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
Neko Case - Blacklisted^this one for sure Nothing else coming immediately to mind. Lean year?
― i woke up alarmed (morrisp), Friday, 7 January 2022 22:26 (two years ago) link
stuff I liked at the time, not so much now:
Of Montreal - Aldhil's Arboretum (somewhat embarrassingly the first thread I ever started on this board was about this album, not going to link it)Wilco - Yankee Hotel FoxtrotThe Apples in Stereo - Velocity of SoundBlackalicious - Blazing ArrowAstrobotnia - Part 01Meshuggah - Nothing
stuff I liked at the time and still like:
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
stuff I discovered a bit later and still like:
F.M. Knives - Useless & ModernMihaly Dresch Quartet / Archie Shepp - Hungarian BebopEllen Allien - Weiss.MixOpeth - Deliverance
― o. nate, Friday, 7 January 2022 22:37 (two years ago) link
ILX had a poll that year: The ILX Readers Poll 2002 - RECORDS OF THE YEAR
1. THE STREETS - Original Pirate Material (217 points)2. VARIOUS ARTISTS - 2 Many DJs: As Heard On Radio Soulwax Part 2 (110 points)3. SLEATER-KINNEY - One Beat (70 points)4. VARIOUS ARTISTS - Boom Selection Issue-01 (64 points)5. BOARD OF CANADA - Geogaddi (63 points)6. FARBEN - Textstar (59 points)7. WILCO - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (58 points)8=. LOW - TrustMISSY ELLIOT - Under ConstructionSONIC YOUTH - Murray Street (all 55 points)11. THE DELGADOS - Hate (54 points)12. FLAMING LIPS - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (52)13. THE BOOKS - Thought For Food (50)14. INTERPOL - Turn On The Bright Lights (48)15. DJ SHADOW - The Private Press (47)16. METRO AREA - Metro Area (44)17. TOM WAITS - Alice (43)18. BLACKALICIOUS - Blazing Arrow (42)19. SAINT ETIENNE - Finisterre (38)20. SIGUR ROS - () (37)21. MY COMPUTER - Vulnerabilia (35)22. BEACHWOOD SPARKS - Make The Cowboy Robots Cry (32)
23=. IMMORTAL - Sons Of Northern DarknessMAX TUNDRA - Mastered By Guy At The ExchangeNEKO CASE - BlacklistedPAULINA RUBIO - Border Girl (30 each)
27. VARIOUS ARTISTS - The Best Bootlegs In The World...Ever (29)
28= BLACK DICE - Beaches And CanyonsROCKET FROM THE TOMBS - The Day The Earth Met The Rocket From The Tombs (26 each)
30=. ANDREW WK - I Get WetVARIOUS ARTISTS - Hustle! (25 each)
32=. AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD - Source Tags And CodesTHE BEES - Sunshine Hit Me (23 each)
34=. BETH GIBBONS AND RUSTIN MAN - Out of SeasonRECLOOSE - CardiologyVARIOUS ARTISTS - Total 4 (22 each)
37=. BALLBOY - A Guide For The Daylight HoursEKKHARD EHLERS - PlaysGOLDEN BOY/MISS KITTIN - OrMEKONS - Oooh!NINA NASTASIA - The Blackened AirPRIMAL SCREAM - Evil HeatSPOON - Kill The MoonlightTHE NOTWIST - Neon Golden (20 each)
45=. DJ YODA - How To Cut And Paste Vol.2MONTGOLFIER BROTHERS - The World Is FlatUNDERWORD - 100 Days Off (18 each)
48=. A CERTAIN RATIO - EarlyANTIPOP CONSORTIUM - ArryhthmiaASTROBOTNIA - Part 1BRYAN FERRY - FranticDEERHOOF - ReveilleNERD - In Search Of...OUTHUD - S.T.R.E.E.T.D.A.D.PREFUSE 73 - 92 vs 02SUGABABES - Angels With Dirty Faces (15 each)
57. DAVID HOLMES - Come Get It I Got It (14)
58=. DIGITAL - DubzillaLADYTRON - Light And MagicROYSKOPP - Melody AM (12 each)
61. CLIPSE - Lord Willin' (11)
62=. ELVIS COSTELLO - When I Was CruelWIRE - Read And Burn 01 (10)
Of the list Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man is my pick.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 7 January 2022 22:37 (two years ago) link
Totally forgot about that Beachwood Sparks EP. Love those guys but had no idea they got any ILM love at all. Kind of wild to see them place so much higher than, say, Clipse or Underworld.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 7 January 2022 22:41 (two years ago) link
Two that haven't been mentioned:
Heathen, David BowieWalking With Thee, Clinic
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 8 January 2022 15:20 (two years ago) link
Bed - SpaceboxBowness/Chilvers - California, NorfolkDictaphone - m=addictionEcholyn - MeiHeadphone - Work in ProgressDon Li - Live Vols 1 and 2The Notwist - Neon GoldenFrankie Sparo - Welcome Crummy MysticsTape - OperaThe White Birch - Star is Just A SunSusuma Yokota - The Boy and the Tree
― doug watson, Sunday, 9 January 2022 01:21 (two years ago) link
immerall that glitterscardiologysouthern hummingbirdmy way
― Qamon (||||||||), Sunday, 9 January 2022 11:54 (two years ago) link
Everything mentioned so far is fine but you’re missing the most important album of 2002:
BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE - YOU FORGOT IT IN PEOPLE
