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2001 pretty much rocked, but whats come out of 2002? Not alot...

― Paul Rigel (rigel), Friday, 18 October 2002 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)

2002 was the year which undie rap 'broke' dude (Jess and trife will tell ya all abt it)!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 18 October 2002 14:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Exactly dude.

― Paul Rigel (rigel), Friday, 18 October 2002 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Still two monthes and change to go and buy albums, Im leaving this early year end crap to monthly magazines.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 18 October 2002 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I think this is pretty much a one-horse race as far as ILM is concerned.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 18 October 2002 14:29 (twenty-three years ago)

But we'll see. I think I'll still have to go for Peter Murphy's Dust, but I would.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 October 2002 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Damn, I've already picked about twenty albums so far that I've fallen stoopid in love with, and a pretty huge number of singles too. This is a weak year for music like it's a weak year for Barry Bonds.

― Nate Patrin, Friday, 18 October 2002 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

lists are shit and you all know it!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 18 October 2002 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

It's my belief that gimmers make the best records now, so unless the new Johnny Cash album tops it, then Solomon Burke's "Don't give up on me" would be my choice.

― James Ball, Friday, 18 October 2002 14:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree with Nate. I've heard more great stuff this year than any in recent memory, and there's still two full months of releases left to go.

― paul cox (paul cox), Friday, 18 October 2002 14:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Beatles 'Red Album'

― SeanF, Friday, 18 October 2002 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Montgolfier Brothers - The World Is Flat. So classic it hurts. In the same league as Nick Drake's Five Leaves Left. I wrote on it here in my blog.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 18 October 2002 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Interpol

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 18 October 2002 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

have a guess...

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 18 October 2002 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

''Beatles 'Red Album'''

Hippie!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 18 October 2002 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah 2002 has been excellent, for albums and especially singles (as was 2001, admittedly).

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 18 October 2002 14:54 (twenty-three years ago)

how long can thread keep going without mentioning the album we dare not speak its name?

― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 18 October 2002 15:12 (twenty-three years ago)

you know what album i really loved this year?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 18 October 2002 15:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, you mean the Andrew W.K. album?

― paul cox (paul cox), Friday, 18 October 2002 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)

well, that too.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 18 October 2002 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Can we talk about singles please becuz not all of us are rockists/middle aged.

― SeanF, Friday, 18 October 2002 15:17 (twenty-three years ago)

jess: Actually, that was a reply to the other Paul -- but I'm glad to hear you enjoy it as well. I'm also quite enamored with it, but I was just trying to light a fire under this thread...

Good singles this year, but none that I'll really remember beyond next summer (except maybe Kylie, but that's actually from 2001, isn't it?).

― paul cox (paul cox), Friday, 18 October 2002 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

YOU ALL MEAN BALLADS BY DEREK BAILEY RIGHT!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 18 October 2002 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

i thought it was a bit of a let down after the majesty of 'parachutes'...

― adam b (adam b), Friday, 18 October 2002 15:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I will remember "Hot In Herre", "At Night", "Love At First Sight", "If You Come Back", "Work It", "You Can't Go Home Again", "Freak Like Me", "Golden Boys", "Saturday (Ooh! Ooh!)", "Dollar Sign", "Grindin", "Nothin", "Addictive", "Oops (Oh My)" etc. etc. for ever and ever amen.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 18 October 2002 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Beck or Interpol

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 18 October 2002 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)

okkervil river, greg macpherson band, wilco, the bees, norah jones, tom waits, damien rice, hank dogs, nina nastasia, reindeer section, kepler, gillian welch, 16 horsepower, warsawpack, the books, blackalicious...

― Sean@tangmonkey (Sean M), Friday, 18 October 2002 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Poison - Hollyweird
Komeit - Falling into place
Avril Lavigne - Let go
Figurine - Transportation + Communication = love
Vacaciones - Sonrier
Herrmann & Kline - Our noise
Elfpower - Creatures

Some of these may have been released last year.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 18 October 2002 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

yo the figurine is a re-release of their first album

― g (graysonlane), Friday, 18 October 2002 16:26 (twenty-three years ago)

can we blow off singles because not all of us are popists/junior high kids

― g (graysonlane), Friday, 18 October 2002 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

thanks, didn't know that, but it still got re-released in 2002!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 18 October 2002 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

no prob, it's a good one, did you get ther more recent album The Heartfelt - one of last year's best IMHO. Anyway, still too early, but some of my favorites so far:
Acid House Kings - Mondays Are Like Tuesdays And Tuesdays Are Like Wednesdays
Boyracer - To Get A Better Hold You've Got To Loosen Your Grip
The Devils - Dark Circles
Hideki Kaji - A Long Weekend
La Buena Vida - Harmonica (really an EP I guess)
Lovejoy - Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
Kelly Slusher - Rocks And Tears

― g (graysonlane), Friday, 18 October 2002 16:42 (twenty-three years ago)

xiu xiu

― ddd, Friday, 18 October 2002 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Did Wilco's Yankee Foxtrot Hotel come out in 2002? If so, it's definitely the best. If it came out in 2001, it's the best of 2001.

