Acclaimed Music Top 30 Albums from 2002 poll

screwed up the spider man picture.

i would love to vote for Bright Eyes but i know i probably can't.

Fuck The Streets

Voting for the only album by SK that I like. Spoon seem likely to take this. I like them and all, but voting for them feels like voting for Talking Heads in the 80s.

Between Turn on the Bright Lights, You Forgot It In People, Neon Golden and Lifted this feels like a list of albums that I really dug in my indie-loving 20s but which i fear haven't aged well.

The year I became really bored by Wilco, Beck and The Flaming Lips, after loving their albums from 1999. "Murray Street" was my answer at the time, probably still is.

girls can tell > kill the moonlight, although i didn't vote for either

oh hell no, imo. Kill the Moonlight was my introduction to this band so it has its special place thou not my favorite Spoon.

This list feels very fogeyish.

can't find anything I want to vote for here

"Murray Street" is the best SY album post-Goo, I guess, so probably that. Though the real answer here should be FM Knives "Useless and Modern".

Bright Lights

This does feel old and full of retreads. Younger me owned a handful of these but only really listened to flaming lips and wilco.

Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 seemed really big to me at the time but I imagine it hasn't aged well

Neko Case - Blacklisted

The Disintegration Loops. even though i've listened to TOTBL and YHF and Geogaddi a million more times.

Remember when people liked The Streets? or Damien Rice?

One of my least favourite years of the 00's, this.

Voted for The Private Press, which I still think is a very underrated record.

Weird year. Its best album (Justified) isn't listed here.

Wilco, Interpol, QOTSA, Broken Social Scene and Trail of Dead are the best options here.

oh look, McLusky Do Dallas missed out by 3 spots

Fuck The Streets

― volumetric god rays (DJP),

First album still holds up imo, fuck everything after that though pretty much.

Will probably vote for the gorgeous Geogaddi. Might defect to The Private Press though, as I think it's quite underrated.

Ha, as I see Turrican does too.

This list makes me feel old like no other. Should probably be YHF for sheer impact on me (at the time) but on reflection it'll probably Basinski.

Neon Golden. Still holds up. One of my favorite albums ever. When One With the Freaks begins, after the more difficult middle third. It's bliss.

Talking of Neon Golden, I once used 'you're the colour, the movement and the spin' in what I thought was a quite seductive email. The girl responded with 'are you comparing me to a washing machine?' So that went well.

i swear i only clicked on this because it was a kneejerk reaction to a year i know well but i have to ask at this point what "acclaimed music" is and why their lists are so fucking awful. THIS WAS NOT 2002.

rockist times, rockist critics, lex

ilx used to be about burning this shit down

everything dies

tbf i think ilx has largely succeeded wrt 2016-era music, these are all low-key nostalgia exercises and nostalgia for the critical current of the time more than the music

Not a v interesting list. Will prob vote Disintegration Loops or Neon Golden (which was no "Shrink").

IIRC 2002 ILX at the time was deeply into more than half of this list

Sleater-Kinney, my favourite album from them.

I loved the Bright Eyes album at the time but must have sold it. I'm afraid to listen to it again.

Basinski. Still listen to quite a lot of these occasionally tbh.

Neko in a walk

I still love Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

Pretty bad list otherwise

Some good shit, lots of blehhhhh shit. Broken Social Scene is probably the only one of the lot that I still listen to with any regularity. Holds up surprisingly well but don't know if I'd consider it the best.

(Oh and actually I guess I listen to Norah Jones with some regularity, as well, here is my hip and cool card, feel free to destroy it however you choose.)

I don't even wanna know what the beef w streets is since first two albums are both stellar, voting OPM

Norah jones alb also perfect

I still listen to a few of these albums, but a lot of them have not aged so well--Flaming Lips, Interpol, 2 Many DJs and Libertines are examples (though the best songs on those records still connect). Here are my current favorites from this list:

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
DJ Shadow - The Private Press
Neko Case - Blacklisted

Going to vote for Yankee Hotel Foxtrot here.

Going with Neko - that record is still a remarkable mash of country, indie and punk.

um obviously broken social scene

Turn On the Bright Lights: dreadful lyrics, humourless vocals, very sporadic hooks. The guitar playing is good, sure.

Voted Source Tags. Still love ToD even though they're terribly uncool now.

