The Best Rock Albums of 2001

Today's post in 50 Years of Music, a section of my blog devoted to the best rock albums of the past fifty years, will include the best albums of 2001. I have covered 35 years of music in other posts (1965-2000), which can be found by typing the year into the search bar at the top of my blog. Each post in 50 Years of Music is updated frequently, with new albums recommended by readers added to the posts. What's your favorite?

• R.E.M.- Reveal
• P.O.D.- Satellite
• Avenged Sevenfold- Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
• Weezer- Weezer 
• Buckcherry- Time Bomb
• The Strokes- Is This It
• Paul McCartney- Driving Rain
• System Of A Down- Toxicity
• The Go-Go's- God Bless the Go-Go's 
• Jimmy Eat World- Bleed American
• Gorillaz- Gorillaz
• Radiohead- Amnesiac
• John Mayer- Room for Squares
• Buddy Guy- Sweet Tea
• Kid Rock- Cocky
• Nickelback- Silver Side Up

Bob Dylan- "Love and Theft" (2001)

"Love and Theft" is the thirty-first studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan released on September 11, 2001. The album has been certified Gold in the United States and reached #5 on the U.S. Billboard 200 Chart.

The album included no singles upon its release, but contains popular tracks including: "Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum," "Mississippi," "Bye and Bye," "Sugar Baby," and "High Water (For Charley Patton)." Also, the deluxe edition of the album includes a previously unreleased track recorded in 1961, titled "I Was Young When I Left Home," as well as an alternate version of the 1963 song "The Times They Are a-Changin'."

Notable of "Love and Theft" is that it was produced entirely by Bob Dylan, under the pseudonym Jack Frost, and all twelve songs on the album were written and composed by Dylan himself. The album itself was almost lengthy enough for a double album-- with a total running time of 57-58 minutes (excluding the two songs found in the deluxe edition) and some songs 5-6 minutes in length or more. "Love and Theft" also happened to coincidentally be released on 9/11 (9/11/2001), which is an important and tragic historical event in American history.

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