Also, let me make some comments on persons list:

Poison - Hollyweird - die
Komeit - Falling into place dont know it
Avril Lavigne - Let go HOLY FUCK DIE A THOUSAND DEATHS
Figurine - Transportation + Communication = love
Vacaciones - Sonrier
Herrmann & Kline - Our noise
Elfpower - Creatures - Yes

― David Allen, Friday, 18 October 2002 17:55 (twenty-three years ago)

MC Paul Barman, Okkervil River, Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man, Perry Blake, Montgolfier Bros

― kinski (kinski), Friday, 18 October 2002 17:59 (twenty-three years ago)

it's weird - there are tons of singles this year that i've adored, but i can't think of a lot of albums... could people start naming more of the full-length stuff they've been flipping for? it's possible i'm not remembering back far enough - i just realized the streets album was this year. also, i haven't heard many of the albums with the singles i like - how were the clipse and nelly albums?

― dave k, Friday, 18 October 2002 18:03 (twenty-three years ago)

oooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh no, he said the magic album. This thread is set to explode!
Quick Graham, delete ilXor before it gets out of hand.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 18 October 2002 18:10 (twenty-three years ago)

dave k states i can't think of a lot of albums.... this will help you: Tracking the Best Albums of 2002

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 18 October 2002 18:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Not mentioned yet (NOTE WARNING DANGER: I am a rockist backpacker schmindie etc.):

Chemical Brothers, Come With Us
N*E*R*D, In Search Of
Clinic, Walking With Thee
DJ Shadow, The Private Press
Super Furry Animals, Rings Around the World (US Pressing)
Blackalicious, Blazing Arrow
VHS or Beta, Le Funk
El-P, Fantastic Damage
The Hives, Veni Vidi Vicious
RJD2, Deadringer
The Streets, Original Pirate Material
Sonic Youth, Murray Street
The Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Beck, Sea Change
Royksopp, Melody A.M. (US Pressing)
Liars, They Threw Us In A Trench Or Something I Forget How It Goes Exactly

I'm not talking about singles right now because there's a different thread for that.

― Nate Patrin, Friday, 18 October 2002 18:33 (twenty-three years ago)

If I Get Wet actually was released this year then it's all that matters. Unless Oren Ambarchi's Suspension came out this year. (They both say c 2001 on my copies). Then that matters too. Jean Derome's and Joane Hetu's La vie, c'est simple was nice. Murray Street really is lovely jangle-pop at the end of the day but not as good as the live show. (Gack, I almost wrote "love show".) I don't know who the Streets are.

PS Hey Julio, I now get paid to listen to unreleased Derek Bailey recordings. I'm doing it now.

― sundar subramanian, Friday, 18 October 2002 18:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Consonant - s/t

― Jen, Friday, 18 October 2002 18:46 (twenty-three years ago)

― bob zemko (bob), Friday, 18 October 2002 18:50 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, i totally forgot about geogaddi and that songsohia record - those were great - i'm also pretty curious about the montgolfier record too. did anyone rate the cam'ron record at all?

― dave k, Friday, 18 October 2002 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)

mary timonys golden dove
and i am missing her show tonight, due to a lack of wheels

interpol was also a pleasant surprise.

― kephm, Friday, 18 October 2002 18:57 (twenty-three years ago)

My favorites that haven't been mentioned so far:

Gomez, In Our Gun*
Tabla Beat Science, Live at Stern Grove
Trio Mocotó, Samba Rock
The Walkmen, Everybody Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone
The Negro Problem, Welcome Black
Cornelius, Point
Buffalo Daughter, I
Issa Bagayogo, Timbuktu
Jarvis Church, Shake It Off

*Proving that I am the uncoolest (therefore real-est) on the whole of ILM
(actually all my picks prove that)

― Matt C., Friday, 18 October 2002 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

The Walkmen album is really the only flat out incredible album I've heard so far this year.

― Justin M (Justin M), Friday, 18 October 2002 20:03 (twenty-three years ago)

i have liked....

Beth Gibbons - Out of Season
DJ Krush - Shinsou
Ellen Allien - Weiss
Farben - Texstar
Horsepower Productions - In Fine Style
Ms. John Soda - No P. or D.
Radian - Rec.Extern
Shiina Ringo - Utaite Myouri
The Streets - Original Pirate Material (yeah.... yeah...)
Yuka Honda - Memories are my only Witness

― Honda, Friday, 18 October 2002 20:06 (twenty-three years ago)

As much as I'd like to say Bowie's Heathen, it's not even close. I'd have to go with The Eminem Show, but Missundastood (however the hell Pink spells it) was solid. Nikka Costa was last year, right?

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 18 October 2002 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Beachwood Sparks. There's still a good few recs I wanna get, though: Underworld, Lemon Jelly, Delgados among others. It's been a good year. I LOVE end of year lists, and I always read even MOJO's albums of the year. We have a thread about our fave albums of the year every three weeks on ILM, though, and this kills the suspense for me! Can we make this the last one before the year actually ends? Please?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 18 October 2002 20:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Despite the general list hatred, I like the fact that we get to do this 10 or 11 times before the year is up. Anyway, my favorites so far are.

Deerhoof - Reveille - A great pop album. I don't which planet this would qualify as a legitimate pop album on, but wherever it is, I want to go there.
Dat Politics - Plugs Plus - Tout Bleu and Pie are respectively the first and second best songs I've heard all year.
Marumari - The Remixes - For when I drive to work at 5 AM.
The Blood Brothers - March on Electric Children - For when I drive home with the windows down and the car stereo on full blast. Actually, I think the new one is better, but it doesn't come out until 2003 (I think).

