okay, this is it folks...the BEST of the BEST of 2001

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the other thread was getting too unweildy and with only a month left and my budget for buying records severely overextended, here is ver we make out lists.

(note: any "why should we rank things; lists are stupid" blah blah whingers will be immediately disqualified from the brotherhood of man.)

― jess, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

albums:

1. the beta band - hot shots ii

2. cannibal ox - the cold vein

3. radiohead - amnesiac

4. daft punk - discovery

5. prefuse 73 - vocal studies and uprock narratives

6. missy elliot - miss e...so addictive

7. fennesz - endless summer

8. the dismemberment plan - change

9. basement jaxx - rooty

10. philip jeck - vinyl coda iv

singles/eps:

1. basement jaxx - "romeo"

2. daft punk - "digital love"

3. missy elliot - "get ur freak on"

4. britney spears - "i'm a slave 4 u"

5. so solid crew - "21 seconds"

6. squarepusher - "my red hot car"

7. mogwai - "my father, my king"

(this was all i could think of; how lame am i?)

reissues (a very loose term since most of this material is only seeing the light of day for the first time):

1. this heat - deceit

2. piano magic - seasonally affective

3. v/a - 500% dynamite

4. john cale - new york in the 1960s (esp. vol. 3: stainless gamelan)

5. joy division - les baines douches

6. the velvet underground - bootlet series vol. 1 - the quine tapes

7. the birthday party - peel sessions

8. iannis xenakis - la legend d'eer

9. the pixies - live at the bbc

10. john coltrane - the olatunji concert: last live recording

― jess, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

damnit, i knew! that would happen somewhere along the line.
― jess, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

let's see if this fixes it.
― jess, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jess -- are you confusing the Pixies' BBC disc with the B-sides comp?

― Andy, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Way to go, kemosabe.

― David Raposa, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dude, what the hell?

― David Raposa, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

andy...perhaps. ah, shit...yeah i am. the bbc thing came out in 98.

― oh lord, save us from these italics that the devil has loosed upon us, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Side question: Where do mixes fit in? I tend not to consider them as regular albums since they're not 'proper' records -- i.e. made/produced by the artist in question. For me, they fall in that "reissue/compilation/archival/etc." bunker.

― Andy, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hmmm...i think comps. and mixes might need their own separate category. fer instance kompakt total 3 and superlongevity (no more italics for me) are certainly rekkids of the year, but i didn't wanna put em in the album category. maybe if it's material mixed or compiled that was released in that year? so andy weatherall's 9 o'clock drop would go in reissues, but hypercity would go in comps./mixes? (god, we are such nerds.)

― jess, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think I'm gonna continue to stick with the two category deal: 1) proper full-length recordings and 2) other.

I still have a bunch of records from this year to track down and several that I do have haven't been listened to enough.

― Andy, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lists are fun...

1. All is Dream. Mercury Rev 2. We Love Life. Pulp 3. Since I Left You. The Avalanches 4. Is This It?. The Strokes 5. Endless Summer. Fennesz 6. Until Tomorrow. Manual 7. Change. Dismemberment Plan 8. Dilate. Bardo Pond 9. Rock Action. Mogwai 10. Dymaxion x 4 + 3 = 38:33. Dymaxion

I wasn't sure if 'Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today is OK' is 2000 or 2001, so I omitted it.

― alex in montreal, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

fuck...i completely forgot about the rough trade 25th anniv. box. that's gotta go in reissues, etc. somewhere close to the top.

― jess, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, it might change, and I've done one of these before (with one album now removed - Folktronic is good, but I don't think I've played it enough for it to truly merit a place in my year-end Top 10 and replaced by another I now think qualifies if you're taking UK release as a cut-off date) but:

albums (in no particular order)

Skitz - Countryman

Missy Elliott - Miss E ... So Addictive

Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein

Luke Haines - Christie Malry's Own Double Entry

Radiohead - Amnesiac

Basement Jaxx - Rooty

The Avalanches - Since I Left You

Eve - Scorpion

Jay-Z - The Blueprint

Daft Punk - Discovery

singles (again, in no order)

So Solid Crew - "21 Seconds"

Missy Elliott - "Get Ur Freak On"

Aaliyah featuring Timbaland - "We Need A Resolution"

Backstreet Boys - "The Call"

Oxide and Neutrino - "Up Middle Finger"

Jay-Z - "IZZO (H.O.V.A.)"

