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2002 Rock Album Releases
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Aug 20
Interpol
Turn On The Bright Lights
82
critic score
(11)
87
user score
(3,288)
Aug 27
Queens of the Stone Age
Songs for the Deaf
87
critic score
(10)
88
user score
(3,266)
Apr 23
Wilco
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
91
critic score
(16)
87
user score
(2,564)
Aug 27
Coldplay
A Rush of Blood to the Head
79
critic score
(17)
81
user score
(2,560)
Jul 16
The Flaming Lips
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
85
critic score
(14)
84
user score
(1,805)
May 14
Weezer
Maladroit
71
critic score
(10)
72
user score
(1,215)
Nov 11
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Yanqui U.X.O.
73
critic score
(9)
83
user score
(1,184)
Jul 9
Red Hot Chili Peppers
By The Way
79
critic score
(12)
78
user score
(1,033)
Oct 28
Sigur Rós
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82
critic score
(14)
85
user score
(1,003)
Oct 15
Broken Social Scene
You Forgot It In People
87
critic score
(11)
86
user score
(998)
Jun 4
Avril Lavigne
Let Go
58
critic score
(8)
75
user score
(908)
Jun 25
Maroon 5
Songs About Jane
64
critic score
(5)
71
user score
(890)
Sep 24
Beck
Sea Change
81
critic score
(14)
80
user score
(754)
Jun 11
David Bowie
Heathen
73
critic score
(10)
72
user score
(573)
Nov 19
Audioslave
Audioslave
61
critic score
(13)
73
user score
(492)
Feb 19
Xiu Xiu
Knife Play
79
critic score
(5)
81
user score
(491)
Mar 19
Hella
Hold Your Horse Is
80
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(477)
Sep 24
Porcupine Tree
In Absentia
67
critic score
(3)
80
user score
(464)
Oct 22
Foo Fighters
One by One
67
critic score
(13)
69
user score
(459)
Aug 20
Spoon
Kill The Moonlight
78
critic score
(8)
80
user score
(317)
Jun 25
Sonic Youth
Murray Street
81
critic score
(12)
78
user score
(313)
Oct 14
The Libertines
Up The Bracket
75
critic score
(10)
78
user score
(309)
Apr 26
Boris
Heavy Rocks
80
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(286)
Nov 5
The Mountain Goats
Tallahassee
77
critic score
(10)
83
user score
(262)
May 7
Tom Waits
Blood Money
81
critic score
(11)
81
user score
(251)
Feb 26
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
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80
critic score
(14)
80
user score
(238)
May 7
Tom Waits
Alice
83
critic score
(11)
80
user score
(203)
Feb 1
Damien Rice
O
77
critic score
(14)
81
user score
(193)
Nov 12
Pearl Jam
Riot Act
67
critic score
(11)
61
user score
(192)
May 14
The Black Keys
The Big Come Up
80
critic score
(3)
72
user score
(188)
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Aug 20
Sleater-Kinney
One Beat
80
critic score
(13)
82
user score
(187)
Jan 22
Nine Inch Nails
Still
85
critic score
(2)
82
user score
(180)
Aug 27
30 Seconds to Mars
30 Seconds to Mars
46
critic score
(5)
58
user score
(177)
Nov 4
Coldplay
The Scientist
80
critic score
(1)
90
user score
(165)
Feb 25
Mclusky
Mclusky Do Dallas
79
critic score
(6)
81
user score
(163)
Oct 8
Chevelle
Wonder What's Next
63
critic score
(3)
76
user score
(145)
Dec 11
Coldplay
Clocks
90
critic score
(1)
88
user score
(142)
May 21
The Decemberists
Castaways and Cutouts
85
critic score
(5)
81
user score
(142)
May 21
Box Car Racer
Box Car Racer
70
critic score
(3)
79
user score
(140)
Jul 30
Bruce Springsteen
The Rising
82
critic score
(9)
73
user score
(135)
Oct 1
Rilo Kiley
The Execution of All Things
80
critic score
(6)
81
user score
(131)
Mar 5
Coheed and Cambria
The Second Stage Turbine Blade
85
critic score
(2)
80
user score
(127)
Oct 1
Good Charlotte
The Young and the Hopeless
56
critic score
(5)
59
user score
(125)
Aug 27
Breaking Benjamin
Saturate
65
critic score
(2)
67
user score
(121)
Feb 25
Alanis Morissette
Under Rug Swept
63
critic score
(12)
74
user score
(113)
Sep 23
The Strokes
Someday
94
user score
(112)
Oct 29
Nirvana
Nirvana
80
critic score
(9)
81
user score
(112)
Nov 26
Queens of the Stone Age
No One Knows
95
user score
(109)
May 1
City of Caterpillar
City of Caterpillar
90
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(108)
Aug 20
The Microphones
Song Islands
74
critic score
(3)
77
user score
(106)
Mar 19
Simple Plan
No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls
60
critic score
(2)
50
user score
(105)
Nov 18
George Harrison
Brainwashed
79
critic score
(5)
74
user score
(104)
Oct 8
Nirvana
You Know You're Right
83
critic score
(1)
95
user score
(104)
Sep 3
Today Is The Day
Sadness Will Prevail
50
critic score
(1)
83
user score
(97)
May 14
Avril Lavigne
Complicated
67
critic score
(1)
84
user score
(91)
Oct 15
The All-American Rejects
The All-American Rejects
63
critic score
(4)
63
user score
(90)
Nov 26
Gustavo Cerati
Siempre es Hoy
70
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(90)
Jul 14
The Vines
Highly Evolved
69
critic score
(13)
64
user score
(89)
May 14
Rush
Vapor Trails
68
critic score
(3)
59
user score
(85)
Jun 4
Muse
Hullabaloo Soundtrack
67
critic score
(3)
78
user score
(84)
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