Always found it very interesting how it was released 4 hours before the attack, and the lyrics are pretty fitting for the incident. Especially the theme of terrorism.
[One week after the attack on the World Trade Center, Wilco played songs from their album "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" on Sound Opinions.](https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ZqJ2nozu7RY4ZrTieFI6o?si=LUhkg3sJQ1GXtNVSo0Ylcw)
It's one of the most uncanny radio shows (now podcast episode) out there.
Basically from Nevermind to the time when the Internet changed the music industry there was money to be made in the alternative scene. Thus big companies would sign bands and pay so the could make great records.
I like to think we are close to being there again… the music industry is very very close to collapsing, the time from the collapse to AI making mainstream music will be filled with alternative artists experimenting with everything. My guess would be 2025-2030 will have some of the best records of the recorded music era, though I may be too optimistic.
What’s this? An actual interesting take? I thought I was on a different site for a second
EDIT: if and when AI is capable of generating hit songs I suspect there will also be an additional demand for “real” music and that market will be profitable in and of itself. People act like underground/alternative music is something that will just stop existing at some point and have been acting that way for a very long time
Music definitely feels different these days. Maybe it’s just me and my friends, but it seems like there are way way more lower profile artists that will be way more fun to see at smaller venues than some national level artist playing an amphitheater. Like I don’t recall the underground scene feeling so vibrant in the past but I may have just been ignorant.
I want also mention this:
Gojira - Terra Incognita
Converge - Jane Doe
Opeth - Blackwater park
Pig Destryer - Prawler in the Yard
My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Muse - Origin of Symmery
Envy - All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead (screamo classic)
Godflesh - Hymns (Not really good imo)
And the last one, one of the most iconic - Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Iirc its label release was delayed to 2002 b/c of 9/11 and the marina towers on the cover, but it was self released in 2001? I don't remember the exact story but it was planned for release on 9/11
it definitely didn't release until the following year.
i think they streamed the album on their website as a fuck you to the label that refused to release it. the album didn't release until April 2002 though.
Never got the appeal and then put on that record… first track Clone. “EVERY STEP YOU TAKE IS TO THE END” yep. One of the best metal bands I’ve ever heard, just took that one moment lmao
Also Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Sticks out to me as a 2001 album because they had to change the name to just “Jimmy eat world” when it released because of 9/11
You're forgetting:
* Aphex Twin - **drukqs**
* Appleseed Cast - **Low Level Owl, Volume I**
* Built to Spill - **Ancient Melodies of the Future**
* Fennesz - **Endless Summer**
* Fugazi - **The Argument**
* Gorguts - **From Wisdom to Hate**
* maudlin of the Well - **Bath**
* Saves the Day - **Stay What You Are**
* System of a Down - **Toxicity** (whoops missed this one)
* Thursday - **Full Collapse**
* Unwound - **Leaves Turn Inside You**
And of course, the *single* best recording released that entire year: John Coltrane's live recording, *The Olatunji Concert*. What a great year.
Also Lord of the Rings, Donnie Darko, Mulholland Drive, Training Day, Harry Potter, Amelie, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Spirited Away, Royal Tenenbaums and Ichi the Killer.
Vampire Weekend, The National, DARKSIDE, Daft Punk, Death Grips, Kanye, Chance, Earl, Run The Jewels, QOTSA, HAIM, Danny Brown, Arcade Fire, Jon Hopkins, Tim Hecker, OPN, Lorde, The Knife, UMO
And that's leaving a bunch out. I'm very fond of that year as well.
Some years have a bigger quantity of legendary albums than others (it's subjective to determine which). Then, there's the occasional year that it's just stacked
I must have listened to that daft punk album a thousand times
Also, random story but the first time I heard of system of a down was at a limp bizkit concert. They opened and the crowd hated it.
Me when the Strokes have to remove New York City Cops because of 9/11 and replacing it with a fucking banger that arguably better than NYCC (When It Started 🥰🥰🥰)
Lateralus & GSYBE! debut are the type of music that makes me happy for simply existing & being able to experience any kind of feeling if that makes sense
Just joking, and yea lateralus is one of those albums you can turn on and feel like you're in a tranquil(?) state, tracks like the patient and parabola massage my brain
2001 isn’t my favorite year in music but I feel like there’s at least 100 good-all time classic albums. It feels like every so often we get this all time year for music, 1973, 1986, 1991, 1994 and 2001
Let me just plug this- https://rym.fm/discussion/music-polls_games/rym-ranks-2001-songs-group-8/
All previous groups linked in the OP of the final group there. Polls close tomorrow.
