albums released on september 11, 2001

http://respecta.net/uploads/posts/2007-11/1194500396_killarmy.jpg

http://www.videos-musicales.net/img_videos/Bob-Dylan--Love-And-Theft.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c9/Jay-z-the-blueprint.jpg

i was just talking about this with a friend--we left school cause no one was teaching and he wanted to go to the sam goody in town to buy the new ben folds album which had come out that day

My first book came out that day, too. (All the negative reviews are right, btw; it sucks and I'm an idiot.)

I agree that the author does not seem to be a good authority to write about the music (he doesn't really pretend to be). It reads more like one fan's experience in beginning to learn about the music. And that fan has a chip on his shoulder.

lol. it sounds like you may post to ilx

http://www.mjcafe.net/images/news-pic_036.jpg

http://www.panix.com/~baldwin/coup-cover-300.jpg

they had to pull that from release, btw.

omg i didn't know about that

http://www.orble.com/images/god-hates-us-all-slayer-heavy-metal.jpg

always thought it was ironic this was released on 9/11
http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drh400/h420/h42044k65ma.jpg

it's prophetic almost that love & theft came out that day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_and_Theft

and that first song. . . .

Living in the Land of Nod
Trustin' their fate to the Hands of God
They pass by so silently
Tweedle-dee Dum and Tweedle-dee Dee

They're lying low and they're makin' hay
They seem determined to go all the way
They run a brick and tile company
Tweedle-dee Dum and Tweedle-dee Dee

Well a childish dream is a deathless need
And a noble truth is a sacred creed

that coup album cover is unbelievable

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41YAH6HH39L._SL500_AA240_.jpg

also

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418TBBVJ8DL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

I'm positive Invincible was not released that day..

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/7447.jpg
Track #18: "NYC's Like a Graveyard"

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I only know that Ben Folds one because I bought it on 9/12.

I've never heard this one (except for "The Dark Is Rising"), but I only know of its release date because Todd Barry does a bit where some guy was running from the towers next to him and was like "hey man, the new Mercury Rev comes out today."
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/2630.jpg

All Is Dream did come out that day. Wow.

Not quite true w/ Coup album, was due for release a short while after & cover had to be changed.

The Coup weren't the only ones who had to pull albums and re-do cover art that day:

http://www.metalkingdom.net/album/img/d11/160.jpg

not an inside job. no one knew. the coup, bobby z

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Scenes_from_New_York

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GMMHA2KZL._SS500_.jpg

I keep forgetting to put this one on my best-of-2000s list.

yes, I am an idiot, Invincible wasn't released until October 2001.

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All Is Dream did come out that day. Wow.

i found a japanese-import copy (with the otherwise unavailable, and unremarkable, bonus track "cool waves") the saturday before 9/11. i listened to this album obsessively over the next three days, but had no desire to touch it on 9/11 or for weeks afterward.

Mercury Rev were, in many respects, the real victims of 9/11

amen brother

From "The Dark is Rising," opening track on Mercury Rev's All Is Dream:

I always dreamed of big crowds
Plumes of smoke and high clouds

Eerily prophetic indeed

Why do albums come out on Tuesdays in the US by the way?

That coup album fucked up their career for a hot minute.
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/thecoup.asp

I'm not going to get over my absolute certainty that that Coup cover is fake, against all evidence. Mostly because it looks *so* shonkily Photoshopped.

uh:
http://www.netweed.com/prohiphop/graf/coupgenocidejuice.jpg

lol photoshop

The Coup cover is real, I was working in college radio at the time and that was the copy we received.

Of course the The Coup cover is real. It received a lot of publicity at the time. It hadn't been released yet, but lots of advance copies had.

I'm not going to get over my absolute certainty that that Coup cover is fake, against all evidence. Mostly because it looks *so* shonkily Photoshopped.

-- Matt DC, Sunday, July 6, 2008 6:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

it's not fake, they really blew up the twin towers

http://www.crabwalk.com/mp3/img/floridasonfire.jpg

^^ had a song with a line about "plane crash footage on TV" that they decided not to play while touring in support of the record that fall

Al-Coupda

why did damon albarn appear on that michael jackson album cover?

No one has mentioned what was THE heavily promoted release of September 11, 2001: Mariah Carey's Glitter.

“I released it around September 11, 2001,” Mariah Carey told Swiss newspaper Sonntags Zeitung. “The talk shows needed something to distract from 9/11. I became a punching bag. I was so successful that they tore me down because my album was at number 2 instead of number 1. The media was laughing at me and attacked me.” Additionally, Mariah also said that the movie was just too cutting-edge for it’s own good. “‘Glitter’ was ahead of its time,” she explained. “Today it’s ‘in’ to make 80’s music.”

In my memory, this was another eerie release from September 11:

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That's Explosions In the Sky's "Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever." AMG tells me it was actually released one week earlier, but the timing, name of the band, etc all seemed kinda disturbing at the time.