Sam Frank's Favorite Records Of 2002

Had comments, deleted somehow. AWK at #1 (genuine advance, believe it or don't, for better or worse, not rock's or technology's place to be ethical), Young People at #20 (picked on basis of new songs heard live; watch for next record), all others at random. I should have heard more hip-hop last year.

1. Andrew WK, I Get Wet (Mercury)
2. Lightning Bolt, Power of Salad DVD (Load)
3. Oneida, Each One Teach One (Jagjaguwar/Version City)
4. Wolf Eyes, Fuck Pete Larsen (Bad Glue)
5. Total Shutdown, Reflections (Thin the Herd)
6. Deerhoof, Halfbird (Menlo Park)
7. Deerhoof, Reveille (5RC/Kill Rock Stars)
8. 25 Suaves, 1938 (Bulb)
9. Scharpling and Wurster, Chain Fights, Beer Busts, and Service with a Grin (Stereolaffs)
10. Comets on Fire, Field Recordings from the Sun (Ba Da Bing)
11. Rocket from the Tombs, The Day the Earth Met the... (Smog Veil/Glitterhouse)
12. To Live and Shave in LA, The Wigmaker in Eighteenth Century Williamsburg (Menlo Park)
13. Hair Police, Blow Out Your Blood (Freedom From)
14. Sightings, Michigan Haters (Psycho-Path)
15. Wire, Read and Burn 01 (Pink Flag)
16. Steel Pole Bathtub, Unlistenable (Zero to One)
17. LCD Soundsystem, Losin My Edge (DFA)
18. Coachwhips, Get Yer Body Next Ta Mine (Show and Tell/Narnack)
19. Zeigenbock Kopf, Architecture of Dark Dance (Toyo)
20. Young People, Young People (5RC)