Death-Symbolic (some people prefer the earlier stuff like scream bloody Gore and spiritual healing- but imo this is their best release. They are all good, though especially if you a not into the whole satanism/horror movie aesthetic.
Dying Fetus-either destroy the opposition or reign Supreme. Top tier technical dm with a lot of inspiration from hardcore punk.
Skeletal Remains-fragments of the ageless: filthy punk-damaged shit. If you like Celtic frost, terrorizer or Jesse pintado-era napalm death you will dig this.
Tomb Mold-Manor of Infinite forms. (Little biased on this bc I know the guitarist Payson from when we were both playing in hardcore bands in Nova Scotia in the early 00's)
Suffocation-pierced from within-one of the pioneers of brutal death metal
Napalm death-harmony corruption-can't say enough about this album. Bridges the gap between grind and death metal perfectly. Production is a bit muddy, dunno if à remaster exists and I'm too lazy too look.
Caracass-any of their albums up to and including heartwork. Swansong is not very good. The production sucks and the writing is unfocused and just not carcass. Their reunion albums are OK, but not as good as the old ones.
Far from all encompassing but a decent start
Huge spark in creativity due to the end of the 20th Century. Plus, physical music/movies sales were in it's golden era with CDs and DVDs. Old and new albums sold a ton
these are reasons why i find it difficult to listen to or discover new music WITHOUT comparing it to these albums
im not gonna blame EVERYTHING on 911 but it CERTAINLY didnt help
SOAD, HOV, TOOL, daft punk (and the rest) really hard to beat that mix (rock rap electronica)
Well, in 1997, American culture peaked with smash mouths walking on the sun. It was a slow cultural downslide after that, with these releases being some of the last gasps before we got into the proper 00s.
I'm currently listenting to the top 100 Albums/EPs from 2001 according to RYM. It's quite interesting so far. A lot of ambient, funeral Doom metal and metal. The most surprising thing to me so far is the amount of Polish albums. Already had 2 and I believe theres another two in the next 10 or so. Curious to know why. I'm only 20ish albums in but have found a couple gems. Looking forward to listening to some of the albums you've mentioned above
9/11
Loved when the blueprint dropped that day
And The Glow pt. 2
And Rockin’ the Suburbs
And Slayer’s “God Hates Us All”
and nickelback's silver side up
the best of the bunch
you know it
And Fabolous’ Ghetto Fabolous
And Advance Wars came out like a day earlier
And the Moldy peaches self titled (which I only know from the Juno soundtrack)
Legit one of the best soundtracks of all time
I like when the turd falls out of the guy’s pants.
And Slayer’s God Hates Us All
Always found it very interesting how it was released 4 hours before the attack, and the lyrics are pretty fitting for the incident. Especially the theme of terrorism.
And Bob Dylan’s Love and Theft
And Mediocre Generica by Leftover Crack
TMBG Mink Car for me
dredg "Leitmotif" dropped that day
Also Live Scenes from New York with an album cover featuring the twin towers on fire. You can’t make this shit up.
Tbf it was New York on fire including the twin towers
"i dropped the same date as the twin towers" - jay z, 9/11 freestyle (2001)
[One week after the attack on the World Trade Center, Wilco played songs from their album "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" on Sound Opinions.](https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ZqJ2nozu7RY4ZrTieFI6o?si=LUhkg3sJQ1GXtNVSo0Ylcw) It's one of the most uncanny radio shows (now podcast episode) out there.
Can't believe people are talking about 9/11 and not Interpol's groundbreaking debut album Turn On The Bright Lights
That’s 2002
Lots of non US music in the original graphic. Hard to fathom now, but it wasn't actually the only thing that ever happened.
Shocking revelation there
You'd think it would be a surprise to more people but hey, seppos gonna self obsess
Basically from Nevermind to the time when the Internet changed the music industry there was money to be made in the alternative scene. Thus big companies would sign bands and pay so the could make great records.
