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Continuing in our quest to find the best albums of the 2000s, we look at the greatest albums released in 2002. A very fine year in music. As always, we depend on your votes to help us come closer to our verdict of the best album of the last 10 years, in the mean time, we will outline your favorite and our favorite albums of each year.
For 2002′s list, I turned to the Village Voice and their righteous Pazz & Jop Poll, surveying nearly 700 critics. I also went through a few Year-end lists presented by The Onion’s AV Club.
Please vote for the album you think was the best in 2002. If your choice isn’t on here, we’d love to see it in the comments section (though, we’d appreciate if you’d vote for your favorite on the list anyway). Here are 2002′s finalists:
A. The Streets: Original Pirate Material
B. Coldplay: A Rush Of Blood To The Head
C. Missy Elliott: Under Construction
D. Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
E. Beck: Sea Change
F. Sigur Rós: ()
G. The Roots: Phrenology
H. Queens of the Stone Age: Songs for the Deaf
I. Spoon: Kill The Moonlight
J. Iron & Wine: The Creek Drank The Cradle
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{ 21 comments… read them below or add one }
Why does Sea Change only have 5%?!
never mind, is posted this too early
Wow… 2002 was a pretty awful year for music.
You know something is wrong when A Rush Of Blood To The Head has more votes than YHF… not that it’s a bad album, but come on
Don’t fret. It’s only been up for a couple hours.
FROU FROU’S DETAILS! brilliant.
EVERYBODY loves coldplay
*side eye*
The LAST good coldplay album before they went downhill. Good album, not sure its the best of the year, but who knows.
The only reason I said Coldplay is because that cd did not come out of my car for 2 months straight and I still listen to it every once in awhile. While it’s not the indie rock answer, I had to go with it because it blew me away then and continues to be in rotation now.
I like Jason Mraz’s Waiting For My Rocket To Come more than anything on that list. But you know, shoot me. lol
OMG Christina’s Stripped came out that year! Haha, I was 13 then and that was THE album of the year for me and my friends. Sad memories…
Libertines Up the Bracket should be in the list. Shouldn’t win, but should get a mention. Songs for the Deaf for the win.
The Flaming Lips?!?!??!
I don’t get why The Libertines and the Flaming Lips aren’t in there. Voted for Yankee Hotel Foxtrot though, class album.
rush of blood and yhf both great
I picked Yankee Hotel Foxtrot on your poll, but my real pick is The Walkmen’s Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone. I loooove that album.
I actually haven’t heard that many albums from 2002, but from what I’ve listened to in that particular year, Interpol impressed me the most with “Turn on the Bright Lights”.
i love coldplay
Oh yeah! Interpol and Flaming Lips FTW?
I can safely say though, YHF, then Sea Change, then Rush of Blood, SFtD, The Streets, and Missy. The others are all great too, but I think those are the best.
Flaming Lips and the Streets both put out amazing CDs, but () takes the take for sure. What a beautiful album.
I too am disappointed by the lack of Interpol. I ended up voting for Coldplay because it was the only album who I could comfortably say I really enjoyed on here. The rest, well, they are from great bands but these albums weren’t the ones that stood out to me.
Still. I know it’s difficult to choose but I feel there would have been a strong vote for Interpol if it was an option.