Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 1997

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Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 1997

Listing for 454 records from 1997 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A+	Lefty Frizzell: *Look What Thoughts Will Do* [Columbia/Legacy] Arto Lindsay: *Mundo Civilizado* [Bar/None] Howlin' Wolf: *His Best* [Chess] *Anthology of American Folk Music* [Smithsonian/Folkways] *ESPN Presents Slam Jams, Vol. 1* [Tommy Boy] *Roots of Jazz Funk Volume One* [MVP]
A	Louis Armstrong: *Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson* [Verve] Louis Armstrong & Friends: *What a Wonderful Christmas* [Hip-O] The Beautiful South: *Blue Is the Colour* [Ark 21] Ray Charles: *Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection* [Rhino] Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton: *Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton* [Verve] Cornershop: *When I Was Born for the Seventh Time* [Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.] Miles Davis: *Dark Magus* [Columbia/Legacy] Woody Guthrie: *This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings Vol. 1* [Smithsonian/Folkways] Slim Harpo: *The Best of Slim Harpo* [Hip-O] Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: *Fit to Be Tied: Great Hits by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts* [Blackheart/Mercury] Badar Ali Khan: *Lost In Qawwali* [Worldly/Triloka] The Moonglows: *Their Greatest Hits* [MCA] Notorious B.I.G.: *Life After Death* [Bad Boy] Sinéad O'Connor: *So Far: The Best of Sinead O'Connor* [Capitol] Pavement: *Brighten the Corners* [Matador] Jimmie Rodgers: *The Essential Jimmie Rodgers* [RCA] Sleater-Kinney: *Dig Me Out* [Kill Rock Stars] Spring Heel Jack: *Busy Curious Thirsty* [Island] Spring Heel Jack: *68 Million Shades . . .* [Island] Tiger: *Shining in the Wood* [Bar/None] Bill Withers: *Live at Carnegie Hall* [Columbia/Legacy] Yo La Tengo: *I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One* [Matador] *Closer Than a Kiss: Crooner Classics* [Rhino] *Roots of Jazz Funk Volume Two* [MVP] *The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute* [Columbia/Egyptian] *This Is Ska!* [Music Club] *Township Jazz 'n' Jive* [Music Club]
A-	John Anderson: *Takin' the Country Back* [Mercury] Arcana: *Arc of the Testimony* [Axiom/Island] Backstreet Boys: *Backstreet Boys* [Jive] Buju Banton: *Inna Heights* [VP] Belle and Sebastian: *If You're Feeling Sinister* [The Enclave] Dan Bern: *Dan Bern* [Work] Bis: *The New Transistor Heroes* [Grand Royal] Mary J. Blige: *Share My World* [MCA] Blondie: *Essential Blondie: Picture This Live* [Chrysalis/EMI-Capitol] Dock Boggs: *Country Blues: Complete Early Recordings (1927-29)* [Revenant] The Bottle Rockets: *24 Hours a Day* [Atlantic] Bobby Brown, Bell Biv Devoe, Ralph Tresvant: *New Edition Solo Hits* [MCA] The Chemical Brothers: *Dig Your Own Hole* [Astralwerks] Patsy Cline: *Live at the Cimarron Ballroom* [MCA] Ornette Coleman/Joachim Kühn: *Colors* [Harmolodic/Verve] Miles Davis: *Black Beauty* [Columbia/Legacy] Ani DiFranco: *Living in Clip* [Righteous Babe] The Dismemberment Plan: *The Dismemberment Plan Is