Robert Christgau: The A List Albums from Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s (2000)

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Figured I might as well post his favorite '90s albums as well. They're all on Christgau's website, if you're curious.

1990:
Public Enemy: Fear of a Black Planet (Def Jam)
The Chills: Submarine Bells (Slash/Warner Bros.)
L.L. Cool J: Mama Said Knock You Out (Def Jam)
Go-Go's: Greatest (I.R.S.)
Pixies: Bossanova (4AD/Elektra)
L7: Smell the Magic (Sub Pop)
Meat Puppets: No Strings Attached (SST)
Madonna: I'm Breathless (Sire/Warner Bros.)
Gang of Four: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century (Warner Bros.)
Beats International: Let Them Eat Bingo (Elektra)
Ice Cube: Kill at Will (Priority)
Macka-B: Natural Suntan (Ariwa)
The Beautiful South: Welcome to the Beautiful South (Elektra)
Bob Dylan: Under the Red Sky (Columbia)
Rosanne Cash: Interiors (Columbia)
Ladysmith Black Mambazo: Two Worlds One Heart (Warner Bros.)
The Civil War (Elektra Nonesuch)
Sonic Youth: Goo (DGC)
The Deighton Family: Mama Was Right (Philo)
Nick Lowe: Party of One (Warner Bros.)
Living Colour: Time's Up (Epic)
Ministry: In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up (Live) (Sire/Warner Bros.)
Samba Mapangala & Orchestre Virunga: Virunga Volcano (Virgin)
Jewel Ackah: Me Dear (Highlife World import)
Eno/Cale: Wrong Way Up (Opal/Warner Bros.)
Eric B. & Rakim: Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em (MCA)
Snap: World Power (Arista)
The Ousmane Kouyate Band: Domba (Mango)
Pretenders: Packed! (Sire/Warner Bros.)
Yalla: Hitlist Egypt (Mango)
Pépé Kallé: Pépé Kallé (Gefraco)
Brand Nubian: One for All (Elektra)
The Fall: 458489 A Sides (Beggars Banquet)
Pylon: Chain (Sky)
The Pooh Sticks: Formula One Generation (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Ragged Glory (Reprise)
Evan Lurie: Selling Water by the Side of the River (Island)
Lou Reed/John Cale: Songs for Drella (Sire/Warner Bros.)
Steve Coleman and Five Elements: Rhythm People (The Resurrection of Creative Black Civilization) (Novus)
Fugazi: Repeater (Dischord)
Spirit of the Eagle: Zimbabwe Frontline (Vol. 2) (Virgin)
Loketo: Soukous Trouble (Shanachie)
The Flatlanders: More a Legend Than a Band (Rounder)
Boubacar Traoré: Mariama (Stern's Africa)
Was (Not Was): Are You Okay? (Chrysalis)
Sonny Boy Williamson: Keep It to Ourselves (Alligator)
Blake Babies: Sunburn (Mammoth)
Ali Farka Toure: The River (World Circuit import)
The Perfect Disaster: Up (Fire)
Mekons: F.U.N. '90 (A&M)
Hi-Jivin' (Kijima)
Guy: The Future (MCA)
Salt-n-Pepa: Blacks' Magic (Next Plateau)
Macka-B: Looks Are Deceiving (Ariwa)
Lisa Stansfield: Affection (Arista)
Abed Azrié: Aromates (Elektra Nonesuch)
The Clean: Vehicle (Rough Trade)
Jali Musa Jawara: Yasimika (Hannibal)
Simon Shaheen: The Music of Mohamed Abdel Wahab (Axiom)
The Fugs: Songs From a Portable Forest (Gazell)
Monie Love: Down to Earth (Warner Bros.)
Dreams Come True: Dreams Come True (Antone's)
Shazzy: Attitude: A Hip-Hop Rapsody (Elektra)
Soul II Soul: Vol II--1990: A New Decade (Virgin)
Fela: Black Man's Cry (Eurobond import)
K T. Oslin: Love in a Small Town (RCA Victor)
Jerry Lee Lewis: Rockin' My Life Away (Tomato)
Thomas Anderson: "Alright It Was Frank . . . And He's Risen from the Dead and Gone Off with His Truck" (Out There)
Meat Beat Manifesto: 99% (Mute)
My Bloody Valentine: Glider (Sire/Warner Bros.)
Youssou N'Dour: Set (Virgin)

1991:
Nirvana: Nevermind (DGC)
Linton Kwesi Johnson: Tings an' Times (Shanachie)
Public Enemy: Apocalypse '91: The Empire Strikes Black (Def Jam)
Loketo: Extra Ball (Shanachie)
Sonny Sharrock Band: Highlife (Enemy)
R.E.M.: Out of Time (Warner Bros.)
Bonnie Raitt: Luck of the Draw (Capitol)
Feelies: The Time for a Witness (A&M)
P.M. Dawn: Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience (Gee Street)
Al Green: One in a Million (Word/Epic)
Ice-T: O.G.: Original Gangster (Sire/Warner Bros.)
