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it was a good year in music. what were some of the good songs or cd's that came out in the year 2002?

here's my list of songs:

"Downfall" -Trust Company
"Stick 'em Up" -Quarashi
"Mr. Jinx" -Quarashi
"Up All Night" -unwritten law
"Hellborn" -unwritten law
"Stuck in America" -Sugarcult
"Hate Every Beautiful Day" -Sugarcult
"Cochise" -Audioslave
"Show Me How to Live" -Audioslave
"Shadow on the Sun" -Audioslave
"Exploder" -Audioslave
"Hypnotize" -Audioslave
"Bring them back Alive" -Audioslave [yes, this is a very good album!]
"Half-Life" -Local H
"5th Avenue Crazy" -Local H
"All My Life" -Foo Fighters
"Developement" -Nonpoint
"Your Signs" -Nonpoint
"Normal Days" -Nonpoint
"Excessive Reaction" -Nonpoint
"Parabola" -tool
"Lateralis" -tool
"The Grudge" -tool
"Shelter" -Greenwheel
"Open YOur Eyes" -Goldfinger
"Decision" -Goldfinger
"Spokesman" -Goldfinger
"Deny" -Default
"Inner Vision" -System of a Down
"By The Way" -Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Zephyr Song" -Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Can't stop" -Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Nice to Know You" -Incubus
"You Know YOu're Right" -Nirvana
"Get Free" -the Vines
"Outtatheway" -the Vines
"Main Offender" -the Hives
"I Can't Wait" -the White Stripes
"Taste of Ink" -the Used

i'm probably missing some, but it was a great year in music.

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"When I turn the page
The corner bends into the perfect dog ear
As if the words knew I'd need them again
But at the time, I didn't see it."

~"This Ain't a Surfin' Movie" - Minus the Bear

CKY. IDR was amazing. System had some good songs, as did U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, and Queens of the Stone Age.

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Lou: There's a couple of guys fighting down at the aquarium, Chief.
Wiggum: Do they still sell those frozen bananas?
Lou: I think so.
Wiggum: Let's roll.

I found it to be a fairly slow year for music, in general.  Still, a few pretty darn good albums came out in 2002:

Rush - Vapor Trails - This was particularly sweet.  For a long time, after a series of tragic events in the life of drummer Neil Peart, it seemed likely that there would never be another Rush album.  But they didn't quit (thank God!!), and Vapor Trails is their rockin-est album in years!

Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - These guys never fail to please.  The 43-minute title track seems like it's only seven or eight minutes.  It's that good!

Porcupine Tree - In Absentia - I just discovered this band recently, so I can't really say much about them.  Great modern prog. rock, though.

Silverchair - Diorama - I hated this band.  I am not a grunge-rock fan at all.  Then, they released this work of art.  I love it.  The singer's voice is strangely appealing, despite the fact that it's a little different from the voices I tend to enjoy (like James LaBrie and Geddy Lee - yes, I am weird).

Hmm.  That's about all I can think of, actually. . . .

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Always hopeful, yet discontent; he knows changes aren't permanent --
But change is!

It wasn't a very good year from the hip-hop world, but it did improve in December. Here's the hip-hop year in review:

J-LiveAll of the Above (April)
Brilliant album. J-Live is a former English teacher who's had some problems with record companies, which resulted in his orginal debut album being scraped. Thankfully that was all ironed out, and his second album made it to the public (still waiting to see if his debut will ever make it.) J-Live has a beautiful flow, a gift with words, a strong social sense, and just a great overall feeling to his album. I've already ranked it at #3 on my all time list.
Highlights: Satsfied, Emcee, Travelling Music, 3 out of 7

Soundbombing 3 Rawkus Records (many artists) August
Kind of dissapointing, considering how good Soundbombing 2 was. Good songs from Kool G Rap, Talib Kweli, and The Roots, but now that the latter two's albums are out,and they contain these songs, this album is unneccesary.
Highlights: Put it in the Air, Rhymes and Ammo, My Life

Jurrasic 5Power in Numbers October
Nice album, but there's still something missing for me from J5. I like their production, their conciousness, and their flow, but they just don't seem to make and killer songs that get me to want to listen to the whole album. Better than their debut album, though.
Highlights: Freedom, Thin Line, Sum of Us

Mr. LifI Phantom November
Mr. Lif is very underground, most people are probably sleeping on this one. BUt this man knows how to tell a story. The whole album is like a hip-hop musical, with each song telling a bit of a story about a normal guy with a terrible job, who ends up quitting, getting a divorce, starting a new family, which unravels when the eldest daughter commits suicide under heavy pressure for success from her parents. He's not the first to come up with the idea (if you like this, check out Prince Paul's A Prince Among Thieves) but he does it very well, and many songs are done well enough to stand on their own without the story.
Highlights: Live from the Plantation, New Man Theme, Success, Post Mortem