This is a pretty weak list even by canon standards though.

It doesn't have the same kind of massive releases two previous lists

as the two previous

this will probably be the weakest year of these lists for this decade.

I loved a lot of these records when they came out (I was 21/22 so they were right in my wheelhouse), but S-K is definitely the one I've listened to the most over the past few years, though admittedly their resurgence had a lot to do with that. I didn't even listen to Spoon back then but now they definitely hold up better than most things I really dug at the time. Haven't revisited BSS, Notwist, Wilco, Sigur Ros for awhile but I imagine I'd encounter diminishing returns to varying degrees.

Spoon seem likely to take this. I like them and all, but voting for them feels like voting for Talking Heads in the 80s.

i would be very surprised if Spoon won this. the Talking Heads reference is OTM.

neon golden

basinski

Really tough choice between the following:

1 72 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
7 317 Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
8 334 Beck - Sea Change
10 493 Sigur Rós - ( )
11 593 Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
12 601 Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
26 1504 DJ Shadow - The Private Press
29 1556 Doves - The Last Broadcast

But went with Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, because really.

yankee hotel foxtrot remains a perfect record to me.

basinski over notwist

always a lol to see ppl moaning that a list compiled via aggregation of other lists turns out predictable and boring

basinski

coldplay album is good

need to hear that roots album

Phrenology is the Roots album that made me an unfan of the group.

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2002 was really a poor year for mainstream hip-hop I suppose?

guessing from the 2000 and 2001 polls, a hip-hop record need almost legendary status before featuring in an acclaimedmusic top 30.

At the time lots of these albums seemed monumental and I listened to them a ton. But I've barely played any of them in years, save for Interpol (I listen to it quite a lot still) and maybe Wilco and Sigur Ros.

I felt like this was a truly great year for singles and radio but albums didn't match them for intensity, at least in an "obvious classic".

Love The Streets, Missy Elliott, Sonic Youth, Boards of Canada, Sleater-Kinney, 2 Many DJs, DJ Shadow.

The most obvious classics - in both the subjective and objective senses - not here are Metro Area's album and Michael Mayer's Immer mix. There are people who dislike both but I feel like both of these have a pretty rock solid stature within dance music circles.

For me the private classics not listed are Tweet's Southern Hummingbird, Amerie's All I Have, Clipse's Lord Willin, Elephant Man's Higher Level, Sean Paul's Dutty Rock, Farben's Textstar and MRI's All That Glitters. Also I never listen to it as an album but JT's singles from Justified are total classic.

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The Disintegration Loops is the best work of art made in response to 9/11. Not only is the concept brilliant - intellectually and emotionally - the pieces themselves beautiful, and more so than anything else I've ever seen or heard, it evokes exactly the mood of Manhattan in the fall of 2001.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Y-Dccc5ns

I'll never understand what people hear in Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. I've given that record a couple of chances and I find it to be mostly dull.

Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head 0
Eminem - The Eminem Show 0

Proud of us.

I like the fast(er) catchy stuff on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Heavy Metal Drummer, Pot Kettle Black

YHF one of the those records that if the melodies work for you the whole thing is majestic, if they don't it falls apart. Sometimes it is just about tone, I guess.

otm. love YHF, everything from Jim O's mix to the lyrics to the atmosphere and yeah the tunes. Summerteeth, YHF, and A Ghost is Born are amazing to me, but everything else they've ever done has left me cold.

yeah this was def a weird year, but still very good for singles

Amerie "Why Don't We Fall In Love"
Big Tymers "Still Fly"
Brandy "What About Us"
Busta "Pass The Courvoisier Pt II"
Cam'Ron "Oh Boy" & "Hey Ma"
City High "Caramel"
Clipse "Grindin'"
Fat Joe "What's Luv"
Ginuwine "Differences"
Hot Hot Heat "Bandages"
Ja Rule "Livin' It Up"
Jay Z "Excuse Me Miss"
Justin Timb "Like I Love You"
Mclusky "To Hell With Good Intentions"
Nas "One Mic"
Nelly "Hot In Herre"
Scarface "On My Block"
Snoop Dogg "Beautiful"
Talib Kweli "Get By"
tATu "All The Things She Said"
Tweet "Oops"
The Used "The Taste Of Ink" & "Blue and Yellow"

Acclaimed Music Top 30 Albums from 2003 poll

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