List some of your favorite records that turn 20 this year

Dymaxion X 4 + 3 if it counts (compiles 7" singles released over the previous few years)

Can't believe I forgot

Boards of Canada – In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country
Masada – Live in Sevilla 2000
Robert Rich – Humidity

.boredoms - vision creation newsun

This is one of the albums I had in mind that was actually released in 99?

Surprising omissions so far (not necessarily personal favorites) are Supreme Clientele and 69 Love Songs.

a few others

Neko Case - Furnace Room Lullaby
Low - Christmas
Laura Cantrell - Not The Trembling Kind

xp 69 Love Songs was '99.

Peter Hammill – What Now
Tindersticks – Can Our Love
Cowboy Junkies – Open
Gillian Welch – Time (The Revelator)
Lucinda Williams – Essence
Radiohead – Amnesiac
Spiritualized – Let It Come Down
Leonard Cohen – Ten New Songs
Nick Cave – No More Shall We Part

Fennesz Endless Summer
Marmoset Record in Red

Absu – Tara
Anaal Nathrakh – The Codex Necro
Autechre – Confield
Cannibal Ox – The Cold Vein
Daniel Bélanger – Rêver mieux
Gorguts – From Wisdom to Hate
Jan Jelinek – Loop-finding-jazz-records
Masada – Live at Tonic 2001
The Necks – Aether
Noir Désir – Des visages des figures
Radiohead – Amnesiac
Robert Rich – Somnium
Stars of the Lid – The Tired Sounds of…
Unwound – Leaves Turn Inside You

Bob Dylan — Love and Theft
White Stripes — White Blood Cells
The Strokes — Is This It
The Moldy Peaches — s/t
Yeah Yeah Yeahs — s/t
Drive-by Truckers — Southern Rock Opera
Old 97's — Satellite Rides
The Hives — Your New Favourite Band
Nick Lowe — The Convincer
Ivy — Long Distance

Lots of overlap with the preceding lists for 2001 so will just add

Hood - Home Is Where It Hurts + Cold House
No-Man - Returning Jesus

Discovery
Rings Around The World
Quiet is the New Loud
Hot Shots 2
Since I Left You

It's been 20 years since the Strokes and YYYs saved rock 'n roll.

Favorites from 2001 (as per my end-of-year list at the time):
Snow Patrol - When It's All Over We Still Have To Clear Up
Animals That Swim - Happiness From A Distant Star
Gerard Langley - Record Player
Grant-Lee Phillips - Mobilize
B.R.M.C. - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Pooka - Fools Give Birth To Angels
Whiskeytown - Pneumonia
The Damned - Grave Disorder
Seafood - When Do We Start Fighting
Cloudboy - Down At The End Of The Garden
Clearlake - Lido

Honorable Mention:
Radiohead - Amnesiac
I Am Kloot - Natural History
Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
Ryan Adams - Gold
Chameleons - Why Call It Anything
Kid Loco - Kill Your Darlings
The Real Tuesday Weld - When Cupid Meets Psyche
They Might Be Giants - Mink Car

Also married Mrs. McBB 20 years ago, so that's the best of 2001 for sure!

Looking at it now 2001 was a phenomenal year as far as my tastes go, most these are stupidly obscure though

At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command (prob would have been one of my all-time faves if I actually heard it at the time)
BOaT - RoRo
Bob Drake - The Skull Mailbox and Other Horrors
Coaltar of the Deepers - No Thank You
Cornelius - Point
Dilute - Grape Blueprints Pour Spinach Olive Grape
Fugazi - The Argument
Gorguts - From Wisdom to Hate
Juno - A Future Lived in Past Tense
Maudlin of the Well - Bath/Leaving Your Body Map/The Secret Song
Shiner - The Egg
Susumu Yokota - Grinning Cat
Volta do Mar - At the Speed of Light or Day

(Fuck ranking this stuff)

I listened to Relationship of Command again the other week for the first time since like 2003, it rules!!!!!

Blew my mind the other day to find out that Point by Cornelius is nearly 20 years old. Always thought it sounded like the future. But I relisten now and it's clearly a Y2K album.

I Get Wet is gonna be 20 this year. God damn.

drukqs, Confield, and Double Figure, three albums I distinctly remember there being many conversations about

Vision Creation Newsun! Fuck!!

Hah, I’d completely forgotten about Bob Drake. Good record, yeah.

Point does sound of its time but I think it's aged pretty well, more than Phantasma at least, which I like but is definitely something of a time capsule.

I wasn't listening to these at the time, but glad I belatedly discovered them:

Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Ellen Allien - Flieg Mit Ellen Allien
Mihaly Dresch - Quiet As It Is

Three of my all time favorites were released in 2001

Low - Things We Lost In The Fire
The Clientele - Suburban Light
Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator) (mentioned above)

Point does sound of its time but I think it's aged pretty well, more than Phantasma at least, which I like but is definitely something of a time capsule.

well I think Fantasma was definitely intended to sound that was, felt like the last "Shibuya-kei" album anyone ever needed to make

Pärson Sound - Pärson Sound

This was also the high P2P era when vast tracts of previously innacessible music became explorable.

