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Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="رابرت کریستگاو" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Christgau" title="Robert Christgau – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Robert Christgau" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A1%9C%EB%B2%84%ED%8A%B8_%ED%81%AC%EB%A6%AC%EC%8A%A4%ED%8A%B8%EA%B0%80%EC%9A%B0" title="로버트 크리스트가우 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="로버트 크리스트가우" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Christgau" title="Robert Christgau – 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lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Robert Christgau" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%82%AC%E3%82%A6" title="ロバート・クリストガウ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ロバート・クリストガウ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Christgau" title="Robert Christgau – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Robert Christgau" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Christgau" title="Robert Christgau – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Robert Christgau" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Christgau" title="Robert Christgau – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Robert Christgau" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Christgau" title="Robert Christgau – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Robert Christgau" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a 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padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Robert Thomas Christgau (1942-04-18) April 18, 1942 (age 82) New York City, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li:last-child::after{content:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <ul><li>Music critic</li> <li>essayist</li> <li>journalist</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Dartmouth_College" title="Dartmouth College">Dartmouth College</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Period</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">1967–present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Carola_Dibbell" title="Carola Dibbell">Carola Dibbell</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1974)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Children</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">1</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://robertchristgau.com">robertchristgau.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table> Robert Thomas Christgau (<a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈkrɪstɡaʊ/</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key">KRIST-gow</a>; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most influential music critics,<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-grove-2">[2]</a> he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional <a href="/wiki/Rock_critic" class="mw-redirect" title="Rock critic">rock critics</a> and later became an early proponent of musical movements such as <a href="/wiki/Hip_hop_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Hip hop music">hip hop</a>, <a href="/wiki/Riot_grrrl" title="Riot grrrl">riot grrrl</a>, and the import of <a href="/wiki/African_popular_music" title="African popular music">African popular music</a> in the West.<a href="#cite_note-grove-2">[2]</a> He was the chief music critic and senior editor for <a href="/wiki/The_Village_Voice" title="The Village Voice">The Village Voice</a> for 37 years, during which time he created and oversaw the annual <a href="/wiki/Pazz_%26_Jop" title="Pazz & Jop">Pazz & Jop</a> critics poll. He has also covered popular music for <a href="/wiki/Esquire_(magazine)" title="Esquire (magazine)">Esquire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Creem" title="Creem">Creem</a>, <a href="/wiki/Newsday" title="Newsday">Newsday</a>, <a href="/wiki/Playboy" title="Playboy">Playboy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a>, <a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a>, <a href="/wiki/NPR" title="NPR">NPR</a>, <a href="/wiki/Blender_(magazine)" title="Blender (magazine)">Blender</a>, and <a href="/wiki/MSN_Music" title="MSN Music">MSN Music</a>; he was a visiting arts teacher at <a href="/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a>.<a href="#cite_note-hc-3">[3]</a> <a href="/wiki/CNN" title="CNN">CNN</a> senior writer Jamie Allen has called Christgau "the <a href="/wiki/Edward_Francis_Hutton" title="Edward Francis Hutton">E. F. Hutton</a> of the music world—when he talks, people listen."<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> Christgau is best known for his terse, letter-graded <a href="/wiki/Capsule_review" title="Capsule review">capsule</a> album reviews, composed in a concentrated, fragmented prose style featuring layered <a href="/wiki/Clauses" class="mw-redirect" title="Clauses">clauses</a>, caustic wit, <a href="/wiki/One-liner_joke" class="mw-redirect" title="One-liner joke">one-liner jokes</a>, political digressions, and allusions ranging from <a href="/wiki/Common_knowledge" title="Common knowledge">common knowledge</a> to the esoteric.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> His writing is often informed by <a href="/wiki/Left-wing_politics" title="Left-wing politics">leftist politics</a> (particularly <a href="/wiki/Feminism" title="Feminism">feminism</a><a href="#cite_note-Marsh76-6">[6]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Secular_humanism" title="Secular humanism">secular humanism</a>). He has generally favored song-oriented musical forms and qualities of wit and formal rigor, as well as musicianship from uncommon sources.<a href="#cite_note-Rosen-7">[7]</a> Originally published in his "Consumer Guide" columns during his tenure at The Village Voice from 1969 to 2006, the reviews were collected in book form across three decade-ending volumes–<a href="/wiki/Christgau%27s_Record_Guide:_Rock_Albums_of_the_Seventies" title="Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies">Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies</a> (1981), <a href="/wiki/Christgau%27s_Record_Guide:_The_%2780s" title="Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s">Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s</a> (1990), and <a href="/wiki/Christgau%27s_Consumer_Guide:_Albums_of_the_%2790s" title="Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s">Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s</a> (2000).<a href="#cite_note-hc-3">[3]</a> Multiple collections of his essays have been published in book form,<a href="#cite_note-hc-3">[3]</a> and a website published in his name since 2001 has freely hosted most of his work. In 2006, the Voice dismissed Christgau after the paper's acquisition by <a href="/wiki/New_Times_Media" class="mw-redirect" title="New Times Media">New Times Media</a>. He continued to write reviews in the "Consumer Guide" format for <a href="/wiki/MSN_Music" title="MSN Music">MSN Music</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cuepoint" class="mw-redirect" title="Cuepoint">Cuepoint</a>, and Noisey–<a href="/wiki/Vice_(magazine)" title="Vice (magazine)">Vice</a>'s music section–where they were published in his "Expert Witness" column<a href="#cite_note-noisey-8">[8]</a> until July 2019.<a href="#cite_note-xgausez070919-9">[9]</a> In September of the same year, he launched a paid-subscription newsletter called And It Don't Stop, published on the email-newsletter platform <a href="/wiki/Substack" title="Substack">Substack</a> and featuring a monthly "Consumer Guide" column, among other writings.<a href="#cite_note-hull091709-10">[10]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Christgau&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life">edit</a>]</div> Christgau was born in <a href="/wiki/Greenwich_Village" title="Greenwich Village">Greenwich Village</a> in <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>, New York City,<a href="#cite_note-Memoir-11">[11]</a> on April 18, 1942.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> He grew up in <a href="/wiki/Queens" title="Queens">Queens</a>,<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> the son of a fireman.<a href="#cite_note-Bio-14">[14]</a> He has said he became a <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_roll" title="Rock and roll">rock and roll</a> fan when disc jockey <a href="/wiki/Alan_Freed" title="Alan Freed">Alan Freed</a> moved to the city in 1954.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> After attending public school in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>,<a href="#cite_note-Bio-14">[14]</a> Christgau attended <a href="/wiki/Dartmouth_College" title="Dartmouth College">Dartmouth College</a> graduating in 1962 with a B.A. degree in <a href="/wiki/English_studies" title="English studies">English</a>. At college, his musical interests turned to <a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a>, but he quickly returned to rock after moving back to New York.