Ok what is everyones album of the year?! No lists of every album you've listened to this year, just pick one album that has stood out from everything else you have listened to. For me it has got to be

Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

Why?! because it reminded me how great rock music can be. No whiny assed so called punk kids and no post-grunge Kurt Cobain soundalikes. This album completely fucking rocked my world. I'm now off to play it again and annoy everyone.

Musiq Soulschild - "Juslisen"

He has so many tracks with so many vocal layers without overkill and his tracks have moved me in a way that :I: can only compare with Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" Album.

It's not so radical a comparison as it sounds! believe me!

This could change when :I: hear Lewis Taylor's "Stoned Pt. 1" tho' but until then, :I:'m sticking with Musiq!!!

'dre

SHIT T R C. ALL THE OTHER SHIT SOUNDS LIKE REPRODUCED EAR CANDY. NOTHING OUT RIGHT NOW BUT THUG SOUNDS [RAP]

two albums stood out this year for me ...

sigur ros - ()
tori amos - scarlet's walk

both are perfect albums. and both are fierce in their creativity.

vespertine said:

I LOVED Sigur Ros' first album. It is absolutely breathtaking. The 2nd is taking me a moment to slip into but you are right about the creativity.

This list isn't due until AFTER 12/31/02

Meshell' Coochie, I mean Cookie. Even that remix is jammin'.

Far and away it's gotta be Bowie's Heathen for me.

Every song is perfect and I rate it among his best work.

Plus, I got to see the entire thing performed live at Roseland Ballroom. What a show!

Meshell Ndgochello

"The Anthroprological Mixtape"

DAMN DAMN DAMN

The best lie quiet

I honestly haven't had time to listen to all those albums I stole on Kazaa

Have a few kids and it'll happen to you, too

Tori Amos' Scarlet's Walk, most definitely. I recommend it.

Source, Tags & Codes by a band called "...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead".
Awesome.

even though me'shell's "cookie" is essentially a july 2001 album, since it was released in nearly a year late in june 2002, i must say it's "cookie."

second choice would be talib kweli's "quality."

nobody's records have even come close to either of them this year in both substance & musicianship.

WildheartXXX said:

It would be Trent Reznor and guests' "Tapeworm", but that one is still not released so it's definitely, without a doubt, Bowie's "Heathen"...

Close second and third:

Meshell Ndegeocello's "Cookie:The Anthroplogical Mixtape"
Queens Of The Stone Age's "Songs For The Deaf"

Still haven't heard Beck's new one yet... I guess that one would rank high up there...

Neversin.

Can't choose just one, so here's my faves

Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
David Bowie - Heathen
Beck - Sea Change

and Tori Amos's Scarlet's Walk ain't bad either!

Honourable mentions also to

Oasis - Heathen Chemistry
A-ha (yes, A-ha!) - Lifelines
McAlmont & Butler - Bring It Back

Neversin said:

I need Beck and that QOTSA

So far for me the best complete album of the year for me is the Eminem Show. I was not even a fan, in fact I couldn't stand the guy but I liked the "Without Me" single so I gave the album a try. I'm sure glad I did, he's a lyrical genius.

Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape by Meshell Ndegeocello
2. Back To Then, Darius Rucker
3. Little Deeper, Ms. Dynamite
4. Sota!, Backroom Matches
5. Wanderland, Kelis
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There weren't many standouts for me.

Peter Gabriel...UP

Beck...Sea Change

ummm...wait,I'm thinking...

...of course!

Joni Mitchell's Travelogue.Exquisite.

3) Oasis - Heathen Chemistry
2) Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
1) Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot



***With special mention to The Rainbow Children...I know, I know, I know, it really came out in '01 (so did Yankee on the internet but let not get technical) but I really got into it in '02 so I consider it one of the best of this year.
[This message was edited Thu Dec 5 19:00:23 PST 2002 by Pagey]

I hate to say it, and I might be totally ripped on for this, but I have to give it to Christina Aguilera for "Stripped." There are albums this year that have performed consistently in a single style, but Stripped was full of both quality and variety. I was really pleasantly surprised.

Honorable mentions: Musiq "Juslisten"
Remy Shand "The Way I Feel"
James Taylor "October Road"
Prince "One Nite Alone"

...and all the great remastered classic albums that came out this year.

India.Arie - Voyage to India...a sleeper Sophomore hit.

Remy Shand - The Way I Feel...a few of my coworkers and I were jamming to his music at work. A surprise addition to the "neo-soul" genre.

John Mayer - Room for Squares...I couldn't stand the first single which was overplayed, but when "Your Body is a Wonderland" came out, that caught my attention, and the rest of the music is great.

Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head...Ok I don't actually have a copy of it, but I played the music alot on musicmatch.com, and it's quite good.

Raphael Saddiq - Instant Vintage...Now he personified soul this year. If you can see him live, don't miss out.

N.E.R.D - In search of...

No Doubt - Rock Steady (rock steady came out in december 2001 so i count it for this yr.)

well hummm... there's a lot of good stuff this year...

my first choice : Flaming Lips - Yoshimi vs The Pink Robots

and then :
Peter Gabriel - Up
Coldplay - A rush of blood
Nada Surf - Let Go
Beck - Sea Change
Alain Bashung - L'imprudence
Sigur Ros - ()
Fischerspooner - #1
...


and i hope "One Nite Alone Live !".. if i get mine b4 2003 !!!

The best album I heard this year was the debut CD by Remy Shand 'The Way I Feel'.It was a pleasant surprise.Soulful and breezy songs,with many 70s'-inspired sounds.

Bowie's HEATHEN, by far, is my favorite album of the year.

Honorable mentions:

N*E*R*D* - In Search Of...
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
The Residents - Demons Dance Alone
Missy Elliott - Under Construction

and, yeah, I'll say it...

Prince - ONA Live

(it's the first new Prince album I've listened to more than five times in my first week of owning it - ah, those were the days...)

Pink - Misunderztood

1. Scarface: The Fix
2. Bounty Killer: Ghetto Dictionary
3. Frank Black: Devil's Workshop
4. Lambchop: Is a woman
5. Missy Elliot: Under Construction