2001. Here we go. It was an ok year for music especially considering the top 40 was dominated by boy bands and Brittney clones. Ok, anything released between Jan 1 and Dec 31 2001 is eligible. Pick as many or as few as you wish. Enjoy yourself and have fun! My favorite albums from 2001 in alphabetical order by artist: Ryan Adams - Gold Ass Ponys - Lohio Beulah - The Coast Is Never Clear Cosmic Rough Riders - Enjoy The Melodic Sunshine The Czars - The Ugly People - vs - The Beautiful People The Dirtbombs - Ultraglide In Black Gorillaz - Gorillaz Guided By Voices - Isolation Drills Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American Radiohead - Amnesiac The Shins - Oh, InvertedWorld The Strokes - Is This It Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Global A Go Go The White Stripes - White Blood Cells Pete Yorn - Musicforthemorningafter
Old 97’s: Satellite Rides The Strokes: Is This It The White Stripes: White Blood Cells Pink: Missundaztood
Nas - Stillmatic Blake Babies - God Bless the Blake Babies Heather Nova - South Edson - Unwind With Edson The Flower Kings - The Rainmaker Jay-Z - The Blueprint Travis - The Invisible Band Stun Gun - Venus Envy Gay Dad - Transmission
Maddy Prior Arthur the King Blackmore's Night Fires at Midnight Pendragon Not of This World Pallas Cross and the Crucible Pete Townshend Scoop 3 Steeleye Span The Journey
Fugazi - The Argument Spiritualized - Let It Come Down That is all edit: Oh, I forgot about The Blueprint.
Ryan Adams - Gold Shawn Colvin - Whole New You The Cranberries - Wake Up and Smell the Coffee Garbage - Beautiful Garbage Pernice Brothers - The World Won't End Rilo Kiley - Take Offs and Landings Rock Star Soundtrack Vanilla Sky Soundtrack Lucinda Williams - Essence
bjork - vespertine bob dylan - love and theft nick cave and the bad seeds - no more shall we part muse - origin of symmetry incubus - morning view tenacious d transatlantic - bridge across forever something for kate - echolallia devin townsend - terria alsion kraus and union station - new favourite seems like a lot of best of compilations in 2001
Let’s see... Tool: Lateralus Marillion: Anoraknophobia Yes: Magnification Radiohead: Amnesiac Björk: Vespertine Bill Frisell: With Dave Holland and Elvin Jones Paul Motian and The Electric Bebop Band: Europe
Gorrilaz - S/T Radiohead - Amnesiac Tool - Lateralus The White Stripes - White Blood Cells The Strokes - Is This It The Shins - Oh, Inverted World Low - Things We Lost in the Fire pp.99 - Document #8 Ryan Adams - Gold Bob Dylan - Love and Theft P!nk - M!ssundaztood The Velvet Underground - The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1-3: The Quine Tapes
I only own 36 albums from 2001. These are ny 5/5's: Blackmore's Night - Fires At Midnight The Bushburys - Timeless Show Of Hands - Cold Frontier Flamborough Head - One For The Crow Solan - The Haven & The Hurricane Slide - The Slippery Slope Trefor & Vicki Williams - Timeless land Boys From The Hill - S/T Pint & Dale - White Horses Timothy B. Schmit - Feed The Fire Wow! With the exception of Timothy B. & Flamborough Head, that's a very folky list. All great albums, mind you!
Old 97's - Satellite Rides The White Stripes - White Blood Cells Spoon - Girls Can Tell Ryan Adams - Gold Alejandro Escovedo - A Man Under the Influence Whiskeytown - Pneumonia Toilet Böys - Toilet Böys The Dictators - D.F.F.D. Bellvue - To Be Somebody The Lazy Cowgirls - Here and Now The Streetwalkin' Cheetahs - Waiting For the Death of My Generation Wingspan - Hits & History
2001--Not a bad year. In no particular order: This Is Where I Came In--Bee Gees Feed the Fire--Timothy B. Schmit s/t--O-Town The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most--Dashboard Confessional Simple Things--Zero 7 All Killer, No Filler--Sum 41 Celebrity--NSYNC The Spirit Room--Michelle Branch Get Ready--New Order Satellite--P.O.D. Silver Side Up--Nickelback Room for Squares--John Mayer The Hits: Chapter One--Backstreet Boys Morning View--Incubus s/t--Hoobastank "The Green Album"--Weezer Their Greatest Hits: The Record--Bee Gees
