12/29/2000
best releases of the 2000
N=new release r=requested c=compilation release
| Artist | Song Title | Album | Record Label | NRC |
| Cuda | Orange Army | Hellfire | 12th | N |
| Acid King | Blaze Out | Free... | Man's Ruin | N |
| Best | Records | of | 2000 | |
| 1.Murder City Devils | Bunkhouse | In Name and Blood | Sub Pop | |
| 2.Patti Smith | One Voice | Gung Ho | Arista | |
| 3.Mad Trucker Gone Mad | My Time | black album | Crustacean | |
| 4.Fu Manchu | No Dice | King of the Road | Mammoth | |
| 5.Tummler | Lifelike | Queen to Bishop VI | Man's Ruin | N |
| 6.Steve Earle | All of My Life | Transcendental Blues | Artemis | |
| 7.Dillinger 4 | Let Them Eat Thomas Paine | vs. God | Hopeless | |
| 8.PJ Harvey | This is Love | Stories from the City | Island | N |
| 9.Sleater-Kinney | All hands on the Bad One | All Hands on the Bad One | KRS | |
| 10.at.the.drive.in | One Armed Scissor | Relationship of Command | Grand Royal | N |
| 11.Supersuckers | Heavy Heart | Free the West Memphis 3 | Koch | N |
| 12.Merle Haggard | Wishing All These Old Things Were New | If Only I Could Fly | Anti- | N |
| 13.The Bellrays | Too Many Houses | Grand Fury | Vital Gesture | N |
| 14.Nashville Pussy | Strutting Cock | High as Hell | TVT | |
| 15.Rage Against the Machine | Down on the Street | Renegades | Sony | N |
| 16.Che | Hydraulicks | Sounds of Liberation | Man's Ruin | N |
| 17.Chicks on Speed | Turn of the Century | unreleases | K | N |
| 18.The Monkeywrench | Solar Revelations | Electric Children | Estrus | |
| 19.The Melvins | Dry Drunk | Crybaby | Ipecac | |
| 20.Fireballs of Freedom | Horse Mountain | Total Fucking Blowout | Estrus | |
| 21.The Explosions | No Revolution | Flash Flash Flash | Jade Tree | |
| 22.Zen Guerilla | Dirty Mile | 7" | Estrus | N |
| 23.Leatherface | Soundbites | Horsebox | BYO | |
| 24.Joy Division | Exercise One | BBC Sessions | Fuel | N |
| 25.Drunk Drivers | Autobahn Dance | Chillin' | All Malt | N |
| 26.Archers of the Loaf | You and Me | Accident | Alias | |
| 27.Katzenmallets | Dick Clark | s/t demo | self released | N |
| 28.Mudhoney | Hate the Police | Here Comes Sickness | Fuel | N |
| 29.Silkworm | Plain | Lifestyle | Touch and Go | N |
| 30.Motorhead | We Are Motorhead | We Are Motorhead | some label | |
| 31.No WTO Combo | Lynch the Landlord | Battle of Seattle | Alternative Tentacle | |
| 32.Bad Religion | Hopeless Housewife | New America | Atlantic | |
| 33.Boulder | The Invasion | Ravage and Savage | Tee Pee | N |
| 34.Welcome | Not Too Bright | Sun as a Nightlight | RX | N |
| 35.Bleed | She's All Mine | Motor Psycho | MuSick | N |
| 36.NoFX | Louise | Pump Up the Valuum | Epitaph | |
| 37.J Mascis & The Fog | I am Not Fine | More Light | Artemis | N |
| 38.Soledad Brothers | I-75 Boogie | s/t | Estrus | N |
| 39.Shellac | Prayer to God | 1,000 Hurts | Touch and Go | N |
| 40.The Cuttrhoats 9 | In the Eye | s/t | Man's Ruin | N |
| The Melvins | Lovely Butterflies | Electroretard | Man's Ruin | N |
N=new release r=requested c=compilation release