I've discovered the best record of 2001...

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...and it is the latest red polka-dotted self-titled album by the Climax Golden Twins -- the most fun live band in Seattle today... Extremely lucid, fun, moving, damaged record. For those of you who appreciate drones, Thinking Fellers, Butthole Surfers, Sun City Girls, among many others.

Hochenkeit's omu4h 4aholab/400 boys is still neck-in-neck for best record of 2001.

Battle... FIGHT!

― Brian MacDonald, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh fuck, it's that time of the year again.

― Alacrán, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i like Papa M Sings. Amnesiac is good too. and am hoping that Loop Finding Jazz Records is very good when I finally get round to buying it. i also like the unapproved-by-ILM Kings of Convenience

― m jemmeson, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My votes go to, in no paticular order:
Fennesz Endless Summers
Mum Yesterday Was Dramatic...
Stars Nightsongs (I haven't seen any mention of these guys around here before...they're kind of an indie pop version of a hyrbid Pet Shop Boys, The Smiths, with a bit of Portishead. But unlike you'd guess from my description, fucking good)
Joel R.L. Phelps Inland Empires
Fridge Happiness
The Avalanches Since I Met You

― daniel, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What about the White Stripes?

― dave q, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my choice goes to my morning jacket's 'at dawn'

― ernest, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Guh, what about them?

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

More Plastic's 60 Watt Party blows the others away.

― Mr Noodles, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Aren't lists useless? Does it really matter in which year you buy a record.

― Julio Desouza, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sometimes - ones for the current year are good though, because they help people remember stuff they've been meaning to buy. small label stuff does tend to disappear if you don't get it relatively quickly after it's been released

― michael, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

are whiners useless? probably. stars came out last year. he has a new project called memphis or something memphis, haven't heard it. why is the new stars ep so expensive?

― keith, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I did actually come up with a rough shortlist of 10 the other week, in no particular order:

Skitz - Countryman (if semantics decided it, this would win)

Missy Elliott - Miss E ... So Addictive

Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein

Luke Haines - Christie Malry's Own Double Entry (OST)

Radiohead - Amnesiac

Basement Jaxx - Rooty

Momus - Folktronic

Eve - Scorpion

Jay-Z - The Blueprint

Daft Punk - Discovery

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 17 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'm with you on the last 2 there Robin, the others? some are ok, some are not

― gareth, Saturday, 17 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, that's only a rough list. And I'm sure there are whole territories of music you know more about than me.

But details, Gareth! Details!

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 17 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Specifically: which ones do you think are OK and which not? I'm very interested here.

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 17 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ok, robin. in brief sketch form (more to be written about some of these later, in a different context)

Basement Jaxx is very good. but only in places (jus1kiss-romeo- wheresyourheadat). there is also far too much treading water.
Cannibal Ox/Skitz. havent heard them, my interest hadn't been piqued
Eve. not heard either. liked first album though. may get round to this at some point
Momus. awful. i've liked some of his stuff a lot (Ping Pong). this irritates me, it reminds me of Chas'n'nDave. sorry Momus (if you read this!)
Missy Elliot. not bad, haven't heard properly (the album i mean). the single? well yeah, we all like that don't we?
Luke Haines. ?
Radiohead. irritating. i'm sorry but they're just not very good.

admittedly, much of this comes from ignorance rather than critical discernment, but i can't hear everything!

― gareth, Saturday, 17 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Quite a few people (usually pissed off after reading my review) have complained to me that Basement Jaxx aren't consistent, and then when asked which tracks are weak on, say, Rooty, they tend to fall short after "Crazy Girl", whose only crime is not having a terribly accessible melody. Is it because they're liked by a lot of rock fans that Basement Jaxx are expected to have an unusual level of consistency on their albums? In some ways Rooty is an album that *feels* like it has weaker tracks somewhere, but then when I listen to it I'm hard pressed to work out exactly which ones they would be.

― Tim, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Foxy Brown -- Broken Silence

Jay Z -- Blueprint

Basement Jaxx -- Rooty

Daft Punk -- Discovery

Pure Garage IV

Missy Elliot -- Miss E.. So Addictive

Aaliyah -- s/t

Ginuwine -- The Life

Destiny's Child -- Survivor.

Damn that's a list. They're all remarkably consistant, sonically innovative, fairly unique. Each could spawn a genre, or reconfigure one at least. The music world is good these days.

― Sterling Clover, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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