Randomized selections 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.
- Camera Obscura, Let's Get Out of This Country, 0:00
- Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard, It's All Going to Pot, 3:23
- Bruce Springsteen, Riding in My Car (Car Song), 6:22
- The Cramps, TV Set, 8:18
- Paramore, Careful, 11:32
- Akon, Right Now (Na Na Na), 15:22
- Animal Collective, My Girls, 19:23
- Sacha Baron Cohen & Erran Baron Cohen, You Be My Wife, 25:04
- The Kills, Pots And Pans, 28:14
- Belle and Sebastian, Women's Realm, 32:49
- Freedy Johnston, Don't Fall In Love With A Lonely Girl, 37:25
- Clipse, Freedom, 41:33
- Backstreet Boys, Larger Than Life, 45:20
- The Magnetic Fields, I Thought You Were My Boyfriend, 49:13
- Algiers, And When You Fall, 53:37
- John Mayer, Love Is A Verb, 57:18
artist links to Xgau/song links to album/image links to album
