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.
- Rhett Miller, Jules [feat. Black Prairie], 0:00
- McFadden & Whitehead, Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now, 4:07
- John Fogerty, I Can't Take It No More, 14:54
- The Gap Band, Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me), 16:33
- African Jazz Pioneers, Nonto Sangoma, 22:06
- Mike Edison, Ozzy, High Times, and Me, 26:58
- TLC, Silly Ho, 37:46
- Lil Wayne, Big Wings, 42:01
- Animal Collective, Turn Into Something, 45:38
- Snoop Dogg & C-Murder, Gangsta Gangsta, 52:08
- Lucinda Williams, Honey Bee, 56:48
artist links to Xgau / song links to album/image links to album