Would trade your music collection for every album Robert Christgau declared a "Must To Avoid"?

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I might. I know the stuff in my collection really well and I haven't heard the overwhelming majority of these albums. It'd be a hoot to only have these albums at your disposal. I love Hysteria and Great Adventures Of Slick Rick already and like Champagne Jam and Imperial F.F.R.R. so its not like I wouldn't have anything to go to when I want a familiar favorite. My Ipod shuffle would be an insane asylum. I'd buy a few old favorites eventually but probably not as many as I'd think.

OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN: Have You Never Been Mellow
ACE: Five-a-Side
10CC: The Original Soundtrack
STANLEY TURRENTINE: In the Pocket
CURTIS MAYFIELD: America Today
THE CAPTAIN AND TENNILLE: Love Will Keep Us Together
WILLIE NELSON: Red Headed Stranger (he changed the grade from a C to a B- eventually, though)
THE OUTLAWS
DR. JOHN: Hollywood Be Thy Name
STAPLE SINGERS: Let's Do It Again
THE O'JAYS: Family Reunion
BARRY MANILOW: Tryin' to Get the Feeling
KGB
MARVIN GAYE: I Want You
DONOVAN: Slow Down World
JANE OLIVOR: First Night
GINO VANNELLI: The Gist of the Gemini
ELTON JOHN: Blue Moves
ROD STEWART: A Shot of Rhythm and Blues
STREISAND/KRISTOFFERSON: A Star Is Born
KANSAS: Leftoverture
NILS LOFGREN: I Came to Dance
ABBA: Arrival
THE STEVE MILLER BAND: Book of Dreams
STEVE WINWOOD
RITA COOLIDGE: Anytime . . . Anywhere
CLOVER
THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT: I Robot
MEAT LOAF: Bat out of Hell
FOTOMAKER: Fotomaker
CHRIST CHILD: Hard
JEFFERSON STARSHIP: Earth
THE ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION: Champagne Jam
FOREIGNER: Double Vision
SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND soundtrack
PABLO CRUISE: Worlds Away
THE BEACH BOYS: M.I.U. Album
LEON RUSSELL: Americana
GLADYS KNIGHT: Miss Gladys Knight
THE DODGERS: Love on the Rebound
MCGUINN, CLARK & HILLMAN
MADLEEN KANE: Cheri
THE TUBES: Remote Control
FRANK ZAPPA: Sheik Yerbouti
JONI MITCHELL: Mingus
MAGAZINE: Secondhand Daylight
THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT: Eve
SANTANA: Marathon
TEDDY PENDERGRASS: Teddy Live! Coast to Coast
PAT BENATAR: In the Heat of the Night
FUNKADELIC: Connections and Disconnections
PASSAGE
SPANDAU BALLET: Journeys to Glory
ELLEN FOLEY: Spirit of St. Louis
GEORGE HARRISON: Somewhere in England
OINGO BOINGO: Only a Lad
ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN: Heaven Up Here
THE KINKS: Give the People What They Want
DEPECHE MODE: Speak and Spell
LOU ANN BARTON: Old Enough
FEAR: The Record
ASIA
BLONDIE: The Hunter
PETE TOWNSHEND: All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
DONNA SUMMER
SIMPLE MINDS: Themes for Great Cities
THE WHO: It's Hard
PLASMATICS: Coup D'Etat
PETER HOFMANN: Rock Classics
ULTRAVOX: Quartet
BOW WOW WOW: When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going
DURAN DURAN: Rio
JOURNEY: Frontiers
THE FIXX: Reach the Beach
NEIL YOUNG: Neil Young and the Shocking Pinks/Everybody's Rockin'
TOM TOM CLUB: Close to the Bone
BOB DYLAN: Infidels
THE ROLLING STONES: Undercover
LINDA RONSTADT: What's New
ROCKWELL: Somebody's Watching Me
FOOTLOOSE soundtrack
VIOLENT FEMMES: Hallowed Ground
THE OFFICIAL MUSIC OF THE XXIIIRD OLYMPIAD LOS ANGELES 1984
