Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 1994

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Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 1994

Listing for 464 records from 1994 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A+	Louis Armstrong: *Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 1923-1934* [Columbia/Legacy] Iris DeMent: *My Life* [Warner Bros.] Latin Playboys: *Latin Playboys* [Slash/Warner Bros.] The Shirelles: *The Very Best of the Shirelles* [Rhino]
A	Louis Armstrong: *16 Most Requested Songs* [Columbia/Legacy] Fred Astaire: *Top Hat: Hits From Hollywood* [Columbia/Legacy] Beck: *Mellow Gold* [Bong Load/DGC] Garth Brooks: *The Hits* [Liberty] Bootsy Collins: *Back in the Day: The Best of Bootsy* [Sire/Warner Archives] The "5" Royales: *Monkey Hips and Rice: The "5" Royales Anthology* [Rhino] Aretha Franklin: *Greatest Hits (1980-1994)* [Arista] Slim Gaillard: *Laughing in Rhythm: The Best of the Verve Years* [Verve] Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & the Furious Five: *Message From Beat Street: The Best of Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & the Furious Five* [Rhino] Hole: *Live Through This* [DGC] Skip James: *The Complete Early Recordings of Skip James* [Yazoo] Khaled: *N'ssi N'ssi* [Mango] M People: *Elegant Slumming* [Epic] Nirvana: *MTV Unplugged in New York* [DGC] Pavement: *Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain* [Matador] Professor Longhair: *'Fess: The Professor Longhair Anthology* [Rhino] Sebadoh: *Bakesale* [Sub Pop] Sonic Youth: *Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star* [DGC] Soul Coughing: *Ruby Vroom* [Slash/Warner Bros.] Sugar: *File Under: Easy Listening* [Rykodisc] Donna Summer: *Endless Summer* [Mercury] *Handraizer* [Moonshine] *A Taste of the Indestructible Beat of Soweto* [Earthworks]
A-	Ahmad: *Ahmad* [Giant] Dave Alvin: *King of California* [HighTone] Archers of Loaf: *Archers of Loaf Vs. the Greatest of All Time* [Alias] Ass Ponys: *Electric Rock Music* [A&M] The Beastie Boys: *Ill Communication* [Grand Royal] The Bottle Rockets: *The Brooklyn Side* [ESD] Henri Bowane: *Double Take -- Tala Kaka* [RetroAfric] Built to Spill: *There's Nothing Wrong With Love* [Up] Cachao: *Master Sessions Volume 1* [Crescent Moon/Epic] Marshall Crenshaw: *Live . . . My Truck Is My Home* [Razor & Tie] Dark City Sisters/Flying Jazz Queens: *Dark City Sisters and Flying Jazz Queens* [Earthworks] El DeBarge: *Heart, Mind and Soul* [Reprise] Digable Planets: *Blowout Comb* [Pendulum/EMI] John Fahey: *Return of the Repressed: The John Fahey Anthology* [Rhino] Marianne Faithfull: *Faithfull* [Island] Bill Frisell: *This Land* [Elektra/Nonesuch] The Fugs: *The Fugs First Album* [Fantasy] FU-Schnickens: *Nervous Breakdown* [Jive] Steve Goodman: *No Big Surprise: The Steve Goodman Anthology* [Red Pajamas] Green Day: *Dookie* [Reprise] Michael Hall: *Adequate Desire* [Dejadisc] Wynonie