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100 Greatest Albums of 2002

Criteria: These music albums from the year 2002 were chosen for their initial and lasting popularity and their influence and impact on rock music in general. Also considered is critical acclaim. The list includes rock and roll and related genres that were influential on rock music.
Top 100 Albums by Year:
Note: Yearly album lists go by earliest 'release date'.
Not necessarily the year an album peaked in the U.S. charts.
  1. Come Away With Me - Norah Jones
  2. The Eminem Show - Eminem
  3. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
  4. A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay
  5. Under Construction - Missy Elliot
  6. Phrenology - The Roots
  7. The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse - Jay-Z
  8. Justified - Justin Timberlake
  9. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips
10. Songs About Jane - Maroon 5
11. Quality - Talib Kweli
12. Songs For The Deaf - Queens Of The Stone Age
13. The Rising - Bruce Springsteen
14. Don't Give Up on Me - Solomon Burke
15. Sea Change - Beck
16. Turn on the Bright Lights - Interpol
17. ( ) - Sigur Rós
18. God's Son - Nas
19. Source Tags & Codes - And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
20. By the Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers
21. Audioslave - Audioslave
22. The Headphone Masterpiece - Cody ChesnuTT
23. You Forgot It In People - Broken Social Scene
24. Up the Bracket - The Libertines
25. Tallahassee - The Mountain Goats
26. One By One - Foo Fighters
27. Ashanti - Ashanti
28. O - Damien Rice
29. Kill the Moonlight - Spoon
30. Original Pirate Material - The Streets
31. Floetic - Floetry
32. Scarlet's Walk - Tori Amos
33. Heathen - David Bowie
34. Power in Numbers - Jurassic 5
35. Blood Money - Tom Waits
36. Busted Stuff - Dave Matthews Band
37. The Last Broadcast - Doves
38. About a Boy - Badly Drawn Boy
39. Lord Willin' - Clipse
40. American IV: The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash
41. Let Go - Avril Lavigne
42. Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground - Bright Eyes
43. Alice - Tom Waits
44. Come Home with Me - Cam'ron
45. The Last DJ - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
46. Maladroit - Weezer
47. One Beat - Sleater-Kinney
48. Electric Circus - Common
49. Tell All Your Friends - Taking Back Sunday
50. mclusky Do Dallas - mclusky
51. Nellyville - Nelly
52. In Search Of... - N.E.R.D.
53. Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections - Cee-Lo Green
54. Angels With Dirty Faces - Sugababes
55. God's Favorite - N.O.R.E.
56. Riot Act - Pearl Jam
57. Highly Evolved - The Vines
58. Thug Holiday - Trick Daddy
59. Demolition - Ryan Adams
60. It Ain't Safe No More - Busta Rhymes
61. All Hail West Texas - The Mountain Goats
62. The Execution of All Things - Rilo Kiley
63. Walking With Thee - Clinic
64. Degradation Trip - Jerry Cantrell
65. Castaways & Cutouts - The Decemberists
66. Murray Street - Sonic Youth
67. Wonder What's Next - Chevelle
68. Life on Other Planets - Supergrass
69. Drunken Lullabies - Flogging Molly
70. Have You Fed The Fish? - Badly Drawn Boy
71. Brainwashed - George Harrison
72. The Used - The Used
73. Geogaddi - Boards of Canada
74. If It Was You - Tegan and Sara
75. Heathen Chemistry - Oasis
76. Universal Truths & Cycles - Guided by Voices
77. Eve-Olution - Eve
78. Don't Worry About Me - Joey Ramone
79. Dutty Rock - Sean Paul
80. When I Was Cruel - Elvis Costello
81. 200 km/h In The Wrong Lane - t.A.T.u.
82. Strange Bird - Augie March
83. Daybreaker - Beth Orton
84. The Illusion of Safety - Thrice
85. Reveille - Deerhoof
86. The Big Come Up - The Black Keys
87. The Young And The Hopeless - Good Charlotte
88. Statues - Moloko
89. Yanqui U.X.O. - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
90. We Are The Only Friends We Have - Piebald
91. The All-American Rejects - The All-American Rejects
92. Storytelling - Belle & Sebastian
93. Make Up the Breakdown - Hot Hot Heat
94. Sha Sha - Ben Kweller
95. Spend the Night - The Donnas
96. Blacklisted - Neko Case
97. The Private Press - DJ Shadow
98. Good Health - Pretty Girls Make Graves
99. Come with Us - The Chemical Brothers
100. Poses - Rufus Wainwright
Come Away With Me Norah Jones album cover
The Eminem Show album cover
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco album cover
A Rush Of Blood To The Head Coldplay album cover
Under Construction Missy Elliot album cover
Phrenology The Roots album cover
The Blueprint 2: The Gift and The Curse Jay-Z album cover
 DigitalDreamDoor Editor Picks for 2002
  Ryan's choice - An unheralded great album from 2002
 •  Fashionably Late - Linda Thompson
  Bruce's choice:
 •  The Persuasions Sing The Beatles - The Persuasions
  Lew's choice:
 •  While You Weren't Looking - Caitlin Cary




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