Best Albums of 2002

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1.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 

 Wilco

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"Not a single weak song on it. Not a single instrument out of place. Not a single production mistake. Not a single line that Tweedy doesn't inflect like if he really cared about his art. It's complex at every level, but it doesn't feel challenging because the music invites you to appreciate it lik...""Not a single weak song on it. Not a single instrument out of place. Not a single production mistake. Not a single line that Tweedy doesn't inflect like if he really cared about his art. It's complex at every level, but it doesn't feel challenging because the music invites you to appreciate it like if it was the dumbest pop music ever. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot channels every possible mood or emotion that contemporary americana can deliver and enhances them through the new sonic palette that the new millenium (and Tweedy's insatiable perfectionism) had to offer. Amazing work."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

1,698 charts

Rank Score:

16,777

Rank in 2002:

1

Rank in 2000s:

6

Overall Rank:

61

Average Rating:

 85 (1,975 votes)

Comments:

173

2.

Turn On The Bright Lights 

 Interpol

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"While The Strokes represented the Television-y part of the '00s punk revival, Interpol came to be the leading band of the gloomy Suicide/Joy Division-inspired section of the thing. But Paul Banks went further from only mimicking this sound: they renewed their work in a way that fits perfectly the...""While The Strokes represented the Television-y part of the '00s punk revival, Interpol came to be the leading band of the gloomy Suicide/Joy Division-inspired section of the thing. But Paul Banks went further from only mimicking this sound: they renewed their work in a way that fits perfectly the new century's fears and emotions."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

1,305 charts

Rank Score:

13,000

Rank in 2002:

2

Rank in 2000s:

9

Overall Rank:

89

Average Rating:

 84 (1,642 votes)

Comments:

128

3.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head 

 Coldplay

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"Around December of last year (2014) A Rush Of Blood To The Head was without a doubt my favorite album. Around 6 months later, after hearing around 200 new albums of multiple bands, genres, decades, styles, etc. and only hearing it once since then (just now) it still holds it relatively easily. It...""Around December of last year (2014) A Rush Of Blood To The Head was without a doubt my favorite album. Around 6 months later, after hearing around 200 new albums of multiple bands, genres, decades, styles, etc. and only hearing it once since then (just now) it still holds it relatively easily. It’s sort of funny actually, while I’m hearing massive, powerful, moving post rock songs, and experimental, unique, creative hip-hop albums, I’d say to myself “There’s no way a COLDPLAY album can be better than what I’m hearing right now. No way.” Yet I find myself sitting in awe at how raw and beautiful this is. It’s an album I don’t really find direct connection to that much now, but that really isn’t the main reason I love it. I don’t love it because it has these challenging lyrics about relevant social and personal themes, I don’t love it because it has some sort of crazy important significance in music history or something like that. I love it because it’s human. I think a lot of this has to do with point of view and perception. For example, you could easily say the “Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah” that takes up part of the chorus in “In My Place” is unconfident and weak, and I’d agree with you. But the song has a theme of weariness, tiredness, weakness, so it fits. You could say the album has a limited point of view, really only looking through the eyes of one person who is feeling only one thing, and I could agree. But let’s be honest; as people, it’s much, much, much more easy to see things from our point of view than someone else’s. Sure, the lyrics might be occasionally clunky. But don’t we all have awkward moments? We all say dumb things, we all don’t know the exactly right things to say at the exactly right time. You can view anything in tons of different ways. Those things I listed could easily be negatives for some people, but they obviously aren’t from me. It just depends on how you look at it. You can look at GZA’s “Liquid Swords” the same way you look at Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side Of The Moon” Well, if you view one like the other, one could seem great and the other could seem terrible. They’re both great albums in their own sense though, you just sorta have to look at it in a completely different set of eyes. This is why I think people saying Coldplay is a poor man’s U2 or Radiohead is hilarious. Sure they have their similarities, but in other aspects they’re completely different. As much as I love Radiohead’s “OK Computer,” I find it hard to feel to the word choice. I can understand and feel the emotion or struggle in that album, but if you ask me I don’t know too many people that go around using words like “Jackknifed” or “Cattle prods” in a day to day conversation. But you could say it adds this extra feeling of stress and insecurity. That whole perception thing again. Then let’s take a look at “Amsterdam”, which you could criticize for having simplistic and unchallenging lyrics to read through. But on the other side you could say that the simplicity makes it feel more honest and relatable. For each album and style you need to look at it as its own thing, not let what else you’ve heard be your rule of standard because when you hear something better that’s new and original, since you’ve set the guidelines based solely on one thing that’s different, you’ll dislike it without even realizing what you’re hearing. So what does any of this have to do with AROBTTH? Any specific album for that matter? I feel the most “me” while listening to this album. It’s the way I view it, not based on anything else besides my own feelings and thoughts. It’s an album, as a person, I just get the most. I understand how Chris feels, what he goes through, how he reacts to things on this album. But it’s not that I only understand it, it’s that I can feel it too. I might not be able to think of a situation in my life that exactly parallels that of the fantastic title track, but I can still feel it because it’s just a normal human being a normal human. It’s pretty bizarre to think that simply writing down how you feel is much more powerful than thinking as hard as you can about certain metaphors and imagery. But I guess that’s just how I view it. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

1,363 charts

Rank Score:

11,833

Rank in 2002:

3

Rank in 2000s:

11

Overall Rank:

107

Average Rating:

 79 (2,223 votes)

Comments:

187

4.

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots 

 The Flaming Lips

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"My worthless two cents on Coyne's lyrics... it's all subjective, of course... A lot of bands tackle the themes covered in some of the work of the Lips, but in my opinion few do it in Coyne's unpretentious fashion. I can relate to his musings on life and love far better than any other musician or ...""My worthless two cents on Coyne's lyrics... it's all subjective, of course... A lot of bands tackle the themes covered in some of the work of the Lips, but in my opinion few do it in Coyne's unpretentious fashion. I can relate to his musings on life and love far better than any other musician or lyricist I can think of, simply because it doesn't sound like some self-important, navel gazing rock star wrote it. And, y'know, then he writes about evil robots and cats killing dogs and shit. So you get the poignant observations on existence as well as the bat shit crazy. He's definitely covered a wide spectrum, if no other credit is given to him."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

1,330 charts

Rank Score:

10,679

Rank in 2002:

4

Rank in 2000s:

15

Overall Rank:

119

Average Rating:

 83 (1,686 votes)

Comments:

107

5.

Songs For The Deaf 

 Queens Of The Stone Age

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"If I were to spend a summer night somewhere in the desert boozing and watching semi-nakid ladies getting it on with each other, this would be my choice of music to zoom the night away. I don't think it would be even possible to make this kinda music, say, in downtown L.A. At least these desert ra...""If I were to spend a summer night somewhere in the desert boozing and watching semi-nakid ladies getting it on with each other, this would be my choice of music to zoom the night away. I don't think it would be even possible to make this kinda music, say, in downtown L.A. At least these desert rats are doing more than just wasting precious water resources in places where humans shouldn't even be in the first place. Dave Grohl should just fold Foos and bang the drums with a guy who knows instinctively how to write good rock tunes."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

1,163 charts

Rank Score:

10,227

Rank in 2002:

5

Rank in 2000s:

16

Overall Rank:

126

Average Rating:

 83 (1,531 votes)

Comments:

75

6.

You Forgot It In People 

 Broken Social Scene

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"Fantastic album, really hits off once you get to Looks Just Like The Sun. From there BSS gives you a wonderful instrumental piece (Pacific Theme) and then onto the two highlights: the beautiful Anthem For A Seventeen Year Old Girl and the excellent Cause=Time. While nothing else on the album hits...""Fantastic album, really hits off once you get to Looks Just Like The Sun. From there BSS gives you a wonderful instrumental piece (Pacific Theme) and then onto the two highlights: the beautiful Anthem For A Seventeen Year Old Girl and the excellent Cause=Time. While nothing else on the album hits the high of these two tracks, Lover's Spit and I'm Still Your Fag are also highlights. I also absolutely adore how the album ends by repeating the string part from Anthem!!!!"  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

643 charts

Rank Score:

5,394

Rank in 2002:

6

Rank in 2000s:

46

Overall Rank:

312

Average Rating:

 82 (715 votes)

Comments:

33

7.

