Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 1982

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Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 1982

Listing for 318 records from 1982 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A+	Ornette Coleman: *Of Human Feelings* [Antilles]
A	Angry Samoans: *Back from Samoa* [Bad Trip EP] George Clinton: *Computer Games* [Capitol] Marshall Crenshaw: *Marshall Crenshaw* [Warner Bros.] Donald Fagen: *The Nightfly* [Warner Bros.] Flipper: *The Generic Album* [Subterranean] Michael Jackson: *Thriller* [Epic] Kid Creole and the Coconuts: *Wise Guy* [Sire/ZE] Professor Longhair: *The Last Mardi Gras* [Atlantic/Deluxe] Lou Reed: *The Blue Mask* [RCA Victor] Richard & Linda Thompson: *Shoot Out the Lights* [Hannibal]
A-	ABC: *The Lexicon of Love* [Mercury] King Sunny Ade and His African Beats: *Juju Music* [Mango] Laurie Anderson: *Big Science* [Warner Bros.] Sweet Pea Atkinson: *Don't Walk Away* [Island] B-52's: *Mesopotamia* [Warner Bros.] Ruby Braff: *Very Sinatra* [Finesse] T-Bone Burnett: *Trap Door* [Warner Bros. EP] Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: *Ice Cream for Crow* [Virgin/Epic] Joe "King" Carrasco & the Crowns: *Synapse Gap (Mundo Total)* [MCA] Chic: *Tongue in Chic* [Atlantic] The Descendents: *Milo Goes to College* [New Alliance] D.O.A.: *War on 45* [Alternative Tentacles] Swamp Dogg: *The Best of Swamp Dogg* [War Bride] Clint Eastwood & General Saint: *Two Bad D.J.* [Greensleeves] The English Beat: *Special Beat Service* [I.R.S.] Ferron: *Testimony* [Philo] A Flock of Seagulls: *A Flock of Seagulls* [Jive] Chico Freeman: *Destiny's Dance* [Contemporary] Gang of Four: *Songs of the Free* [Warner Bros.] Marvin Gaye: *Midnight Love* [Columbia] Gilberto Gil: *Um Banda Um* [WEA Latina] Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five: *The Message* [Sugarhill] Ted Hawkins: *Watch Your Step* [Rounder] Bonnie Hayes and the Wild Combo: *Good Clean Fun* [Slash] Richard Hell: *Destiny Street* [Red Star] Alberta Hunter: *The Glory of Alberta Hunter* [Columbia] Hüsker Dü: *Everything Falls Apart* [Reflex] The Itals: *Brutal Out Deh* [Nighthawk] Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society: *Mandance* [Antilles] The Jive Five: *Here We Are!* [Ambient Sound] David Johansen: *Live It Up* [Blue Sky] George Jones: *Anniversary: Ten Years of Hits* [Epic] John Lennon: *The John Lennon Collection* [Geffen] Madness: *Complete Madness* [Stiff] Material: *One Down* [Elektra] Mighty Diamonds: *Indestructible* [Alligator] Minutemen: *What Makes a Man Start Fires?