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The Robert Christgau
End Of Year Lists From 1970




The Robert Christgau’s Lists

He was the chief critic for the Village Voice for over 35 years which is where most people know him from. He started the Pazz & Jop end of year lists. He's been writing since 1967 (starting with Esquire magazine).

Although his lists no longer appear on the Village Voice web site, he still continues to produce them and they appear on various sites.

For further information visit Robert Christagu's site and his Wikipedia entree.







Robert Christagu Circa 1970


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


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The Robert Christgau Deans' Lists

1980

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London Calling

1. The Clash - London Calling

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2. Prince - Dirty Mind
3. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
4. Chic - Real People
5. Wanna Buy a Bridge?
6. John Lennon/Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy
7. Professor Longhair - Crawfish Fiesta
8. Tom Robinson - Sector 27
9. Gang of Four - Entertainment!
10. Robert Ashley - Perfect Lives (Private Parts - the Bar)
11. The Angry Samoans - Inside My Brain
12. Alberta Hunter - Amtrak Blues

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13. Burning Spear - Social Living
14. John Prine - Storm Windows
15. Public Image - Second Edition
16. Bruce Springsteen - The River
17. Michael Hurley - Snockgrass
18. Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July
19. X - Los Angeles
20. Poly Styrene - Translucence
21. Joe King Carrasco & the Crowns
22. Pablo Moses - A Song
23. Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station
24. English Beat - I Just Can’t Stop It
25. Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
26. Popeye
27. KC & the Sunshine Band - Greatest Hits
28. The Great Rap Hits
29. Lucinda - Happy Woman Blues
30. Neil Young - Hawks & Doves
31. The Clash - Black Market Clash
32. Dollar Brand - African Marketplace
33. Steel Pulse - Reggae Fever
34. Undertones - Hypnotized
35. T-Bone Burnett - Truth Decay
36. Henry Cow - Western Culture
37. Warren Zevon - Stand in the Fire
38. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Uprising
39. The Specials
40. Ronnie Barron - Blues Delicacies Vol. One
41. Aerosmith - Greatest Hits
42. George Jones - I Am What I Am
43. Bunny Wailer Sings the Wailers
44. The Best of the Sir Douglas Quintet
45. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
46. Robert Jr. Lockwood & Johnny Shines - Hangin’ On
47. The Jacksons - Triumph
48. Pere Ubu - New Picnic Time
49. The Psychedelic Furs
50. Rockpile - Seconds of Pleasure
51. Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - 1980
52. Diana Ross - Diana
53. Shalamar - Three for Love
54. More Intensified! Volume 2 Original Ska 1963-67
55. Manhattans - Greatest Hits
56. Oi!--the Album
57. Big Youth - Progress
58. Teddy Pendergrass - TP
59. Donna Summer - The Wanderer
60. The Selecter - Too Much Pressure
61. The Suburbs - In Combo
62. The Brains
63. Club Ska ’67
64. Gang of Four

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The Robert Christgau Deans' Lists

1981

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1. X - Wild Gift

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2. Ian Dury - Jukebox Dury
3. King Sunny Ade & His African Beats - The Message
4. Greatest Rap Hits Vol. 2
5. Gang of Four - Solid Gold
6. English Beat - Wha’ppen?
7. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Trust
8. Gang of Four - Another Day/Another Dollar
9. Phases of the Moon - Traditional Chinese Music
10. Human Switchboard - Who’s Landing in My Hangar?
11. Al Green - Higher Plane
12. Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
13. The Specials - Ghost Town/Why?/Friday Night Saturday Morning

