# Best Pazz & Jop Crtics Poll Album 2001 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 5, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-crtics-poll-album-2001/709048 "2015-01-05T17:32:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-crtics-poll-album-2001/709048/1 "2015-01-05T17:32:17Z")
Not an especially strong year - going by what I listen to the most, I’m going to pick The Coup, with The Avalanches a close second. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-crtics-poll-album-2001/709048/2 "2015-01-05T17:53:49Z")
Yes, kind of a bland year. I went with Radiohead. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-crtics-poll-album-2001/709048/3 "2015-01-05T19:48:26Z")
The Strokes here. That album was a joyous mix of pop and post-punk guitar music that just rocked. It felt refreshing at the time, bringing the fun and stomp back to indie rock. Was it treading new ground? Not really. But at the time, I was happy to hear that sound again. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-crtics-poll-album-2001/709048/4 "2015-01-06T01:43:33Z")
White Stripes. I like most of their albums really and this one is solid enough in an otherwise unexceptional year. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-crtics-poll-album-2001/709048/5 "2015-01-06T02:31:33Z")
I love Gillian Welch’s sad, lovely pseudo-Appalachian tunes, so voted for her. The Radiohead album’s good, too. I liked Manu Chao when I first heard him (he was popular among some of the kids in the Mexican village where I was living), but soon realized he was singing nonsense in ten different languages. ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-crtics-poll-album-2001/709048/6 "2015-01-06T05:21:31Z")
Voted for White Stripes. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-crtics-poll-album-2001/709048/7 "2015-01-06T06:55:58Z")
Bjork for me. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2015, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-crtics-poll-album-2001/709048/8 "2015-01-07T05:31:43Z")
I liked the White Stripes’ and Strokes’ records from that year a lot, but _Time (The Revelator)_ is one of my favorite records, ever. Probably the first acoustic, quiet record I’d liked start to finish in a decade or more, and the songs themselves helped me get through the intervening years. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2015, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-crtics-poll-album-2001/709048/9 "2015-01-07T12:53:24Z")
I still listen to Ryan Adams _Gold_ on a weekly basis, so it gets my vote.