Randomized selections from a very incomplete (yet pretty large) playlist of Robert Christgau’s Honorable-Mention mentions and Choice-Cut choices, as well as other song recommendations or even faint praise from Additional Consumer News and from reviews mostly of albums receiving less than an A-Minus. (A-grade albums being best heard whole.)
[artist links to Xgau/song links to album]
- Kris Kross, Warm It Up, 0:00
- Wussy, Poor Ellen Smith, 4:11
- Bauhaus w/Brian Eno, Third Uncle, 8:12 [It had to happen sometime: I can't find a link in xgau for might have caused this song to be in the playlist, but the song this is a cover of does appear on Taking Tiger Mountain]
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Helpless, 13:30
- Ani DiFranco, What How When Where (Why Who), 17:11
- Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Dragonfly Pie, 21:46
- Sufjan Stevens, That Was the Worst Christmas Ever!, 26:54
- C+C Music Factory (Presenting Freedom Williams), Things That Make You Go Hmmmm...., 30:08
- Trace Adkins, Trouble No More, 35:30
- Dead Prez, Hell Yeah (Pimp the System), 39:41
- Mike Doughty, Fort Hood, 44:01
- Dixie Chicks, Ready To Run, 47:13
- Taj Mahal and Gregg Allman, Statesboro Blues, 51:06
- Toni Braxton, Let Me Show You the Way (Out), 55:47
60:05
