I promised myself I wouldn’t do a column like this. Anything and everything in the media is doing “best and worst of the year” articles, and I wasn’t going to join the bandwagon — I was going to write about swear words.

But after further dwelling on the year 2000, I couldn’t help myself. This historic Y2K was filled with some awesome things — groundbreaking albums and new TV shows. But it also had its darker moments — cool bands breaking up and worthless bands getting their own “Behind the Music.”

So here is my best and worst of the year:

This week’s High Note is doing its own list like this, but not everyone I work with can agree with me that Eminem’s “Marshall Mathers LP” is the best album of the year.

And a big surprise comes from the most underrated band in the industry — Zebrahead. Their sophomore release, “Playmate of the Year” is by far the most rockin’ record to grace 2000.

Then there is Limp Bizkit’s “Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water,” which belongs on my list of both the best and the worst.

The band rocks — Fred Durst doesn’t.

As far as TV goes, there is hardly ever a show that grabs my attention, causing me to schedule my evenings around it. But FOX’s “Boston Public” is the best show since “A-Team” and “The Dukes of Hazzard.”

There weren’t many movies worth talking about in 2000. “Charlie’s Angels” was pretty entertaining as was “Remember the Titans” and “Meet the Parents,” but none of them can compare to 1999 that brought us “American Beauty” and “The Hurricane.”

What defines the year 2000, and the reason I will remember it the most, is all the bands that broke up long before they should have.

Ben Folds Five, Soul Coughing, Luscious Jackson, Pavement, Screaming Trees and Smashing Pumpkins are all great bands that threw in the towel. And Rage Against the Machine, who say they’re still together, no longer have frontman Zack de la Rocha. And you really can’t rage against any machine without de la Rocha belting out his political raps and screams.

To make things worse in the music industry, Run DMC’s new, big-time guest-appearance-filled double-album, “Crown Royal,” was slated for release in fall of ’99 and still hasn’t come out.

Another crappy thing that polluted 2000 is that damn band Creed. Their album and singles were good the first time I heard them, when it was known as Pearl Jam’s “Ten.”

And it’s bad enough that VH1 gave Goo Goo Dolls and No Doubt “Behind the Music” specials, but Creed? Before you know it, Baha Men are going to be talking about their hardships and bumps in the road to becoming rock stars.

Napster is something that the music industry thought would be one of the worst things of the year. But the theory that Napster would destroy the record industry by taking away album sales was shot down when Britney Spears broke the record for most albums sold in a week by a female artist, and Limp Bizkit broke the record for most albums sold in a week by a rock band.

Not to mention Eminem sat atop the music charts for eight weeks and sold more than 6 million copies of his album.

It was also a bad year for anyone on the Capricorn record label. Powerhouse band 311 is suing the label for failing to provide “major label” marketing. Release dates for other Capricorn albums like Cake’s greatest hits record and 2 Skinnee J’s “Volumizer” were pushed to next year.

So as the new year approaches, I can only hope that Eminem continues to piss people off, Fred Durst pulls a Zack de la Rocha and Creed quickly becomes the subject of VH1’s “Where Are They Now?”