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> He has said that <a href="/wiki/Miles_Davis" title="Miles Davis">Miles Davis</a>'s 1960 album <a href="/wiki/Sketches_of_Spain" title="Sketches of Spain">Sketches of Spain</a> initiated "one phase of the disillusionment (in him) with jazz that resulted in my return to rock and roll."<a href="#cite_note-Spain-17">[17]</a> He was deeply influenced by <a href="/wiki/New_Journalism" title="New Journalism">New Journalism</a> writers including <a href="/wiki/Gay_Talese" title="Gay Talese">Gay Talese</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tom_Wolfe" title="Tom Wolfe">Tom Wolfe</a>. "My ambitions when I went into journalism were always, to an extent, literary", Christgau said later.<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Christgau&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:25em; ; padding:8px;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> I am interested in those places where popular culture and <a href="/wiki/Avant-garde" title="Avant-garde">avant-garde</a> culture intersect. As a critic, I want to achieve a new understanding of culture in both its aesthetic and political aspects; as a journalist, I want to suggest whatever I figure out to an audience in an entertaining and provocative way. </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">—Christgau (1977)<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a></cite></div> </div> Christgau wrote short stories, before giving up fiction in 1964 to become a <a href="/wiki/Sportswriter" class="mw-redirect" title="Sportswriter">sportswriter</a> and later, a police reporter for the <a href="/wiki/The_Star-Ledger" title="The Star-Ledger">Newark Star-Ledger</a>.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> He became a <a href="/wiki/Freelance_writer" class="mw-redirect" title="Freelance writer">freelance writer</a> after a story he wrote about the death of a woman in <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a> was published by <a href="/wiki/New_York_(magazine)" title="New York (magazine)">New York</a> magazine.<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> He was among the first dedicated rock critics.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> He was asked to take over the dormant music column at <a href="/wiki/Esquire_(magazine)" title="Esquire (magazine)">Esquire</a>, which he began writing in June 1967.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGendron2002193-23">[23]</a> He also contributed to <a href="/wiki/Cheetah_(magazine)" title="Cheetah (magazine)">Cheetah</a> magazine at the time.<a href="#cite_note-Wiener_p_38-24">[24]</a> He then became a leading voice in the formation of a musical–political aesthetic combining <a href="/wiki/New_Left" title="New Left">New Left</a> politics and the <a href="/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s" title="Counterculture of the 1960s">counterculture</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Wiener_p_38-24">[24]</a> After Esquire discontinued the column, Christgau moved to <a href="/wiki/The_Village_Voice" title="The Village Voice">The Village Voice</a> in 1969, and he also worked as a college professor. From early on in his emergence as a critic, Christgau was conscious of his lack of formal knowledge of music. In a 1968 piece he commented: <blockquote>I don't know anything about music, which ought to be a damaging admission but isn't... The fact is that pop writers in general shy away from such arcana as <a href="/wiki/Key_signature" title="Key signature">key signature</a> and <a href="/wiki/Time_signature" title="Time signature">beats to the measure</a>... I used to confide my worries about this to friends in the record industry, who reassured me. They didn't know anything about music either. The technical stuff didn't matter, I was told. You just gotta dig it.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGendron2002346–47-25">[25]</a></blockquote> In early 1972, Christgau accepted a full-time job as music critic for <a href="/wiki/Newsday" title="Newsday">Newsday</a>. He returned to The Village Voice in 1974 as music editor.<a href="#cite_note-rosen2006-26">[26]</a> In a 1976 piece for the newspaper, he coined the term "Rock Critic Establishment"<a href="#cite_note-MarshDec76-27">[27]</a> to describe the growth in influence of American music critics. His article carried the parenthesized subtitle "But Is That Bad for Rock?"<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGendron2002223–24-28">[28]</a> He listed <a href="/wiki/Dave_Marsh" title="Dave Marsh">Dave Marsh</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Rockwell" title="John Rockwell">John Rockwell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Nelson_(critic)" title="Paul Nelson (critic)">Paul Nelson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jon_Landau" title="Jon Landau">Jon Landau</a> and himself as members of this "establishment".<a href="#cite_note-MarshDec76-27">[27]</a> Christgau remained at The Village Voice until August 2006, when he was fired shortly after the paper's acquisition by <a href="/wiki/New_Times_Media" class="mw-redirect" title="New Times Media">New Times Media</a>.<a href="#cite_note-rosen2006-26">[26]</a> Two months later, Christgau became a contributing editor at <a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a> (which first published his review of <a href="/wiki/Moby_Grape" title="Moby Grape">Moby Grape</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Wow/Grape_Jam" title="Wow/Grape Jam">Wow</a> in 1968).<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> Late in 2007, Christgau was fired by Rolling Stone,<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> although he continued to work for the magazine for another three months. Beginning with the March 2008 issue, he joined <a href="/wiki/Blender_(magazine)" title="Blender (magazine)">Blender</a>, where he was listed as "senior critic" for three issues and then "contributing editor".<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> Christgau had been a regular contributor to Blender before he joined Rolling Stone. He continued to write for Blender until the magazine ceased publication in March 2009. In 1987, he was awarded a <a href="/wiki/Guggenheim_Fellowship" title="Guggenheim Fellowship">Guggenheim Fellowship</a> in the field of "folklore and popular culture" to study the history of popular music.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a><a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> Christgau has also written frequently for <a href="/wiki/Playboy" title="Playboy">Playboy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spin_(magazine)" title="Spin (magazine)">Spin</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Creem" title="Creem">Creem</a>. He appears in the 2011 <a href="/wiki/Rockumentary" class="mw-redirect" title="Rockumentary">rockumentary</a> <a href="/wiki/Color_Me_Obsessed" title="Color Me Obsessed">Color Me Obsessed</a>, about <a href="/wiki/The_Replacements_(band)" title="The Replacements (band)">the Replacements</a>.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> He previously taught during the formative years of the <a href="/wiki/California_Institute_of_the_Arts" title="California Institute of the Arts">California Institute of the Arts</a>. As of 2007, he was an adjunct professor in the <a href="/wiki/Clive_Davis" title="Clive Davis">Clive Davis</a> Department of Recorded Music at <a href="/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a>.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> In August 2013, Christgau revealed in an article written for <a href="/wiki/Barnes_%26_Noble" title="Barnes & Noble">Barnes & Noble</a>'s website that he was writing a memoir.<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> On July 15, 2014, Christgau debuted a monthly column on <a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a>'s website.<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id=""Consumer_Guide"_and_"Expert_Witness"_columns">"Consumer Guide" and "Expert Witness" columns</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Christgau&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: "Consumer Guide" and "Expert Witness" columns">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Christgau%27s_Record_Guide:_Rock_Albums_of_the_Seventies" title="Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies">Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies</a>, <a href="/wiki/Christgau%27s_Record_Guide:_The_%2780s" title="Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s">Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Christgau%27s_Consumer_Guide:_Albums_of_the_%2790s" title="Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s">Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s</a></div> Christgau is perhaps best known for his "Consumer Guide" columns, which have been published more-or-less monthly since July 10, 1969, in the Village Voice,<a href="#cite_note-Wolk-38">[38]</a> as well as a brief period in <a href="/wiki/Creem" title="Creem">Creem</a>.<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> In its original format, each edition of the "Consumer Guide" consisted of approximately 20 single-paragraph album reviews, each given a letter grade ranging from A+ to E−.<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> The reviews were later collected, expanded, and extensively revised in a three-volume book series, the first of which was published in 1981 as <a href="/wiki/Christgau%27s_Record_Guide:_Rock_Albums_of_the_Seventies" title="Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies">Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies</a>; it was followed by <a href="/wiki/Christgau%27s_Record_Guide:_The_%2780s" title="Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s">Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s</a> (1990) and <a href="/wiki/Christgau%27s_Consumer_Guide:_Albums_of_the_%2790s" title="Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s">Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s</a> (2000).<a href="#cite_note-Wolk-38">[38]</a> In his original grading system from 1969 to 1990, albums were given a grade ranging from A+ to E−. Under this system, Christgau generally considered a B+ or higher to be a personal recommendation.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> He noted that in practice, grades below a C− were rare.<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> In 1990, Christgau changed the format of the "Consumer Guide" to focus more on the albums he liked.<a href="#cite_note-Wolk-38">[38]</a> B+ records that Christgau deemed "unworthy of a full review" were mostly given brief comments and star marks ranging from three down to one, denoting an <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/honorable_mention" class="extiw" title="wikt:honorable mention">honorable mention</a>",<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> records which Christgau believed may be of interest to their own target audience.<a href="#cite_note-grades-44">[44]</a> Lesser albums were filed under categories such as "Neither" (which may impress at first with "coherent craft or an arresting track or two", before failing to make an impression again)<a href="#cite_note-grades-44">[44]</a> and "Duds" (which indicated bad records and were listed without further comment). Christgau did give full reviews and traditional grades to records he pans in an annual November "Turkey Shoot" column in The Village Voice, until he left the newspaper in 2006.<a href="#cite_note-Wolk-38">[38]</a> In 2001, robertchristgau.com–an online archive of Christgau's "Consumer Guide" reviews and other writings from his career – was set up as a co-operative project between Christgau and longtime friend <a href="/wiki/Tom_Hull_(critic)" title="Tom Hull (critic)">Tom Hull</a>; the two had met in 1975 shortly after Hull queried Christgau as The Village Voice's regional editor for St. Louis. The website was created after the <a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11, 2001, attacks</a> when Hull was stuck in New York while visiting from his native <a href="/wiki/Wichita,_Kansas" title="Wichita, Kansas">Wichita</a>. While Christgau spent many nights preparing past Village Voice writings for the website, by 2002 much of the older "Consumer Guide" columns had been inputted by Hull and a small coterie of fans. According to Christgau, Hull is "a computer genius as well as an excellent and very knowledgeable music critic, but he'd never done much web site work. The design of the web site, especially its high searchability and small interest in graphics, are his idea of what a useful music site should be".<a href="#cite_note-RockCrit-45">[45]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pop_Conference_2010_-_Music_in_the_%2700s_panel_03_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Pop_Conference_2010_-_Music_in_the_%2700s_panel_03_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Pop_Conference_2010_-_Music_in_the_%2700s_panel_03_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="230" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Pop_Conference_2010_-_Music_in_the_%2700s_panel_03_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Pop_Conference_2010_-_Music_in_the_%2700s_panel_03_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Pop_Conference_2010_-_Music_in_the_%2700s_panel_03_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Pop_Conference_2010_-_Music_in_the_%2700s_panel_03_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1768" data-file-height="1845" /></a><figcaption>Christgau on the "Music in the '00s" panel at the 2010 <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Pop_Culture" title="Museum of Pop Culture">Pop Conference</a> in <a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a>.</figcaption></figure> In December 2006, Christgau began writing his "Consumer Guide" columns for <a href="/wiki/MSN_Music" title="MSN Music">MSN Music</a>, initially appearing every other month, before switching to a monthly schedule in June 2007. On July 1, 2010, he announced in the introduction to his "Consumer Guide" column that the July 2010 installment would be the last on MSN.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> On November 22, he launched a blog on MSN, called "Expert Witness", which featured reviews only of albums that he had graded B+ or higher, since those albums "are the gut and backbone of my musical pleasure"; the writing of reviews for which are "so rewarding psychologically that I'm happy to do it at blogger's rates".<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> He began corresponding with dedicated readers of the column, named as "The Witnesses" after the column.<a href="#cite_note-Barmann-48">[48]</a> On September 20, 2013, Christgau announced in the comments section that "Expert Witness" would cease to be published by October 1, 2013, writing, "As I understand it, Microsoft is shutting down the entire MSN freelance arts operation at that time ..."<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> On September 10, 2014, Christgau debuted a new version of "Expert Witness" on <a href="/wiki/Cuepoint" class="mw-redirect" title="Cuepoint">Cuepoint</a>, an online music magazine published on the blogging platform <a href="/wiki/Medium_(website)" title="Medium (website)">Medium</a>.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> In August 2015, he was hired by <a href="/wiki/Vice_(magazine)" title="Vice (magazine)">Vice</a> to write the column for the magazine's music section, <a href="/wiki/Noisey" class="mw-redirect" title="Noisey">Noisey</a>.<a href="#cite_note-noisey-8">[8]</a> In July 2019, the final edition of "Expert Witness" was published.<a href="#cite_note-xgausez070919-9">[9]</a> In September 2019, at the encouragement of friend and colleague Joe Levy, Christgau began publishing the newsletter "And It Don't Stop" on the newsletter-subscription platform <a href="/wiki/Substack" title="Substack">Substack</a>. Charging subscribers <a href="/wiki/US_dollar" class="mw-redirect" title="US dollar">$</a>5 per month, it has his monthly "Consumer Guide" column, <a href="/wiki/Podcast" title="Podcast">podcasts</a>, and free weekly content like book reviews. He was skeptical of the platform at first: "Basically I told Joe that if I didn't have enough subscribers to pay what I made at Noisey by Christmas I was going to quit. I wasn't going to do it for less than that money. I had that many subscribers inside of three days." By May 2020, "And It Don't Stop" had more than 1,000 subscribers. Christgau was ambivalent about the platform at first, but has since found it "immensely gratifying" explaining that, "A man my age, who is still really intellectually active? It is tremendously flattering and gratifying that there are people who are ready to help support me."<a href="#cite_note-Barmann-48">[48]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pazz_&_Jop">Pazz & Jop</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Christgau&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Pazz & Jop">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Pazz_%26_Jop" title="Pazz & Jop">Pazz & Jop</a></div> Between 1968 and 1970, Christgau submitted ballots in <a href="/wiki/Jazz_%26_Pop" title="Jazz & Pop">Jazz & Pop</a> magazine's annual critics' poll. He selected Bob Dylan's <a href="/wiki/John_Wesley_Harding" title="John Wesley Harding">John Wesley Harding</a> (released late in 1967), <a href="/wiki/The_Who" title="The Who">The Who</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Tommy_(The_Who_album)" title="Tommy (The Who album)">Tommy</a> (1969), and <a href="/wiki/Randy_Newman" title="Randy Newman">Randy Newman</a>'s <a href="/wiki/12_Songs_(Randy_Newman_album)" title="12 Songs (Randy Newman album)">12 Songs</a> (1970) as the best pop albums of their respective years, and <a href="/wiki/Miles_Davis" title="Miles Davis">Miles Davis</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Bitches_Brew" title="Bitches Brew">Bitches Brew</a> (1970) as the best jazz album of its year.