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Faves for 2002

Regular releases
Singles and EP’s
remixes, compilations and endless mixes
compendums and reissues
not-really-issued

Best of 2001  2002 compilations  wha?!?


Regular releases

01 Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
02 Badly Drawn Boy – About a Boy OST
03 Thievery Corporation – The Richest Man in Babylon
04 Sigur Ros – ()
05 Lone Pigeon – Concubine Rice
06 Nightmare on Wax – Mind Elevation w/Bonus mix CD
07 Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Plastic Fang
08 Fila Brazillia – Jump Leads
09 United Future Organization – V
10 DJ Shadow – Private Press

11 Luna – Romantica
12 They Might Be Giants – NO!
13 Amon Tobin – Out, From Out Where
14 Gordon Gano – Hitting the Ground
15 Beck – Sea Change
16 Mountain Goats – Tallahassee
17 Ben Kweller – Sha Sha
18 Bob Mould – Modulate
19 Herbalizer – Something Wicked This Way Comes
20 Solomon Burke – Don’t Give Up On Me
21 Sleater-Kinney – One Beat
22 Guided by Voices – Universal Truths & Cycles
23 Jazzanova – In Between
24 Jason Loewenstein – At Sixes and Sevens
25 Norah Jones – Come Away With Me

26 – 50
Badly Drawn Boy – Have You Fed The Fish?
Caural – Stars On My Ceiling
Chemical Brothers – Chemical Four (Come With Us)
Cinerama – Torino
Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head
Sheryl Crow – C’mon C’mon
Death by Chocolate – Zap the World
The Donnas – Spend the Night
dZihan & Kamien – Gran Riserva
Jennifer Love Hewett – Barenaked
The Hunches – Yes. No. Shut It
Los Lobos – Good Morning Aztlan
Loud Bomb – Long Playing Grooves
Timo Maas – Loud
Morcheeba – Charango
Bob Mould – LiveDog98
Beth Orton – Daybreaker
Recloose – Cardiology
Ruisort – Acapulco Now
Raphael Saadig – Instant Vintage
The Sights – Got What We Want (vinyl)
Supergrass – Life on Other Planets
Tender Trap – Film Molecules
Ursula 1000 – Kinda Kinky
The Vines – Highly Evolved

51 – 75

Ryan Adams – Demolition
India.Arie – Voyage to India
Ashera – We Gaia
Blue Crush OST
The Breeders – Title TK
Bright Eyes – Lifted Or the Story is in the Soil Keep Your Ear to the Ground
Eric Clapton – One More Car, One More Rider (2cd)
Down From the Mountain
Neil Finn – All One
Garrison Starr – Songs from Takeoff to Landing
Guided By Voices – The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet
Havalina – Space, Love and Bullfighting
I am Sam OST
Kyoto Jazz Massive – Spirit of the Sun
Lunchbox – Evolver
Aimee Mann – Lost in Space
Medeski, Martin & Wood – Uninvisible
Stephin Merritt – Eban and Charlie
Moby – 18
Alanis Morissette – Under Rug Swept
Me’Shell NdegÈOcello – Cookie the Anthropological Mixtape
Reverend Horton Heat – Lucky 7
Dorius Rucker – Back to Then
Sneakerpimps – Bloodsport
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

76 +
All Tomorrow’s Parties v2.0, Presented by Shellac
Apples in Stereo – Velocity in Sound
Austin Powers – Goldmember OST
Big Bad Love OST
Brant Bjork – Brant Bjork & The Operators
Boston – Corporate America
Bowling for Soup – Drunk Enough to Dance
Tracy Chapman – Let It Rain
Circular Ruins, The – Confluence
Counting Crows – Hard Candy
Craig David – Slicker Than Your Average
Disneyland After Dark – Soft Dogs
Fozzy – Happenstance
Hot Rod Circuit – Sorry About Tomorrow
JJ72 – I to Sky
Joi – Star Kitty’s Revenge
Wayne Kramer – Adult World
Bon Jovi – Bounce
Avril Lavigne – Let Go
Lisa Loeb – Hello Lisa
Luck and Neat – It’s All Good
Maroon 5 – Songs About Jane
J Mascis & the Fog – Free So Free
Dave Matthews Band – Busted Stuff
Musiq – Juslisen
Noise Therapy – Tension
Papa Roach – LoveHateTragedy
Tom Petty – The Last DJ
Red Hot Chili Peppers – By the Way
Stan Ridgeway – Holiday in Dirt
Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the Memphis 3
Brian Setzer Orchestra – Boogie Woogie Christmas
Carlos Santana – Shaman
Remy Shand – The Way I Feel
Six Feet Under OST
Sonic Youth – Murray Street
Spiderman OST
Starsailor – Love is Here
Nestor Torres – My Latin Soul
Ultimate Fakebook – Open and Say Awesome
Undercover Brother OST
Chuchito Valdez Jr. – Encantado
Wallflowers – Red Letter Days
Neil Young – Are You Passionate?


