Best Albums of 2000: Top Tens

1. Outkast
   Stankonia (Arista/LaFace)
   
2. Shelby Lynne
   I Am Shelby Lynne (Island)
   
3. Ryan Adams
   Heartbreaker (Bloodshot)
   
4. P.J. Harvey
   Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (Island)
   
5. Everclear
   Songs from an American Movie, Volume One: Learning How to Smile (Capitol)
   
6. Rancid
   Rancid (Hellcat)
   
7. Morphine
   The Night (Dreamworks)
   
8. Fatboy Slim
   Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars (EMD/Astralwerks)
   
9. De La Soul
   Art Official Intelligence (Tommy Boy)
   
10. Aimee Mann
    Bachelor No. 2 (Superego)

Greg Franklin

1. The Casket Lottery
   Moving Mountains (Second Nature)
   
2. Death Cab for Cutie
   We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes (Barsuk)
   
3. Superdrag
   In the Valley of Dying Stars (Arena Rock)
   
4. Koufax
   It Had to Do with Love (Vagrant/Heroes and Villains)
   
5. Creeper Lagoon
   Watering Ghost Garden (Spin Art)
   
6. The Weakerthans
   Left and Leaving (Sub City)
   
7. Crooked Fingers
   Crooked Fingers (Warm)
   
8. Hot Snakes
   Automatic Midnight (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
   
9. Tristeza
   Dream Signals in Full Circles (Tiger Style)
   
10. The Blood Brothers
    The Adultery Is Ripe (Second Nature)

David Cantwell

1. Shelby Lynne
   I Am Shelby Lynne (Island)
   
2. Marah
   Kids in Philly (E-Squared/Artemis)
   
3. Lee Ann Womack
   I Hope You Dance(MCA Nashville)
   
4. Ray Price
   Prisoner of Love (Buddah)
   
5. Eminem
   The Marshall Mathers LP (Aftermath/Interscope)
   
6. Chuck Prophet
   The Hurting Business (Atlantic/Hightone)
   
7. Slobberbone
   Everything You Thought Was Right Today Was Wrong (New West)
   
8. D'Angelo
   Voodoo (Virgin)
   
9. Allison Moorer
   The Hardest Part (MCA Nashville)
   
10. Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise
    Time to Discover (RCA)

Danny Alexander

1. D'Angelo
   Voodoo (Virgin)
   
2. Lee Ann Womack
   I Hope You Dance (MCA Nashville)
   
3. Outkast
   Stankonia (Arista/LaFace)
   
4. Paul Pena
   New Train (London/Sire)
   
5. Various Artists
   'Til We Outnumber 'Em (Righteous Babe)
   
6. Confrontation Camp
   Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (Creamworks Jv/Artemis)
   
7. Steve Earle
   Transcendental Blues (Artemis)
   
8. Ghostface Killah
   Supreme Clientele (Epic/Razor Sharp)
   
9. Leona Naess
   Comatised (MCA)
   
10. Willie King & the Liberators
    Freedom Creek (Rooster Blues)