Britney Spears - "I'm A Slave 4 U"

Bubba Sparxxx - "Ugly"

N*E*R*D - "Lapdance"

Kelis - "Young, Fresh n' New"

Beenie Man featuring Mya - "Girls Dem Sugar"

D12 featuring Eminem - "Purple Hills"

Outkast - "Ms. Jackson"

Eve - "Who's That Girl"

Daft Punk - "Digital Love"

Radiohead - "Pyramid Song"

Missy Elliott featuring Ludacris - "One Minute Man"

Roger Sanchez - "Another Chance"

Alcazar - "Crying At The Discotheque"

City High - "What Would You Do?"

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I turned in a list to my editors at Mean Street and promptly forgot it. Lateralus is still *the* album of albums for this year, though. The Blueprint is up there as well, plus Amnesiac and some other things. Hurrah for vagueness!

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1. Paul Burch - Last of My Kind
2. Les Savy Fav - Go Forth
4. Bonny Billy - Ease Down the Road
3. Mouse on Mars - Ideology
5. Guided by Voices - Isolation Drills
6. Shins - Oh, Inverted World
7. Beta Band - Hot Shots II
8. Ryan Adams - Gold
9. Dump - That Skinny Motherfucker with the High Voice?
10. Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
11. Airport 5 - Tower in the Fountain of Sparks

― Jeff, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I came up with a top 50. Because I love lists more than anything.

**Top 50 Albums of 2001**
01. Radiohead - Amnesiac 02. Lali Puna - Scary World Theory 03. Noriko Tujiko - Shojo Toshi 04. Akira Rabelais - Eisoptrophobia 05. ISAN - Lucky Cat 06. Fennesz - Endless Summer 07. Jan Jelinek - loop-finding-jazz-records 08. The Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of the Stars of the Lid 09. Stephan Mathieu - frequencyLib 10. Low - Things We Lost in the Fire 11. DNTEL - Life is Full of Possibilities 12. Arovane_Phonem - Aer (Valid) 13. Bogdan Raczynski - My Love I Love 14. Random Inc. - Jerusalem 15. Autechre - Confield 16. Vert - Nine Types of Ambiguity 17. Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings 18. Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives 19. Mia Doi Todd - Zeroone 20. Pierre Bastien - Mecanoid	21. Labradford - fixed::content 22. Pan Sonic - Aaltopiiri 23. Ilpo Väisänen - Asuma 24. Natacha Atlas - Ayeshteni 25. Kristin Hersh - Sunny Border Blue 26. Hood - Cold House 27. Herbert - Bodily Functions 28. Stereolab - Sound-Dust 29. Styrofoam - A Short Album About Murder 30. Shannon Wright - Dyed in the Wool 31. Matmos - A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure 32. John Zorn - Love, Madness, & Mysticism 33. Neotropic - La Prochaine Fois 34. Kevin Blechdom - The Inside Story 35. Scratch Pet Land - Solo Soli IIIII 36. Beta Band - Hot Shots II 37. Mouse on Mars - Idiology 38. Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By 39. Tara Jane O'Neil - In the Sun Lines 40. Nobukazu Takemura - Hoshi No Koe	41. Mira Calix - Prickle EP 42. Plaid - Double Figure 43. Susumu Yokota - Grinning Cat 44. Andrea Parker - Dark Ages EP 45. Boxhead Ensemble - Two Brothers 46. cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD 47. Broadway Project - Compassion 48. Jackie-O Motherfucker - Liberation 49. Minotaur Shock - Chiff Chaff and Willow Warblers 50. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein

― Melissa W, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And there's still so much I haven't heard! Damnit.

― Melissa W, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Don't tell me these things, Melissa, *I* haven't heard a lot on that list and I want to. Grr, grr!

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'll post my list in a month's time, still too many things I've got to listen to.

― Billy Dods, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fuck I keep forgetting whether stuff I'm still listening to was this year or last year. However, in no particular order.

