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Top Ten Records 2000/2001
Some offer explanations, some don't have to. Some offer ten, some can't count. Here's Crud's staff top ten records of 2000/2001.

29/12/01

CRUD TOP TEN RECORDS

TOP TEN ALBUMS OF 2000/2001:

Editors Choice:
1. Lovage - Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By - Dan The Automator (75 Ark)
2. Spiritualized -Let It Come Down (Spaceman Records)
3. Moldy Peaches - s/t (Rough Trade)
4. The Avalanches - Since I Left You (XL Recordings)
5. Beulah - The Coast Is Never Clear (Velocette/Shifty Disco)
6. Santa Sprees - Keep Still (Dreamy)
7. Gorillaz - Gorillaz (Virgin)
8. Barry Sevens - Connectors (Lo Recordings)
9. Elf Power - Winter Is Coming (Shifty Disco)
10.Sparklehorse - It's A Wonderful Life (Parlophone)

Bubbling under:
XPLODING PLASTIX: AMATEUR GIRLFRIENDS GO PROSKIRT AGENTS (BEATSERVICE)
THINGS IN HERDS - I CAN DANCING AND WALKING (Self-Released)
BETA BAND - HOT SHOTS II (Regal)

James Berry (London - United Kingdom)

1. Elbow - Asleep In The Back (V2)
2. PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (Island)
3. Radiohead - Amnesiac (Parlophone)
4. Spiritualized - Let It Come Down (Spaceman)
5. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (Virgin/EMD)
6. REM - Reveal (Warner Brothers)
7. Beta Band - Hot Shots II (Regal)
8. Charlatans - Wonderland (MCA/Universal)
9. Eels - Souljacker (Dreamworks)
10. Mogwai - Rock Action (Southpaw)

Allan Kemler (Philadelphia - USA)

1. Badfinger - Greatest Hits (EMD/Capitol)
2. Radiohead - Kid A (Parlophone)
3. Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs, Vol. III (Merge/Circus)
4. Richard Hawley - Late Night Final (Setanta)
5. Mercury Rev - All is Dream (V2)
6. Badly Drawn Boy - Hour of Bewilderbeast (XL Recordings/Twisted Nerve)
7. Weezer - s/t (Uni/Geffen)
8. Grandaddy - Sophtware Slump (V2)
9. Photon Band - All Young In The Soul (Darla)
10.Gorillaz (Virgin)

Allyson Beth (San Francisco - USA)

1. Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album (Barsuk Records) - Sometimes, I just run out of things to say. Now is one of those times. I just love these guys. They're just so great.
2. The Juliana Theory - Music from Another Room (Tooth and Nail) - What can I really say? It's the Juliana Theory. It's a short E.P but it's still the perfect progression from Emotion is Dead...and is it me, or do I hear some Zao in the mix?
3. Jude - King of Yesterday (Maverick) - Okay, admittedly, it's not his best album. But it's Jude and even a regression is still great work.
4. Rufus Wainwright - Poses (Dreamworks) - My oh my - sometimes, I'm just amazed. Yeah, this is one of those times. As if he couldn't get better, this is one of the biggest maturations I've seen from one album to the next, coming from his self-titled debut.
5. Devon - Long Sleeve Story - This is a new 18 year old out of New York. The album was produced by Stefan Lessard (yeah, the same Stefan Lessard as the one in Dave Matthews Band). I really think that's all that needs to be said here.
6. David Garza - Overdub (Atlantic) - It took me some time to get used to this album, but now I can't help but listen to it and really appreciate the amazing diversity of this guy.
7. Ani DiFranco Revelling/Reckoning (Righteous Babe Records) - Yeah, Ani DiFranco, yeah...she rocks...she's progressed back away from her whining to awesome lyrics of politics, self-reflection, anger, feminism, and yes, even love of all things.
8. Dashboard Confessional The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most (Vagrant) - Somehow, every song on here fits perfectly, even though a few are repeats from their 2000 release. Who cares? This is the one album I don't think I could go through life without.
9. Pete Yorn - Musicforthemorningafter (Columbia) - So, yeah, maybe he's a little generic in the indie-rock sense. But have you heard this CD? I don't care if it is a little generic, it's great and his lyrics are unconventionally poetic.
10. Bright Eyes - Oh. Holy Fools (Saddle Creek) - I know, I know. It's a split E.P. It's not all Bright Eyes. I don't care! I think I could listen to his lyrics over and over and over and over and still, once more over. He needs more of his own releases.

Jason Thornberry (California - USA)

1. Swollen Members - Bad Dreams (Battle Axe)
2. Scapegoat Wax - Okeeblow (Grand Royal)
3. Buck 65 - Man Overboard (Anticon)
4. Will Haven - Carpe Diem (Revelation)
5. N.E.R.D. - In Search of… (Virgin)
6. DJ Spinna - Strange Games & Things (BBE)
7. Cloudhead - s/t (Mush)
8. Converge - Jane Doe (Equal Vision)
9. Various Artists - Funk Rock (BBE)
10. DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist - Product Placement
(no label--ltd to 6000 copies)


Priya Elangasinghe (London - United Kingdom)

1. Rufus Wainwright - Poses (Dreamworks) - A singer songwriter in the Buckley style. We say: better than mummy and daddy combined.
2. White Stripes - White Blood Cells (XL Recordings) - Brilliant live shows, strange tabloid media blitz, but it was all worth it as this album proved.
3. Daft Punk - Discovery (Virgin) - Comeback kings. Made us re-think the 80's, which takes a lot of doing.
4. The Strokes - Is This It? (Rough Trade) It's all been said, but it was worth it.
5. Blake Babies - God Bless The Blake Babies (Blue Rose) - Not quite as great as we expected - perhaps a tad too mellow, but a class re-teaming of Hatfield/Dando.
6. Basement Jaxx - Rooty (XL Recordings) - Prince is back! Except he wasn't. Brixton's finest in a purple stylee.
7. Whiskytown - Pneumonia (Uni/Lost Highway) - NOT the Ryan Adams that you were expecting, but this was the Ryan Adams album that proved successful for the long haul.
8. Alicia Keys - Songs In A Minor (J) - Last year it was a three way tie between Kelis, Jill Scott and Macy Gray, but this years stunning nu-soul diva debut was by this precocious 20 year old. And she covered a Prince song. So much love.
9. Hope Sandoval - At The Doorway Again (EP - Rough Trade) - Ethereal, evocative and that voice! Need we say more?




 
 

 

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