Year-End Lists

Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2020

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1. Hanging Tree Guitars
   various artists
2. RTJ4
   Run the Jewels
3. Dakhla Sahara Session
   Cheveu & Group Doueh
4. Fetch the Bolt Cutters
   Fiona Apple
5. Good Souls Better Angels
   Lucinda Williams
6. Deviancy
   Backxwash
7. Billy Nomates
   Billy Nomates
8. Color TV
   Dramarama
9. The Balladeer
   Lori McKenna
10. Ghosts
    Wussy
11. Streams of Thought, Vol. 2
    Black Thought
12. Demo '84
    Peter Stampfel And The Bottle Caps
13. Day of the Tiles
    The Human Hearts
14. Thoughts Lined Up
    Martin Creed
15. Southside
    Sam Hunt
16. Rough and Rowdy Ways
    Bob Dylan
17. Herstory in the Making
    Young M.A
18. Nirvana
    Bktherula
19. What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down?
    Public Enemy
20. Evermore
    Taylor Swift
21. Haunted Painting
    Sad13
22. Set Sela
    Guiss Guiss Bou Bess
23. Never Will
    Ashley McBryde
24. Perfect Game
    McCarthy Trenching
25. Live at Tubby's
    75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band
26. Mama's Biscuits
    Kirby Heard
27. Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane & Able
    Black Thought
28. Music to Be Murdered By
    Eminem
29. The Prettiest Curse
    Hinds
30. Amazones Power
    Les Amazones d’Afrique
31. Twix and Dive
    Yonic South
32. Gaslighter
    The Chicks
33. Streams of Thought, Vol. 1
    Black Thought
34. Aftermath
    Elizabeth Cook
35. Saint Cloud
    Waxahatchee
36. Alphabetland
    X
37. With Greg from Deerhoof
    Serengeti
38. Women in Music Pt. III
    Haim
39. Your Life Is a Record
    Brandy Clark
40. Everything is Beautiful
    Princess Nokia
41. On The Road: A Tribute To John Hartford
    various artists
42. It Was Good Until It Wasn't
    Kehlani
43. If We Make It Through December
    Phoebe Bridgers
44. Generations
    Will Butler
45. Recorded Live at the Machine Shop Recording Studio
    Sunny Sweeney
46. New Orleans Mambo
    various artists
47. So When You Gonna...
    Dream Wife
48. The Pandemic Songs
    Hamell On Trial
49. Private Lives
    Low Cut Connie
50. In the Wake of Memories
    Mukdad Rothenberg Lankow
51. City on Lock
    City Girls
52. Forever Just Beyond
    Clem Snide
53. Flyover Country
    Chicago Farmer
54. Pretty Free
    Justin Farren
55. Munson​-​Hicks Party Supplies
    Munson​-​Hicks Party Supplies
56. A Hero's Death
    Fontaines D.C.
57. Descendants of Cain
    Ka
58. Got to Be Tough
    Toots and the Maytals
59. Anime, Trauma and Divorce
    Open Mike Eagle
60. The Unraveling
    Drive-By Truckers
61. Goons Be Gone
    No Age
62. Funeral
    Lil Wayne
63. No. 1
    Etran de L'Aïr
64. Pray for Paris
    Westside Gunn
65. Alone Together Sessions
    Hayes Carll
66. 2020 Revision
    Dawn Oberg
67. Ajai
    Serengeti and Kenny Segal
68. Here To Stay
    Grrrl Gang
69. United Earth League of Quarantine Aerobics
    Chad Matheny
70. Tombouctou
    Al Bilali Soudan
71. Patience
    Mannequin Pussy