Daft Punk-Discovery.

Super Furry Animals-Rings Around The World.

Stanton Warriors-The Stanton Sessions.

The Strokes-Is This It.

Spiritualized-Let It Come Down

Ryan Adams-Gold

Bonny Billy-More Revery.

Jay Z-The Blueprint.

The Avalanches-Since I Left You.

Lucinda Williams-Essence.

And many more whose names I would remember if I thought very hard.

― Ronan, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think I only got a few albums that were actually released this year...so: 1) The Philistines Jr - Analog vs. Digital
2) Beulah - The Coast is Never Clear
3) The Sixth Great Lake - Up the Country
4) The Strokes - Is This It
5) Joan of Arse - Distant Hearts, A Little Closer
6) Lali Puna - Scary World Theory

I didn't buy any singles. I liked a few, but didn't buy them.

― james, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

2001 = personal music consumption, decreasing.

― james, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm also going to buy Lateralus, because I really liked Tool's Opiate EP from way back.

― james, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nuggets II. Maybe Shit Street by the Pagans if I'm feeling generous. Where these fit on the new/reissue side of things is yr call.

― Vic Funk, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

james, what about of montreal?

― keith, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

30 hefner 'dead media' 29 pearlfishers 'across the milky way' 28 orange peels 'so far' 27 tompaulin 'town and city' 26 lucksmiths 'why that doesn't surprise me' 25 harper lee 'go back to bed' 24 super furry animals 'rings around the world' 23 virgil 'exquisitia decandencia' 22 various 'dream drops' compilation 21 con dolore 'sad movie' 20 crooner 'soft escape' 19 ballboy 'club anthems' 18 screen prints 'perfect city' 17 marine time keepers 'perfect knowledge of dreams' 16 stereo total 'musique automatique' 15 stereolab 'sound-dust' 14 bristols 'tune in with the bristols' 13 happy balloon 'fine art of ballooning'(two for the crooner!!) 12 modesty blaise 'melancholia' 11 cloudboy 'down at the end of the garden' 10 trembling blue stars 'alive to every smile' 09 shermans 'happiness is toy shaped' 08 ladytron '604' 07 roy montgomery 'silver wheel of prayer' 06 gorky's 'how i long to feel that summer in my heart' 05 majestic 'wake up come out and play' 04 figurine 'the heartfelt' 03 la buena vida 'hallelujah!' 02 of montreal 'coquelicot asleep in the poppies' 01 bows 'cassidy'

best remixes or reissues--- pram 'somniliquy' chills box set siddelys 'slum clearance' sound of leamington spa compilation

― keith, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1. More Plastic - 60 Watt Party #. Low - Things We Lost In The Fire #. Guided by Bud - Isolation Drills # Two Minute Mircales - Volume II Best Reissue - The Bonaduces - The Democracy of Sleep

I refuse to post more on those as I am wokring my way throw The New Deal, the french Julie Doiron, Readymade and Folktronica a few more times and Im despretely awaiting Picastro's debut on Pehr. Way too early for me to say more.

― Mr Noodles, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

DEATH to unclosed tags.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bastard, that didn't work. Obey me, HTML mongrels!

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bah! Okay Keith, you win, so you get to fix it. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Keith...I forgot that it was released this year! Opps!

― james, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1. the dirtbombs, "ultraglide in black" 2. mercury rev, "all is dream" 3. yeah yeah yeahs, s/t [EP] (expect great things from these guys in the future...) 4. kings of convenience, "quiet is the new loud" 5. the strokes, "is this it" 6. circulatory system, s/t (ok, I bought it the other day so I might change my mind...) 7. tom waits, "used songs 1973-1980" (it's a "best of" but I'll put it in my list anyway) 8. Cannibal Ox, "the cold vein" (same as circulatory system...) 9. the new pornographers, "mass romantic" 10. haven't made up my mind yet...

― Simone, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh, and best re-release of the year is "my aim is true" by Mr. Elvis Costello!

