Decrepit's AOTY 2000: One-liner Edition
Let's not lie to ourselves. After 3 AOTY lists and 300 blurbs we are both tired. You of reading, me of writing. Work also don't allow for more and my 2020 AOTY is looming on the horizon, with only 6 days left on the calendar. The year 2000 was a tumultous year for young Dewi, 23 at the time, stuck at Uni and sailing through a storm of family disputes and mishappenings. These are some of the albums that accompanied me through those times, plus some others I discovered through you, wonderful people. |
100 | | Eternal Elysium Spiritualized D
Release Date: April
Label: People Like You
Genre: Stoner
Riffs in the shrine of the deloused, praying for that LSD paper to kick in before morning duties. |
99 | | Erykah Badu Mama's Gun
Release Date: November 21st
Label: Motown
Genre: Soul
I shaped these streets, they speak through me, so hear what I have to say. |
98 | | Agents of Oblivion Agents of Oblivion
Release Date: January 25th
Label: Rotten
Genre: Grunge
Dax Riggs takes a long Acid Bath, tragedy ensues, and now he just wants to forget. |
97 | | Sunn O))) ØØ Void
Release Date: June 26th
Label: Hydra Head
Genre: Drone
One note, 17 albums. This is the first official note. |
96 | | Rotting Christ Khronos
Release Date: August 29th
Label: Century Media
Genre: Black metal
The body of Christ still rots in some Greek pantheon, the smell it's unbearable. |
95 | | Amber Asylum The Supernatural Parlour Collection
Release Date: October
Label: Release
Genre: Post rock
House of many, seed of your favorite bands, communing in peace. |
94 | | Spitz Hayabusa
Release Date: July 26th
Label: Polydor
Genre: Japanese pop rock
Summer bike rides along the river banks, eating mosquitoes, chugging Asahis, under a perfect night sky. |
93 | | Fu Manchu King of the Road
Release Date: February 15th
Label: Mammoth
Genre: Stoner
A desert wind destroys the stage. Members of Fu Manchu run for their lives. Shortest show of my entire life. |
92 | | Jurassic 5 Quality Control
Release Date: June 6th
Label: Interscope
Genre: Hip Hop
The rarity that spawns the roots of my doubts. Curves, and curves and I slide into Q/A. |
91 | | Goatsnake Flower of Disease
Release Date: October 31st
Label: Southern Lord
Genre: Sludge
Rites of poison down at the swamps. BYOB. And leave your soul at the door. |
90 | | Garden of Shadows Oracle Moon
Release Date: August 28th
Label: Wicked World
Genre: Melodeth
Legends say Åkerfeldt switched to prog after listening to this album. |
89 | | Bonobo Animal Magic
Release Date: July 24th
Label: Tru thoughts
Genre: Downtempo
Lonely DJ airwaves to himself. He's delivering glory, but no one's listening. |
88 | | Steve Roach Midnight Moon
Release Date: April 25th
Label: Projekt
Genre: Ambient
If you were to fall into the sky, deep up in the cosmos, Roach would follow you, no matter what. |
87 | | Pearl Jam Binaural
Release Date: April 25th
Label: Projekt
Genre: Ambient
Matt Cameron plays Soundgarden's syncopated beats, Pearl Jam struggles, Vedder blocks and grabs an ukelele. Meanwhile a guy no one knows keeps setting up mics around the room. |
86 | | The New Pornographers Mass Romantic
Release Date: October 24th
Label: Mint
Genre: Indie Rock
The Avengers of indie rock, before each one of them got their own movie. |
85 | | Destroyer 666 Phoenix Rising
Release Date: December 1st
Label: Season of Mist
Genre: Black metal
Shot from a tank's cannon at point blank. Face is a hole but the ears remains. They absorb the shrapnel. |
84 | | Antony and the Johnsons Antony and the Johnsons
Release Date: May 1st
