Pazz & Jop 1994: Dean's List

Albums

1. Latin Playboys (Slash/Warner Bros.) 14
2. Beck: Mellow Gold (Bong Load/DGC) 14
3. Sonic Youth: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star (DGC) 14
4. Nirvana: MTV Unplugged in New York (DGC) 13
5. Iris DeMent: My Life (Warner Bros.) 10
6. Hole: Live Through This (DGC) 9
7. M People: Elegant Slumming (Epic) 8
8. Sugar: File Under: Easy Listening (Rykodisc) 7
9. Sebadoh: Bakesale (Sub Pop) 6
10. Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Matador) 5

11. Archers of Loaf: Icky Mettle (Alias '93)
12. L7: Hungry for Stink (Slash/Reprise)
13. Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Sleeps With Angels (Reprise)
14. Khaled: N'ssi N'ssi (Mango)
15. Soundgarden: Superunknown (A&M)
16. Howlin' Wolf: Ain't Gonna Be Your Dog (Chess)
17. Moe Tucker: I Spent a Week There the Other Night (Sky)
18. Public Enemy: Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age (Def Jam)
19. R.E.M.: Monster (Warner Bros.)
20. Cachao: Master Sessions Volume 1 (Crescent Moon/Epic)
21. Jon Hassell and Bluescreen: Dressing for Pleasure (Warner Bros.)
22. Green Day: Dookie (Reprise)
23. Kwanzaa Music (Rounder)
24. Jimi Hendrix: Woodstock (MCA)
25. Warren G: Regulate . . . G Funk Era (Violator/RAL)
26. Veruca Salt: American Thighs (Minty Fresh/DGC)
27. Cumbia Cumbia 2 (World Circuit)
28. Caetano Veloso e Gilberto Gil: Tropicalia 2 (Elektra Nonesuch)
29. FU-Schnickens: Nervous Breakdown (Jive)
30. El DeBarge: Heart, Mind and Soul (Reprise)
31. Fellow Travellers: Things and Time (OKra import '93??)
32. Dark City Sisters and Flying Jazz Queens (Earthworks)
33. Dave Alvin: King of California (HighTone)
34. Ass Ponys: Electric Rock Music (A&M)
35. Kickin Mental Detergent (Kickin USA '92)
36. Michael Hall: Adequate Desire (DejaDisc)
37. Victoria Williams: Loose (Mammoth)
38. Soul Coughing: Ruby Vroom (Slash/Warner Bros.)
39. George Gershwin: Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls (Elektra Nonesuch '93)
40. David Byrne (Luaka Bop/Sire/Warner Bros.)
41. Oujda-Casablanca Introspections Vol. 1 (Barbarity import)
42. House of Pain: Same as It Ever Was (Tommy Boy)
43. Hüsker Dü: The Living End (Warner Bros.)
44. Jimi Hendrix: Blues (MCA)
45. Marshall Crenshaw: Marshall Crenshaw Live . . . My Truck Is My Home (Razor & Tie)
46. Digable Planets: Blowout Comb (Pendulum/EMI)
47. Dancehall Stylee: The Best of Reggae Dancehall Music Vol. 4 (Profile '93)
48. Joseph Spence and the Pinder Family: The Spring of Sixty-Five (Rounder)
49. Sam Mangwana: Rumba Music (Stern's Africa)
50. Dance Hits U.K (Moonshine Music)
51. Nico Saquito: Good-bye Mr Cat (World Circuit)
52. Backbeat (Virgin)
53. Etta James: Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday (Private Music)
54. Henri Bowane: Double Take--Tala Kaka (RetroAfric)
55. Beat the Retreat: Songs by Richard Thompson (Capitol)
56. Ahmad (Giant)
57. The David Johansen Group: The David Johansen Group Live (Epic Associated/Legacy '93)
58. Skip James: She Lyin' (Genes)
59. Beastie Boys: Ill Communication (Grand Royal)
60. Pearl Jam: Vitalogy (Epic)

Singles

1. Beck: "Loser" (DGC)
2. Craig Mack: "Flava in Your Ear" (Bad Boy)
3. FU-Schnickens: "Sum Dum Munkey" (Jive)
4. Dawn Penn: "You Don't Love Me (No No No)" (Big Beat)
5. Shaquille O'Neal: "Biological Didn't Bother" (Jive)
6. Scarface: "I Seen a Man Die" (Rap-a-Lot/Noo Trybe)
7. Yo La Tengo: "From a Motel 6" (Matador)
8. Morel's Groove, Pt. 6: "This My Party, Bitch Get Out" (Strictly Rhythm)
9. Bruce Springsteen: "Streets of Philadelphia" (Epic Soundtrax)
10. Worl-a-Girl: "No Gunshot (Put Down the Gun)" (Chaos/Columbia)
11. The BC-52's: "(Meet) The Flintstones" (MCA)
12. All-4-One: "I Swear" (Blitzz/Atlantic)

EPs

1. Archers of Loaf: Archers of Loaf vs The Greatest of All Time (Alias)
2. Elastica: Stutter (DGC)
3. Sugar: Your Favorite Thing (Rykodisc)
4. Matthew Sweet: Son of Altered Beast (Zoo)
5. HWA: Hoez With Attitude: Az Much Ass Azz U Want (Ruthless)
6. Heavenly: The Decline and Fall of Heavenly (K)
7. Beck: Loser (Bong Load/DGC)
8. Sonny Sharrock: Space Ghost: Coast to Coast (Cartoon Network promo)
9. The Raincoats: Extended Play (Smells Like)
10. Mold: Sonic Youth at Disney World (Funky Mushroom)

Videos

1. The Raincoats: "Lost in the Supermarket" (Gina Birch)
2. Green Day: "Basket Case" (Mark Kohr)
3. Coolio: "Fantastic Voyage" (F. Gary Gray)

Reissues

1. The Shirelles: The Very Best of the Shirelles (Rhino)
2. Louis Armstrong: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 1923-1934 (Columbia/Legacy)
3. Louis Armstrong: 16 Most Requested Songs (Columbia/Legacy)
4. Slim Gaillard: Laughing in Rhythm: The Best of the Verve Years (Verve)
5. A Taste of the Indestructible Beat of Soweto (Earthworks)
6. The Jazz Age: New York in the Twenties (Bluebird '91)
7. Fred Astaire: Top Hat: Hits From Hollywood (Columbia/Legacy)
8. The "5" Royales: Monkey Hips and Rice: The "5" Royales Anthology (Rhino)
9. White Country Blues: 1926-1938 A Lighter Shade of Blue (Columbia/Legacy '93)
10. Bootsy Collins: Back in the Day: The Best of Bootsy (Warner Archives)

Village Voice, Feb. 28, 1995

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