Favorite Music of 2002
chosen by the PSF staff
Andy Beta
(also see the ridiculously extensive Editor's List)
- Akio Suzuki Odds and Ends
- Boards of Canada Geogaddi
- James Luther Dickinson Dixie Fried
- Kevin Drumm Sheer Hellish Miasma
- Johan Johannsson Englaborn
- Love Joys Lovers Rock
- Rolling Stones Aftermath (UK version)
- Sonny & Linda Sharrock Paradise
- Brendan Walls Cassia Fistula
- Keith Whitman Fullerton Playthroughs
Kelly Burnette
- To Live and Shave in L.A. The Wigmaker in 18thC. Williamsburg
- Alog Duck Rabbit
- John Fahey Of Rivers and Religion
- Kan Mikami 13 CD P.S.F. Boxset
- Languis Unithematic
- Sun Ra Sound of Joy
- Sun City Girls Horse Cock Phepner
- Signer Low Light Dreams
- Suicide Suicide
- Dylan Nyoukis The Shield That Pierces the Earth
William Crain
- Holy Modal Rounders Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders reissue
- the Clientele The Lost Weekend E.P.
- David Shire The Conversation OST
- Pavement Slanted and Enchanted Redux
- DB's Stands for Decibals/Repercussion reissue
- Michael Andrews Donnie Darko OST
- Various Farewell to Fondle Em
- The Strokes Hard to Explain ep
- The Rolling Stones Aftermath UK version reissue
- Clinic Walking with Thee
- The Go-Betweens Spring Hill Fair reissue
Jon Dale
- Plush Fed
- Metro Area Metro Area
- Super Collider Raw Digits
- Nagisa Ni te Feel
- Various Digital Disco
- Annette Krebs Guitar Solo
- Vibracathedral Orchestra Dabbling With Gravity and Who You Are
- Michael Mayer Immer
- Matt Valentine Tonight! One Night Only! MV & EE in Heaven
- The Streets Original Pirate Material
Phil Freeman
- Miles Davis The Complete Miles At Montreux 1973-1991
- Wire Read & Burn
- Liars They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top
- DJ Spooky Optometry
- Peter Brotzmann/William Parker/Michael Wertmuller Nothung
- Cecil Taylor/Bill Dixon/Tony Oxley Cecil Taylor/Bill Dixon/Tony Oxley
- Agoraphobic Nosebleed Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope
- David S. Ware Quartet Freedom Suite
- Yakuza Way Of The Dead
- Orthrelm 2nd 18/04 Norildivoth Crallos-Lomrixth Urthiln
Jeannie Fury
- The Paybacks Knock Loud
- The Distillers Sing Sing Death House
- Interpol Turn On The Bright Lights
- Sleater-Kinney One Beat
- McLusky McLusky Do Dallas
- Bantam Bantam
- Imperial Teen On
- Comet Gain Realistes
- The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Vs. the Pink Robots
- Various Artists Punch Drunk Volume IV
Gary Gomes
- Absolute Zero Smashing Icons
- George Antheil, University of Massachusetts Lowell Percussion Ensemble Ballet Mechanique (original 1924 version)
- Evan Parker Electo-Acoustic Ensemble Drawn Inward
- Yucca Tree Records Compilation (Chris Cutler and Faust)
- Charles Hayward/Quiet Sun Mainstream
- The Nice America, the BBC sessions
- James Kelleher Nine Planets--Vedic Astrological Mantras
- Messiaen (composer) / Boulez (conductor) Chronochromie
- Gong Greatest Hits
- Carl Ruggles or Matthijs Vermeulen (Any CD)
Jason Gross
- Imperial Teen Go
- Kasey Chambers Barricades & Brickwalls
- 2 Many DJ's As Heard on Radio Soulwax
- Radio 4 Gotham!
- Nappy Roots Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz
- Elvis Costello When I Was Cruel
- The Mendoza Line Lost in Revelry
- Clinic Walking With Thee
- Hot Hot Heat Make Up the Breakdown
- Aaron Cometbus Despite Everything
Kurt Hernon
- The Bigger Lovers Honey in the Hive
- David Baerwald Here Comes the New Folk Underground
- The Black Keys The Big Come Up
- Longwave Day Sleeper EP
- Glenn Gould State of Wonder
- Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- Grandmaster Flash Essential Classic Edition
- Steve Earle Jerusalem
- Centro-matic Distance and Clime
- Super Fury Animals Rings Around the World
Marc Horton
- Linda Thompson Fashionably Late
- Clinic Walking With Thee
- Cotton Mather The Big Picture
- East River Pipe Shining Hours in a Can (reissue)
- Beck Sea Change
- Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
- Aimee Mann Lost in Space
- David kilgour A Feather in the Engine
- Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- Sleater-kinney One Beat
Joss Hutton
- Clinic Walking With Thee
- Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- South Filthy You Can Name It Yo' Mammy If You Wanna
- The Beatings "Bad Feeling" (45)
- Various Artists The Top Deck Ska Singles boxset
- You Am I Deliverance
- Various Artists Black & Proud -The Soul Of The Black Panther Era
- The Coral The Coral
- The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster Horse Of The Dog
- Granpaboy Mono
Brian James
- Beck Sea Change
- Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- Tom Waits Alice
- Tom Waits Blood Money
- The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
- Sonic Youth Murray Street
- Soft Boys Nextdoorland
- Solomon Burke Don't Give Up On Me
- Peter Gabriel Up
- Gomez In Our Gun
Kortney Jmaeff
- Beck Sea Changes
- Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil
- Danko Jones Born a Lion
- Hot Hot Heat Make Up the Breakdown
- Corb Lund Band Five Dollar Bill
- Motorhead Hammered
- Robin Black + IRS Planet : Fame
- Black Dice Beaches + Canyons
- Q and not U Different Damage
- The Walkmen Everyone who Pretended to Like me is Gone
Jesse Jarnow
- Boards of Canada Geogaddi
- Cornelius Point
- Jeremy Barnes A Hawk and a Hacksaw
- The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
- Tom Waits Blood Money
- Tom Waits Alice
- Yo La Tengo The Sounds of the Sounds of Science
- Fred Frith Accidental: Music For Dance, volume III
- RANA Here In The USA
- Snowglobe Our Land Brains
Andy Kaufman
- Les Claypool's Frog Brigade Purple Onion
- Fishbone The Friendliest Psychosis of All
- Fishbone Live at the Temple Bar and More
- Buckethead Bermuda Triangle
- Buckethead Electric Tears
- Oysterhead The Grand Pecking Order
- Weapon of Choice Illuminutty
- Shirley Temple of Doom Notification of Termination
- Moe Wormwood
- Nappy Roots Watermelon, Chicken and Grits
Dave Lang
- Atavistic's Unheard Music Series
- Tom Waits Blood Money
- The Sailors Play Turning the Other Cheek
- Electric Wizard Let Us Prey
- Lord High Fixers The Beginning of the End...
- Beck Sea Change
- Acid Mothers Temple (everything released in 2002)
- William Parker & the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra Raincoat in the River
- The Piranhas Erotic Grit Movies
- Anthony Pateras Malfunction Studies
Michael Layne-Heath
- Subway Sect Sansend
- Kristian Hoffman &
- Fosca Diary Of An Antibody
- Manic Street Preachers Forever Delayed
- The Fall 2G + 2
- Richard Hell Time
- Lispector Human Problems And How To Solve Them
- Saint Etienne Finisterre
- Thomas and Richard Frost Visualize
- Cathal Coughlan The Sky's Awful Blue
Michaelangelo Matos
- Boom Selection_Issue 01
- The Streets Original Pirate Material
- Sleater-Kinney One Beat
- Playgroup s/t, DJ Kicks and Party-Mix Vol. 1
- 2 Many DJ's As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Pt. 1-3
- The History of Township Music
- Luna Romantica and Close Cover Before Striking
- Orchestra Super Mazembe Giants of East Africa
- Ellen Allien Weiss.Mix
- The Best Bootlegs in the World Ever and The Best of Boom Selector Vol. 2
Colin B. Morton
- Mississippi Fred McDowell And John Woods Mama Says I'm Crazy
- Goldie Lookin Chain "You Knows It" (12" single)
- Prince Allah and Junior Ross I Can Hear The Children Singing 1975-1978
- Dennis Brown The Promised Land (1977-79)
- Waco Brothers New Deal
- eX-Girl Luna Rose
- Adam Hussein Truth And Slander
- Manic Street Preachers Forever Delayed
- Joe Gibbs And The Professionals No Bones For The Dogs
- Faust Patchwork 1971-2002
Daniel and Seth Nelson
- Thievery Corporation The Richest Man In Babylon
- Lalibela Black Son Rising
- David Cross Shut Up, You Fucking Baby!
