Kid A
2000
Singer Thom Yorke pulled the lyrics out of a hat because he could not write, and the band released it with no singles and no interviews.
★ 8.8
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Showing 11 albums from 2000
Stankonia
2000
B.O.B. runs at a hundred and fifty-five beats a minute, which is drum and bass speed, with a gospel choir on top.
★ 8.5
The Marshall Mathers LP
2000
It sold nearly two million copies in a week. Elton John agreed to perform with him at the Grammys while the protests were loudest.
★ 8.4
All That You Can't Leave Behind
2000
U2 dropped the irony and went back to anthems. A year later, after September 11th, the songs sounded like they had been written for it.
★ 5.8
O Brother Where Art Thou Soundtrack
Various artists
2000
T Bone Burnett recorded most of it before the film was shot, so the Coens built scenes around the music. It sold eight million.
★ 5.7
American III: Solitary Man
2000
Cash was too ill to work in a studio for long, so Rubin recorded him mostly at home, singing other people's songs.
★ 5.1
Figure 8
2000
Smith recorded much of it at Abbey Road with full arrangements, and titled it after the ice-skating figure, a loop that goes nowhere.
★ 5.1
Heartbreaker
2000
It opens with Adams and a friend arguing about which Morrissey record a song is on. The whole thing was recorded in fourteen days.
★ 5.0
Parachutes
2000
It cost a few thousand pounds to make. Chris Martin has said Yellow came from looking up at the stars outside a Welsh studio.
★ 5.0
Deltron 3030
2000
Del plays a mech soldier in the year 3030 fighting a corporate empire with rap battles, and somehow it works.
★ 4.4