Harris: *Bloodshot Eyes: The Best of Wynonie Harris* [Rhino] Jon Hassell and Bluescreen: *Dressing for Pleasure* [Warner Bros.] Heavens to Betsy: *Calculated* [Kill Rock Stars] Jimi Hendrix: *Blues* [MCA] Jimi Hendrix: *Woodstock* [MCA] House of Pain: *Same as It Ever Was* [Tommy Boy] Hüsker Dü: *The Living End* [Warner Bros.] Etta James: *Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday* [Private] Skip James: *She Lyin'* [Genes] Salif Keita: *The Mansa of Mali: A Retrospective* [Mango] Ladysmith Black Mambazo: *Liph' Iqiniso* [Shanachie] L7: *Hungry for Stink* [Slash/Reprise] Sam Mangwana: *Rumba Music* [Sterns Africa] Nas: *Illmatic* [Columbia] NOFX: *Punk in Drublic* [Epitaph] Notorious B.I.G.: *Ready to Die* [Bad Boy] Pearl Jam: *Vitalogy* [Epic] Lloyd Price: *Greatest Hits* [MCA] Public Enemy: *Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age* [Def Jam] R.E.M.: *Monster* [Warner Bros.] Roaring Lion: *Sacred 78's* [Ice] Nico Saquito: *Good-bye Mr. Cat* [World Circuit] Soundgarden: *Superunknown* [A&M] Joseph Spence and the Pinder Family: *The Spring of Sixty-Five* [Rounder] Matthew Sweet: *Son of Altered Beast* [Zoo] Technotronic: *Recall* [SBK/EMI] Moe Tucker: *I Spent a Week There the Other Night* [Sky] Ike Turner: *I Like Ike! The Best of Ike Turner* [Rhino] Caetano Veloso e Gilberto Gil: *Tropicália 2* [Elektra/Nonesuch] Veruca Salt: *American Thighs* [Minty Fresh/DGC] Barry White: *All-Time Greatest Hits* [Mercury] Victoria Williams: *Loose* [Mammoth] Howlin' Wolf: *Ain't Gonna Be Your Dog* [Chess] Neil Young & Crazy Horse: *Sleeps With Angels* [Reprise] *Beat the Retreat: Songs by Richard Thompson* [Capitol] *Cumbia Cumbia 2* [World Circuit] *Dance Hits U.K.* [Moonshine Music] *Kwanzaa Music: A Celebration of Black Cultures in Song* [Rounder] *Oujda-Casablanca Introspections, Vol. 1* [Barbarity] *Turntable Tastemakers Issue No. 1: The Sound of Cleveland City Recordings* [Moonshine] *White Country Blues (1926-1938): A Lighter Shade of Blue* [Columbia/Legacy] *BackBeat* [Virgin]
B+	The Beatles: *Live at the BBC* [Capitol] Beck: *Stereopathetic Soul Manure* [Flipside] Dama and D'Gary: *The Long Way Home* [Shanachie] Ignace de Souza: *Ignace de Souza* [Original Music] Bob Dylan: *Greatest Hits, Vol. 3* [Columbia] Warren G: *Regulate . . . G Funk Era* [Violator/RAL] Lyle Lovett: *I Love Everybody* [Curb/MCA] Magnetic Fields: *The Charm of the Highway Strip* [Merge] Oumou Sangaré: *Ko Sira* [World Circuit] Sloan: *Twice Removed* [DGC] Spell: *Mississippi* [Island] Sugar: *Your Favorite Thing* [Rykodisc] TLC: *CrazySexyCool* [La Face] The James "Blood" Ulmer Blues Experience: *Live* [In+Out]
