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The Robert Christgau’s Lists 1970-2002

He's the chief critic for the Village Voice and has been for over 20 years--he's been writing since 1967 (starting with Esquire magazine).

From: Rxgau@??????.com
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 14:45:23 EST
To: julianw@pncl.co.uk
Subject: Robert Christgau's album lists


Dear Julian White:
I found your reprints of my '70s lists on your website and was duly flattered..........

.......Thanks for your help.

Sincerely,
Robert Christgau



Thanks to Michaelangelo Matos & Robert McCarthy who kindly compiled them for me.

1970

 

A+
1. Derek & the Dominos: Layla
2. Sly & the Family Stone: Greatest Hits
3. Randy Newman: 12 Songs
4. Van Morrison: Moondance
5. Neil Young: After the Gold Rush
A
6. James Brown: Sex Machine
7. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
8. Aretha Franklin: Spirit in the Dark
9. John McLauglin: Devotion
10. The Velvet Underground: Loaded
11. The Best of Dolly Parton
12. Al Green Gets Next to You
13. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Cosmo’s Factory
14. The Grateful Dead: Workingman’s Dead
15. The Insect Trust: Hoboken Saturday Night
16. The Beatles: Hey Jude
17. Van Morrison: His Band & the Street Choir
18. Mother Earth Presents Tracy Nelson Country
A-
19. Stooges: Fun House
20. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew
21. Fleetwood Mac: Kiln House
22. Janis Joplin: Pearl
23. Fairport Convention: Unhalfbricking
24. Delaney & Bonnie and Friends with Eric Clapton: On Tour
25. Gladys Knight & the Pips: Greatest Hits
26. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Lick My Decals Off, Baby
27. Love: False Start
28. Lee Dorsey: Yes We Can
29. The Doors: 13
30. Joni Mitchell: Ladies of the Canyon
31. Johnnie Taylor’s Greatest Hits
32. Bob Dylan: New Morning
33. The Best of Jerry Butler
34. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Pendulum
35. Eddie ‘Cleanhead’ Vinson: The Original Cleanhead
36. The Temptations: Greatest Hits Volume 2
37. The Best of Jerry Lee Lewis
38. Rod Stewart: Gasoline Alley
39. Booker T. & the MGs: Greatest Hits
40. MC5: Back in the USA
41. Otis Redding/the Jimi Hendrix Experience: Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival
42. The Grateful Dead: American Beauty
43. Jesse Winchester
44. The Beach Boys: Sunflower
45. Ike & Tina Turner: Come Together
46. The Beatles: Let It Be
47. Loretta Lynn Writes ‘em & Sings ‘em
48. Canned Heat: Future Blues
49. Mother Earth: Satisfied
50. Delaney & Bonnie: To Bonnie from Delaney
51. James Brown: Super Bad
52. Nolan: No Apologies
53. The Fabulous Charlie Rich
54. Allen Ginsberg: William Blake, Songs of Innocence & Experience
55. Big Brother & the Holding Company: Be a Brother

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1971

A+
1. Miles Davis: Jack Johnson
2. A 25th Anniversary in Show Business Salute to Ray Charles
3. Rod Stewart: Every Picture Tells a Story
4. Sly & the Family Stone: There’s a Riot Goin’ On
A
5. John Lennon: Imagine
6. The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers
7. The Who: Who’s Next
8. Led Zeppelin IV
9. Joni Mitchell: Blue
10. Jimi Hendrix: The Cry of Love
11. The Best of Wilson Pickett Vol. II
12. Joy of Cooking
13. John Prine
14. The Mahavishnu Orchestra with John McLaughlin: The Inner Mounting
Flame
15. Nils Lofgren/Grin: 1+1
16. Tom T. Hall: In Search of a Song
17. Stevie Wonder: Greatest Hits Vol. 2
18. Delaney & Bonnie: Motel Shot
19. Nilsson: Nilsson Schmilsson
A-
20. Crazy Horse
21. Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers
22. Jackson 5: Greatest Hits
23. The Best of Clarence Carter
24. Bonnie Raitt
25. Helen Reddy
26. Van Morrison: Tupelo Honey
27. The Who: Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy
28. The London Howlin’ Wolf Sessions
29. Faces: A Nod is as Good as a Wink to a Blind Horse
30. The Stylistics
31. Carole King: Tapestry
32. The Doors: LA Woman
33. The Move: Message from the Country
34. Jimi Hendrix: Rainbow Bridge
35. BB King: Live in Cook County Jail
36. Michael Hurley & Pals: Armchair Boogie
37. Miles Davis: Live-Evil
38. The Chi-Lites: For God’s Sake Give More Power to the People
39. Ray Charles: Volcanic Action of My Soul
40. David Bowie: Hunky Dory
41. Sir Douglas Qunitet: The Return of Doug Saldana
42. Dolly Parton: Coat of Many Colors
43. Leonard Cohen: Songs of Love & Hate
44. Bill Withers: Just as I Am

