Robert Christgau
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Robert Thomas Christgau is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most influential music critics, he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics a
Christgau in 2010
Christgau on the "Music in the '00s" panel at the 2010 Pop Conference in Seattle.
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
Robert Christgau
…form across three decade-ending volumes: Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s (1990), and Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s (2000). Multiple collections of his essays have been published in book form, and a website published in his name since 2001 has freely hosted most of…
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.