Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s is a music reference book by American music journalist and essayist Robert Christgau. It was published in October 2000 by St. Martin's Press's Griffin im
Christgau's Consumer Guide '90s
Robert Christgau at the 2006 Pop Conference
A CD collection pictured in 2007; the proliferation of music production in the format informed Christgau's reviewing and grading standards throughout the preceding decade.
Christgau's tepid response to English rock band Radiohead (pictured in 2004) was a source of controversy.
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 published in October 1981 by Ticknor & Fields.
Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s
…Stone, Spin, and Playboy from this period is also featured. The book is the third in a series of influential "Consumer Guide" collections, following Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981) and Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s (1990). Covering a variety of genres within and beyond the conventional pop/rock axis of most music press…
Christgau's Record Guide
The guide originated from Robert Christgau's column in The Village Voice (former headquarters pictured in 2008).
Christgau's intense work on the book temporarily strained his marriage to fellow writer Carola Dibbell (2007). He later dedicated the book to her.
Christgau (right) and Chuck Eddy (left) – one of several critics who have recommended the book – in 2010 at the Museum of Pop Culture's Pop Conference