Randomized selections metely arranged from a very incomplete (yet pretty large) playlist of Robert Christgau’s Honorable-Mention mentions and Choice-Cut choices, also from reviews mostly of albums receiving less than an A-Minus (A-grade albums being best heard whole) as well as other singling out, Dean's List singles, or even faint praise from other pieces or places, especially Additional Consumer News.
[artist links to Xgau/song links to album]
Tony Toni Tone, Oakland Stroke, 3:42
Gigi, Bale Washintu, 8:22
Vieux Farka Touré, Fafa, 19:08
Open Mike Eagle, WTF Is Art Rap, 24:02
Alan Jackson, Drive (For Daddy Gene), 25:35
The Pharcyde, If I Were President, 29:38
MC Esoteric, Mecha Mecha, 35:54
Doug E. Fresh, The Show, 40:56
Larry Coryell, The Jam With Albert, 48:04
Jill Scott, Exclusively, 57:29
59:35