how'd Wussy do?
― Animals must have a name (morrisp), Thursday, 27 January 2022 01:13 (two years ago) link
https://robertchristgau.substack.com/p/deans-list-2021?r=khofd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
― o. nate, Thursday, 27 January 2022 01:28 (two years ago) link
lol Neil Young
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 January 2022 01:35 (two years ago) link
So although preliminary listening and research persuades me that Rolling Stone had reason to put Puerto Rican pop phenom Rauw Alejandro’s Vice Versa high on its list, there’s no way he’ll ever be Olivia Rodrigo or even Harry Styles for me unless he starts singing in English (as he probably will, to exactly what effect is another matter). And while there’s no denying that Toronto’s Tamara Lindeman showcases actual songs on Pitchfork’s seventh-ranked Weather Station album Ignorance, their smug gentility reminds me all too vividly of Joan Baez putting me off lo these many decades ago. Which isn’t even to mention the impressionistic musical poesy of Pitchfork’s second-place L’Rain, or the huzzahs that greeted my old fave Jazmine Sullivan when she compensated for her songwriting drought by inviting women to contribute spoken-word accounts of their sexual travails and got album-of-the-year plaudits from Pitchfork for the dodge
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 January 2022 15:54 (two years ago) link
Correct about Sullivan, RONG about the Weather Station.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 January 2022 15:57 (two years ago) link
Figures: he's always had a blind spot about Baez's better albums, and, closer to Lindeman's sound, early Joni as well. Haven't gotten into L'Rain's album, though will listen more; she's effective on the xpost Bowie trib, Modern Love.
― dow, Thursday, 27 January 2022 16:45 (two years ago) link
I remember noticing a couple years back that Firesign Theatre was the first act to whom he'd awarded two A+ grades, and a friend rightly said, "how like Christgau of you to notice"
― three of the doctor's valuable bats are now dead (broom air), Thursday, 27 January 2022 17:24 (two years ago) link
sexual travails: manages to be a lofty shit even "just" en passant; that's some A Movable Feast-level shit, class out the ass!
― dow, Thursday, 27 January 2022 17:36 (two years ago) link
Something Scott Woods created, a tribute to some of Christgau's A+ albums. I'm one of the readers, fumbling my way through his Attica review--also Kevin Bozelka and a couple of others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIIfvvDzI2w
― clemenza, Friday, 28 January 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link