The Best CDs of the Year 2000

...as voted by Pandomag.com staff and associates:

1 - Radiohead - kid A (Capitol/Parlophone) - 94 points
2 - PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (Island) - 70 points
3 - Doves - Lost Souls (Astralwerks/Heavenly) - 49 points
4 - Yo La Tengo - and then nothing turned itself inside out (matador) - 44 points
5 - Coldplay - Parachutes (Parlophone) - 39 points
6 - Built to Spill - Live (Warner Bros.) - 38 points
7 - Dandy Warhols - 13 Tales of Urban Bohemia (Capitol) - 30 points
8 - Primal Scream - XTRMNTR (Creation/Astralwerks) - 29 points
9 - Neko Case & Her Boyfriends - Furnace Room Lullaby (Bloodshot) - 28 points
10 - Sleater Kinney - All Hands on The Bad One (Kill Rock Stars/Matador Europe) - 26 points
11 - Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica (Epic) - 24 points
12 - Shellac - 1000 Hurts - 23 points
13 - Death Cab For Cutie - We Have The Facts and We're Voting Yes (barsuk) -22 points
14 - Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP - 22 points
15 - Tahiti 80 - Puzzle (minty fresh) - 22 points
16 - Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (Kranky) - 21 points
17 - Bjork - Selmasongs (Elektra) - 19 points
18 - The Cure - Bloodflowers (Elektra) - 19 points
19 - Mark Kozelek - Rock and Roll Singer (Badman) - 19 points
20 - Silkworm - Lifestyle (touch & go) - 19 points
21 - Carissa's Wierd - Ugly But Honest (Brown) - 18 points
22 - The Drop - The New Horror Guidelines (Loveless) - 18 points
23 - At The Drive In - Relationship of Command (Grand Royal) - 17 points
24 - Broadcast - The Noise Made By People - 17 points
25 - Jurassic 5 - Quality Control (Grand Royal) - 17 points
26 - Richard Ashcroft - Alone with Everybody (virgin/hut) - 16 points
27 - Le Tigre - Le Tigre - 16 points
28 - Pearl Jam - Binaural (Epic) - 16 points
29 - Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R (Interscope) - 16 points
30 - Voyager One - From The New Nation of Long Shadows (Loveless) - 16 points
31 - Apples in Stereo - The Discovery of a World Inside of the Moone - 15 points
32 - Grandaddy - the Sophtware Slump (V2/Will) - 15 points
33 - Elliot Smith - Figure 8 (dreamworks) - 14 points
34 - Blonde Redhead - melody of certain damaged lemons - 13 points
35 - Orbiter - Mini LP (Loveless) - 13 points
36 - Supergrass - Supergrass - 13 points
37 - U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind (Interscope) - 13 points
38 - Belle and Sebastian - Fold your Hands Child you Walk Like a Peasant (Matador) - 12 points
39 - Fatboy Slim - Halfway Between The Gutter and the Stars (Skint) - 12 points
40 - Acetylene - Which Way From Up (self) - 11 points
41 - Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker (Bloodshot) - 11 points
42 - Joseph Arthur - Come to Where I'm From (Real World/Virgin) - 11 points
43 - Crooked Fingers - Crooked Fingers - 11 points
44 - Duran Duran - Pop Trash (Hollywood) - 11 points
45 - Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues - 11 points
46 - Elastica - Menace - 11 points
47 - Jets to Brazil - Four Cornered Night (Jade Tree) - 11 points
48 - The Makers - Rock Star God (SubPop) - 11 points
49 - Mojave 3 - Excuses for Travellers (4AD) - 11 points
50 - A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms (Virgin) - 11 points
51 - Phoenix - United (france) - 11 points
52 - The Presidents of the USA - Freaked Out and Small (MusicBlitz) - 11 points
53 - Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun - 11 points
54 - Stereolab "The First of the Microbe Hunters" - 11 points
55 - VAST - Music for People (Elektra) - 11 points
56 - Brian Wilson - Live At The Roxy Theatre (BriMel) - 11 points
57 - Yo La Tengo - Danelectro EP (Matador) - 11 points
58 - Carrie Akre - Home (Good-Ink) - 10 points
59 - Alakline Trio - Maybe I'll Catch Fire - 10 points
60 - Jeff Buckley - Mystery White Boy (Columbia) - 10 points
61 - The Chris and Tad Show - Hand Me That Door - 10 points
62 - Dad's Porno Mag - Dad's Porno Mag (Robison) - 10 points
63 - The Delgados - The Great Eastern - 10 points
64 - The Helio Sequence - Com Plex (Cavity Search) - 10 points
65 - Freedy Johnston - Live At 33 1/3 - 10 points
66 - Mellow - Another Mellow Winter - 10 points
67 - Nada Surf - The Proximity Effect - 10 points
68 - Grant-Lee Phillips - Ladies' Love Oracle - 10 points
69 - Six By Seven - The Closer You Get - 10 points
70 - Slobberbone - Everything That Went Wrong Today... - 10 points
71 - John Wesley Harding - The Confessions of St. Ace - 10 points
72 - Alien Crime Syndicate - Dust To Dirt (Will) - 9 points
73 - Fiona Appple - When the Pawn... (Epic) - 9 points
74 - The Giraffes - The Days are Filled With Years - 9 points
75 - Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows (Capitol) - 9 points
76 - Danny O'Keefe - Runnin’ From The Devil (Miramar) - 9 points
77 - ON - Shifting Skin (Epic) - 9 points
78 - Rockfords - Rockfords (Epic) - 9 points
79 - Travis - The Man Who - 9 points
