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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: New York Times Top 10 Albums of 2001 | ||||
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| Oyster | posted on 12-27-2001 @ 11:36 AM |    | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jul. 00  | http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/23/arts/music/_23POWE.html Visit this Website December 23, 2001 ANN POWERS'S PICKS 1. LEONARD COHEN: `TEN NEW SONGS' (Columbia/Sony). After a half-decade on a Zen mountain, this bard of Montreal finds new insight within ordinary junk. The sound is electronica without beats; the lyrics are unfussily profound. The subject? Nothing heavy. Just life and death. 2. DAVID GARZA: `OVERDUB' (Atlantic). This furious romantic can write a pop hook, but he's more interested in making worlds collide. His restlessness originates in a tenor that thrills when it hits falsetto and blossoms in writing that marries metal rapture with troubadour grace. 3. THE COUP: `PARTY MUSIC' (Ark 21). In today's political climate, the Coup's Boots Riley may seem farther left than Fidel Castro, but his polemics only invigorate the group's funky, smart hip-hop. These calls for revolution have heart, imagination and integrity. Plus, DJ Pam the Funkstress sure knows how to cut it up. 4. TOADIES: `HELL BELOW/STARS ABOVE' (Interscope). In 2001 a group extending the legacy of the Pixies and Nirvana is as uncool as it gets. If the Toadies had released this weird barrage of baroque rock five years ago, it would have found its audience. Instead, few listened, and the band broke up. But this album proves that weird rock hailstorms can still be great. 5. LOW: `THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE' (Kranky). This trio makes music so spare that it flirts with nonexistence. Adding ambient touches and finding new inspiration in parenthood, Low's leaders, Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk, find the point of all that quiet: it offers the barest revelation, truth held in the nuance of a word. 6. MACY GRAY: `THE ID' (Epic). This pleasure warrior's second album dares to offend with raw humor, taboo fantasies and stylistic risks, which include a riff on Bertolt Brecht and a Slick Rick-penned children's song. Behind what some read as frivolity is a rage as righteous as it is bright. 7. BANG ON A CAN ALL STARS: `TERRY RILEY: "IN C" ' (Cantaloupe Records). Don't say it's not rock 'n' roll. The minimalist movement inspired by this 1964 composition is as crucial to many guitar bands as it is to art ensembles. This new version by New York's premier genre-busters is elegant and much fun. 8. `BUDDY AND JULIE MILLER' (Hightone). Buddy and Julie Miller, Americana music stars separately, finally burn down the studio together. The songs intensify familiar themes, but the pair's unabashedly emotional musicianship impresses most. With harmonies this intuitive, their marriage was hardly a choice. 9. TORI AMOS: `STRANGE LITTLE GIRLS' (Atlantic). On this genuinely distinctive covers album, Ms. Amos digs out the buried femininity within male rockers' songs. Her chillingly lovely reclamation of Eminem's "97 Bonnie and Clyde" for its murdered wife guides her brave exploration of sexism's seductions and horrors. 10. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT: `POSES' (Dreamworks). Scrutinizing sexual liberation, class privilege and sweet, fleeting youth, Rufus Wainwright keeps one step ahead of the fashion victims with whom he flirts. And he proves that he can write a catchy chorus. ------------------------------------- At least someone got it!!! Thomas  | ||||
| armymad DUMBEST POSTER EVER!!! | posted on 12-27-2001 @ 3:24 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jan. 01 | where did they come up with this list the biggest crap list i every read | ||||
| armymad DUMBEST POSTER EVER!!! | posted on 12-27-2001 @ 3:27 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jan. 01 | where did they come up with this list the biggest crap list i every readed | ||||
| Lent Black Rock Coalition Do you have a basketball in your car? | posted on 12-27-2001 @ 4:01 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: May. 00 | Who are these people? The only people I hear were the coup, Tori Amos, and Macy Gray. That's the NY times for ya! - AIM:roweLENTless2001 | ||||
| rageparty 123...Not so bare anymore since I got a number underneath my name again I also have an imaginary girlfriend. | posted on 12-27-2001 @ 9:57 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Aug. 01 | What? I haven't heard of anyone of these people besides the first one and I never knew he had a record out. | ||||
| Maynard | posted on 12-27-2001 @ 10:06 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Jan. 01 | You people are mental midgets. What the fuck do YOU consider good music? While I have not heard all of these albums, I can say I've heard OF most of them. WTF do you think is considered good music? Britney Fucking Spears? That shit's horrible. These albums are actually GOOD, and in this society of musical idiocy, I am glad to see them go out on a limb and actually report on the music that was realeased this year that was actually worthy of making a best of list. Just cause they play something on MTV, or it's on the radio, doesn't mean it's good. Do I like some of that crap? Yeah, cause it's fun. But I need more from my music generally, and these albums gave me more. Try listening to them before you bash them.  don't open your eyes take it from me I have found you can find happiness in slavery | ||||
| SweetAngel | posted on 12-27-2001 @ 10:22 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: May. 01 | My mom has a John Tesh CD she's trying to get rid of...any takers? I tried so hard and got so far, but in the end it doesn't even matter | ||||
| Lent Black Rock Coalition Do you have a basketball in your car? | posted on 12-27-2001 @ 10:36 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: May. 00 | I just don't listen to pop. My musical tastes are a myraid of styles. (except country) A friend of mine in trying to get me into the punk scene and I'm discovering more obscure artists lately. - AIM:roweLENTless2001 | ||||
and i am apologizing now for the spelling errors, its 34 am and im drunk, so no time for spell check! Gotcha, SLASH i'll mmmm momo all i want! and you cant stop me! | posted on 12-28-2001 @ 12:40 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | quote: both are amazing albums, the rest i haven't heard  for a grrl in need of a tourniquet But can you save me Come on and save me If you could save me From the ranks of the freaks who suspect they could never love anyone... | ||||
| adolescentmasturbator | posted on 12-28-2001 @ 1:39 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | quote: Yeah before he just listened to Britney now he has moved onto Mandy.  Resident Board Socialist IM me at stickysituation2 | ||||
| The Sleeper Being a Minor is a Threat to my Social Life PoseUr i ahve 2 threads at teh top, i feel like maynard | posted on 12-28-2001 @ 3:10 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Not one of those artists is from Finland? Sounds like a shit list to me. You tell me that I'm better, You just hate yourself You tell me that you like her, You just wish you did You tell me that I make no difference, Well at least I'm fucking trying What the fuck have you done? | ||||
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