In the same Hot Press annual issue we find Bono’s ‘best albums of 2001’ list:

• As if to nothing – Craig Armstrong (out in February)
• Gold – Ryan Adams
• Is this It – The Strokes
• White Blood Cells – The White Stripes
• Love and Theft – Bob Dylan
• Wonderland – The Charlatans
• Rock Show – Peaches

More on the Craig Armstrong record here.