Nu metal was at its commercial peak with bands like Korn, Godsmack, Limp Bizkit, and Creed. Alisha Sweeney Coldplay - Parachutesīack in 2000, a lot of rock radio stations here in the U.S. His melodies about falling in love carry an honest delivery.īut it's not all pretty ballads Gough's eclectic style, which wasn't common on albums from that era (think Coldplay and Travis), has experimental bits of baroque pop and lo-fi indie rock all wrapped in charm and self-deprecation led him from obscurity to this album winning the UK's coveted Mercury Prize in Music. Damon Gough, who records as Badly Drawn Boy played nearly all the instruments on the album and he has said he put his whole life into the album up to that point. The 18-track album opens with the enchanting song "The Shining," an instrumental duet of cello and French horn before it turns into a sweet love song on guitar. The unknown indie solo artist from the land of Oasis, turned the Manchester scene on it's head when his breakthrough album was released and he became the new darling of the iconic music city. The singular, scene-stealing and original album by Badly Drawn Boy, The Hour of the Bewilderbeast, stands the test of time. There's a romance to revisiting an album 20 years after its release especially an artist's debut. Jeremy Petersen Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast The world may have been very different in 2000, but twenty years on Since I Left You is as undeniable as ever. There’s a reason it took sixteen years for Avalanches to issue their follow-up (which they eventually did with the almost-as-excellent Wildflower). Yes, that sounds hyperbolic, but there's simply no perfect way to describe it. The result is a joyous, free-wheeling, kaleidoscopic, and unpredictable collection, not so much a listen as a journey. Indeed, one of the most amazing things about Since I Left You is just how natural and cohesive it sounds – a record with so many pieces and genres coming from so many different times and places. It's perhaps the most glorious example of what several years earlier had been dubbed plunderphonics (that being the creation of a sound collage made from one or more existing pieces of music or found sound) – the kind of record that could only be made by crate-digging producers like Chater and Seltmann. That the record got an international release at all was something short of miraculous, since every sample had to be traced to its source, and either usage permissions had to be obtained, or suitable replacements found. In its original form Since I Left You contained over 3500 samples – a truly dizzying number – spliced and patched and pieced together by Avalanches core duo Robbie Chater and Darren Seltmann. That information might seem like minutiae, but there was a significant reason for the delay. The Avalanches - Since I Left Youįirst, before we're deluged with messages that begin, "Well, actually.," an acknowledgement: while it's true that Since I Left You, the debut album from The Avalanches, wasn't released until November of 2001, its initial release in the group's native Australia came a year earlier. Reflecting back at 2000, here are 20 albums that the staff considers essential listening after two decades. The site was continually shut down and faced many lawsuits from artists and musicians who wanted to be compensated for the music they were creating as it was being pirated online.
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The popular file-sharing site gave music fans a chance to share albums for free and this new trend paved the way for the digital music revolution that we now know. We can credit them and this year as the time when our computers started to change our relationship with how we listened to music. While that is so common nowadays, it was pioneering at the turn on the century.Įnter Napster. Not just sticking to one genre, independent rock bands were becoming wildly ambitious and adding electronic music and other sounds onto their records. Also dominating the charts were powerhouse female pop stars and niche rock genres pop-punk and nu metal.Įlsewhere, underground and independent bands were energized and changing the sound of music. The popular music landscape was led by boy bands, R&B girl groups, and impressive new rappers. Stateside, once that ball dropped in Time's Square and said systems didn't fail, Y2K was just the new normal and no more fear of the Millennium Bug. There was a looming fear that major computer systems would crash and it caused many to stockpile food, batteries and bottled water because of the unknown.
But not in a Prince "tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999" going into 2000 kind of way people were actually scared something was going to happen. Leading up to the new millennium, there was a panic that it was going to be the end of the world.
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