*******	The Affected: *A Fate Worse Than a Fate Worse Than Death* [Frontier] John Anderson: *You Can't Keep a Good Memory Down* [MCA] The Beautiful South: *Miaow* [Go! Discs] Walter Becker: *11 Tracks of Whack* [Giant] Mary J. Blige: *My Life* [Uptown/MCA] Boyz II Men: II [Motown] Cake Like: *Delicious* [Avant] Alex Chilton: *Clichés* [Ardent] Coolio: *It Takes a Thief* [Tommy Boy] The Cucumbers: *Where We Sleep Tonight* [Zero Hour] Dambuilders: *Encendedor* [EastWest] Ani DiFranco: *Out of Range* [Righteous Babe] Etoile de Dakar: *Volume 2: Thiapathioly* [Sterns] Gift: *Multum In Parvo* [Tim Kerr] HWA: *Az Much Ass Az U Want* [Ruthless] Freedy Johnston: *This Perfect World* [Elektra] Craig Mack Project: *Funk Da World* [Bad Boy] Magnetic Fields: *Holiday* [Feels Good All Over] The Mavericks: *What a Crying Shame* [MCA] Busi Mhlongo & Twasa: *Babhemu* [Sterns] The Modern Lovers: *Precise Modern Lovers Order* [Rounder] Willie Nelson: *Moonlight Becomes You* [Justice] Prince: *Come* [Warner Bros.] Rancid: *Let's Go* [Epitaph] Butch Thompson: *Yulestride* [Daring] *The Flintstones: Music from Bedrock* [MCA] *Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents: The Fire of the Fundamentals* [Columbia] *Crooklyn* [MCA] *Songs from Chippy* [Hollywood]
**	Aerosmith: *Big Ones* [Geffen] David Byrne: *David Byrne* [Luaka Bop/Sire/Warner Bros.] Chumbawamba: *Anarchy* [One Little Indian] Eric Clapton: *From the Cradle* [Reprise] Arnett Cobb: *Arnett Blows for 1300* [Delmark] Common Sense: *Resurrection* [Ruthless] The Cranberries: *No Need to Argue* [Island] Crunt: *Crunt* [Trance] Manu Dibango: *Wakafrika* [Giant] Th Faith Healers: *Imaginary Friend* [Elektra] Mose Fan Fan: *Se Belle Epoque* [RetroAfric] Alou Fané's Foté Mocoba: *Kamalan N'Goni: Dozon N'Goni* [Dakar Sound] Roberta Flack: *Roberta* [Atlantic] Lisa Germano: *Geek the Girl* [4AD] Gravediggaz: *6 Feet Deep* [Gee Street] Heavenly: *The Decline and Fall of Heavenly* [K] Dan Hicks: *Shootin' Straight* [On the Spot] Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: *Pure and Simple* [Warner Bros.] The Last Poets: *Scatterap/Home* [Bond Age] Luna: *Bewitched* [Elektra] Baaba Maal: *Firin' in Fouta* [Mango] Madonna: *Bedtime Stories* [Maverick/Sire] The Mandators: *Power to the People: Nigerian Reggae* [Heartbeat] Grant McLennan: *Fireboy* [Beggars Banquet] Mlimani Park Orchestra: *Sikinde* [Africasette] Van Morrison: *A Night in San Francisco* [Polydor] Nine Inch Nails: *The Downward Spiral* [Nothing/TVT/Interscope] Shaquille O'Neal: *Shaq Fu: Da Return* [Jive] Liz Phair: *Whip-Smart* [Matador] Pretenders: *Last of the Independents* [Sire] The Rolling Stones: *Voodoo Lounge* [Capitol] Mike Seeger: *Third Annual Farewell Reunion* [Rounder] Sir Douglas Quintet: *Day Dreaming at Midnight* [Elektra] Stereolab: *Mars Audiac Quintet* [Elektra] David S. Ware: *Flight of I* [Columbia/DIW] Papa Wemba et Viva la Musica: *For Idoles* [Sonodisc] Wenge Musica: *Bouger Bouger* [Africasette] *Diggin' in the Crates, Vol. 1: Profile Rap Classics* [Profile] *Great Divorce Songs for Her* [Warner Bros.] *MTV Party to Go, Vol. 6* [Tommy Boy] *Street Jams: Hip-Hop from the Top, Vol. 4* [Rhino] *A Tribute to Curtis Mayfield* [Warner Bros.]
