The A Lists: 1993 (90)

• Elmore James: The Sky Is Crying: The History of Elmore James (Rhino)
• Tougher Than Tough: The Story of Jamaican Music (Mango)
• John Prine: The John Prine Anthology: Great Days (Rhino)
• Janis Joplin: Janis (Columbia/Legacy)
• Liz Phair: Exile in Guyville (Matador)
• Liliput: LiLiPUT (Off Course import)
• Etoile de Dakar: Volume 1--Absa Gueye (Stern's Africa)
• Nirvana: In Utero (DGC)
• Mighty Sparrow: Volume One (Ice)
• Loudon Wainwright III: Career Moves (Charisma)
• Pet Shop Boys: Very (EMI)
• Wire: 1985-1990: The A List (Mute)
• Archers of Loaf: Icky Mettle (Alias)
• PJ Harvey: Rid of Me (Island)
• De La Soul: Buhloone Mindstate (Tommy Boy)
• Mbuki Mvuki (Original Music)
• Digable Planets: Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) (Pendulum)
• Before Benga Vol. 2: The Nairobi Sound (Original Music)
• P.M. Dawn: The Bliss Album . . . ? (Gee Street)
• Jimmie Dale Gilmore: Spinning Around the Sun (Elektra)
• Yo Yo: You Better Ask Somebody (EastWest)
• Dazed and Confused (Medicine)
• Moby: Move (Elektra)
• The Wild Magnolias: The Wild Magnolias (Polydor)
• Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Greatest Hits (MCA)
• Dramarama: Hi-Fi Sci-Fi (Chameleon)
• The Afghan Whigs: Gentlemen (Elektra)
• Digital Underground: The Body-Hat Syndrome (Tommy Boy)
• Guns N' Roses: "The Spaghetti Incident?" (Geffen)
• MTV Party To Go Vol. 4 (Tommy Boy)
• A Tribe Called Quest: Midnight Marauders (Jive)
• Yo La Tengo: Painful (Matador)
• Fellow Travellers: Things and Time (OKra import '93)
• Heart of the Forest (Rykodisc)
• Wu-Tang Clan: Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (RCA/Loud)
• The Auteurs: New Wave (Caroline)
• The London Suede: Suede (Columbia)
• Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: Flashback (Blackheart)
• Bobbie Cryner: Bobbie Cryner (Epic)
• The Shams: Sedusia (Matador)
• Tina Turner: What's Love Got To Do With It (Virgin)
• Pablo Lubadika: Okominiokolo (Stern's Africa)
• Van Morrison: Too Long in Exile (Polydor)
• Biz Markie: All Samples Cleared (Cold Chillin'/Warner Bros.)
• Bikini Kill: Pussy Whipped (Kill Rock Stars)
• Janet Jackson: janet. (Virgin)
• Gavin Bryars: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (Point Music)
• The Cranberries: Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (Island)
• Zap Mama: Adventures in Afropea 1 (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.)
• KRS-One: Return of the Boom Bap (Jive)
• Bob Dylan: World Gone Wrong (Columbia)
• Technosonic Volume 3 (Sonic)
• Huun-Huur-Tu: 60 Horses in My Herd--Old Songs and Tunes of the Tuva (Shanachie)
• Jive Soweto: The Indestructible Beat of Soweto Vol. 4 (Earthworks)
• George Gershwin: Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls (Elektra Nonesuch)
• Saint Etienne: So Tough (Warner Bros.)
• The Breeders: Last Splash (4AD/Elektra)
• Texas Tornados: Best of Texas Tornados (Reprise)
• Blake Babies: Innocence and Experience (Mammoth)
• The Killer Shrews: The Killer Shrews (Enemy)
• Orchestra Baobab: Bamba (Stern's Africa)
• Living Colour: Stain (Epic)
• Born to Choose (Rykodisc)
• Big Star: Columbia: Live at Missouri University 4/25/93 (Zoo)
• Judgment Night (Immortal/Epic Soundtrax)
• Heavenly: P.U.N.K. Girl (K)
• Rosanne Cash: The Wheel (Columbia)
• Ghorwal: Majurugenta (RealWorld)
• Mahlathini: King of the Groaners (Earthworks)
• Garth Brooks: In Pieces (Liberty)
• Mighty Sparrow: Volume Two (Ice)
• Pavement: Westing (By Musket and Sextant) (Drag City)
• Dancehall Stylee: The Best of Reggae Dancehall Music Vol. 4 (Profile)
• Kanda Bongo Man: Soukous in Central Park (Hannibal)
• MC Lyte: Ain't No Other (First Priority)
• George Clinton: Hey Man . . . Smell My Finger (Paisley Park)
• The Robert Cray Band: Shame and a Sin (Mercury)
• Souls of Mischief: 93 'Til Infinity (Jive)
• Neil Young: Lucky Thirteen (Geffen)
• Butthole Surfers: Independent Worm Saloon (Capitol)
• Sue Foley: Without a Warning (Antone's)
• Violent Femmes: Add It Up (1981-1993) (Slash/Reprise)
• En Vogue: Runaway Love (EastWest)
• His Name Is Alive: Mouth by Mouth (4AD)
• K.T. Oslin: Greatest Hits: Songs From an Aging Sex Bomb (RCA)
• Journeys by DJ: Billy Nasty Mix (Moonshine Music)
• The David Johansen Group: The David Johansen Group Live (Epic Associated/Legacy)
• Thomas Anderson: Blues for the Flying Dutchman (LSR)
• Aerosmith: Get a Grip (Geffen)
• Luna: Slide (Elektra)

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

The A Lists: 1992

The A Lists: 1994