Albums I'm Thinking About Getting from the Year 2000 (part 1 of a proposed 10-part series)

Because I'm slow, impoverished, obsessed with the '70s, and my access to the Internet is somewhat erratic, I missed a lot of music from this decade. Some of this was intentional avoidance; a lot of it wasn't. I started roaming on rym and making album wishlists for every year of this past decade, and I thought maybe I would post them on here, and all of you can tell me which ones are the best, keep me from buying any duds, or point out any glaring omissions (and there will prolley be a lot of them)...

Here's the list I had compiled for Y2K:

Quasimoto - The Unseen
Acid Mothers Temple - La Novia
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists...
Queens of the Stone Age - R
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
High on Fire - The Art of Self Defense
Shellac - 1000 Hurts
Melt-Banana - Teeny Shiny
Avey Tare & Panda Bear - Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers
Boris - Flood
Joan of Arc - The Gap
OOIOO - Gold & Green
Capleton - More Fire
Orange Goblin - The Big Black
Spiritual Beggars - Ad Astra
Acid Mothers Temple - Troubadours from Another Heavenly World
Isobella - Akasha
Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone...
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
d'Angelo - Voodoo
Yo La Tengo - and Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
The Go-Betweens - The Friends of Rachel Worth
Doves - Lost Souls
Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
Morphine - The Night
Jackie-O Motherfucker - Magick Fire Music
The Dirty Three - Whatever You Love, You Are
Spring Heel Jack - Disappeared
Roy Montgomery - The Allegory of Hearing
The Volebeats - Mosquito Spiral

(NOTE: I doubt all the lists will be this long; I got a little carried away at first...)

oh yeah...I totally want Dopethrone by Electric Wizard too...

LOVE:

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (tho Come My Fantatics is better)
Quasimoto - The Unseen
High on Fire - The Art of Self Defense
Boris - Flood
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele

LIKE:

Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists...
Queens of the Stone Age - R
Shellac - 1000 Hurts
Avey Tare & Panda Bear - Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
Orange Goblin - The Big Black
Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone...
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Yo La Tengo - and Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
Jackie-O Motherfucker - Magick Fire Music

DON'T CARE FOR:

At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Melt-Banana - Teeny Shiny
Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
Morphine - The Night

NOT "HATE" BUT:

Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers

anything else you suggest should go on there?

Morphine - The Night

I would only get this if you already like Morphine's 90s stuff like Yes or Cure for Pain.

dont bother:

At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists...

worth hearing:

The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
Yo La Tengo - and Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
Primal Scream - XTRMNTR

The Avalanches - Since I Left You

This album fucking sucks and is a colossal waste of time, despite what everyone else says.

cosign on Quasimoto - The Unseen, that's an awesomely bizarre album, possible Madlib's finest moment (i'm sure there are dissenters on that).

my favorite madlib, too

I like Cure for Pain a LOT actually...

surfing through the SPIN archives on Google books, here's a few more:

Pearl Jam - Binaural
Broadcast - The Noise Made by People
Blonde Redhead - Melody for Certain Damaged Lemons
...and You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Madonna
Royal Trux - Pound for Pound

(was Operation: Doomsday released in '00? I used to have that one but I never actually listened to it all the way through; the temptation was too great to skip to "Dead Bent" which is easily one of my favorite songs of all time...)

Ghosts & Flowers is a great SY record, but it's not exactly typical of them - i like to think of it as their poetry album.
and Friends of Rachel Worth is top shelf Go-Betweens, IMO, if'n you go for their stuff at all

I like Cure for Pain a LOT actually...

Oh, you should probably dig The Night then too, I think--it's been a long while since I heard it. I would say Yes is still more important, but maybe you've already got that.

I <3 Broadcast immensely. If you like this, then get it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-0rFPsfQw4&feature=related

Blonde Redhead - Melody for Certain Damaged Lemons
Shellac - 1000 Hurts
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

get these

two more:

Couch - Fantasy
Kelis - Kaleidoscope

No list of albums from 2000 is complete without the self-titled album by The Glands. This is my favorite indie rock record of the entire decade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTWBIdIRffE&feature=related

I used to read SPIN a lot in '99/'00/'01, and I was searching through the archives for two album reviews that I remember from around that time...one of them was the Couch album, which supposedly re-constitutes surf music using Neu! 2 (a great album) and Daydream Nation (a v. good album) as reference points...

the other one I could not find. It said something about replacing the notion of the guitar hero with the guitar victim, along the lines of Loveless and Tom Verlaine's Dreamtime. (!)