*	All-4-One: *All-4-One* [Blitzz/Atlantic] The Auteurs: *Now I'm a Cowboy* [Vernon Yard] Bad Religion: *Stranger Than Fiction* [Atlantic] Beck: *Loser* [DGC] Beck: *One Foot in the Grave* [K] Black Stalin: *Rebellion* [Ice] Cake: *Motorcade of Generosity* [Capricorn] Continental Drifters: *Continental Drifters* [Monkey Hill] Elvis Costello: *Brutal Youth* [Warner Bros.] The Coup: *Genocide and Juice* [Wild Pitch] CeDell Davis: *The Best of CeDell Davis* [Fat Possum/Capricorn] The Fireman: *Strawberries Oceans Ships Forests* [Capitol] Robert Forster: *I Had a New York Girlfriend* [Beggars Banquet] Fugees: *Blunted on Reality* [Ruffhouse] Giant Sand: *Glum* [Imago] Buddy Guy: *Slippin' In* [Silvertone] Emmylou Harris: *Songs of the West* [Warner Bros.] Ted Hawkins: *The Next Hundred Years* [DGC] Idle: *Downers Pharmacy* [Big Deal] The Jazz Passengers: *In Love* [High Street] Jeru the Damaja: *The Sun Rises in the East* [Payday] Daniel Johnston: *Fun* [Atlantic] Joi: *The Pendulum Vibe* [EMI/ERG] George Jones: *The Bradley Barn Sessions* [MCA] Raymond Kane: *Punahele* [Dancing Cat] Kid Creole and the Coconuts: *Kiss Me Before the Light Changes* [Atoll] Al Kooper: *Rekooperation* [Musicmasters] Ali Hassan Kuban: *Walk Like a Nubian* [Piranha] Little Axe: *The Wolf That House Built* [OKeh/Epic] Los Van Van: *Azúcar* [Xenophile] Meat Puppets: *Too High to Die* [London] Method Man: *Tical* [Def Jam] Mold: *Sonic Youth at Disney World* [Funky Mushroom] Willie Nelson: *Healing Hands of Time* [Liberty] Nice and Smooth: *Jewel of the Nile* [Ral] Nyboma: *Anicet* [Sterns Africa] Oasis: *Definitely Maybe* [Epic] Sam Phillips: *Martinis and Bikinis* [Virgin] Polvo: *Celebrate the New Dark Age* [Merge] Portishead: *Dummy* [Go! Discs/London] The Raincoats: *Extended Play* [Smells Like] Sade: *The Best of Sade* [Epic] Sonny Sharrock: *Space Ghost: Coast to Coast* [Cartoon Network] The Silos: *Susan Across the Ocean* [Watermelon] Spearhead: *Home* [Capitol] The Spin Doctors: *Turn It Upside Down* [Epic] Spleen: *T.S. Eliot Reads The Waste Land and The Hollow Men* [Skoda] Dave Stewart: *Greetings from the Gutter* [EastWest] Richard Thompson: *Mirror Blue* [Capitol] Randy Travis: *This Is Me* [Warner Bros.] Moe Tucker: *Dogs Under Stress* [Sky] Barry White: *The Icon Is Love* [A&M] Zap Mama: *Sabsylma* [Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.] *1-800-NEW-FUNK* [NPG]
	C.C. Adcock: *C.C. Adcock* [Island] Afghan Whigs: *What Jail Is Like* [Elektra] The Almighty RSO: *Revenge Ov Da Badd Boyz* [RCA] Animaniacs: *Yakko's World* [Kid Rhino] Beck: *Beercan* [DGC] Blur: *Parklife* [SBK/ERG] Johnny Cash: *American Recordings* [American] Elastica: *Connection* [Deception] John Forster: *Entering Marion* [Philo] The Goats: *No Goats, No Glory* [Ruffhouse/Columbia] Ben Harper: *Welcome to the Cruel World* [Virgin] Kid Creole and the Coconuts: *To Travel Sideways* [Atoll] L.L. Cool J: *Mr. Smith* [Def Jam] Luniz: *Operation Slackola* [Noo Trybe] Mzwakhe Mbuli: *Izigi [Footsteps]* [CCP/EMI] John Mellencamp: *Dance Naked* [Mercury] Joni Mitchell: *Turbulent Indigo* [Reprise] Nasida Ria: *Keadilan* [Piranha] No Safety: *Live at the Knitting Factory* [Knitting Factory Works] Old 97's: *Hitchhike to Rhome* [Big Iron] Dawn Penn: *No, No, No* [Atlantic] Buster Poindexter: *Buster's Happy Hour* [Forward] The Puppies: *The Puppies* [Chaos/Columbia] Tom Robinson: *Love over Rage* [Rhythm Safari] Scarface: *The Diary* [Rap-a-Lot/Noo Trybe] The Setters: *The Setters* [Watermelon] Bobby Sichran: *From a Sympathetical Hurricane* [Columbia] Slick Rick: *Behind Bars* [Def Jam] Todd Snider: *Songs for the Daily Planet* [MCA/Margaritaville] Team Dresch: *Personal Best* [Chainsaw/Lesbionic Candy-Ass] Terror Fabulous: *Yaga Yaga* [EastWest] They Might Be Giants: *John Henry* [Elektra] Sally Timms: *To the Land of Milk and Honey* [Feels Good All Over] Violent Femmes: *New Times* [Elektra] Ween: *Chocolate and Cheese* [Elektra] Worl-a-Girl: *Worl-a-Girl* [Chaos/Columbia] Yaggfu Front: *Action Packed Adventure* [Mercury] Stephen Yerkey: *Confidence Man* [Heyday] *Buyaka: The Ultimate Dance Hall Collection* [Big Beat] *Journeys by DJ: DJ Duke* [Moonshine Music] *Max Mix U.S.A.* [Max] *Red Hot + Country* [Mercury] *Rhythm Country and Blues* [MCA] *Start the Party! Volume 1* [Big Beat] *What Is Bhangra?* [I.R.S.] *Murder Was the Case* [Death Row/Interscope]
	King Sunny Ade and the New African Beats: *Live at the Hollywood Palace* [I.R.S.] Africando: *Vol. 2: Tierra Tradicional* [Sterns Africa] Alice in Chains: *Jar of Flies* [Columbia] The Allman Brothers Band: *Hell & High Water* [Arista] Phil Alvin: *County Fair 2000* [HighTone] Laurie Anderson: *Bright Red* [Warner Bros.] David Ball: *Thinkin' Problem* [Warner Bros.] The Beastie Boys: *Some Old Bullshit* [Grand Royal] Tony Bennett: *MTV Unplugged* [Columbia] Frank Black: *Teenager of the Year* [4AD/Elektra] The Blazers: *Short Fuse* [Rounder] Alpha Blondy: *Live au Zenith (Paris)* [World Pacific] Blood Oranges: *The Crying Tree* [ESD] Body Count: *Born Dead* [Virgin] Boogiemonsters: *Riders of the Storm: The Underwater Album* [Pendulum/EMI] Booty's New Rubber Band: *Blasters of the Universe* [Rykodisc] Brand Nubian: *Everything Is Everything* [Elektra] Brandy: *Brandy* [Atlantic] Bratmobile: *The Real Janelle* [Kill Rock Stars] Greg Brown: *The Poet's Game* [Red House] Marty Brown: *Cryin', Lovin', Leavin'* [MCA] Changing Faces: *Changing Faces* [Big Beat] Leonard Cohen: *Cohen Live!* [Columbia] The Cranes: *Loved* [Dedicated/Arista] Da Brat: *Funkdafied* [So So Def/Chaos/Columbia] I.K. Dairo M.B.E. and His Blue Spots: *Ashiko* [Xenophile] Deee-Lite: *Dewdrops in the Garden* [Elektra] Des'ree: *I Ain't Movin'* [550 Music/Epic] Esquivel!: *Space-Age Bachelor-Pad Music* [Bar/None] Maggie Estep: *No More Mister Nice Girl* [NuYo] Eugenius: *Mary Queen of Scots* [Atlantic] Everclear: *World of Noise* [Capitol] The Fall: *Middle Class Revolt* [Matador] Five-O: *If U R Not Part of the Solution . . .* [Wrap] The Future Sound of London: *Lifeforms* [Astralwerks] Gang Starr: *Hard to Earn* [Chrysalis/ERG] Coumba Gawlo: *Coumba Gawlo* [Africando] Greg Ginn: *Dick* [Cruz] God: *The Anatomy of Addiction* [Big Car] Beres Hammond: *In Control* [Elektra] Kristen Hersh: *Hips and Makers* [Sire/Reprise] Gregory Isaacs & Friends: *Dance Hall Don* [Shanachie] Jaz B. Lat'n: *Street Gamins* [Mercury] The Jesus Lizzard: *Show* [Collision Arts/Giant] Big Daddy Kane: *Daddy's Home* [MCA] Killing Joke: *Pandemonium* [Zoo] Kotoja: *The Super Sowalé Collection* [Putumayo World Music] K.D. Lang: *Lifted by