My Top 50 Albums of 2002 List (with 12 years of hindsight)

My immediate thoughts:

Christ, did I really like that Chevelle record so much?
Why on earth was Electric Wizard so low?
Some of these, I don't even remember the last time I listened to them.

Heh, I've only heard three of these... Voting QOTSA, played it a couple of months ago and enjoyed it as much as I did in 2002.

Electric Wizard. It's not their best album though.

Dälek by a zillion zillion miles

Didn't see the Flaming Lips' Yoshimi on here...

Voting for The Walkmen. Even though they've made a few good records now that one is still their best by quite a way.

High on Fire. I shd re-listen to that Chevelle record tho.

I loved that Walkmen album -- Dälek and Thee Michelle Gun Elephant and Jucifer had great albums too.

i think I Get Wet is the only one here i've listened to since 2002

This was year zero for me as far as really exploring music. As a consequence, most of what I listened to that year was the more popular forms of indie rock, edm, hip hop, etc. I loved that Walkman album but probably shouldn't vote since the only other album on that list that I've heard is QOTSA.

Dalek

Voted Andre WK, though isn't that a 2001 release?

Maybe it did but is placed pretty highly on the 2002 Pazz & Jop so I wasn't the only one who voted for it.

For shits and giggles, here is where my albums placed on the P&J (omitting the vast amount which did not) through the top 400 that Christgau was nice enough to include on his page:

Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf (Interscope) #11
N.E.R.D. - In Search Of... (Virgin) #19
Andrew W. K. - I Get Wet (Island) #28
Paul Westerberg - Stereo (Vagrant) #59
Steve Earle –- Jerusalem (Artemis) #61
The Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone (Star Time) #86
Audioslave – Audioslave (Epic) #89
Foo Fighters - One By One (RCA) #91
High On Fire - Surrounded By Thieves (Relapse) #140
Dälek - From Filthy Tongue Of Gods And Griots (Ipecac) #198
The Black Keys - The Big Come Up (Alive) #285
Chevelle - Wonder What's Next (Epic) #390

i get wet all the time

whoops that sentence is probably better with quote marks

And here are some things that charted there that I didn't listen to until afterwards that probably would have been on the list (or at least would appear on a lost for 2002 if I had to compile it today):

The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
RJD2 - Deadringer
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Black Dice - Beaches and Canyons
Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
Hot Hot Heat - Make Up the Breakdown
McLusky - McLusky Do Dalla
Donnas - Spend The Night
Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice
Mooney Suzuki - Electric Sweat
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
David Cross - Shut Up You Fucking Baby!

The McLusky has actually become since one of my favorite records ever (no hyperbole either).

Records I like
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf (Interscope)
High On Fire - Surrounded By Thieves (Relapse)
Electric Wizard - Let Us Prey
Sheavy – Synchronized (The Music Cartel)

I am working my way through some albums I hadn't listened to in ages:

The Party Of Helicopters - Space...And How Sweet It Was (Troubleman Unlimited)
Still as brilliant as I recall it, though the first disc is considerably better than the first.

Ikara Colt - Chat And Business (Epitaph)
This one holds up. I wasn't exposed to Wire back then, a massive oversight that has since been corrected, but this one totally fits in the same way.

Chevelle - Wonder What's Next (Epic)
Hey, gues what? This one holds up far better than I expected! "The Red" still gets me.

Dälek - From Filthy Tongue Of Gods And Griots (Ipecac)
Also as good as I remember it, and a lot noiser. Makes me realize that was what I missed the most about subsequent releases.

High On Fire - Surrounded By Thieves (Relapse)
Still brilliant.

Hatebreed - Perseverance (Universal)
Couldn't make it through the album. What was I thinking?

Death Of Marat - All Eyes Open (Stickfigure)
Not as solid as I remember, which is a shame.

Voted Walkmen, that album is still great!

NERD or Dälek, NERD is probably still the best of the two but this is the 2002 lameover of the album I guess so might just spoil my ballot

The High on Fire record is so good. Thraft of Canaan baby.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

40. The Giraffes - Helping You Help Yourself (Ape Sauce) 1
41. Vader –- Revelations (Metal Blade) 1

Would love to know who voted for these...