Honda, the Shiina Ringo is the covers album right? Could you write a little about it so I know what it's like and can decide if I want to pay the excessive Japanese CD prices. I'm still trying to get my head around the last album (the pink one), which would definitely be on my top albums for me list this year.

― Miranda, Friday, 18 October 2002 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

''PS Hey Julio, I now get paid to listen to unreleased Derek Bailey recordings. I'm doing it now.''

really sundar?!!! is it an online publication. look forward to reading it if it is (heard the guitar pieec in sequenzas, quite something I must say, but I haven't digested it yet though).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 18 October 2002 21:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Hi Miranda,

It's really Ringo's kaleidoscope into the past, covers of "classic" tracks of varying degrees of canonization... (the Carpenters, the Beatles, Nat King Cole, Marilyn Monroe, etc.). The thing i love about the album is how she grabs a handful of old songs (18) of various genres, grabs a handful of modern production styles, mix-and-matches everything up (one track is glitch-pop, another is vocal house, another is drill-n-bass jazz), and then sings over them in a handful of different languages. It's all so back and forth bastardized, it feels like 18 singles by different artists somehow all the while remaining her in the end. Ringo always flaunted persona-shifting at the drop of a dime, she can't be held down here.

Of course, if you like consistency in your albums it may be troublesome. It could be blamed for being a "something for everything" album but if you admire Ringo's general presence, you'll appreciate her spearheading everything. Also, it's unnecessarily split into 2 discs, about 35 minutes each which is at least better than the 3-mini-album set she put out before.

― Honda, Friday, 18 October 2002 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

It was the genre hopping and splicing (along with the voice) that got me so obsessive about Shouso Strip, so I think I'll like Utaite Myouri well enough. I'll make plans to add it to my year end list now. Thanks.

― Miranda, Friday, 18 October 2002 22:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Wait, what is this unspeakable album? I don't get it.

― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 18 October 2002 22:38 (twenty-three years ago)

The unspeakable album
Michael Mayer's Immer mix
Horsepower Productions In Fine Style
DJ Shadow The Private Press
Poker Flat Recordings Volume II
2 Many DJs As Heard On Radio Soulwax
MRI All That Glitters
Farben Textstar
Sonic Youth Murray Street
Digital Disco
Total 4
Thomas Fehlmann Making It Whistle
El-P Fantastic Damage
Tweet Southern Hummingbird
Ellen Allien's Weiss mix
Miss Kittin's London Is Burning mix
So Solid Crew's F***k It mix.

Still waiting on Missy, Kaito, Jay-Z, Liars, Sugababes, Beenie Man, Radio 4, Lawrence and a really good general UK garage comp (like the new Garage Nation one, if it ever appears on these shores), plus probably heaps I've forgotten.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 18 October 2002 23:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah unspeakable. Also 2 Many DJs, Sugababes, assorted pop-friendly discs, I don't know.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 18 October 2002 23:41 (twenty-three years ago)

For Kris: unspeakable album is O******* P***** M******* by the S*****s, UK originally and released over here by Vice magazine.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 19 October 2002 03:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Overfed Poontang Machine by the Strokes?

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 19 October 2002 03:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Wrong number of characters, but conceptually speaking you're probably spot on.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 19 October 2002 03:30 (twenty-three years ago)

3LW -- A Girl Can Mack. If only it had included the "Parents Just Don't Understand" cover they did with Lil' Romeo for the Jimmy Neutron soundtrack last year.

Tweet.

Oxide & Neutrino.

Sugababes.

Nellyville.

Still waiting on Ja Rule, Foxy Brown, Missy Elliot, Kellis, Jay-Z, Kelly solo.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 19 October 2002 04:12 (twenty-three years ago)

unspeakable and 2 Many DJs are way ahead. Waiting on Metro Area, Horsepower Productions, Delgados, Missy, Jay-Z.

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Saturday, 19 October 2002 05:30 (twenty-three years ago)

F*** the Unspeakable Album. I read M.Matos' article on it the other day (he quotes ilx people and gives the address! p.s. that is a good thing) and, although the article was good, I was no closer to understanding why blatantly bad production ("10 minute 2-step") and equally obviously horrible "rapping" (or whatever it is he's supposed to be doing) are supposed to be so impressive.

ooooh the bile!

― Dan I., Saturday, 19 October 2002 07:03 (twenty-three years ago)

What's this unspeakable album thing you're talking about?

My favorite of the year: Beck Sea Change, hands down, no apologies.

― Kenan, Saturday, 19 October 2002 07:23 (twenty-three years ago)

It's either this - http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=SEARCH&sql=A67d1vwzqa9ek

Or this - http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A1zaqoarawijp

Or this - http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A8tkvu3raan8k

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(actually it's this - http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Aynhxlfae0cqp)

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 19 October 2002 07:37 (twenty-three years ago)

One day I will learn html and my post will be prettier.

Oh, and first person to guess the worst album listed above wins a date with David Eckstein.

