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Doug Orleans's Chugchanga-L Poll 2000 Entry

My top 20, in order:

Poster Children, DDD (spinART)
Medea Connection, the, The Action Noise (Medea Connection)
Tarentel, From Bone To Satellite (Temporary Residence)
Major Stars, Space/Time (Twisted Village) <reissue>
High On Fire, The Art Of Self Defense (Man's Ruin)
Air, Original Motion Picture Score for The Virgin Suicides (Astralwerks)
Thingy, To The Innocent (Absolutely Kosher)
Versus, Hurrah (Merge)
Champs, the Fucking, IV (Drag City)
Idyll Swords, II (Communion)
Hot Snakes, Automatic Midnight (Sympathy For The Record Industry/Swami)
GrndNtl Brnds, Communicating for Influence (Vaccination)
Don Caballero, American Don (Touch & Go)
Radiohead, Kid A (Capitol)
Bardo Pond, CD-R Vol. 1 (Bardo Pond)
Cheer-Accident, !! Salad Days !! (Skin Graft)
Man or Astro-Man?, A Spectrum of Finite Scale (Touch & Go)
Bright, Full Negative (or) Breaks (Badabing)
Laddio Bolocko, As If In Real Time (Hungarian) <compilation>
Moon Patrol, A Short Time On A Peaceful Planet (Fuzzburg)

These are all tied for 21st place:

A Perfect Circle, Mer de Noms (Virgin)
Abunai!, Round Wound (Camera Obscura)
Aislers Set, the, The Last Match (Slumberland)
Amber Asylum, The Supernatural Parlor Collection (Relapse)
Apples in Stereo, Discovery of a World Inside the Moone (spinART)
Causey Way, the, Testimony (Fueled By Ramen)
Causey Way, the, WWCD (Put It On A Cracker)
Cerberus Shoal, Crash My Moon Yacht (North East Indie/Pandemonium)
Charalambides, Home (Wholly Other) <CD-R>
Charalambides, Sticks (Wholly Other) <CD-R>
Davis, Miles, On The Corner (Columbia/Legacy) <reissue>
Doldrums, The Secret Life Of Machines (VHF)
Elf Power, The Winter is Coming (Sugar Free)
Goatsnake/Burning Witch, Goatsnake/Burning Witch (Hydra Head)
Hendrix Experience, the Jimi, The Jimi Hendrix Experience (MCA) <box set>
Hong Kong, the, Lights At Night (Turducken)
In Out, the, A Living Memorial In Deutschland (Dark Beloved Cloud)
Kid 606, Down With The Scene (Ipecac)
Laika, Good Looking Blues (Too Pure)
Lockgroove, Sleeping on the Elephant Fog (Krave)
Lothars, the, Happy Holidays (Wobbly)
Lothars, the, Oscillate My Metallic Sonatas (Wobbly)
Man or Astro-Man?, A Spectrum of Infinite Scale (Touch & Go)
Melvins, the, The Crybaby (Ipecac)
New Pornographers, The, Mass Romantic (Mint)
Nine Inch Nails, Things Falling Apart (nothing)
Ninewood, American Salt Lick (Vaccination)
Phineas Gage, Reconsidered (Camera Obscura)
Queens of the Stone Age, RESTRICTED TO EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE, ALL THE TIME (Interscope)
Quickspace, Flat Moon Society (Kitty Kitty)
Rachel's / Matmos, Full on Night (Quarterstick)
Renner, Timothy, Songs for a Sacred Memory (hand/eye)
Sea and Cake, the, Oui (Thrill Jockey)
SubArachnoid Space, A New and Exact Map (September Gurls)
SubArachnoid Space, These Things Take Time (Relapse)
Trans Am, You Can Always Get What You Want (Thrill Jockey) <compilation>
Various Artists, 2000 Teenbeat Sampler (Teenbeat) <compilation>
Various Artists, Pleasure Vibe 2000, A Unit Circle Rekkids Sampler (Unit Circle)
Various Artists, The Pot Machine Turns You On, A CD given free with Ptolemaic Terrascope 29 (Ptolemaic Terrascope) <compilation>
Versus, Shangri-La (Merge)
Volcano the Bear, The Inhazer Decline (United Dairies)
Weakling, Dead As Dreams (tUMULt)
Who, the, BBC Sessions (MCA) <compilation>
Windy & Carl & The Lothars, & Windy & Carl & The Lothars (Blue Flea/Wobbly)

These are pretty good records too:

Blonde Redhead, Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons (Touch & Go)
Bruno, Franklin, Kiss Without Makeup (Absolutely Kosher)
Catherine Wheel, the, Wishville (Columbia)
Coltrane, John, Ascension (Impulse!) <reissue>
Cure, the, Bloodflowers (Fiction/Elektra)
Damon and Naomi with Ghost, Damon and Naomi with Ghost (Sub Pop)
Doves, Lost Souls (Heavenly)
Fetish, Fetish (Tautology)
Madonna, Music (Warner)
Makers, the, Rock Star God (Sub Pop)
Sleater-Kinney, All Hands On The Bad One (Kill Rock Stars)
Tren, the Marquis de, and Bonny Billy, Get On Jolly (Palace)

Stuff I somehow never got around to downloading from Napster but
really wanted to hear:

Analogue, Rock Proper
Golden, Summer
Home, XIV
Last of the Juanitas, Hawaii
Melt-Banana, Teeny Shiny
Oneida, Come On Everybody Let's Rock
Pram, Museum of Imaginary Animals
Quickspace, The Death of Quickspace
Royal Trux, Pound For Pound
Rumah Sakit, Rumah Sakit
Shellac, 1000 Hurts
Sonic Youth, NYC Ghosts & Flowers
The For Carnation, The For Carnation
Trans Am, Red Line

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