Here’s this year’s countdown.
| Rank |
Album |
Artist |
| 1 |
The Rising |
Bruce Springsteen |
| 2 |
Come Away With Me |
Norah Jones |
| 3 |
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot |
Wilco |
| 4 |
Sea Change |
Beck |
| 5 |
Demolition |
Ryan Adams |
| 6 |
A Rush Of Blood To The Head |
Coldplay |
| 7 |
When I Was Cruel |
Elvis Costello |
| 8 |
Lost In Space |
Aimee Mann |
| 9 |
Scarlet’s Walk |
Tori Amos |
| 10 |
Stereo |
Paul Westerberg |
| 11 |
1000 Kisses |
Patty Griffin |
| 12 |
Up |
Peter Gabriel |
| 13 |
Jerusalem |
Steve Earle |
| 14 |
Wait For Me |
Susan Tedeschi |
| 15 |
Down The Old Plank Road:The Nashville Sessions |
The Chieftains |
| 16 |
The Ragpicker’s Dream |
Mark Knopfler |
| 17 |
The Last DJ |
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers |
| 18 |
Silver Lining |
Bonnie Raitt |
| 19 |
American IV: The Man Comes Around |
Johnny Cash |
| 20 |
Daybreaker |
Beth Orton |
| 21 |
Are You Passionate? |
Neil Young |
| 22 |
Brainwashed |
George Harrison |
| 23 |
So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter |
Ani Difranco |
| 24 |
This Side |
Nickelcreek |
| 25 |
I Am Sam [soundtrack] |
Various Artists |
| 26 |
A New Day At Midnight |
David Gray |
| 27 |
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots |
The Flaming Lips |
| 28 |
Float Away With The Friday Night Gods |
Marah |
| 29 |
Barricades & Brickwalls |
Kasey Chambers |
| 30 |
My Ride’s Here |
Warren Zevon |
| 31 |
Blue Country Heart |
Jorma Kaukonen |
| 32 |
Greatest Hits |
Bjork |
| 33 |
Late Lit & Loaded |
Blue Highways |
| 34 |
For The Birds |
The Frames |
| 35 |
Live At The Wetlands |
Robert Randolph & The Family Band |
| 36 |
The Future That Was |
Josh Joplin Group |
| 37 |
Blood Money |
Tom Waits |
| 38 |
The Instigator |
Rhett Miller |
| 39 |
Have You Fed The Fish? |
Badly Drawn Boy |
| 40 |
The Last Broadcast |
Doves |
| 41 |
Sha Sha |
Ben Kweller |
| 42 |
Alice |
Tom Waits |
| 43 |
Australia |
Howie Day |
| 44 |
Talking To Strangers |
Shemekia Copeland |
| 45 |
While You Weren’t Looking |
Caitlin Cary |
| 46 |
Gold Stars 1992-2002: The Juliana Hatfield Collection |
Juliana Hatfield |
| 47 |
Songs In Red And Gray |
Suzanne Vega |
| 48 |
The Deep End Vol. 2 |
Gov’t Mule |
| 49 |
Old School Dropouts |
The Connells |
| 50 |
Courier-Live |
Richard Shindell |
| 51 |
Become You |
Indigo Girls |
| 52 |
Sebastopol |
Jay Farrar |
| 53 |
Forever |
Cracker |
| 54 |
The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most |
Dashboard Confessional |
| 55 |
Romantica |
Luna |
| 56 |
Smofe & Smang: Live In Minneapolis 2002 |
Mike Doughty |
| 57 |
Little Monster |
Stringbean & The Stalkers |
| 58 |
Ran on Pure Lightning |
Shannon McNally & Neal Casal |
| 59 |
Love Is Here |
Starsailor |
| 60 |
Any Old Time |
Steve Forbert |
| 61 |
Down The Road |
Van Morrison |
| 62 |
Cobblestone Runway |
Ron Sexsmith |
| 63 |
The Speed of Trees |
Ellis Paul |
| 64 |
Villians? |
The Saw Doctors |
| 65 |
Higher Ground |
The Blind Boys Of Alabama |
| 66 |
Round Room |
Phish |
| 67 |
7 Worlds Collide-Live At The St James |
Neil Finn |
| 68 |
Sleeping on Roads |
Neil Halstead |
| 69 |
Riot Act |
Pearl Jam |
| 70 |
Twinemen |
Twinemen |
| 71 |
Heathen |
David Bowie |
| 72 |
Always Got Tonight |
Chris Isaak |
| 73 |
The Naked Ride Home |
Jackson Browne |
| 74 |
Big Swing Face |
Bruce Hornsby |
| 75 |
Sink or Swim |
The Waifs |
| 76 |
Belly of the Sun |
Cassandra Wilson |
| 77 |
The Memorial Hall Recordings |
Mark Erelli |
| 78 |
Jools Holland’s Big Band Rhythm & Blues |
Jools Holland |
| 79 |
Blue Horse |
The Be Good Tanyas |
| 80 |
1 Giant Leap |
1 Giant Leap |
| 81 |
In Our Gun |
Gomez |
| 82 |
When I Go (2002 Reissue) |
Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer |
| 83 |
Here Be Monsters |
Ed Harcourt |
| 84 |
About A Boy [soundtrack] |
Badly Drawn Boy |
| 85 |
Fashionably Late |
Linda Thompson |
| 86 |
Under Cold Blue Stars |
Josh Rouse |
| 87 |
One All |
Neil Finn |
| 88 |
Laugh |
Keller Williams |
| 89 |
Loose Screw |
The Pretenders |
| 90 |
Live at Bonnaroo |
Various Artists |
