THE TOP 100 SONGS OF 2000 1. I Love The Unknown - CLEM SNIDE Your Favorite Music (Sire) 2. Impossible Love - DANIEL JOHNSTON Rejected Unknown (Which) 3. Ms. Jackson - OUTKAST Stankonia (LaFace/Arista) 4. Going Blind - THE GO BETWEENS The Friends Of Rachel Worth (Jetset) 5. Up With People - LAMBCHOP Nixon (Merge) 6. Photobooth - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE - Forbidden Love E.P. (Barsuk) 7. Pattern Against User - AT THE DRIVE-IN Relationship Of Command (Grand Royal) 8. Distortions - CLINIC Internal Wrangler (Domino import) 9. Say My Name - DESTINY'S CHILD The Writing's On The Wall (Columbia '99) 10. This Is Love - PJ HARVEY Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (Island) 11. Svefn-G-Englar - SIGUR ROS Agaetis Byrjun (Fatcat/Bubblecore) 12. Lioness - SONGS: OHIA The Lioness (Secretly Canadian) 13. Killed By An Angel - SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE The Rising Tide (Time Bomb) 14. Burden - HOME XIV (Arena Rock) 15. Leavin' - SHELBY LYNNE I Am Shelby Lynne (Island) 16. One Armed Scissor - AT THE DRIVE-IN Relationship Of Command (Grand Royal) 17. Destroyer's The Temple - DESTROYER Thief (Catsup Plate) 18. Christian Girls - HEFNER Boxing Hefner (Too Pure/Beggars Banquet) 19. Heart Failed (In The Back Of A Taxi) - SAINT ETIENNE Sound Of Water (Mantra/Beggars Banquet/Sub Pop) 20. Actually It's Darkness - IDLEWILD 100 Broken Windows (Food/Parlophone import) 21. Mass Romantic - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS Mass Romantic (Mint) 22. Junk Bond Trader - ELLIOTT SMITH Figure 8 (Dreamworks) 23. Dress Sexy At My Funeral - SMOG Dongs Of Sevotion (Drag City) 24. Spirit - THE GO BETWEENS The Friends Of Rachel Worth (Jetset) 25. It Wasn't Me - SHAGGY Hotshot (MCA) 26. Your Lies - SHELBY LYNNE I Am Shelby Lynne (Island) 27. Penitentiary Philosophy - ERYKAH BADU Mama's Gun (Motown) 28. Radio Havana - RANCID Rancid (Hellcat/Epitaph) 29. Coldest Day - RICHARD DAVIES Barbarians (Kindercore) 30. Saturday - THE CLIENTELE A Fading Summer EP (Pointy/March) and Suburban Light (Pointy import) 31. Sour Grapes - LEATHERFACE Horsebox (BYO) 32. Car And Driver - THE ROCK-A-TEENS Sweet Bird Of Youth (Merge) 33. Hearts Of Palm - IDAHO Hearts Of Palm (Idaho Music) 34. The Wrong Girl - BELLE & SEBASTIAN Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant (Jeepster/Matador) 35. B.O.B. - OUTKAST Stankonia (LaFace/Arista) 36. Tennessee - ONEIDA Steel Rod EP (Jagjaguwar) 37. Goodbye Earl - DIXIE CHICKS Fly (Monument) 38. New Drink For The Old Drunk - CROOKED FINGERS Crooked Fingers (Warm) 39. Hollow Bones - WU-TANG CLAN The W (Loud/Columbia) 40. Letter From An Occupant - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS Mass Romantic (Mint) 41. Hydra - MOVIETONE The Blossom Filled Streets (Domino/Drag City) 42. More Light - J MASCIS & THE FOG More Light (Artemis/Ultimatum) 43. Razor Love - NEIL YOUNG Silver & Gold (Reprise) 44. The Crystal Lake - GRANDADDY Sophtware Slump (Will/V2) 45. Tina - MEKONS Journey To The End Of The Night (Quarterstick) 46. She Just Couldn't Stay - TREMBLING BLUE STARS Broken By Whispers (Shinkansen/Sub Pop) 47. 