Label: Secretly Canadian
Genre: Singer Songwriter
The voice of a cherubin, after being beaten with its own harp, singing at a rich nobody's funeral. |
83 | | No Doubt Return of Saturn
Release Date: April 11th
Label: Trauma
Genre: Pop rock
Don't speak, I know what you're thinking. |
82 | | Pantera Reinventing the Steel
Release Date: March 14th
Label: Elektra
Genre: Pantera says, Pantera does
Look at the cover. If Anselmo invites you to party, this is what is expected of you. |
81 | | Behemoth Thelema.6
Release Date: November 27th
Label: Olympic
Genre: Black metal
Now available in your nearest church. Bring a goat. |
80 | | The Black Heart Procession Three
Release Date: September 5th
Label: Touch and Go
Genre: Slowcore
Dark hallways and wet walls. Words filter uninvited. You don't really wanna hear them, but the silence is deafening. |
79 | | Kalmah Swamplord
Release Date: November
Label: Century Media
Genre: Melodeath
Grabbed by the beard, I eat a suplex, teeth scatter, and tapping the floor I realize my hand is boneless. Festivals coming back, when? |
78 | | Watain Rabid Death's Curse
Release Date: April
Label: Drakkar
Genre: Black metal
Bullshit. Satan would never jam Watain. He's more into lascivous stuff like Jenni Lopez. Someone's gotta tell the Sweds. |
77 | | In Flames Clayman
Release Date: July 3rd
Label: Nuclear Blast
Genre: Melodeath
They actually recorded this again 20 years later. The only thing that no one asked them to do. |
76 | | Coldplay Parachutes
Release Date: November 7th
Label: Capitol / Parlophone
Genre: Pop
As I bob my head to "Shiver" I realize I don't hate Coldplay, I just hate myself. |
75 | | Helloween The Dark Ride
Release Date: November
Label: Nuclear Blast
Genre: Power Metal
The Germans go blackout, Kiske loses its way, falls into a pit and he's never seen again. A certain Andi Deris comes out from the microwave, he seems like a nice dude. They give him a mic. |
74 | | Blonde Redhead Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
Release Date: June 6th
Label: Touch and Go
Genre: Indie Pop
Makino invites you to tea, you politely accept. She then kicks you in the balls, smiles and LINEs you while staring straight into your eyes with the expression of a blood drunk bat. |
73 | | Thumlock Emerald Liquid Odyssey
Release Date: August
Label: High Beam
Genre: Stoner metal
Space travel guide for diabetic astronauts. Chapter 1, page 1. Don't chug the insuline. |
72 | | Gamma Ray Blast From the Past
Release Date: June 26th
Label: Noise
Genre: Power Metal
An alternative view of reality. Through Kai Hansen's voice, and chosen by you. |
71 | | Spineshank The Height of Callousness
Release Date: October 10th
Label: Roadrunner
Genre: Nu-metal
Back when you could openly spring your back in public and wear blue hair. |
70 | | Elysian Fields Queen of the Meadow
Release Date: November 14th
Label: Flower Shop
Genre: Dream Pop
M'lady, if you insist in whispering those things into my ear we are gonna have an international incident, right here, right now. |
69 | | Cradle of Filth Midian
Release Date: October 30th
Label: Music for Nations
Genre: Symphonic black metal
A Cradle album narrated by Pinhead? Clive Barker would be proud. |
68 | | Vader Litany
Release Date: May 9th
Label: Metal Blade
Genre: Death Metal
The engines of the Death Star, powered by Doc's double bass. |
67 | | Enya A Day Without Rain
Release Date: November 21st
Label: Reprise
Genre: New Age
Songs for cleansing the soul you already don't have. |
66 | | Rage Against the Machine Renegades
Release Date: December 5th
Label: Epic
Genre: Rap. Metal.
