AllMusic Loves 2001
June 8th, 2009 | 5:50 pm est |
Looking back, 2001 seems like one of the last years before pop music shattered into a million little niches. Despite the continuing fallout of Napster, there were still plenty of big, undeniable blockbusters: the Dave Matthews Band and Britney Spears sold 750,000 copies of their new albums within their first week of release, a situation that was the rule, not the exception. The teen-pop wave that Britney personified may have crested, but there were still plenty of great Top 40 singles that year, including two featuring Gwen Stefani in a supporting role remaking herself into a dance-pop diva. As it turned out, Gwen’s makeover pointed the way toward much of the mainstream pop of the decade, where the lines between R&B, pop, rock, and hip-hop blurred indistinguishably, but even with all this pop, Jay-Z’s Blueprint and a bumper crop of electronica — the latter highlighted by Daft Punk and Björk, along with Radiohead’s continuing forays into the form — rock & roll was the rallying cry of 2001, thanks to incendiary albums by the Strokes and the White Stripes, the two bands that spearheaded the garage-rock revival of the early 2000s. Joining the Strokes and Stripes was a reunited Weezer, the ascendancy of System of a Down and Drive-By Truckers and, on the somewhat softer side of things, the Shins, who offered a flashback to the golden age of jangle with their debut Oh, Inverted World.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
The Strokes - Is This It
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
Stephen Malkmus - Stephen Malkmus
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Pulp - We Love Life
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Nick Lowe - The Convincer
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
P!nk - M!ssundaztood
Björk - Vespertine
Tenacious D - Tenacious D
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
Weezer - Weezer
Merle Haggard - Roots, Vol. 1
Eve f/ Gwen Stefani - “Let Me Blow Ya Mind”
The Strokes - “Last Nite”
The White Stripes - “Hotel Yorba”
No Doubt - “Hey Baby”
Weezer - “Hash Pipe”
P!nk - “Get the Party Started”
Gorillaz - “Clint Eastwood”
Blu Cantrell - “Hit Em Up Style”
Moby f/ Gwen Stefani - “Southside (Remix)”
Britney Spears - “I’m a Slave 4 U”
Daft Punk - “One More Time”
Jennifer Lopez f/ Ja Rule - “I’m Real”
The Shins - “New Slang”
The Strokes - “Hard to Explain”
John Bush
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
The Beta Band - Hot Shots II
The Dismemberment Plan - Change
Four Tet - Pause
As One - 21st Century Soul
4hero - Creating Patterns
7L & Esoteric - The Soul Purpose
System of a Down - Toxicity
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Dead Meadow - Dead Meadow
Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction
The Pernice Brothers - The World Won’t End
Elbow - Asleep in the Back
Ian Brown - Music of the Spheres
Mouse on Mars - Idiology
Ty - Awkward
New Order - Get Ready
Roots Manuva - “Witness (1 Hope)”
Jay-Z - “The Ruler’s Back”
Jay-Z - “Takeover”
Basement Jaxx - “Jus 1 Kiss”
Basement Jaxx - “Where’s Your Head At”
Metro Area - “Caught Up”
Aphex Twin - “Jynweythek Ylow”
Super Furry Animals - “(Drawing) Rings Around the World”
Ty - “Hercules”
The Dismemberment Plan - “Sentimental Man”
Brad Paisley - “Two Feet of Top Soil”
Robbie Williams f/ Jon Lovitz - “Well, Did You Evah”
Bob Dylan - “Mississippi”
Ian Brown - “F.E.A.R.”
