line Dance Champion” (MP3)

Tim Sendra
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Beachwood Sparks - Beachwood Sparks
The Fletcher Pratt - Nine by Nine
The Go-Betweens - The Friends of Rachel Worth
Heavy Blinkers - Heavy Blinkers
Kittycraft - Catskills
The Lassie Foundation - Pacifico
The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
Noonday Underground - Self-Assembly
Phoenix - United
Saturday Looks Good to Me - Saturday Looks Good to Me
Shimmer Kids Underpop Association - Bury My Heart at Makeout Point
The Softies - Holiday in Rhode Island

This is my favorite song of 2000 (and possibly of all-time after “Steal My Sunshine”):
The Softies - “Me and the Bees”

Greg Heaney
Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Ween - White Pepper
The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious
OutKast - Stankonia
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Clinic - Internal Wrangler
They Might Be Giants - Working Undercover for the Man
Har Mar Superstar - Har Mar Superstar
J Mascis + the Fog - More Light
Man or Astro-Man? - A Spectrum of Infinite Scale
De La Soul - Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump
The Apples in Stereo - The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone
The White Stripes - De Stijl
Enon - Believo!
Elf Power - The Winter Is Coming
The Twilight Singers - Twilight as Played by the Twilight Singers
Thingy - To the Innocent
Mike Doughty - Skittish
Queens of the Stone Age - R

Previously
AllMusic Loves 1968
AllMusic Loves 1974
AllMusic Loves 1977
AllMusic Loves 1980
AllMusic Loves 1984
AllMusic Loves 1987
AllMusic Loves 1988
AllMusic Loves 1993
AllMusic Loves 1999