What should I listen to from: 2000?

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Sean’s idea/threat of some retrospective activities from the last quarter century sent me spinning back to 2k, for me a big year as I entered college and exploded my musical horizons with DSL and napster for the first time. It’s an era I haven’t gone back to much in the years since so now’s the time, before 2025 starts taking up my ears.

I started this morning with Gas - Pop, which sounds tepid to me through today’s lens. Didn’t feel worth finishing.

Jackie O Motherfucker - Fig. 5 is on now, and holds up better. It’s messy and twangy and human, but the palette is varied and interesting and isn’t locked to any particular era. The drummer seems to have complemented their kit with finds from the local junk shop and the whole thing feels like it was recorded barefoot on a scratchy wool rug.

What should be next in the queue?

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Spineshank - The Height of Callousness

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Broadcast’s 2000 album, The Noise Made By People, is always worth a spin.

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Arovane - Tides

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Jj72 self titled and the sophtware slump by grandaddy

And linkin park hahaha

Deltron 3030

(Off top of my head)

Edit: moon and antarctica by modest mouse <3

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Loading these up, just two tracks left on my Jackie O but this one’s 24 minutes cause why waste space on a CD when you could fill it with hypnotic jams instead?

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This was one of my favorites of the era, I’m a little worried it will feel rote instead of beautiful, going back to it.

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Oh god do I have to?

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Only if you want that authentic turn of the millennium teen/pre-teen rock awakening

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One of my favorite albums of 2000 that I never hear referenced - absolute banger…

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Frankie Sparo - My Red Scare

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supreme clientele

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I found a list I made 15 years ago and Dongs was second on it after Voodoo:

Arovane - Tides
Broadcast - The Noise Made By People
D’Angelo - Voodoo
Gas - Pop
Jackie O Motherfucker - Fig. 5
Matmos - The West
Outkast - Stankonia
Smog - Dongs Of Sevotion
The Infesticons - Gun Hill Road
Weakling - Dead As Dreams

Gas has already eliminated itself this go round. JOM can stay for now.

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Songs Ohia - The Lioness

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Mirah - You Think It’s Like This But Really It’s Like This

The Fire Show - s/t

Bablicon - The Orange Tapered Moon

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Trying not to include anything hugely obvious (“there’s this band from the Tex-Mex border, right, and they appeared on Jools once…”)

Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
The Delgados - The Great Eastern
Clinic - Internal Wrangler
Six By Seven - The Closer You Get

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A whole bunch - probably the best year for music ever - but I’d start with Machina and Machina 2 by the Pumpkins.

Machina if you want the polished masterpiece, Machina II if you want the more lo-fi, sprawling masterpiece.

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btw… tepid?

(the first couple of tracks have more… subtle charms, I reckon, but that album gets more intense as it goes on)

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