Best of 2001: Music.

Bob Nickas

1. Rodney Graham, Getting It Together in the Country Is this the sound track to the new reality? Recorded two summers ago but lately on my turntable just about all the time, "Nature Has No Purpose," "Champagne for Everyone," "This Is the Only Living I've Got (Don't Take It Away from Me)," and a beautifully resigned cover of Dave Mason's "Feelin' Alright" got me through the dusty days.

2. LILiPUT A reissue of everything from '78-'83; an eccentric, electric rush. Never underestimate four bored Swiss girls.

3. The Fall, The ...

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