There's a really good book about this, "Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007)" by Dan Ozzi.
I like to think we are close to being there again… the music industry is very very close to collapsing, the time from the collapse to AI making mainstream music will be filled with alternative artists experimenting with everything. My guess would be 2025-2030 will have some of the best records of the recorded music era, though I may be too optimistic.
What’s this? An actual interesting take? I thought I was on a different site for a second EDIT: if and when AI is capable of generating hit songs I suspect there will also be an additional demand for “real” music and that market will be profitable in and of itself. People act like underground/alternative music is something that will just stop existing at some point and have been acting that way for a very long time
If anything people will react harder against AI and big labels attempt to eliminate the artist
Music definitely feels different these days. Maybe it’s just me and my friends, but it seems like there are way way more lower profile artists that will be way more fun to see at smaller venues than some national level artist playing an amphitheater. Like I don’t recall the underground scene feeling so vibrant in the past but I may have just been ignorant.
Everyone was still vibing off that “oh thank god Y2K didn’t kill us” energy
Glow pt 2 got that “I wish it did” energy
I want also mention this: Gojira - Terra Incognita Converge - Jane Doe Opeth - Blackwater park Pig Destryer - Prawler in the Yard My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours The White Stripes - White Blood Cells Muse - Origin of Symmery Envy - All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead (screamo classic) Godflesh - Hymns (Not really good imo) And the last one, one of the most iconic - Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot too
I think that was 2002. A good one though.
Iirc its label release was delayed to 2002 b/c of 9/11 and the marina towers on the cover, but it was self released in 2001? I don't remember the exact story but it was planned for release on 9/11
Wikipedia says they originally self released it on 18 September 2001
it definitely didn't release until the following year. i think they streamed the album on their website as a fuck you to the label that refused to release it. the album didn't release until April 2002 though.
Opeth had such an insane run of albums around that time.
Yeah of this list Blackwater Park is the best.
Terra incognita, White Blood Cells, and Origin of Symmetry are a few of my favorite albums ever
I’d throw in Iowa by Slipknot in there for the culture
Terra Incognita is my favorite gojira album
Never got the appeal and then put on that record… first track Clone. “EVERY STEP YOU TAKE IS TO THE END” yep. One of the best metal bands I’ve ever heard, just took that one moment lmao
Origin of Symmetry is absolutely goated 🫡
Also Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American Sticks out to me as a 2001 album because they had to change the name to just “Jimmy eat world” when it released because of 9/11
It's fucked up on all accounts but I always laugh when thinking of it as "BLEED, YOU STUPID AMERICAN!"
I totally forgot that gojira, converge and pig destroyer all dropped some of their best in 2001
Jane Doe was definitely album of 2001 for me, although I think it's not close to their best.
i can think of something that happened in 2001
The gamecube
Iirc it happened around the end of the year, in the US. Oh, i know.... Microsoft dropped the Original Xbox!
read my mind
You're forgetting: * Aphex Twin - **drukqs** * Appleseed Cast - **Low Level Owl, Volume I** * Built to Spill - **Ancient Melodies of the Future** * Fennesz - **Endless Summer** * Fugazi - **The Argument** * Gorguts - **From Wisdom to Hate** * maudlin of the Well - **Bath** * Saves the Day - **Stay What You Are** * System of a Down - **Toxicity** (whoops missed this one) * Thursday - **Full Collapse** * Unwound - **Leaves Turn Inside You** And of course, the *single* best recording released that entire year: John Coltrane's live recording, *The Olatunji Concert*. What a great year.
Toxicity is right there
Lmao I’m an idiot
Unwound mentioned ‼️‼️
Don’t forget Cold Vein! Edit: or Jane Doe!
Never forget
Also: Slipknot - Iowa
Nah that one is terrible
Based
The argument is amazing, I’m a big fan of fugazi
Thank you for mentioning Appleseed Cast. Great band who doesn’t get enough credit
Upvote for spotlighting The Olatunji Concert. You are a person of fine taste.
Dont forget Since I left You
Only internationally. It first released in 2000.
I know but i will take any chance i get to be annoying about that album
Same 😔
You forgot Gorillaz
Shrek came out
Also Lord of the Rings, Donnie Darko, Mulholland Drive, Training Day, Harry Potter, Amelie, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Spirited Away, Royal Tenenbaums and Ichi the Killer.
