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Yeah, we know 2001 is two months gone already, but we've used this time to 
reflect on and refine our choices for the top 116 releases of last year -- 
away from the flurry of everyone else's year-end verdicts. This list
was compiled from the 332 releases mentioned on the top 10 lists of 61 WXYC 
DJs.

Why 116? All the "99s" you see at the end were titles that at least one DJ 
put as their #1 pick of 2001.  If they liked it enough to choose it as #1, 
then something about it must have really rocked their world, so we
included all of them. Here goes...

The Top 20
1.    The Shins-Oh, Inverted World (Sub Pop)
2.    Cannibal Ox-Cold Vein (Def Jux)
3.    Prefuse 73-Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives (Warp)
4.    Various Artists - Nuggets II (the (The British Invasion) (WEA/Rhino)
5.    Aesop Rock-Labor Days (Def Jux)
6.    Azure Ray- self titled (Warm)
6.    Roots Manuva - run come save me (big dada)
8.    Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information (Luaka Bop) (reissue)
9.    Fennesz - endless summer (mego)
10.   Mouse on Mars - idiology (thrill jockey)
11.   Fugazi-The Argument (Dischord)
11.   Kingsbury Manx- let you down (Overcoat)
13.   Unwound-leaves turn inside you (Kill Rock Stars)
14.   Blo - phases 1972-1982 (Afro Strut)                           
15.   Bjork- Vespertine (Elektra)
16.   Erase Errata- Other Animals (Troubleman)
16.   Mogwai - Rock Action (Matador)
18.   P.G. Six- Parlor Tricks and Porch Tricks (Amish)
18.   V/A - Darker than Blue: soul from jam down 1973-1980 (blood and fire)
20.   Avey Tare, Panda Bear & Geologist - Danse Manatee (CATSUP PLATE)

