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Awesome Petri, can't wait! 
Listyguy : why not take this opportunity to listen to 00's music ?
I'm not an expert in the 00's (I think like a good old guy that the music is not good as in the 60's and 70's), but I'll use this decade poll to catch up with what I've missed.
IMO those decade polls are the best thing in AM.
I mean the 2 first years I did all the games (Survivor, brackets and all) but then I got tired of them (and ran out of time too), but I kept on doing the decade polls.
I mean I do them seriously : I listen and re-listen to a maximum albums and songs every month. It's the best way to increase your musical knowledge. It's like going to university. Studying year after year is fantastic. When all the decades are done (at the end of the year), then I'll get my PhD in rock music
I think in 2012 we should do the 90s again, cause I missed half of it 
I would totally love to re-cycle these decade polls next year - I didn't come in until the end of the '70's!
I also agree that these are easily my favorite polls on the site. Perhaps next year I can find the time to add the U.S. to the World Cup!
I guess I'll start listening now, then. I would love to redo the decade polls. The 60s/50s was the first one I got to take part in. And the US does need to host the poll one of these years.
I got here after the 70s was done too, i was really impressed by the picks, presentation and comments, even though i didn't make part of it it was incredibly fun and exciting to catch the countdown. This is the first pool i make part of, so excited! I need to start listening to these 00s records more often than ever now! 
Since this is the topic of 00s music active now... i'm really liking Wilco's A Ghost is Born, it demands my attention all the way through. Are their other records like this one? I know some of you guys really like Summerteeth and Yankee, i haven't check them out yet, so maybe i will change my mind. So far, really good album. Same goes to My Morning Jacket, so far nice surprises. This poll promises a lot of undiscovered (or even changes of heart) gems to me and pretty sure to other people too. Let's keep them coming. Happy New Year.
I'm surprised someone who listens to as much music as you hasn't heard Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. That album definitely deserves a listen.
Personally I can't wait to use this poll as an opportunity to hear more 2000s music. I just got Drum's Not Dead, The Glow Pt. 2, and Geogaddi and have been enjoying each.
I'm surprised someone who listens to as much music as you hasn't heard Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. That album definitely deserves a listen.
Personally I can't wait to use this poll as an opportunity to hear more 2000s music. I just got Drum's Not Dead, The Glow Pt. 2, and Geogaddi and have been enjoying each.
I can't believe either! It's top 5 of the decade for God sake!
I guess I overlooked Wilco based on their last two records which i've heard once or two times last year. I'm listening a lot to a Ghost Is Born, i'm even scared of updating my Last.fm cause i've played that record like 7 times yesterday, without counting further plays to a few songs. But right now i'm going to start playing Yankee! This 00s poll is going to rule when it comes to discover new music, at least new music to me, since i'm pretty sure Yankee has been receiving a lot of love over here for a few years already. Based on your praises and Zorg, i still don't know what i'm doing here instead of listening to it!
At first listen: Nothing short of remarkable. Yankee is terrific, wow... i'm beyond words, playing for the third time in a row! And my stupid last.fm is not updating, i have like 200 plays cached since yesterday ¬¬' But Happy New Year Again!
Every month from february we will post our best albums and songs lists for each year.
In february we will do 2000, in march 2001, etc... until november (2009).
Each month 10 albums and 10 songs will be qualified for the final round in december.
I thought we needed to give a top 100 or 200 right away
Now i'm feeling better, more time to relisten to the old records i'm attached to and give the new ones some fair spins and time to embrace.
I'm liking what i'm reading and luckily i will like to listen as well!
I just know that both Yankee and Ghost are growing incredibly fast and strong you know? I just can't get away of Wilco no more. Every day i play each of those records and if Summerteeth is better or at the very same level... it will be a mindblowing month with those guys.
A.M. is a pretty average genre exercise; think Radiohead's pablo honey of country rock. It really didn't give you much of an indication of what was to come. It's not a terrible album,just unremarkable.
Being There is their big epic, genre hopping double album; they cover just about every idiom of roots rock in the album, plus also explore noise for the first time, barking up the tree of the Velvet Underground. The album occasionally overreaches, and Tweedy hasn't developed entirely as a lyricist, but as a whole it's very rewarding.
The Mermaid Avenue albums are Wilco's best stab at straight forward country; they put new music to unrecorded Woody Guthrie lyrics with the help of Billy Bragg. Wilco's songs are strong on both volumes, but Bragg's are only great on Vol 1 and falter on volume 2.
Summerteeth is their first fully realized piece of art; it's unified in sound, and it's lyrics are much more advanced, partially due to Jeff working on old Woody Guthrie songs, and partially due to his obsession with the subversive literary works of Henry Miller.
Though the songs scream Pet Sounds, the lyrics are dark and dreary. One of the most poppy tunes has the repeated chorus "maybe all I need is a shot in the arm". The centerpiece, "Via Chicago" starts with the line "I dreamed about killing you again last night, and it felt all right to me" over scuttling noise and pop constructs that sound half "Heroin", half-"Caroline No".
You've heard YHF and AGIB so I can skip those.
Sky Blue Sky was a little bit of a let down for me; it attempted to recapture some of their rootsiness but fell more into a horribly embarassing Doobie Brothers sort of mood. "Impossible Germany" is really the only song I like.
Wilco (The album) is like a new Paul McCartney album; out of the box it's really exciting and sounds brilliant, but you eventually realize it's just an artist reliving past glories. Wilco (The Album) is kind of Sky Blue Sky's adult contemporary dressed up as a Summerteeth.
Really, really thankful for all this insights! Thank you so much i'm keeping in mind while listening and coming back to read after listening and when i finish listening to al of them i'll come here to comment. Being There is being pretty awesome, so far, even though i'm only at disc number one. Thank you again!
