THe CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE

Despite my small hopes at Pazz & Jop time, I found two of them — albums that would have made my 1975 top 30 if I'd done my listening right. "Beserkley Chartbusters" simply slipped past me — it's sort of a sport as product, anyway, kind of like "The Harder They Come" in its collective identity — and the Sonny Rollins I might just have declared rock by fiat on account of it uses an electric bass, which would be no sillier than any other definition.