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Title: Robert Christgau Post by: The Heartical Don on March 06, 2009, 06:07:58 AM ...I think he's an original. Although our tastes don't run parallel (but when is that the case anyway?), I like his succinctness, his jokes, and his lack of moralizing (sort of an anti-Dave Marsh, IMHO).
I have his book with short reviews of thousands of albums of the '70s. Too many nice puns to quote just one. And if I am correct, he awarded an A+ rating to 'Love You', and an 'A' to BWPS, or vice versa. He knows his stuff. Your views? Title: Re: Robert Christgau Post by: mikeyj on March 06, 2009, 06:52:22 AM The name sounds familiar.. doesn't he have his own site or something? If that's the one I'm thinking of, he seems pretty fair to me from what I've read
Title: Re: Robert Christgau Post by: MBE on March 06, 2009, 12:33:28 PM Pretty sharp writer though our tastes are different. As far as Beach Boys he and I both rank Wild Honey high from what I recall.
Title: Re: Robert Christgau Post by: Sheriff John Stone on March 06, 2009, 01:35:06 PM I always "liked" his reviews, but that's probably because I agreed with a lot of them. I guess we usually like people we agree with...
Title: Re: Robert Christgau Post by: MBE on March 06, 2009, 04:28:50 PM I liked that he didn't over intellectualize it, either he liked it or he didn't.
Title: Re: Robert Christgau Post by: the captain on March 06, 2009, 04:39:43 PM The only reviews I trust or like are the ones I read at http://www.brianwilson.com/community/index.html. All other critics are full of sh*t.
(Really I like--but don't love--Christgau. And it's nice seeing him on those "Under Review" dvds. I wish I were on those. I'd be a pompous f*** ... not like here.) |