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The Best Records of 2002

Here are the results of THE LIST 2002 poll of the best records of 2002 along with the choices of our writers. The list labeled "Readers" is the results of the poll, each writer has submitted an individual list, and the list labeled "Writers" is a tabulation of the writers' individual lists.

Readers Writers
  1. Yume Bitsu - The Golden Vessyl of Sound (K) [13.8%]
  2. Sigur Ros - () (MCA) [10.5%],
    The Books - Thought For Food (Tomlab) [10.5%]
  3. Tanakh - Villa Claustrophobia (Alien8) [7.9%]
  4. Deerhoof - Reveille (5 Rue Christine) [5.7%]
  5. Black Dice - Beaches & Canyons (DFA) [5.3%]
  6. Six Organs of Admittance - Dark Noontide (Holy Mountain) [5.0%]
  7. Consonant - s/t (Fenway) [3.9%],
    Songs: Ohia - Didn't It Rain (Secretly Canadian) [3.9%],
    Streets - Original Pirate Material (Vice) [3.9%]
  8. Little Wings - Light Green Leaves (K) [3.5%]
  9. Liars - Fins to Make Us More Fish-Like (Mute) [3.3%]
  10. Landing - Seasons (BaDaBing!) [3.1%]
  11. Comets on Fire - Field Recordings From the Sun (BaDaBing!) [2.9%]
  12. Wire - Read and Burn 02 EP (Pink Flag) [2.6%]
  13. Nina Nastasia - The Blackened Air (Touch and Go) [2.0%],
    Jason Anderson/Wolf Colonel - Something/Everything! (K) [2.0%]
  1. Yume Bitsu - The Golden Vessyl of Sound (K) [5 votes]
  2. Comets on Fire - Field Recordings From the Sun (BaDaBing!) [4 votes],
    Six Organs of Admittance - Dark Noontide (Holy Mountain) [4 votes],
    Windy and Carl - Introspection (Blue Flea) [4 votes],
    Jack Rose - Red Horse, White Mule (Eclipse) [4 votes]
  3. Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Univers Zen Ou De Zero A Zero (Fractal) [3 votes],
    Deerhoof - Revielle (5 Rue Christine) [3 votes],
    Do Make Say Think - & Yet & Yet (Constellation) [3 votes],
    Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights (Matador) [3 votes]
Philip Smoker Sean Hammond
  1. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (Interscope)
  2. Oneida - Each One Teach One (Version City/Jagjaguwar)
  3. Comets on Fire - Field Recordings from the Sun (Ba Da Bing!)
  4. Lambchop - Is a Woman (Merge)
  5. Do Make Say Think - & Yet & Yet (Constellation)
  6. The Sunburned Hand of the Man - Headdress (Records)
  7. Six Organs of Admittance - Dark Noontide (Holy Mountain)
  8. Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice (Swami)
  9. Oneida/Liars - Athiests, Reconsider (Version City/Arena Rock)
  10. Ugly Casanova - Sharpen Your Teeth (Sub Pop)
  11. Beck - Sea Changes (Geffen)
  12. Neko Case - Blacklisted (Bloodshot)
  13. Rjd2 - Deadringer (Definitive Jux)
  14. Devendra Banhart - Oh Me Oh My... The Way the Day Goes By the Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs of the Christmas Spirit (Young God)
  15. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes (Interscope)
  1. Yume Bitsu - The Golden Vessyl of Sound (K)
  2. Comets on Fire - Field Recordings from the Sun (Ba Da Bing!)
  3. Six Organs of Admittance - Dark Noontide (Holy Mountain)
  4. Jason Anderson/Wolf Colonel - Something/Everything (K)
  5. Tanakh - Villa Claustrophobia (Alien8 Recordings)
  6. Arco Flute Foundation - Everything After the Bomb is Sci-Fi (Cenotaph Audio)
  7. Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Univers Zen Ou De Zero A Zero (Fractal)
