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.
- Elizabeth Cook, Sunday Morning, 0:00
- Cavanaugh (Open Mike Eagle & Serengeti), Typecast (feat. P.O.S., Hemlock Ernst, & Busdriver), 3:14
- B.B. King, The Thrill Is Gone, 7:34
- Tanya Tagaq, Umingmak, 13:00
- Lonesome Bob, What Went Wrong, 16:57
- Thelonious Monk, Lulu's Back In Town, 20:24
- Devendra Banhart, I Feel Just Like A Child, 30:21
- Kiné Lam, Souma Sagnone, 35:07
- P.F. Sloan, Country Woman (Can You Dig It All Night), 39:51
- Orchestre Bawobab, Thiely, 44:12
- Natalie Merchant, I Was Born, 49:14
- Cage, Fat Kids Need An Anthem, 51:04
- Luther Vandross, It's Over Now, 53:23
artist links to Xgau / song links to album/image links to album