I collected approximately 12 “Best CDs of 2002” lists and combined them into one meta-list. The results are below. The numbers in bold indicate the number of original lists the album was on. An asterisk means I own it.
On 10 Lists
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot*
On 9 Lists
Bruce Springsteen – The Rising*
On 7 Lists
Beck – Sea Change*
Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf
On 6 Lists
Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head*
Elvis Costello – When I Was Cruel*
Missy Elliott – Under Construction
N.E.R.D. – In Search Of
The Streets – Original Pirate Material
On 5 Lists
Bright Eyes – Lifted, or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground*
Solomon Burke – Don’t Give Up on Me*
Eminem – The Eminem Show
The Flaming Lips – Yoshima Battles the Pink Robots*
The Roots – Phrenology
On 4 Lists
Cee-Lo Green – Cee-Lo Green & His Perfect Imperfections
Clinic – Walking with Thee*
Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights*
Sigur Rós – ( )*
The Soundtrack of Our Lives – Behind the Music
Spoon – Kill the Moonlight
Various Artists – Red Hot & Riot
On 3 Lists
Ryan Adams – Demolition*
D.J. Shadow – The Private Press
Steve Earle – Jerusalem*
The Hives – Veni Vidi Vicious
Korn – Untouchables
Moby – 18
Royksopp – Melody A.M.
Sleater-Kinney – One Beat*
Linda Thompson – Fashionably Late*
2 Many DJs – As Heard on Radio
The Vines – Highly Evolved*
On 2 Lists
Audioslave – Audioslave
The Be Good Tanyas – Blue Horse
Blackalicious – Blazing Arrow
Johnny Cash – American IV: The Man Comes Around*
Neko Case – Blacklisted
Cody Chestnutt – The Headphone Masterpiece
Shemekia Copeland – Talking to Strangers*
The Coral – The Coral
Cornershop – Handcream for a Generation
Doves – The Last Broadcast*
Bob Dylan – The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue
EL-P – Fantastic Damage
David Gray – A New Day at Midnight
Jay-Z – The Blueprint 2
Jurassic 5 – Power in Numbers
Ladytron – Light & Magic
Lambchop – Is a Woman
Lemon Jelly – Lost Horizons
Sondra Lerche – Faces Down
Aimee Mann – Lost in Space*
Oneida – Each One Teach One
Orchestra Baobab – Specialist in All Styles*
Red Hot Chili Peppers – By the Way
Scarface – The Fix
Wayne Shorter – Footprints Live*
Sonic Youth – Murray Street
TLC – 3D
Weezer– Maladroit
Wire – Read and Burn 1, 2
Andrew W.K. – I Get Wet