Third time's the charm: best of 2002

[skipshady]

If you listed 'em before, list 'em again.
If you haven't, well, list 'em.

[Doctor Stamen]

Best Presenter: Dave Gorman
Best Sports presenter: Gary Lineker/John Inverdale
Best TV comedy: Phoenix Nights

[Pack87Man]

Best album Dave Grohl played the Drums for in 2002: Queens of the Stone Age

[peledre]

Best Movie, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

[skipshady]

Originally posted by peledre
Best Movie, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Can I borrow your time machine when you're done? :D

[peledre]

Originally posted by skipshady
Can I borrow your time machine when you're done? :D
Yeah, i'll bring it over. I have that much confidence in Peter Jackson, though. Actually, a mentor of mine who has hollywood connections got to see it in a viewing last week, he said it was immensly better than the 1st.

[JAnderson14]

Best album of the year: Phrenology by the Roots. Any other picks are wrong and depressingly so. Nothing this good has come out in years.

[peledre]

Originally posted by JAnderson14
Best album of the year: Phrenology by the Roots. Any other picks are wrong and depressingly so. Nothing this good has come out in years.
Howie Day: Australia, or John Mayer: Room for Squares, or The Dave Matthews Band: Live at Folsom Field. Don't know if the first 2 came out in 2002 or not though.

[nancyb]

I'm perennially late on musical purchases, but, for my money, The Soundtrack of Our Lives' Behind the Music is the cd for 2002.

[Davids26]

Originally posted by JAnderson14
Best album of the year: Phrenology by the Roots. Any other picks are wrong and depressingly so. Nothing this good has come out in years.

Tell All Your Friends by Taking Back Sunday. Any other picks are wrong and depressingly so. Nothing this good has come out in years. :)

[skipshady]

This is the official Best of 2002. Everyone should model their list after mine.

Not really. This thread's about what you personally liked, not necessarily what was the best. No wrong answers here.

Film
Best movie I saw before 12/13: Igby Goes Down
Best movie I saw on or after 12/13: Adaptation
Best comic book adaptation, and it's not Spider-Man: Road To Perdition
Best 15 minutes of a movie: the final battle scene in 8 Mile
Best pleasant surprise: Hugh Grant in About A Boy
I'm not sure if I really got it but I really liked it: Punch Drunk Love
Best reason to watch a foreign film, and not just for the sex: Y Tu Mama Tambien
Best guilty pleasure DVD: Super Troopers

Music
Best album: J speaks the truth, it's The Roots, Phrenology
Best album someone burned for me: Coldplay A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Best driving album: DJ Shadow Private Press
Best chilling album:The Avalanches Since I Left You
Best $10 show: The Hives at the Bowery Ballroom
Best $24 show: Ben Folds at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
Best show involving ping pong balls, drum machine and a now defunct group: Anti Pop Consortium at SOB's

Advertising
Best commercial: Nike Scorpion Knock-Out
Best non-soccer commercial: Nike Presto "Angry Chicken"
Best non-Nike commercial: ESPN/NBA "Dinner"
Best non-Wieden & Kennedy commercial: VW Beetle Covertible "Bubble"

[peledre]

Film
Best movie I saw before 12/13: Bowling for Columbine
Best movie I saw on or after 12/13: Lord of the Rings
Best 25 minutes of a movie: The battle for Helm's Deep, in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Best guilty pleasure DVD: Super Troopers
Best Movie to watch 13 times in one day Super Troopers

Music
Best $10 show: Definitely The Hives
Best $24 show: Howie Day in Minneapolis
Best $40 show: The Dave Matthews Band at Alpine Valley, Wisconsin

[JAnderson14]

I'll try to fill out Skip's list.

Film
Best movie I saw before 12/13: Insomnia
Best movie I saw on or after 12/13: None (I haven't seen many movies this year because of a cash shortage)

Pretty much all of my answers come down to that for film.

Music
Best album: The Roots, Phrenology
Best album someone burned for me: No one burned a cd for me this year that was from this year.
Best driving album: The Hives Veni Vedi Vicious[/b]
Best $24 show: Jurassic 5 with Blackalicious at the 9:30 Club (Blackalicious especially)
Best show involving ping pong balls, drum machine and a now defunct group: I'm just jealous Skip got to see Anti-Pop.

Advertising
Best commercial: Nike Scorpion Knock-Out
Best non-soccer commercial: Nike Presto "Angry Chicken"

I'd like to add:

Best album not by the Roots: Mr. Lif I Phantom
Album I regret not getting yet: Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf
Worst Musical Moment: Nelly continues performing/Whiny, DMB knockoffs (which is sad in and of itself) are lauded as skilled artists

[Pack87Man]

OK, I'll try to fill out Skip's List, though it won't be perfect.

Film
Best movie I saw before 12/13: Bourne Identity
Best movie I saw on or after 12/13: Haven't seen one yet
Best comic book adaptation, and it's not Spider-Man: Road To Perdition Haven't seen this, are there any other comic book adaptations out?
Best pleasant surprise: Jonah, a VeggieTales Movie Amazingly, I didn't try to claw my eyes out when I took my 4 year old sister to this.
Best guilty pleasure DVD: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Music
Best album: Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way
Best album someone burned for me: No albums burned for me.
Best driving album: 3 Doors Down Away from the Sun
Best $15 show: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy at the Union
Best $24 show: Incubus with Hoobastank at the US Cellular Center

Advertising
Best commercial: Nike Scorpion Knock-Out
Best non-soccer commercial: This is SportsCenter Pick one, any one. They're all brilliant.

[skipshady lite]

I guess I should've phrased it better. You can put it in any format you want to - it's just that my picks are inevitably better than yours, that's all.

[eneste]

Originally posted by JAnderson14
Best album of the year: Phrenology by the Roots. Any other picks are wrong and depressingly so. Nothing this good has come out in years.

:confused:

I love the Roots and while I'm not hating "Phrenology" like many folk it's certainly a let down from "Things Fall Apart". There are a couple really great songs definitely ("Water") but the rest is really mediocre. And the single, "Break You Off", is craaaaap.

Originally posted by skipshady
Best chilling album:The Avalanches Since I Left You

Great album but it was released over two years ago.

[skipshady lite]

Originally posted by eneste
Great album but it was released over two years ago. I knew it didn't come out this year but I could've sworn it came out in 2001. Oh well.

Anyway, it was my favorite album I burned in 2002.

[jmh30]

Best thing watched on TV between 1am and 10am:
(tie) USA 3, Portugal 2; USA 2, Mexico 0 :D

[eat 'stick]

Best 10 months of 2002--the ones I didn't spend in Dallas
Best Dallas Stripper--tie, Linda and Patricia
Best Live Album: Queensryche, Live Evolution
Best Goal of 2002: Agoos beats Freidel, WC 2002
Best Pornstar Moonlighting as a Professional Athelete--tie, David Seaman and Jeff Kent
Best Buy is Killing Local Record Stores
Best Book I Finshed that I Started In College: Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
Best Hobby: Sockpuppetry
Best Man at my Friend's Wedding: Me

[SportBoy321]

best new network television sitcom-THE GEORGE LOPEZ SHOW!!!!!