I think White Blood Cells is the only one (that I've heard, which is about 2/3) that I wouldn't just dismiss off-hand, so I guess it wins by default.
― milo z, Saturday, 4 August 2007 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
kinda strange that the early '00s seem more dated and irrelevant than any section of the '90s
― milo z, Saturday, 4 August 2007 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
It's really kind of crazy how underrated "Leaves Turn Inside You" often seems to be, presence on this list notwhithstanding. Best Who album ever recorded by a bunch of Fugazi/Sonic Youth lovers, and not a month goes by that I don't regret the timing of Unwound's breakup.
Only quibble is that the last song on Side 1 is too good, and should have ended Side 2 instead. I suspect this CD missed a large part of its target audience because it was a sharp break w/what came before.
― dlp9001, Saturday, 4 August 2007 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link
These were the days when PFM didn't much like black music.
Is This It? and Fugazi my favorites.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 4 August 2007 21:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I've only even heard 3 of the options and haven't listened to any of them in at least a couple years. Dismemberment Plan would be the sentimental favorite that get my vote, though. The funny thing is that once when I tried to figure out my favorite albums of this decade I think more albums were from '01 than any other year, but this was also the year after I wrote for Pitchfork and I do remember being especially confused by their shitty taste then more than most other years. It was also the year I first came to ILM and was confused by the shitty taste that continues to be evidenced in this thread.
― Alex in Baltimore, Saturday, 4 August 2007 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
dismemberment plan fan throwing stones
― deej, Saturday, 4 August 2007 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link
not saying it's anywhere near my favorite record of that year, just that it beats the played out Strokes and Radiohead albums I did hear, and I've really never been down with all that Beta Band/Avalanches/Fennesz/Prefuse 73/Cannibal Ox type shit that was supposed to sound 'futuristic' or capture some corny indie zeitgeist 6 years ago.
― Alex in Baltimore, Saturday, 4 August 2007 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
if anything, the d-plan are way more played out than the strokes.
― Jordan Sargent, Saturday, 4 August 2007 22:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Side 1 and 2? It's a 2xLP, so do you mean the last song on the first record? I'm trying to remember what song that is...but yeah, Leaves Turn Inside You is somehow STILL underrated. My favorite Unwound album.
I'm still going to vote for The Glow Pt. 2, because the Microphones tend to be hated on so much by ILM.
― Z S, Saturday, 4 August 2007 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link
"The Moon" has a cool saxophone hook, can't remember anything else on The Glow having anything.
― da croupier, Saturday, 4 August 2007 23:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I will never understand anyone who hates on the Dismemberment Plan
― bernard snowy, Saturday, 4 August 2007 23:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not really into the vocals.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 4 August 2007 23:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I used to like d-plan, they're basically unlistenable now.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 4 August 2007 23:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Mass Romantic is my vote.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 4 August 2007 23:49 (sixteen years ago) link
it never really occurred to me that the Plan's vocals might be annoying or bad or whatever. then again, I was totally shocked when I learned that people have trouble getting into XTC because of the vocals, so maybe I'm just totally lacking some crucial part of my brain.
― bernard snowy, Saturday, 4 August 2007 23:51 (sixteen years ago) link
In hindsight, it is amazing how often Travis goes "yeah yeah yeeeaaaah"
― da croupier, Saturday, 4 August 2007 23:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Daft Punk are conspicuously absent.
― Spencer Chow, Sunday, 5 August 2007 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link
One more time?
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 August 2007 00:04 (sixteen years ago) link
In hindsight, it is amazing how often Travis goes "yeah yeah yeeeaaaah"-- da croupier, Saturday, August 4, 2007 11:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
-- da croupier, Saturday, August 4, 2007 11:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
(sorry I am just being contrary because the biggest knock against the Plan seems to be "they're annoying", and I'm sort of incapable of being annoyed by music)
― bernard snowy, Sunday, 5 August 2007 00:07 (sixteen years ago) link
hey, I love Change! It's their least..."spazzy" album.
― da croupier, Sunday, 5 August 2007 00:13 (sixteen years ago) link
al have you ever even heard fennesz?
which was my vote btw.
― strongohulkington, Sunday, 5 August 2007 00:14 (sixteen years ago) link
ew
― da croupier, Sunday, 5 August 2007 00:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Side 1 and 2? It's a 2xLP, so do you mean the last song on the first record? I'm trying to remember what song that is...but yeah, Leaves Turn Inside You is somehow STILL underrated. My favorite Unwound album. Oh, I'm thinking in CD terms, so the last song on CD1.
BTW (and I hope nobody reading this is the guilty party) the allmusic write-up on this album seriously has to go (and not because it's negative, which it's not).
― dlp9001, Sunday, 5 August 2007 00:17 (sixteen years ago) link
actually i didnt even see fugazi there, so it might have been that. i actually listen to several of those pretty frequently, but not the ones i was listening to frequently in 2001.
― strongohulkington, Sunday, 5 August 2007 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Gotta go with Mass Romantic here.
― darin, Sunday, 5 August 2007 01:05 (sixteen years ago) link
It's entirely possible I haven't even heard Fennesz, or have only heard one song once, so yeah maybe shouldn't have lumped it in with other stuff without being sure. I'd probably like the Fugazi album more than anything else on the list but for some reason still haven't gotten around to hearing it.
Change is good but the "woah woah yeah" ad-libs really did start to get out of control on that one.
― Alex in Baltimore, Sunday, 5 August 2007 01:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Mass Romantic in a walk. I don't think I've ever hear the whole album, but I know it's got "Slow Descent into Alcoholism" on it, and a couple of other snappy tunes.
― o. nate, Sunday, 5 August 2007 01:46 (sixteen years ago) link
if you like any new pornos albums better than Is This It? move to mars.