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a><a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a><a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> Jazz & Pop discontinued publication in 1971.<a href="#cite_note-RBP-54">[54]</a> In 1971, Christgau inaugurated the annual <a href="/wiki/Pazz_%26_Jop" title="Pazz & Jop">Pazz & Jop</a> music poll, named in tribute to Jazz & Pop. The poll surveyed music critics on their favorite releases of the year. The poll results were published in the Village Voice every February after compiling "top ten" lists submitted by music critics across the nation. Throughout his career at the Voice, every poll was accompanied by a lengthy Christgau essay analyzing the results and pondering the year's overall musical output. The Voice continued the feature after Christgau's dismissal. Although he no longer oversaw the poll, Christgau continued to vote and, since the 2015 poll, also contributed essays to the results.<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a><a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""Dean's_Lists"">"Dean's Lists"</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Christgau&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: "Dean's Lists"">edit</a>]</div> Each year that Pazz & Jop has run, Christgau has created a personal list of his favorite releases called the "Dean's List". Only his top ten count toward his vote in the poll, but his full lists of favorites usually numbered far more than that. These lists–or at least Christgau's top tens–were typically published in The Village Voice along with the Pazz & Jop results. After Christgau was dismissed from the Voice, he continued publishing his annual lists on his own website and at <a href="/wiki/The_Barnes_%26_Noble_Review" class="mw-redirect" title="The Barnes & Noble Review">The Barnes & Noble Review</a>. While Pazz & Jop's aggregate critics' poll are its main draw, Christgau's Deans' Lists are noteworthy in their own right. Henry Hauser from <a href="/wiki/Consequence_of_Sound" class="mw-redirect" title="Consequence of Sound">Consequence of Sound</a> said Christgau's "annual 'Pazz & Jop' poll has been a bona fide American institution. For music writers, his year-end essays and extensive 'Dean's List' are like watching <a href="/wiki/Times_Square_Ball" title="Times Square Ball">the big ball drop in Times Square</a>."<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> These are Christgau's choices for the number-one album of the year, including the point score he assigned for the poll. Pazz & Jop's rules provided that each item in a top ten could be allotted between 5 and 30 points, with all ten items totaling 100, allowing critics to <a href="/wiki/Weighting" title="Weighting">weight</a> certain albums more heavily if they chose to do so. In some years, he often gave an equal number of points to his first- and second-ranked albums, but they were nevertheless ranked as first and second, not as a tie for first. The list shows only his number-one picks. <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Artist </th> <th>Album </th> <th>Points </th> <th scope="col" class="unsortable">Ref. </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1971 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Joy_of_Cooking_(band)" title="Joy of Cooking (band)">Joy of Cooking</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Joy_of_Cooking_(album)" title="Joy of Cooking (album)">Joy of Cooking</a> </td> <td align="center">24 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1974 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Steely_Dan" title="Steely Dan">Steely Dan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pretzel_Logic" title="Pretzel Logic">Pretzel Logic</a> </td> <td align="center">21 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1975 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Band" title="The Band">the Band</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Basement_Tapes" title="The Basement Tapes">The Basement Tapes</a> </td> <td align="center">24 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1976 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Michael_Hurley_(musician)" title="Michael Hurley (musician)">Michael Hurley</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Unholy_Modal_Rounders" class="mw-redirect" title="The Unholy Modal Rounders">The Unholy Modal Rounders</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Frederick" title="Jeffrey Frederick">Jeffrey Frederick</a> & <a href="/wiki/Clamtones" title="Clamtones">the Clamtones</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Have_Moicy!" title="Have Moicy!">Have Moicy!</a> </td> <td align="center">15 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1977 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Television_(band)" title="Television (band)">Television</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Marquee_Moon" title="Marquee Moon">Marquee Moon</a> </td> <td align="center">13 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1978 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wire_(band)" title="Wire (band)">Wire</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pink_Flag" title="Pink Flag">Pink Flag</a> </td> <td align="center">13 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1979 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Clash" title="The Clash">The Clash</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Clash_(album)" title="The Clash (album)">The Clash</a> </td> <td align="center">18 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1980 </th> <td>The Clash </td> <td><a href="/wiki/London_Calling" title="London Calling">London Calling</a> </td> <td align="center">25 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1981 </th> <td>Various artists (<a href="/wiki/Sugar_Hill_Records_(hip_hop_label)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sugar Hill Records (hip hop label)">Sugar Hill Records</a>) </td> <td>Greatest Rap Hits Vol. 2 [label compilation] </td> <td align="center">19 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1982 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Ornette_Coleman" title="Ornette Coleman">Ornette Coleman</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Of_Human_Feelings" title="Of Human Feelings">Of Human Feelings</a> </td> <td align="center">16 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1983 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/James_Blood_Ulmer" title="James Blood Ulmer">James Blood Ulmer</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Odyssey_(James_Blood_Ulmer_album)" title="Odyssey (James Blood Ulmer album)">Odyssey</a> </td> <td align="center">18 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1984 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Springsteen" title="Bruce Springsteen">Bruce Springsteen</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Born_in_the_U.S.A." title="Born in the U.S.A.">Born in the U.S.A.</a> </td> <td align="center">17 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1985 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Mekons" title="The Mekons">The Mekons</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fear_and_Whiskey" title="Fear and Whiskey">Fear and Whiskey</a> </td> <td align="center">16 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1986 </th> <td>Various artists </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Indestructible_Beat_of_Soweto" title="The Indestructible Beat of Soweto">The Indestructible Beat of Soweto</a> </td> <td align="center">18 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1987 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Sonny_Rollins" title="Sonny Rollins">Sonny Rollins</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/G-Man_(Sonny_Rollins_album)" title="G-Man (Sonny Rollins album)">G-Man</a> </td> <td align="center">16 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1988 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Franco_Luambo" title="Franco Luambo">Franco</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tabu_Ley_Rochereau" title="Tabu Ley Rochereau">Rochereau</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Omona_Wapi" title="Omona Wapi">Omona Wapi</a> </td> <td align="center">16 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1989 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/P%C5%AFlnoc" title="Půlnoc">Půlnoc</a> </td> <td>Live at P.S. 122 [bootleg recording] </td> <td align="center">17 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1990 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/LL_Cool_J" title="LL