It seems almost too convenient for a year ending in “–0” to be a “transitional year,” but 2000 really does feel that way in retrospect.
― morrisp, Sunday, 29 March 2020 02:17 (four years ago) link
Fwiw Pfork didn’t review Mass Romantic until March ‘01. It made their 2001 top ten
― intheblanks, Sunday, 29 March 2020 02:28 (four years ago) link
Ah, thx
― morrisp, Sunday, 29 March 2020 02:35 (four years ago) link
Internal Wrangler by Clinic is still way up there for me
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Sunday, 29 March 2020 03:24 (four years ago) link
boredoms - vision creation newsund'angelo - voodoodeftones - white ponyeminem - the marshall mathers lpgas - popisolée - restotomo yoshihide - cathodeoutkast - stankonialuomo - vocalcitypj harvey - stories from the city, stories from the seasade - lovers rocksmashing pumpkins - machina I & IIsmog - dongs of sevotion
― Nourry, Sunday, 29 March 2020 19:18 (four years ago) link
Just going off Wikipedia's release dates:
Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad OneAimee Mann - Bachelor No. 2The Weakerthans - Left and LeavingSarah Harmer - You Were HereEmmylou Harris - Red Dirt GirlRadiohead - Kid AOutKast - StankoniaThe New Pornographers - Mass RomanticDar Williams - The Green WorldLoud Family - Attractive Nuisance
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Sunday, 29 March 2020 19:44 (four years ago) link
Turns out most of the albums I was thinking of for Y2K actually came out in 1999 or 2001, but Internal Wrangler was easily the disappointment of that year for me. Clinic were one of my favorite bands in 1999. As a 15 year old in America I didn't know anyone else who listened to that stuff. I'd heard somewhere that it was going to be a lot like their previous releases, but with more of a disco influence(!!)
The stylistic similarity was undeniable, but the disco was missing. Unfortunately, so was the effervescence and ghostly aura that made their early singles so appealing. Compared to Porno, Cement Mixer and Kimberly it was like a Coke can left out on the nightstand, basically the same substance but warm and flat. The 'Ornette!' cover art mirrors this flatness perfectly, just like the Xeroxes on their first three singles spoke to the way they'd appropriated influences: missing information, all the more stark and mysterious. I'd enjoyed The Second Line as a single (it's hard not to like a song whose chorus goes "diggy diggy tomommanaut"), but in the context of the album it lost dimensionality.
Of the bands I was into then, Clinic were probably the last one I exprected to release 10 albums over a 20 year career. They really seemed like a band that would do one or 2 albums then split.
― Deflatormouse, Sunday, 29 March 2020 19:59 (four years ago) link
I have some friends who were -- and remain -- fans of Clinic and I got the impression that said friends thought they were due a big breakout album and it was disappointing when 2000 wasn't their year. I like them, though!
And their visual aesthetic is very on point for 2020
― mh, Sunday, 29 March 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
Since I Left YouMama's GunMwngThe Sophtware SlumpVocalcityTouristThe Mirror Conspiracy
― groovypanda, Sunday, 29 March 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
Clinic remain a fucking great live band. Saw them out latest a few years ago and they sounded great with VU + organ remaining central in my memory
― kraudive, Sunday, 29 March 2020 20:21 (four years ago) link
Amon Tobin – SupermodifiedAnouar Brahem Trio – Astrakan CaféArovane – TidesD'Angelo – VoodooDerek Bailey, Jamaaladeen Tacuma & Calvin Weston – MirakleThe For Carnation – The For CarnationGodspeed You Black Emperor! – Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!Jackie-O Motherfucker – Fig. 5Luomo – VocalcityNegură Bunget – Măiastru sfetnicPrimal Scream – XTRMNTRRadiohead – Kid Araison d'être – The Empty Hollow UnfoldsVladislav Delay – EntainWeakling – Dead as Dreams
― coco vide (pomenitul), Sunday, 29 March 2020 20:34 (four years ago) link
The Clientele - A Fading Summer EPGorky's Zygotic Mynci - The Blue TreesThe O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack
― that's not my post, Sunday, 29 March 2020 20:49 (four years ago) link
Dymaxion X 4 + 3 if it counts (compiles 7" singles released over the previous few years)
― Deflatormouse, Sunday, 29 March 2020 20:54 (four years ago) link
Can't believe I forgot
Boards of Canada – In a Beautiful Place Out in the CountryMasada – Live in Sevilla 2000Robert Rich – Humidity
― coco vide (pomenitul), Sunday, 29 March 2020 21:02 (four years ago) link
.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.