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1972

A+
1. Rolling Stones: Exile on Main St.
2. Paul Simon
3. Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
A
4. Bonnie Raitt: Give It Up
5. Joni Mitchell: For the Roses
6. The Kinks Kronikles
7. Aretha Franklin: Young Gifted & Black
8. The Wailers: Catch a Fire
9. Steely Dan: Can’t Buy a Thrill
10. Stevie Wonder: Talking Book
11. Mississippi John Hurt: Last Sessions
12. Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Vol. II
13. Bill Withers: Still Bill
14. The Chi-Lites Greatest Hits
15. The Best of Delaney & Bonnie
A-
16. Mott the Hoople: All the Young Dudes
17. Al Green: I’m Still in Love with You
18. Curtis Mayfield: Superfly
19. Rod Stewart: Never a Dull Moment
20. Howard Tate
21. Van Morrison: Saint Dominic’s Preview
22. James Brown: There It Is
23. Richard Thompson: Henry the Human Fly
24. Ann Peebles: Straight from the Heart
25. Johnny Shines
26. Jimi Hendrix: Hendrix in the West
27. Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Play the Blues
28. Chris Smither: Don’t It Drag On
29. Elton John: Honky Chateau
30. Randy Newman: Sail Away
31. John Prine: Diamonds in the Rough
32. Joy of Cooking: Castles
33. Al Green: Let’s Stay Together
34. Peter Townshend: Who Came First
35. Dr. John: Gumbo
36. Grin: All Out
37. Loudon Wainwright III: Album III
38. Brinsley Schwarz: Nervous on the Road
39. Manu Dibango: Soul Makossa
40. Conway Twitty’s Greatest Hits Vol. I
41. Janis Joplin in Concert
42. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
43. Paul Pena
44. The Best of Charlie Rich
45. Golden Butter: the Best of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band
46. Todd Rundgren: Something/Anything?

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1973

A+
1. Al Green: Call Me
2. New York Doll
A
3. The Harder They Come
4. Wilson Pickett’s Greatest Hits
5. Lynyrd Skynyrd: Pronounced Leh-nerd Skeh-nerd
6. John Prine: Sweet Revenge
7. Sly & the Family Stone: Fresh
8. Africa Dances
9. Janis Joplin’s Greatest Hits
10. Al Green: Livin’ for You
11. Steely Dan: Countdown to Ecstasy
12. Stevie Wonder: Innervisions
13. Neil Young: Time Fades Away
A-
14. Alseep at the Wheel: Comin’ Right at Ya
15. Bruce Springsteen: The Wild the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
16. Bill Withers Live at Carnegie Hall
17. Slade: Slayed?
18. Mahavishnu Orchestra: Birds of Fire
19. The Move: Split Ends
20. Coulson, Dean, McGuinness, Flint: Lo & Behold
21. Bonnie Raitt: Takin’ My Time
22. Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Holy
23. Tom T. Hall: The Rhymer & Other Five & Dimers
24. Spinners
25. Roy Brown: Hard Times
26. The Who: Quadrophenia
27. The Great Lost Kinks Album
28. Mott the Hoople: Mott
29. The Best of Laura Lee
30. James Brown: Soul Classics Volume II
31. Marvin Gaye: Let’s Get It On
32. The Hollies’ Greatest Hits
33. The Allman Brothers Band: Brothers & Sisters
34. Manfred Mann’s Earth Band: Get Your Rocks Off
35. Elliott Murphy: Aquashow
36. Frederic Rzewski: Coming Together; Attica; Moutons de Panurge
37. Roy Wood: Boulders
38. Howlin’ Wolf: The Back Door Wolf
39. Meet "Mississippi Charles" Bevel
40. Marlo Thomas: Free to Be…You and Me
41. Derek & the Dominos: In Concert
42. Miles Davis in Concert
43. Loudon Wainwright III: Attempted Mustache
44. Mike Seeger: The Second Annual Farewell Reunion
45. Esther Phillips: Black Eyed Blues
46. Swamp Dogg: Gag a Maggott
47. Taj Mahal: Ooh So Good ‘n Blues

