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The guide originated from Robert Christgau's column in The Village Voice (former headquarters pictured in 2008).. In 1969, Robert Christgau began reviewing contemporary album releases in his "Consumer Guide" column, which was published more-or-less monthly in The Village Voice – an alternative weekly newspaper local to New York City – and for brief periods in Newsday and Creem magazine ...
Robert Thomas Christgau (/ ˈ k r ɪ s t ɡ aʊ / KRIST-gow; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist.Among the most well-known [1] and influential music critics, [2] he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics and later became an early proponent of musical movements such as hip hop, riot grrrl, and the import of African ...
Cooper Square office building where The Village Voice was headquartered at the end of the 1980s. Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s is the second in a series of books—beginning in 1981 with Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies—to compile, revise, and expand on Christgau's capsule album reviews, which were originally written for his monthly "Consumer Guide" column in The ...
Christgau's Record Guide may refer to: Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies , a music reference book by Robert Christgau Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s , the second book in the series
Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s is a music reference book by American music journalist and essayist Robert Christgau.It was published in October 2000 by St. Martin's Press's Griffin imprint and collects approximately 3,800 capsule album reviews, originally written by Christgau during the 1990s for his "Consumer Guide" column in The Village Voice.
Between the Buttons was called "among the greatest rock albums" by Robert Christgau, [18] who later included it in his "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981). [19]
Robert Christgau rated the album with a "C+". [5] Augustin Schmidt from the German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said that the album, compared to 461 Ocean Boulevard , which charted high in Germany the year before, is disappointing, but not so bad, when you ignore the commercial success of the 1974 release.
[4] Leading critic Robert Christgau gave it an A+ rating, [8] and called it the most important record of the 1980s. [9] It was ranked number 388 in Rolling Stone's original 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, [10] [11] and ranked no. 497 in the updated version of the list published in 2020. [12]