In 2001, Cook won his second Brit Award for Best British Dance Act. Cook released a live album and DVD of the Brighton beach performance, Big Beach Boutique II , in 2003. He contributed production to ” Crazy Beat ” and “Gene by Gene” on the 2003 Blur album Think…
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Their 2001 album Get Ready largely departed from their more electronic style and focused on more guitar-orientated music. According to Sumner, ” Get Ready was guitar-heavy simply because we felt that we’d left that instrument alone for a long time.” Long-time fan Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins played guitar…
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The video for ” Weapon of Choice “, directed by Spike Jonze and featuring Christopher Walken dancing through a hotel, won six awards at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards . Cook earned the Guinness world records for the most MTV Video Awards won by a DJ and the most…
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From 1998 to 2000 Albarn recorded Gorillaz’ self-titled debut album at his newly opened Studio 13 in London as well as at Geejam Studios in Jamaica. The sessions resulted in the first Gorillaz release, the EP Tomorrow Comes Today , released on 27 November 2000. This EP consisted mostly of…
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Reznor followed The Fragile with another remix album, Things Falling Apart , released in November 2000 to poor reviews
Following their musical pursuits in the 1990s, U2 sought to simplify their sound; the Edge said that with Pop , the group had “taken the deconstruction of the rock ‘n’ roll band format to its absolute ‘nth degree”. For their tenth album, All That You Can’t Leave Behind , the…
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During the Fragility 2.0 tour, Reznor suffered a heroin overdose in London in June 2000, forcing a gig which was to be played that night to be cancelled. The incident pushed Reznor into entering rehab, putting Nine Inch Nails on hold while he attempted to become sober.
In 2000, the band began recording their seventh album, Evil Heat , released in 2002. Though the political content was not as strong as the previous album, there was a song originally slated for the album entitled “Bomb the Pentagon”, which was reworked into the song “Rise” after the 11…
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Before the album’s release, the song ” Starfuckers, Inc. ” provoked media speculation about whom Reznor had intended its acerbic lyrics to satirize. Cinesexuality critic Patricia MacCormack interprets the song as a “scathing attack on the alternative music scene,” particularly Reznor’s former friend and protégé Marilyn Manson. The two artists…
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the 2000 Fragility tour