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Label: Reprise
Artists
American Music Club
:
Mercury
[1993]
B-
Aztec Camera
:
Frestonia
[1995]
B-52's
:
Cosmic Thing
[1989]
B
Good Stuff
[1992]
Big Country
:
Peace in Our Time
[1988]
C
Theo Bikel
:
A New Day
[1969]
D
Browning Bryant
:
Browning Bryant
[1974]
C+
Lindsay Buckingham
:
Out of the Cradle
[1992]
Under the Skin
[2006]
John Cale
:
The Academy in Peril
[1972]
B
Paris 1919
[1973]
B+
Captain Beefheart
:
The Spotlight Kid
[1972]
B+
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
:
Clear Spot
[1972]
B+
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
:
The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
[1998]
No More Shall We Part
[2001]
Eric Clapton
:
24 Nights
[1991]
Unplugged
[1992]
B-
From the Cradle
[1994]
**
Pilgrim
[1998]
C+
Me and Mr. Johnson
[2004]
Jimmy Cliff
:
Unlimited
[1973]
B-
Music Maker
[1974]
C
Follow My Mind
[1975]
C+
In Concert/The Best of Jimmy Cliff
[1976]
C+
Ry Cooder
:
Ry Cooder
[1970]
B
Into the Purple Valley
[1971]
B+
Boomer's Story
[1972]
B
Paradise and Lunch
[1974]
A-
Chicken Skin Music
[1976]
B
Billy Corgan
:
The Future Embrace
[2005]
Crazy Horse
:
Crazy Horse
[1971]
A-
Loose
[1972]
D+
The Credibility Gap
:
A Great Gift Idea
[1973]
A-
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
:
Looking Forward
[1999]
C
Daddy Cool
:
Daddy Who? Daddy Cool?
[1971]
C-
Craig David
:
Trust Me
[2008]
*
El DeBarge
:
Heart, Mind and Soul
[1994]
A-
Dinosaur Jr.
:
Hand It Over
[1997]
Dion
:
Sanctuary
[1971]
B-
Tanya Donelly
:
Lovesongs for Underdogs
[1997]
The Doobie Brothers
:
What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
[1974]
C-
Gail Ann Dorsey
:
The Corporate World
[1989]
B
E-40
:
My Ghetto Report Card
[2006]
***
Enya
:
A Day Without Rain
[2001]
D-
Donald Fagen
:
Kamakiriad
[1993]
***
Morph the Cat
[2006]
Sunken Condos
[2012]
A-
John Fahey
:
Of Rivers and Religion
[1972]
A
After the Ball
[1973]
A-
Fanny
:
Fanny
[1970]
C
Charity Ball
[1971]
B+
Fanny Hill
[1972]
B-
Mother's Pride
[1973]
C+
Federation
:
It's Whateva
[2007]
**
Bryan Ferry
:
Taxi
[1993]
Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music
:
Street Life: 20 Greatest Hits
[1989]
B+
Filter
:
Title of Record
[1999]
Fleetwood Mac
:
Then Play On
[1969]
B+
Kiln House
[1970]
A-
Future Games
[1971]
B
Bare Trees
[1972]
B+
Penguin
[1973]
B
Mystery to Me
[1973]
B+
Heroes Are Hard to Find
[1974]
B-
Fleetwood Mac
[1975]
A-
Rumours
[1977]
A
Tusk
[1979]
B+
Greatest Hits
[1988]
B
Rosie Flores
:
Rosie Flores
[1987]
A-
The Foremen
:
Folk Heroes
[1995]
**
What's Left?
