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| Sunday Times Record of the Week, 2000

  Paul Connolly's CD choice for Christmas

     All That You Can't Leave Behind
   by U2 (Island)
     Howdy
   by Teenage Fanclub (Columbia)
    All That You Can’t Leave Behind (note the direct, non-ironic title) is therefore a magnificent surprise...     The collapse of Creation Records could be the new start that Teenage Fanclub need. Tipped for global rock stardom in 1991...
         
     Stories from the City,
   Stories from the Sea
   by PJ Harvey (Island)
    Halfway Between The Gutter and
  The Stars
  by Fatboy Slim (Skint)
    Hearing P. J. Harvey’s new album, Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (Universal) is like coming home to find your studious little sister bunking off school...
    A year may be a long time in politics, but in dance music it is an eternity. It is now two years since Norman Cook — aka Fatboy Slim — released You’ve Come a Long Way Baby...
          
     Familiar To Millions
   by Oasis (Big Brother)
     The W
   by Wu-Tang Clan (Loud/Epic)
    Oasis have stuffed their first live album, Familiar To Millions (Big Brother), with old hits such as Live Forever, Supersonic, Rock’n’Roll Star, and, of course, Wonderwall...

    The Wu-Tang Clan will for ever be judged by the standard they set with their debut album. When the chess-playing, kung-fu obsessed, Staten Island rappers released...
         
     In The Mode
   by Roni Size (Talkin' Loud)  
     Relationship of Command
   by At The Drive-In (Grand Royal)
    The second LP from the public face of Bristol’s Full Cycle drum’n’bass collective, In the Mode sounds, quite simply, like the future...

    Recorded shortly after touring as support for rock-rap agitators Rage Against The Machine, At The Drive In's latest platter is...

         
     Kid A
   by Radiohead (Parlophone)
   
    Advance reports of Radiohead’s fourth album might have led you to expect an ESP jam between Pharoah Sanders...