Best Album Of...(Volume 18)

HaqDiesel · **Posted:** Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:00 pm

oh yeah, and amnesiac's my favorite of the last 3 radiohead albums. man. viva 2001.

Spade Kitty · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:49 am **Posts:** 4401

HaqDiesel Wrote:

oh yeah, and amnesiac's my favorite of the last 3 radiohead albums. man. viva 2001.

I thought about including it, but figured it was down on most people's RH list.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:09 pm

I went with Fugazi because I love that album, but truth be told my top 3 from 2001 aren't on the list.

The only notable omissions not on the omissions list that I can think of are
Need New Body - s/t
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein

These are all awesome:

Spade Kitty Wrote:

# The Boredoms * Vision, Creation, Newsun (WEA Japan) <---thought this was 2000, or maybe even 1999 in Japan
# The Microphones * The Glow, Pt. 2 (K)
# Prefuse 73 * Vocal Studies & Uprock Narratives (Warp)
# Tortoise * Standards (Thrill Jockey)
# Explosions In The Sky * Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever (Temporary)
# Autechre * Confield (Warp)
# Califone * Roomsound (Perishable)
# Mouse On Mars * Idiology (Thrill Jockey)
# Angels Of Light * How I Loved You (Young God)
# Fantomas * The Director's Cut (Ipecac)
# Low * Things We Lost In The Fire (Kranky)
# cLOUDDEAD (Mush/Big Dada)
# Dntel * Life Is Full Of Possibilities (Plug Research)
# Jackie-O Motherfucker * Liberation (Road Cone)
# Lightning Bolt * Ride The Skies (Loud)
# No-Neck Blues Band * Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones (Revenant)
# OOIOO * Feather Float (Birdman)
# Plaid * Double Figure (Warp)
# Senor Coconut * El Gran Baile (Emperor Norton)

IMO 2001 is the best year of the decade so far.

Here's my Top 10:

1. Low - Things We Lost
2. Need New Body
3. Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2
4. Fugazi - The Argument
5. Lightning Bolt - Ride the Skies
6. cLOUDDEAD
7. Autechre - Confield
8. Mouse on Mars - Ideology
9. Tortoise - Standards
10. JOMF - Liberation

robotboy · **Posted:** Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:15 pm

i really had a hard time choose between gbv and spoon, but gbv needed more votes.

Charli · **Posted:** Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:17 pm

This is a really, really hard choice for me as it was one of my favorite years for music.

I may have to go with The Strokes though since I was seriously in a music funk and that album brought me out of it.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

i still love Nas's Stillmatic.

it holds up for me.

The Strokes is a close seond.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:21 pm

This was massively tough to call, but in the end I went with Ryan Adams' Gold. I love Is This It? quite a lot, but overall just enjoy this more and tend to listen to it more (although lately that hasn't been the case). Same with MMJ, love it, but not my favourite overall. Other notables for me are are Starsailor's Love is Here and Sahara Hotnights' Jennie Bomb. Other picks would include:

Mercury Rev - All is Dream
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Stereolab - Sound-dust
Soundtrack of Our Lives - Behind the Music
Rufus Wainwright - Poses
Sloan - Pretty Together
Daft Punk - Discovery
Whiskeytown - Pneumonia
Macy Gray - The Id
Guided by Voices - Isolation Drills
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Shins - Oh Inverted World

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

I had to go other for Orlando Conchaito Lopez "Conchaito" - the only album from that year to make my listmania.

Los Afro Salseros de Senegal -- En La Habana
Marcos Valle -- Escape

are the only two albums I really like not included on your others list that I can think of.

alive · **Joined:** Mon Nov 29, 2004 1:00 am **Posts:** 352

1. Low
2. OOIOO
3. The Microphones

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

Spade Kitty Wrote:

I combed the lists for a good rap/hip-hop album to include, but I couldn't really find one but then again I'm not really THAT well-versed on my rap/hip-hop.

I think Jay Z -- Blueprint was the biggest for that year. I'm hardly an expert either though.

I'm a big fan of these:

Spade Kitty Wrote:

Many omissions:
# Max De Castro * Samba Raro (Trama)
# Mark Lanegan * Field Songs (Sub Pop)
# Orlando Cachaito Lopez * Cachaito (World Circuit)
# Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire * The Swimming Hour (Rykodisc)
# Nicolai Dunger * Soul Rush (Delores/Lakeshore)
# Pernice Brothers * The World Won't End (Ashmont)
# Jim O'Rourke * Insignificance (Drag City)
# Unwound * Leaves Turn Inside You (Kill Rock Stars)
# Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros * Global A Go-Go (Hellcat)
# The American Analog Set * Know By Heart (Tiger Style)
# Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds * No More Shall We Part (Elektra)
# You Am I * Dress Me Slowly (BMG)
# Joe Henry * Scar (Mammoth)
# Manu Chao * Proxima Estacion: Esperanza (EMD/Virgin)
# Cesaria Evora * Sao Vicente (World Circuit)
# Teenage Fanclub * Howdy! (Thirsty Ear)
# Clem Snide * The Ghost Of Fashion (spinART)
# The Chamber Strings * Month Of Sundays (Bobsled)
# Leonard Cohen * Ten New Songs (Columbia)
# Alejandro Escovedo * A Man Under the Influence (Bloodshot)
# Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez * Cachaito (Nonesuch)
# The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
# The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
# My Morning Jacket - At Dawn

I may have missed it but I don't think:

The New Year "Newness Ends"

was mentioned yet. That was certainly top ten for me and one of the ones I still listen to most regularly from 2001.