Terrified* [DeSoto] Bob Dylan: *Time Out of Mind* [Columbia] Steve Earle: *El Corazón* [Warner Bros.] Missy Misdemeanor Elliott: *Supa Dupa Fly* [The Gold Mind, Inc./EastWest] Césaria Évora: *Cabo Verde* [Nonesuch] Foo Fighters: *The Colour and the Shape* [Roswell] Forest for the Trees: *Forest for the Trees* [DreamWorks] Rubén González: *Introducing . . . Rubén González* [World Circuit] Orüj Güvenç & Tümata: *Rivers of One* [Interworld] Corey Harris: *Fish Ain't Bitin'* [Alligator] Iggy and the Stooges: *Raw Power* [Columbia/Legacy] Janet Jackson: *The Velvet Rope* [Virgin] Millie Jackson: *Totally Unrestricted! The Millie Jackson Anthology* [Rhino] The Jazz Passengers Featuring Deborah Harry: *Individually Twisted* [32 Records] Wyclef Jean: *Wyclef Jean Presents the Carnival Featuring Refugee Allstars* [Ruffhouse/Columbia] Freedy Johnston: *Never Home* [Elektra] George Jones & Melba Montgomery: *Vintage Collections* [Capitol] Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: *Greatest Hits* [Shanachie] Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: *Rapture: An Essential Selection* [Music Club] The Kinleys: *Just Between You and Me* [Epic] The Klezmatics: *Possessed* [Xenophile] Wayne Kramer: *Citizen Wayne* [Epitaph] Latyrx (Lateef & Lyrics Born): *The Album* [SoleSides] Los Van Van: *Best of Los Van Van* [Milan] L7: *The Beauty Process: Triple Platinum* [Slash/Reprise] Luna: *Pup Tent* [Elektra] Mase: *Harlem World* [Bad Boy] Jimmy McGriff: *Greatest Hits* [Blue Note] The Mills Brothers: *All Time Greatest Hits* [MCA] Moby: *Animal Rights* [Elektra] Modest Mouse: *The Lonesome Crowded West* [Up] Scotty Moore/D.J. Fontana: *All the King's Men* [Sweetfish] The Murmurs: *Pristine Smut* [MCA] David Murray: *Fo Deuk Revue* [Justin Time] Mystikal: *Unpredictable* [Jive/No Limit] The Neckbones: *Souls on Fire* [Fat Possum/Epitaph] Willie Nelson: *I Let My Mind Wander* [Kingfisher] Jeb Loy Nichols: *Lovers Knot* [Capitol] Pavement: *Shady Lane* [Matador] Esther Phillips: *The Best of Esther Phillips (1962-1970)* [Rhino/Atlantic] The Psychedelic Furs: *Should God Forget: A Retrospective* [Columbia] The Replacements: *All for Nothing/Nothing for All* [Reprise] Oumou Sangaré: *Worotan* [World Circuit] Del Shannon: *This Is . . . Del Shannon* [Music Club] Frank Sinatra With the Red Norvo Quintet: *Live in Australia, 1959* [Blue Note] Smash Mouth: *Fush Yu Mang* [Interscope] Bessie Smith: *The Essential Bessie Smith* [Columbia] Spearhead: *Chocolate Supa Highway* [Capitol] That Dog: *Retreat from the Sun* [DGC] Irma Thomas: *Sweet Soul Queen of New Orleans: The Irma Thomas Collection* [Razor & Tie] Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments: *Straight to Video* [Anyway] Richard Thompson + Danny Thompson: *Industry* [Rykodisc] Timbaland and Magoo: *Welcome to Our World* [Blackstreet/Atlantic] Sally Timms: *Cowboy Sally* [Bloodshot] Tony Toni Toné: *Hits* [Mercury] Shania Twain: *Come on Over* [Mercury] Waco Brothers: *Cowboy in Flames* [Bloodshot] Warda: *Lebanon/Algeria* [Metro Blue] We: *As Is* [Asphodel] Yuri Yunakov Ensemble: *New Colors in Bulgarian Wedding Music* [Traditional Crossroads] *Beats & Rhymes: Hip Hop of the '90s, Part II* [Rhino] *Beats & Rhymes: Hip Hop of the '90s, Part III* [Rhino] *Bergville Stories* [Sony International] *Big Rock'n Beats* [TVT] *Dancing at the Nick at Niteclub* [Nick at Nite/550 Music] *History of House Music, Vol. 2: New York Garage Style* [Cold Front] *Kings of African Music* [Music Club] *MTV's AMP* [Astralwerks] *Muggs Presents . . . The Soul Assassins, Chapter 1* [Columbia] *Soundbombing* [Rawkus] *Strip Jointz* [Robbins] *The Power of the Trinity: Great Moments in Reggae Harmony* [Shanachie] *Mandela: Son of Africa, Father of a Nation* [Mango]
B+	Bis: *This Is Teen-C Power!* [Grand Royal] The Dave Brubeck Quartet: *Time Out* [Columbia/Legacy] Built to Spill: *Perfect from Now On* [Warner Bros.] Common: *One Day It'll All Make Sense* [Relativity] Everclear: *So Much for the Afterglow* [Capitol] Jad Fair and the Shapir O'Rama: *We Are the Rage* [Avant] Kirk Franklin's Nu Nation: *God's Property* [B-Rite Music] Lady Saw: *Passion* [VP] Ismaël Lo: *Jammu Africa* [Worldly/Triloka] Lonesome Bob: *Things Fall Apart* [Checkered Past] Old 97's: *Too Far to Care* [Elektra] Phish: *Slip Stitch and Pass* [Elektra] Primal Scream: *Vanishing Point* [Reprise] Robyn: *Robyn Is Here* [RCA] Sonic Youth: *Anagrama/Improvisation Ajoutée/Tremens/Mieux: De Corrosion* [SYR] Mia X: *Unlady Like* [No Limit] Neil Young & Crazy Horse: *Year of the Horse* [Reprise] *Beats & Rhymes: Hip Hop of the '90s, Part I* [Rhino]
*******	Afro-Cuban All Stars: *A Toda Cuba le Gusta* [World Circuit] Bentley Rhythm Ace: *Bentley Rhythm Ace* [Astralwerks] Chumbawamba: *Tubthumper* [Republic/Universal] Guy Clark: *The Essential Guy Clark* [RCA] George Clinton & the P-Funk All Stars: *Live and Kickin'* [Intersound] Free Kitten: *Sentimental Education* [Kill Rock Stars] Handsome Family: *Through the Trees* [Carrot Top] Clay Harper: *East of Easter* [Casino Music] Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party: *Supreme Collection, Vol. 1* [Caroline] B.B. King: *Deuces Wild* [MCA] Jimmy King: *Soldier for the Blues* [Bullseye Blues] Ladysmith Black Mambazo: *Heavenly* [Shanachie] L.L. Cool J: *Phenomenon* [Def Jam] Shane MacGowan and the Popes: *Crock of Gold* [SPV] Memphis Minnie: *Queen of the Blues* [Columbia/Legacy] NOFX: *So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes* [Epitaph] Buster Poindexter: *Buster's Spanish Rocket Ship* [Island] Sabri Brothers: *Greatest Hits* [Shanachie] Chris Smither: *Small Revelations* [HighTone] Soundgarden: *A-Sides* [A&M] Source Direct: *Controlled Developments* [Astralwerks] Don White: *Rascal* [Lyric Moon] XTC: *Upsy Daisy Assortment* [Geffen] *The Mystic Fiddle of the Proto-Gypsies: Masters of Trance Music* [Shanachie] *The Jackal* [MCA]
**	Horace Andy: *Skylarking* [Melankolic] Baader Meinhof: *Baader Meinhof* [VC] Baby Bird: *Ugly Beautiful* [Atlantic] Erykah Badu: *Live* [Universal] Bettie Serveert: *Dust Bunnies* [Matador] Björk: *Homogenic* [Elektra] Clem Snide: *You Were a Diamond* [Tractor Beam] Coolio: *My Soul* [Tommy Boy] Chico DeBarge: *Long Time No See* [Kedar/Universal] Carmaig DeForest: *El Camino Real* [St. Francis] Maggie Estep: *Love Is a Dog from Hell* [Mouth Almighty/Mercury] Fatboy Slim: *Better Living Through Chemistry* [Astralwerks] Green