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14. Black Uhuru - Red
15. Black Flag - Damaged
16. Gary Stewart - Greatest Hits
17. Tom Verlaine - Dreamtime
18. Chic - Take It Off
19. Red Crayola with Art & Language - Kangaroo?
20. Funkadelic - The Electric Spanking of War Babies
21. Penguin Café Orchestra
22. Prince - Controversy
23. Yoko Ono - Season of Glass
24. The Clash - Sandanista!
25. Tom Tom Club
26. The Blasters
27. Sly & Robbie Present Taxi
28. The dB’s - Stands for Decibels
29. The Best of Blondie
30. James Booker - New Orleans Piano Wizard - Live!
31. Best of Gregory Isaacs Volume 2
32. Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places
33. DNA - A Taste of DNA
34. Joan Jett - Bad Reputation
35. The B-52’s - Party Mix
36. Shoes - Tongue Twister
37. Elvis Presley - This is Elvis
38. Shalamar - Go for It
39. Marvin Gaye - In Our Lifetime
40. Bunny Wailer - Tribute
41. UB40 - Present Arms
42. Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
43. Teena Marie - It Must Be Magic
44. ZZ Hill - Down Home
45. Slave - Show Time
46. Ramones - Pleasant Dreams
47. Rick James - Street Songs
48. The DeBarges
49. Johnny Copeland - Copeland Special
50. The Best of Dave Edmunds
51. The Best of Phoebe Snow
52. Sound d’Afrique
53. Let Them Eat Jellybeans!
54. Shannon Jackson & the Decoding Society - Nasty
55. John Anderson - 2
56. The "King" Kong Compilation
57. Aretha Franklin - Love All the Hurt Away
58. Stampfel & Weber - Going Nowhere Fast
59. David Byrne - Songs from the Broadway Production of ‘The Catherine Wheel’
60. Linx - Intuition
61. Sir Douglas Quintet - Border Wave
62. Muddy Waters - King Bee
63. David Johansen - Here Comes the Night

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The Robert Christgau Deans' Lists

1982

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1. Ornette Coleman - Of Human Feelings

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2. Marshall Crenshaw
3. George Clinton - Computer Games
4. Flipper - Album - Generic Flipper
5. Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights
6. Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Wise Guy
7. Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
8. Professor Longhair - The Last Mardi Gras
9. Lou Reed - The Blue Mask
10. Michael Jackson - Thriller
11. The Angry Samoans - Back from Samoa

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12. Prince - 1999
13. George Jones - Anniversary—Ten Years of Hits
14. Stevie Wonder - Original Musiquarium I
15. Itals - Brutal Out Deh
16. ABC - The Lexicon of Love
17. Gilberto Gil - Um Banda Um
18. Marvin Gaye - Midnight Love
19. Shalamar - Greatest Hits
20. Clint Eastwood & General Saint - Two Bad DJ
21. Ray Parker Jr. - The Other Woman
22. Chic - Tongue in Chic
23. King Sunny Ade & His African Beats - Juju Music
24. Warren Zevon - The Envoy
25. Sound d’Afrique II - Soukous
26. Ronald Shannon Jackson & the Decoding Society - Mandance
27. Ray Parker Jr. - Greatest Hits
28. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
29. The Time - What Time is It?
30. English Beat - Special Beat Service
31. Orchestra Makassy - Agwaya
32. The B-52’s - Mesopotamia
33. The Roches - Keep on Doing
34. Bonnie Raitt - Green Light
35. Roxy Music - Avalon
36. Van Morrison - Beautiful Vision
37. Grandmaster Flash & the Furious 5 - The Message
38. Ruby Braff - Very Sinatra
39. The John Lennon Collection
40. Madness - Complete Madness
41. Gang of Four - Songs of the Free
42. X - Under the Big Black Sun
43. Material - One Down
44. Neil Young - Trans
45. REM - Chronic Town
46. Ferron - Testimony
47. Husker Du - Everything Falls Apart
48. The Desendents - Milo Goes to College
49. Minutemen - What Makes a Man Start Fires?
50. James Blood Ulmer - Black Rock
51. Bonnie Hayes with the Wild Choir - Good Clean Fun
52. Trouble Funk - Drop the Bomb
53. The Name of This Band is Talking Heads
54. Squeeze - Singles—45’s & Under
55. Rank & File - Sundown
56. Willie Nelson & Webb Pierce - In the Jailhouse Now
57. Sweet Pea Atkinson - Don’t Walk Away
58. Richard Hell - Destiny Street
59. DOA - War on 45
60. The Waitresses - I Could Rule the World if I Could Only Get the Parts
61. Calling Rastafari
62. A Flock of Seagulls
63. Ted Hawkins - Watch Your Step
64. UB40 - The Singles Album
65. Laurie Anderson - Big Science
66. Everything New is Old…Everything Old is New
67. Psychedelic Furs - Forever Now
68. David Johansen - Live It Up
69. Replacements - Stink
70. Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Ice Cream for Crow
71. Mighty Diamonds - Indestructible
72. The Jive Five featuring Eugene Pitt - Here We Are!
73. T-Bone Burnett - Trap Door
74. Bunny Wailer - Hook Line ‘n Sinker
75. Joe King Carrasco - Synapse Gap (Mundo Total)
76. The Best of Swamp Dogg
77. Tom Robinson - North by Northwest
78. The Glory of Alberta Hunter

