As I just said in another thread, these threads by
@Saturated Fats were the most fun I've had on HF. A few months ago, I went back through them, and noticed that my selection for the year 2000 was atrociously poor. So I went on and listened or relistened to over 160 albums from the year, and rated/ranked them all.
So here goes nothing - my ratings are the same as for my film comments, but contrarily to movies, I have absolutely no objective knowledge of music, so it's really only my tastes and I couldn't really argue why I feel this or that way about an album... In other words, might not be of much interest, but I don't give a shit...
My scale (I prefer to distinguish between good and great works than between mediocre stuff)
10 - Masterpiece that hits target on my personal preferences
9 - Masterpiece
8 - Great
7 - Very good
6 - Good
5 - Worth your time
4 - Somewhat ok
3 - Bland, common
2 - Poor
1 - Atrocious
* means it's really not my type of music and might be rated too low
+ means I'm aware this should probably be higher, but just couldn't
So, my new top-10, and what follows in as close to accurate order I could agree with myself:
1) Matthew Shipp / Mat Maneri –
Gravitational Systems [9/10]
2) Boris –
Flood [9/10]
3) Jon Rose –
The Hyperstring Project (New Dynamic Of Rogue Counterpoint) [8.5/10]
4) Bright Eyes -
Fevers and Mirrors [8.5/10]
5) Jamie Saft –
Sovlanut [8.5/10]
6) Fog –
The Fog [8.5/10]
7) Matthew Shipp Quartet –
Pastoral Composure [8/10]
8) Asterisk* –
Dogma I: Death of a Dromologist [8/10]
9) Jackie-O Motherf***er –
Fig. 5 [8/10]
10) Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO –
La Nòvia [8/10]
8
:zoviet*france: - The Decriminalisation of Country Music [8/10]
Derek Bailey / Jamaaladeen Tacuma / Calvin Weston – Mirakle [8/10]
René Lussier & Martin Tétreault – Qu'ouïe-je? [8/10]
Mark Dresser, Fred Frith, Ikue Mori – Later … [8/10]
7.5
John Tilbury / Evan Parker – Two Chapters And An Epilogue [7.5/10]
Koch-Schütz-Studer plus DJ M. Singe > DJ I-Sound – Roots And Wires [7.5/10]
花代 Hanayo – 献上 Gift [7.5/10]
The Microphones - It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water [7.5/10]
Songs: Ohia – Ghost Tropic [7.5/10]
Jackie-O Motherf***er – The Magick Fire Music [7.5/10]
Philip Jeck – Vinyl Coda I-III [7.5/10]
John Zorn – Xu Feng [7.5/10]
Ruins – Pallaschtom [7.5/10]
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven [7.5/10]
The Cracow Klezmer Band – De Profundis [7.5/10]
Christian Marclay, Elliott Sharp – High Noon [7.5/10]
Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet – Golden Quartet [7.5/10]
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. – Troubadours From Another Heavenly World [7.5/10]
Mari Kimura & Roberto Morales Manzanares – Leyendas [7.5/10]
Storm and Stress – Under Thunder & Fluorescent Lights [7.5/10]
Troum – Mort Aux Vaches: Sen [7.5/10]
Spring Heel Jack – Disappeared [7.5/10]
Fred Frith - Ensemble Modern – Traffic Continues [7.5/10]
7
Bantam Rooster – f*** All Y'all [7/10]
Dylan Nyoukis – The Shield That Pierces the Earth [7/10]
Hoahio – Ohayo! Hoahio! [7/10]
Yume Bitsu – Auspicious Winds [7/10]
Aix Em Klemm - Aix Em Klemm [7/10]
Cex - Role Model [7/10]
Rothko - Forty Years to Find A Voice [7/10]
Deltron 3030 – Deltron 3030 [7/10]
The Avalanches - Since I Left You [7/10]*
A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms [7/10]
Damien Jurado – Ghost of David [7/10]
32 Janvier (with Paul Rogers & Fred Frith) – 32 Janvier [7/10]
6.5
Hank & Slim – The World Turned Gingham [6.5/10]
The Olivia Tremor Control - Singles and Beyond [6.5/10]
Piano Magic – Artists' rifles [6.5/10]
Radiohead – Kid A [6.5/10]
Piero Piccioni – Il Dio Sotto La Pelle [6.5/10]
Avey Tare and Panda Bear – Spirit They're Gone Spirit They've Vanished [6.5/10]
Plus-Tech Squeeze Box – FAKEVOX [6.5/10]
Clinic - Internal Wrangler [6.5/10]
DJ Food – Kaleidoscope [6.5/10]
The White Stripes - De Stijl [6.5/10]
Eminem – Marshal Mathers LP [6.5/10]
6
Sunn O))) – 0̸0̸ Void [6/10]
Sunn O))) – The GrimmRobe Demos [6/10]
IRM – Oedipus Dethroned [6/10]
The Fall – The Unutterable [6/10]
Flying Saucer Attack / Main / White Winged Moth – Mort Aux Vaches [6/10]
Binary Star - Masters of the Universe [6/10]
Louise Attaque – Comme on a dit [6/10]
Medeski, Martin & Wood – The Dropper [6/10]
John Zorn – Cartoon/S&M [6/10]+
Soulfly – Primitive [6/10]
Fred Frith / John Zorn / Onnyk / Toyozumi Yoshisaburo – Ars Longa Dens Brevis [6/10]
