Jim's Gems 2002: Bowie, Dylan, The Streets, and other great albums of the year

An eclectic mix of records are marking their 20th anniversary, and while club culture and hip hop are represented, old stagers like Bowie and Waits were still releasing great albums 

Jim Comet includes Bowie and the Chili Peppers in his list of best albums marking their 20th anniversary. 

In the last of our anniversary series, we at last get to some records that were actually released this century. For those albums marking 20 years since release, the musical landscape had again changed in the intervening decade since our previous instalment. The lines between genres are becoming a bit blurred while pop is rapidly rising to become the dominant force.

By now, the digital age was already starting to disrupt the music industry, not least with the launch of Napster in 1999, and the first iteration of iTunes in 2001. The times they were a changing.