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2000–2009: A Music Odyssey
My faves from a new century
Raising a debate only to say I’ll avoid it, I understand that the new century technically began in 2001 — a whole other odyssey — but in my review of my favorite albums for every year of my life, I stopped last time at 1999:
So, as we barbecue today and put out flags of various stripes and rainbow colors, it feels like a good time to settle in and relive the “aughts” and consider what ought to have been my favorite album of each year, whether it really was or wasn’t at the time (and when you make a stupid pun, it really throws everything off, like a big needle scratch on a prized vinyl LP).
I wish you all safe travels through this ten-year journey and hope that if you do shoot off some rockets, you don’t aim them at anyone or thing.
Cue it:
2000: Though The White Stripes released the explosive “we’re here” De Stijl, and PJ had Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea, which I absolutely adore, my favorite then and now is Yo La Tengo’s And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out. That…