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 19 October 2002 07:38 (twenty-three years ago)

ron sexmith, queens of the stone age, beck, trail of the dead, kathryn williams, wilco, steve earl, pearl jam*smirks and chuckles* oh I still cant get the eels souljacker out of the car cd player from last year

― self absorbed twat, Saturday, 19 October 2002 07:57 (twenty-three years ago)

some stuff that i thought was pretty neat that you didn't mention, really.

big tymers - hood rich
breeders - title tk
nelly - nellyville
cormega - the true meaning
eve - eve-olution
beenie man - tropical storm
kid 606 - the action packed mentalist...
dj/rupture - minesweeper suite
brandy - full moon
bounty killer - ghetto dictionary: the mystery
jennifer lopez - j to the l-o
múm - finally we are no one

― dk, Saturday, 19 October 2002 08:04 (twenty-three years ago)

This thread is a waste of time. Can't you people read? The title is: Best album of 2002?. Or do you all burn your ten favourite albums as mp3s on one CD-R and call the thing one album?

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Saturday, 19 October 2002 09:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't understand alex, there're lots of albums being mentioned here.

― david h (david h), Saturday, 19 October 2002 09:32 (twenty-three years ago)

In fact as far as I can see, its almost ALL albums.

― david h (david h), Saturday, 19 October 2002 09:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Vitalic-Live at Fuse is the best thing I've heard this year by miles.

But there have been some other good albums
X-Press 2-Muzikizum

Underworld-A Hundred Days Off

V/A-My House In Montmartre (says 2002 on it anyway)

Chemical Brothers-Come With Us

Soulwax-2 Many DJs

Jon Carter-Viva Bugged Out

Erick Morillo-Subliminal Sessions Volume 3

The Streets-Original Pirate Material.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 19 October 2002 10:24 (twenty-three years ago)

David, there can be ONLY ONE BEST ALBUM in 2002. At least in the logic I use. Proposing ten albums as THE BEST ALBUM is like proposing none at all.

Actually my response is maybe not 100% correct neither. I answered the question "Which is your favourite album in 2002" which somehow is a synonym to "best" for me.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Saturday, 19 October 2002 10:28 (twenty-three years ago)

My album of the year: Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs (Look for a Pitchfork review soon.)

― Mark (MarkR), Saturday, 19 October 2002 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

that's funny mark, cos i thought the hrvatski lp was rub

― bob zemko (bob), Saturday, 19 October 2002 14:06 (twenty-three years ago)

i fear g's list

― bob zemko (bob), Saturday, 19 October 2002 14:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Black Dice - Beaches and Canyons

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Saturday, 19 October 2002 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah, other album of the year -- Babasonicos' Jessico. More should be like them.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 19 October 2002 14:39 (twenty-three years ago)

that's funny mark, cos i thought the hrvatski lp was rub

I've barely heard Hrvatski, but I imagine this is quite different. Very quiet, detailed drone album. I can't speak to his other stuff.

― Mark (MarkR), Saturday, 19 October 2002 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)

"can we blow off singles because not all of us are popists/junior high kids"

Haha, what do you know? you like boyracer

― seanf, Saturday, 19 October 2002 15:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm working in the York library for my GA. I'm transferring to CD and cataloguing tapes of concerts that took place at the Music Gallery from the 70s and 80s. Lots of Bailey, as well as Frith, Chadbourne, all kinds of things.

― sundar subramanian, Saturday, 19 October 2002 15:49 (twenty-three years ago)

i haven't heard much from this year, but the new yume bitsu just jumped way up on my list, which includes the likes of...

xiu xiu
notwist
the flaming lips
the shalabi effect

i haven't heard the new beck or the new john zorn, but i suspect that they would have made the list otherwise... neither artist has disappointed me yet...

― ko hsüan, Saturday, 19 October 2002 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

''I'm working in the York library for my GA. I'm transferring to CD and cataloguing tapes of concerts that took place at the Music Gallery from the 70s and 80s. Lots of Bailey, as well as Frith, Chadbourne, all kinds of things.''

*CRIES OF JEALOUSY*

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 19 October 2002 19:21 (twenty-three years ago)

alex are you an only child?

― self absorbed twat, Saturday, 19 October 2002 21:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm hoping that my favourite is still to come. I wonder if the new TLC might be a contender?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 19 October 2002 21:40 (twenty-three years ago)

alex are you an only child?
No, I have got a sister. But I feel quite lonely with my choice, that's true. And I like that. I have never heard of half of the stuff posted here. I thought if people nail it down to one album I would care more about other people's choices. Whatever, it's 1 am and time to go to bed.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Saturday, 19 October 2002 21:58 (twenty-three years ago)

no youre dead right- you just seemed rather fucked off- Roit Act it is then

― self absorbed twat, Saturday, 19 October 2002 22:32 (twenty-three years ago)

[i]Best Bootlegs in the World Ever[i]

― Burr, Saturday, 19 October 2002 22:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Roit Act it is then
Qu'est-ce que c'est?

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 20 October 2002 06:34 (twenty-three years ago)

BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR--the creative, moving, innovative album, as important today as Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon was important in its, is the Flaming Lips' "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots."

― Oapie, Monday, 21 October 2002 02:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Jeez, I go away for a month and it's still the same question, now in its 4th or 5th thread. And it's still only October. How about we start a new thread any day: best album of the first 294 days of 2002 or something.