― Simone, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

New albs (in no order): 1) Endless Summer - Fennesz 2) Auspicious Healing - Tisziji Munoz 3) Two Brothers - Boxhead Ensemble 4) Discovery - Daft Punk 5) So Addictive - Missy Elliot 6) Loop Finding Jazz Records - Jan Jelinek 7) Process - Oval 8) Insignificance - Jim O'Rourke 9) Touch Works For Hurdy Gurdy And Voice - Phil Niblock 10) Standards - Tortoise 11) Matrix - Ryoji Ikeda 12) Click and Cuts 2 - Various Artists 13) Druqks - Aphex Twin 14) Ease Down The Road - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 15) Tramps, Traitors And Little Devils - A Drag City Supersession 16) Idiology - Mouse On Mars 17) S/T - Neil Michael Hagerty 18) S/T - Triangles 19) The Little Match Girl - Loren Mazzacane Connors 20)Get Ready - New Order

Reissues (and other 'old' stuff): 1) Days Have Gone By - John Fahey 2) Gradually Projection - Masayuki Takayanagi + Kaoru Abe 3) The Wumme Years 70-73 - Faust 4) Hawthorne, CA - The Beach Boys 5)You Are My Everlovin'/Celestial Power - Henry Flynt 6) The Quine Tapes - The Velvet Underground 7) The Complete 'In A Silent Way' Sessions - Miles Davis 8)Halleluja: Gospel and Prayers 1926-46 - Various Artists 9) Neu 75! - Neu! 10) Born To Be With You - Dion

― Andrew L, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I Love Music is not a monthly magazine! Surely we can wait until January 1st? There's still albums coming out this year from De La Soul, Nas, No Doubt, Wu-Tang Clan, Jay-Z (unplugged!), Mystikal...

― JoB, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i did close it??? it looks normal to me. i am an html novice.

― keith, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1.Bjork - Vespertine 2.Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Ease Down The Road 3.Mogwai - Rock Action 4.Autechre - Confield 5.La Buena Vida - Halleluyah! 6.Sparklehorse - It's a wonderful life 7.Rufus Wainright - Poses 8.Missy elliot - E...So Adicctive 9.Avalanches - Since I Left You 10.Cannibal Ox - The cold vein

Honorable Mentions: Stereolab - Sound-Dust Matmos - A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure Mùm - yesterday was dramatic, Today Is OK Mark Eitzel - The invisible man Roots Manuva - Come Run save Me Fugazi - The Argument Herbert - Bodily Functions Pan Sonic - Aaltopiiri Les Savy Fav - Go Forth Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part Pulp - We Love Life Death Cab for cutie - photo album Jay-Z - The Blueprint Hefner - Dead Media Mercury Rev - All Is Dream Bogdan Raczynski - My Love I Love Low - Things We Lost in the Fire

― rob, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Obviously the year's not yet over, but to date... (caveat: I'm American so "imports" are to the US; and Clinic was only recently issued in the States)