Day: *Nimrod* [Reprise] Woody Guthrie: *Muleskinner Blues: The Asch Recordings Vol. 2* [Smithsonian/Folkways] Hanson: *Middle of Nowhere* [Mercury] Jay-Z: *In My Lifetime, Vol. 1* [Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam] Latyrx (Lateef & Lyrics Born): *The Muzapper's Mixes EP* [SoleSides] Lukas Ligeti & Beta Foly: *Lukas Ligeti & Beta Foly* [Intuition] LSG: *Levert Sweat Gill* [EastWest] Teena Marie: *Lovergirl: The Teena Marie Story* [Epic/Legacy] Meat Purveyors: *Sweet in the Pants* [Bloodshot] Next: *Rated Next* [Arista] Oasis: *Be Here Now* [Epic] John Prine: *Live on Tour* [Oh Boy] Puff Daddy & the Family: *No Way Out* [Bad Boy] The Pulsars: *Pulsars* [Almo Sounds] Finley Quaye: *Maverick a Strike* [Epic] Radish: *Restraining Bolt* [Mercury] Rakim: *The 18th Letter: The Book of Life* [Uptown/Universal] Savage Garden: *Savage Garden* [Columbia] Sex Pistols: *Raw* [Music Club] Roni Size/Reprazent: *New Forms* [Talkin' Loud/Mercury] Skeleton Key: *Fantastic Spikes Through Balloon* [Capitol] Waco Brothers: *Do You Think About Me?* [Bloodshot] Wu-Tang Clan: *Wu-Tang Forever* [Loud] X: *Beyond and Back: The X Anthology* [Elektra] Zap Mama: *Seven* [Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.] *Holding Up Half the Sky: Voices of African Women* [Shanachie] *Lesbian Favorites: Women Like Us* [Rhino] *Real: The Tom T. Hall Project* [Delmore] *Yo! MTV Raps* [Def Jam] *Soul Food* [LaFace] *Suburbia* [DGC]
*	Archers of Loaf: *Vitus Tinnitus* [Alias] Asylum Street Spankers: *The Asylum Street Spankers* [Watermelon] Baby Bird: *The Greatest Hits* [Baby Bird] Erykah Badu: *Baduizm* [Universal] Big Youth: *Isaiah First Prophet of Old* [Caroline] Blind Pigs: *Sao Paulo Chaos* [Grita] Brooks & Dunn: *The Greatest Hits Collection* [Arista] Buena Vista Social Club: *Buena Vista Social Club* [World Circuit] R.L. Burnside: *Mr. Wizard* [Fat Possum] Guy Clark: *Keepers: A Live Recording* [Sugar Hill] Dr. John: *Trippin' Live* [Surefire] Fantcha: *Criolinha* [Tinder] Ben Folds Five: *Whatever and Ever Amen* [550 Music] The Folk Implosion: *Dare to Be Surprised* [Communion] Juan Formell y Los Van Van: *Te Pone la Cabeza Mala* [Metro Blue] Hamell on Trial: *The Chord Is Mightier Than the Sword* [Mercury] Junior Kimbrough: *Most Things Haven't Worked Out* [Fat Possum/Capricorn] Paul Kossoff: *Blue Blue Soul: The Best of Paul Kossoff 1969-76* [Music Club] KRS-One: *I Got Next* [Jive] Forward Kwenda: *Svikiro* [Shanachie] Marlee MacLeod: *Vertigo* [TRG] Madness: *Total Madness* [Geffen] Magnet: *Don't Be a Penguin* [PC] MC Solaar: *Paradisiaque* [Polydor] John Mellencamp: *The Best That I Could Do 1978-1988* [Mercury] Trish Murphy: *Crooked Mile* [Raven] Beth Orton: *Trailer Park* [Heavenly] Pavement: *Stereo* [Domino] Ray Price: *Super Hits* [Columbia] The Prodigy: *The Fat of the Land* [Maverick/Warner Bros.] The Rolling Stones: *Bridges to Babylon* [Virgin] Mem Shannon: *Mem Shannon's 2nd Blues Album* [Hannibal] Joe Simon: *Music in My Bones: The Best of Joe Simon* [Rhino] Elliott Smith: *Either/Or* [Kill Rock Stars] Patti Smith: *Peace and Noise* [Arista] Sonic Youth/Jim O'Rourke: *Invito Al Cielo/Hungara Vivo/Radio-Amatoroj* [SYR] Spiritualized: *Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space* [Arista] Aaron Tippin: *Greatest Hits . . . and Then Some* [RCA] Usher: *My Way* [LaFace] Us3: *Broadway & 52nd* [Blue Note] Veruca Salt: *Eight Arms to Hold You* [Outpost] Volebeats: *Sky and the Ocean* [Safe House] Trisha Yearwood: *Songbook (A Collection of Hits)* [MCA] *Queens of African Music* [Music Club] *City of Industry* [Quango]
