The A Lists: 1995 (91)

• Tricky: Maxinquaye (Island)
• Luna: Penthouse (Elektra)
• Oruç Güvenc & Tümata: Ocean of Remembrance (Interworld)
• Archers of Loaf: Vee Vee (Alias)
• Peter Stampfel: You Must Remember This . . . (Gert Town)
• Pavement: Wowee Zowee (Matador)
• New Order: (The Best of) New Order (Qwest/Warner Bros.)
• James Carter: The Real Quietstorm (Atlantic)
• Yo La Tengo: Electr-O-Pura (Matador)
• Randy Newman's Faust (Reprise)
• PJ Harvey: To Bring You My Love (Island)
• The Best Punk Album in the World . . . Ever! (Virgin import)
• John Prine: Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings (Oh Boy)
• [File Under Prince]: The Gold Experience (Warner Bros.)
• The Prodigy: Music for the Jilted Generation (Muse)
• Ornette Coleman: Tone Dialing (Verve)
• Coolio: Gangsta's Paradise (Tommy Boy)
• Janet Jackson: Design of a Decade 1986/1996 (A&M)
• Sonic Youth: Washing Machine (DGC)
• Whale: We Care (Virgin)
• Adventures in Afropea 3: Telling Stories to the Sea (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.)
• Bad Religion: All Ages (Epitaph)
• Jive Nation: The Indestructible Beat of Soweto Vol. 5 (Stern's/Earthworks)
• Grant McLennan: Horsebreaker Star (Atlantic)
• Elastica: Elastica (DGC)
• That Dog: Totally Crushed Out! (DGC)
• Half Japanese: Greatest Hits (Safe House)
• Barry Black: Barry Black (Alias)
• The Beautiful South: Carry On Up the Charts: The Best of the Beautiful South (Mercury)
• Swamp Dogg: Best of 25 Years of Swamp Dogg . . . Or F*** the Bomb, Stop the Drugs (Pointblank)
• Jo Carol Pierce: Bad Girls Upset by the Truth (Monkey Hill)
• Godwin Kabaka Opara's Oriental Brothers International: Do Better If You Can/Onye Ikekwere Mekeya (Original Music)
• Everclear: Sparkle and Fade (Capitol)
• Alison Krauss: Now That I've Found You: A Collection (Rounder)
• Yoko Ono/IMA: Rising (Capitol)
• Shane MacGowan and the Popes: The Snake (Warner Bros.)
• Buju Banton: 'Til Shiloh (Loose Cannon)
• The Highwaymen: The Road Goes On Forever (Liberty)
• Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments: Bait and Switch (Onion/American)
• Sleater-Kinney: Sleater-Kinney (Chainsaw)
• The Klezmatics: Jews With Horns (Xenophile)
• Stevie Wonder: Conversation Peace (Motown)
• Super Sweet Talks International: The Lord's Prayer (Stern's Africa)
• The Chemical Brothers: Exit Planet Dust (Astralwerks)
• Mose Fan Fan & Somo Somo Ngobila: Hello Hello (Stern's Africa)
• Ramones: It's Alive (Sire/Warner Archives)
• Rancid: . . . And Out Come the Wolves (Epitaph)
• Ruby Braff and Ellis Larkins: Calling Berlin, Vol. 1 (Arbors)
• Little Charlie and the Nightcats: Straight Up! (Alligator)
• Massive Attack: Protection (Virgin)
• Sam Mangwana: Maria Tebbo (Stern's African Classics)
• Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love (DGC)
• Music Revelation Ensemble: In the Name of . . . (DIW/Columbia)
• Moby: Everything Is Wrong (Elektra)
• brute.: Nine High a Pallet (Capricorn)
• R. Kelly: R. Kelly (Jive)
• Kirsty MacColl: Galore (I.R.S.)
• Lord Melody: Precious Melodies (Ice)
• Al Green: Don't Look Back (BMG import)
• M People: Bizarre Fruit (Epic)
• Ol' Dirty Bastard: Return to the 36 Chambers (Elektra)
• Thomas Mapfumo: Chimurenga Forever: The Best of Thomas Mapfumo (Hemisphere)
• Naughty by Nature: Poverty's Paradise (Tommy Boy)
• Rolling Stones: Stripped (Virgin)
• Cornershop: Woman's Gotta Have It (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.)
• Mighty Sparrow: Volume Four (Ice)
• Waiting To Exhale (Arista)
• Cachao: Dos (Salsoul)
• Ani DiFranco: Not a Pretty Girl (Righteous Babe)
• Marshall Chapman: It's About Time . . . Recorded Live at the Tennessee State Prison for Women (Margaritaville)
• Steve Earle: Train a Comin' (Winter Harvest)
• Super Sweet Talks International: The Lord's Prayer (Stern's Africa)
• Muziki wa Dansi (Africassette)
• Raekwon: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx . . . (Loud/RCA)
• Stevie Ray Vaughan: Greatest Hits (Epic)
• Mu-Ziq: In Pine Effect (Astralwerks)
• Bonnie Raitt: Road Tested (Capitol)
• Cachao: Master Sessions Volume II (Crescent/Epic)
• Belly: King (Sire/Reprise)
• Green Day: Insomniac (Reprise)
• New York's Ensemble for Early Music: Istanpitta Vol. 1 (Lyrichord)
• Viva La Musica & Papa Wemba: Pole Position (Sonodisc import)
• Real McCoy: Another Night (Arista)
• The Magnetic Fields: Get Lost (Merge)
• Mark Chesnutt: Greatest Hits (Decca)
• Only the Poorman Feel It: South Africa (Hemisphere)
• Don White: Live at the Somerville Theatre (Lyric Moon)
• Liz Phair: Juvenilia (Matador)
• Animaniacs: The Animaniacs Faboo! Collection (Kid Rhino)
• Papa Wemba: Emotion (RealWorld)
• David Murray: Jug-a-Lug (DIW import)

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

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