Iikka Korhonen's Favorite Records Of 2002

First some new albums, then few compilations and reissues..

1. Cheater Slicks, Yer Last Record (In the Red)
   They should be huge.
2. Greenhornes, Dual Mono (Telstar)
   Rock'n'roll album of the year? Well, maybe the Cheater Slicks one is..
3. Kemialliset Ystävät, Suurempi Pieni Palatsi (Alice in Wonderland)
   Finnish psychedelia? Finnish weirdness.
4. Queens of the Stone Age, Songs for the Deaf (Interscope)
   ROCK album of the year.
5. Sonic Youth, Murray Street (Geffen)
   My favorite SY album in ages.
6. Sweatmaster, Sharp Cut (Bad Afro)
   Somewhere between AC/DC and James Brown.
7. Tuomari Nurmio & Korkein Oikeus, s/t (Johanna)
8. Tom Waits, Blood Money (Anti)
9. Warlocks, The Phoenix Album (Birdman)
10. Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)
11. James Luther Dickinson, Dixie Fried (Sepia Tone)
12. Rocket from the Tombs, The Day the Earth Met ... (Hearthan)
13. Roky Erickson and the Aliens, Evil One (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
14. Scientists, The Human Jukebox 1984-1986 (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
15. Various Artists, Do the Pop! (Shock)
    Capital of Australia was Detroit.