KERRANG Albums Of The Year 2002

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If anyone is interested or wishes to Argue:
1) QOTSA - Songs For The Deaf
2)Hundred Reasons - Ideas Above Our Station
3)Audioslave - Audioslave
4)Foo Fighters - One By One
5) The Distillers - Sing Sing death House.
6) The Datsuns - The Datsuns
7)Red Hot Chili peppers - By the Way
8) Finch - What It Is To Burn
9) Idlewild - The Remote Part
10)'A' - Hifi Serious.
11)Glassjaw - Worship & Tribute
12) The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster - Horse Of The Dog
13)Weezer - Maladroit
14)Down - A Bustle In Your hedgerow.
15)Satyricon - Volcano
16) The Used - The Used
17) Sparta - Wiretap Scars
18) Opeth - Deliverance
19) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - BRMC
20) Bad religion - The Process Of Belief.

I think the No1 is correct. But cant believe the Foos album is there so high.
Complete lack of nu-metal, 2nd year in a row . Good thing.

― Ben Brown, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

What do the distillers sound like?

EMBD are my brother's favourite band (I bet he is reading this-you smell!).

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

This is better than I expected.

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Is audioslave nu-metal?

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

The thing i like about Kerrang as opposed to NME AOYS is that they print the individual writers top 20s. It seems nu-metal being covered is editorial reasons only as none of the writers like it. All the big bands, sum 41,papa roach,linkin park etc rarely are in these polls.
I guess all polls are the same.
NME is the poll that went for the most mainstream album this year.
Sign of the times?

― Ben Brown, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't heard as much of this as the NME's list, to be honest. What I have heard I'm not particularly keen on. RHCP is awful, but that was hardly surprising, and I also detest Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. I found the Queens album a touch disappointing, I have to say. I loved Rated R from start to finish, but the new one is patchy. There are some good tracks, but it lacks the pop fizz of its predecessor. With respect, I've only heard 5 of these in their entirety.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 14:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the QOTSA is even better than R. Its much more an album. Without trying to sound pretentious. Its needs more spins to get into. But i find that a good thing.
Its just a shame the 1st album was so criminally ignored.
I cant believe Audioslave are at no3 though. Thats just bizarre.

― Ben Brown, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 14:13 (twenty-three years ago)

And a complete lack of metal too.

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

what a load of bollocks!

― Jay K (Jay K), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

And a complete lack of metal too.

Well, there's the Opeth album aaaand.... *cough*

Yeah, Opeth.

― original bgm, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll print this here instead of the nme thread where stevie chick mentions all this.
Stevie Chicks published Albums of year in KERRANG.

The Lord High Fixers
Sonic Youth
Blood Brothers
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
All Girl Summer Fun Band
Liars
Speedball baby
Erase Errata
My Morning Jacket
Enon
The Pattern
Oneida
Catheters
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail Of dead
Guided By Voices
Pearl Jam
Skindred
Now Time delegation
Mudhoney
Part Chimp.

I think i like this list..

― Ben Brown, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

aw cheers...

the rules were, we had to choose only records that had been reviewed in kerrang! (hence my emailing editor's PA to ask if Ms Dynamite or El producto had been reviewed). still chuffed that i got the all girl summer fun band - twee-est band EVER, and all the better for it - in the list. after my 5K review ran this spring, features editor dave everley commented that it was a glaring case of a review being commissioned before the reviews editor could listen to the album

i still love it tho

sxxx

― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

HAHA.
So if i see lots of their albums in 2nd hand shops i know they were bought by Sepultura fans on the strength of your review?

― Ben Brown, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Imagine if reviews in kerrang could unwittingly change the course of someones music buying life?
I guess someone somewhere bought Sebadoh albums on strength of a review in kerrang instead of an Anthrax album in 1993.
Oops that *was* me.

― Ben Brown, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Why not? i started reading Melody Maker as a check-shirted Pearl Jam fan, and came away years later fucked up by twisted hip-hop, incurably curious about free-jazz, and with a deep respect for what my rock-bigot ass had previously considered pap pop-music...

sxxx

― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't Satyricon metal?

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 23:14 (twenty-three years ago)

why do the qotsa put me to sleep

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 23:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I adore the Distillers and Weezer, and I just bought RHCP and QOTSA (both albums are probably pretty but overlong, but fuck it, I want the hits), but the Audioslave height is so disgusting...I don't care if Chris Cornell is the highway, I'm NOT gonna ride him all night long.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 23:25 (twenty-three years ago)

It is strange that there's no metal. I don't read Kerrang, but do bands like Nile, Hate Eternal, and even Immortal not exist for them?

― dan (dan), Wednesday, 18 December 2002 23:32 (twenty-three years ago)

dan, a few writers did vote for Nile, writer Dom Lawson rated Hate Eternal as Number 1 album, a quick scan only Dave Everley (new deputy editor at Kerrang), voted for Immortal.

If you want METAL then you will have to wait for Terrorizer at the end of December.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 19 December 2002 00:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't Satyricon metal?

By picking that one they really admit that they only listened to one metal album this year - it's that bad, yes.

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 19 December 2002 01:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Terrorizer is more open minded though. 2 years ago GYBE and radiohead both made the top albums list.
Have Metal Hammer published theirs yet? unlike the early 90s when Metal Hammer was almost Metal/Indie Hammer its no Nu-Metal Hammer.
One magazine that lost the plot a few years ago..

― Peter M, Thursday, 19 December 2002 01:04 (twenty-three years ago)

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