Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 1983

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Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 1983

Listing for 295 records from 1983 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A+	Marshall Crenshaw: *Field Day* [Warner Bros.] DeBarge: *In a Special Way* [Gordy]
A	The Blasters: *Non Fiction* [Slash] George Clinton: *You Shouldn't-Nuf Bit Fish* [Capitol] DFX2: *Emotion* [MCA EP] Hüsker Dü: *Metal Circus* [SST EP] Cyndi Lauper: *She's So Unusual* [Portrait] Pablo Moses: *In the Future* [Alligator] Lou Reed: *Legendary Hearts* [RCA Victor] Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers: *Jonathan Sings!* [Sire] James Blood Ulmer: *Odyssey* [Columbia] *African Music* [Vertigo]
A-	ABC: *Beauty Stab* [Mercury] King Sunny Ade and His African Beats: *Ajoo* [Makossa] King Sunny Ade and His African Beats: *Synchro System* [Mango] John Anderson: *All the People Are Talkin'* [Warner Bros.] Joan Armatrading: *Track Record* [A&M] Aztec Camera: *High Land, Hard Rain* [Sire] Bad Religion: *Into the Unknown* [Epitaph] B-52's: *Whammy!* [Warner Bros.] Kurtis Blow: *Party Time?* [Mercury] The Butthole Surfers: *Butthole Surfers* [Alternative Tentacles EP] The Cucumbers: *The Cucumbers* [Fake Doom EP] Miles Davis: *Star People* [Columbia] Divinyls: *Desperate* [Chrysalis] Earth, Wind & Fire: *Powerlight* [Columbia] Eek-A-Mouse: *The Mouse and the Man* [Greensleeves] Philip Glass: *The Photographer* [CBS] The Golden Palominos: *The Golden Palominos* [Celluloid/OAO] Al Green: *I'll Rise Again* [Myrrh] Charlie Haden: *The Ballad of the Fallen* [ECM] John Hiatt: *Riding With the King* [Geffen] Hilary: *Kinetic* [Backstreet EP] Winston Hussey: *The Girl I Adore* [Live & Learn] Indeep: *Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life* [Sound of New York] Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society: *Barbeque Dog* [Antilles] Kid Creole and the Coconuts: *Doppelganger* [Sire/ZE] Local Boys: *Moments of Madness* [Island] Los Lobos: *. . . And a Time to Dance* [Slash EP] Madonna: *Madonna* [Sire] MC5: *Babes in Arms* [ROIR] Kate & Anna McGarrigle: *Love Over and Over* [Polydor] Minutemen: *Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat* [SST EP] Randy Newman: *Trouble in Paradise* [Warner Bros.] NRBQ: *Tapdancin' Bats* [Rounder/Red Rooster] Oh-OK: *Furthermore What* [DB EP] P-Funk All-Stars: *Urban Dancefloor Guerillas* [Uncle Jam/CBS Associated] The Plastic People of the Universe: *Leading Horses* [Bozi Mlyn] Public Image Ltd.: *PiL* [Virgin EP] Pylon: *Chomp* [DB] Ramones: *Subterranean Jungle* [Sire] R.E.M.: *Murmur* [I.R.S.] Nile Rodgers: *Adventures in the Land of the Good Groove* [Mirage] Swingrass '83: *Swingrass '83* [Antilles] Jamaaladeen Tacuma: *Show Stopper* [Gramavision] Talking Heads: *Speaking in Tongues* [Sire] Richard Thompson: *Hand of Kindness* [Hannibal] True West: *True West* [Bring Out Your Dead EP] UB40: *Labour of Love* [A&M] UB40: *1980-83* [A&M] U2: *Under a Blood Red Sky* [Island] Tom Waits: *Swordfishtrombones* [Island] Womack & Womack: *Love Wars* [Elektra] X: *More Fun in the New World* [Elektra] Yolocamba Ita: *Revolutionary Songs of El Salvador* [Flying Fish] *Knotty Vision* [Nighthawk] *The Sound of Kinshasa: Guitar Classics From Zaire* [Original Music] *This Are Two Tone* [Chrysalis] *Viva Zimbabwe!* [Earthworks]
