This mix has a representative track from each of my Top 20 Albums of 2001.

1. The Strokes “Someday” Is This It (RCA)

2. Fugazi “Life and Limb” The Argument (Dischord)

3. Jay-Z “Izzo (H.O.V.A.)” The Blueprint (Roc-A-Fella)

4. System of A Down “Needles” Toxicity (American/Sony)

5. The White Stripes “Hotel Yorba” White Blood Cells (Sympathy for the Record Industry)

6. The Shins “Know Your Onion!” Oh, Inverted World (Sub Pop)

7. Basement Jaxx “Broken Dreams” Rooty (Astralwerks)

8. Stephen Malkmus “Black Book” Stephen Malkmus (Matador)

9. Aaliyah “Extra Smooth” Aaliyah (Blackground)

10. Death Cab for Cutie “Information Travels Faster” The Photo Album (Barsuk)

11. Guided By Voices “Chasing Heather Crazy” Isolation Drills (TVT)

12. Clinic “The Second Line” Internal Wrangler (Domino)

13. The Living End “Killing the Right” Roll On (Warner Brothers)

14. Quasi “Genetic Science” The Sword of God (Touch and Go)

15. Aesop Rock “Daylight” Labor Days (Definitive Jux)

16. Missy Elliot “Scream a.k.a. Itchin’” Miss E…So Addictive (Elektra)

17. Bob Dylan “Floater (Too Much To Ask)” Love and Theft (Columbia)

18. Superchunk “Act Surprised” Here’s To Shutting Up (Merge)

19. Preston School of Industry “Encyclopedic Knowledge Of” All This Sounds Gas (Matador)

20. Gorillaz “Tomorrow Comes Today” Gorillaz (Virgin)