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 9 January 2022 12:51 (two years ago) link
Most people think of it as a 2003 album, though since it wasn’t released worldwide until then.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 9 January 2022 13:02 (two years ago) link
Albums I liked then, that I still play now:
Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance (released November 2001 in the US, but didn't hit the UK until early 2002)Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up On MeHerrmann & Kleine - Our Noise
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 9 January 2022 13:54 (two years ago) link
balladssheer hellish miasmasuicide invoiceplays
― Qamon (||||||||), Sunday, 9 January 2022 17:11 (two years ago) link
jun ray song chang
― Qamon (||||||||), Sunday, 9 January 2022 17:14 (two years ago) link
Is it really deemed too taxing to include the artist's names with these posts? If so, lie down, save your strength, and consult a physician.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 15 January 2022 08:52 (two years ago) link
Greatest Hits
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Sunday, 30 January 2022 01:03 (two years ago) link
hard to believe it's classic rock nowadays
― dark end of the st. maud (sic), Sunday, 30 January 2022 06:03 (two years ago) link
I found my contemporaneous list of my favorite albums of 2002 on my PC:
1. The Party Of Helicopters - Space...And How Sweet It Was (Troubleman Unlimited)2. Theatre Of Tragedy - Assembly (Nuclear Blast)3. Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf (Interscope)4. Ikara Colt - Chat And Business (Epitaph)5. Kidneythieves - Zerøspace (Extasy)6. Andrew W. K. - I Get Wet (Island)7. Chevelle - Wonder What's Next (Epic)8. Dälek - From Filthy Tongue Of Gods And Griots (Ipecac)9. High On Fire - Surrounded By Thieves (Relapse)10. Manda & The Marbles - More Seduction (Go-Kart)11. Lacuna Coil - Comalies (Century Media)12. Hatebreed - Perseverance (Universal)13. Death Of Marat - All Eyes Open (Stickfigure)14. Speedealer - Second Sight (Palm Pictures)15. Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos (Nuclear Blast)16. Filter - The Amalgamut (Reprise)17. Paradise Lost - Symbol Of Life (Koch)18. Sheavy – Synchronized (The Music Cartel)19. The Heroine Sheiks - Siamese Pipe (Rubric)20. The Used - The Used (Reprise)21. Jucifer - I Name You Destroyer (Velocette)22. In Flames - Reroute To Remain (Nuclear Blast)23. The Paper Chase - Hide The Kitchen Knives (Beatville)24. Dead Poetic - Four Wall Blackmail (Tooth & Nail)25. Paul Westerberg - Stereo (Vagrant)26. Coinmonster - Tilton Johnson (Bandaloop)27. Shadows Fall - The Art Of Balance (Century Media)28. N.E.R.D. - In Search Of... (Virgin)29. Steve Von Till - If I Should Fall To The Field (Neurot)30. The Jazz June - Better Off Without Air (Initial)31. Foo Fighters - One By One (RCA)32. Steve Earle – Jerusalem (Artemis)33. Otto's Daughter – Renew (Angelwhore)34. The Black Keys - The Big Come Up (Alive)35. Lo-Hi - Say It More (Tiger Style)36. Thee Michelle Gun Elephant - Rodeo Tandem Beat Specter (Alive)37. Audioslave – Audioslave (Epic)38. The Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone (Star Time)39. Medication - Prince Valium (Locomotive)40. The Giraffes - Helping You Help Yourself (Ape Sauce)41. Vader – Revelations (Metal Blade)42. Killingbird – Killingbird (2K Sounds)43. Discharge – Discharge (Sanctuary)44. Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies (Side One Dummy)45. CKY - Infiltrate, Destroy, Rebuild (Island)46. Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin (Century Media)47. Bluebird - Hot Blood (Dim Mak)48. Otep - Sevas Tra (Capitol)49. Loudermilk - The Red Album (Dreamworks)50. Electric Wizard - Let Us Prey (The Music Cartel)
These are albums I evidently didn't get into until later and I really wish I could put them higher on this list then, say, Audioslave...
Agalloch - The MantleJohnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes AroundDälek - From Filthy Tongue of Gods and GriotsMclusky - Mclusky Do DallasReverend Bizarre - In the Rectory of the Bizarre ReverendThe Streets - Original Pirate MaterialThe Mooney Suzuki - Electric SweatThe Sounds - Living in America
Actually McClusky and The Sounds are two of my favorite albums of any year! How sad I didn't know it when they came out...
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 31 January 2022 04:07 (two years ago) link
Party of Helicopters!
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 31 January 2022 08:51 (two years ago) link