Robert Thomas Christgau (/ˈkrɪstɡaʊ/ KRIST-gow; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most well-known and influential...
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Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies is a music reference book by American music journalist and essayist Robert Christgau. It was first...
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Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s is a music reference book by American music journalist and essayist Robert Christgau. It was published...
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Robert Christgau (born 1942) is an American essayist and music critic. Christgau may also refer to: John Christgau (1934–2018), American author and basketball...
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album received positive reviews from Fusion, Rolling Stone, and Robert Christgau. Christgau felt the album was "superb", the same wording as used by Greil...
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Roches. Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau wrote that the album "sounds so good I'm beginning to believe Robert Fripp was put on earth to produce...
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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...
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Macrobioticism, by Robert Christgau, is the 20th text in the anthology. It was Christgau's first magazine article In 1965 Christgau was a reporter for...
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" an anti-gun song that peaked at #27 on the U.S. Billboard chart. Robert Christgau gave the album a positive review, stating: "On the one hand, two or...
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October 25, 2012. Retrieved July 6, 2017. Christgau, Robert (February 1998). "Robert Christgau: CG: Jay-Z". Christgau's Consumer Guide. Retrieved June 20, 2011...
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standouts here to easily qualify Motorcade as a keeper." Music reviewer Robert Christgau described the album as "unambiguity from the near side of cool." In...
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and "Situation X". The album continues with "Mad," hailed by critic Robert Christgau as "the most original song on the record" and in a review for Rolling...
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is reminiscent of Bad Company and rocks with a stormy aggression." Robert Christgau, who gave the album a positive review, stated: "Ronnie Van Zant may...
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Rooms". Paste. Retrieved August 3, 2021. Christgau, Robert. "Todd Snider: Consumer Guide Reviews". Robert Christgau: Dean of American Rock Critics. Retrieved...
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Television has been generally well received by critics. Rock critic Robert Christgau wrote, "I prefer the more rocking, songful old Television, but it's...
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collaborators than normal. In a review published in his Consumer Guide column, Robert Christgau wrote, "Where Self Portrait was at least weird, splitting the difference...
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critically and commercially. Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: "This boy is going to be a big...
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criticism of George W. Bush, the Iraq War, and Wal-Mart. The music critic Robert Christgau ranked "We Can't Make It Here" as the best song of the 2000s. McMurtry...
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ISBN 0-7432-0169-8. Christgau, Robert (January 15, 2002). "Consumer Guide: Popstakes". The Village Voice. Retrieved April 13, 2016. "Robert Christgau: Pazz & Jop...
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1976's Rocks, despite the "weak spots" of the album's power ballads. Robert Christgau picked out the album's lead single, "Jaded", as a choice cut. The album...
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"Reelin' In the Years", features jazzy guitar solos and harmonies. Robert Christgau described "Do It Again" as a toned-down mambo song with "tragic" lyrics...
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Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2017-10-28. Christgau, Robert (2017-10-28). "Robert Christgau: CG: Kid Rock". Robert Christgau. "Kid Rock: Album Guide". Rolling...
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and established him as one of the unsung heroes of the age of AOR". Robert Christgau says "He's added true boogie macho to his persona, so he gets his rocks...
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reviewer cited it as being full of "fire and imagination". However, Robert Christgau faulted it as technically proficient but soulless, calling it "mindless...
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Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved November 18, 2021. Christgau, Robert. "Robert Christgau: Album: Less Than Zero". www.robertchristgau.com. Retrieved...
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Archived 2017-08-05 at the Wayback Machine at Rolling Stone Christgau, Robert. Dylan & the Dead review at RobertChristgau.com Dylan & the Dead at AllMusic...
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the Pieces > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved Dec 26, 2019. Christgau, Robert. "Robert Christgau: CG: Poco". robertchristgau.com. Retrieved 21 December 2013...
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received fewer favorable reviews.[citation needed] Village Voice critic Robert Christgau panned David Clayton-Thomas's singing as "belching", while calling...
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Mainstream Rock chart despite not being released as singles. Music critic Robert Christgau called "Tough Guys" his favorite song from the album but suggested...
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"American Fool". Allmusic. Retrieved January 14, 2012. Christgau, Robert. "CG: Artist 688". RobertChristgau.com. Retrieved November 5, 2012. Emerson, Ken (September...
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