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Cornershop: Handcream for a Generation

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On April 1, 2002,” Wiiija” label released “Handcream for a Generation”, the fourth Cornershop” studio album. It was recorded in 2002, at “West Orange Studios”, “Eastcote Studios”, and was produced by Tjinder Singh.

Personnel:

  • Tjinder Singh – vocals, guitar
  • Ben Ayers – keyboards, guitar, tamboura
  • Otis Clay – vocals
  • Jack Wilson – vocals
  • Kojak – vocals
  • Noel Gallagher – electric guitar
  • Ian Hooper – keyboards
  • Alan Gregson – bass, electric piano, engineer
  • Paul McGuigan – bass
  • David Chambers – drums
  • Sheema Mukherjee – sitar
  • Mick Greenwood – trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Julian Arguelles – bass clarinet
  • Grace Winder, Joy Ellison, Richard Curran – violin
  • Penny Holt – cello
  • Doreen Edwards – backing vocals
  • Philip Bagenal – engineer
  • Mike Marsh – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Tjinder Singh.

  1. Heavy Soup
  2. Staging the Plaguing of the Raised Platform
  3. Music Plus 1
  4. Lessons Learned from Rocky I to Rocky III
  5. Wogs Will Walk
  6. Motion the 11
  7. People Power
  8. Sounds Super Recordings
  9. The London Radar
  10. Spectral Mornings
  11. Slip the Drummer One
  12. Heavy Soup (outro)
  13. Bonus Track

Bob Mould: Modulate

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On March 12, 2002, “Granary Music” released “Modulate”, the fifth Bob Mould solo album. It was recorded in 2001, and was produced by Bob Mould.

Personnel:

Personnel:

  1. Bob Mould – vocals, guitar, engineer, mixing
  2. Damien Shannon – engineer
  3. Lisa Pearl – portraits

Track listing:

All tracks by Bob Mould.

  1. 180 Rain
  2. Sunset Safety Glass
  3. Semper Fi
  4. Homecoming Parade
  5. Lost Zoloft
  6. Without?
  7. Slay/Sway
  8. The Receipt
  9. Quasar
  10. Soundonsound
  11. Hornery
  12. Comeonstrong
  13. Trade
  14. Author’s Lament

Dream Theater: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

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On January 29, 2002, “Elektra” label released “Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence”, the sixth Dream Theater” studio album. It was recorded in 2001, at the “Bear Tracks Studios” in New York, and was produced by Mike Portnoy and John Petrucci.

Personnel:

  • James LaBrie – lead vocals
  • John Petrucc i– guitar, backing vocals
  • Jordan Rudess – keyboard
  • John Myung – bass
  • Mike Portnoy – co – lead and backing vocals, drums

Track listing:

All music by John Petrucci, John Myung, Jordan Rudess and Mike Portnoy.

  1. The Glass Prison – lyrics by Mike Portnoy
  • “I. Reflection”
  • “II. Restoration”
  • “III. Revelation”
  1. Blind Faith – lyrics by James LaBrie
  2. Misunderstood – lyrics by John Petrucci
  3. The Great Debate – lyrics by John Petrucci
  4. Disappear – lyrics by James LaBrie

The Chemical Brothers: Come With Us

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On January 28, 2002, “Virgin” and “Freestyle Dust” labels released “Come with Us”, the fourth Chemical Brothers (The) studio album. It was recorded  2000 – 2001, at “Miloco Studios” in London, and was produced  by Ed Simons and Tom Rowlands.

Personnel:

  • Ed Simons
  • Tom Rowlands
  • Richard Ashcroft – vocals
  • Neth Orton – vocal
  • Beverley Skeete – vocal
  • Showell (Andrew Lowell) – percussion
  • Steve Dub – engineer
  • Greg Fleming – engineer assistant
  • Mike Marsh – mastering
  • Cheeky Pal – editing
  • Blue Source – art direction
  • Kate Gibb – screenprints

Track listing:

All tracks by Ed Simons and Tom Rowlands.

  1. Come with Us
  2. It Began in Africa
  3. Galaxy Bounce
  4. Star Guitar
  5. Hoops
  6. My Elastic Eye
  7. The State We’re In
  8. Denmark
  9. Pioneer Skies
  10. The Test

Badly Drawn Boy: Have You Fed The Fish?

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On November 5, 2002, “Twisted Nerve” label released “Have You Fed the Fish?”, the third Badly Drawn Boy studio album. It was recorded in 2002, in Los Angeles, and was produced by Tom Rothrock and Damon Gough

  • Badly Drawn Boy (Damon Gough) – vocals, guitars, piano, synth, tambourine, clavier, percussion, flute, chamberlain strings
  • Jon Brion– electric guitar, fuzz guitar, bass, Casio solo, Chamberlin, Chamberlain strings, string arrangement,  conducting
  • John “Gumby” Goodwin – guitars
  • Sasha Kristov – bass
  • Joey Waronker– drums, percussion
  • Danny Heifetz– drums, horns
  • Tom Rothrock – drum programming, synth, shaker, skateboard
  • Pete Thomas– drums, percussion
  • Probyn Gregory– horns
  • Charlotte Gainsbourg – backing vocals, chorus backing vocals
  • Clare Hewitt – backing vocals
  • Sharon Celani, Gia Ciambotti, Drew Arrison, Gemma Gough – backing vocals
  • Matt Dunkley – string arrangements, conducting

Track listing

All tracks by Damon Gough.

  1. Coming in to Land
  2. Have You Fed the Fish?
  3. Born Again
  4. 40 Days, 40 Fights
  5. All Possibilities
  6. I Was Wrong
  7. You Were Right
  8. Centrepeace
  9. How?
  10. The Further I Slide
  11. Imaginary Lines
  12. Using Our Feet
  13. Tickets to What You Need
  14. What Is It Now?
  15. Bedside Story

Johnny Cash: American IV: The Man Comes Around

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American IV

On November 4, 2002, “American Recordings” released “American IV: The Man Comes Around”, the 87th Johnny Cash album and the fourth one in the “American Recordings Series”. This was the last album released before his death in 2003. “American IV: The Man Comes Around” was recorded in 2002 at the “American Recording Studios”, and was produced by Rick Rubin and John Carter Cash. The album won “Album of the Year” award at the 2003 “CMA Awards” and was awarded platinum certification 2003 by the “R.I.A.A”. In 2004, Johnny Cash won “Grammy Award” for “Best Country Male Vocal Performance” for “Give My Love To Rose,” and the music video for “Hurt” won “Grammy Award” for “Best Short Form Video”.

Personnel:

  • Johnny Cash- vocals, guitars , arranger, adaptation
  • Mike Campbell, John Frusciante, Randy Scruggs- guitars
  • Thom Bresh, Jeff Hanna, Kerry Marx, Marty Stuart – guitars
  • Smokey Hormel- guitars
  • David R. Ferguson- ukulele
  • Benmont Tench- organ, piano, harmonium, keyboards, Mellotron, vibraphone, pipe organ, Wurlitzer
  • Roger Manning– piano, harmonium, mellotron, chamberlin, orchestra bells
  • Billy Preston- piano
  • Don Henley – vocals, drums, keyboards
  • Joey Waronker- drums
  • Jack Clement- dobro
  • Laura Cash – fiddle
  • Terry Harrington – clarinet
  • Fiona Apple- vocals
  • Nick Cave- vocals
  • Christine Cano – art direction, design
  • Martyn Atkins – photography

Track listing

  1. The Man Comes Around – Johnny Cash
  2. Hurt – Reznor
  3. Give My Love to Rose – Johnny Cash
  4. Bridge Over Troubled Water – Paul Simon
  5. I Hung My Head – Sting
  6. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face – Ian MacColl
  7. Personal Jesus – Martin Gore
  8. In My Life – John Lennon and Paul McCartney
  9. Sam Hall – Ritter
  10. Danny Boy – Weatherly
  11. Desperado – Frey and Henley
  12. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry – Duet with Nick Cave- Williams
  13. Streets of Laredo – Traditional
  14. Wichita Lineman – Jimmy Webb
  15. Big Iron – Marty Robbins
  16. Tear Stained Letter – Johnny Cash
  17. We’ll Meet Again – Hughie Charles and Ross Parker

Frank Zappa: FZ:OZ

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On August 16, 2002,  “Vaulternative Records” (label from the “Zappa Family Trust”), released “FZ:OZ”, a live album by Frank Zappa. The two CD’s set contains almost all material from the concert from January 20, 1976, held at the “Hordern Pavilion” in Sydney. The album was produced by Dweezil Zappa.

Personnel:

  • Frank Zappa – vocals, guitar
  • Andre Lewis – vocals, keyboards
  • Norman Gunston– harmonica
  • Napoleon Murphy Brock – vocals, tenor saxophone
  • Roy Estrada– vocals, bass guitar
  • Terry Bozzio – vocals, drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Frank Zappa.

  1. Hordern Intro (Incan Art Vamp)
  2. Stink-Foot
  3. The Poodle Lecture
  4. Dirty Love
  5. Filthy habits
  6. How Could I Be Such a Fool
  7. I Ain’t Got No Heart
  8. I’m Not Satisfied
  9. Black Napkins
  10. Advance Romance
  11. The Illinois Enema Bandit
  12. Wind Up Workin’ in a Gas Station
  13. The Torture Never Stops
  14. Canard Toujours
  15. Kaiser Rolls
  16. Find Her Finer
  17. Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy
  18. Lonely Little Girl
  19. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
  20. What’s the Ugliest Part of Your Body
  21. Chunga’s Revenge
  22. Zoot Allures
  23. Keep it Greasy
  24. Dinah-Moe-Humm
  25. Camarillo Brillo
  26. Muffin Man
  27. Kaiser Rolls (Du Jour)

Gus Dudgeon

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On July 21, 2002, Angus Boyd Dudgeon aka Gus Dudgeon, died aged 59. As a  record producer he has worked with The Artwoods, Bruce Channel, Davy Graham, Shirley Collins, The Zombies, John Mayall’s Blues Breakers (with Eric Clapton), Ten Years After, Bonzo Dog Band, Michael Chapman, Elkie Brooks and David Bowie.

Tom Dowd

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On October 24, 2002, Thomas John “Tom” Dowd died aged 77. He was recording engineer and producer for Atlantic Records. He was credited with innovating the multi-track recording method. Tom Dowd recorded albums for number of famous artists including: Eric Clapton, Derek and the Dominos, Rod Stewart, Aretha Franklin, The Drifters, Cream, Lulu, Chicago, The Allman Brothers Band, The J. Geils Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Meat Loaf, Sonny & Cher, The Rascals, Willie Nelson, Diana Ross, Kenny Loggins, Dusty Springfield and Otis Redding.