CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
A slightly disappointing month, given the status of the entrants. But I haven’t listened to so many B plusses at once in what seems like years, and that’s good. I’d hoped to come down hard on at least part of the Sire punk blockbuster before it got around me, just to prove I’m not a complete sucker for all this unmusicianly (hah!) stuff, but when I began humming Saints songs I knew that was hopeless.
CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
DEPARTMENTS
Robert Christgau
A slightly disappointing month, given the status of the entrants. But I haven’t listened to so many B plusses at once in what seems like years, and that’s good. I’d hoped to come down hard on at least part of the Sire punk blockbuster before it got around me, just to prove I’m not a complete sucker for all this unmusicianly (hah!) stuff, but when I began humming Saints songs I knew that was hopeless. So instead, I found I could document my objectivity in a more constructive way, by finding good music all over the place. This month, for once, there are new albums around for every taste. At the moment my personal top-to-bottom rundown of the B plusses would go TownshendLane, Bley, Ronstadt, Steely Dan, Newman, Hell, and Robinson, but if any of these records strikes you as a good one, that’s probably the way it’ll sound.