Cool J">LL Cool J</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mama_Said_Knock_You_Out" title="Mama Said Knock You Out">Mama Said Knock You Out</a> </td> <td align="center">22 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1991 </th> <td>Various artists </td> <td>Guitar Paradise of East Africa </td> <td align="center">24 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-76">[76]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1992 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Mzwakhe_Mbuli" title="Mzwakhe Mbuli">Mzwakhe Mbuli</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Resistance_Is_Defence" title="Resistance Is Defence">Resistance Is Defence</a> </td> <td align="center">18 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1993 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Liz_Phair" title="Liz Phair">Liz Phair</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Exile_in_Guyville" title="Exile in Guyville">Exile in Guyville</a> </td> <td align="center">13 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1994 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Latin_Playboys" title="Latin Playboys">Latin Playboys</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Latin_Playboys_(album)" title="Latin Playboys (album)">Latin Playboys</a> </td> <td align="center">14 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1995 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Tricky_(musician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tricky (musician)">Tricky</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Maxinquaye" title="Maxinquaye">Maxinquaye</a> </td> <td align="center">17 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1996 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/DJ_Shadow" title="DJ Shadow">DJ Shadow</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Endtroducing....." title="Endtroducing.....">Endtroducing.....</a> </td> <td align="center">19 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1997 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Arto_Lindsay" title="Arto Lindsay">Arto Lindsay</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mundo_Civilizado" title="Mundo Civilizado">Mundo Civilizado</a> </td> <td align="center">15 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1998 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Lucinda_Williams" title="Lucinda Williams">Lucinda Williams</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Car_Wheels_on_a_Gravel_Road" title="Car Wheels on a Gravel Road">Car Wheels on a Gravel Road</a> </td> <td align="center">23 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">1999 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Magnetic_Fields" title="The Magnetic Fields">The Magnetic Fields</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/69_Love_Songs" title="69 Love Songs">69 Love Songs</a> </td> <td align="center">16 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2000 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Eminem" title="Eminem">Eminem</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Marshall_Mathers_LP" title="The Marshall Mathers LP">The Marshall Mathers LP</a> </td> <td align="center">16 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2001 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Love_and_Theft_(Bob_Dylan_album)" title="Love and Theft (Bob Dylan album)">"Love and Theft"</a> </td> <td align="center">20 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2002 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Mekons" title="The Mekons">The Mekons</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/OOOH!_(Out_of_Our_Heads)" title="OOOH! (Out of Our Heads)">OOOH! (Out of Our Heads)</a> </td> <td align="center">14 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2003 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/King_Sunny_Ad%C3%A9" title="King Sunny Adé">King Sunny Adé</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Best_of_the_Classic_Years" title="The Best of the Classic Years">The Best of the Classic Years</a> </td> <td align="center">20 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2004 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Brian_Wilson" title="Brian Wilson">Brian Wilson</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Brian_Wilson_Presents_Smile" title="Brian Wilson Presents Smile">Brian Wilson Presents Smile</a> </td> <td align="center">22 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2005 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Kanye_West" title="Kanye West">Kanye West</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Late_Registration" title="Late Registration">Late Registration</a> </td> <td align="center">16 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2006 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/New_York_Dolls" title="New York Dolls">New York Dolls</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/One_Day_It_Will_Please_Us_to_Remember_Even_This" title="One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This">One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This</a> </td> <td align="center">17 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2007 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/M.I.A._(rapper)" title="M.I.A. (rapper)">M.I.A.</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kala_(album)" title="Kala (album)">Kala</a> </td> <td align="center" style="background: #ececec; color: grey; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">N/A </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2008 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Franco_Luambo" title="Franco Luambo">Franco</a> </td> <td>Francophonic </td> <td align="center">18 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2009 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Brad_Paisley" title="Brad Paisley">Brad Paisley</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/American_Saturday_Night" title="American Saturday Night">American Saturday Night</a> </td> <td align="center">17 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2010 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Roots" title="The Roots">The Roots</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/How_I_Got_Over_(album)" title="How I Got Over (album)">How I Got Over</a> </td> <td align="center">16 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2011 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Das_Racist" title="Das Racist">Das Racist</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Relax_(Das_Racist_album)" title="Relax (Das Racist album)">Relax</a> </td> <td align="center">12 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2012 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Neil_Young" title="Neil Young">Neil Young</a> and <a href="/wiki/Crazy_Horse_(band)" title="Crazy Horse (band)">Crazy Horse</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Americana_(Neil_Young_%26_Crazy_Horse_album)" title="Americana (Neil Young & Crazy Horse album)">Americana</a> </td> <td align="center">15 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2013 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Vampire_Weekend" title="Vampire Weekend">Vampire Weekend</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Modern_Vampires_of_the_City" title="Modern Vampires of the City">Modern Vampires of the City</a> </td> <td align="center">17 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2014 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Wussy" title="Wussy">Wussy</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Attica!" title="Attica!">Attica!</a> </td> <td align="center">17 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2015 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Laurie_Anderson" title="Laurie Anderson">Laurie Anderson</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Heart_of_a_Dog_(2015_film)#Soundtrack" title="Heart of a Dog (2015 film)">Heart of a Dog</a> </td> <td align="center">25 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2016 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/A_Tribe_Called_Quest" title="A Tribe Called Quest">A Tribe Called Quest</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/We_Got_It_from_Here..._Thank_You_4_Your_Service" title="We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service">We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service</a> </td> <td align="center">19 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2017 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Randy_Newman" title="Randy Newman">Randy Newman</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dark_Matter_(Randy_Newman_album)" title="Dark Matter (Randy Newman album)">Dark Matter</a> </td> <td align="center">25 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2018 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Noname_(rapper)" title="Noname (rapper)">Noname</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Room_25" title="Room 25">Room 25</a> </td> <td align="center">17 </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2019 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Billie_Eilish" title="Billie Eilish">Billie Eilish</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/When_We_All_Fall_Asleep,_Where_Do_We_Go%3F" title="When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?">When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?