Favorites of 2002
Jason Gross, Editor
- Imperial Teen Go (Merge)
- Kasey Chambers Barricades & Brickwalls (Warner Bros)
- 2 Many DJ's As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 (Pias Recordings)
- Radio 4 Gotham! (Gern Blandsten)
- Elvis Costello When I Was Cruel (Island)
- Clinic Walking With Thee (Domino)
- Hot Hot Heat Make Up the Breakdown (Sub Pop)
- Sonic Youth Murray Street (DGC)
- The Hunches Yes.No.Shut It. (In the Red)
- Swollen Members Monsters in the Closet (Battle Axe)
- Add N To (X) Loud Like Nature (Mute)
- Spoon Kill the Moonlight (Merge)
- Andrew W.K. I Get Wet (Mercury)
- Stay Free's Illegal Art Compilation (Illegal Art)
- Manu Chao Radio Bemba Sound System (Virgin)
- The Mendoza Line Lost in Revelry (Misra)
- Nappy Roots Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz (Atlantic)
- Tom Waits Blood Money (Anti)
- Edan Primitive Plus (Solid)
- Elf Power Creatures (Spin Art)
- Scion Arrange and Process Basic Channel Tracks (Tresor)
- Kid 606 The Action Packed Mentalist Brings You The Fucking Jams (Violent Turd)
- The Meat Purveyors All Relationships Are Doomed to Fail (Bloodshot)
- Primal Scream Evil Heat (Columbia)
- Wire Read and Burn.01 (Pink Flag)
- The Best Bootlegs In The World Ever.. (No Label)
- Mr. Lif Emergency Rations (Definitive Jux)
- Gas Money Hopeless Love Affair (Gas Money)
- Tommy Womack Circus Town (Sideburn)
- DJ Shadow Private Press (Solesides)
- People Under the Stairs OST (Om)
- They Might Be Giants NO! (Idlewild)
- Yohimbe Brothers Front End Lifter (Ropeadope)
- Ron House Obsessed (Moses Carryout)
- Richie Hawtin/Sven Vath The Sound of the Third Season (Mute)
- Kimberley Rew Great Central Revisted (Bongobeat)
- Anti-Pop Consortium Arrhythmia (Warp)
- Jason Moran Modernistic (Blue Note)
- Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf (Interscope)
- Select Cuts from Blood & Fire 3 (Select Cuts)
- Sleater-Kinney One Beat (Kill Rock Stars)
- El-P Fantastic Damage (Definite Jux)
- Public Enemy Revolverlution (Koch)
- Donnas Spend the Night (Atlantic)
- Blacklicious Blazing Arrow (MCA)
- Phantomsmasher Phantomsmasher (Ipecac)
- Red Hot and Riot (MCA)
- Detroit Cobras Mint Rat or Rabbit (SFTRI)
- Derek Bailey Ballads (Tzadik)
- Matthew Shipp Nu Bop (Thirsty Ear)
- Clocker Redbury & Dusty Slosinger Cold Wars Hot Water Shower (SteamyBowl)
- John Sinclair and his Blues Scholars Fattening Frogs For Snakes (Okra-Tone)
- Themselves The No Music (Anticon)
- Sahara Hotnights Jennie Bomb (Jetset)
- Making SIngles Drinking Doubles (Bloodshot)
- Bruce McCullough Drunken Baby Project (Tront)
- Household Names The Trouble With Being Nice (Household Names)
- Aesop Rock Daylight (Definitive Jux)
- And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead Source Code and Tags (Interscope)
- Grandmaster Flash The Official Adventures of Grandmaster Flash (Strut)
- MC Paul Barman Paullelujah! (Coup D'Etat)
- Hella Hold Your Horse Is (5RC)
- Soundworks- Whitney Biennial 2002 (Whitney)
- Gravediggaz Nightmare In A-Minor (BMG)
- The Gourds Cow Fish Fowl or Pig (Sugar Hill)
- Bangs Call and Response (Kill Rock Stars)
- Bloodshot Records Sampler 2002 (Bloodshot)
- Waadaa Leo Smith Year of the Elephant (Pi Recordings)
- Mr. Airplane Man Moanin (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
- The Boggs We Are the Boggs We Are (Arena Rock)
- Guy Davis Give In Kind (Red House)
- Subtonix Tarantism (TM)
- Pulp We Love Life (Rough Trade)
- Marianne Faithful Kissin Time (Virgin)
- Sage Francais Personal Journals (Anticon)
- Bounty Killer The Art of War (VP)
- Pine Valley Cosmonauts Executioner's Last Songs (Bloodshot)
- Futurism (City Rockers)
- The Pattern Real Feelness (Lookout!)
