Ten Best CDs of 2002

1. Andrew W.K. "I Get Wet"
2. They Might Be Giants "No!"
3. Beck "Sea Change"
4. System of a Down "Steal This Album"
5. The White Stripes "White Blood Cells"
6. Imperial Teen "On"
7. Queens of the Stone Age "Songs For The Deaf"
8. Audioslave "Audioslave"
9/10. Tom Waits "Alice" and "Blood Money"
Peter Gabriel "Up"
Great Big Sea "Sea of No Cares"
Indigo Girls "Become You"
The Apples in Stereo "Velocity of Sound"
Ryan Adams "Demolition"
The Hives "Veni Vidi Vici"
Weezer "Maladroit"
The Doves "The Last Broadcast"
David Gray "New Day at Midnight"
Foo Fighters "One by One"
Adam Schmitt "Demolition"
Chan Poling "Calling All Stars"
Brendan Benson "Lapalco"
Jane Jensen "Burner"
Nerf Herder "American Cheese"
David Baerwald "Here Comes the New Folk Underground"
Interpol "Turn on the Bright Lights"
Coldplay "A Rush of Blood To The Head"
Billy Bragg and the Blokes "England, Half English"
Phantom Planet "Guest"
David Cross "Shut Up You Fucking Baby!"
...And You will Know Us By the Trail of Our Dead "Source Codes & Tags"
Clinic "Walking With Thee"
Bruce Springsteen "The Rising"

Best Techno CDs of 2002

1. Osymyso "Welcome to the Palindrome"
2. Peaches "The Teaches of Peaches"
3. Uberzone "Faith in the Future"
4. Ladytron "Light & Magic"
5. Chemical Brothers "Come With Us"
Air "Everybody Hertz"
X-Ecutioners "Built From Scratch" Gus Gus "Attention"

Best CD Reissues of 2002

1. XTC "Coat of Many Cupboards"
2. Nine Inch Nails "And All That Could Have Been"
3. Bill Hicks "Flying Saucer Tour Vol. 1" and "Love Laughter & Truth"
4. Stan Ridgway "Holiday In Dirt"
5. Shane MacGowan's Popes "Across the Broad Atlantic"
Gorillaz "G Sides"

Worst CDs of 2002

1. U2 "The Best of 1990-2000"
2. X-Press 2 "Muzikizum"
3. Bob Mould "Modulate"
4. Gorillaz: Spacemonkeyz versus Gorillaz "Laika Come Home"
5. Lovage "Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By" and Dan the Automator "Wanna Buy a Monkey?"
Paul Simon "The Paul Simon Collection: On My Way, Don't Know Where I'm Goin'"
Rinôçérôse "Music Kills Me"
Underworld "A Hundred Days Off"
Joe Jackson "Night And Day II"

Best CD Cover of 2002

1. Jerry Cantrell "Degradation Trip"
2. Phish "Round Room"
3. Peter Gabriel "Up"
Bjork "Family Tree"

Worst CD Cover of 2002

1. Red Hot Chili Peppers "By The Way"
2. Sum 41 "Does This Look Infected?"
3. Fischerspooner "#1"

Ten Best Movies of 2002

1. Nine Queens
2. Insomnia
3. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
4. The Salton Sea
5. Man of the Century
6. The Wrong Guy
7. Y Tu Mamá También
8. The Time Machine
9. About a Boy
10.The Scorpion King
Amelie
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Panic Room
Undercover Brother
The Royal Tenenbaums
Shanghai Knights
The Importance of Being Earnest
Lilo and Stitch/ Ice Age (tie)
24 Hour Party People
Men With Brooms
Kissing Jessica Stein
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Minority Report
Spider-Man
The Ring
Austin Powers in Goldmember

Five Worst Movies of 2002

1. Glitter
2. Pinocchio
3. Lisa Picard is Famous
4. Fear Dot Com 5. Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones
6. Don't Say a Word
7. The Ladies Man
8. Spirited Away
9. Monkeybone
10. Men In Black II
Reign of Fire
We Were Soldiers
Hollywood Ending
The Majestic
Super Troopers
Signs

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