For all you hip/hop people reading this - Here's my picks. Eminem - Eminem Show, Not as good as his previous releases, but still by far the standard in the industry. It should sweep pretty much any Hip Hop awards. Nelly - Nellyville, as with Eminem, Nellyville in my opinion wasn't near as good as Country Grammar, But still the 2nd most popular album in hip hop. Probably the runner up to Eminem in almost everything. Ludacris - Word of Mouf - underrated album, Its funny and vulgar, and thats why we love it. 8 Mile sountrack- Eminem and various. - includes Song of the Year - "Lose Yourself" and cuts from Nas, Jay-Z, 50 cent and more. Nas - God's son - Classic Nas, great beats Xzibit - Man vs. Machine - not great, but it's still a good one. Better Dayz - 2pac - Still going, its a damn good. Nappy Roots - Watermelon, Chicken, and Gritz, - really a suprise hit, no one expected this kentucky group to go Platinum. Sleepers - Ghetto Heisman - WC Paid Tha Cost - Snoop Dogg Swizz Beatz Presents G.H.E.T.T.O. Stories Oh, and Creed rules.
Freak, I was wondering about the Hives and White Stripes, but figured they were 2002 because I saw them on some Amazon lists for 2002. I think it is because they released re-mastered versions of those albums, but I'm not sure. BTW - I'm listening to your Andrew, right now, specifically, "Ready to Die".
System of a Down- "Steal this Album" you guys know this came out recently right? its the greatest album cover ive ever seen in my life.. and i like it better than toxicity overall...
Jeff, I've heard a lot of people say that this CD is horrible, especially in comparison to "Supernatural." While it would be almost impossible to match the greatness of "Supernatural," many people say that Santana sounds like a guest on his own CD on "Shaman." While there were plenty of guests on his last CD, they sounded natural and fit the flow of his CD, but people say that they are simply tring to "re-invent the wheel" with all of the guests on this CD. Several people have even said that the instrumentals arent even up to Santana's normal standard. Anyways, I was just wanting your opinion.
Stylez- A Gangster and a Gentleman Nas- The Lost Tapes Talib Kweli- Quality Floetry- Floetic Scarface- The Fix Honorable mention: Nas- God's Son, His lyrics were on point as usual but I think he let Salaam Remi do too many beats for him. He should've got with Dj Premier for a few tracks in my opinion. Swiss Beatz- G.H.E.T.T.O Stories, it was much better than I expected. Worst Album: Jay-Z- The Blueprint 2: The Gift and the Curse. I think it was Jay's worst album ever. It wasnt very original either. Horrible album by Jay-z standards.
Man that "steal this album" is awesome! I might use womething like that on my cd itself. The cover is already determined but the disk...aw man that is badass!!! chance
Here are my top of 2002 (although I know some of them were released last year) Avril Lavigne - "Let Go" John Mayer - "Room for Squares" Kylie Minogue - "Fever" Jimmy Eat World - "Self titled/Bleed American" Sugarcult - "Start Static" Weezer - "Maladroit" Linkin Park - "Re-Animation" Boxcar Racer - "Self titled" Dave Matthews - "Busted Stuff"
Sea Change Yoshimi battles the pink robots Yankee Hotel Foxtrot "you owe nothing to clutchcity, cept wasted time"
best show was Beck/Flaming lips- great energy and the lips backing up Beck was great. A super-duo. Plus becks solo cover of do you realize was splendid.
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Thug World Order Their best CD in many years. When all is said and done, I think it might even be my favorite of theirs.
The only CD's I bought this year were "Room for Squares" by John Mayer and "One by One" by Foo Fighters and I love them both to death.
my picks are George Harrison's posthumous "Brainwashed" Bob Dylan's "Bootleg Series Volume 5:Rolling Thunder Revue" Beck's "Sea Change" and Jay-Z's "Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse" for a little variety.
Spoon - kill the moonlight George - Polyserena darren hanlon - hello stranger Bruce - the rising coldplay - rush of blood wilco - yankee foxtrot Ryan Adams - Demolitian Augie March - strange bird Tom Waits - Alice (and the other which i always forget) Queens of Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf Dan Brodie & The Broken Arrows - Empty Arms, Broken Hearts