- D'Afro Disco- Garri Mix (Codek)
- Roberto J. Rodriquez El Danzon de Moises (Tzadik)
- Flogging Molly Drunken Lullabies (Side One Dummy)
- Wish You Were Here- Love Songs For New York (Village Voice)
- The Soft Boys Nextdoorland (Matador)
- Live Human Live (C.O.D.)
- Stefan Dill Trio Run For Heaven (Falcata-Galia)
- Sandoz Chant To Jah (Soul Jazz)
- Boom Selection_Issue 01 (Boom Selection)
- Mark Kleiner Power Trio Love To Night (Mint)
- Burnt Sugar That Depends on What You Know (Trugoid)
- Lowercase Sound 2002 (Bremsstrahlung Recordings)
- Grandpa Boy Mono (Vagrant)
- Luna Romantica (Jetset)
- Ida You Are My Flower (Last Affair)
- Xinlisupreme Murder License (Fat Cat)
- Racebannon Satan's Kickin' Yr Dick In (Secretly Fuckin' Canadian)
REISSUES/ARCHIVES
- Typical Girls Bootleg CD Volume 1 (Typical Girls)
- Richard Hell Time (Matador)
- Rocket From the Tomb The Day The Earth Met The... (Smog Veil)
- MX-80 Sound 1977 Live At the Library 1978 (Gulcher)
- Ramones Loud, Fast, Ramones: Their Toughest Hits (Sire/Rhino)
- Stevie Wonder The Definitive Collection (Rhino)
- Patti Smith Land (Arista)
- Bhundu Boys Shed Sessions (Sadza)
- Harlem World- The Sound of Big Apple Rapping (Heros and Villians)
- They Might Be Giants Dial-A-Song: 20 Years of They Might Be Giants (Rhino)
- Pavement Slanted and Enchanted (Matador)
- The Go-Betweens Before Hollywood (Circus/Jetset)
- An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music/First A-Chronology Volume #1 (Sub Rosa)
- I'm A Good Woman: Funk Classics From Sassy Soul Sisters (Harmless)
- John Coltrane Coltrane (Impulse)
- The Fall Totally Wired- The Rough Trade Anthology (Castle)
- The Scruffs Wanna Meet the Scruffs? (Cherry Red)
- The Replacements Hootnaney (Twin/Tone)
- The Fugs Electronic Steamboat (Rhino)
- Puffy Ami Yumi An Illustrated History (Bar None)
- The Wild Bunch- Story of A Soundsystem (Strut)
- Japanese Avant-Garde (Sub Rosa)
- Tresor True Spirit (Tresor)
- Thelonious Monk Paris (14 November 1970) (BYG Actuel)
- The Impressions The Young Mod's Forgotten Story (Sunspots)
- Roxanne Shante The Best of Cold Chillin (Landspeed)
- This Is Front Line (Caroline/Virgin)
- Fresh Freddie Presents B-Boy Stance (Strut)
- Disco Connection- Authentic Classic Disco 1976-1981 (Warners import)
- Laura Lee Womens' Love Rights- The Hot Wax Anthology (Castle)
- Sorted! 40 Madchester Bagged Anthems (Ministry of Sound)
- Allen Ginsberg New York Blues: Rags, Ballads and Harmonium Songs (Locust)
- Gimme Dat Harp Boy! Roots of the Captain (Ozit)
- DG307 DG307 (Tamizdat)
- Greenthink Blindfold (Purple Guerilla)
- Times Ain't Like They Used To Be Vol. 6 (Yazoo)
- Surrealism Revisted (LTM)
- Lesser LS-MP3CD-R_1990-2000 (Tigerbeat)
- Do the Pop! The Australian Garage-Rock Sound 1976-87 (Shock)
- This Is Tech-Pop: 21st Century Electro and New Wave (Ministry of Sound)
- The Hellacopters Cream of the Crap (Gearhead)
- Fairport Convention Heydey (Island)
- Hoodoo Gurus Stoneage Romeos (Acadia)
- Booniay!! a Compilation of West African Funk (Afrodisiac)
- Fred Frith Gravity (Re)
- Pachuco Boogie- Historic Mexican American Music (Arhoolie)
- Pierre Henry Mix Pierre Henry 04.3 > Les annees cinquante (Philips)
- Soul Allnighter- 60's Stompers & 70's Dancefloor Classics (Metro Double)
- Roky Erikson and the Aliens The Evil One (SFTRI)
- High Rise Destination -- Best Of (Tokuma)
- Baadasssss Cinema: The Sounds of Blaxploitation (TVT)
- Savage Republic Tragic Figures (Mobilization)
- Acid Mothers Temple Absolutely Freak Out (Zap Your Mind!!) (Static Caravan / Resonant)
- Luc Ferrari Cycle Des Souvenirs (1995-2000) (Blue Chopsticks)