Kylie Minogue - Fever
Aaliyah - Aaliyah
Björk - Vespertine

... now feels like some kind of untouchable trifecta of vocalmachinepop? I think I basically measure everything that's come since against these three. I struggle to think of any album that's grown more in my esteem since release than Fever

ADULT. - Resuscitation
Felix da Housecat - Kittenz and thee Glitz
Ladytron - 604
The Human League - Secrets

ELECTROCLASH etc. I was completely obsessed with Ladytron at the time as my (then) New Perfect Favourite Band; their subsequent records sounded cleaner and sharper but they were more fun here and just slightly too blank to be twee. Resuscitation IS cleaner and sharper though and sounds all the better for it now. Secrets got a bit buried but is bubbly luxury and comfortably one of the... 3? best HL albums

Also:

The Other People Place - Lifestyles of the Laptop Café
Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance
Stina Nordenstam - This is Stina Nordenstam
Stereolab - Sound-Dust
Kelis - Wanderland

... all still sound glorious

Weezer - Green album
Thursday - Full Collapse
Saves the Day - Stay What You Are

I would say Point made an obvious but very strong case for the promise of digital audio editing that not too many other artists explored to the same degree, in that there's a real ambiguity between looping, quantizing and programming that ultimately retains an element of live tracking and always feels rooted in "performance". It was pretty singular at the time afaik, ans still is. I don't think it's aged badly at all.

Still my favorite record of his/theirs fwiw

Some that haven't been mentionned:

Basement Jaxx - Rooty
Miss Kittin & The Hacker - First Album
Missy Elliott - Miss E... So Addictive

yeah Point is still my favorite too - I don't think it's aged poorly exactly, rather it fits into this scene sometimes referred to as "folktronica" which doesn't really exist anymore

Point seems too singularly unique to be filed under 'folktronica', or 'indietronica' for that matter. You are right in that both don't seem to exist any more. We could do a thread because there are some really good albums that came out under that banner.

Insignificance and Vespertine two 20-year olds that are way high on my all-time list for sure.

Dolly Parton - Little Sparrow
Life Without Buildings - Any Other City
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Destiny's Child - Survivor
Now It's Overhead
Emm Gryner - Girl Versions
Rufus Wainwright - Poses
Lucinda Williams - Essence
Bill Janovitz - Up Here
Janet Jackson - All For You

20 years old this week

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"...that turn 21 this year"

Bertrand Burgalat - The Sssound Of Mmmusic (06.10.2000)

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The Space Cossacks - tsar wars (01 July 2000)

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Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein is 20 this year. *sigh*

2002 Top Ten, as chosen at the time:

Wire - Read & Burn 01/02
Reindeer Section - Son Of Evil Reindeer
Mestar - Porcupine
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
AC Acoustics - O
Polak - Rubbernecking
Max Eider - Hotel Figueroa
Cinerama - Torino
Wilco - Yankee Foxtrot Hotel
Caitlin Cary - While You Weren't Looking

20 years on, I clearly overrated Mestar (an obscure NZ band though I still like them) and Cinerama (though that album is the last thing from Gedge I care about), that Max Eider is solid but he's done better and I can't remember the last time I listened to Interpol (though I still like that album). In particular, those EPs from Wire are still thrilling and Polak (ex-Adorable) are criminally unknown.

Other albums that turn 20 this year that I still dig:
Neko Case - Blacklisted
The Black Watch - Jiggery-Pokery
Astrid Williamson - Carnation

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle
Tom Waits - Alice
Tom Waits - Blood Money
Damien Rice - O
Paul Westerberg - Stereo
Koop - Waltz for Koop
Aimee Mann - Lost in Space

Sigur Ros - ( )
Jets To Brazil - Perfecting Loneliness
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
N.E.R.D. - In Search of
El-P - Fantastic Damage
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Missy Elliot - Under Construction
Opeth - Deliverance
Clipse - Lord Willin'
Comets On Fire - Field Recordings from the Sun

Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Lambchop - Is a Woman
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out of Season
Low - Trust

(basically everyone released their best album in 2002 and it was autumn-flavoured)

Xinlisupreme - Tomorrow Never Knows & Murder License (and then nothing, for years and years)

Neko Case - Blacklisted

^this one for sure

Nothing else coming immediately to mind. Lean year?

stuff I liked at the time, not so much now:

Of Montreal - Aldhil's Arboretum (somewhat embarrassingly the first thread I ever started on this board was about this album, not going to link it)
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
The Apples in Stereo - Velocity of Sound
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
Astrobotnia - Part 01
Meshuggah - Nothing

stuff I liked at the time and still like:

Sonic Youth - Murray Street

stuff I discovered a bit later and still like:

F.M. Knives - Useless & Modern
Mihaly Dresch Quartet / Archie Shepp - Hungarian Bebop
Ellen Allien - Weiss.Mix
Opeth - Deliverance

ILX had a poll that year: The ILX Readers Poll 2002 - RECORDS OF THE YEAR

1. THE STREETS - Original Pirate Material (217 points)
2. VARIOUS ARTISTS - 2 Many DJs: As Heard On Radio Soulwax Part 2 (110 points)
3. SLEATER-KINNEY - One Beat (70 points)
4. VARIOUS ARTISTS - Boom Selection Issue-01 (64 points)
5. BOARD OF CANADA - Geogaddi (63 points)
6. FARBEN - Textstar (59 points)
7. WILCO - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (58 points)
8=. LOW - Trust
MISSY ELLIOT - Under Construction
SONIC YOUTH - Murray Street (all 55 points)
11. THE DELGADOS - Hate (54 points)
12. FLAMING LIPS - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (52)
13. THE BOOKS - Thought For Food (50)
14. INTERPOL - Turn On The Bright Lights (48)
15. DJ SHADOW - The Private Press (47)
16. METRO AREA - Metro Area (44)
17. TOM WAITS - Alice (43)
18. BLACKALICIOUS - Blazing Arrow (42)
19. SAINT ETIENNE - Finisterre (38)
20. SIGUR ROS - () (37)
21. MY COMPUTER - Vulnerabilia (35)
22. BEACHWOOD SPARKS - Make The Cowboy Robots Cry (32)

23=. IMMORTAL - Sons Of Northern Darkness
MAX TUNDRA - Mastered By Guy At The Exchange
NEKO CASE - Blacklisted
PAULINA RUBIO - Border Girl (30 each)

27. VARIOUS ARTISTS - The Best Bootlegs In The World...Ever (29)

28= BLACK DICE - Beaches And Canyons
ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS - The Day The Earth Met The Rocket From The Tombs (26 each)

30=. ANDREW WK - I Get Wet
VARIOUS ARTISTS - Hustle! (25 each)

32=. AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD - Source Tags And Codes
THE BEES - Sunshine Hit Me (23 each)

34=. BETH GIBBONS AND RUSTIN MAN - Out of Season
RECLOOSE - Cardiology
VARIOUS ARTISTS - Total 4 (22 each)

37=. BALLBOY - A Guide For The Daylight Hours
EKKHARD EHLERS - Plays
GOLDEN BOY/MISS KITTIN - Or
MEKONS - Oooh!
NINA NASTASIA - The Blackened Air
PRIMAL SCREAM - Evil Heat
SPOON - Kill The Moonlight
THE NOTWIST - Neon Golden (20 each)

45=. DJ YODA - How To Cut And Paste Vol.2
MONTGOLFIER BROTHERS - The World Is Flat
UNDERWORD - 100 Days Off (18 each)

48=. A CERTAIN RATIO - Early
ANTIPOP CONSORTIUM - Arryhthmia
ASTROBOTNIA - Part 1
BRYAN FERRY - Frantic
DEERHOOF - Reveille
NERD - In Search Of...
OUTHUD - S.T.R.E.E.T.D.A.D.
PREFUSE 73 - 92 vs 02
SUGABABES - Angels With Dirty Faces (15 each)

57. DAVID HOLMES - Come Get It I Got It (14)

58=. DIGITAL - Dubzilla
LADYTRON - Light And Magic
ROYSKOPP - Melody AM (12 each)

61. CLIPSE - Lord Willin' (11)

62=. ELVIS COSTELLO - When I Was Cruel
WIRE - Read And Burn 01 (10)

Of the list Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man is my pick.

Totally forgot about that Beachwood Sparks EP. Love those guys but had no idea they got any ILM love at all. Kind of wild to see them place so much higher than, say, Clipse or Underworld.

Two that haven't been mentioned:

Heathen, David Bowie
Walking With Thee, Clinic

Bed - Spacebox
Bowness/Chilvers - California, Norfolk
Dictaphone - m=addiction
Echolyn - Mei
Headphone - Work in Progress
Don Li - Live Vols 1 and 2
The Notwist - Neon Golden
Frankie Sparo - Welcome Crummy Mystics
Tape - Opera
The White Birch - Star is Just A Sun
Susuma Yokota - The Boy and the Tree

immer
all that glitters
cardiology
southern hummingbird
my way

Everything mentioned so far is fine but you’re missing the most important album of 2002:

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE - YOU FORGOT IT IN PEOPLE

Most people think of it as a 2003 album, though since it wasn’t released worldwide until then.

Albums I liked then, that I still play now:

Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance (released November 2001 in the US, but didn't hit the UK until early 2002)
Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up On Me
Herrmann & Kleine - Our Noise

ballads
sheer hellish miasma
suicide invoice
plays

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