</a> </td> <td rowspan="6" align="center" style="background: #ececec; color: grey; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">N/A </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2020 </th> <td>Various artists </td> <td>Hanging Tree Guitars </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2021 </th> <td>Neil Young and Crazy Horse </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Barn_(album)" title="Barn (album)">Barn</a> </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2022 </th> <td>Selo i Ludy Performance Band </td> <td>Bunch One<a href="#cite_note-108">[nb 1]</a> </td> <td align="center"><a href="#cite_note-109">[108]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2023 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Olivia_Rodrigo" title="Olivia Rodrigo">Olivia Rodrigo</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Guts_(Olivia_Rodrigo_album)" title="Guts (Olivia Rodrigo album)">Guts</a> </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-110">[109]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">2024 </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Louis_Armstrong" title="Louis Armstrong">Louis Armstrong</a> </td> <td>Louis in London </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-111">[110]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Style_and_impact">Style and impact</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Christgau&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Style and impact">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1224211176"><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:25em; ; padding:8px;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> No one in this time and place has the time to sit and listen uninterrupted for sixty minutes to anybody's music. I think Robert Christgau is the last record reviewer on earth who listens to eight records a day twice before giving his opinion on it ... Christgau is the last true-blue record critic on earth. He gave us an A-plus. That's pretty much who I make my records for. He's like the last of that whole <a href="/wiki/Lester_Bangs" title="Lester Bangs">Lester Bangs</a> generation of record reviewers, and I still heed his words. He gets my vision, and I'm cool with that. But half these people, they read <a href="/wiki/Pitchfork_Media" class="mw-redirect" title="Pitchfork Media">Pitchfork</a>, and they base half their opinion and quotes on that. </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">—<a href="/wiki/Questlove" title="Questlove">Questlove</a>, 2008<a href="#cite_note-112">[111]</a></cite></div> </div> "Christgau's blurbs", writes <a href="/wiki/Slate_(magazine)" title="Slate (magazine)">Slate</a> music critic <a href="/wiki/Jody_Rosen" title="Jody Rosen">Jody Rosen</a>, "are like no one else's–dense with ideas and allusions, first-person confessions and invective, <a href="/wiki/Highbrow" title="Highbrow">highbrow</a> references and slang".<a href="#cite_note-rosen2006-26">[26]</a> Rosen describes Christgau's writing as being "often maddening, always thought-provoking... With <a href="/wiki/Pauline_Kael" title="Pauline Kael">Pauline Kael</a>, Christgau is arguably one of the two most important American <a href="/wiki/Popular_culture" title="Popular culture">mass-culture</a> critics of the second half of the 20th century... All rock critics working today, at least the ones who want to do more than rewrite <a href="/wiki/Public_relations" title="Public relations">PR</a> copy, are in some sense Christgauians."<a href="#cite_note-rosen2006-26">[26]</a> <a href="/wiki/Spin_(magazine)" title="Spin (magazine)">Spin</a> magazine said in 2015, "You probably wouldn't be reading this publication if Robert Christgau didn't largely invent rock criticism as we know it."<a href="#cite_note-113">[112]</a> <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Wolk" title="Douglas Wolk">Douglas Wolk</a> said the earliest "Consumer Guide" columns were generally brief and detailed, but "within a few years... he developed his particular gift for 'power, wit and economy', a phrase he used to describe the <a href="/wiki/Ramones" title="Ramones">Ramones</a> in a dead-on 37-word review of <a href="/wiki/Leave_Home" title="Leave Home">Leave Home</a>". In his opinion, the "Consumer Guide" reviews were "an enormous pleasure to read slowly, as writing, even if you have no particular interest in pop music... if you do happen to have more than a little interest in pop music, they're a treasure."<a href="#cite_note-Wolk-38">[38]</a> While regarding the early columns as "a model of cogent, witty criticism", Dave Marsh in 1976 said "the tone of the writing is now snotty–it lacks compassion, not to mention empathy, with current rock."<a href="#cite_note-Marsh76-6">[6]</a> Fans of Christgau's "Consumer Guide" like to share lines from their favorite reviews. Wolk wrote, "<a href="/wiki/Sting_(musician)" title="Sting (musician)">Sting</a> wears his sexual resentment on his chord changes like a closet '<a href="/wiki/American_Woman" title="American Woman">American Woman</a>' fan" (from Christgau's review of the 1983 <a href="/wiki/The_Police_(band)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Police (band)">Police</a> album <a href="/wiki/Synchronicity_(The_Police_album)" title="Synchronicity (The Police album)">Synchronicity</a>). "Calling <a href="/wiki/Neil_Tennant" title="Neil Tennant">Neil Tennant</a> a bored wimp is like accusing <a href="/wiki/Jackson_Pollock" title="Jackson Pollock">Jackson Pollock</a> of making a mess" (reviewing the 1987 <a href="/wiki/Pet_Shop_Boys" title="Pet Shop Boys">Pet Shop Boys</a> album <a href="/wiki/Actually" title="Actually">Actually</a>); and "<a href="/wiki/Mick_Jagger" title="Mick Jagger">Mick Jagger</a> should fold up his penis and go home" (in a review of <a href="/wiki/Prince_(musician)" title="Prince (musician)">Prince</a>'s 1980 album <a href="/wiki/Dirty_Mind" title="Dirty Mind">Dirty Mind</a>).<a href="#cite_note-Wolk-38">[38]</a> In 1978, <a href="/wiki/Lou_Reed" title="Lou Reed">Lou Reed</a> recorded a tirade against Christgau and his column on the 1978 live album, <a href="/wiki/Live:_Take_No_Prisoners" title="Live: Take No Prisoners">Take No Prisoners</a>: "What does Robert Christgau do in bed? I mean, is he a toe fucker? [...] Can you imagine working for a fucking year, and you get a B+ from some asshole in The Village Voice?"<a href="#cite_note-114">[113]</a><a href="#cite_note-Prisoners-115">[114]</a> Christgau rated the album C+ and wrote in his review, "I thank Lou for pronouncing my name right."<a href="#cite_note-XgauLouReed-116">[115]</a> In December 1980, Christgau provoked angry responses from Voice readers when his column approvingly quoted his wife <a href="/wiki/Carola_Dibbell" title="Carola Dibbell">Carola Dibbell</a>'s reaction to the <a href="/wiki/Murder_of_John_Lennon" title="Murder of John Lennon">murder of John Lennon</a>: "Why is it always <a href="/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy" title="Robert F. Kennedy">Bobby Kennedy</a> or John Lennon? Why isn't it <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> or <a href="/wiki/Paul_McCartney" title="Paul McCartney">Paul McCartney</a>?"<a href="#cite_note-nixon-117">[116]</a> Similar criticism came from <a href="/wiki/Sonic_Youth" title="Sonic Youth">Sonic Youth</a> in their song "<a href="/wiki/Kill_Yr_Idols" title="Kill Yr Idols">Kill Yr Idols</a>". Christgau responded by saying "Idolization is for rock stars, even rock stars manqué like these impotent <a href="/wiki/Bohemianism" title="Bohemianism">bohos</a>–critics just want a little respect. So if it's not too hypersensitive of me, I wasn't flattered to hear my name pronounced right, not on this particular title track."<a href="#cite_note-XgauSonicYouth-118">[117]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tastes_and_prejudices">Tastes and prejudices</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Christgau&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Tastes and prejudices">edit</a>]</div> Christgau has named <a href="/wiki/Louis_Armstrong" title="Louis Armstrong">Louis Armstrong</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thelonious_Monk" title="Thelonious Monk">Thelonious Monk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Berry" title="Chuck Berry">Chuck Berry</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">the Beatles</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Dolls" title="New York Dolls">New York Dolls</a> as being his top five artists of all time.