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1974

A+
1. New York Dolls: In Too Much Too Soon
2. Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic
A
3. Big Star: Radio City
4. The Wailers: Burnin’
5. Randy Newman: Good Old Boys
6. Andy Fairweather Low: Spider Jiving
7. Gram Parsons: Grievous Angel
8. Van Morrison: It’s Too Late to Stop Now
9. Joni Mitchell: Court & Spark
10. Eric Clapton: 461 Ocean Boulevard
11. Eno: Here Come the Warm Jets
12. Thomas Jefferson Kaye: First Grade
13. Richard & Linda Thompson: Hokey Pokey
14. Bob Dylan/the Band: Before the Flood
A-
15. The Wild Magnolias
16. 1969 Velvet Underground Live
17. Miles Davis: Get Up with It
18. Lynyrd Skynyrd: Second Helping
19. Labelle: Nightbirds
20. Stevie Wonder: Fulfillingness’ First Finale
21. Millie Jackson: Caught Up
22. Miles Davis: Big Fun
23. Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers: Natural Boogie
24. Lou Reed: Rock & Roll Animal
25. Bob Dylan: Planet Waves
26. King Crimson: Red
27. Raspberries: Starting Over
28. Bryan Ferry: These Foolish Things
29. Willie Nelson: Phases & Stages
30. Parliament: Up for the Down Stroke
31. Linda Ronstadt: Heart Like a Wheel
32. Loretta Lynn’s Greatest Hits Vol. II
33. John Cale: Fear
34. Alice Cooper’s Greatest Hits
35. Leonard Cohen: New Skin for the Old Ceremony
36. The Best of George Jones Vol. I
37. Average White Band
38. Betty Wright: Danger High Voltage
39. The Mighty Clouds of Joy: It’s Time
40. Neil Young: On the Beach
41. Mary McCaslin: Way Out West
42. Gladys Knight & the Pips: Claudine
43. Earth Wind & Fire: Open Our Eyes
44. Shirley Brown: Woman to Woman
45. Ry Cooder: Paradise & Lunch

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1975

A+
1. Bob Dylan/the Band: The Basement Tapes
2. Best of Dolly Parton
A
3. Al Green’s Greatest Hits
4. James Talley: Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money, but We Sure Got a Lot of Love
5. Neil Young: Tonight’s the Night
6. Patti Smith: Horses
7. Bonnie Raitt: Home Plate
8. Bob Marley & the Wailers: Natty Dread
9. Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks
10. Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run
A-
11. Steely Dan: Katy Lied
12. Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy)
13. Fleetwood Mac
14. Funkadelic’s Greatest Hits
15. The Best of the Staple Singers
16. Elton John: Rock of the Westies
17. The Best of the Stylistics
18. Toots & the Maytals: Funky Kingston
19. Roxy Music: Siren
20. Andy Fairweather Low: La Booga Rooga
21. Lynyrd Skynyrd: Nuthin Fancy
22. The Meters: Cissy Strut
23. Gary Stewart: Out of Hand
24. Funkadelic: Let’s Take It to the Stage
25. Beserkely Chartbusters Volume 1
26. The Best of Leonard Cohen
27. Parliament: Mothership Connection
28. Loudon Wainwright III: Unrequited
29. Barry White’s Greatest Hits
30. The Allman Brothers Band: The Road Goes on Forever
31. The Best of Bill Withers
32. Neil Young: Zuma
33. John Cale: Slow Dazzle
34. John Prine: Common Sense
35. Amazing Rhythm Aces: Stacked Deck
36. Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
37. Terry Garthwaite: Terry
38. Stoney Edwards: Mississippi You’re on My Mind
39. Spinners: Pick of the Litter
40. Bobby Bare: Cowboys & Daddys

