OFF: Top 100 selling albums of 2000

[Bob Lennon]

There actually is such a thing as CQ (culture Quotient), it's like IQ but has
less to do with intelligence than culture.
Now judging by the top 100 list below, it's quite apparent that most of the
world's CQ must be locked up in the minority of individuals.
No offense to anyone on this list that may have many favs below....and this
is only a joke anyway, cause there's no such thing as a CQ....
bob

In a message dated 12/28/00 2:20:09 PM Eastern Standard Time,
henderson.120 at OSU.EDU writes:

<< Hi Folks...

 Christ!  Is it *this* bad?  I've always told people who insist that my
 musical tastes are just weird-'cause-I-like-to-be-weird that I do buy plenty
 of highly popular stuff also.  Perhaps I just can't say that anymore.  Cause
 I'm sure I bought about 100 new albums this year, and I didn't buy a single
 one of these.  In fact, there are plenty of albums here by familiar bands
 that I have never heard of.  Like Bon Jovi.  He's really popular again?
 You're kidding me, when did that happen?  And I didn't even know about the
 live Floyd album!  Or Iron Maiden (they still exist?), or U2 and Metallica
 for chrissakes!  AC/DC too.  And Pearl Jam (they still exist?).  And
 a-ha...c'mon, how the hell did they resurface?!  No way!  George Michael?
 He's out of jail?  :)

 Man, something's happened in the last two years, 'cause I'm totally out of
 it I guess.  But then I have bought zillions of discs by all sorts of very
 modern groups in the 'post-rock' and avant-garde genres, some of which are
 even 'hip' to the college alternative crowd.  Not enough I guess, 'cause
 none of them are here.

 I bet that I have at least *one* of the top 100 from any other year from
 1968 up to the mid-90s at least.  Anyway, is there *anybody* here who bought
 any of this rubbish?  Perhaps I'm not the only one, and popular music has
 truly reached a nadir.

 Grakkl (FAA)

 1.Santana, "Supernatural"
 2.Britney Spears, "Oops! ... I Did It Again"
 3.Eminem, "The Marshall Mathers LP"
 4.Corrs, "In Blue"
 5.Moby, "Play"
 6.Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Californication"
 7.Bon Jovi, "Crush"
 8.Celine Dion, "All The Way - A Decade Of Song"
 9.Madonna, "Music"
 10.Macy Gray, "On How Life Is"
 11.Whitney Houston, "The Greatest Hits"
 12.Craig David, "Born To Do It"
 13.U2, "All That You Can't Leave Behind"
 14.Shania Twain, "Come On Over"
 15.Anastacia, "Not That Kind"
 16.Vengaboys, "The Platinum"
 17.'N Sync, "No Strings Attached"
 18.Mark Knopfler, "Sailing To Philadelphia"
 19.B. B. King & Eric Clapton, "Riding With The King"
 20.Lenny Kravitz, "Greatest Hits"
 21.Tom Jones, "Reload"
 22.Limp Bizkit, "Chocolate Starfish And The Hotdog Flavored Water"
 23.Ronan Keating, "Ronan"
 24.Original Soundtrack, "Mission: Impossible 2"
 25.Beatles, "1"
 26.Robbie Williams, "Sing When You're Winning"
 27.Aqua, "Aquarius"
 28.Metallica, "S&M"
 29.Sting, "Brand New Day"
 30.Westlife, "Westlife"
 31.Enrique Iglesias, "Enrique"
 32.AC/DC, "Stiff Upper Lip"
 33.Dr. Dre," Dr. Dre -- 2001"
 34.Melanie C, "Northern Star"
 35.Radiohead, "Kid A"
 36.David Gray, "White Ladder"
 37.Toni Braxton, "The Heat"
 38.Britney Spears, "... Baby One More Time"
 39.Creed, "Human Clay"
 40.Barry White, "The Ultimate Collection"
 41.Backstreet Boys, "Black And Blue"
 42.Savage Garden, "Affirmation"
 43.Cher, "The Greatest Hits"
 44.Blink 182, "Enema Of The State"
 45.Coldplay, "Parachutes"
 46.Texas, "The Greatest Hits"
 47.Destiny's Child, "The Writing's On The Wall"
 48.Olsen Brothers, "Wings Of Love"
 49.Pearl Jam, "Binaural"
 50.Him, "Razorblade Romance"
 51.Smashing Pumpkins, "Machina/The Machines Of God"
 52.Era, "Era II"
 53.Alanis Morissette, "Unplugged"
 54.Corrs, "MTV Unplugged"
 55.Iron Maiden, "Brave New World"
 56.Eros Ramazzotti, "Stilelibero"
 57.Backstreet Boys, "Millennium"
 58.Christina Aguilera, "Christina Aguilera"
 59.Sade, "Lovers Rock"
 60.Oasis, "Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants"
 61.Enigma, "The Screen Behind The Mirror"
 62.Travis, "The Man Who"
 63.a-ha, "Minor Earth, Major Sky"
 64.Eiffel 65, "Europop"
 65.George Michael, "Songs From The Last Century"
 66.Julio Iglesias, "Noche De Cuatro Lunas"
 67.Ricky Martin, "Sound Loaded"
 68.Pink Floyd, "Is There Anybody Out There? -- Live"
 69.Enya, "A Day Without Rain"
 70.Matchbox Twenty, "Season By Matchbox Twenty"
 71.Cypress Hill, "Skull And Bones"
 72.Andrea Bocelli, "Sacred Arias"
 73.Westlife, "Coast To Coast"
 74.Krezip, Nothing Less"
 75.Offspring, "Conspiracy Of One"
 76.Marc Anthony, "Marc Anthony"
 77.Alejandro Sanz, "El Alma Al Aire"
 78.Bryan Adams, "The Best Of Me"
 79.Queen, "Greatest Hits III"
 80.Morcheeba, "Fragments Of Freedom"
 81.Natalia Oreiro," Natalia Oreiro"
 82.Guano Apes, "Don't Give Me Names"
 83.Nelly, "Country Grammar"
 84.Sisqo, "Unleash The Dragon"
 85.Spice Girls, "Forever"
 86.Green Day, "Warning"
 87.Kid Rock, "History Of Rock"
 88.Helmut Lotti, "The Latino Classics"
 89.Live," The Distance To Here"
 90.Gregorian, "Masters Of Chant"
 91.No Doubt, "The Return Of Saturn"
 92.Original Soundtrack, "Coyote Ugly"
 93.Sarah Brightman, "La Luna"
 94.S Club 7, "S Club 7"
 95.Laura Pausini, "Entre Tu Y Mil Mares"
 96.Placebo, "Black Market Music"
 97.R. Kelly, "TP-2.com"
 98.All Saints, "Saints And Sinners"
 99.Kylie Minogue, "Light Years"
 100.Cure, "Bloodflowers"
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