2012: Dean's List

Albums

1. Neil Young With Crazy Horse: Americana (Reprise) 15
2. Dabke: Sounds of the Syrian Houran (Sham Palace) 14
3. Loudon Wainwright III: Older Than My Old Man Now (2nd Story Sound) 12
4. Pink: The Truth About Love (RCA) 10
5. Todd Snider: Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables (Aimless/Thirty Tigers) 9
6. Skrillex: Bangarang (Owsla/Big Beat/Atlantic) 8
7. Himanshu: Nehru Jackets (free Greedhead download) 8
8. The Mountain Goats: Transcendental Youth (Merge)) 8
9. The Rough Guide to Highlife (World Music Network) 8
10. Bruce Springsteen: Wrecking Ball (Columbia) 8
11. Azealia Banks: 1991 (Interscope)
12. Listen . . . Oka! (Oka Productions)
13. Lee Ranaldo: Between the Times and the Tides (Matador)
14. The xx: Coexist (Young Turks)
15. Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Ever Do (Epic)
16. Orchestra Baobab: La Belle Époque: Volume 2 1973-1976 (Syllart)
17. Kendrick Lamar: good kid, m.A.A.d city (Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope)
18. Karantamba: Ndigal (Teranga Beat)
19. The Human Hearts: Another (Shrimper)
20. Homeboy Sandman: First of a Living Breed (Stones Throw)
21. Spoek Mathambo: Father Creeper (Sub Pop)
22. Greenberger Greenberg Cebar: Tell Me That Before (Pel Pel)
23. Taylor Swift: Red (Big Machine)
24. Saigon: The Greatest Story Never Told: Chapter Two: Bread and Circuses (Suburban Noize)
25. Serengeti: C.A.R. (Anticon)
26. Miguel: Kaleidoscope Dream (RCA)
27. Homeboy Sandman: The Good Sun (High Water Music '10)
28. Omar Souleyman: Haflat Gharbia: The Western Concerts (Sublime Frequencies '11)
29. Plug: Back on Time (Ninja Tune)
30. Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby: A Working Museum (Southern Domestic)
31. Heems: Wild Water Kingdom (free Greedhead download)
32. Elle Varner: Perfectly Imperfect (RCA)
33. Standard Fare: Out of Sight, Out of Town (Melodic '11)
34. The dB's: Falling Off the Sky (Bar/None)
35. A Place to Bury Strangers: Worship (Dead Oceans)
36. Death Grips: No Love Deep Web (free Third Worlds download)
37. The Rough Guide to the Music of Ethiopia (World Music Network)
38. Leonard Cohen: Old Ideas (Columbia)
39. Japandroids: Celebration Rock (Polyvinyl)
40. Frank Ocean: Channel Orange (Def Jam)
41. Beach House: Bloom (Sub Pop)
42. Etta James: The Dreamer (Verve Forecast '11)
43. Donald Fagen: Sunken Condos (Reprise)
44. Best Coast: The Only Place (Mexican Summer)
45. Death Grips: The Money Store (Epic)
46. Ab-Soul: Control System (Top Dawg download)
47. Iris DeMent: Sing the Delta (Redeye)
48. Songs for Desert Refugees (Glitterhouse)
49. Saint Etienne: Words and Music by Saint Etienne (Heavenly/Universal)
50. Tommy Womack: Now What! (Cedar Creek)
51. Public Enemy: Most of My Heroes Still Don't Appear on No Stamp (Enemy)
52. Big Baby Gandhi: No1 2 Look Up 2 (free Greedhead download)
53. Pet Shop Boys: Elysium (Astralwerks)
54. Staff Benda Bilili: Bouger Le Monde (Crammed Discs)
55. Corin Tucker Band: Kill My Blues (Kill Rock Stars)
56. Carolyn Mark: The Queen of Vancouver Island (Mint)
57. s / s / s: Beak & Claw (Anticon)
58. Thomas Anderson: The Moon in Transit (Four-Track Demos, 1996-2009) (Out There)
59. Cloud Nothings: Attack on Memory (Carpark)
60. Jamey Johnson: Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran (Mercury)
61. The Rough Guide to the Music of Morocco (World Music Network)
62. Ani DiFranco: ¿Which Side Are You On? (Righteous Babe)
63. P.S. Eliot: Sadie (Salinas '11)
64. The Coup: Sorry to Bother You (Anti-)
65. Sleigh Bells: Reign of Terror (Mom + Pop)
66. Balkan Beat Box (B-B-B): Give (Nat Geo Music)
67. Lukid: Lonely at the Top (Werkdiscs/Ninja Tune)
68. Big K.R.I.T.: 4Eva N a Day (free download)
69. Low Cut Connie: Call Me Sylvia (lowcutconnie.com)
70. Kid Koala: 12 Bit Blues (Ninja Tune)
71. Pete Seeger: The Complete Bowdoin College Concert 1960 (Smithsonian Folkways)
72. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis: The Heist (self-released)
73. Moreno and L'Orch First Moja-One: Sister Pili + 2 (Sterns Africa)
74. Burial: Street Halo/Kindred (Hyperdub/Beat)
75. Bhi Bhiman: Bhiman (Tummy Touch)
76. Homeboy Sandman: Subject: Matter (Stones Throw download)
77. Francis Bebey: African Electronic Music 1975-1982 (Born Bad)
78. Nicki Minaj: Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded: Deluxe Edition (Cash Money/Universal Republic)
79. Madonna: MDNA (Interscope)
80. Allo Darlin': Europe (Slumberland)
81. The Magnetic Fields: Love at the Bottom of the Sea (Merge)
82. Two Fingers: Stunt Rhythms (Big Dada)
83. The Rolling Stones: Some Girls: Deluxe Edition (Universal Republic '11)
84. Dylan Hicks: Sings Bolling Greene (Two Deuces)
85. Serengeti: Kenny Dennis EP (Anticon)
86. Dobie: Nothing to Fear (Big Dada)
87. A Place to Bury Strangers: Onwards to the Wall (Dead Oceans)
88. Clams Casino: Instrumental Mixtape (free download '11)
89. Divine Fits: A Thing Called Divine Fits (Merge)
90. Jack White: Blunderbuss (Third Man/Columbia)
91. Dobie: . . . But Fear Itself (Big Dada)
92. Ned Sublette: Kiss You Down South (Postmambo)
93. Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang: En Yay Sah (Luaka Bop)
94. Royal Band de Thiés: Kadior Demb (Teranga Beat)
95. Amadou & Mariam: Folila (Nonesuch)
96. Andre Williams & the Sadies: Night and Day (Yep Roc)
97. Khaira Arby: Tchini Tchini (Clermont Music)
98. Joan Soriano: La Familia Soriano (iASO)
99. Big Baby Gandhi: Big Fucking Baby (free Greedhead download '11)
100. Linkoban: Super Into On It (Super Billion)
101. The Original Sound of Cumbia (Soundway '11)
102. Tha Grimm Teachaz: There's a Situation on the Homefront (Breakfast '11)