Tupac Better Dayz December
It's always a bad sign when words are misspelled in the title of the album. I love Pac, so I'll always get the new releases, but they were really digging in the bottom of the barrel for these songs. Pac's flow makes all his songs bareable, at least.
Highlights: Thugz Mansion, This Life I Lead, Street Fame

The Roots Phrenology December
I got this the day it came out, December 7th, and it hasn't left our CD changer since (it's in slot 2, we just change slot 1 and 3 nowadays.) The Roots changed their entire style up now that one of the Emcees is gone (Malik B) and actually made it work. The song has classic hip-hop, sensitive songs, a punk rock-sounding song, and a instumental that sounds like it belongs on a doorstep on Halloween. But it all blends together nicely. This has hit #21 on my all time list and climbing, making The Roots one of only 3 groups with multiple albums in my top 25.
Highlights: Rock You, Thought @ Work, The Seed (2.0), Quills

Talib KweliQuality December
Kweli's second solo album suffers from the same problem as his first; inconsistency. Like Reflection Eternal, there are brilliant songs, followed by terrible ones, then back to brilliant again. I wish Mos Def would stop making movies, find Kweli and put another Black Star album out (Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star is #1 on the aforementioned list) because Kweli needs their chemistry to make a great album, instead of just a decent one.
Highlights: Get By, Joy, Guerrilla Monsoon Rap, The Proud

CommonElectric Circus December
Unlike The Roots, Common completely changing his style hasn't been as smooth. He now employs The Roots' drummer ?uestlove to produce his album. I love ?uestlove, but No I.D., who used to do Common's prodution, was one of the best, and now Common's albums hardly belong in the hip-hop section. To be honest, there's only two songs on here that can even qualify as hip-hop, the rest is some sort of rap/techno/rock meld. I hate to admit, it has been growing on me, even the totally rock leaning songs. Hmmm....
Highlights: Soul Power, New Wave, I Got a Righta, Jimi was a Rock Star

dead prezturn off the radio December
It's too bad dead prez got dropped from their label and had to release this underground, because you can definately tell the difference. It sounds like it was mixed in someone's basement. It's 18 tracks long, but only 35 minutes long, and the first six beats are completely sampled from other songs. It is still dead prez, though, so I still want to run out and throw a molotov cocktail at the precinct when I'm done listening to it, but it seems like all the really good songs got left with the old label, and this was just rushed out in protest (in more ways than one.)
Highlights: food, clothes, and shelter pt.2, soulja life mentality, know your enemy, selling d.o.p.e.



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Hip-Hop QOTW:

"Yeah, where I'ma start it at, look I'ma part of that
Downtown Philly where it's realer than a heart attack
It wasn't really that ill until the start of crack
Now it's a body caught every night on the Almanac"

"Game Theory"
The Roots

Riot Act - Pearl Jam
Audioslave - Audioslave

The only two albums I got this year, although I thought 'bout getting the new Foo Fighters cd...heard it was good and I love All My Life.

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Arts

Farts

Twarts

KoRn! KoRn made a huge comeback this year with the Untouchables album and follow up tour.

System Of A Down really went over the top this year, especially with their new album, "Steal This Album" their bound for greatness.

Slayer's God Hates Us All was a great release this year, truely a great album from metal legends, Slayer.

Nine Inch Nails "And All That Could Have Been" was also a great album, with remakes of old songs, and some new songs which are as easily as great.

It's been a great year for Cradle Of Filth too, with their LoveHearts And WitchCraft album, and the release of the Heavy Left Handed And Candid dvd.

Despite a drummer leaving the band and their new bassist, Coal Chamber's Dark Days has done unbelievably well this year as well.

It hasn't been the greatest year for metal music, but it's been not bad either.

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Okay, but there was a goat!

Let's see the Korn album for sure
Quicksand-Finger Eleven
Suffocate-Finger Eleven
The song by Queens of the Stone Age
Cochise-Audioslave

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"Let the blood of the innocent quench my thirst for battle"

Quote (Tetra-Sabin @ 3 Jan. 2003, 01:35)

Let's see the Korn album for sure Quicksand-Finger Eleven Suffocate-Finger Eleven The song by Queens of the Stone Age Cochise-Audioslave

Um Quicksand and Suffocate from Finger Eleven were released originally in 97. The more recent would be off The Greyest Of Blue Skies, but even that is about 3 years old. I do agree though, they are all great songs.

Audioslave is a good band, but they are not Rage Against The Machine...I don't know it just doesn't sound right...it's lyrically waaaay too sound garden esque and it's not Tom Morello's finest hour either.

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Okay, but there was a goat!

Quote (Dragon_Fire @ 3 Jan. 2003, 22:51)

Audioslave is a good band, but they are not Rage Against The Machine...I don't know it just doesn't sound right...it's lyrically waaaay too sound garden esque and it's not Tom Morello's finest hour either.

one thing that Tom Morello said is that Audioslave is not going to be Rage and he added that they weren't trying to be Rage. But of course, critics and fans alike are comparing Audioslave to Rage. I admit that it's missing a little bit of it's intensity without Zack. But I personally loved it, being new Morello-ness since 2000. And Timmy is godlike with his bass-ness. Cornell isn't Zack, that's for sure, but he actually debuted a helluva lot better than i expected of him. He shows his goodness on the songs "What You Are", "Like a Stone", "Exploder", "Hypnotize", and "Shadow on the Sun"

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"When I turn the page
The corner bends into the perfect dog ear
As if the words knew I'd need them again
But at the time, I didn't see it."

~"This Ain't a Surfin' Movie" - Minus the Bear

Quote (Alexandr @ 31 Dec. 2002, 00:05)

Rush - Vapor Trails - This was particularly sweet.  For a long time, after a series of tragic events in the life of drummer Neil Peart, it seemed likely that there would never be another Rush album.  But they didn't quit (thank God!!), and Vapor Trails is their rockin-est album in years! Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - These guys never fail to please.  The 43-minute title track seems like it's only seven or eight minutes.  It's that good!

Now there are two albums I have to get. From what I've heard from Vapor Trails, it's not my favorite Rush album, but it's still great. So let's add that one up there. I imagine Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence is great too, only heard one song.

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Lou: There's a couple of guys fighting down at the aquarium, Chief.
Wiggum: Do they still sell those frozen bananas?
Lou: I think so.
Wiggum: Let's roll.

it was indeed a good year in m00sic...

it started young in January-February with Local H- Here Comes the Zoo, a grunge duo that really rocks. I don't know if this was late 2001 or early 2002, but the Gorillaz -G-Sides cd puts a nice spin on some old tracks and introduced the world to some new stuff. By April, the rap/rock group Quarashi invaded the US from Iceland with the cd Mr. Jinx which, in my opinion is the rap album of the year... but since that might be the only slightest rap taht i listen to, don't necessarily take my word for it. But it is a supreme album. Then, nothing... until middle of summer, that is. The world got a taste of The Hives with "hate to say i told you so" this summer. And the album Veni Vidi Vicious is the most fun you'll have listening to a Swedish grunge band for 30 minutes. Then, the Vines, loaded with their Aussie grunge attitude of "Get Free", released Highly Evolved which is the best thing I've seen come out of Australia since ... ever. And the brother/sister grunge duo from Detroit known as the White Stripes finally get noticed after being in the music biz for 3 years prior. The cd, White Blood Cells is an interesting cd with many different styled tracks. Nirvana and their greatest hits cd, entiled Nirvana was finally released much to the oblige of many of their fans {namely, me   } IT included one extra, new track on it that was previously unreleased. The last track Kurt, Krist, and Dave recorded together. And in my opinon, Anthem of the Year 2002 {"You Know You're Right}. November and December brought Audioslave and their self-titled cd {which f00king rocks!} and Riot Act from the aged, but still grungy, Pearl Jam.
But album of the year has to go to the mighty mighty Foo Fighters- One by One. Proving that grunge won't go away just because it's founding father perished that long ago.

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Air force... if you ever join the militant wing, join the Air force

Army = jockos
Navy = seasick nerds
Marines = show offs
PeaceCorp = hippies

AF is the way to go

Lets see I am not sure if all of these albums came out in 2002 so correct me if I am wrong.   Disturbed's new album was great as well as Korn's I like Lets go by Avril and one of my FAV's Michelle Branch.  This year has been a slow musical year for me I really havn't had the time to broaden or listin to much music.  

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We all have our own hells and fires we must pass through, but when you have passed through them, you must ask yourself.  Was I consumed by the flame? Or was I tempered by it?

Quitsis - "Whip, Chaingun, don't bug me I'm killing"

Zakk Wylde's new album was GREAT, particularly the single, "bleed for me"

Metallica played a new song at a secret gig, and their new album will be coming out in mid 2003, and im REALLY looking forward to that, metallicas my fave band since im 3 years old.

All my life and The One by the foo fighters were some pretty sweet songs too.

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You watch the world exploding every single night
Dancing in the sun, a newborn in the light
Say goodbye to gravity and say goodbye to death
Hello to eternity and live for every breath

Your time will come...