One thing we can now do in the year 2000 is compare how much guitar music there was compared to the so called year of rock that was 2001. In December the answer was there wasn't a lot, just "Warning" by Green Day and "Thank You For Loving Me" by Bon Jovi and neither record is any good.
2000 was a year dance music was big and December may have given me an incline that 2001 would be the year of hard house because we have 3 of those records this month.
None of them are bad records, we have "Operation Blade (Bass In The Place)" by Public Domain which seemed to be to hard house what "Re-Rewind" was to garage a year earlier. There's "Storm Animal" by Storm and "Phatt Bass" by Warp Brothers vs Aquagen but this one is only good enough for half marks.
UK garage wasn't looking as good. MJ Cole could be relied on for a decent record in "Hold On To Me". However, we had Oxide & Neutrino with their garage take on "No Good" by The Prodigy which was rubbish and True Steppers continuing with the boy band/girl group vocalists with Brian Harvey on vocals to "True Step Tonight" which was just commercial nonsense.
The best record though is "My Feeling" by Junior Jack. I'm surprised it charted this late because it was definitely doing the rounds in 1999.
Rap wise we have "Stan" by Eminem and whilst there was no doubting how popular Eminem was, I did consider it to be odd how such a dark record could be so popular. Maybe it was the depression of the 21st century setting in. There was also a decent rap record from Mystikal with "Shake Ya Ass".
You could feel the pain of Wyclef Jean in "911" which is a great record. Craig David had completely moved away from garage into R&B with "Walking Away". Not a great move in the long run, but this record was decent at least.
The worst record was something me and my friends with differing music tastes could agree was the worst record at that moment which was "Independent Women Part 1" by Destiny's Child. We agreed that they made the worst music ever. Fortunately Apollo 440 were on hand to provide a decent record for the "Charlie's Angels" soundtrack which was appropriately titled "Charlie's Angels 2000".
Here's a list of the records with the best on top, worst at the bottom and the good ones in green, OK ones in amber and rubbish ones in red (and in no particular order):
Here's a look at the chart:
A promising start given this is December, but it's now safe to say December 1999 was better than any December in the 21st century.
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