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Best CDs of 2002

   Discussion: Best CDs of 2002
Gordondon son of Ethelred · 21 years, 7 months ago
It's getting to list making time of the year. WFUV is having it's poll for best new releases of 2002. What are yours? I could list more but I'll stick to my top three in no particular order

DVN: Brontosaurus
David Bowie: Heathens
Christine Lavin: I was in Love with a Difficult Man

I haven't heard Rod Picott's so it might be up there. I'm sure I'm forgetting some others that belong.
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
Ackk. I forgot The Kennedys: "Get it Right"
I forgot to vote on that in the WFUV poll too. The question is which CD do I leave out? David Bowie is the only one that I'm not going to talk to in the next year, I guess it should be him :-)
I can see the bunny Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
This was a fabulous year for new music - I had a tough time just narrowing it to 10 (in no particular order)...

Stephen Fearing - That's How I Walk
The Supers - Mystery on Pop Mountain
Ron Sexsmith - Cobblestone Runway
Colin Linden - Big Mouth
Andy Stochansky - Five Star Motel
Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel
Sarah Slean - Night Bugs
Starling - Stuff You Should Have Said Before
John Mayer - Room For Squares
Spek - Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

So many more could get honourable mentions though...
angelmusicmaven Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
Booyah!!! Yes the Ron one's dang good.... the Andy Stochansky CD is my favorite of the year, number one! Don't have the Elvis one, I bought a 2 cd best-of of him this year though, so yay... Cary Pierce "Live At Schubas" is pretty good... Jack O'Neill also from Jackopierce just released a good one... Chicago band Down The Line has a wonderful cd called "Welcome to Flavortown" which you'll like if you're into Martin Sexton, Jeff Buckley, and CSN (neat combo eh?) they're my substitute Fruvous ;) ... I know I'm forgetting a bunch but I'm still doing catch-up cd buying from years past, you know?
I can see the bunny Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
Oh, the new Elvis CD should definitely be on your 'to buy' list - brilliant.

I love Martin Sexton too - but I can't even see Jeff Buckley's name anymore without thinking of the weekend of horror that was the Buckley tribute show earlier this year. *shudder*
angelmusicmaven Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
oops I forgot about the Flaming Lips CD "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots." Awesome to listen to on a big stereo. Production is amazing!!!
Krazy Kat Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
Totally with you on the new Elvis Costello. It's great.
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
One year I actually kept track of every film I went to along with personal reviews then at oscar time gave out my own academy awards in the six major catagories.
goovie is married! Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
brontosaurus, love and china, get it right, something magnetic (wa9), ben folds live.
goovie is married! Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
oh, also come away with me by norah jones. not that she needs any promotion, but still. great cd.
Kat Kunz Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
heeeee. mine too. and the rest:

2. Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk
3. Chris & Meredith Thompson - Clearwater
4. Susan Werner - New Non Fiction
5. Andy Stochansky - Five Star Motel / Counting Crows - Hard Candy. I can't
choose. They're both 5th place material. Sorry. :)
6. Sean Altman - alt.mania
7. Richard Shindell - Courier
8. Ellis Paul - The Speed of Trees
9. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
10. Badly Drawn Boy - Have You Fed the Fish?

runners up, b/c their discs are *so* close to being masterpieces--but fail
in the final yards: Great Big Sea - Sea of No Cares and Aimee Mann - Lost in
Space. mostly b/c the last studio albums from both were *so* good, and the follow-ups just weren't on the same level. disappointing.

i love DVN, but brontosaurus hasn't spent enough time in my CD player to make the list. and BF5's live cd is fun, but not spectacular.

which reminds me. i have an EC newsletter to send out. pardon me. --k, who should be writing papers, which is why she's on the FHDC forums, of course.
Kat Kunz Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
er, i meant ben folds, minus the five. and i'm a tool for replying to myself. anyway. carry on--k.
wild bill Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
i haven't bought too many cds recently.. but i will say this..

brontosaurus wouldn't be on my top 5 and i don't think i bought 5 cds this year.

coldplay's disc certainly would be though. quality stuff.
Krazy Kat Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
mmm Brothers Creeggan. For some reason I really like them but don't care for BNL.
Andrea Krause · 21 years, 7 months ago
Sadly I can't even really contribute. I think this is the first year I haven't really been actively buying a lot of new releases. I suppose in the earlier part of the year I was. I'll have to look into what I have. 10 Thousand Mornings (Peter Mulvey) and/or its accompanying EP would be in there.
nate... Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
For me, at least, it hasn't been a very good year for new music.......
10 Thousand Mornings, absolutely.

Also, 13 Songs for Right Now by Philip Price .. it has yet to leave my cd changer since I bought it.

