This mix has a representative track from each of my Top 20 Albums of 2002.

1. Sleater-Kinney “Far Away” One Beat (Kill Rock Stars)
2. Bright Eyes “Lover I Don’t Have To Love” Lifted or The Story Is In the Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground (Saddle Creek)
3. Abandon Jalopy “Channel Changer” Mercy (Stank Face Laboratories)
4. Gomez “In Our Gun” In Our Gun (Virgin)
5. Interpol “PDA” Turn On the Bright Lights (Matador)
6. Badly Drawn Boy “You Were Right” Have You Fed the Fish? (Artist Direct)
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers “This Is the Place” By the Way
(Warner Brothers)
8. The Streets “Let’s Push Things Forward” Original Pirate Material (Vice/Atlantic)
9. Chemical Brothers “Galaxy Bounce” Come With Us (Astralwerks)
10. The Flaming Lips “Do You Realize?” Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner Brothers)
11. Sparta “Mye” Wiretap Scars (Dreamworks)
12. Ours “Realize” Precious (Dreamworks)
13. Queens of the Stone Age “Gonna Leave You” Songs for the Deaf (Interscope)
14. Jay-Z & R. Kelly “Body” The Best of Both Worlds (Jive/Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam)
15. India.Arie “The Truth” Voyage to India (Universal)
16. South “Save Your Sorrow” From Here on In (Kinetic)
17. Jean Grae “Live 4 U” Attack of the Attacking Things
(Third Earth)
18. Granfaloon Bus “Petty” Exploded View (Future Farmer)
19. Desaparecidos “Mañana” Read Music/Speak Spanish (Saddle Creek)
20. Wilco “Pot Kettle Black” Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)