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Robert Christgau named "Crazy" the album's sole highlight, designating it as a "choice cut" in The Village Voice. [16] Retrospectively, AllMusic reviewer MacKenzie Wilson credited Seal and producer Trevor Horn for the overall sound of Seal, which she said stood out amidst "the early-'90s mediocrity of post-hair metal and manufactured synth bands."
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.
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 ...
Pazz & Jop was an annual poll of top musical releases, compiled by American newspaper The Village Voice and created by music critic Robert Christgau. It published lists of the year's top releases for 1971 and, after Christgau's two-year absence from the Voice, each year from 1974 onward. The polls are tabulated from the submitted year-end top ...
The Birth of Soul was voted the third best reissue of the year in The Village Voice ' s annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll for 1991. [ 7 ] In 2003, the album was ranked number 54 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time , [ 8 ] maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list, [ 9 ] then dropping to number 210 in a 2020 ...
Time for a Witness is the fourth studio album by the American rock band the Feelies, released in 1991 on A&M/Coyote. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The band supported the album with a North American tour. [ 3 ]
In a contemporary review, Village Voice critic Robert Christgau wrote that the album "must be the fifth or sixth Cream reissue--I stopped counting around 1976--but it's the only one I ever played twice, and I've always wanted an album with 'Anyone for Tennis?' on it."
Badmotorfinger has been classified by various critics as grunge, [7] [8] alternative metal, [9] heavy metal [10] and hard rock. [11] Steve Huey of AllMusic said the songwriting on the album "takes a quantum leap in focus and consistency", adding: "It's surprisingly cerebral and arty music for a band courting mainstream metal audiences, but it attacks with scientific precision."