hardly the best things released this year

Call me a curmudgeonly old cynic if you must, but it wouldn't occur to me to look for decent music among the nominees of that sort of awards ceremony. There were a few decent albums in 2002 (Lemon Jelly's Lost Horizons, The Doves' Last Broadcast and Interpol's Turn On The Bright Lights) and at least one brilliant album (The Streets' Original Pirate Material), plus a mix album so good that, were I the Grammys, I'd invent a new category just for it: Soulwax's 2 Many DJs. There were also at least two brilliant singles (Timo Maas's To Get Down and Liam Lynch's United States Of Whatever) but it doesn't surprise me at all that none of those are nominated for anything.

Peter

Edit: Three brilliant singles: Felix Da Housecat's Silver Screen Shower Scene.