Top 3 things here:

Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists...
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica

Don't bother with the Sonic Youth one unless you're a completist - it's easily their weakest (proper) album.

so nobody likes At the Drive In, huh? iirc that One Armed Scissor was decently cool, at the time at least...

IF YOU DONT ALREADY OWN SUPREME CLIENTELE THEN YOUR LIFE IS NOT COMPLETE AND YOU NEED THIS MORE THAN YOU NEED YOUR NEXT BREATH BUDDY

some of the others are also enjoyable.

VOODOO ALSO ABSOLUTELY FUCKING ESSENTIAL

you like Mama's Gun, a hoy hoy?

Yes, yes I do. :)

this here is my jam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ROOfKwm0o8

It's maybe the least-best Erykah album but that's like saying its the least shiny pile of gold.

that OOIOO album is a keeper. Kaleidoscope is also a favorite.

also
Amon Tobin - Supermodified
Luomo - Vocalcity

Okay, here's the ones I would absolutely, 100% recommend:

Quasimoto - The Unseen
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists...
Queens of the Stone Age - R
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
High on Fire - The Art of Self Defense
Shellac - 1000 Hurts
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
Boris - Flood
Joan of Arc - The Gap
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
Yo La Tengo - and Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
Doves - Lost Souls
Roy Montgomery - The Allegory of Hearing
The Volebeats - Mosquito Spiral

Um, except the two below Doves. No opinion on those, never heard them.

DON'T CARE FOR:

At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Melt-Banana - Teeny Shiny
Primal Scream - XTRMNTR

ahahahahaha you just alienated DrownedInSound's entire posting commonweal

Melt-Banana are so much better live tbf

melt banana are fantastic live, seen them a bunch of times. but i do not enjoy their records.

^^^^pretty much this, although cell-scape has its moments

one of the best live bands I've seen...watching the magic unfold IRL is transformative

suspect that the same is/was true of ATDI. heard stories at the time, but never saw them.

The High on Fire, Orange Goblin, and Electric Wizard LPs are their respective bests IMO.

Whoa, yeah, did not see that Electric Wizard addendum. Would totally recommend that one with no hesitation.

Oh yeah Luomo is another great one. ATD-I were great at the time and yep, amazing live but I wouldn't really put the album on these days.

La Novia may be the best AMT album, but I don't pull it out regularly.
I mean, it's just one epic jam iirc. But as far as that thing goes, it's pretty incredible. Great live version on "Live in Japan."
I remember liking Troubadours, I had it on a cdr. I think it's an all synth chill-out record.
I don't think I have that cdr anymore.

if you've made it 10 years w/out at the drive-in you're probably good for the duration tbh

La Novia is unavailable from Amazon :(

if I found $100 on the sidewalk right now, I would prolley go fix my car...

but I might be tempted instead to buy these albums:

Quasimoto
Ghostface
OOIOO
Boris ($25 though! For a used copy!)
Shellac
High on Fire
Electric Wizard
Isobella
AMT - Troubadours
Joan of Arc
...maybe Sonic Youth

that Luomo sounds pretty cool too though...Couch also...

(though I guess Couch is 1999...stupid SPIN)

XTRMNTR is one of my absolute favorite albums; it's beyond brilliant. So is Since I Left You

don't spend money on ghosts and flowers. i mean listen to it first, at least. if you don't like it you will never put it on again and it will have been money wasted. i rate the fuck outta relationship of command though, huge record for me

These are all classics.

The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
d'Angelo - Voodoo
The Go-Betweens - The Friends of Rachel Worth

...maybe Sonic Youth

seriously it is not worth it considering d fucking angelo is on the list and made the best soul record of about 20 years (between new amerykah pt 1 and what ever prince album was 20 years before that).

LOL I thought Luomo was Von LMO!

d'angelo is that good?

May possibly merit consideration:

Black Box Recorder - The Facts of Life
Barbara Morgenstern - Fjorden

d'angelo is that good?

^^^ this

I mean, I've read ilxors I like and trust fawning over this, but I've always resisted for some reason. Do I need to immediately remedy this situation? y/n

Unlike other folks here, I still fuck w/ ATDI from time to time. At the time I was a corny indie/emo fuxxor and I liked their earlier stuff more, but now I think their 2000 album holds up the best. Really energetic, somewhat slickly produced badass hard rock!

The Moon and Antarctica is still great too.

But yeah, Supreme Clientele is the one you NEED to get.

oh man ilm made me buy that avalanches record. very funny, guys! like having someone put a kick me sign on your back.

yes i do like AMT, but you should be choosy on what you buy. You dont need everything they put out.

la novia is one of their strongest records. vinyl version is different than the cd version, right? i seem to remember that. i had both at one point. now i own neither after my great amt purge.