― Jordan Sargent, Sunday, 5 August 2007 01:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I would gladly move to mars if it meant never having to see or hear the strokes again
― bernard snowy, Sunday, 5 August 2007 01:53 (sixteen years ago) link
The Strokes/Fennesz
― I know, right?, Sunday, 5 August 2007 02:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, they're basically the same album.
whoever said that is this it? is the best rock album of the decade is otm x like 67,000
― Jordan Sargent, Sunday, 5 August 2007 02:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Not really. For starters, its about .0000093 times as good as Room On Fire.
― I know, right?, Sunday, 5 August 2007 02:27 (sixteen years ago) link
i sometimes waver on whether room on fire is better than is this is? but what you just said— exaggeration or not— is obviously outrageous.
― Jordan Sargent, Sunday, 5 August 2007 02:39 (sixteen years ago) link
the only Mass Romantic song I've got left is "Letters from an Occupant" - there's something thin about the band's sound that I really, really dislike even when Neko is singing
― milo z, Sunday, 5 August 2007 02:42 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost. I stand by what I said.
Off topic Jordan, but have you heard Phoenix's last album?
― I know, right?, Sunday, 5 August 2007 02:45 (sixteen years ago) link
yes i love it.
― Jordan Sargent, Sunday, 5 August 2007 02:53 (sixteen years ago) link
So do I.
― I know, right?, Sunday, 5 August 2007 02:54 (sixteen years ago) link
i hate when people describe albums as "hooky" or whatever, but the amount of guitar and vocal hooks— and how quick they move from one to the next and back, etc.— on that album still floors me sometimes.
― Jordan Sargent, Sunday, 5 August 2007 03:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, its kind of like guitar pop that has been made in a laboratory by scientists. The singer is the secret weapon I think.
― I know, right?, Sunday, 5 August 2007 03:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, its kind of like guitar pop that has been made in a laboratory by scientists.
haters probably would (or do) say that with a negative connotation, but i'm totally cool with that idea.
― Jordan Sargent, Sunday, 5 August 2007 03:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Well I haven't heard either album in its entirety, but the New Pornos songs I've heard from that album definitely beat the Strokes songs I've heard from theirs, which tended to be kind of grating to my ears.
― o. nate, Sunday, 5 August 2007 03:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Best year of decade no doubt. White Blood Cells the class of the list, but still it's no Love and Theft.
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 5 August 2007 03:36 (sixteen years ago) link
the argument
but i like a lot of records on that list a great deal.
― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 5 August 2007 05:30 (sixteen years ago) link
better albums than anything on this list:
The Coup Party Music Daft Punk The Donnas Turn 21 Gillian Welch Kristin Hersh Ladytron Stillmatic the Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP
― milo z, Sunday, 5 August 2007 05:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Judging from Pitchfork, 2001 was an awful year for music.
Out of the albums I have heard out of those 20, there is no single album worth voting for. The New Pornographers one may be OK judging from later albums I've heard by them.
But then, 2001 wasn't too bad after all. Travis, Super Furry Animals, Sondre Lerche and Depeche Mode all released excellent albums that year.
― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 5 August 2007 07:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Yay
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 5 August 2007 08:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I like ten of those albums. Fugazi wins, I think.
― Scik Mouthy, Sunday, 5 August 2007 11:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Fennesz in being the elephant in the room shockah. 'Endless Summer' totally owns this list.
― baaderonixx, Sunday, 5 August 2007 13:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Prefuse. Tough call.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 5 August 2007 13:17 (sixteen years ago) link
"Now, Brent and I like to hook up and get cynical from time to time-- we'll even bash the bands we're into just for shits-- "
Jesus. Fuck.
― milo z, Monday, 6 August 2007 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
this list is rather uninspiring. I guess I'd go with either the White Stripes or New Pornagraphers, even though I don't think either one is a good listen all the way through.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 6 August 2007 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
and I would TOTALLY take Vespertine, Party Music, or especially I Get Wet over almost all of that list
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 6 August 2007 22:06 (sixteen years ago) link
"It's fun" is about the only legitimate excuse a guy could come up with-- and that's the one thing I'll give it to warrant the .6 in the rating-- but this world of music which history has graced us with is loaded with fun music. Even fun music with substance, fun music that doesn't talk to you like you're some kinda total dipshit that wouldn't know Boredoms from buzzworthy. And you don't even have to look that hard! So then, what is the excuse for a typically elitist music nerd to bow to Andrew WK's blistering tard-rock? That's right, folks: there isn't one.
kill. kill. kill.
― Emily Bjurnhjam, Monday, 6 August 2007 22:07 (sixteen years ago) link
"like you're some kinda total dipshit that wouldn't know Boredoms from buzzworthy" might be the most revealing part of the thing.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 6 August 2007 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link
So then, what is the excuse for a typically elitist music nerd to bow to Andrew WK's blistering tard-rock?
to irritate Ryan Schreiber
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 6 August 2007 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link
(altho it is a totally fun album and fun needs no excuses)
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Monday, 6 August 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
The people have spoken
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 23:10 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.haxed.co.uk/cms/uploads/pics/giant_rolleyes.gif
― blueski, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 23:10 (sixteen years ago) link
"people" means "lurkers". i hope. people really listened to the strokes huh?
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 23:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Cold Vein was easily my favorite record of that year, but I haven't listened to it in a few years. Of those albums, The Glow is definitely the one I trot out the most these days.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Is this it
pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft
― Drooone, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 23:17 (sixteen years ago) link
snrub OTM.
― gr8080, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 23:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm surprised no one voted for the Dntel album. I still throw it on every once and awhile and it has aged much better than the Postal Service album.
― jonathan - stl, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 23:52 (sixteen years ago) link