Gary Stewart: Gary's Greatest (HighTone)
Pulnoc: City of Hysteria (Arista)
Tshala Muana: Soukous Siren (Shanachie)
John Prine: The Missing Years (Oh Boy)
Cumbia Cumbia (World Circuit import)
Digital Underground: This Is an EP Release (Tommy Boy)
Dorothy Masuka: Pata Pata (Mango)
Pixies: Trompe Le Monde (Elektra/4AD)
The Leaving Trains: Loser Illusion Pt. 0 (SST)
Slick Rick: The Ruler's Back (Def Jam/Columbia)
Michael Jackson: Dangerous (Epic)
Matthew Sweet: Girlfriend (Zoo)
Jimmie Dale Gilmore: "After Awhile" (Nonesuch)
Cypress Hill: Cypress Hill (Ruffhouse/Columbia)
The Pooh Sticks: The Great White Wonder (Sweet Virginia)
Bob Marley & the Wailers: Talkin' Blues (Tuff Gong)
The Bats: Compiletely Bats (Communion)
Eleventh Dream Day: Lived To Tell (Atlantic)
My Bloody Valentine: Loveless (Sire/Warner Bros.)
Mekons: Curse of the Mekons (Blast First import)
Black Stalin: Roots Rock Soca (Rounder)
Yo-Yo: Make Way for the Motherlode (East West)
Motorhead: 1916 (WTG)
Jit--The Movie (Earthworks)
The Only Ones: The Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
John Lee Hooker: Mr. Lucky (Charisma/Pointblank)
Tabu Ley Rochereau: Man From Kinshasa (Shanachie)
Pulnoc: Pulnoc (Globus International import)
Linda Gail Lewis: International Affair (New Rose import)
G.W. McLennan: Watershed (Beggars Banquet)
Kenya Dance Mania (Earthworks)
The Most Beautiful Christmas Carols (Milan)
Lee "Scratch" Perry: Lord God Muzick (Heartbeat)
Too Much Joy: Cereal Killers (Giant)
Downtown Science: Downtown Science (Def Jam/Columbia)
Charlie Feathers: Charlie Feathers (Nonesuch)
The La's: The La's (London)
Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Weld (Reprise)
Chris Smither: Another Way To Find You (Flying Fish)
Wir: The First Letter (Mute/Elektra)
Dennis Alcapone: Forever Version (Heartbeat)
Oumou Sangare: Moussolou (World Circuit)
Champion Jack Dupree: Forever and Ever (Bullseye Blues)
The Go-Betweens: The Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
Garth Brooks: Ropin' the Wind (Capitol)
Robert Ward and the Black Top All-Stars: Fear No Evil (Black Top)
The KLF: The White Room (Arista)
Ali Hassan Kuban: From Nubia to Cairo (Shanachie)
Lifers Group: Lifers Group (Hollywood Basic)
My Bloody Valentine: Tremolo (Sire/Warner Bros.)
Kid Creole and the Coconuts: You Shoulda Told Me You Were . . . (Columbia)
King Missile: The Way to Salvation (Atlantic)
I.K. Dairo M.B.E. and His Blue Spots: I Remember (Music of the World)
Pavement: Perfect Sound Forever (Drag City)

1992:
Freedy Johnston: Can You Fly (Bar/None)
Ya Ntesa Dalienst & Le Maquisard: Belalo (Sango Music import)
Mzwakhe Mbuli: Resistance Is Defence (Earthworks)
David Murray: Shakill's Warrior (DIW/Columbia)
Lucinda Williams: Sweet Old World (Chameleon)
Taj Mahal: Taj's Blues (Columbia/Legacy)
L7: Bricks Are Heavy (Slash)
Coupé Cloué: Maximum Compas From Haiti (Earthworks)
Madonna: Erotica (Maverick/Reprise)
Sonic Youth: Dirty (DGC)
Pavement: Slanted and Enchanted (Matador)
The Roches: A Dove (MCA)
The Goats: Tricks of the Shade (Ruffhouse/Columbia)
Shanté: The Bitch Is Back (Livin' Large)
Popinjays: Flying Down to Mono Valley (Epic/One Little Indian)
Utah Saints: Utah Saints (London)
Giant Sand: Ramp (Restless)
Orchestra Baobab: On Verra Ça (World Circuit)
E.T. Mensah: Day by Day (Retroafric)
Thelonious Monster: Beautiful Mess (Capitol)
The Robert Cray Band: I Was Warned (Mercury)
Les Ambassadeurs Internationales Featuring Salif Keita: Les Ambassadeurs Internationales Featuring Salif Keita (Rounder)
Bikini Kill: Bikini Kill (Kill Rock Stars)
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy: Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury (4th & B'way)
T.P OK Jazz: Somo! (TMS import '90)
Prince and the New Power Generation: [File Under Prince] (Paisley Park/Warner Bros.) - I think he means the Love Symbol Album
Stacy Dean Campbell: Lonesome Wins Again (Columbia)
PJ Harvey: Dry (Indigo)
Kickin Mental Detergent (Kickin USA)
Pete Johnson: King of Boogie (Milan)
Eric B. & Rakim: Don't Sweat the Technique (MCA)
Th Faith Healers: Lido (Elektra)
Eric Agyeman: Highlife Safari (Stern's Africa)
Ministry: Psalm 69: The Way To Succeed and the Way To Suck Eggs (Sire/Reprise)
Luna²: Lunapark (Elektra)
Body Count: Body Count (Sire/Warner Bros.)
