Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 1996

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Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 1996

Listing for 463 records from 1996 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A+	DJ Shadow: *Endtroducing . . . DJ Shadow* [Mo Wax/FFFR] Charlie Parker: *The Legendary Dial Masters* [Jazz Classics] Sonny Rollins: *Silver City* [Milestone]
A	Count Basie: *The Best of Early Basie* [Decca] James Carter: *Conversin' With the Elders* [Atlantic] George Clinton: *Greatest Funkin' Hits* [Capitol] Iris DeMent: *The Way I Should* [Warner Bros.] Lee Dorsey: *Wheelin' and Dealin': The Definitive Collection* [Arista] Duke Ellington: *The Best of Early Ellington* [MCA] The Everly Brothers: *This Is the Everly Brothers* [Music Club] Ella Fitzgerald: *Love Songs: Best of the Verve Song Books* [Verve] Fluffy: *Black Eye* [Capitol] Fugees: *The Score* [Ruffhouse/Columbia] Ghostface Killah: *Ironman* [Sony] The Go-Betweens: *Spring Hill Fair* [Beggars Banquet] Etta James: *Her Best* [MCA] L.L. Cool J: *All World* [Def Jam] Los Lobos: *Colossal Head* [Warner Bros.] The Louvin Brothers: *Tragic Songs of Life* [Capitol] Dorothy Love-Coates & the Gospel Harmonettes: *The Best of Dorothy Love-Coates & the Gospel Harmonettes* [Nashboro] Mutabaruka: *The Ultimate Collection* [Shanachie] Nirvana: *From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah* [Geffen] Charlie Parker: *In a Soulful Mood* [Music Club] Charlie Parker: *Yardbird Suite: The Ultimate Charlie Parker Collection* [Rhino] Amy Rigby: *Diary of a Mod Housewife* [Koch] Frank Sinatra: *Everything Happens to Me* [Reprise] Sleater-Kinney: *Call the Doctor* [Chainsaw] Joe Tex: *The Very Best of Joe Tex* [Rhino] Tony Toni Toné: *House of Music* [Mercury] Gene Vincent: *The Screaming End: The Best of Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps* [Razor & Tie] *Dance Floor Divas: The '70s* [Rhino] *Hot Luv: The Ultimate Dance Songs Collection* [EMI] *Masters of Jazz: Bebop's Greatest Hits* [Rhino] *Ocean of Sound* [Virgin] *Roller Disco: Boogie from the Skating Rinks* [K-Tel] *Sugar and Poison* [Virgin]
A-	The Apples in Stereo: *Tone Soul Evolution* [Sire/Warp] Archers of Loaf: *All the Nations Airports* [Alias] Archers of Loaf: *The Speed of Cattle* [Alias] Babyface: *The Day* [Epic] Beck: *Odelay* [DGC] Bikini Kill: *Reject All American* [Kill Rock Stars] Toni Braxton: *Secrets* [LaFace] Sam Chege: *Kickin' Kikuyu-Style* [Original Music] Ray Condo and His Ricochets: *Swing Brother Swing!* [Joaquin] Bobbie Cryner: *Girl of Your Dreams* [MCA] Chuck D: *Autobiography of Mistachuck* [Mercury] Djeli Moussa Diawara: *Sobindo* [Mélodie] Ani DiFranco: *Dilate* [Righteous Babe] Dramarama: *The Best of Dramarama: 18 Big Ones* [Elektra Traditions] Etoile de Dakar: *Volume 3: Lay Suma Lay* [Sterns] Etoile 2000: *Etoile 2000* [Dakar Sound] Fine Young Cannibals: *The Finest* [London/MCA] Fluffy: *5 Live* [The Enclave] Fountains of Wayne: *Fountains of Wayne* [Atlantic] FU-Schnickens: *Greatest Hits* [Jive] Girls Against Boys: *House of GvsB* [Touch and Go] Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & the Furious Five: *The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & the Furious Five: More of the Best* [Rhino] Grateful Dead: *Dozin' at the Knick* [Arista] Woody Guthrie: *Early Masters* [Tradition] Graham Haynes: *Transition* [Antilles] His Name Is Alive: *Stars on E.S.P.