Moving right along ... Top 10 albums of 2001 please!
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Artist:
OK, so step one of my grand aggregation project got off to a slightly lackluster start. No worries, let's see if we can get it sorted for 2001.
My allegedly infallible source for all disputes (allmusic.com) let me down completely on the BRMC album. The official discography says it was released in 2001, so if you had it on your 2000 list, best go remedy that. Sorry, all.
I will continue to use allmusic.com to resolve year-released disputes, however I can be swayed to believe that it may be wrong. Point me to an official discography if you feel that your fave album was in fact released in 2001.
2001, to me, was the year that rock 'n' roll returned to the public consciousness, as people discovered The Hives and The Strokes, and The White Stripes released White Blood Cells and did videos with Legos. Rap-metal started to die a slow painful death, and electronic music faded back into its previous niche. Of course, things didn't really blow up in the mainstream until next year when The Vines and The Hives battled for the MTV2 Award.
So now, for the time being, until you guys remind me of another album that has somehow escaped my attention, these are my favorite albums, looking back at 2001:
1. Muse - Origin of Symmetry
2. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - BRMC
3. The Strokes - Is This It?
4. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
5. Curve - Gift
6. The Faint - Danse Macabre
7. Ladytron - 604
8. Les Savy Fav - Go Forth
9. Ash - Free All Angels
10. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
See, I still give The Strokes their props, even if I don't rate them as high as NME.
Now it's your turn. Go ahead and shoot me your Top 10 albums of 2001 so I may aggregate them together. I believe Radiohead released an album this year as well ...
And if you haven't already done so, or wish to edit your list for the year 2000, just hop back to the previous post, it's the first link above.
Locating MOG account...
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Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein and Fugazi - The Argument are required for me
Also:
Gorillaz - s/t
Le Tigre - Feminist Sweepstakes
Low - Things We Lost In The Fire
Clem Snide - Ghost of Fashion
Drive-by Truckers - Southern Rock Opera
Looking for ideas?
Metacritic
Best Ever Albums
and the big one
The Top 1000 albums of 2001 at rate your music
Happy listing..
01 Fugazi : The Argument
02 Jaga Jazzist : A Livingroom Hush
03 Les Savy Fav : Go Forth
04 Tortoise : Standards
05 Gorillaz : Gorillaz
06 Owls : Owls
07 Built to Spill : Ancient Melodies of the Future
08 The Appleseed Cast : Low Level Owl
09 Squarepusher : Go Plastic
10 Saves The Day : Stay Whay You Are
this was much more difficult to dial down than the year 2000 was, I have to mention the bands that had great work out in 2001 that I am still listening to quite frequently to this day, they all occupy the 11-25 stream: NERD, Rival Schools, Alkaline Trio, Small Brown Bike, Abilene, MF Doom, M83, Arab on Radar, Explosions in the Sky, Osker
STOP..... JUST STOP. I am not even caught up on your triple mix tape yet... and your on to 2001 albums....
And the problem with the Universe... is right here!
NO WAY IN HELL does "That" band deserve to be in the top 100 albums of all time, much less have 4 in the top 20.
Pathetic.....
All that list means is that more Radiohead Weenies are members of that site than there are NORMAL music afficianado's.
Cody, those links are brilliant and I will add those to future post. Thanks!
Oh Rob ... you had to remind me of M83 ... nope, just outside the top 10. Whew.
The Radiohead ref wasn't really intended as baiting, but since it got you to read, mission accomplished. Muwahahahaha!
ahh, me agin' bones is havin' some real fun Dale! as Rob did declare, this was a hard year to weed out, I think this was the year I realized that good new music was still an option...I'm still recovering from that revelation. I'll # me top five:
1. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros-Global A Go-Go
2. Gorillaz-Gorillaz
3. Röyksopp-Melody A.M.
4. Bob Dylan-Love and Theft
5. Low-Things We Lost in the Fire
The White Stripes-White Blood Cells
Pete Yorn-Musicforthemorningafter
Eels-Souljacker
Carbon Leaf-Echo Echo
Weezer-Weezer [Green Album]
...and, the ones I wish I could squeeze in:
Ian Hunter-Rant
Guided by Voices-Isolation Drills
Squarepusher-Go Plastic
The Knife-The Knife
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club-B.R.M.C.
