Daytripper

What a great year of music for me. So many of my all-time favorite artists released new material in 2001. What are some of your favorite purchases? Mine:

Depeche Mode - Exciter
The Go-Go's - God Bless The Go-Go's (What a GREAT album. Criminally ignored!)
Curve - Gift
New Order - Get Ready
Poe - Haunted
Human League - Secrets (the best all out electronic album in years)
Echo and the Bunnymen - Flowers
Garbage - Beautiful Garbage (hated this at first....a grower)
Zero 7 - Simple Things
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Pete Yorn - Music For The Morning After
Travis - The Invisible Band

mdc3000

THE 15 BEST ALBUMS OF THE YEAR ARE:

1. JIMMY EAT WORLD - BLEED AMERICAN
2. WEEZER - WEEZER
3. SUM 41 - ALL KILLER, NO FILLER
4. LINKIN PARK - HYBRID THEORY (ok, it came out late 2000)
5. NELLY FURTADO - WHOA, NELLY (another carry-over)
6. 311 - FROM CHAOS
7. TOOL - LATERALUS
8. MATTHEW GOOD BAND - THE AUDIO OF BEING
9. HARRY POTTER SOUNDTRACK - JOHN WILLIAMS
10. PULP - WE LOVE LIFE
11. BRITNEY SPEARS - BRITNEY
12. N SYNC - CELEBRITY
13. SLOAN - PRETTY TOGETHER
14. JAY Z - THE BLUEPRINT
15. GARBAGE - BEAUTIFUL GARBAGE


there were many other good albums, but these are some of my faves.

MATT

Mafia81RCV

I think it's been kind of an off year for music. But, a few of my highlights would be:

1. Nelly Furtado, "Whoa Nelly" This was a really refreshing release for pop music.

2. Merle Haggard, "Roots Vol. 1" If you like real country, you've got to hear this. Probably the best country album of the year.

3. Pearl Jam, The "bootleg" U.S. concert recordings were great.

4. Weezer, "Weezer" It's less than a half hour long, but nice tight songs with great hooks.

AtlDVD

Dont forget..

The Rosenburgs - Mission:You

Excellent CD in case you havent heard it

Lokimok

Bob Dylan - Love And Theft

Burnt Alive

Toadies - Hell/Below Stars Above

Runner up:
Rocket From The Crypt - Group Sounds

Frank TJ Mackey

RYAN ADAMS "Gold"
BILAL "1st Born Second"
ELTON JOHN "Songs From The West Coast"
JAY-Z "The Blueprint"
TOOL "Lateralus"
GHOSTFACE KILLAH "Bulletproof Wallets"
STARSAILOR "Love Is Here"

kornhead

not a great year for me. here is my picks:
Adema - Adema
Dope - Life
Kittie - Oracle
Mudvayne- The Beginning of All Things to End
Ozzy - Down To Earth
Slipknot - Iowa
TooL - Lateralus
Rob Zombie - The Sinister Urge

Jason

I'd say the best thing to come out this year was the Pearl Jam 'bootleg' concert CDs. Not so much for the content, but for the concept.

Things like this will keep people in record stores, not expensive promotions and overproduced videos.

Monica Clinton

Dream Theater-Live Scenes from New York

3 cd's, a couple of vidoes, hours of great music and it was like $20

palebluedot

Tenacious D - Debut
Spearhead - Stay Human
Natalie Merchant - Motherland

Yancey

This was a great year for music. You folks just need to look around a bit more. My list:

1) Unwound -- Leaves Turn Inside You
2) Cannibal Ox -- Cold Vein
3) White Stripes -- White Blood Cells
4) Beachwood Sparks -- Once We Were Trees
5) Low -- Things We Lost in the Fire
6) Calla -- Scavengers
7) Spoon -- Girls Can Tell
8) Bob Dylan -- Love and Theft
9) Gorky's Zygotic Mynci -- How I Long to Feel That Summer Heat
10) Shins -- Oh Inverted World

Tscott

A few I've enjoyed this year:

Tori Amos: Strange Little Girls
Ben Folds: Rockin' the Suburbs
Aphex Twin: Drukqs
Tortoise: Standards
Kristin Hersh: Sunny Border Blue
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions: Bavarian Fruit Bread
Shea Seger: May St. Project
Orbital: The Altogether

::edited to add::
Bjork: Vespertine
(how could I have forgotten that one?)

blutarsky

Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs
King's X - Manic Moonlight

Oliver Clothesoff

1. Super Furry Animals "Rings Around the World" (although not as good as some of their other work [most of which border on masterpiece], appearances by Paul McCartney and John Cale, lounge singing, and death metal choruses make this a classic for 2001)

2. Radiohead "Amnesiac" and "Fog" (the track "Fog" off their "Knives Out" EP instantly became my favorite Radiohead track ever; Amnesiac is emotional and beautiful, whereas "Kid A" was cold and stunning)