Mouse on Mars - “Actionist Respoke”
Squarepusher - “My Red Hot Car”
System of a Down - “Prison Song”
The White Stripes - “Fell in Love with a Girl”
7L & Esoteric - “Verbal Assault”
4hero f/ Ursula Rucker - “Time”
Heather Phares
Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
Angelo Badalamenti - Mulholland Drive
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
Björk - Vespertine
Frank Black and the Catholics - Dog in the Sand
Daft Punk - Discovery
Erase Errata - Other Animals
KaitO - You’ve Seen Us… You Must Have Seen Us…
Ladytron - 604
Liars - They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
Stephen Malkmus - Stephen Malkmus
Matmos - A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure
The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2
Mouse on Mars - Idiology
Jim O’Rourke - Insignificance
Solex - Low Kick and Hard Bop
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
The Strokes - Is This It (UK)
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Aaliyah - “Rock the Boat”
Andrew W.K. - “Party Hard”
Basement Jaxx - “Romeo”
Crazy Town - “Butterfly”
Daft Punk - “Digital Love”
Rebekah Del Rio - “Llorando (Crying)” (YouTube)
Destiny’s Child - “Bootylicious”
Gorillaz - “Clint Eastwood”
Stephen Malkmus - “Discretion Grove” (YouTube)
Mouse on Mars - “Actionist Respoke”
OutKast - “The Whole World”
Britney Spears - “I’m a Slave 4 U”
Spoon - “Everything Hits at Once” (YouTube)
The Strokes - “Last Nite”
The White Stripes - “Fell in Love with a Girl”
Tim Sendra
AM/FM - Getting into Sinking
Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
Beachwood Sparks - Once We Were Trees
Birdie - Triple Echo
Call and Response - Call and Response (Kindercore)
The Chamber Strings - Month of Sundays
Cut Chemist & DJ Shadow - Product Placement
Daft Punk - Discovery
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci - How I Long to Feel That Summer in My Heart
Hefner - Dead Media
Hood - Cold House
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Ted Leo/Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance
Pernice Brothers - The World Won’t End
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
The Strokes - Is This It (UK)
The Telepathic Butterflies - Nine Songs
Tipsy - Uh-Oh!
Walker Kong - There Goes the Sun
Aaliyah - “More Than a Woman”
The American Analog Set - “Punk as Fuck”
Belle & Sebastian - “I’m Waking Up to Us”
The Bigger Lovers - “Forever Is Not So Long”
Champale - “Hard to Be Easy”
Daft Punk - “Digital Love”
Daft Punk - “One More Time”
Dungen - “Stadsvandringar”
Jimmy Eat World - “The Middle”
The Lilac Time - “Jeans + Summer”
The Lucksmiths - “The Great Dividing Range”
No Doubt - “Underneath It All”
Puffy AmiYumi - “Love So Pure”
Radio 4 - “Dance to the Underground”
The Sunshine Fix - “Age of the Sun”
Sean Westergaard
Tim Berne’s Hard Cell - The Shell Game
Frank Black and the Catholics - Dog in the Sand
Burnt Sugar - That Depends on What You Know: The Sirens Return/K
Chitlin’ Fooks - Chitlin’ Fooks
Cut Chemist & DJ Shadow - Product Placement
Gonervill - Gonervill
Granfaloon Bus - Exploded View
ICP Orchestra - Oh, My Dog
Ori Kaplan Percussion Ensemble - Gongol
Mike Keneally - Wooden Smoke/Wooden Smoke Asleep
Gary Lucas - The Edge of Heaven
Miriodor - Mekano
Mushroom - Foxy Music
Negativland - These Guys Are from England and Who Gives a Shit
Nicky Skopelitis & Raoul Björkenheim - Revelator
Tortoise - Standards
Kazutoki Umezu Kiki Band - Kiki
Steve Wynn - Here Come the Miracles
John Zorn - The Gift
Masada - Masada: Live at Tonic, 2001
Andrew Leahey
Ryan Adams - Gold
Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers - Real to Reel
Rufus Wainwright - Poses
Sparklehorse - It’s a Wonderful Life
Old 97’s - Satellite Rides
The Langley Schools Music Project - Innocence & Despair
Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Air - 10,000 Hz Legend
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Whiskeytown - Pneumonia
Ben Folds - Rockin’ the Suburbs
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Tenacious D - Tenacious D
Matt Collar
Astrobrite - Crush
Beachwood Sparks - Once We Were Trees
Björk - Vespertine
Nick Curran and the Nitelifes - Nitelife Boogie
Daft Punk - Discovery
Dungen - Dungen
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Ed Harcourt - Here Be Monsters
Richard Hawley - Late Night Final
Carly Hennessy - Ultimate High
Ted Leo/Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance
Kylie Minogue - Fever
New Order - Get Ready
Pernice Brothers - The World Won’t End
Pulp - We Love Life
Ron Sexsmith - Blue Boy
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Spiritualized - Let It Come Down
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Greg Heaney
Isis - Celestial
Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die
The Von Bondies - Lack of Communication
Fugazi - The Argument
Beulah - The Coast Is Never Clear
Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
Stephen Malkmus - Stephen Malkmus
The Strokes - Is This It
Tenacious D - Tenacious D
Godflesh - Hymns
They Might Be Giants - Mink Car
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Firewater - Psychopharmacology
Mogwai - Rock Action
Slayer - God Hates Us All
Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
The Dirtbombs - Ultraglide in Black
Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
Coverge - Jane Doe
Andrew W.K. - “It’s Time to Party”
Burning Airlines - “The Deluxe War Baby”
Sigh - “Dreamsphere (Return to the Chaos)”
Harkonen - “Grizz”
The Dirtbombs - “Ode to a Black Man”
Pig Destroyer - “Preacher Crawling”
Firewater - “Car Crash Collaborator”
Tool - “The Grudge”
Frodus - “Year of the Hex”
Sloan - “If It Feels Good Do It”
Stephen Malkmus - “Jo Jo’s Jacket”
Emperor - “The Tongue of Fire”
Clutch - “Careful with That Mic”
Of Montreal - “Peacock Parasols”
Silver Jews - “I Remember Me”
Godflesh - “Anthem” (YouTube audio)
Brian Jonestown Massacre - “Nevertheless”
Apes - “Mountain of Steel”
Isis - “Glisten” (YouTube audio)
Muse - “New Born”
David Jeffries
Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
The Anubian Lights - Naz Bar
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Detroit Grand Pubahs - Funk All Y’all
Dilated Peoples - Expansion Team
Beres Hammond - Music Is Life
Hood - Cold House
Jay Dee - Welcome 2 Detroit
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Khanate - Khanate
Killah Priest - Priesthood
Kirsty MacColl - Tropical Brainstorm
Damian “Junior Gong” Marley - Halfway Tree
Nortec Collective - The Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 1
Prince Jazzbo - Mr. Funny
Reynols/No Reynols - Reynols/No Reynols
Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By
U-Roy - Now
Andrew Weatherall - Hypercity
Jason Lymangrover
Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
Air - 10,000 Hz Legend
Daft Punk - Discovery
Detroit Grand Pubahs - Funk All Y’all
The Dismemberment Plan - Change
Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die
Fugazi - The Argument
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Ladytron - 604
Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
Pinback - Blue Screen Life
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Stephen Malkmus - Stephen Malkmus
System of a Down - Toxicity
Tenacious D - Tenacious D
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
The Strokes - Is this It
Tomahawk - Tomahawk
Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
Weezer - Weezer
Basement Jaxx - “Where’s Your Head At?” (YouTube)
Britney Spears - “I’m a Slave 4 U”
Elbow - “Any Day Now”
Guided by Voices - “Glad Girls”
Mogwai - “2 Rights Make 1 Wrong”
Prefuse 73 - “Life/Death”
R. Kelly - “Feelin’ on Yo Booty”
Spiritualized - “Don’t Just Do Something”
Stereolab - “Captain Easychord”
Tricky - “Diss Never (Dig Up We History)”
James Christopher Monger
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Global a Go-Go
Kaizers Orchestra - Ompa Til du Dør
Luke Haines - The Oliver Twist Manifesto
Original Soundtrack - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Guided by Voices - Isolation Drills
Baby Dee - Little Window
Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire - The Swimming Hour
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
Brian Dewan - The Operating Theater
Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
Original Soundtrack - Amélie
Therion - Secret of the Runes
Röyksopp - Melody A.M.
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci - How I Long to Feel That Summer in My Heart
Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
The Danielson Famile - Fetch the Compass Kids
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
The Langley Schools Music Project - Innocence & Despair
Isan - “Cathart”
Adam West - “C’mon and Bludgeon Me”
Nicolai Dunger - “Dr. Zhivago’s Train”
Tenacious D - “Explosivo”
Björk - “Hidden Place”
Hollenthon - “Y Draig Goch”
Hem - “Half Acre”
Air - “Radio #1″
Mercury Rev - “The Dark Is Rising”
Faun Fables - “Sleepwalker”
Rufus Wainwright - “Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk”
Ken Stringfellow - “Down Like Me”
Maggi, Pierce and E.J. - “Space”
Ron Sexsmith - “This Song”
Rodney Crowell - “Telephone Road”
The White Stripes - “We’re Going to Be Friends”
Radiohead - “I Might Be Wrong”
Destroyer - “Streethawk I”
Muse - “Bliss”
Super Furry Animals - “(Drawing) Rings Around the World”
Andy Kellman
Aaliyah - Aaliyah
Arab Strap - The Red Thread
As One - 21st Century Soul
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
Bilal - 1st Born Second
Bows - Cassidy
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
The Coup - Party Music
Dabrye - One/Three
The Detroit Escalator Co. - Black Buildings
Faith Evans - Faithfully
4hero - Creating Patterns
Herbert - Bodily Functions
Jay Dee - Welcome 2 Detroit
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Lali Puna - Scary World Theory
N.E.R.D. - In Search Of…
Spacek - Curvatia
Andrew Weatherall - Hypercity
Zip - Superlongevity
Aaliyah - “Rock the Boat” (YouTube)
Afronaught - “Transcend Me”
Archigram - “In Flight (Raw Club Mix)”
Stephane Attias - “Distant Planet”
Basement Jaxx - “Romeo” (YouTube)
Blaze - “How Deep Is Your Love”
Daft Punk - “Face to Face”
Missy Elliott - “Get Ur Freak On”
Morgan Geist - “24K”
Ginuwine - “Differences”
Green Velvet - “La La Land” (YouTube)
Maxwell - “Lifetime”
Metro Area - “Miura”
Kylie Minogue - “Can’t Get You Out of My Head”
Moodymann - “J.A.N.”
