Except for the songs that made my Top 20 songs of 2002 and the representative tracks from my Top 20 Albums of 2002, these are the rest of the best indie and indie-minded rock tracks of 2002, volume two. To be eligible, a song needed to be included on an album released in the United States between December 1, 2001 and November 30, 2002.
1. Imperial Teen “Ivanka” On (Merge)
2. Gomez “Shot Shot” In Our Gun (Virgin)
3. Hot Hot Heat “Bandages” Make Up the Breakdown (Sub Pop)
4. Badly Drawn Boy “Using Our Feet” Have You Fed the Fish? (Artist Direct)
5. Ash “Walking Barefoot” Free All Angels (Kinetic)
6. Moth “I See Sound” Provisions, Fiction & Gear (Virgin)
7. OK Go “Don’t Ask Me” OK Go (Capitol)
8. Ben Kweller “Family Tree” Sha Sha (ATO)
9. Skeleton Key “The Barker of the Dupes” Obtanium (Ipecac)
10. The Rogers Sisters “Zero Point” Purely Evil
(Troubleman Unlimited)
11. The Apples In Stereo “Rainfall” Velocity of Sound (spinArt)
12. Guided By Voices “Everywhere With Helicopter” Universal Truths and Cycles (Matador)
13. The Soundtrack of Our Lives “Sister Surround” Behind the Music (Republic/Universal)
14. Imperial Teen “Our Time” On (Merge)
15. Abandon Jalopy “She’s An Original” Mercy
(Stank Face Laboratories)
16. Enon “Natural Disasters” High Society (Touch and Go)
17. The Black Heart Procession “Did You Wonder?” Amore Del Tropico (Touch and Go)
18. Mary Timony “Look A Ghost In The Eye” The Golden Dove (Matador)
19. Beth Orton “Daybreaker” Daybreaker (Astralwerks)
20. Denali “You File” Denali (Jade Tree)
21. Clinic “The Equaliser” Walking With Thee (Domino)
22. Cornershop “Staging the Plaguing of the Raised Platform” Handcream For a Generation (V2)
23. Spoon “The Way We Get By” Kill the Moonlight (Merge)
24. Superdrag “The Staggering Genius” Last Call For Vitriol (Arena Rock)
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