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The Robert Christgau Deans' Lists

1983

A+

1. DeBarge - In a Special Way
2. Marshall Crenshaw - Field Day

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3. African Music
4. The Blasters - Non Fiction
5. James Blood Ulmer - Odyssey
6. DFX2 - Emotion
7. Lou Reed - Legendary Hearts
8. Husker Du - Metal Circus
9. George Clinton - You Shouldn’t-Nuf Bit Fish
10. Cyndi Lauper - She’s So Unusual
11. Pablo Moses - In the Future
12. Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers - Jonathan Sings!
13. Pamelo Mounk’a - Propulsion!

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14. UB40 - 1980-1983
15. Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
16. Womack & Womack - Love Wars
17. King Sunny Ade & His African Beats - Synchro System
18. True West
19. Oh-OK - Furthermore What
20. X - More Fun in the New World
21. UB40 - Labour of Love
22. Ronald Shannon Jackson & the Decoding Society - Barbecue Dog
23. The Cucumbers
24. Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain
25. The Kinsasha Sound
26. Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Doppelganger
27. Joan Armatrading - Track Record
28. Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Love Over & Over
29. The B-52’s - Whammy!
30. Divinyls - Desperate
31. REM - Murmur
32. U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky
33. Local Boys - Moments of Madness
34. Eek-a-Mouse - The Mouse & the Man
35. ABC - Beauty Stab
36. This are Two Tone
37. Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
38. P-Funk All-Stars - Urban Dancefloor Guerillas
39. MC5 - Banes in Arms
40. Charlie Haden - The Ballad of the Fallen
41. Richard Thompson - Hand of Kindness
42. Pylon - Chomp
43. Ramones - Subterranean Jungle
44. Los Lobos - …and a Time to Dance
45. Knotty Vision
46. Minutemen - Buzz & Howl Under the Influence of Heat
47. Viva Zimbabwe!
48. Yolocamba Ita - Revolutionary Songs of El Salvador
49. Madonna
50. Indeep - Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
51. Butthole Surfers
52. Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Show Stopper
53. Nile Rodgers - Adventures in the Land of the Good Groove
54. John Hiatt - Riding with the King
55. Philip Glass - The Photographer
56. Al Green - I’ll Rise Again
57. Winston Hussey - The Girl I Adore
58. King Sunny Ade & His African Beats - Ajoo
59. Bad Religion - Into the Future
60. Public Image Ltd. - PiL
61. John Anderson - All the People Are Talkin’
62. Hilary - Kinetic
63. The Golden Palominos
64. Kurtis Blow - Party Time?
65. Earth Wind & Fire - Powerlight
66. The Plastic People of the Universe - Leading Horses
67. Swingrass ’83

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The Robert Christgau Deans' Lists

1984

A+

1. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
2. The Replacements - Let It Be

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3. Laurie Anderson - United States Live
4. Parliament’s Greatest Hits
5. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Legend
6. John Lennon/Yoko Ono - Milk & Honey
7. Black Uhuru - Anthem
8. King Sunny Ade & His African Beats - Aura
9. Linton Kwesi Johnson - Making History
10. Lou Reed - New Sensations
11. Thomas Mapfumo - Ndangariro
12. And Here It Is...Again...Wire
13. John Anderson - Greatest Hits
14. Los Lobos - How Will the Wolf Survive?
15. Arto Lindsay/Ambitious Lovers - Envy
16. Ramones - Too Tough to Die
17. Persian Gulf - Changing the Weather