[1996]
The Fugs
:
Golden Filth
[1970]
B+
The Gallows
:
Grey Britain
[2009]
Peter Green
:
The End of the Game
[1971]
D
Norman Greenbaum
:
Petaluma
[1972]
B+
Green Day
:
Dookie
[1994]
A-
Insomniac
[1995]
A-
Nimrod
[1997]
**
Warning
[2000]
A-
American Idiot
[2004]
C+
21st Century Breakdown
[2009]
C
The GrooveGrass Boyz
:
Grass 101
[1999]
Arlo Guthrie
:
Alice's Restaurant
[1967]
B-
Running Down the Road
[1969]
A
Hobo's Lullaby
[1972]
B+
Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys
[1973]
B
Arlo Guthrie
[1974]
B+
Amigo
[1976]
A-
Emmylou Harris
:
Pieces of the Sky
[1974]
C+
Elite Hotel
[1975]
C+
Luxury Liner
[1976]
B
Profile: The Best of Emmylou Harris
[1978]
B+
At the Ryman
[1992]
**
Jimi Hendrix
:
Smash Hits
[1968]
The Cry of Love
[1971]
A
Rainbow Bridge
[1971]
A-
Hendrix in the West
[1972]
A-
War Heroes
[1972]
B
Sound Track Recordings from the Film "Jimi Hendrix"
[1973]
C+
Crash Landing
[1975]
B+
Midnight Lightning
[1976]
B+
The Essential Jimi Hendrix
[1978]
C+
The Essential Jimi Hendrix Volume Two
[1979]
B-
Nine to the Universe
[1980]
B+
Jimi at Monterey
[1986]
B+
Penelope Houston
:
Tongue
[1998]
Chris Isaak
:
Forever Blue
[1995]
Baja Sessions
[1996]
Speak of the Devil
[1998]
*
Rick James
:
Wonderful
[1988]
C+
Al Jarreau
:
Glow
[1976]
C+
The Jesus and Mary Chain
:
Psychocandy
[1986]
A-
Jethro Tull
:
This Was
[1969]
C-
Stand Up
[1969]
B-
Benefit
[1970]
B-
Aqualung
[1971]
C+
Thick as a Brick
[1972]
C-
Chaka Khan
:
Epiphany: The Best of Chaka Khan Volume One
[1996]
A-
B.B. King/Eric Clapton
:
Riding With the King
[2000]
***
The Kinks
:
Face to Face
[1966]
The Kinks Greatest Hits!
[1966]
Arthur
[1969]
A-
Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround
[1970]
B-
The Kink Kronikles
[1972]
A
The Great Lost Kinks Album
[1973]
A-
Jim Kweskin
:
Richard D. Herbruck Presents Jim Kweskin's America
[1971]
B-
Linda Lewis
:
Lark
[1973]
B-
Gordon Lightfoot
:
Sundown
[1974]
B-
Little Richard
:
The Rill Thing
[1970]
C+
Little Village
:
Little Village
[1992]
The Living End
:
The Living End
[1999]
Roll On
[2001]
C
Nick Lowe
:
Party of One
[1990]
A-
The Masked Marauders
:
The Masked Marauders
[1969]
Terry Melcher
:
Terry Melcher
[1974]
B-
The Meters
:
Cabbage Alley
[1972]
B
Rejuvenation
[1974]
B+
Fire on the Bayou
[1975]
B
Trick Bag
[1976]
C+
Joni Mitchell
:
Clouds
[1969]
C
Ladies of the Canyon
[1970]
A-
Blue
[1971]
A
Turbulent Indigo
[1994]
Hits
[1996]
A-
Taming the Tiger
[1998]
Both Sides Now
[2000]
A-
Moby Grape
:
20 Granite Creek
[1971]
B+
Mother Earth
:
Bring Me Home
[1971]
B+
Mudhoney
:
Five Dollar Bob's Mock Cooter Stew
[1993]
The Muffs
:
Blonder and Blonder
[1995]
***
Happy Birthday to Me
[1997]
Geoff & Maria Muldaur
:
Pottery Pie
[1970]
B
Sweet Potatoes
[1972]
B+
Maria Muldaur
:
Maria Muldaur
[1973]
B+
Waitress in a Donut Shop
[1974]
C+
Murs
:
Murs for President
[2008]
*
My Chemical Romance
:
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
[2004]
The Black Parade
[2006]
**
Tracy Nelson/Mother Earth
:
Tracy Nelson/Mother Earth
[1972]
B
Randy Newman
:
12 Songs
[1970]
A+
Live
[1971]
B
Sail Away
[1972]
A-
Good Old Boys
[1974]
A
Land of Dreams
[1988]
B+
Randy Newman's Faust
[1995]
A
New Order
:
Get Ready
[2001]
A-
Nico
:
Desertshore
[1970]
C
Holly Palmer
:
Holly Palmer
[1997]
Gram Parsons
:
GP
[1973]
B+
Grievous Angel
[1974]
A
Pearls Before Swine
:
These Things Too
[1969]
C
The Pentangle
:
Cruel Sister
[1970]
C+
Primal Scream
:
Vanishing Point
[1997]
B+
Richard Pryor
:
. . . Is It Something I Said?
[1975]
A
Otis Redding/The Jimi Hendrix Experience
:
Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival
[1970]
A-
Lou Reed
:
Perfect Night: Live in London
[1998]
**
John Renbourn
:
Faro Annie
[1972]
B+
The Replacements
:
All for Nothing/Nothing for All
[1997]
A-
Johnathan Rice
:
Further North
[2007]
Rock Kills Kid
:
Are You Nervous?
[2006]
Roxy Music
:
Roxy Music
[1972]
B+
For Your Pleasure
[1973]
B
Ed Sanders
:
Sanders' Truck Stop
[1970]
B
Beer Cans on the Moon
[1972]
C+
Fred Schneider
:
Just Fred
[1996]
Seals and Crofts
:
Diamond Girl
[1973]
C-
John Sebastian
:
The Four of Us
[1971]
C
The Tarzana Kid
[1974]
C-
John B. Sebastian
:
John B. Sebastian
[1970]
B
Jane Siberry
:
When I Was a Boy
[1993]
B-
Frank Sinatra
:
Sinatra and Sextet: Live in Paris
[1993]
Everything Happens to Me
[1996]
A
Slade
:
Sladest
[1973]
B+
Stomp Your Hands, Clap Your Feet
[1974]
B
The Stills Young Band
:
Long May You Run
[1976]
B
Texas Tornados
:
The Best of Texas Tornados
[1993]
A-
Marc Anthony Thompson
:
Watts and Paris
[1989]
B+
Richard Thompson
:
Henry the Human Fly
[1972]
A-
Tanita Tikaram
:
Ancient Heart
[1988]
B
William Truckaway
:
William Truckaway
[1972]
B+
The Used
:
In Love and Death
[2004]
Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan
:
The Phlorescent Leech & Eddie
[1972]
B+
T-Bone Walker
:
Very Rare
[1973]
B-
Paul Westerberg
:
Eventually
[1996]
**
Wilco
:
Being There
[1996]
B+
Summerteeth
[1999]
**
Peter Wolf
:
Long Line
[1996]
Dwight Yoakam
:
Guitars Cadillacs Etc. Etc.
[1986]
B
Hillbilly Deluxe
[1987]
B-
Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room
[1988]
B+
Just Lookin' for a Hit
[1989]
A-
If There Was a Way
[1990]
***
This Time
[1993]
**
A Long Way Home
[1998]
Last Chance for a Thousand Years: Dwight Yoakam's Greatest Hits from the 90's
[1999]
A-
Neil Young
:
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
[1969]
B+
After the Gold Rush
[1970]
A+
Harvest
[1972]
B+
Journey Through the Past
[1973]
C+
Time Fades Away
[1973]
A
On the Beach
[1974]
A-
Tonight's the Night
[1975]
A
Zuma
[1975]
A-
American Stars 'n Bars
[1977]
B+
Comes a Time
[1978]
A
Decade
[1978]
A
Rust Never Sleeps
[1979]
A+
Live Rust
[1979]
A-
Hawks and Doves
[1980]
A-
Freedom
[1989]
A
Harvest Moon
[1992]
***
Unplugged
[1993]
***
Mirror Ball
[1995]
*
Road Rock, Vol. 1
[2000]
B+
Are You Passionate?
[2002]
***
Greatest Hits
[2004]
Prairie Wind
[2005]
A-
Living With War
[2006]
B+
Live at Massey Hall
[2007]
Chrome Dreams II
[2007]
*
Fork in the Road
[2009]
A-
International Harvesters: A Treasure
[2011]
A-
Peace Trail
[2016]
***
Neil Young & the Bluenotes
:
This Note's for You
[1988]
B-
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
:
Reactor
[1981]
B+
Ragged Glory
[1990]
A-
Weld
[1991]
A-
Sleeps With Angels
[1994]
A-
Broken Arrow
[1996]
**
Year of the Horse
[1997]
B+
Greendale
[2003]
***
Live at the Fillmore East
[2006]
*
Americana
[2012]
A
Way Down in the Rust Bucket
[2021]
A-
Barn
[2021]
A
World Record
[2022]
B+
Neil Young + Promise of the Real
:
The Monsanto Years
[2015]
**
Earth
[2016]
**
Zapp & Roger
:
All the Greatest Hits
[1993]
*
Compilations/Soundtracks
Magnolia
[1999]
*
Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix
[1993]