The Best of the first 2/3 of 2002

xinlisupreme - tomorrow never comes
sonic youth - murray street
the streets - original pirate material
boards of canada - geogaddi
mri - all that glitters
farben - textstar

and THAT'S IT. (so far.)

interpol - turn on your bright lights

wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot

rapture - house of jealous lovers 12"

spoon - kill the moonlight

jayz - girl girls girls remix (Not an album i know. but what a great track)

there's been some great damned stuff released so far this year, with a lot more to come i'd wager!

I dunno, the last rekkid I bought was a 7" of Enola Gay.

Restricting a list to albums is rockist, Mr Pitchfork. I nominate MC Pitman. I'll also nominate THE STREETS if that was this year, for my brane is like but a SIEVE and the passing of time means nothing to me.

That's all I can think of.

camron
linkin park
eminem
nelly

and

BEST TRACK SO FAR YOU CAN SEX TO :: MARIO - JUST A FRIEND 2002

Beachwood Sparks is the only one that takes my breath away from start to finish, and is currently miles in the lead. There have been plenty of good, nice records this year, but stone-cold masterpieces have been rare.

FC Kahuna-Machine Says Yes (kinda)

X-Press 2-Muzikizum

The Streets-Original Pirate Material

Fischerspooner-#1

Can I do comps? I mean DJ mixes, it's only fair surely.

Jon Carter-Viva Bugged Out.

Erick Morillo-Subliminal Sessions 3.

Subliminal Records-Subliminal Records the Story So Far (barely scraping in).

I could name about 40 cracking singles though (sounds like an article. hey!)

All of those would have made my top 20 last year.

My list isn't changing much because I'm horrendously broke. Send money plz!

• Nina Nastasia - The Blackened Air
  
• Eminem - The Eminem Show
  
• LCD Soundsystem - "Losing My Edge"
  
• Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
  
• The Reputation - S/T
  
• Pedro the Lion - Control
  
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
  
• Speedking - The Fist and the Laurels
  
• Wire - Read and Burn 01

Most Played in 2K2 (in addition to those above):

• Cheap Trick - the first 3 albums
  
• Anna Waronker - S/T
  
• Mike Hanle y - "Magical Kitty of Public Service"
  
• Sarah Shannon - S/T
  
• Public Image Limited - Second Edition
  
• No Doubt - Rock Steady
  
• Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel
  
• DJ Shadow - The Private Press (unfinished division)
  
• XTC - English Settlement (unfinished division)

• Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For the Deaf
  
• Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
  
• Jenny Toomey - Tempting
  
• Franklin Bruno - A Cat May Look at a Queen
  
• Destroyer - This Night
  
• Xinlisupreme - Tomorrow Never Comes
  
• Notwist - Neon Golden
  
• Flaming Lips - Yoshimi...
  
• (THIS SPACE RESERVED)

Top 5 live performances:

Sonic Youth

Sunny Murray

Bernard Parmegiani

Voivod

Jean Derome & Joane Hetu

Other good shows: 'Gypt Gore, Goa Gajah, Charles Wizen

I only have 4 albums that were released in 2002 (Derome/Hetu, The Unireverse, Rush, Robert Plant). Unless I count my own release, which would just be gauche.

Probably several others. Been a pretty good year, albums wise, but nothing to make me really go "wraaaaaaaaaugh" just yet.

Those are off the top of my head and pretty much in order.

Can't decide whether Doves or Flaming Lips fill the last spot, either might move up or down.

1. “Pretty As A Picture” Joie Dead Blonde Girlfriend
2. “Kik Off” Blak Twang
3. “2 Many DJs: As Heard On Radio Soulwax” Soulwax
4. “Blazing Arrow” Blackalicious
5. “All Music 60” AM60
6. “The Royal Tenenbaums” OST
7. “The Action Packed Mentalist Brings You The Fucking Jams” Kid 606
8. “European Punks” Scott 4
9. “Storytelling” Belle and Sebastian
10. “DJ Yoda’s How to Cut And Paste Mix Tape Volume 2” DJ Yoda

Ligeti is new performances of some of his orchestral works ("Atmospheres", "Lontano", "Apparitions", etc). Teldec is continuing the Ligeti series started by Sony. Sony already covered the non-orchestral stuff.