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18. The dB’s - Like This
19. Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Induku Zethu
20. Ruben Blades y Seis del Solar - Buscando America
21. Les Ambassadeurs
22. Rolling Stones - Rewind (1971-1984)
23. Husker Du - Zen Arcade
24. Reggae Greats - Toots & the Maytals
25. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
26. Joe "King" Carrasco & the Crowns - Bordertown
27. Run-DMC
28. XTC - Waxworks - Some Singles 1977-1982
29. Prince & the Revolution - Purple Rain
30. Laurie Anderson - Mister Heartbreak
31. The Best of Gil Scott-Heron
32. David Johansen - Sweet Revenge
33. Big Black - Racer-X
34. The Del-Lords - Frontier Days
35. Pretenders - Learning to Crawl
36. Anna Domino - East & West
37. Sparrow - King of the World
38. Bangles - All Over the Place
39. Half Japanese - Sing No Evil
40. Reggae Greats - Burning Spear
41. Tom Verlaine - Cover
42. Ferron - Shadows on a Dime
43. Tina Turner - Private Dancer
44. Teddy Pendergrass - Greatest Hits
45. Julie Brown - Goddess in Progress
46. That’s the Way I Feel Now - a Tribute to Thelonious Monk
47. Dumptruck - D is for Dumptruck
48. Motorhead - No Remorse
49. The Embarrassment - Retrospective
50. Robert Wyatt - 1982-1984
51. Meat Puppets II
52. Herbie Hancock - Sound System
53. The Reducers - Let’s Go!
54. Conjure
55. Rank & File - Long Gone Dead
56. The Neville Brothers - Neville-ization
57. John Conlee - Greatest Hits
58. Robert Quine/Fred Maher - Basic
59. Blow-Up - Easy Knowledge
60. Harold Budd/Brian Eno - The Pearl
61. UB40 - Geffrey Morgan
62. The Judds - Wynonna and Naomi
63. Iggy Pop - Choice Cuts
64. Fat Boys
65. Go-Go’s - Talk Show

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The Robert Christgau Deans' Lists

1985

A+

1. Franco & Rochereau - Omona Wapi
2. Double Dee & Steinski - The Payoff Mix/Lesson Two/Lesson 3
3. Mekons - Fear & Whiskey

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4. The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & the Lash
5. Aretha Franklin - Who’s Zoomin’ Who?
6. Husker Du - New Day Rising
7. Lost in the Stars - the Music of Kurt Weill
8. The Velvet Underground - VU
9. The Blasters - Hard Line
10. Willie Nelson & Hank Snow - Brand on My Heart
11. Talking Heads - Little Creatures
12. Minutemen - 3-Way Tie (for Last)

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13. Linton Kwesi Johnson - In Concert with the Dub Band
14. The Replacements - Tim
15. Go Go Crankin’
16. Dele Abiodun - It’s Time for Juju Music
17. Joe Higgs - Triumph
18. Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85
19. Dele Abiodun - Adawa Super Sound
20. Dramarama - Cinema Verite
21. Professor Longhair - Rock & Roll Gumbo
22. Yabby You - Fleeing from the City
23. The Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard in My Backyard
24. Rosanne Cash - Rhythm & Romance
25. Husker Du - Flip Your Wig
26. George Clinton - Some of My Best Jokes are Friends
27. The Descendents - Bonus Fat
28. The Go-Betweens - Metal & Shells
29. Robert Cray Band - False Accusations
30. Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Volumes 1 & II
31. Marti Jones - Unsophisticated Time
32. Katrina & the Waves
33. The Cars - Greatest Hits
34. UB40 - Little Baggariddim
35. The Best of Elvis Costello & the Attractions
36. George Strait - Greatest Hits
37. Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone Free Landslide Victory
38. Steve Arrington - Dancin’ in the Key of Life
39. Kid Creole & the Coconuts - In Praise of Older Women & Other Crimes
40. Marshall Crenshaw - Downtown
41. Phranc - Folksinger
42. Willie Nelson - Me & Paul
43. Fela Anikulapo Kuti - Army Arrangement
44. John Anderson - Tokyo, Oklahoma
45. Mofungo - Frederick Douglass
46. Nile Rodgers - B-Movie Matinee
47. Alex Chilton - Feudalist Tarts
48. The Rattlers - Rattled
49. Phezulu Eqhudeni
50. Artists United Against Apartheid - Sun City
51. George Strait - Something Special
52. Ruben Blades y Seis del Solar - Escenas
53. David Byrne - Music for the Knee Plays
54. Ras Michael & the Sons of Negus - Rally Round
55. The Silos - About Her Steps
56. The Rave-Ups - Town & Country
57. Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Ulwandle Oluncgwele

