The Best Albums of 2001

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Best of Rock Albums
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    8/10
  1. Solex: Low Kick And Hard Bop (Matador)
  2. Vladislav Delay: Anima (Mille Plateaux)
  3. Lofty Pillars: Amsterdam (Truckstop)
    7.5/10
  4. Toby Dammit: Top Dollar (Omplatten)
  5. Scott Tuma: Hard Again (Truckstop)
  6. James Plotkin: Atomsmasher (Hydrahead)
  7. Pelt: Ayahuasca (VHF)
  8. Jonathan Coleclough: Period (Anomalous)
  9. Tool: Lateralus (Volcano Entertainment)
  10. Robert Rich: Somnium (Hypnos)
  11. Stars Of The Lid: The Tired Sounds Of (Kranky)
  12. DJ Logic: Anomaly (Atlantic)
  13. cLOUDDEAD: cLOUDDEAD (Mush)
  14. Cannibal Ox: The Cold Vein (Def Jux)
  15. Electrelane: Rock It To The Moon (Let's Rock)
  16. Anaal Nathrakh: The Codex Necro (Mordgrimm)
    7/10
  17. Roy Montgomery: Silver Wheel Of Prayer (VHF)
  18. Supersilent: 5 (Rune Grammofon)
  19. Fennesz: Endless Summer (Mego)
  20. Neotropic: La Prochaine Fois (Ntone)
  21. Primordial Undermind: Beings Of Game P-U (Camera Obscura)
  22. No-Neck Blues Band: Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones But Names Will Never Hurt Me (Revenant)
  23. Surface of Eceon: The King Beneath the Mountain (Strange Attractors)
  24. Four Tet: Pause (Domino)
  25. Old Time Relijun: Witchcraft Rebellion (K)
  26. Boxhead Ensemble: Two Brothers (Truckstop)
  27. Radiohead: Amnesiac (Capitol)
  28. Low: Things We Lost In The Fire (Kranky)
  29. Nicolai Dunger: Soul Rush (Dolores)
  30. Lightning Bolt: Ride The Skies (Load)
  31. Manitoba: Start Breaking My Heart (Leaf)
  32. Irr. App. (Ext.): Ozeanische Gefuhle (Errata in Excelsis)
  33. Ex Models: Other Mathematics (Ace Fu)
  34. Seconds: Y (5 Rue Christine)
  35. Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Hysteria (Temporary Residence Limited)
  36. Troum: Tjukurrpa - Harmonies (Transgredient)
  37. Thomas Brinkmann: Klick (Max Ernst)
  38. Tara Jane O'Neil: In The Sun Lines (Quarterstick)
  39. Shannon Wright: Dyed In The Wool (Touch & Go)
  40. Simon Joyner: Hotel Lives (Truckstop)
  41. Rollerball: Trail Of The Butter Yeti (Road Cone)
  42. Motion Picture: A Paper Gift (Words On Music)
  43. Animal Collective: Danse Manatee (Catsup Plate)
  44. Matmos: A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure (Matador)
  45. Keiji Haino: Abandon All Words (Alien 8)
  46. Jaga Jazzist: A Livingroom Hush (Warner)
  47. Cult of Luna: Cult of Luna (Rage Of Achilles)
  48. White Stripes: White Blood Cells (Sympathy)
  49. Zen Guerrilla: Shadows On The Sun (Subpop)
  50. Kit Clayton: Lateral Forces - Surface Fault (Vertical Form)
  51. Jan Jelinek: Loop Finding Jazz Records (Scape)
  52. Hood: Cold House (Aesthetics)
  53. Califone Roomsound (Glitterhouse)
  54. Coastal: Coastal (Words On Music)
  55. Beachwood Sparks: Once We Were Trees (Subpop)
  56. Mouse On Mars: Idiology (Thrill Jockey)
  57. Squarepusher: Go Plastic (Warp)
  58. Puppetina: Piewacket (PNT)
  59. Prefuse 73: Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives (Warp)
  60. Merzbow: Dharma (Hydrahead)
  61. System Of A Down: Toxicity (Sony)
  62. Sparklehorse: It's A Wonderful Life (Capitol)
  63. Blood Brothers: March on Electric Children (Three One G)
  64. Steve Wynn: Here Come The Miracles (Blue Rose)
  65. Solefald: Pills Against the Ageless Ills (Century Media)
  66. Giardini di Miro`: Rise and Fall of Academic Drifting (Homesleep)
  67. Herbert: Bodily Functions (K7)
  68. Richard Chartier: Decisive Forms (Trente Oiseaux)
  69. Avenged Sevenfold: Sounding the Seventh Trumpet (Goodlife)
  70. Oren Ambarchi: Suspension (Touch)
  71. Unwound: Leaves Turn Inside You (Kill Rock Stars)
  72. Ed Harcourt Here Be Monsters (Heavenly)
  73. As One: 21st Century Soul (Ubiquity)
  74. Caretaker: A Stairway To The Stars (V/Vm Test)
  75. Drive-by Truckers: The Southern Rock Opera (Lost Highway)
  76. Angels of Light: How I Loved You (Young God)
  77. Wolf Eyes: Dread (Hanson)
  78. Venetian Snares: Doll Doll Doll (Hymen)
  79. M Ward: End Of Amnesia (Merge)
  80. Jack Rose: Red Horse White Mule (Eclipse)
  81. Crooked Fingers: Bring on the Snakes (Warm)
  82. Converge: Jane Doe (Equal Vision)
  83. Hope Sandoval: Bavarian Fruit Bread (Rough Trade)
  84. Strokes: Is This It (RCA)
  85. Envy: All The Footprints You've Ever Left (HG Fact)
  86. Frodus: And We Washed Our Weapons in the Sea (Fueled by Ramen)
  87. Czars: The Ugly People Vs The Beautiful People (Manifesto)
  88. Lamp Of The Universe: Echo In Light (Cranium)
  89. Sunburned Hand of the Man: Jaybird (Qbico)
  90. Regina Spektor: 11:11 (self)
Songs
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  1. Anaal Nathrakh: Pandemonic Hyperblast
  2. Lofty Pillars: Amsterdam
  3. Solex: Low Kick And Hard Bop
  4. Old Time Relijun: Vampire Sushi
  5. Liars: Mr Your On Fire Mr
  6. Muse: Newborn
  7. Hood: You're Worth The Whole World
  8. Edith Frost: Cars and Parties
  9. Notwist: Neon Golden
  10. Herbert: The Audience
  11. Stereolab: Captain Easychord
  12. Radiohead: Life in a Glasshouse
  13. Trumans Water: Limping Towards Oblivion
  14. Lofty Pillars: Field Of Honor
  15. Neotropic: The Man Who Catches Clouds
  16. Sparklehorse: Dog Door
  17. Lucky Boys Confusion: Dumb Pop Song
  18. Shannon Wright: Vessel For A Minor Malady
  19. Four Tet: You Could Ruin My Day
  20. Low: July
  21. Joe Henry: Richard Pryor
  22. Janet Feder: Shouting Valley
  23. Hope Sandoval: On the Low
  24. Nebula: Do It Now
  25. Angels of Light: My True Body
  26. Squarepusher: Go! Spastic
  27. Mark Lanegan: One Way Street
  28. Calexico: Crystal Frontier
  29. Steve Fisk: Amateur European
  30. Andrew Bird: Two Way Action
  31. Nick Cave: No More Shall We Part
  32. Strokes: The Modern Age
  33. Simon Joyner: Hotel Lives
  34. Motion Picture: Winter 1988
  35. Angels of Light: My Suicide
  36. Squarepusher: I Wish You Could Talk
  37. Tool: Triad
  38. Bjork: Undo
  39. Steve Wynn: There Will Come A Day
  40. Manitoba: Mammals Vs Reptiles
  41. Edith Frost: Cars And Parties
  42. White Stripes: I Can't Wait
  43. Zen Guerrilla: 5th & Cecil B
  44. Tara Jane O'Neil: Your Rate Are
  45. Manitoba: Paul's Birthday
  46. Anaal Nathrakh: The Technogoat
  47. Coastal: Northern
  48. M Ward: Color Of Water
  49. Drive-by Truckers: Shut Up And Get On The Plane
  50. Emperor: Thorns on My Grave
  51. Giardini di Miro`: Pet Life Saver
  52. Matt Marque: Here We Are
  53. Varnaline: Green Eyed Stars
  54. Butthole Surfers: Dracula From Houston
  55. White Stripes: Hotel Yorba
  56. Strokes: Someday
  57. Tim Hecker: Boreal Kiss
  58. Suicide Machines: All My People
  59. Beachwood Sparks: The Sun Surrounds Me
  60. Emperor: Empty
  61. Camera Obscura: Happy New Year
  62. Peaches: Suck And Let Go
  63. Vitalic: Poney Part 1
  64. Weezer: Island In The Sun
  65. Chris Clark: Lord Of The Dance
  66. Erase Errata: C Rex
  67. Circle: Suopea
  68. Jeezy: Bottom of the Map
  69. Strokes: Last Nite
  70. Stereo Total: Je Suis Une Poupee
  71. Skygreen Leopards: The Stars Go To Sleep

