Pazz & Jop 1988: Dean's List

Albums

1. Franco and Rochereau: Omona Wapi (Shanachie '85) 16
2. African Connection Vol. 1: Zaire Choc (Celluloid import cassette/CD) 16
3. Public Enemy: It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back (Def Jam) 14
4. Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation (Blast First/Enigma) 13
5. Heartbeat of Soweto (Shanachie) 10
6. Lucinda Williams: Lucinda Williams (Rough Trade) 8
7. Pere Ubu: The Tenement Year (Enigma) 7
8. Papa Wemba: L'Esclave (Gitta import) 6
9. Ambitious Lovers: Greed (Virgin) 5
10. The Sonny Sharrock Band: Seize the Rainbow (Enemy '87) 5

11. Ornette Coleman and Prime Time: Virgin Beauty (Portrait)
12. Folkways: A Vision Shared (Columbia)
13. Zani Diabete & the Super Djata Band: Zani Diabete & the Super Djata Band (Mango)
14. EPMD: Strictly Business (Fresh)
15. The Bhundu Boys: Tsvimbodzemoto: Sticks of Fire (Hannibal)
16. The Robert Cray Band: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (Mercury)
17. Zimbabwe Frontline (Virgin)
18. Michelle Shocked: Short Sharp Shocked (Mercury)
19. Hurricane Zouk (Earthworks/Virgin)
20. Stella Chiweshe: Ambuya? (Globestyle import)
21. Dele Abiodun: It's Time for Juju Music (Super Adawa import)
22. Eric B. & Rakim: Follow the Leader (Uni)
23. Richard Thompson: Amnesia (Capitol)
24. Najma: Qareeb (Shanachie)
25. The Jungle Brothers: Straight Out the Jungle (Idlers)
26. Traveling Wilburys: Volume One (Wilbury)
27. James Brown: Motherlode (Polydor)
28. Flipper: Sex Bomb Baby! (Subterranean)
29. Patti Smith: People Got the Power (Arista)
30. Thunder Before Dawn (Earthworks/Virgin)
31. Was (Not Was): What Up, Dog? (Chrysalis)
32. Astor Piazzolla: The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night (Tango Apasionado) (American Clavé)
33. Hairspray (A&M)
34. Gilberto Gil: Soy Loco Por Ti America (Braziloid)
35. Obed Ngobeni: My Wife Bought a Taxi (Shanachie)
36. Feedtime: Shovel (Rough Trade)
37. Prince: The Black Album (bootleg cassette)
38. Mory Kante: Akwaba Beach (Polydor)
39. Donner Party: Donner Party (Pitch-a-Tent)
40. Guy: Guy (Uptown/MCA)
41. Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (Columbia)
42. Joe Louis Walker: The Gift (Hightone)
43. Pet Shop Boys: Introspective (EMI America)
44. Dag Nasty: Field Day (Giant)
45. Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens: Thokozile (Virgin)
46. Womack & Womack: Conscience (Island)
47. Heartbeat Soukous (Earthworks/Virgin)
48. The Go-Betweens: 16 Lovers Lane (Capitol)
49. Miriam Makeba: Sangoma (Warner Bros.)
50. Black Uhuru: Brutal (RAS '87)
51. Buzzcocks: Lest We Forget (ROIR cassette)
52. Shannon Jackson: When Colors Play (Caravan of Dreams '87)
53. Big Black: Songs About Fucking (Touch & Go '87)
54. Mofungo: Bugged (SST)
55. Bootsy Collins: What's Bootsy Doin'? (Columbia)
56. Voice of the Beehive: Let It Bee (London)
57. Maroon: The Funky Record (Arb Recordings)
58. Randy Travis: Old 8 X 10 (Warner Bros.)
59. Jon Hassell: The Surgeon of the Nightsky Restores Dead Things by the Power of Sound (Intuition/Capitol)
60. The Real Roxanne: The Real Roxanne (Select)

Pending: Steve Jordan, Motorhead.

Singles

1. EPMD: "Strictly Business" (Fresh)
2. Roxanne Shanté: "Go On Girl" (Cold Chillin')
3. Public Enemy: "Don't Believe the Hype" (Def Jam)
4. Rob Base & D.J. E-Z Rock: "It Takes Two" (Profile)
5. Bobby Brown: "Don't Be Cruel" (MCA)
6. Eric B. & Rakim: "Paid in Full (Seven Minutes of Madness Mix)" (4th & B'way)
7. Chubb Rock with Hitman Howie Tee: "DJ Innovator" (Select)
8. Salt-n-Pepa: "Shake Your Thang" (Next Plateau)
9. De La Soul: "Plug Tunin'"/"Freedom of Speak" (Tommy Boy)
10. Cheryl "Pepsii" Riley: "Child (The Confrontation Mix)" (Columbia)
11. Royal House: "Can You Party" (Idlers)
12. The Jesus and Mary Chain: "Surfin' USA"/"Kill Surf City" (Warner Bros.)
13. Biz Markie: "Pickin' Boogers" (Cold Chillin')
14. Michelle Shocked: "Anchorage" (Mercury)
15. Rick James: "Loosey's Rap" (Reprise)
16. Tracy Chapman: "Fast Car" (Elektra)
17. Stetsasonic: "Talkin' All That Jazz" (Tommy Boy)
18. Tony! Toni! Tone!: "Little Walter" (Wing)
19. Kid 'n' Play: "Gittin' Funky" (Select)
20. Biz Markie: "This Is Something for the Radio" (Cold Chillin')
21. Patti Smith: "People Have the Power" (Arista)
22. Ice-T: "I'm Your Pusher" (Sire)
23. Tiffany: "I Saw Him Standing There" (MCA)
24. Talking Heads: "(Nothing but) Flowers" (Sire)
25. Guy: "Groove Me" (MCA)

EPs

1. Camper Van Beethoven: Vampire Can Mating Oven (Pitch-a-Tent '87)
2. Go Go Live at the Capitol Centre (I Hear Ya)
3. Miracle Legion: Glad (Rough Trade)
4. Half Japanese: US Teens Are Spoiled Bums (50 Kazillion Watts)

Reissues

1. Tom T. Hall: The Essential Tom T. Hall: Twentieth Century Collection/The Story Songs (Mercury)
2. The Flying Burrito Brothers: Farther Along: The Best of the Flying Burrito Brothers (A&M cassette/CD)
3. Joe Tex: I Believe I'm Gonna Make It (Rhino)
4. Sonny Boy Williamson: Down and Out Blues (Chess)
5. James Brown's Funky People (Part 2) (Polydor)
6. Are You From Dixie? Great Country Brother Teams of the 1930s (RCA CD)
7. Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Monk and the Jazz Giants (Riverside CD)
8. Ann Peebles: Greatest Hits (Hi)
9. Roy Orbison: For the Lonely: A Roy Orbison Anthology, 1956-1965 (Rhino)
10. The 5 Royales: Laundromat Blues (Apollo)

Village Voice, Feb. 28, 1989

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