CHEQUERED PAST
SCANDAL FEATURING PATTY SMYTH: Warrior
DR. BUZZARD'S ORIGINAL SAVANNAH BAND: Calling All Beatniks!
VANITY: Wild Animal
FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD: Welcome to the Pleasure Dome
JULIAN LENNON: Valotte
ERIC CLAPTON: Behind the Sun
STEVE PERRY: Street Talk
THE BREAKFAST CLUB soundtrack
RICK JAMES: Glow
HOWARD JONES: Dream Into Action
SANDRA BERNHARD: I'm Your Woman
EDDIE MURPHY: How Could It Be
A-HA: Hunting High and Low
GRANDMASTER FLASH: The Source
JULIAN LENNON: The Secret Value of Daydreaming
BELINDA CARLISLE: Belinda
STEVE WINWOOD: Back in the High Life
CYNDI LAUPER: True Colors
HANK WILLIAMS JR.: Montana Cafe
KOOL AND THE GANG: Forever
BOB GELDOF: Deep in the Heart of Nowhere
THE COOLIES: Dig?
WORLD PARTY: Private Revolution
DAVID BOWIE: Never Let Me Down
CUTTING CREW: Broadcast
HEART: Bad Animals
L.L. COOL J: Bigger and Deffer
DEF LEPPARD: Hysteria
LITTLE STEVEN: Freedom No Compromise
BRYAN FERRY: Bête Noire
DEBBIE GIBSON: Out of the Blue
AC/DC: Blow Up Your Video
GRAHAM PARKER: The Mona Lisa's Sister
BRUCE HORNSBY & THE RANGE: Scenes From the Southside
JONI MITCHELL: Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm
IGGY POP: Instinct
STAY AWAKE
BON JOVI: New Jersey
RICK ASTLEY: Whenever You Need Somebody
HUGO LARGO: Drum
SLICK RICK: The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
COCTEAU TWINS: Blue Bell Knoll
GUNS N' ROSES: G N' R Lies
DYLAN & THE DEAD
ENYA: Watermark
CYNDI LAUPER: A Night to Remember
BORIS GREBENSHIKOV: Radio Silence
MERLE HAGGARD: 5:01 Blues
JOE STRUMMER: Earthquake Weather
INDIGO GIRLS
WHITESNAKE: Slip of the Tongue
JIVE BUNNY AND THE MASTERMIXERS: The Album
DAVID BYRNE: Rei Momo
BILLY IDOL: Charmed Life
NELSON: After the Fall
N.W.A: 100 Miles and Runnin'
CELINE DION
UNREST: Imperial f.f.r.r.
DAVID CROSBY: Thousand Roads
MC REN: Shock of the Hour
COLLECTIVE SOUL: Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid
YANNI: Yanni Live at the Acropolis
LIVE: Throwing Copper
MARILYN MANSON: Smells Like Children
BRING IN 'DA NOIZE, BRING IN 'DA FUNK
SCOTT WALKER: It's Raining Today: The Scott Walker Story (1967-70)
HERITAGE
SARAH MCLACHLAN: Surfacing
THE BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA: The Dirty Boogie
ORGY: Vapor Transmission
JESSICA SIMPSON: Sweet Kisses
LAURYN HILL: MTV Unplugged 2.0
WOW HITS 2003

yes, I am bored at work.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 4 June 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

there are albums he rates lower than these but I only counted albums that have a little stop sign next to them in the CG columns on his site. No stop sign on Happy People/U Saved Me despite the D.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 4 June 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

That's a nicely bizarre cross-section, but I mean that positively, in that he's just as annoyed with various obvious sacred cows as with those dang young hip things ('young' and 'hip' changing definition as time progresses).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 4 June 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

i knew this would be a miccio thread.

― to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 4 June 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

what does he have against scott walker?