* [4AD] Mississippi John Hurt: *Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings* [Epic/Legacy] Imperial Teen: *Seasick* [Slash/London] Jay-Z: *Reasonable Doubt* [Roc-A-Fella/Priority] Al Jolson: *Let Me Sing and I'm Happy: Al Jolson at Warner Bros. 1926-1936* [Turner Classic Movies/Rhino] Chaka Khan: *Epiphany: The Best of Chaka Khan Volume One* [Reprise] Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party: *Intoxicated Spirit* [Shanachie] Arto Lindsay: *O Corpo Sutil/The Subtle Body* [Bar/None] Local H: *As Good as Dead* [Island] Los Guanches: *The Corpse Went Dancing Rumba* [Corason] Thomas Mapfumo: *The Singles Collection 1977-1986* [Zimbob] Massive Attack V Mad Professor: *No Protection* [Gyroscope] Kate & Anna McGarrigle: *Matapedia* [Hannibal] The Meters: *The Meters Anthology* [Rhino] Joni Mitchell: *Hits* [Reprise] Modest Mouse: *This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About* [Up] Morcheeba: *Who Can You Trust?* [Discovery] Tshala Muana: *Mutuashi* [Sterns] Youssou N'Dour: *Lii!* [Jololi] Willie Nelson: *Spirit* [Island] Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe: *Kedu America* [Xenophile] Leon Parker: *Belief* [Columbia] Pet Shop Boys: *Bilingual* [Atlantic] Prince: *Chaos and Disorder* [Warner Bros.] Prince: *Emancipation* [NPG] Prince Paul: *Psychoanalysis (What Is It?)* [WordSound] Pulp: *Different Class* [Island] Rage Against the Machine: *Evil Empire* [Epic] Lou Reed: *Set the Twilight Reeling* [Warner Bros.] R.E.M.: *New Adventures in Hi-Fi* [Warner Bros.] Tabu Ley Rochereau: *Africa Worldwide: 35th Anniversary Album* [Rounder] Sammy: *Tales of Great Neck Glory* [Geffen] Pharoah Sanders: *Message from Home* [Verve] Sebadoh: *Harmacy* [Sub Pop] Sex Pistols: *Filthy Lucre Live* [Virgin] The Shangri-Las: *The Best of the Shangri-Las* [Mercury] Stereolab: *Emperor Tomato Ketchup* [Elektra] Sublime: *Sublime* [Gasoline Alley/MCA] Toots and the Maytals: *Time Tough: The Anthology* [Island] Sidi Touré: *Hoga* [Sterns Africa] Lobi Traoré: *Segou* [Cobalt] Tricky: *Pre-Millennium Tension* [Island] Uz Jsme Doma: *Hollywood* [Skoda] Loudon Wainwright III: *Grown Man* [Virgin] Warren Zevon: *I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (An Anthology)* [Rhino] *El Caimán: Sones Huastecos* [Corason] *Jazz Satellites, Vol. 1: Electrification* [Virgin] *Kwanzaa Party* [Rounder] *Make 'Em Mokum Crazy* [Mokum] *Pass the Mic: The Posse Album* [Priority] *Pop Fiction* [Quango] *Tokyo Invasion, Volume I: Cosmic Kurushi Monsters* [Virgin]
B+	John Anderson: *Greatest Hits* [BNA] Aphex Twin: *Richard D. James Album* [Elektra] The Cardigans: *First Band on the Moon* [Mercury] De La Soul: *Stakes Is High* [Tommy Boy] Lil Green: *Why Don't You Do Right? 1940-1942* [Historic] Jack Frost: *Snow Job* [Beggars Banquet] Me'shell Ndegéocello: *Peace Beyond Passion* [Maverick/Reprise] Pavement: *Pacific Trim* [Matador] The Posies: *Amazing Disgrace* [DGC] Railroad Jerk: *The Third Rail* [Matador] The Raincoats: *Looking in the Shadows* [Geffen] Wilco: *Being There* [Reprise] *The Secret Museum of Mankind, Vol. 2* [Yazoo]