	Backstreet Boys: *Backstreet's Back* [Jive] Marcia Ball: *Let Me Play With Your Poodle* [Rounder] Blur: *Blur* [Virgin] Pat Boone: *In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy* [Hip-O] David Bowie: *Essential David Bowie: Best of 1969-1974* [EMI/Capitol] Boyz II Men: *Evolution* [Motown] Elvis Costello: *Extreme Honey: The Very Best of the Warner Bros. Years* [Warner Bros.] Mary Coughlan: *After the Fall* [Big Cat] The Crystal Method: *Vegas* [Outpost] Daft Punk: *Homework* [Virgin] Dambuilders: *Against the Stars* [Atlantic] Marianne Faithfull: *20th Century Blues* [RCA Victor] Four Bitchin' Babes: *Gabby Road* [Shanachie] The Friggs: *Rock Candy* [E-Vil] Serge Gainsbourg: *Comic Book* [Mercury] Golden Delicious: *Old School* [Cavity Search] Al Green: *Anthology* [The Right Stuff] Junior Cottonmouth: *Bespoke* [Atlantic] Lamb: *Lamb* [Mercury] Lutefisk: *Burn in Hell Fuckers* [Bong Load Custom] Mack 10: *Based on a True Story* [Priority] Made: *Bedazzler* [MCA] Brian McKnight: *Anytime* [Mercury] Marilyn Monroe: *The Essential Recordings* [Music Club] OMC: *How Bizarre* [Huh!/Mercury] William Parker & the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra: *Sunrise in the Tone World* [Aum Fidelity] Busta Rhymes: *When Disaster Strikes* [Elektra] Salt-N-Pepa: *Brand New* [London/Red Ant] Yandé Codou Sène: *Night Sky in Sine Saloum* [Shanachie] Will Smith: *Big Willie Style* [Columbia] Sneaker Pimps: *Becoming X* [Virgin] Spice Girls: *Spice* [Virgin] Spice Girls: *Spiceworld* [Virgin] Supergrass: *In It for the Money* [Capitol] James Taylor: *Hourglass* [Columbia] Tranquility Bass: *Let the Freak Flag Fly* [Astralwerks] The Verve: *Urban Hymns* [Vernon Yard] *And Then There Was Bass* [Mercedes/LaFace] *Drop Acid . . . Listen to This!!* [Knitting Factory Works] *In Tha Beginning . . . There Was Rap* [Priority] *September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill* [Sony Classics] *The Best of Front Row Center* [MCA]
	Aerosmith: *Nine Lives* [Columbia] After 7: *The Very Best of After 7* [Virgin] Mahmoud Ahmed: *Soul of Addis* [Sterns/Earthworks] Auntie Christ: *Life Could Be a Dream* [Lookout] Sékouba Bambino: *Kassa* [Sterns Africa] Body Count: *Violent Demise: The Last Days* [Virgin] Jean-Paul Bourelly & the BluWave Bandits: *Rock the Cathartic Spirits: Vibe Music and the Blues!* [Koch] Meredith Brooks: *Blurring the Edges* [Capitol] Shirley Brown: *The Soul of a Woman* [Malaco] The Robert Cray Band: *Sweet Potato Pie* [Mercury] The Cure: *Galore: The Singles 1987-1997* [Elektra/Fiction] Five-O: *Everything but the Girl Vs. Drum n' Bass* [Atlantic] Fleetwood Mac: *The Dance* [Warner Bros.] John Fogerty: *Blue Moon Swamp* [Warner Bros.] T-Model Ford: *Pee-Wee Get My Gun* [Fat Possum/Epitaph] Kim Fox: *Moon Hut* [DreamWorks] Scott Free: *Getting Off Scott