2001 in music. • Page 4

It's so dumb to look back and realize how much I liked those Michelle Branch/Avril/Vanessa Carlton/Kelly Clarkson songs/albums at the time and how I was probably in denial about that for years. I went back to that Branch album a bunch last year when it turned 20, though, and it really holds up. Same with the follow-up. And her comeback album from a few years ago is pretty great too.[/QUOTE]

A Thousand Miles is such a jam.

 

I hated Creed back in the day and I still don’t care to listen to them but I always had to bite my tongue whenever I played “What If” off the Scream soundtrack, an actual good song.

 

A Thousand Miles is such a jam.[/QUOTE]

Legitimate question about that Michelle Branch album. I liked the two singles a lot but never heard anything else from it. Is the rest of it along the same lines? I ask because I really enjoyed the Pale Waves album from last year and, if I like that, there's no reason I can't also like this MIchelle Branch release.

 

Honestly, I really loved Weathered back in the day. One of my first CDs. I haven't listened to it in ages, and those guys are kind of a punchline for a lot of reasons, but that record definitely meant something to me when I was 12!

I wish they'd do another album. I dug the 2014 one.

If you like the singles, you'll enjoy the album. The singles are the best songs (her second record, Hotel Paper, is a bit more evenly balanced between some great singles and some great album tracks) but the singles are also, like, half the record, so.

Pale Waves is more Avril than Michelle Branch, but definitely hearkens back to that era of teen pop.

 

Its a top 5 album for me all time, and one of the albums that initially drew me to roots music in the first place. I get the genre isn’t all that popular around this site, but shocked it hasn’t been mentioned at all in here.

 

Kind of unreal I didn't put this in my top three. The ominous opening guitar is one of my favourite starts to an album.

 

Kind of surprised also to not see any love/mention for the debut album from The National. Pretty clearly their 'least essential' work, but there's still quite a bit to like, and indicators of the greatness to come.

"Son" in particular is a pretty standout track.

 

1. Kamelot - Elizabeth
2. The Microphones - The Moon
3. John Mayer - Back to You
4. Radiohead - Life in a Glass House
5. Muse - Bliss
6. Averi - In Tune
7. Jimmy Eat World - Sweetness
8. Opeth - Bleak
9. Death Cab for Cutie - Debate Exposes Doubt
10. Usher - U Remind Me

My top 10 songs for the year.

 

This leading straight into Fault and Fracture is the most intense and relentless four minutes of music I can think of. I feel exhausted after listening to it.

 

It's amazing how much is packed into that four minutes.

 

album is pretty bad imo

 

Where's your list @cshadows2887 ?!

 

he’s educating the youth of america, give him a minute

 

2001
01. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
02. Tool - Lateralus
03. Fenix*TX - Lechuza

04. Thursday - Full Collapse
05. Blink 182 - Take Off Your Pants And Jacket
06. 311 - From Chaos
07. Incubus - Morning View
08. Radiohead - Amnesiac
09. Muse - Origin Of Symmetry
10. Sugarcult - Start Static
11. Weezer (The Green Album)
12. Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
13. Staind - Break The Cycle
14. D-12 - Devil’s Night
15. John Mayer - Room For Squares
16. Alkaline Trio - From Here To Infirmary

Honorable Mention
American Pie 2: Original Soundtrack

Favorite songs from other 2001 albums
The White Stripes - “Fell In Love With A Girl”
Aphex Twin - “Mt Saint Michel + Saint Michaels Mount”
Fugazi - “Epic Problem”
Sense Field - “Love Song”
Pennywise - “The World”
Sum 41 - “Fat Lip”
Rufio - “In My Eyes”
Lucky Boys Confusion - “One To The Right”
System Of A Down - “Chop Suey!”
The Offspring - “Defy You”
Hoobastank - “Crawling In The Dark”
The Ataris - “Teenage Riot”
Explosions In The Sky - “With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept”
New Order - “Crystal”
Death Cab For Cutie - “A Movie Script Ending”
Yellowcard - “October Nights”
Bush - “The People That We Love”
P.O.D. - “Alive”
Converge - “Hell To Pay”

 

I have to say this was probably my favorite year of music. Was the last time we got an NSYNC album, John Mayer walked into my life, Aaliyah died, 9/11 happened and everything fucking changed.

 

A Thousand Miles is such a jam.[/QUOTE]

Kelly Clarkson was and still is, the shiznit!