- Dennis Brown (with John Holt) Memorial
- Sons Of The Pioneers Memories Of The 'Lucky U' Ranch
- Head Shot: Reggae Instrumentals, Dubs and other Oddities
- Sounds From The Verve Hi-Fi: Compiled By Thievery Corporation
- Hustle! Reggae Disco: Kingston, London, New York
- Los Straitjackets Sing Along With...
- Warrior King Virtuous Woman
Jeff Penczak
- Outrageous Cherry The Book of Spectral Projections
- The Donnas Spend the Night
- Famous Famous
- Tuuli Here We Go
- Robyn Hitchcock Robyn Sings
- Graham Parker Deepcut To Nowhere
- Oasis Heathen Chemistry
- Camper van Beethoven Tusk
- Sahara Hotnights Jennie Bomb
- The Spacious Mind Live Volume One: Do Your Thing But Don't Touch Ours
Amy Phillips
- Andrew W.K. I Get Wet
- Dolly Parton Halos & Horns
- Northern State Dying In Stereo
- Sleater-Kinney One Beat
- Desaparecidos Read Music / Speak Spanish
- Liars They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top
- Oh-Ok The Complete Recordings
- Flaming Lips Yoshimi Vs. The Pink Robots
- Eminem The Eminem Show
- Imperial Teen On
Marc Phillips
- Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- Pixies Pixies (The Purple Tapes)
- Beck Sea Change
- Neko Case Blacklisted
- Rocio Guitard Mosaique
- Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf
- David Bowie Heathen
- Alison Moyet Hometime
- Jim O'Rourke Insignificance
- ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes
Tony Rettman
- The Suntanama The Suntanama
- 6 Organs of Admittance Dark Noontide
- Comets on Fire Comets on Fire
- Larry Wallis Death in the Guitarfternoon
- Infest 12" 45
- The Original S.S. Live at Kid Airac Hall 1979.3.27 (one sided LP)
- Sunburned Hand of the Man Jaybird
- Magic Markers Beep Beep (cassette & live)
- Jesus With Me (live)
- Nelly "Hot in Herre" 12"
Thomas Schulte
- Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. In C
- Foetus Blow
- Peter Gabriel Up
- Lutz Glandien The 5th Elephant
- Spring Heel Jack Amassed
- Chip Taylor & Charlie Rodriguez Let's Leave this Town
- The Residents Demons Dance Alone
- Various Artists Tipsy Remix Party!
- Voices on the Verge Live in Philadelphia
- Doc Watson with Frosty Morn 'Round the Table Again
Daniel Varela
- Terry Riley Atlantis Nath
- John Duncan & Zietkrätzer Ensemble Fresh
- Christopher Hobbs Fifty In Two Thousand
- John Luther Adams The Light That Fills The World
- Charlemagne Palestine Music For Big Ears
- Llorenç Barber Signa
- Cornelius Cardew/Frederic Rzewski We Sing For The Future!
- Philip Corner Gong +
- Brötzmann/van Hove/Bennink Balls (reissue)
- King Crimson Ladies Of The Road
Mark Williams
- David Kilgour A Feather in the Engine
- Greg Malcolm Homesick for Nowhere
- Deerhoof Reveille
- The Necks Athenaeum, Homebush, Quay & Raab
- Bruce Russell Painting the Passports Brown
- Nina Nastasia The Blackened Air
- Mestar Porcupine
- Rosy Parlane Getxo
- Sola Monday The Swing Festival
Kurt Wildermuth (In alphabetical order)
- Johnny Dowd The Pawnbroker's Wife
- The Henrys Joyous Porous
- Robin Holcomb The Big Time
- Luna Romantica
- Doug Martsch Now You Know
- Nerissa and Katryna Nields Love and China
- Sleater-Kinney One Beat
- Spoon Kill the Moonlight
- The Walkabouts Drunken Soundtracks
- Victoria Williams Sings Some Ol' Songs
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