* [SST] Van Morrison: *Beautiful Vision* [Warner Bros.] Willie Nelson & Webb Pierce: *In the Jailhouse Now* [Columbia] Orchestra Makassy: *Agwaya* [Virgin] Ray Parker Jr.: *Greatest Hits* [Arista] Ray Parker Jr.: *The Other Woman* [Arista] The Pop-O-Pies: *White EP* [415 EP] Prince: *1999* [Warner Bros.] The Psychedelic Furs: *Forever Now* [Columbia] Bonnie Raitt: *Green Light* [Warner Bros.] Rank and File: *Sundown* [Slash] R.E.M.: *Chronic Town* [I.R.S. EP] The Replacements: *Stink* [Twin/Tone] Tom Robinson: *North by Northwest* [I.R.S.] The Roches: *Keep on Doing* [Warner Bros.] Roxy Music: *Avalon* [Warner Bros.] Shalamar: *Greatest Hits* [Solar] The Speedboys: *That's What I Like* [I Like Mike] Bruce Springsteen: *Nebraska* [Columbia] Squeeze: *Singles -- 45's and Under* [A&M] Talking Heads: *The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads* [Sire] The Time: *What Time Is It?* [Warner Bros.] Trouble Funk: *Drop the Bomb* [Sugarhill] UB40: *The Singles Album* [DEP International] James Blood Ulmer: *Black Rock* [Columbia] Bunny Wailer: *Hook, Line and Sinker* [Solomonic] The Waitresses: *I Could Rule the World if I Could Only Get the Parts* [Polydor EP] Stevie Wonder: *Original Musiquarium I* [Tamla] X: *Under the Big Black Sun* [Elektra] Neil Young: *Trans* [Geffen] Warren Zevon: *The Envoy* [Asylum] *Calling Rastafari* [Nighthawk] *Everything New Is Old . . . Everything Old Is New* [Ambient Sound] *Sound d'Afrique II: Soukous* [Mango]
B+	John Anderson: *Wild and Blue* [Warner Bros.] Anti-Nowhere League: *Anti-Nowhere League* [Faulty Products EP] Bad Brains: *Bad Brains* [ROIR] Toni Basil: *Word of Mouth* [Chrysalis] The Bellamy Brothers: *Greatest Hits* [MCA] Black Uhuru: *Chill Out* [Island] The Bongos: *Drums Along the Hudson* [PVC] Joanne Brackeen: *Special Identity* [Antilles] Burning Spear: *Farover* [Heartbeat] Charlie Burton and the Cut-Outs: *Is That Charlie Burton or What?!?!* [Wild] Bus Boys: *American Worker* [Arista] Kate Bush: *The Dreaming* [EMI America] Rosanne Cash: *Somewhere in the Stars* [Columbia] CH 3: *Fear of Life* [Posh Boy] The Clash: *Combat Rock* [Epic] Bootsy Collins: *The One Giveth, the Count Taketh Away* [Warner Bros.] Cool It Reba: *Money Fall Out the Sky* [Hannibal EP] Elvis Costello and the Attractions: *Imperial Bedroom* [Columbia] The dB's: *Repercussion* [Albion] DeBarge: *All This Love* [Gordy] Defunkt: *Thermonuclear Sweat* [Hannibal] Devo: *Oh, No! It's Devo* [Warner Bros.] The Dream Syndicate: *The Days of Wine and Roses* [Ruby] The Dream Syndicate: *The Dream Syndicate* [Down There EP] "D" Train: *"D" Train* [Prelude] Dave Edmunds: *D.E. 7th* [Columbia] Brian Eno: *On Land* [Editions EG] Roky Erickson and the Aliens: *The Evil One* [415] The Fabulous Thunderbirds: *T-Bird Rhythm* [Chrysalis] Fleetwood Mac: *Mirage* [Warner Bros.] Aretha Franklin: *Jump to It* [Arista] Gap Band: *Gap Band IV* [Total Experience] The Gladiators: *Symbol of Reality* [Nighthawk] Buddy Guy & Junior Wells: *Drinkin' TNT and Smokin' Dynamite* [Blind Pig] Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson: *Pancho and Lefty* [Columbia] Heaven 17: *Heaven 17* [Arista] Jimi Hendrix: *The Jimi Hendrix Concerts* [Warner Bros.] Don Henley: *I Can't Stand Still* [Asylum] Imagination: *Body Talk* [MCA] Imagination: *In the Heat of the Night* [MCA] Gregory Isaacs: *Mr. Isaacs* [Shanachie] Gregory Isaacs: *Night Nurse* [Mango] Millie Jackson: *Live and