The Critical Underground Guide to Jop and Pazz 2000
Submitted by lbangs on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 10:30
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- 1. OutKast - Stankonia: **** 1/2
- 2. PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea: **** 1/2
- 3. Radiohead - Kid A: ****
- 4. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP: **** 1/2
- 5. Shelby Lynne - I Am Shelby Lynne - ****
- 6. D'Angelo - Voodoo: **** 1/2
- 7. U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind: ****
- 8. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out: **** 1/2
- 9. Jill Scott: Who Is Jill Scott?: Words and Sounds, Vol. 1: ****
- 10. Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One: **** 1/2
- 11. Aimee Mann - Bachelor No. 2: *****
- 12. Travis - The Man Who: **** 1/2
- 13. Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues: **** 1/2
- 14. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele: ****
- 15. Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun: ****
- 16. Madonna - Music: ****
- 17. The Go-Betweens - The Friends of Rachel Worth: ****
- 18. Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast: **** 1/2
- 19. Steely Dan - Two Against Nature: *** 1/2
- 20. Jurassic 5 - Quality Control: **** 1/2
- 21. Marah - Kids in Philly: N/R
- 22. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command: N/A
- 23. Queens of the Stone Age - R: **** 1/2
- 24. Common - Like Water for Chocolate: **** 1/2
- 25. Sade - Lovers Rock: *** 1/2
- 26. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker: ****
- 27. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump: **** 1/2
- 28. Le Tigre - Le Tigre: N/R
- 29. Dr. Dre - 2001: ****
- 30. Coldplay - Parachutes: N/R
- 31. Merle Haggard - If I Could Only Fly: **** 1/2
- 32. Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2: *** 1/2
- 33. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Bryjun: N/R
- 34. Elliott Smith - Figure 8: **** 1/2
- 35. Dead Prez - Lets Get Free: N/A
- 36. Neko Case & Her Boyfriends: Furnace Room Lullaby: **** 1/2
- 37. Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man: *** 1/2
- 38. Aimee Mann - Magnolia: **** 1/2
- 39. Primal Scream - XTRMNTR: **** 1/2
- 40. Jayhawks - Smile: **** 1/2
- 41. Kweli, Talib + Hi-Tek - Reflection Eternal: *****
- 42. Bjork - Selmasongs: ****
- 43. Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo: N/A
- 44. The Ego Trip's the Big Playback: N/A
- 45. Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia: **** 1/2
- 46. Wu-Tang Clan - The W: ****
- TIE Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl: **** 1/2
- 48. James Carter - Chasin' the Gypsy: N/A
- 49. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica: **** 1/2
- TIE North Mississippi All stars - Shake Hands with Shorty: **** 1/2
- 51. David Gray - White Ladder: **** 1/2
- 52. Broadcast - The Noise Made by People: ****
- 53. Fela Kuti - The Best Best of Fela Kuti: N/R
- 54. Quasimoto - The Unseen: **** 1/2
- 55. Mekons - Journey to the End of Night: **** 1/2
- 56. Everclear - Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 1: Learning How to Smile: ****
- 57. Lampchop - Nixon: *** 1/2
- TIE Mouse on Mars - Niun Niggung: ****
- TIE Blackalicious - NIA: N/R
- 60. Delgados - The Great Eastern: ****
So, how did the polled critics do? Not too shabby, according to the Critical Underground.
The rest of the list will follow very soon.
Our rating system:
***** - A masterpiece; these are rare.
**** 1/2 - An excellent work of art, good enough that even people who usually hate the genre or main artists involved will still probably enjoy it.
**** - A very good work; people who hate the genre / artists involved may not care for it, but almost anyone else will.
*** 1/2 - A fairly good work, but will probably only be embraced by fans of the genre / artist.
*** - A barely good work; only diehard fans need apply.
** 1/2 - An average work; probably won't excite even diehard fans.
** - A below average piece of art; non-fans will hate this work.
* 1/2 - A bad work that few people are likely to enjoy and many are likely to hate.
* - A truly awful work; nearly everybody will hate this.
1/2 - One of the worst works of art ever; like the 5 stars, these are also rare.
As decided by the Critical Underground...