Did this happen before or after Zack banged Morello's wife? |
65 | | Do Make Say Think Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord is Dead
Release Date: March 13th
Label: Constellation
Genre: Post rock
Same landscape, no matter which window you look from. |
64 | | Moloko Things to Make and Do
Release Date: April 10th
Label: Echo
Genre: Pop
Murphy has a great voice but she has too many things to say. |
63 | | Nightwish Wishmaster
Release Date: May 21st (Europe)
Label: Drakkar
Genre: Symphonic metal
Took me 10 listens to get the meme. |
62 | | Incantation The Infernal Storm
Release Date: May 9th
Label: Relapse
Genre: Death Metal
A labyrinth of lava, similar to an unemployment office in 2020. |
61 | | Bowery Electric Lushlife
Release Date: February 22nd
Label: Beggars Banquet
Genre: Trip Hop
No place to stay but countless open bars. |
60 | | Queens of the Stone Age Rated R
Release Date: June 6th
Label: Interscope
Genre: Alt rock
Nobody kicks a camera like Josh Homme. The album. |
59 | | Gas Pop
Release Date: March 28th
Label: Mille Plateaux
Genre: Ambient
What a fraud! This is not pop, it's an ambient album! Where's my money!? |
58 | | The Cure Bloodflowers
Release Date: February 14th
Label: Fiction
Genre: Gothic pop
Valentine Day's of 2000 most sold album. |
57 | | Boris Flood
Release Date: December 15th
Label: Noble
Genre: Drone
Open the sluice gates and let it flooooooooood... |
56 | | Motorhead We Are Motorhead
Release Date: May 16th
Label: Steamhammer
Genre: Heavy metal
Jack and coke for breakfast. |
55 | | Harold budd The Room
Release Date: August 15th
Label: Atlantic
Genre: Ambient
Rest in peace, master architect of celestial sounds. |
54 | | Nina Nastasia Dogs
Release Date: June 8th
Label: Touch and Go
Genre: Singer songwriter
Nina and Albini share a drink, one thing leads to another, and BOOM! Amazing album out of nowhere. |
53 | | Hot snakes Automatic Midnight
Release Date: February 15th
Label: Sympathy for the Music Industry
Genre: Post hardcore
John Reis doesn't kick cameras and still rocks harder than Josh Homme. |
52 | | Paysage d'Hiver Kristall und Isa
Release Date: Lost in time
Label: Kuntshall
Genre: Black metal
Few have ventured this far. The weather is unforgiving. |
51 | | Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun
Release Date: May 22nd
Label: Snapper
Genre: Progressive rock
Intellect +5, Charisma +2, Resistance -3, Strength -6 |
50 | | High on Fire Art of Self-Defense
Release Date: March 7th
Label: Man's Ruin
Genre: Stoner sludge metal
Chest hair, blistered fingers, sweaty pants, and a dry throat. |
49 | | Don Caballero American Don
Release Date: October 3th
Label: Touch and Go
Genre: Math rock
Had a friend with this haircut. He's still my friend. |
48 | | Snapcase Designs for Automotion
Release Date: January 25th
Label: Victory
Genre: Hardcore
Best snare in the game. |
47 | | Motorpsycho Let Them Eat Cake
Release Date: January 30th
Label: Stickman
Genre: Progressive rock
Sugar overdose or how to sweeten prog while keeping your honor. |
46 | | Napalm Death Enemy of the Music Business
Release Date: September 25th
Label: Spitfire
Genre: Death metal
Shane Embury on the merchandise table. Nobody buys anything cause he scares them all. |
45 | | The 69 Eyes Blessed Be
Release Date: September 20th
Label: Gaga Goddess / Roadrunner
Genre: Gothic metal
All my life wanted to be bitten by a vampire in order to get that sweet, sweet, immortality. It might sting a little though. |
44 | | Bjork Selmasongs
Release Date: September 18th
Label: One Little Indian
Genre: Soundtrack
Imagine Bork would have starred in Nymphomaniac instead. Goddamn, Lars, you heartless madman. |
43 | | OOIOO Gold and Green
Release Date: September 6th
Label: Polystar
Genre: Psychedelic pop rock