3. Nikka Costa "Everybody Got Their Something" (funky, sexy, and bluesy; can't wait to hear more from her!)

4. Kristin Hersh "Sunny Border Blue" (ex-Throwing Muses; amazing singer/songwriter)

5. Beulah "The Coast is Never Clear"

6. the Strokes "Is This It?" (believe the hype; great straightforward rock n' roll record)

7. Wilco "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" (it's a damn shame that an album this good couldn't get released because it wasn't 'radio friendly')

8. Mullholland Drive OST (etheral and creepy; worth having for the Rebekah Del Rio Spanish treatment of Roy Orbison's "Crying")

9. Weezer "s/t" aka "The Green Album" (say what you want about how this album is a disappointment compared to "Pinkerton" and "the Blue Album," but this is an awesome collection of short, catchy pop songs - naysayers are missing out)

10. the Shins "Oh, Inverted World" (poor production keeps this one from ranking higher; "New Slang" might be my favorite single this year)

EP honorable mentions:
-Neko Case "Canadian Amp" (tour only EP; a fine collection of covers)
-Mogwai "My Father, My King" (brilliant; this is what "Rock Action" should have been)
-Apples in Stereo "Signal in the Sky" (shows why they might be the most fun band around)

Re-issue honorable mentions:
-All 3 Elvis Costello re-issues (these might be my favorite releases of any albums this year)
-Ramones "Road to Ruin" and "Rocket to Russia" (two of my favorite Ramones LPs with bonus tracks!)

ViewAskewbian

Bruce Springsteen Live in NY. . .
I listen to this one more then any
I have heared from this year. . .

However: Strange Little Girls (Tori) is
great and I would add the new Dylan as well.

sundog

I went through albums I bought this year that were released this year and came up with these, in alphabetical order:

The Deadly Snakes I'm Not Your Soldier Anymore
The Dirtbombs Ultraglide in Black
Fantomas The Director's Cut
King Brothers self-titled
Knoxville Girls In a Paper Suit
Sing Along with Los Straitjackets
Secret Chiefs 3 Book M
Tomahawk self-titled
The White Stripes White Blood Cells
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Sure, most of my cash has gone to Ipecac and In The Red this year, but I certainly can't complain, I love what they put out.

bluesman

Ryan Adams - Gold
Leonard Cohen - Ten New Songs
Buddy Guy - Sweet Tea
John Mayall - Along For The Ride
Gov't Mule - The Deep End Vol.1
Junior Brown - Mixed Bag
Jeff Beck - You Had It Coming
Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
Peter Green Splinter Group - Time Traders

Penny Lane

I agree with two of you on Ryan Adams Gold, but I can't say I particularly love any other album I've seen come out this year.

You guys are mistaken about Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, though. It IS going to be released, probably sometime in early 2002, so we can't say that it is one of the best of 2001.

"The record will be released in early 2002, details coming soon." - Wilco

El Scorcho

Sorry, that album doesn't even deserve to be a coaster on my table. I'm still waiting to get a bunch of people together to form a class action suit against Sum 41 in order to get our $12 back!

Anyway, here are some of my favs for this year:

No Motiv - Diagram for Healing
Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary
Pennywise - Land of the Free
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
The Ataris - End is Forever

codefree

You da man!

cisgere

Aphex Twin - Drukqs
Squarepusher - Go Plastic!
Tenacious D - Tenacious D
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Bjork - Vespertine
Weezer - Green Album
The Strokes - Is This It?
Bogdan Raczynski - My Love I Love

BDB

The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Manic Street Preachers - Know Your Enemy
Ian Brown - Music of The Spheres
Lloyd Cole and the Negatives - Lloyd Cole and the Negatives
James - PLeased to Meet You
Spiritualised - Let It Come Down


And all ordered from amazon uk.
I just went over my amazon orders, and I have not ordered a
single cd from amazon us this year...

And if you never bought it go buy Badly Drawn Boy- Bewilderbeast Album of the decade so far.

F For Fake

THESE ARE THE BEST ALBUMS RELEASED THIS YEAR. YOU MUST BUY THEM!

1. Fantomas - Director's Cut
2. Rufus Wainwright - Poses
3. My Morning Jacket - At Dawn
4. Radiohead - Amnesiac
5. REM - Reveal
6. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleroes - Global A Go-Go
7. Bob Dylan - Love & Theft
8. Tenacious D
9. Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty Re-Issue

I'm sure I'll think of more...

GeoffK

Here's my list (still feels like a work in progress)

Best CDs of 2001 (not in any order)
The Lilywhite Sesssions - Dave Matthews Band
Steady Pull - Jonatha Brooke
Acoustic Soul - India Arie
Amnesiac - Radiohead (though I like Kid A better)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Soundtrack
The Invisible Band - Travis

Late 2000 which deserve mention
Kid A - Radiohead (10/00)
Lovers Rock - Sade (11/00)
Haunted - Poe
Righteous Love - Joan Osborne
White Ladder - David Grey