Decade Null: 2001 - The Charlatans

Perhaps more fairly being targeted for slowing down creatively by 2001, there was still much to be loved on The Charlatans' Wonderland. YouTube doesn't have a decent A Man Needs To Be Told, so let's make do with Love Is The Key, shall we?



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Decade Null: 2001 - Red House Painters

Moving into the second year of the decade, and the last album from The Red House Painters, Old Ramon. Some of the tracks from the album had been hanging about for a while, mind - this is Cruiser, performed live in Hultsfred (whatever happened to the Hultsfred Festival? It used to over-excite the British music press and Radio 1 every year, but you hardly hear it mentioned now. Did they axe it?) in 1997:



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Decade Null: 2001 - Explosions In The Sky

Rounding off the second day of some of the tracks that might not be turning up elsewhere in decade-retrospectives, Explosions In The Sky perform With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept, from Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever:



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Decade Null: 2001 - Hikaru Utada

A slice of J-Pop now, from Hikaru Utada's Distance. This is Addicted To You, performed live at Bohemian Summer 2000.



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Decade Null: 2001 - Pulp

You're not meant to say you liked Pulp's We Love Life, you know. While certain publications are happy to laud each new Oasis release, Pulp's last collection was given a luke-warm, you-can-sit-in-the-kitchen-but-don't-let-the-master-catch-you reception. Perhaps Jarvis was being held to a higher standard than the Gallaghers. But how can you not celebrate a record that contained this, the magisterial Night That Minnie Timperley Died?



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Decade Null: 2001 - Clinic

"Sometimes good, sometimes bad - like Alexi Sayle" reckons a review on Amazon when considering Internal Wrangler by Clinic.

Um... yes. So this is more 'first-series-of-Stuff' than 'Dremel-advert-voiceover', on that basis: The Return Of Evil Bill:



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Decade Null: 2000 - PJ Harvey

Officially hailed as the 124th best album of the last decade, and given some sort of prize on the day the Twin Towers fell, PJ Harvey's Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea still feels like it's under-rated.

Live at The Reading Festival (2001, actually), this is Peej working her way through The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore:



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