Phantom Ghost - “Perfect Lovers (Unperfect Love Mix)”
Playgroup - “Number One (Black Strobe Instrumental)”
Sticky f/ Ms. Dynamite - “Booo!”
Super-A-Loof - “Covetous”
Transllusion - “Dimensional Glide”
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Kudos on the ISIS, Opeth & Converge mentions…I’m guessing the Allmusic editors took the accusations of metal-ignorance to heart and got wise on the metal ticket ;) (though I suspect the Tool brigade won’t appreciate the omission of Lateralus from the list). Speaking of omissions…where the hell is Amnesiac? Failing to include this one is like failing to include Wish You Were Here in a “Best of ‘75″ list or something…simply inexcusable! It may really amount to be Kid B, but how can you fault leftovers when among them you find gems such as Pyramid Song, You and Whose Army & (especially) Life in a Glasshouse? I’m guessing you’re gonna get a lot of flak for this one, ALLMUSIC…
P.S.: At first glance I failed to notice the inclusion of “The Argument”. Thanks for saving me a letterbomb for latter occasions, AMG!
Oh wait I just saw the lone Amnesiac entry…uhh just ignore any abnormally bulky manilla envelopes with “DIE” scribbled on them in blood when you check the mail, OK AMG?
A few pop singles worth mentioning:
Josh Joplin Group-”Camera One”
Nelly Furtado-”Turn Off the Light”
Nelly-”Ride Wit Me”
My favorite 2001 LPs:
* mentioned in the list:
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
P!nk - M!ssundaztood
Weezer - Weezer (Green Album)
System of a Down - Toxicity
Slayer - God Hates Us All
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Therion - Secret of the Runes
* not mentioned in the list:
Anti-Flag - Underground Network
Ben Folds - Rockin’ The Suburbs
Face To Face - Standars And Practices
Gregg Rolie - Roots
Hollenthon - With Vilest Of Worms To Dwell
Huey Lewis - Plan B
Iced Earth - Horror Show
Joe Satriani - Live In San Francisco
Niacin - Time Crunch
Pennywise - Land Of The Free
Shadow Gallery - Legacy
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
Zoot Woman - Living In A Magazine
“Is This It” is an important album in my life, lots of memories, but I’ll take The Dirtbombs over the Strokes anyday, kudos Mr. Heaney.
Some albums I love that didn’t make the list:
The Divine Comedy - Regeneration
The Ladybug Transistor - Argyle Heir (love Sasha Bell)
The Sixth Great Lake - Up The Country (love Sasha Bell)
Rufus Wainwright - Poses
Yann Tiersen - L’Absente
Zurdok - Maquillaje (mexican band, good)
Now I cheat (sort of). Compilations I really love that were released that year:
The Yardbirds - Ultimate!
Astrud Gilberto - Astrud Gilberto’s Finest Hour
Burt Bacharach - The Very Best Of Burt Bacharach
Black Box Recorder - The Worst Of Black Box Recorder
Various Artists - Les Oiseaux De Passage
Greetings!
My favorite album of 2001 (not on the list):
A Silver Mt Zion’s beautiful second album, “Born into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward”. Check it out!
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It’s sort of surprising to not see Nick Cave’s “No More Shall We Part” here… I would definitely recommend that, it’s in my top 5 for ‘01. One excellent but tough to find album is Foetus’s “Flow”, which was a spectacular comeback for Jim Thirlwell, and is not only the best of his millenial work, but one of his best albums, period. “Cold Vein”’s awesome… I like “White Blood Cells” a lot too… My electronica pick of the year would be Gridlock’s “Trace” rather than Daft Punk’s “Discovery”, which is a fine album but I’m admittedly not a big fan of house in any form. “(The Tired Sounds Of) Stars of the Lid” was amazing. I think that’s my favorite of the year.
