The purpose of this feature is to give you an unbiased and diverse look at what the StonerRock.com Community thought were the best albums released in the year 2000. Well, as diverse as possible considering that we`re mostly die-hard heavy rock fans! We`ve provided a total of 5 lists to ensure as much diversity as possible. The first list was compiled from a poll conducted among the general members of the StonerRock.com Community, the second list is an individual member`s own list, and the final 3 lists were compiled by the staff here at StonerRock.com. Our staff lists were put together completely seperate from each other with absolutely no collaboration. None of us saw each other`s lists before they were complete so none of us could influence each other`s choices. We hope these lists povide new Stoner Rock fans with ideas for which albums they should pick up first and the die-hard fans with a list of great albums that they`re missing out on. And for all you American`s out there: There will be no re-counts! :)
Community Top 20 Albums of 2000
Between January 1st and 15th, 2001 we ran a competition on StonerRock.com that our community members could enter by submitting their "Top 10 Albums of 2000" lists. This was run like a poll with very strict rules. There were hundreds of lists submitted and very very few were suspicious. I personally went through every list and compiled a master list and then alloted points based on a strict and fair criteria. This took me many hours and I was extremely careful not to miss any submissions. I won`t reveal my system for determining the points because I don`t want people to cheat the next time we run a poll/competition like this but I will guarantee that this list is very accurate and gives you an almost perfect representation of what albums the StonerRock.com Community favours.
- Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R (599 pts) -Buy?
- High on Fire - The Art of Self Defense (298 pts) -Buy?
- The Atomic Bitchwax - II (286 pts) -Buy?
- Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (260 pts) -Buy?
- Orange Goblin - The Big Black (225 pts) -Buy?
- Spiritual Beggars - Ad Astra (223 pts) -Buy?
- Solace - Further (202 pts) -Buy?
- Goatsnake - Flower of Disease (188 pts) -Buy?
- Lowrider - Ode to Io (163 pts) -Buy?
- Monster Magnet - God Says No (160 pts)
- Corrosion of Conformity - America`s Volume Dealer (152 pts)
- Che - Sounds of Liberation (128 pts) -Buy?
- sHEAVY - Celestial Hi-Fi (125 pts) -Buy?
- The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight - Self Titled (123 pts) -Buy?
- Fu Manchu - King of the Road (112 pts) -Buy?
- Sixty Watt Shaman - Seed of Decades (103 pts) -Buy?
- Dozer - In the Tail of a Comet (90 pts) -Buy?
- Firebird - Self Titled (87 pts) -Buy?
- A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms (83 pts)
- Ufomammut - Godlike Snake (74 pts) -Buy?
Click here to view the Community Top Albums Master List - Contains all albums that were voted for by StonerRock.com Community Members in the "Top 10 Albums of 2000" competition.
Competition Winner`s Top 10 Albums of 2000
In a random drawing Wille Naukkarinen (Sunride Guitarist), from Finland won our "Top 10 Albums of 2000" competition. As part of his prize (which also included a big stack of cool albums) his "Top 10 Albums of 2000" list that he submitted is being included as part of this feature, so here it is:
- Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R -Buy?
- The Hellacopters - High Visibility
- At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
- The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious
- Dozer - In The Tail Of A Comet -Buy?
- Gluecifer - Tender Is The Savage
- The Awesome Machine - ...It`s Ugly Or Nothing -Buy?
- Fu Manchu - King Of The Road -Buy?
- Entombed - Uprising -Buy?
- Deftones - The White Pony
Official StonerRock.com Top Albums of 2000 Lists
Below you`ll find "Top 20 Albums of 2000" and "Top 10 EPs/Demos of 2000" lists compiled by StonerRock.com staff. Since there were so many great albums released in the year 2000 we decided to do an extra "Top 10" for EPs and Demos because it didn`t seem right to include our favourite EPs/Demos in the "Top 20 Albums" lists. More bands will get some exposure this way as well. So it`s all good! :0) Enjoy!
Peter Hogfeldt`s Top Albums of 2000
(Peter is an official reviewer/writer for StonerRock.com)
I was kinda surprised when I looked through the latest version of the top 20 list I had compiled. This top list has had many incarnations over the last couple of weeks, the only constants on it are the first fourspots, and they�ve been in the same order the whole time! The rest have been shifting places since I started compiling this list. It ain�t easy squeezing in something like 50 great albums on a top 20 list, so I had to kill a few "darlings" also.
