Best Album of 2001

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Originally Posted by gustavo

Went for "Is This It?" one of my all time favourite albums

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Same here. Just because it burst into the mainstream doesn't make it any less of an album.

Tip of the hat to: Manic Street Preachers - Know Your Enemy

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Originally Posted by holidaysong

Other:

'Dog in the Sand' ~ Frank Black and the Catholics

His best album since leaving the Pixies in my opinion.

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Went for that too. Prefer his 1st solo release and Teenager to it though. It's credited to the Black Francis moniker but Bluefinger would be up there too.

Shpongle's 2001 release of Tales of the Inexpressible is class too.

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Originally Posted by monzo

Went for that too. Prefer his 1st solo release and Teenager to it though. It's credited to the Black Francis moniker but Bluefinger would be up there too.

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His first album is a close second place. Teenager, although it has some of his best songs, as an album is just too damn long! The second half of the album has some filler songs that really should have been left on the editing room floor.. I like Bluefinger, but it was hyped too much as being as good as a Pixies album, which it clearly is not.

Still though, the man is my music god. I even let him use my user name in one of his songs... :)

Ah had Teenager ended after Olé Mulholland I reckon it would have gone down as an instant classic. Still though, I find only three songs to be kinda meh on the whole album (Fazer Eyes, Pure Denizen and Hostess). The rest are either class (Superabound, Big Red and Pie In The Sky) or pretty good.

Aragh, I hate it when people compare his solo work to Pixies. He's moved on and evolved, and all the better for it. Grand Duchy is forthcoming!

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Originally Posted by monzo

Aragh, I hate it when people compare his solo work to Pixies. He's moved on and evolved, and all the better for it. Grand Duchy is forthcoming!

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I wasn't comparing it to his Pixies stuff though, I was pointing out that the media hyped it as such. This then took away from the album when it was (inevitably) quite different to an album he would have made in the late 1980s.

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I would go for either:
A. Turn on the Bright Lights by Interpol,
(dark, brooding, atmospheric - quality. IMO they havent match it since.)

or B. Amnesiac by Radiohead
(not everyones cup of tea but still undoubted brilliance there, songs like I Might be Wrong, Life in a Glasshouse and Pyramid Song cannot be dismissed:))

Strokes - Is This It?
One of the best debut albums of the last few years

Other: Ladytron - 604

The Strokes - Is This It? Classic.