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The Robert Christgau Deans' Lists

1986

A+

1. The Indestructible Beat of Soweto
2. Robert Cray Band - Strong Persuader
3. Beastie Boys - Lisenced to Ill

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4. Husker Du - Candy Apple Grey
5. Papa Wemba - L’Esclave
6. New Order - Brotherhood
7. Sonny Sharrock - Guitar
8. Rolling Stones - Dirty Work
9. Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman - Song X
10. Camper Van Beethoven
11. Black Flag - Wasted Again
12. Gap Band - The 12" Collection
13. ZZ Hill - Greatest Hits
14. Paul Simon - Graceland

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15. Motorhead - Orgasmatron
16. Pere Ubu - Terminal Tower - an Archival Collection
17. Sonic Youth - Starpower
18. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Blood & Chocolate
19. Mekons - The Edge of the World
20. Murabaruka - The Mystery Unfolds
21. They Might Be Giants
22. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
23. The Costello Show (featuring Elvis Costello) - King of America
24. Royal Crescent Mob - Land of Sugar
25. The Neville Brothers - Treacherous
26. Astor Piazzolla - Tango - Zero Hour
27. Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell
28. The Housemartins - London 0, Hull 4
29. XTC - Skylarking
30. Steve Earle - Guitar Town
31. Rap’s Greatest Hits
32. Will Wright & Jim Reiman - Childhood’s Greatest Hits
33. The Lounge Lizards - Live in Tokyo/Big Heart
34. Kate Bush - The Whole Story
35. Ornette Coleman & Prime Time - Opening the Caravan of Dreams
36. Mekons - Crime & Punishment
37. The Feelies - The Good Earth
38. Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys 2
39. Brian Eno - More Blank than Frank
40. Mofungo - Messenger Dogs of the Gods
41. Salt-n-Pepa - Hot Cool & Vicious
42. African Head Charge - Off the Beaten Track
43. Phil Alvin - Un "Sung" Stories
44. Abdullah Ibrahim - Water from an Ancient Well
45. Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - Live 1975-1985
46. Peter Stampfel and the Bottle Caps
47. Prince & the Revolution - Parade
48. Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Live Alive
49. Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock—the Album
50. Tango Argentino
51. Camper Van Beethoven II & III
52. Jimi Hendrix - Johnny B. Goode
53. The Art of Noise - In Visible Silence
54. Thomas Mapfumo - The Chimurenga Singles 1976-1980
55. A Quiet Normal Life - the Best of Warren Zevon
56. Shop Assistants
57. Jon Hassell - Power Spot
58. Police - Every Breath You Take - the Singles
59. Katrina & the Waves - Waves
60. That Petrol Emotion - Manic Pop Thrill
61. Black Flag - Who’s Got the 10½?
62. Dance Traxx
63. The Three Johns - The World By Storm
64. The Go-Betweens - Liberty Belle & the Black Diamond Express
65. Aaron Neville - Make Me Strong
66. Timbuk 3 - Welcome to Timbuk 3
67. Don Dixon - Most of the Girls Like to Dance but Only Some of the Boys Like To
68. David & David - Boomtown
69. New Model Army - The Mark of Cain
70. Laurie Anderson - Home of the Brave
71. The Velvet Underground - Another View
72. Motown Remembers Marvin Gaye
73. Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Inala
74. Mahotella Queens - Izibani Zomgqashiyo
75. Yaa-Lengi Ngemi - Oh, Miziki
76. Pet Shop Boys - Please
77. Iscathamiya - Zulu Worker Choirs in South Africa
78. Zazou Biyake - Mr. Manager
79. Sally Timms & the Drifting Cowgirls - The Butcher’s Boy Extended Player

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The Robert Christgau Deans' Lists

1987

A+

1. Sonny Rollins - G-Man
2. Prince - Sign ‘o’ the Times
3. Culture - Two Sevens Clash (first US release)

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4. Ornette Coleman - In All Languages
5. Sonic Youth - Sister
6. New Order - Substance
7. Pretenders - The Singles
8. Sly & Robbie - Rhythm Killers
9. The Sonny Sharrock Band - Seize the Rainbow
10. R.E.M. - Document
11. Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love
12. Go-Betweens - Tallulah
13. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live at Winterland
14. Ian Dury - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
15. The Angry Samoans - Gimme Samoa - 31 Garbage-Pit Hits

