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Doug Orleans's Chugchanga-L Poll 2001 Entry
First of all, the clear number one album for me this year was
Cave-In, Jupiter (Hydra Head)
...but it came out in mid-2000! I didn't get it until a year later,
but I listened to it many times more than any other record this year.
They also were the best live experience of the year at the Middle East
downstairs in December, with The Icarus Line and The Cancer Conspiracy.
Anyway, here's my top 20 records that are actually eligible, roughly in
order:
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Bob Dinners and Larry Noodles present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche (Communion)
B.R.M.C., Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (Virgin) [rerelease]
Skye Klad, Skye Klad (Mutant Music)
Dead Meadow, Dead Meadow (Tolotta)
The Medea Connection, The Bell Ringer (Curve of the Earth)
The Avalanches, Since I Left You (Sire) [rerelease]
Boredoms, Vision Creation Newsun (Birdman) [rerelease]
Prairie Dog Flesh, Take The Green Over The Red (Three Lobed)
Drunk Horse, Tanning Salon/Biblical Proportions (Man's Ruin)
Unwound, Leaves Turn Inside You (KRS)
Bardo Pond, Vol. II (Three Lobed)
New Order, Get Ready (Warner)
Melvins, Electroretard (Man's Ruin) [compilation]
Shipping News, Very Soon, And In Pleasant Company. (Quarterstick)
Stinking Lizaveta, III (Tolotta)
Daft Punk, Discovery (Virgin)
Air, 10,000 Hz Legend (Astralwerks)
The Takers, Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive (Op Pop Pop/Rubric)
The Gay Barbarians and or the Jaurwaurs, I Want It To Sound Like a Monster Or A Boombox (360/Stereo Abuse)
Radiohead, Amnesiac (Capitol)
These records are also great, and could have made it into the
top 20 if I were in a different mood:
Bardo Pond, Dilate (Matador)
Crystal Method, Tweekend (Interscope)
Dead Meadow, Howls From The Hills (Tolotta)
Dixie Witch, Into The Sun (Brainticket)
Steve Fisk, 999 Levels of Undo (Sub Pop)
Jimmy Eat World, Bleed American (Dreamworks)
Lightning Bolt, Ride the Skies (Load Records)
Nebula, Charged (Sub-Pop)
Primordial Undermind, Beings of Game P-U (Camera Obscura)
Solex, Low Kick and Hard Bop (Matador)
Sons of Otis, Songs For Worship (The Music Cartel)
Weezer, The Green Album (Geffen)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Shifty)
These are some more very solid records:
Alphastone, Life's A Motorway (Enraptured)
Altamont, Our Darling (Man's Ruin)
Autechre, Confield (Warp)
Bob Bannister, Dives and Lazarus (Twisted Village)
Black Sun Ensemble, Black Sun Ensemble (Camera Obscura) [rerelease]
The Cancer Conspiracy, The Cancer Conspiracy (SoGoodMusic)
Cave-In, Moons of Jupiter (Magic Bullet)
Concentrick, Tender Machines (Deluxe)
Curve, Open Day at the Hate Fest (www.curve.co.uk)
Dunlavy, The Alison Effect (Camera Obscura)
Frodus, And We Washed Our Weapons In The Sea (Fueled By Ramen)
Fu Manchu, California Crossing (Mammoth)
The Icarus Line, Mono (Crank!)
Jennifer Gentle, I Am You Are (Silly Boy)
Juno & The Dismemberment Plan, Juno & The Dismemberment Plan (DeSoto)
Kinski, Be Gentle With The Warm Turtle (Pacifico)
Labradford, Fixed::Context (Kranky)
Low, Things We Lost In The Fire (Kranky)
Barbara Manning and the Go-Luckys!, You Should Know By Now (Innerstate)
The Melvins, Colossus of Destiny (Ipecac)
Milemarker, Anaesthetic (Jade Tree)
Monster Magnet, God Says No (A&M)
My Vitriol, Finelines (Infectious)
N.E.R.D., In Search Of... (Virgin)
Neu!, Neu! (Astralwerks) [rerelease]
Neu!, Neu! 2 (Astralwerks) [rerelease]
Neu!, Neu! 75 (Astralwerks) [rerelease]
Orbital, The Altogether (ffrr/London)
Pinback, Blue Screen Life (Ace Fu)
Tool, Lateralus (Volcano)
TransChamps, Double Exposure (Thrill Jockey)
Vocokesh, Ispepnaibara (Lexicon Devil) [rerelease]
These records all have something to offer and are worth checking out:
Aaliyah, We Need A Resolution (Virgin)
Alien Ant Farm, ANThology (Dreamworks)
Cake, Comfort Eagle (Columbia)
Jay Dee, Welcome 2 Detroit (BBE)
Depeche Mode, Exciter (Mute/Reprise)
Destiny's Child, Survivor (Columbia)
Gorillaz, Gorillaz (Virgin)
Janet Jackson, All For You (Virgin)
Joy Division, Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979 (Factory)
KRS-One, The Sneak Attack (Koch)
Lifestyle, Frontier (Archenemy)
Jennifer Lopez, J.Lo (Sony)
Mass. Hysteria, No Cabaret License (Bovine)
Mogwai, Rock Action (Matador)
Mogwai, Travels EP (Rock Action)
The Music, "Take The Long Road And Walk It"/"The Walls Get Smaller" (EMI)
No-Man, Returning Jesus (Third Stone)
Ruby, Short-Staffed at the Gene Pool (Thirsty Ear)
The Sheila Divine, Where Have My Countrymen Gone... (Co-Op Pop)
Spacehog, The Hogyssey (Artemis)
Stereolab, Sound Dust (Elektra)
Various Artists, All The Paths Lead Nowhere - Galactic Zoo Dossier Compilation #5 (Galactic Zoo Dossier)
Various Artists, A Pot By Any Other Name... a free CD to accompany PT 30 (Ptolemaic Terrascope)
Various Artists, Fluorescent Tunnelvision (Submergence)
Various Artists, Sound Collector #number seven (Sound Collector)
And these ones just have no redeeming qualities whatsoever:
REM, Reveal (Warner)
Spiritualized, Let It Come Down (Arista)
Tenacious D, Tenacious D (Epic)
The Strokes, The Modern Age (Rough Trade)
The Strokes, Is This It? (Rough Trade)
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