2002-02-14 | PLEASE HAMMER, DON'T HURT 'EM

Okay. I'm going to jump on the bandwagon and list my top 20 albums of 2001. Don't whine. I haven't heard every album yet. And it's hard. You try it, it's harder then you think. It was gut-wrenching, but I narrowed it down to 20. So, on with the show:

1. TENACIOUS D

2. BUCK 65 "Man Overboard"

3. ATMOSPHERE "Lucy Ford: The Atmosphere EP's"

4. SOLE "Bottle Of Humans"

5. THE STROKES "Is This It"

6. RYAN ADAMS "Gold"

7. KILLARMY "Fear, Love & War"

8. THE WHITE STRIPES "White Blood Cells"

9. CUT CHEMIST & DJ SHADOW "Product Placement"

10. RADIOHEAD "Amnesiac"

11. BEULAH "The Coast Is Never Clear"

12. ARSONISTS "Date of Birth"

13. GHOSTFACE KILLAH "Bulletproof Wallets"

14. UNWOUND "Leaves Turn Inside You"

15. MODEST MOUSE "Everywhere, and His Nasty Parlour Tricks (EP)"

16. DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL "the Places You Have Come to Fear the Most"

17. SLIPKNOT "Iowa"

18. SYSTEM OF A DOWN "Toxicity"

19. ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT "Group Sounds"

20. BUILT TO SPILL "Ancient Melodies of the Future"

Honorable Mention:

UTAH SAINTS "TWO"

SAVES THE DAY "STAY WHAT YOU ARE"

SHINS "OH, INVERTED WORLD"

RIVAL SCHOOLS "UNITED BY FATE"

DETROIT GRAND PUBAHS "FUNK ALL Y'ALL"

KOOL KEITH "SPANKMASTER"

R.E.M. "REVEAL"

PEARL JAM LIVE ALBUMS

LANGLEY SCHOOLS MUSIC PROJECT "INNOCENCE AND DESPAIR"

SHUGGIE OTIS "INSPIRATION INFORMATION"

GORILLAZ

MR. COMPLEX "HOLD THIS DOWN"

SMUT PEDDLERS "PORN AGAIN"

TOOL "LATERALUS"

i had a list of some other ones, but i can't find it. i do, however, have a list of bands who had albums that came out last year, but i don't have yet, but that i would probably like:

LOW/ RUFUS WAINRIGHT/ MERCURY REV/ BILL HICKS (GREATEST HITS)/ SPOON/ BEN FOLDS/ CREEPER LAGOON/ STEPHEN MALKMUS/ WHISKEYTOWN/ SPARKLEHORSE/ BJORK/ MARK LANEGAN/ APHEX TWIN/ NICK CAVE/ BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA/ THE AVALANCHES/ CANNIBAL OX/ PEP LOVE/ THE COUP/ BULLFROG/ SLAYER/ DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE/ BUDDY GUY/ DJ WALLY/ ELTON JOHN/ MOGWAI/ VARIOUS MILES DAVIS, AND JOHN COLTRANE RE-ISSUES/ R.L. BURNSIDE/ LOUDON WAINRIGHT III/ BOB DYLAN/ DAFT PUNK/ JUNIOR BROWN/ O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU SOUNDTRACK/ RED HOUSE PAINTERS/ INCUBUS/ FANTOMAS/ AESOP ROCK/ SCARED OF CHAKA/ JAY FARRAR/ FRUIT BATS/ LEONARD COHEN

thanks for reading. or for not reading. but if you're not reading, you won't know that i thanked you for not reading, so you should read, and then i'd be like, um, thanking you for reading it, not, not reading it. i'm confusing myself. i feel dizzy

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