<a href="#cite_note-salon-119">[118]</a> In a 1998 obituary, he called <a href="/wiki/Frank_Sinatra" title="Frank Sinatra">Frank Sinatra</a> "the greatest singer of the 20th century".<a href="#cite_note-Christgau-120">[119]</a> He considers <a href="/wiki/Billie_Holiday" title="Billie Holiday">Billie Holiday</a> "probably [his] favorite singer".<a href="#cite_note-Q&A-121">[120]</a> In his 2000 Consumer Guide book, Christgau said his favorite rock album was either <a href="/wiki/The_Clash_(album)" title="The Clash (album)">The Clash</a> (1977) or <a href="/wiki/New_York_Dolls_(album)" title="New York Dolls (album)">New York Dolls</a> (1973), while his favorite record in general was Monk's 1958 <a href="/wiki/Misterioso_(Thelonious_Monk_album)" title="Misterioso (Thelonious Monk album)">Misterioso</a>.<a href="#cite_note-122">[121]</a> In July 2013, during an interview with <a href="/wiki/Esquire_(magazine)" title="Esquire (magazine)">Esquire</a> magazine's Peter Gerstenzang, Christgau criticized the voters at the <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame" title="Rock and Roll Hall of Fame">Rock and Roll Hall of Fame</a>, saying that "they're pretty stupid" for not voting in the New York Dolls.<a href="#cite_note-123">[122]</a> When asked about Beatles albums, he said he most often listens to <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles%27_Second_Album" title="The Beatles' Second Album">The Beatles' Second Album</a>–which he purchased in 1965–and <a href="/wiki/Sgt._Pepper%27s_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band" title="Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band">Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band</a>.<a href="#cite_note-124">[123]</a> Wolk wrote: "When he says he's 'encyclopedic' about popular music, he means it. There are not a lot of white guys in their 60s waving the flag for <a href="/wiki/Lil_Wayne" title="Lil Wayne">Lil Wayne</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Da_Drought_3" title="Da Drought 3">Da Drought 3</a>, especially not in the same column as they wave the flag for a <a href="/wiki/Willie_Nelson" title="Willie Nelson">Willie Nelson</a>/<a href="/wiki/Merle_Haggard" title="Merle Haggard">Merle Haggard</a>/<a href="/wiki/Ray_Price_(musician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ray Price (musician)">Ray Price</a> trio album, an anthology of new Chinese pop, <a href="/wiki/Vampire_Weekend" title="Vampire Weekend">Vampire Weekend</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wussy" title="Wussy">Wussy</a>..."<a href="#cite_note-Wolk-38">[38]</a> Christgau reflected in 2004: "Rock criticism was certainly more fun in the old days, no matter how cool the tyros opining for chump change in netzines like <a href="/wiki/PopMatters" title="PopMatters">PopMatters</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pitchfork_(website)" title="Pitchfork (website)">Pitchfork</a> think it is now."<a href="#cite_note-125">[124]</a> In a broad sense, Christgau says he responds to qualities of "tone, spirit, [and] music", disregarding, for instance, scholarly analysis of artists such as <a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-126">[125]</a> He readily admits to having prejudices and generally dislikes genres such as <a href="/wiki/Heavy_metal_music" title="Heavy metal music">heavy metal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Salsa_music" title="Salsa music">salsa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dance_music" title="Dance music">dance</a>,<a href="#cite_note-salon-119">[118]</a> <a href="/wiki/Art_rock" title="Art rock">art rock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Progressive_rock" title="Progressive rock">progressive rock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bluegrass_music" title="Bluegrass music">bluegrass</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gospel_music" title="Gospel music">gospel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Folk_music_of_Ireland" class="mw-redirect" title="Folk music of Ireland">Irish folk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jazz_fusion" title="Jazz fusion">jazz fusion</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Classical_music" title="Classical music">classical music</a>.<a href="#cite_note-RockCrit-45">[45]</a> "I admire metal's integrity, brutality, and obsessiveness", Christgau wrote in 1986, "but I can't stand its delusions of grandeur, the way it apes and misapprehends reactionary notions of nobility".<a href="#cite_note-127">[126]</a> In a 2015 interview, he described heavy metal as "symphonic bombast without the intelligence and complexity, although there's a lot of virtuosity.[...] That music is so masculine in a really retrograde way; I don't like that at all. It seems to me to have a very 19th-century notion of power."<a href="#cite_note-128">[127]</a> He said in 2018 that he rarely writes about jazz as it is "hard" to write about in an "impressionistic way", that he is "not at all well-schooled in the jazz albums of the '50s and '60s", and that he has neither the "language nor the frame of reference to write readily about them". This was even while critiquing jazz artists like <a href="/wiki/Miles_Davis" title="Miles Davis">Miles Davis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ornette_Coleman" title="Ornette Coleman">Ornette Coleman</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sonny_Rollins" title="Sonny Rollins">Sonny Rollins</a>; he said "finding the words involves either considerable effort or a stroke of luck".<a href="#cite_note-Q&A-121">[120]</a> Christgau has also admitted to disliking the records of <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Buckley" title="Jeff Buckley">Jeff Buckley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nina_Simone" title="Nina Simone">Nina Simone</a>, noting that the latter's classical background, "default gravity and depressive tendencies are qualities I'm seldom attracted to in any kind of art."<a href="#cite_note-Q&A-121">[120]</a> Writing in a two-part feature on music critics for <a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a> in 1976, Dave Marsh bemoaned Christgau as a "classic, sad example" of how "many critics... superimpos[ed] their own, frequently arbitrary, standards upon performers." Marsh accused him of becoming "arrogant and humorless–the raves are reserved for jazz artists, while even the best rock is treated condescendingly unless it conforms to Christgau's passion for <a href="/wiki/Left-wing_politics" title="Left-wing politics">leftist politics</a> (particularly <a href="/wiki/Feminism" title="Feminism">feminism</a>) and bohemian culture." Marsh named another prejudice of Christgau's to be "<a href="/wiki/Apolitical" class="mw-redirect" title="Apolitical">apolitical</a> or <a href="/wiki/Middle-class" class="mw-redirect" title="Middle-class">middle-class</a> performers" of rock music.<a href="#cite_note-Marsh76-6">[6]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id=""Dean_of_American_rock_critics"">"Dean of American rock critics"</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Christgau&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: "Dean of American rock critics"">edit</a>]</div> Christgau has been widely known as the "dean of American rock critics",<a href="#cite_note-129">[128]</a> a designation he originally gave to himself while slightly drunk at a press event for <a href="/wiki/The_5th_Dimension" title="The 5th Dimension">the 5th Dimension</a> in the early 1970s.<a href="#cite_note-RockCrit-45">[45]</a> According to Rosen, "Christgau was in his late 20s at the time – not exactly an <a href="/wiki/%C3%89minence_grise" title="Éminence grise">éminence grise</a>–so maybe it was the booze talking, or maybe he was just a very arrogant young man. In any case, as the years passed, the quip became a fact."<a href="#cite_note-rosen2006-26">[26]</a> When asked about it years later, Christgau said that the title "seemed to push people's buttons, so I stuck with it. There's obviously no official hierarchy within rock criticism–only real academies can do that. But if you mean to ask whether I think some rock critics are better than others, you're damn straight I do. Don't you?"<a href="#cite_note-RockCrit-45">[45]</a> "For a long time he's been called the 'dean of American rock critics'", wrote <a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York Times</a> literary critic <a href="/wiki/Dwight_Garner" title="Dwight Garner">Dwight Garner</a> in 2015. "It's a line that started out as an offhanded joke. These days, few dispute it."<a href="#cite_note-130">[129]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Christgau&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Personal life">edit</a>]</div> Christgau married fellow critic and writer <a href="/wiki/Carola_Dibbell" title="Carola Dibbell">Carola Dibbell</a> in 1974<a href="#cite_note-salon-119">[118]</a> and they have an adopted daughter, Nina, born in <a href="/wiki/Honduras" title="Honduras">Honduras</a> in 1986.