The Japanese set is a 10-CD box of new improvised music, much of it electronic, by people like Otomo Yoshihide, Toshimaru Nakamura, Sachiko M, Ami Yoshida, Seiichi Yamamoto and Haco. It's an inspiration (and unfortunately out of print already).

Akufen - My Way
Antipop Consortium - Arrhythmia
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow*
Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi
Cex - Tall, Dark & Handcuffed
Neko Case - Black Listed
Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head** (an ext. ast. for gd measure)
Dabrye - One Three
Greg Davis - Arbor
EL-P - Fantastic Damage
Faultline - Your Love Means Everything
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi vs. The Pink Robots
Marz - Love Streams
Mice Parade - All Roads Lead To Salzburg
Notwist - Neon Golden
RJD2 - Dead Ringer*
Spoon - Kill The Moonlight
Amon Tobin - Out From Out Where
Tom Waits - Alice/Blood Money
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot*

* = you lot don't scare me!

Gimme. Or atleast a tracklisting so I can download it.

1. back from space
2. verbal
3. chronic tronic
4. searchers
5. hey blondie
6. rosies
7. cosmo retro intro outro
8. triple science
9. el wraith
10. proper hoodidge
11. mighty micro people

Can't you people read? The man said five! FIVE!! *grumble grumble selfimportant rockcrit grumble when i was a boy they only put out three 78s a year grumble*

Only 5: These have not been mentioned yet and deserve NOT to be overlooked ! Re: [your original question] I want to see what I'm missing.

Sven Andersson - Hem Ljuva Hem (Longhaul)
Abfahrt Hinwil - Links Berge Rechts Seen (Toytronic)
Nils Petter Molvaer - NP3 (Universal Norway/ Emarcy)
Recloose - Cardiology (Planet E/ Studio k7)
Charles Webster - Born on the 4th July (Peacefrog)

Also see: DJ Martian Tracking The Best Albums of 2002

Plus the fact that I forgot Stella Chiweshe. Her album Talking Mbira is really good.

Oh shit that's eleven now.

Not a vintage year though. Not till the new Saint Etienne, Underworld and Justin Timberlake are unleashed, anyhow.

here are 3 reissues that were reelased this year that i got hold of:

derek bailey: old sights, new sounds
Albert ayler: lorrach, paris 1966
alice coltrane: universal conciousness

just remembered one right this sec

derek bailey: ballads.

i love so-called 'down years' cos really they just make you look a little harder

Astrobotnia, Part 01 (Rephlex, cat 123) LP
The Dead C., New Electric Music (Language Recordings, three) CD
Kevin Drumm, Sheer Hellish Miasma (Mego, 053) CD
Metamatics, FromDeathtoPasswordsWhereYou’reaPaperAirplane (Hydrogen Dukebox, Duke98LP) LP
Ohne, 1 (Mego, Ohne 1) CD
Charlemagne Palestine, Music for Big Ears (Staalplaat, std 156) CD
Pita, Get Down (Mego, 049) LP
String Theory, String Theory's Anhedonia (The Consumers Research and Development Label, crl 002) CD
Wire, Read & Burn 01 (Pinkflag, PF4) CD

Good singles-"Losing my edge", Sugababes-"Freak like me", Shakedown-"At night",Ludacris-"Rollout", The Rapture-"House of jealous lovers"

herbert - secondhand sounds
cee-lo - cee-lo green and his perfect imperfections
farben - textstar
tom waits - alice
sonic youth - murray street
eminem - eminem show (someone asked if anyone still listens to it - I haven't for a while, but that's common for me; before this past week I hadn't listened to alice for a month or so)

my favorite so far is the sonic youth album. I'd really like to get the other tom waits album in there but it's not as pleasing to me yet.

hey brock, was that jay-z remix released as a single or something? I would love any excuse to put it on a list this year too.