*******	Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects: *Shabeesation* [Rykodisc] Bahamadia: *Kollage* [Chrysalis] The Box Tops: *The Best of the Box Tops: Soul Deep* [Arista] Buzzcocks: *All Set* [I.R.S.] George Clinton & the P-Funk All Stars: *T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M.* [550 Music] Marshall Crenshaw: *Miracle of Science* [Razor & Tie] DJ Kool: *Let Me Clear My Throat* [American] Steve Earle: *I Feel Alright* [Warner Bros.] Jimmie Dale Gilmore: *Braver Newer World* [Elektra] Ginuwine: *Ginuwine . . . The Bachelor* [550 Music/Epic] Steve James: *Art and Grit* [Discovery] Jane Jensen: *Comic Book Whore* [Flip] Hank Jones Meets Cheick-Tidiane Seck and the Mandinkas: *Sarala* [Verve] Lyle Lovett: *The Road to Ensenada* [Curb/MCA] Taj Mahal: *An Evening of Acoustic Music* [RFR] Lee "Scratch" Perry: *Who Put the Voodoo 'pon Reggae?* [Ariwa] Quad City DJ's: *Get On Up and Dance* [Atlantic] Sun Ra: *The Singles* [Evidence] The Tony Rich Project: *Words* [LaFace] Patti Smith: *Gone Again* [Arista] Soul Coughing: *Irresistible Bliss* [Slash/Warner Bros.] They Might Be Giants: *Factory Showroom* [Elektra] Rufus Thomas: *The Best of Rufus Thomas: Do the Funky Somethin'* [Rhino] Tiny Tim with Brave Combo: *Girl* [Rounder] A Tribe Called Quest: *Beats, Rhymes and Life* [Jive] Tuscadero: *The Pink Album* [Elektra/Teenbeat] Veruca Salt: *Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt* [Minty Fresh/DGC] Kelly Willis: *Fading Fast* [A&M] Hukwe Zawose: *Chibite* [RealWorld] *Divas of Mali* [Shanachie] *Live at the Social, Vol. 1* [Heavenly] *The Night Shift* [C&S] *A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan* [Epic] *Tricky Presents Grassroots* [FFRR] *Wipeout XL* [Astralwerks] *Girls Town* [Mercury]
**	Ass Ponys: *The Known Universe* [A&M] The Bloodhound Gang: *One Fierce Beer Coaster* [Geffen] BR5-49: *BR5-49* [Arista] Junior Brown: *Semi Crazy* [Curb] Chris Butler: *The Devil Glitch* [Future Fossil] Cake: *Fashion Nugget* [Capricorn] Rosanne Cash: *10 Song Demo* [Capitol] Ornette Coleman: *Sound Museum: Hidden Man* [Harmolodic/Verve] Ornette Coleman: *Sound Museum: Three Women* [Harmolodic/Verve] I.K. Dairo: *Definitive Dairo* [Xenophile] Diblo Dibala: *My Love* [Atoll Music] Robert Forster: *Warm Nights* [Beggars Banquet] The Grifters: *Ain't My Lookout* [Sub Pop] Jaojoby: *Salegy! Hot Dance Music from Madagascar* [Xenophile] Khaled: *Sahra* [Polygram] KMFDM: *Retro* [Wax Trax!] Wayne Kramer: *Dangerous Madness* [Epitaph] Wayne Kramer/Deniz Tek/Scott Morgan: *Dodge Main* [Alive] La Bouche: *Sweet Dreams* [RCA] Bascom Lamar Lunsford: *Ballads, Banjo Tunes, and Sacred Songs of Western North Carolina* [Smithsonian/Folkways] Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens: *Stoki Stoki* [Shanachie] MC Lyte: *Bad as I Wanna B* [EastWest] Oranj Symphonette: *Plays Mancini* [Gramavision] John Parish and Polly Jean Harvey: *Dance Hall at Louse Point* [Island] Vernon Reid: *Mistaken