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Melody Maker All Time Top 100 Albums - 2000

Many thanks to Paul Grigg (paul.grigg@cableinet.co.uk) for supplying me with this list that I completely missed!

MM were very low key about the list, no mention of it on the cover and it was relegated to the bottom strip of a couple of pages detailing the favourite albums of Fatboy Slim (Abbey Road), and the Manics & Foo Fighters lead singers (Revolver/White Album).

1 The Queen is Dead The Smiths
2 The Stone Roses The Stone Roses
3 Nevermind Nirvana
4 The Beatles The Beatles
5 The Bends Radiohead
6 Revolver The Beatles
7 Hunky Dory David Bowie
8 Definitely Maybe Oasis
9 Screamadelica Primal Scream
10 Never Mind the Bollocks Sex Pistols
11 Pet Sounds Beach Boys
12 Velvet Underground & Nico Velvet Underground & Nico
13 Parklife Blur
14 Strangeways, Here We Come The Smiths
15 The Holy Bible Manic Street Preachers
16 Dog Man Star Suede
17 It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back Public Enemy
18 Astral Weeks Van Morrison
19 Psychocandy Jesus & Mary Chain
20 OK Computer Radiohead
21 Automatic for the People REM
22 Modern Life is Rubbish Blur
23 Exile on Main Street Rolling Stones
24 What's Going On Marvin Gaye
25 Marquee Moon Television
26 Transformer Lou Reed
27 Doolittle The Pixies
28 London Calling The Clash
29 Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys
30 Blue Lines Massive Attack
31 Different Class Pulp
32 Technique New Order
33 Libert Belle & the Black Diamond Express Go-Betweens
34 Ziggy Stardust David Bowie
35 Tindersticks Tindersticks
36 Music for the Jilted Generation Prodigy
37 Dare Human League
38 Closer Joy Division
39 Horses Patti Smith
40 Lowlife New Order
41 Everything Must Go Manic Street Preachers
42 Searching For The Young Soul Rebels Dexy's Midnight Runners
43 Heaven Up Here Echo & The Bunnymen
44 Surfer Rosa The Pixies
45 Actually Pet Shop Boys
46 Slanted & Enchanted Pavement
47 Suede Suede
48 Pink Moon Nick Drake
49 Murmur REM
50 Generation Terrorists Manic Street Preachers
51 Bandwagonesque Teenage Fanclub
52 Grace Jeff Buckley
53 Lazer Guided Melodies Spiritualised
54 The Smiths The Smiths
55 Spiderland Spiderland
56 Ill Communication Beastie Boys
57 If You're Feeling Sinister Belle & Sebastian
58 Tigermilk Belle & Sebastian
59 High Land, Hard Rain Aztec Camera
60 Reading, Writing & Arithmetic Sundays
61 Innervisions Stevie Wonder
62 Back in Black AC/DC
63 Loveless My Bloody Valentine
64 Licensed To Ill The Beastie Boys
65 Ocean Rain Echo & The Bunnymen
66 Harvest Neil Young
67 Parallel Lines Blondie
68 Pearl Janis Joplin
69 Forever Changes Love
70 True Blue Madonna
71 The 2nd Coming The Stone Roses
72 The La's The La's
73 The Specials The Specials
74 Actually Pet Shop Boys
75 Sign of the Times Prince
76 Siamese Dream The Smashing Pumpkins
77 The Clash The Clash
78 Loaded Velvet Underground
79 Dry P.J Harvey
80 The Modern Lovers The Modern Lovers
81 Bringing It All Back Home Bob Dylan
82 The Doors The Doors
83 Meat is Murder The Smiths
84 The Charlatans The Charlatans
85 All Mod Cons The Jam
86 Dummy Portishead
87 In Utero Nirvana
88 Deserters Songs Mercury Rev
89 Odelay Beck
90 Blood & Chocolate Elvis Costello
91 Vauxhall & I Morrissey
92 Pills n' Thrills and Bellyaches Happy Mondays
93 Abbey Road Beatles
94 Beggars' Banquet Rolling Stones
95 Stooges Stooges
96 Electronic Electronic
97 Urban Hymns The Verve
98 This is Hardcore Pulp
99 Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables Dead Kennedys
100 The Man Who Travis

 NB: The Pet Shop Boys 'Actually' gets placed twice, once at 74 and again at 45. At 74 it's listed as a 1987 release and at 45 it's listed as a 1986 release. Not quite sure what that's all about.
 

Thanks to Hazy John for the scan from MM