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16. Professor Longhair - Houseparty New Orleans Style
17. Pet Shop Boys - Actually
18. Dramarama - Box Office Bomb
19. Stella Chiweshe - Ambuya?
20. The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me
21. The Tanzania Sound
22. Kool Moe Dee - How Ya Like Me Now?
23. Johnny Cash - Columbia Records 1958-1986
24. Marianne Faithfull - Strange Weather
25. Madonna - You Can Dance
26. Kool Moe Dee
27. Rosanne Cash - King’s Record Shop
28. The Best of Reba McEntire
29. Stevie Wonder - Characters
30. John Cougar Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee
31. The Housemartins - The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death
32. Tom Verlaine - Flash Light
33. Great Plains - Sum Things Up
34. French Frith Kaiser Thompson - Live Love Larf and Loaf
35. David Behrman - Leapday Night
36. That Petrol Emotion - Babble
37. Ray Stevens - Greatest Hits Vol. 2
38. The Cucumbers
39. Culture - Culture at Work
40. The Best of a Flock of Seagulls
41. Ronald Shannon Jackson & the Decoding Society - When Colors Play
42. Minutemen - Ballot Result
43. Rosie Flores
44. Motorhead - Rock ‘n’ Roll
45. A Very Special Christmas
46. Bunny Wailer - Rootsman Skanking
47. Kid Creole & the Coconuts - I, Too, Have Seen the Woods
48. Mekons - New York
49. Warren Zevon - Sentimental Hygiene
50. Marshall Chapman - Dirty Linen
51. Black Uhuru - Positive
52. Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Shaka Zulu
53. Sinead O’Connor - The Lion & the Cobra
54. The Best Part of the Fat Boys
55. Meat Puppets - Huevos
56. Big Black - Songs About Fucking
57. Tom Robinson - The Collection 1977-87
58. Al Green - Soul Survivor
59. Camper Van Beethoven - Vampire Can Mating Oven
60. Reggae Dancehall Classics
61. Husker Du - Warehouse - Songs & Stories
62. Age of Chance - Crush Collision
63. Aztec Camera - Love
64. Los Lobos - By the Light of the Moon

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The Robert Christgau Deans' Lists

1988

A+

Public Enemy

1. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
2. African Connection Volume 1 - Zaire Choc!

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3. The Essential Tom T. Hall - Twentieth Anniversary Collection/the Story Songs
4. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
5. Mahlathini & Mahotella Queens - Paris-Soweto
6. The Heartbeat of Soweto
7. Lucinda Williams
8. Pere Ubu - The Tenement Year
9. Psychedelic Furs - All of This and Nothing
10. Ambitious Lovers - Greed
11. Ornette Coleman & Prime Time - Virgin Beauty
12. Farther Along - the Best of the Flying Burrito Brothers

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13. Pet Shop Boys - Introspective
14. Zini Diabate and the Super Djata Band
15. Bhundu Boys - Tsvimbodzemoto - Sticks of Fire
16. Patsy Cline - Live at the Opry
17. Robert Cray Band - Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
18. Folkways - a Vision Shared—a Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly
19. EPMD - Strictly Business
20. Feedtime - Shovel
21. Zimbabwe Frontline
22. Michelle Shocked - Short Sharp Shocked
23. Najma - Qareeb
24. Leonard Cohen - I’m Your Man
25. Eric B. & Rakim - Follow the Leader
26. Traveling Wilburys Volume One
27. Guy
28. Richard Thompson - Amnesia
29. Obed Ngobeni - My Wife Bought a Taxi
30. Was (Not Was) - What Up Dog?
31. Jungle Brothers - Straight Out the Jungle
32. James Brown - Motherlode
33. Flipper - Sex Bomb Baby!
34. Gilberto Gil - Soy Loco Por Ti America
35. The Best of Earth Wind and Fire Vol. II
36. R.E.M. - Eponymous
37. Miriam Makeba - Sangoma
38. Womack & Womack - Conscience
39. Buzzcocks - Lest We Forget
40. Heartbeat Soukous
41. Motorhead - No Sleep at All
42. Mory Kante - Akwaba Beach
43. Thunder Before Dawn—the Indestructible Beat of Soweto Volume Two
44. Prince - The Black Album
45. Hurricane Zouk
46. The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
47. Patti Smith - Dream of Life
48. The Chills - Brave Words
49. Too Much Joy - Son of Sam I Am
50. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Radio One
51. Steve Jordan - The Return of El Parche
52. Astor Piazzolla - The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night
53. Joe Louis Walker - The Gift
54. Mahlathini & Mahotella Queens - Thokozile
55. Dag Nasty - Field Day
56. The Fall - I Am Kurious Oranj
57. The Real Roxanne
58. Mr. Magic’s Rap Attack Volume 4
59. Randy Travis - Old 8x10
60. Voice of the Beehive - Let It Bee
61. Bootsy Collins - What’s Bootsy Doin’?
62. Soul Brothers - Jive Explosion
63. Maroon - The Funky Record
64. Mofungo - Bugged