  8. No Neck Blues Band - Re: Mr A Fan (Trademark of Quality)
  9. Enon - High Society (Touch & Go)
  10. Jack Rose - Red Horse, White Mule (Eclipse Records)
Gil Gershman Daron Gardner
  1. MIMEO & John Tilbury - The Hands of Caravaggio (Erstwhile)
  2. Otomo Yoshihide - Ensemble Cathode (Improvised Music from Japan)
  3. Double Leopards - A Pebble in Thousands of Unmapped Revolutions LP (Eclipse)
  4. Kevin Drumm - Sheer Hellish Miasma (Mego)
  5. Minamo - .kgs (360º)
  6. Omenya - The Esoteric Perversions (Klanggalerie)
  7. Burkhard Stangl & Dieb13 - eh (Erstwhile)
  8. The Spacious Mind - Do Your Thing but Don't Touch Ours (Goddamn I'm a Countryman)
  9. Charalambides - IN CR EA SE (Eclipse Records)
  10. Various Artists - Infernal Proteus (The AJNA Offensive)
  11. Jack Rose - Red Horse, White Mule (Eclipse)
  12. Mull Historical Society - Loss (XL/Beggars Banquet)
  13. The Vacuum Boys - Songs from the Sea of Love (Fire, Inc.)
  14. Kaffe Matthews, Andrea Neumann, Sachiko M - In Case of Fire Take the Stairs (Improvised Music from Japan)
  15. Taku Sugimoto, Burkhard Stangl, Christof Kurzmann - In Tokyo: First Concert, Second Take (Musica Genera)
  1. Comets on Fire - Field Recordings From the Sun (BaDaBing!)
  2. Yume Bitsu - The Golden Vessyl of Sound (K)
  3. Tape - Opera (Hapna)
  4. Six Organs of Admittance - Dark Noontide (Holy Mountain)
  5. Tanakh - Villa Claustrophobia (Alien8)
  6. Jack Rose - Red Horse, White Mule (Eclipse)
  7. Double Leopards - A Pebble in Thousands of Unmapped Revolutions LP (Eclipse)
  8. Windy and Carl - Introspection (Blue Flea)
  9. Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Univers Zen Ou De Zero A Zero (Fractal)
  10. Arco Flute Foundation - Everything After the Bomb is Sci-Fi (Cenotaph)
Adam Strohm Andrew Beckerman
  1. Deerhoof - Revielle (5rc)
  2. The Flying Luttenbachers - Infection and Decline (Troubleman Unlimited)
  3. (((microwaves))) - System 2 (Cenotaph Audio)
  4. Monotract - Pagu (Public eyesore)
  5. Gunda Gottschalk - Wassermonde (Elefant)
  6. Deerhoof - Halfbird (Menlo Park)
  7. Sonic Youth - Murray Street (DGC)
  8. A Hawk and a Hacksaw - s/t (Cloud Recordings)
  9. Paul Flaherty, Gregg Kelley, Chris Corsanno - Sayanaasi (Wet Paint)
  10. x27 - Spy Shop (self-released)
  1. Deerhoof - Reveille (Kill Rock Stars)
  2. Consonant - s/t (Fenway)
  3. The Revolutionary Hydra - Knockout to Dispense (Elsinor)
  4. Landing - Tour EP 2002 (Vast Arc Hues)
  5. Microwaves - System 2 (Cenotaph)
  6. Grand Buffet - Undercover Angels (GB)
  7. Notwist - Neon Golden (City Slang)
  8. Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow (MCA)
  9. Hayden - Skyscraper National Park (Hardwood Records)
  10. Out Hud - Street Dad (Kranky)
Pete Baumann Jim Steed
  1. Landing - Seasons (BaDaBing!)
  2. Yume Bitsu - Goldne Vessyl Sound ()
  3. Tarentel - Ephemera (Temporary Residence)
  4. Windy & Carl - Introspection (Blue Flea)
  5. Landing - Fade In/Fade Out (Strange Attractors)
  6. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights (Matador)
  7. Mum - Finally We Are No One (Fat Cat)
  8. Vitesse - What Cannot Be... But Is (Acuarela)
  9. Yellow 6/Portal - Split (Make Mine Music)
  10. Sigur Ros - () (Fat Cat)
  1. Consonant - s/t (Fenway)
  2. Sigur Ros - () (MCA)
  3. Out Hud - S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D. (Kranky)
  4. Sonic Youth - Murray Street (DGC)
  5. Bellini - Snowing Sun (Monitor)
  6. Songs: Ohia - Didn't It Rain (Secretly Canadian)
  7. Radar Brothers - And the Surrounding Mountains (Merge)
  8. Landing - Seasons (BaDaBing!)
  9. Do Make Say Think - & Yet & Yet (Constellation)
  10. Early Day Miners - Let Us Garlands Bring (Secretly Canadian)
  11. Analogue II - Oh Perfect Masters (Rubric)
  12. Greg Davis - Arbor (Carpark)
  13. Manual - Ascend (Morr)
  14. Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Univers Zen Ou de Zero a Zero (Fractal)
  15. Voyager One - Monster Zero (Loveless)
Anthony Gerace Jim Laakso
  1. Do Make Say Think - & Yet & Yet (Constellation)
  2. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People (Paperbag)
  3. The Books - Thought for Food (Tomlab)
  4. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (Matador)
  5. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner)
  6. Liars - They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top (Blast First/Mute)
  7. Iran - Moon Boys (tUMULt)
  8. Xiu Xiu - Knife Play (5RC)
  9. Deerhoof - Reveille (5RC)
  10. Enon - High Society (Touch and Go)
  1. Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet (Island)
  2. Oneida - Each One Teach One (Version City)
  3. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner Bros.)