I think i have the cd version, it rules.

I still listen to often:

Queens of the Stone Age - R [Interested in the dbl reissue coming soon]
OOIOO - Gold & Green
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists...
High on Fire - The Art of Self Defense
Boris - Flood
d'Angelo - Voodoo

I like these but rarely listen anymore:

Quasimoto - The Unseen
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Shellac - 1000 Hurts
Avey Tare & Panda Bear - Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
Yo La Tengo - and Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
The Go-Betweens - The Friends of Rachel Worth
Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
The Dirty Three - Whatever You Love, You Are

Scott mentioned Oui. I'll stan for most of The Sea and Cake albums and Archer Prewitt solo stuff if not for assorted tracks

Also I think this is from 2000:
Thingy - 'To the Innocent'
I'll stan for the other Thingy stuff as well

Good list, but gotta recommend these too:

PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
Sussan Deyhim - Madman Of God: Divine Love Songs of the Persian Sufi Masters
Hawksley Workman - For Him And The Girls [First and best album]

Plenty of others not yet mentioned, like Sigur Ros, 16 Horsepower, Delgados, Nação Zumbi, Entombed, Lord Weird Slough Feg, Iron Maiden, Blackalicious, Clientele. But the first three are biggies for me.

Still own Electric Wizard (on CD shelf); might still own the Modest Mouse and/or
Primal Scream (in storage, maybe, though more likely I got rid of them both.) Used to own others. Don't miss them.

I strongly second "The W," Reflection Eternal and Deltron 3030 recommendations. Here's what I wrote about the W a few months ago:

I've been listening to this and seriously considering it for my best of the decade. The production is just ridiculous, almost every song changes beats multiple times and there's just so many weird tricks - different drum patterns thrown in for a couple seconds, etc. It's really avant-garde but within the framework of a pretty accessible rap album, and I agree that all the guest spots fit perfectly and don't take away from the Wu feel.

Best example imo and maybe one of the best rap singles of the decade is "Protect ya neck (the jump off)" All 9 mcs -Cappa filling in for ODB- kill it in different ways. RZA's call and response: Bobby! Then Ghost comes in and gives the song a new swing with his singsongy flow. U-God comes in and the beat drops out, replaced with a new funky martial drum pattern and gothy synths, and GZA goes last with an extended track-and-field metaphor as the main sample comes back in then it ends on some funky guitar stabs, all over a danceable but not too shiny beat.

still good: Clinic- Internal Wrangler

I'll second the Black box Recorder, Grandaddy and Broadcast suggestions.

I'd adds these to the list too.

Goldfrapp-Felt Mountain
Ute Lemper-Punishing Kiss
Eels-Daisies of the Galaxy
Elastica-The Menace
Super Furry Animals-Mwng
Common-Like Water for Chocolate
Gorkys Zygotic Mynci-The Blue Trees

One more important addition:
John Shough - 'Ultra Vega'

For a year generally considered as a lull between trends (aside from teen-pop and R&B), 2000 was classic for albums. Love all of these:

Outkast – Stankonia
Primal Scream – XTRMNTR
Grandaddy – The Sophtware Slump
Kelis – Kaleidoscope
Lemon Jelly – Lemon Jelly.KY
Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun
Doves – Lost Souls
Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
Ghostface Killah – Supreme Clientele
Radiohead – Kid A
Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP
Johnny Cash – American Recordings III
Lambchop – Nixon
Brothers In Sound – Family Is For Sharing
Goldfrapp – Felt Mountain
Saint Etienne – Sound Of Water
Queens Of The Stone Age – Rated R
Godspeed You Black Emperor! – Levez Vos Skinny Fists
Deltron 3030 – Deltron 3030
PJ Harvey – Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
Black Box Recorder – The Facts Of Life
Belle & Sebastian – Fold Your Hands Child…
Dandy Warhols – Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
Blackalicious – NIA
David Holmes – Bow Down To The Exit Sign

good things not yet mentioned by name:

circle - prospekt
entombed - uprising
hot snakes - automatic midnight
isis - celestial
kmd - bl_ck b_st_rds
lord weird slough feg - down among the deadmen
mountain goats - the coroner's gambit
nile - black seeds of vengeance
quintron - unmasked organ light year of infinity man
rachid taha - made in medina
six organs of admittance - dust & chimes
tragedy - tragedy
ufomammut - godlike snake (have talked this down, but was rong)

plus many of those mentioned above

CD that defined 2000 for me

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-759091-1155908663.jpeg

get Boris

circle - prospekt
six organs of admittance - dust & chimes

These are both 100% Grade A choices for psych stuff imo, and both pretty much my favourites from either act.

