Daniel DiMaggio's Favorite Records Of 2002

1. Bright Eyes/Desaparecidos, Lifted.../Read Music/Speak Spanish (Saddle Creek)
   Two different albs for number 1, but they're both basically by the same guy.
2. Andrew WK, I Get Wet (Island)
3. Edan, Sprain Your Tape Deck EP (Lewis)
4. Ben Folds, Ben Folds Live (Epic)
   What's everyone's problem with Ben Folds? Everyone gives him shit. One of the greatest songwriters of our time, I say.
5. The Hot Snakes, Suicide Invoice (Swami)
6. Reigning Sound, Time Bomb High School (In The Red)
7. Iron And Wine, The Creek Drank The Cradle (Sub Pop)
8. Wolf Eyes, Dread (Bulb)
9. Paul Flaherty/Chris Corsano/Greg Kelley, Sannyasi (Wet Paint)
10. Radio 4, Gotham (Gern Blandstein)
11. Comets On Fire, Field Recordings From The Sun (Ba Da Bing)
12. Six Organs Of Admittance , Dark Noontide (Holy Mountain)
13. Derek Bailey, Ballads (Tzadik)
14. Blood Brothers, March On Electric Children (Three One G)
15. The Hunches, Yes. No. Shut It. (In The Red)
16. The Miss, No Radio (Morphius)
17. The Lightbox Orchestra, First Contact! (Locust)
18. The French Kicks, One Time Bells (Startime)
19. Enos Slaughter, On Sunday (Sound@1)
20. Weezer , Maladroit (DGC)
    This, the fourth album from the ex-greatest band on earth, is more or less a tasteless monstrosity, but with several excellent moments, mostly during the guitar solos.
21. Rocket From The Tombs, The Day The Earth Met The… (Smogveil)
22. Beresford/Honsinger/Toop/Kondo, Imitation Of Life/Double Indemnity (Atavistic/UMS)
23. The Violent Femmes, s/t (Slash/Rhino)
24. Smith/Williams/Christmann/Muller, White Earth Streak (Atavistic/UMS)
25. Brotzmann/Van Hove/Bennink, Balls (Atavistic/UMS)
26. Patto, Hold Your Fire (Akarma)
27. Alternative TV, Vibing Up The Senile Man (Get Back)
28. Frank Wright, One For John (BYG/Get Back)
29. Michael Yonkers Band, Microminiature Love (De Stijl)
30. Erica Pomerance, You Used To Think (ESP/Abraxas)

[last 10 are reissues --ed.]