Toxicity is the only one on here that has a bunch of tracks I still get excited about when they pop up on my playlist
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Thursday, 16 June 2016 01:50 (seven years ago) link
Love and Theft is my favorite of the 2000s so that is my pick but White Blood Cells would be my pick any other year.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 16 June 2016 01:59 (seven years ago) link
Rings Around The World
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Thursday, 16 June 2016 02:36 (seven years ago) link
Low vs Gillian Welch. Probably go with Low since Things We Lost was the gateway album for me.
― that's not my post, Thursday, 16 June 2016 03:02 (seven years ago) link
"Love and Theft"! I listen to it more than most '60s Dylan albums. It's got everything, and he's in great voice.
― Sam Weller, Thursday, 16 June 2016 08:03 (seven years ago) link
Cold Vein by a mile
― paolo, Thursday, 16 June 2016 08:32 (seven years ago) link
endless summer
― Clay, Thursday, 16 June 2016 08:33 (seven years ago) link
Bjork.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 16 June 2016 08:43 (seven years ago) link
Feel like 2001 was an exemplary year for me. I'd been a bit disillusioned with new music for a while and was in danger of becoming a jerk about it, but 2001 was when I started getting interest in - not just new music - but more mainstream stuff too. I don't think this list is representative at all (voting Discovery). Was more into the electro stuff that had started appearing. It was Warp Records' last classic year too, with huge releases by Aphex, Autechre, Prefuse73, Plaid and others.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Thursday, 16 June 2016 08:46 (seven years ago) link
2001 was an incredible year for music and again this list is SO FAR away from it. almost entirely trash.
― the hallouminati (lex pretend), Thursday, 16 June 2016 09:24 (seven years ago) link
I don't know, it's science, it must be objectively correct.
― Terminator Brexit (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 June 2016 09:42 (seven years ago) link
Feels like 2001 was a bit of a transformative year too, especially for certain aspects of dance music where 90s breaks styles were quite quickly getting supplanted by more beat-oriented stuff. I always say this on these threads, but things like 2ManyDJs and electroclash might have been short-lived and a bit lol in retrospect, but they were also landscape changing in the way that they got sourpuss indiekids like myself interested in house and electro in a way that hadn't really been seen since the big beat craze in the 90s. the electro influences on those records (and Discovery of course) would resonate for at least 10 years more. I haven't heard anything recent with a breakbeat that doesn't feel like it's aiming for something deliberately retro.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Thursday, 16 June 2016 10:11 (seven years ago) link
Dismemberment Plan - Change
― Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Thursday, 16 June 2016 10:23 (seven years ago) link
I was going to go for Tool, for the impact it had at the time, but then went for Gillian because Gillian. Then I decided to go with my heart and went for the Super Furries. I was living on my own in Lausanne at the time, and I can hear a single second of that record and instantly be back by the lake, brittle under the skyless grey.
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Thursday, 16 June 2016 11:09 (seven years ago) link
God knows how many times I've listened to The Blueprint. It's the platonic ideal of a rap album.
I also like these:
The Strokes - Is This ItThe White Stripes - White Blood CellsDaft Punk - DiscoveryBob Dylan - Love and TheftMissy Elliott - Miss E... So AddictiveThe Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2Cannibal Ox - The Cold VeinFugazi - The ArgumentN.E.R.D. - In Search of...Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the WorldSpoon - Girls Can TellLow - Things We Lost in the FireBasement Jaxx - RootyThe Dismemberment Plan - Change
very good year
― a poon shaped mule (voodoo chili), Thursday, 16 June 2016 13:06 (seven years ago) link
Aenima is a much more interesting and involving album than Lateralus, which to me sounds like it's suffering from the nu-metal epidemic that plagued so many decent bands at this time.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Thursday, 16 June 2016 13:14 (seven years ago) link
This really is an appalling list though. Christ.
Unwound
― ciderpress, Thursday, 16 June 2016 13:19 (seven years ago) link
Some formative stuff in there for me, Had to go with The Argument cos I don't really listen to Lateralus or Toxicity any more
― ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 16 June 2016 13:53 (seven years ago) link
I no longer even own anything on this list; sold or gave away my copies of Love and Theft, Vespertine, Amnesiac and Poses during my pre-move purge last year.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 16 June 2016 14:25 (seven years ago) link
Easily Discovery for me. I agree with people saying some electroclash should be there, namely Kittenz and Thee Glitz and 604.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 16 June 2016 14:44 (seven years ago) link
wuh? lateralus mostly ditched the nu-metalisms for full prog
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 16 June 2016 14:53 (seven years ago) link
fuck The Strokes
― volumetric god rays (DJP), Thursday, 16 June 2016 14:53 (seven years ago) link
this is Basement Jaxx vs Unwound vs Tool imo
― volumetric god rays (DJP), Thursday, 16 June 2016 14:55 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I don't hear much nu metally about Lateralus apart from, you know, loud guitars and that. If anything it has a purer sound than Aenima.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 16 June 2016 14:56 (seven years ago) link
that gillian welch record is still unbelievably powerful
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 16 June 2016 14:56 (seven years ago) link
Gillian could easily win for 'I Dream A Highway' alone.
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Thursday, 16 June 2016 15:04 (seven years ago) link
Fennesz. This was the easiest one of these in a long time.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Thursday, 16 June 2016 15:05 (seven years ago) link
― Pentenema Karten, Thursday, 16 June 2016 15:11 (seven years ago) link
Bah to the Strokes hate. I still listen to that album occasionally.
― big firework, Thursday, 16 June 2016 22:15 (seven years ago) link
Discovery is the one I go back to most though. I actually discovered that Royksopp album from the Geico ad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H02iwWCrXew
― big firework, Thursday, 16 June 2016 22:26 (seven years ago) link
Some great albums here but it has to be Discovery. Perfect record.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 16 June 2016 22:28 (seven years ago) link
I think the 2001 album I listen to the most is Flieg Mit Ellen Allien but that's a mix so it probably doesn't count. Of these, it'd have to be Love and Theft. Good stuff missing here include Destroyer's Streethawk and Opeth Blackwater Park.
― o. nate, Friday, 17 June 2016 00:34 (seven years ago) link
List needs Stereolab - Sound-Dust
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Friday, 17 June 2016 00:51 (seven years ago) link
It's a boring pick but Radiohead.
― jmm, Friday, 17 June 2016 01:00 (seven years ago) link
no Aaliyah, not credibility
― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Friday, 17 June 2016 09:01 (seven years ago) link
aaliyah but so much else leaning pop, r&b, hip-hop. depressing that ilm's most popular threads these days are these boring canonical indie rock ones but everything dies i guess
― the hallouminati (lex pretend), Friday, 17 June 2016 09:39 (seven years ago) link
Fennesz - Endless Summer
On first reading, I though Fenriz from Darkthone had realeased a solo album called Endless Summer.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 17 June 2016 10:06 (seven years ago) link
Aenima is a much more interesting and involving album than Lateralus, which to me sounds like it's suffering from the nu-metal epidemic that plagued so many decent bands at this time.wuh? lateralus mostly ditched the nu-metalisms for full prog― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 16 June 2016 15:53 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 16 June 2016 15:53 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I saw Aenima more as an industrial/gothic album in the lineage of things like Ministry's 'Psalm 69' while 'Lateralus' felt academic, a bit dry, and texturally similar to nu-metal save for the time signatures. I've tried to listen to it countless times and rarely make it through to the end. It's not a nu-metal album, but it is in the same sense that '60 Second Wipeout', 'Roots', 'The Burning Red' and 'Diabolus in Musica' were all subject to nu-metal's regime.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 17 June 2016 10:16 (seven years ago) link
I've tried to listen to it countless times and rarely make it through to the end.
That's Tool albums for ya.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 17 June 2016 10:17 (seven years ago) link
fuck The Strokes― volumetric god rays (DJP), Thursday, 16 June 2016 15:53 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― volumetric god rays (DJP), Thursday, 16 June 2016 15:53 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This 100%. The 9/11 of indie guitar music.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 17 June 2016 10:20 (seven years ago) link
Haha <3 u dl but fuck that analogy
― gate crimes legislation (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 17 June 2016 10:52 (seven years ago) link
yeah sorry.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 17 June 2016 10:58 (seven years ago) link
Jay-Z - The BlueprintDaft Punk - DiscoveryBjörk - VespertineMissy Elliott - Miss E... So AddictiveThe Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2Fugazi - The ArgumentTool - LateralusThe Shins - Oh, Inverted WorldSpoon - Girls Can TellLow - Things We Lost in the FireThe Dismemberment Plan - Change
These are all classics to me but I'm voting Vespertine. One of my favourite years, album-wise.
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 17 June 2016 11:19 (seven years ago) link
does vanguard pop need an appreciation of its own past?
― hypnic jerk (rushomancy), Friday, 17 June 2016 11:20 (seven years ago) link
Where's the Green Album?
― how's life, Friday, 17 June 2016 11:34 (seven years ago) link
1988, 1991
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 17 June 2016 12:20 (seven years ago) link
― the hallouminati (lex pretend), Thursday, June 16, 2016 9:24 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
list of good 2001 music, plz
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 17 June 2016 17:46 (seven years ago) link
here are some that just missed the list:
31 Herbert - Bodily Functions32 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part33 Alicia Keys - Songs in A Minor34 Gotan Project - La revancha del tango35 Aphex Twin - Drukqs36 Air - 10,000 Hz Legend37 Aaliyah - Aaliyah38 Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives39 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C.40 Spiritualized - Let It Come Down41 Weezer - Weezer ("The Green Album")42 Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance43 Liars - They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument On Top44 Noir Désir - Des Visages des Figures45 cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD46 Manu Chao - ...próxima estación...Esperanza47 Pulp - We Love Life48 Kylie Minogue - Fever49 Lucinda Williams - Essence
― Bee OK, Friday, 17 June 2016 19:19 (seven years ago) link
Rings Around the World is the one I listened to the most out of these (by a lot I think). The only other one of these I've listened to lately is The Argument, which has held up remarkably well, I wouldn't have guessed back then that this was an album I'd still be listening to 15 years later.
― silverfish, Friday, 17 June 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link
Super Furry Animals just over Discovery and the absend of We Love Life.
― the future is now, Saturday, 18 June 2016 01:06 (seven years ago) link
xp Fugazi are eternal
― ultros ultros-ghali, Saturday, 18 June 2016 01:25 (seven years ago) link
Probably Jaxx or Strokes or Ox off the top of my head. Maybe like Gillian and Spoon and Bjork trailing just behind. I'm sure there's a mile-long list of albums I prefer that didn't make the list.
― Manspread Mann (Old Lunch), Saturday, 18 June 2016 17:21 (seven years ago) link
This has loads of stuff I used to like and some I still do - the Mogwai is a great album, the SFA is a really great album, torn between that and The Cold Vein which still feels like a game-changer
― imago, Saturday, 18 June 2016 17:29 (seven years ago) link
Also, I'll say it without shame - this is Muse's good album
― imago, Saturday, 18 June 2016 17:31 (seven years ago) link
i agree, Origin of Symmetry is the only great Muse album. they do have some great singles after this but that was it for full albums.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 19 June 2016 00:05 (seven years ago) link
I don't agree, as I think Absolution is song-for-song their strongest LP. Origin of Symmetry has its moments - the singles and 'Citizen Erased', but there's some tracks on there I'm not convinced were ever that great.
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Sunday, 19 June 2016 19:30 (seven years ago) link
In my quest to give one album per year/list that I didn't get into (but tried to) the first time around, I spun Love and Theft again this weekend. Unlike Voodoo, I was at least able to get all the way through this record this time, but aside from "Mississippi," it still does nothing for me.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Sunday, 19 June 2016 19:41 (seven years ago) link
But yeah, it has to be Rings Around The World for me, not just for the songs on it, but because the band seemed to throw every last idea they possibly could think of at it. It was their first album after Creation Records folded, and Sony really put a hell of a lot of money into the whole project, which the band spent on a very slick production which was primarily made for surround sound (the band considered the stereo version to be secondary) - released on a DVD with remixes for every track, videos for every track and other assorted bits and pieces. The vinyl version was cut with one side playing from the inside outwards, and came with a "hidden" track exclusive to the vinyl version. The music was elaborately produced and arranged. Listening to it these days makes SFA's slide into mediocrity even more depressing.
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Sunday, 19 June 2016 19:44 (seven years ago) link
It is a brilliant album. Their slide was subtle enough to allow a few great tracks on subsequent albums, but nothing like this coherent statement. Maybe they just lost their intensity a bit. Mwng is pretty much just as good.
― imago, Sunday, 19 June 2016 19:50 (seven years ago) link
I always thought Rings was overproduced and the songs weren't strong enough with a few exceptions (Juxtapozed, Run Christian Run, Sidewalk Serfer Girl). The second and third singles were the first weak singles they put out. Phantom Power was a massive return to form for me.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 19 June 2016 20:35 (seven years ago) link
I always thought Rings was overproduced and the songs weren't strong enough
agreed so I wasn't surprised by the continuing slide into mediocrity.
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 19 June 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 20 June 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
voted for The Cold Vein anyway
― imago, Monday, 20 June 2016 11:04 (seven years ago) link
Now that's a post!
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 20 June 2016 14:40 (seven years ago) link
After thinking about this for a few days, I finally decided to vote for White Blood Cells.
― Bee OK, Monday, 20 June 2016 16:51 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
Spoon and Sparklehors got robbed.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 00:48 (seven years ago) link
or Sparklehorse, RIP.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 00:49 (seven years ago) link
I forgot to vote because I couldn't decide between Fennesz and Unwound, but on revisiting I'm not enjoying the Fennesz nearly as much as in 2001, whereas the Unwound sounds better than ever. "Demons Sing Love Songs" is all time
Surprised to see a vote for Muse and none for Sparklehorse or Royksopp (not that I like much on there except Eple, but I do really, really like Eple)
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 10:36 (seven years ago) link
Loads of good tracks on Melody AM, but you're right that Eple is the best.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 10:45 (seven years ago) link
hey Bee OK, for us bookmarkers, would you care to post itt then next poll is running?
― niels, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 13:37 (seven years ago) link
i haven't listened to Melody AM in years, but i recall enjoying the slow burning mellow stuff the best.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 18:41 (seven years ago) link
like "she's so", that's nice stuff.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 18:42 (seven years ago) link
sure, not a problem
Acclaimed Music Top 30 Albums from 2002 poll
xxpost
― Bee OK, Thursday, 23 June 2016 00:59 (seven years ago) link
Nice :)
― niels, Thursday, 23 June 2016 15:27 (seven years ago) link