Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 1989

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Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 1989

Listing for 310 records from 1989 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A	Laurie Anderson: *Strange Angels* [Warner Bros.] The Beastie Boys: *Paul's Boutique* [Capitol] The Dave Brubeck Quartet: *Jazz Goes to College* [Columbia] Jungle Brothers: *Done by the Forces of Nature* [Warner Bros.] The Mekons: *The Mekons Rock 'n' Roll* [A&M] The Mekons: *Original Sin* [Twin/Tone] The Neville Brothers: *Yellow Moon* [A&M] Remmy Ongala and Orchestre Super Matimila: *Songs for the Poor Man* [RealWorld] Dionne Warwick: *The Dionne Warwick Collection: Her All-Time Greatest Hits* [Rhino] Wire: *On Returning (1977-1979)* [Restless Retro] Neil Young: *Freedom* [Reprise] *Billboard Greatest Christmas Hits (1955-Present)* [Rhino] *The Kampala Sound* [Original Music]
A-	Clint Black: *Killin' Time* [RCA Victor] Alpha Blondy: *Revolution* [Shanachie] Boulevard of Broken Dreams: *It's the Talk of the Town and Other Sad Songs* [Hannibal] Rosanne Cash: *Hits 1979-1989* [Columbia] Neneh Cherry: *Raw Like Sushi* [Virgin] George Clinton: *The Cinderella Theory* [Paisley Park/Warner Bros.] Marshall Crenshaw: *Good Evening* [Warner Bros.] Culture: *Cumbolo* [Shanachie] Terence Trent D'Arby: *Neither Fish Nor Flesh* [Columbia] De La Soul: *3 Feet High and Rising* [Tommy Boy] Diblo: *Super Soukous* [Shanachie] E.U.: *Livin' Large* [Virgin] Chaba Fadela: *You Are Mine* [Mango] Fine Young Cannibals: *The Raw and the Cooked* [I.R.S.] Jimmie Dale Gilmore: *Jimmie Dale Gilmore* [HighTone] Al Green: *Love Ritual: Rare and Previously Unreleased 1968-1976* [MCA] Ice-T: *The Iceberg: Freedom of Speech . . . Just Watch What You Say* [Sire] Janet Jackson: *Rhythm Nation: 1814* [A&M] The Jayhawks: *Blue Earth* [Twin/Tone] Cheb Khaled/Safy Boutella: *Kutché* [Intuition] L.L. Cool J: *Walking With a Panther* [Def Jam] Los Van Van: *Songo* [Mango] The Lounge Lizards: *Voice of Chunk* [1-800-44CHUNK] Nick Lowe: *Basher: The Best of Nick Lowe* [Columbia] Baaba Maal and Mansour Seck: *Djam Leelii* [Mango] Thomas Mapfumo: *Corruption* [Mango] Meat Puppets: *Monsters* [SST] Daniel Owino Misiani and Shirati Band: *Benga Blast!* [Earthworks] Mofungo: *Work* [SST] Van Morrison: *Avalon Sunset* [Mercury] Negativland: *Helter Stupid* [SST] Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper: *Root Hog or Die* [Enigma] Alexander O'Neal: *All Mixed Up* [Tabu] Pavement: *Slay Tracks (1933-1969)* [Treble Kicker EP] Pere Ubu: *Cloudland* [Fontana] The Pointer Sisters: *Greatest Hits* [RCA] Pylon: *Hits* [DB] Queen Latifah: *All Hail the Queen* [Tommy Boy] Lou Reed: *New York* [Sire] The Roches: *Speak* [MCA] Royal Crescent Mob: *Spin the World* [Sire] Roxanne Shanté: *Bad Sister* [Cold Chillin'] Technotronic: *Pump Up the Jam: The Album* [SBK] Thelonious