Outrageous* [Spring] Rick James: *Throwin' Down* [Gordy] Syl Johnson: *Ms. Fine Brown Frame* [Boardwalk] Grace Jones: *Living My Life* [Island] Si Kahn: *Doing My Job* [Flying Fish] Chaka Khan: *Chaka Khan* [Warner Bros.] David Lasley: *Missin' Twenty Grand* [EMI America] Led Zeppelin: *Coda* [Swan Song] Legal Weapon: *Death of Innocence* [Arsenal] Legal Weapon: *Your Weapon* [Arsenal] Liliput: *Liliput* [Rough Trade] Nick Lowe: *Nick the Knife* [Columbia] Willie Mabon: *Blues Roots Volume 16* [Chess] Material: *Memory Serves* [Elektra/Musician] Men at Work: *Business as Usual* [Columbia] Mission of Burma: *Vs.* [Ace of Hearts] The Moments: *Collector's Addition Vol. 1* [Victory] The Morells: *Shake and Push* [Borrowed] The Neville Brothers: *Fiyo on the Bayou* [A&M] Gram Parsons and the Fallen Angels: *Live 1973* [Sierra] Pere Ubu: *Song of the Bailing Man* [Rough Trade] Lee "Scratch" Perry and the Majestics: *Mystic Miracle Star* [Heartbeat] Elvis Presley: *Elvis: The First Live Recordings* [The Music Works EP] A.C. Reed & His Spark Plugs: *Take These Blues and Shove 'Em* [Ice Cube] Kevin Rowland and Dexys Midnight Runners: *Too-Rye-Ay* [Mercury] Pete Shelley: *Homosapien* [Arista] Ricky Skaggs: *Highways and Heartaches* [Epic] Squeeze: *Sweets From a Stranger* [A&M] Steely Dan: *Gold* [MCA] Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers: *Genuine Houserocking Music* [Alligator] Television: *The Blow Up* [ROIR] Luther Vandross: *Forever, for Always, for Love* [Epic] Vanity 6: *Vanity 6* [Warner Bros.] Tom Verlaine: *Words from the Front* [Warner Bros.] Virgin Prunes: *If I Die, I Die* [Rough Trade] The Waitresses: *Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful?* [Polydor] Deniece Williams: *This Is Niecy* [Columbia/ARC] Robert Wyatt: *Nothing Can Stop Us* [Rough Trade] XTC: *English Settlement* [Virgin/Epic] Yaz: *Upstairs at Eric's* [Sire] Y Pants: *Beat It Down* [Neutral] Zapp: *Zapp II* [Warner Bros.] *Crucial Reggae Driven by Sly & Robbie* [Mango] *Genius of Rap* [Island] *The Nairobi Sound* [Original Music] *Singles: The Great New York Singles Scene* [ROIR] *Soweto* [Rough Trade] *Party Party* [A&M]
B	Bad Religion: *How Could Hell Be Any Worse?* [Epitaph] The Bangles: *The Bangles* [Faulty Products EP] Black Flag: *Everything Went Black* [SST] The Blasters: *Over There: Live at the Venue, London* [Slash EP] Kurtis Blow: *Tough* [Mercury] Bow Wow Wow: *The Last of the Mohicans* [RCA Victor EP] Cameo: *Alligator Woman* [Chocolate City] Paul Carrack: *Suburban Voodoo* [Epic] Cheap Trick: *One on One* [Epic] Clifton Chenier: *I'm Here!* [Alligator] Joe Cocker: *Sheffield Steel* [Island] Johnny Copeland: *Make My Home Where I Hang My Hat* [Rounder] John Cougar: *American Fool* [Riva] Culture Club: *Kissing to Be Clever* [Epic/Virgin] The Fall: *A Part of America Therein, 1981* [Cottage] Fine Art: *Scan* [Good EP] Edi Fitzroy: *Youthman Penitentiary* [Alligator] Flamin' Oh's: *Oh!* [Fat City] Fleshtones: *Blast Off!