Wilco wins Voice album crown
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Wilco’s “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” was named the best album of 2002 in the Village Voice’s annual poll of music critics, while Missy Elliott’s ribald “Work It” was named the year’s best single. The accolade for the Wilco album adds to an odd saga for the project. The Chicago-based band went through lineup changes and a divorce from its record label before the disc was finally released a year after its completion.
Other top vote-getters on the best-album tally, in order: “Sea Change” by Beck, “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” by the Flaming Lips, “Original Pirate Material” by the Streets, “One Beat” by Sleater-Kinney and “The Rising” by Bruce Springsteen.
This year, 695 music critics participated in the poll, which appears in the issue that hit newsstands on Wednesday.
-- Geoff Boucher
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