2001 Was Pretty Good 

"2001 Was Pretty Good" This one just writes itself

cant wait for ''1933 was mid''

maroon 5-ing is a new word that I've just learned today

Let Me Blow Ya Mind is easily one of the most fire track of the 00s

I agree, 2001 was pretty good. I can't think of one bad thing that happened that year 😊

I don't know why you sighted "The Towers" as being why 2001 was so good, that's highly disrespectful Anthony

Wow, I've waited 22 years to form an opinion on these songs.. But now I have! Thanks, Melon!

I can't believe "So Fresh, So Clean" hasn't made it into the Top 10 of that year, but than again I'm often surprised by those billboard charts.

Can we appreciate the way Anthony sings some of these songs out load to remind us what they sound like? It’s a shame he didn’t sing Janet tho

Thankfully Ja Rule was able to overcome his mediocre singing and rapping ability by being a world-class concert promoter.

I already saw the 9/11 jokes coming before I even clicked on the video

him putting Fallin' not only in C tier but underneath a Train song is making me unreasonably angry

Ja Rule’s secret to success was riding the coattails of DMX’s success

Hanging by a Moment is one of those songs that sneaks into my consciousness around random times if the year.

Don’t forget it’s classics week Mr. Anthony Fantano

Independent Women Pt 1 - A Again - D Thank You - S Let Me Blow Ya Mind - S If You're Gone -D I'm Real - C Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me) - C - Melon's assessment of B level writing but E level vibes is SO ACCURATE All for You - C Fallin' - B Hanging By a Moment - C

Watching these as a matchbox 20 stan is tough but understandable

I'm not sure why you didn't bring up the tragic event that happened on September 11th 2001. I know it's the elephant in the room, and nobody wants to talk about it because it was such a horrific event, but that doesn't mean we should forget the date when Nickleback released their first album.

MJ's You rock my world came out that year too!

'All for You' is to this day one of my favorite Janet songs. It was literally on my top 100 played songs for 2022 playlist lmao. Idk what it is about it but I LOVE that song.

2001 was the year the cinematic masterpiece Freddy Got Fingered was released. That's all you need to know.

I would have expected "Love Don't Cost a Thing" to have been more successful than "I'm Real"

For Christmas my mother asked me what music my fiancee liked and I had mentioned she really liked Maroon 5. On Christmas Day my parents informed me they made an error when purchasing a gift for us. My gal and I will be proudly attending a Matchbox 20 concert in July 💀

Fallin in C is criminal

Loved your rendition of hanging by a moment at the start

So happy to see Dido getting that well deserved S Rank.

Alicia Keys' Fallin' is S Tier bruh

Gwen Stefani and EVE was the best rap/rock crossover at that time, hands down. That song pops off everything from the flow, the chorus, the funky instrumental, and the fits they wore in the video were peak 2001 fashion lookin like King of Fighters characters

React to the Rolling Stone 200 best vocalists list!!! Wanna see your takes on that

Not a fan of the band, but I'm pretty blown away that How You Remind Me by Nickelback wasn't on this list given how popular it was

Fantano the type of guy to release a video called "2001 was a good year"

8:05 This was the best summary of Drops of Jupiter I ever heard It's Train, so it automatically gives off corny and weird vibes, but admittedly it IS probably their best big hit

As a Destiny’s Child STAN and as a child from a low income household, I remember dreaming of the day I would live what the ladies were singing about in Independent Woman Part 1. 21 years later, the song is a life anthem for me that I live by daily!!! Forever a timeless classic.

Fantano has rated my birth year "Pretty good", I have been spared from execution

2001 gave us Is This It and Discovery. That year will forever be goated.

I vaguely remember something not good happening that year, tbh

They should've just left Ashanti on I'm Real. Whoops, they did 😂😂😂

Is This It by The Strokes came out this year. That's all we need to know to know it's great.

Fantano low key has vocals. The way he impersonates all these singers are spot on.

Wow haven’t seen you since last year, welcome back!

I was 15 in 2001 and was into mainly death metal and some rap but most of these songs still spark the nostalgia.

am i the only one who remembers drops of jupiter not coming out until like the mid-2000s??

My stupid ass thinking anything from Toxicity was gonna show up here

Don't know why but I need a Caroline Polachek cover of Dido's thank you

Let me blow your mind and Fallin being that low is a bad take. Eve's song still gets everybody hype in rnb/hip hop clubs and Fallin is iconic, instantaneously gets everybody singing along. Both are minimum A.

Discovery, Vespertine, and Amnesiac all came out in 2001. Best year for music ever.

Most of these songs remind me of working in grocery stores when i was a teenager.

I have never seen someone be so wrong about Fallin by Alicia Keys lol

'All For You' deserved A tier at the least

interesting thing about the I'm Real murder remix is that its not even her singing the chorus (I think its Ashanti) and she says the N word on one of the verses lol i thought that would rank much lower.

I think the vocals on I'm Real are actually recorded by Ashanti from what I've heard? She did the demo version, and they liked her vocals more than Jennifer's, so they just kept them.

