THE CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
AVERAGE WHITE Band: “Cut the Cake” (Atlantic):: In the past, the impassioned identification of this group with its own technical mastery of a narrow non white musical form has transcended the banality of its material. But success seems to have mellowed them out, and the result has as little spirit as your standard soul-schlock job.
THE CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
by
Robert Christgau
AVERAGE WHITE Band: “Cut the Cake” (Atlantic):: In the past, the impassioned identification of this group with its own technical mastery of a narrow non white musical form has transcended the banality of its material. But success seems to have mellowed them out, and the result has as little spirit as your standard soul-schlock job. Next step: strings. C Plus.
BEE GEES: “Main Course” (RSO) :: Their most — in fact, only — listenable album in five years is marred by the certain knowledge that the improvement is a desperate commercial ploy. I mean, I don’t get the feeling they’re telling me any of this stuff because they want me to know; they just figure it’s the only way for them to sell records in 1975. And I’rrvjiotsure I bpy it anyway. Exception: “All This Making Love,” a baroque, frantically mechanical evocation of compulsive sex. Pray that it’s the next single. C Plus.