Top 11 Music Albums of 2000
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DriftingOrpheus 
- Chart updated: 10/06/2024 06:15
- (Created: 06/12/2020 14:04).
- Chart size: 11 albums.
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I've never found the old saying "Less is more" to be notably applicable when it came to appreciating music. Often, I've been drawn to a sonic strategy that incorporates a great deal of moving parts, riddled with crushing crescendos and soul-shaking moments of softness. After OK Computer, a sector of Radiohead fans were left a bit perplexed with mouths agape, palms firmly upturned to the sky as they found far "less" with 2000's Kid A. They were wrong.
It's true there are a startling lack of traditional instrumentation here, but the band has never upped the ante like this before or since. While the group had previously made stellar, conscious efforts to avoid being pigeonholed, Kid A marked the planting of a flag which flew colors of musical experimentation and encased Radiohead in the annals of music history as they stared down the barrel of studio pressures for a 'conventional' LP. What the band hand-delivered towards the end of 2000, as the shadow of an unfulfilled Y2K dissipated, was their vision of an approaching apocalypse that would be patient in temperament and self-inflicted.
A dystopian, shivering piece of art, depicting a future that has completely gone metallic, Kid A is the brain's answer to OK Computer's heart. It was here where the marriage of the band and synthesizer incorporation was fused as they devised chemical processes like crazed alchemists in order to weld tracks which could survive both boiling heat and glacial cold. The opening tones of Everything in its Right Place encapsulate a sound which would soon serve as an idiosyncratic anthem as Radiohead firmly shook the hand of the 21st century. The skittering, emergency siren of Idioteque snags a snapshot of a world on the brink of collapse, too preoccupied to sense impending armageddon. Finally, the faux comfort of better times evaporates during the final moments of Motion Picture Soundtrack, ending the album with metaphorical hands full of ash.
Radiohead didn't redefine the rock record with Kid A, for there is no all-encompassing definition. What the band truly managed, was the elusive task of redefining themselves, synchronously altering expectations for their subsequent work and thrusting headlong into an unbroken cycle of phoenix-like reincarnation and reinvention bedizened with staggering success.
"Who's in a bunker? Who's in a bunker? I have seen too much. I haven't seen enough."
- Idioteque
Standout Tracks:
1. Idioteque
2. How to Disappear Completely
3. Everything in its Right Place
102.2 [First added to this chart: 06/12/2020]
It's true there are a startling lack of traditional instrumentation here, but the band has never upped the ante like this before or since. While the group had previously made stellar, conscious efforts to avoid being pigeonholed, Kid A marked the planting of a flag which flew colors of musical experimentation and encased Radiohead in the annals of music history as they stared down the barrel of studio pressures for a 'conventional' LP. What the band hand-delivered towards the end of 2000, as the shadow of an unfulfilled Y2K dissipated, was their vision of an approaching apocalypse that would be patient in temperament and self-inflicted.
A dystopian, shivering piece of art, depicting a future that has completely gone metallic, Kid A is the brain's answer to OK Computer's heart. It was here where the marriage of the band and synthesizer incorporation was fused as they devised chemical processes like crazed alchemists in order to weld tracks which could survive both boiling heat and glacial cold. The opening tones of Everything in its Right Place encapsulate a sound which would soon serve as an idiosyncratic anthem as Radiohead firmly shook the hand of the 21st century. The skittering, emergency siren of Idioteque snags a snapshot of a world on the brink of collapse, too preoccupied to sense impending armageddon. Finally, the faux comfort of better times evaporates during the final moments of Motion Picture Soundtrack, ending the album with metaphorical hands full of ash.
Radiohead didn't redefine the rock record with Kid A, for there is no all-encompassing definition. What the band truly managed, was the elusive task of redefining themselves, synchronously altering expectations for their subsequent work and thrusting headlong into an unbroken cycle of phoenix-like reincarnation and reinvention bedizened with staggering success.
"Who's in a bunker? Who's in a bunker? I have seen too much. I haven't seen enough."
- Idioteque
Standout Tracks:
1. Idioteque
2. How to Disappear Completely
3. Everything in its Right Place
102.2 [First added to this chart: 06/12/2020]
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2000
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Top 11 Music Albums of 2000 composition
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| Modest Mouse | 1 | 9% | |
| Gas | 1 | 9% | |
| Cancerslug | 1 | 9% | |
| Boris | 1 | 9% | |
| Radiohead | 1 | 9% | |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor | 1 | 9% | |
| Ghostface Killah | 1 | 9% | |
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2 | 18% | |
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Top 11 Music Albums of 2000 chart changes
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 1 from 6th to 7th Since I Left You by The Avalanches |
| Down 1 from 7th to 8th The Moon & Antarctica by Modest Mouse |
| Down 1 from 8th to 9th Pop by Gas |
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| Whatever You Love, You Are by Dirty Three |
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