The A Lists: 1994 (73)

• 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)
• A Taste of the Indestructible Beat of Soweto (Earthworks)
• Aretha Franklin: Greatest Hits (1980-1994) (Arista)
• Hole: Live Through This (DGC)
• Garth Brooks: The Hits (Liberty)
• Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Matador)
• M People: Elegant Slumming (Epic)
• Soul Coughing: Ruby Vroom (Slash/Warner Bros.)
• Sebadoh: Bakesale (Sub Pop)
• Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & the Furious Five: Message From Beat Street: The Best of Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & the Furious Five (Rhino)
• 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)
• Howlin' Wolf: Ain't Gonna Be Your Dog (Chess)
• 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)
• Cachao: Master Sessions Volume 1 (Crescent Moon/Epic)
• Green Day: Dookie (Reprise)
• White Country Blues (1926-1938): A Lighter Shade of Blue (Columbia/Legacy)
• Jon Hassell and Bluescreen: Dressing for Pleasure (Warner Bros.)
• R.E.M.: Monster (Warner Bros.)
• Kwanzaa Music (Rounder)
• Marianne Faithfull: Faithfull (Island)
• Jimi Hendrix: Woodstock (MCA)
• NOFX: Punk in Drublic (Epitaph)
• Veruca Salt: American Thighs (Minty Fresh/DGC)
• Cumbia Cumbia 2 (World Circuit)
• Caetano Veloso e Gilberto Gil: Tropicalia 2 (Elektra Nonesuch)
• John Fahey: Return of the Repressed: The John Fahey Anthology (Rhino)
• 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)
• Oujda-Casablanca Introspections Vol. 1 (Barbarity import)
• House of Pain: Same as It Ever Was (Tommy Boy)
• Hüsker Dü: The Living End (Warner Bros.)
• 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)
• Dance Hits U.K. (Moonshine Music)
• 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)
• Salif Keita: The Mansa of Mali . . . A Retrospective (Mango)
• Beat the Retreat: Songs by Richard Thompson (Capitol)
• Matthew Sweet: Son of Altered Beast (Zoo)
• Ahmad: Ahmad (Giant)
• Turntable Tastemakers Vol. 1: The Sound of Cleveland City Recordings (Moonshine Music)
• Skip James: She Lyin' (Genes)
• Pearl Jam: Vitalogy (Epic)
• Beastie Boys: Ill Communication (Grand Royal)

Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s, 2000

The A Lists: 1993

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