Year-End Lists

Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2020

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