Kris Kross: Totally Krossed Out (Ruffhouse/Columbia)
Joe Houston: Cornbread and Cabbage Greens (Specialty)
Grateful Dead: Two From the Vault (Grateful Dead)
Sugar: Copper Blue (Rykodisc)
John Trudell: AKA Grafitti Man (Rykodisc)
Chris Bell: I Am the Cosmos (Rykodisc)
Yo Yo: Black Pearl (EastWest)
The Chills: Soft Bomb (Warner Bros.)
Master Musicians of Jajouka Featuring Bachir Attar: Apocalypse Across the Sky (Axiom)
Broadway Revival Cast Recording: Guys and Dolls (RCA Victor)
Orchestra Marrabenta Star de Moçambique: Independance (Piranha import)
George Jones: Walls Can Fall (MCA)
Morrissey: Your Arsenal (Sire)
Leonard Cohen: The Future (Columbia)
Sweet Talks/A.B. Crentsil: Sweet Talks--Hollywood Highlife Party + A.B. Crentsil--Moses (ADC import)
FU-Schnickens: F.U.--Don't Take It Personal (Jive)
Azagas and Archibogs (Original Music '91)
They Might Be Giants: Apollo 18 (Elektra)
Steely & Clevie: Steely & Clevie Play Studio One Vintage (Heartbeat)
Gilberto Gil/Jorge Ben: Gil e Jorge (Verve)
Monty Python: Monty Python Sings (Virgin)
The Beautiful South: 0898 Beautiful South (Elektra)
Dennis Robbins: Man With a Plan (Giant)
Ramones: Mondo Bizarro (Radioactive)
Ani DiFranco: Imperfectly (Righteous Babe)
The Breeders: Safari (4AD/Elektra)
Pavement: Watery, Domestic (Matador)
Diblo Dibala & Matchatcha: Laissez Passer (Afric Music import)
Rosie Flores: After the Farm (HighTone)
Boogie Down Productions: Sex and Violence (Jive)

1993:
Janis Joplin: Janis (Columbia/Legacy)
Liz Phair: Exile in Guyville (Matador)
Liliput: LiLiPUT (Off Course import)
Etoile de Dakar: Volume 1--Absa Gueye (Stern's Africa)
Nirvana: In Utero (DGC)
Mighty Sparrow: Volume One (Ice)
Loudon Wainwright III: Career Moves (Charisma)
Pet Shop Boys: Very (EMI)
Archers of Loaf: Icky Mettle (Alias)
PJ Harvey: Rid of Me (Island)
De La Soul: Buhloone Mindstate (Tommy Boy)
Mbuki Mvuki (Original Music)
Digable Planets: Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) (Pendulum)
P.M. Dawn: The Bliss Album . . . ? (Gee Street)
Jimmie Dale Gilmore: Spinning Around the Sun (Elektra)
Yo Yo: You Better Ask Somebody (EastWest)
Moby: Move (Elektra)
The Wild Magnolias: The Wild Magnolias (Polydor)
Dramarama: Hi-Fi Sci-Fi (Chameleon)
The Afghan Whigs: Gentlemen (Elektra)
Digital Underground: The Body-Hat Syndrome (Tommy Boy)
Guns N' Roses: "The Spaghetti Incident?" (Geffen)
A Tribe Called Quest: Midnight Marauders (Jive)
Yo La Tengo: Painful (Matador)
Fellow Travellers: Things and Time (OKra import '93)
Heart of the Forest (Rykodisc)
Wu-Tang Clan: Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (RCA/Loud)
The Auteurs: New Wave (Caroline)
The London Suede: Suede (Columbia)
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: Flashback (Blackheart)
Bobbie Cryner: Bobbie Cryner (Epic)
The Shams: Sedusia (Matador)
Pablo Lubadika: Okominiokolo (Stern's Africa)
Van Morrison: Too Long in Exile (Polydor)
Biz Markie: All Samples Cleared (Cold Chillin'/Warner Bros.)
Bikini Kill: Pussy Whipped (Kill Rock Stars)
Janet Jackson: janet. (Virgin)
The Cranberries: Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (Island)
Zap Mama: Adventures in Afropea 1 (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.)
KRS-One: Return of the Boom Bap (Jive)
Bob Dylan: World Gone Wrong (Columbia)
Technosonic Volume 3 (Sonic)
Saint Etienne: So Tough (Warner Bros.)
The Breeders: Last Splash (4AD/Elektra)
Blake Babies: Innocence and Experience (Mammoth)
The Killer Shrews: The Killer Shrews (Enemy)
Orchestra Baobab: Bamba (Stern's Africa)
Living Colour: Stain (Epic)
Born to Choose (Rykodisc)
Big Star: Columbia: Live at Missouri University 4/25/93 (Zoo)
Judgment Night (Immortal/Epic Soundtrax)
Heavenly: P.U.N.K. Girl (K)
Rosanne Cash: The Wheel (Columbia)
Ghorwal: Majurugenta (RealWorld)
Mahlathini: King of the Groaners (Earthworks)
Garth Brooks: In Pieces (Liberty)
Mighty Sparrow: Volume Two (Ice)
Pavement: Westing (By Musket and Sextant) (Drag City)
Kanda Bongo Man: Soukous in Central Park (Hannibal)
MC Lyte: Ain't No Other (First Priority)
George Clinton: Hey Man . . . Smell My Finger (Paisley Park)
The Robert Cray Band: Shame and a Sin (Mercury)
Souls of Mischief: 93 'Til Infinity (Jive)
Neil Young: Lucky Thirteen (Geffen)
Butthole Surfers: Independent Worm Saloon (Capitol)
Sue Foley: Without a Warning (Antone's)
En Vogue: Runaway Love (EastWest)
His Name Is Alive: Mouth by Mouth (4AD)
The David Johansen Group: The David Johansen Group Live (Epic Associated/Legacy)
Thomas Anderson: Blues for the Flying Dutchman (LSR)
Aerosmith: Get a Grip (Geffen)
Luna: Slide (Elektra)

1994:
Latin Playboys: Latin Playboys (Slash/Warner Bros.)
