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Shawn Ryan
The Best of 2k2:
 
1.    Superdrag - Last Call for Vitriol (as an alert critic said, "If you don't like Superdrag, you don't like rock & roll")
2.    Ryan Adams - Demolition
3.    Paul Westerberg - Stereo
4.    Sigur Ros - ( )
5.    Robert Plant - Dreamland
6.    Badly Drawn Boy - About a Boy Soundtrack
7.    David Bowie - Heathen
8.    Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
9.    Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
10.   Rhett Miller - Instigator
 
Honorable mention:  Ours - Precious; Flaming Lips - Yoshimi vs. Robots etc.
 
Single of the Year:  Red Hot Chili Peppers:  "By the Way"
 
Box Set of the Year:   Jellyfish:  Fan Club.  Wow!
 
Best Tribute:    This Is Where I Belong: The Songs of Ray Davies and the Kinks.   Easily.
 
Best Reissue: The Knack - Get The Knack
 
Best Classical Reissue:  Glenn Gould "A Sense of Wonder" (The Goldberg Variations '55 and '81)  Listening to this makes you a wiser person.
 
Honorable mention reissue:  Pschedelic Furs - Forever Now.
 
Best Reissue That I Haven't Yet Bought but I Bet it's Great :  Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted