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Pazz & Jop 2005: Dean's List
Albums
- Kanye West: Late Registration (Roc-A-Fella) 16
- The Rough Guide to the Music of the Sahara (World Music Network) 16
- Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane: At Carnegie Hall (Blue Note) 16
- Gogol Bordello: Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike (Side One Dummy) 14
- Amy Rigby: Little Fugitive (Signature Sounds) 10
- The Go-Betweens: Oceans Apart (Yep Roc) 6
- Wide Right: Sleeping on the Couch (Poptop) 6
- M.I.A.: Arular (Interscope/XL) 6
- The Hold Steady: Separation Sunday (Frenchkiss) 5
- Our New Orleans 2005 (Nonesuch) 5
- Sleater-Kinney: The Woods (Sub Pop)
- Wussy: Funeral Dress (Shake It)
- The Perceptionists: Black Dialogue (Def Jux)
- Golden Afrique Vol. 1 (Network)
- Astor Piazzolla: The Rough Guide to Astor Piazzolla (World Music Network)
- Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman: Song X: Twentieth Anniversary (Nonesuch)
- Shakira: Oral Fixation Vol. 2 (Epic)
- Fiona Apple: Extraordinary Machine (Epic/Clean Slate)
- Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley: Welcome to Jamrock (Tuff Gong/Universal)
- Balkan Beat Box: Balkan Beat Box (JDub)
- Bobby Pinson: Man Like Me (RCA)
- Loudon Wainwright III: Here Come the Choppers! (Sovereign Artists)
- Danger Doom: The Mouse and the Mask (Epitaph)
- Living Things: Ahead of the Lions (Jive/Zomba)
- Missy Elliott: The Cookbook (Atlantic/Gold Mind)
- Comet Gain: City Fallen Leaves (Kill Rock Stars)
- Lyrics Born: Same !@$ Different Day (Quannum Projects)
- Blueprint: 1988 (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
- Clem Snide: End of Love (SpinArt)
- The Pernice Brothers: Discover a Lovelier You (Ashmont)
- MC Hawking: A Brief History of Rhyme (Brash)
- Art Brut: Bang Bang Rock & Roll (Banana Recordings/Fierce Panda)
- Gogol Bordello: East Infection (Rubric)
- The Rough Guide to Boogaloo (World Music Network)
- Neil Young: Prairie Wind (Reprise)
- Fountains of Wayne: Out-of-State Plates (Virgin)
- Encre: Encre (Clapping Music '04)
- Robbie Fulks: Georgia Hard (Yep Roc)
- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (clapyourhandssayyeah.com)
- James McMurtry: Childish Things (Compadre)
- The Mountain Goats: The Sunset Tree (4AD)
- Amadou et Mariam: Je Pense à Toi: The Best of Amadou et Mariam (Circular Moves/Universal Music Jazz)
- Thione Seck: Orientation (Stern's Africa)
- Sufjan Stevens: Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty)
- The Willowz: Talk in Circles (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
- Cheb I Sabbah: La Kahena (Six Degrees)
- The Books: Lost and Safe (Tomlab)
- Blackalicious: The Craft (Anti-)
- World Psychedelic Classics: 3 Love's a Real Thing (Luaka Bop)
- Global Hip Hop (Manteca)
- Linton Kwesi Johnson: Live in Paris With the Dennis Bovell Dub Band (Wrasse)
- The Chemical Brothers: Push the Button (Astralwerks)
- Run the Road (Vice/Atlantic)
- Stevie Wonder: A Time to Love (Motown)
- Amadou & Mariam: Dimanche à Bamako (Nonesuch)
- Four Tet: Everything Ecstatic (Domino)
- Bright Eyes: I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (Saddle Creek)
- 50 Cent: The Massacre (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope)
- Bruce Springsteen: Devils & Dust (Columbia)
- The Rolling Stones: A Bigger Bang (Virgin)
- Lady Sovereign: Vertically Challenged (Chocolate Industries)
- John Coltrane: One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note (Impulse)
- Franz Ferdinand: You Could Have It So Much Better (Domino)
- Charlie Robison: Good Times (Dualtone '04)
- The White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan (V2)
- Clinic: Winchester Cathedral (Domino '04)
- Daby Balde: Introducing Daby Balde (World Music Network)
- Shukar Collective: Urban Gypsy (Riverboat)
- DJ Shadow: Live! In Tune and On Time (Geffen '04)
- Brakes: Give Blood (Rough Trade)
- The Go! Team: Thunder, Lightning, Strike (Columbia/Memphis Industries)
- The Ponys: Celebration Castle (In the Red)
- Gaby Lita Bembo and Orchestre Stukas du Zaïre: Kita Mata ABC (RetroAfric)
- Shakira: Fijación Oral Vol. 1 (Epic)
- M.I.A. vs. Diplo: Piracy Funds Terrorism, Vol. 1 (no label '04)
- Buck 65: This Right Here Is Buck 65 (V2)
- Cantankerous: Cantankerous (Tommy Boy)
- Boubacar Traoré: The Best of Boubacar Traoré (Wrasse '03)
- Fannypack: See You Next Tuesday (Tommy Boy)
- Rachid Taha: Tékitoi (Wrasse)
- Blaine Larsen: Off to Join the World (BNA)
Singles
- Eminem: "We're Still 1" (no label)
- James McMurtry: "We Can't Make It Here" (Compadre)
- Blaine Larsen: "In My High School" (Giantslayer)
- Kanye West Featuring Jamie Foxx: "Gold Digger" (Roc-A-Fella)
- Miranda Lambert: "Kerosene" (Epic)
- Bobby Pinson: "Don't Ask Me How I Know" (RCA)
- Brad Paisley: "Alcohol" (Arista)
- Legendary K.O.: "George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People" (no label)
- 50 Cent: "Candy Shop" (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope)
- Black Eyed Peas: "My Humps" (A&M)
Village Voice, Feb. 7, 2006
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