The Best Northwest CDs of the Year 2000

...as voted by Pandomag.com staff and associates:

1 - The Drop - The New Horror Guidelines (Loveless) 76

2 - Voyager One - From The New Nation of Long Shadows (Loveless) 67

3 - Death Cab For Cutie - We Have The Facts and We're Voting Yes (barsuk) 64

4 - Man of The Year - The Future Is Not Now 59

5 - Carissa's Wierd - Ugly But Honest (Brown) 58

6 - Orbiter - Mini LP (Loveless) 58

7 - Dandy Warhols - 13 Tales From Urban Bohemia (Capitol) 51

8 - Harvey Danger - King James Version (London/Sire) 43

9 - Neko Case & her Boyfriends - Furnace Room Lullaby (Bloodshot) 43

10 - Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica (Epic) 39

11 - Diamond Fist Werny - Long View To The Sky (Rudy) 38

12 - Acetylene - Which Way From Up (self) 37

13 - Matchless - You Shaped Curve 35

14 - Built to Spill - Live (Warner Bros.) 34

15 - Carrie Akre - Home (Good-Ink) 31

16 - Joel R. L. Phelps - Inland Empires 25

17 - Graig Markel - Hard Grammar 23

18 - Elliot Smith - Figure 8 (dreamworks) 23

19 - Sleater Kinney - All Hands on The Bad One (Kill Rock Stars/Matador EU) 21

20 - Silkworm - Lifestyle (Touch and Go) 21

21 - Nevada Bachelors - Hello Jupiter (PopLlama) 21

22 - Ruston Mire - Steady Jobs & Flying Cars (Sandwich) 20

23 - Lesliwood - Ms. Led 21

24 - Fairgrove - In Defense of the Inexperienced (Montesano) 19

25 - Polecat - High Pressure System (Sonic Boom) 18

26 - 764 Hero - Weekends of Sound (Up) 18

27 - sarah dougher - the walls ablaze 17

28 - Heather Duby - Post to Wire (SubPop) 17

29 - Radio Nationals - Exit 110 16

30 - The Makers - Rock Star God (SubPop) 14

31 - Pearl Jam - Binaural (Epic) 14

32 - SushiRobo - Action Causes More Trouble than Thought (Pattern 25) 14

33 - Richmond Fontaine - Lost son 13

34 - Sunny Day Real Estate - The Rising Tide 13

35 - Tagging Satellites - Abstract Confessions 13

36 - Robb Benson - Songs About Songs (Roam) 12

37 - The Briefs - Hit After Hit (Dirtnap) 11

38 - Little Luann - Spaces 11

39 - Death Cab For Cutie - Forbidden Love EP (barsuk) 10

40 - Five Gears in Reverse - You're Not Asking the Right Questions (montesano) 12

41 - The Gits - Seafish Louisville 10

42 - Damien Jurado - Ghost of David (Sub Pop) 10

43 - Danny O'Keefe - Runnin’ From The Devil (Miramar) 10

44 - The Prom - In This Way They Found Me 10

45 - Rockfords - Rockfords (Epic) 10

46 - Spyglass - Wake Up Sleepyhead (Pattern 25) 10

47 - The Verbrilli Sound - Many Colored Butterflies 10

48 - The Vogue - The Vogue (self-released) 10

all the other records are under ten points:

49 - Get Hustle - Earth Odyssey 9

50 - The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic 9

51 - the revolutionary hydra- "the antiphony" 9

52 - Rick Bain and the genius Position - Crooked Autumn Sun 8

53 - Dorkweed - My Motor (Shaky) 8

54 - Happy Stars - Punk N Soul: The Ballad of the Electric Sheep 8

55 - Murder City Devils - In Name and Blood (Subpop) 8

56 - Bughouse 5 - Bull Mercury (East Side) 7

57 - Everclear - Songs for an American Movie Vol. 1 (Capitol) 7

58 - High Violets - Dream away 7

59 - Juke - Juke 7

60 - Two Ton Boa - Two Ton Boa 7

61 - rat cat hogan - with friends 5

62 - Deanna Knudsen - Mayfair Days (Good-Ink) 4

63 - The Helio Sequence - Com Plex 4

64 - The No-No's - Tinnitus (Animal World) 4

65 - Weary - Weary 4

66 - Maktub - Maktub 3

67 - The Pin-Ups - Backseat Memoirs 3

68 - Sweet Water - Suicide (Good-Ink) 3

69 - Tuffy - Permanent For Now (Loveless) 3

70 - Larry Barrett - The Big Slowdown (Barking Music) 2

71 - The Ruby Doe - The Flame and The Fury 2

72 - blow up - self titled (self released) 1

73 - bangs - fast easy love 1

74 - This Busy Monster "Curious Sofa" EP 1

75 - The Need - The Need is Dead 1

76 - Carmine - For Fun, Study, Or Profit 1

77 - City of - City of 1

78 - Minus Five - In Rock 1

79 - Lois - The Union Themes 1

80 - The Need - The Need is Dead 1

81 - Posies - In Case You Didn't Feel Like Plugging In 1

82 - Presidents of The USA - Freaked Out and Small 1

83 - rat cat hogan- "our apologies to walla" (2XLP!) 1

84 - the revolutionary hydra- "l'admirale suisse" EP 1

85 - Yellow Second - June One (Isosceles) 1

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