Iris DeMent: My Life (Warner Bros.)
Sonic Youth: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star (DGC)
Nirvana: MTV Unplugged in New York (DGC)
Beck: Mellow Gold (Bong Load/DGC)
Hole: Live Through This (DGC)
Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Matador)
M People: Elegant Slumming (Epic)
Soul Coughing: Ruby Vroom (Slash/Warner Bros.)
Sebadoh: Bakesale (Sub Pop)
Khaled: N'ssi N'ssi (Mango)
Handraizer (Moonshine Music)
Sugar: File Under: Easy Listening (Rykodisc)
The Bottle Rockets: The Brooklyn Side (ESD)
L7: Hungry for Stink (Slash/Reprise)
Moe Tucker: I Spent a Week There the Other Night (Sky)
Public Enemy: Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age (Def Jam)
Heavens to Betsy: Calculated (Kill Rock Stars)
Archers of Loaf: Archers of Loaf vs The Greatest of All Time (Alias)
The Notorious B.I.G.: Ready To Die (Bad Boy)
Green Day: Dookie (Reprise)
Jon Hassell and Bluescreen: Dressing for Pleasure (Warner Bros.)
R.E.M.: Monster (Warner Bros.)
Marianne Faithfull: Faithfull (Island)
Jimi Hendrix: Woodstock (MCA)
NOFX: Punk in Drublic (Epitaph)
Veruca Salt: American Thighs (Minty Fresh/DGC)
FU-Schnickens: Nervous Breakdown (Jive)
El DeBarge: Heart, Mind and Soul (Reprise)
Dark City Sisters/Flying Jazz Queens: Dark City Sisters and Flying Jazz Queens (Earthworks)
Soundgarden: Superunknown (A&M)
Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Sleeps With Angels (Reprise)
Dave Alvin: King of California (HighTone)
Ass Ponys: Electric Rock Music (A&M)
Victoria Williams: Loose (Mammoth)
Bill Frisell: This Land (Elektra Nonesuch)
Michael Hall: Adequate Desire (DejaDisc)
House of Pain: Same as It Ever Was (Tommy Boy)
Jimi Hendrix: Blues (MCA)
Marshall Crenshaw: Marshall Crenshaw Live . . . My Truck Is My Home (Razor & Tie)
Digable Planets: Blowout Comb (Pendulum/EMI)
Joseph Spence and the Pinder Family: The Spring of Sixty-Five (Rounder)
Roaring Lion: Sacred 78's (Ice)
Technotronic: Recall (SBK)
Built To Spill: There's Nothing Wrong With Love (Up)
Nico Saquito: Good-bye Mr Cat (World Circuit)
Backbeat (Virgin)
Sam Mangwana: Rumba Music (Stern's Africa)
Etta James: Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday (Private Music)
Henri Bowane: Double Take--Tala Kaka (RetroAfric)
Ladysmith Black Mambazo: Liph' Iquinso (Shanachie)
Matthew Sweet: Son of Altered Beast (Zoo)
Ahmad: Ahmad (Giant)
Skip James: She Lyin' (Genes)
Pearl Jam: Vitalogy (Epic)
Beastie Boys: Ill Communication (Grand Royal)

1995:
Tricky: Maxinquaye (Island)
Luna: Penthouse (Elektra)
Oruç Güvenc & Tümata: Ocean of Remembrance (Interworld)
Archers of Loaf: Vee Vee (Alias)
Peter Stampfel: You Must Remember This . . . (Gert Town)
Pavement: Wowee Zowee (Matador)
James Carter: The Real Quietstorm (Atlantic)
Yo La Tengo: Electr-O-Pura (Matador)
Randy Newman's Faust (Reprise)
PJ Harvey: To Bring You My Love (Island)
John Prine: Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings (Oh Boy)
Prince: The Gold Experience (Warner Bros.)
The Prodigy: Music for the Jilted Generation (Muse)
Ornette Coleman: Tone Dialing (Verve)
Coolio: Gangsta's Paradise (Tommy Boy)
Sonic Youth: Washing Machine (DGC)
Whale: We Care (Virgin)
Bad Religion: All Ages (Epitaph)
Grant McLennan: Horsebreaker Star (Atlantic)
Elastica: Elastica (DGC)
That Dog: Totally Crushed Out! (DGC)
Barry Black: Barry Black (Alias)
Jo Carol Pierce: Bad Girls Upset by the Truth (Monkey Hill)
Godwin Kabaka Opara's Oriental Brothers International: Do Better If You Can/Onye Ikekwere Mekeya (Original Music)
Everclear: Sparkle and Fade (Capitol)
Yoko Ono/IMA: Rising (Capitol)
Shane MacGowan and the Popes: The Snake (Warner Bros.)