From Boredoms to greener pastures. Fearless and tireless Yoshimi. |
42 | | Fates Warning Disconnected
Release Date: July 25th
Label: Massacre
Genre: Progressive metal
The pie chart will take a hit, but I guess it was worthy. |
41 | | Him Razorblade Romance
Release Date: May 15th
Label: RCA
Genre: Gothic rock
Valo was called a "very sexy man" by a seemingly very horny interviewer. He answered he "loved animals". |
40 | | Entombed Uprising
Release Date: March 6th
Label: Music for Nations
Genre: Death'n'roll
Death'n'roll! Death'n'roll! Death'n'roll! Death'n'roll! Death'n'roll! Death'n'roll! Death'n'roll! Death'n'roll! |
39 | | Huelgas Ensemble Dufay: O gemma lux
Release Date: June 13th
Label: Harmona Mundi
Genre: Choral / Neoclassical
Guillaume Du Fay also had to cancel touring in support of Behemoth but at least he's 400 years old and still selling records. |
38 | | Dark Moor The Hall of the Olden Dreams
Release Date: December 1st
Label: Arise
Genre: Power metal
The Spaniards bring the metal and Europe bends the knee. |
37 | | Elliott Smith Figure 8
Release Date: April 18th
Label: Dreamworks
Genre: Singer songwriter
His legacy became the safe bed for many others, but it couldn't save himself. Gone too soon, found too late. |
36 | | The Chasm Procession to the Infraworld
Release Date: April 18th
Label: Sempiternal
Genre: Death metal
Tales from the crypt, told in a dead tongue, only for the wise. |
35 | | earthtone9 Arc'tan'gent
Release Date: September 25th
Label: Copro
Genre: Alt metal
Neckbeards before neckbeards were cool. Wait a second, they never were... |
34 | | Songs: Ohia The Lioness
Release Date: January 17th
Label: Secretly Canadian
Genre: Slowcore
The beauty in the most devastating of sadness, a memory of that abandoned beach resort last winter. |
33 | | Nasum Human 2.0
Release Date: May 23rd
Label: Relapse
Genre: Grind
Nasum cemented their legend when Mieszko Talarczyk punched that tsunami (RIP). |
32 | | Outkast Stankonia
Release Date: October 31st
Label: Laface / Arista
Genre: Hip Hop
Joke after joke, verse after verse, until you ran out of tears. |
31 | | Iron Maiden Brave New World
Release Date: May 29th
Label: EMI
Genre: Heavy metal
The biggest happening in heavy metal history, the return of the king, and I was too busy listening to Tool. |
30 | | Soilwork The Chainheart Machine
Release Date: February 8th
Label: Century Media
Genre: Melodeath
Will they ever clutch to this speed ever again? Probably not. |
29 | | St. Germain Tourist
Release Date: September 12th
Label: Blue Note
Genre: Downtempo / Acid Jazz
Bought this on vinyl for 1 dollar many years ago. Didn't realize it was missing one of the two records until I joined Sputnikmusic.com |
28 | | Shiina Ringo Shouso Strip
Release Date: March 31st
Label: Eastworld
Genre: J-Pop
Hi Johnny! *waves to the screen like a fucking idiot* |
27 | | Steve Von Till As the Crow Flies
Release Date: May 23rd
Label: Neurot
Genre: Singer songwriter
If the wind had a voice of its own, it would be Von Till's. |
26 | | Immolation Close to a World Below
Release Date: November 7th
Label: Metal Blade
Genre: Death metal
Holidays in hell... forever. |
25 | | Hooverphonic The Magnificent Tree
Release Date: September 26th
Label: Columbia
Genre: Trip Hop Pop
Sometimes it's better to lie. Just sometimes. |
24 | | Kila Lemonade And Buns
Release Date: April 4th
Label: Self-released
Genre: Celtic music
Bards from another time, another place. Headlining a castle tour. |
23 | | Guano Apes Don't Give Me Names
Release Date: May 2nd
Label: BMG
Genre: Alt rock
The crowd left after Lords of the Board. I stayed until Sandra had killed all the stage lights. |
22 | | Ulver Perdition City
Release Date: March 26th
Label: Jester
Genre: Dark trip hop
Take me down to perdition city, with its tasty beats and Norwegian kitties. |