Since they didn�t make the top 20, but were so close to making the final cut, I thought I�d mention a few other contenders that I�ve thoroughly enjoyed... Roadsaw, Cold Mourning, Negative Reaction, Daredevil, Cutthroats 9, Soul Preacher (but Soulpreacher did make the EP / Demo top 10), Firebird, Orange Goblin, Sunn0))), Mondo Generator, Dozer, The Mystick Krewe Of Clearlight, Celestial Season, Elevator, Hogwash, Payola, Alabama Thunder Pussy, Sixty Watt Shaman, Culebra and the list goes on and on. And there�s still some of last year`s releases I haven�t had a chance to listen to... yet...
Top 20 Albums Of 2000...
- High on Fire - The Art Of Self Defense -Buy?
- Supershine - Self Titled -Buy?
- Eternal Elysium - Spiritualized D -Buy?
- Thumlock - Emerald Liquid Oddysey -Buy?
- Ufomammut - Godlike Snake -Buy?
- That�s All Folks! - Soma... 3rd Way to Zion -Buy?
- Internal Void - Unearthed -Buy?
- The Atomic Bitchwax - II -Buy?
- Goatsnake - Flower Of Disease -Buy?
- Electric Wizard - Dopethrone -Buy?
- Abdullah - Self Titled -Buy?
- Spiritual Beggars - Ad Astra -Buy?
- The Awesome Machine- ...It�s Ugly Or Nothing -Buy?
- The Mushroom River Band - Music For The World Beyond -Buy?
- Puny Human - Revenge Is Easy -Buy?
- Lowrider - Ode To Io -Buy?
- The Heads - Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere -Buy?
- Solace - Further -Buy?
- Gas Giant - A Pleasant Journey In Heavy Tunes
- Smoke Blow - 777 Bloodrock -Buy?
I made an "executive decision" and included albums with a short running length (under 35 mins.) on my top 10 EP & Demo list instead of on the album list. They might have the "official" title of a full length album or, like in the case of Soulpreacher, be considered an EP/MCD by the band (even though this album has a running length of 47 min., the last song "Deadnothingspace" is a long tripped out "experimental" instrumental... this makes the running length as long as it is)...
There were also a bunch of great releases that didn�t quite make the top 10, or were on it in one of it�s earlier incarnations. Among them were Operator Generator, Ch�, Shamen�s Ride, Greenleaf, the Alabama Thunder Pussy / Halfway To Gone split EP, Witch Mountain (no StonerRock.com nepotism here, hehe), Kaptain Sun, Thulsa Doom, two great EP�s by WE and so on...
Top 10 EPs/Demos of 2000...
- Halfman vs. Mothercake - Split 7"
- Weedeater - And Justice For Y`All -Buy?
- Earthride - Self Titled -Buy?
- Mammoth Volume - Noara Dance -Buy?
- Soulpreacher - When The Black Sunn Rises... The Holy Men Burn -Buy?
- Warhorse - The Priestess -Buy?
- 454 - Maybe Legendary
- Spickle - Self Titled -Buy?
- The Satellite Circle - Way Beyond the Portal of the Bone White Rubber Sun -Buy?
- Fleshpress - Dilemmantrauma
"High" hopes for 2001: 2000 was a very good year if you�re into stoner rock, sludge and doom... and it looks like 2001 will be at least as good... the only bad thing with this many great releases is that it�ll ruin most of us to try to keep up with all the "must have" releases... yeah, even me... I don�t get every release for free. But, if I wasn�t a reviewer at StonerRock.com, I would�ve probably missed some real gems...
Many thanks to the bands, labels and distros for sending promos (and bribes :)... and all those great demos, keep `em coming!
Robwrong`s Top Albums of 2000
(Rob is an official reviewer/writer for StonerRock.com and is also the frontman of the Portland stoner/doom band Witch Mountain)
Things have been good in 2000, and I am looking forward to this new year in music. Last year was one of the greatest years for music I think. I`ll cut to the chase with my list.
I know there are some bands I left out, but in all fairness I picked what I truly liked, and not what was maybe the best musicianship - if you know what I mean. I liked more than what is on my list, but hey - reviews take a blurring toll on a man`s memory. Well, that and the space cakes too! I picked Mammoth Volume`s CD-R as my number one because it was the most unique blend of sounds with tons upon tons of emotion. Some of the songs are so strong in emotion, I find myself getting worked up listening to it (sob! sob!). They`ve covered a lot of area with it, and it sounds totally different than the Noara Dance EP - which is equally unique and almost as epic. Great band and great stuff... Band of the Year! That is all.