Singles

1. Bruce Springsteen: "We Take Care of Our Own" (Columbia)
2. Psy: "Gangnam Style" (YouTube)
3. Neil Young & Crazy Horse: "Oh Susannah" (Reprise)
4. Himanshu: "Womyn" (free Greedhead download)
5. Pink: "The Truth About Love" (RCA)
6. Skrillex: "Bangarang" (Owsla/Big Beat/Atlantic)
7. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis: "Same Love" (self-released)
8. Miguel: "Adorn" (RCA)
9. Willie Nelson: "Roll Me Up" (Legacy)
10. Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby: "Do You Remember That?" (Southern Domestic)
11. Etta James: "Cigarettes and Coffee" (Verve Forecast)
12. Kacey Musgraves: "Merry Go 'Round" (Mercury)
13. Azealia Banks: "1991" (Interscope)
14. Elle Varner: "Refill" (RCA)
15. Saint Etienne: "Tonight" (Heavenly/Universal)
16. Pussy Riot: "Putin Lights Up the Fires" (YouTube)
17. Homeboy Sandman: "Not Really" (Stones Throw)
18. Himanshu: "NYC Cops" (Greedhead)
19. The Human Hearts: "Not Just When We Kiss" (Shrimper)
20. Ned Sublette: "Kiss You Down South" (Postmambo)

Barnes & Noble Review, Jan. 14, 2013

2011

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