The rest...
21.  White Stripes - "White Blood Cells" (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
22.  Bonnie Prince Billy - Ease On Down the Road (Palace)
23.  Gillian Welch & David Rawlings- time (the revelator) (Acony)
24.  Aphex Twin - "Drukqs" (Warp)
25.  Lightning Bolt - ride the skies (bulb)
26.  Autechre - Confield (Warp)
26.  Sigur Ros "Agaetis Byrjun" (released in the US in 2001) (PIAS) =20
28.  Circulatory System: S/T[cloud]
28.  Superchunk-Here's to shutting up (Merge)
30.  Destroyer - streethawk: a seduction (Misra)
30.  Poets of Rhythm - Discern/Define (QUANNUM PROJECTS)=20
32.  Radiohead - Amnesiac (Capitol)
32.  Stereolab - Sound Dust (Elektra)
34.  DJ Z-Trip & DJ P - Uneasy Listening, Vol. 1 (self-released)
34.  Hope Sandoval-bavarian fruit bread (sanctuary)
36.  Quasi- Sword of God (Touch & Go)
37.  Richie Hawtin - DE9: Closer to the Edit (Nove Mute)
37.  Langley Schools Music Project (Bar/None)
39.  Brotherhood of Breath-Traveling Somewhere (reissue)(Cuneiform)
39.  Old Time Relijun - Witchcraft Rebellion (K)
39.  Vert - nine types of ambiguity (Sonig)
42.  Ex-Girl - Back to the Mono Kero! (IPECAC)
42.  V/A - "Slurped!"
44.  Money mark-Change is Coming (Emporer Norton)
44.  V/A - Samba Soul 70! (ZIRIGUIBOOM)
46.  Hi-tek - hi teknology (Priority)
47.  Dymaxion - x 4 + 3 =3D 38:33 (ROOM TONE)
47.  Mark Eitzel: the invisible man [matador]
47.  Susuma Yakota- Grining Cat (Leaf)
50.  Cherry Valence - S/T (Estrus CD)
51.  Arab on Radar - Yahweh or the Highway (SKIN GRAFT)
51.  George Harrison - All Things Must Pass (reissue) (Capitol)
51.  Neu! 75 (reissue) (Astralwerks)
51.  Sorry About Dresden - Convenience of Indecision (Saddle Creek)
51.  The Strokes - is this it? (BMG)
51.  The Word -  Word Featuring John Medeski, Robert Randolph (Atlantic)
57.  Bonnie Billy - More Revery (Temporary Residence)
57.  Bob Dylan - "Love and Theft" (Columbia)
57.  Eugene McDaniels- Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse (Label M)
57.  MUM - yesterday was dramatic, today was ok (Thule/TMT)
57.  Shannon Wright--Dyed in the Wool (Quarterstick)
57.  Tortoise: Standards (Thrill jockey)
63.  Amps for Christ - The Oak in the Ashes (Shrimper)
63.  Big Ass Truck- the rug (Terminus)
63.  Edith Frost - Wonder Wonder (DRAG CITY)
64.  Lapsus Linguae - s/t EP (British Lung CD)
63.  Go! Team - 'Get It Together'  7"
63.  The Mercury Program - all the suits began to fall off (Tiger Style)
63.  Jim O Rourke: Insignificance (Drag City)
63.  Squarepusher- Go Plastic (Warp)
63.  V/a-  Hava Narghile: Middle Eastern Raga Rock Ala Turqui, 1966-1975 
(Turkish Rock Music)      (Bacchus)
72.  Depeche Mode-  "Exciter" (Mute)
72.  Manitoba - Start Breaking my Heart (Leaf)
72.  Soft Pink Truth 12" (soundslike)
72.  Steffan Basho-Junghans  - Inside (STRANGE ATTRACTORS)
72.  Vandermark 5- Acoustic Machine (Atavistic)
72.  V/a- Flashbacks Vol. 2 - Novelty Songs (Trikont)
78.  Jemeel Moondoc-Revolt of the Negro Lawn Jockeys (Eremite)
78.  Lucinda Williams -Essence (Lost Highway)
80.  Death Cab for Cutie - Photo Album (Barsuk)=20
80.  Kleenex/LiLiPut - complete recordings (Kill Rock Stars)
80.  Low- things we lost in the fire (Kranky)
80.  Okros Ensemble - I Left My Sweet Homeland (Rounder)
80.  The Vienna Art Orchestra- The Minimalism of Erik Satie (HatArt)
85.  Ghostface Killa- 'Bulletproof Wallets' (Sony)
85.  Le Tigre--Feminist Sweepstakes (Mr. Lady)
85.  Pan Sonic - Aaltopiiri (Mute)
85.  Papa M - Whatever, Mortal! (Drag City)
85.  Taraf de Haidouks- Band of Gypsies (Atlantic)
85.  Tipsy - Uh- Oh! (Asphodel)
91.  Daft Punk- "Alive 1997" (Virgin)
91.  Femi Kuti- Fight to Win (MCA)
91.  Rufus Wainwright: poses [dreamworks]
94.  Nobukazu Takemura - hoshi no koe (Thrill Jockey)
94.  Avalanches - Since I Left You (Modular)
94.  Faust- BBC Sessions+ (Recommended?)
94.  Margo Guryan - Take a Picture (FRANKLIN CASTLE)
94.  Daisuke Tobari - Till the End of the Dream (POON VILLAGE)
99.  Ballake Sissoko- deli (Indigo)
99.  Dismemberment plan - change (DeSoto)
99.  Einstu=rzende Neubauten-  Strategies Against Architecture III (Mute)
99.  Echo and the Bunnymen- crystal days box set (Rhino)
99.  The Faint-- "Danse Macabre" (Saddle Creek)
99.  The Five Blind Boys of Alabama- "The Spirit of the Century" (Real World)
99.  Buddy Guy- Sweet Tea (Jive)
99.  Jan Jelinek: loop-finding-jazz-records (EFA)
99.  Labradford: Fixed Content (Kranky)
99.  Martin Carthy- The Carthy Chronicles (Free Reed)
99.  North Mississippi All Stars-  '51 Phantom' (Uni/Tone)
99.  Sparklehorse- "It's a Wonderful Life" (EMI)
99.  V/a- - Russian Gypsy Soul (Network)
99.  V/a- There is no Eye: Music for Photographs (Smithsonian Folkways)
99.  Weezer - the green album (Geffen)
99.  Wipers- Wipers Boxset (Zeno)
99.  Wolf Eyes-  S/T (Bulb)
99.  Richard Youngs- "Making Paper" (Jag Jaguwar)


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