Anyway, just in case you thought I'd been spending all my time fiddling with my multicasting networks, here's the real best album of the first 294 days of 2002.

― B:Rad (Brad), Monday, 21 October 2002 02:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Too be released albums that bode well:

The Photon Band's It's a Lonely Planet
Songs: Ohia's "doo wop album"

Things i like so far:

Japancakes -- Belmondo
Blood Group -- Volunteers

...and i'll include David Axelrod's self-titled from late last year because it seemed to slip beneath the radar.

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 24 October 2002 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Jesus CHRIST, Andy, that Metro Area album is jaw-dropping as fuck!

Also can't wait to hear that Whitman CD, Mark, especially now that I've read the review of which you spoke

― Clarke B., Thursday, 24 October 2002 20:51 (twenty-three years ago)

the pipas album is out monday, it will probably be great. maybe it will be bestest. the guitar album is out soon too.

― keith (keithmcl), Friday, 25 October 2002 02:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Sonic Youth -Murray Street
Interpol-Turn On The Bright Lights
Ladytron-Light and Magic
Boards of Canada-Geogaddi( sure it's no music has the right to children but I like it)

― Micheline Gros-Jean (Micheline), Friday, 25 October 2002 03:08 (twenty-three years ago)

You're all forgetting about Peter Gabriel! At long last, damnit, at long last!

― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 27 October 2002 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

You're all forgetting about Peter Gabriel!

We were.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 October 2002 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

add the books to my list...

― ko hsüan, Sunday, 27 October 2002 17:29 (twenty-three years ago)

2002 indeed rocked the fuck, though if I had to pick a favourate it would be ( ) by Sigur Ros. Not since 1991 has music ruled this much.

― Callum (Callum), Sunday, 27 October 2002 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

is it scheduled for release this coming tuesday? i've gotten myself out of the habit of downloading albums before they're released... i've kind of spoiled a few albums for myself by listenting to subpar mp3 versions first... there's something really incredible (religious?) about listening to a highly anticipated album as soon as it comes out when it fully meets your expectations...

― ko hsüan, Sunday, 27 October 2002 17:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I never download albums, and I hate copies. I only have what I buy/scrounge off labels. Fat-Cat were kind enough to send me ( ), and my GOD. They make Radiohead look like the Stereophonics...

― Callum (Callum), Sunday, 27 October 2002 17:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Radiohead are the Stereophonics w/ O levels.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Sunday, 27 October 2002 18:01 (twenty-three years ago)

O levels and talent, yes.

― Callum (Callum), Sunday, 27 October 2002 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Sigur Ros have a song on the new album called "The Pop Song" = they are no longer the new Moody Blues but the new U2 in 'irony' phase and should be shot.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 October 2002 18:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned: But shooting them now would prevent them from ever becoming The Moody Blues in 'irony' phase!

― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 27 October 2002 18:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Did the Liars record come out this year or last? I'm getting conflicting reports.

Informal top 10 (no order)

The Liars - They threw us ....
RJD2 - Dead Ringer
Marianne Faithfull - Kissin' Time
Ladytron - Light & Magic
Aukfen - My Way
Mr. Lif - I Phantom
Clinic - Walking With Thee
Wire - Read & Burn
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Sonic youth - Murray Street

― Juan, Sunday, 27 October 2002 18:39 (twenty-three years ago)

neko case-black listed

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 27 October 2002 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)

You make that sound like it's a good thing, Daniel! ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 October 2002 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

boards

canada

― dyson (dyson), Sunday, 27 October 2002 20:01 (twenty-three years ago)

U2 in irony phase? You're a silly little man aren't you? Well, you can call them that if you like, but they make me cry so I don't care.

Boards Of Canada are overrated.

― Callum (Callum), Sunday, 27 October 2002 21:34 (twenty-three years ago)

U2 in irony phase? You're a silly little man aren't you?

*weebles*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 October 2002 21:38 (twenty-three years ago)

the Cornershop album is thus far my record of the year... yeah, we're gonna slip the drummer one etc.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 27 October 2002 23:33 (twenty-three years ago)

What exactly does weebling entail?

― Callum (Callum), Sunday, 27 October 2002 23:46 (twenty-three years ago)

rocking from side to side in an egg-like fashion

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 27 October 2002 23:52 (twenty-three years ago)

When come back, bring music.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 October 2002 01:19 (twenty-three years ago)

methinks the new amon tobin is deserving aswell.

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 28 October 2002 03:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Either S-K or Neko, depending on how I feel that day...

...I miss Riot Grrl, clearly.

― JM, Monday, 28 October 2002 05:09 (twenty-three years ago)

MURRAY STREET BY SONIC YOUTH
EACH ONE TEACH ONE BY ONEIDA

― barry berko (bbb), Monday, 28 October 2002 05:30 (twenty-three years ago)

i like 'dark circles' by the Devils, the Liars album. my fave kompi is tha ol skool euphorik braykedoon.

― a-33, Monday, 28 October 2002 11:30 (twenty-three years ago)

"()", "Kill the Moonlight", "Sea Change", Delgados' massive "Hate", Centaur's "In Streams", Xiu Xiu's "Knife Play" and (gulp) Pearl Jam's "Riot Act". Still waiting on Deftones, Songs: Ohia, Portishead.