B+	Steve Arrington's Hall of Fame: I [Atlantic] Bad Brains: *Rock for Light* [PVC] Anita Baker: *The Songstress* [Beverly Glen] The Beach Boys: *Rarities* [Capitol] James Booker: *Classified* [Rounder] Bobby Braddock: *Hardpore Cornography* [RCA Victor EP] James Brown: *Bring It On* [Augusta Sound] T-Bone Burnett: *Proof Through the Night* [Warner Bros.] Cameo: *Style* [Atlanta Artists] Champaign: *Modern Heart* [Columbia] The Chesterfield Kings: *Here Come the Chesterfield Kings* [Mirror] Chic: *Believer* [Atlantic] Eric Clapton: *Money and Cigarettes* [Duck/Warner Bros.] Guy Clark: *Greatest Hits* [RCA Victor] Albert Collins: *Don't Lose Your Cool* [Alligator] Elvis Costello and the Attractions: *Punch the Clock* [Columbia] The Robert Cray Band: *Bad Influence* [HighTone] Marshall Crenshaw: *U.S. Remix* [Warner Bros. EP] Culture Club: *Colour By Numbers* [Epic] D.O.A.: *Bloodied but Unbowed* [CD] Clint Eastwood & General Saint: *Stop That Train* [Greensleeves] Echo and the Bunnymen: *Echo and the Bunnymen* [Sire EP] Bernard Edwards: *Glad to Be Here* [Atlantic] Eek-A-Mouse: *Assassinator* [RAS] The Embarrassment: *Death Travels West* [Fresh Sounds] The English Beat: *What Is Beat?* [I.R.S.] Marianne Faithfull: *A Child's Adventure* [Island] A Flock of Seagulls: *Listen* [Jive] Aretha Franklin: *Get It Right* [Arista] Fun Boy Three: *Waiting* [Chrysalis] Gap Band: *Gap Band V: Jammin'* [Total Experience] The Go-Betweens: *Before Hollywood* [Rough Trade] Steve Goodman: *Affordable Art* [Red Pajamas] Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five: *Greatest Messages* [Sugarhill] Eddy Grant: *Killer on the Rampage* [Portrait] Green on Red: *Gravity Talks* [Slash] Daryl Hall & John Oates: *Rock'n Soul Part 1* [RCA Victor] Tom T. Hall: *Everything from Jesus to Jack Daniels* [Mercury] Herbie Hancock: *Future Shock* [Columbia] Jon Hassell: *Aka/Darbari/Java* [Editions EG] Heaven 17: *The Luxury Gap* [Arista] Nona Hendryx: *Nona* [RCA Victor] Z.Z. Hill: *I'm a Blues Man* [Malaco] Buddy Holly: *For the First Time Anywhere* [MCA] The Honest Cartwrights: *The Honest Cartwrights* [Honest Cartwrights EP] Gregory Isaacs: *Out Deh!* [Mango] The Itals: *Give Me Power* [Nighthawk] The Jam: *Snap!* [Polydor] Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: *Album* [MCA] Billy Joel: *An Innocent Man* [Columbia] Latimore: *I'll Do Anything for You* [Malaco] LeRoi Brothers: *Check This Action* [Amazing] Huey Lewis and the News: *Sports* [Chrysalis] Little Girls: *Thank Heaven!* [PVC EP] Nick Lowe: *The Abominable Showman* [Columbia] Bob Marley & the Wailers: *Confrontation* [Island] Massacre: *Killing Time* [Celluloid/OAO] Malcolm McLaren: *Duck Rock* [Island] Mental as Anything: *Creatures of Leisure* [A&M] Sugar Minott: *Sufferer's Choice* [Heartbeat] Mutabaruka: *Check It!* [Alligator] New Order: *Power, Corruption and Lies* [Factus] N.Y.C. Peech Boys: *Life Is Something Special* [Island] Graham Parker: *The Real Macaw* [Arista] Pinhead: *Where Are You?* [BSharp EP] Polecats: *Make a Circuit With Me* [Mercury EP] The Police: *Synchronicity* [A&M] The Proletariat: *Soma Holiday* [Non-U/Radiobeat] The Raisins: *The Raisins* [Strugglebaby] The Replacements: *Hootenanny* [Twin/Tone] Lionel Richie: *Can't Slow Down* [Motown] Smokey Robinson: *Touch the Sky* [Tamla] The Romantics: *In Heat* [Nemporer] Roxy Music: *The Atlantic Years 1973-1980* [Atco] Roxy Music: *The High Road* [Warner Bros. EP] Rufus and Chaka Khan: *Live--Stompin' at the Savoy* [Warner Bros.] Ryuichi Sakamoto: *Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence* [MCA] Carlos Santana: *Havana Moon* [Columbia] Shalamar: *The Look* [Solar] Paul Simon: *Hearts and Bones* [Warner Bros.] Ricky Skaggs: *Don't