i've also heard stankonia but i couldn't get into it very much...i guess i was expecting a little bit more mellow vibe a la aquemini.

i had this problem for a long time and could never truly love stankonia until i got over this expectation. u gotta take it for the teched-up extravaganza it is

i feel you rev...i owned stankonia and had the aforementioned problems with as discussed, and then a friend of mine borrowed and broke the CD in half on accident, so I never got a chance to accept it as it is, so to say...

what is this?

but really, u only need 5 albums from this year mama's gun+voodoo+stankonia+supreme clientele+warriorz = u r set

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MUGAxpI0Bc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LrHfxW4XOg

The album that defined 2000 for me =

V/A:Shanks & Bigfoot - Ayia Napa 2000

must buys:
d'Angelo - Voodoo
- must buy

The Avalanches - Since I Left You
- great album. people who hate this album feel the same way i do about girl talk i guess?

Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
- a rollicking good time. buy it.

Capleton - More Fire
"stand tall" and "jah jah city" are soooo GREAT i say go for it.

Avey Tare & Panda Bear - Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
this is by far the best animal collective lp. should've put this out and quit, imo.

Jackie-O Motherfucker - Magick Fire Music
don't know this album, but these guys tear the roof off. go for it.

and yeah, buy dopethrone.

ignore that "must buys:" at the top there; the only must buy is Voodoo

Oh what the heck, here are some good ones I'm pretty sure nobody has mentioned yet:

I-F – Mixed Up In The Hague Vol. 1 (Panamamix)
(Various) – Bring It On (Playtone/Epic/Sony Music Soundtrax)
Kandi – Hey Kandi… (Columbia)
DJ P and Z-Trip - Uneasy Listening Against The Grain Vol. 1 (ZTrip)
D.A.D. – Everything Glows (EMI)
Lifter Puller – Fiestas + Fiascos (The Self-Starter Foundation)
Mammoth Volume – Noara Dance (The Music Cartel)
(Various) – Brassic Beats (Skint)
(Various) – Bhangra Beatz (Naxos World)
M2M – Shades Of Purple (Atlantic)
Everclear – Songs From An American Movie: Vol One: Learning How To Smile (Capitol)
Dropkick Murphys – Sing Loud Sing Proud! (Hellcat)
Chicks On Speed – Will Save Us All! (Chicks On Speed)
Nelly – Country Grammar (Universal)
Bleed – Motor Psycho (Musick)
Atmosphere – Lucy Ford (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
Ashes To Ashes – Big Moving Parts (Ata Boy!)
Joe Dee Messina – Burn (Curb)
Fermin Muguruza – FM 99.00 Dub Manifest (Piranha)
Sandy Knox – Pushin’ 40, Never Married, No Kids (American Originals)
The Almighty – The Almighty (Sanctuary)
Field Mob – 613: Ashy To Classy (MCA)
James Carter - Layin’ In The Cut (Atlantic)
Leatherface – Horsebox (BYO)
Hoku – Hoku (Geffen)
Ludacris – Back For The First Time (Def Jam South)
Ghoultown – Tales From The Dead West (Angry Planet)
FSK – International (Catamount)
Gilberto Gil & Milton Nascimento – Gil & Milton (Atlantic)
Rebecca Lynn Howard – Rebecca Lynn Howard (MCA Nashville)
Evolotto – 1776 (Sin Klub)
The Modernist – Explosion (Matador)
Bosco Fr – Paramour (Dmaft)
Sara Evans – Born To Fly (RCA)
Earthlings? – Earthlings? (Man’s Ruin)
Boulder – Ravage And Savage (Tee Pee)
Earthlings? – Human Beans (Man’s Ruin)

have heard basically none of that, but

Nelly – Country Grammar (Universal)
Leatherface – Horsebox (BYO)
Ludacris – Back For The First Time (Def Jam South)

= things i like, thou back for the 1st ain't no word of mouf

k if we're gonna just start listing shit from 2000 what's the point? mixed in the hague is fine enough, but way overrated.

that modernist album is boring

just buy the stax singles box set or whatever and then decide if you're ready to get thrown down by the music of the year 2000

here's 4 more 2000 albums i really like a lot

biosphere - cirque
curd duca - elevator 3
stereolab - cobra and phases play voltage in the milky night
stereolab - first of the microbe hunters

Cobra and Phases... is a masterpiece but it's 1999

Just stumbled on this on my iPod, still sounds alright:

Bowery Electric - Lushlife

christ a lot of the albums on the first list really remind me of leaving home and having my mind blown on a daily basis.

