KUSF's Favorite Records of 2001

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Top 90.3 of 2001

  1. V/A "Nuggets 2: Box Set" (Rhino)
  2. Fantomas "The Directors Cut" (Ipecac)
  3. The Dirtbombs "Ultraglide in Black" (In The Red)
  4. King Brothers "King Brothers" (In The Red)
  5. Zen Guerrilla "Shadows on the Sun" (Sub Pop)
  6. Radio Birdman "The Essential: 1974-1978" (Sub Pop)
  7. V/A "Turntables By the Bay" (Hip Hop Slam)
  8. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes "Blow in the Wind" (Fat Wreck Chords)
  9. Dead Moon "Trash & Burn" (Empty Records)
  10. Resineators "Don't ___ With the Fantasy" (Siltbreeze)
  11. The Deadly Snakes "I'm Not Your Soldier Anymore" (In The Red)
  12. The Screws "Shake Your Monkey" (In the Red)
  13. Bottles and Skulls "Never Kiss the Wasp" (El Distorto)
  14. Deltron 3030 "The Instrumentals" (75 Ark)
  15. Hotbox "Lickety Split" (Telegraph Co.)
  16. Rovo "Imago" (Incidental)
  17. Iggy Pop "Beat Em Up" (Virgin)
  18. Ex-Girl "Back to the Mono Kero" (Ipecac)
  19. The Ex "Dizzy Spells" (Touch and Go)
  20. Bjork "Vespertine" (Elektra)
  21. The Bran Flakes "I Don't Have a Friend" (Lomo)
  22. Pagans "Shit Street" (Crypt)
  23. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds "No More Shall We Part" (Reprise)
  24. Calexico "Even My Sure Things Fall Through" (Quarterstick)
  25. East Bay Chasers "East Bay Chasers" (Industrial Strength Records)
  26. Del-Gators "Pound Down" (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
  27. Gorillaz "Gorillaz" (Virgin)
  28. De Facto "Megaton Shotblast" (Gold Standard Laboratories)
  29. Stereolab "Sound-dust" (Elektra)
  30. Prefuse 73 "Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives" (Warp)
  31. Junior Brown "Mixed Bag" (Curb)
  32. The Rondelles "Shined Nickels and Loose Change" (Kpunk)
  33. Lost Sounds "1+1 = Nothing" (Empty U.S.)
  34. V/A "Bombay 2: electric Vindaloo" (Motel)
  35. Nebula "Charged" (Sub Pop)
  36. Idiots "Evel Knievel" (Beer City)
  37. Enemies/Pitch Black "split" (Lookout!)
  38. M.I.A. "Lost Boys" (Alternative Tentacles)
  39. Applicators "What's Your Excuse?" (Cornerstone)
  40. Mogwai "Rock Action" (Matador)
  41. Zodiac Killers "Have a Blast" (Rip Off Records)
  42. Chicago Underground Quartet "Chicago Underground Quartet" (Thrill Jockey)
  43. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club "b.m.r.c." (Virgin)
  44. Squarepusher "My Red Hot Car" (Warp)
  45. V/A "O Brother Where Art Tho? Soundtrack" (Mercury)
  46. Tortoise "Standards" (Thrill Jockey)
  47. Rocket from the Crypt "Group Sounds" (Vagrant)
  48. Frank Black and The Catholics "Dog in the Sand" (WAR?)
  49. Dump "That Skinny Motherfucker with the High Voice?" (Shrimper)
  50. Le Tigre "From the desk of Mr. Lady" (Mr. Lady)
  51. Guided By Voices "Isolation Drills" (TVT)
  52. Built to Spill "Ancient Melodies of the Future" (Warner Bros.)
  53. Real Kids "Senseless" (Norton)
  54. R.L. Burnside "well... well... well" (m.c.)
  55. The Phantom Limbs "Applied Ignorance" (Alternative Tentacles)
  56. The Fartz "What's in a Name...?" (Alternative Tentacles)
  57. The Dickies "All This and Puppet Stew" (Fat Wreck Chords)
  58. Orgones "Dodge Pond" (Orgonized)
  59. V/A "Hangin' from the Devil's Tree" (Your Flesh)
  60. Butthole Surfers "Weird Revolution" (Hollywood)
  61. Beulah "The Coast is Never Clear" (Velocette)
  62. V/A "Yee-Haw!- Yhe Other Side of Country" (QDK Media)
  63. Willie Nelson "Rainbow Connection" (Island)
  64. The Gossip (That's Not What I Heard" (Kill Rock Stars)
  65. Lambchop "Tools in the Dryer" (Merge)
  66. V/A "Fistful of Rockand Roll Vol. 5" (Tee Pee)
  67. Antibalas' Afrobeat Orchestra "Liberation Afrobeat Vol. 1" (Ninja Tune)
  68. The Meters "Kickback" (Sundazed)
  69. The Blow Up "True Noise" (Empty U.S.)
  70. Registrators "Singles" (Rip Off Records)
  71. Hammers of Misfortune "The Bastard" (Tumult)
  72. TSOL "Disappear" (Nitro)
  73. The Clean "Getaway" (Merge)
  74. Drums and Tuba "Vinyl Killer" (Righteous Babe)
  75. Gaji "Ten to Ten Past Ten" (lee v clef)
  76. Fabulous Disaster "Put Out or Get Out" (Pink and Black)
  77. The Real Mckenzies "Loch'd & Loaded" (Honest Dons)
  78. Arab Strap "Elephant Shoe" (Jet Set)
  79. The Hives "Veni Vidi Vicious" (Burning Heart Records)
  80. Knoxville Girls "In a Paper Suit" (In The Red)
  81. Kinski "Be Gentle with the Warm Turtle" (Pacifico)
  82. Jack Dangers "Hello Friends" (Shadow)
  83. Greenhornes " Greenhornes" (Telstar)
  84. V/A "Free the West Memphis 3" (Koch)
  85. Erase Errata "Other Animals" (Troubleman Unlimited)
  86. Electric Prunes "Lost Dreams" (Birdman)
  87. The Cuts "The Cuts" (S/R)
  88. Tino "Tino's Breaks 5, Dub" (Tino Corp)
  89. Tipsy "Uh-oh!" (Asphodel)
  90. Ramones "Ramones" (Warner Archives/ Rhino)
  • Soft Boys "Underwater Moonlight" (Matador)
  • Autechre "Confield" (Warp)
  • Mouse on Mars "Idiology" (Thrill Jockey)
  • Fear "American Beer" (Hall of Records)
  • Detroit Grand Pubahs "Funk all Y'all" (Zomba)
  • Marumari "Supermogadon" (Carpark)