Sep 30, 2010

The Best Albums Of 2002

Top 50


  1. Turn on the bright lights - INTERPOL
  2. Songs for the deaf - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
  3. Source tags and codes - AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD
  4. One beat - SLEATER-KINNEY
  5. Yoshimi battles the pink robots - THE FLAMING LIPS
  6. Evil heat - PRIMAL SCREAM
  7. Highly evolved - THE VINES
  8. Original pirate material - THE STREETS
  9. You can't fight what you can't see - GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
  10. Title TK - BREEDERS
  11. They threw us all in a trench and stuck a monument on top - LIARS
  12. Gotham! - RADIO 4
  13. Fantastic damage - EL-P
  14. Murray street - SONIC YOUTH
  15. Suicide invoice - HOT SNAKES
  16. Chat and business - IKARA COLT
  17. Good health - PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES
  18. Plastic fang - THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
  19. Kill the moonlight - SPOON
  20. Walking with thee - CLINIC
  21. All artists are criminals - CHA CHA COHEN
  22. Phrenology - THE ROOTS
  23. The remote part - IDLEWILD
  24. One by one - FOO FIGHTERS
  25. The way I feel today - SIX BY SEVEN
  26. Scorpio rising - DEATH IN VEGAS
  27. To everybody - 90 DAY MEN
  28. Free so free - J MASCIS + THE FOG
  29. Universal truths and cycles - GUIDED BY VOICES
  30. Since we've become translucent - MUDHONEY
  31. Six twenty - THE D4
  32. Lapalco - BRENDAN BENSON
  33. Lifted or The story is in the soil, keep your ear to the ground - BRIGHT EYES
  34. Have you fed the fish? - BADLY DRAWN BOY
  35. Handcream for a generation - CORNERSHOP
  36. Light and magic - LADYTRON
  37. The golden dove - MARY TIMONY
  38. Amore del tropico - THE BLACK HEART PROCESSION
  39. Yankee hotel foxtrot - WILCO
  40. Nextdoorland - THE SOFT BOYS
  41. Riot act - PEARL JAM
  42. At sixes and sevens - JASON LOEWENSTEIN
  43. Horse of the dog - THE EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER
  44. Make up the breakdown - HOT HOT HEAT
  45. Fall of the plastic empire - BURNING BRIDES
  46. American supreme - SUICIDE
  47. Legend of the liquid sword - GZA
  48. The Eminem show - EMINEM
  49. You can feel me - HAR MAR SUPERSTAR
  50. Up the bracket - THE LIBERTINES
Also recommended:

