When BFF.fm founder and station manager Cosmic Amanda tweeted out "I think REM's Up is probably my favorite album of 'the millennium' moment," I started looking through my collection for albums that defined my own millennium moment (as well as some that I wish had). This mix will dwell on that period of time before we all carried a computer in our pocket, when we left each other away messages on AOL Instant Messenger, downloaded mp3s from Napster, and worried about the Y2K bug.
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Playlist
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Airplane by The Album Leaf on An Orchestrated Rise To Fall (Music Fellowship) -
Movie (Never Made) by A Silver Mt. Zion on He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corners of Our Rooms (Constellation) -
Moya by Godspeed You! Black Emperor on Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada [EP] (Constellation) -
Going, Going, Gone by Stars on Nightsongs (Le Grand Magistery) -
Cody by Mogwai on Come On Die Young (Matador/Chemikal Underground) -
A Cure by Blonde Redhead on Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons (Touch & Go) -
Seneca by Tortoise on Standards (Thrill Jockey) -
Papercuts by Broadcast on The Noise Made by People (Warp) -
Wild by Poe on Haunted (Fishkin/Atlantic) -
Sleeping The Terror Code by Q And Not U on No Kill No Beep Beep (Dischord) -
C.F.T. (New Circuitry And Continued Evolution) by ISIS on Celestial (Hydra Head) -
Up Against The Wall by The Be Good Tanyas on Blue Horse (Nettwerk America) -
Age Of Innocence by Smashing Pumpkins on Machina/The Machines of God (Virgin) -
Luminance by Cave In on Creative Eclipses EP (Hydra Head) -
All Things Ordinary by The Anniversary on Designing For A Nervous Breakdown (Vagrant) -
Hope by R.E.M. on Up (Warner Bros.) -
Let's Get Out by Life Without Buildings on Any Other City (Tugboat) -
Hot Topic by Le Tigre on Le Tigre (Mr. Lady) -
What Are You Thinking? by Self on Breakfast With Girls (Dream Works) -
Tan/Black by Mates Of State on My Solo Project (Omnibus) -
Phone Works Both Ways by The Jazz June on The Medicine (Initial) -
I Confess To All This Mess by The Stereo on No Traffic (Fueled by Ramen) -
Mass Romantic by The New Pornographers on Mass Romantic (Mint) -
Them (Pop Song #3333) by K.C. Accidental on Anthems For The Could've Bin Pills (Noise Factory)