Best Album of 2002?

Hippie!

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?).

Some of these may have been released last year.

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

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.

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

T

C

interpol was also a pleasant surprise.

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)

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

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.

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

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

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!}

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

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"

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

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.

Because we like it?

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

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.

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.

Wow, someone else actually listed this! Nice!

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)?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)