Monster: *Stormy Weather* [Relativity] 3rd Bass: *The Cactus Album* [Def Jam] Ernest Tubb: *Live 1965* [Rhino] Luther Vandross: *The Best of Luther Vandross . . . the Best of Love* [Epic] Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: *In Step* [Epic] Keith Whitley: *I Wonder Do You Think of Me* [RCA Victor] Dwight Yoakam: *Just Lookin' for a Hit* [Reprise] Yo La Tengo: *President Yo La Tengo* [Twin/Tone] *The African Typic Collection* [Earthworks] *Black Havana* [Capitol] *Konbit!: Burning Rhythms of Haiti* [A&M] *Nuestras Mejores Cumbias* [Globo] *Yo! MTV Raps: The Album* [Jive] *Zetrospective: Dancing in the Face of Adversity* [ZE]
B+	Aerosmith: *Pump* [Geffen] Bad Religion: *No Control* [Epitaph] Rob Base: *The Incredible Base* [Profile] The Bats: *Daddy's Highway* [Communion] Sandra Bernhard: *Without You I'm Nothing* [Enigma] Boogie Down Productions: *Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop* [Jive] Burning Spear: *Live in Paris* [Slash] Camper Van Beethoven: *Key Lime Pie* [Virgin] The Chills: *Kaleidoscope World* [Homestead] Cookie Crew: *Born This Way* [FFRR] Culture: *Nuff Crisis!* [Shanachie] El DeBarge: *Gemini* [Motown] Def Jef: *Just a Poet With Soul* [Delicious Vinyl] DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince: *And in This Corner . . .* [Jive] Dr. John: *In a Sentimental Mood* [Warner Bros.] Swamp Dogg: *I Called for a Rope and They Threw Me a Rock* [S.D.E.G.] Anna Domino: *Colouring in the Edge and the Outline* [Giant EP] Dramarama: *Stuck in Wonderamaland* [Chameleon] Lucky Dube: *Slave* [Shanachie] EPMD: *Unfinished Business* [Fresh] Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music: *Street Life: 20 Greatest Hits* [Reprise] Aretha Franklin: *Through the Storm* [Arista] Bill Frisell: *Before We Were Born* [Elektra] Al Green: *I Get Joy* [A&M] Green on Red: *Here Come the Snakes* [Restless] Albert Griffiths and the Gladiators: *On the Right Track* [Heartbeat] Deborah Harry: *Def, Dumb and Blonde* [Sire] John Hiatt: *Y'All Caught?: The Ones That Got Away 1979-1985* [Geffen] John Lee Hooker: *The Healer* [Chameleon] Jali Musa Jawara: *Soubindoor* [Mango] Flaco Jiminez: *Arriba El Norte* [Rounder] The Jolly Boys: *Pop 'N' Mento* [First Warning] Oran "Juice" Jones: *To Be Immortal* [OBR/Columbia] Quincy Jones: *Back on the Block* [Qwest] Kanda Bongo Man: *Kwassa Kwassa* [Hannibal] Salif Keita: *Ko-Yan* [Mango] Kino: *Groupa Kroovy (Blood Type)* [Gold Castle] KMFDM: *UAIOE* [Wax Trax] Kool G Rap & DJ Polo: *Road to the Riches* [Cold Chillin'] Kool Moe Dee: *Knowledge Is King* [Jive] Tuli Kupferberg: *Tuli & Friends* [Shimmy Disc] Lakeside: *The Best of Lakeside* [Solar] K.D. Lang and the Reclines: *Absolute Torch and Twang* [Sire] Eddy Lawrence: *Whiskers and Scales and Other Tall Tales* [Snowplow] Ray Lema: *Nangadeef* [Mango] L'Trimm: *Drop That Bottom* [Atlantic] Madonna: *Like a Prayer* [Sire] Miriam Makeba: *Welela* [Mercury] Karen Mantler: *My Cat Arnold* [XtraWatt] MC Lyte: *Eyes on This* [First Priority] James McMurtry: *Too Long in the Wasteland* [Columbia] Meat Beat Manifesto: *Storm the Studio* [Wax Trax] Michel'le: *Michel'le* [Ruthless] Ministry: *A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste* [Sire] Eddie Murphy: *So Happy* [Columbia] Mutabaruka: *Any Which Way . . . Freedom* [Shanachie] Youssou N'Dour: *The Lion* [Virgin] New Model Army: *Thunder and Consolation* [Capitol] New Order: *Technique* [Qwest] Nirvana: *Bleach* [Sub Pop] Tom Petty: *Full Moon Fever* [MCA] Astor Piazzolla: *La Camorra: La Soledad de la Provacación Apasionada (The Solitude of Passionate Provocation)* [American Clavé] The Pixies: *Doolittle* [4AD/Elektra] Poi Dog Pondering: *Poi Dog Pondering* [Columbia] The Replacements: *Don't Tell a Soul* [Sire] Tabu Ley Rochereau: *Babeti Soukous* [RealWorld] Doug Sahm: *Juke Box Music* [Antone's] Seduction: *Nothing Matters Without Love* [A&M] Sister Carol: *Jah Disciple* [RAS] Sly and Robbie: *Silent Assassin* [Island] Soul II Soul: *Keep On Movin'* [Virgin] Peter Stampfel and the Bottle Caps: *The People's Republic of Rock n' Roll* [Homestead] The Sugarcubes: *Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!* [Elektra] Donna Summer: *Another Place and Time* [Atlantic] Ten City: *Foundation* [Atlantic] Marc Anthony Thompson: *Watts and Paris* [Reprise] The Thompson Twins: *Big Trash* [Warner Bros.] Timbuk 3: *Edge of Allegiance* [I.R.S.] Tone-Loc: *Loc-ed After Dark* [Delicious Vinyl] Transvision Vamp: *Velveteen* [Uni] Randy Travis: *No Holdin' Back* [Warner Bros.] Moe Tucker: *Life in Exile After Abdication* [50 Skadillion Watts] The Venanda Lovely Boys: *Bo-Tata* [Rounder] The Vulgar Boatmen: *You and Your Sister* [Record Collect] Loudon Wainwright III: *Therapy* [Silvertone] Katie Webster: *Two-Fisted Mama!* [Alligator] Hank Williams Jr.: *Greatest Hits III* [Warner Bros.] Lucinda Williams: *Passionate Kisses* [Rough Trade EP] Neil Young: *Eldorado* [Reprise (Japan)] Young M.C.: *Stone Cold Rhymin'* [Delicious Vinyl] Chaba Zahouania: *Nights Without Sleeping* [Mango] Warren Zevon: *Transverse City* [Virgin] *Brazil Classics 1: Beleza Tropical* [Sire] *Hip House* [DJ International] *The Nairobi Beat (Kenyan Pop Music Today)* [Rounder] *Scandal Ska* [Mango] *Zetrospective: Hope Springs Eternal* [ZE] *Batman* [Warner Bros.] *Do the Right Thing* [Motown]
*******	Johnny Mercer: *The Capitol Collectors Series* [Capitol]
B	Babyface: *Tender Lover* [Solar] B-52's: *Cosmic Thing* [Reprise] Alpha Blondy: *The Prophets* [Capitol] Jackson Browne: *World in Motion* [Elektra] Kate Bush: *The Sensual World* [Columbia] Exene Cervenka: *Old Wives' Tales* [Rhino] Tracy Chapman: *Crossroads* [Elektra] Patsy Cline: *Live Volume Two* [MCA] Bruce Cockburn: *Big Circumstance* [Gold Castle] Coldcut: *What's That Noise?