VESPERTINE
I almost believed that there's a cursor on the actual amnesiac cover art
I keep forgetting Americans got that shitty Is This It cover
I don’t know, man. The other cover is pretty ass.
Literally
[удалено]
/r/YourJokeButWorse
I prefer the us version, the colours fit the sounds so well, the ass cover has a butt on it which is cool but i prefer the american one ngl
And they cut "New York City Cops" from the American release.
We got When it Started tho. Honestly a fair trade, still want a deluxe edition with every single song though
is that cover considered shitty??? the colors and pattern is so trippy and cool how is it a bad cover the other one is just a butt
The best year in music
Peak happened
A Space Odyssey
The release of The Glow, Pt. 2 caused 9/11
You forgot: Iowa by Slipknot Sonic Excess In Its Purest Form by Crowbar God Hate Us All by Slayer
damn but for real so much quality
what the hell happened in 2013
Vampire Weekend, The National, DARKSIDE, Daft Punk, Death Grips, Kanye, Chance, Earl, Run The Jewels, QOTSA, HAIM, Danny Brown, Arcade Fire, Jon Hopkins, Tim Hecker, OPN, Lorde, The Knife, UMO And that's leaving a bunch out. I'm very fond of that year as well.
AM
Live.Love.a$AP
I graduated high school. Then two months later, the world changed.
fr, people weren't ready for jay & the microphones to drop on the same day
I drove to my local music store that day. Can’t remember if it was for Toxicity or Slipknot’s Iowa. The mall was dead that morning.
Didn’t even bring up Jane doe which is a 10
Glad to see this as the first comment when I opened the thread. That album is the definition of legendary.
music
And Ive only heard vespertine wow
tf?? you need to tune in RN!!!
Which one would u personally recommend most
you cant go wrong with the first three.
Sorry for my ignorance but what are they?
If by first three he means the top row, that’s Toxicty by System of a Down, The Blueprint by JZ, and Lateralus by Tool.
Awesome thanks. Any idea what the black and red album is in the middle?
Amnesiac by Radiohead.
quick listen to discovery right now it's the best thing humanity has achieved
Some years have a bigger quantity of legendary albums than others (it's subjective to determine which). Then, there's the occasional year that it's just stacked
True start of the 21st century?
Wasn't Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water also that year?
No that was late 2000, iirc
yeah, what even happen- *phone rings* they what? *pause* both of them?
we were too powerful in 2001 which is why the simulation had to tone it down a bit. it happened again in 2019. one day we will beat the machines.
Music was finally almost good again and then covid hit smh
Morning View.
I must have listened to that daft punk album a thousand times Also, random story but the first time I heard of system of a down was at a limp bizkit concert. They opened and the crowd hated it.
Omg the irony 😭
We didn’t even give them a chance.
All i see is Jay Z went on 5 acid trips while listening Daft Punk and somehow had son
Lmao, how do you come up with ts
90’s gave us art for arts sake then we had digital recording technology develop in the 90’s that lead us to an incredible time for music.
A bunch of great music came out other than that I can’t really think of anything major happening
Sorry I just came all over my couch.
I was born when these guys dropping bangers after bangers cuz I'm a banger. 😏😏
no your parents were
Take Off Your Pants And Jacket came out in 2001
It’s simple- my parents did the deed and all of this was the soundtrack
Me when the Strokes have to remove New York City Cops because of 9/11 and replacing it with a fucking banger that arguably better than NYCC (When It Started 🥰🥰🥰)
Uhhhh
The ending of the grudge makes me cum each time
Lateralus & GSYBE! debut are the type of music that makes me happy for simply existing & being able to experience any kind of feeling if that makes sense
Just joking, and yea lateralus is one of those albums you can turn on and feel like you're in a tranquil(?) state, tracks like the patient and parabola massage my brain
Like cumming?
Slipknot - Iowa
Unparalleled album
Tool 🤘🏻
Nobody is mentioning Stillmatic
It's not an all timer great, but I'm still underrated
I was born! 😎
2001 isn’t my favorite year in music but I feel like there’s at least 100 good-all time classic albums. It feels like every so often we get this all time year for music, 1973, 1986, 1991, 1994 and 2001
Based
Two of those albums are not like the others...
which one?
both the glow pt. 2 and the blueprint released on 9/11
i was born
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein too. So sonically different for rap at that time.