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1976

A+
1. Michael Hurley/the Unholy Modal Rounders/Jeffrey Fredericks & the
Clamtones: Have Moicy!
2. Eno: Another Green World
A
3. The Wild Tchoupitoulas
4. Ramones
5. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Chronicle
6. Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band
7. David Bowie: Station to Station
8. Kate & Anna McGarrigle
9. David Bowie: Changesonebowie
10. Graham Parker: Heat Treatment
11. Miles Davis: Agharta
12. The Modern Lovers
A-
13. Burning Spear: Marcus Garvey
14. Arlo Guthrie: Amigo
15. Mighty Diamonds: Right Time
16. Ohio Players: Gold
17. War: Greatest Hits
18. Mott the Hoople: Greatest Hits
19. New York Shakespeare Festival: Threepenny Opera
20. Patti Smith Group: Radio Ethiopia
21. Bob Seger: Night Moves
22. KC & the Sunshine Band
23. Funkadelic: Hardcore Jollies
24. Aerosmith: Rocks
25. Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers: Beware of the Dog
26. Al Green: Full of Fire
27. Billy Swan
28. Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson: It’s Your World
29. Ike & Tina Turner: Greatest Hits
30. Fairport Convention: Fairport Chronicles
31. Son Seals: Midnight Son
32. The Best of Grin featuring Nils Lofgren
33. Rolling Stones: Black & Blue
34. Hot Chocolate: Man to Man
35. Lynyrd Skynyrd: One More for the Road
36. Raspberries’ Best featuring Eric Carmen
37. Bob Marley & the Wailers: Live!
38. George Jones: Alone Again
39. Hi Rhythm: On the Loose
40. Esther Phillips: Confessin’ the Blues
41. Boz Scaggs: Silk Degrees
42. Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes: Collectors’ Item
43. Gasolin’
44. Bunny Wailer: Blackheart Man
45. James Talley: Tryin’ Like the Devil

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1977

A+
1. Television: Marquee Moon
A
2. Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Dancer with Bruised Knees
3. Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
4. Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols
5. Ramones: Rocket to Russia
6. Andy Fairweather Low: Be Bop ‘n’ Holla
7. Parliament: Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome
8. Ornette Coleman: Dancing in Your Head
9. Al Green: The Belle Album
10. Hot Chocolate: 10 Greatest Hits
11. Funkadelic: The Best of the Early Years Volume One
12. The Beach Boys Love You
13. The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl
14. Ramones Leave Home
15. Roxy Music: Greatest Hits
16. John Cale: Guts
17. Lynyrd Skynyrd: Street Survivors
18. Paul Simon: Greatest Hits, etc.
A-
19. Muddy Waters: Hard Again
20. Richard Hell & the Voidoids: Blank Generation
21. Ray Charles: True to Life
22. George Jones & Tammy Wynette: Greatest Hits
23. Talking Heads: 77
24. Johnny Shines: Too Wet to Plow
25. The Best of Freddy Fender
26. The Best of Moe Bandy
27. George Jones: All-Time Greatest Hits—Volume 1
28. Iggy Pop: Lust for Life
29. Richard & Linda Thompson: Live (More or Less)
30. Johnnie Taylor: Chronicle: the Twenty Greatest Hits
31. Joe Cocker’s Greatest Hits
32. Walk on the Wild Side—the Best of Lou Reed
33. Bizarros/Rubber City Rebels: From Akron
34. The Jam: In the City
35. Fela & Afrika 70: Zombie
36. The Taj Mahal Anthology Volume One
37. Merle Haggard & the Strangers: Songs I’ll Always Sing
38. Elvin Bishop: Raisin’ Hell
39. Al Green: Greatest Hits Volume II
40. Joe Ely
41. Asleep at the Wheel: The Wheel
42. Brian Eno: Discreet Music
43. Bette Midler: Live at Last
44. Garland Jeffreys: Ghost Writer
45. Gary Stewart: Your Place or Mine
46. The Best of Tavares
47. The Scruffs: Wanna Meet the Scruffs?
48. Merle Haggard & the Strangers: A Working Man Can’t Get Nowhere Today
49. The Greatest of the Guess Who
50. Graham Parker & the Rumour: Stick to Me
51. Peter Townshend-Ronnie Lane: Rough Mix
52. Philip Glass: North Star
53. Kraftwerk: Trans-Europe Express
54. Bonnie Raitt: Sweet Forgiveness
55. Ahsford & Simpson: So So Satisfied
56. Iggy Pop: The Idiot

