CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
At around the time of “Mother Popcorn” in 1969, James Brown began to concern himself more and more exclusively with rhythmic distinctions, thus leaving himself ever more open to the all-sounds the-same complaints he’d always been subject to.
August 1, 1980
CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
DEPARTMENTS
by Robert Christgau
For the - time being—probably until the beginning of 1981—1 have abandoned my obsession with new records for an even more pervasive obsession with old ones. The reason is simple: I’m trying to convert a decade’s work into a book, and I have a lot of relistening and rethinking to do. What follows is the first in a series of reports from the past: