Archived Annual Best-Of CD Lists
Partly as a joke and partly as the price of admission for an online discussion, I started compiling lists of my favorite new releases in 1999. Although my participation in the discussion ended years ago, I keep making the lists. Some of my best friends receive compilations of tracks from those CDs in late December (or early January) each year. Periodically, I’ll post my musings about what I’ve been hearing on the Musings page. What you see below are the archived best-of lists. To see the lists from the last three years, use the links to the right.
- 2002:
- Badly Drawn Boy, About a Boy (Soundtrack)
- Beck, Sea Change
- Coldplay, A Rush of Blood to the Head
- Common, Electric Circus
- Elvis Costello, When I Was Cruel
- Tanya Donelly, Beautysleep
- Mark Eitzel, Songs for Courage & Confidence
- The Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
- Gomez, In Our Gun
- Interpol, Turn on the Bright Lights
- Los Lobos, Good Morning Aztlán
- Beth Orton, Daybreaker
- Ron Sexsmith, Cobblestone Runway
- Starsailor, Love Is Here
- Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- 2001:
- Björk, Vespertine
- Cowboy Junkies, Open
- De La Soul, Bionix
- Neil Finn, One Nil
- Joe Henry, Scar
- Herbert, Bodily Functions
- Lonnie Plaxico, Mélange
- Radiohead, Amnesiac
- Red House Painters, Old Ramon
- Sparklehorse, It’s a Wonderful Life
- 2000:
- Susana Baca, Eco de Sombras
- Johnny Cash, American III: Solitary Man
- Coldplay, Parachutes
- D’Angelo, Voodoo
- PJ Harvey, Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
- Radiohead, Kid A
- Sade, Lovers Rock
- David Sanchez, Melaza
- The Sea and Cake, Oui
- U2, All That You Can’t Leave Behind
- 1999:
- Fiona Apple, When the Pawn…
- Joe Chambers, Mirrors
- Gus Gus, This Is Normal
- Donald Harrison, Free to Be
- Joe Henry, Fuse
- Beth Orton, Central Reservation
- Prince, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic
- The Roots, Things Fall Apart
- Ron Sexsmith, Whereabouts
- Cassandra Wilson, Traveling Miles
