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.

" Robert Christgau gave the album an A −; he wrote, " this A is an imaginative, imitative variation on a pop staple: sadness made pretty.

" Meanwhile, critic Robert Christgau wrote, " Some of the individual pieces are quite nice, but the gestalt is the concept album at its most counterproductive — the lyrics render the nostalgic instrumental parts unnecessarily ironic and lose additional charm in narrative context.

" Robert Christgau gave the album an A + and reviewed it as: " An album worthy of an Irish R & B singer who wrote a teen hit called " Mystic Eyes " ( not to mention a Brill Building smash called Brown Eyed Girl.

" Robert Christgau wrote that " As a rule, American songwriting is banal, prolix, and virtually solipsistic when it wants to be honest, merely banal when it doesn't ", but found Newman's " truisms — always concise, never confessional —" to be " his own.

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 wrote that the songs " sure do boogie ", although he ultimately found it musically aimless, stating " even if Duane Allman plus Dickey Betts does equal Jerry Garcia, the Dead know roads are for getting somewhere.

At the time of its release, Robert Christgau wrote that side two of the double album " contains the finest rock improvisation ever recorded.

" American music critic Robert Christgau wrote, " I play Unplugged to refresh my memory of a sojourner's spirituality.

" Robert Christgau wrote, " The pop-rock here lacks the faux-punk edge Jagged Little Pill ...

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.

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.

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 ".

" The lyrics are indifferently crafted ," wrote Christgau, " and while their one-dimensionality is winningly perverse at a time when his old fans will take any ambiguity they can get, it does serve to flaunt their theological wrongheadedness and occasional jingoism.

Giving the album an " A -", Robert Christgau wrote that it was " clear from Bell's very posthumous solo album.

Robert Christgau felt that the band wrote good songs, but he was unsure about the authenticity of their country roots so what they produced was " suave and synthetic -- brilliant, but false.

Robert Christgau of The Village Voice wrote, " Daniel Lanois's understated care and easy beat suit casual ways, and three or four songs might sound like something late at night on the radio, or after the great flood.

" 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.

" Similarly, critic Robert Christgau wrote " Never hep to his jive, I'm less than shocked by the generalized sentimentality disillusioned admirers descry within these hallowed tracks, though the one about the late great Lowell George ... is unusually rank.

" Raitt is a folkie by history but not by aesthetic ", wrote Robert Christgau in his Consumer Guide column.

Robert Christgau, of The Village Voice, wrote of the album:

Critic Robert Christgau gave the album a B +, saying that " I find it impossible to give this record an A because it is just too weird.

NME gave the album a 6 / 10 rating, and Robert Christgau rated it an " A -", saying, " Thing is, I can use some new punk rage in my life, and unless you're a fan of Goldman Sachs and BP Petroleum, so can you.

" Music critic Robert Christgau gave the album a B grade, but explained " This is an impressive record, but a lot of the time I hate it ; my grade is an average, not a judgment.

On the album, Robert Christgau wrote: " Now I regret all the times I've used words like " power " and " energy " to describe rock and roll, because this is what such rhetoric should have been saved for.

* Robert Christgau: "... and I guess his ( Jim James's ) boys are trickier than Crazy Horse, just not in any way you haven't heard before.

Robert Christgau, writing in The Village Voice, gave it an A-grade, but stated that he was more interested in hearing M. I. A.

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.

The album did have some critical support, particularly from Robert Christgau of The Village Voice, who wrote " To my astonishment, I think Under the Red Sky is Dylan's best album in 15 years, a record that may even signal a ridiculously belated if not totally meaningless return to form ... It's fabulistic, biblical ... the tempos are postpunk like it oughta be, with Aronoff's sprints and shuffles grooving ahead like ' 60s folk-rock never did.

Robert Christgau published a semi-positive ( B ) graded overview, comparing Vaughan to guitarists Alvin Lee and Robin Trower, and said, " find my attention wandering after the kickoff originals " Love Struck Baby " and " Pride and Joy.

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.

In his consumer guide for The Village Voice, critic Robert Christgau gave Make It Last Forever a B rating, indicating " an admirable effort that aficionados of the style or artist will probably find quite listenable ".

Christgau grew up in New York City, where he says he became a rock and roll fan when disc jockey Alan Freed moved to the city in 1954.

After Esquire discontinued the column, Christgau moved to The Village Voice in 1969, and he also worked as a college professor.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

" 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.

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.