2000

The Hives – Veni Vidi Vicious (Swedish garage rock)

Green Day – Warning (American pop-punk/alternative rock)

Radiohead – Kid A (British post-rock/electronic music)

Deltron 3030 – Deltron 3030 (Sci-fi dystopian rap opera by American hip-hop trio of Del the Funky Homosapien, Dan The Automator and Kid Koala)

Eels – Daisies Of The Galaxy (American indie rock)

The White Stripes – De Stijl (American garage rock/ blues rock)

Boards Of Canada – In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country (Scottish (not Canadian, confusingly) ambient electronic music)

They Might Be Giants – Working Undercover For The Man (American alternative rock, their second “digital only” release)

A Perfect Circle – Mer De Noms (American alternative metal super-group featuring members of Tool, Queens of the Stone Age and The Vandals)

The Avalanches – Since I Left You (Australian electronic music/ plunderphonics)

Modest Mouse – The Moon and Antarctica (Major label debut by American indie rock band)

Melvins – The Crybaby (collaboration-themed album by American alternative metal/sludge metal group. Guest appearances include Tool, Mike Patton, David Yow, and Hank Williams III)

Paul McCartney – Liverpool Sound Collage (ambient electronic album by British singer/songwriter and former Beatles bassist/vocalist)

Yo La Tengo – And Then Nothing Turned itself Inside Out (American indie rock)

Coldplay – Parachutes (British alternative rock)

U2 – All That You Can’t Leave Behind (Irish rock)

Ween – White Pepper (American alternative rock)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (Canadian post-rock)

Bjork – Selmasongs (soundtrack to the Danish musical drama film Dancer In The Dark, written and performed by the Icelandic singer-songwriter who also starred in the film)

Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory (American rap-metal)

Outkast – Stankonia (American hip-hop)

Electric Wizard – Dopethrone (British stoner metal)

Rancid – Rancid (American punk rock)

Deftones – White Pony (American alternative metal)

Kid Koala – Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (Canadian turntablism/instrumental hip hop)

Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP (American hip-hop)

Sonic Youth – NYC Ghosts and Flowers (American indie rock/noise rock)

Harvey Danger – King James Version (American alternative rock)

Amon Tobin – Supermodified (Brazilian/English electronic music)

Queens Of The Stone Age – Rated R (American alternative metal/stoner rock)

Pantera – Reinventing The Steel (American heavy metal, their final album of new studio material)

Elliott Smith – Figure 8 (American indie folk, his last album released in his lifetime)

PJ Harvey – Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (English alternative rock)

Disturbed – The Sickness (American nu metal)

At The Drive-In – Relationship of Command (American post-hardcore, their final album before splitting up into The Mars Volta and Sparta and eventually reforming again)

Air – The Virgin Suicides (French electronic duo’s score to American drama film)

The Go-Betweens – The Friends of Rachel Worth (partial reunion for Australian indie rock band last active in the eighties; the two main singer/songwriters are joined by both members of drum/organ duo Quasi)

Dio – Magica (Heavy metal concept album, first part of a planned trilogy of albums that was left uncompleted due to Ronnie James Dio’s passing 10 years later)

The Fall – The Unutterable (English post-punk)

Everclear – Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 1: Learning To Smile (American pop/rock, one of two divorce-themed albums the band released in 2000)

Everclear - – Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 2: Good Time For A Bad Attitude (American alternative rock/post-grunge, the other divorce-themed album)

Explosions In The Sky – How Strange, Innocence (American post-rock, originally self-distributed in 2000 but saw wider release later)

The 6ths (American indie pop/ synth pop album of songs written by Stephin Merritt and sung by guest vocalists including Bob Mould, Gary Numan, and Momus)

Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker (American alternative country/folk rock, solo debut)

Nile – Black Seeds Of Vengeance (American technical death metal with lyrics (and some instrumentation) inspired by ancient Egypt)

Grandaddy – The Sophtware Slump (American indie rock)

Ghostface Killah – Supreme Clientele (American hip-hop by Wu-Tang Clan member)

Tony Iommi – Iommi (British heavy metal guitarist best known for Black Sabbath collaborates with various vocalists including Henry Rollins, Ozzy Osbourne and Dave Grohl)

Lou Reed – Ecstasy (Rock album by American former Velvet Underground frontman)

Sleater-Kinney – All Hands On The Bad One (American indie rock)

Shellac – 1000 Hurts (American noise rock band fronted by record producer and former Big Black singer/guitarist Steve Albini)

Belle & Sebastian – Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant (Scottish indie rock)

The New Pornographers – Mass Romantic (Canadian indie rock/power pop)

The Cure – Bloodflowers (British goth rock)

Del The Funky Homosapien – Both Sides Of The Brain (American hip-hop)

Melt-Banana – Teeny Shiny (Japanese noise rock)

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Pay Attention (American third wave ska)

Self – Gizmodgery (American alternative, recorded almost entirely on toy instruments)

The Apples In Stereo – The Discovery Of A World Inside The Moone (American psychedelic pop/rock)

Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun (Icelandic post-rock)

The Dandy Warhols – 13 Tales From Urban Bohemia (American alternative rock)

Super Furry Animals – Mwng (Welsh psychedelic pop-rock, as in both the nationality and the language)

Morbid Angel – Gateway To Annihilation (American death metal)

Clinic – Internal Wrangler (British indie rock/ art punk)

Lard – ‘70’s Rock Must Die (Industrial rock/punk trio consisting of Jello Biafra from the Dead Kennedys and Al Jourgensen and Paul Barker from Ministry)

Wu-Tang Clan – The W (American hip-hop)

In Flames – Clayman (Swedish melodic death metal)

Immortal – Damned In Black (Norwegian black metal)

Crooked Fingers – Crooked Fingers (American indie rock, full length debut for Eric Bachman’s new recording project after the break up of Archers Of Loaf)

Rage Against The Machine – Renegades (Final studio release for American rap-metal band, cover album featuring songs originally performed by Bruce Springsteen, Eric B and Rakim, Devo, and others)

Sparks – Balls (American synth pop)