Identity* [550 Music] Dave Soldier: *The Kropotkins* [Koch] Space Surfers: *Pretty Damn Cool* [Fridge] Spanish Fly: *Fly by Night* [Accurate] Candi Staton: *The Best of Candi Staton* [Warner Archives] Team Dresch: *Captain My Captain* [Chainsaw/Candyass] Paul Westerberg: *Eventually* [Reprise] Grant Calvin Weston: *Dance Romance* [In+Out] Neil Young & Crazy Horse: *Broken Arrow* [Reprise] *Red Hot + Rio* [Antilles] *Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation* [Columbia] *What a Bam Bam! Dancehall Queens* [Shanachie] *Set It Off* [Elektra] *The Songs of West Side Story* [RCA] *Space Jam* [Warner Sunset/Atlantic]
*	Afghan Whigs: *Black Love* [Elektra] Terry Allen: *Human Remains* [Sugar Hill] Bad Religion: *The Gray Race* [Atlantic] Blue Lu Barker, Wee Bea Booze, and Baby Dee: *Don't You Feel My Leg* [Delmark] Jean-Paul Bourelly & the BluWave Bandits: *Fade to Cacophony Live!* [Evidence] Johnny Cash: *Unchained* [American] Ray Charles: *Berlin, 1962* [Pablo] The Chemical Brothers: *Loops of Fury EP* [Astralwerks] Jane Cortez & the Firespitters: *Taking the Blues Back Home* [Verve] Sheryl Crow: *Sheryl Crow* [A&M] The Customers: *Green Bottle Thursday* [Vapor] Ani DiFranco & Utah Phillips: *The Past Didn't Go Anywhere* [Righteous Babe] Dr. Octagon: *Dr. Octagonecologyst* [Bulk] Robbie Fulks: *Country Love Songs* [Bloodshot] Grateful Dead: *Dick's Picks, Vol. 4* [Grateful Dead] Michael Hall: *Day* [Dejadisc] Alvin Youngblood Hart: *Big Mama's Door* [Okeh/550 Music] Hootie and the Blowfish: *Fairweather Johnson* [Atlantic] Ice-T: *Return of the Real* [Rhyme Syndicate] Jeru the Damaja: *Wrath of the Math* [Payday/FFRR] George Jones: *I Lived to Tell It All* [MCA] Keb' Mo': *Just Like You* [Okeh/Epic] Ladysmith Black Mambazo: *Thuthukani Ngoxolo (Let's Develop in Peace)* [Shanachie] Matchbox 20: *Yourself or Someone Like You* [Lava/Atlantic] Curtis Mayfield: *New World Order* [Warner Bros.] Mzwakhe Mbuli: *KwaZulu Natal* [CCP] Bob Mould: *Egoverride* [Rykodisc] Nearly God: *Nearly God* [Island Independent/Durban Poison] Nerdy Girl: *Twist Her* [No Life] New Kingdom: *Paradise Don't Come Cheap* [Gee Street] Pearl Jam: *No Code* [Epic] Madeleine Peyroux: *Dreamland* [Atlantic] Martin Phillips & the Chills: *Sunburnt* [Flying Nun] Roy Rogers: *Rhythm and Groove* [Pointblank] Sabri Brothers: *Ya Mustapha* [Xenophile] Scrawl: *Travel On, Rider* [Elektra] Screaming Trees: *Dust* [Epic] 7 Year Bitch: *Gato Negro* [Atlantic] Simply Red: *Greatest Hits* [EastWest] Sir Mix-A-Lot: *Return of the Bumpasaurus* [Warner Bros.] Soundgarden: *Down on the Upside* [A&M] Johnny Thunders: *Have Faith* [Mutiny] David Toop: *Pink Noir* [Virgin] Van Halen: *The Best of Van Halen, Vol. 1* [Warner Bros.] Stevie Wonder: *Song Review: A Greatest Hits Collection* [Motown] *La Iguana: Sones Jarochos* [Corason] *Christine Lavin Presents Laugh Tracks Volume 1* [Shanachie] *The Montuno Sessions--Live from Studio A* [Mr. Bongo] *Nova Bossa: Red Hot on Verve* [Verve] *The Secret Museum of Mankind, Vol. 3* [Yazoo] *Hype!* [Sub Pop] *Rent* [DreamWorks]