Umm.... *thinks*
Not much else of note (for me) has come out this year other than those two.... at least, that I can think of.. I'll have to get back to this.
:)
A girl named Becca Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
What about Something Magnetic by WA9? :)
nate... Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
Still haven't heard it/gotten it.
Funny that... when you try to contact the band and they never reply to emails.
:P
A girl named Becca Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
You have too! It's the one with Albany, If You See William, Born Again, and Port Wine, you dork. :P
John J. Ryan · 21 years, 7 months ago
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. Beats everything else hands down.
lawrence · 21 years, 7 months ago
Candy Butchers - Play With Your Head
Nerissa and Katryna Nields - Love and China
Mark Erelli - The Memorial Hall Recordings
The Kennedys - Get It Right
Spiraling - Transmitter

there were more CDs I bought that weren't released this year, and some that were released this year that I didn't think should be included, and I didn't want to do a top 6 or top 7, so the honourable mention goes to Brontosaurus; the live CDs, which aren't included because I don't think that live recordings (especially those recorded in subway stations!) should be up against polished studio material, were Ten Thousand Mornings, Courier, and Ben Folds Live; the reissue of the Violent Femmes' self-titled album is excellent, but isn't really a 2002 album; and the dishonourable mentions go to Sea of No Cares (fire the damn drummer and unplug your guitars!) and No! (I can't even come up with a snarky comment about this one)
Talcott Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
See, I think NO! might actually be on my top 5 list.
And live CDs are perfectly acceptable top 5 material. If live in a subway is better than polished, why shouldn't it get that credit?

although I do tend to agree (a bit more calmly though) about Sea of no Cares. It has some good stuff, but Turn was so much better...

Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
I forgot about NO. That is definite top 5 material.
beth-pseudocanuck! · 21 years, 7 months ago
wow, great timing, g-man! i will most likely be doing a "top 5 (possibly 10) singer-songwriter albums of 2002" on the WUNH folk show this coming sunday morning. i have to talk to the REAL host of the show tonight to see if he'll do the top 5 (or 10) traditional/instrumental to complement my s-s selections...could make for a great show. good ideas, guys. i had been blanking and afraid i'd miss something, but if people keep posting here, i should be able to come up with a pretty good--and relatively comprehensive--list. although i can ALMOST promise you that love and china will not be on it. ;-)

so keep posting and help out dj folky beth! :)
beth-pseudocanuck! Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
other important info: WUNH folk show, sundays 10am-noon, 91.3fm in the nh seacoast region, and www.wunh.org everywhere else. :-D listen up, yo!
nate... Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
What is this? Your own personal advertising forum?
;)

angelmusicmaven Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
oh, is it??? Ok so if that's true, everyone should check out www.stevegoodie.com and order his 2002 release of parodies and originals SHOW-OFF because I cowrote one of the tracks... err... the Britney homage "Boobs! I Did 'Em Again." VERY silly stuff.
bequon · 21 years, 7 months ago
Sparks: Lil Beethoven (UK Universal)

Sandy Posey: A Single Girl; Best of the MGM Years (RPM)

Lou Christie & The Tammys:
Egyptian Shumba:
Singles & Rare Recordings 1962-64 (RPM)
http://www.geocities.com/antlion7/tammys.htm
bequon Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
Also:

crispy ambulance
all-new studio album

SCISSORGUN
Darla DRL-126 &
LTM CD 2329 (46:03)
released april 8, 2002
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palladium/1306/crispy.htm

scissorgun track 01 w/ sample from
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
(Russ Meyer, 1965):
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Violence. The word and the act. While violence cloaks itself in a plethora of disguises, its favourite mantle still remains - sex.

scissorgun track 10 w/ sample from
Nick Bougas Presents:
Celebrities...At Their Worst!
(Volume 1)
While recording a trailer with Dean Martin for their new film, The Caddy, Jerry Lewis's mousy adolescent voice skips off-message into bursts of abuse. "No doubt about it, Dean, this is the funniest picture we've ever made, no kidding folks, we're sensational. Take my word for it, come on in and join the fun. The Caddy! It'll make you sh*t!"



