CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
ROSANNE CASH: "Seven Year Ache" (Columbia):: It’s a tribute to the persistence of something-or-other than somebody should still be getting decent music out of the sterile studiorock formula. What that something-or-other might be is perhaps indicated by the identity of the somebody, who is a second-generation pro rather than a punk revoloo.
CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
Robert Christgau
ROSANNE CASH: "Seven Year Ache" (Columbia):: It’s a tribute to the persistence of something-or-other than somebody should still be getting decent music out of the sterile studiorock formula. What that something-or-other might be is perhaps indicated by the identity of the somebody, who is a second-generation pro rather than a punk revoloo. B +
ALEX CHILTON: Bach’s Bottom’’ (Line import):: These 1975 tracks, the best already released on Chilton’s long-gone Ork EP, are about as Memphis as a garbage strike. Not only does anarchic equal chaotic equal a mess, but soulful equals spontaneous equals off-the-cuff equals mess. None of which is to deny that he knows how to mess around. B +