Today THE WORD's grand project to compile the best music from each year of the decade that's about to end reaches the year 2002. Open up our 2002 Spotify Playlist and add your choices. It builds week after week into a huge resource of knowledge that all the family can enjoy (part two free with part one, leather-effect ring binders available).

As seasoned Spotifiers know, the rules are simple:
1] Add only one track at a time, not whole albums - we'll only have to delete them.
2] Keep it to tracks that you genuinely like, and that you think other readers will enjoy. Please don't put your mates' bands on, or add obscurities for obscurity's sake.
3] And er that's it.

We're taking an elastic approach to timing, so if a record was released in 2001 or 2003 but made its real impact in 2002, it's allowed on the list. We'll be doing a little delicate pruning during the day but nothing too painful.

The playlists for the year 2000 and 2001 are now closed to new additions but you can play them at will. And so can we, because we've got a new Spotify machine to replace the one that died. Hurrah! Now, get to it, o great collective WORD mind.