Albums:
Pulp- We Love Life
Bob Dylan- Love and Theft
Super Furry Animals- Rings Around The World
Radiohead- Amnesiac
The Strokes- Is This It
The White Stripes- White Blood Cells
REM- Reveal
Travis- The Invisible Band
Gorillaz- Gorillaz
Songs:
Sunrise- Pulp
Wickerman- Pulp
Fell In Love With A Girl- White Stripes
You and Whose Army- Radiohead
Crop Dust- The Fall
Sidewalk Serfer Girl- Super Furry Animals
It’s Not The End of the World- Super Furry Animals
Run Christian Run- Super Furry Animals
Summer Days- Bob Dylan
Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee- Bob Dylan
OK, so it’s actually Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum…
The World Won’t End by the Pernice Brothers remains the best album released this millennium. You know, I didn’t see Leave Here a Stranger by Starflyer 59 mentioned by anyone. I waited and waited for the band to repeat the style, but Jason Martin had other ideas, some of which were quite tasty but none reaching the heights of LHaS.
OHHHHHH man. This was my music year. Sophomore year of college, moved next to a record store, friend left an Australian copy of Is This It over at my house before I’d even heard of it. Such good times. I remember the posters for a lot of these albums hanging up in that record store. I also remember the disappointment when I saw The Strokes had changed their album art when they were released in the US; luckily I got a vinyl copy that still had NY City Cops in the sequence - my 2001 track.
I love you Allmusic. But I have to YouTube some 2001 concert moments.
unfortunately you’ve missed ‘One of the most unheralded and underappreciated CDs of 2001, Bran Van 3000’s Discosis’, as you put it yourselves. Including the lovely uplifting ‘Astounded’, featuring Curtis Mayfield.
And actually quite odd you nearly completely ignore Kylie’s Can’t get you out of my head…
While it’s nice to see lists and a summary at the top, what happened to the individual contributor’s thoughts on the matter? Every other person used to put down a couple paragraphs describing their list and some omissions. Please go back to more than just laundry lists - they’re much less interesting to read than someone’s thoughts on a topic.
2001 was probably the last year I remember as having enough fantastic albums for me to create even a top 5, let alone the 12 great albums here. Don’t let the obscurity of some of them fool you, they’re all great work:
Cotton Mather - The Big Picture
Bigger Lovers - How I Learned To Stop Worrying
The Original Brothers And Sisters Of Love - H.O.M.E.S. Vol 1.
Neil Finn - One Nil
Kevin Tihista’s Red Terror - Don’t Breathe A Word
Chamber Strings - Month Of Sundays
Guided By Voices - Isolation Drills
Ed Harcourt - Here Be Monsters
Mull Historical Society - Loss
The Orgone Box - The Orgone Box
Pernice Brothers - The World Won’t End
Splitsville - The Complete Pet Soul
2001 was such a rad year for music. Here are some of my favorites…
Mentioned on the list:
Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
Björk - Vespertine
Daft Punk - Discovery (my favorite album this decade)
Detroit Grand Pubahs - Funk All Y’all
Hedwig and the Angry Inch soundtrack
Ladytron - 604
Matmos - A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure
Kylie Minogue - Fever
New Order - Get Ready
Spiritualized - Let It Come Down
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells.
Not mentioned:
ADULT. - Resuscitation
Ellen Allien - Stadtkind
The Faint - Danse Macabre
Felix Da Housecat - Kittenz and Thee Glitz
Miss Kittin and The Hacker - First Album
The Moldy Peaches - The Moldy Peaches
Dolly Parton - Little Sparrow
Sneaker Pimps - Bloodsport
Whew..I am an ass. Thankfully some of you put “The Argument” on here.
Although I will say putting any Ladytron album on a best of list is just lame. You guys are lazy if you can’t find something better to put up other than that record.
It’s not that they’re the worst band in the world or anything silly. No, it’s not that they suck, it’s that they tread inoffensive, highly stylized music that honestly just bores everything you touch. (Like that? Lil inside Ladytron humor. But even thats borin…zzzz)
* Nick Lowe–The Convincer: Lowe’s songwriting is now so subtle and compact that, on first or second listening, it’s not easy to tell how great this is. By the 20th listening, I still wanted to hear it again. Some wonderful tracks here, including “Lately I’ve Let Things Slide,” “Bygones (Won’t Go),” “Cupid Must Be Angry.”
* The Now Time Delegation–Watch for Today
* The White Stripes–White Blood Cells
* Big Time Sarah–A Million of You: Fabulous modern blues album. My one complaint is that some album packager/publishing researcher has once again mis-titled “Mystery Train” as “Train I Ride.”
* Buddy Guy–Sweet Tea: Scorching!