Love* [Sire/Warner Bros.] Lisa Lisa: *LL 77* [Pendulum] Ismaël Lo: *Iso* [Mango] Nick Lowe: *The Impossible Bird* [Upstart] Madder Rose: *Panic On* [Atlantic] Madilu System: *Sans Commentaire* [Sterns Africa] Magnapop: *Hot Boxing* [Priority/Play It Again Sam] Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited: *Hondo* [Zimbob] Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited: *Vanhu Vatema* [Zimbob] K. McCarty: *Dead Dog's Eyeball* [Bar/None] The Meditations: *Deeper Roots: The Best of the Meditations* [Heartbeat] The Mekons: *Retreat from Memphis* [Maverick] Youssou N'Dour: *The Guide (Wommat)* [Chaos/Columbia] Shara Nelson: *What Silence Knows* [Chrysalis] O.C.: *Word . . . Life* [Wild Pitch] The Offspring: *Smash* [Epitaph] O.G. Funk: *Out of the Dark* [Rykodisc] Organized Konfusion: *Stress (The Extinction Agenda)* [Hollywood Basic] Jimmy Page & Robert Plant Unledded: *No Quarter* [Atlantic] Paris: *Guerrilla Funk* [Priority] Leon Parker: *Above and Below* [Epicure] Pulp: *His 'n' Hers* [Island] Bonnie Raitt: *Longing in Their Hearts* [Capitol] Dennis Robbins: *Born Ready* [Giant] Seigneur Tabu Ley Rochereau: *Muzina* [Rounder] Rossy: *One Eye on the Future One Eye on the Past* [Shanachie] Rugburns: *The Morning Wood* [Bizarre/Planet] Otis Rush: *Ain't Enough Comin' In* [This Way Up/Mercury] Salamat: *Mambo El Soudani* [Piranha] The San Francisco Seals: *Nowhere* [Matador] Boz Scaggs: *Some Change* [Columbia] John Scofield: *The Best of John Scofield: Liquid Fire* [Gramavision] Gil Scott-Heron: *Spirits* [TVT] Seefeel: *Quique* [Astralwerks] Erick Sermon: *No Pressure* [Def Jam/RAL/Chaos/Columbia] 7 Year Bitch: *Viva Zapata!* [C/Z] Shu-De: *Voices from the Distant Steppe* [RealWorld] The Silos: *Hasta La Victoria* [Watermelon] Sir Mix-A-Lot: *Chief Boot Knocka* [Rhyme Cartel] Soul Brothers: *Soul Mbaqanga* [Riverboat] Superchunk: *Foolish* [Merge] Tarika Sammy: *Balance* [Green Linnet] Ali Farka Touré with Ry Cooder: *Talking Timbuktu* [Hannibal] Jennifer Trynin: *Cockamamie* [Squint/Warner Bros.] James Blood Ulmer: *Blues Preacher* [DIW/Columbia] Dave Van Ronk: *To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places* [Gazell] War: *War* [Avenue] Crystal Waters: *Storyteller* [Mercury] Weezer: *Weezer* [DGC] Vanessa Williams: *The Sweetest Days* [Wing/Mercury] Eva Ybarra y Su Conjunto: *A Mi San Antonio* [Rounder] Yondo Sister: *Dernière Minute* [TJR] ZZ Top: *Antenna* [RCA] *The Glory of Gershwin* [Mercury] *A History of Our World Part 1: Breakbeat & Jungle Ultramix by DJ DB* [Profile] *Punk-O-Rama* [Epitaph] *Vibrant Zimbabwe* [Zimbob] *Woodstock 94* [A&M] *The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert* [Mother]
B	Hootie and the Blowfish: *Cracked Rear View* [Atlantic] Pizzicato Five: *Made in USA* [Matador]
B-	Aphex Twin: *Selected Ambient Works Volume II* [Sire] Black 47: *Home of the Brave* [SBK] Guided by Voices: *Bee Thousand* [Scat] The Reverend Horton Heat: *Liquor in the Front* [Sub Pop/Interscope] Luscious Jackson: *Natural Ingredients* [Grand Royal] Sinéad O'Connor: *Universal Mother* [Chrysalis/EMI] Tom Petty: *Wildflowers* [Warner Bros.] The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: *Orange* [Matador]