<a href="#cite_note-131">[130]</a> He said that he grew up in a "<a href="/wiki/Born-again" class="mw-redirect" title="Born-again">born-again</a> church" in <a href="/wiki/Queens" title="Queens">Queens</a> but has since become an <a href="/wiki/Atheist" class="mw-redirect" title="Atheist">atheist</a>.<a href="#cite_note-132">[131]</a> Christgau has been long-standing, albeit argumentative, friends with critics <a href="/wiki/Tom_Hull_(critic)" title="Tom Hull (critic)">Tom Hull</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dave_Marsh" title="Dave Marsh">Dave Marsh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greil_Marcus" title="Greil Marcus">Greil Marcus</a> and the late <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Willis" title="Ellen Willis">Ellen Willis</a> whom he dated from 1966 to 1969. He has mentored younger critics <a href="/wiki/Ann_Powers" title="Ann Powers">Ann Powers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Eddy" title="Chuck Eddy">Chuck Eddy</a>.<a href="#cite_note-salon-119">[118]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Books">Books</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Christgau&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Books">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Any Old Way You Choose It: Rock and Other Pop Music, 1967–1973, <a href="/wiki/Penguin_Books" title="Penguin Books">Penguin Books</a>, 1973</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christgau%27s_Record_Guide:_Rock_Albums_of_the_Seventies" title="Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies">Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ticknor_%26_Fields" class="mw-redirect" title="Ticknor & Fields">Ticknor & Fields</a>, 1981</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christgau%27s_Record_Guide:_The_%2780s" title="Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s">Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pantheon_Books" title="Pantheon Books">Pantheon Books</a>, 1990</li> <li>Grown Up All Wrong: 75 Great Rock and Pop Artists from Vaudeville to Techno, <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University_Press" title="Harvard University Press">Harvard University Press</a>, 1998</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christgau%27s_Consumer_Guide:_Albums_of_the_%2790s" title="Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s">Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s</a>, <a href="/wiki/St._Martin%27s_Griffin" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Martin's Griffin">St. Martin's Griffin</a>, 2000</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Going_into_the_City" title="Going into the City">Going into the City</a>: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man, <a href="/wiki/Dey_Street_Books" class="mw-redirect" title="Dey Street Books">Dey Street Books</a>, 2015</li> <li>Is It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism 1967–2017, <a href="/wiki/Duke_University_Press" title="Duke University Press">Duke University Press</a>, 2018</li> <li>Book Reports: A Music Critic on His First Love, Which Was Reading, <a href="/wiki/Duke_University_Press" title="Duke University Press">Duke University Press</a>, 2019</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Christgau&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Album_era" title="Album era">Album era</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Christgau&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-108"><a href="#cite_ref-108">^</a> Although Christgau placed Bunch One as his favorite album of 2022, it was actually a 2019 album that he had only reviewed that year. The highest ranked album released in 2022 was <a href="/wiki/Beyonc%C3%A9" title="Beyoncé">Beyoncé</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Renaissance_(Beyonc%C3%A9_album)" title="Renaissance (Beyoncé album)">Renaissance</a>, which placed second. As he explained, "I made [Renaissance] my number two for the simple reason that a 2019 effort by an accordion-led Ukrainian rock-oldies band touched me even deeper."<a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Christgau&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Christgau&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Citations">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFShepherdHornLaingOliver2003" class="citation book cs1">Shepherd, John; Horn, David; Laing, Dave; Oliver, Paul; Wicke, Peter, eds. 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Retrieved October 27, 2015.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Time&rft.atitle=How+To+Survive+13%2C000+Album+Reviews&rft.date=2015-02-24&rft.au=Dickey%2C+Jack&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2F3719392%2Frobert-christgau%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Christgau" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-132"><a href="#cite_ref-132">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChristgau1991" class="citation news cs1">Christgau, Robert (August 27, 1991). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/rock/gospel-91.php">"With God on Their Side"</a>. The Village Voice. Retrieved April 6, 2017.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Village+Voice&rft.atitle=With+God+on+Their+Side&rft.date=1991-08-27&rft.aulast=Christgau&rft.aufirst=Robert&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.robertchristgau.com%2Fxg%2Frock%2Fgospel-91.php&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Christgau" class="Z3988"> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_bibliography">General bibliography</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Christgau&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: General bibliography">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAnderson2001" class="citation news cs1">Anderson, Rick (June 14, 2001). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newsreview.com/reno/christgaus-consumer-guide-albums-of/content?oid=37932">"Reno News & Review - Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s - In the Mix - Book - Arts&Culture"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Reno_News_%26_Review" class="mw-redirect" title="Reno News & Review">Reno News & Review</a>. Retrieved February 11, 2020.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Reno+News+%26+Review&rft.atitle=Reno+News+%26+Review+-+Christgau%27s+Consumer+Guide%3A+Albums+of+the+%2790s+-+In+the+Mix+-+Book+-+Arts%26Culture&rft.date=2001-06-14&rft.aulast=Anderson&rft.aufirst=Rick&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsreview.com%2Freno%2Fchristgaus-consumer-guide-albums-of%2Fcontent%3Foid%3D37932&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Christgau" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKlein2002" class="citation web cs1">Klein, Joshua (March 29, 2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.avclub.com/robert-christgau-christgaus-consumer-guide-albums-of-1798193851">"Robert Christgau: Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums Of The '90s"</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_A.V._Club" title="The A.V. Club">The A.V. Club</a>. Retrieved February 11, 2020.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+A.V.+Club&rft.atitle=Robert+Christgau%3A+Christgau%27s+Consumer+Guide%3A+Albums+Of+The+%2790s&rft.date=2002-03-29&rft.aulast=Klein&rft.aufirst=Joshua&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.avclub.com%2Frobert-christgau-christgaus-consumer-guide-albums-of-1798193851&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Christgau" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFManzler2000" class="citation magazine cs1">Manzler, Scott (October 31, 2000). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nodepression.com/christgaus-consumer-guide-to-albums-of-the-90s/">"Christgau's Consumer Guide To Albums Of The '90s"</a>. <a href="/wiki/No_Depression_(magazine)" title="No Depression (magazine)">No Depression</a>. Retrieved February 11, 2020.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=No+Depression&rft.atitle=Christgau%27s+Consumer+Guide+To+Albums+Of+The+%2790s&rft.date=2000-10-31&rft.aulast=Manzler&rft.aufirst=Scott&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nodepression.com%2Fchristgaus-consumer-guide-to-albums-of-the-90s%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobert+Christgau" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPick2000" class="citation news cs1">Pick, Steve (December 13, 2000). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/the-pleasure-principle/Content?oid=2473114">"The Pleasure Principle"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Riverfront_Times" title="Riverfront Times">Riverfront Times</a>. 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