A few weeks ago, the pho list had a thread of listers’ favorite CDs of 2002. I posted my list then, and I reproduce it here now, in the neverending quest for more blog content. I’ve limited it to CDs released (legitimately) for the first time in 2002, which disqualifies such otherwise list-topping CDs as the extended remaster of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme. You have to draw the line somewhere. Maybe that’s a lame place to draw it, but there it is.
- King Crimson, Live at the Zoom Club 1972
- Elvis Costello, When I Was Cruel
- Wayne Horvitz, Sweeter Than the Day
- Bill Frisell, The Willies
- Peter Gabriel, Up
- King Crimson, Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With
- Tom Waits, Alice
- They Might Be Giants, No!
- California Guitar Trio with Tony Levin & Pat Mastelotto, CG3+2
- Amy Denio & Petunia, To Lie Tenderly
- Neil Young, Are You Passionate?
- Tom Petty, The Last DJ
- Tom Waits, Blood Money
- Naked City, Naked City Live Vol. 1: Kitting Factory 1989
- Dave Douglas, Infinite
- Curlew, Meet the Curlews!
- Medeski Martin & Wood, Uninvisible
- Trey Anastasio, Trey Anastasio
- George Harrison, Brainwashed
- Painkiller, Talisman: Live in Nagoya
- Either/Orchestra, Afro-Cubism
- Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, Purple Onion
- Camper Van Beethoven, Tusk
- Phish, Round Room
- Shannon McNally, Jukebox Sparrows
