Best Albums of 2002


01
Martin O'Donnell
Halo Original Soundtrack

4.4
109 votes
02
Agalloch
The Mantle

4.37
2981 votes
03
Howard Shore
The Two Towers

4.35
218 votes
04
ISIS
Oceanic

4.35
2614 votes
05
Sigur Ros
( )

4.32
2886 votes
06
Boards of Canada
Geogaddi

4.32
1476 votes
07
Thomas Dybdahl
...That Great October Sound

4.32
22 votes
08
Solomon Burke
Don't Give Up On Me

4.32
22 votes
09
Pain of Salvation
Remedy Lane

4.3
703 votes
10
Glassjaw
Worship and Tribute

4.3
2752 votes
11
Interpol
Turn on the Bright Lights

4.27
2603 votes
12
Queens of the Stone Age
Songs for the Deaf

4.26
4372 votes
13
El-P
Fantastic Damage

4.24
512 votes
14
Trespassers William
Different Stars

4.24
298 votes
15
Pat Metheny Group
Speaking of Now

4.24
25 votes
16
Botch
An Anthology of Dead Ends

4.24
955 votes
17
Porcupine Tree
In Absentia

4.23
3498 votes
18
Genelec & Memphis Reigns
Scorpion Circles

4.23
42 votes
19
Koji Kondo
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker OST

4.23
107 votes
20
Jehst
The Return of the Drifter

4.22
27 votes
21
Carissa's Wierd
Songs About Leaving

4.22
455 votes
22
Echolyn
Mei

4.21
28 votes
23
Songs: Ohia
Didn't It Rain

4.2
123 votes
24
The Mountain Goats
All Hail West Texas

4.2
449 votes
25
Blackalicious
Blazing Arrow

4.2
396 votes
26
Hopesfall
The Satellite Years

4.2
820 votes
27
dredg
El Cielo

4.19
1797 votes
28
Johnny Cash
American IV: The Man Comes Around

4.19
570 votes
29
Azure Ray
Burn and Shiver

4.18
22 votes
30
City of Caterpillar
City of Caterpillar

4.18
1010 votes
31
Drive-By Truckers
Southern Rock Opera

4.17
99 votes
32
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
Horse of the Dog

4.17
27 votes
33
Broken Social Scene
You Forgot It in People

4.16
1022 votes
34
Impaled
Mondo Medicale

4.15
75 votes
35
Buckethead
Electric Tears

4.15
328 votes
36
The Postman Syndrome
Terraforming

4.15
48 votes
37
Today Is the Day
Sadness Will Prevail

4.14
177 votes
38
Tragedy
Vengeance

4.14
293 votes
39
Canibus
Miclub: The Curriculum

4.14
43 votes
40
Jeremy Soule
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Soundtrack

4.14
88 votes
41
Taake
Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik

4.14
224 votes
42
Arcturus
The Sham Mirrors

4.14
674 votes
43
Empyrium
Weiland

4.14
224 votes
44
Against Me!
Reinventing Axl Rose

4.13
1127 votes
45
Kalmah
They Will Return

4.13
584 votes
46
Knut
Challenger

4.13
248 votes
47
Shaman
Ritual

4.13
43 votes
48
Destroyer 666
Cold Steel...for an Iron Age

4.12
174 votes
49
Orchid
Orchid

4.12
692 votes
50
Reverend Bizarre
In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend

4.12
191 votes
51
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Irony Is a Dead Scene

4.12
1651 votes
52
The Flaming Lips
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

4.12
1836 votes
53
Bohren und der Club of Gore
Black Earth

4.11
286 votes
54
Symphony X
The Odyssey

4.11
824 votes
55
Racebannon
In the Grips of the Light

4.11
40 votes
56
Bright Eyes
Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground

4.11
846 votes
57
Immolation
Unholy Cult

4.11
606 votes
58
mclusky
McLusky Do Dallas

4.11
304 votes
59
Infest
No Man's Slave

4.11
279 votes
60
Choke
There's A Story To This Moral

4.1
29 votes
61
Dark Tranquillity
Damage Done

4.1
1186 votes
62
The Gathering
Black Light District

4.1
65 votes
63
Buck 65
Square

4.1
27 votes
64
Aimee Mann
Lost in Space

4.1
47 votes
65
Manticora
Hyperion

4.09
32 votes
66
Interpol
Interpol EP

4.09
92 votes
67
The Lawrence Arms
Apathy and Exhaustion

4.09
241 votes
68
Joseph Arthur
Redemption's Son

4.09
23 votes
69
Immortal
Sons of Northern Darkness

4.09
1045 votes
70
William Basinski
The Disintegration Loops I

4.08
292 votes
71
Oxbow
An Evil Heat

4.08
123 votes
72
Damien Rice
O

4.08
774 votes
73
In Gowan Ring
Hazel Steps Through A Weathered Home

4.08
39 votes
74
Judas Iscariot
To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding

4.07
116 votes
75
Asian Kung-Fu Generation
Houkai Amplifier

4.07
44 votes
76
Red Harvest
Sick Transit Gloria Mundi

4.07
53 votes
77
Pedro the Lion
Control

4.06
219 votes
78
Michael Andrews
Donnie Darko

4.06
46 votes
79
Megaherz
Herzwerk II

4.06
26 votes
80
Peter Murphy
Dust

4.06
27 votes
81
Coheed and Cambria
The Second Stage Turbine Blade

4.06
2505 votes
82
90 Day Men
To Everybody

4.05
64 votes
83
Against Me!
The Disco Before the Breakdown

4.05
179 votes
84
Sentenced
The Cold White Light

4.05
167 votes
85
Thrice
The Illusion of Safety

4.05
2465 votes
86
Rhapsody of Fire
Power of the Dragonflame

4.05
285 votes
87
This Day Forward
Kairos

4.05
39 votes
88
Medeski, Martin and Wood
Uninvisible

4.05
39 votes
89
The Crown
Crowned in Terror

4.05
118 votes
90
Soundtrack (Film)
Donnie Darko

4.05
21 votes
91
Yann Tiersen
Le Phare

4.05
32 votes
92
Butch Walker
Left of Self-Centered

4.05
55 votes
93
The Cinematic Orchestra
Every Day

4.05
164 votes
94
Enon
High Society

4.04
23 votes
95
Scarface
The Fix

4.04
138 votes
96
Ten Grand
This Is The Way To Rule

4.04
47 votes
97
People Under the Stairs
O.S.T.

4.04
95 votes
98
Silverchair
Diorama

4.04
465 votes
99
Idlewild
The Remote Part

4.04
133 votes
100
Charon
Downhearted

4.04
26 votes
101
Rapture
Songs for the Withering

4.04
67 votes
102
Coaltar of the Deepers
Newave

4.03
37 votes
103
Les Claypool And The Frog Brigade
Purple Onion

4.03
62 votes
104
Number Girl
NUM-HEAVYMETALLIC

4.03
69 votes
105
Wovenhand
Woven Hand

4.03
80 votes
106
Tenhi
Vare

4.03
88 votes
107
Alias
The Other Side Of The Looking Glass

4.03
37 votes
108
Power Quest
Wings of Forever

4.03
37 votes
109
Acumen Nation
The 5ifth Column

4.02
41 votes
110
Frou Frou
Details

4.02
200 votes
111
Dark Age
The Silent Republic

4.02
22 votes
112
Aesop Rock
Daylight

4.02
222 votes
113
Prototype
Trinity

4.02
24 votes
114
The Streets
Original Pirate Material

4.02
464 votes
115
Sleater-Kinney
One Beat

4.02
179 votes
116
Hikaru Utada
Deep River

4.02
127 votes
117
The Mountain Goats
Tallahassee

4.02
397 votes
118
Raised Fist
Dedication

4.02
86 votes
119
Okkervil River
Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See

4.02
150 votes
120
Nile
In Their Darkened Shrines

4.02
893 votes
121
Ayumi Hamasaki
I am...

4.02
31 votes
122
The Cooper Temple Clause
See This Through And Leave

4.02
32 votes
123
Bad Astronaut
Houston: We Have a Drinking Problem

4.01
135 votes
124
Blind Guardian
A Night at the Opera

4.01
731 votes
125
No Warning
Ill Blood

4.01
40 votes
126
Taking Back Sunday
Tell All Your Friends

4.01
2167 votes
127
Rage
Unity

4.01
53 votes
128
Koop
Waltz for Koop

4.01
26 votes
129
Atmosphere
God Loves Ugly

4.01
653 votes
130
Busdriver
Temporary Forever

4.01
150 votes
131
16 Horsepower
Folklore

4.01
80 votes
132
Beck
Sea Change

4
1024 votes
133
The Constructus Corporation
The Ziggurat

4
34 votes
134
2 Many DJs
As Heard On Radio Soulwax, Part 2

4
22 votes
135
The Mountain Goats
Devil In the Shortwave

4
29 votes
Waxwing
One For The Ride

4
22 votes
137
Sparks
Lil' Beethoven

4
54 votes
138
Vex Red
Start With A Strong & Persistant Desire

4
46 votes
139
Karate
Some Boots

4
53 votes
140
Jay Munly
Jimmy Carter Syndrome

4
22 votes
141
Joe Satriani
Strange Beautiful Music

4
142 votes
142
Dream Theater
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

