Favorite Songs of 2001

The year 2001 saw me listening to the radio on mainstream rock station 103.7-WRUF “Rock-104” and mainstream “Top Forty” station 103.5 “Kiss-105”. As you can see by the following list from that year, my favorite songs run a broad range in terms of genre:

Don't Tell Me (Madonna)
Imitation Of Life (REM)
One Step Closer (Linkin Park)
Beautiful Day (U2)
Jaded (Aerosmith)
Voices (Disturbed)
Breathless (The Corrs)
Drive (Incubus)
My Way (Limp Biskit)
Schism (Tool)
Play (Jennifer Lopez)
I Did It (Dave Matthews Band)
Your Disease (Saliva)
Make Me Bad (Korn)
Bodies (Drowning Pool)
What A Day (Nonpoint)
History Maker (Delirious?)
This Life (unknown)
Duck And Run (Three Doors Down)
Hashpipe (Weezer)
The Space Between (Dave Matthews Band)
Dig In (Lenny Kravitz)
Chop Suey (System Of A Down)
Only Time (Enya)
How Do You Do It (Incubus)
Wish You Were Here (Incubus)
Nice To Know You (Incubus)
Whenever, Wherever (Shakira)
Hero (Enrique Iglesias)
Elevation (U2)

My favorite song of the year (back then) was Enya’s soothing Only Time (with two different versions, both played a lot on the radio). REM released their great (to me) album Reveal in 2001, although I didn’t purchase the CD until the following year. The track Imitation of Life received some moderate airplay, and I moderately liked it (then), hardly suspecting that it would grow into one of my all-time favorites (at #13). Korn came up with a great, relentless song in Make Me Bad. My other favorite hard-rockers were Schism by Tool, Hashpipe by Weezer, and Chop Suey by System of a Down. U2 continued with its excellence by releasing Beautiful Day and Elevation, two vastly different (but both compelling) pieces (with cool accompanying videos). And the obvious choice of tearjerker of the year award went to Enrique Iglesias and his Hero which, although originally completely unassociated with the events of 9/11, came to be identified with the tragedy and the fallen (as well as surviving) heroes at Ground Zero.