― Deflatormouse, Sunday, 29 March 2020 21:09 (four years ago) link
a few others
Neko Case - Furnace Room LullabyLow - ChristmasLaura Cantrell - Not The Trembling Kind
― that's not my post, Sunday, 29 March 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
xp 69 Love Songs was '99.
― morrisp, Sunday, 29 March 2020 23:43 (four years ago) link
Peter Hammill – What NowTindersticks – Can Our LoveCowboy Junkies – OpenGillian Welch – Time (The Revelator)Lucinda Williams – EssenceRadiohead – AmnesiacSpiritualized – Let It Come DownLeonard Cohen – Ten New SongsNick Cave – No More Shall We Part
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 09:06 (three years ago) link
Fennesz Endless SummerMarmoset Record in Red
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 18:23 (three years ago) link
Absu – TaraAnaal Nathrakh – The Codex NecroAutechre – ConfieldCannibal Ox – The Cold VeinDaniel Bélanger – Rêver mieuxGorguts – From Wisdom to HateJan Jelinek – Loop-finding-jazz-recordsMasada – Live at Tonic 2001The Necks – AetherNoir Désir – Des visages des figuresRadiohead – AmnesiacRobert Rich – SomniumStars of the Lid – The Tired Sounds of…Unwound – Leaves Turn Inside You
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 18:32 (three years ago) link
Bob Dylan — Love and TheftWhite Stripes — White Blood CellsThe Strokes — Is This ItThe Moldy Peaches — s/tYeah Yeah Yeahs — s/tDrive-by Truckers — Southern Rock OperaOld 97's — Satellite RidesThe Hives — Your New Favourite BandNick Lowe — The ConvincerIvy — Long Distance
― TO BE A JAZZ SINGER YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO SCAT (Jazzbo), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 18:36 (three years ago) link
Lots of overlap with the preceding lists for 2001 so will just add
Hood - Home Is Where It Hurts + Cold HouseNo-Man - Returning Jesus
― doug watson, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 18:40 (three years ago) link
DiscoveryRings Around The WorldQuiet is the New LoudHot Shots 2Since I Left You
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 19:07 (three years ago) link
It's been 20 years since the Strokes and YYYs saved rock 'n roll.
― one of the only artist who is genuine (morrisp), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 20:27 (three years ago) link
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!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 14 January 2021 22:15 (three years ago) link
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 - RoRoBob Drake - The Skull Mailbox and Other HorrorsCoaltar of the Deepers - No Thank YouCornelius - PointDilute - Grape Blueprints Pour Spinach Olive GrapeFugazi - The ArgumentGorguts - From Wisdom to HateJuno - A Future Lived in Past TenseMaudlin of the Well - Bath/Leaving Your Body Map/The Secret SongShiner - The EggSusumu Yokota - Grinning CatVolta do Mar - At the Speed of Light or Day
(Fuck ranking this stuff)
― your passion oozzes from the (ultros ultros-ghali), Thursday, 14 January 2021 22:46 (three years ago) link
I listened to Relationship of Command again the other week for the first time since like 2003, it rules!!!!!
― brimstead, Thursday, 14 January 2021 22:56 (three years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Thursday, 14 January 2021 23:05 (three years ago) link
drukqs, Confield, and Double Figure, three albums I distinctly remember there being many conversations about
Vision Creation Newsun! Fuck!!