	Aaliyah: *One in a Million* [Blackground/Atlantic] Dave Alvin and the Guilty Men: *Interstate City* [HighTone] Thomas Anderson: *Moon Going Down* [Marilyn] Asylum Street Spankers: *Spanks for the Memories* [Watermelon] Mandy Barnett: *Mandy Barnett* [Asylum] The Beatles: *Anthology 3* [Capitol/Apple] Peter Blegvad: *Just Woke Up* [ESD] Suzy Bogguss: *Give Me Some Wheels* [Capitol] The Cardigans: *Life* [Minty Fresh] Vic Chesnutt: *About to Choke* [Capitol] Alex Chilton: *1970* [Ardent] DJ Spooky: *Songs of a Dead Dreamer* [Asphodel] The Foremen: *What's Left?* [Reprise] The Future Sound of London: *Dead Cities* [Astralwerks] The Geto Boys: *The Resurrection* [Rap-a-Lot] Klymaxx: *Greatest Hits* [MCA] Lil' Kim: *Hard Core* [Undeas/Big Beat/Atlantic] Jack Logan and Liquor Cabinet: *Mood Elevator* [Medium Cool] Luciano: *Messenger* [Island Jamaica] Taj Mahal: *Phantom Blues* [Private Music] Master P.: *The Ice Cream Man* [No Limit/Priority] Jimmy McGriff: *The Dream Team* [Milestone] Iggy Pop: *Naughty Little Doggie* [Virgin] Busta Rhymes: *The Coming* [Elektra] Run On: *Start Packing* [Matador] Marty Stuart: *Honky Tonkin's What I Do Best* [MCA] Allen Toussaint: *Connected* [NYNO] Keith Whitley: *The Essential Keith Whitley* [BNA] Wynonna: *Revelations* [Curb/MCA] *America Is Dying Slowly* [Red Hot] *Club Mix 96--Volume 2* [Cold Front] *Gravikords Whirlies and Pyrophones* [Ellipsis Arts] *Jungle: The Sound of the Underground* [Sour/Columbia] *Just Say Noël* [DGC] *Christine Lavin Presents Laugh Tracks Volume 2* [Shanachie] *Macarena Club Cutz* [RCA] *More Noize Please* [Shadow] *Silencio = Muerte: Red Hot + Latin* [Red Hot] *Spin Control* [Imix] *Girl 6* [Warner Bros.] *I Shot Andy Warhol* [Tag Recordings] *Michael* [Revolution]
	Albita: *Dicen Que . . .* [Crescent Moon/Epic] Fiona Apple: *Tidal* [Work] Bass Is Base: *Memories of the Soulshack Survivors* [Loose Cannon] Francis Bebey: *Nandola/With Love: Francis Bebey Works: 1963-1994* [Original Music] Clint Black: *The Greatest Hits* [RCA] Frank Black: *The Cult of Ray* [American] Blackstreet: *Another Level* [Interscope] Brother Resistance: *De Power of Resistance* [TNG] L.T.J. Bukem: *Logical Progression* [FFFR] R.L. Burnside: *A Ass Pocket of Whiskey* [Matador] The Butthole Surfers: *Electriclarryland* [Capitol] Marshall Chapman: *Love Slave* [Margaritaville] Cibo Matto: *Viva! La Woman* [Warner Bros.] The Descendents: *Everything Sucks* [Epitaph] Bo Diddley: *A Man Amongst Men* [Atlantic] Everything but the Girl: *Walking Wounded* [Atlantic] Sue Foley: *Walk in the Sun* [Discovery/Antone's] Djivan Gasparyan: *Apricots from Eden* [Traditional Crossroads] Golden Smog: *Down by the Old Mainstream* [Rykodisc] Grateful Dead: *The Arista Years* [Arista] Mike Henderson & the Bluebloods: *First Blood* [Dead Reckoning] Joe Henry: *Trampoline* [Mammoth] Imo Brothers International: *Ije Love/Journey of Love* [Original Music] *Jonathan FireEater: Tremble Under Boom Lights [Medicine] Henry Kaiser: A World out of Time, Vol. 3 [Shanachie] The Kennedys: Life Is Large [Green Linnet] Koerner, Ray & Glover: One Foot in the Groove [Tim/Kerr] Los Dudes: Los Dudes [Republic] The Low & Sweet Orchestra: Goodbye to All That [Interscope] Luna: Luna EP [No. 6] Magnapop: Rubbing Doesn't Help [Priority] Aimee