The '00 Music Hierarchy

Ranked by Preference:

10

AT THE DRIVE-IN - Relationship of Command
EELS - Daisies of the Galaxy

9

MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE - Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy
DEFTONES - White Pony
RADIOHEAD - Kid A

8

MODEST MOUSE - The Moon and Antarctica
CANNIBAL OX - The Cold Vein
OUTKAST - Stankonia
THE TWILIGHT SINGERS - Twilight as Sung by the Twilight Singers
KID606 - Down with the Scene
THE ALKALINE TRIO - Maybe I'll Catch Fire
PJ HARVEY - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
PRIMAL SCREAM - XTRMNTR
HIGH ON FIRE - The Art of Self Defense [If I were a Viking, I would rock out to this every damn day. As it is, I still like it a whole lot, even if it fills me with the desire to go eat raw meat and bash stuff with sticks. If this stoner-metal monolith was a pair of testicles, they would be the size of your fucking head. Each.]
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - Rated R
AESOP ROCK - Float
CAVE IN - Jupiter
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - Renegades

7

VARIOUS - Music from the Motion Picture O Brother, Where Art Thou?
A PERFECT CIRCLE - Mer de Noms
EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Silence is Sexy
COMMON - Like Water for Chocolate
THE DIRTY THREE - Whatever You Love, You Are
EMINEM - The Marshall Mathers LP
BRIGHT EYES - Fevers and Mirrors
BJORK - Selmasongs
POE - Haunted
THE FLYING LUTTENBACHERS - Alptraum
DROWNINGMAN - Rock and Roll Killing Machine
PRINCESS SUPERSTAR - Last of the Great 20th Century Composers
Q AND NOT U - No Kill No Beep Beep

6

THERAPY? - Suicide Pact -- You First
PROPAGANDHI - Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes
THE QUEERS - Beyond the Valley of the [you'd probably rather not know]
KING COBB STEELIE - Mayday
HOG MOLLY - Kung-Fu Cocktail Grip
A - A vs. Monkey Kong
BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB - B.R.M.C.
AMEN - We Have Come for Your Children
DEL THA FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN - Both Sides of the Brain

5

WESTON - The Massed Albert Sounds
EMILIANA TORRINI - Love in the Time of Science
SUBMARINE - Skindiving

4

NEIL YOUNG - Silver and Gold [If you listen really closely, you can hear the sound of Neil falling asleep even as he sings and plays.]

1

MARILYN MANSON - Holy Wood (In the Valley of the Shadow of Death) [Apparently, the weak sales figures for the underappreciated glam-metal near-masterpiece "Mechanical Animals" stung Mr. Manson a bit. So he retreated and shat out "Antichrist Superstar, Part II." Except, like anything that travels through your system, all the nutrients and useful parts were sucked out prior to release. What's left is utter waste, a big smelly cowardly turd of an album. I wouldn't listen to this wretched thing again if someone paid me and let me poop in Manson's mouth as payback.]
BENT - Programmed to Love [I don't even remember what this sounds like. All I know is I got three tracks into it and wanted to murder the jackoffs responsible for it.]

PENDING

BLACK BOX RECORDER - The Facts of Life
THE BLOOD BROTHERS - This Adultery is Ripe
DON CABALLERO - American Don
ENON - Believeo!
KID KOALA - Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
THEE MICHELLE GUN ELEPHANT - Gear Blues
PLANES MISTAKEN FOR STARS - Knife in the Marathon