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Green Mind [Sire/Warner Bros., 1991] J Mascis is a one-trick guitar god whose act gets sloppier and samier as his adolescence becomes more figurative. He does have his own instrumental sound, a roiling whine that's the essence of grunge on pot. Unfortunately, he also has his own vocal sound, ditto.
- Robert Christgau: Album: Dinosaur Jr.: You're Living All Over Me
Dinosaur Jr.: You're Living All Over Me [SST, 1987] The...
- Robert Christgau: CG: Boston
He's more like the Archbishop of Latter-Day Arena Rock,...
- Robert Christgau: Album: Dinosaur Jr.: You're Living All Over Me
Robert Thomas Christgau (/ ˈ k r ɪ s t ɡ aʊ / KRIST-gow; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most well-known [1] and influential music critics, [2] he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics and later became an early proponent of musical movements such as hip hop , riot grrrl , and the import of African ...
Apr 28, 2020 · Christgau is a maggot in the medium of music. His reviews rank just below Rolling Stone magazine's offerings in regards to musical opinion, which is to say skimming a cesspool and looking for chunks underneath. Edited by The Dark Elf - May 01 2020 at 09:38. to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
Dinosaur Jr.: You're Living All Over Me [SST, 1987] The singer implores in a childish whining drawl while dramatic paradiddles and sculpted streams of molten garage guitar enact one more nostalgic reconciliation with AOR metal. But this one isn't on metal's terms (too winsome), or AOR's either (what they arrange is sloppiness). All these ...
Mar 10, 2015 · JR Nelson digs into the memoir of OG rock critic Robert Christgau. ... Photo by Joe Mabel. Critic and editor Robert Christgau has been there from the very beginning, notoriously (and/or jokingly ...
He's more like the Archbishop of Latter-Day Arena Rock, perfecting majestic guitar sounds and angelic vocals for hockey-rink cathedrals the world over--and also, since he's patently reluctant to venture from his studio retreat, elegiac melodies suitable to a radio ministry. If he seems more hobbyist than artist, more Trekkie than Blind Boy ...
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Mar 24, 2015 · Robert Christgau is the most formidably knowledgeable writer in America about popular music, and maybe in the world. Born in 1942, Christgau is a native New Yorker, born and raised in Queens, who was listening to Alan Freed on late-night radio before Elvis Presley emerged. As he writes in his newly published memoir Going Into the City: “The ...