80 - Unifed Theory - Unified Theory - 9 points
81 - Dave Alvin - Public Domain (HiTone) - 8 points
82 - Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Ave. Vol. 2 (Elektra) - 8 points
83 - The Gits - Seafish Louisville - 8 points
84 - Melvins - The Crybaby - 8 points
85 - Jamie Myerson - Sky City - 8 points
86 - Sinead O' Connor - Faith and Courage (Island) - 8 points
87 - Palace of Orange - Prepare to Greet a Guest - 8 points
88 - Sixteen Deluxe - Union Take Me, Make Me, Never Forsake Me - 8 points
89 - Sunny Day Real Estate - The Rising Tide - 8 points
90 - Leonardo's Bride - Open Sesame (Mushroom) - 7 points
91 - Lesliwood - Ms. Led - 7 points
92 - Paul McCartney/Super Furry Animals - Liverpool Sound Collage - 7 points
93 - Offspring - Conspiracy of One - 7 points
94 - Scritti Politti - Anhomie & Bonhomie (Virgin) - 7 points
95 - Smog - Dongs of Sevotion - 7 points
96 - Starlight Mints - The Dream That Stuff Was Made Of - 7 points
97 - Thievery Corporation - The Mirror Conspiracy - 7 points
98 - Robbie Williams - Sing When You're Winning (Capitol) - 7 points
99 - Beachwood Sparks - Beachwood Sparks - 6 points
100 - Enuff Znuff - 10 (Spitfire) - 6 points
101 - Marianne Faithfull - Vagabond Ways (Instinct) - 6 points
102 - Joy Electric - Unelectric - 6 points
103 - Nash Kato - Debutante (Loosegroove) - 6 points
104 - Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavored Water - 6 points
105 - Man of The Year - The Future is Not Now (Loveless) - 6 points
106 - Matchless - You Shaped Curve - 6 points
107 - Lolita Storm - Girls Fucking Shit Up - 6 points
108 - Tristeza - dream signals in full circles (tigerstyle) - 6 points
109 - Neil Young - Silver & Gold (Reprise) - 6 points
110 - Black Box Recorder - England Made Me - 5 points
111 - Kent - Hagnesta Hill - 5 points
112 - Mansun - Little Kix - 5 points
113 - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Pay Attention - 5 points
114 - XTC - Apple Venus Vol. 2 (Idea) - 5 points
115 - Dweezil Zappa - Automatic (Favored Nations) - 5 points
116 - Animalhouse - Ready To Receive - 4 points
117 - Brian Setzer Orchestra - Vavoom! - 4 points
118 - Caviar - Caviar - 4 points
119 - De La Soul - Art Official Intelligence Mosaic Thump - 4 points
120 - Harvey Danger - King James Version (London/Sire) - 4 points
121 - High Fidelity - Soundtrack - 4 points
122 - International Noise Conspiracy - Survival Sickness - 4 points
123 - Lois Maffeo and Brendan Canty - The Union Themes - 4 points
124 - Aimee Mann - Bachelor no.1 - 4 points
125 - Poe - Haunted - 4 points
126 - Tsar - Tsar - 4 points
127 - Underworld - Live: Everything, Everything (JBO) - 4 points
128 - Deftones - White Pony (Maverick) - 4 points
129 - Cat Power - The Covers Record (Matador) - 3 points
130 - The Get-Go - Action is Plus - 3 points
131 - The Go-Betweens - The Friends of Rachel Worth (Jet Set) - 3 points
132 - Gus Gus - Vs. T-World - 3 points
133 - Ladytron - Commodore Rock EP - 3 points
134 - Moby - Play (V2) - 3 points
135 - Saint Etienne - Sound of Water (subpop) - 3 points
136 - Superdrag "In the Valley of Dying Stars" - 3 points
137 - Voodoo Glow Skulls - Symbolic - 3 points
138 - Wheatus - Wheatus - 3 points
139 - Beck - Midnight Vultures (Dreamworks) - 2 points
140 - Bluebird - The Two - 2 points
141 - The Crocketts - Great Brain Robbery - 2 points
142 - Lovelight Shine - Lovelight Shine Makes Out - 2 points
143 - Marilyn Manson - HolyWood (Interscope/Nothing) - 2 points
144 - National Skyline - Self Titled (a hidden agenda) - 2 points
145 - Nevada Bachelors - Hello Jupiter! - 2 points
146 - NSYNC - No Strings Attached (I'm not going to lie!) - 2 points
147 - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Anthology Through the Years - 2 points
148 - Princess - Princess - 2 points
149 - Snakepit - Ain't Life Grand (Koch) - 2 points
150 - John Vanderslice - mass suicide occult figurines - 2 points
151 - (Various) - Ambient Systems: Limited Edition, Interior Horizons (Instinct) - 1 point
152 - Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast - 1 point
153 - Bevis Frond - Valedictory Songs (Rubric Records) - 1 point
154 - Bright Eyes - every day and every night - 1 point
155 - chappaquiddick skyline - self-titled (SubPop) - 1 point
156 - Sarah Dougher - The Walls Ablaze - 1 point
157 - the for carnation - standard LP - 1 point
158 - David Grubbs - The Spectrum Between - 1 point
159 - Man or Astro-Man? - A Spectrum of Infinite... - 1 point
160 - Mates of State - My Solo Project - 1 point
161 - The Mooney Suzuki - People Get Ready - 1 point
162 - Tara Jane O'Neil - Peregrine - 1 point
163 - Palo Alto - Palo Alto - 1 point
164 - Joel R.L. Phelps & the Downer Trio - Inland Empires (Moneyshot) - 1 point
165 - Placebo - Black Market Music - 1 point
166 - The Sea and Cake - Oui - 1 point
167 - Teenage Fanclub -- Howdy! - 1 point
168 - The Unband - Retarder (TVT) - 1 point
169 - The Vogue - The Vogue - 1 point

The Best Northwest CDs of the Year 2000