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.
- Metric, Gimme Sympathy, 0:00
- Digital Underground, Doowutchyalike, 3:56
- Clem Snide, Mike Kalinsky, 12:52
- Rosanne Cash, World Of Strange Design, 17:02
- Ill Ease, One Hell Of A Bender, 20:27
- Cursive, In The Now, 23:24
- Rick James, Give It To Me Baby, 25:58
- Rhiannon Giddens, She's Got You, 30:05
- Antibalas, Indictment, 34:22
- Caffeine, Reminisce, 40:01
- Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid, The Sun Never Sets, 44:01
- Buddy Guy, Little Dab-A-Doo, 49:51
- Chaka Khan, I'm Every Woman, 55:04
artist links to Xgau / song links to album/image links to album