* [ROIR] Fun Boy Three: *The Fun Boy Three* [Chrysalis] Renée Geyer: *Renée Geyer* [Epic/Portrait] Al Green: *Precious Lord* [Hi/Myrrh] Green on Red: *Green on Red* [Down There EP] Billy Hancock & the Tennessee Rockets: *Shakin' That Rockabilly Fever* [Solid Smoke] The Harptones: *Love Needs* [Ambient Sound] Hot Chocolate: *Mystery* [EMI America] Billy Idol: *Billy Idol* [Chrysalis] The Individuals: *Fields* [Plexus] The Jam: *The Bitterest Pill* [Polydor EP] The Jam: *The Gift* [Polydor] Chas Jankel: *Questionnaire* [A&M] Billy Joel: *The Nylon Curtain* [Columbia] Elton John: *Jump Up!* [Geffen] Junior: Ji [Mercury] Kraut: *An Adjustment to Society* [Cabbage] Peter Laughner: *Peter Laughner* [Koolie EP] Jerry Lee Lewis: *The Best of Jerry Lee Lewis Featuring 39 and Holding* [Elektra] Lene Lovich: *No-Man's Land* [Stiff/Epic] Curtis Mayfield: *Love Is the Place* [Boardwalk] Paul McCartney: *Tug of War* [Columbia] Mighty Diamonds: *The Roots Is There* [Shanachie] The Steve Miller Band: *Abracadabra* [Capitol] Joni Mitchell: *Wild Things Run Fast* [Geffen] Musical Youth: *The Youth of Today* [MCA] Willie Nelson & Roger Miller: *Old Friends* [Columbia] Graham Parker: *Another Grey Area* [Arista] Robert Plant: *Pictures at 11* [Swan Song] Smokey Robinson: *Yes It's You Lady* [Tamla] The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: *Hooked on Classics* [RCA Victor] Scritti Politti: *Songs to Remember* [Rough Trade] Shoes: *Boomerang* [Elektra] Sly & the Family Stone: *Ain't but the One Way* [Warner Bros.] Steel Pulse: *True Democracy* [Elektra] True Sounds of Liberty: *Beneath the Shadows* [Alternative Tentacles] Tru Fax and the Insaniacs: *Mental Decay* [Wasp] The Urbations: *Urban Dance Party* [Metro-America] Sippie Wallace: *Sippie Wallace* [Atlantic] Wall of Voodoo: *Call of the West* [I.R.S.] War: *Outlaw* [RCA Victor] Hank Williams Jr.: *Greatest Hits* [Elektra] *Peripheral Vision* [Zoar] *Soup for One* [Mirage]
B-	Adam Ant: *Friend or Foe* [Epic] Bow Wow Wow: *I Want Candy* [RCA Victor] Johnny Cash/Jerry Lee Lewis/Carl Perkins: *The Survivors* [Columbia] Greg Copeland: *Revenge Will Come* [Geffen] The Eagles: *Greatest Hits Volume 2* [Asylum] Richard "Dimples" Fields: *Mr. Look So Good* [Boardwalk] The Go-Go's: *Vacation* [I.R.S.] Robert Gordon: *Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die* [RCA Victor] Merle Haggard and George Jones: *A Taste of Yesterday's Wine* [Epic] Daryl Hall & John Oates: *H2O* [RCA Victor] John Hiatt: *All of a Sudden* [Geffen] Joe Jackson: *Night and Day* [A&M] Janis Joplin: *Farewell Song* [Columbia] Evelyn King: *Get Loose* [RCA Victor] Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Brenda Lee: *The Winning Hand* [Monument] Huey Lewis and the News: *Picture This* [Chrysalis] Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul: *Men Without Women* [EMI America] Magic Slim and the Teardrops: *Raw Magic* [Alligator] Moon Martin: *Mystery Ticket* [Capitol] The Mekons: *The Mekons Story* [CNT] Olivia Newton-John: *Olivia's Greatest Hits Vol. 2* [MCA] Yoko