Cheat in Our Hometown* [Sugar Hill/Epic] The Speedboys: *Look What Love's Done to Me Now* [I Like Mike] Donna Summer: *She Works Hard for the Money* [Mercury] Swans: *Filth* [Neutral] The System: *Sweat* [Mirage] Trio: *Trio and Error* [Mercury] Trouble Funk: *In Times of Trouble* [D.E.T.T.] U2: *War* [Island] V-Effect: *Stop Those Songs* [Rift] Violent Femmes: *Violent Femmes* [Slash] Bunny Wailer: *Live* [Solomonic] Bunny Wailer: *Roots Radics Rockers Reggae* [Shanachie] The Waitresses: *Bruiseology* [Polydor] Junior Walker: *Blow the House Down* [Motown] Joe Walsh: *You Bought It--You Name It* [Warner Bros.] Was (Not Was): *Born to Laugh at Tornadoes* [Geffen] Wide Boy Awake: *Wide Boy Awake* [RCA Victor EP] Jackie Wilson: *The Jackie Wilson Story: Volume Two* [Epic] Yellowman: *Live at Reggae Sunsplash* [Sunsplash] Yabby You: *One Love, One Heart* [Shanachie] ZZ Top: *Eliminator* [Warner Bros.] *Best of Studio One* [Heartbeat] *Black Star Liner: Reggae from Africa* [Heartbeat] *Prelude's Greatest Hits* [Prelude] *Rainy Day* [Llama] *Wild Style* [Animal] *Zulu Jive/Umbaqanga* [Earthworks] *Starstruck* [A&M]
B	The Accelerators: *Leave My Heart* [Dolphin] African Image: *African Image* [Gramavision] Angst: *Angst* [Happy Squid EP] Joan Armatrading: *The Key* [A&M] Attitude: *Pump the Nation* [Atlantic] Avengers: *Avengers* [CD] Aztec Camera: *Oblivious* [Sire EP] The BBC: *Dutch* [Emotional EP] The Bellamy Brothers: *Strong Weakness* [Elektra] Big Boys: *Lullabies Help the Brain Grow* [Moment] Big Country: *The Crossing* [Mercury] J. Blackfoot: *City Slicker* [Sound Town] The Bluebells: *The Bluebells* [Sire EP] David Bowie: *Let's Dance* [EMI America] Don Carlos and Gold: *Raving Tonight* [RAS] Joe "King" Carrasco & the Crowns: *Party Weekend* [MCA] Ray Charles: *Wish You Were Here Tonight* [Columbia] The Coconuts: *Don't Take My Coconuts* [EMI America] Commodores: *Anthology* [Motown] Fats Deacon: *Buzzardhead* [Ames Griffin EP] Earth, Wind & Fire: *Electric Universe* [Columbia] Brian Eno: *Apollo: Atmospherics & Soundtracks* [Editions EG] Eurythmics: *Sweet Dreams Are Made of This* [RCA Victor] Gang of Four: *Hard* [Warner Bros.] Half Japanese: *Horrible* [Press EP] Juluka: *Scatterlings* [Warner Bros.] Bill Laswell: *Baselines* [Musician] The Long Ryders: *10-5-60* [PVC EP] The Lounge Lizards: *Live From the Drunken Boat* [Europa] Dick McCormack: *Live at the 1983 Vermont Midsummer Festival* [Rooster] John Cougar Mellencamp: *Uh-Huh* [Riva] Men at Work: *Cargo* [Columbia] Mofungo: *Out of Line* [Zoar] Mtume: *Juicy Fruit* [Epic] Native Tongue: *Yowl* [Modern Method] New Edition: *Candy Girl* [Streetwise] NRBQ: *Grooves in Orbit* [Bearsville] Ray Parker Jr.: *Woman Out of Control* [Arista] Penguin Cafe Orchestra: *The Penguin Cafe Orchestra Mini Album* [Editions EG EP] Elvis Presley: *Elvis: A Legendary Performer: Volume 4* [RCA Victor] Red Crayola with Art & Language: *Black Snakes* [Recommended] Savage Republic: *Tragic Figures* [Independent Project] Gil Scott-Heron: *Moving Target* [Arista] The Style Council: *Introducing the Style Council* [Polydor] David Thomas and the Pedestrians: *Variations on a Theme* [Sixth International] Richard Thompson: *Strict Tempo!* [Carthage] Johnny Thunders: *Too Much Junkie Business* [ROIR] Peter Tosh: *Mama Africa* [EMI America] Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: *Texas Flood* [Epic] Loudon Wainwright III: *Fame and Wealth* [Rounder] Deniece Williams: *I'm So Proud* [Columbia] Yaz: *You and Me Both* [Sire] *Attack of the Killer B's* [Warner Bros.]