* [Tommy Boy/Reprise] Elvis Costello: *Spike* [Warner Bros.] Culture: *Good Things* [RAS] The Dirty Dozen Brass Band: *Voodoo* [Columbia] The D.O.C.: *No One Can Do It Better* [Ruthless] Gail Ann Dorsey: *The Corporate World* [Reprise] Bob Dylan: *Oh Mercy* [Columbia] Galaxie 500: *On Fire* [Rough Trade] Grant Hart: *Intolerance* [SST] Gregory Isaacs: *I.O.U.* [RAS] Billy Joel: *Storm Front* [Columbia] Rickie Lee Jones: *Flying Cowboys* [Geffen] Big Daddy Kane: *It'a s Big Daddy Thing* [Cold Chillin'] Kassav': *Majestik Zouk* [Columbia] Redhead Kingpin and the F.B.I.: *A Shade of Red* [Virgin] Lyle Lovett: *Lyle Lovett and His Large Band* [Curb] Cheb Mami: *Prince of Rai* [Shanachie] Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers: *Bright Day* [Virgin] Malcolm McLaren and the Bootzilla Orchestra: *Waltz Darling* [Epic] Lorrie Morgan: *Leave the Light On* [RCA Victor] Willie Nelson: *A Horse Called Music* [Columbia] Billy Ocean: *Greatest Hits* [Arista] Old Skull: *Get Outta School* [Restless] Dolly Parton: *White Limozeen* [Columbia] Phranc: *I Enjoy Being a Girl* [Island] The Pogues: *Peace and Love* [Island] Bonnie Raitt: *Nick of Time* [Capitol] Ramones: *Brain Drain* [Sire] Stan Ridgway: *Mosquitos* [Geffen] Schoolly-D: *Am I Black Enough for You?* [Jive] Michelle Shocked: *Captain Swing* [Mercury] Shoes: *Stolen Wishes* [Black Vinyl] Special Ed: *Youngest in Charge* [Profile] Mavis Staples: *Time Waits for No One* [Paisley Park] Syd Straw: *Surprise* [Virgin] The Style Council: *The Singular Adventures of the Style Council* [Polydor] Two Nice Girls: *2 Nice Girls* [Rough Trade] UB40: *Labour of Love II* [Virgin] Bunny Wailer: *Liberation* [Shanachie] Joe Louis Walker: *Blue Soul* [HighTone] Zvuki Mu: *Zvuki Mu* [Opal] *The Bridge: A Tribute to Neil Young* [Caroline] *Fresh Reggae Hits* [Pow Wow] *Ram Dancehall* [Mango]
B-	Aswad: *Crucial Tracks* [Mango] The Bellamy Brothers: *Greatest Hits Volume III* [Curb] Bush Tetras: *Better Late Than Never* [ROIR] Eric Clapton: *Journeyman* [Duck/Reprise] Lloyd Cole and the Commotions: *1984-1989* [Capitol] Julee Cruise: *Floating into the Night* [Warner Bros.] The Cult: *Sonic Temple* [Sire] The Dickies: *Great Dictations: The Definitive Dickies Collection* [A&M] Duran Duran: *Decade* [Capitol] Half Japanese: *The Band That Would Be King* [50 Skadillion Watts] George Harrison: *The Best of Dark Horse 1976-1989* [Dark Horse/Warner Bros.] Jon Hassell/Farafina: *Flash of the Spirit* [Capitol/Intuition] Heavy D & the Boyz: *Big Tyme* [MCA] Hoodoo Gurus: *Magnum Cum Louder* [RCA Victor] Inner City: *Big Fun* [Virgin] The Jesus and Mary Chain: *Automatic* [Warner Bros.] Katrina and the Waves: *Break of Hearts* [SBK] Lenny Kravitz: *Let Love Rule* [Virgin] Daniel Lanois: *Acadie* [Opal/Warner Bros.] John Cougar Mellencamp: *Big Daddy* [Mercury] NRBQ: *Wild Weekend* [Virgin] Robert Palmer: *"Addictions" Volume 1* [Island] Buster Poindexter: *Buster Goes Berserk* [RCA Victor] Roachford: *Roachford* [Epic] The Rolling Stones: *Steel Wheels* [Rolling Stones] The Stone Roses: *The Stone Roses* [Silvertone] 10,000 Maniacs: *Blind Man's Zoo* [Elektra] Throwing Muses: *Hunkpapa* [Sire] Tin Machine: *Tin Machine* [Dark Horse] Trotsky Icepick: *El Kabong* [SST] Tina Turner: *Foreign Affair* [Capitol] Jody Watley: *Larger Than Life* [MCA] Jody Watley: *You Wanna Dance With Me?