1. Basement Jaxx: Rooty (XL/Astralwerks)
2. Clinic: Internal Wrangler (Domino)
3. Daft Punk: Discovery (Virgin)
4. Bob Dylan: “Love and Theft” (Columbia)
5. The Avalanches: Since I Left You (Modular/Sire)
6. The Coup: Party Music (75 Ark)
7. Superlongevity (Perlon import)
8. Atmosphere: Lucy Ford (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
9. Richie Hawtin: DE9: Closer to the Edit (Novamute)
10. The Moldy Peaches (Rough Trade/Sanctuary)
11. Black Box Recorder: The Facts of Life (Jetset)
12. Michael Franti & Spearhead: Stay Human (Six Degrees)
13. Old 97’s: Satellite Rides (Elektra)
14. Orlando Cachaito Lopez: Cachaito (World Circuit/Nonesuch)
15. System of a Down: Toxicity (American)
16. Derrick L. Carter: About Now: Six Eleven DJ Mix Series V. 3 (611)
17. Dungeon Family: Even in Darkness (LaFace/Arista)
18. 500% Dynamite! (Soul Jazz import)
19. Aceyalone: Accepted Eclectic (Project Blowed)
20. Bob Dylan: Live 1961-2000—-Thirty-Nine Years [sic] of Great Concert Performances (Sony Japan import)
21. Stephen Malkmus (Matador)
22. Macy Gray: The Id (Epic)
23. Petey Pablo: Diary of a Sinner: 1st Entry (Jive)
24. Clem Snide: The Ghost of Fashion (spinART)
25. Jay-Z: The Blueprint (Roc-a-Fella/Def Jam)
26. Miles Davis: Live at the Fillmore East (March 7, 1970) (Columbia/Legacy)
27. Luna: Live (Arena Rock)
28. Rarewerks (Astralwerks)
29. The Apples in Stereo: Let’s Go! (spinART)
30. Babyface: Face2Face (LaFace/Arista)
31. Chitlin’ Circuit Soul! (Rhino)
32. Les Savy Fav: Go Forth (Frenchkiss)
33. Leonard Cohen: Ten New Songs (Columbia)
34. Gavin Hardkiss: Through Rose Tinted Glasses (Shadow)
35. Willie Nelson: Rainbow Connection (Island)
36. Burnt Sugar/the Arkestra Chamber: Blood on the Leaf: Opus no. 1 (Trugroid)
37. Takashi Hirayasu & Bob Brozman: Nankuru Naisa (World Music Network)
38. Aesop Rock: Labor Days (Def Jux)
39. Bosavi: Rainforest Music from Papua New Guinea (Smithsonian Folkways)
40. Utah Saints: Two (Nettwerk America)
41. Missy Elliott: Miss E...So Addictive (The Gold Mind, Inc./Elektra)
42. DJ Dan: In Stereo (Kinetic)
43. Baaba Maal: Mi Yeewnii (Missing You) (Palm Pictures)
44. City High (Booga Basement/Interscope)
45. Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts from the British Empire and Beyond (Rhino)
46. Paul McCartney: Driving Rain (Capitol)
47. Azeem: Craft Classic (Stray)
48. Death Cab for Cutie: The Photo Album (Barsuk)
49. The Dismemberment Plan: Change (DeSoto)
50. Radiohead: Amnesiac (Capitol)
51. Jake Mandell: Love Songs for Machines (Carpark)
52. Imitation Electric Piano (Drag City)
53. The Strokes: Is This It (RCA)
54. American Analog Set: Know by Heart (Tiger Style)
55. Aaliyah (Blackground/Atlantic)
56. Tomb Raider (Elektra)
57. David Axelrod (Mo’ Wax/Beggars Banquet)
58. Lucinda Williams: Essence (Lost Highway)
59. Radiohead: I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings (Capitol)
60. John Acquaviava: Mainhatten Sound (Shadow)
61. Troubleman Mix-Tape (Troubleman Unlimited) NEED TO HEAR MORE: The Beat: Go-Go’s Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop (Liaison) Bombay 2: Electric Vindaloo (Motel) Manu Chao: Proxima Estacion: Esperanza (Virgin) De La Soul: AOI: Bionix (Tommy Boy) Famous When Dead (Playhouse import) Ghost World (Shanachie) Mr. Len: Pity the Fool (Matador) Nils Petter Molvaer: Solid Ether (ECM) Pure Garage IV (Warner ESP import) Slayer: God Hates Us All (American) Snowpatrol: When It’s All Over We Still Have to Clear Up (Jeepster) James “Blood” Ulmer: Memphis Blood: The Sun Sessions (Label M) Vital 2Step (V2) The White Stripes: White Blood Cells (Sympathy for the Record Industry)

― M. Matos, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

well, I knew something was gonna go haywire at some point...apologies....

― M. Matos, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

in no particular odour:

The Reigning Sound - Break Up Break Down; The Detroit Cobras - Life, Love and Leaving; The Deadly Snakes - I'm Not Your Soldier Anymore; The Strokes - Is This It?; The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious; The Silver Jews - Bright Flight; Nick Cave - No More Shall We Part; Dan Melchior Broke Revue; Les Sexareenos - 14 Frenzied Shakers; The White Stripes - White Blood Cells.

best reissues: everything released on Soul Jazz this year has been brilliant, especially New Orleans Funk, Friday Night Fishfry & Studio One Rockers.

