Our favourite albums of 2000 as voted for by email and on the discussion site

above: #1 Delgados, #12 -Bright Eyes, #30 - Broadcast, #45 - Chris Morris (Blue Jam).

  1. The Delgados - The Great Eastern
  2. Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast
  3. Lambchop - Nixon
  4. Godspeed You Black Emperor - Levez Vos Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven
  5. Shellac - 1000 Hurts
  6. Primal Scream - Xtrmntr
  7. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
  8. Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts and Flowers
  9. PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
  10. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Madonna
  11. Elliott Smith - Figure 8
  12. Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors
  13. The Fall - The Unutterable
  14. Smog - Dongs of Sevotion
  15. Yo La Tengo - And then Everything turned itself inside out
  16. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
  17. Radiohead - Kid A
  18. Teenage Fanclub - Howdy
  19. Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
  20. Trembling Blue Stars - Broken By Whispers
  21. Belle and Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like A Peasant
  22. J Mascis and the Fog - More Light
  23. Calexico - The Hot Rail
  24. Hefner - We Love the City
  25. Kingsbury Manx - Kingsbury Manx
  26. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
  27. Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci - The Blue Trees
  28. Peaches - The Teaches of Peaches
  29. Johnny Cash - American III
  30. Broadcast - The Noise Made by People
  31. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
  32. The Go-Betweens - The Friends of Rachel Worth
  33. Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
  34. Clinic - Internal Wrangler
  35. Dido - No Angel
  36. Jeff Buckley - Mystery White Boy
  37. Echoboy - vol 1
  38. Mark Kozelek - Rock n Roll Singer
  39. Do Make Say Think - Goodbye Enemy Airship the Landlord is Dead
  40. Sleater- Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One
  41. Quickspace - Death of Quickspace
  42. David Holmes - Bow Down to the Exit Sign
  43. Shivaree - I Ought to Give You a Shot in the Head for Making Me Live in This Dump
  44. Coldplay - Parachutes
  45. Chris Morris - Blue Jam
  46. The For Carnation - The For Carnation
  47. Urusei Yatsura - Everybody loves….
  48. David Gray - White Ladder
  49. Ween - White Pepper
  50. Webb Brothers - Maroon

I always expected a block vote to be varied, but this is a remarkably diverse selection considering the few votes we had. I haven't heard all of these, my own #1 is only at #15, and there are a few that wouldn't have made my top 50 to say the least! It was quite close at the top, with everyone who wrote in casting a vote for the top three. I was hoping to publish these with a few words in praise of my own favourite (Yo La Tengo) but I, erm, haven't finished writing it yet! Slow thrills indeed. Thanks for your votes, keep your comments coming.