#185 The Top 16 Albums of 2000: A Parade
Hey folks,
Normally, after Round 3, I present the remaining 32 albums in what I call a parade. Back on Twitter, this would be a thread. Since moving to this newsletter + Bluesky format, old traditions have been shaken up and sometimes forgotten. I neglected to do a parade of the Top 32 for this tournament, but luckily I remembered to do one for the Top 16.
Here are the Top 16 albums of 2000 as chosen by you, the voters. If anyone asks you what the top 16 albums of 2000 were, you direct them to this official and binding list. The albums are listed by seed, from the ones most likely to be on this list to those least likely. Any album with a seed lower than #16 was not expected to be here (having had to defeat a higher-seeded album) so kudos those albums.
THE TOP 16 ALBUMS OF 2000
Seed #1 OutKast, STANKONIA
Seed #2 PJ Harvey, STORIES FROM THE CITY, STORIES FROM THE SEA
Seed #3 The New Pornographers, MASS ROMANTIC
Seed #4 Radiohead, KID A
Seed #5 Yo La Tengo, AND THEN NOTHING TURNED ITSELF INSIDE-OUT
Seed #6 Sleater-Kinney, ALL HANDS ON THE BAD ONE
Seed #7 Modest Mouse, THE MOON & ANTARCTICA
Seed #8 The White Stripes, DE STIJL
Seed #9 The Avalanches, SINCE I LEFT YOU
Seed #10 Elliott Smith, FIGURE 8
Seed #11 Godspeed You! Black Emperor, LIFT YOUR SKINNY FISTS LIKE ANTENNAS TO HEAVEN
Seed #12 D’Angelo, VOODOO
Seed #15 Aimee Mann, BACHELOR NO. 2 (OR, THE LAST REMAINS OF THE DODO)
Seed #16 Grandaddy, THE SOPHTWARE SLUMP
Seed #19 Deltron 3030, DELTRON 3030
Seed #20 Erykah Badu, MAMA’S GUN
The two albums in the top 16 seeds that didn’t make it were #13 Belle & Sebastian, FOLD YOUR HANDS CHILD, YOU WALK LIKE A PEASANT (defeated by #52 Lambchop, NIXON in Round 2, which was then defeated by MAMA’S GUN) and #14 Neko Case & Her Boyfriends, FURNACE ROOM LULLABY (defeated by DELTRON 3030).