i sat down and thought of my ten favorite albums for 2001

1. Daft Punk -- Discovery

and in no order: SFA - Rings Around the World

Fennesz - Endless Summer

Beta Band - Hot Shots II

Jay-Z - Blueprint

Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives

Radiohead - Amnesiac

Skitz - Countryman

Gorky's - How I Long to Feel...

V/A - Ayia Napa 2001

w/mention to Roots Manuva, Wilco, Four Tet, Air, Missy Elliot, Plaid, Stereolab, Shins, Oxide and Nuetrino, Cannibal Ox, Clearlake, Autechre, Neotropic, and the Avalanches.

youth group -urban & eastern

Life without buildings - any other city

mark kozalek - what's next to the moon

bran van 3000 - discosis

delinquent habits - merry go round

grandview - self titled

the sailors - violent masturrbation blues

the ballbusters - people's republic of rock and roll

the tigers - remixes

lou reed - metal machine music

JoB

daft punk - "discovery"

cannibal ox - "the cold vein"

spring heel jack and the blue series continuum - "masses"

avalanches - "since i left you"

beta band - "hot shots ii"

john cale - "sun blindness music"

missy eliot - "miss e..."

and then a bunch of albums i have to listen to more to decide on (matmos, techno animal, jaxx, etc.)

Never heard of it... pop album, piano solos, symphony,. ....?

released a few months back on table of the elements. part one of a projected three part "nyc in the 1960s" series. his earliest pre- velvets home recordings, apart from the toem. solo verks for vox continental organ and guitar, uh, duet, with sterling morrison. hope to be pitching a review to ned soon for ft, so hopefully you'll get to read about it more in depth soon...

Mouse on Mars - Idiology (nobody has listed this yet?! WTF?! Melissa?!) Nobukazu Takemura - Hoshi No Koe Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies & Uprock Narratives Fennesz - Endless Summer Jan Jelinek - Loop-finding Jazz Records Daft Punk - Discovery Avalanches - Since I Left You (this one is on the bubble) Labradford: fixed:content Mum: Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today is OK Matmos: A Chance To Cut

i suppose i am not very hip. waiting to hear new trembling blue stars and bark psychosis and ant though i think that is out next year.

Low - Things We Lost in the Fire Fridge - Happiness Pernice Brothers - The World Won't End Jay-Z - The Blueprint Graeme Downes - Hammers & Anvils Ted Leo - The Tyranny of Distance Spoon - Girls Can Tell Lightning Bolt - Ride the Skies Hawd Gankstuh Rapphus MC's (Wit Gatz) - Wake Up & Smell the Piss Mia Doi Todd - Zeroone Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction Aaliyah - Aaliyah Jim Yoshii Pile-Up - "It's Winter Here" Azure Ray - Azure Ray Ida - The Braille Night Radiohead - Amnesiac The Ex - Dizzy Spells The Lucksmiths - Why That Doesn't Surprise Me

Out of order, of course.

― David Raposa, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But it ain't over til it's over as they say... David R, any news on a release date for that Graeme Downes record? Sounds good.

Fuck HTML; Greenspun pisses me off.

Let's try again, because I like posting:

Low - Things We Lost in the Fire Fridge - Happiness Pernice Brothers - The World Won't End Jay-Z - The Blueprint Graeme Downes - Hammers & Anvils Ted Leo - The Tyranny of Distance Spoon - Girls Can Tell Lightning Bolt - Ride the Skies Hawd Gankstuh Rapphus MC's (Wit Gatz) - Wake Up & Smell the Piss Mia Doi Todd - Zeroone Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction Aaliyah - Aaliyah Jim Yoshii Pile-Up - "It's Winter Here" Azure Ray - Azure Ray Ida - The Braille Night Radiohead - Amnesiac The Ex - Dizzy Spells The Lucksmiths - Why That Doesn't Surprise Me

Quite. 25% left to go, so I will reserve judgment.

Trying to work out what Gareth's three are - is the Matthew Herbert one of 'em?

Other highlights:

Tipsy- Uh-Oh, The Pattern- Immediately, Pan Sonic- Aaltopiiri, Unisex- Stratosfear, cLOUDDEAD- cLOUDDEAD, The Chemistry Experiment- The Giraffe Album (hee hee), Fischerspooner- #1, ISAN- Lucky Cat, Electrelane- Rock It To The Moon...

There are a couple of others I'm sure would make it if I'd got around to hearing, and I'm sure a few that just haven't surfaced to my brain...

1. Basement Jaxx, Rooty
2. Daft Punk, Discovery
3. Bob Dylan, "Love and Theft"
4. The Coup, Party Music
5. Atmosphere, Lucy Ford
6. The Moldy Peaches
7. Avalanches, Since I Met You
8. Old 97's, Satellite Rides
9. Superlongevity
10. Michael Franti & Spearhead, Stay Human

oh and why haven't you responded to my last email yet, you bastard?

2) The New Year, "Newness Ends"

3) Low, "Things we lost in the fire"

4) Old Time Relijun, "Witchcraft Rebellion"

5) The New Pornographers, "Mass Romantic"

6) Kings of Convenience, "Quiet is the new loud"

7) Radiohead, "Amnesiac"

8) Nick Cave, "no more shall we part"

9) The Strokes, "is this it" [the record itself isn't very strong but I love the guys' attitude. Plus, as you might have noticed I picked mostly sad and slow-paced stuff, I need some energy!!)

I'll get in a couple of days Ted Leo, John Zorn, Graeme Downes and American Analog Set, all of which I expect to be pretty good... Did Anyone listen to Circulatory system? Pitchfork was raving about it not a long ago...

I don't think there's much more I'm anticipating this year, but I'd love to be surprised.

I've remembered it now though!

Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun

Jake Mandell - Love Songs for Machines

Boards of Canada - "In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country" EP

Richie Hawtin - DE9: Closer to the Edit (I've only heard it once, but it sounded incredible... have you all heard this? What do you think?)

Roy Montgomery - Silver Wheel of Prayer

Other stuff I've liked: Mogwai, D-Plan, Aphex (from what little I've heard so far), Prefuse, etc... so much music this year so far!

I've never heard of these artists. Who are they? I think there's a chance some of them might interest me judging from some of the other items on your list. How's the new Pan Sonic? I've heard it's more "organic," which does not entice me. I think I buy less new music than everyone else. Ryoji Ikeda's Matrix is topping my list so far but it also might be the only 2001 album I own. (I've heard a few others but I don't think they made much of an impression.) I'm planning to pick up the new Alvo Noto when it shows up here though.

11. Jan Jelinek - loop-finding-jazz-records 16. Ilpo Väisänen - Asuma

11. = ~scape artist, probably the best artist on the label outside of pole himself. takes teensy weensy fragments of jazz records via the loop finding wheel on his sampler and creates ver' beautiful ambi- scapes. might end up in my top 10 if i give it a few more listens.

16. one half of pan(a)sonic. you do the math.

as for ryoji ikeda, i dig matrix, but not as much as the godhead which was +/-...

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - 'Ease Down The Road' (still my favourite)
SquarePusher - 'Go Plastic'
Nick Cave - 'No More Shall We Part'
Air - '10,000HZ Legend'
Tindersticks - 'Can Our Love... '
The White Stripes - 'White Blood Cells'
Susumu Yokota - 'Grinning Cat'
The Avalanches - 'Since I left You'
Bjork - 'Vespertine'
Daft Punk - 'Discovery'

i guess it depends on how much of a fan you are. ;) (speaking as someone who can accurately list vcn as his third favorite album of the 90s.) :)

Loads more which I can't remember. Bonny Billy-More Revery, cos I lurve Will Oldham, the man who seems to fuck up singing his own songs. I also forgot Lift to Experience. I could rearrange this if I had a list of all the new albums I got this year I guess.

I agree. Only one decent LP of new material all year.

