Our picks for Soundtrack Album of 2002: 1) About a Boy 2) 8 Mile 3) Catch Me If You Can 4) Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood Once More, with Feeling – Buffy the Vampire Slayer Sweet Home Alabama Hairspray – The Musical Road to Perdition Chicago Lord of …

Our picks for the Electronic Album of 2002: 1) 18 by Moby 2) When I Was Cruel by Elvis Costello 3) Shine by Operatica 4) Original Pirate Material by The Streets 5) Come With Us by the Chemical Brothers

Our picks for Jazz Album of 2002: 1) Come Away With Me by Norah Jones 2) Largo by Brad Mehldau 3) Speaking of Now by Pat Metheny 4) Footsteps of Our Fathers by Branford Marsalis 5) Freedom Suite by David S Ware

Our picks for R&B Album of 2002: 1) Don’t Give Up on Me by Solomon Burke 2) Under Construction by Missy Elliott 3) Power in Numbers by Jurassic 5 4) The Eminem Show by Eminem 5) Blazing Arrow by Blackalicious

Our picks for Country-Americana Album of 2002: 1) Home by The Dixie Chicks 2) American IV: The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash 3) Jerusalem by Steve Earle 4) Blacklisted by Neko Case 5) Lovesick Broke and Driftin’ by Hank Williams III

Our picks for Rock Album of 2002: 1) Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco 2) Songs for the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age 3) When I Was Cruel by Elvis Costello 4) The Rising by Bruce Springsteen 5) White Blood Cells by the White Stripes

Our picks for Songwriter of 2002: 1) Jeff Tweedy 2) Elvis Costello 3) Eminem 4) Beck Norah Jones

Our picks for song of 2002: 1) “Into the Fire” by Bruce Springsteen 2) “Work It” by Missy Elliott 3) “Hot in Herre” by Nelly 4) “PDA” by Interpol 5) “45” by Elvis Costello “Hate to Say I Told You So” by The Hives “Fell in Love With a Girl” …

Just in time to laugh at the Grammys, The Critiquees (“Cri-teek-ees”), the tbomedia.co.uk music awards for 2002 are here! Results are based upon a poll of our critics and readers. If you want to stock up on the best of 2002, you could do worse than snapping these babies up …

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