― Simon H., Monday, 28 October 2002 14:23 (twenty-three years ago)

yankee hotel foxtrot owns you

― mary b. (mary b.), Monday, 28 October 2002 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Wilco: most overrated band of 2002? Methinks so.

And go Simon on ( ), Hate and Knife Play. Very nice.

― Callum (Callum), Monday, 28 October 2002 15:15 (twenty-three years ago)

The Liars album was first released in 2001 by Gem Blandstern. Then Mute re-released it in August. I guess it would country for 2k2.

Deftones has been bumped till next year, Simon.

― Yancey (ystrickler), Monday, 28 October 2002 15:45 (twenty-three years ago)

big tymers - hood rich

Woohoo! I'm not alone. Also, Scarface's The Fix is great.

― adam (adam), Monday, 28 October 2002 16:49 (twenty-three years ago)

someone convince me i will listen to "the books" more than 1.5 times and then NEVER again

― bob zemko (bob), Monday, 28 October 2002 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

So far so good for (), though haven't listened to it enough yet to know where it will stand. The Delgados album is a surprise left-field entry for me, and it's currently my #1--I didn't expect that at all, because I didn't much care for the previous (hype poisoning, I suspect, more than the album itself). Murray Street is still ridin' high, though.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 21:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I really, really likes that Lemon Jelly record.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Xinli! Xinli! Xinli!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Ugly Casanova - Sharpen your teeth

― , Tuesday, 29 October 2002 22:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I've really been digging the Thomas Fehlmann album lately.

― Yancey (ystrickler), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 22:21 (twenty-three years ago)

As reminders rather than suggestions: the albums from the "Best first two-thirds of 2002" thread that haven't been mentioned yet (I think)

Sleater-Kinney, One Beat
spoon - kill the moonlight
herbert - Secondhand Sounds
hot snakes - suicide invoice
Antipop Consortium - Arrhythmia
cee-lo - cee-lo green and his perfect imperfections
Greg Davis - Arbor
The Dead C., New Electric Music (Language Recordings, three) CD
Do Make Say Think - & Yet & Yet
Fischerspooner-#1
Hella - Hold Your Horse Is
Lambchop - Is A Woman
Luna, Romantica
lali puna - scary world theory
rapture - house of jealous lovers 12"
st. Thomas - I'm Coming Home

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 00:18 (twenty-three years ago)

The best album of the year is Hate Eternal's "King Of All Kings," you guys. Jeez.

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 00:46 (twenty-three years ago)

i think the new kicker compilation is my new favorite, makes me shake my bottom. apparently it's northern soul but i wouldn't know.

― keith (keithmcl), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 03:27 (twenty-three years ago)

northindie soul

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 04:17 (twenty-three years ago)

The Yume Bitsu album _The Golden Vessyl of Sound_ is gorgeous, and while I never thought a K Records album would be so high on my year-end faves list, there ya go...

― Clarke B., Wednesday, 30 October 2002 06:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Simon H I love you

― kiwi, Wednesday, 30 October 2002 08:49 (twenty-three years ago)

The Yume Bitsu album _The Golden Vessyl of Sound_ is gorgeous

Yeah, I need to get that. That band really does disrupt the 'K sound,' whatever that is...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, that's closer. i am pleased that they have taken the mic from behind the drumkit.

― keith (keithmcl), Thursday, 31 October 2002 03:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Albums are rockist.

― Dan I., Thursday, 31 October 2002 08:20 (twenty-three years ago)

It clear the best for this year should be ' Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights'. They might be alien.I also liked Clinic's and The International (Noise) Conspiracy's new ones ... and you ever heard 'Zornik' from Belgium?

― I. Eken, Sunday, 3 November 2002 11:32 (twenty-three years ago)

(once again) The Cripples "Dirty Head"

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 3 November 2002 20:55 (twenty-three years ago)

The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts

― Jeff (Jeff), Sunday, 3 November 2002 22:23 (twenty-three years ago)

lots of bad records all the years

top 10 2002
akufen -my way'
the streets - original pirate material
colombeat V/A - electronic from COLombia! www.entrecasacolombia.com

blue skied an' clear-V/A moor music

― carolina castano, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow, I think all of my favs have been mentioned already...I feel like I'm part of something! Anyway, here's my "list"...

Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
Beck - Sea Change
Tom Waits - Blood Money & Alice
DJ Shadow - The Private Press
Cornelius - Point
{this space reserved for The Roots - Phrenology}
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Sigur Ros - ()
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Boom Bip - Seed to Sun
Jurassic Five - Power in Numbers
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi vs. the Pink Robots

...and I had no idea Yuka Honda had released an album this year! {to the record store I go!}

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:33 (twenty-three years ago)

So, is anybody going to second the new Blood Group?

― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh hell, somehow I forgot...

Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections
{this space reserved for System of a Down - Steal This Album}
Bjork - Vespertine (I'm ashamed of myself for forgetting this)
Sonic Youth - Murray Street

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:50 (twenty-three years ago)

My top ten, sorta so far. Subject to major change.

