A kung fu fighter in a disco

I appreciate that 2001 wasn't a particularly brilliant year for the world but I remember it quite fondly - ILX in full golden age flow, so much great music, the launch of Sussed/Club FT/Poptimism, the picnic in the sky,personal productivity pretty high, personal life somewhat ruinous but from my happy vantage point now that doesn't seem as bad.

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it was not a great year for me in terms of my life but like you the sheer volume of amazing music also makes me think back on it very fondly.

I actually had to think for a bit about what you meant by "not a brilliant year for the world".

Aaliyah RIP :(

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It appears not to be a year about which there is much to say!

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Alicia Keys and Mary J Blige are getting diddled, and I won't be able to defend them because I have to go and have a tooth pulled out :(

I can't think of much to say which hasn't been said, otherwise!

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Which do you think the critics who voted in this poll are most embarassed about now?

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Unrepresented in the poll, but this was a big component of the tail-end of the year (and bigger in 2002).

At the time this seemed to me much more important than the Strokes.

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When the poll actually came out I remember being delighted because my 30 points for Discovery had lifted it above Stephen Malkmus. Which I don't think I've ever heard, so this is a bit unfair.

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Me and my then best friend had a massive ongoing DESTINY'S CHILD vs THE STROKES: who is more important? argument in 2001, which we even took into (student rag) print.

From the vantage point of 2006 I am feeling VERY SMUG INDEED.

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What with R&B outselling indie in the oh wait.

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I've got this theory that Pavement only worked as a goofy college rock style band, and Malkmus is far too... attractive to succeed at any Cake style shennanigans.

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likewise this was an amazing year for me apart from losing my job and 6 months of trying to deal with that, and obv. world events messing everything up forever.

the pop speaks for itself tho - so much great stuff.

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DC's moment of peak importance had passed by this point, though.

My - laughably innacurate with hindsight, but still seductive if I listen to Is This It? (a good record FWIW) - take was that the Strokes were the apologetic shrug at the end of retro indie, not harbingers of its enormous revival.

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i made my first proper (shonky) one in late 2000 but will always think of 'A Stroke Of Genie-Us' being posted on boomselection swiftly followed by 'Intro Inspection' as the watershed moment.

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i still think 'Room On Fire' is even better!

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The Stephen Malkmus record actually had some really good (ie better than most Pavement) songs on it. But I have no memory whatsoever of what Jenny And The Ess-Dog actually sounded like so couldn't really tick it.

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Does anyone else think "Survivor" is Destiny's Child's finest moment, by the way?

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I concur.

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it's possibly Beyoncé's finest moment! (er until 'Irreplaceable')

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i think DC's peak ran from 'Say My Name' until 'Survivor' (a single i didn't actually like much) so they had a good 18 months-2 years of peak and plateau

luckily i was loving both their singles and The Strokes pretty much equally.

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Room On Fire is the record that made me retrospectively like The Strokes. I mean, clearly The Lex is wrong and they're by far and away the most important band here* even if most of what followed them was appalling. I'm not sure the influence of Destiny's Child is actually that great.

*I would never have predicted my saying this five years ago. In fact I think I would've been disgusted with myself.

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one of my least fave DC singles but hard to say why. too aggressive and 'bitter' perhaps. i didn't like 'Jumpin Jumpin' much by comparison either.

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... check the extent to which poor Craig David's stock has plummeted here.

(Wrong song here really. If Seven Days had been picked I'd have ticked it).

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thing is i'm not sure WHY they're REALLY any more important than Daft Punk here.

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it's lack of Madonna love i'm surprised by. i like 'Don't Tell Me' but obv. there's so much better stuff.

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