VH1.com Staff Picks - The biggest and best of 2002
There is lots of music floating around VH1.com's New York offices - lots of music fans floating around them, too. Here's a glimpse at the nuggets of entertainment - from records to games to cocktails to TV shows to sunsets - that rocked their personal worlds this year. |
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Ash - Free All Angels
While America's youth drowned in the self-pity of scre-emo, this Irish quartet applied punk rock to Pet Sounds. There's plenty of teen-going-on-twentysomething euphoria/angst, but it's also dotted by Dr. Dre samples and the optimistic idea that summer is always just around the corner.
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Pulp - We Love Life
Pulp’s songs have everything: familiar landmarks you've never seen before, punch lines for jokes you never finished, and always, the girl up the road recollected in a state of hysteria. Looking for a happy ending this time, Cocker & Co. boldly headed into the forest like a modern-day Brothers Grimm.
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Primal Scream - Evil Heat
They originally were going to call a song "Bomb the Pentagon." Instead, they settled on making an electro/sound-clash/pop-trash album and let the target self-destruct by itself. The Scream ordered the survivors to dance until they could dance no more.
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Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
It's not even their best album, but there are worlds in here that every Silver Sidewalk Surfer should visit.
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Michel Houellebecq's The Elementary Particles
French author and sometime music maker posits the notion that the ‘60s ideals of free love and liberated consciousness have created more problems then they've solved. Raunchy and reactionary, his novel nevertheless posed the big question of 2002: "Can't we go back to the beginning and start all over again?"
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