hi music board

ok, ok, hands up who's looking at the end of this year as an opportunity to tell everyone your favourite 50 albums of the 2000s, or something. sad, isn't it? well, i for one am looking forward to it, and even went so far as to draw up a longlist last night. sadder, isn't it?

the idea occurred that, because there's a kinda gap in my music collection towards the early part of this decade compared to the middle and latter parts, i musta missed loads of good albums from then. so, i thought, why not ask disers to recommend an album from each year in the 2000s, one year at a time.

so, recommend an album released in the UK in 2000 to us all! i'll start:

Lambchop - Nixon.
i love this album because it's subtle, lyrically very droll and full of really gentle hooks. it's nashville music that's not that country, it's a concept album that isn't really a concept album. and its best track is called "Up With People" and features the celebratorially-sung line "we are screwing...up our lives today!". now you recommend one