― to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 4 June 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Shit, I listen to Fear's The Record like, every week.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 4 June 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

I don't remember the specifics, you can look up what he said here, but I remember he was bummed Marshall Crenshaw liked it. What are all these rockcrit details doing in my brain? gah.

You could throw some sick parties with these albums.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 4 June 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

x-post re walker

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 4 June 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

miccio, if you throw a "must to avoid" party i will fly back east for it, for realz.

― to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 4 June 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Duran Duran - Rio? I have little faith in this list.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 4 June 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

haha jbr you're actually the ILXor I figured would own more of these albums than anyone else. That's a compliment.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 4 June 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

i dont really understand this list. is it meant to be the worst record by well known bands? i dont get blue bell knoll or speak and spell being here at all, in that case

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 4 June 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

i have a few of them. (xpost)

― to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 4 June 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

random albums in the '70s & '80s Consumer Guide articles (less so in the '90s) have a "Must To Avoid" stop sign next to them. This is a list of all of them.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 4 June 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

albums on this list i know and like:

10CC: The Original Soundtrack
CURTIS MAYFIELD: America Today
THE CAPTAIN AND TENNILLE: Love Will Keep Us Together
WILLIE NELSON: Red Headed Stranger (he changed the grade from a C to a B- eventually, though)
MARVIN GAYE: I Want You
ABBA: Arrival
ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN: Heaven Up Here
DEPECHE MODE: Speak and Spell
DURAN DURAN: Rio
THE ROLLING STONES: Undercover
DR. BUZZARD'S ORIGINAL SAVANNAH BAND: Calling All Beatniks!
CYNDI LAUPER: True Colors
L.L. COOL J: Bigger and Deffer
DEF LEPPARD: Hysteria
BRYAN FERRY: Bête Noire
DEBBIE GIBSON: Out of the Blue
SLICK RICK: The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
SCOTT WALKER: It's Raining Today: The Scott Walker Story (1967-70)

of these, i pretty much adore the scott walker, slick rick, and marvin gaye records. the others i have more mixed feelings about. i agree that the willie nelson album could do without some of the bridging material, but the rest is gold.

sometimes i wish xgau were a little less flippant, and a little more wishy-washy (in the sense of acknowledging uncertainty and respecting other POVs), but then again he wouldn't have the same critical voice if that were the case.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 4 June 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

one of xgau's more stubborn biases seems to be against certain forms of pretension and self-seriousness, especially music that makes some claim (or xgau thinks makes some claim) to literariness. (although xgau's a complex and cagey guy so there are always exceptions.) i think this skepticism is healthy, but i think xgau has it in too large a measure. and it prevents him from hearing the virtues of certain bands. we all have "blind spots" like this though, i guess.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 4 June 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

answer the question, dude.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 4 June 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 4 June 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

i mean, no to the thread question

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 4 June 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

but you didn't actually expect me to say "yes," did you? i'm not really one of those "omg this osmonds lp is the Best Thing Ever" dudes.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 4 June 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

no. no you're not.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 4 June 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

here we only get high on the nat'ral stuff you know?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 4 June 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

I don't know those records very well, but looking over the list, I can easily imagine that most of them are pretty bad, so no, I definitely would not make that trade.

― o. nate (onate), Saturday, 4 June 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

Anthony, just go look in a dumpster and you'll be able to find all of these.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 4 June 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Unrest? Imperial FFRR? Did Mark Robinson beat up Christgau's wife at a concert or something?

― dlp9001, Saturday, 4 June 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

That album's kind of corny, don't you think?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 4 June 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

Bigger & Deffer!!!??? He's nutz. Oh well.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 4 June 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

A friend of mine says Arrival is the best Abba album.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 4 June 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

it is, in a rockist sense.

