My Favorite Albums of 2002

Below are an A-Z listing of my favorite albums released in 2002.  Lots of genres, and most likely, even in 2022, lots of albums that I still haven't heard.  All are studio or live, no greatest hits albums.  

Alan Jackson - Drive

And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Source Tags & Code

Badly Drawn Boy - Have You Fed The Fish

Beck - Sea Change

Best Bootlegs In The World Ever - Various

Bottle Rockets - Songs of Sahm

Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is In The Soil

Bruce Springsteen - Rising

Coldplay - Rush Of Blood To The Head

Common - Electric Circus

Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This

Dixie Chicks - Home

Dolly Parton - Halos & Horns

Donnas - Spend The Night

Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel

Faith Hill - Cry

Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Jay-Z - Blueprint 2

Justin Timberlake - Justified

Kasey Chambers - Barricades & Brickwalls

Kenny Chesney - No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems

Lee Ann Womack - Something Worth Leaving Behind

Libertines - Up The Bracket

Linda Thompson - Fashionably Late

Keith Urban - Golden Road

Meshell Ndegeocello - Cookie: Anthropological Mixtape

Missy Elliott - Under Construction

Mountain Goats - Tallahassee

N.E.R.D. - In Search Of

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Others - Will The Circle Be Unbroken Volume III

Norah Jones - Come Away With Me

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

Randy Travis - Rise and Shine

Raphael Saadiq - Instant Vintage

Rhett Miller - Instigator

Rilo Kiley - Execution Of All Things

Roots - Phrenology

Shania Twain - Up

Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up On Me

Spoon - Kill The Moonlight

Steve Earle - Jerusalem

Streets - Original Pirate Material

Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors - s/t

Tom Waits - Blood Money

Tom Waits - Alice

Warren Zevon - My Ride's Here

Willie Nelson - Great Divide