The A Lists: 1991 (79)

• James Brown: Star Time (Polydor)
• Guitar Paradise of East Africa (Earthworks)
• Nirvana: Nevermind (DGC)
• Linton Kwesi Johnson: Tings an' Times (Shanachie)
• Wild About My Lovin': Beale Street Blues 1928-1930 (RCA)
• Public Enemy: Apocalypse '91: The Enemy Strikes Black (Def Jam)
• Pet Shop Boys: Discography (EMI)
• Loketo: Extra Ball (Shanachie)
• The Jazz Age (Bluebird)
• Sonny Sharrock Band: Highlife (Enemy)
• R.E.M.: Out of Time (Warner Bros.)
• Risqué Rhythm: Nasty '50s R&B (Rhino)
• Bonnie Raitt: Luck of the Draw (Capitol)
• Feelies: The Time for a Witness (A&M)
• P.M. Dawn: Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience (Gee Street)
• Run-D.M.C.: Together Forever: Greatest Hits 1983-1991 (Profile)
• Al Green: One in a Million (Word/Epic)
• Ice-T: O.G.: Original Gangster (Sire/Warner Bros.)
• Gary Stewart: Gary's Greatest (HighTone)
• Pulnoc: City of Hysteria (Arista)
• Tshala Muana: Soukous Siren (Shanachie)
• The Kings and Queens of Township Jive: Modern Roots of the Indestructible Beat of Soweto (Earthworks)
• John Prine: The Missing Years (Oh Boy)
• Cumbia Cumbia (World Circuit import)
• Digital Underground: This Is an EP Release (Tommy Boy)
• Dorothy Masuka: Pata Pata (Mango)
• Pixies: Trompe Le Monde (Elektra/4AD)
• The Leaving Trains: Loser Illusion Pt. 0 (SST)
• Slick Rick: The Ruler's Back (Def Jam/Columbia)
• Michael Jackson: Dangerous (Epic)
• The Blasters: The Blasters Collection (Slash/Warner Bros.)
• Matthew Sweet: Girlfriend (Zoo)
• Jimmie Dale Gilmore: "After Awhile" (Nonesuch)
• Cypress Hill: Cypress Hill (Ruffhouse/Columbia)
• The Pooh Sticks: The Great White Wonder (Sweet Virginia)
• Bob Marley & the Wailers: Talkin' Blues (Tuff Gong)
• The Bats: Compiletely Bats (Communion)
• Eleventh Dream Day: Lived To Tell (Atlantic)
• My Bloody Valentine: Loveless (Sire/Warner Bros.)
• Mekons: Curse of the Mekons (Blast First import)
• Black Stalin: Roots Rock Soca (Rounder)
• Yo-Yo: Make Way for the Motherlode (East West)
• Motorhead: 1916 (WTG)
• Jit--The Movie (Earthworks)
• The Only Ones: The Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
• John Lee Hooker: Mr. Lucky (Charisma/Pointblank)
• Tabu Ley Rochereau: Man From Kinshasa (Shanachie)
• Pulnoc: Pulnoc (Globus International import)
• Linda Gail Lewis: International Affair (New Rose import)
• G.W. McLennan: Watershed (Beggars Banquet)
• Kenya Dance Mania (Earthworks)
• The Most Beautiful Christmas Carols (Milan)
• Lee "Scratch" Perry: Lord God Muzick (Heartbeat)
• Eurythmics: Greatest Hits (Arista)
• Too Much Joy: Cereal Killers (Giant)
• Downtown Science: Downtown Science (Def Jam/Columbia)
• Charlie Feathers: Charlie Feathers (Nonesuch)
• New Jack City (Giant)
• The La's: The La's (London)
• Alex Chilton: 19 Years: A Collection of Alex Chilton (Rhino)
• Tina Turner: Simply the Best (Capitol)
• Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Weld (Reprise)
• Chris Smither: Another Way To Find You (Flying Fish)
• Wir: The First Letter (Mute/Elektra)
• Dennis Alcapone: Forever Version (Heartbeat)
• Oumou Sangare: Moussolou (World Circuit)
• Champion Jack Dupree: Forever and Ever (Bullseye Blues)
• The Go-Betweens: The Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
• Roky Erickson: You're Gonna Miss Me: The Best of Roky Erickson (Restless)
• Garth Brooks: Ropin' the Wind (Capitol)
• Robert Ward and the Black Top All-Stars: Fear No Evil (Black Top)
• The KLF: The White Room (Arista)
• Ali Hassan Kuban: From Nubia to Cairo (Shanachie)
• Lifers Group: Lifers Group (Hollywood Basic)
• My Bloody Valentine: Tremolo (Sire/Warner Bros.)
• Kid Creole and the Coconuts: You Shoulda Told Me You Were . . . (Columbia)
• King Missile: The Way to Salvation (Atlantic)
• I.K. Dairo M.B.E. and His Blue Spots: I Remember (Music of the World)
• Pavement: Perfect Sound Forever (Drag City)

Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s, 2000

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