146 Degrees - CINERAMA Disco Volante (Manifesto) 48. Being In Love - SONGS: OHIA The Lioness (Secretly Canadian) 49. Kissing Things - THE 6THS (WITH SARAH CRACKNELL) Hyacinths And Thistles (Merge) 50. By Your Side - SADE Lovers Rock (Epic) 51. We Always Knew - THE BLACK HEART PROCESSION Three (Touch And Go) 52. The Stars Are Projectors - MODEST MOUSE The Moon & Antarctica (Epic) 53. The Calendar Hung Itself - BRIGHT EYES Fevers And Mirrors (Saddle Creek) 54. Kick Out The Jams - RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE Renegades (Epic) 55. Standing In For Joe - XTC Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) (TVT) 56. I Do Both Jay + Jane - LA RISSA Ultimate Dance Party 2000 (Aureus '99/Arista) 57. The Light - COMMON Like Water For Chocolate (Madam Xenobia/MCA) 58. The Owl Service - PRAM The Museum Of Imaginary Animals (Domino/Merge) 59. Livin' Was Easy - THE GLANDS The Glands (Capricorn) 60. Let's Save Tony Orlando's House - YO LA TENGO And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (Matador) 61. Don't Be Scared - THE HANDSOME FAMILY In The Air (Carrot Top) 62. Savage - THE CANNANES AND STEWARD Communicating At An Unknown Rate (Yoyo) 63. I'm Lonely (And I Love It) - FUTURE BIBLE HEROES I'm Lonely (And I Love It) EP (Merge) 64. Astronaut - ASS PONYS Some Stupid With A Flare Gun (Checkered Past) 65. American Trilogy - THE DELGADOS The Great Eastern (Chemikal Underground/Mantra/Beggars Banquet) 66. Twist The Knife - NEKO CASE & HER BOYFRIENDS Furnace Room Lullaby (Bloodshot) 67. Untitled (How Does It Feel) - D'ANGELO Voodoo (Cheeba Sound/Virgin) 68. ShrunkenMan - THE THE Naked Self (Nothing/Interscope) 69. Preponderance - VIC CHESNUTT AND MR. AND MRS. KENEIPP Merriment (Backburner) 70. In Love With A View - MOJAVE 3 Excuses For Travellers (4AD) 71. Oh No - MOS DEF & PHAROAHE MONCH FEAT. NATE DOGG Lyricist Lounge Vol. 2 (Rawkus) 72. Bad Dancer - MARTIN PHILLIPPS Sketch Book: Volume One (Flying Nun NZ '99 import) 73. Another Pearl - BADLY DRAWN BOY The Hour Of Bewilderbeast (XL Recordings) 74. In These Shoes? - KIRSTY MACCOLL Tropical Brainstorm (V2 import) 75. Airline To Heaven - BILLY BRAGG & WILCO Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (Elektra) 76. Sea Of Love - CAT POWER The Covers Record (Matador) 77. Strange Eyes - SUNZ OF MAN, 12 O'CLOCK & BLUE RASPBERRY Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai - The Album (Epic/Razor Sharp/Sony Music Soundtrax) 78. The Casualty - CURSIVE Cursive's Domestica (Saddle Creek) 79. The Art Of Driving - BLACK BOX RECORDER The Facts Of Life (Nude import) 80. Sparks Are Gonna Fly - THE CATHERINE WHEEL Wishville (Columbia) 81. You're No Rock n' Roll Fun - SLEATER-KINNEY All Hands On The Bad One (Kill Rock Stars) 82. Service And Repair - CALEXICO Hot Rail (Quarterstick) 83. Odiata Per Le Sue Virtu - BLONDE REDHEAD Melodie Citronique EP (Touch And Go) 84. Fitzroy Strongman - SODASTREAM Looks Like A Russian (Tugboat import) 85. Catch The Sun - DOVES Lost Souls (Heavenly/Astralwerks) 86. What A Shame About Me - STEELY DAN Two Against Nature (Giant) 87. Look Away - THE APPLES IN STEREO The Discovery Of A World Inside The Moone and Look Away + 4 EP (Spinart) 88. Company Calls Epilogue - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE We Have The Facts And We're Voting Yes (Barsuk) 89. Chemical - JOSEPH ARTHUR Come To Where I'm From (RealWorld/Virgin) 90. Closer Than Most - THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH - Painting It Red (Go! Discs/Mercury/Ark 21) 91. There You Go - PINK Can't Take Me Home (LaFace/Arista) 92. Dawc Hi - SUPER FURRY ANIMALS - MWNG (Placid Casual/Flydaddy) 93. The End Of July - SARGE Distant (Parasol) 94. Can't Get Enough Of You - MOOSE High Ball Me (Saltwater '99/Le Grand Magistery) 95. The F-Word - BABYBIRD Bugged (Echo import) 96. Weekends - BLACK EYED PEAS FEATURING ESTHERO Bridging The Gap (will.i.am/Interscope) 97. International - ADVENTURES IN STEREO Monomania (Bobsled) 98. Whisper In Time - BAD RELIGION The New America (Atlantic) 99. Charm Attack - LEONA NAESS Comatised (Outpost/MCA) 100.Spend A Night In The Box - THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT Spend A Night In The Box (Time Bomb)