Free* [Leather/Western] Funki Porcini: *Let's See What Carmen Can Do* [ZenCDs50 EP] Future Bible Heroes: *Memories of Love* [Slowriver] Greg Garing: *Alone* [Paladin/Revolution] The Geraldine Fibbers: *Butch* [Virgin] Gravediggaz: *The Pick, the Sickle and the Shovel* [Gee Street] Tom T. Hall: *Home Grown* [Mercury] Ben Harper: *The Will to Live* [Virgin] The Herbaliser: *Blow Your Headphones* [Ninja Tune] Jelly Roll Kings: *Off Yonder Wall* [Fat Possum/Capricorn] Jungle Brothers: *Raw Deluxe* [Gee Street] Kenickie: *At the Club* [Warner Bros.] Led Zeppelin: *BBC Sessions* [Atlantic] Lemzo Diamano: *Marimbalax* [Sterns Africa] Linoleum: *Dissent* [DGC] Craig Mack Operation: *Get Down* [Street Life] Marimba Ava Murewa: *Mazuva Ano* [Zimbob] Jimmy Mbaye: *Dakar Heart* [Shanachie] Grant McLennan: *In Your Bright Ray* [Beggars Banquet] Dean Miller: *Dean Miller* [Capitol] Mini All Stars: *Fanatiques Compas* [Sterns/Earthworks] Van Morrison: *The Healing Game* [Polydor] mu-Ziq: *Lunatic Harness* [Astralwerks] Negro Problem: *Post Minstrel Syndrome* [Aerial Flipout] Sinéad O'Connor: *Gospel Oak EP* [Chrysalis/EMI] The Pixies: *Death to the Pixies* [Elektra] Suzzy Roche: *Holy Smokes* [Red House] Boz Scaggs: *Come On Home* [Virgin] Thione Seck: *Daaly* [Sterns Africa] Ron Sexsmith: *Other Songs* [Interscope] Paul Simon: *Songs From 'The Capeman'* [Warner Bros.] The Skeletons: *Nothing to Lose* [HighTone] Skunk Anansie: *Stoosh* [One Little Indian/Epic] Son 14 with Tiburon: *Cubania* [Candela] Sonic Youth: *Slappkamers Met Slagroom/Stil/Herinneringen* [SYR] Soul Brothers: *Born to Jive* [Sterns/Earthworks] Sublime: *Second-Hand Smoke* [Gasoline Alley/MCA] Matthew Sweet: *Blue Sky on Mars* [Zoo] Third Eye Blind: *Third Eye Blind* [Elektra] Henry Threadgill: *Where's Your Cup?* [Columbia] The Derek Trucks Band: *The Derek Trucks Band* [Landslide] Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: *Live at Carnegie Hall* [Epic] Muddy Waters: *Paris, 1972* [Pablo] Muddy Waters & Friends: *Goin' Way Back* [Just a Memory] Whiskeytown: *Strangers Almanac* [Outpost] Dar Williams: *End of the Summer* [Razor & Tie] Wingless Angels: *Wingless Angels* [Mindless/Island Jamaica] Lee Ann Womack: *Lee Ann Womack* [Decca]
B	Garth Brooks: *Sevens* [Capitol] Stereolab: *Dots and Loops* [Elektra]
B-	Richard Buckner: *Devotion and Doubt* [MCA] Bob Carlisle: *Butterfly Kisses (Shades of Grace)* [Diadem] Johnny Dowd: *Wrong Side of Memphis* [Checkered Past] En Vogue: *EV3* [EastWest] Nas Escobar, Foxy Brown, Az and Nature: *The Firm -- The Album* [Interscope] Portishead: *Portishead* [Go! Beat] Radiohead: *OK Computer* [Capitol] Squirrel Nut Zippers: *Hot* [Mammoth] Sugar Ray: *Floored* [Lava/Atlantic]
C+	John Fahey: *City of Refuge* [Tim/Kerr] Jane's Addiction: *Kettle Whistle* [Warner Bros.] Master P.: *Ghetto D* [No Limit/Priority] Will Oldham: *Joya* [Drag City] Mike Watt: *Contemplating the Engine Room* [Columbia] *Anokha: Soundz of the Asian Underground* [Quango]
C	Days of the New: *Days of the New* [Outpost] Brian Eno: *The Drop* [Thirsty Ear] The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: *Plays the Music of Oasis* [Music Club] Paul Weller: *Heavy Soul* [Island]
C-	Sarah McLachlan: *Surfacing* [Arista] 98°: *98°* [Motown] Rollins Band: *Come In and Burn* [DreamWorks] *Heritage* [Six Degrees/Island]
	Aphex Twin: *Come to Daddy* [Warp/Sire] Aqua: *Aquarium* [MCA] Natacha Atlas: *Halim* [Beggars Banquet] Susana Baca: *Susana Baca* [Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.] Dan Bern: *Dog Boy Van* [Work] Barry Black: *Tragic Animal Stories* [Alias] David Bowie: *Earthling* [Virgin] Buick MacKane: *The Pawn Shop Years* [Rykodisc] Solomon Burke: *The Definition of Soul* [Pointblank] R.L. Burnside: *Sound Machine Groove* [High Water/HMG] David Byrne: *Feelings* [Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.] Cagney and Lacee: *Six Feet of Chain* [No. 6] Cake Like: *Bruiser Queen* [Vapor] Mariah Carey: *Butterfly* [Columbia] Daniel Cartier: *Avenue A* [Rocket] Changing Faces: *All Day, All Night* [Big Beat/Atlantic] Cherry Poppin' Daddies: *Zoot Suit Riot* [Mojo] Judy Collins: *Christmas at the Biltmore Estate* [Elektra] Company Flow: *Funcrusher Plus* [Rawkus] Dance Hall Crashers: *Honey I'm Homely* [MCA] Richard Davies: *Telegraph* [Flydaddy] Deftones: *Around the Fur* [Maverick/Warner Bros.] Dinosaur Jr.: *Hand It Over* [Reprise] Tanya Donelly: *Lovesongs for Underdogs* [Reprise] Fuck: *Pardon My French* [Matador] Warren G: *Take a Look over Your Shoulder (Reality)* [Def Jam] Graham Haynes: *Tones for the 21st Century* [Antilles] His Name Is Alive: *Nice Day* [4AD] Ray Wylie Hubbard: *Dangerous Spirits* [Philo] Boney James: *Sweet Thing* [Warner Bros.] The Jayhawks: *Sound of Lies* [American] Antonio Carlos Jobim: *Composer* [Warner Archives] Rickie Lee Jones: *Ghostyhead* [Warner Bros.] Lokua Kanza: *Wapi Yo* [Catalyst] Badar Ali Khan: *Mixes* [Worldly/Triloka] Limp Bizkit: *Three Dollar Bill, Y'All* [Flip/Interscope] Live: *Secret Samadhi* [Radioactive] Love Spit Love: *Trysome Eatone* [Maverick/Warner Bros.] Lung Leg: *"Hello Sir"* [Kill Rock Stars] John Lydon: *Psycho's Path* [Virgin] Marcy Playground: *Marcy Playground* [Capitol] Martin's Folly: *Martin's Folly* [Johnson's Wax] Roger McGuinn: *Live From Mars* [Hollywood] Moby: *I Like to Score* [Elektra] Morrissey: *Maladjusted* [Mercury] The Muffs: *Happy Birthday to Me* [Reprise] mu-Ziq: *Urmur Bile Trax Volume 1 Volume 2* [Astralwerks] The Need: *The Need* [Chainsaw] Nerf Herder: *Nerf Herder* [Arista] The Offspring: *Ixnay on the Hombre* [Columbia] Orquestra Was: *Forever's a Long, Long Time* [Verve Forecast] O'Yaba: *Greatest Hits* [Gallo] Holly Palmer: *Holly Palmer* [Reprise] The Perpetrators: *Porno Rock* [Rimshot] LeAnn Rimes: *You Light Up My Life* [Curb] Todd Rundgren: *With a Twist . . .* [Guardian] Sexpod: *Goddess Blues* [Slab] Silkk the Shocker: *Charge It 2 Da Game* [No Limit] Sloan: *One Chord to Another* [The Enclave] Sol y Canto: *Sendero Del Sol* [Rounder] Son Volt: *Straightaways* [Warner Bros.] Lisa Stansfield: *Lisa Stansfield* [Arista] Third Rail: *South Delta Space Age* [Antilles] The Tories: *Wonderful Life* [N2K] Tru: *Tru 2 da Game* [No Limit] U2: *Pop* [Island] Vanessa Williams: *Next* [Mercury] Dwight Yoakam: *Under the Covers* [Warner Bros.] *Nuyorican Soul* [Giant Step/Blue Thumb]

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