Best Albums of 2000: Top Tens

Mike Warren

1. Outkast
   Stankonia (Arista/LaFace)

2. Shelby Lynne
   I Am Shelby Lynne (Island)

3. Ryan Adams
   

   Heartbreaker (Bloodshot)

4. P.J. Harvey
   Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (Island)

5. Everclear
   

   Songs from an American Movie, Volume One: Learning How to Smile (Capitol)

6. Rancid
   

   Rancid (Hellcat)

7. Morphine
   

   The Night (Dreamworks)

8. Fatboy Slim
   

   Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars (EMD/Astralwerks)

9. De La Soul
   

   Art Official Intelligence (Tommy Boy)

10. Aimee Mann
    

    Bachelor No. 2 (Superego)

Greg Franklin

1. The Casket Lottery
   

   Moving Mountains (Second Nature)

2. Death Cab for Cutie
   

   We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes (Barsuk)

3. Superdrag
   

   In the Valley of Dying Stars (Arena Rock)

4. Koufax
   

   It Had to Do with Love (Vagrant/Heroes and Villains)

5. Creeper Lagoon
   

   Watering Ghost Garden (Spin Art)

6. The Weakerthans
   

   Left and Leaving (Sub City)

7. Crooked Fingers
   

   Crooked Fingers (Warm)

8. Hot Snakes
   

   Automatic Midnight (Sympathy for the Record Industry)

9. Tristeza
   

   Dream Signals in Full Circles (Tiger Style)

10. The Blood Brothers
    

    The Adultery Is Ripe (Second Nature)

David Cantwell

1. Shelby Lynne
   

   I Am Shelby Lynne (Island)

2. Marah
   

   Kids in Philly (E-Squared/Artemis)

3. Lee Ann Womack
   

   I Hope You Dance(MCA Nashville)

4. Ray Price
   

   Prisoner of Love (Buddah)

5. Eminem
   

   The Marshall Mathers LP (Aftermath/Interscope)

6. Chuck Prophet
   

   The Hurting Business (Atlantic/Hightone)

7. Slobberbone
   

   Everything You Thought Was Right Today Was Wrong (New West)

8. D’Angelo
   
   Voodoo (Virgin)

9. Allison Moorer
   

   The Hardest Part (MCA Nashville)

10. Robert Bradley’s Blackwater Surprise
    

    Time to Discover (RCA)

Danny Alexander

1. D’Angelo
   

   Voodoo (Virgin)

2. Lee Ann Womack
   

   I Hope You Dance (MCA Nashville)

3. Outkast
   

   Stankonia (Arista/LaFace)

4. Paul Pena
   

   New Train (London/Sire)

5. Various Artists
   

   ‘Til We Outnumber ‘Em (Righteous Babe)

6. Confrontation Camp
   

   Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (Creamworks Jv/Artemis)

7. Steve Earle
   

   Transcendental Blues (Artemis)

8. Ghostface Killah
   

   Supreme Clientele (Epic/Razor Sharp)

9. Leona Naess
   

   Comatised (MCA)

10. Willie King & the Liberators
    

    Freedom Creek (Rooster Blues)