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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 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.
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
[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]
Trouser Press called the album "an essential Soul Asylum LP," writing that "raging dual vocals and interwoven guitar work by Pirner and Dan Murphy, supported by new arrival Grant Young’s precise, varied drumming, make the tuneful power of 'Tied to the Tracks,' 'Ship of Fools,' 'New Feelings' and the countryish title track shatteringly original."
Raitt is a folkie by history but not by aesthetic", wrote Robert Christgau [6] in his Consumer Guide column. "She includes songs from Steve Stills, the Marvelettes, and a classic feminist blues singer named Sippie Wallace because she knows the world doesn't end with acoustic song-poems and Fred McDowell. An adult repertoire that rocks with a ...