Ono: *It's Alright* [Polydor] Dolly Parton: *Heartbreak Express* [RCA Victor] Willie Phoenix: *Willie Phoenix* [A&M] The Pointer Sisters: *Pointer Sisters' Greatest Hits* [Planet] Iggy Pop: *Zombie Birdhouse* [Animal] Otis Redding: *Recorded Live: Previously Unreleased Performances* [Atlantic] The Rolling Stones: *"Still Life" (American Tour 1981)* [Rolling Stones] Shalamar: *Friends* [Solar] Slave: *Visions of the Lite* [Cotillion] Gary Stewart & Dean Dillon: *Brotherly Love* [RCA Victor] Stray Cats: *Built for Speed* [EMI America] The Suburbs: *Credit in Heaven* [Twin/Tone] Swollen Monkeys: *Afterbirth of the Cool* [Cachalot] The Temptations: *Reunion* [Gordy] George Thorogood and the Destroyers: *Bad to the Bone* [EMI America] Alfonia Tims and His Flying Tigers: *Future Funk/Uncut!* [ROIR] Toto: *Toto IV* [Columbia] Tripod Jimmie: *Long Walk Off a Short Pier* [Do Speak] Van Halen: *Diver Down* [Warner Bros.]
C+	Lou Ann Barton: *Old Enough* [Antone's] The Jim Carroll Band: *Dry Dreams* [Atco] Marshall Chapman: *Take It On Home* [Rounder] Circle Jerks: *Wild in the Streets* [Faulty Products] Ry Cooder: *The Slide Area* [Warner Bros.] Dire Straits: *Love Over Gold* [Warner Bros.] Fear: *The Record* [Slash] The Flesh Eaters: *Forever Came Today* [Ruby] Peter Gabriel: *Security* [Geffen] Nina Hagen: *Nunsexmonkrock* [Columbia] Merle Haggard: *Going Where the Lonely Go* [Epic] Haircut One Hundred: *Pelican West* [Arista] Magazine: *After the Fact* [I.R.S.] Rita Marley: *Who Feels It Knows It* [Shanachie] Michael McDonald: *If That's What It Takes* [Warner Bros.] Frankie Miller: *Standing on the Edge* [Capitol] Missing Persons: *Spring Session M* [Capitol] The Motels: *All Four One* [Capitol] The Necessaries: *Event Horizon* [Sire] Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: *Long After Dark* [Backstreet] Queen Ida & the Bon Temps Zydeco Band: *On Tour* [GNP Crescendo] Lionel Richie: *Lionel Richie* [Motown] Linda Ronstadt: *Get Closer* [Asylum] The Runaways: *The Best of the Runaways* [Mercury] Patrice Rushen: *Straight from the Heart* [Elektra] Simon & Garfunkel: *The Concert in Central Park* [Warner Bros.]
C	Au Pairs: *Sense and Sensuality* [Roadrunner] Blondie: *The Hunter* [Chrysalis] The Cure: *Pornography* [A&M] Jimmy Destri: *Heart on a Wall* [Chrysalis] The Lords of the New Church: *The Lords of the New Church* [I.R.S.] The Nitecaps: *Go to the Line* [Sire] Sonic Youth: *Sonic Youth* [Neutral EP] Donna Summer: *Donna Summer* [Geffen] Ultravox: *Quartet* [Chrysalis] The Who: *It's Hard* [Warner Bros.] Cris Williamson: *Blue Rider* [Olivia] Steve Winwood: *Talking Back to the Night* [Island]
C-	Asia: *Asia* [Geffen] Black Uhuru: *Tear It Up--Live* [Mango] Duran Duran: *Rio* [Capitol] Simple Minds: *Themes for Great Cities* [Stiff]
D+	Pete Townshend: *All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes* [Atco]
D-	Plasmatics: *Coup D'Etat* [Capitol]
E	Bow Wow Wow: *Twelve Original Recordings* [EMI]

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