In a glowing review for his " Consumer Guide " column published by The Village Voice, Robert Christgau wrote: " Before minstrelsy scholar Eric Lott gets too excited about having his title stolen.

During this time, Hickman released a first solo recording, " Palmhenge ", which received " Voices Choice " accolades in The Village Voice by the rock critic Robert Christgau and a positive review in Blender magazine.

" Robert Christgau also praised the group once again, writing in his review that Yo La Tengo is " always friendly.

Robert Christgau wrote in his initial review of the album, " In every respect — composition, arrangement, production, performance — this is the finest record of the year, much more accessible than the great-but-weird album that preceded it.

Christgau called it " a perfect album " in a retrospective review.

Robert Christgau gave the album a negative review, summarizing his opinion in a question: " But is it rock and roll?

In 1990, Christgau changed the format of the Consumer Guide ; it now contains six to eight reviews graded upper-B + or higher, one " Dud of the Month " review graded B or lower, and three lists: Honorable Mention ( B + albums deemed not worthy of full-paragraph reviews ), Choice Cuts ( excellent tracks on un-recommended albums ), and Duds.

Can you imagine working for a fucking year, and you get a B + from some asshole in The Village Voice ?” Christgau rated the album C + and wrote in his review, “ I thank Lou for pronouncing my name right .” Similar angst came from band Sonic Youth in their song " Kill Yr Idols " ( at the time known as " I Killed Christgau with My Big Fucking Dick "), in which they sing " I don't know why / You wanna impress Christgau / Ah let that shit die / And find out the new goal "; Christgau responded by saying " Idolization is for rock stars, even rock stars manqué like these impotent bohos — critics just want a little respect.

" Robert Christgau in a review for The Village Voice felt that " she doesn't speak for the ordinary teenaged stiff any more ", adding that the " antiabortion content of ' Papa Don't Preach ' isn't unequivocal, and wouldn't make the song bad by definition if it were, the ambiguity is a cop-out rather than an open door, which is bad.

American music reviewer Robert Christgau referred to Shep Pettibone ( who mixed Pet Shop Boys's biggest hit, " West End Girls ") as ' Pet Sheppibone ' in his review.

Robert Christgau gave a mostly positive review, grading it a B +.

Robert Christgau, in a highly favourable review, awarded the album an A grade, claiming that Pavement are " good at both tune and noise ", yet Slanted and Enchanted yields " a message complex enough to offer hope ".

One of the few reviewers from a major music magazine to review Demolition Plot J-7 upon its release, Robert Christgau of the Village Voice gave the EP a two-star honorable mention, citing " Forklift " as a highlight.

" In a review of the book in the Village Voice, critic Robert Christgau wrote, "... Let me give Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life its well-earned thumbs-up.

Although only moderately positive initially, Robert Christgau later raised his rating a notch and wrote of the album that " the highs are worth it, and the failed stuff ain't bad " in his revised review.

In his mixed review for Hard Rain, Robert Christgau criticized the Rolling Thunder Revue as " folkies whose idea of rock and roll is rock and roll clichés.

In a review published in his " Consumer Guide " column, Robert Christgau gave Wild Gift a rare A + rating, writing that " hippies couldn't understand jealousy because they believed in universal love ; punks can't understand it because they believe sex is a doomed reflex of existentially discrete monads.

Robert Christgau, in his review for the album, placed it as one of the recommended tracks alongside " Bachelorette ".

In a sarcastic review published in his " Consumer Guide " column, Robert Christgau gave the album a C + rating, writing " I believe this double LP was made available so our hero could boast of being outclassed by Cheap Trick, who had the self-control to release but a single disc from this location.

In a review published in his Consumer Guide column, Robert Christgau wrote, " Where Self Portrait was at least weird, splitting the difference between horrible and hilarious, is now forever professional — not a single remake honors or desecrates the original.

Robert Christgau said in his review: " Genie in a Bottle " was such a dazzlingly clever piece of teen self-exploration sexploitation that it seemed the better part of valor to hope it was a fluke.

In January 1979, rock critic Robert Christgau argued that homophobia, and most likely racism, were reasons behind the backlash, a conclusion seconded by John Rockwell.

Though not a commercial success, Gilded was measured by rock critic Robert Christgau as " an ominous, obsessive, tongue-in-cheek country-rock synthesis, absorbing rural and urban, traditional and contemporary, at point of impact.

Guitar parts tend to include highly distorted power chords or barre chords, creating a characteristic sound described by Christgau as a " buzzsaw drone ".

* " We Have to Deal With It: Punk England Report ", by Robert Christgau, Village Voice, January 9, 1978

Nonetheless, Love You reached # 53 on the Billboard chart and was lauded as an artistic watershed by many critics, including Robert Christgau of The Village Voice.

The paper's " Pazz & Jop " music poll, started by Robert Christgau in the early 1970s, continues to this day and remains a highly influential survey of the nation's music critics.

The Village Voice < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Robert Christgau gave the album a B rating, and remarked that the band were " by consensus the Amerindie find of the year ," and that the album featured " guitar riffs you actually notice.

Both his parents died early and he was taught by Martin Georg Christgau where he learned Hebrew and became interested in Latin Poetry.

Rhino Entertainment released Hit by a Train: The Best of Old 97's, an eighteen track compilation of songs from the band's beginnings through 2001, featuring liner notes and an essay by rock critic Robert Christgau.

The writings of Harker, however, and by extension of Harker's followers in the US ( such as David E. Whisnant, Benjamin Filene, and Robert Christgau, who have backgrounds in political science, American Studies, and journalism, not ethnography ) have now themselves in turn come under scrutiny as overly harsh, exaggerated, distorted, and unjust.

Christgau wrote, " I find myself moved by its anthemic ambition -- and achievement.

The album was also highly regarded critically, appearing near the top of several end-of-year polls including the number one slot on NME Album of the Year and the number two spot on the Village Voice end-of-year list compiled by Robert Christgau.

Christgau became a freelance writer after a story he wrote about the death of a woman in New Jersey was published by New York magazine.

Late in 2007, Christgau was fired by Rolling Stone, although he continued to work for the magazine for another three months.

Man, anal retentive, A Consumer's Guide to Rock, what a moron: ' A Study ' by, y ' know, Robert Christgau.

Throughout Christgau's career at the Voice, every poll was accompanied by a lengthy Christgau essay analyzing the results, and pondering the year's overall musical output.

The term was codified with its current meaning by Tom Wolfe in a 1973 collection of journalism articles he published as The New Journalism, which included works by himself, Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, Robert Christgau, Gay Talese and others.

Robert Christgau gave the album a three-star honorable mention, and Entertainment Weekly gave the album a B + rating, noting that the band's rendition of " Pale Blue Eyes " was " eerily compelling ".

Some critics were not impressed ; Robert Christgau wrote: " Although the candid propaganda and wily musicality of " Hurricane " delighted me for a long time, the deceitful bathos of its companion piece " Joey " tempts me to question the unsullied innocence of Rubin Carter himself ".

" Critic Robert Christgau commented that " Anybody who thinks rock and roll is alive and well in the infinite variety of its garage-boy permutations had better figure out how these Hitler Youth rejects could crush the competition and quit simultaneously.