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

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