Mann: I'm With Stupid [DGC] Van Morrison with Georgie Fame & Friends: How Long Has This Been Going On [Verve] Bob Mould: Bob Mould [Rykodisc] David Murray: Dark Star (The Music of the Grateful Dead) [Astor Place] Nas: It Was Written [Columbia] Neutral Milk Hotel: On Avery Island [Merge] NOFX: Heavy Petting Zoo [Epitaph] The Ocean Blue: See the Ocean Blue [Mercury] The Olivia Tremor Control: Dusk at Cubist Castle [Flydaddy] 1,000 Mona Lisas: New Diseases [RCA] K.T. Oslin: "My Roots Are Showing . . ." [BNA] Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: She's the One [Warner Bros.] Photek: The Hidden Camera [Astralwerks] Princess Superstar: Strictly Platinum [Bug] Alex Reece: So Far [Quango] Lionel Richie: Louder Than Words [Mercury] LeAnn Rimes: Blue [Curb] The Roots: Illadelph Halflife [DGC] Sarge: Charcoal [Mud] Sibèba: Hijas Del Sol [Intuition] Silver Jews: The Natural Bridge [Drag City] Skunk Anansie: Paranoid and Sunburnt [Epic/One Little Indian] Social Distortion: White Light White Heat White Trash [550 Music/Epic] Stinky Puffs: Songs and Advice for Kids Who Have Been Left Behind [Elemental] Keith Sweat: Keith Sweat [Elektra] The Third Sex: Card Carryin' [Chainsaw] Richard Thompson: You? Me? Us? [Capitol] Tribe 8: Snarkism [Alternative Tentacles] Tina Turner: Wildest Dreams [Virgin] The James "Blood" Ulmer Blues Experience: Blues Allnight [In + Out] Norma Waterson: Norma Waterson [Hannibal] Yo La Tengo: Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo [Matador] Abstrakt Workshop 2 [Shadow] Badawi Presents Bedouin Sound Clash [ROIR] Best of Straker's: Ah Feel to Party [Rounder] Dancehall Queens [Blunt/TVT] Detroit: Beyond the Third Wave [Astralwerks] Incursions in Illbient [Asphodel] A Journey into Ambient Groove 3** [Quango]
B	Hayden: *Everything I Long For* [Outpost] Trisha Yearwood: *Everybody Knows* [MCA]
B-	Can: *Soon Over Babaluma* [Spoon] Mary Chapin Carpenter: *A Place in the World* [Columbia] The Heads: *No Talking Just Head* [MCA/Radioactive] Tortoise: *Millions Now Living Will Never Die* [Thrill Jockey] Gillian Welch: *Revival* [Almo] Cassandra Wilson: *New Moon Daughter* [Blue Note] Yo Yo: *Total Control* [EastWest]
C+	Les Baxter: *The Exotic Moods of Les Baxter* [Capitol] Paula Cole: *This Fire* [Imago/Warner Bros.] The Cranberries: *To the Faithful Departed* [Island] Iggy and the Stooges: *Open Up and Bleed!* [Bomp!] Metallica: *Load* [Elektra] Samite: *Silana Musango* [Xenophile] Underworld: *Second Toughest in the Infants* [Wax Trax] The Who: *Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970* [Columbia/Legacy]
C	Kula Shaker: K [Columbia] Mecca Normal: *The Eagle and the Poodle* [Matador] Ministry: *Filth Pig* [Warner Bros.] Duncan Sheik: *Duncan Sheik* [Atlantic] The Verve Pipe: *Villains* [RCA]
C-	Lustre: *Lustre* [A&M] Scott Walker: *It's Raining Today: The Scott Walker Story (1967-1970)* [Razor & Tie]
D+	Westside Connection: *Bow Down* [Priority] *Bring in 'Da Noize, Bring in 'Da Funk* [RCA Victor]
D	Howie B.: *Music for Babies* [Island]