Eve has so much charisma on Let Me Blow Ya Mind

Man, 2001 was a tragic year, i sure wish a punk rock band named after weed would make an album based on it

Train Drops Of Jupiter was stolen from a guy from Indiana in a band called 'My Morning Jacket'. They settled out of court. It was 'amicably resolved'

_Not melon putting _*_my favourite_*_ Lenny Kravitz song in the D-tier!_ 🥲

5:33 Not me expecting him to say "tran!" when he rated Blow Ya Mind a B 💀

Bracing myself for Nickelback's How You Remind Me in the 2002 video.

I’m guessing Anthony ain’t been to the club for a while because the ‘Let me blow your mind’ guitar lick is remixed into absolutely everything these days, the youngens are most definitely familiar with it.

Opeth - Blackwater Park. Converge - Jane Doe. Will Haven - Carpe Diem. System of a Down - Toxicity. Candiria - 300% Density. Fantomas - Directors Cut. Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard. Radiohead - Amnesiac. Emperor - Prometheus. Devin Townsend - Terria. Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia. Rammstein - Sonne. Slipknot - IOWA. Static X - Machine. Absolutely nothing to do with the Billboard top 10, but 2001 was surely one of the strongest in the modern era for metal

"Can't get you out of my head" was huge in 2001, I'm surprised it wasn't listed

This is another list where there are a lot of songs I don't think I've ever actually even heard of. For comparison, here's the UK Top 10 of 2001. 10. Afroman - Because I Got High 9. Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag 8. Shaggy - Angel ft Rayvon 7. S Club 7 - Don't Stop Movin' 6. Westlife - Uptown Girl 5. DJ Ötzi - Hey Baby (Uhh, Ahh) 4. Atomic Kitten - Whole Again 3. Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head 2. Hear'Say - Pure And Simple 1. Shaggy - It Wasn't Me ft Rikrok Again, some stuff in here is great, out number 1 is probably better cause It Wasn't Me is a classic but then we have so much just, random pop chaff. Probably stand by Wheatus and Kylie too, those songs are super fun. Fun fact: Dido's White Flag album was the best selling album in the UK despite none of her songs making it up here.

The guitar intro of let me blow ya mind still destroys dancefloors

Not getting a fantano video for 4 days is like when your dad is at the store for 4 years

2:44 didn't know Anthony was British

I don't know wtf Rob Thomas ever did to Melon.

All for you is god tier

I wish i had the confidence mellon does to rock the collar over a sweater like this

My buddy once described Train's Drops of Jupiter as "high-school dropout mom rock" and I tend to wholeheartedly agree.

The way it teleported into my hand

Eve was SO fucking hype in the early 2000s. I think it's honestly impossible for anyone born between 1990-1995 or earlier to not know about her music unless they've been living under a rock this whole time.

"drops of jupiter" sounds immaculate

Yooo was just listening to Thank You this morning

oh 2001 reminds me of that tragedy

All for you is a banger

i’m curious about 2002 top 10 because i’ve been wondering what he thinks about 1000 miles by vanessa carlton. i will die on a hill for that song and bop it like no tomorrow

I listened to thank you again for the first time in forever due to this video, and actually was surprised how well written it is. The second verse is even changed to a major key version of the first which changes the melody and the whole mood from the first verse that I had never noticed b4.

Janet, Alicia & Destiny's child should be S Tier IMO.

Dido's Thank You blew up *because* of Stan -- first coming out in 1998 on a movie soundtrack and then being re-released in late 2000 to capitalize on the mainstream attention brought by the Eminem single. So while I guess saying "before this song was [sampled on Stan], it was its own thing" is technically accurate, it does omit the fact that nobody really knew or cared about it before that sample, and that the only reason it appears on this list is because of the sample

I was totally expecting you to drag that Lifehouse song to the pits of hell, but I'm glad you didn't because I fucking love that song. We need that overdramatic shit once in a while, and it's much better if the tune is solid :)

ALL FOR YOU IS GOD TIER POP

Ayy, The year I was born

Izzo not being on here is criminal

10 year old me was obsessed with Hanging by a Moment

Can we please get a video of just fantano vocal impressions? Please! That Train bit had me rolling haha

STANdalone song, you get it?

Dr. Dre can do no wrong when he is in the production seat.

Fantano giving vocals in the intro

Eve and Janet Jackson were both easily A-tier. Alicia at least B tier.

I support the term ‘minivan rock’ for songs like Hanging on a Moment. Honestly Hanging on a Moment might be the best minivan rock song (if you don’t consider Since U Been Goon minivan rock)

all for you is s tier for me 😫

"Dear Slim (Keemstar screeming)."

Man, Drops of Jupiter hit when I was in 8th Grade. I knew it was kinda corny, but man, it got me!

Ahh the year I graduated high school. I'm not in my nostalgia feels at all lol

I agree Anthony. 2001 was great. Especially September 11, when Jay-Z released The Blueprint. Such a great day for New York rap!

I love hanging by a moment.

next year is huge

Train would go in the garbage if it was for me

No mention of Ashanti when it comes to jlo?

he didnt tear lifehouse apart holy shit i literally fell to my knees in a trader joe's seeing it go into the B tier

Yay, the year I was born!