Buju Banton: 'Til Shiloh (Loose Cannon)
The Highwaymen: The Road Goes On Forever (Liberty)
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments: Bait and Switch (Onion/American)
Sleater-Kinney: Sleater-Kinney (Chainsaw)
The Klezmatics: Jews With Horns (Xenophile)
Stevie Wonder: Conversation Peace (Motown)
Super Sweet Talks International: The Lord's Prayer (Stern's Africa)
The Chemical Brothers: Exit Planet Dust (Astralwerks)
Mose Fan Fan & Somo Somo Ngobila: Hello Hello (Stern's Africa)
Ramones: It's Alive (Sire/Warner Archives)
Rancid: . . . And Out Come the Wolves (Epitaph)
Ruby Braff and Ellis Larkins: Calling Berlin, Vol. 1 (Arbors)
Little Charlie and the Nightcats: Straight Up! (Alligator)
Massive Attack: Protection (Virgin)
Sam Mangwana: Maria Tebbo (Stern's African Classics)
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love (DGC)
Music Revelation Ensemble: In the Name of . . . (DIW/Columbia)
Moby: Everything Is Wrong (Elektra)
brute.: Nine High a Pallet (Capricorn)
R. Kelly: R. Kelly (Jive)
Kirsty MacColl: Galore (I.R.S.)
Lord Melody: Precious Melodies (Ice)
Al Green: Don't Look Back (BMG import)
M People: Bizarre Fruit (Epic)
Ol' Dirty Bastard: Return to the 36 Chambers (Elektra)
Naughty by Nature: Poverty's Paradise (Tommy Boy)
Rolling Stones: Stripped (Virgin)
Cornershop: Woman's Gotta Have It (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.)
Mighty Sparrow: Volume Four (Ice)
Waiting To Exhale (Arista)
Cachao: Dos (Salsoul)
Ani DiFranco: Not a Pretty Girl (Righteous Babe)
Marshall Chapman: It's About Time . . . Recorded Live at the Tennessee State Prison for Women (Margaritaville)
Steve Earle: Train a Comin' (Winter Harvest)
Super Sweet Talks International: The Lord's Prayer (Stern's Africa)
Raekwon: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx . . . (Loud/RCA)
Mu-Ziq: In Pine Effect (Astralwerks)
Bonnie Raitt: Road Tested (Capitol)
Belly: King (Sire/Reprise)
Green Day: Insomniac (Reprise)
New York's Ensemble for Early Music: Istanpitta Vol. 1 (Lyrichord)
Viva La Musica & Papa Wemba: Pole Position (Sonodisc import)
Real McCoy: Another Night (Arista)
The Magnetic Fields: Get Lost (Merge)
Only the Poorman Feel It: South Africa (Hemisphere)
Don White: Live at the Somerville Theatre (Lyric Moon)
Liz Phair: Juvenilia (Matador)
Animaniacs: The Animaniacs Faboo! Collection (Kid Rhino) - probably doesn't count, but I wish it did
Papa Wemba: Emotion (RealWorld)
David Murray: Jug-a-Lug (DIW import)

1996:
DJ Shadow: Endtroducing . . . (Mo' Wax/FFRR)
Fluffy: Black Eye (The Enclave)
Fugees: The Score (Ruffhouse/Columbia)
Sleater-Kinney: Call the Doctor (Chainsaw)
Frank Sinatra: Everything Happens to Me (Reprise)
Amy Rigby: Diary of a Mod Housewife (Koch)
The Go-Betweens: Spring Hill Fair (Beggars Banquet)
Iris DeMent: The Way I Should (Warner Bros.)
L.L. Cool J: All World (Def Jam)
Los Lobos: Colossal Head (Warner Bros.)
Ghostface Killah: Ironman (Razor Sharp/Epic Street)
Nirvana: From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah (DGC)
James Carter: Conversin' With the Elders (Atlantic)
Toni Tony Toné: House of Music (Mercury)
Imperial Teen: Seasick (Slash/London)
Willie Nelson: Spirit (Island)
Etoile 2000: Etoile 2000 (Dakar Sound import)
Los Guanches: The Corpse Went Dancing Rumba (Corason)
El Caimán: Sones Huastecos (Corason)
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party: Intoxicated Spirit (Shanachie)
Sublime: Sublime (MCA/Gasoline Alley)
Youssou N'Dour: Lii! (Jololi import)
Pet Shop Boys: Bilingual (Atlantic)
Sam Chege: Kickin' Kikuyu-Style (Original Music)
Loudon Wainwright III: Grown Man (Virgin)
Beck: Odelay (DGC)
Pulp: Different Class (Island)
Sammy: Tales of Great Neck Glory (DGC)
Graham Haynes: Transition (Antilles)
Stereolab: Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Elektra)
Bikini Kill: Reject All American (Kill Rock Stars)
Babyface: The Day (Epic)
Arto Lindsay: O Corpo Sutil/The Subtle Body (Bar/None)
Djeli Moussa Diawara: Sobindo (Mélodie import)
Tricky: Pre-Millennium Tension (Island)
Fluffy: 5 Live (The Enclave)
R.E.M.: New Adventures in Hi-Fi (Warner Bros.)