1)Desaparecidos "Read Music/Speak Spanish"
2)Good Charlotte "Young And The Hopeless"
3)Distillers "Sing Sing Death House"
4)Weezer "Maladroit"
5)Neil Halstead "Driving On Roads"
6)Wilco "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot"
7)Donnas "Spend The Night"
8)Local H "Here Comes The Zoo"
9)Rocket From The Crypt "Live From Camp X-Ray"
10)Clinic "Walking With Thee"

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 17:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Rocket From The Crypt "Live From Camp X-Ray"

This will doubtless be on mine. Now, to actually purchase it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 18:51 (twenty-three years ago)

why are all you people mentioning "private press"? i was disapointed with this album. his other realeases all had flows to them. pivate press is nothing but a good track followed by a bad idea over and over. shadow is great at building his beats, he sucks at trying to be squarepusher (monosylabic) or whatever the hell he was going for with "six days" - easily one of the most awful songs of the year.

i realize there are alot of you that picked "private press"; have you even heard "introducing" or "preemtive strike"? do you know how good shadow can actually be? there must be someone who agrees with me.

and now i get bashed.

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

why are all you people mentioning "private press"?

Because we like it?

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 19:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyhow now that I've come to the realization that Sea Change is a big honkin' disappoinment (though the songs sound nice live) and Wilco has almost completely slipped my mind here is my Top 10, subject to change by the end of the year, natch:

1) Interpol, Turn On the Bright Lights
2) El-P, Fantastic Damage
3) Missy Elliott, Under Construction
4) The Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
5) Clinic, Walking With Thee
6) Super Furry Animals, Rings Around the World
7) DJ Shadow, The Private Press
8) Blackalicious, Blazing Arrow
9) Dap Dippin' With Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
10) Chemical Brothers, Come With Us

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 19:15 (twenty-three years ago)

"why are all you people mentioning 'private press'?"

Cause I fuckin love it. I particularly love the continuity, especially the "Mashin/Blood/Never Go Home/Letter" latter-half of the CD. I really love the "Right Thing/GDMFSOB" groove...hell, I love all the grooves.

And, in fact, I have owned both Endtroducing... and Preemptive Strike for quite a few years now...all 3 of his albums are among my favorite of the sample-collage-music-set.

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 19:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Too early too say for sure but my current vote for best albums of 2002 are:
Acid House Kings - Mondays Are Like Tuesdays And Tuesdays Are Like Wednesdays
The Devils - Dark Circles
The Montgolfier Brothers - The World is Flat
Neil & Iraiza - New School
Space Kelly - S.K.F.C.
but I will have to listen to some new stuff and a bunch of others from this year before saying for sure.

I actually keep a list of everything I get with the year of release so I can go back and figure this out. I need to get a life.

― g (graysonlane), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 20:18 (twenty-three years ago)

My current list is here (lower left-hand side).

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

But, but, I don't listen to albums anymore! I no longer buy them, and I can't even bring myself to listen to more than a track or two off of the ones that I do have. This isn't nec. a good thing.

― Dan I., Wednesday, 13 November 2002 20:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Rocket from the Tombs: The Day the Earth Met RftT, Glitterhouse 2002. The sessions/concerts are 27 years old but they beat the shit of 99.9% of all records from this year.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

~~shit of~~ should read shit out of

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 21:56 (twenty-three years ago)

the montgolfier brothers for me as well, alex. the world is flat is overlooked genius.

― doom-e, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 22:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Oren Ambarchi - Suspension (maybe)

Wow, someone else actually listed this! Nice!

― original bgm, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 22:20 (twenty-three years ago)

The only time I've heard "Six Days" I had a sneaking liking for it as well as being sort of repulsed. I think this means I need to hear it again.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 14 November 2002 01:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, Suspension is stunning. I recently got the collaboration with Keith Rowe, Flypaper, which did definitely come out this year. It's not quite as impressive but it does have strong moments. So far Fred Frith's Freedom In Fragments (perf Rova Sax Quartet) is doing pretty well but I haven't heard Ballads yet.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 14 November 2002 01:09 (twenty-three years ago)

But I mean, Suspension may well beat Ikeda's Matrix to be my album of the year for 2001. The title track is just gorgeous.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 14 November 2002 01:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I don't know when stuff comes out. I just go by the dates on the back.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 14 November 2002 01:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I don't know when stuff comes out. I just go by the dates on the back. So maybe that is the album of the year.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 14 November 2002 01:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I find it hard to describe why I love that album so much, but I just knew I would the second I heard those opening tones. Just blissful but in a commanding way... And when he hits those lower frequencies, it just pulls me in DEEP. Oh, baby.

I'm not really sure when this came out, either... o___o;

So it's the album of... some... year (possibly). ALRIGHT! This album of the year stuff is tricky. I mean, Boredoms VCN is another one for me but is it the year it came out in Japan or the year I heard it (for its U.S. release)?

― original bgm, Thursday, 14 November 2002 05:51 (twenty-three years ago)

japan, obv. (this is mostly so i can rate it really high in "best of the 90s" lists.)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 14 November 2002 06:03 (twenty-three years ago)

trail of dead! c'mon folks :)
others
spoon- kill the moonlight
low- trust
wilco- yhf
walkmen- everyone who.....
interpol

― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 14 November 2002 06:08 (twenty-three years ago)

my favorite comp this year = The Truth About Charlie soundtrack - it could almost win for best concept album too (concept = artsy Paris 2002) but it is just nosed out for me by the Unspeakable (concept = artless London 2002 haha)

Run.Stop.Restore, TokTok
Remember Today, Borneo and Sporenburg
Rock Steady, No Doubt

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 14 November 2002 06:20 (twenty-three years ago)

japan, obv. (this is mostly so i can rate it really high in "best of the 90s" lists.)

