Pazz & Jop 1995: Dean's List

Albums

1. Tricky: Maxinquaye (Island) 17
2. Archers of Loaf: Vee Vee (Alias) 16
3. Orüj Güvenç & Tümata: Ocean of Remembrance (Interworld) 12
4. Peter Stampfel: You Must Remember This . . . (Gert Town) 10
5. Randy Newman's Faust (Reprise) 9
6. Pavement: Wowee Zowee (Matador) 9
7. PJ Harvey: To Bring You My Love (Island) 9
8. Luna: Penthouse (Elektra) 7
9. James Carter: The Real Quietstorm (Atlantic) 6
10. [File Under Prince]: The Gold Experience (Warner Bros.) 5

11. John Prine: Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings (Oh Boy)
12. Yo La Tengo: Eletr-O-Pura (Matador)
13. Ornette Coleman: Tone Dialing (Verve)
14. The Bottle Rockets: The Brooklyn Side (ESD '94)
15. Handraizer (Moonshine Music '94)
16. Coolio: Gangsta's Paradise (Tommy Boy)
17. Yoko Ono/IMA: Rising (Capitol)
18. Sonic Youth: Washing Machine (DGC)
19. Heavens to Betsy: Calculated (Kill Rock Stars '94)
20. Godwin Kabaka Opara's Oriental Brothers International: Do Better If You Can/Onye Ikekwere Mekeya (Original Music)
21. Whale: We Care (Virgin)
22. Jive Nation: The Indestructible Beat of Soweto Vol. 5 (Stern's/Earthworks)
23. Barry Black (Alias)
24. Jo Carol Pierce: Bad Girls Upset by the Truth (Monkey Hill)
25. Everclear: Sparkle and Fade (Capitol)
26. Elastica (DGC)
27. Alison Krauss: Now That I've Found You: A Collection (Rounder)
28. Shane MacGowan and the Popes: The Snake (Warner Bros.)
29. Buju Banton: 'Til Shiloh (Loose Cannon)
30. The Highwaymen: The Road Goes On Forever (Liberty)
31. Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments: Bait and Switch (Onion/American)
32. The Klezmatics: Jews With Horns (Xenophile)
33. Stevie Wonder: Conversation Peace (Motown)
34. Super Sweet Talks International: The Lord's Prayer (Stern's Africa)
35. Heart of the Forest (Hannibal '93)
36. Ramones: It's Alive (Sire/Warner Archives)
37. Rancid: . . . And Out Come the Wolves (Epitaph)
38. The Chemical Brothers: Exit Planet Dust (Astralwerks)
39. Naughty by Nature: Poverty's Paradise (Tommy Boy)
40. Little Charlie and the Nightcats: Straight Up! (Alligator)
41. NOFX: Punk in Drublic (Epitaph '94)
42. Grant McLennan: Horsebreaker Star (Atlantic)
43. Rolling Stones: Stripped (Virgin)
44. Moby: Everything Is Wrong (Elektra)
45. brute.: Nine High With a Bullet (Capricorn)
46. Roaring Lion: Sacred 78's (Ice '94)
47. R. Kelly (Jive)
48. Soul Asylum: Let Your Dim Light Shine (Columbia)
49. Lord Melody: Precious Melodies (Ice)
50. Al Green: Don't Look Back (BMG import)
51. M People: Forbidden Fruit (Epic)
52. Cornershop: Woman's Gotta Have It (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.)
53. Ruby Braff and Ellis Larkins: Calling Berlin, Vol. 1 (Arbors)
54. Technotronic: Recall (SBK '94)
55. Bonnie Raitt: Road Tested (Capitol)
56. Mighty Sparrow: Volume Four (Ice)
57. Turntable Tastemakers Vol. 1: The Sound of Cleveland City Recordings (Moonshine Music '94)
58. Ladysmith Black Mambazo: Liph' Iquinso (Shanachie '94)
59. Marshall Chapman: It's About Time . . . Recorded Live at the Tennessee State Prison for Women (Margaritaville)
60. Waiting To Exhale (Arista)
61. Ani DiFranco: Not a Pretty Girl (Righteous Babe)
62. Steve Earle: Train a Comin' (Winter Harvest)
63. Belly: King (Sire/Reprise)
64. Green Day: Insomniac (Reprise)
65. New York's Ensemble for Early Music: Istanpitta Vol. 1 (Lyrichord)
66. Real McCoy: Another Night (Arista)
67. Only the Poorman Feel It: South Africa (Hemisphere)
68. Don White: Live at the Somerville Theatre (Lyric Moon)
69. Liz Phair: Juvenilia (Matador)
70. Papa Wemba: Emotion (RealWorld)
71. David Murray: Jug-a-Lug (DIW import)

Singles

1. Coolio: "Gangsta's Paradise" (Tommy Boy)
2. Archers of Loaf: "What Did You Expect?"/"Ethel Merman" (Merge)
3. Whitney Houston: "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" (Arista)
4. Michael Hall: "Frank Slade's 29th Dream" (DejaDisc)
5. Mary J. Blige: "I'm Going Down" (Uptown/MCA)
6. Jill Sobule: "I Kissed a Girl" (Lava)
7. Alanis Morissette: "You Oughta Know" (Maverick/Reprise)
8. 2Pac "Dear Mama" (Interscope)
9. PJ Harvey: "Down by the Water" (Island)
10. Amazon Two: "Big Booyaa" (Aphrodite import)

Reissues

1. The Who: The Who Sell Out (MCA)
2. Al Green: Al Green's Greatest Hits (Hi/The Right Stuff)
3. Harry Nilsson: Personal Best: The Harry Nilsson Anthology (RCA)
4. Joe Franklin Presents . . . The Roaring '20 Roar Again (Legacy)
5. Paul Revere & the Raiders: The Essential Ride '63-'67 (Columbia/Legacy)
6. Betty Hutton: Spotlight on . . . Betty Hutton (Capitol)
7. The Temptations: Anthology (Motown)
8. Hillbilly Fever!: Vol. I: Legends of Western Swing (Rhino)
9. The O'Jays: Love Train: The Best of the O'Jays (Epic Associated/Legacy)
10. Spike Jones: Musical Depreciation Revue: The Spike Jones Anthology (Rhino)

Compilations

1. Handraizer (Moonshine Music '94)
2. Heart of the Forest (Rykodisc '93)
3. Turntable Tastemakers Vol. 1: The Sound of Cleveland City Recordings (Moonshine Music '94)
4. Get Shorty (Antilles)
5. Afro-Peruvian Classics: The Soul of Black Peru (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.)
6. Telephone Love/Telephone Lobi (Original Music)
7. Phat Rap Flava '95 (Cold Front)
8. Street Jams: Hip Hop From the Top--Part 4 (Rhino '94)
9. URBMix Vol. 1: Flammable Liquid (Planet Earth '94)

Village Voice, Feb. 25, 1996

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