J. Andrew World · 21 years, 7 months ago
...And a bad Speller, too. Russell Wolff's long anticipated Road Kill Americana, not only is it one of the best CD's of the year, but it is "The Best Ambum with Andy World in the Music Video." However it was narrowly beat out by The Paperboy's Tenure for the spot of "Best Album with an aduible yell from Andy World" Plus Melinda Beasi's Dorrie's True Story gets the "Best use of Andy World Artwork" Award!
bored, bored, bored.... Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
Hey Andy - I'm listening to "Tenure" right now...which tune has your yell in it?
J. Andrew World Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
The last Track, "Midnight on the Highway" Right before Tom Landa introduces Cam Salay. Compair it to my hollor at the end of the Russell Wolff Video. I "Woot"ed!
It's a girl! Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
I can't believe no one has voted for "Boredom and A Drum!" Or did you put that out in 2001?
J. Andrew World Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
Boredom and a Drum was a 2002 releace. I was kinda hoping it was voted for "Worse album *EVER*" but I am afraid that one goes to Willa Ford or that Lou Reed album of just feed back.
J. Andrew World Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
Look at My Personal Advertizing!
Gordondon son of Ethelred · 21 years, 7 months ago
Once more CD that deserves mention, Evolve by Cadence Carroll. The more I see and hear Cadence the more I like her.
J. Andrew World Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
I feel guilty for not liking her CD. She is such a sweet person and really very nice. I think she is a tallented singer and musician, but I can't stand her album for some reason. It gets a simmular responce from me like when I played the Willa Ford CD I bought. Except the Willa ford responce was more violent.
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
That's how I feel about Martina and to a lesser extant Russell Wolffe. I really like them as people but not as musicians. Martina leaves me cold. I like Russell's music but not enough to want his CDs.
Andrea Krause Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
That's the hard part about meeting musicians or just perhaps knowing who they are as people. You feel guilty if you don't like their music but like them.

I have that with some folks...think they're awesome people and support their careers because I want them to do well, but the music isn't necessarily my thing.
goovie is married! Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
oh, and while we're SMAFing, how about david morreale's pre-cd ep cd? :)
Eri · 21 years, 7 months ago
I had SERIOUS trouble with my list this year. I could NOT, for the life of me, come up with a full ten CDs for my list.. not even five. a lot of the discs I would have put on my list are ones which, while not -promoted- until 2002, were released in 2001 (John Mayer's Room For Squares, the Real Group's Allt Det Basta and Come Together: An A Cappella Tribute to the Beatles) or even 2000 (Gorillaz's eponymous disc, the Real Group's Commonly Unique).

Here are the ones that made my list that were actually this year. (in no order)

Us3, "An Ordinary Day in an Unusual Place"
various artists, "Verve//Remixed"
Zubot and Dawson, "Chicken Scratch"
are sorta the best ones, with runner-up mentions going to

Bill Bourne, "Voodoo King"
Brothers Creeggan, "Sleepyhead"
Yellowjackets, "Mint Jam"
Van Morrison, "Down the Road"
Ron Sexsmith, "Cobblestone Runway"
and
Weezer, "Maladroit"

but that last bunch.. I dunno. They still didn't stand out enough to me to really put them on my list... I just did NOT find a lot of new music this year that I actually wanted to buy. :( :( :(
J. Andrew World Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
What about your CD?
Eri Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
My CD, which was supposed to be released before Christmas, now isn't going to be. *sigh* So it might not be out this year.
Queen Lisa of Darlington Back · 21 years, 7 months ago
I found Aimee Mann's LIS slow going on first listen because I didn't like two of the first three tunes AT ALL but after seeing her in concert I went back to it and really like MOST of it now, especially "Invisible Ink" and "This is How it Goes" which actually make it into my top 10 AM songs. So I just resign myself to the occasional FF button of the CD player and live with it LOL ...

I know, I know, Room for Squares is 2001 but I'm slow so I'll put it on this year's list, and add that the song "3 x 5" is one of my top two songs of the year along with Neil Finn's "Driving Me Mad" (listen to the two back to back and I dare you to sit still).

Finally, this never technically "came out" but was probably recorded in maybe 1992 or 3??? But I just got it this year so I consider it a 2002 CD for me LOL ... anyway, worth giving it props: the Candy Butchers' "Blue Thumb" album for lack of a better name for it. Not a bad song on it. Just wish they had kept "California Girl" and "Canned Hunt" from "Live at the Bonbonniere" EP that preceded it ... too bad I found his REAL new album so disappointing as to be nearly unlistenable. Sigh.

Lisa
I can see the bunny Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
Well, John Mayer's CD may have come out last year in the States perhaps but it came out in January of 2002 here in Canada. Plus they've only just released a special edition of the CD a couple of weeks ago so it still counts in my books. :)

I was blown away by Ron's new CD - I think it's an absolutely gorgeous album. The Brothers Creeggan album is quite good but I'd have to agree that it's not quite the stand out it should have been.
Josh Woodward Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
I haven't heard his "real" album, but its acoustic predecessor "Inside Wants Out" is damn good. It's a far cry from his glossy new big-label production style, the songs are very earthy and alive. He reminds me a lot of Martin Sexton. Even the original version "No Such Thing" is a great folk song. Not to mention the beautiful "Comfortable" .
Adam Hartfield Back · 21 years, 6 months ago
Oooh! Verve Remixed! I have that album. It's great.

Let's see... in no particular order...my favorites of 2002.

Nerissa and Katryna Nields, Love and China
Marly Hornik, Say You Do
Dixie Chicks, Home
Dolly Parton, Halos and Horns
Adam Brodsky, Hookers, Hicks, and Heebs.

Other recent albums I enjoy:

Jane Monheit, In The Sun
Super Furry Animals, various albums

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