Albums I'm Thinking About Getting from the Year 2002 (part 3 of a proposed 10-part series)

...and You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Sources Tags and Codes
Oneida - Each One Teach One
Comets on Fire - Field Recordings from the Sun
The Black Dice - Beaches and Canyons
Low - Trust
Acid Mothers Temple - Univers zen ou de zero a zero
Mastodon - Remission
Monster Movie - Last Night Something Happened
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
Interpol - Turn Out the Bright Lights
Boris - Heavy Rocks
Melvins - Hostile Ambient Takeover
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow
The Legendary Pink Dots - All the King's Horses
Isis - Oceanic
Electric Wizard - Let Us Prey
Cerberus Shoal - Mr. Boy Dog
Amon Tobin - Out from Out Where
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
Deerhoof - Reveille
Animal Collective - Hollindagain

Low. Great album.

Low - Trust
Interpol - Turn Out the Bright Lights
The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
...and You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Sources Tags and Codes

these are quite good. best MG album imo, 2nd best Low album

isis, interpol, mastodon

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is one of the worst sounding records I've ever heard. I can't even tell you if it's good or not, it just hurts my ears.

cosign on Low; Secret Name, Trust, and Things We Lost in the Fire are their peak for me.

Still have, and like, the Oneida (either their best or second-best album, take your pick) and the Mastodon (which I admittedly liked more than I would've guessed when I played it a few months back to determine whether I should get rid of it.) No others, anymore, though someday Scott Seward might convince me to regret getting rid of my Cerebus Shoal CDs. (Don't think I ever heard that particular one, though.)

Oh yeah, may still one or two early '00s Isis CDs in storage somewhere, too, but damned if I know which ones anymore.

I really like Beaches and Canyons, even though I was sad Black Dice gave up on hardcore (I love their Troubleman one with the pink and white cover) and was disappointed when I saw them live shortly afterwards (they basically meandered for an hour, didn't play anything off the record).

Pretty sure I still technically have some early Black Dice noise EP (four songs I think?) and a 3-inch CD single they did in my house, but they're in a sell pile in case I ever get around to ebaying them.

Oops, "EP" is Cold Hands from 2001 (which Wiki calls an album), and I think the "single" is Lost Valley from 2003 (which Wiki calls an EP). Shows what I know.

Also, Each One Teach One actually definitely Oneida's second-best, behind Steel Rod EP (which is actually an album, lengthwise -- also came out in 2000, should've listed it on that thread obviously). What was I thinking.

That Broken Social Scene is a must, although their s/t is even better IMO.

Goats & Dice, imo.

as a Legendary Pink Dots fanatic I wouldn't recommend that one, there's a number of other records of theirs from this decade that I prefer. Melvins is good. Haven't heard that Cerberus Shoal but I love what I have heard.

Amon Tobin - Out from Out Where

this is not worth it unless you're a completist

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/w/wilco/album-yankee-hotel-foxtrot.jpg

yoshimi... is a decent album once your ears get accustomed.

GREAT:

Oneida - Each One Teach One
Deerhoof - Reveille

GOOD:

Comets on Fire - Field Recordings from the Sun
The Black Dice - Beaches and Canyons
Mastodon - Remission
Boris - Heavy Rocks
Isis - Oceanic
Electric Wizard - Let Us Prey
Animal Collective - Hollindagain
The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee

AVOID:

...and You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Sources Tags and Codes
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

^ tallahassee really belongs in "great" bin

i still love source tags and codes

Oneida, Black Dice, Isis, Deerhoof.

4 of my faves from that year for sure.

The Oneida, Mountain Goats and Black Dice records are pretty rad. (My second-favourite Oneida, behind The Wedding. Didn't like Steel Rod much at all, but xhuxk's persuaded me to put it on again just in case.)

I love the Flaming Lips album. The distorted sound quality seems like a very deliberate part of the album's aesthetic, not something accidental, a perception reinforced by the similarly ugly sound of their two subsequent releases.
I like the Wilco album a lot too. Both the Interpol and BSC albums are fine, though not personal favorites.
Also recommended from 2002:
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Beck - Sea Change
Steve Earle - Jerusalem
Missy Elliot - Under Construction
the Breeders - Title Tk
Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel
the Donnas - Spend the Night
the Libertines - Up the Bracket

*BSS albums*

also: Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

I wouldn't vouch for the whole Wilco album, but "Heavy Metal Drummer" and (especially) "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" are great.