Heh. I was thinking the same thing but mostly so that VCN and Since I Left You don't have to fight. Wait... the Avalanches record also took some time to make it to the states. ARGH.

― original bgm, Thursday, 14 November 2002 06:37 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Lambchop

2. Wilco

3. Queens Of The Stone Age

4. The Streets

5. The Coral

6. Akufen

7. Idlewild

8. DJ Shadow

9. Mum

10. The Polyphonic Spree

11. Gemma Hayes

12. The Vines

13. The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster

14. Lo Fidelity Allstars

15. Boards Of Canada

16. The Flaming Lips

17. John Squire

18. Hayden

19. …Trail Of Dead

20. Primal Scream

I suspect Godspeed! and Sigur Ros would get in there, if I could be arsed to buy their records.

― Nick Southall, Friday, 15 November 2002 10:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Nick, the two top spots on your list where my two faves too just until end of September. But then The World Is Flat came out and it beats both of those by miles. The most outstanding album of this year. And nobody except doomie gets it. What a weird world.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 15 November 2002 11:04 (twenty-three years ago)

where -> were, am I getting dyslectic (God that was a hard one) or what?

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 15 November 2002 11:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I want the Tok Tok album like a massive fried breakfast.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 15 November 2002 11:12 (twenty-three years ago)

ah, fuck it, nothing comes out in december anyway does it?

FAVOURITE:
1)"immer" m. mayer

RUNNERS UP:
2)"digital disco" v/a
3)"geogaddi" boards of canada
4)"total 4" v/a
5)"cardiology" recloose
6)"arrange and process basic channel tracks" scion
7)"westwood vol.3" v/a
8)"metro area" metro area
9)"fyuti" bola
10)"original pirate material" the streets
11)"futurism" v/a
12)"as heard on radio soulwax" 2 many djs
13)"my way" akufen
14)(reserved for dj/rupture which amazon are taking forever over)

in conclusion; a good year for v/a.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 15 November 2002 11:32 (twenty-three years ago)

the OHNE album.
meshuggah "nothing".
orthrelm - anything they brought out.
astrobotnia - part 03.
deerhoof - reveille.
upsilon acrux - last train out.
close erase - dance this.

― bob snoom, Friday, 15 November 2002 18:43 (twenty-three years ago)

mixt-multiplex!!!

― tony, Sunday, 17 November 2002 00:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow, no Orchestra Baobab? Spike the second song from the sequence and you have a perfect record. Maybe you have one anyway. Going into the final lap, it's the only serious competition for the Streets in my book. (Granted, I am only partly way through listening to all of the above.)

A question for Trail of Dead fans: Is this album really listenable? I've always liked them live but found the music pretty gray on disc.

― Pete Scholtes, Sunday, 17 November 2002 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

"all of the above" meaning all of your fine suggestions and recommendations...

― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 18 November 2002 01:58 (twenty-three years ago)

wow i never expected a vote for john squire to appear on anyone's list.

― keith (keithmcl), Monday, 18 November 2002 02:03 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

In the ILX poll 2002 I voted for 10 mix CDs in the "multi" category, which seemed to me kind of appropriate. Here's my provisional best new LPs/EPs of 2002 by individual artists.

1. The Streets - Original Pirate Material

2. Kevin Blechdom - "I ♥ Presets" / "Your Butt" EP

3. Daniel Bedingfield – Gotta Get Thru This

4. Köhn - Koen
(Köhn is a Flemish laptop musician, but he also uses/samples/manipulates acoustic instruments on this, his third LP. It’s a double CD, nearly 2 and a half hours long, but not a wasted moment on it. Forget Xinli Supreme, this is the true heir of the Loveless aesthetic)

5. Missy Elliott – Under Construction

6. Cornelius – Point

7. Cassette Boy – The Parker Tapes

8. Pink – Missundaztood

9. Suicide – American Supreme

10. DJ Shadow – The Private Press

11. Akufen – My Way
12. La Rumeur – L’ombre sur la mesure
13. TTC – Ceci n’est pas un disque
14. Mr. Lif – Emergency Rations
15. Primal Scream – Evil Heat
16. Sugababes – Angels With Dirty Faces
17. Rubin Steiner – Wunderbar drei
18. Clipse – Lord Willin’
19. Common – Electric Circus
20. Blevin Blectum – Talon Slalom

(Bubbling under/not heard enough times yet : El-P, Ms. Jade, Carla Bruni, Télépopmusik, Ladytron, The Roots, MRI)

― Jeff W, Saturday, 4 January 2003 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

eight months pass...

1) Wilco "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot"
2) Feeder "Comfort In Sound"
3) The Used "The Used"
4) Sigur Rós "()"
5) Bright Eyes "Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ears To The Ground

― Happythursday2003, Monday, 29 September 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

note the date that the 'best album...' polling began in earnest last year ? started early didn't it. this year's been a bit rubbish-y so far in comparison. by that basically i mean that there's been no
new streets record i guess !

― piscesboy, Friday, 17 October 2003 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Can't seen anyone making a more playable album than the Rapture this year

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Friday, 17 October 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

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