21 | | Ruins Pallaschtom
Release Date: August 4th
Label: Magaibutsu
Genre: Avant-garde
Yoshida-san speaks through his drum set, vowels on the snare, consonants on the kick, and somehow it all makes sense. |
20 | | Extol Undeceived
Release Date: January 6th
Label: Endtime / Solid State
Genre: Prog metal
Vanguards of the new millennium, ready to shatter your spine. |
19 | | Isis Celestial
Release Date: July 19th
Label: Escape Artist
Genre: Post metal
There's only one true Isis, and no brainwashed scum will ever change that. |
18 | | Crowbar Equilibrium
Release Date: March 7th
Label: Spitfire
Genre: Sludge
The combined weight of all 4 members, in sonic form. |
17 | | Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
Release Date: October 24th
Label: Warner
Genre: Nu-metal
If only Chester knew how big is the crater he left. |
16 | | Electric Wizard Dopethrone
Release Date: October 9th
Label: Rise Above
Genre: Sludge
That last bong may have been one too much. I feel evil. |
15 | | Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Release Date: October 9th
Label: Constellation
Genre: Post rock
They're still recording this. |
14 | | The Smashing Pumpkins Machina/The Machines of God
Release Date: February 28th
Label: Virgin
Genre: Alt rock
Corgan abuses eyeliner, makes the rest of the band uncomfortable. |
13 | | Cave In Jupiter
Release Date: August 8th
Label: Hydra Head
Genre: Alt post very hardcore
Or Jupiter looks a lot like Massachusetts, or I think we just landed exactly where we took off boys. |
12 | | Enslaved Mardraum - Beyond the Within
Release Date: October 3th
Label: Osmosis / Necropolis
Genre: Black prog viking metal
No AirBnB available in Valhalla. We'll have to sleep on a tree. |
11 | | At the Drive-In Relationship of Command
Release Date: September 12th
Label: Grand Royal
Genre: Alt Rock
I swear to God I was just watching an MC5 vid just a minute ago. |
10 | | Melt-Banana Teeny Shiny
Release Date: December 12th
Label: A.Zap
Genre: Noisecore
A dude in RYM stereotypes himself to death. Melt-Banana gives absolutely zero shits. |
9 | | Bohren und der Club of Gore Sunset Mission
Release Date: April 28th
Label: Wonder
Genre: Jazz
Driving with the dog. I roll a cig, he pulls over, buys me a coffee, and shits on the backseat. The night has just began. |
8 | | Spiritual Beggars Ad Astra
Release Date: July 11th
Label: Music for Nations
Genre: Stoner metal
Ammott screams "fuck death metal!", kicks a chair, and boobs fill the room. |
7 | | Weakling Dead as Dreams
Release Date: Covered by dust
Label: tUMULt
Genre: Black Metal
Never an album title has carried so much weight. |
6 | | PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
Release Date: October 24th
Label: Island
Genre: Singer Songwriter
"Taxi!" "To the closest bar please" |
5 | | Radiohead Kid A
Release Date: October 3rd
Label: Parlophone
Genre: Electronic aaaaarrrrt... pop?
If Thom Yorke can dance, so can you. |
4 | | The Gathering if_then_else
Release Date: July 25th
Label: Century Media
Genre: Chilled art prog rock
An overgrown metalhead somewhere in Scandinavia still jams this while furiously typing how much it sucks. |
3 | | Sunny Day Real Estate The Rising Tide
Release Date: June 20th
Label: Time Bomb
Genre: Slowcore but being good
Every time Enigk goes falsetto, my nipples grow like antennas. |
2 | | Deftones White Pony
Release Date: June 20th
Label: Maverick
Genre: Shoegaze'd nu-metal (let that sink)
Had a friend with the pony tattooed under his arm. He's still my friend. |
1 | | A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms
Release Date: May 23rd
Label: Virgin
Genre: Alt Rock
Maynard wears a wig, writes one of the best albums of his career. Makes you think. |
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