An ongoing ranking and rating of my favorite albums of 2000. Items in bold are part of my personal CD collection.
THE TOP TEN
1. Iron Maiden ~ Brave New World (9.9)
2. Halford ~ Resurrection (9.8)
3. Marvelous 3 ~ ReadySexGo (9.4)
4. SR-71 ~ Now You See Inside (9.4)
5. Linkin Park ~ Hybrid Theory (9.3)
6. 3 Doors Down ~ The Better Life (9.2)
7. Neve ~ Neve (9)
8. Dust For Life ~ Dust For Life (8.9)
9. Matchbox Twenty ~ Mad Season (8.8)
10. Millennium ~ Hourglass (8.4)
THE REST: ALPHABETICAL BY RATING
Limp Bizkit ~ Chocolate Starfish And The Hotdog Flavored Water (8.1)
A Perfect Circle ~ Mer De Noms (8.1)
Sammy Hagar ~ Ten 13 (8.0)
Praying Mantis ~ Nowhere To Hide (8)
Jorn ~ Starfire (7.6)
Coldplay ~ Parachutes (7.5)
U2 ~ All That You Can’t Leave Behind (7.5)
Rage Against The Machine ~ Renegades (7.3)
Ten ~ Babylon (7.3)
Fuel ~ Something Like Human (7.2)
Uncle Kracker ~ Double Wide (7.2)
Alice Cooper ~ Brutal Planet (7)
Axel Rudi Pell ~ The Masquerade Ball (7)
Collective Soul ~ Blender (7)
Disturbed ~ The Sickness (7)
Fozzy ~ Fozzy (7)
Geddy Lee ~ My Favorite Headache (7)
Kelly Hansen * Tim Donahue ~ Into The Light (7)
One Minute Silence ~ Buy Now…Saved Later (7)
Pantera ~ Reinventing The Steel (7)
Radiohead ~ Kid A (7)
UFO ~ Covenant (7)
The Union Underground ~ …An Education In Rebellion (7)
Voodoo Hill ~ Voodoo Hill (7)
The 69 Eyes ~ Blessed Be (6.8)
Mark Knopfler ~ Sailing To Philadelphia (6.8)
Godsmack ~ Awake (6.5)
Pearl Jam ~ Binaural (6.5)
Within Temptation ~ Mother Earth (6.5)
The White Stripes ~ De Stijl (6.3)
Lifehouse ~ No Name Face (6)
Michael Schenker ~ MS2000: Dreams And Expressions (6.0)
Mötley Crüe ~ New Tattoo (6)
Mr. Big ~ Get Over It (6)
Stephen Lynch ~ A Little Bit Special (6.0)
Trans-Siberian Orchestra ~ Beethoven’s Last Night (6)
Savannah ~ Forever’s Come & Gone (5.5)
Sinner ~ The End Of Sanctuary (5.3)
Ark ~ Ark (5)
Bar 7 ~ The World Is A Freak (5)
Danger Danger ~ The Return Of The Great Gildersleeves (5)
David Wilcox ~ What You Whispered (5)
Demons & Wizards ~ Demons & Wizards (5)
Doro ~ Calling The Wild (5)
Glenn Hughes ~ Return Of Crystal Karma (5)
House Of Shakira ~ House Of Shakira III (5)
Ian Moore ~ …And All The Colors (5)
Iommi ~ Iommi (5)
The Jeff Healey Band ~ Get Me Some (5)
Joe Lynn Turner ~ Holy Man (5)
Kevn Kinney ~ The Flower And The Knife (5)
Labÿrinth ~ Sons Of Thunder (5)
Melodica ~ Long Way From Home (5)
Richard Marx ~ Days In Avalon (5)
Slash’s Snakepit ~ Ain’t Life Grand (5)
Snot ~ Strait Up (5)
Two Fires ~ Two Fires (5)
A-Ha ~ Minor Earth | Major Sky (4.8)
Teer ~ Teer (4.4)
The Sign ~ Signs Of Life (4.3)
The Almighty ~ The Almighty (4)
Atomic Opera ~ Gospel Cola (4)
David Coverdale ~ Into The Light (4)
FireHouse ~ O2 (4)
Gregg Bissonette ~ Submarine (4)
Pete Way ~ Amphetamine (4)
Status Quo ~ Famous In The Last Century (4.0)
CURRENTLY UNRATED
AC/DC ~ Stiff Upper Lip
Armored Saint ~ Revelation
Asia ~ Aura
Axe ~ The Crown
B.B King & Eric Clapton ~ Riding With The King
Barenaked Ladies ~ Maroon
Black Label Society ~ Stronger Than Death
Blue October ~ Consent To Treatment
Bon Jovi ~ Crush
Brian May ~ Furia
Burning Rain ~ Pleasure To Burn
Catherine Wheel ~ Wishville
Death Cab For Cutie ~ We Have The Facts And We’re Voting Yes
Dio ~ Magica
Don Henley ~ Inside Job
The Doobie Brothers ~ Sibling Rivalry
Enuff Z’Nuff ~ 10
Every Mother’s Nightmare ~ Smokin’ Delta Voodoo
Fair Warning ~ Four
Fates Warning ~ Disconnected
Finger Eleven ~ The Greyest Of Blye Skies
The Flys ~ Outta My Way
Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush ~ Eye Of The Storm
Full Devil Jacket ~ Full Devil Jacket
Galactic Cowboys ~ Let It Go
Green Day ~ Warning
Guano Apes ~ Don’t Give Me Names
HammerFall ~ Renegade
Hardcore Superstar ~ Bad Sneakers And A Piña Colada
Heaven & Earth ~ Window To The World
Helloween ~ The Dark Ride
Impellitteri ~ Crunch
Joe Satriani ~ Engines Of Creation
Kansas ~ Somewhere To Elsewhere
Killswitch Engage ~ Killswitch Engage
King Diamond ~ House Of God
Kingdom Come ~ Too
King’s X ~ Please Come Home…Mr. Bulbous
Matthew & Gunnar Nelson ~ Like Father, Like Sons
Michael Schenker ~ Adventures Of The Imagination
Michael Schenker ~ The Odd Trio
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones ~ Pay Attention
Neil Young ~ Silver & Gold
Nevermore ~ Dead Heart, In A Dead World
Nightingale ~ I
Nothingface ~ Violence
The Offspring ~ Conspiracy Of One
Overkill ~ Bloodletting
Papa Roach ~ Infest
Pink Cream 69 ~ Sonic Dynamite
Pretty Maids ~ Carpe Diem
Rick Derringer ~ Jackhammer Blues
Running Wild ~ Victory
Saron Gas ~ Fragile
Shadows Fall ~ Of One Blood
Sinead O’Connor ~ Faith And Courage
Sixty Watt Shaman ~ Seeds Of Decades
Skillet ~ Invincible
Steely Dan ~ Two Against Nature
Switchfoot ~ Learning To Breathe
Symphony X ~ V: The New Mythology Suite
Vicious Rumors ~ Sadistic Symphony
Virgin Steele ~ The House Of Atreus: Act II
Yngwie J. Malmsteen’s Rising Force ~ War To End All Wars
[Last updated: 2021.01.09]
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