Best Male Pop Album : Peter Gabriel - Us
Most Widely Over-rated Rock Album : U2 - Achtung Baby
Best Comeback album : Lindsey Buckingham - Out of the Cradle
Best Rock album : Baby Animals
Best Dance Album : Prince - Untitled
Most Dreary Album : Tracy Chapman - Matters of the Heart
Best Blues Guitar album : Robben Ford & The Blue Line
Best Jazz Guitar Album : Martin Taylor - Change of Heart
Best Jazz Piano Album : Kenny Kirkland
Most Tasteless Album Name : Al Di Meola - Kiss My Axe
Best Jazz Sax Album (Cool Category) : Joe Henderson - Lush Life
Best Jazz Sax Album (Frenetic Category) : Gary Thomas - Till They Have Faces
Single of the Year : Annie Lennox - Why
Most Creative Album : Miniature - I Can't Put My Finger On It
Best Zappa Album : You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore V5
Most Soporific Easy Listening Sell-Out Jazz Album From An Artist Who Should Know Better : Larry Carlton - Kid Gloves
Most Cynical Rip-off : Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells II
Most Interesting Blues Album : Branford Marsalis - I Heard You Twice the First Time
Most Repetitive Slide Guitar : Chris Rea - God's Great Banana Skin
Best Obscure Pop Album : Thomas Dolby - Astronauts & Heretics
Most Unnecessary Live Album : Jethro Tull - A Little Light Music
Most Lyrically Interesting Folk/Pop Album : Suzanne Vega - 99.9F
Most Angry Album : Roger Waters - Amused To Death
Most Embarrassingly Bad Album From An Artist Who Can Do Better : Eric Clapton - Unplugged
Best News of the Year : Frank Zappa's still alive