Extended compositions
  1. Robert Rich: Somnium
  2. Acid Mothers Temple: Psycho Buddha
  3. Irr. App. (Ext.): Ozeanische Gef”le
  4. Roy Montgomery: For A Small Blue Orb
  5. Electrelane: Mother
  6. Supersilent: 1
  7. Toby Dammit: Escape From Fire Island
  8. Surface of Eceon: The Grasshopper King
  9. Jonathan Coleclough: Periodicity
  10. Primordial Undermind: Filament
  11. Jack Rose: Red Horse
  12. Electrelane: Long Dark
  13. Breaking Pangaea: Turning
  14. Stars Of the Lid: Requiem For Dying Mothers
  15. Neurosis: Stones From the Sky
  16. Roy Montgomery: For A Small Blue Orb
  17. Boxhead Ensemble: Requiem
  18. Keiji Haino: Whereto Can I Cast Away
  19. Mogwai: My Father My King
  20. Mice Parade: Open Air Dance
  21. Pelt: A Raga Called John
  22. No-Neck Blues Band: Assignment Subud
  23. Acid Mothers Temple: Occie Lady
  24. Steven Smith: Tableland
  25. Surface Of Eceon: Ascension to the Second Tier
  26. Jonathan Coleclough: Periodic
  27. Guapo: El Topo
  28. Keith Fullerton Whitman: For Acoustic Guitar
  29. Pharoah Chromium: Feral
  30. Nels Cline: As In Life
  31. Lamp Of The Universe: Dream Sequence
  32. Tool: Lateralus
  33. Mono: Karelia
  34. Tom Carter: Monument 2
  35. Lightwave: Pierre J
  36. Neurosis: The Title
  37. Ed Harcourt: Beneath The Heart Of Darkness
  38. Foetus: Kreibabe
  39. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: Sunflower
  40. Alan Licht: The Old Victrola
  41. Matmos: Lipostudio
  42. Merzbow: Frozen Guitars and Sunloop/7E 802
  43. Bardo Pond: Inside
  44. Jan Jelinek: Rock In The Video Age
  45. Sunburned Hand of the Man: The Jaybird
  46. Rollerball: Butter Fairy
  47. Vladislav Delay: Anima
  48. Jonathan Coleclough: Period
  49. Appendix Out: Fortified Jackdaw Grove
  50. Tara Jane O'Neil: This Morning
  51. Red House Painters: River
  52. Nels Cline: Blood Drawing
  53. Gary Lucas: Sh'ma
  54. Techno Animal: Hypertension
  55. Labradford: Twenty
  56. Tool: Lateralus
  57. Slipknot: Iowa
  58. Opeth: Blackwater Park
  59. Cult of Luna: The Sacrifice
  60. Djam Karet: Alone With The River Man
  61. Liars: This Dust Makes That Mud
  62. Stars Of the Lid: Piano Aquieu
  63. Tarentel: Death In The Mind Of The Living
  64. Oren Ambarchi: As Far As The Eye Can See
  65. Venetian Snares: All The Children Are Dead
  66. Mogwai: 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
  67. My Dying Bride: The Return To The Beautiful
  68. Green Milk From The Planet Orange: In The Space Far Away From This Planet
  69. Angels of Light: New City In The Future
  70. Pleasure Forever: Any Port In A Storm
  71. Cult of Luna: Hollow
  72. Love As Laughter: E.H.
  73. Merzbow: Frozen Guitars and Sunloop/7E 802
  74. Acid Mothers Temple: Mercurical Megatronic Meninx
  75. Lupine Howl: Carnival
  76. If Thousands: Kasio
  77. Volcano the Bear: The Tallest People In The World
  78. Richard Chartier: Decisive Forms
  79. Animal Collective: Ahhh Good Country
  80. Regina Spektor: Pavlov's Daughter
Jazz

    7.5/10
  1. John Butcher: Fixations
    7/10
  2. Paul Dunmall: The Great Divide (Cuneiform)
  3. Ken Vandermark Territory Band: Atlas (2001)
  4. Supersilent: 5 (Rune Grammofon)
  5. Steve Lehman: Structural Fire (2001)
  6. Wynton Marsalis: All Rise
  7. Jason Moran: Black Stars
  8. Bob Belden: Black Dahlia
  9. Sven Ake Johansson: Six Little Pieces for Quintet
  10. Matthew Shipp: New Orbit (2001)
  11. Repeat: Select Dialect
  12. Roy Campbell: Ethnic Stew
  13. Henry Threadgill: Everybody's Mouth's A Book
  14. Brad Mehldau: Art of the Trio: Progression
  15. Triangles: Triangles
  16. Peter Broetzmann: Fuck DeBoere
  17. William Parker: O'Neal's Porch
  18. Crispell, Peacock, Motian: Amaryllis
  19. Tom Harrell: Paradise
  20. Fred Hersch: Songs Without Words
  21. Dave Douglas: Witness
  22. David Ware: Corridors & Parallels
  23. Keith Jarrett: Whisper Not

Classical
  1. Bach: Art Of The Fugue (Labadie, Dorian)
  2. Schoenberg: Piano Concerto (Uchida, Philips)
  3. Lutoslawski: Symphony 3 (Lutoslawski, Accord)
  4. Messiaen: Turangalila (Nagano, Teldec)
  5. Schubert: Winterreise (Fisher-Dieskau, Philips)
  6. Penderechi: Seven Gates Of Jerusalem (Kord, Accord)

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Best of the 1960's Best of the 1970's Best of the 1980's Best of the 1990's Best of the 2000's