All of the "best of" and other such end-of-the-year lists for 2001 are starting to ooze out of various content-generating entities, both online and off. I'm a total sucker for such lists, can't get enough of them. Even bad lists stimulate good conversation ("those choices sucked; these would have been much better: ...").
Here are some lists I've located so far: The Year in Ideas (NY Times); 2001 Person of the Year (Time); four Top 10 Movies lists from the NY Times: 01, 02, 03, 04; Coolest Space Science Images of 2001 (space.com); Science News of the Year (Science News); Best of the Web 2001 (PC World); 2001: The Year in Recordings (Rolling Stone); The Year in Sports (CNNSI.com); Most Censored Press Releases of 2001 (McSweeney's); 2001 Inventions of the Year (Time); and Books of the Year (The Economist).
Have you run across any good best-of/end-of-the-year lists?
RIAA and Billboard disagree on the 2001 best-seller list.
December 24 Wired News.
Under "Elsewhere Today", there are links to several "best of" lists from: Nanocircuits Top 2001's Breakthroughs,
Coolest Space Science Images of 2001,
Weird Science in 2001,
The World Technology Awards 2001
Time.com also has several "best of", lists by theme.
Forget Rolling Stone -- the real best recordings of the year are at Pitchfork.
That's an excellent list at Pitchfork...here's the permanent URL for it.
2001 Google Zeitgeist, compiled list of search patterns and trends.
Well, this might count: Discover Magazine's Year in Science. CHUD lists some of the other critics' awards.
New York magazine has a Year in Review that is worth a read. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for the Critics Top 10 (books, movies, etc.). The Top 10 Pop CDs (Bjork not N'Sync) introduced me to stuff I had missed this year.
Amazon's top CDs, one list by their editors and one list by customers. The customer list is about what you'd expect, but I the editors' list is fairly diverse. There are DVD and book lists too.
Time Magazine's Year in Pictures 2001
pitchfork sucks, yo. there are tons of smarter lists out there.
· Rock's Back Pages Best of 2001
· Exclaim's 2001 Year in Review
· NME's Top 50 Albums of 2001
· CMJ's Top 30 Albums
· Metacritic's Best of 2001 Page
· LA Times Year in Review
· Other Music Top Tens
· Neumu's Best (nor sure if there's a permanent URL for these)
· The Onion AV Club's Best Albums and Least Essential Albums
· I Love Music's BEST of the BEST of 2001
Many of these were found via Jumping Fences' list compendium.
Yahoo's picks of the year.
Coolest Space Science Images of 2001 from space.com
This is going to look completely arogant and self-serving, but I can't help myself. I have a huge list on this topic: Year in Review has around 200 links.
Nice work, Rex. I thought someone might have such a list...half the motivation for this thread was to ferret it out if it existed. Feel free to steal any of the links from this thread for your list, if there are even any here that you don't have.
Video games of the year. Who else did ya think would give ya this link. ;)
Wopps. I missed the Link link so here's the link again...
In the tradition of tooting one's own horn:
Bill's Best of '01
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