Id second 'spirit they;ve gone..' as the best AC album though id pick up the double pack reissue of that and danse manatee fatcat put out as thats another ace album though much noisier and improv sounding

EXCELLENT:

Queens of the Stone Age - R
Boris - Flood
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
d'Angelo - Voodoo
Primal Scream - XTRMNTR

DECENT to GREAT:

Quasimoto - The Unseen
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists...
Shellac - 1000 Hurts
Avey Tare & Panda Bear - Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
OOIOO - Gold & Green
Yo La Tengo - and Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
Jackie-O Motherfucker - Magick Fire Music
The Dirty Three - Whatever You Love, You Are
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

WTF AWARD:

Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers

HAVEN'T HEARD (but enjoy other stuff by these folks):

Acid Mothers Temple - La Novia
High on Fire - The Art of Self Defense
Acid Mothers Temple - Troubadours from Another Heavenly World
The Go-Betweens - The Friends of Rachel Worth
Roy Montgomery - The Allegory of Hearing

OVERRATED (plz to avoid, k thx):

At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone...
Doves - Lost Souls

Phish - Farmhouse

Drugs A. Money, be sure to report back with what you end up getting.

so I d/l'd the Boris, AMT, High on Fire, and Shellac...will go listen to them and report back.

also have Supreme Clientele queued on Amazon.com

(sorry I'm a dl-ing asshole...La Novia is not available at Amazon, and Boris & High on Fire are a little more than I can afford at the moment...if I like the Shellac I prolley will buy it.)

ghostface and the yout

plus: d'angelo, badu, outkast, pj harvey

As is typically his gift, xhuxk is the only person who can combine a smattering of albums I can't stand (Everclear, Dropkick Murphys, Nelly, Atmosphere), a few *shrug* choices (Z-Trip, Lifter Puller, Ludacris), a couple albums that my little sister liked when she was 12 (Kandi, Hoku), a sprinkling of modern "country" (Joe Dee Messina, Sara Evans), and a bunch of shit I've never heard of... and turn out a really, really interesting list somehow.

don't get ppl being super-jazzed for 2000, it's a weird transitional year to me. d 'n' b and queercore were dropping off, all the stuff I was really digging at the time was released before or after 2000. some kinda lull happening in providence. I'm struggling to even come up with a top 10 tho I'm sure there's some stuff I'm missing.

cat power - covers record
arab on radar - soak the saddle
the fall - the unutterable
ghostface - supreme clientele
wu-tang - the w
electric wizard - dopethrone
the need - the need is dead

Must-have for me from the original list:

Acid Mothers Temple - La Novia
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists...
Shellac - 1000 Hurts
Boris - Flood
OOIOO - Gold & Green
Acid Mothers Temple - Troubadours from Another Heavenly World
Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone...
Yo La Tengo - and Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
The Dirty Three - Whatever You Love, You Are

I'd maybe add
The Cure - Bloodflowers (mostly because it was better than I expected it to be)
Arab Strap - Elephant Shoe
16 Horsepower - Secret South

also Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man

So far:

really really really love Flood, La Novia, & The Art of Self Defense a LOT!!!!

1000 Hurts, less so, though it has a couple of decent songs.

Haven't finished The Unseen yet.

More details in a bit.

More updates:

The Unseen is grate!!!

R is okay, but not as good as the first QOTSA album.

Relationship of Command is also okay; good emo, but don't plan on doing any heavy-duty listening to it.

next is Ghostfasce, I swear!

Supreme Clientele is pretty damn great also: favourite track is Buck 50.

list of must haves from this year that I've heard since I've posted this thread:

The Art of Self-Defense
La Novia
Flood
The Unseen
Supreme Clientele
Fantasy (by German post-rock band Couch)

haha drugs a money with respect to a thread you created and clearly get mileage & enjoyment out of, i remember seeing this thread title for the first time back in july and just thinking "...................really?"

― Ned Rag & the Evil Olive Gardens

saw this & did a double take: "Ned Raggett likes the Clientele???"

yeah hoos I kind of thought another 00s poll was just over the horizon when I made these and wz trying to generate conversation in that vein but I also really just wanted to expand my musical tastes (though the whole cut-n-dried year-by-year angle may not have been the best way to do that)...

it's been slow going, partly bcz I've moved on to other projects, but I figured since I already wasted everyone's time at the outset with this, I might as well keep it going for the time being...

feel free to c&p any whiney snitfits about the autechre polls into here...