...and(x2), the "boo-hoo, I'll revisit before the week's out" trio:
The Shins-Oh, Inverted World
Brian Eno & J. Peter Schwalm-Drawn From Life
Alice Cooper-Dragontown
if it makes you feel any better, i'm involved with NARAS and the release-date issues exist behind their doors as well with Grammy submissions needing to be checked and double checked. it's more complicated than ever since in our digital world there are now multiple release dates for most albums as well as songs that get released earlier for consideration.
TynansAnger - after seeing Cold Vein up on your list, I saw it again on pitchfork's and their discrip. sold me, giving it a listen in a moment, thanks!
Dale - that M83 album is a good one no? it didn't have the salt to make my 10 though. all of these albums were very hard to order, they all float at about the same height for me. i also had a spelling mistake - Saves The Day : Stay What You Are, sorry
Ghost - that list makes me cringe, it should be shot
Here we go;
1. Skinny - Taller
2. SFA - Rings around the World
3. BRMC - BRMC
4. Daft Punk - Discovery
5. The Strokes - Is This It?
6. Elbow - Asleep At The Back
7. Orbital - The Altogether
8. Basment Jaxx - Rooty
9. Mercury Rev - All Is Dream
10. Ash - Free All Angels
...and if any of the above are disqualified; ;)
11. The Beta Band - Hot Shots II
12. The Hives - Your New Favourite Band
13. New Order - Get Ready
14. Snow Patrol - When Its All Over
15. Orange Can - Home Burns
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Great lists, Dale (and all).
I think these are definitely worth a mention:
Rock Action
Post-Rock
and
Level Five
Oh, yeah
1. Hayden "Skyscraper National Park"
2. Jimmy Eat World "Bleed American"
3. Creeper Lagoon "Take Back the Universe and Give Me Back Yesterday"
4. Brand New "Your New Favourite Weapon"
5. Travis "The Invisible Band"
6. New End Original "Thriller"
7. Jamiroquai "A Funk Odyssey
8. The Standard "The Standard"
9. Ours "Distorted Lullabies"
10. Guided By Voices "Human Amusements at Hourly Rates"
1. gillian welch time
2. nick cave no more shall we par
3 dirtbombs ultrglide in black
4 sophie zelmani sing and dance
5 buddy guy sweet tea
6 shins oh inverted world
7 old 97's sattellite rides
rest no order
yann tiersen amelia
dropkick murphys sing loud sing proud
nikka costa everybody get their something
dale, i will be more on my game once we get past 2005, but here is what i've got for you...
1. Ben Folds - Rockin' The Suburbs
2. O Brother Where Art Thou Soundtrack
sorry. i'll do better next time :)
and i just learned oh brother is 2000...so you can put that on your 2000 list for me. ha.
from the "how could you forget?" league:
Cheap Trick-Special One
Box Car Racer
Fenix TX-LeChuza
Ministry of Sound sets
not changing anything, but oh what might have been!!
3 of the 4 above were formerly part of the MCA fam!
The Orb - Cydonia
King's X - Manic Moonlight
Oribtal - The Altogether
that's all for now!
Radiohead - Amnesiac
System of a Down - Toxicity
Tool - Lateralus
Smashing Pumpkins - Rotten Apples
Eek, my Internets wuz down for a few days but I hope mine will still count:
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
India.Arie - Acoustic Soul
Rufus Wainwright - Poses
White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Andy Stochansky - Five Star Motel
David Usher - Morning Orbit
No Doubt - Rock Steady
Alicia Keys - Songs in A Minor
Saves the Day - Stay What You Are
and honourable mention to Remy Shand - The Way I Feel.
Prepping for 2002 now!
Amnesiac - Radiohead
Get Ready - New Order
Rooty - Basement Jaxx
Party Music - The Coup
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Mahogany Soul- Angie Stone
Miss E. . .So Addictive - Missy Elliott
What Sound - Lamb
Vespertine - Bjork
Cydonia - The Orb(thanks Groon!)
Hope I'm not too late...