If you could only pick one of these, what would you choose?
After joining a press conference with the Deftones to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of ‘White Pony,’ it made me think more about albums that came out in the year 2000.
I remember that being a great year for music, but you don’t realize how many iconic albums were released 20 years ago until you start looking through them.
I compiled a list of notable Y2K rock albums:
| 3 Doors Down | The Better Life | 8-Feb |
| AC/DC | Stiff Upper Lip | 28-Feb |
| A Perfect Circle | Mer de Noms | 23-May |
| AFI | The Art of Drowning | 19-Sep |
| Alice Cooper | Brutal Planet | 6-Jun |
| Alkaline Trio | Alkaline Trio | 18-Apr |
| At the Drive In | Relationship of Command | 12-Sep |
| Bad Religion | The New America | 9-May |
| Deftones | White Pony | 20-Jun |
| Dio | Magica | 21-Mar |
| Disturbed | The Sickness | 7-Mar |
| Everclear | Songs from an American Movie Vol. 2 | 21-Nov |
| Fatboy Slim | Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars | 6-Nov |
| Glassjaw | Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence | 9-May |
| Godsmack | Awake | 31-Oct |
| Good Charlotte | Good Charlotte | 26-Jun |
| Green Day | Warning | 3-Oct |
| HIM | Razorblade Romance | 24-Jan |
| Iron Maiden | Brave New World | May-20 |
| Kid Rock | History of Rock | 30-May |
| Lamb of God | New American Gospel | 26-Sep |
| Limp Bizkit | Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | 17-Oct |
| Linkin Park | Hybrid Theory | 24-Oct |
| Marilyn Manson | Holy Wood | 11-Nov |
| Metallica | Mission Impossible 2 Soundtrack | 8-May |
| Modest Mouse | The Moon and Antarctica | 13-Jun |
| Motley Crue | New Tattoo | 11-Jul |
| Motorhead | We Are Motorhead | 15-May |
| Mudvayne | L.D. 50 | 22-Aug |
| New Found Glory | New Found Glory | 26-Sep |
| Nickelback | The State | 7-Mar |
| No Doubt | Return of Saturn | 11-Apr |
| NOFX | Pump Up the Valuum | 13-Mar |
| Oasis | Standing on the Shoulders of Giants | 28-Feb |
| Offspring | Conspiracy of One | 14-Nov |
| Orgy | Vapor Transmission | 10-Oct |
| Pantera | Reinventing the Steel | 21-Mar |
| Papa Roach | Infest | 25-Apr |
| Pearl Jam | Binaural | 16-May |
| PJ Harvey | Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea | 24-Oct |
| Queens of the Stone Age | Rated R | 6-Jun |
| Rage Against the Machine | Renegades of Funk | 5-Dec |
| Rancid | Rancid | 19-Jul |
| Smashing Pumpkins | Machina | 29-Feb |
| Soulfly | Primative | 26-Jun |
| Strait Up | Tribute to Lynn Strait of Snot | 7-Nov |
| Taproot | Gift | 29-Jun |
| The Cure | Bloodflowers | 15-Feb |
| The Exies | The Exies | 28-Mar |
| The Hives | Veni Vidi Vicious | 10-Apr |
| The White Stripes | De Stijl | 20-Jun |
| U2 | The Million Dollar Hotel | 13-Mar |
| Vast | Music for the People | 12-Sep |
Check back here on Friday after Organized Chaos for the full playlist on The X. In the meantime, you can start sending me your requests.
-Randy