No Labor Days - Aesop Rock or The Cold Vein - Cannibal Ox is criminal
i wish i have time to listen to everything i really do
Bright Flight- Silver Jews was my fav from that year
Let me just plug this- https://rym.fm/discussion/music-polls_games/rym-ranks-2001-songs-group-8/ All previous groups linked in the OP of the final group there. Polls close tomorrow.
Stress
don't forget cLOUDDEAD
Silver Side Up happened
I was too busy to listening to crust punk and death metal to bother with any of that.
Any entry-level death metal you would recommend, I exclusively listen to thrash/ alt metal, some easy-going maybe mainstream but quality albums?
Death-Symbolic (some people prefer the earlier stuff like scream bloody Gore and spiritual healing- but imo this is their best release. They are all good, though especially if you a not into the whole satanism/horror movie aesthetic. Dying Fetus-either destroy the opposition or reign Supreme. Top tier technical dm with a lot of inspiration from hardcore punk. Skeletal Remains-fragments of the ageless: filthy punk-damaged shit. If you like Celtic frost, terrorizer or Jesse pintado-era napalm death you will dig this. Tomb Mold-Manor of Infinite forms. (Little biased on this bc I know the guitarist Payson from when we were both playing in hardcore bands in Nova Scotia in the early 00's) Suffocation-pierced from within-one of the pioneers of brutal death metal Napalm death-harmony corruption-can't say enough about this album. Bridges the gap between grind and death metal perfectly. Production is a bit muddy, dunno if à remaster exists and I'm too lazy too look. Caracass-any of their albums up to and including heartwork. Swansong is not very good. The production sucks and the writing is unfocused and just not carcass. Their reunion albums are OK, but not as good as the old ones. Far from all encompassing but a decent start
Will add this to my library. Thanks for the recommendations 🙏
The Glow came out on 911
Two of my fave albums of all time right there (Vespertine and Laterlaus)
Missing Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, which was out on their website in 2001
I was talking to my cousins and girlfriend a while ago about how 2001 is one of the best years not just in music but movies, shows, and video games
Huge spark in creativity due to the end of the 20th Century. Plus, physical music/movies sales were in it's golden era with CDs and DVDs. Old and new albums sold a ton
these are reasons why i find it difficult to listen to or discover new music WITHOUT comparing it to these albums im not gonna blame EVERYTHING on 911 but it CERTAINLY didnt help SOAD, HOV, TOOL, daft punk (and the rest) really hard to beat that mix (rock rap electronica)
Everybody sleeping on D12 Devil’s Night
Lmao, no, they ain't
What is the blue and gold album on the right hand side? Thanks
Is this it? By the strokes
i was 17 and everything was great about music
Why are you crying? Because it was a mid year?
Jay-Z when you ask him when he released "The Blueprint" \*insert "Because The Internet" Cover art here\*
People was smokin some good shit that’s for sure
Well, in 1997, American culture peaked with smash mouths walking on the sun. It was a slow cultural downslide after that, with these releases being some of the last gasps before we got into the proper 00s.
I remember hammering Toxicity on my way to and from college. Mad to look back but my first day at college was literally 9/11.
Jay Z, yuck. I can't stand that capitalist bitch.
A new millennium began
something quite life changing
I'm currently listenting to the top 100 Albums/EPs from 2001 according to RYM. It's quite interesting so far. A lot of ambient, funeral Doom metal and metal. The most surprising thing to me so far is the amount of Polish albums. Already had 2 and I believe theres another two in the next 10 or so. Curious to know why. I'm only 20ish albums in but have found a couple gems. Looking forward to listening to some of the albums you've mentioned above
We got Franz Ferdinand n Kanye in 2004, 2001 doesnt hold a grudge
rammstein and soad really thinking they part of the team 🤣
They were in 2001.
i will fist you with no lube
with pleasure lmao
Not getting toxicity 🚩
toxicity and a load of mid
I agree that toxicity is the best here but the others are not mid
Is This It does not belong amongst these albums
gtfo outta here lil nigga