The
Better Than Radio
Album of the Year Awards

The Rules:

The album of the year must be an album that I listened to for the first time between January 1, 2001, and December 31, 2001.
It's not necessary for this album to have actually been released in 2001.

And the Better Than Radio 2001 Album of the Year goes to...

BLUE MAN GROUP - AUDIO
- tie -
SIFL & OLLY - SONGS OF SEASON 1

The Reasons Why:

There's no doubt in my minf that Blue Man Group's Audio was quite simply the newest album that I playd the most and got the most enjoyment out of all year long. There's not a bad track on the album, not one. It had the award all sewn up until Sifl & Olly came in at the tail end of December.

The first day I got Songs of Season 1 I just put it on repeat and let it play over and over again all day long... if that's not a sign of a great album I don't know what is. But my first reaction to the idea of Sifl & Olly coming in at the last minute and stealing the award right out of the Blue Man Group's hands (now there's an image) was that it might not be fair. After three years of waiting, hoping and praying for Sifl & Olly CD, I finally got it-- but it was all songs that I heard for the first time on the show in 1998. Plus I taped a bunch of the songs off the show and had been listening to them ever since, so did it really count as "new"?

Joy pointed out to me that disqualifying it under those grounds was also just as unfair, seeing as how a home-made tape wasn't an actual album. Therefore it didn't fit the requirements for the rules, and I certainly never would have considered it, so it never could have been elligible before now.
So there was really no other choice in my mind... they both won.


The Nominees Were...
Artist Album
Adamski Liveandirect
Adamski Adamski's Thing
Blue Man Group Audio
GaoGaiGar Original Soundtrack Vol. 1
The Shamen Boss Drum
Sifl & Olly Songs of Season 1

The Eligible Albums for 2001 Were:

Artist Album
A3 La Peste
Adamski Liveandirect
Adamski Adamski's Thing
Art of Noise The Seduction of Claude Debussey
Battle of the Planets - Hoyt Curtin
& Bob Sakuma
Original Soundtrack
Blue Man Group Audio
Dr. Demento Basement Tapes 9
GaoGaiGar Original Soundtrack Vol. 1
GaoGaiGar Original Soundtrack Vol. 2
GaoGaiGar Final Original Soundtrack Vol. 1
Humming Bird Unsweet
Mari Iijima No Limit
Mari Iijima Right Now
Information Society Strange Haircuts, Cardboard Guitars and Computer Samples: Information Society's Greatest Hits
Jesus Jones Already
Macross M3 Sound File
Planet of the Apes - Tim Burton with remix by Paul Oakenfold Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
The Shamen En-Tact
The Shamen Boss Drum
Sifl & Olly Songs of Season 1
Smash Mouth Fush Yu Mang
Stargate SG-1 - David Arnold, Joel Goldsmith Music from the MGM Original Television Series
Stargate SG-1 - David Arnold, Joel Goldsmith, Richard Band, Kevin Kiner and Dennis McCarthy The Best of Stargate SG-1 Season 1
Super Robot Wars Alpha Original Score I
Super Robot Wars Alpha Original Score II
Super Robot Wars Alpha Original Score III
Super Robot Wars Alpha Original Sound Track & Arrange
Super Robot Wars Alpha Complete Sound Track
Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden Original Sound Track
Transformers - Vince DiCola Lighting Their Darkest Hour: The Complete Music Score for TFTM
Transformers - Vince DiCola The Protoform Sessions
Transformers - Vince DiCola Artisitc Transformations: Themes and Variations


Previous Winners:
Year Artist Album
2004 FRANKtunes Interstellar Raceway
2003 FRANKtunes
- tie -
Ookla the Mok
Monta
- tie -
Oh Okay LA
2002 Smashmouth Smashmouth
2001 Blue Man Group
- tie -
Sifl & Olly
Audio
- tie -
Songs of Season 1
2000 Moby Play
1999 Electric Light Orchestra Time
1998 A3 Exile on Coldharbour Lane


2001: New Albums * 2002: New Albums * 2002: New Rotation Additions * 2004: New Albums

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