Here’s my epic best albums (play)list for my Year In A Month: 2002. I made a playlist consisting of 1 track from each album. You should be able to listen to a lot of them here: http://toma.hk/p/hBi2222M or alternately I’ve made a Spotify playlist too

( ( ( microwaves ) ) ) (2002) 02 Camera Bloody Camera
90 Day Men (2002) 01 I’ve Got Designs on You
Amon Tobin (2002) 02 Verbal (Feat. Mc Decimal R.)
And You Will Know us by the Trail of Dead (2002) 11 Relative Ways
Andrew Broder (2002) 02 Drop Some Smooth Lyrics by Edan
Anti-Pop Consortium (2002) 04 Dead in Motion
Archer Prewitt (2002) 03 When I’m with You
Asa-Chang & Jungray — 2001 — 01 Hana
Ativin — 2001 — 03 Scissors
Atmosphere (2002) 02 The Bass and the Movement
Beck (2002) 02 Paper Tiger
Black Eyes (2002) 01 Some Boys
Blackalicious (2002) 16 Release (Feat. Saul Williams, Zach de la Rocha and Lyrics Born)
Boards of Canada (2002) 04 Gyroscope
Books, The (2002) 06 ThankYouBranch
Bright Calm Blue (2002) 04 A Tongue to Taste
Bright Eyes (2002) 03 False Advertising
Burnt by the Sun (2002) 04 Boston Tea-Bag Party
Cancer Conspiracy, The (2002) 03 Our Minds Active Nightlife
Check Engine (2002) 07 Don’t Make Friends with Salad
Chris Bowden (2002) 02 Crockers and Killers
Cobra Kai (2002) 01 Fragile
Coheed and Cambria (2002) 04 Everything Evil
Crime in Choir (2002) 02 Pictures in the Dictionary
Curl up and Die (2002) 05 Doctor Doom. A Man of Science, Doesn’t Believe in Jesus, Why the F#ck Do You
DJ Krush (2002) 02 Toki No Tabiji (Journey of Time) (Feat. Inden)
DJ Spooky (2002) 04 Asphalt (Tome II) (Feat. Carl Hancock Rux & Pauline Oliveros)
Daedelus (2002) 06 Muggle Born
Damien Jurado (2002) 02 Dancing
David Grubbs (2002) 06 Pinned to the Spot
Deerhoof (2002) 04 Punch Buggy Valves
Desaparecidos (2002) 06 The Happiest Place on Earth
Dilute (2002) 02 People
Doug Martsch (2002) 02 Dream
Dwayne Sodahberk (2002) 16 Beast OnOff, Pt. II
Edan ‎— 2002 — 10 Rapperfection (Feat. Mr. Lif)
El Guapo (2002) 06 Rhyme Scene, Rhyme Dream
El-P (2002) 12 Dr. Hellno and the Praying Mantus
Engine Down (2002) 08 Second of February
Epidemic, The (2002) 03 Every Single Melody is an Addition to the Scale
Esbjorn Svensson Trio (2002) 03 Strange Place for Snow
Examination of the… (2002) 08 Black Hairs… Black Eyes
Eyedea (2002) 02 Weird Side
Fenn O’Berg (2002) 03 Riding Again
Fieldwork (2002) 08 Horoscope
Fire Show, The (2002) 09 Magellan Was A Felon
Friend, Enemy - 2002 — 04 Cough Soft Cock Rock
Frog Eyes (2002) 03 Masticated Outboard Motors
From Monument to Masses (2002) 04 Clinical Features Of Rock Trauma
Fujiya & Miyagi (2002) 09 Diagrams
Gantz (2002) 04 La Prince Du Danemark
Garrison (2002) 05 Commit, Commit, Commit
Gloria Record, The (2002) 02 Good Morning, Providence
Good Life, The (2002) 04 O’Rourke’s, 120 A.M.
Hangedup (2002) 01 Kinetic Work
Hella (2002) 07 Cafeteria Bananas
Herbaliser, The (2002) 01 Something Wicked (Feat. Seaming To)
Hey Mercedes (2002) 02 Save a Life
Hidden Chord (2002) 03 The Unfrightened
Hot Hot Heat (2002) 09 Save us S.O.S.
Hot Rod Circuit (2002) 05 Now or Never
Hot Snakes (2002) 01 I Hate The Kids
Hrvatski (2002) 07 Marbles
I am Spoonbender (2002) 02 Remover-Installer
I, Robot (2002) 01 The Answer
Illogic (2002) 02 Got Lyrics
Isis (2002) 03 False Light
J-Live (2002) 07 One for the Griot
Jaga Jazzist (2002) 01 Kitty Wú
John Vanderslice (2002) 03 Underneath the Leaves
Karate (2002) 01 Original Spies
Kite Flying Society (2002) 02 This Picture was My Heart
Koufax (2002) 03 Social Life
Love Like… Electrocution (2002) 04 Das Plague (french for Germans)
Love Lost Not Forgotten (2002) 06 Happy to Be Alive
M. Ward (2002) 14 I’ll be Your Bird
Mates of State (2002) 03 Uber Legitimate
Matthew Shipp (2002) 07 The Root
Medeski, Martin & Wood (2002) 03 Your Name is Snake Anthony
Microphones, The (2002) 09 We’re Here to Listen
Minor Times, The (2002) 02 Lynch’s Blue Velvet
Minus the Bear (2002) 03 Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse
Mr. Lif (2002) 04 Live from the Plantation
Ms. John Soda (2002) 03 Go Check
Norman (2002) 05 Human Traffic
Notwist, The (2002) 04 Trashing Days
Oddjobs (2002) 04 Blue Collar Holler
Off Minor (2002) 02 My Recovery
Offwhyte (2002) 01 Ups
Orchid (2002) 16 Let’s Commodify Sexuality
Owen (2002) 04 The Ghost of What Should’ve Been
Oxes (2002) 02 Half Half & Half
Part Chimp (2002) 01 B1
Pedro the Lion (2002) 03 Penetration
Phantomsmasher (2002) 01 Bishop Hopping
Piebald (2002) 02 Just a Simple Plan
RJD2 (2002) 06 Ghostwriter
Racebannon (2002) 02 Flip n’ F#ck
Racionais MC’s (2002) 06 Estilo Cachorro
Red Animal War (2002) 03 Straight Lines for Construction Workers
Roots, The (2002) 08 The Seed (2.0) (Feat. Cody ChesnuTT)
Rumah Sakit (2002) 03 No One Likes a Grumpy Cripple
Sage Francis (2002) 03 Personal Journalist
Sleep (2002) 09 Reborn (Feat. Snafu & Sulfur)
Song of Zarathustra (2002) 09 Tame
Sonic Youth (2002) 03 Rain on Tin
Sweep the Leg Johnny (2002) 04 The Blizzard of ‘99
TTC (2002) 05 Pas D’armure (Feat. Dose One Hi-teck le Receleur)
Talib Kweli (2002) 03 Get by
Ten Grand (2002) 08 this isnt heaven, this sucks
Thee More Shallows (2002) 02 The 8th Ring of Hell
Themselves (2002) 03 Good People Check
Tujiko Noriko (2002) 06 Penguin
Twothirtyeight (2002) 01 The Hands of Men
Ugly Casanova (2002) 04 Hotcha Girls
Under Byen (2002) 01 Det Er Mig Der Holder Traeerne Sammen
Venetian Snares (2002) 01 A Giant Alien Force More Violent & Sick than Anything You Can Imagine
Weezer (2002) 07 Burndt Jamb
Whisper in the Noise, A (2002) 01 The Wall of You
Wilco — 2001 — 01 I am Trying to Break Your Heart
Wolves (2002) 01 (Nine)
Zegota (2002) 04 Thrones for the Worthy, Graves for the Rest
dalek (2002) 10 Forever Close My Eyes
mewithoutYou (2002) 06 Gentlemen
pAper chAse, the (2002) 07 A little plAce cAlled trust

