Yes.

A couple not yet mentioned...



Huge comeback album and probably my favorite Bruce live document



"If It Takes All Night" is FB at his finest



My favorite Malkmus album. Shit, I listen to this more than half the Pavement albums





Straight classics from a completely bygone era.

Also, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot will always be a 2001 album to me since, well, that's when it came out.

i dig that malkmus a lot too.

spent this morning playing some 01's that i sorted in itunes and a couple more that stuck out:


califone - roomsound
to think that not even 2 years ago i had never even heard anything by this band...the last album i listen to by them is my current favorite. they are that good.

also

That's a really good one. I thought about posting that one.

Also:



Manu Chao - Proxima Estación: Esperanza

Either my favorite or second favorite Manu Chao album (the other would be Clandestino) depending on my mood.



Monarchs - Make Yer Own Fun

Aussie Garage Rock Band led by Hoodoo Guru's Brad Sheppard

Not my links:







Moods for Moderns - Loud N Clear

One of my favorite power pop albums. Fu made a tenner for them which you could probably find via search. This is their only album and it has exactly ten songs so you can do the math.

Love that tenner. I didn't realize it was their one an only.
Purchased for 0.99. Gotta love Amazon for used CD's.

A real touchstone album for me. I had this on endless loop almost exactly one decade ago.

I just listened to this the other day for the first time in quite a while - still holds up.

Still not mentioned:


I know I mentioned one of his albums in the '91 thread but this one is good too:

still going, eh? i'll suggest this for your consideration, or just additionally back 'em in case they were already mentioned.



The best Norwegian indie soft pop album of 2001.

excellent choice

Man, a heady era to be sure that I look back on fondly. Those albums along with The Strokes debut and White Blood Cells dominated a lot of my listening back then. I just remember living in abject poverty (housing-wise) in the Gom and having long, lost weekends in Atlanta.

Good times.

But really, I came to post these:



Kim Shattuck of the Muffs/ Pandoras and Lisa Marr of cub teamed up for this quickie one-off, trading lead vox pretty evenly throughout the perky poppy punky proceedings. No world changer, but a solid collection of songs if you liked either of their previous bands. The CD also includes short filmic music videos for every song.



Former leader of Mott the Hoople, this was Ian Hunter's comeback album after a decade of sporadic, Euro-only releases. He was already over 60 when this was released, and he unfortunately continued his tradition of absolutely hideous album covers, but it's his hardest rocking affair since 78's You're Never Alone With A Schizophrenic. I doesn't quite scale the heights of his earlier stuff, although a handful of songs do - particularly "Wash Us Away", which I never get tired of playing.



Acoustic blues, often using a 20 string Indian slide guitar called a Mohan Veena. Harry Manx has a voice similar to Kelly Joe Phelps, a raspy baritone that kind of drawls lazily over these mellow, tentozian tunes. High quality stuff, recommended to any fans of sparse, guitar-centric folk and blues.

both great - lohio needs to be on my best of decade list

Yeah, Roomsound is awesome, easily one of their best records... along with all of their other records.

So... a few things I think still haven't have been mentioned yet:


Tortoise - Standards

Tortoise rocks the fuck out. A fun, quick, refreshing listen and kind of an anomaly in their catalog as such. I mean, their last couple of albums kind of followed in this same direction, but they lost the fire that they had here. I saw them when they toured for this, and it was a great show. Probably my favorite album of theirs although I do also love Millions Now Living and that Lazarus Taxon box set.



Mouse on Mars - Idiology & Agit Itter It It (EP)

Mouse on Mars were on a serious hot streak from 1995's Iaora Tahiti all the way up through these two releases in 2001. I didn't like Idiology initially. It has vocals on several tracks and features generally more straightforward "pop" compositions compared to the relatively spastic and schizophrenic Niun Niggung (still probably my favorite album of theirs). But eventually I got into it in a big way, and like the Tortoise album above, my opinion of it was boosted considerably by seeing them perform these songs live. The EP makes for a great companion piece, and together these comprise the last great recordings MoM have put out, unfortunately.



Circulatory System - s/t

I'm in the minority in preferring this to the Olivia Tremor Control stuff, but this was my intro to Will Cullen Hurt & Co., and it will probably always be my favorite. To me the OTC albums suffer from having some really tedious stretches, but this one somehow manages to sustain its 22 tracks and considerable running time amply. Packed full of great melodies and hazy, enveloping psychedelic textures and arrangements.




Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - In C

Reining in AMT's sprawling psyche jam and amplifier-and-eardrum-destroying tendencies to perform a Terry Riley piece might have been the best idea they ever had. This is my favorite album of theirs and my second favorite thing I've ever heard of Makato's next to Mainliner - Mellow Out.

2001 was right smack in the middle of me seeking out and discovering any and every Elephant 6 band (well, the bigger ones at least, not the endless side projects), and I loved this album. I think I actually prefer it to OTC as well.

Yeah, we effectively lived in a dumpster.

But man were those football weekends awesome, and the weird vibe of the immediate post-911 climate essentially made self destruction seem rational (or at least that's what I blame my own behavior on)

I dug a little deeper last night and came up with these.....


A pre-cursor of what was to come. Decent.



Good, but not as great as TBHS/L&C.



Talented songwriter, with a couple of winners included here. Subsequent solo records are better IMO.



tin pan alley alt-country for a quiet evening at home.



Hayden - Skyscraper National Park
I still pull this one out the most from his slacker oeuvre.



If only for 'Fresh Feeling"



Flame away. Great debut with everything to follow nowhere near. One hell of a nice guy

This was a pretty awesome year.

I had previously attributed my huge love of 1999-2002 releases to a combination of newly achieved disposable income, relative youth, discovery of internet radio, discovery of the CMJ board, and the easy availability of file sharing, but maybe those years really were just awesome.

Pete Yorn played the Wiltern recently which has a capacity of 2000+. I was pretty surprised given I don't think he's released anything recently that I'm aware of and I don't think his follow-up(s) to that debut did particularly well. Good for him though. I like that album even if I can't remember the last time I listened to it.

Digging deeper myself:



Bob Schneider - Lonelyland

Pretty strong rootsy singer/songwriter album. Not sure if he did anything else worth listening. Every other thing I checked out by him ranged from terrible to just disappointing.



Mark Kleiner Power Trio - Love To Night

Good Canadian Power pop. I think Radcliffe is a fan of this one too.



Spain - I Believe

Not their best, probably their worst. I'm a sucker for their slow tempo melodies though.



The Shams - Take Off

Loose Garage Rock produced by the Afghan Whig's John Curley. It's been a while since I've listened to it but I always liked it a lot more than most albums from the better known garage rock bands.



Rodney Crowell - The Houston Kid

one of his better albums imo.



Sergent Garcia - Sin Fronteras
Macaco - Rumbo Submarino

More Manu Chao style rock en espanol raggamuffin stuff. I did a tenner for Sergent Garcia.

I totally forgot about this album.

Not a total success but decent Blues Rock:

(Mr Waters' & Mr. Clapton's go-to Show guy)