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]
- Giasemi (Yasmin) & Nikos Saragoudas, Tsahpinoula Moy (Greece), 0:00
- Rosanne Cash, Take My Body, 4:56
- J. Cole, Wet Dreamz [Explicit], 8:52
- Willie Nelson With Jamey Johnson, The Git Go, 12:51
- Gil Scott-Heron, Me And The Devil, 16:59
- Bang On A Can, Cheating, Lying, Stealing, 20:33
- Paris, Bring That Slap Back [Explicit], 31:04
- The D.A., We Hungry, 35:51
- Sonido Gallo Negro, El Ventarron, 41:22
- Yo La Tengo, Emulsified, 45:39
- Philip Bailey, Love Is Alive, 48:31
- Janet Jackson, Strawberry Bounce, 52:48
- The Serpent Power, Up And Down, 55:59