C+	Arrested Development: *Zingalamaduni* [Chrysalis/ERG] Sheila Chandra: *The Zen Kiss* [RealWorld] Harry Connick Jr.: *She* [Columbia] Grant Lee Buffalo: *Mighty Joe Moon* [Slash/Reprise] Angelique Kidjo: *Ayé* [Mango] Live: *Throwing Copper* [Radioactive] The Dave Matthews Band: *Under the Table and Dreaming* [RCA] Tim McGraw: *Not a Moment Too Soon* [Curb]
C	Jeff Buckley: *Grace* [Columbia] Cyndi Lauper: *Twelve Deadly Cyns* [Epic] Barry Manilow: *Singin' With the Big Bands* [Arista] Melvins: *Stoner Witch* [Atlantic] Jon Secada: *Heart Soul and Voice* [SBK/ERG] *Incredibly Strange Music, Vol. 1* [Caroline] *The Lion King* [Walt Disney]
C-	Collective Soul: *Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid* [Atlantic] Traffic: *Far From Home* [Virgin]
D+	Combustible Edison: *I, Swinger* [Sub Pop] Yanni: *Yanni Live at the Acropolis* [Private Music]
	American Music Club: *San Francisco* [Geffen] Babylon Dance Band: *Four on One* [Matador] Anita Baker: *Rhythm of Love* [Elektra] The Black Crowes: *Amorica* [American] Buckshot Le Fonque: *Buckshot Le Fonque* [Columbia] Roger Clinton: *Nothing Good Comes Easy* [Pyramid] Die Toten Hosen: *Learning English: Lesson One* [Atlantic] Dinosaur Jr.: *Without a Sound* [Sire/Warner Bros.] The Eagles: *Hell Freezes Over* [Giant] Dionne Farris: *Wild Seed--Wild Flower* [Columbia] Giant Sand: *Purge and Slouch* [Restless] Vince Gill: *When Love Finds You* [MCA] Girls Against Boys: *Cruise Yourself* [Touch and Go] Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger: *More Together Again* [Rising Sun] Sophie B. Hawkins: *Whaler* [Columbia] Helium: *Pirate Prude* [Matador] Syl Johnson: *Back in the Game* [Delmark] Tara Key: *Bourbon County* [Homestead] Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: *The Last Prophet* [RealWorld] Kyuss: *Kyuss* [Chameleon] Letters to Cleo: *Aurora Gory Alice* [Giant] The London Suede: *Dog Man Star* [Nude/Columbia] Lords of Acid: *Voodoo-U* [American] Loreena McKennitt: *The Mask and the Mirror* [Warner Bros.] Pat Metheny: *Zero Tolerance for Silence* [DGC] John Michael Montgomery: *Kickin' It Up* [Atlantic] Morrissey: *Vauxhall and I* [Sire/Reprise] Mouse on Mars: *Vulvaland* [Too Pure/American] OutKast: *Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik* [LaFace] Palace Songs: *Hope* [Drag City] Graham Parker: *Graham Parker's Christmas Cracker* [Dakota] Pavement: *Gold Soundz* [Matador] Pet Shop Boys: *Disco 2* [EMI] Phish: *Hoist* [Elektra] Pink Floyd: *The Division Bell* [Columbia] The Popinjays: *Tales from the Urban Prairie* [One Little Indian] Dianne Reeves: *Art and Survival* [EMI/ERG] Rollins Band: *Weight* [Imago] Saint Etienne: *Tiger Bay* [Warner Bros.] Samiam: *Clumsy* [Atlantic] Schoolly-D: *Welcome to America* [Columbia/Ruffhouse] Seal: *Seal* [ZTT/Sire/Warner Bros.] Shampoo: *We Are Shampoo* [I.R.S.] Slant 6: *Soda Pop Rip Off* [Dischord] Sponge: *Rotting Piñata* [Chaos/Columbia] Stone Temple Pilots: *Purple* [Atlantic] Keith Sweat: *Get Up on It* [Elektra] John Trudell: *Johnny Damas and Me* [Rykodisc] The Veldt: *Afrodisiac* [Mercury] *Concept in Dance: The Digital Alchemy of Goa Trance Dance* [Moonshine Music] *Kickin Hardcore Leaders* [Instinct] *Lethal Riddims* [Relativity] *No Prima Donna: The Songs of Van Morrison* [Polydor] *Rock Stars Kill* [Kill Rock Stars]

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