DIDJA HEAR? XGAU AXED!!

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i can foresee a situation where the voting bloc is cut down considerably, at least, because many people will take a stand and refuse to write for the village voice anymore (like m1cc!0) and they might decide to eliminate others just 'cuz.

― bohren un der club of gear, Friday, 1 September 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG WHAT ARE YR 2006 PAZ & JOPP PIX?
(I KNO MIN3)

― OTMBOT (OTMBOT), Friday, 1 September 2006 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

i wish old ilx were back up so we could link to the "parase a sentence" thread and remember the glory days.

― sterl, Saturday, 2 September 2006 01:01 (seventeen years ago) link

wot, this thread?

― stet (stet), Saturday, 2 September 2006 01:07 (seventeen years ago) link

the glory days are ahead of us. you know how it is in the rainforest, cut down one tree and two take its place? that's what mcdonald's says, anyway. so the rock critic will never die, he will multiply. why i bet pitchfork has spawned one hundred critics by its lonesome. and stylus is like the velvet underground. no one reads it, but everyone who does went out and formed a blog.

― bohren un der club of gear, Saturday, 2 September 2006 01:08 (seventeen years ago) link

three months pass...

Christgau referred to the new Merle Haggard/George Jones album as "Haggard/Jones" and at first I thought he meant Ted and Mike.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 December 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

and stylus is like the velvet underground. no one reads it, but everyone who does went out and formed a blog.

tee hee!

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Didja hear? Xgau hired!

http://music.msn.com/music/consumerguide

― Thus Sang Freud (Thus Sang Freud), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

My reasons to read msn just went from 0 to 1.

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 8 December 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Only six columns a year?! They better be amazing or I'll forget to read them.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 8 December 2006 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

he seems to like modern times quite a bit more now than he did when he reviewed it for blender

― a_p (a_p), Saturday, 9 December 2006 02:31 (seventeen years ago) link

?he seems to like modern times quite a bit more now than he did when he reviewed it for blender

Yes. It's his 2nd favorite record of the year, he listed his top ten on an National Public Radio special the other day. Number one was New York Dolls. Other usual Christgau favorites were in the top ten like Sonic Youth, Todd Snider and a Klezmer compilation.

― kornrulez6969 (kornrulez6969), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

aww do i have to listen to that new york dolls album now or has he actually lost it for real now?

― a_p (a_p), Saturday, 9 December 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't find his top 10 listed anywhere. Just this NPR page with links to a webcast Christgau participated in where he talked about it, and links to NPR listeners top 10, plus Will Hermes and 2 other critics.

http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/archives/bestof06/

― cornyrocker (DC Steve), Saturday, 9 December 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

The top ten isn't listed, it's in the podcast which is an hour long. If you think it's something you'd be interested in hearing, you probably won't be disappointed.

― kornrulez6969 (kornrulez6969), Sunday, 10 December 2006 00:48 (seventeen years ago) link

aww do i have to listen to that new york dolls album now or has he actually lost it for real now?

Oh, he lost it Johansen-wise when he raved about Sweet Revenge.

― m1cc1o (m1cc1o), Sunday, 10 December 2006 03:03 (seventeen years ago) link

and stylus is like the velvet underground. no one reads it, but everyone who does went out and formed a blog.

Formed a blog
We formed a blog
Look at us, we formed a blog!

― Nice Esteban Buttez (King Esteban), Sunday, 10 December 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyways, MSN is nothing more than the retirement home for Xgau. (It could be argued that he's already been in it, in spirit, for at least twenty years now.)

― Nice Esteban Buttez (King Esteban), Sunday, 10 December 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

But despite his faults, I still would rather read him than a lotta critics out there. He may stubbornly stick with some of his ol' favorites but he's still exploring other avenues from rap to afropop.

― cornyrocker (DC Steve), Monday, 11 December 2006 03:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Christgau's top 10:

1. New York Dolls - One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This
2. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
3. Todd Snider - The Devil You Know
4. various artists - Crunk Hits, Vol. 2
5. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
6. Maria Muldaur - Heart of Mine: Love Songs of Bob Dylan
7. Ornette Coleman - Sound Grammar
8. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
9. The Klezmatics - Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah
10. Outkast - Idlewild

He calls the Klezmatics one his "Ramones album of the year" and Crunk Hits his "Sex Pistols album of the year".

― Patrick (Patrick), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Klezmatics are no joke y'all, they are the best band in the U.S. (but not in North America). The new album will not be on my top ten list but we'll be cranking it Friday night!

Xgau's list is idiosyncratic but kinda brutal though.

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Xgau digs the old folk shock horror youth cult probe

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

That list is so shamelessly predictable one actually wouldn't predict it.

― m1cc1o (m1cc1o), Monday, 11 December 2006 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe that was his "Bands I'd Like To Play At My Funeral" dreamlist or something.

― m1cc1o (m1cc1o), Monday, 11 December 2006 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, one day it will please us to remember even this.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 00:52 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

What's the delay on the February/March Consumer Guide? It says it's supposed to be updated the first of every other month.

Dean, why do you get my hopes up only to dash them?

― kornrulez6969 (kornrulez6969), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

He gives 4 stars to Lucinda Williams in the new Rolling Stone.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 06:46 (seventeen years ago) link

he does, yeah. which is too many. he's right about her general trajectory but too nice about it. but everybody gets to pick their own people to be too nice about, i guess.

― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 07:40 (seventeen years ago) link

TS: bending over backwards to excuse the shortcomings of lucinda vs going ott in mean-spirited takedown of joanna

― bill sackter (bill sackter), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe if Newsome had recorded a series of albums which according to Christgau are damn near perfect he'd be more merciful.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

"near"

― bill sackter (bill sackter), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

He did like her debut pretty well (A-). I pretty much agree with him about Ys's shortcomings.

― o. nate (o. nate), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Can anyone make sense of this koan (his summary of Nellie McKay's latest)?

Too much too soon, and also too late, a syndrome that cries out for professional advice ("Cupcake," "Food").

I feel he is underrating the album, but I can't figure out why.

― o. nate (o. nate), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the one for the last Strokes record:

You know how it is--the gym does more for your wind than for your jump shot ("You Only Live Once," "Ask Me Anything"). ***

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

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