B-	Bananarama: *Deep Sea Skiving* [London] Dr. John: *The Brightest Smile in Town* [Clean Cuts] The Doors: *Alive, She Cried* [Elektra] Bob Dylan: *Infidels* [Columbia] Dave Edmunds: *Information* [Columbia] The Elvis Brothers: *Movin' Up* [Portrait] The Fall: *Perverted by Language* [Rough Trade] Fleshtones: *Hexbreaker* [I.R.S.] Alberta Hunter: *Look for the Silver Lining* [Columbia] Rick James: *Cold Blooded* [Gordy] Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson: *WWII* [RCA Victor] Kiddo: *Kiddo* [A&M] Louise Mandrell & R.C. Bannon: *The Best of Louise Mandrell & R.C. Bannon* [RCA Victor EP] Paul McCartney: *Pipes of Peace* [Columbia] Bette Midler: *No Frills* [Atlantic] Van Morrison: *Inarticulate Speech of the Heart* [Warner Bros.] Judy Mowatt: *Black Woman* [Shanachie] Willie Nelson with Waylon Jennings: *Take It to the Limit* [Columbia] Ric Ocasek: *Beatitude* [Geffen] The Plimsouls: *Everywhere at Once* [Geffen] Smokey Robinson: *Blame It on Love and All the Great Hits* [Tamla] Soft Cell: *The Art of Falling Apart* [Sire] Sonic Youth: *Kill Yr. Idols* [Zensor EP] Stray Cats: *Rant n' Rave With the Stray Cats* [EMI America] Whodini: *Whodini* [Jive] XTC: *Mummer* [Geffen] *Flashdance* [Casablanca]
C+	Berlin: *Pleasure Victim* [Geffen] Bow Wow Wow: *When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going* [RCA Victor] Jackson Browne: *Lawyers in Love* [Asylum] Irene Cara: *What a Feelin'* [Geffen] Jimmy Cliff: *The Power and the Glory* [Columbia] Howard Devoto: *Jerky Versions of the Dream* [I.R.S.] Thomas Dolby: *The Flat Earth* [Capitol] I-Level: *I-Level* [Epic] Ism: *A Diet for the Worms* [Original Sin] Joe Jackson: *Mike's Murder Soundtrack* [A&M] Garland Jeffreys: *Guts for Love* [Epic] George Jones: *Shine On* [Epic] Jonzun Crew: *Lost in Space* [Tommy Boy] Kajagoogoo: *White Feathers* [EMI America] Kashif: *Kashif* [Arista] Men Without Hats: *Rhythm of Youth* [Backstreet] Midnight Oil: *10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1* [Columbia] Willie Nelson: *Tougher Than Leather* [Columbia] Willie Nelson: *Without a Song* [Columbia] Pink Floyd: *The Final Cut* [Columbia] Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band: *The Distance* [Capitol] Simple Minds: *New Gold Dreams (81-82-83-84)* [A&M] Sonic Youth: *Confusion Is Sex* [Neutral] 38 Special: *Tour de Force* [A&M] Fonzi Thornton: *The Leader* [RCA Victor] The Three O'Clock: *Sixteen Tambourines* [Frontier] Tom Tom Club: *Close to the Bone* [Sire] The Tubes: *Outside Inside* [Capitol] Luther Vandross: *Busy Body* [Epic] Neil Young: *Neil Young and the Shocking Pinks/Everybody's Rockin'* [Geffen] *Get Crazy* [Morocco]
C	Def Leppard: *Pyromania* [Mercury] The Fixx: *Reach the Beach* [MCA]
C-	Re-Flex: *The Politics of Dancing* [Capitol] Linda Ronstadt: *What's New* [Asylum]
D+	Journey: *Frontiers* [Columbia] Paul Kantner: *Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra* [RCA Victor]
D	Peter Hofmann: *Rock Classics* [CBS]

1982

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