That's funny, it really annoyed me on the first listen, but I love it to bits now. In fact it's the only new album that's sprung to mind as completely rocking my world (I'm sure I'm forgetting some stuff; I'm also sure that most of the 2001 albums I grow to love I won't even buy until I see them second-hand next year). Now, Niun Niggung, that STILL annoys me, but I do love Mouse on Mars.

ethan writes: 10) kid 606 - gq on the eq

What're the extra tracks on the full-length rerelease like? I already have the 10" version and it didn't grab me that much, I don't think I feel rich enough to buy it again, but on the other hand everyone seems to rate the rerelease.

and then i have to hear: TOMAHAWK the new bobby conn the cannibal ox record THE BLUEPRINT and that rapture ep

V/A: Sound01 (Big Dada sampler) Stereolab: Sound-Dust

Mostly good:

V/A: Clicks & Cuts 2 V/A: Substancia 3 (Quatermass)

Fine, but lacking something:

Kristin Hersh: Sunny Border Blue (the last track and a half, specifically - a dodgy promo CD-R) Ilpo Vaisanen: Asuma MoM: Idiology

Still to explore properly:

Jim O'Rourke: Insignificance Bjork: Vespertine

Keen to hear based on recommendation/review:

Fennesz: Endless Summer

Finest song-cycle captured on magneto-optical disc by binaural mics attached to VW-Beetle wine glasses on a green-felt card table in a South London bedroom:

True Love Waits

serious question: maura is the red monkey worth my 11 clams? (obv. the answer is yes, if in your favorite records, and since jess has travelled to see them live, scheduled at one point to put a m. wimpshake 7" out, etc, he should just go and buy it, but he's having reservations for reasons unknown.)

albums/eps:

1. The Beta Band - Hot Shots II

2. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein

3. Daft Punk - Discovery 4. Radiohead - Amnesiac

5. Basement Jaxx - Rooty

6. Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives

7. The Dismemberment Plan - Change

8. Missy Elliot - Miss E...So Addictive

9. Nobukazu Takemura - Hoshi No Koe

10. Mogwai - My Father, My King

runners up: low - things we lost in the fire; fennesz - endless summer; jay-z - the blueprint; the avalanches - since i left you; n.e.r.d. - in search of...; john cale - sun blindness music; jan jelinek - loop-finding jazz records; lightning bolt - ride the skies; richie hawtin - de9: closer to the edit; bonnie "prince" billy - ease down the road; bjork - vespertine; radiohead - i might be wrong: live recordings; britney spears - britney; blechtum from blechdom - haus de snaus; le tigre - feminist anthem; fugazi - the argument

Top Ten As Of Right Now, Barring Any Discs I'm Sure To Have Forgotten, And The Fact That It's Only Mid-November:

1. Ted Leo / Pharmacists - The Tyranny of Distance
2. Fugazi - The Argument
3. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
4. Les Savy Fav - Go Forth
5. Jenny Toomey - Antidote
6. Fridge - Happiness
7. Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
8. Lightning Bolt - Ride the Skies
9. Spoon - Girls Will Tell
10. Radiohead - Amnesiac

The #1 is set in stone. The rest will switch up, given my fleeting fancies & such things. One thing I do know is that Daft Punk will get NO love from me. Not that they need it.

I'd list my Honorable Mentions, but there's already one DJ Martian in the house, so I'll stay hushed.

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mine:
bang on a can - renegade heaven
daft punk - discovery
boredoms - VCN
jay-z - blueprint
dylan - love and theft
white stripes - white blood cells
unwound - leaves turn inside you
SFA - rings around the world
tindersticks - can our love
jelinek - LFJR

Bobby Conn-The Golden Age
Alpha-The Impossible Thrill
Retsin-Cabin In The Woods
Tortoise-Standards
Radiohead-Amnesiac
Guided By Voices-Isolation Drills
Oval-Ovalcommers
Strokes-Is This It
Edith Frost-Wonder Wonder
Bjork-Vespertine
Spiritualized-Let It Come Down
Arab On Radar-Yahweh or the Highway

Bobby Conn, Strokes, Alpha, and Radiohead I'll still stick with. I can only assume that I hadn't gotten around to listening to Girls Can Tell and Rooty yet at that point. Those two would be my top two with a bullet, in retrospect.

At the time, my top 5 was something like...

1. Mercury Rev - All is Dream
2. Dismemberment Plan - Change
3. Bjork - Vespertine
4. Strokes - Is This It
5. Radiohead - Amnesiac

And then probably, I dunno, Low and Tortoise?

Bob Dylan, "Love & Theft"
Jay Z, The Blueprint
Lucinda Williams, Essence
New Order, Get Ready
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, Missy...So Addictive

ummm...can't think of the rest right now

Mogwai, Rock Action
American Analog Set, Know by Heart

And one I'd add today:

Life Without Buildings, Any Other City

The first 15-16 were all very good. Good vintage.

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