2nd QOTSA and Tobin. Also:

The Notwist - Neon Golden
Neko Case - Blacklisted
Boris - Heavy Rocks
My Computer - Vulnerabilia
Arto Lindsay - Invoke
Tom Waits - Alice
Rob - Satyred Love
Nina Nastasia - The Blackened Air
Nação Zumbi
Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi
Domenico +2 - Sincerely Hot
Plush - Fed
Max Tundra - Mastered by the Guy at the Exchange
OOIOO - Kila Kila Kila
Floor

From the list Interpol, Wilco and The Flaming Lips are all worth getting.

Fastnbulbous mentioned my favourite album of the year, Fed by Plush is an absolute 10/10 classic. I really can't recommend this album highly enough.

I would also add..
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man-Out of Season
Sparks-Lil' Beethoven
El-P-Fantastic Damage
The Walkmen-Everyone Who Pretended to Like me is Gone
Mr Lif-I Phantom
Saint Etienne-Finisterre

Grab the Deerhoof first. Reveille blew my mind when I first heard it, and although I followed them and still enjoy some of their later releases (big chunks of Apple O and Milk Man in particular), Reveille is the one that belongs in the museum imo. Music perpetually on a knife's edge.

like a lot:
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (their best album imo)
...and You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Sources Tags and Codes
Tom Waits - Alice

like:
Interpol
Wilco is worth hearing but not owning

don't like:
The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee (i believe i will be in the minority here)
Comets on Fire - Field Recordings from the Sun

i also recommend:
Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice
The Roots - Phrenology
Delgados - Hate
Metro Area
Cody ChesnuTT - The Headphone Masterpiece

"The Notwist - Neon Golden"

was the album after this any good? i was looking forward to it cuz i really liked neon golden, but it took so long for another one that i forgot that i was waiting for another one. (memo to bands: i only have, like, a five year attention span when it comes to follow-up albums.)

gotta get Tallahassee.

cosign on Low; Secret Name, Trust, and Things We Lost in the Fire are their peak for me.

― elephant rob, Friday, July 23, 2010 11:17 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

Source Tags & Codes is like instant nostalgia for me... '02 might be my favorite "albums" year for the 00's, with '03 as my favorite "singles" year.

source tags & codes is still incredible imo

that and tallahassee are the ones here that have held up best for me

EXCELLENT:

Oneida - Each One Teach One
Low - Trust
The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
Boris - Heavy Rocks
Isis - Oceanic

GOOD to GREAT:

Comets on Fire - Field Recordings from the Sun
The Black Dice - Beaches and Canyons
Mastodon - Remission
Melvins - Hostile Ambient Takeover
Deerhoof - Reveille
Animal Collective - Hollindagain

LOL NPR INDIE (but not bad):

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Interpol - Turn Out the Bright Lights
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

HAVEN'T HEARD (but like these bands otherwise):

Acid Mothers Temple - Univers zen ou de zero a zero
Electric Wizard - Let Us Prey

AVOID:

...and You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Sources Tags and Codes
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People

stuff I've heard from Year 2002:

Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Acid Mothers Temple - Electric Heavyland
High on Fire - Surrounded by Thieves
The Breeders - Title TK

also have heard Songs for the Deaf (QOTSA) and even though I really dug that album, it hasn't really aged that well for me, apart from maybe the first three songs...

Phrenology is record I just could never get into apart from "Seed 2.0" which is another one of my favorite songs ever...

billstevejim -- this: '02 might be my favorite "albums" year for the 00's, with '03 as my favorite "singles" year I 100% agree with.

Anyway, bearing in mind considerable gaps in my listening, here are the albums mentioned in this thread so far that I thoroughly endorse. Really, I don't think you can go far wrong with these:

Low - Trust
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee

Interpol - Turn Out the Bright Lights
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
Beck - Sea Change

Steve Earle - Jerusalem

Missy Elliot - Under Construction
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
The Notwist - Neon Golden

Neko Case - Blacklisted

Tom Waits - Alice 

Nina Nastasia - The Blackened Air 

Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out of Season

The Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended to Like me is Gone

Mr Lif - I Phantom

Archer Prewitt - Three