  4. Lightning Bolt - The Power of Salad (DVD) (Load)
  5. Luna - Romantica (Jet Set)
  6. Rocket From the Tombs - The Day the Earth Met... (Smog Veil)
  7. Tony Conrad - Outside The Dream Syndicate (reissue)/Early Minimalism Vol. 1 (reissue) (Table of the Elements)
  8. Yume Bitsu - Golden Vessyl of Sound (K)
  9. Polyphonic Spree - The Beginning Stages Of... (Good Records)
  10. The Sunshine Fix - Age of the Sun (Kindercore)
Tim Whalley Jeff Penczak
  1. Xiu Xiu - Knife Play (5RC)
  2. David Grubbs - Rickets & Scurvy (Drag City)
  3. Black Dice - Beaches and Canyons (DFA)
  4. Themselves - The No Music (Anticon)
  5. Destroyer - This Night (Merge)
  1. Outrageous Cherry - The Book of Spectral Projections (Rainbow Quartz)
  2. The Donnas - Spend The Night (Atlantic)
  3. Windy & Carl - Introspection (Blue Flea)
  4. The Spacious Mind - Do Your Thing But Don't Touch Ours (Goddamn I'm A Countryman)
  5. Famous - Famous (Blue Couch)
  6. Robyn Hitchcock - Robyn Sings (Editions PAF!)
  7. Sahara Hotnights - Jennie Bomb (Jetset)
  8. Tuuli - Here We Go (Linus)
  9. Oasis - Heathen Chemistry (Epic)
  10. Camper Van Beethovan - Tusk (Pitch-A-Tent)
  11. Holy River Family Band - Earthquake Country (The Wild Places)
  12. Landing - 2002 Tour EP (Vast Arc Hues)
  13. Green Pajamas - Northern Gothic (Camera Obscura)
  14. In Gowan Ring - Hazel Steps Through A Weathered Home (Blue Sanct)
  15. Malcolm Morley - Lost and Found (Hux)
Jefre Cantu Cory Rayborn
  1. Devendra Banhart - Oh Me Oh My... The Way the Day Goes By the Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs of the Christmas Spirit (Young God)
  2. Tim Hecker - Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again (Substractif)
  3. Antipop Consortium - Arrhythmia (Warp)
  4. Polwechsel/Fennesz - Wrapped Island (Erstwhile)
  5. Songs:Ohia - Didn't It Rain (Secretly Canadian)
  6. Fly Pan Am - Ceux Qui Inventent N'ont Jamais Vecu (?) (Constellation)
  7. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs (Kranky)
  8. Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Vrioon (Raster-Noton)
  9. Biosphere - Shenzhou (Touch)
  10. Ryoji Ikeda - op. (Touch)
  1. Jack Rose - Red Horse, White Mule (Eclipse)
  2. Idyll Swords - s/t EP (Three-Lobed)
  3. Six Organs of Admittance - Dark Noontide (Holy Mountain)
  4. Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights (Matador)
  5. Comets on Fire - Field Recordings From the Sun (BaDaBing!)
  6. Beck - Sea Change (Geffen)
  7. Yo La Tengo - The Sounds of the Sounds of Science (Egon)
  8. Doctor Ragtime - s/t EP (Tequila Sunrise)
  9. Sunburned Hand of the Man - Headdress (Records)
  10. Sun City Girls - Flute and Mask (Abduction)
Bryan Colesby David Raposa
  1. Yume Bitsu - The Golden Vessyl of Sound (K)
  2. The Fucking Champs - V (Drag City)
  3. Little Wings - Light Green Leaves (K)
  4. Windy & Carl - Introspection (Blue Flea)
  1. Nina Nastasia - The Blackened Air (Touch & Go)
  2. The Streets - Original Pirate Material (Vice)
  3. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight (Merge)
  4. Christina Aguilera - Stripped (RCA)
  5. Pedro the Lion - Control (Jade Tree)
  6. Pearl Jam - Riot Act (Epic)
  7. Jenny Toomey - Tempting (Misra)
  8. Norah Jones - Come Away With Me (Blue Note)
  9. Eminem - The Eminem Show (Interscope)
  10. Franklin Bruno - A Cat May Look At A Queen (Absolutely Kosher)
Tom Eigen (Literature) Gil Gershman (Reissues)
Fiction:
  1. Samuel Delany - Dhalgren
  2. Alasdair Gray - Lanark
  3. Philip Pullmann - His Dark Materials triology
  4. Joseph McElroy - A Smuggler's Bible
  5. Harry Mathews - The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium
  6. Evan Dara - The Lost Scrapbook
  7. Harry Mathews - Cigarettes
  8. William Gaddis - Agape Agape
  9. Raymond Queaneau - Pierrot Mon Ami
  10. Gilbert Sorrentino - Mulligan Stew
Non-Fiction:
  1. Noam Chomsky - Understanding Power
  2. George Perec - Species of Spaces and other Places
  3. Val Wilmer - As Serious As Your life: The Story of the New Jazz
  4. William Gaddis - The Rush for Second Place
  5. John Corbett - Extended Play
  6. Peter Greenaway - Interviews
  7. Ekkehardt Jost - Free Jazz
  8. Laurence Weschler - Boggs: A Comedy of Values
  9. Hugh Kenner - The Elsewhere Community
  10. Harry Mathews - 20 Lines A Day
  1. Takehisa Kosugi - Catch-Wave (Showboat)
  2. Organum - Sphyx (Robot)
  3. Hirsche Nicht aufs Sofa - Abwassermusik, Melchior, Kuttel im Frost, Im Schatten der Mhr, (Dom)
  4. Maru Sankaku Shikaku - ( ) /\ [ ] (Captain Trip)
  5. Jonathan Coleclough - Period (Anomalous)

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