Real feelness - THE PATTERN, Your majesty - THE ANNIVERSARY, Italian platinum - SILKWORM, Wiretap scars - SPARTA, Loud like nature - ADD N TO (X), Intelligence and sacrifice - ALEC EMPIRE, The private press - DJ SHADOW, Trust - LOW, When I was cruel - ELVIS COSTELLO, Eyes Adrift - EYES ADRIFT, Spend the night - THE DONNAS, Let go - NADA SURF, Hate - THE DELGADOS, Got what we want - THE SIGHTS, Maladroit - WEEZER, Life on other planets - SUPERGRASS, California crossing - FU MANCHU, The Datsuns - THE DATSUNS, Quality - TALIB KWELI, God’s son - NAS, Come with us - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, A hundred days off - UNDERWORLD, Don't be afraid of love - LO-FIDELITY ALLSTARS, Romantica - LUNA, Cover magazine - GIANT SAND, Is a woman - LAMBCHOP, Beautysleep - TANYA DONNELLY, Devil's workshop - FRANK BLACK AND THE CATHOLICS, Folklore - SIXTEEN HORSEPOWER, Are you earthed? - APPLIANCE, Whip it on - THE RAVEONETTES, Read & Burn 01/ Read & Burn 02 - WIRE, Out of the races and onto the tracks - THE RAPTURE, Wood/Water - PROMISE RING, Everyone who pretended to like me is gone - THE WALKMEN, Fire music - GALLON DRUNK, Heathen chemistry - OASIS, Modulate - BOB MOULD, Flood - RAINING PLEASURE, Presidential suite - GONZALES, Genetic world - TELEPOPMUSIK, Meet the Bellrays - THE BELLRAYS, Now you know - DOUG MARTSCH, Each one teach one - ONEIDA, Call and response - BANGS, Italiano - BEATINGS, Electric sweat - THE MOONEY SUZUKI, Deadringer - RJD2, Arrhythmia - ANTIPOP CONSORTIUM, High society - ENON, Black letter days - FRANK BLACK AND THE CATHOLICS, Black city - DIVISION OF LAURA LEE, Jennie bomb - SAHARA HOTNIGHTS, Sing sing deathhouse - THE DISTILLERS, I name you destroyer - JUCIFER, They raging, quiet army - DETACHMENT KIT, McLusky do Dallas - McLUSKY, Steal your soul and dare your spirit to move - SOLEDAD BROTHERS, Grit - MADRUGADA, Some boots - KARATE, Geogaddi - BOARDS OF CANADA, Lost horizons - LEMON JELLY, Or - GOLDEN BOY WITH MISS KITTIN, In search of... - N*E*R*D, The blueprint 2: The gift & the curse - JAY-Z, Under construction - MISSY ELLIOTT, The fix - SCARFACE, I Phantom - MR. LIF, Nobody knows this is everywhere - 764-HERO, Skyscraper national park - HAYDEN, Sha Sha - BEN KWELLER, The fine art of self destruction - JESSE MALIN, Didn’t it rain - SONGS: OHIA, Hold tight the ropes - ELK CITY, The beginning stages of... - THE POLYPHONIC SPREE, Sea change - BECK, The golden state - MIA DOI TODD, The nature of maps / The green fury - MATT POND PA, Neon golden - NOTWIST, Zoomer - SCHNEIDER TM, ( ) - SIGUR ROS, Yanqui UXO - GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR, A rush of blood to the head - COLDPLAY, The last broadcast - DOVES, The Coral - THE CORAL, Blacklisted - NEKO CASE, The blackened air - NINA NASTASIA, Steady The Buffs - THE BUFF MEDWAYS, I break chairs - DAMIEN JURADO AND GATHERED IN SONG, Under cold blue stars - JOSH ROUSE, On - IMPERIAL TEEN, Whatever, mortal - PAPA M, Holes in the wall - ELECTRIC SOFT PARADE, See this through and leave - COOPER TEMPLE CLAUSE, Ideas above our station - HUNDRED REASONS, By the way - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, Illumination - PAUL WELLER, The rising - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Alice / Blood Money - TOM WAITS, Jerusalem - STEVE EARLE, Stereo/Mono - PAUL WESTERBERG, Hitting the ground - GORDON GANO, Demolition - RYAN ADAMS, Don't worry about me - JOEY RAMONE, Heathen - DAVID BOWIE, Buzzkunst - SHELLEY DEVOTO, Step off - ESG, Metro Area - METRO AREA, Vulnerabilia - MY COMPUTER, Every day - CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA, Out of season - BETH GIBBONS & RUSTIN MAN, Daybreaker - BETH ORTON, A little deeper - MS DYNAMITE, Power in numbers - JURASSIC 5, Cee-Lo Green and his perfect imperfections - CEE-LO, Beaches and canyons - BLACK DICE, Thought for food - THE BOOKS, Perfecting loneliness - JETS TO BRAZIL, Control - PEDRO THE LION, Skorborealis - DANIELLE HOWLE AND THE TANTRUMS, OK Go - OK GO, Point - CORNELIUS, 18 - MOBY, We are science - DOT ALLISON, Redemption's son - JOSEPH ARTHUR, +/- - +/-, Calling zero - GO BACK SNOWBALL, Thriller - NEW END ORIGINAL, Basement apes - GLUECIFER, Pixies - PIXIES, 2G+2 - THE FALL

Sep 11, 2010

The Best Albums Of 2001

Top 50


  1. Is this it - THE STROKES
  2. Group sounds - ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT
  3. Isolation drills - GUIDED BY VOICES
  4. All is dream - MERCURY REV
  5. Let it come down - SPIRITUALIZED
  6. Stephen Malkmus - STEPHEN MALKMUS
  7. White blood cells - THE WHITE STRIPES
  8. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C.
  9. The argument - FUGAZI
  10. Iron flag - WU-TANG CLAN
  11. Ancient melodies of the future - BUILT TO SPILL
  12. Are you are missing winner - THE FALL
  13. No more shall we part - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
  14. Ease down the road - BONNIE PRINCE BILLY
  15. It’s a wonderful life - SPARKLEHORSE
  16. Get ready - NEW ORDER
  17. 604 - LADYTRON
  18. Souljacker - EELS
  19. Change - THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN
  20. Behind the music - THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES
  21. The cold vein - CANNIBAL OX
  22. #1 - FISCHERSPOONER
  23. Song yet to be sung - PERRY FARRELL
  24. Sound-dust - STEREOLAB
  25. The red thread - ARAB STRAP
  26. Rain on lens - SMOG
  27. Sunny border blue - KRISTIN HERSH
  28. Girls can tell - SPOON
  29. When do we start fighting - SEAFOOD
  30. The photo album - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
  31. Take back the universe and give me yesterday - CREEPER LAGOON
  32. Feminist sweepstakes - LE TIGRE
  33. Sea to shining sea - LOVE AS LAUGHTER
  34. A new morning, changing weather - THE (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY
  35. Here's to shutting up - SUPERCHUNK
  36. Bright flight - SILVER JEWS
  37. Here come the miracles - STEVE WYNN
  38. Ultraglide in black - THE DIRTBOMBS
  39. United by fate - RIVAL SCHOOLS
  40. Weird revolution - BUTTHOLE SURFERS
  41. Run come save me - ROOTS MANUVA
  42. Drukqs - APHEX TWIN
  43. Gorillaz - GORILLAZ
  44. Hot shots II - THE BETA BAND
  45. The Moldy Peaches - THE MOLDY PEACHES
  46. Anthem of the moon - ONEIDA
  47. Field songs - MARK LANEGAN
  48. Life, love and leaving - THE DETROIT COBRAS
  49. The world won't end - PERNICE BROTHERS
  50. Reveal - R.E.M.
Also recommended:

Things we lost in the fire - LOW, Insignificance - JIM O’ROURKE, Gold - RYAN ADAMS, The coast is never clear - BEULAH, Mass romantic - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, Dyed in the wool - SHANNON WRIGHT, Leaves turn inside you - UNWOUND, Rock action - MOGWAI, Lack of communication - THE VON BONDIES, Charged - NEBULA, Turn 21 - THE DONNAS, A better version of me - RAINER MARIA, All this sounds gas - PRESTON SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY, Everybody wants to know - SWELL, Low kick and hard bop - SOLEX, Labor days - AESOP ROCK, The blueprint - JAY-Z, Blowback - TRICKY, Nice - ROLLINS BAND, Weezer (The green album) - WEEZER, Free all angels - ASH, The tracksuit trilogy - THE EXPERIMENTAL POP BAND, Imperial metric - APPLIANCE, The invisible man - MARK EITZEL, Vespertine - BJORK, We love life - PULP, Beautiful Garbage - GARBAGE, Short-staffed at the gene pool - RUBY, God bless the Blake Babies - THE BLAKE BABIES, The Texas Jerusalem crossroads - LIFT TO EXPERIENCE, Can our love...- TINDERSTICKS, The sword of God - QUASI, Danse macabre - THE FAINT, Love is here - STARSAILOR, The old me versus the new you / Opening credits - LAPTOP, That's not what I heard - THE GOSSIP, Sport fury - BEACHBUGGY, Amnesiac - RADIOHEAD, Gift - CURVE, Hip check - THE COME ONS, Confluence - HOWE GELB, No such place - JIM WHITE, Dog in the sand - FRANK BLACK & THE CATHOLICS, Pleased to meet you - JAMES, From the desk of Mr. Lady - LE TIGRE, Thelema - MURDER CITY DEVILS, Your new favourite band - THE HIVES, Pleasure Forever - PLEASURE FOREVER, A future lived in past tense - JUNO, Find your home - VUE, Rock it to the moon - ELECTRELANE, Bleed American - JIMMY EAT WORLD, Every night fire works - HEY MERCEDES, Mono - ICARUS LINE, Revelling/Reckoning - ANI DIFRANCO, Bavarian fruit bread - HOPE SANDOVAL & THE WARM INVENTIONS, The optimist LP - TURIN BRAKES, The Glow, part II - THE MICROPHONES, A dream in sound - ELF POWER, Asleep in the back - ELBOW, A story in white - AEREOGRAMME, Cold house - HOOD, Go plastic - SQUAREPUSHER, Princess Superstar is - PRINCESS SUPERSTAR, Bulletproof wallets - GHOSTFACE KILLAH, Digital bullet - RZA, Expansion team - DILATED PEOPLES, A journey to anywhere - UGLY DUCKLING, Lateralus - TOOL, Identikit - BURNING AIRLINES, A flight and a crash / Never ender - HOT WATER MUSIC, Causey vs. everything - CAUSEY WAY, Party music - THE COUP, Devil’s night - D-12, The reason - BEANIE SIGEL, Space boogie: Smoke Oddessey - KURUPT, The skinny - SLIMM CALHOUN, 9 lives - AZ, Pity the fool - MR. LEN, XO Experience - THA LIKS, The sneak attack - KRS-ONE, Take it or squeeze it - BEATNUTS, Psyco On Da Bus - PSYCO ON DA BUS, Execute - OXIDE & NEUTRINO, In search of... - N*E*R*D, Kill your darlings - KID LOCO, Melody AM - ROYKSOPP, Happiness - FRIDGE, Been here and gone - THALIA ZEDEK, Everything's fine - WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY, Psychopharmacology - FIREWATER, Quiet is the new loud - KINGS OF CONVENIENCE, Tiny waves, mighty sea - FUTURE PILOT AKA, Visioncreationnewsun - BOREDOMS, Standards - TORTOISE, Dilate - BARDO POND, Profane - COUCH, Lido - CLEARLAKE, Know your enemy - MANIC STREET PREACHERS, Rings around the world - SUPER FURRY ANIMALS, How I long to feel that summer in my heart - GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI, Wonderland - THE CHARLATANS, The Oliver Twist manifesto - LUKE HAINES, Love and theft - BOB DYLAN, Global a go-go - JOE STRUMMER AND THE MESCALEROS, Próxima estación: Esperanza - MANU CHAO, Look into the eyeball - DAVID BYRNE, Poses - RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, Musicforthemorningafter - PETE YORN, Here be monsters - ED HARCOURT, Essence - LUCINDA WILLIAMS, Once we were trees - BEACHWOOD SPARKS, Surf’s up - DAVID THOMAS & THE TWO PALE BOYS, Deep in the hole - MASTERS OF REALITY, Toxicity - SYSTEM OF A DOWN, Comfort eagle - CAKE, Miss E … So addictive - MISSY ELLIOTT, Since I left you - THE AVALANCHES, Idiology - MOUSE ON MARS, The Altogether - ORBITAL, Discovery - DAFT PUNK, 10000 Hz legend - AIR, Rooty - BASEMENT JAXX, Exciter - DEPECHE MODE, Phanerothyme - MOTORPSYCHO, Ghost ship - THE SULTANS, More revery - BONNIE BILLY, The e-music singles collection - STEVE WYNN, Rotten apples - THE SMASHING PUMPKINS, Looking for the perfect beat - AFRIKA BAMBAATAA, The Radio One sessions - ELASTICA, Complete 'B' Sides - PIXIES, The essential Radio Birdman (1974 - 1978) - RADIO BIRDMAN, The world bewitched - THE FALL