Top 20 Albums Of 2000...
- Mammoth Volume - 17 Song CD-R
- Eternal Elysium - Spiritualized D -Buy?
- Goatsnake - Flower Of Disease -Buy?
- Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R -Buy?
- High on Fire - The Art Of Self Defense -Buy?
- Orange Goblin - The Big Black -Buy?
- Electric Wizard - Dopethrone -Buy?
- Abdullah - Self Titled -Buy?
- Internal Void - Unearthed -Buy?
- Sir Hedgehog - Self Titled
- The Atomic Bitchwax - II -Buy?
- The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight - Self Titled -Buy?
- Twin Earth - Black Stars in a Silver Sky -Buy?
- Soulpreacher - When The Black Sunn Rises... The Holy Men Burn -Buy?
- Vincent`s Ear - Coming Down -Buy?
- Boulder - Ravage and Savage
- The Want - Let the Music Do the Talking
- AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip
- The Cutthroats 9 - Self Titled
- Gas Giant - Pleasant Journey in Heavy Tunes
Top 10 EPs/Demos of 2000...
- Goatsnake - Dog Days -Buy?
- Gammera - Promotional Device
- YOB - 3 song CD-R
- Mammoth Volume - Noara Dance -Buy?
- Natas/Viaje a 800 Split 10"
- Operator Generator - Self Titled
- Bandsaw - Bad to the Bone
- Migas - Number One
- Dragonauta - Demo
- Speedking - Red Diesel
El Danno`s Top Albums of 2000
(El Danno is me! I am the owner, webmaster, writer and all-rounder at StonerRock.com)
Well. Well.. Well... What a huge year 2000 was for Stoner Rock fans! I myself believe that the year 2000 was the best year ever for Heavy Music. With so many quality releases to choose from I found it incredibly hard to narrow my list down to just 20 Albums and 10 EPs/Demos. There are easily 30 great albums that I couldn`t fit on my lists, most likely a lot more than that, so don`t feel too bad if your band isn`t here. This is only the cream of the crop! And don`t worry - it already looks like the year 2001 will be even better than the year 2000! Hooray! Now rush along and buy some of the albums listed in this feature, they all rule, and you know that you want to..
Because we get so many albums at StonerRock.com we don`t get as much time as we`d like to listen to the albums we really like as often as we`d like to. We`re usually listening to new stuff so it can be reviewed fairly. So the criteria that I based my list on was how often an album compelled me to go back and listen to it. Other factors that I considered while compiling my list were creativity, uniqueness, and diversity.
Top 20 Albums Of 2000...
- The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight - Self Titled -Buy?
- Electric Wizard - Dopethrone -Buy?
- Abdullah - Self Titled -Buy?
- High on Fire - The Art of Self Defense -Buy?
- Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R -Buy?
- The Monkeywrench - Electric Children
- Corrosion of Conformity - America`s Volume Dealer
- Goatsnake - Flower of Disease -Buy?
- The Atomic Bitchwax - II -Buy?
- Dozer - In the Tail of a Comet -Buy?
- Alabama Thunder Pussy - Constellation -Buy?
- Ufomammut - Godlike Snake -Buy?
- Monster Magnet - God Says No
- Mammoth Volume - 17 Song CD-R
- Mondo Generator - Cocaine Rodeo -Buy?
- Orange Goblin - The Big Black -Buy?
- Solace - Further -Buy?
- The Heads - Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere -Buy?
- Daredevil - Big Block Rock -Buy?
- Eyehategod - Confederacy of Ruined Lives
Top 10 EPs/Demos of 2000...
- Witch Mountain - Homegrown Doom -Buy?
- Abdullah - Snake Lore -Buy?
- Half Man Vs. Mothercake - Split 7"
- The Rubes - Self Titled
- Che - Sounds of Liberation -Buy?
- Molehill - Comfort Measured in Razor Lines
- Natas/Viaje a 800 - Split 10"
- Kaptain Sun - Trip to Vortex
- Mammoth Volume - Noara Dance -Buy?
- The Satellite Circle - Way Beyond the Portal of the Bone White Rubber Sun -Buy?