2 Many DJs - As Heard On Radio Soulwax
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
El-P - Fantastic Damage
V/A: Martin Landsky - Poker Flat Recordings Volume II
Herbert - Secondhand Sounds
(bonus: Coloma - Silverware)

np: Robert Plant - Dreamland

The "I'm totally riding Yancey's jock, plus two albums that no one has mentioned yet but someone should at least mention them so I'll do it" 5:

Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice
Hella - Hold Your Horse Is
Blood Brothers - March on Electric Children
Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish
Damien Jurado and Gathered In Song - I Break Chairs

michael yonkers band _microminiature love_
gate _the wisher table_
six organs of admittance _dark noontide_
electric eels _the eyeball of hell_
el-p _fantastic damage_

i got five more i can't resist listing:

fursaxa _fursaxa_
hototogisu _cuckoo cloudland_
kemialliset ystavat _luomottu karkkipurrki_
nargaroth _rasluka pt 2_
dead c

best live performance:

charalambides!!

Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Farben - Textstar
The Remote Viewer - Here I Go Again On My Own
Tom Waits - Blood Money
Notwist - Neon Golden

Somewhere:

Do Make Say Think - & Yet & Yet
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Dabrye - Instrmntl
Xinlisupreme - Tomorrow Never Comes

Waiting to hear:

Murray Street, Low Trust (although from what I've heard this is disappointing -- "Canada" is practically indie rock!)

Street - Original Pirate Material,
Fischerspooner - #1,
Herbert - Second Hand Sounds,
International Deejay Gigilo's comp,
So Solid Crew - Fuck it

If you havent at least given it a listen, thats a shame.. more musical pastiches that give you a direct line into the workings of his mind...I recommend it wholeheartedly.

p

this is not new! YEAARGH!!!

Still anticipating to hear Amon Tobin, Piano Magic, Xinlisupreme, Kompakt Total 4, Horsepower Productions, and Massive Attack if they are actually coming out.

i did finally get a copy of cyrille/graves "dialogue of the drums" tho.

hstencil, i like yr list. Props!

Stuff released a while ago:

1) Radio Birdman, Radios Appear (last year's SubPop comp that I played to death has most of the material on it but only this year did I get to hear the rest of the tracks.)

2) The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds (yes, it took me this long to buy it)

3) Daft Punk, Discovery

4) The Ramones (the reissue with tons of extras and stuff)

5) Marvin Gaye, What's Going On (see #2)

Singles:

1) Blackalicious, "Make You Feel That Way"

2) Royksopp, "Poor Leno"

3) Wildbunch, "Danger! High Voltage"

4) Freelance Hairdresser, "Marshall's Been Snookered" (stole this choice from Matos)

5) Beck, "Paper Tiger" (I count this because it's been released over the internet)

Yes, the geniuses who put this vers. of ILM together thought of everything.

Paging through the list I'm surprised most by many of the most frequently cited records I've heard...leading me to believe that I'm not missing all the great stuff, maybe.

This was my quick five, w/ out thinking about it too much:

1. Farben – Texstar
2. The Books – Thought for Food
3. Boards of Canada – Geogaddi
4. Tim Hecker – Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again
5. Req – Sketchbook

2)Trail of Dead: Source Tags and Codes

3)Sonic Youth: Murray Street

4)DJ Rupture: Minesweeper Suite

5)DJ Shadow: The Private Press

But, Dammit, I just can't stop at five! So...

6)RJD2: Dead Ringer

7)Neko Case: Blacklisted

8)Blackalicious: Blazing Arrow

9)Beth Gibbons: Out of Season

10)The Neptunes: In Search of...

11)Sigur Ros: ()

12)Autechre: Gantz/Graf EP

13)Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights

1. Montgolfier Brothers - The World Is Flat
2. Lambchop - Is a Woman
3. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
4. Sonic Youth - Murray Street
5. Tom Waits - Alice

The Roots - Phrenology
System of a Down - Steal This Album!
George Harrison - Brainwashed
Themselves - The No Music.
Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk