Compilations

Hip Hop

• Bad Boy Greatest Hits Volume 1 (Bad Boy '98)
• Beats & Rhymes: Hip Hop of the '90s Part I (Rhino '97)
• Beats & Rhymes: Hip Hop of the '90s Part II (Rhino '97)
• Beats & Rhymes: Hip Hop of the '90s Part III (Rhino '97)
• Big Phat Ones of Hip-Hop Volume 1 (BOXtunes '95)
• Bulworth: The Soundtrack (Interscope '98)
• CB4 (MCA '93)
• The Corruptor (Jive '99)
• Chuck D Presents Louder Than a Bomb (Rhino '99)
• Diggin' in the Crates: Profile Rap Classics Volume One (Profile '94)
• DJ Red Alert's Propmaster Dancehall Show (Epic Street '93)
• '80s Underground Rap: Can I Kick It? (Rhino '98)
• '80s Underground Rap: Can You Feel It? (Rhino '98)
• '80s Underground Rap: Don't Believe the Hype (Rhino '98)
• The Funky Precedent (Loosegroove/No Mayo '99)
• Girls Town (Mercury '96)
• Hip Hop Greats: Classic Raps (Rhino '90)
• Judgment Night (Immortal/Epic Soundtrax '93)
• Juice (SOUL '92)
• Lyricist Lounge Volume 1 (Rawkus '98)
• M-Boogie: Laid in Full (Blackberry '99)
• Millennium Hip Hop Party (Rhino '99)
• MTV Party To Go Volume 2 (Tommy Boy '92)
• MTV Party To Go Vol. 4 (Tommy Boy '93)
• MTV Party To Go Volume 6 (Tommy Boy '94)
• Muggs Presents . . . The Soul Assassins Chapter 1 (Columbia '97)
• New Jack City (Giant '91)
• No More Prisons (Raptivism '99)
• Pass the Mic: The Posse Album (Priority '96)
• Phat Rap Flava (Cold Front '95)
• Profilin': The Hits (Arista '99)
• Quannum Spectrum (Quannum Projects '99)
• Rawkus Presents Soundbombing II (Rawkus '99)
• The Real Hip-Hop: Best of D&D Studios Vol. 1 (Cold Front '99)
• Ruffhouse Records Greatest Hits (Ruffhouse '99)
• The RZA Hits (Razor Sharp/Epic '99)
• Soundbombing (Rawkus '97)
• South Central (Hollywood Basic '92)
• Street Jams: Hip Hop From the Top--Part 4 (Rhino '94)
• Strength Magazine Presents Subtext (London/Strength '99)
• Trespass (Sire/Warner Bros. '92)
• Tricky Presents Grassroots (Payday/FFRR '96)
• Wu-Chronicles (Wu-Tang '99)
• Yo! MTV Raps (Def Jam '97)

Dance/Techno

• Amp (Astralwerks '97)
• Aural Ecstasy: The Best of Techno (Relativity '93)
• The Best of Reggae Dancehall Vol. 1 (Profile '90)
• Big Rock'n Beats (Wax Trax!/TVT '97)
• Big Beat Conspiracy: BBC 1 (Pagan '98)
• Brother's Gonna Work It Out: A DJ Mix Album by the Chemical Brothers (Astralwerks '98)
• City of Industry (Quango '97)
• Concept in Dance: The Digital Alchemy of Goa Trance Dance (Moonshine Music '94)
• Dancehall Stylee: The Best of Reggae Dancehall Music Vol. 4 (Profile '93)
• Dance Hits U.K. (Moonshine Music '94)
• Detroit: Beyond the Third Wave (Astralwerks '96)
• The Disco Years, Vol. 1: Turn the Beat Around (1974-1978) (Rhino '90)
• The Disco Years, Vol. 2: On the Beat (1978-1981) (Rhino '90)
• The Disco Years, Vol. 4: Lost in Music (Rhino '92)
• Ethnotechno (TVT '93)
• Excursions in Ambience (Caroline '93)
• Future House: Best of House Music Volume 4 (Profile '93)
• Futurhythms (Medicine '93)
• Handraizer (Moonshine Music '94)
• History of House Music Vol. 2: New York Garage Style (Cold Front '97)
• A History of Our World Part 1: Breakbeat & Jungle Ultramix by DJ DB (Profile '94)
• Hot Luv: The Ultimate Dance Songs Collection (EMI '96)
• Incursions in Illbient (Asphodel '96)
• The Jackal (MCA '97)
• Journeys by DJ: Billy Nasty Mix (Moonshine Music '93)
• Kickin Mental Detergent (Kickin USA '92)
• Live at the Social Volume 1 (Heavenly import '96)
• Make 'Em Mokum Crazy (Mokum '96)
• MTV's Amp 2 (MTV/Astralwerks '98)
• New Groove 3: Déconstruire le groove esoterique (REV '99)
• The Night Shift (C&S '96)
• Ocean of Sound (Virgin import '96)
• Only for the Headstrong: The Ultimate Rave Compilation (FFRR '92)
• Pop Fiction (Quango '96)
• Prodigy Present the Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One (XL/Beggars Banquet '99)
• Technosonic Volume 3 (Sonic '93)
• Trance 2 (Ellipsis Arts . . . '95)
• Tresor II: Berlin-Detroit . . . A Techno Alliance (NovaMute '93)
• Turntable Tastemakers Issue No. 1: The Sound of Cleveland City Recordings (Moonshine Music '94)
• URBMix Vol. 1: Flammable Liquid (Planet Earth '94)
• Welcome to the Future (Epic '93)
• What a Bam Bam!: Dancehall Queens (Shanachie '96)
• Wipeout XL (Astralwerks '96)
• Y2K: Beat the Clock (Columbia '99)

R&B

• Bad Boy Greatest Hits Volume 1 (Bad Boy '98)
• Boomerang (LaFace '92)
• Crooklyn (MCA '94)
• Get Shorty (Antilles '95)
• Move To Groove: The Best of 1970s Jazz-Funk (Verve '95)
• MTV Party To Go Volume 2 (Tommy Boy '92)
• MTV Party To Go Vol. 4 (Tommy Boy '93)
• MTV Party To Go Volume 6 (Tommy Boy '94)
• MTV: The First Thousand Years: R&B (Rhino '99)
• 1-800-NEW-FUNK (NPG '94)
• Pimps, Players and Private Eyes (Sire/Warner Bros. '92)
• The Preacher's Wife (Arista '96)
• Risqué Rhythm: Nasty '50s R&B (Rhino '91)
• Set It Off (EastWest '96)
• Soul Food (LaFace '97)
• South Central (Hollywood Basic '92)
• Space Jam (Warner Sunset/Atlantic '96)
• Sugar and Poison (Virgin import '96)
• Uptown Lounge (The Right Stuff '99)
• Uptown MTV Unplugged (Uptown/MCA '93)
• Waiting To Exhale (Arista '95)

African

• African Ambience (Shanachie '99)
• A*F*R*I*C*A*N E*L*E*G*A*N*T (Original Sound '92)
• Adventures in Afropea 3: Telling Stories to the Sea (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros. '95)
• African Salsa (Stern's/Earthworks '98)
• Afro-Latino (Putumayo World Music '98)
• Azagas and Archibogs (Original Music '91)
• Before Benga Vol. 2: The Nairobi Sound (Original Music '93)
• Bergville Stories (Columbia import '97)
• Cape Verde (Putumayo World Music '99)
• Dada Kidawa/Sister Kidawa (Original Music '95)
• Divas of Mali (Shanachie '96)
• Éthiopiques 1 (Buda Musique import '98)
• Éthiopiques 2 (Buda Musique import '98)
• Éthiopiques 3 (Buda Musique import '98)
• Éthiopiques 4 (Buda Musique import '98)
• Freedom Fire--The Indestructible Beat of Soweto (Vol. 3) (Virgin '90)
• Gnawa Music of Marrakesh: Night Spirit Masters (Axiom '90)
• The Gospel According to Earthworks (Stern's/Earthworks '98)
• Guitar Paradise of East Africa (Earthworks '91)
• Heart of the Forest (Hannibal '93)
• Heavy on the Highlife! (Original Music '90)
• Hi-Jivin' (Kijima import '90)
• Holding Up Half the Sky: Voices of African Women (Shanachie '97)
• I've Found My Love: 1960's Guitar Band Highlife of Ghana (Original Music '93)
• Jit--The Movie (Earthworks '91)
• Jive Nation: The Indestructible Beat of Soweto Vol. 5 (Stern's/Earthworks '95)
• Jive Soweto: The Indestructible Beat of Soweto Vol. 4 (Earthworks '93)
• Kenya Dance Mania (Earthworks '91)
• Kerestina: Guitar Songs of Southern Mozambique 1955-1957 (Original Music '95)
• The Kings and Queens of Township Jive: Modern Roots of the Indestructible Beat of Soweto (Earthworks '91)
• Kings of African Music (Music Club '97)
• Lightning Over the River (Music Club '99)
• Mandela (Mango '97)
• Mbuki Mvuki (Original Music '93)
• The Music in My Head (Stern's Africa '98)
• Muziki Wa Dansi (Afrocassette '95)
• No Easy Walk to Freedom (Music Club '98)
• Only the Poorman Feel It: South Africa (Hemisphere '95)
• Oujda-Casablanca Introspections Vol. 1 (Barbarity import '94)
• Pop-Rai and Rachid Style (Earthworks '90)
• Queens of African Music (Music Club '97)
• Roots Rock Guitar Party: Zimbabwe Frontline 3 (Stern's/Earthworks '99)
• The Secret Museum of Mankind: East Africa (Yazoo '98)
• Singing in an Open Space: Zulu Rhythm and Harmony 1962-1982 (Rounder '90)
• South African Rhythm Riot: The Indestructible Beat of Soweto Volume 6 (Stern's/Earthworks '99)
• The Spirit of Cape Verde (Tinder '99)
• Spirit of the Eagle: Zimbabwe Frontline (Vol. 2) (Virgin '90)
• Streets of Dakar: Generation Boul Falé (Stern's Africa '99)
• A Taste of the Indestructible Beat of Soweto (Earthworks '94)
• Telephone Lobi/Telephone Love (Original Music '95)
• Township Jazz 'n' Jive (Music Club '97)
• Vibrant Zimbabwe (Zimbob '94)
• A World Out of Time (Shanachie '92)
• A World Out of Time Vol. 2 (Shanachie '93)
• A World Out of Time Vol. 3 (Shanachie '96)
• Yalla: Hitlist Egypt (Mango '90)

Latin American

• Afro-Latino (Putumayo World Music '98)
• Afro-Peruvian Classics: The Soul of Black Peru (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros. '95)
• Casa de la Trova (Detour '99)
• Cuba Classics 2: Dancing With the Enemy (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros. '91)
• Cuba: Fully Charged (Earthworks/Caroline '92)
• Cuban Dance Party: Routes of Rhythm Volume 2 (Rounder '90)
• Cuba Now (Hemisphere '98)
• Cumbia Cumbia 2 (World Circuit '94)
• Cumbia Cumbia (World Circuit import '91)
• El Caimán: Sones Huastecos (Corason '96)
• Hot Latin Hits/Exitos Latinos Calientes: The '90s (Rhino '98)
• La Iguana: Sones Jarochos (Corason '96)
• Nova Bossa: Red Hot on Verve (Verve '96)
• Nuyorican Soul (Giant Step/Blue Thumb '97)
• Tropicália Essentials (Hip-O '99)

Reggae

• The Best of Reggae Dancehall Vol. 1 (Profile '90)
• Dancehall Stylee: The Best of Reggae Dancehall Music Vol. 4 (Profile '93)
• Reggae for Kids (RAS '92)
• Ska Beats 1 (ROIR cassette '90)
• Steely & Clevie Play Studio One Vintage (Heartbeat '92)
• This Is Ska! (Music Club '97)
• Tougher Than Tough: The Story of Jamaican Music (Mango '93)
• What a Bam Bam!: Dancehall Queens (Shanachie '96)

World

• Anokha: Soundz of the Asian Underground (Quango '97)
• Asia Classics 1: The South Indian Film Music of Vijaya Anand: Dance Raja Dance (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros. '92)
• Bombay the Hard Way (Motel '99)
• Buddhist Liturgy of Tibet (World Music Library import '93)
• Dublin to Dakar: A Celtic Odyssey (Putumayo World Music '99)
• Ethnotechno (TVT '93)
• Kneelin' Down Inside the Gate: The Great Rhyming Singers of the Bahamas (Rounder '95)
• Kwanzaa Music (Rounder '94)
• Mbuki Mvuki (Original Music '93)
• Money No Be Sand (Original Music '95)
• Music of Indonesia 2: Indonesian Popular Music: Kroncong, Dangdut, and Langgam Jawa (Smithsonian/Folkways '91)
• The Mystic Fiddle of the Proto-Gypsies (Shanachie '97)
• Oujda-Casablanca Introspections Vol. 1 (Barbarity import '94)
• Pop-Rai and Rachid Style (Earthworks '90)
• Putumayo Presents The Best of World Music: Volume 1: World Vocal (Rhino '93)
• Putumayo Presents The Best of World Music: Volume 2: Instrumental (Rhino '93)
• The Secret Museum of Mankind Vol. 1 (Yazoo '95)
• The Secret Museum of Mankind Vol. 2 (Yazoo '96)
• The Secret Museum of Mankind Vol. 3 (Yazoo '96)
• Sif Safaa: New Music From the Middle East (Hemisphere '95)
• Street Music of Java (Original Music '93)
• Tokyo Invasion, Volume I: Cosmic Kurushi Monsters (Virgin Import '96)
• Wind Your Waist (Shanachie '91)
• Yalla: Hitlist Egypt (Mango '90)
• Zouk Attack (Rounder '92)

Rock/Alternative

• Backbeat (Virgin '94)
• The Best Punk Album in the World . . . Ever! (Virgin import '95)
• Born To Choose (Rykodisc '93)
• The Commitments (MCA '91)
• Dangerhouse: Volume One (Frontier '91)
• Dazed and Confused (Medicine '93)
• Drive Me Crazy (Jive '99)
• ESPN Presents Slam Jams Vol. 1 (Tommy Boy '97)
• The Flintstones: Music From Bedrock (MCA '94)
• Gabba Gabba Hey (Triple X '91)
• Hard Rock Cafe: Party Rock (Hard Rock/Rhino '98)
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Atlantic '99)
• Honeymoon in Vegas (Epic '92)
• Hype! (Sub Pop '96)
• Judgment Night (Immortal/Epic Soundtrax '93)
• Lipstick Traces (Rough Trade import '93)
• The King's Record Collection (Hip-O '98)
• Monsters, Robots and Bug Men (Virgin import '96)
• Red Hot + Blue (Chrysalis '90)
• Rock Stars Kill (Kill Rock Stars '94)
• Suburbia (DGC '97)
• Tokyo Invasion, Volume I: Cosmic Kurushi Monsters (Virgin Import '96)
• Totally Hits (Arista '99)
• United Kingdom of Punk: The Hardcore Years (Music Club '98)
• United Kingdom of Punk 2 (Music Club '99)

Soundtrack

• The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert (Mother '94)
• Asia Classics 1: The South Indian Film Music of Vijaya Anand: Dance Raja Dance (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros. '92)
• Austin Powers--The Spy Who Shagged Me (Maverick '99)
• Backbeat (Virgin '94)
• Batman Forever (Atlantic '95)
• The Beavis and Butt-head Experience (Geffen '93)
• Bombay the Hard Way (Motel '99)
• Boomerang (LaFace '92)
• Bulworth: The Soundtrack (Interscope '98)
• CB4 (MCA '93)
• The Commitments (MCA '91)
• The Corruptor (Jive '99)
• Crooklyn (MCA '94)
• Dazed and Confused (Medicine '93)
• Dead Man Walking (Columbia '95)
• Drive Me Crazy (Jive '99)
• Excess Baggage (Prophecy '98)
• The Flintstones: Music From Bedrock (MCA '94)
• Get Shorty (Antilles '95)
• Girls Town (Mercury '96)
• Honeymoon in Vegas (Epic '92)
• Hype! (Sub Pop '96)
• The Jackal (MCA '97)
• Jit--The Movie (Earthworks '91)
• Judgment Night (Immortal/Epic Soundtrax '93)
• Juice (SOUL '92)
• The Lion King (Walt Disney '94)
• Magnolia (Reprise '99)
• Mandela (Mango '97)
• Naked Lunch (Milan '92)
• New Jack City (Giant '91)
• Passengers: Original Soundtracks I (Island '95)
• Pimps, Players and Private Eyes (Sire/Warner Bros. '92)
• The Preacher's Wife (Arista '96)
• Set It Off (EastWest '96)
• Singles (Epic '92)
• Soul Food (LaFace '97)
• South Central (Hollywood Basic '92)
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Atlantic '99)
• Space Jam (Warner Sunset/Atlantic '96)
• Suburbia (DGC '97)
• Trespass (Sire/Warner Bros. '92)
• Waiting to Exhale (Arista '95)

Tribute

• All the King's Men: Scotty Moore & D.J. Fontana (Sweetwater '97)
• Beat the Retreat: Songs by Richard Thompson (Capitol '94)
• Cole Porter: A Centennial Celebration (RCA '91)
• Deadicated (Arista '91)
• For the Love of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson (MusicMasters '95)
• Honeymoon in Vegas (Epic '92)
• Hound Dog Taylor: A Tribute (Alligator '98)
• The King's Record Collection (Hip-O '98)
• The Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection (Rhino '98)
• No Prima Donna: The Songs of Van Morrison (Polydor '94)
• Real: The Tom T. Hall Project (Sire/Delmore/Kickstand '98)
• Red Hot + Blue (Chrysalis '90)
• Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons (Almo Sounds '99)
• The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers--A Tribute Album (Columbia/Egyptian '97)
• The Songs of West Side Story (RCA Victor '96)
• Sweet Relief: A Tribute to Victoria Williams (Thirsty Ear/Chaos '93)
• Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation (Columbia '96)
• Tapestry Revisited (Lava/Atlantic '95)
• A Tribute to Curtis Mayfield (Warner Bros. '94)
• A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan (Epic '96)
• Two Rooms--Celebrating the Songs of Elton John & Bernie Taupin (Polydor '91)
• Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson (Sire/Warner Bros. '90)

Historical

• American Pop: An Audio History (West Hill Audio Archives '98)
• Anthology of American Folk Music (Smithsonian Folkways '97)
• The Civil War (Elektra Nonesuch '90)
• Closer Than a Kiss: Crooner Classics (Rhino '97)
• Heritage (Six Degrees/Island '97)
• The Jazz Age (Bluebird '91)
• Mama Don't Allow No Easy Riders Here (Yazoo '98)
• Risqué Rhythm: Nasty '50s R&B (Rhino '91)
• White Country Blues (1926-1938): A Lighter Shade of Blue (Columbia/Legacy '94)
• Wild About My Lovin': Beale Street Blues 1928-1930 (RCA '91)

Miscellaneous

• Ain't Nuthin' but a She Thing (London '95)
• Antone's Women (Antone's '92)
• Baby Sounds (Kid Rhino '98)
• Bring in 'Da Noize, Bring in 'Da Funk (RCA Victor '96)
• Christmas Party With Eddie G. (Strikin' It Rich/Columbia '90)
• Closer Than a Kiss: Crooner Classics (Rhino '97)
• Deep Blues (Atlantic '92)
• Every Road I Take: The Best of Acoustic Blues (Shanachie '99)
• Floyd Collins (Nonesuch '96)
• Great Divorce Songs for Her (Warner Bros. '94)
• Guys and Dolls (RCA Victor '92)
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Atlantic '99)
• Help (London '95)
• Hempilation (Capricorn '95)
• Incredibly Strange Music (Caroline '94)
• The Jazz Age (Bluebird '91)
• Jazz Satellites--Volume 1: Electrification (Virgin import '96)
• Knitting on the Roof (Knitting Factory '99)
• Lach's Antihoot: Live From the Fort at Sidewalk Cafe (Shanachie '96)
• Christine Lavin Presents Laugh Tracks Volume 1 (Shanachie '96)
• Lesbian Favorites (Rhino '98)
• Lipstick Traces (Rough Trade import '93)
• The Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection (Rhino '98)
• Mama Don't Allow No Easy Riders Here (Yazoo '98)
• The Most Beautiful Christmas Carols (Milan '91)
• Move To Groove: The Best of 1970s Jazz-Funk (Verve '95)
• Nova Bossa: Red Hot on Verve (Verve '96)
• Ocean of Sound (Virgin import '96)
• Red Hot + Blue (Chrysalis '90)
• Rent (DreamWorks '96)
• Songs From Chippy (Hollywood '94)
• The Carl Stalling Project: Music From Warner Bros. Cartoons 1936-1958 (Warner Bros. '90)
• Strip Jointz (Robbins Music '97)
• Totally Hits (Arista '99)
• Ultimate Christmas (Arista '98)
• Uptown Lounge (The Right Stuff '99)
• White Country Blues (1926-1938): A Lighter Shade of Blue (Columbia/Legacy '94)
• Wild About My Lovin': Beale Street Blues 1928-1930 (RCA '91)
• Woodstock 94 (A&M '94)

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

Everything Rocks and Nothing Ever Dies

The A Lists: 1990