― fritz, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And for my highly controversial choice of best single of 2001, I propose “The Music’s No Good Without You” by Cher.

Lazily written off as a Xerox of “Believe,” it is in fact the anti- “Believe.” Whereas the Vocoder was only used as punctuation on “B” to emphasise the fuck-you-Jack nature of the lyric, it is present and processed throughout this new song. Cher sounds neutralised, lamenting the loss of an unbeatable dancefloor partner. No evidence of their having associated beyond the dancefloor, but she continues dancing without him anyway, void. The subtext of loss, of course, goes farther for me. I don’t wish to propose that every love lost song is necessarily underlined with preconceptions of mortality; but this performance has a deep hole where a heart should be. Her closing monologue “I must try to carry on” etc., is rendered expressionlessly, replicant-like, all life having been drained, just the veneer remaining.

I could even go further and say that this record may even stand within touching distance of Dollar’s “Videotheque” (the most chilling moment in pop EVER – Bazar’s closing “Only ghosts are lovers on the screen” descending in line with the Fairlight, human and machine morphing into one).

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

New Order: Get Ready - Howe: Confluence - Radiohead: Amnesiac - Fink: Fink - Joy Division: Les Bains Douches - Calexico: Aerocalexico - REM: Reveal - Kings of Convenience: The Quiet Is the New Loud

There are five weeks left and I have not bought all recent releases I wanted to buy, so there are two spots left in my list.

― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I never make best of the year lists until after Christmas. I confidently predict you'll all be wrong, 'though.

― Jeff W, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was planning to do an ILM poll at the end of the year but since we've had two threads on it already it seems a bit pointless.

― Tom, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Noooo. We want polls. Much better than k-pointless list making. Which won't stop me making my list - in 5 weeks time.

― Jeff, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Am I the first person to pick 'Survivor'? Did it come out in 2000 or something? It's utterly transfixiating!

― dave q, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As for albums, Gillian Welch's astonishing "Time (The Revelator)" towers over everything else released this year. Major thread about this masterpiece currently in preparation.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Foxy Brown: Broken Silence.

Ginuwine: The Life

Destiny's Child: Survivor

SINGLES:

"I Do" by Toya, "Anticipating" by Britney, "Oochie Wally" by QB's finest, "H.O.V.A" by Jay-Z

― Sterling Clover, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Good albums I heard from 2001 (no order yet):

Magma, Theusz Haamtaahk Trilogie
Mouse on Mars, Idiology
Stereolab, Sound-Dust
Boredoms, Rebore Vol. 0
John Zorn, Madness, Love & Mysticism
Ruins, Mandala 2000
Fennesz, Endless Summer
Autechre, Confield
Koenjihyakkei, Nivraym
Bjork, Vespertine
Acid Mothers Temple, New Geocentric World
Acid Mothers Temple, La Novia
Mum, Yesterday was Dramatic - Today is OK
Circulatory System, s/t
Leonard Cohen, Ten New Songs

Still waiting on the Avalanches release. Just started listening to Lali Puna's Scary World Theory this weekend.

― dleone, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Just a few that I can think of off the top:
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
Gorky's - How I Long to Feel that Summer in My Heart
Gillian Welch - Time (the Revelator)
A Silver Mount Zion - Born into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward
Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of...
Blurtonia - Blurtonia
The Chickens - Prepare to Plug in
Rheostatics - Night of the Shooting Stars
Fugazi - The Argument + furniture
Strokes - Is This It
Mogwai - Rock Action + My Father EP
Tortoise - Standards (though not as much as I'd hoped)
Swinghammer - Black-Eyed Sue
Raising the Fawn - Raising the Fawn
The Constantines - The Constantines

reissues:
T.Rex - Electric Warrior 30th anniversary
Neu - all three
Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information
Stranglers - No More Heroes
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight

disappointments:
Lucinda Williams - Essence
Hawksley Workman - (last night we were) The Delicious Wolves
New Order - Get Ready
The Orb - Cydonia
Man...or Astroman? - Infinite Perspective
Copyright - The Hidden World (good but should have been way better)
Tricky Woo - Les Sables Magique (ditto)