singles and EPs

Flaming Lips – Okie Noodling EP
Jay Farrar – Thirdshiftgrottoslack EP
Luna – Close Cover Before Before Striking EP
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Master EP
DJ Shadow – You Can’t Go Home Again (promo single)

Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (promo single)
JJ72 – Formulae singles 1&2 (2cd)
Coldplay – In My Place (single)
Elvis Presley v JXL – A Little Less Conversation single
Yo La Tengo – Nuclear War (promo single)
Breeders – Off You (promo single)


remixes, compilations and continuous mixes

01 Thievery Corporation – Sounds From the Verve Hi-Fi
02 Nicola Conte – Jet Sounds Revisited
03 Verve Remixed/Verve Unmixed
04 Supperclub Lounge v.3
05 Vikter Duplaix – DJ Kicks
06 Green Day – Shenanigans
07 Tosca – Suzuki in Dub
08 Cafe Del Mar, Vol. 9
09 Tosca – A Different Taste of Honey
10 Break n’ Bossa, chapter 5

Another Late Night – Zero 7
Buddha Bar v.4
Buffalo Tom – Besides: A Collection of B-Sides and Rarities
Documenta 2.0
Glucklich V
Head Shot : Reggae Instrumentals, Dubs and Other Oddites
Nirvana – Nirvana
Peace Orchestra – Reset
Playgroup – DJ Kicks
Q-Burns and Abstract Message – Re-routed, the invisible airlines remixes

Air – Everybody Hertz remixes
Claude Challe – Nirvana Lounge 2
Cream Anthems 2002 (2cd)
DJ Phoenix Mix 2K v.5
Gorillaz – G-sides
Hotel Costes 5
Lounge Electrique, Vol.3 The Tone Defeat Sessions
Ministry of Sound – Chillout Annual 2002
Ministry of Sound – Chillout Sessions Ibiza 2002
Mixmag Road Trip 2002
Nirvana Lounge vol. 2
Orbital – Back to Mine
Rae & Christian – Mixer Presents: Rewind
Silicon Summer 2002
Supperclub Lounge v.4
Ultra-Lounge – Vegas Baby!
Wellness Lounge, Vol.1 (2cd)
World Cup 2002 – The Beautiful Game (2cd)


compendums and reissues

Flaming Lips – Finally, The Punk Rockers Are Taking Acid (3cd)
Flaming Lips – The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg (2cd)
Beat Happening – Crashing Through Box (6cd)
Cujo – Adventures in Foam (reissue with Bonus CD)
The Pixies – The Purple Tape
George Harrison – 25 Essential Performances
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry – The Upsetters Vol. 3: Baffling Smoke Signals
Rhino’s Soul Spectacular (4cd)
De La Soul – The Works
Like, Omigod! The ’80s Pop Culture Box (Totally) (7cd)
The Scorpions – Bad For Good (the very best of…)
The Very Best of MTV Unplugged


non-releases

Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (unmastered pre-release)
Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Wins: live radio promo

Smog – Peel Session 01-03-02
Calexico – Scraping: SF 01-12-02 (mostly)
Sheryl Crow – Happy Snow Valentines (Live @ SLC Olympics) 02-14-02
White Stripes – Live @ Reading Festival 02-23-02
Strokes, The – Paradiso, Amsterdam 02-28-02
Fastbacks, The – Noise Pop 2002 (2cd) 03-02-02
White Stripes – Live in Stockholm (boot) 03-12-02
Norah Jones – Live at House of Blues, Chicago 04-16-02
Shellac – Camber Sands 04-20-02
Paul Westerberg – Live at Amoeba Records, LA 04-25-02
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Lamacq Live, BBC 04-22-02
Hives, The – Live at the Brixton Acad. 05-04-02
Luna – Live in Boston 05-09-02
Natalie Merchant – BBC Radio 06-14-02
White Stripes – Glastonbury 06-29-02
Bruce Springsteen & ESB – Live at Ashbury Park 07-30-02
Cambridge Folk Festival – 08-01-02 to 08-04-02
Rolling Stones – Live at Pac Bell Park, SF, CA 08-09-02
Norah Jones – Austin City Limits 08-22-02
DJ Shadow – Manifesting Music: Solana Beach, LA 08-23-02
Beck – Wadsworth Theatre, LA, CA 08-30-02
Robert Plant – Austin City Limits 09-15-02
Beck – Orpheum Theater, Minneapolis, MN 10-17-02
Sara Bareilles – Genghis Cohen 10-22-02
Neil Young – Bridge Benefit XVI 10-26-02
Neil Young – Bridge Benefit XVI 10-27-02
Thom Yorke – Bridge School benefit 10-27-02
Kruder & Dorfmeister – Live at Snowbombing 11-04-02
Yo La Tengo – Live at Maxwell’s, Hoboken NJ 12-16-02

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