Album of The Year - Endgame

[BjorgenFjorgen]

I will say that it's not my favorite Murder By Death album (In bocca al lupo gets that title), but it is in my top 10 for "Best album names of all time"

Wow, totally forgot about that album. I need to give it another listen.

I relistened this morning. Agreed that In Bocca is my favourite but I do love the debut too. I miss those dark and stormy instrumentals.

 

[dhodo]

Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them is pretty great too.

 

[imtheocean]

1. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
2. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3. Beck - Sea Change
4. Sigur Ros - ()
5. Pearl Jam - Riot Act
6. Brad - Welcome to Discovery Park
7. Johnny Cash - America IV - The Man Comes Around
8. Tom Waits - Alice
9. Los Lobos - Good Morning Aztlan
10. Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle

Honorable Mention:
Neil Young & Booker T. and the MGs - Are you Passionate? - Mostly for Goin' Home which didn't feature the MG's but is a standout Crazy Horse track

 

[Hollywood]

My favorite albums of 2002:

1. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
2. Doves - The Last Broadcast
3. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
4. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
5. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
6. Beck - Sea Change
7. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
8. Foo Fighters - One by One
9. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
10. Hot Hot Heat - Make Up the Breakdown

Honorable mentions:

- Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
- Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
- Black Rebel Motorcycle - BRMC
- N.E.R.D. - In Search Of...
- The Vines - Evolved
- Weezer - Maladroit
- Sigur Rós - ( )
- Ladytron - Light and Magic
- The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Behind the Music
- The Music - The Music

 

[High Rant District]

2002's best album by far is Heritage by Four Way Anal Touchfight and it isn't even close.

 

[wmeugene]

So here goes...

1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
3. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
4. The Libertines - Up The Bracket
5. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
6. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
7. Doves - The Last Broadcast
8. Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
9. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
10. Spoon - Kill The Moonlight

Some context to the listing, the top 2 are in my top 5 of the decade, the top 6 or so are probably in my top 25, I'd give 4.5 or 5 stars to everything on this list and I think Yoshimi is about equal with the Soft Bulletin, which was my #1 for 1999.

This might be the best year of this millennium so far.

 

[wmeugene]

So here goes...

1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
3. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
4. The Libertines - Up The Bracket
5. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
6. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
7. Doves - The Last Broadcast
8. Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
9. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
10. Spoon - Kill The Moonlight

Some context to the listing, the top 2 are in my top 5 of the decade, the top 6 or so are probably in my top 25, I'd give 4.5 or 5 stars to everything on this list and I think Yoshimi is about equal with the Soft Bulletin, which was my #1 for 1999.

This might be the best year of this millennium so far.

Add on albums by Beck, Coldplay, Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Sigur Ros, Bright Eyes, etc. that are very worthy. The year is a little weak as far as hip-hop goes with good efforts by The Roots, Missy Elliot, and Clipse leading the way.

 

[cbl]

So here goes...

1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
3. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
4. The Libertines - Up The Bracket
5. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
6. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
7. Doves - The Last Broadcast
8. Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
9. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
10. Spoon - Kill The Moonlight

Some context to the listing, the top 2 are in my top 5 of the decade, the top 6 or so are probably in my top 25, I'd give 4.5 or 5 stars to everything on this list and I think Yoshimi is about equal with the Soft Bulletin, which was my #1 for 1999.

This might be the best year of this millennium so far.

the first 45 seconds of Untitled still gives me chills.

perhaps the only more remarkable to-the-masses debut track is Dramamine

 

[RowBearToe]

2002:

1. Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
2. Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
3. The Used - The Used
4. Jason Mraz - Waiting For My Rocket To Come
5. The Black Keys - The Big Come Up
6. Northstar - Is This Thing Loaded?
7. New Found Glory - Sticks and Stones
8. Eminem - The Eminem Show
9. Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
10. Nas - God’s Son

Honorable Mentions:
11. Nirvana - Nirvana
12. Finch - What It Is To Burn
13. Foo Fighters - One By One
14. Jurassic 5 - Power in Numbers

This was a great year in music for me. The top 2 are in my top 10 favorite albums of all time, and the top 5 will all be pretty high up in the best of the decade list.

 

[BjorgenFjorgen]

 

[Woob_woob]

This was Controls year? I goofed on my top 10 then

 

[teefer]

Almost forgot to do my soundtrack post:

 

[Jango]

This was Controls year? I goofed on my top 10 then

Such a brilliant album. Def top 10 for me.

 

[willcoll]

2002:

1. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
2. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
3. Nada Surf ‎– Let Go
4. mclusky ‎– mclusky Do Dallas
5 The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
6. The Walkmen ‎– Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone
7. Neko Case - Blacklisted
8. The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
9. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
10. Broken Social Scene ‎– You Forgot It In People

 

[slabsofvinyl]

2002:

1. Interpol - "Turn on the Bright Lights"
2. Wilco - "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot"
3. The Flaming Lips - "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots"
4. Queens of the Stone Age - "Songs for the Deaf"
5. Sigur Rós - ( )
6. Broken Social Scene - "You Forgot It in People"
7. Beck - "Sea Change"
8. Boards of Canada - "Geogaddi"
9. The Decemberists - "Castaways and Cutouts"
10. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "Yanqui U.X.O."

 

[Sprague Dawley]

1. Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice
2. Born Dead Icons - Salvation on the knees
3. Isis - Oceanic
4. A Frames - 1
5. Tear It Up - Nothing To Nothing

 

[Teeeee]

1. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights

By a HUGE margin. It was one of THE most mind blowing albums on a first listen I've ever heard. It ushered in the aughts/nyc scene. It's a stunning album and they have never ever even come close to replicating it nor are they even the same band. And it being so much higher in my mind than the #2 on my list says a lot

2. Sleater Kinney - One Beat
3. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
4. Sigur Ros - ( )
5. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
6. Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
7. Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
8. Doves - The Last Broadcast
9. Christina Aguillera - Stripped
10. Justin Timberlake - Justified

 

[Badams]

2002:
1) The Books - Thought for Food (I don't know how to explain it but The Books reorient something in my brain that is confusing/pleasurable/exciting all at the same time)
2) The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas (these are the only The Mountain Goats albums that I particularly care for but I really love them)
3) The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
4) Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (Boards of Canada rule!)
5) Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (so I hadn't spent much time with this one before going through these, I like it!)
6) Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (this seems low, maybe my familiarity with this album hurt it as I hadn't listened to the albums above it in a while)
7) Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
8) The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
9) Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
10) Sleater Kinney - One Beat

I make these lists based on what I like/appreciate the most now. I don't think I was listening to many of these at the time except maybe The Mountain Goats and The Flaming Lips. A lot of memories/feelings associated with those MG albums.

 

[BjorgenFjorgen]

EDIT: whoops, forgot Godspeed

1. Coheed and Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade
2. Murder by Death - Like the Exorcist, But More Breakdancing
3. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
4. Sigur Ros - ( )
5. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
6. Pedro the Lion - Control
7. Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle
8. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.
9. Songs: Ohia - Didn't It Rain
10. Alexisonfire - Alexisonfire
10. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

HMs:
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (probably the first album I was ever obsessed with, in 8th grade)
Thrice - The Illusion of Safety
Mastodon - Remission
Destroyer - This Night
The Books - Thought for Food
Lauryn Hill - MTV Unplugged 2.0

 

[Rip_City]

Some great albums this year, though I found difficult to come up with favorites. Not too many esoteric picks that I liked from this year. But anyways,

Favorite Albums of 2002:

1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For the Deaf
3. William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops
4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.
5. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
6. Clipse - Lord Willin'
7. Sigur Ros - ( )
8. Loscil - Submers
9. Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly
10. Carissa's Weird - Songs About Leaving