Chuck D: Autobiography of Mistachuck (Mercury)
Sidi Touré: Hoga (Stern's Africa)
Local H: As Good as Dead (Island)
Sebadoh: Harmacy (Sub Pop)
Ani DiFranco: Dilate (Righteous Babe)
Prince Paul: Psychoanalysis (What Is It?) (WordSound)
Tshala Muana: Mutuashi (Stern's Africa)
Lobi Traoré: Ségou (Cobalt import)
Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe: Kedu America (Xenophile)
Girls Against Boys: House of GvsB (Touch & Go)
Prince: Chaos and Disorder (Warner Bros.)
Pharoah Sanders: Message From Home (Verve)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Matapedia (Rykodisc)
Sugar and Poison (Virgin import)
Pass the Mic: The Posse Album (Priority)
Ray Condo and His Ricochets: Swing Brother Swing! (Joaquin)
Latyrx (Lateef & Lyrics Born): The Album (SoleSides)
Archers of Loaf: All the Nations Airports (Alias)
Tabu Ley Rochereau: Africa Worldwide (Rounder)
Etoile De Dakar: Volume 3: Lay Suma Lay (Stern's Africa)
Lou Reed: Set the Twilight Reeling (Warner Bros.)
Sex Pistols: Filthy Lucre Live (Virgin)
Prince: Emancipation (NRG)
Leon Parker: Belief (Columbia)
Toni Braxton: Secrets (LaFace)
Modest Mouse: This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing To Think About (Up)
His Name Is Alive: Stars on E.S.P. (4AD)
Morcheeba: Who Can You Trust? (Discovery)
Archers of Loaf: The Speed of Cattle (Alias)
Bobbie Cryner: Girl of Your Dreams (MCA)
Rage Against the Machine: Evil Empire (Elektra)
Grateful Dead: Dozin' at the Knick (Grateful Dead)
Uz Jsme Doma: Hollywood (Skoda)
Massive Attack V Mad Professor: No Protection (Gyroscope)

1997:
Arto Lindsay: Mundo Civilizado (Bar/None)
Sleater-Kinney: Dig Me Out (Kill Rock Stars)
Pavement: Brighten the Corners (Matador)
Yo La Tengo: I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (Matador)
Spring Heel Jack: Busy Curious Thirsty (Island)
The Notorious B.I.G.: Life After Death (Bad Boy)
Closer Than a Kiss: Crooner Classics (Rhino)
Tiger: Shining in the Wood (Bar/None)
Cornershop: When I Was Born for the 7th Time (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.)
Miles Davis: Dark Magus (Columbia/Legacy)
The Beautiful South: Blue Is the Colour (Ark 21)
Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton: Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton (Verve)
The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers--A Tribute (Columbia/Egyptian)
The Klezmatics: Possessed (Xenophile)
Jazz Passengers Featuring Deborah Harry: Individually Twisted (32)
Spring Heel Jack: 68 Million Shades . . . (Island)
Badar Ali Khan: Lost in Qawwali (Worldly/Triloka)
Belle and Sebastian: If You're Feeling Sinister (The Enclave)
Oumou Sangare: Worotan (World Circuit)
Wyclef Jean: Wyclef Jean Presents the Carnival Featuring Refugee Allstars (Ruffhouse/Columbia)
Bob Dylan: Time Out of Mind (Columbia)
Jeb Loy Nichols: Lovers Knot (Capitol)
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott: Supa Dupa Fly (The Gold Mind, Inc./EastWest)
Amp (Astralwerks)
The Waco Brothers: Cowboy in Flames (Bloodshot)
Mary J. Blige: Share My World (MCA)
That Dog: Retreat From the Sun (DGC)
Luna: Pup Tent (Elektra)
Timbaland and Magoo: Welcome to Our World (Blackground/Atlantic)
Modest Mouse: The Lonesome Crowded West (Up)
Rubén González: Introducing . . . Rubén González (World Circuit)
Shania Twain: Come On Over (Mercury)
Mase: Harlem World (Bad Boy)
Smash Mouth: Fush Yu Mang (Interscope)
John Anderson: Takin' the Country Back (Mercury)
Corey Harris: Fish Ain't Bitin' (Alligator)
Freedy Johnston: Never Home (Elektra)
Kinleys: Just Between You and Me (Epic)
Thompson & Thompson: Industry (Rykodisc)
Bergville Stories (Columbia import)
Arcana: Arc of the Testimony (Axiom/Island)
David Murray: Fo deuk Revue (Justin Time import)
Mystikal: Unpredictable (Jive/No Limit)
Bis: The New Transistor Heroes (Grand Royal)
The Bottle Rockets: 24 Hours a Day (Atlantic)
Janet Jackson: The Velvet Rope (Virgin)
Muggs Presents . . . The Soul Assassins Chapter 1 (Columbia)
Cesaria Evora: Cabo Verde (Nonesuch)
Tony Toni Toné: Hits (Mercury)
Wayne Kramer: Citizen Wayne (Epitaph)
Chemical Brothers: Dig Your Own Hole (Astralwerks)
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: Rapture (Music Club)
Dan Bern: Dan Bern (Work)
The Murmurs: Pristine Smut (MCA)
Apples in Stereo: Tone Soul Evolution (SpinArt/Sire)
Oruç Güvenc and Tümata: Rivers of One (Interworld)
Frank Sinatra and the Red Norvo Quintet: Live in Australia, 1959 (Blue Note)
Ani DiFranco: Living in Clip (Righteous Babe)
Patsy Cline: Live at the Cimarron Ballroom (MCA)
Willie Nelson: I Let My Mind Wander (Kingfisher)
Ornette + Joachim Kühn: Colors (Harmolodic/Verve)
Steve Earle: El Corazón (Warner Bros.)