So here’s the culmination of my Year In A Month: 2001. I was clearly very much into screamo and hardcore at the time, but there’s something for every discerning ear ;)

I made a playlist consisting of 1 track from each album. You should be able to listen to most of them here: http://toma.hk/p/WXO2222M or alternately on Spotify

Aesop Rock (2001) Labor Days
Air (2001) 10 000 Hz Legend
Alison Ranger (2001) Alison Ranger CDep
An Albatross (2001) Eat Lightning, Shit Thunder
Anniversary, The (2001) Vagrant Records, Another Year on the Streets (Compilation)
Anti-Pop Consortium (2001) Shopping Carts Crashing
Aphex Twin (2001) drukqs
Arkangel (2001) Dead Man Walking
As Friends Rust (2001) Eleven Songs
Azure Ray (2001) Azure Ray
Backstabbers Inc. (2001) While You Were Sleeping CDep
Beauty Pill (2001) The Cigarette Girl from the Future CDep
Beta Band, The (2001) Hot Shots II
Beulah (2001) The Coast is Never Clear
Blenderhead (2001) Figureheads on the Forefront of Pop Culture
Brand New (2001) Your Favourite Weapon
Buck 65 (2001) Man Overboard
Built to Spill (2001) Ancient Melodies of the Future
Buried Inside (2001) Suspect Symmetry
Burnt by the Sun (2001) Burnt by the Sun CDep
Califone (2001) Roomsound
Candiria (2001) 300 Percent Density
Caural (2001) Paint CDep
Church Universal and Triumphant, The (2001) Sounds of American Doomsday Cults, Vol. XIV 12”
Circulatory System (2001) Circulatory System
Converge (2001) Jane Doe
Cornelius (2001) Point
Countervail (2001) In the Event of an Unscheduled Landing CDep
Craig’s Brother (2001) Lost at Sea
Cursive (2001) Burst and Bloom CDep
Damien Jurado (2001) Four Songs CDep
Danielson Famile (2001) Fetch the Compass Kids
Dashboard Confessional (2001) The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
David Sandström (2001) Om Det Inte Händer Nåt Innan Imorgon Så Kommer Jag
Del Rey (2001) Speak it Not Aloud
Dilute (2001) The Gypsy Valentine Curve
Disflex.6 (2001) Hot Season EP
Drowningman (2001) Still Loves You CDep
End, The (2001) Transfer Trachea Reverberations from Point: False Omniscient
eNVY (2001) All the Footprints You’ve Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead
Every Time I Die (2001) Last Night in Town
Eyedea & Abilities (2001) First Born
Fantômas (2001) The Director’s Cut
Four Tet (2001) Pause
Frodus (2001) And We Washed Our Weapons into the Sea
Further Seems Forever (2001) The Moon is Down
H2O (2001) Go!
Hangedup (2001) Hangedup
Hayden (2001) Skyscraper National Park
Hella (2001) Leather Diamond EP CDr
Hey Mercedes (2001) Everynight Fire Works
Hi-Tek (2001) Hi-Teknology
Hood (2001) Cold house
Hope Conspiracy, The (2001) File 03 CDep
Hopesfall (2001) No Wings to Speak of… CDep
Hot Cross (2001) A New Set of Lungs CDep
Hot Water Music (2001) Never Ender (Compilation)
Isis (2001) Celestial + SGNL>5 CDep
J-Live (2001) True School Revival CDep
Jaga Jazzist (2001) A Livingroom Hush
Jeff Mangum (2001) Orange Twin Field Works (Vol. I)
Jim O’Rourke (2001) I’m Happy and I’m Singing and a 1, 2, 3, 4
Jim O’Rourke (2001) Insignificance
Jimmy Eat World (2001) Bleed American
John Vanderslice (2001) Time Travel is Lonely
Joshua Fit for Battle (2001) To Bring Our Own End 12”
Kaada (2001) Thank You for Giving Me Your Valuable Time
kaki.o.badi (2001) We Kill Ourselves with Compassion
Karate (2001) Cancel Sing CDep
Kings of Convenience (2001) Quiet is the New Loud
Kite Flying Society (2001) Kite Flying Society, Pink CDep
Knut (2001) Challenger
Lali Puna (2001) Scary World Theory
Locust, The (2001) Flight of the Wounded Locust
M. Ward (2001) End of Amnesia
Majority Rule (2001) Interviews with David Frost
Microphones, The (2001) The Glow Pt 2
Minus (2001) Jesus Christ Bobby
Minus the Bear (2001) This is What I Know About Being Gigantic CDep
Mixmaster Mike (2001) Spin Psycle
Mouse on Mars (2001) Idiology
Nathaniel Merriweather (2001) Mike Patton & Dan the Automator are Lovage: Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady
North of America (2001) This is Dance Floor Numerology
Now, the (2001) the Now CDep
Onry Ozzborn (2001) Alone
Owen (2001) Owen
Owls (2001) Owls
Panoply Academy, the (2001) No Dead Time
pAper chAse, the (2001) young bodies heAl quickly, you know
pg.99 (2001) Document #7 CDep
pg.99 (2001) Document #8
Pillar (2001) Everyone is as Terrified as You are
Pinback (2001) Blue Screen Life
Plan, The (2001) Only these Movements Remain
Playing Enemy (2001) Caesarean
Prefuse 73 (2001) Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives
Puente Celeste (2001) Pasando El Mar
Pullman (2001) Viewfinder
Radiohead (2001) Amnesiac (B-Sides)
Red Animal War (2001) Breaking in an Angel
Red Light Sting, The (2001) Rub ‘em Down, Rub ‘em Out CDep
Roots Manuva (2001) Run Come Save Me
Saul Williams (2001) Amethyst Rock Star
Sharks Keep Moving (2001) Pause and Clause CDep
Shipping News (2001) Very Soon, and in Pleasant Company
Sixtoo (2001) Duration
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (2001) Grand Opening and Closing
Small Brown Bike (2001) Dead Reckoning
Snacktruck (2001) Demo I CDep
Spirit that Guides us, The (2001) The Sand, the Barrier
Spring Heel Jack (2001) Masses
Stairwell (2001) The Sounds of Change
Stephen Malkmus (2001) Stephen Malkmus
Suffering and the Hideous Thieves (2001) Real Panic Formed
Sufjan Stevens (2001) Enjoy Your Rabbit
Taken (2001) And They Slept
Techno Animal (2001) Brotherhood of the Bomb
This Machine Kills (2001) Death in the Audobon Ballroom
Thomas Feiner & Anywhen (2001) The Opiates
Tora! Tora! Torrance! (2001) Get into It
Tortoise (2001) Standards
Unwed Sailor (2001) The Faithful Anchor
Vandermark 5 (2001) Acoustic Machine
Venetian Snares (2001) Doll Doll Doll
Vidablue, The (2001) The Comprehensive List of Everyone… 12”
Vincent Gallo (2001) When
Wolves (2001) 4 Song Demo CS
Yage (2001) The Human Head Too Strong for Itself CDep
Yaphet Kotto (2001) Syncopated Synthetic Laments for Love

P.S. I’m considering taking every other month off, to soak & revel in the findings from the previous month …should also take the pressure off a little!