Acclaimed Music Top 30 Albums from 2001 poll

Top 5 is pretty solid.

or maybe seven even.

toxicity

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Write-in for Jimmy Eat World's Bleed American

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

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.

Rings Around The World

Low vs Gillian Welch. Probably go with Low since Things We Lost was the gateway album for me.

"Love and Theft"! I listen to it more than most '60s Dylan albums. It's got everything, and he's in great voice.

Cold Vein by a mile

endless summer

Bjork.

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.

2001 was an incredible year for music and again this list is SO FAR away from it. almost entirely trash.

I don't know, it's science, it must be objectively correct.

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.

Dismemberment Plan - Change

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.

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 It
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Daft Punk - Discovery
Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
Missy Elliott - Miss E... So Addictive
The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Fugazi - The Argument
N.E.R.D. - In Search of...
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
The Dismemberment Plan - Change

very good year

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.

This really is an appalling list though. Christ.

Unwound

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

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.

Easily Discovery for me. I agree with people saying some electroclash should be there, namely Kittenz and Thee Glitz and 604.

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

fuck The Strokes

this is Basement Jaxx vs Unwound vs Tool imo

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.

that gillian welch record is still unbelievably powerful

Gillian could easily win for 'I Dream A Highway' alone.

Fennesz. This was the easiest one of these in a long time.

Unwound

Bah to the Strokes hate. I still listen to that album occasionally.

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

Some great albums here but it has to be Discovery. Perfect record.

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.

List needs Stereolab - Sound-Dust

It's a boring pick but Radiohead.

no Aaliyah, not credibility

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

Fennesz - Endless Summer

On first reading, I though Fenriz from Darkthone had realeased a solo album called Endless Summer.

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

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.

I've tried to listen to it countless times and rarely make it through to the end.

That's Tool albums for ya.

fuck The Strokes

― volumetric god rays (DJP), Thursday, 16 June 2016 15:53 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This 100%. The 9/11 of indie guitar music.

Haha <3 u dl but fuck that analogy

yeah sorry.

Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Daft Punk - Discovery
Björk - Vespertine
Missy Elliott - Miss E... So Addictive
The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2
Fugazi - The Argument
Tool - Lateralus
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
The Dismemberment Plan - Change

These are all classics to me but I'm voting Vespertine. One of my favourite years, album-wise.

does vanguard pop need an appreciation of its own past?

Where's the Green Album?

1988, 1991

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, June 16, 2016 9:24 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

list of good 2001 music, plz

here are some that just missed the list:

31 Herbert - Bodily Functions
32 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part
33 Alicia Keys - Songs in A Minor
34 Gotan Project - La revancha del tango
35 Aphex Twin - Drukqs
36 Air - 10,000 Hz Legend
37 Aaliyah - Aaliyah
38 Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives
39 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C.
40 Spiritualized - Let It Come Down
41 Weezer - Weezer ("The Green Album")
42 Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance
43 Liars - They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument On Top
44 Noir Désir - Des Visages des Figures
45 cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD
46 Manu Chao - ...próxima estación...Esperanza
47 Pulp - We Love Life
48 Kylie Minogue - Fever
49 Lucinda Williams - Essence

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.

Super Furry Animals just over Discovery and the absend of We Love Life.

xp Fugazi are eternal

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.

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

Also, I'll say it without shame - this is Muse's good album

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

voted for The Cold Vein anyway

2001 was an incredible year for music and again this list is SO FAR away from it. almost entirely trash.

Now that's a post!

After thinking about this for a few days, I finally decided to vote for White Blood Cells.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Spoon and Sparklehors got robbed.

or Sparklehorse, RIP.

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)

Loads of good tracks on Melody AM, but you're right that Eple is the best.

hey Bee OK, for us bookmarkers, would you care to post itt then next poll is running?

i haven't listened to Melody AM in years, but i recall enjoying the slow burning mellow stuff the best.

like "she's so", that's nice stuff.

sure, not a problem

Acclaimed Music Top 30 Albums from 2002 poll

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