― to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 4 June 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

Dude, 'splain!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 4 June 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

Let X = rock

And then there was sound
And then there was guitar
And then there was Bon Scott singing "Dancing Queen"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 4 June 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

It's best because it rocks most, in other words? (I don't know the album.)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 4 June 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

it's best because it's the most "mature" songwritingwise and productionwise, and that's why rockcrit types think it's the best.

― to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 4 June 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Saying it's rockist implies that they're biased, of course. Are they biased?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 4 June 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

by rockist i just mean that rockists who like abba would say it was the best abba album.

― to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 4 June 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

not that there's any "rock" in it.

― to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 4 June 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Not to belabor the point (!), but is it possible for someone to think it was their best album and it not be a rockist view?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 4 June 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

depends on what you mean by rockist.

― Ian John50n (orion), Saturday, 4 June 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

you people say rockist one more time on this thread and I'm gonna start busting heads.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 4 June 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

ROCKIST ROCKIST ROCKIST

― to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 4 June 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

*starts busting heads*

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 4 June 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

Most on the list (that I've heard)are mediocre, some are truly ass. The only ones I'd really go to bat for:

MARVIN GAYE: I Want You
ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN: Heaven Up Here
WILLIE NELSON: Red Headed Stranger

and I wouldn't dismiss these out of hand:

MAGAZINE: Secondhand Daylight
DEPECHE MODE: Speak and Spell
SCOTT WALKER: It's Raining Today: The Scott Walker Story (1967-70)

Otherwise, hahahaha.

So the answer is NO.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 4 June 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

everything i hear about christgau makes me want to know even less about him.

― jones (actual), Saturday, 4 June 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

'Arrival'?? 'Journeys to Glory'??? 'Secondhand Daylight'?????? GET ONE RED DOG UP YA XGAU.

― moley, Saturday, 4 June 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

I weep for thee, Oingo Boingo.

― NickB (NickB), Saturday, 4 June 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Why did he dislike George Harrison so much? Somewhere to England isn't the best of his late '70s/early '80s albums, but Christgau was super down on the guy and a little snide!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 4 June 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

There are amazing albums on this list. Heaven Up Here by the Bunnymen abd Blue Bell Knoll by the Cocteau Twins. And just what the fuck does he have against the defenseless likes of Arrival by Abba?

Christgau is, was and ever shall be....an asshole.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 4 June 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Jesus, he disrespects The Record by FEAR? I DECLARE A CHRISTGAU FATWA!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 4 June 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

How come Band On The Run and OK Computer are not there? What category did he put them in?

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 4 June 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

duds, turkeys

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 4 June 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

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i don't watch popular television shows. i watch bbc4 and stuff.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 06:10 (twenty years ago)

― RE-PETE (papa la bas), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 06:11 (twenty years ago)

WHAT'S WITH ALL THE ANGER????

http://www.explodingdog.com/dumbpict51/angryboy.gif

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 06:12 (twenty years ago)

i've never watched dawsons creek. is it anything to do with les dawson?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 06:13 (twenty years ago)

http://elitemrp.net/art2/Angry%20Shaved%20Cat.jpg

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 06:14 (twenty years ago)

everytime you insult christgau, zell crushes a puppy

http://img86.exs.cx/img86/6374/zelkill.jpg

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 06:15 (twenty years ago)

that puppy is insufficiently cute.

anyway, christgau is an insult.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)

― ANYWAY CHRISTGAU IS AN INSULT? GODDAMN MAN YOU GOT THE FLU? YOU SPRAIN YOUR RIB , Tuesday, 7 June 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)

I agree on the "CANCER" point.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 06:25 (twenty years ago)

― THAT REMINDS ME - YOU DONE WITH MY FUCKING AFTERSHAVE YET MOTHERFUCKER OR WHAT? , Tuesday, 7 June 2005 06:27 (twenty years ago)

I can oblige on the "JUST RETURN SHIT" issue.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 06:29 (twenty years ago)

http://www.beatfix.com/bman/images/campfuck.jpg

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 06:30 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mp3.com.au/img/artist/Easy%20Target_RESIZED.jpg

