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Title: Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the 70'S/#31368 by Robert Christgau ISBN: 0-89919-026-X Publisher: Bookthrift Co Pub. Date: 01 May, 1985 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $24.50

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Rating: 4
Summary: Impress Christgau? Whatever for?
Comment: Robert Christgau was the most important critic of the "postwar" era, which is now "over" -- but just try to step to these reviews, now available free on his website. If Foucault's advice that we "extract operators of domination" amounts to much, it amounts to a description of Christgau's loving homage to *Consumer Reports* no-nonsense attitude to reviewing things you can buy in a revealing spirit, but which perhaps would not please a man who had beef with club sandwiches. And although I'm told his prose is anything from abrasive to schoolmarmish, Christgau puts enough text into his "telegraphic" reviews to offer genuine critique (just try, people).

For example, several were revised for this volume, and several stand as a refutation of the Churchillian advice that you are an idiot if you do not mellow as you age: once a (perhaps secretly cringing) supporter of flower power, Christgau came down hard on anyone and anything during the 70s. If ever you needed advice for taking a gushing Elvis Costello clone down a peg, this must be the place; he even remembers when Iggy Stooge was a king. But if there aren't "good memories" of his work duing this period, then again, maybe there are -- and I for one feel safe in his hands, although it might not hurt to read *Augie March*, or something kinda similar.