	Akinyele: *Put It in Your Mouth* [Stress/BMG] Tori Amos: *Boys for Pele* [Atlantic] The Beastie Boys: *The In Sound from Way Out!* [Capitol/Grand Royal] Foxy Brown: *Ill Na Na* [Def Jam] Buck-O-Nine: *Water in My Head* [Taang!] John Cale: *Walking on Locusts* [Hannibal] The Clean: *Unknown Country* [Flying Nun] Elvis Costello and the Attractions: *All This Useless Beauty* [Warner Bros.] Crowded House: *Recurring Dream: The Very Best of Crowded House* [Capitol] Crucial Conflict: *The Final Tic* [Pallas/Universal] Miles Davis: *Live Around the World* [Warner Bros.] Deus: *In a Bar, Under the Sea* [Island] D-Generation: *No Lunch* [Columbia] Wasis Diop: *No Sant* [Triloka] Dirty Three: *Horse Stories* [Touch and Go] Dru Hill: *Dru Hill* [Island] The Eels: *Beautiful Freak* [DreamWorks] Funki Porcini: *Love, Pussycats and Carwrecks* [Ninja Tune USA] Garmarna: *Gods Musicians* [Omnium] Gorky's Zygotic Mynci: *Introducing Gorky's Zygotic Mynci* [Mercury] Halcion: *Lemongrass* [Twitcher] John Wesley Harding: *John Wesley Harding's New Deal* [Forward] The Reverend Horton Heat: *It's Martini Time* [Interscope] The High Llamas: *Hawaii* [V2] Rick "L.A. Holmes" Holmstrom: *Lookout!* [Black Top] House of Pain: *Truth Crushed to Earth Shall Rise Again* [Tommy Boy] Ice-T: *Cold As Ever* [Blue Dolphin/Hit Man] Inti-Illimani: *Arriesgaré la Piel/I Will Risk My Skin* [Xenophile] Chris Isaak: *Baja Sessions* [Reprise] Tara Key: *Ear and Echo* [Homestead] Angelique Kidjo: *Fifo* [Mango] Korn: *Life Is Peachy* [Epic/Immortal] Donna Lewis: *Now in a Minute* [Atlantic] Loop Guru: *Duniya* [Waveform] Makavelli: *Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory* [Death Row/Interscope] The Dave Matthews Band: *Crash* [RCA] Maxwell: *Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite* [Columbia] Paul D. Miller: *Death in Light of the Phonograph* [Asphodel] Monifah: *Moods . . . Moments* [Uptown/Universal] Nada Surf: *High/Low* [Elektra] Neurotic Outsiders: *Neurotic Outsiders* [Maverick/Reprise] The Nields: *Gotta Get over Greta* [Razor & Tie] Abiodun Oyewole: *25 Years* [Rykodisc] Pere Ubu: *Folly of Youth See Dee Plus* [Tim/Kerr] Sam Phillips: *Omnipop (It's Only a Flesh Wound Lambchop)* [Virgin] Phish: *Billy Breathes* [Elektra] The Pogues: *Pogue Mahone* [Mesa] Salt: *Ausculcate* [Island] Fred Schneider: *Just Fred* [Reprise] Scud Mountain Boys: *Massachusetts* [Sub Pop] Sepultura: *Roots* [RoadRunner] Michelle Shocked: *Kind Hearted Woman* [Private Music] Smog: *The Doctor Came at Dawn* [Drag City] The Specials: *Today's Specials* [Virgin] The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: *Now I Got Worry* [Matador] Sting: *Mercury Falling* [A&M] Syd Straw: *War and Peace* [Virgin] Andy Summers: *Synaesthesia* [CMP] Tool: *Aenima* [Zoo] Alan Vega/Alex Chilton/Ben Vaughn: *Cubist Blues* [2 3 61] Voodoo Child: *The End of Everything* [Trophy] Ween: *12 Golden Country Greats* [Elektra] Dar Williams: *Mortal City* [Razor & Tie] Peter Wolf: *Long Line* [Reprise] Neil Young: *Dead Man* [Vapor] *Hit Mix 96 Volume Two* [Cold Front] *A Journey into Ambient Groove* [Quango] *Lach's Antihoot: Live from the Fort at Sidewalk Cafe* [Shanachie] *Monsters, Robots and Bug Men* [Virgin] *Floyd Collins* [Nonesuch] *The Preacher's Wife* [Arista]

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