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The Robert Christgau Deans' Lists

1989

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1. The Mekons Rock & Roll
2. Neil Young - Freedom
3. Laurie Anderson - Strange Angels
4. Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique
5. Remmy Ongala & Orchestre Super Matimila - Songs for the Poor Man
6. Jungle Brothers - Done by the Forces of Nature
7. Mekons - Original Sin
8. Pere Ubu - Cloudland
9. The Neville Brothers - Yellow Moon
10. Wire - On Returning (1977-1979)

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11. De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
12. The Kampala Sound
13. George Clinton - The Cinderella Theory
14. Marshall Crenshaw - Good Evening
15. Los Van Van - Songo
16. Cheb Khaled/Safy Boutella - Kutche
17. Boulevard of Broken Dreams - It’s the Talk of the Town and Other Sad Songs
18. Terence Trent D’Arby - Neither Fish nor Flesh
19. Pylon - Hits
20. The Roches - Speak
21. Neneh Cherry - Raw Like Sushi
22. Rosanne Cash - Hits 1979-1989
23. Negativland - Helter Stupid
24. Lounge Lizards - Voice of Chunk
25. Alexander O’Neal - All Mixed Up
26. E.U. - Livin’ Large
27. 3rd Bass - The Cactus Album
28. Van Morrison - Avalon Sunset
29. Chaba Fadela - You Are Mine
30. Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation 1814
31. Yo! MTV Raps
32. Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw & the Cooked
33. Diblo - Super Soukous
34. Al Green - Love Ritual - Rare & Previously Unreleased 1968-1976
35. Basher - the Best of Nick Lowe
36. Black Havana
37. Tabu Ley - Babeti Soukous
38. Konbit! - Burning Rhythms of Haiti
39. L.L. Cool J - Walking with a Panther
40. Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck - Djam Leelii
41. Nuestras Mejores Cumbias
42. Roxanne Shante - Bad Sister
43. Royal Crescent Mob - Spin the World
44. Culture - Cumbolo
45. Technotronic - Pump Up the Jam - the Album
46. Yo La Tengo - President Yo La Tengo
47. The African Typic Collection
48. The Best of Luther Vandross...the Best of Love
49. Jimmie Dale Gilmore
50. Thomas Mapfumo - Corruption
51. Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - In Step
52. Dwight Yoakam - Just Lookin’ for a Hit
53. Alpha Blondy - Revolution
54. Daniel Owino Misiani & Shirati Band - Benga Blast!
55. Keith Whitley - I Wonder Do You Think of Me
56. Queen Latifah - All Hail the Queen
57. The Jayhawks - Blue Earth
58. Pointer Sisters - Greatest Hits
59. Ice-T - The Iceberg - Freedom of Speech...Just Watch What You Say
60. Jerry Lee Lewis - Rockin’ My Life Away
61. Meat Puppets - Monsters
62. Lou Reed - New York
63. Zetrospective - Dancing in the Face of Adversity
64. Mofungo - Work
65. Ernest Tubb - Live 1965
66. Dancehall Stylee - the Best of Reggae Dancehall Music Vol. 1
67. Clint Black - Killin’ Time
68. Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper - Root Hog or Die