Nils Petter Molvaer - Solid Ether [6/10]
Coil – Musick to Play In the Dark [6/10]
downset. – Check Your People [6/10]
The Crown – Deathrace King [6/10]
Converter – Blast Furnace [6/10]
David S. Ware – Surrendered [6/10]
5.5
Q And Not U – No Kill No Beep Beep [5.5/10]
Ektomorf – Kalyi Jag [5.5/10]
Oval – Pre/Commers [5.5/10]
Oval – Ovalprocess [5.5/10]
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica [5.5/10]
Broadcast – The Noise Made By People [5.5]
Goran Bregovic – Underground [5.5/10]
La Peste – Drug Store Core Boy [5.5/10]
Atrox – Contentum [5.5/10]*
B.R.A.S.S.Y. – Got It Made [5.5/10]
Venetian Snares – printf<"shiver in eternal darkness/n"> [5.5/10]
Yellow6 – EP [5.5/10]
Songs: Ohia – Protection Spells [5.5/10]
Mouse on Mars - Niun Niggung [5.5/10]
Gas – Pop [5.5/10]
Flying Saucer Attack – Mirror [5.5/10]
Andrew Hill – Dusk [5.5/10]
5
Black Mass Of Absu – Looting The Tomb Of the Aramathean With... [5/10]
Cinerama – Disco Volante [5/10]*
Yo La Tengo – And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out [5/10]
Dean Roberts – And The Black Moths Play The Grand Cinema [5/10]
The Apples In Stereo – The Discovery Of A World Inside The Moone [5/10]
Poem Rocket – Psychogeography [5/10]
Regurgitate – Carnivorous Erection [5/10]
Current 93 – Sleep Has His House [5/10]
Songs: Ohia – The Lioness [5/10]
Toshimaru Nakamura – No-Input Mixing Board [5/10]
Weakling – Dead As Dreams [5/10]
Black Label Society – Stronger Than Death [5/10]
Quasimoto – The Unseen [5/10]
The Blood Brothers - This Adultery Is Ripe [5/10]
4.5
Billy Bragg and Wilco – Mermaid Avenue Vol. 2 [4.5/10]
Peaches – The Teaches of Peaches [4.5/10]
Dead Prez – Lets Get Free [4.5/10]
Lionel Marchetti, Jérôme Noetinger & Mathieu Werchowski – Marchetti / Noetinger / Werchowski [4.5/10]
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore – Sunset Mission [4.5/10]
raison d'être – The Empty Hollow Unfolds [4.5/10]
The Hives – Vini Vidi Vicious [4.5/10]
Muff Potter – Bordsteinkantengeschichten [4.5/10]
VAST – Music For People
Alan Holdsworth - The Sixteen Men of Tain [4.5/10]
Coldplay – Parachutes [4.5/10]
Arthur H – Pour Madame X [4.5/10]
Alpha Blondy – Elohim [4.5/10]*
Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos – ¡Muy Divertido! (Very Entertaining!) [4.5/10]*
Calexico – Hot Rail [4.5/10]
Vladislav Delay – Entain. [4.5/10]
Alchemist - Organasm [4.5/10]
4
Bill Laswell – Lo. Def Pressure [4/10]
Pole – 3 [4/10]
Stuck Mojo – Declaration Of A Headhunter [4/10]
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command [4/10]
Queen of the Stone Age – Rated R [4/10]
Doves – Lost Souls [4/10]
Deströyer 666 - Phoenix Rising [4/10
Vir Unis – Aeonian Glow [4/10]
Talib Kweli & Hi Tek (Reflection Eternal) – Train Of Thought [4/10]
Ween – White Pepper [4/10]
Brad Mehldau – Places [4/10]
Sheena Ringo – Shoso Strip [4/10]*
Smog – Dongs of Sevotion [4/10]
Pantera – Reinventing the Steel [4/10]
Steve Earle – Transcendental Blues [4/10]*
Origami vs. Manipura / Nocturnal Emissions – Mort Aux Vaches [4/10] (the OvM half is good, NE very bad)
Sunny Day Real Estate – The Rising Tide [4/10]*
D'Angelo – Voodoo [4/10]*
3.5
Pearl Jam – Binaural [3.5/10]
French Frith Kaiser Thompson – Invisible Means [3.5/10]
Lionel Marchetti / Jérôme Noetinger – Mort Aux Vaches [3.5/10] (way too much silly unlistenable high screeching)
The Young Gods - Second Nature [3.5/10]
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump [3.5/10]
Rage Against the Machine – Renegades [3.5/10]
René Lussier – Déboutonné [3.5/10]
3
Shuttle358 – Frame [3/10]
Bill Laswell – Dub Chamber 3 [3/10]
Neko Case & Her Boyfriends – Furnace Room Lullaby [3/10]*
Infectious Grooves – Mas Borracho [3/10]
St-Germain – Tourist [3/10]
Michel Houellebecq – Présence Humaine [3/10]
Tony MacAlpine – CAB [3/10]
Pat Metheny – Trio 99->00 [3/10]
Phish – Farmhouse [3/10]
Deftones - White Pony [3/10]
Nonpoint – Statement [3/10]
The Hellacopters – High Visibility [3/10]*
2.5
Anna Gardeck – Bondage Women [2.5/10]
Stankonia – OutKast [2.5/10]*
Avishai Cohen – Colors [2.5/10]*
Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element [2.5/10]
2
V/Vm – Sick-Love [2/10]
Blaze - Silicon Messiah [2/10] (music is often pretty good, but couldn't help but laugh at the vocals and lyrics)
1.5
Paul Simon – You're the One [1.5/10]
Witt – Bayreuth Zwei [1.5/10]
Joe Satriani - Engines of Creation [1.5/10]
0.5
TV Pow – Mort Aux Vaches: Being Nice Is Funny [0.5/10]
I'll probably do another year now.