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 06:31 (twenty years ago)

The second one was better.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 06:37 (twenty years ago)

― WE COOL WE COOL. SORRY I HAD TO COME DOWN ON YOU LIKE THAT, JUST THAT I WILL BE , Tuesday, 7 June 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

albums on the list i own and really like:

MAGAZINE: Secondhand Daylight
BOB DYLAN: Infidels
FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD: Welcome to the Pleasure Dome (wtf? is he insane?)
DEF LEPPARD: Hysteria
GUNS N' ROSES: G N' R Lies

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 06:56 (twenty years ago)

jesus, guys..

http://www.robertchristgau.com/

Search and read his reviews if these bug you. Or not, and continue feigning shock or being snivelly. I agree and don't agree with them. There. oh the horror.

No offense, miccio, as you ironically are the one who gave the cogent advice for everyone to read the reviews of the albums in question, but you had to expect this from just posting only a list above.

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 07:45 (twenty years ago)

bump

― bump, Wednesday, 8 June 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

wow I didn't realize the late night squad did a ball-trip on this thread. thanks, bump!

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

Search: Frankie Goes To Hollywood, "Christgau Kisses"

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

MARCELLO CARLIN ON FIRE!!

I can beat him any fucking day of the week! What is he, 98 or something? Fuck off with your P&J lectures about I'm not gonna let you meddling kids destroy WHAT I BELIEVE IN we've done your gaff over and I'm the daddy now so don't try it grandad, go off and listen to your Melachrino wax cylinders! Cunting cunt!
-- Marcello Carlin (nostudium)

― gershy, Sunday, 13 January 2008 02:48 (seventeen years ago)

MARVIN GAYE: I Want You
MARVIN GAYE: I Want You
MARVIN GAYE: I Want You
MARVIN GAYE: I Want You
MARVIN GAYE: I Want You
MARVIN GAYE: I Want You
MARVIN GAYE: I Want You

― deej, Sunday, 13 January 2008 03:12 (seventeen years ago)

Christ Child (hilarious punk-rock cash-in on Buddah that is probably a bunch of session musicians trying to bullshit the public).

Yeah, that record rules. And so does the Tubes one!

THE DODGERS: Love on the Rebound

Pick Hit that month was by a band called the Yankees -- One of my fave CG jokes ever (and this reminds me I still want to hear the Yankees album).

The Yankees
High 'n' Inside [Big Sound, 1978] A-
Consumer Guide Reviews:
High 'n' Inside [Big Sound, 1978]
These New Yorkers play it fast and loose enough to dismay pop technicians and even offend people a little. Indeed, I was already hooked on their boisterous Strangeloves/Standells tribute when it struck me that maybe Jon Tiven's wandering pitch, which I find cute, meant the record was warped. It's more likely, though, that his voice has begun to change in his mid-twenties, inspiring him to cover "Bad Boy" (well) and write (a good) one called "Take It Like a Man." A hit that proves once again that rock and roll is about having the spirit, knowing the tricks, and taking the risks. Ivan Julian is DH. A-

― xhuxk, Sunday, 13 January 2008 03:14 (seventeen years ago)

Well. I said what there is to say upthread. I have an impression that Cristgau isn't too impressed by most of the 50 albums I have recently listed in my blog as deserving of a rehabilitation though. :)

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 13 January 2008 03:16 (seventeen years ago)

Also great:

FOREIGNER: Double Vision

And suddenly I'm curious about Fotomaker...

― xhuxk, Sunday, 13 January 2008 03:18 (seventeen years ago)

there is a geirblog?

― amateurist, Sunday, 13 January 2008 03:18 (seventeen years ago)

http://kaitoujeanne3.tripod.com/pix/henshin6.jpg

― amateurist, Sunday, 13 January 2008 03:19 (seventeen years ago)

Geir where is yr blog

― J0hn D., Sunday, 13 January 2008 03:26 (seventeen years ago)

not a blog, but Geir content

http://www.oli.tudelft.nl/jc84/

― gershy, Sunday, 13 January 2008 04:07 (seventeen years ago)

am i nuts or is there almost a beardo vibe to that xgau list?? not that i know what i'm talking about.

