Robert Christgau
Robert Christgau
Robert Thomas Christgauis an American essayist, music journalist, and self-proclaimed "Dean of American Rock Critics". One of the earliest professional rock critics, he spent 37 years as the chief music critic and senior editor for The Village Voice, during which time he created the annual Pazz & Jop poll. He has also covered popular music for Esquire, Creem, Newsday, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Billboard, NPR, Blender, and MSN Music, and is a visiting arts teacher at New York University...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth18 April 1942
given impossible terrible themselves
Given that it's an impossible thing that they set themselves to do, they didn't do such a terrible job.
basically came closest ralph
He was basically the closest we came to Ralph Gleason,
albums club goes hearts lonely records seems
It seems to me that one of his '50s albums goes in there because they're as important as records as (the Beatles' album) 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. As achievements, they're amazing.