Craig Hutler's Favorite Records Of 2002

The (new) records that spent a great deal of time in my Jetta's CD changer. In no particular order:

1. Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)
2. Silworm, Italian Platinum (Touch & Go)
3. Interpol, Turn On the Bright Lights (Matador)
4. A Certain Ratio, Early (Soul Jazz)
5. Queens of the Stone Age, Songs for the Deaf (Interscope)
6. Walkmen, Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone (StarTime)
7. Sonic Youth, Murray Street (Geffen)
8. Wire, Read & Burn 01 (Pink Flag)
9. Hellcopters, High Visibility (Gearhead)
10. Nina Nastasia, The Blackened Air (Touch & Go)
11. Blue Oyster Cult, E.T.I. Revisited (Munster Records)

Music DVD of Year:
The Clash: Westway to the World

Records from 2002 I still need to hear that might have made this list:
*Consonant - s/t
*Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
*Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice