Robert Christgau
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| "The first side of [[Galaxy (War album) |the most unambitious album]] they've ever made works beautifully as what it is—[[P-Funk]] on [[Chlorpromazine |thorazine]]."--''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]'' (1981) by Robert Christgau | "The first side of [[Galaxy (War album) |the most unambitious album]] they've ever made works beautifully as what it is—[[P-Funk]] on [[Chlorpromazine |thorazine]]."--''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]'' (1981) by Robert Christgau | ||
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| - | '''Robert Christgau''' (born [[April 18]], [[1942]]), is an [[United States|American]] [[essayist]], [[music journalism|music journalist]], and the self-declared "Dean of American [[rock critic|Rock Critics]]". In print, his name is sometimes abbreviated as ''Xgau''. | + | '''Robert Christgau''' (born [[April 18]], [[1942]]), is an [[American writer]], and the self-declared "Dean of American [[rock critic|Rock Critics]]". In print, his name is sometimes abbreviated as ''Xgau''. |
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| * ''Any Old Way You Choose It: Rock and Other Pop Music, 1967–1973'', [[Penguin Books]], 1973 | * ''Any Old Way You Choose It: Rock and Other Pop Music, 1967–1973'', [[Penguin Books]], 1973 | ||
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Robert Christgau (born April 18, 1942), is an American writer, and the self-declared "Dean of American Rock Critics". In print, his name is sometimes abbreviated as Xgau.
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Bibliography
- Any Old Way You Choose It: Rock and Other Pop Music, 1967–1973, Penguin Books, 1973
- Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies, Ticknor & Fields, 1981
- Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s, Pantheon Books, 1990
- Grown Up All Wrong: 75 Great Rock and Pop Artists from Vaudeville to Techno, Harvard University Press, 1998
- Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s, St. Martin's Griffin, 2000
- Going into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man, Dey Street Books, 2015
- Is It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism 1967–2017, Duke University Press, 2018
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