― frogbs, Thursday, 14 January 2021 23:08 (three years ago) link
Hah, I’d completely forgotten about Bob Drake. Good record, yeah.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 14 January 2021 23:10 (three years ago) link
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.
― your passion oozzes from the (ultros ultros-ghali), Thursday, 14 January 2021 23:28 (three years ago) link
I wasn't listening to these at the time, but glad I belatedly discovered them:
Destroyer - Streethawk: A SeductionOpeth - Blackwater ParkEllen Allien - Flieg Mit Ellen AllienMihaly Dresch - Quiet As It Is
― o. nate, Saturday, 16 January 2021 03:37 (three years ago) link
Three of my all time favorites were released in 2001
Low - Things We Lost In The FireThe Clientele - Suburban LightGillian Welch - Time (The Revelator) (mentioned above)
― that's not my post, Saturday, 16 January 2021 03:48 (three years ago) link
well I think Fantasma was definitely intended to sound that was, felt like the last "Shibuya-kei" album anyone ever needed to make
― frogbs, Saturday, 16 January 2021 03:53 (three years ago) link
Pärson Sound - Pärson Sound
This was also the high P2P era when vast tracts of previously innacessible music became explorable.
― Noel Emits, Saturday, 16 January 2021 10:53 (three years ago) link
Kylie Minogue - FeverAaliyah - AaliyahBjörk - 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. - ResuscitationFelix da Housecat - Kittenz and thee GlitzLadytron - 604The 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 - InsignificanceStina Nordenstam - This is Stina NordenstamStereolab - Sound-DustKelis - Wanderland
... all still sound glorious
― technopolis, Saturday, 16 January 2021 11:42 (three years ago) link
Weezer - Green albumThursday - Full CollapseSaves the Day - Stay What You Are
― peace, man, Saturday, 16 January 2021 12:36 (three years ago) link
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.
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Monday, 18 January 2021 00:52 (three years ago) link
Still my favorite record of his/theirs fwiw
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Monday, 18 January 2021 00:53 (three years ago) link
Some that haven't been mentionned:
Basement Jaxx - RootyMiss Kittin & The Hacker - First AlbumMissy Elliott - Miss E... So Addictive
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 18 January 2021 15:39 (three years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 18 January 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link
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.
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 18 January 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
Dolly Parton - Little SparrowLife Without Buildings - Any Other CityJimmy Eat World - Bleed AmericanDestiny's Child - SurvivorNow It's OverheadEmm Gryner - Girl VersionsRufus Wainwright - PosesLucinda Williams - EssenceBill Janovitz - Up HereJanet Jackson - All For You
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 18:18 (two years ago) link
20 years old this week
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― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 18:29 (two years ago) link
"...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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― meisenfek, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein is 20 this year. *sigh*
― octobeard, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 19:37 (two years ago) link
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 - BlacklistedThe Black Watch - Jiggery-PokeryAstrid Williamson - Carnation
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 7 January 2022 07:19 (two years ago) link
Wilco - Yankee Hotel FoxtrotQueens of the Stone Age - Songs for the DeafThe Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink RobotsIron & Wine - The Creek Drank the CradleTom Waits - AliceTom Waits - Blood MoneyDamien Rice - OPaul Westerberg - StereoKoop - Waltz for KoopAimee Mann - Lost in Space
― jimbeaux, Friday, 7 January 2022 22:04 (two years ago) link
Sigur Ros - ( ) Jets To Brazil - Perfecting LonelinessSonic Youth - Murray StreetTrail of Dead - Source Tags & CodesN.E.R.D. - In Search ofEl-P - Fantastic DamageThe Streets - Original Pirate MaterialMissy Elliot - Under ConstructionOpeth - Deliverance Clipse - Lord Willin' Comets On Fire - Field Recordings from the Sun
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 7 January 2022 22:10 (two years ago) link
Boards of Canada - GeogaddiLambchop - Is a WomanBeth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out of SeasonLow - 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)
― technopolis, Friday, 7 January 2022 22:20 (two years ago) link