There's gotta be more, but surely that's enough for now. things I love this year that I should have heard last year:
Weakerthans - Left and Leaving

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Artists:
Aaliyah - Aaliyah
Daft Punk - Discovery
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Bjork - Vespertine
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
The Beta Band - The Hot Shots II
Missy Elliot - Miss E... So Addictive
Skitz - Countryman
Adam F Presents KAOS: The Anti-Acoustic Warfare
Herbert - Bodily Functions
Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me
Mogwai - Rock Action
N*E*R*D - In Search Of...
Jan Jelinik - loop-finding-jazz-records
Bubba Sparxxx - Dark Days, Bright Nights
Mis-Teeq - Lickin' On Both Sides
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Hakan Lidbo - Tech-Couture
Matmos - A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure
Destiny's Child - Survivor (if programmed selectively)
Heaps More...

Comps:
V/A - Total 3 (Kompakt)
V/A: Andy Weatherall - Hypercity (Force Tracks)
V/A: Masterstepz - Ayia Napa, the album 2001
V/A - Hidden Rooms 03 (Certificate 18)
V/A - Clicks & Cuts 2 (Mille Plateux)
V/A: Stanton Warriors - The Stanton Sessions

The problem with a list like this is the amount I still have to grab: Foxy Brown, Kelis, Perlon's Superlongevity comp, Dub Taylor, Fennesz, Pink, So Solid Crew, etc. etc.

― Tim, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

so my question is: is the timbaland and magoo album out anywhere yet? i thought it wasn't, but my flatmate bought a vinyl copy on import the other day (in hmv, i think). that's got to be a contender; people like myself and i'm the music are two of the best tracks i've heard this year, and i suspect that's only scratching the surface...

― toby, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, it's out already, though only at hideous import prices here in Australia. I've liked a lot of what i've heard (esp. "Drop", "Roll Out", "All Y'all" and "Indian Carpet") but I don't know if an album of solid Magoo will be easy to stomach. "People Like Myself" is cool, but get rid of that damned chorus!

― Tim, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What the hell is 'controversial' about m. carlin (or anyone) nominating a Cher single as the year's best? This isn't the Melody Maker aka Ironic Review circa 1988. You either like it or you don't, adn if you work near a radio you probably won't by now. Then again your parody of the worst writing on this site is pretty amusing, so hats off to ya.

― Snotty Moore, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1. Daft Punk - "One More Time" 2. Ol' Dirty Bastard - "Sussudio" 3. Mya - "Free" 4. Kylie - "Can't Get You Outta My Head" 5. N' Sync - "Pop" 6. Britney Spears: Britney 7. Janet - "All For You" 8. Jelleestone - "Money" 9. Alien Ant Farm - "Smooth Criminal" 10. Ludicrous - "Area Codes" 11. ATC - "I'm In Heaven" 12. Ian Van Dahl - "Castles In the Sky" 13. Janet - "Someone To Call My Lover" 14. Blu Cantrell - "Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)" 15. Destiny's Child - "Bootylicious" 16. Toya - "I Do" 17. Daft Punk - "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" 18. Sarina Paris - "Look At Us" 19. New Order - "Crystal" 20. Daft Punk - "Digital Love"

― Wheeler, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You responding to the bait is what makes it controversial.

Walked right into that one, didn't you?

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two weeks pass...

I hope I have the right "Best of 2001" thread. Apologies for this being less than timely.

01 Basement Jaxx - Rooty - Astralwerks
02 Dabrye - One/Three - Ghostly International
03 Spacek - Curvatia - Island
04 The Avalanches - Since I Left You - Sire
05 Bows - Cassidy - Too Pure
06 Luke Haines - The Oliver Twist Manifesto - Hut
07 Mercury Rev - All Is Dream - V2
08 Life Without Buildings - Any Other City - Tugboat
09 Markus Guentner - In Moll - Kompakt
10 Arab Strap - The Red Thread - Matador

― Andy K., Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In what way is putting up a list with 17 days left to go "less than timely"? ;)

― Tom, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Did anyone else read this thread and forget about posting on it and then halfway through reading your own list you're like "wow that's totally right, who is this guy".

― Ronan, Friday, 14 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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