New newsletter! Here are my 17 favorite 2001 releases that I’ve been listening to for ~ 24 years, give or take. If you haven’t heard them, I encourage you to check them out. Look for more Best Album of 2001 activities this week! buttondown.com/kentmbeeson/...
Love the "cyborg Kenny Loggins" - both as description and in album form. On a side note, I used to make carefully calibrated running playlists. One time I just listened to I Get Wet. Fastest I ever ran.
Greatest workout album ever
Good grief, just realised I've yet to try it out in the gym. That'll have to change.
I had never heard of Andrew W.K. in my life, but based on your description I had to give it a try. After the first three tracks I wrote "I think this is so dumb it's actually good". Then after another I wrote "no, it's so dumb, it's just dumb". I went back and forth like that the whole album. 1/2
After @nichtnutz.bsky.social comment, looked for the Pitchfork 0.6 review and literally, truly, LOL'ed several times. But then noticed that a decade later they upped their score to 8.6 and that review also made me LOL. Here they are: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu... pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
God, I fucking hate Pitchfork. Nobody has ever needed shoved in a locker as much as the guy who wrote this
I still love this pitchfork review Jet: Shine On Album Review | Pitchfork share.google/74Hobdzv0ffr...
I miss this era of Pitchfork TBH. They are too nice now
They should write pans if and only if they can refrain from whining about "indie" fans liking music that "rocks" imo
Pitchfork gets a pass for Jet and Maneskin cause they actually deserved their pans
That fucking guy is the site’s original founder. 🙄
Hahaha I can’t stand Ryan Schreiber. There’s a 1989 album up this week that isn’t terribly far off from I GET WET in some ways. 😉
The early days P4k snark painted over with retrospective ass-kissing elicits no respect at all from me.
I was told later that my reply to this on my blog was ultimately what got me hired there which makes me laugh (I love this record)
That's amazing, Tom. (And your write-up was a lot of fun, too). Keep partying hard!
Link still extant?
Yes! freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2002/07/a...
I would think these 2001 albums would be in the mix. Dirtbombs - Ultraglide in Black Lost Sounds - Black-Wave Aphex Twin - Drukqs Ladytron - 604 Autechre - Confield Detroit Cobras - Life, Love and Leaving
Thanks for linking to that excellent breakdown of Daft Punk’s album and “Face to Face” in particular. Great little documentary breakdown, perfect for a Sunday morning.
I’m already preparing to be annoyed by any support received by REVEAL, THE GREEN ALBUM and MORNING VIEW, which are all cockadoodiepoopoo
Brian showdown!
Including The Pernice Brothers but not singling out the shimmering, aching "Flaming Wreck"? I dunno, mang.
Curious about your take on The Avalanches "Since I Left You", probably my overwhelming #1 from that year
Damn, I've only actually listened to one of those in full. I was still listening to new music then, and a few faves came out I discovered later, but I was already way out of the loop. IDM was wrecked by glitch, 90s garage rock was dying as 00s was coming in and none of my indie pop faves made a dent
Which one have you heard?
Andrew W.K., which I own and loved. That review kept me from reading Pitchfork for years which probably contributed to my being out of touch.
Gonna have the same dilemma you had with GOLD when I get to Whiskeytown in Certain Songs. STRANGER'S ALMANAC is probably my favorite record of the second half of the 90s, and I love the original leaked version of PNUEMONIA nearly as much, not to mention specific memories of seeing them in concert