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1978

A
1. Blondie: Parallel Lines
2. Wire: Pink Flag
3. Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings & Food
4. Rolling Stones: Some Girls
5. Nick Lowe: Pure Pop for Now People
6. Elvis Costello & the Attractions: This Years Model
7. The Clash: Give ‘em Enough Rope
8. Neil Young: Comes a Time
9. The Vibrators: Pure Mania
10. Neil Young: Decade
11. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
12. Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove
13. Ramones: Road to Ruin
A-
14. Joe Ely: Honky Tonk Masquerade
15. Lee Dorsey: Night People
16. Television: Adventure
17. Ashford & Simpson: Is It Still Good to Ya
18. Pere Ubu: The Modern Dance
19. Willie Nelson: Stardust
20. Bob Marley: Kaya
21. Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
22. Willie Nelson: Face of a Fighter
23. Parliament: Motor-Booty Affair
24. Dave Edmunds: Tracks on Wax 4
25. David Johansen
26. The Steve Miller Band: Greatest Hits 1974-78
27. Billy Swan: At His Best
28. David Behrman: On the Other Ocean/Figure in a Clearing
29. The Best of the Trammps
30. Ducks Deluxe: Don’t Mind Rockin’ Tonite
31. Professor Longhair: Live on the Queen Mary
32. Ian Dury: New Boots & Panties!!
33. Merle Haggard & the Strangers: The Way It Was in ’51
34. The Marshall Tucker Band: Greatest Hits
35. The Best of Spinners
36. Max Romeo: Open the Iron Gate
37. Al Green: Truth ‘n Time
38. The Best of Earth Wind & Fire Vol. I
39. Raydio
40. Big Star: Third
41. Albert Collins: Ice Pickin’
42. Shoes: Black Vinyl Shoes
43. Johnny Paycheck: Greatest Hits Volume II
44. Pablo Moses: I Love I Bring
45. Tom Robinson Band: Power in the Darkness
46. Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy
47. Michael Mantler: Movies
48. Brian Eno: Before & After Science
49. Patti Smith Group: Easter
50. Loleatta Holloway: Queen of the Night
51. The Yankees: High & Inside
52. Steppin’ Out: Disco’s Greatest Hits
53. Son Seals: Live & Burning
54. Robert Ashley: Private Parts
55. The Carla Bley Band: European Tour 1977
56. Ornette Coleman: Body Meta
57. Mary McCaslin & Jim Ringer: The Bramble & the Rose
58. McKinley Mitchell
59. Residents: Duck Stab/Buster & Glen
60. Tapper Zukie: Man ah Warrior
61. Rodney Crowell: Ain’t Living Long Like This

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1979

A+
1. The Clash
2. Pere Ubu: Dub Housing
3. Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Rust Never Sleeps
A
4. Lynyrd Skynyrd: Gold & Platinum
5. Van Morrison: Into the Music
6. Nick Lowe: Labour of Lust
7. Arthur Blythe: Lenox Avenue Breakdown
8. Air: Lore
9. Michael Jackson: Off the Wall
10. Donna Summer: On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I & II
11. The B-52’s
12. Burning Spear: Harder Than the Best
13. The Roches
14. Graham Parker & the Rumour: Squeezing Out Sparks
A-
15. Donna Summer: Bad Girls
16. Tom Verlaine
17. Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band: James Monroe High School Presents Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band Goes to Washington
18. Talking Heads: Fear of Music
19. Marianne Faithfull: Broken English
20. Buzzcocks: Singles Going Steady
21. Chic: Risque
22. XTC: Drums & Wires
23. Pretenders
24. Wreckless Eric: The Whole Wide World
25. The Only Ones: Special View
26. Shoes: Present Tense
27. Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Live Rust
28. Cory Daye: Cory & Me
29. Steel Pulse: Tribute to the Martyrs
30. Linton Kwesi Johnson: Forces of Victory
31. Si Kahn: Home
32. Les Plus Grands Succes de Chic/Chic’s Greatest Hits
33. Dave Edmunds: Repeat When Necessary
34. Fashion: Product Perfect
35. The Best of Don Williams Volume II
36. Living Chicago Blues Volume I
37. Millie Jackson: Live & Uncensored
38. Culture: International Herb
39. Roxy Music: Manifesto
40. Shades of Ian Hunter: the Ballad of Ian Hunter & Mott the Hoople
41. Mutiny: Mutiny on the Mamaship
42. Lene Lovich: Stateless
43. Terry Allen: Lubbock (on Everything)
44. Henry Cow: Unrest
45. James Brown: The Original Disco Man
46. Brides of Funkenstein: Never Buy Texas from a Cowboy
47. Smokey Robinson: Where There’s Smoke…
48. David Bowie: Lodger
49. Blondie: Eat to the Beat
50. Elvis Costello & the Attractions: Armed Forces
51. Heartbreakers: Live at Max’s Kansas City
52. Taana Gardner
53. Tom Robinson Band: TRB 2
54. ZZ Top: Deguello
55. Irakere
56. James Blood: Tales of Captain Black
57. Midnight Rhythm
58. Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson: Kidney Stew is Fine
59. George Jones: My Very Special Friends

 

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