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

dr winston o'boogie Wrote:

I may have missed it but I don't think:

The New Year "Newness Ends"

was mentioned yet. That was certainly top ten for me and one of the ones I still listen to most regularly from 2001.

My bad. I see it on the omissions list now. Still, great album that deserves the extra shout out.

paladisiac · **Posted:** Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:47 pm

"gold" by ryan adams was my #2 before any of those others (behind "amnesiac")

paladisiac · **Posted:** Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:48 pm

dr winston o'boogie Wrote:

Spade Kitty Wrote:

I combed the lists for a good rap/hip-hop album to include, but I couldn't really find one but then again I'm not really THAT well-versed on my rap/hip-hop.

I think Jay Z -- Blueprint was the biggest for that year. I'm hardly an expert either though.

'

blueprint's pretty ace

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

dr winston o'boogie Wrote:

I think Jay Z -- Blueprint was the biggest for that year. I'm hardly an expert either though.

Bluerprint was highly celebrated by hard core hip hop fans and backpackers alike, but it wasn't one of my favorite Jay Z albums.

Thee Incident · **Posted:** Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:49 pm

OK, I've never been one to gripe about omissions from the poll because, as Spade points out, there are only 9 spots. But not putting Jay-Z's "Blueprint" in there while including Fennesz (I don't even know who that is) and a mediocre Built To Spill record is kinda ridiculous.
Also, System of a Down's record demands consideration, as does Bob Dylan's "Love and Theft"

I'm voting "other" for Jimmy Eat World's "Bleed American".

Spade Kitty · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:49 am **Posts:** 4401

swiateck Wrote:

OK, I've never been one to gripe about omissions from the poll because, as Spade points out, there are only 9 spots. But not putting Jay-Z's "Blueprint" in there while including Fennesz (I don't even know who that is) and a mediocre Built To Spill record is kinda ridiculous.
Also, System of a Down's record demands consideration, as does Bob Dylan's "Love and Theft"

I'm voting "other" for Jimmy Eat World's "Bleed American".

I didn't include BTS....

Spade Kitty · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:49 am **Posts:** 4401

Also, Fennesz is pretty damn cool, and many fans of electronic music see that as kind of a landmark record.

Kingfish · **Posted:** Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:51 pm

I think 01' was an unbelieveable year for music. Alot of great albums and it's a toos up to me between White Stripes - WBC and Strokes - Is This It. But there is tons of great stuff from that year.

almost · **Posted:** Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:51 pm

HaqDiesel Wrote:

I went with GCT, but I have also nearly worn out copies of the Shins and Strokes albums, and got a lot of plays out of Low and White Stripes.

Thee Incident · **Posted:** Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:53 pm

Sorry, I meant My Morning Jacket.

Spade Kitty · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:49 am **Posts:** 4401

swiateck Wrote:

Sorry, I meant My Morning Jacket.

I think most fans of MMJ consider At Dawn to be their best...

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:54 pm

swiateck Wrote:

OK, I've never been one to gripe about omissions from the poll because, as Spade points out, there are only 9 spots. But not putting Jay-Z's "Blueprint" in there while including Fennesz (I don't even know who that is) and a mediocre Built To Spill record is kinda ridiculous.
Also, System of a Down's record demands consideration, as does Bob Dylan's "Love and Theft"

I'm voting "other" for Jimmy Eat World's "Bleed American".

While I've got no problem with Fennesz's inclusion on the list (though personally I think Endless Summer is overrated and not his best), I do think those Bjork and MMJ albums could have been left off in favor in of Low (wouldn've gotten at least 3 votes) and probably Jay-Z.

But like everyone else has said, this was Spade's idea, and he's doing a great job overall. Recent years are probably the toughest ones to narrow down.

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

Spade Kitty Wrote:

swiateck Wrote:

OK, I've never been one to gripe about omissions from the poll because, as Spade points out, there are only 9 spots. But not putting Jay-Z's "Blueprint" in there while including Fennesz (I don't even know who that is) and a mediocre Built To Spill record is kinda ridiculous.
Also, System of a Down's record demands consideration, as does Bob Dylan's "Love and Theft"

I'm voting "other" for Jimmy Eat World's "Bleed American".

I didn't include BTS....

Maybe he meant GBV...we'll always disagree with some of the selections. its only really an issue if you leave out a candidate likely to win and I don't see Jay Z beating the Strokes or White Stripes on an indie board.

I'm surprised no one is voting for At Dawn ...that's by far their best IMO and I thought they had many fans here.

HaqDiesel · **Posted:** Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:57 pm

bold move on Bleed American, swiateck - that's a great pop record.

i definitely agree that Low probably deserves a spot more than bjork, mmj or bjork.

Spade Kitty · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:49 am **Posts:** 4401

I hereby grant Haqdiesel the power to change Bjork to Low and alter the poll

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