Ryan Adams-Gold Bjork-Vespertine Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds-No More Shall We Part Bob Dylan-Love And Theft Alejandro Escovedo-A Man Under The Influence Dave Holland Quintet-Not For Nothin' Pernice Brothers-The World Won't End Radiohead-Amnesiac Gillian Welch-Time (The Revelator) The White Stripes-White Blood Cells
Devin Townsend - Terria Muse - Origin of Symmetry Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever Porcupine Tree - Recordings Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album Opeth - Blackwater Park Jeff Beck - You Had It Coming Radiohead - Amnesiac No-Man - Returning Jesus dredg - Leitmotif
2000 LB OF BLUES - KING SIZE BB & THE BLUES SHACKS - MIDNITE DINER BLUEBIRDS - SWEET JAMBOUREE BLUES DOWN TOWN - DOWN TRACKED CADILLAC KINGS - LOU ANN CHRIS CAIN - CAIN DOES KING SEAN COSTELLO & HIS JIVEBOMBERS - MOANIN' FOR MOLASSES NICK CURRAN - NIGHTLIFE BOOGIE STEVE FREUND - I'LL BE YOUR MULE TROY GONYEA - TROY GONYEA DOUG JAMES - BLOW MR LOW JW JONES - DEFRIBRILLATIN' LIL RONNIE - YOUNG & EVIL ROD PIAZZA - BEYOND THE SOURCE BENJIE PORECKI - THE REST OF MY LIFE KID RAMOS - GREASY KID STUFF ROOMFUL OF BLUES - WATCH YOU WHEN YOU GO SUGAR RAY & THE BLUETONES - ROCKIN' SUGAR DADDY SUPERHARPS - SUPERHARPS II JODY WILLIAMS - RETURN OF A LEGEND KIM WILSON - SMOKIN' JOINT SVEN ZETTERBERG - LET ME GET OVER IT BENNY & THE FLY BY NITERS - BENNY & THE FLY BY NITERS (JET PROPELLED DADDY) BUDDY BLUE - PRETEND IT'S OKAY RIP CARSON - STAND BACK KASEY CHAMBERS - BARRICADES & BRICKWALLS CHROME DADDIES - CHROME DADDIES RODNEY CROWELL - THE HOUSTON KID JESSE DAYTON - HEY NASHVEGAS DEEP REDUCTION - DEEP REDUCTION 2 ROBBIE FULKS - 13 HILLBILLY GIANTS GOV'T MULE - THE DEEP END VOLUME 1 WAYNE HANCOCK - A TOWN BLUES WAYNE HANCOCK - THE SOUTH AUSTIN SESSIONS CORNELL HURD BAND - A STAGECOACH NAMED DESIRE ROBERT EARL KEEN - GRAVITATIONAL FORCES BUDDY & JULIE MILLER - BUDDY & JULIE MILLER P 76 - INTO THE SUN PALADINS - PALVOLINE NO 7 GRAHAM PARKER - DEEPCUT TO NOWHERE RED RIVERS - WISHBONE TEN YEARS AFTER - LIVE AT THE FILLMORE EAST 1970
A few favs: Angra - Rebirth Asia - Aura Bang on a Can - Lost Objects Basement Jaxx - Rooty Cake - Comfort Eagle Crystal Method - Tweekend Curve - Gift Fear Factory - Digimortal Feeder - Echo Park Felix da Housecat - Kittenz and Thee Glitz The Flower Kings - Rainmaker Garbage - Beautifulgarbage Gordon Downie - Coke Machine Glow Human League - Secrets Ian Brown - Music of the Spheres Information Society - strange haircuts, cardboard guitars, and computer samples IQ - The Seventh House John Foxx - The Pleasures of Electricity Journey - Arrival (US Version) Ladytron = 604 Marillion - Anoraknophobia Muse - Origin of Symmetry New Order - Get Ready Orbital - The Altogether Radiohead - Amnesiac Savatage - Poets and Madmen Snow Patrol - When it's all over, we still have to clear up Staind - Break the Cycle Suzanne Vega - Songs in Red and Gray Tantric - S/T Tool - Lateralus Travis - The Invisible Band Yes - Magnification Zero 7 - Simple Things VA - Snatch OST VA - Vanilla Sky OST
Seems a little light but still some diamonds in the rough... Personal Favorites: 1.Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (streamed for free from their website starting 9/18/01; physical release 4/23/02) 2.Big Sugar - Brothers and Sisters Etes-Vous Ready 3.David Byrne - Look into the Eyeball 4.Neil Finn - 7 Worlds Collide 5.Moulin Rouge Soundtrack 6.The White Stripes - White Blood Cells 7.Bob Dylan - Love and Theft 8.Gordon Downie - Coke Machine Glow 9.Bob Schneider - Lonelyland "Covers/Live" 1.Various - America: A Tribute to Heroes 2.Les Claypool's Flying Brigade - Live Frogs Set 2 3.Los Straightjackets - Damas Y Caballeros! Los Straitjackets 4.Sting - ...All This Time 5.Pete Townshend - Scoop 36.Substitute: The Songs of the Who 7.Listen to What The Man Said (Popular Artists Pay Tribute to the Music of Paul McCartney) The Rest 1.Radiohead - Amnesiac 2.Eric Clapton - Reptile3.Doyle Bramhall II & Smokestack - Welcome 4.Chris Whitley - Rocket House5.John Hiatt - The Tiki Bar Is Open 6.Big Bill Morganfield - Ramblin' Mind7.Pete Yorn - musicforthemorningafter