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2002, Pt. 11: The Challenge
So here’s the deal. It’s impossible to know all the good records in a given year, especially now, even if--like me--you (a) make it your business to try and (b) attempt to quantify your findings by putting together ten CDs of your favorite songs, as I have for 2002. I must acknowledge right here that I ripped my idea off wholesale from Sasha Frere-Jones, who did an eight-disc 2001 set that has brought me loads of pleasure over the past few months. Since I thought 2002 was an even better year than 2001 (harder to get a grip on as a whole, of course, but even more studded with gems, especially in re: singles), I figured I could get even more goodies from it. I did, but there’s one problem: I’m not finished yet.
That’s where you come in.
Below, you will find the tracklists for the ten discs I made to celebrate 2002. What I want is for you, the music-minded reader, to show me what I missed, by making me disc 11--and 12, 13, 14, 15, or more, if need be--for which I will happily trade you one copy of any of my discs. Or more, depending on how many you want to make.
There are three hard-and-fast rules. One, CDs, not tapes. Sorry, analogue headz. Two, you can’t use any of the recordings already on my discs; I’m looking for what I missed, not to be reminded of what I caught. (Remixes and alternate versions I missed, on the other hand, are fine; unless otherwise noted, assume the version below is from the album or single.) And three, the songs you choose should be connected in a concrete way with--“made their impact during,” in Pazz & Jop-speak--2002. That means released on a 2002 album or compilation, or released in 2002 as a single. This is why I include both “Don’t Let Me Get Me” and “Underneath It All,” songs off 2001 albums, as well as several mash-up bootlegs whose creation and distribution predate 1/1/02 but which I only became aware of during the year. Similarly, the Pulseprogramming album isn’t out till February 2003, but the song was included on a Wire magazine CD, so in it goes.
Reissues are trickier terrain--you’ll notice several songs that predate 2002 by a substantial amount. Essentially, I stuck with songs that I, and presumably an audience that wasn’t targeted by the song’s initial release, was introduced to last year. Thus I include the reggae “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” (1981) and “Ulova” (1962) and “Reefer Man” (1932), but not the 12-inch version of New Order’s “Temptation” (1982), which had been out of print for years before its inclusion on the Retro box set. I’ve been reading about “Temptation” for years but wasn’t aware of “Don’t Stop” or “Ulova” or “Reefer Man” until I encountered the compilations including them. For me, they’re inextricably linked with 2002 as a year, while “Temptation,” even though I was completely unfamiliar with the original version, was already old news. Arbitrary, yes, but hopefully you see where I’m coming from.
Beyond that, my discs all last between 76 and 80 minutes, but I’m not a stickler for time on the ones you might want to make: if you’ve got 2002’s best 35-minute mix in the world (ever) and I don’t have any of it on mine, let’s have ‘er. As you can tell, I like genre-crossing mixes, but if you specialize in a style that isn’t covered enough below (some examples: jazz, dancehall/ragga, country, current African stuff--most of my Afropicks are off reissues) and want to do an entire mix of stuff from that genre, go for it; I always wanna learn more. Finally, if you don’t find much of anything at all to like on my discs, chances are you and I don’t have a tremendous amount in common tastewise, and should probably not be trading music to begin with.
Wanna participate? Just email me your tracklist(s), and I’ll send you my mailing address. I will only be making/sending discs once I’ve received yours, for reasons I hope are obvious. Also, whether or not you’re making a disc yourself, if you’re interested in the set, let me know, and we can try to set something up. Finally, if you happen to come across this way after I’ve put it up and would like to participate, there's no official expiration date, so feel free to get in touch; you never know, right?
The discs:
2002 PT. 1: HE’S GOT A MANACLE LIMO
1. Pet Shop Boys: “Home and Dry”
2. Crooked Fingers: “When U Were Mine”
3. Neko Case: “Look For Me (I’ll Be Around)”
4. Braces Tower: “Special Child”
5. Boards of Canada: “1969”
6. Elvis Costello: “When I Was Cruel no. 2”
7. Young Stars: “Ulova”
8. Pink: “Don’t Let Me Get Me”
9. Oh-OK: “Person”
10. Golden Boy with Miss Kittin: “1234”
11. The Rapture: “House of Jealous Lovers”
12. Lo Fidelity Allstars: “Feel What I Feel”
13. Kylie Minogue: “Love at First Sight”
14. Tweet feat. Missy Elliott: “Oops (Oh My)”
15. Clipse: “Grindin’”
16. Future Bible Heroes: “I’m a Vampire”
17. Clinic: “The Equaliser”
18. Closer Musik: “Maria”
2002 PT. 2: MINT A MACE HALL GOOSE
1. Shakedown: “At Night”
2. Playgroup: “Number One”
3. Dsico: “Love Will Freak Us”
4. Derrick Laro & Trinity: “Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough”
5. The Streets: “Let’s Push Things Forward”
6. Clipse featuring Sean Paul, Bless & Kardinal Offishall: “Grindin’ (Selector Remix)”
7. Nettle: “Duende (DJ Scud Mix)”
8. Roberto Juan Rodriguez: “Jerusalem Market”
9. Pantytec: “Doubledip Uuh…”
10. Akufen: “Deck the House (Herbert Stops Like This Mix)”
11. Elvis Costello: “Tear Off Your Own Head (It’s a Doll Revolution)”
12. The Hives: “Hate to Say I Told You So”
13. Freelance Hellraiser: “Smells Like Booty”
14. Joey Ramone: “What a Wonderful World”
15. Rancid: “Don’t Call Me White”
16. Ivy: “Streets of Your Town”
17. Luna: “Waiting on a Friend”
18. Marianne Faithfull: “Sliding Through Life on Charm”
19. Ann Lee: “2 Times”
2002 PT. 3: A HOT MOMS ALLEGIANCE
1. Kylie Minogue: “Burning Up”
2. Data 80: “Love Was Made for Two”
3. The Chemical Brothers: “Star Guitar”
4. ESG: “Six Pack”
5. Royksopp: “Eple”
6. Tata Pound: “Badala”
7. Bhundu Boys: “Kuroja Chete”
8. Yondo Sister: “Reviens Johny”
9. Casino Versus Japan: “Single Variation of Two”
10. Frenchbloke: “Intro (Whoop de France)”
11. Nelly: “Hot in Herre”
12. Sugababes: “Freak Like Me”
13. Missy Elliott: “Work It”
14. Scarface: “On My Block”
15. Freelance Hairdresser: “Marshall’s Been Snookered”
16. DJ Shadow: “Six Days”
17. Out Hud: “This Bum’s Paid”
18. Doug Martsch: “Stay”
2002 PT. 4: MEGALOMANIAC HOSTEL
1. Sleater-Kinney: “One Beat”
2. Queens of the Stone Age: “No One Knows”
3. Lifter Puller: “To Live and Die in LBI”
4. Andrew Broder: “The Takeover”
5. Nas: “Made You Look”
6. Clipse: “Young Boy”
7. El-P: “Stepfather Factory”
8. Aesop Rock: “Night Light”
9. Atmosphere: “Modern Man’s Hustle”
10. TLC: “Dirty Dirty”
11. DJ /rupture: “Rumbo Babylon”
12. Orchestra Baobab: “Gnawe”
13. Keletigui et ses Tambourinis: “Demba Ti”
14. Burnt Sugar: “Lunching with Mr. Akhan”
15. Freelance Hellraiser: “Public Prince”
16. Kid America and the Action Figures: “Dancin’”
17. The Streets: “Weak Become Heroes”
18. VHS or Beta: “Heaven”
2002 PT. 5: A SMOOTH CALAMINE GEL
1. Clem Snide: “Nick Drake Tape”
2. Dntel: “This Is the Dream (Superpitcher Remix)”
3. Sleater-Kinney: “Oh!”
4. Imperial Teen: “Baby”
5. Daniel Bedingfield: “James Dean (I Wanna Know)”
6. Toby Keith: “Who’s Your Daddy?”
7. Kylie Minogue: “Can’t Get You Out of My Head”
8. Akufen: “Deck the House”
9. Moony: “Dove (I’ll Be Loving You)”
10. X-Press 2 featuring David Byrne: “Lazy”
11. Felix da Housecat: “Some Kinda Special”
12. LCD Soundsystem: “Losing My Edge”
13. Princess Superstar feat. High & Mighty: “Bad Babysitter”
14. Murs and Slug: “The Two”
15. Nelly vs. Grange Hill: “Country Grammar”
16. Cee-Lo: “El Dorado Sunrise (Super Chicken)”
17. Arto Lindsay: “You Decide”
2002 PT. 6: SOON, A MAGICAL HELMET
1. Cornershop: “Heavy Soup”
2. Jel: “. Channel Assign”
3. Rjd2: “Smoke & Mirrors”
4. Moby: “In My Heart”
5. Pulseprogramming: “Blooms Eventually”
6. Alfie: “Cloudy Lemonade”
7. Ballboy: “I Hate Scotland”
8. Luna: “Black Postcards”
9. Saint Etienne: “Amateur”
10. Adult.: “Nite Life”
11. Miss Kittin & the Hacker: “Frank Sinatra”
12. The Rapture: “House of Jealous Lovers (Morgan Geist Version)”
13. Matthew Shipp: “Space Shipp”
14. The Cinematic Orchestra: “Burnout”
15. Laba Sosseh: “Qua Se Fuman”
16. Orchestra Super Mazembe: “Kassongo”
17. All Girl Summer Fun Band: “Cell Phone”
2002 PT. 7: A MOST ANGELICAL HOME
1. Drive-By Truckers: “The Three Great Alabama Icons”
2. Eminem: “Without Me”
3. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings: “What Have You Done for Me Lately”
4. The Streets: “All Got Our Runnins”
5. Spoon: “Small Stakes”
6. Oh-OK: “Brother”
7. The Kills: “Cat Claw”
8. Pavement: “Kentucky Cocktail”
9. Sonic Youth: “Rain on Tin”
10. Luna: “Lovedust”
11. Dim Dim: “Riri”
12. Meshell Ndegeocello: “Hot Night”
13. Mixmaster Mike + Lateef and the Gift of Gab: “Kalakuta Show”
14. Kurtis Rush: “Get Ur Faith On”
15. unknown: “Epledj”
16. Dimbiman: “Koppchen (Herbert’s D-D-D-Dazzle Dub)”
17. Soul Center: “A Good One”
18. 2000 Elephants: “Uzo (Cosmic Rocker Remix)”
19. Safety Scissors vs. Kit Clayton: “10-7”
2002 PT. 8: GO STEM A MELANCHOLIA
1. Yo La Tengo: “Nuclear War Version 2”
2. J-Live: “Satisfied”
3. Mr. Lif: “Live from the Plantation”
4. Clipse: “When the Last Time”
5. Nappy Roots feat. Jazze Pha: “Awnaw”
6. Steinski: “Country Grammar (Hydro Mix)”
7. Harlan Lattimore & His Connie’s Inn Orchestra: “Reefer Man”
8. NOFX: “Radio”
9. No Doubt featuring Lady Saw: “Underneath It All”
10. Ill Ease: “Ruler of the Ho-Dom”
11. Amy Rigby: “Keep It to Yourself”
12. The Reputation: “Alaskan”
13. The Mountain Goats: “International Small Arms Traffic Blues”
14. Mekons: “Thee Olde Trip to Jerusalem”
15. Clinic: “Walking with Thee”
16. Queens of the Stone Age: “Go with the Flow”
17. The Apples in Stereo: “She’s Telling Lies (Bryce’s Mix)”
18. Ultra 396: “Rock the Party”
19. Girls on Top: “I Wanna Dance with Numbers”
20. Daniel Bedingfield: “Gotta Get Thru This”
21. The Streets: “Sharp Darts”
2002 PT. 9: NOSH TO A GLACIAL MEME
1. Fischerspooner: “Emerge”
2. Luomo: “The Present Lover”
3. M. Mayer: “Falling Hands”
4. Smith ’N Hack: “To Our Disco Friends”
5. No Doubt: “Hella Good”
6. N*E*R*D: “Things Are Getting Better”
7. Atmosphere: “The Bass and the Movement”
8. Missy Elliott feat. Ludacris: “Gossip Folks”
9. Styles: “Good Times”
10. Cam’ron: “Oh Boy”
11. Khia: “My Neck, My Back”
12. Truth Hurts feat. Rakim: “Addictive”
13. Beenie Man & Robyn: “Red Red”
14. Future Troubles: “Drunken Master”
15. Wayne Marshall: “Party Time”
16. The Streets feat. Roll Deep: “Let’s Push Things Forward (Remix)”
17. LCD Soundsystem: “Beat Connection (Extended Disco Dub)”
18. Numbers: “We Like Having These Things”
2002 PT. 10: A SEMANTICAL HOME LOG
1. Luomo: “Melt (AGF/Dlay Edit)”
2. Decomposed Subsonic: “Discopatterntester”
3. T-Ski Valley: “Catch the Beat (Dimi & Mousse T’s Old School Mix)”
4. Sicle Cell & Rhapazooty: “Rhapazooty in Blue”
5. Mr. Lif feat. Insight: “Status”
6. Jean Grae: “What Would I Do”
7. Kool G Rap feat. C-N-N: “My Life”
8. N.O.R.E.: “Nothin’”
9. Snoop Dogg: “From the Chuuuch to the Palace”
10. Cam’ron: “Hey Ma”
11. Justin Timberlake: “Rock Your Body”
12. Musiq: “Halfcrazy”
13. Raphael Saadiq: “Uptown”
14. Neko Case: “Deep Red Bells”
15. Pet Shop Boys: “The Night I Fell in Love”
16. The Former Yugoslavia: “Classical Shady”
--Michaelangelo Matos, 12 January 2003
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