tomhull.com
Tom Hull: The Best Jazz Albums of 2014
http://tomhull.com/ocston/nm/notes/eoyjazz-14.php
Notes on Everyday Life. No More Mr Nice Blog. The Best Jazz Albums of 2014. This file is frozen as of January 31, 2015. Additional finds up to December 31, 2015 can be found in colored type here. Year after year I present my year-end lists as just that: long, mind-numbing lists like I use every day to keep track of the current year (e.g., 2014. Etc) Other people's lists often have cover scans and brief write-ups, and it occurred to me that I have all that. Why not just table it up? None of the five horn ...
mail.robertchristgau.com
Robert Christgau: CG 70s: The Grades
http://mail.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg70/grades.php
Going Into the City. Grown Up All Wrong. Any Old Way You Choose It. Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough. Record is an organically conceived masterpiece that repays prolonged listening with new excitement and insight. It is unlikely to be marred by more than one merely ordinary cut. Is a great record both of whose sides offer enduring pleasure and surprise. You should own it. Is an admirable effort that aficionados of the style or artist will probably find quite listenable. Record is an organically conceived m...
mail.robertchristgau.com
Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Columns
http://mail.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/index.php
Going Into the City. Grown Up All Wrong. Any Old Way You Choose It. Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough. The Consumer Guide has been written as a monthly (more or less) column going back to the original column. In 1969. The reviews from the Consumer Guide columns have been collected (with revisions) in books. And now in the CG database. Columns are identified by publication date below. Some columns are still missing, including much of the Newsday. Columns from 1988-2001 were derived from word processor source...
mail.robertchristgau.com
Robert Christgau: Rock&Roll& [2008- ]
http://mail.robertchristgau.com/xg/bn/index.php
Going Into the City. Grown Up All Wrong. Any Old Way You Choose It. Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough. These writings start in December 2008, appearing in Barnes and Noble's online magazine. The name had previously been used for longer columns in the Village Voice. 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded. Ain't That a Shame. Anti-Rockism's Hall of Fame. Anti-Rockism's Hall of Fame. Bohemias Lost and Found. Dad-Rock Makes a Stand. Dancing on Her Own. Dark Night of the Quants. Excuses, Excuses: The 2014 Dean's List.
mail.robertchristgau.com
Robert Christgau: Going Into the City
http://mail.robertchristgau.com/bk-goitc.php
Going Into the City. Grown Up All Wrong. Any Old Way You Choose It. Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough. Going Into the City:. Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man. Hardcover, [February 24] 2015, Dey Street Books, 384 pages. Paperback, [February 16] 2016, Dey Street Books. The Two Sides of Murray Street. The Wonderful World of Jews. Nonconformism Can Be Fun. Like a Horse and Carriage. Four Owners, Six Editors, One Paper. Harper Collins book page. Rolling Stone, Feb. 16, 2015). Vulture, Feb. 17, 2015). Hilary H...
robertchristgau.com
Robert Christgau: Doing It Again: Steely Dan
http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/rock/steely-00.php
Going Into the City. Grown Up All Wrong. Any Old Way You Choose It. Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough. The band's blandest and most commercially decisive album, you'll have to explain how come he's all over Fagen's wonderful 1982 The Nightfly. And in this new millennium the exegetes finally have something new to dissect, because for the first time since 1980's dispirited Gaucho. Steely Dan has finalized some new material: an album called Two Against Nature. S fusion-pop mode jumpier and snappier, sourer and...
mail.robertchristgau.com
Robert Christgau: Book Reviews
http://mail.robertchristgau.com/xg/bkrev/index.php
Going Into the City. Grown Up All Wrong. Any Old Way You Choose It. Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough. A Change Is Gonna Come: Brian Ward's Just My Soul Responding. A Class Act: Roddy Doyle's The Woman Who Walked Into Doors. A Darker Shade of Noir: Walter Mosley. A New (Rock) Polarity: Simon Reynolds and Joy Press's The Sex Revolts. A Slender Hope for Salvation: Charles A. Reich: The Greening of America. Aptitude Adjustment: Nicholas Lemann's The Big Test. Biztime Stories: Bruce Feiler and Ronin Ro. I'm You...
mail.robertchristgau.com
Robert Christgau: Playboy Columns
http://mail.robertchristgau.com/xg/play/index.php
Going Into the City. Grown Up All Wrong. Any Old Way You Choose It. Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough. Robert Christgau wrote short reviews for Playboy. Aug 1985: Hüsker Dü, Katrina and the Waves, Duke Ellington/Paul Gonsalves. Sept 1985: George Strait. Sept 1985: Beverly Hills Cop. Nov 1985: Fishbone, Ready for the World. Dec 1985: Leonard Cohen, Mofungo, The Scene Is Now, Howard Jones. Feb 1986: Thompson Twins, ZZ Top, Tom Waits. Mar 1986: Lost in the Stars. Marti Jones, Golden Palominos. Jan 1987: Tina T...
mail.robertchristgau.com
Robert Christgau: Music and Concert Reviews
http://mail.robertchristgau.com/xg/cdrev/index.php
Going Into the City. Grown Up All Wrong. Any Old Way You Choose It. Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough. Music and Concert Reviews. N Sync: Greatest Hits. Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens. The Hip Hop Box. The Rough Guide to the Music of the Sahara. Al Green: The Absolute Best. Al Green: Back Catalogue. Al Green: The Immortal Soul of Al Green. Amy Rigby: Little Fugitive. Amy Rigby: The Sugar Tree. Amy Rigby: Til the Wheels Fall Off. Andy Fairweather Low: Sweet Soulful Music. Back Catalogue: Jimi Hendrix.
mail.robertchristgau.com
Robert Christgau: Rock&Roll& Columns
http://mail.robertchristgau.com/xg/rock/index.php
Going Into the City. Grown Up All Wrong. Any Old Way You Choose It. Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough. We Have to Deal With It': Punk England Report. 14 Million Served: Hootie and the Blowfish. A Consumer Guide to James Brown. A Hot Little Weirdo: Shakira. A Little War Music: Desert Storm. A Long Short Story: The Go-Betweens. A Month on the Town. A Real New Wave Rolls Out of Ohio. A Song for You: We Are the World. A Weekend in Paradise: Wallowing in Woodstock the Spectacle. Ahmet and Jerry's Gold. Career Op...