4
2231 votes
143
Neko Case
Blacklisted

4
99 votes
144
Sage Francis
Personal Journals

4
212 votes
145
Muse
Dead Star/In Your World

3.99
84 votes
146
Mourning Beloveth
The Sullen Sulcus

3.99
65 votes
147
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Source Tags and Codes

3.99
560 votes
148
Cephalic Carnage
Lucid Interval

3.99
234 votes
149
Killswitch Engage
Alive or Just Breathing

3.99
2459 votes
150
Dillinger Four
Situationist Comedy

3.99
111 votes
151
Dalek
From Filthy Tongue Of Gods And Griots

3.99
219 votes
152
Belenos
Spicilege

3.99
51 votes
153
Meshuggah
Nothing

3.99
1724 votes
154
Ten Grand
The Comprehensive List

3.99
49 votes
155
Lucero
Tennessee

3.99
45 votes
156
Hella
Hold Your Horse Is

3.99
457 votes
157
Hot Snakes
Suicide Invoice

3.99
124 votes
158
Mr. Lif
Emergency Rations

3.99
36 votes
159
Alkaline Trio/Hot Water Music
Alkaline Trio/Hot Water Music Split

3.98
30 votes
160
Freedom Call
Eternity

3.98
86 votes
161
Decapitated
Nihility

3.98
884 votes
162
Cog
Just Visiting - Part 2

3.98
28 votes
163
Yyrkoon
Dying Sun

3.98
28 votes
164
Minus the Bear
Highly Refined Pirates

3.98
1023 votes
165
Wyrd
Huldrafolk

3.98
27 votes
166
The Red Chord
Fused Together in Revolving Doors

3.98
643 votes
167
Desaparecidos
Read Music/Speak Spanish

3.98
230 votes
168
Pulse Ultra
Headspace

3.98
101 votes
169
Martin Grech
Open Heart Zoo

3.98
25 votes
170
Non Phixion
The Future Is Now

3.98
74 votes
171
Boris
Heavy Rocks

3.98
465 votes
172
QueenAdreena
Drink Me

3.98
22 votes
173
Eden Maine
The Treachery Pact

3.98
22 votes
174
Augie March
Strange Bird

3.98
21 votes
175
Ekkaia
Manos Que Estrechan Planes De Muerte Y Sometimient

3.98
41 votes
176
Cage (USA-NY)
Movies for the Blind

3.97
134 votes
177
Majority Rule
Emergency Numbers

3.97
70 votes
178
CunninLynguists
Will Rap For Food

3.97
252 votes
179
Tom Waits
Alice

3.97
416 votes
180
Lemon Jelly
Lost Horizons

3.97
99 votes
181
Ben Kweller
Sha Sha

3.97
64 votes
182
The Mercury Program
A Data Learn the Language

3.97
64 votes
183
Naglfar
Ex Inferis

3.97
31 votes
184
The Butterfly Effect
The Butterfly Effect

3.96
95 votes
185
Cog
Just Visiting - Part 1

3.96
27 votes
186
Codeseven
The Rescue

3.96
54 votes
187
Paysage d'Hiver/Lunar Aurora
Split

3.96
26 votes
188
Rilo Kiley
The Execution of All Things

3.96
218 votes
189
Trail Of Tears
A New Dimension Of Might

3.96
25 votes
190
Devin The Dude
Just Tryin' Ta Live

3.96
61 votes
191
NOFX/Rancid
BYO Split Series Vol. 3

3.96
35 votes
192
The Residents
Demons Dance Alone

3.96
35 votes
193
RJD2
Deadringer

3.96
293 votes
194
The Delgados
Hate

3.96
45 votes
195
pg.99 / Majority Rule
Document #12

3.96
179 votes
196
Spiritual Beggars
On Fire

3.95
65 votes
197
The Paper Chase
Hide the Kitchen Knives

3.95
43 votes
198
AFI
336

3.95
32 votes
199
Maximillian Colby
Discography

3.95
53 votes



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