Aislers Set, How I Learned to Write Backwards (Suicide Squeeze)
Bad Times, Bad Times (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
Baka Beyond, East to West (Narada World)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nocturama (Epitaph)
Count The Stars, Never Be Taken Alive (Victory)
Downbeat 5, ISM (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
Fabulous Disaster, Panty Raid (Fat Wreck Chords)
Further Seems Forever, How to Start a Fire (Tooth & Nail)
Generators, From Rust to Ruin (TKO)
John Hammond, Ready for Love (Back Porch)
Holland, Photographs and Tidal Waves (Tooth & Nail)
JFA, We Know You Suck (Alternative Tentacles)
Kissing Chaos, Enter with a Bullet (Fueled by Ramen)
Patty Larkin, Red=Luck (Vanguard)
Christian McBride, Vertical Vision (Warner Bros.)
Men at Work, Business as Usual (Columbia/Legacy)
Men at Work, Cargo (Columbia/Legacy)
Mott The Hoople, The Best of Mott The Hoople (Columbia/Legacy)
Mountain, The Best of Mountain (Columbia/Legacy)
Numbers, Death (TigerBeat 6)
Erlend Oye, Unrest (Source/Astralwerks)
Red Hot Valentines, Calling off Today (Polyvinyl)
Ruiners, How's That Grab Ya? (Disaster)
Dwayne Sodahberk, Partying Without Inhibition (TigerBeat 6)
Spirit, The Best of Spirit (Columbia/Legacy)
Stalag 13, In Control (Dr. Strange)
Miriam Stockley, Second Nature (Narada World)
Stratovarius, Elements Pt. 1 (Nuclear Blast)
Third Eye Blind, Crystal Baller (Elektra)
Paul Van Dyk, Global (Mute)
VA The American Song-Poem Anthology (Bar/None)
VA African Express (Shatki)
VA Buenos Aires Cafe: Instrumental Tangos (Narada World)
VA Mullets Rock! (Epic/Legacy)
VA Oil: Chicago Punk Refined (Thick)
Cosmo Vitelli, Clean (Astralwerks)
Faron Young, Walk Tall: The Mercury Hit Singles 1963-1975 (Westside)
IN OUR EARS
SCOTT HARRELL, MUSIC CRITIC
Groovy, emotional hardcore that inadvertently helped spawn both nu-metal and emo. It's not their fault, and this incredible record has never been equaled.
ERIC SNIDER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
A gift from God. Two CDs, crisply remastered. I can't get enough. Release date: March 11.
This article appears in Feb 5-11, 2003.