THE TOP 40 ALBUMS OF 2002

1.  WILCO - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)
2.  THE NOTWIST - Neon Golden (Big Store/City Slang Germany import)
3.  INTERPOL - Turn On The Bright Lights  (Matador)
4.  NEKO CASE - Blacklisted (Bloodshot)
5.  CLINIC - Walking With Thee (Domino)
6.  THE STREETS - Original Pirate Material (Locked On/679/Vice/Atlantic)
7.  N.E.R.D. - In Search Of ... (Virgin)
8.  THE CORAL - The Coral (Deltasonic UK import)
9.  BECK - Sea Change (DGC)
10. TEENAGE FANCLUB AND JAD FAIR Words Of Wisdom And Hope 
	(Geographic/Alternative Tentacles)
11. THE FLAMING LIPS - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Warner Bros.)
12. VARIOUS ARTISTS - The Best Bootlegs In The World Ever (No Label import)
13. MEKONS - OOOH! (Quarterstick)
14. IDLEWILD - The Remote Part (Parlophone UK import)
15. DESAPARECIDOS - Read Music/Speak Spanish (Saddle Creek)
16. TOM WAITS - Blood Money (Anti-)
17. SILKWORM - Italian Platinum (Touch And Go)
18. RILO KILEY - The Execution Of All Things (Saddle Creek)
19. LUNA - Romantica (Jetset)
20. BRIGHT EYES - Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the
Ground (Saddle Creek)
21. CONSONANT - Consonant (Fenway)
22. MR. LIF - I Phantom (Definitive Jux)
23. TOM WAITS - Alice (Anti-)
24. HOT HOT HEAT - Make Up The Breakdown (Sub Pop)
25. SONGS: OHIA - Didn't It Rain (Secretly Canadian)
26. SPOON - Kill The Moonlight (Merge)
27. LOW - Trust (Kranky)
28. THE DELGADOS - Hate (Mantra UK import)
29. THE REPUTATION - The Reputation (Initial)
30. SPRING HEEL JACK - Amassed (Thirsty Ear)
31. FRANK BLACK AND THE CATHOLICS - Devil's Workshop (spinART)
32. MIA DOI TODD - The Golden State (Columbia)
33. DESTROYER - This Night (Merge)
34. ORCHESTRA BAOBAB - Specialist In All Styles (World Circuit/Nonesuch)
35. SLEATER-KINNEY - One Beat (Kill Rock Stars)
36. SONDRE LERCHE - Faces Down (Virgin Records Norway/Astralwerks)
37. JOHN FORTE - i, John (Transparent Music)
38. GOGOL BORDELLO - Multi Kontra Culti Vs. Irony (Rubric)
39. RADAR BROTHERS - And The Surrounding Mountains (Merge)
40. THE POLYPHONIC SPREE - The Beginning Stages Of... (Good)