* [MCA] Wire: *It's Beginning To and Back Again* [Enigma/Mute] XTC: *Oranges and Lemons* [Geffen] *Fresh Reggae Hits -- Vol. 2* [Pow Wow] *Ghostbusters II* [MCA]
C+	Bad Brains: *Quickness* [Caroline] Big Audio Dynamite: *Megatop Phoenix* [Columbia] David Byrne: *Rei Momo* [Luaka Bop/Sire] The Cure: *Disintegration* [Elektra] The Del Fuegos: *Smoking in the Fields* [RCA Victor] Eleventh Dream Day: *Beet* [Atlantic] Eurythmics: *We Too Are One* [Arista] The Fall: *Seminal Live* [Beggars Banquet] Front 242: *Never Stop* [Wax Trax EP] Georgia Satellites: *In the Land of Salvation and Sin* [Elektra] Debbie Gibson: *Electric Youth* [Atlantic] Grateful Dead: *Built to Last* [Arista] Nanci Griffith: *Storms* [MCA] Merle Haggard: *5:01 Blues* [Epic] Don Henley: *The End of the Innocence* [Geffen] Kaoma: *World Beat* [Epic] Chaka Khan: *Life Is a Dance: The Remix Project* [Warner Bros.] Bernie Krause & Human Remains: *Gorillas in the Mix* [Rykodisc] Cyndi Lauper: *A Night to Remember* [Epic] Bob Mould: *Workbook* [Virgin] The Psychedelic Furs: *Book of Days* [Columbia] Public Image Ltd.: 9 [Virgin] Red Hot Chili Peppers: *Mother's Milk* [EMI] Diana Ross: *Workin' Overtime* [Motown] Skid Row: *Skid Row* [Atlantic] Soundgarden: *Louder Than Love* [A&M] Tom Tom Club: *Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom* [Sire]
C	The Alarm: *Change* [I.R.S.] Pat Benatar: *Best Shots* [Chrysalis] Bobby Brown: *Dance! . . . Ya Know It!* [MCA] James Brown and Friends: *Soul Session Live* [Scotti Bros.] Ciccone Youth: *The Whitey Album* [Enigma/Blast First] Gloria Estefan: *Cuts Both Ways* [Epic] Great White: *Twice Shy* [Capitol] Boris Grebenshikov: *Radio Silence* [Columbia] Grace Jones: *Bulletproof Heart* [Capitol] Dee Dee King: *Standing in the Spotlight* [Sire] Milli Vanilli: *Girl You Know It's True* [Arista] The Miracle Legion: *Me and Mr. Ray* [Rough Trade] Graham Parker: *Human Soul* [RCA Victor] Ringo Starr: *Starr Struck: The Best of Ringo Starr, Vol. 2* [Rhino] Joe Strummer: *Earthquake Weather* [Epic] The 2 Live Crew: *As Nasty as They Wanna Be* [Skyywalker] *House Hallucinates: Pump Up the World Volume One* [Vendetta]
C-	Dylan & the Dead: *Dylan & the Dead* [Columbia] Indigo Girls: *Indigo Girls* [Epic] Jermaine Jackson: *Don't Take It Personal* [Arista]
D	Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers: *The Album* [Atco/Music Factory] Donny Osmond: *Donny Osmond* [Capitol] Whitesnake: *Slip of the Tongue* [Geffen]

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