― gff, Sunday, 13 January 2008 04:11 (seventeen years ago)

geirology.blogspot.com

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 13 January 2008 04:28 (seventeen years ago)

Geirology = new favorite blog. :)

― Mordechai Shinefield, Sunday, 13 January 2008 04:30 (seventeen years ago)

"hey"
"hey"
"nice to meet you"
"nice to meet you too"
"what are you majoring in?"
"GEIROLOGY"

― J0rdan S., Sunday, 13 January 2008 04:33 (seventeen years ago)

bloggarkiv

▼ 2008 (1)
▼ januar (1)

― J0rdan S., Sunday, 13 January 2008 04:35 (seventeen years ago)

I'm not sure I agree that a) rock critics really use innovation as a chief criterion and b) that the absence of innovation is what critics have disliked about albums like Satanic Majesties and Topographic Oceans. But there's some good music on your list. I'm glad you made it.

― Sundar, Sunday, 13 January 2008 04:53 (seventeen years ago)

That Johnny Hates Jazz album isn't that good though.

― Sundar, Sunday, 13 January 2008 05:00 (seventeen years ago)

Geir: keep posting on Geirology, i'm reading

― stephen, Sunday, 13 January 2008 07:40 (seventeen years ago)

"Christ Child (hilarious punk-rock cash-in on Buddah that is probably a bunch of session musicians trying to bullshit the public)."

"Yeah, that record rules."

I'd genuinely like to know who did this record...sleazy, but as good as any "legit" punk record that came out in '77.

― Rev. Hoodoo, Sunday, 13 January 2008 09:02 (seventeen years ago)

I'm not sure I agree that a) rock critics really use innovation as a chief criterion and b) that the absence of innovation is what critics have disliked about albums like Satanic Majesties and Topographic Oceans.

It's usually either that or the "bad is good" argument (which was sort of there even before punk). Your two examples are a case of the latter rather than the former. My piece on "Satanic Majesties" comes soon, and I will write a bit more about that there.

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 13 January 2008 13:45 (seventeen years ago)

COCTEAU TWINS: Blue Bell Knoll

Christgau talks so much shit, he needs a mouth diaper.

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 13 January 2008 14:18 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

GEIR, UPDATE YOUR BLOG.

― THESE ARE MY FEELINGS! FEEL MY FEELINGS! (I eat cannibals), Thursday, 7 May 2009 20:56 (sixteen years ago)

STAPLE SINGERS: Let's Do It Again

I would just like to say this sdtk is fucking great for the most part. Prime Curtis Mayfield!

― Skinny Malinky (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 7 May 2009 20:59 (sixteen years ago)

title track is basically the best song (i mean out of all the songs that have been recorded)

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 7 May 2009 21:19 (sixteen years ago)

That blog... Oh, I guess that list became a bit too much of an obstacle for me. Maybe I should just go on and write a piece about something else instead.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 7 May 2009 22:38 (sixteen years ago)

I vote you write summat about SatMaj.

― Mark G, Friday, 8 May 2009 08:55 (sixteen years ago)

more geirology, dammit!!!

― Ioannis, Friday, 8 May 2009 09:47 (sixteen years ago)

ya gotta write about Tales of Topographic Oceans, dude!

― Ioannis, Friday, 8 May 2009 09:49 (sixteen years ago)

from, even.

― Ioannis, Friday, 8 May 2009 09:52 (sixteen years ago)

fuck christgau

― macaulay culkin's bukkake shocker (bug), Friday, 8 May 2009 09:57 (sixteen years ago)

don't try it grandad

― Ioannis, Friday, 8 May 2009 10:27 (sixteen years ago)

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