 

Holy shit this just hit me hard in the feels. #truth

I was a few weeks away from turning 16, but I somehow feel like the real problems of this ugly world hit me that day for the first time and everything changed indeed.

 

I will never ever ever forget that whole week after it happened. Radio was silent, TV channels were nothing but news. Music stopped for like 2 weeks really. It was fucking wild.

 

Satellite by P.O.D. came out on 9/11.

 

The Blueprint and Love & Theft both came out on 9/11. Rockin' the Suburbs too. And that Nickelback album.

 

holy shit that's right

 

when I said music stopped, I meant the radio stations weren't playing much music that first week...but obviously albums came out on that day.

 

1. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
2. Ryan Adams - Gold
3. Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most

Excruciating cuts:
Averi - Direction of Motion

Others I love:
Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon
Daft Punk - Discovery
Thursday - Full Collapse
Aaliyah - Aaliyah
Whiskeytown - Pneumonia
Leonard Cohen - Ten New Songs
Rufio - Perhaps, I Suppose
New End Original - Thriller
Michael Jackson - Invincible
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Electric Light Orchestra - Zoom
Carissa's Wierd - You Should Be at Home Here
Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera
Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
Saves the Day - Stay What You Are
Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)

Good ones:
Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album
Dave Matthews Band - Everyday
Megadeth - The World Needs a Hero
Further Seems Forever - The Moon Is Down
Nancy Griffith - Clock Without Hands
Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs
Days of the New - III
Dropkick Murphys - Sing Loud, Sing Proud
Sevendust - Animosity
The American Analog Set - Know by Heart
The Strokes - Is This It?
Nas - Stillmatic
Lenny Kravitz - Lenny
Jay-Z - Unplugged
No Doubt - Rock Steady
Michelle Branch - The Spirit Room
Something Corporate - Audioboxer EP
Bush - Golden State
Old 97s - Statellite Rides
Alicia Keys - Songs in A Minor
Janet Jackson - All for You
Incubus - Morning View
Elton John - Songs from the West Coast
Dashboard Confessional - So Impossible EP
Alien Ant Farm - ANThology
Dismemberment Plan - Change
Prince - The Rainbow Children
Damien "Junior Gong" Marley - Halfway Tree
Onelinedrawing - Always New JulDec00 EP
Aerosmith - Just Push Play
John Mellencamp - Cuttin' Heads
Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary
NSYNC - Celebrity
Pink - M!ssundaztood
Blake Shelton - Blake Shelton
Rhonda Vincent - The Storm Still Rages

Not a fan:
The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2
Hoobastank - Hoobastank
Tantric - Tantric
Systematic - Somewhere in Between
Staind - Break the Cycle
Stereomud - Perfect Self
Mesh Stl - Lowercase

Targets for listening:
2pac - Until the End of Time
Chamberlain - Exit 263
Gov't Mule - The Deep End, Vol. 1
Jamirroquai - A Funk Odyssey
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
John Butler Trio - Three
Moneen - The Theory of Harmonial Value
The National - The National
Owen - Owen
Park - No Signal
Penfold - Our First Taste of Escape
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Say Anything - Baseball
Sense Field - Tonight and Forever
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
Tool - Lateralus
Pete Yorn - Musicforthemorningafter
Beta Band - Hot Shots II
Bjork - Vespertine
Destiny's Child - Survivor
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Gotan Project - La Revancha Del Tango
Royksopp - Melody AM
Silver Jews - Bright Flight
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
Manu Chao - Proxima Estacion: Esperanza
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
India Arie - Acoustic Soul
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Weezer - The Green Album
Converge - Jane Doe
Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell the Truth…
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Rilo Kiley - Take Offs and Landings
Kamelot - Karma
John Mayer - Room for Squares
The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl
blink-182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
Sum 41 - All Killer, No Filler
American Hi-Fi - American Hi-Fi
Lucky Boys Confusion - Throwing The Game
Stone Temple Pilots - Shangri-La Dee Da
N.E.R.D. - In Search Of...
Rufus Wainwright - Poses
System of a Down - Toxicity

 

@phaynes12 I'd appreciate it if you could once again ignore my #2 vote, as I'd like to not add to their tally.

 

They have a handful of songs that hold up, mostly because Mark Tremonti was actually a pretty creative rhythm guitarist. Even when I was the most into nu metal that I ever was, though, I thought they sucked at making albums. Sooooo much faceless filler.