L7: The Beauty Process: Triple Platinum (Slash/Reprise)
Spearhead: Chocolate Supa Highway (Capitol)
Bobby Brown, Bell Biv Devoe, Ralph Tresvant: New Edition Solo Hits (MCA)
Backstreet Boys: Backstreet Boys (Jive)
Buju Banton: Inna Heights (VP)
The Dismemberment Plan: The Dismemberment Plan Is Terrified (DeSoto)
Pavement: Shady Lane (Matador)
Strip Jointz (Robbins Music)
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments: Straight to Video (Anyway)
Yuri Yunakov Ensemble: New Colors in Bulgarian Wedding Music (Traditional Crossroads)
The Neckbones: Souls on Fire (Fat Possum/Epitaph)
Forest for the Trees: Forest for the Trees (DreamWorks)
Sally Timms: Cowboy Sally (Bloodshot)
Foo Fighters: The Colour and the Shape (Roswell)
Warda: Lebanon/Algeria (Metro Blue)
We: As Is (Asphodel)
Moby: Animal Rights (Elektra)

1998:
Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (Mercury)
Sonic Youth: A Thousand Leaves (DGC)
Billy Bragg & Wilco: Mermaid Avenue (Elektra)
Liz Phair: Whitechocolatespaceegg (Matador/Capitol)
The Plastic People of the Universe: 1997 (Globus International import)
Public Enemy: He Got Game (Def Jam)
Aretha Franklin: A Rose Is Still a Rose (Arista)
George Clinton & the P-Funk All Stars: Dope Dogs (Dogone)
The Coup: Steal This Album (Dogday)
Gang of Four: 100 Flowers Bloom (Rhino)
Beastie Boys: Hello Nasty (Grand Royal)
Cadallaca: Introducing Cadallaca (K)
Canibus: Can-I-Bus (Universal)
Bonnie Raitt: Fundamental (Capitol)
James Carter: In Carterian Fashion (Atlantic)
Local H: Pack Up the Cats (Island)
Mary J. Blige: The Tour (MCA)
Pulnoc: Live in New York (Globus International import)
Grandaddy: Under the Western Freeway (V2)
Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos (The Prosthetic Cubans): Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos (The Prosthetic Cubans) (Atlantic)
Sarge: The Glass Intact (Mud)
Kid Rock: Devil Without a Cause (Atlantic/Lava)
P.M. Dawn: Dearest Christian, I'm So Very Sorry for Bringing You Here. Love, Dad (Gee Street/V2)
PJ Harvey: Is This Desire? (Island)
Alanis Morissette: Supposed Former Infatutation Junkie (Maverick/Reprise)
Mama Don't Allow No Easy Riders Here (Yazoo)
Rancid: Life Won't Wait (Epitaph)
OutKast: Aquemini (LaFace)
Butch Thompson: Thompson Plays Joplin (Daring)
Air: Moon Safari (Source/Caroline)
Chumbawamba: Uneasy Listening (EMI import)
Fat Beats & Brastraps: Classics (Rhino)
Tom Zé: Fabrication Defect/Com Defeito De Fabricao (Luaka Bop)
Alvin Youngblood Hart: Territory (Rykodisc)
Archers of Loaf: White Trash Heroes (Alias)
Amy Rigby: Middlescence (Koch)
Soul Coughing: El Oso (Slash/Warner Bros.)
James Brown: Say It Live and Loud: Live in Dallas 08.26.68 (Polydor)
The King's Record Collection (Hip-O)
Tricky: Angels With Dirty Faces (Island)
Sunz of Man: (The Last Shall Be First) (Red Ant)
New Radicals: Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too (MCA)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle: The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)
Black Star: Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star (Rawkus)
Jon Langford: Skull Orchard (Sugar Free)
United Kingdom of Punk: The Hardcore Years (Music Club)
Redman: Doc's Da Name 2000 (Def Jam)
Bran Van 3000: Glee (Capitol)
The Andy Statman Quartet: The Hidden Light (Sony Classical)
Belle and Sebastian: The Boy With the Arab Strap (Matador)
Killah Priest: Heavy Mental (Geffen)
Chris Knight: Chris Knight (Decca)
Fatboy Slim: On the Floor at the Boutique (Skint import)
King Sunny Ade: Odù (Atlantic/Mesa)
Ani DiFranco: Little Plastic Castle (Righteous Babe)
Buddy Guy and Junior Wells: Last Time Around (Silvertone)
The Offspring: Americana (Columbia)
Odyssey the Band: Reunion (Knitting Factory Works)
Hound Dog Taylor: A Tribute (Alligator)
Rachid Taha: Diwan (Island)
Pearl Jam: Yield (Epic)
Mary Lou Lord: Got No Shadow (Work)
Scrawl: Nature Film (Elektra)
Henri Dikongué: C'Est La Vie (Tinder)
Quasi: Featuring "Birds" (Up)
Garbage: Version 2.0 (Almo Sounds)
Ali: Crucial (Island Black Music)
Victoria Williams: Musings of a Creekdipper (Atlantic)

1999:
The Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs (Merge)
Moby: Play (V2)
Le Tigre: Le Tigre (Mr. Lady)
John Prine: In Spite of Ourselves (Oh Boy)
Holy Modal Rounders: Too Much Fun (Rounder)
Latin Playboys: Dose (Atlantic)
Sleater-Kinney: The Hot Rock (Kill Rock Stars)
Handsome Boy Modeling School: So . . . How's Your Girl? (Tommy Boy)
Willie Nelson: Night and Day (Pedernales/FreeFalls)
Prince Paul: Prince Paul Presents A Prince Among Thieves (Tommy Boy)
Q-Tip: Amplified (Arista)
Jay-Z: Vol 3 . . . Life and Times of S. Carter (Roc-A-Fella)
Old 97's: Fight Songs (Elektra)
Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band: The Mountain (E Squared)
Randy Newman: Bad Love (DreamWorks)
Goodie Mob: World Party (LaFace)
Eminem: The Slim Shady LP (Aftermath/Interscope)
Mandy Barnett: I've Got a Right to Cry (Sire)
Imperial Teen: What Is Not to Love (London)
The Handsome Family: Down in the Valley (Independent import)
Taj Mahal and Toumani Diabate: Kulanjan (Hannibal)
Mary J. Blige: Mary (MCA)
Trailer Bride: Whine de Lune (Bloodshot)
Tom Waits: Mule Variations (Epitaph)
Papa Wemba: M'zée Fula-Ngenge (Sonodisc import)
Gang Starr: Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr (Virgin)
The Dismemberment Plan: Emergency and I (DeSoto)
Blink 182: Enema of the State (MCA)
Pretenders: Viva El Amor (Warner Bros.)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Atlantic)
Spring Heel Jack: Treader (Tugboat import)
Pet Shop Boys: Nightlife (Parlophone/Sire)
Drive-by Truckers: Pizza Deliverance (Soul Dump)
Salif Keita: Papa (Metro Blue)
Pavement: Terror Twilight (Matador)
Cesaria Evora: Café Atlantico (Lusafrica/RCA Victor/BMG Classics)
Dr. Dooom: First Come, First Served (Funky Ass)
Charlie Burton: One Man's Trash: The Charlie Burton Story: '77-'99 (Bulldog)
Waco Brothers: WacoWorld (Bloodshot)
Ladysmith Black Mambazo: Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Shanachie)
Ali Farka Toure: Niafunké (Hannibal)
Baby Gramps: Same Ol' Timeously (Grampophone)
Dee Dee Bridgewater: Live at Yoshi's (Verve)
Sebadoh: The Sebadoh (Sub Pop/Sire)
Blondie: No Exit (Beyond)
Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan: In Session (Stax)
Ani DiFranco: Up Up Up Up Up Up (Righteous Babe)
Chris Smither: Drive You Home Again (HighTone)
Estrellas de Arieto: Los Heroes (World Circuit/Nonesuch)
Genaside II: Ad Finite (Durban Poison)
Taraf de Haïdouks: Taraf de Haïdouks (Nonesuch)
Baaba Maal: Live at the Royal Festival Hall (Palm Pictures)
Liquid Todd: Action (Ultra)
Mos Def: Black on Both Sides (Rawkus)
Black Box Recorder: England Made Me (Jetset)
They Might Be Giants: Long Tall Weekend (www.emusic.com)
Arto Lindsay: Prize (Righteous Babe)
Paul McCartney: Run Devil Run (Capitol)
Streets of Dakar: Generation Boul Falé (Stern's Africa)
Natacha Atlas: Gedida (Beggars Banquet)
Baobab: N'Wolof (Dakar Sound import '98)
The Donnas: Get Skintight (Lookout!)
Continental Drifters: Vermilion (Razor & Tie)
The Robert Cray Band: Heavy Picks--The Robert Cray Band Collection (Mercury)
Frank Sinatra: Sinatra '57--In Concert (DCC)
Teri Thornton: I'll Be Easy to Find (Blue Note)
Pere Ubu: Apocalypse Now (Thirsty Ear)
Fiona Apple: When the Pawn . . . (Clean Slate/Epic)
Idlewild: Hope Is Important (Odeon)
Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons (Almo Sounds)
Tricky With DJ Muggs and Grease: Juxtapose (Island)
Marshall Crenshaw: Number 447 (Razor & Tie)
Belle and Sebastian: Tigermilk (Matador)
Kelis: Kaleidoscope (Virgin)
Source Direct: Exorcise the Demons (Astralwerks)
Alpha Yaya Diallo: The Message (Wicklow)
Sheryl Crow and Friends: Live From Central Park (A&M)
The Comedian Harmonists: The Comedian Harmonists (Hannibal)
Don White: Brown Eyes Shine (Lumperboy)