- Captain Beefheart Dust Sucker (Ozit)
- Masada First Live 1993 (Tzadik)
- Henry Flynt New American Ethnic Music Volume 2: Spindizzy (Recorded)
- Naked City Naked City Live-Knitting Factory V 1 (Tzadik)
- Blue Oyster Cult Tyranny And Mutation (Columbia / Legacy)
- Jim Smoak and the Louisiana Honeydrippers Bayou Bluegrass (Arhoolie)
- Snivelling Shits I Can't Come (Damaged Goods)
- Nebula Dos EPs (Meteor City)
- Soft Machine Man in the Deaf Corner (Trojan)
- Dr. Gunni Tudrur (Framkaemt)
- Plasticland Mink Dress and Other Cats (Timothy's Brain)
- People Like Us Recyclopaedia Britannica (Mess Media)
- Uncle Tupelo 89/93: An Anthology (Columbia)
- X-Ray Spex The Anthology (Castle)
- Phill Niblock A Young Person's Guide to Phill Niblock (XI)
- The Jimmy Castor Bunch 16 Slabs of Funk (RCA)
- MC5 Human Being Lawnmower (Total Energy)
- Peter King Shango (Strut)
- The Meditations I Love Jah (Whackies)
- Trojan Skinhead Reggae (Trojan)
- Peter Brotzmann Trio For Adolphe Sax (Atavistic)
- Global Turntables (Hip Hop Slam)
- Skip Bifferty Skip Bifferty (Acme Gramophone)
- Electric Prunes Stockholm 67 (Birdman)
- The Very Best of Bollywood Songs II (Outcaste)
- Segun Bucknor Poor Man No Get Brother- Assembly & Revolution 1969-1975 (Strut)
- The Rustler Presents: Because You're Funky (Lo)
- Deep Note- Music of 1970<'s Adult Cinema (O.S.T. Grammofonpladen)
- Public Nuisance Gotta Survive (Frantic)
- Company Flow Little Johnny From The Hospital: Breaks and Instrumentals Vol.1 (Rawkus)
- July July (Aftermath)
- Trees On the Shore (Columbia)
- Gordon Mumma Live-Electronic Music (Tzadik)
- Van Morrison Celebrities At Their Worst 3.1: Van Morrison's Contract Breaking Sessions (M.D.W.C.G.C.G.)
- Horacio Vaggione La Maquina de Cantar (Ampersand)
- Henry Flynt Back Porch Hillbilly Blues (Locust)
- Black Rio- Brazil Soul Power 1971-1980 (Strut)
SINGLES:
- Sugarbabes "Freak Like Me" (Universal)
- Freelance Hairdresser "Marshall's Been Snookered" (bootleg)
- Custom "Beat Me" (BMG)
- Tweet "Oops" (East West)
- The Rapture "House of Jealous Lovers" (DFA)
- Yo La Tengo "Nuclear War" (Matador)
- Control Machete "Si Senor" (Universal)
- Amon Tobin featuring MC Decimal R "Verbal" (Ninja Tune)
- Truth Hurts "Addictive" (Interscope)
- Las Ketchup "Asereje (The Ketchup Song)" (Sony)
- P.O.D. "Youth of the Nation" (Atlantic)
- Dixie Chicks "Long Time Gone" (Sony)
- Musique Concrete "Third Edition" (PIL)
- Fat Joe Featuring Ashanti "What's Luv" (WEA)
- Marianne Faithful "Sex With Strangers" (Virgin)
- Noreaga "Nothin'" (Universal)
- Alcazar "Crying at the Discoteque" (E-Magine)
- Hives "Hate To Say I Told You So" (Sire)
- Jay Z "Bonnie and Clyde" (Roc-A-Fella)
- T.A.T.U. "All the Things She Said" (Interscope)
- Grandpa Boy "Let's Not Belong Together" (Vagrant)
- B2K featuring Nascar "Uh Huh" (Remix)
- Peter Bernard "Strung-Out Remix" (campchaos.com)
- Idlewild "American English" (Food import)
- Kid 606 "MP3 Killed the Record Star" (Violent Turd)
- Chumbwamba "Her Majesty" (chumba.org)
- Scharpling & Wurster "The Music Scholar" (Stereolaffs)
- Guy De Bievre "If you want to learn how to make songs yourself, you take your computer and you go to where the road crosses that way, where a crossroads is. Get there be sure to get there just a little 'fore 12 that night so you know you'll be there. You have your computer and be playing a piece there by yourself. A big black man will walk up there and take your computer and he'll install new drivers on it. And then he'll play a piece and hand it back to you. That's the way I learned to play anything I want" (Experimental Intermedia)