Did you know that there was a site dedicated to Neil Young's still unavailable On the Beach from 1974?

The adequate accompanying 10/10 review of this album is here at the wonderful music site Nude as the News.

Only eight albums in this poll. That's all I have from my year of birth. It should be as easy or difficult for you as for me.

Agnes M does a countdown of the best of 2002 with mp3 links to one to four songs every day in her music blog this is not an exit which I probably discovered via Wisdom Goof. As of today she is at #11 which is Ugly Casanova's Sharpen Your Teeth by Now with the four mp3 links still working. I didn't even know that the Tindersticks (#15) had a new album out with the characteristic title Trouble Every Day. Wilco on #12 seems quite reasonable to me too. I am very curious about the next album doors she will open for us like in an Advent calendar. Someone who names The Smiths, Joy Division and the Pixies as three out of five favourite bands can't have a bad taste ;-)

Kenan Hebart from Analog Roam also did a post on the Best of 2002 with links to other people's lists. His list has Beck on the top spot, Interpol on #2, Wilco on #4, Sonic Youth on #10, Yo La Tengo on #11 and the two Tom Waits albums on #12. Another nice selection.

This Is The Thread Where We Post Every Single End of Year List We Can Find and The Best of the first 2/3 of 2002 (not really true I guess as the last posts are from December) at I Love Music.

Dean Martucci did a long list in his blog Notes from Slipping Acres (December, 5th) including some usual suspects like Beck, Lambchop, Wilco, Interpol and Tom Waits.

As of now my favourites would be:

• Montgolfier Brothers - The World Is Flat
• Lambchop - Is a Woman
• Tom Liwa - Two Originals...
• Hayden - Skyscraper National Park
• Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
• Tom Waits - Alice
• Sonic Youth - Murray Street
• Yo La Tengo - The Sounds of the Sounds of Science