Sea Change 

 Beck

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"Maybe "Sea Change" connected with me at the perfect time or not, but this is one of the best albums about loss, helplessness, and trying to move on, but being not truly able to move forward yet. Over years of weekly listening, I've found that once you move past Beck's own story about the creation...""Maybe "Sea Change" connected with me at the perfect time or not, but this is one of the best albums about loss, helplessness, and trying to move on, but being not truly able to move forward yet. Over years of weekly listening, I've found that once you move past Beck's own story about the creation of this album, it has many pieces that are applicable to thew struggle of Depression day in and day out. Musically, this record is top notch: Nigel Godrich's production really brought out some great ideas from Beck, his father, and the band. From the Shepard Scale in "Lonesome Tears" and intricate guitar weave on "Already Dead" to the lush swell on "Little One", this is an album that demands repeated listening to understand the scope of thought that went into each piece and how they fit into the overall scheme of the album. The synth textures and space noises on "Golden Age" can sound like a car accelerating off into the night and the deadpan vocals are forlorn and depleted just like the narrator would be in that situation. There's an aching honesty that permeates the record until you feel swallowed up into the dark atmosphere. Maybe that is why I think "Little One" is so effectively placed. No matter the listener, start with "Golden Age", it's Beck's greatest song."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

746 charts

Rank Score:

4,956

Rank in 2002:

7

Rank in 2000s:

54

Overall Rank:

341

Average Rating:

 80 (989 votes)

Comments:

56

8.

( ) [Svigaplatan] 

 Sigur Rós

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""Untitled" is certainly the best song"  Reply

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Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

683 charts

Rank Score:

4,419

Rank in 2002:

8

Rank in 2000s:

61

Overall Rank:

377

Average Rating:

 82 (870 votes)

Comments:

44

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By The Way 

 Red Hot Chili Peppers

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"An album that grows on you. I've never really understood why RHCP has felt it necessary to "funkify" their sound for so long - or rather, at all. To me it's always felt out-of-place'ish, more or less forced, not to mention, unnecessary. I appreciate the band's drive, good humor, openness and all ...""An album that grows on you. I've never really understood why RHCP has felt it necessary to "funkify" their sound for so long - or rather, at all. To me it's always felt out-of-place'ish, more or less forced, not to mention, unnecessary. I appreciate the band's drive, good humor, openness and all such positive qualities and then some. But in hindsight, hanging desperately onto funky elements all those years has only managed to hold the band back, never to fully find it's own sound. I don't think RHCP merely reinvented itself in BTW: I think they finally found home. There are fillers, sure, but that's always the case with RHCP. For some strange (and likely very poor) reason RHCP always crams too much stuff on one record. Maybe they (and the people they choose to collaborate with) have never heard the expression: quit while you're winning."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

613 charts

Rank Score:

4,108

Rank in 2002:

9

Rank in 2000s:

63

Overall Rank:

404

Average Rating:

 76 (1,092 votes)

Comments:

61

10.

Geogaddi 

 Boards Of Canada

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"Scariest listen of my life. Ending with Magic Window was the most nerve-racking couple minutes ever, even after multiple listens. This album is the epitome of an underrated masterpiece"  Reply

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Year of Release:

2002

Appears in:

408 charts

Rank Score:

3,367

Rank in 2002:

10

Rank in 2000s:

83

Overall Rank:

515

Average Rating:

 80 (473 votes)

Comments:

27

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Best Albums of 2002 composition

Top 1,000 Top 500 Top 250 Top 100

Artist	Albums	%
Various Artists	16	2%
Nas	2	0%
The Mountain Goats	2	0%
Charlie Parker	2	0%
Nine Inch Nails	2	0%
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.	2	0%
Johnny Cash	2	0%
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Country	Albums	%
	464	46%
	185	18%
	38	4%
	38	4%
	37	4%
	27	3%
	25	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	932	93%
Yes	69	7%

Live?	Albums	%
No	963	96%
Yes	38	4%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	984	98%
Yes	17	2%