* Alejandro Escovedo–A Man Under the Influence
* Clarence Gatemouth Brown–Back to Bogalusa
* Buddy & Julie Miller (self-titled)
* Bob Dylan–Love and Theft
* Graham Parker–Deepcut to Nowhere
* Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros–Global a Go-Go
* The Detroit Cobras–Life, Love and Leaving
* Ryan Adams–Gold
Bonus: The Red House Records “A Nod to Bob” Dylan tribute, with
superb covers from Eliza Gilkyson, Guy Davis, Greg Brown & more
People of Allmusic.com! It’s time to make another 60’s or 70’s list!
I suggest 1965, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1971…
Cheers!
* Love and Thef (Bob Dylan)
* From Detroit to St Germain (St Germain)
* Hijos del culo (Bersuit Vergarabat)
* Bandidos rurales (León Gieco)
* Proxima estación: Esperanza (Manu Chao)
* White Blood cells (The White Strippes)
* Verde paisaje del infierno (Los Piojos)
* Gorilaz (Gorilaz)
* Is this it (The Strokes)
* Discovery (Daft Punk)
My favorite album of 2001: The Mother Hips’ Green Hills Of Earth. Just as good as classic pre-Disco Bee Gees!
Not one of my favourite years. I’m eagerly waiting for years like 2002, 2006 or 2007 because they were, in my opinion, the best of this decade. Nevertheless, I’m very happy to see references to excellent albums like: Fugazi - The Argument, The Strokes - Is This It, The White Stripes - White Blood Cells, Tomahawk - Tomahawk and System of a Down - Toxicity (my favourites from this year).
Very nice to have the chance to know the album of Errase Errata and the Anubian Lights (I didn’t even knew the existance of these bands) and to remember me the albums of Bran Van 3000 and Lovage!
What? I thought y’all liked that Sigur Ros album! Or was that just a re-releae?
Personal faves:
SYSTEM OF A DOWN-Toxicity
MISS KITTIN & THE HACKER-First album
DESTINY’S CHILD-Survivor
Most other cool albums have already been mentioned, but here are a few more additions:
PLAYGROUP-Playgroup
CALIFONE-Roomsound
cLOUDDEAD-cLOUDDEAD
FANTOMAS-The director’s cut
KOSHEEN-Resist
NEW SECTOR MOVEMENTS-Download this
Individual tracks:
FELIX DA HOUSECAT-Silcver screen-shower scene
The STREETS-Has it come to this ?
GARE DU NORD-Pablo’s blues
FISCHERSPOONER-Emerge
MAX LINEN-The Soulshaker
TIGA & ZYNTHERIUS-Sunglasses at night
MACY GRAY-Sweet baby
TRAVIS-Sing
Oh yeah, guilty pleasure of 2001: NICKELBACK’s Silver side up. Never say this out loud in public, but ‘How you remind me’ is actually of the best songs of that year.
Echo and the Bunnymen’s excellent “Flowers” helped me get through the aftermath of 9/11…
Also, Elastica’s “Radio One Sessions” was a brilliant retrospective of their career…
Thanks, All Music, for covering so many different eras with this sort of poll/fan listing. It’s hard to believe that anyone would stop listening to music after, say, 1979. EVERY ERA is good! Even if you asked for a year as ancient as 1949, I would go back and research what I liked that was released that year (even though I wasn’t born yet).
Here’s a few from ‘01 that I liked then and now:
Natalie Merchant - Motherland. My album of the year for ‘01. Natalie’s voice is like honey oozing from the grooves … or bytes, as the case may be.
Blake Babies - God Bless the Blake Babies. Maybe not their best, but still… it’s Juliana! And “Disappear” is a wonderfully poppy, bittersweet tune.
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - Live in NYC. A great, great live set, esp. the string of “Youngstown,” “Murder, Inc.” and “Badlands.” AND the two new tunes, “Land of Hope and Dreams” and “American Skin,” are top-notch.
And, last, because I am a child of the ’70s - Paul McCartney’s Wingspan best-of.
a list of my favorite releases from 2001 (includes compilations/reissues)
Aesop Rock - Labor Days
Anthony Braxton - Quintet (Basel) 1977
Anti-Flag - Underground Network
Atlon, Inc. - Main Things
Atmosphere - Sad Clown Bad Dub
Bardo Pond - Dilate
Big Daddy Kane - The Very Best of Big Daddy Kane
Bill Hicks - Flying Saucer Tour
Billy Cobham - Rudiments: The Billy Cobham Anthology
Boredoms - Rebore, Vol. 0: Vision Recreations by Eye
Boxhead Ensemble - Two Brothers
Burning Spear - Spear Burning
Busta Rhymes - Total Devastation
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Converge - Jane Doe
The Dismemberment Plan - Change
Estradasphere - Buck Fever
Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die
Fantomas - The Director’s Cut
Fennesz - Endless Summer
Frank Pahl & Klimperei - Music for Desserts
Fugazi - The Argument
Fugazi - Furniture
Good Riddance - Symptoms of a Leveling Spirit
Hamster Theatre - Carnival Detournement
Hood - Cold House
Immortal Technique - Revolutionary, Vol. 1
Jan Jelinek - Loop Finding Jazz Records
Jim O’Rourke - Insignificance
John Coltrane - The Olatunji Concert
John Zorn - The Gift
John Zorn - Madness, Love & Mysticism
Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Labradford - Fixed::Content
Leftover Crack - Shoot the Kids at School
Liars - They Threw Us All in a Trench & Put a Monument on Top
Masada - Live at Tonic
Matthew Shipp - New Orbit
Maudlin of the Well - Bath
The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2
Miles Davis - The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions
Monolake - Gravity
Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
Niney the Observer - Microphone Attack
NOFX - Surfer
Opeth - Blackwater Park
OutKast - Big Boi & Dre Present…
Papa M - Whatever, Mortal
Piano Magic - Seasonally Affective
Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Royksopp - Melody AM
Ruins - Mandala
Schlammpeitziger - Collected Simple Songs of My Temporary Past
A Silver Mt. Zion - Born Into Trouble As Sparks Fly Upward
Squarepusher - Squarewindow
Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of…
Strike Anywhere - Change is a Sound
System of a Down - Toxicity
Thelonious Monk - The Columbia Years
Tim Hecker - Haunt me, Haunt me, Do It Again
Tool - Lateralus
Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
Various Artists - Immediate Action
Venetian Snares - Songs About My Cats
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
The Yardbirds - Ultimate!
a quick note about the above list, the Atmosphere - Sad Clown Bad Dub is a compilation CD I made that year as is the Squarepusher - Squarewindow… I don’t often save my compilations over the years (I’ve probably only saved a dozen of them total), but these are two of my favorites… otherwise, the rest of the list is official releases.
I think 2001 was one of the last years where electronica ruled. And this is the year of the broken beat arise, with that fabulous works by Afronaught, 4hero and domu! Why no one even mentioned that quirked masterpiece that is “Up+Down”?
Maybe because no-one liked it enough? These are supposed to be lists of people’s personal favourite music.
Can’t forget Red House Painters’ sublime swan song, “Old Ramon” (And lay off, Joe Mullaney - Risingson’s just excited!)
Of course, Joe. And that was a favourite of mine.
2001 one was a great year in music. Is This It by the Strokes was probably the best album of the year. Can’t wait for their 4th album to come out!
This was the year that Napster really started taking off, too (well, 2000-01), and it’s strange how sales were booming. This article cites Dave Matthews Band as a big seller that year, and they were giving away their first single away for free on Napster, which was then unheard of. Go figure. There were a lot of people using Napster those days. Maybe not as much as Kazaa or torrents or uploading sites like in subsequent later years, but you would think it would’ve affected sales. Maybe downloading music illegally didn’t really have as much to do about the decline of sales as the record companies want us to believe, and more along how the industry started treating the “movement” and their artists. But we should know this already, I guess.
remove the “Pop”(just leave the teen-dance-pop instead) tag of the site, it’s a very rockist and bullshit thing
and create all that bands with ugly face that we all hate
its like you simply delete britain off the music world saying that, just leaving we with the heavy rock crap-dudness
Rock on, Gabe.
The 2 albums that stick out for me that ironically came out on Sept 11th, 2001 are
“Last Star” by Halfcocked. Female fronted hard rock band that is no longer together and never made much progress after this.
“Toilet Boys” (S/T) debut. Glam tinged hard rock in the spirit of the New York Dolls, Kiss, and Hanoic Rocks etc.
Both CD’s all killer, no filler IMO.
2001 was already the year of audiogalaxy, wasn’t it?
favourite songs:
Air: RADIO #1
Andrew W.K.: PARTY TIL YOU PUKE
Basement Jaxx: WHERE’S YOUR HEAD AT
Manu Chao: ME GUSTAS TU
Daft Punk: AERODYNAMIC
Dido: HERE WITH ME
Feeder: BUCK ROGERS
Gary Jules: MAD WORLD
N.E.R.D.: TRUTH OR DARE
New Order: CRYSTAL
Radiohead: I MIGHT BE WRONG
R.E.M.: IMITATION OF LIFE
Sum 41: FAT LIP
Super Furry Animals: (DRAWING) RINGS AROUND THE WORLD
Timo Maas: TO GET DOWN
favourite albums:
Gorillaz: GORILLAZ
Koop: WALTZ FOR KOOP
Muse: ORIGIN OF SYMMETRY
Sigur Ros: AGAETIS BYRJUN (never sure if this should be 1999 or
2001 or not)
The Strokes: IS THIS IT
System of a Down: TOXICITY
I did some research and found out I forgot to mention these LPs:
John Scofield - Works For Me
Ozzy Osbourne - Down To Earth
Queensrÿche - Live Evolution
Sunshine - Necromance
Terence Trent D’arby - Terence Trent d’Arby’s Wildcard!
Tool - Lateralus
UFO - Regenerator
Vinnie Moore - Defying Gravity
I saw a lot of obvious ones here, but was pleased to see Roots Manuva and Danielson Familie each pop up once in the lists.
For me 2001 wasn’t good enough…the best things of’01 was the ideas runnin’through the mind of many artists that in 2002 released a lot of fantastic albums !!
I save a couple of albums, really good (even if not masterpieces):
TORTOISE - Standards
MOGWAY - Rock Actions
ZU - MotorHellington (with M.Patton,Roy Paci, etc..)
KING CRIMSON - Level Five (EP)
RADIOHEAD - Amnesiac …. A MASTERPIECE !!
JOHN ZORN - The Gift
PHANTOMAS - The Director’s Cut
TOOL - Lateralus
SOAD - Toxicity
LABRADFORD - Fixed::Contest
I would suggest to make lists for 1967, 1969, 1992, 1990, 1971, 1972…years so dense of masterpieces !!
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The Coup’s Party Music and Mira’s Apart stand out for me. Zoot Woman’s “Living in a Magazine” was a pretty decent single, as was Ladytron’s “Playgirl”. Special mention to Parson Sound, who finally saw a release of their material that year even though the music was recorded in the 1960s.
i noticed in the Allmusic Loves 2002 post that Interpol was mentioned as maybe the best debut of the year; for my money, Cannibal Ox was the best debut of 2001.
my #1 all-time hip-hop record in fact.
this is a great feature - keep it up!
i love the compilation of great music
I’m surprised no one mentioned Elton John’s “Songs From the West Coast.” It was a remarkable return to form for Elton, hearkening back to classics such as “Tumbleweed Connection.”
Blu Cantrell - “Hit Em Up Style”
This was one of the best songs of the year! They played this for about half a year I think in my area.
Favourites of 2001, in no particular order;
Microphones-The Glow Pt. 2
Radiohead-Amnesiac
Pulp-We Love Life
Bjork-Vespertine
Jonathan Richman-Her Mystery Not Of High Heels And Eye Shadow
Hedwig and The Angry Inch-O.S.T.
Veda Hille-Field Study
Martin Tielli-We Didn’t Even Suspect He Was The Poppy Salesman
Jerk With A Bomb-The Old Noise
Kevin Kane-Timmy Loved Judas Priest
Yeah.
The Coup’s Party Music and Mira’s Apart stand out for me. Zoot Woman’s “Living in a Magazine” was a pretty decent single, as was Ladytron’s “Playgirl”. Special mention to Parson Sound, who finally saw a release of their material that year even though the music was recorded in the 1960s.
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Favorite Albums of 2001 (by Artist)
Aaliyah - Aaliyah
Alicia Keys - Songs In A Minor
Ani DiFranco - Revelling/Reckoning
Björk - Vespertine
Bob Dylan - “Love & Theft”
Daft Punk - Discovery
Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
India.Arie - Acoustic Soul
Ivy - Long Distance
John Mayer - Room For Squares
Kylie Minogue - Fever
Laura Nyro - Angel In The Dark
Los Heramons - Bloco Do Eu Sozinho
Lucinda Williams - Essence
M83 - M83
Michael Jackson - Invicible
Missy Elliott - Miss E…. So Addictive
Muse - Origin Of Symmetry
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part
Of Montreal - Coquelicot Asleep In The Poppies: A Variety Of Whimsical Verse
P!nk - M!ssundaztood
Pulp - We Love Life
R.E.M. - Reveal
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings
Regina Spektor - 11:11
Rita Lee - Bossa ‘N Beatles
Röyksopp - Melody A.M.
Ryan Adams - Gold
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Stevie Nicks - Trouble In Shangri-La
The Strokes - Is This It ?
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World
Suzanne Vega - Songs In Red & Gray
System Of A Down - Toxicity
Weezer - Weezer
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells